[PotC fic] CTRL+'S', an ALT+F4 ficlet

[permetaform]

Hey ya'll out there! ::waves at friends list::

Are there any loopholes in this? ::points at fic:: Inconsistencies? Phrases that 'skid'?

Shred it apart, yeah?

Title : CTRL+'S'
Viewpoint: [[Sparrow]]
Author: permetaform
Disclaimer: Not my universe, not my AU universe, not my characters, not getting any swag. Boo. Hiss. Arrr.

Summary: Sparrow's legends, sea turtles and all, refreshed.

Notes: Part of musexmoirai's ALT+F4 universe. Give her much love for creating this lovely playground.

command_key('Have you heard of Sparrow?')://y/n//

//n

did_you_hear.rmr

Sparrow'd once crashed an entire city with a word and a smile and a wave of his hand; the loot funneled, onto a dark Vessel, that moves faster than the shadows that slip from the light.

That moves faster than sanity flees, from Sparrow's mind.

command_key('You heard of Sparrow?')://y/n//

//n

do_you_know.rmr

Sparrow was stranded ten turns ago on a breach of jazz, barely on a slight god's-spit of reality, with but the planks of his sanity to hold on to, which were slowly being warped by the heat.

Was caught there for days. He'd emerged, synapses cauterized and all re-soldered.

With the jazz reaching out and meeting his steps halfway.

command_key('Heard of Sparrow?')://y/n//

//n

will_you_believe.rmr

Three days and three nights delines no meaning in that grit strand of space, semi-sentient energies becoming slow acclimated to Sparrow's presence, curling around and rubbing against him. Marking him, as one of their own.

He'd woven rope from the shreddings of his own thoughts, lasso'ed together the streams of his mind.

And rode the tide out.

command_key('Sparrow?')://y/n//

//n

system_unstable

restart?://y/n//

//n

Sparrow rolled back from the panel, stretched and cracked his knuckles, pealed his laughter into the room.

He could barely tell what'd truly happened any more.



[end]

Question: Which title?

Ctrl+'S'
Ctrl 'S'
control+'S'
CTRL+'S'

or something else??

Comments

[permetaform]

yay! I'm glad it worked. I'm going to poke at it a bit more and wait for musexmoirai's response first before I make it public. And I'm glad that the computer code isn't too dense and hard to figure out...I think I'm going to be tweaking that too.

question tho: on the

did_you_hear.rmr
do_you_know.rmr
will_you_believe.rmr

should I keep the 'rumor' tag on the end? or would be better/more clearer to just have it

did_you_hear
do_you_know
will_you_believe

instead?

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

should I keep the 'rumor' tag on the end?

I'd keep it. I didn't realize it was supposed to be "rumour" but other people might, and anyway, it looks good. did_you_hear.rmr looks more computery than did_you_hear.