Hubba Hubba! Welcome to another edition of the ever so popular Crusaders Euro Chart Top Ten. This time the scrolltext will feature part two of the also very popular Cyberpunk story about Ken, so stay tuned for that after the usual amount of information. First some small messages from me. Well the most important message from me would be that our board, the one some of you would know as "Home Sweet Home" just got a US Robotics HST Dual Standard modem so I guess you could say we're joining the Hi-Speed club. Numbers? Here they come HST users call +47-6-810864 +47-6-810864 Ordinary 300-2400bps users call +47-6-810881 +47-6-810881 The number for Golden Gate is +47-42-46718 +47-42-46718 See you at the board guys!!! OH! Look, there's Waldemar. Hi, Waldermar! So you decided to drop by this time too? Hope you're not still angry about loosing your job! If you don't mind we'd like to get on with the scrolltext.... After christmas our Elite board, The Crusaders Golden Gate will also get their HST modem. In the future we will probably set up a mail network between the two boards too. Then I would, as usual to say a big hello to all users of our boards. The months has been a bit record breaking. Not that I began smashing all my LP's or anything, but we had like 3 new users every day! If you're a user at our HQ board you have to log in at least once every eight months or your record will be deleted. We expect even more users now with the HST modem and the total number of users today is 1003. ...and that's quite a bit if I may say so! You have probably heard lots of shit from other groups about our boards, but why not check it out for yourself? They're only a phonecall away, and they're both open 24hrs a day. Now I guess it's time for some important messages from the EuroChart administartors. Stay tuned for part two of the story about Ken after the break... ... Zooooooooom!! Guess who is here?? Yep, yep, calm down everybody!! This is once again Bustman knocking on your front door, asking if you want to buy some graphics. So, do you want to improve the graphical layout of your productions?? Yes, I know!! Some of you groups out there already have excellent graphicians. But you people are not my target concerning this advertisement, I am talking about all you groups that do not have that good graphicians. Or, simply, you do not have graphicians at all. So if you want to get a logo for your group, a charset, a picture or whatever then just let me know. Just give me a note and I will fix it for a reasonable price. When ordering, remember to state exactly what you want. This way you can be more sure on what you get, and we will avoid a lot of problems. Also remember to state how many bitplanes, which size if it is a matter of charsets, and the resolution. The more details you can give, the better. I will charge in new and unformatted quality disks, price depending on the size of the work. Ok, do you feel this is something for you and your group?? Then let me know. You can contact me at the following address, at any time. Just drop a letter with your request at this mailbox... BUSTMAN/CRUSADERS - MYRDALSKOGEN 379 - 5095 ULSET - NORWAY ... Gee, I have just finished off the graphics for this issue of our popular Eurochart. I hope you readers are satisfied with my work, I should tell you that I really put my soul into it. Hmm, let us change subject. I think I will finish off with some very special regards to my cool friends around. Since I have stopped making all those freeked out pack-disks, I have also stopped greeting my dear contacts. I think some of them deserve to get a snort of busemenner when I am at this scroller. If you are missed then tough luck. When I say very special regards, I mean VERY special. My handshakes fly this time to... CYTAX - Hi Zico!! Thanks for those cool letters, mate!! Really hope you enjoyed that Norwegian girl-mag I sent you, I had to buy a completely new one. Also I quick hello to my as ever as great fellow Terminator-X. EUPHORIA - Hello Hans!! Your letters are the most outstanding!! I always look forward to them, your letters are worth more than twenty short-lettered contacts. Also a hello to Barrax, thanks for those cool phonecalls, dude!! Your English is extremely good for being a guy far away from Finland. BRAINSTORM - Yoho Axel!! Zine is really the best disk-mag around (up till now. Ed.), no doubt about it. Thanks for your nice letters, and keep my graphics in mind when it comes to your charts in Zine. REBELS - Hi Jake!! Your pack-disks are so cool!! Just keep that work up, mate!! Just too bad I could not come to the Dexion-party. DEXION - Hello Trix!! Well, as I said, too bad I could not come to your party. Anyway, thanks for your letters, nice knowing you. PMC - Hallo der du er, Flush!! Ok, enjoy this issue of our unbeatable Eurochart. I guess I will meet you at the party held by Network and Theatre, so see you there. NETWORK - Hello Yoghurt!! Ja, her har du en liten hilsen!! Looking forward to travel with you to the party. Talk with you tomorrow I guess. Thanks for the news. NO LIMITS - Hallo i luken The Genius!! Meet you at the Network and Theatre party, I guess you are coming. See you there, mate. VERTIGO - Hello Apache!! Did you know that you are holding a record?? When you wrote to me for swapping, you wrote a letter on two full A4 pages!! All other people that have written to me do not beat your record. Really cool, I must say. ANARCHY - Yoho and hello Teeze!! So, when is next issue of Stolen Data ready?? I am waiting for it, mate!! Also a hello to the guy in the UK, Raistlin. Well, too bad about the logo I was going to draw for you. I have still not done it, you know. I will just have to put myself together and do it sometime. TRIANGLE 3532 - Hi Zark!! Here is a little hello to you too!! Nice pack-disks of yours, as always. Enjoy my graphics and the rest of