Jacob's Job
In reply to Tadeusz (msg # 1):
Given the prices of the newest, hottest laptops, you've decided to once again, build a computer. As you explain to your friends, you will be able to get a top of the line, blazing fast PC for less than half the price. And money does not grow on trees.
The most interesting bit of the work is the brand new chip. Its a lot faster than the ones before it as it employs some sort of proprietary tech whose exact nature is closely held. Indeed, there are some rumors by the whack a doos that it enables FTL transfer of data, which is impossible, and laughable.
But you're delicately lifting up the fragile Scriff Inside! chip, as its more fragile than lesser chips, with a pair of tweezers when suddenly you hear the blare of a semi horn outside. You twitch, the chip falls and breaks open. An arc of electricity leaps from a nearby battery, and then there is a blinding light....
You wake laying upon something soft, which smells of wool. A faint scent of manure is in the air, and more immediately present is the smell of death. You however, feel fine.
And then you hear a strangely, familiar, but odd voice, strained with pain.
"Is he awake?"
"Yes, my king." A gravelly male voice replies.