The Ghost, The Darkness And The References (NJC SHOCKWAVE)
Jun 28, 2021 18:23:27 GMT -5
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Post by Roy "The Sorrow" Harlowe (NJC) on Jun 28, 2021 18:23:27 GMT -5
Neo James Carner is seen sitting across from the silhouette of a shape, a figure of a man with big broad shoulders and a well kept haircut Neo is playing cards with a cigar chomped between his bushy bearded lips as he eyeballs the cards in front of him.
NJC: “You know, one thing I’ve always heard in my entire team here in the XHF, and the NPW will be no different I’m sure...The ReVenants are nothing but stooges, like we’re lackeys, it always shifts, the leader always transitions. For the longest time, Keith and Rob were my servants and we’re only helping benefit my career! Oh how everyone shut up about that when Keith Williams captured Heavyweight Gold and I remained in the middle of the card. It doesn’t bother me, it doesn’t annoy me in the slightest when people accuse me of being the leader. I always tried to inform them that it was a community effort here in The ReVenants. We are a pack of Apex predators, that’s what these alphas banned together have become, the ultimate peak of what it means to dominate when banded together. A pack that’s full of hunting chumps for sport and bloodlust like that movie about the lions, The Ghost And The Darkness. Have you ever seen that film?”
Neo says with an arched brow, the shape doesn’t respond, just a single billowing trail of smoke for their cigar in front of their person as Neo throws a few chips into the center of the table.
NJC: “Perhaps you haven’t, that explains that look on your face and your immense silence. Don’t worry, I’ll give you the cliff notes synopsis. So Val Kilmer, back when Val Kilmer ruled the 90s and could do no wrong, starred in this little flick called The Ghost And The Darkness. Came out in 1996, this was years after Jurassic Park and it’s lions, it wasn’t going to be some CGI spectacle. That’s not what you looked for in a Val Kilmer film in the 90s, you looked for cerebral historical adventurer films with a thrilling amount of dialogue and horrifying amount of lions feasting upon man. Sure the story is a over sensationalized white washed fictionalized account of the Tsavo Man-Eaters, lions that attacked and killed workers at Tsavo, Kenya while building the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898. Sure, I wikipedia’d that, but don’t you fret, it’s very relevant.``
Neo says as he ashes his cigar, the lamp above the circular green table casting beams of light through the thick clouds of tobacco smoke.
NJC: “Now these lions, they weren’t hunting because they were hungry...They were hunting because people were in their way. These lions were out to prove a point that the stunning density of man’s hubris and desire to manifest their own destiny would be their undoing. See, the lions didn’t care about royalty, or who sent them or what accomplishments they sent to build this railway with slave labor...The lions didn’t want them there and they made a point to hunt. Hunting is how an animal puts a dominant ripple in the food chain around them. Let the prey and the other predators out there know, they’re not alone. Now, this Trios Match they’ve got set up for us here coming at Shockwave...It doesn’t surprise me, it doesn’t surprise me a bit that HNDRXX, Leon Van Zandt and Joseph Mack stand in our way. They’ve unfortunately been thrust in front of us by NPW management to be fed to the lions. They want to carve a path, a railway to the top of the card but boys I’m sorry to inform you that ascension just isn’t that easy when The ReVenants want something...they band together and get it. See, randomization may have thrown us together but trust me when I say the ReVenants take that very personally because YOU are in OUR territory and that territory has the Trios Championship! We love ourselves a little thing for gold and we’re willing to indulge in a little of the old ultra violence to get what we want. You wish to stand in our way when one of your team mates is named HNDRXX? I don’t know whether that’s a Soundcloud Rapper name or something you find on the side of a bottle of prescription pills.Would you like to vowel? Jesus. I got some hard to swallow facts for you my friend, vowels help make words make sense and you make about as much sense as every snack food company slapping XTREME on their food in the 2000s. Leon Van Zandt? With a name that sounds like Van Camps Beans maybe you should stop ripping off Steven Van Zandt and ask Bruce Springsteen himself if he’ll let you join the E Street Band. Joseph Mack? Update your gimmick and learn to be a brave boy and speak with your chest you EVER come at The ReVenants.”
Neo throws his cards down on the table.
NJC: “Looks like I won! Nice try...Oxford.”
Neo says as the camera pans revealing the cardboard cut out of Oxford Osland Neo has been carrying along the last few weeks and has been seen filmed segments with at this point more than the original Oxford I believe.
NJC: “Ah don’t beat yourself up, you keep making that face it’ll get stuck that way!”
Neo says as he grabs all of the poker chips in the center of the table as he starts chortling loudly. Suddenly a door opens up at the top of the basement stairs as it’s revealed Neo’s in Rob Garcia’s basement playing poker with just a cardboard cut out of Oxford, his fellow ReV not involved in the match coming at Shockwave.
