Working With Ghosts – 3

Geminiman got up off the floor and felt his jaw. "Have you been here the whole time? It’s been 15 years."

Bongun shrugged. "It not like I have a place to go back to. We ghosts do like to haunt places and this seemed as good as anywhere. Maybe you’d even remember me again. Or see me again! I had almost given up hope on that ever happening."

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Working With Ghosts – 2

A few days have passed since the zombie case outside of Megalopolis and the paranormal investigator known as Geminiman of the Mechanical Maniacs had been enjoying some good downtime from his job. There were no odd occurrences being reported to him, so each day he would just swing by his office located in the basement of the Megalopolis Police Department and sit back and relax as the days went by then occasionally walk out and have a good night in the city with his fellow team-mates or simply on his own. After all, who needs company when you can split yourself into six? He was expecting this day to be no different when he walked into his office and was greeted by his secretary Sohee, whom he had hired as a result of the incident during the completion of the zombie case.

“Ah… Master Geminiman, Good Morning!” said the adorably cute ghost, levitating behind her deck setup next to the basement entrance, “Shall I make you some tea to wake you up?”

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Working With Ghosts – 1

I hope you all enjoyed Raijin’s AXE finale, I know I did. After ceding the floor to Raijin for so long it’s nice to get this "new" epilogue up on the site. Well, I say "new", but it is and it isn’t. Lennon wrote "Working With Ghosts" years and years ago, but never finished it. The Business of War started up and it interrupted progress made in the story. As part of a pet project in salvaging old stories for the Mechs, I present this second salvaged story! (Virus being the first). Hope you enjoy.

The Prologue and part one of the story are now online.

Virus

Another month another update. Last month’s epilogue actually took a long time to finish and eventually Mags and Snake both helped give me enough juice to get to the end and finish the damned thing. So after finishing it I took a look back at some of our other unfinished tales. This one in particular always nagged at me since it was supposed to end off Series 6. But it didn’t and I wound up putting everything on hold for a long while waiting in vain for it to be finished. Ho hum. There’s no reason it couldn’t be adapted to the current series, though! So take a look at a newly finished tale of the Mechs – Virus!

Off The Fourth Wall

Another new epilogue is now up … Off The Fourth Wall by Ben (yes, another not by me). This ep is set just a small time in the future of our series, but is posted now to be timely. That’s right – you can actually expect more eps to come!

Extra Spicy Epilogue

We have the first epilogue from our new Hardman coming atcha! Actually this was written months and months ago … and we had a whole thing planned before we were going to post it, but it never materialized and … hm. Well! Here it is anyway, at long last! Out FOXed! Yes, Ben couldn’t help but bring his furry alter ego along to the Mech’s universe! Don’t know who he is? Check out Year of the Fox and I Think I’m Turning Kitsune.

Also, earlier this month Protodude reported on new hurt sprites for the RM 25th anniversary soundtrack. But these were actually made for the 20th anniversary (or at least first seen over here then, these were probably made for the Pocketstation for the RM re-releases for the PSX) and, since they’re now difficult to find, I’ll post up what images I have of them. I was originally going to try recreating the sprites, but …. just never did. There were taken right off Capcom’s product page. Well, except for one view of a jacket. I called the bracelet picture “higher quality”, but I suppose it may not be so much. I think it might give a better idea of where the pixels go for some of the RMs present there than a photo, but … *shruggs*. Maybe it’ll help, maybe it won’t.

Make Way for Series 8

Series 8

It’s been a long, LONG time coming, but Series 8 is finally here! Ben FINALLY finds his rightful place in the fictitious universe of the Mechanical Maniacs. And so does an all new Magnetman.