# bionic chainslaw pogo gorillas once popular experimental rnd scenario in which such creatures and their cray zee ape based antics once seemed somehow possibly cool interesting or relevant like we're way past jaded or cynical now however or so it seems instead we're hiking around the republic of bob unaided staring at the distant lonely mountains with nothing in our happy heads but light wind noise streaming from the forever mystic east and not once does the subject of bcpg's come up alas researcher henry swanson: nor oddly the republic of bob researcher dr orloff krankenwagen: where on earth's that henry: rather where on earth's earth orloff: oh you mean ontologically in terms of more ultimate reality henry: it appears the republic has swallowed the entire planet and replaced with with little but a yellowed and frayed map of a ruined high desert featuring an ancient ruined empire of almost entirely useless research and development data orloff: you mean what used to be called the internet orloff looks around the temporary lab set up on top of a white mesa overlooking the plains but henry is gone // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]