10/23/26 – Getting Hurt

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The guard, and another guard both stunned Napforth with their lasers. Looking over at Audri, as well as Gerek on the floor a smoking laser burn on his chest, the first guard said, "Okay, Napforth is stunned. Sorry about that. Is your friend okay?" The second guard added, "More like, how is your friend not a puddle of lasered splubt?" Lying there, Gerek said, "It's, you know, a special laser-proof vest. Cutting-edge tech. But Brackin's ass, that hurt!" Concerned, Audri asked Gerek, "Did the laser actually hurt you?" Pulling out a bolt from under him, Gerek said, "No, it's just that I landed on a ten-sided star-bolt that someone left on the floor." A third guard piped in, "Ah! So, that's where it went!" Yelling and pointing at Gerek, Audri said, "It's fine! We can ignore him!" Gerek said, "Thanks a lot. It's like my teenage years over again." Audri then went up to the first guard and yelled, "Now we need to see the prisoners named Audri and Picknar to witness their serum injection! We want to see some pain!" The first guard replied, "If falling on a ten-sided star-bolt isn't painful, I don't know what is."

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Hey! I have a fully stocked book (Print On Demand) store now on Etsy! Including Bruno and Little Dee!

I started putting this Etsy store together almost TWO YEARS AGO, but I got stuck on their fulfillment-speed policies (which they’ve adjusted), and the shipping (which was hard to align with the shipping setup of my Print-On-Demand printer Ingram Spark).

But, wow. Yay! Hope this works! (PLEASE let me know if you see anything weird that should be fixed)

www.etsy.com/shop/CBaldwinCartoonist

The shipping is… odd. $9. For one book or twenty books (I decided I’d eat the moderate shipping increase per book as a “discount for multiple books”). They are shipped UPS ground, except Hawaii and Alaska where I have to send it USPS ground.

And shipping to different countries is… simply too complex to set up on Etsy. So message me or hit the “Request Custom Order” button on Etsy and we can figure it out order-by-order.

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-The guard, and another guard both stunned Napforth with their lasers. Looking over at Audri, as well as Gerek on the floor a smoking laser burn on his chest, the first guard said, “Okay, Napforth is stunned. Sorry about that. Is your friend okay?” The second guard added, “More like, how is your friend not a puddle of lasered splubt?” Lying there, Gerek said, “It’s, you know, a special laser-proof vest. Cutting-edge tech. But Brackin’s ass, that hurt!” Concerned, Audri asked Gerek, “Did the laser actually hurt you?” Pulling out a bolt from under him, Gerek said, “No, it’s just that I landed on a ten-sided star-bolt that someone left on the floor.” A third guard piped in, “Ah! So, that’s where it went!” Yelling and pointing at Gerek, Audri said, “It’s fine! We can ignore him!” Gerek said, “Thanks a lot. It’s like my teenage years over again.” Audri then went up to the first guard and yelled, “Now we need to see the prisoners named Audri and Picknar to witness their serum injection! We want to see some pain!” The first guard replied, “If falling on a ten-sided star-bolt isn’t painful, I don’t know what is.”

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9 Comments

    1. I think it is already well known in the cosmos that dark planets excel at self mutilation and torture. “So, you have rooms in your homes where the floor is littered with star bolts and you walk around barefoot? I didn’t think anyone could despise themselves any more than we despise you. I’m impressed and a little terrified. Let me know if you are going to start self harming so I can remove myself to a safe distance.”

  1. KQY

    Hi,

    Ouch. Stunned twice. Does that knock him out twice as long or just kill him? I figure 2x the energy to stun = dead….

    And, Ouch, a 10 sided Star Bolt. Ow, ow, ow.

    And, I need to go look at the old bookshelf and see what I don’t have to maximize my $9 shipping. 🙂

  2. progan01

    What… was he working on that he had to remove a ten-sided star bolt to access? I smell a McGuffin we haven’t yet dealt with. Hmm! We’re so close to seeing them get away with it. What could go wrong now? (Ducks, hides under table, cringes and looks up)

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