[ VINTAGE: Special Edition - USE AFS.COM AND 8Ox50 TO VIEW - ACRONYM: DFC ] · . ._._____ ___ _ __ _ . _____._| | |___ ._______ __/···\__ _ __ . _\ | | | | | ._____. \_______/ _ __ : | | | | | | | | ~~~~~~~ : | | | | | | | | ::::::: | | | ::: | | ::::: | | | ::::::::::::::::::::::: | | | | | | | | : ..... | | | ... | | .. . | | | ©hP! . ....... : ... :: | | | _ | | _ | | | _ : :: :: |_____|_| (_) |_| (_) |_|_____| (_) ...: :: :: : :: ·: :.....:: :: ( d ) E V I N ' S ( f ) I R S T ( c ) O N T A C T :. :: .: The story you are about read is true. All persons, places, :: and events occurred exactly as it recorded here. Any persons :: with a history of high blood pressure, heart attacks, stokes, ·: epileptic seizures, kidney failure, brain tumors, or other ·. forms of cancer should immediately cease viewing this . _/_ as it's been known to cause cancer of the rectum. . ._(/___. | | t was just another boring saturday afternoon in the . | _| city of Shaolin, but it was the first saturday in a |_____\ long time I'ld actually had some free time to kill. · Vintage: Special Edition was being held in an hour so I was kicking around the net waiting for the event to · begin. As I reached down and picked up my smokes I noticed the pack felt a little lighter than it should. Opening the pack I realized I was out, and a Sev run was a . ___/_ definite necessity if I was going to do the compo. _( _/___. ._\___ | o I said a couple quick goodbyes to my #ascii peeps | | _| and started off down the block to 7-11. Sev had |________\ always been a kind of temple to me. No matter where in the country I went I could always count on a 7-11 to be close by, always open, and always well stocked with my favorite brand of smokes, slurpee, and other cravings. Yes, today was going to be a good day, I could feel it all the way down to my bones. ...... .. . :: _ _________ :: //_____________________ :: ___________ ___ _ \/ :: \/ :: _\____ \/ . ... ..............:: .__\_ )_ | /_ /_. |_ / | ut no sooner than I had thought that did my ears /________| start ringing. And it wasn't just one of those "got some water in your ears from the shower" type of ringings either, oh no, this was a scream from the depths of hell; boring right into my mind with it's own diamond carbide drill tip. I clasp my hands around my ears to try and make this horrible ringing stop before I was tempted to rip my own ears off, but it just kept on wailing. My vision began to dim, and I wondered if this was what it felt like to die. My knees buckled under my own weight and the last thing I remember of that point in time is hitting the pavement and looking up in to the sky, and the underside of a craft not of this world. · . . : . .------._ | : × ¼_ | .......... : /___ ___\ :::::::::: :::: (< \_ _/ >) ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::: \\\ / \.º // ::.... . . \\_/ \_// | ÷- \ / -÷ | | \ - / | ____. : ÷-- _\ /_ --÷ ._( |_/_ · | / \_/ \ | | _/ | < _ _ > | |_ | he next thing I remember is a bright | | | | | | /_____| light glaring into my eyes as three | |_| |_| | small grey beings with large black | <¦> · <¦> | eyes stared down at me. I was laying on a | `| |' | large table, unable to move as I was coated | | \_/ | | in some strange gelatinous substance which | | | | | | resisted all my efforts to jump and up and | < « » > | flee from this nightmare turned reality. ÷-- | | | | --÷ Slowly a voice spoke in my mind, a voice _\ | | /_ that seemed to have no origin. The voice \__/ \__/ told me there was no need to fear, I would come to no harm. I didn't want to believe it, after all, what had I done to deserve this kind of thing? I just wanted to go to Sev and grab some smokes and a slurpee. I hadn't done anything to these motherfuckers yet here they were abducting me off the street in broad daylight, and prolly making me miss Vintage too. ............... . _\_____ . ........:::: " .__\ _ )_. | _ | ssholes! " I screamed at my abductors, trying to make | | | them see how pissed off I was at this interruption of |____| _| my normally scheduled day. The alien closest to my feet |___\ turned to look at the one by my head, slowly nodding as if they were speaking without words. Darkness again took hold of me. _ __ _ ___ __ _ __/···\__ _____. __ _ \_______/ ._( |_/_ ~~~~~~~ | _/ |_ | hen I found myself laying in the middle of the park /______| across from my house, wearing only socks, but a coke slurpee in my hands and a fresh pack of smokes in my jacket pocket. I stumbled home, drinking my slurpee, and ::::: ::: : trying to figure out how I was going to explain missing : Vintage this time. As I sat down at my terminal I looked at : clock over by my bed and with a small grin join #vcompo : just as Sargon was explaining the rules. : : _/_ : ._(/___. . ..:.. | | appreciate the smokes and the slurpee, but the assholes : | _| still owe me a new pair of Airwalks the way I see it. And · |_____\ incase you couldn't guess by now, my real name is Devin. . . .. ............. /\ ::: ____. /\ __ ::: ._\ |___ _/_ ____ _/\__. ____ ____/_ ____ \\/ :·: | | )_._(/__.___\_ )_._( |_ _\_ )_._( __/___._\ _/_ .:. | | | | | | _/ _ | \_ | ___)__. : l_ | _| | | | | | | | |_ | | ·.· /_________\ _____l____| l_______|____| l_________ /________l · · l_____/ : l_____/ . _ ____ . ____ _ · · //____________________________\\ ©1997 .·. ( v ) I N T A G E ( s ) P E C I A L ( e ) D I T I O N # 1 [ VINTAGE: Special Edition - ©1997 Hiro Protagonist/Quad-P - Winner ] the only difference between this version and the winning version presented in V:SE is a few fixed typos and I actually put a T in the Vintage logo.. hehe. luv to everyone who participated and thanks to tango for the diz. - hIRO (hiro@ricochet.qpt.com) @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZ _ ___________ ._____. _ ________ .___\\\ _ /_ _ _| _|__\\\__ \ | \ / \\\_ | / \ | \_ / / | _/ \ |________/ / / | \_________/ .---- |______\ ____________|________|tGø --. | | | - --÷[ Quad-P Proudly Presents ]÷-- - | | | | "devin's first contact" by hiro | | winning entry of vintage: special edition | | | `-------------------------------------------' @END_FILE_ID.DIZ SAUCE00Vintage: Special Edition #1 Entry Hiro Protagonist Quad-P Productions 199706 2œ%