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Characters

Primary

• Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.
• Carter Hawkinson
• Jennifer Hawkinson

Mentioned

• Mariel Hawkinson (Killed while on duty somewhere.)

Setting

Some time before the beginning of the post–Oil Age 'Dark Ages' in 2048 (Tentatively: Fall 2037 or 2047….)
Kokomo, IN, USA
Earth, 'Sol' System
FreeRIDErs Universe

Plot

(NOTE: The order of events in the final story has not yet been set in silicon!)

• Carter finishes his homework.
• Carter leaves his underground home and goes for a walk (possibly with a dog of bis? — I'm not exactly sure yet…)
• He ends up at a local hackerspace (possibly situated where the old YMCA building is now.
• Once at the hackerspace, he makes some modifications to the exoskeleton he uses to walk (he's paraplegic due to a [[wikipedia:Motor neuron disease|motor neuron disease.)
• Someone at the hackrrspace asks Carter why he hasn't come to any of IUK's astronomy club's meetings in a while.
  • (The reason is that he heard that he was told that a friend of his who moved away died a while back during such a meeting and he's been rather busy since then, anyway. I'm not sure if Carter will voice the former reason at this point in the story, though.)
• Carter finishes up his tinkering at the hackerspace and heads home.
• Somebody visiting from a local, but widely influential, technology company notices his skill and writes him down as a potential hire.
  • (Carter is later hired to work in an entry-level position later, but I'm not sure exactly when…)
• The next day at school, someone invites Carter to a get-together of some sort. (He says he'll consider the offer and, sooner or later, decides to attend it when it inevitably occurs some time between the middle and the end of this story.)
• When he gets home, he sees that his old friend's family is moving back into their old house.
• Strangely, they have a young woman with them.
• Carter guesses (incorrectly) that she might be one of his friend's cousins or something.
• This individual and her family will take advantage of this assumption to help ease the girl, who is really Carter's old friend, back into living in their old house.
• Carter starts picking up on some odd details about his new friend's behavior as he gets to know her and eventually figures out the truth.
• … (Other events to be decided upon later.)
• Carter's condition deteriorates.
• The technology company that hired Carter earlier during the story offers to scan a copy of his genome and a complete map of his brain scanned into a computer server using the best technology they can come up with, some of which (an MRI powerful, precise, and accurate enough to show individual neurons in very fine detail) they were already developing as part of a contract with a medical institution.

Things To Incorporate Into the Story

• The lyrics to the Beach Boys' song 'Kokomo' (probably as part of a clock's pre-set alarm.)
• The name 'Thunderblaze Innovations, LLC' for the company that hires Carter (I may use the name if I ever start a technology company of my own, but, hey, FreeRIDErs is set in an alternate universe anyway, so what the heck?)