SSFSX17

It's all about Darwi Odrade. She's intelligent, can handle huge amounts of stress, can appreciate all the great things in life, and can even talk to animals! (well, not really, but you get the point)

Luke Skywalker sensed a great disturbance in the force. He met George Lucas in his private office that day. "You have been very obedient all these years, Mark Hamill, and I have a new assignment for you," said George. "What is it, master?" replied Luke. "You must join forces with a powerful one of the Sith to defeat the Dune fans." Luke clutched his head. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" He ran out of there as fast as he could and called up his buddies from Origin Games. "Hello, is Blair there?" "Yes, please hold." "This is Admiral Blair here, this had better be important. I'm busy fighting a new alien threat." "Hey, Blair, this is Luke Skywalker. I think we may have to utilize an emergency merging to fight off George Lucas. He seems to have betrayed me, and he has gone mad." "No problem. Be right there." Right at that moment, the TCS Tiger's Claw II made a hyperjump right above Luke Skywalker's phone booth. An Excalibur fighter flew down and picked up Luke. ------ DarthWizard Saru-Dooku sensed a great disturbance in the force. "I sense the invasion of Wing Commander fans..."

"The device is completed, Master Lucas." "Very good. Initiate the merging." Saruman and Count Dooku both walked into paired chambers. These chambers were closed up and sealed tightly. Between them were a number of wires and hoses leading into a yet larger chamber. The machines began to sparkle and fizzle, and finally, it was complete. The big chamber opened up to reveal a merged version of Saruman and Count Dooku. Their appearances had not changed too much besides in their hair length, but their clothing had become mixed. Also, their powers were fused into a super-magic-force that would soon be unstoppable. "Noone, not even those pathetic Dune fans, can oppose us now. Prepare the orcs, the stormtroopers, and the droids to be converted into Cyborg-Orctroopers.

*In the meantime...* SSFSX17 is a high school student by day. By night, he reads more and more books in the Dune series and maintains a secret underground network of Dune fans. "Considering our close proximity to Skywalker ranch, we would do well to engage in... the plan." he types out into mIRC. "Oh no! Not... the PLAN!" the rest respond. "We must... imprint them. I was one of Duncan Idaho's best students in that sort of manipulation, and I am afraid that it is the only thing we can do for now. The regular army is overseas and on the Eastern Seaboard. Our position in California is very precarious." "We live in the heartland of Silicon Valley. We reside in between San Jose, Santa Clara, Newark, and Menlo Park. They wouldn't dare try to infiltrate this region!" "On the contrary, the fact that we are in the midst of a significant financial and technological nexus gives them all the more reason to try to penetrate this heartland. The Ix is doing its best to remain covert, but we fear that may not last for long." "How about Plan B? Do we have a plan B?" "Yes. Thanks to the high amount of beautiful asians living in this area, including myself, I have managed to use an Ixian machine to create a seductress capable of controlling Mr. Lucas. Unfortunately, we must manually drive down to Skywalker Ranch and physically introduce her into the environment in order to do so, and I am not familiar with the highway system." "How about we get her down to Hollywood during the Oscars?" "Excellent... I see you were aware of my cousins living in the Los Angeles region. Very well then, we will resort to Plan B."

They pull out hoses from behind themselves and begin spraying a thick blue substance all over the place which smells sharply of cinnamon.

The two people who were unconscious before are now able to wake up. Needless to say, that was one disturbing dream. Now that the room is lit up, it is revealed to be part of a hall-way that leads straight outward from the door. There are frames through the hallway every 25 meters to note the separations of the cube rooms. Far in the distance, a group of humanoid figures covered completely in red robes can be seen, similar to those of the image in the dream-trance.

Bablyon, I will interpert "Voice" as meaning the whole Bene Gesserit suite. Babylon pops right out of the panel as Gunseng Harkonnen begins pushing on it. Babylon can immediately recognize that the skull is speaking something in the Voice, and that the dark room has been designed such that the Voice only has its effects in that very dark room. The Voice is inducing a dream-trance designed to be a method of cramming as much torture as possible into a dream, as since people can have long vivid dreams within a few seconds.

