When it stopped  by Druchland Floric  

Dear reader:

I know this may book be difficult for some of you to read. Some of the words within are hard to understand, as printing even with advanced locomotive techneeks have been difficult and expensive. It is possible you are reading this edition on root-bark parchment as paper has been (at least in my day) extremely rare in parts of the world. Though I dare say this accounting is not the only reading on the subject, but it seems to be the most sout-after.

My name in Druchland Floric and I was commissioned by the Vienna Science committee (which met in secret on the relatively unscathed city of Bordeaux, France and later in Lisbon, Portugal) to undertake a factual and personal account of the days leading up to and just after the happening. 

I suppose the reason the committee picked me was my relatively young age at the time. I was a fresh puter technician who moonlighted as a writer in my spare time. (Note: I understand some of these terms are new to you, but we will endeavor to move ahead) They had felt that my background in science and my humanistic qualities in writing made me a good candidate to write the words in front of you now.

It took nearly 10 years (20 demarks) after it happened to establish alternative means of communications using carrion pigeons, air-gliders, sailing ships and mirror signaling.  After that, some mechanicals were used with steam engines, but it was still an amazing undertaking all things considered.  Of course the great science purge after the Mygod Wars and then later the great burnings of what was called “North America” eradicated many of the brightest minds that may have presented us with answers to some of our questions about the happening.  

Nonetheless, we must appreciate what effort went into the meeting of the minds during the science congress held underground in the year after our Lord 025 (demarks). Many sacrificed their lives, torture and their freedoms to come together and like them, I tell their stories which will culminate in this tome. I hope that it finds some usefulness after all.

Before I tell my tale, I must numerate what we know as of this writing:

No one knows exactly why the electricity stopped working. Some earlier scientist theorized that a great solar flare erupted from our sun which caused our atmosphere to completely ionize and create a situation where the nuclear elements known as electrons and protons (negatively and positively charged particles) became equalized and ceased to become dynamic. Unfortunately, these scientist whom suggested this were quickly rounded up and burned at the stake for heresy during the great expulsions of the first Mygod War.

Though their early observations have some merit, it did not explain how many things continued to function on battery* and generator* power for hours, days and even weeks after the happening. It was this that allowed several of the later committee members to openly communicate with each other to formulate a plan to meet at a central location.  There seems to be no scientific explanation why the disruption was not immediate and complete. We still do not understand this.

Many of the Mygod religious sects which sprung up across the globe were originally convinced this was the work of the hand of God as foretold in the books of the Bible then known as “Armigetton.”  It was said that at the end of times, God would destroy the earth, but before he did the righteous people would rise to heaven* and what was left would have to repent or die in hell*.  However, in the 80 years since the happening, there has been no indication that God has destroyed the earth or has raised anyone from the dead. However, mankind has really done a good job of killing each other in his name.

Some had theorized that alien beings from another part of space had caused this as a prelude to an invasion (Some Many of you may have seen the kinescope presentations of “movies” which show this). Again after 80 years of no answers, this seems a foregone conclusion.  If there is beings willing to take over our planet after we have killed it and most of ourselves, they are in for a terrible disappointment.

There seems to be no reason of why other than it happened.  It continues to be a mystery and for all of us, our reality.

Without further a due, I present my story.