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and over billions of year’s terraformed the entire planet. He
had pretty-much been cannibalized by his own 'offspring'. He
set the computer to administer first-aid to his stump and
waited for the pain relievers to take effect. For a while

Gnurdleigh no longer cared that he had gone nowhere for
billions of years and that he had lost his arm. When he realized
that he had also lost his XTC, Gnurdleigh became
uncontrollably furious. He put his face to the window and
growled angrily. It was one thing to lose an arm, but now how
would anyone back home know of him or his adventures? He
withdrew his face quickly when the monster on the outside put
his face to the window too, and growled back. The autopilot
laughed aloud and cheered. Gnurdleigh was despondent. He

now knew he would never leave a lasting mark on the
universe. He was a nobody, he thought. Nothing he did would
ever matter...

Billions and billions of miles away in far corners of the universe,
the orgies became fatally violent. Suddenly, people were biting,
clawing, and fornicating one another to death. Fully one-third

of all sentient beings were snuffed, albeit in ecstasy, during the
following thirty years. One inexperienced in the power of the
XTC might think this would decrease its popularity, however,
that would be exactly the opposite of the truth. It seemed that
the act of snuffing or being snuffed during intercourse gave a
sense of finality to the sexual act that somehow enhanced the
experience many-fold. The XTC’s popularity soared beyond all
sane explanations.

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