As Jacob Douds rushes in, the skull begins to fly around again. He can feel that the sounds he has been hearing originate from this skull, and he knows that these sounds are now beginning to have a profound impact on him. Soon, he also falls unconscious on top of Exatreides's body. --- In the meantime, Exatreides is having an extremely vivid dream of a gigantic demon staring him in the face and saying dark and evil things. Large armies of humanoids completely covered in red robes constantly march past him.

What? They reveal a major major secret of the original series in one of the prequels? How COULD they? The great and dark secrets of the original series must only be revealed in the original series, and never elsewhere.

Exatreides sees a huge flaming skull flying around an otherwise perfectly dark room. The room itself is pure black metallic substance that absorbs all light and therefore is not illuminated by the flaming skull. Exatreides suddenly kicks up against a ramp and almost falls, but is able to recover on account of having super-speed. The skull seems to be mouthing something, and Exatreides suddenly feels extremely dizzy. It hovers over his unconscious body and stares at the doorway from which he came.

You can post what you actually do; as a matter of fact, I will rely heavily on the participants actively going out, exploring, and interacting of their own accord. You can't make up the solution to the Cube, and you can't make up anything that can be consistently relied upon at all times besides that each room is a cube of edge length 25 meters. Besides that, I will mostly serve as a hidden "god" of sorts that will throw in nasty traps and other situations whenever I please.

I sense a very disturbing trend. I'll just say this much: You'll be very very sorry for not having a well-rounded group. ------ Anyways, Exatreides and Gunseng_Harkonnen also wake up in this central white room. They find themselves in opposite corners, with Scytale in a third corner. As they rise up from the plastic floor, they can see jacobdouds and Acriju in the center of the room around the ladder. The chanting / breathing continues to permeate throughout the room, and nobody can tell what it is or where it is coming from.

It's near the end of Heretics that the Bene Gesserit discover one of the terrible secrets of the Bene Tleilax.

If you want the honest truth, I never saw the movie, but I did see a review of it on Ebert and the Movies. I thought, "Hey, how about if we stick people from the Dune universe into there?" and made this up. -- The starting room is made of pure white plastic-feeling substance. Touching it makes plastic noises. There are doors on all four sides, as well as a ladder in the exact center of the room that leads both up and down. Some sort of breathy language that could potentially be demonic chanting is heard from all around, but it is difficult to distinguish from which direction. Jacobdouds seems to have a pug body, pug face, and pug noise. He wakes up to come face-to-face with Acriku. Acriku has Greek features, a prominent nose, and a broad forehead. Acriku's face is faintly reminiscent of a hawk image. (Combined)

The Cube consists of many cubic rooms of similar dimensions (25 meters on a side) in a continuous grid. Some walls are transparent, some are not. Some walls have enough friction for you to climb on, and some are totally smooth. It really depends on the puzzle that the Keepers set up in the room.

A bunch of random people from various factions in the Dune universe have been thrown into a gigantic cube consisting of many smaller cubic rooms with tricks and traps. The object of the game is to try to get out. Whether you work together or fend for yourselves, is up to you. You do not actually make it outside unless I explicitly say so. Otherwise, you may be getting tricked by the Cube's illusions. You may choose 3 powers from one of the following powers: - Bene Gesserit use of the Voice, as well as intimate knowledge of everything Bene Gesserit. Ability to manufacture religions and control them at will. Access to the Other Memories of Reverend Mothers long past. - Honored Matre mastery of anger and sex as methods of control. - Atreides genes potentially granting Kwisatz-Haderach powers. Can penetrate through no-objects to a certain degree. Includes that certain "hunch" that Atreides always have. - Incredible firsthand knowledge of important historical figures such as Maud'dib and The Tyrant. This implies having been restored from a Bene Tleilax line of gholas, although it may just be access to special Other Memories that Bene Gesserit would not have access to. - Mentat computational ability. - The ability to slow down time, move super-fast, and destroy things with one's bare hands. Sorta like The Matrix. Also, total mastery over one's own body, to a degree that no other could have ever imagined. - The capabilities of the New Face Dancers. Only those with an incredible sense of smell can detect them. You can even convince yourself that you are the person you are copying, and can only be snapped out of it by a special key from a Master. Also includes the ability to suck memories and personality right out of someone just by touching, even if the target is loaded with shere. You may also take with you ONE of the following things: - An axlotl tank, although using it will take a lot of valuable time that you may not have. - A stash of spice. - A nullentropy capsule containing the genetic lines of many famous and valuable people, such as Duncan Idaho, The Tyrant, Paul Atreides, Siona, and others. - An authentic Fremkit. - Preserved food and water to last a long time. The participants have no idea why they are there, but they know that they must get out, and that they were somehow captured and put there by someone else. They will all wake up in the same central room. Whether or not there is food and water available depends on the Cube itself. Some rooms do have food and water sitting atop pedestals or in small corners, but are protected by traps, illusions, and the Keepers of the Cube. So there are people that actually run The Cube that can be fought with, but they are a force to be reckoned with.

