I’m deep in meditation, fully immersed in an immaterial dimension.  Clarified light washes over me.  I spin in place, letting it pour across my full-hearted smile.  Suddenly, something strikes me in the chest.  I’m sent spinning downward, into a black nightmare realm of tattered jags and ugly angles.  WTF?  I cast a wild glance around, and see a crystal-festooned New Ager approach me, laughing while slowly clapping his hands.  “You think you get enlightenment before us, Kent?  Think again.”  He snaps his fingers and a horde of patchouli-covered crazies are running at me, galloping on all fours and baring their teeth.  They smother me in a group hug, chanting their stupid chants with their stupid forced grins…NO.  I open my eReader to Echo.  Magic flash.  My hand thrusts out of the mob.  A bolt of brilliance crashes down from the sky and courses through my fingers, electrifying my body.  I transform into the latest, greatest model of the Veritech fighter and I hear my voice rise in a defiant scream:  “BY THE POWER OF ROBOTECH!”  Suddenly I’m in battloid mode, blazing away at mobs of vacant-smiled freakshows with my heavy beam cannon.  BO visibly bursts from these fools in noxious green clouds as I litter the ground with bloody, bead-covered limbs.

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