Predators, part 3: Resonance by faroutsider
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Macali was distracted - her thoughts kept straying back to the human predator trapped in the temporal entanglement, and the strange resonance she had felt with Margaret as soon as she had activated the vortex. Abandoning her assignment, Macali spent days going through the nine-dimensional data matrix of the entanglement, scouring the spatial, temporal and energetic parameters for overlapping waveforms that could account for the resonance. When the patterns eventually started to coalesce, she could not bring herself to accept the inescapable conclusion - she and Margaret were phase-shifted manifestations of the SAME PERSON. If this was correct, then any attempt to disentangle Margaret could result in their merging into a single entity, or more likely would lead to both of their deaths.
Suddenly Macali realized she was also in mortal danger from the shadowy people who had hired her. She saw now that her assignment was nothing less than an attempt to destroy the resonance with Margaret and kill them both. Should she attempt to merge her two phase-shifted entities and fight the shadow people with her combined consciousness, or could she find a way of freeing Margaret from the entanglement and fighting the shadows as two separate beings, each with their own training and abilities?
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One thing was certain. Macali would have to bring Margaret out of the vortex before she made a final decision. She couldn't assume Margaret would fall in line with either course of action, and fighting a battle on two fronts was never a good idea. Their lives literally depended upon cooperation. They needed to resolve their own battle before they could take on an outside force.
Macali set the parameters on the vortex generator carefully. For now, she and Margaret needed to be two separate beings. A slip in her settings could kill them both.
Margaret had no sense that any time had passed. She had heard the sound of Macali returning via the translation portal, but now Macali was standing in front of her holding a data pad in her hand, staring into Margaret's eyes as if her life depended upon it.
Macali held Margaret's gaze until she was sure Margaret was fully there, then started to talk. Over and over again she explained. Showed Margaret the data. Answered questions. Margaret paced the room, angry at first, then slowly understanding.
Realization dawned slowly. The same person. They were two parts of the same person! It seemed unbelievable, but there it was. Something clicked ...
"It's agreed, then. We reunite."
"Yes."
Macali set the sequence. Margaret checked her calculations. They went over the process carefully, together, knowing this was the most important thing they would ever do. Their calculations showed that the energy dissipation would blow the walls out, so they walked outside together to the plateau. Margaret pressed in the final sequence.
She looked at herself lying on the ground, looked up at herself crouched above, saw sky and stone, felt the energy pulse. Then just sky, stone beneath her, energy dissipating slowly ...
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This is a further continuation of the storyline suggested by Tara (auntietk).
Poser 8, Vue 9 Infinite and Photoshop CS3. I created five separate renders and combined them with different filters in Photoshop. Once again, I used Deus Machina by Oskarsson, Complicated Eve and Millenium Cats from DAZ. Orbital station from C3D.
Developing the storyline and visuals has been such fun - thanks again Tara. More to come...
Craig
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Comments (25)
Its all starting to come together in an interesting story and classy pictures. We're looking foward to future episodes. Thanks Craig and Tara!
A fascinating saga and accompanying images. This has a great sci-fi feeling about it. Looking forward to the next installment.
This is a marvelous sequence my friend, superb creation at every aspect!
Great render(s)!
Fantastic work!
Interesting effects - great work!
fascinating scene(s) - great lighting and fx!
One thing was certain. Macali would have to bring Margaret out of the vortex before she made a final decision. She couldn't assume Margaret would fall in line with either course of action, and fighting a battle on two fronts was never a good idea. Their lives literally depended upon cooperation. They needed to resolve their own battle before they could take on an outside force. Macali set the parameters on the vortex generator carefully. For now, she and Margaret needed to be two separate beings. A slip in her settings could kill them both. Margaret had no sense that any time had passed. She had heard the sound of Macali returning via the translation portal, but now Macali was standing in front of her holding a data pad in her hand, staring into Margaret's eyes as if her life depended upon it. Macali held Margaret's gaze until she was sure Margaret was fully there, then started to talk. Over and over again she explained. Showed Margaret the data. Answered questions. Margaret paced the room, angry at first, then slowly understanding. Realization dawned slowly. The same person. They were two parts of the same person! It seemed unbelievable, but there it was. Something clicked ... "It's agreed, then. We reunite." "Yes." Macali set the sequence. Margaret checked her calculations. They went over the process carefully, together, knowing this was the most important thing they would ever do. Their calculations showed that the energy dissipation would blow the walls out, so they walked outside together to the plateau. Margaret pressed in the final sequence. She looked at herself lying on the ground, looked up at herself crouched above, saw sky and stone, felt the energy pulse. Then just sky, stone beneath her, energy dissipating slowly ...
cool with the cats again.. super art
This is really great and well done, nice series.
This is really fantastic! Beautiful work!!
Pets???? Cats rule the world, but they are careful, no one knows! Great done!!!
Very interesting- nice effects!
Fabulous!!!!!
GREAT.....
very beautiful picture which was implemented perfect and absolutely worth seeing
Very nice series, wonderful work
fun to read and look too warm hugs, Linda
That was unexpected, I love the story and the three pictures show all points of view. Very creative series beautifully done and great fun to follow. I look forward to the next installment.
cool!!!!!!!!!! FANTASTIC work!!!!!!!!!!!
Great work on the effects and seperate scenes...the characters are very interesting and the posing superb...this has the makings of an epic!
Excellent work!!! I love the glow effect that you used for your characters.
Absolutely stunning work. Absolutely unique and the textures and characters are superb!!!
Wonderful !
Wowie Zowie! Just saying that, having only seen the image. Now I'll read the narrative... (And tara, you're giving part of your narrative in your comment again...I'm pretty sure I missed something here...but onto the narrative) Holy cow! What a narrative change! I didn't expect any of this. A great development; and it totally fits the image. A fascinating turn of events, finding that the two characters are versions of the same person. (And the conflict that that sets up.) Wonderful turn of events. And I love how the image shows one person watching & the other lying down; then visa versa; then their merging. And the cats appear & the space station disappears. The image is bathed in a very mysterious light and the narrative is drawing us into a very complex & magical science fiction scenario: Nice work! You two are doing fine work on this!