this Eurochart. Too bad we had to cut down on the disks, but I could not afford it. I hardly have money these days. ABSENCE - Yahoo!! Finally, here is a hello to you two guys living here in my neighbourhood, Quest and Goofy. I guess I could say that since I talk to you every single day, I have never found it necessary to give you a special message or so. But anyway, here is a greet to you too. Keep up your work with the graphics, but remember that only practise makes master. Also a hello to some of the other dudes in Absence that I met at the Arendal-party. I think one of you had the name MCS, am I right?? Nice chat. To the rest of Crusaders I can only say that it will be cool seeing all you fellows and guys again at the forthcoming party by Network and Theatre. Hello to Raven and Madman, guess we will meet at the party. Hopefully I will also meet our member up there in the north, Excalibur ... ... That was it for the special messages. Pretty much, eh?? Shit, the clock is now an hour past midnight and it is school tomorrow. And I have not even done all my homework!! Double SHIT!! Who the heck invented sleep?? I could have killed him. This is the end for me... See you around in another scroller sometime... So long... Back to Dr. Outtasight: There we are. Now that you've read all the important messages and got your coke and your potato chips and your best chair our, relax and lean back and just enjoy the story about Ken, part two. If you've missed part one, it's on a music disk from a group called Abusive which was released 01.12.90, or you could just download it from our boards under the filename KEN1.LZH. Now back to the story Last time we left Ken, he had just brough back his brand new cybernoid model - a girl to be exact. After getting all the boxes in to his room without his mother noticing anything, he started opening the first box. It was the one with the head, and the head module. She sure was pretty, but that's not the only reason for Ken buying this cybernoid, or Replicant as some people called them. The name came from some early models made by freaked-out genetic designers back in year 2020, which constantly malfunctioned and caused harm and death to humans. They were taken out of production and nowadays one had to have a license to manufacture them. And all models had to go through certain goverment inspections. This of course added a lot to the price. Ken took the head out of the box and sat down to have a real good look at it. Suddenly he heard someone outside his door and he quickly dropped the head back in the box. Before he could close it, his mother yelled "What on earth are you doing!? And what's that???" "Ehrm..." Ken was in a bit of a situation now. He had promised his mother that he would use his saved-up money for a new aero-bike and not for a cybernoid model! "Hi mom. This is Tanisha. Roger's new cybernoid. She's really funny. Do you want to hear her speak?" Ken knew that his mother hated everything that had to do with cybernoids, and the box with the head was right in front of her, so this was the best way to get her to leave the room - she once had a date with one and she didn't notice that he was a Replicant before it was too late. "NO!" his mother yelled, seeing the head with the cables sticking out of the neck, and she slammed the door behind her. "I'm going over to Sally. Don't stay up to late Ken" his mother shouted from the kitchen. Great! Ken was alone. He removed the transportation brackets and began to open the other boxes with legs, arms, and the main body. The battery was in a box of its own and after opening it he had the complete cybernoid in parts spread across the floor of his room. Ken didn't need an assembly manual - he had watched the techincians for hours at the computer shop, and now it was time to assemble his own. All the connectors fitted snuggly into their slots and in just a couple of hours the cybernoid was assembled. Without noticing it Ken had been fumbling around with a naked body. Very human like and very perfect in every way. Ken had never seen a completely naked girl before, except for all the dirty video disks they used to watch over at Collin's place. He was amazed that this body was even more pretty than the sex-model they used in dirty videos. Ken snapped out of his trance and rushed over to his mothers bedroom to find something she could wear. If his mother saw a butt naked girl lying on his bed she would really freak out for sure. He brought back what he thought would fit. He put the clothes beside the cybernoid on the bed and left the room with the remote control. He closed the door behind him and pressed the power switch. All he heard was the small beep from the remote control, but he decided to wait a bit longer. Shit. Something must have gone wrong. The guys at the computer shop had probably ripped him off and sold him a bad model. He reached for the door handle and turned it. Just as the door opened he could hear someone moving on his water bed. He quickly shut the door again and tip-toed over to the chair by the kitchen tabel. "Hello?" a smooth voice sounded from behind his door and Ken didn't know if he was dreaming or not. He had never actually been so close to a droid that just had woken up before so he studdered a bit "Eh..Eh..Ye-Yeah?" "Would someone mind coming in here and help me a bit?" the smooth voice sounded again. "Ehrm..well, ok.." Ken didn't imagine it to be so hard to speak to a droid. This was just like trying to ask a girl at school out for a date... maybe even harder... Ken slowly opened the door and looked accross the room over to his bed. The clothes were still lying on the bed, but the droid had moved to under the sheets. All he could see was her head above the sheets. She had a perfect tan and her skin was much more human now that the bio-mechanisms had started. "Hi." she said "Who are