TheKawaiiEdition/MoreEqual

More Equal Than Others

In the Open GoldSource Movement, everyone is equal. Every Goddess is a precious little flower who has her part to contribute; even fixing a handful of bugs in one of the many OSes being circulated among the ranks can bring you some prestige and helps everyone out. Unlike the tyranny of the BronzeSoft faction, everyone is equal and free, and everything is settled democratically.

Nevertheless, some people are more equal than others. They have more skills or more accomplishments or maybe they just have an income of several hundred Gigs of Bandwidth a month from their official job and they can thus afford to throw LAN parties catered by the Goddess of Fine Dining and the Goddess of Half-Naked Hostesses.

Where others have to settle for warm soda and generic 'chips' which may, in fact, be 'chips' from a block of granit.

First Class Goddess Linia is one such 'more equal' goddess. Creator of the popular 'Red/Yellow/Green Hat' operating system, based on trinary thinking(Yes/RUN AWAY/No), she spends much of her time making 'suggestions' to other members of her faction and trying to herd the pack of rabid, drunken slackers who make up the bulk of her faction in some useful direction. This often aggravated her, as at heart, she would rather have been busy testing and coding to try to prepare RYG Hat for the day when it could finally replace the clunky software running the Ultimate System. Instead, she spent most of her time kicking people in the butt to get them moving and stop wasting all their time trying to rewrite parts of reality to resemble their favorite video games.

At the moment, she was busy reading Alt.Conspiracy.Scarlet-Empress.

• Subject: The Scarlet Empress is in the hands of the Illuminati!
• Name: Wang.Chung@I.Luv.80s.FOOL
• Like wow, I finally got this thing to work!
• After casting the bones and consulting my Little Big Book of Conspiracies, I finally understand. It's the Illuminati who have her! They ambushed her as she laid drained and exhausted from the work of refreshing the Imperial Defense grid through human sacrifice, kinky sex, and consumption of LOTS OF DRUGS. Mmm, drugs.
• Now they're holding her in their prison until they can finish growing a clone of her in order to take her place as ruler of the Realm! I saw it in a dream!
• There you go! Mystery solved.

Linia grimaced. The last thing they needed was having more fools poking into the existence of the Illuminati. What use was a secret society working for the hidden masters of the world if EVERYONE KNEW ABOUT IT? Even the name was enough of a hint for people to begin poking about with charms.

She quickly sent a US-Mail to her friend Red Dawn Rising, asking her to look into this Wang Chung, just in case. Though it was also possible this was deliberate disinformation by one of the Illuminati Handlers, so she fired off a US-Mail to Blake-Eran as well.

She tapped her cheek. The clone idea had potential, but only a clone who could activate the Defense grid would be able to pull the role off, which is why none of them had tried donning a disguise and taking her place.

And since the Maiden of Secrets wouldn't ever...

Her line of thought was cut off by a small metal bird flying up to her and shouting, "I'M IN YUR BASE! IM KILLIN YOUR MANS!"

Stupid Instant Messengers, she thought.

Wait.

She'd completely forgotten she was supposed to be guarding the flag in the Mass Combat sub-game she'd entered in World of Wankcraft!

Everyone was going to totally kick her ass.

Abandoning thought of anything else, she slid the sensory helmet back to full sensory mode. Perhaps this time she would face a TRUE challenge.

If nothing else, at least she wouldn't lose her flag without a fight.