Michael Cirino’s Story

A Prince set to inherit the throne was socially awkward and did not show emotion very well. He wore a spotted suit, which was the norm for royalty in their futuristic period. The exception to his emotions was when he made pranks. Near his fathers 75^th birthday he took him to the barnyard, as he had an appreciation for animals. The visit is actually a prank. A cybernetic cow at the barnyard helps him rig a giant vat of milk on a hoverpad to tip over on his father as he enters the doorway. The act of japery goes afoul and the entire hoverpad and all falls down, crushing his father. He is detained at the barn. The trial is held on the scene of the crime. Too embarrassed to admit his prank had failed, prince could not properly explain what he had been doing with the vat of milk. Half way through the trial he burst into tears. “You’ve been out pranked” his father bellowed, rising out a platform in the ground. The king had been arranging a prank back at his son the whole time. The cow was his accomplice helping to arrange it with a robot copy of himself switched in at the last minute. He finally got his son to display emotion in public.

The Group Story

It is the year 2999 C.E. A man is in a rehab center called “At the End of the Rainbow” to cure his addiction to making hologram posts on the internet through Hologramgram. He is a burly man, hairy and wtih gorilla like arms. He was planned to inherit the family business but his parents had to ground him from using social media. He got angry, freezing them with his freeze-ray and shattering them. He was given a cat to take care of, but he does not know why. He continues to try and get his internet fix, but is often interrupted by the cat. The cat his very possesive, blocking the man’s screen, and getting in the way in general. He slowly starts to fill the responsibilities of taking care of the cat in an effort to get back to his Hologramgram posting habit. Slowly the cat grows on him as they are alike in their laziness. Eventually he was freed of his addiction from having other responsibilities ad released from At the End of the Rainbow. He was finally free but then realized the new millenium was going to occur at the end of the year. The hype about it was inescapable and he felt a desire to participate in it. He created a Hologramgram account for the cat and could not stop posting about it. He was addicted all over again.