Rob: “Neo! Keep it down! Jeff’s trying to sleep and he gets cranky. And stop talking to the cutout, it’s getting weird.”
Neo furrows his brows as the scene comes to a close.
NJC: “You know, one thing I’ve always heard in my entire team here in the XHF, and the NPW will be no different I’m sure...The ReVenants are nothing but stooges, like we’re lackeys, it always shifts, the leader always transitions. For the longest time, Keith and Rob were my servants and we’re only helping benefit my career! Oh how everyone shut up about that when Keith Williams captured Heavyweight Gold and I remained in the middle of the card. It doesn’t bother me, it doesn’t annoy me in the slightest when people accuse me of being the leader. I always tried to inform them that it was a community effort here in The ReVenants. We are a pack of Apex predators, that’s what these alphas banned together have become, the ultimate peak of what it means to dominate when banded together. A pack that’s full of hunting chumps for sport and bloodlust like that movie about the lions, The Ghost And The Darkness. Have you ever seen that film?”
Neo says with an arched brow, the shape doesn’t respond, just a single billowing trail of smoke for their cigar in front of their person as Neo throws a few chips into the center of the table.
NJC: “Perhaps you haven’t, that explains that look on your face and your immense silence. Don’t worry, I’ll give you the cliff notes synopsis. So Val Kilmer, back when Val Kilmer ruled the 90s and could do no wrong, starred in this little flick called The Ghost And The Darkness. Came out in 1996, this was years after Jurassic Park and it’s lions, it wasn’t going to be some CGI spectacle. That’s not what you looked for in a Val Kilmer film in the 90s, you looked for cerebral historical adventurer films with a thrilling amount of dialogue and horrifying amount of lions feasting upon man. Sure the story is a over sensationalized white washed fictionalized account of the Tsavo Man-Eaters, lions that attacked and killed workers at Tsavo, Kenya while building the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898. Sure, I wikipedia’d that, but don’t you fret, it’s very relevant.``
Neo says as he ashes his cigar, the lamp above the circular green table casting beams of light through the thick clouds of tobacco smoke.
NJC: “Now these lions, they weren’t hunting because they were hungry...They were hunting because people were in their way. These lions were out to prove a point that the stunning density of man’s hubris and desire to manifest their own destiny would be their undoing. See, the lions didn’t care about royalty, or who sent them or what accomplishments they sent to build this railway with slave labor...The lions didn’t want them there and they made a point to hunt. Hunting is how an animal puts a dominant ripple in the food chain around them. Let the prey and the other predators out there know, they’re not alone. Now, this Trios Match they’ve got set up for us here coming at Shockwave...It doesn’t surprise me, it doesn’t surprise me a bit that HNDRXX, Leon Van Zandt and Joseph Mack stand in our way. They’ve unfortunately been thrust in front of us by NPW management to be fed to the lions. They want to carve a path, a railway to the top of the card but boys I’m sorry to inform you that ascension just isn’t that easy when The ReVenants want something...they band together and get it. See, randomization may have thrown us together but trust me when I say the ReVenants take that very personally because YOU are in OUR territory and that territory has the Trios Championship! We love ourselves a little thing for gold and we’re willing to indulge in a little of the old ultra violence to get what we want. You wish to stand in our way when one of your team mates is named HNDRXX? I don’t know whether that’s a Soundcloud Rapper name or something you find on the side of a bottle of prescription pills.Would you like to vowel? Jesus. I got some hard to swallow facts for you my friend, vowels help make words make sense and you make about as much sense as every snack food company slapping XTREME on their food in the 2000s. Leon Van Zandt? With a name that sounds like Van Camps Beans maybe you should stop ripping off Steven Van Zandt and ask Bruce Springsteen himself if he’ll let you join the E Street Band. Joseph Mack? Update your gimmick and learn to be a brave boy and speak with your chest you EVER come at The ReVenants.”
Neo throws his cards down on the table.
NJC: “Looks like I won! Nice try...Oxford.”
Neo says as the camera pans revealing the cardboard cut out of Oxford Osland Neo has been carrying along the last few weeks and has been seen filmed segments with at this point more than the original Oxford I believe.
NJC: “Ah don’t beat yourself up, you keep making that face it’ll get stuck that way!”
Neo says as he grabs all of the poker chips in the center of the table as he starts chortling loudly. Suddenly a door opens up at the top of the basement stairs as it’s revealed Neo’s in Rob Garcia’s basement playing poker with just a cardboard cut out of Oxford, his fellow ReV not involved in the match coming at Shockwave.
Rob: “Neo! Keep it down! Jeff’s trying to sleep and he gets cranky. And stop talking to the cutout, it’s getting weird.”
Neo furrows his brows as the scene comes to a close.