Everything you want to know about the Bene Tleilaxu is in Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune. But remember to read every single book before that, all the way down to the original Dune, or else you won't understand the rest of the stuff. If you want to be spoiled, I can explain more.

HYPERSPOILER! The Tleilaxu incorporated both the Zensunni and the Sufi into the Great Belief, to the best of my knowledge. So they are not exlusively Zensunni in origin, like the Fremen were.

918 - You recite the Litany Against Fear whenever you are a fraid. 919 - It actually works for you. 920 - You stare at your hands and try to imagine them becoming old and then young again, since you want to be a master at controlling your self-existence. 921 - You have actually accomplished 920. 922 - You can control every single muscle in your body as an individual piece. 923 - You have mastered the Prana-Bindu stance. 924 - You don't need to take notes during college lectures, since you just tap into your memory-trance. 925 - You start trying to arrange marriages in order to breed people. 926 - You have successfully bred a Kisatz Haderach. 927 - You touch your forehead to other people to suck their knowledge out of them. 928 - You have built an Ixian probe in order to suck the knowledge out of people. 929 - Afraid that others will do 927 and 928 to you, you always take huge amounts of Shere. 930 - You try to dance in order to summon Shaitan. 931 - You actually worship the Divided God. 932 - You have started the Priesthood of the Divided God. 933 - Someone else is competing with you to become the High Priest of the Divided God. 934 - You always speak in strange philosophical riddles and consider yourself to have superior wisdom to everyone else. 935 - You consume huge amounts of spice essence in order to access your Other Memories. 936 - You can actually access your Other Memories. 937 - You have been possessed, or were tempted with possession by an ancestor from one of your Other Memories. 938 - You buy thin metal wire and call it Shigawire. 939 - You have tried to built a machine that can write and read information from long spools of Shigawire. 940 - You have a working model of such a machine. 941 - You keep thin coils of metal wire in your hair and call it your shigawire garotte. 942 - You think that all modern world religions were simply manufactured by the Bene Gesserit in order to control your mind. 943 - You even suspect that postmodernism, atheism, and the theory of evolution were made up by the Bene Gesserit in order to control your mind, by instilling a sensitivity to "logic" in you that they can control at any time. 944 - When you hear someone talk to you in a particular tone of voice, you accuse them of using the Voice. 945 - You try to make other people do whatever you want simply by talking to them in a certain Voice. 946 - You have mastered the Voice. 947 - You think that you are a Masheik, and you always force everyone else to bow down in your presence. 948 - You think of others as mere "Domel." 949 - You try to sniff everything to distinguish the pheremones and chemicals so that you know exactly what they are doing. 950 - You have accomplished 949. 951 - You think of anyone not believing in the Great Belief as nothing more than "Powindah." 952 - You are so paranoid of "powindah" that you have yourself cleansed everytime you return to your home. 953 - You try to adjust the enzymes in your body to the point that you are able to control poisons and toxins. 954 - You have accomplished 953. 955 - You think that love is no longer necessary for human survival. 956 - You have built a MMORPG for Dune. 957 - Your Dune MMORPG is so realistic that some people just cannot live without playing it. 958 - People refer to your Dune MMORPG as "DuneCrack" on account of how powerful it is, and people write long essays about how your MMORPG is signalling the downfall of society. 959 - You think that modern warfare is mostly hand-to-hand combat, so you go into the army expecting your sword training to be useful.