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Zeitgeist: Here we go again

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Not only have I thunk up a sequel before finishing my inital Zeitgeist story, I have thunk up a second, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, version. Go Me!

So here we have Alex, Anna, Eric, and Carl; or, if we twist reality slightly to the left, Scriabin, Liszt, Satie, and Weber. And Taneyev, who doesn't exist in normal reality, more or less.

Alex works at a record store, hangs out with his friends after hours, and probably plays a few too many video games. He's a nice, laid-back kinda guy overall, but probably too introspective for his own good.

Eric is Alex's best buddy. When Alex invents reasons to stress out--he thinks too much, y'know--Eric is the one who says, Dude, chill out; let's do THIS. Anna is the gal that Alex has a thing for, but he can't do much about it because she's going out with geeky-but-cute Carl, who makes a better salary than all the rest of them combined. Thinks he knows everything, Carl does, but he treats Anna really well, so what's Alex to do.

In the other reality--which Alex is sure isn't real at all--his friends belong to the Underground, a group formed in opposition to the Zeitgeist, a system that monitors everything in respectable society. And, to his chagrin, so does he, except for some reason everyone insists on calling him Scriabin. Here, Liszt is an expert in surveillance hardware, and Satie is a take-charge fighter. Weber is one of the best hackers in the Underground (still a bit of an egotistical shmuck though). Alex is determined to get to the bottom of this craziness.

Eventually he will, following the legend of the Heart of the Zeitgeist into the Fringe, the wasteland outside the borders of society. Taneyev--once a good friend of Liszt's--was banished to the outside when the agents of the Zeitgeist caught her spreading sedition. She's not all there in the head, exactly, but she'll do what she can.

And the time will come when Alex will find the Heart of the Zeitgeist, and discover the truth. The awful, awful truth.

I hope Exit isn't going to mind that I'm overlapping names with her floofy-psychoanalyst-to-the-Avatars dude. Taneyev just FIT for this gal.

And Crow--it still doesn't have a point. But I'm gonna keep working on it anyway, and trust you to keep the end under wraps. :)
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zarla's avatar
Hahahaha, multiple stories all going on at once. WELCOME TO MY WORLD. THERE'S FIFTY PLOTLINES ALL VYING FOR ATTENTION ALL THE TIME darn it. It is through the gift of a short attention span I don't go totally crazy.

Man it is weird to see Alex attached to that kind of person cause that sounds like my brother. Who is also named Alex. Weird.