{"id":7989,"date":"2021-06-21T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2021-06-21T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T23:53:08","slug":"i-fought-to-remain-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-fought-to-remain-conscious\/","title":{"rendered":"I Fought to Remain Conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>referred to by the much cooler moniker<\/li>\n<li>dressing provocatively, singing provocative songs<\/li>\n<li>helium balloon with a rainbow<\/li>\n<li>pulled my hair really hard<\/li>\n<li>my vision is clear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 607 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I fought to remain conscious as John&#8217;s airborne sedative worked through my system. As the inventor, he tried to make everyone at the Academy call it &#8220;John Juice,&#8221; and hated when it was <em>referred to by the much cooler moniker<\/em> of my own invention: &#8220;Sleepytime Spray.&#8221; As his lab partner in The Chemistry of Spycraft, I helped John a lot during the testing of his concoction, <em>dressing provocatively, singing provocative songs<\/em>, and otherwise distracting our fellow students so John could sneak up and thrust a (presumed) <em>helium balloon with a rainbow<\/em> on the side in their faces, and pop it. Of course, the balloons weren&#8217;t filled with helium at all, but with Sleepytime Spray. Once he had the sedation chemistry dialed in, he just had to find a different means of deployment, as everyone in the biz had come to fear balloons with rainbows. Obviously he&#8217;d settled on this disgusting saliva trigger.<\/p>\n<p>But what John didn&#8217;t know was that I wasn&#8217;t Jason. I was Jason&#8217;s twin brother, practically a co-inventor of the wretched substance, and over our time developing it, I had cultivated a near-immunity to its effects. All I needed was one good dose of pain and I&#8217;d snap out of it. I slowly reached up and <em>pulled my hair really hard<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>My vision is clear<\/em>,&#8221; I told the inert Tessa. &#8220;In another moment I&#8217;ll be able to stand. Blink if you can hear me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she did not blink.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>referred to by the much cooler moniker dressing provocatively, singing provocative songs helium balloon with a rainbow pulled my hair really hard my vision is clear Tune in next time part 607 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I fought to remain conscious as John&#8217;s airborne sedative worked through my system. 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