Pessimist and the Dromedaries (short story)
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Pessimist and the Dromedaries was a Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids short story written by Lupan Evezan and illustrated by Aristide Twain. It introduced Darius.
Contents
Plot
to be written
Worldbuilding
Universes
- This story takes place in the Prime Universe. Pessimist mentions the Cupid Homeworld on multiple occasions.
Other
- Pessimist-242 claims to have “a positronic brain the size of the Homeworld”.
- Pessimist's Fog Ship wishes it could visit the Interdimensional Tavern.
- Pessimist's Fog Ship was the sole creation of an ultimately-cancelled collaborative project between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Technological Advancement to create artificially intelligent ships.
- The Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries is led by the High Board of the Drove, below whom the hierarchy includes the Head Researcher, and then the Assistant Researchers, who are led by a Head Assistant Researcher.
- Research Laboratory 6 is where the Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries keep nonhuman prisoners from Strangely-Colored Secret Societies, including the Gang of the Green Gorilla, the Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes, the Horde of Mad Elephants, the Zany Zebras, the Collection of the Camouflaged Chameleons, the Cohort of the Clockmaking Capybara, the Society of the Scarlet Crabs, the Sect of the Silver-Shelled Snails, the Ennead of the Eigengrau Easter Eggs, the Trio of the Talking Turkeys, the Possé of the Azure-And-Emerald Panther, the Gaggle of the Golden Goats and the Syndicate of the Sleeping Salamanders. All over the room, cells were opened and society members came jumping ecstatically to their freedom.. At one point, they even had a member of the Collective of the Retconning Crocodiles, but “rewrote history and made it so that we’d never captured him”, leaving behind a “taunting note” to inform his once-captors of this fact.
- The First Horde created theDatabase-Compiling Dromedaries to act as their documentation division, but later wiped the Dromedaries' memories of their origins and abandoned the building when they decided to jettison their enter documentation division to save on funds.
- Pessimist mentions that Bibliophile-962, head of the Crew's own Department of Documentation, is constantly lacking for funds and equipment, and keeps borrowing stuff from him.
- The Dromedaries' scanner is able to pinpoint Pessimist's home dimension via dimensional residue, although the Dromedaries do not possess the technology for interdimensional travel.
- Pessimist estimates that there's “a little over a thousand” members in the Crew.
- Cupids were created by their Creator with the ability to interface with any electrical appliance made before the 1960s. However, this ability has never been updated to keep up with the times.
- The Mad Elephant mentions “the leader of the Legion of the Chartreuse Tortoise”, whom he believes to be “pretty scary”, although according to the Green Gorilla, he is only to an elephant (the suggestion is that he is a mouse).
- The leader of the team of five guards guarding Research Laboratory 6 has the title of Head Guard.
- Pessimist's Fog Ship has its own positronic brain, which is linked to Pessimist's. It also has a mega-speed drive it can switch on to travel through the Void particularly fast.
Continuity
- During his interrogation, Pessimist-242 recounts how Lord Thymon became a mail-sorter at the Department of Postal Services after being hit with a Love Arrow, as depicted in PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving and COMIC: Whatever Happened to Lord Thymon?.
Behind the scenes
Read online
The story can be read for free on the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids website.
