The Land of Destruction

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Concept based on The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan,

and written for Networked Media, a course at RMIT University

(www.rmit.edu.au).

c. geniwate 2012

Mip and Mop were two rather pathetic elderly persons who lived in paper bags - one each. They shuffled along all day, looking for objects of interest from rubbish bins. They had no interests, were not in possession of any world-shattering secrets, and had little ambition beyond a dry place to sleep that night. They didn’t like each other much, either, but each other was all they had.

You can’t start a story that way. Nobody is going to care.

OK then. Mip and Mop were sexy, gregarious 24-year-olds without a care in the world. They lived life to the full, drifting from party to night-club, spending their parents’ money hand-over-fist. The world was at their feet -

No, they’re too perfect. They don’t have any personality.

Just leave me alone, OK? My story! Mine, mine mine!

Well, one day, when Mip and Mop were out and about, they fell in a hole --

Which Mip and Mop? Old or young?

You decide. Anyway, they fell in a hole, and they kept falling and falling, and it was such a long hole that Mip went to sleep for a while, but eventually the hole came to a stop, or they did. Anyway, there was a hard bit. But it wasn’t that bad, and at least it was dry, so they got up, brushed themselves off, and took a look.

Seems they had fallen right out of their own city and into a place called Land of Destruction. They knew this because of the sign. Beyond the sign, the place was incomprehensible. The trees didn’t look like trees, the night clubs didn’t look like night clubs, and cardboard lean-tos were way too smick.

The Land of Destruction

Maybe we can find someone

that knows what’s

going on.Or even if they dont, it’s better not to know with

company

A door appeared, and around that a wall, and then door said ‘contacts’ in a commanding voice. Mip and Mop went inside.

Inside was a bloke called Evangelist, a messenger from the Internet. Evangelist spurred Mip and Mop on a journey to the Celestial City, where the keys of the internet would be laid at their feet. Evangelist informed Mip and Mop that they would have to take advantage of any help they could get, if they wanted to reach the Celestial City.

What was that about?

No idea. But look at this pattern! All the little bits, the way they join up to become so rich and complex!

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Background images from Second LifeCopyright-waived music from Garageband.C geniwate 2012