{"id":1793,"date":"2022-08-20T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobiliserotica.com\/site\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:08:18","slug":"ep-475-carnival-of-sensation-by-nobilis-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nobiliserotica.com\/site\/2022\/ep-475-carnival-of-sensation-by-nobilis-reed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep 475 Carnival of Sensation by Nobilis Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/24111549\/height\/100\/width\/480\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/legacy\/tdest_id\/105741\" height=\"100\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" 1=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 2=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 3=\"oallowfullscreen\" 4=\"msallowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>This month&#8217;s patron-funded story is &#8220;Carnival of Sensation&#8221; by Nobilis Reed.&nbsp; It&#8217;s narrated by the author.<\/p>\n<p>If you want an ad-free version of the podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/nobilis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support the patreon campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverdaleavebooks.com\/books\/5471\/monster-whisperer-second-class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pick up Monster Whisperer, Second Class<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Gruss had been studying the gravitational fluxes of black hole 459 dash 54 for several hundred thousand seconds when Fandel appeared.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The secret,&#8221; he said, dropping into orbit around Gruss with an abrupt bending of space, &#8220;Is authenticity.&#8221;&nbsp; That is to say, he expressed his thoughts in quantum encoded radio pulses.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not a secret if you tell everyone,&#8221; said Gruss, &#8220;And you tell everyone. Find someone else to tell, you&#8217;re warping the event horizon and spoiling my measurements&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Fandel continued undeterred by the observation. &#8220;That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so important to go back to Origin. For authenticity.&#8221; His spherical outer shell glowed in the infrared, absorbing all other frequencies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Fandel had always been a glutton.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Gruss shifted the neutronium plates of their armature, altering the surface albedo to reflect light away from Fandel, a dismissive gesture. &#8220;When do you leave?&#8221; they asked, with a tone that indicated they hoped it would be soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Oh, right away,&#8221; replied Fandel. &#8220;Just as soon as I&#8217;ve stored enough energy.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Well, don&#8217;t let me slow you down,&#8221; said Gruss, altering their armatures once again in order to eclipse Fandel as little as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Thing is, I was hoping\u2026&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Gruss didn&#8217;t step into the gap in the conversation. Instead, they let it hang for almost an entire second.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I was hoping you would come with me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Why in the name of all that&#8217;s radiant, would you hold any hope at all in that event?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Fandel warped again, dropping into an even closer orbit, now close enough that Gruss could feel the gravity differential slightly warping his armatures. &#8220;You&#8217;re the only one of my friends who has never come to a carnival, and\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Gruss cut Fandel off with a burst of radio static. &#8220;I assure you, that is not true.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;What? No, if you had been to one, I would have known\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;No,&#8221; said Gruss. &#8220;The &#8216;friend&#8217; part.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Fandel took on spin. &#8220;Oh Gruss, you&#8217;re such a kidder.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not going with you. It&#8217;s a meaningless excursion to a meaningless planet. Origin hasn&#8217;t had any relevance since the Upload.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s where we came from! It&#8217;s always relevant. Come with me, you&#8217;ll understand.&nbsp; Authenticity.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;First of all, no, second of all, my mass is several orders of magnitude greater than Origin and I&#8217;d warp its structure just by dropping into orbit, third, no.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;&#8220;Well, of course we&#8217;re not going to go there like this,&#8221; Fandel scoffed. &#8220;That<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">would<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be pointless. We&#8217;re sending delegates.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I do not fork my consciousness,&#8221; said Gruss. &#8220;That leads to\u2026whatever it is that&#8217;s gotten into you.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;That won&#8217;t be necessary. Your delegate will be a remote.&nbsp; I just got the tech from Shoover. It&#8217;s just like creating a forked delegate, except instead of a brain, the remote has a real-time transceiver, broadstreaming anywhere within ten thousand light-seconds.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;They got an RTT small enough to exist on a terrestrial planet surface?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I know, they said it was impossible, but Shoover managed it. Here, look.&#8221; Fandel opened a high gain multiwave antenna and beamed the idea to Gruss, who spent several seconds reviewing the details, adjusting their armatures several times in contemplation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Pretty neat, huh?&nbsp; It uses the planet&#8217;s magnetic field as a resonator!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I will admit, this tech has promise,&#8221; said Gruss.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Great. We can use my printer.&#8221; Fandel transmitted the timesynched coordinates and the encoding protocol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Alright, I&#8217;ll go\u2014but only because I want to try out this tech.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Fandel spun up even faster. &#8220;You&#8217;re not going to regret this!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style= \"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">By the time the two of them arrived at Origin, Gruss already regretted it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/directory.libsyn.com\/episode\/index\/id\/24111549\/tdest_id\/105741\">Check out this episode!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s patron-funded story is &#8220;Carnival of Sensation&#8221; by Nobilis Reed.&nbsp; It&#8217;s narrated by the author. 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