you?" "I-I'm Ken. I just bought you" "Oh, well.." she said "Let's get started with transfering my software. I'm feeling a bit empty-headed". She pulled out a small optical cable from her purse which came with the model and connected it to the back of her head under the long, slightly curled black hair. Ken reached out for the cable and their hands touched. Her hands were warm, just like a human being...She stopped. She knew Ken didn't have the greatest experience with Replicants. If this wasn't romantic, nothing was.. Ken pulled the cable over to the EISDN slot in the wall and plugged it in. The droid slowly put its head back on the pillow and closed its eyes. What happened now? Ken hadn't seen this before, and he picked up the manual from one of the boxes to see what she was doing. "The basic software will be transfered free of charge blah-blah-.. Do not interrupt software transfer blah-blah..." There! "While transfering the basic software, the PX-1600 will close all life functions. Please stand by while the transfer is progressing. The complete transfer, depending on the amount you have ordered will take approx. 1-2 minutes." Well, that wasn't such a long time. Ken was glad he wasn't paying for the transfer. Optical hi-speed transfers on the EISDN network wasn't exactly cheap, all though Roger probably could fix a a Red Box for him so that he could transfer software free of charge. Suddenly her eyes opened and she turned to him and smiled. "That's it." She removed the cable and put it back in her purse. Ken didn't exactly know what kind of software he had ordered with the droid, but it was probably the standard package - 5 languages, household utilities, diagnostics and so on.. "You must be about 16 years old so I guess you should turn your head the other way while I dress." she said. While Ken was looking the other way she quickly dressed and after jsut a minute or so she was finished. "It's ok now. You can look. Well, what do you think? Just like you wanted?" she smiled again. "Eh..aw.. Sure. Yepp. Just like I expected" Ken studdered. "Awf. It's quite painful to be closed down and switched on again like this. All though I don't have the pain sensors of a human beeing I do have the ability to feel some forms of pain. By the way, what's your name?". She stood up and walked towards him. "I'm Ken. Ken Miller. It's really Kevin, but all my friends call me Ken." He fealt it was a bit easier to speak to her now. "So Ken. I have received a lot of information about you from the central informations system so I know most things about you already, but I would like to add something to my records. Like what kind of food you like, what you do for fun, and so on.. Tell me about yourself." She sat down on the chair beside him and took his hand. Ken told her all about himself. They must have been sitting like this for at least 4 hours when Ken heard the front door open. "Sssshh. I'ts my mother. Be quiet. She thinks I'm sleeping" "Ken! are you still up?" his mother yelled. She must have seen the light from under the door. "Well, I was just going to bed" "Is that droid still here?" his mother asked. Tanisha looked at Ken. She realized that Ken hadn't told his mother that he had bought a complete cybernoid model. Many grown-ups had one or more cybernoids, but it was rather seldom that a 16 year old kid had one. Tanisha stood up and opened the door. Ken's mother was on the edge of brain close-down. In front of her stood a girl, or rather a female cybernoid who was wearing her clothes and coming out of her own sons room. Ken knew that this had to be the end. His mother wouls surely have him terminated tomorrow morning. Tanisha closed the door behind her and left Ken sitting in his room by himself. She pulled out a chair and helped Ken's mother on to it. Ken could hear them talk., but not exactly what they were talking about, but it had to be about him.. Every now and then he could hear his mother screaming "I don't want a Replicant in my house!" The time had passed 04:00 when Tanisha opened the door and when she and Ken's mother came in to his room. They sat down on the bed. "You could have told me that you were going to buy a Replicant, Ken. But we have come to an agreement, Tanisha and I. She's going to do some of the household things around here, so that I can start working again." "Hey, that's great mom!" "Tanisha better sleep in the guest room I think. Come Tanisha, let's get that spare bed out of the storage room for you. Replicants didn't actually sleep like a human did, but they closed down their life funtions and recharged their backup batteries during sleep. All though the cybernoids didn't run on electricity, the central nerve computer system had a battery backup unit just in case. Their bodies consumed food like any normal human beeing, and got energy from that. Ken wanted to stay up and talk about him self all night but Tanisha followed his mother out the door. "Good night Kevin. Sleep well. Dream sweet dream and come up with a name for me. Tanisha is just my model name.." "Good night ....Tanisha" See you in the morning.... PHEW!!! That's it of the story for this time. I really hope you don't expect this story to be a Stephen King or a William Gibson thing! I'm not a very good writer, but scrolltexts must contain a certain amount of text so what could be better than an exciting story like this... The next part of the story will be available on the the next issue of the EuroChart, so stay tuned for that. It will also be available on both our BBSs under the filename KEN1.LZH, KEN2.LZH and so on... So if you don't receive the EuroChart regulary you can get it there, or get someone with a modem to get it for you. My name is Dr. Outtasight, and I thank you for reading the complete contents of this scroller. Until next time! What do you say to a gorgeous girl walking past you on the street...
