User blog:Tdiandrockmusic2/Winds of Change: Chapter Two Sneak Peek and Question

Yup, unsurprisingly, I've gotten a burst of inactivity. Meaning I'm falling off the face of the Wiki... again. So hopefully this will say "I'm really not dead, I swear!"... and hopefully get over ten comments. (I can haz dreamz XD)



Golden hills flew past the car window as Katie drove down Route 30. Another visit to Grandma’s in Farbanti had come and gone, and she was glad she caught up with everyone… because it seemed like she wasn’t able to for a long time, with everything considered. The car itself was laughable; a two door base model Emmerian subcompact from ten years ago with the added benefit of being some “Limited Edition” convertible, making the tiny car look even smaller with a trunk as opposed to a hatch. It did however tackle the switchbacks of the highway with relative ease. She accelerated to slightly above the speed limit on a straightaway; her decision to stay overnight maybe wasn’t such a good idea when she was needed for the afternoon shift. The radio was on playing a lilting, folksy tune. The car turned around one big hill after an incline, and the whole justification for the indirect highway came into view. The Spring Sea sparkled deep blue as the road began to pass distressed whitewashed cottages and jetties, with a few fishing boats out at sea on the horizon. The houses and a few businesses appeared in clusters now, with a few tourist draws like waterslides and boat rentals, now decayed. And just where you thought the town center would be, there laid a small bay. A gleaming new bridge went across the center of it, and as Katie got a slightly higher vantage point, she noticed how perfectly circular it was. She took her mind off the bay and memories of the same drive from not long ago, and continued home. Her own town, Merona lay a few miles ahead. It too, had the same aesthetic as its neighbor, but it seemed charmingly so, almost to the point where it seemed planned.

Her dashboard clock read 11:30, meaning she wasn’t needed at her job for another hour and a half, giving her a bit of time to unwind. She drove through the town, giving the occasional wave at neighbors and headed towards the beach. Katie’s home was a tiny shingle cottage perched right on the dunes, bought for a song in ’98. She parked the car and opened the door. The faded blue couch and love seat in the living room matched, but little else did. No one she had invited over had ever noticed, sliding doors out to a graying deck and a marvelous view did instead. All in all, the little house was exactly what you’d expect out of a beach home. Katie was watching the news when the war started. The picture changed from the anchorwoman with too much plastic surgery done do a picture of the Supreme Commander, the man in charge of the “emergency government.”

“Attention, citizens of the Free Erusean Republic. All scheduled programming has been interrupted for this momentous occasion. Ever since Ulysses, with the loss of our General Assembly and displacements of our people, our country has been hobbled. We have sated the demands of the FCU in their new guise, ISAF. We have taken in their refugees, driven by panic, in exchange for feeding and housing our own. We watched our cities decay, as theirs rebuilt. We watched their factories come back to life, as ours rust. We watched them grow rich again, on the backs of us, Osea, and Emmeria. We watched them crinkle their noses at disgust at us. We let them keep us hobbled with their embargos and boycotts. We let them gang up on us and declare us monsters. We have let our country, and you, down. Which is why after four years, we have had enough. Today is the turning point, today is our defiance, today is our…”

The phone rang. Katie got up and picked up the receiver, and went as close to the television as the cord would let her.

“Oh, hey Tyler. No, I don’t think he’ll declare war or anything, he keeps making these kinds of speeches… yeah, he sounds like a megalomaniac…”

The Commander’s speech continued, “Today is the day when the dogs of the Federation of Central Usea see just exactly what we as a people have endured. Today is the day we declare war!”

“Okay, maybe I was wrong Tyler, but come on! The High Court wouldn’t dare approve that; they’ll send the troops back in a week!” Katie said out of desperation.

“In light of this new situation, the executive branch and the military will govern the country in the interim.”

“Or not… but no one’s going to approve Tyler, trust me!”



So, a promising start on the Erusea subplot, mundane as it is? It'll also include Heather and Alejandro as well, in case your wondering.

I actually have a bit of a question; should I change my username? I never really liked Tdiandrockmusic2, becasue I'm bad with titling like that. So henceforth, I've considered changing my username like Chimmy, and using my ff.net username, Demon-Something instead. Is this a good idea or a bad one?