<meta name="LineWrap" content="true"><TITLE>SR_Bk1 0153</TITLE><A HREF="SR_Bk1-0154.txt">Next (Page 154)</A><BR><P><P>At 150 years in the future, the Agents transmitted information to the present, to themselves, as to the whereabouts of the five Screws and the Solvent, referring in the transmission that they, the agents, were about to meet their demise.<P><P>At the present, a few weeks after the death of Fox, the transmission was received by an individual who, along with the original four associates, founded The Solvent Ijsane on the upper floors of a skyscraper. <P><P>They then located the five Screws and the Solvent.<P><P>Each New Ijsane Agent has a single Screw in his or her quarters.<P><P>The Solvent is stored in a secure location in The Solvent Ijsane.<P><P>The New Ijsane Agents seek to find the rest of the Screws, but they have no way of knowing how many more there are--only that they will know when they have all the Screws.<P><P>And they hope to avoid the doom that befell the original them.<P><P>* * *<P><P>"What do you think?" Nurship asked.<P><P>"Um," Pacer responded, "um, they're pretty good I guess. I like the Cup's Club the best, but I think the thing with the girl and the tiger kinda-thing could be pretty cool."<P><P>"I initially wanted to make the whole thing the story of their life together at the castle, but I thought that'd be too... I don't know... it would depend on their relationship representing aspects of our lives and everything, and I just thought it would be better to have their relationship at the castle as just a small part of the movie, and then have them go on an adventure. It could also work as a TV series, I think."<P><P>"Like Xena!"<P><P>"Yeah, it might have some similar themes."<P><P>The two were silent for a few moments. Nurship sipped his americano, and Pacer drank some Yoo-hoo.<P><P>"Um," Pacer finally said, "I kinda, like, don't get this whole screw thing..."<P><P>"Well, that idea is a little more sketchy and challenging. I still have to come up with the characters for it, but they'd definitely be of the superhero-slash-comic-book kind of milieu."<P><P>"Yeah."<P><P>"So anyway," Nurship said. "I don't know if you want to go over this now, but I really have to start to work with you on the specific mechanisms by which I Rule Films will be funded by your company."<P><P>"Yeah, my cousin Clawe, he's our lawyer. Him and Carne are working on all the financial shit right now. You'd probably be better off talking to Clawe at this point."<P><P>"But, ah, you are... satisfied... that funding 'Feriend' will be..."<P><P>"Yeah, I'm cool with it. I mean, if you could give me a script to read, it'd be cool. But I think everything is cool."<P><P>"And as far as my involvement with your main project goes--I'll be tied up in post-production for at least two months, maybe longer. But after that, we should definitely talk."<P><P>"Yeah."<P><P>It was silent for a few moments, again. Pacer looked distracted.<P><P>"Uh, Pacer, are you okay? Is there something else you wanted to go over?"<P><P>"Nah. It's just this whole planning thing. Like, knowing what I'm gonna be doing at, like, a given time. Y'know, like in the future? It's weird. I mean, I guess I'm like the head of this major corporation now or whatever, and it's, y'know, like a new thing for me. I don't know man. I'll get used to it."<P><P>"Well, if you ever get too freaked out by things, you can come and hang out here. Things are always pretty fucked-up and wild around here," Nurship said.<P><P>"Yeah man, cool," Pacer said.<P><P>--------------------------<P>CHAPTER 37<P>--------------------------<P><P>"The river," Prince Ferrajalt said, looking at the vector display to his right, sitting in the driver's seat of the Warhome.<P><P>"Where?" Treyess Arcomany asked.<P><P>"Coming right up--I guess this baby is constantly scanning the surrounding area. It even shows the river being frozen, even though it's not cold enough. See, some sort of anomaly reading by the river..."<P><P>"Huh.<BR><A HREF="SR_Bk1-0154.txt">Next (Page 154)</A>