Post by Dave Dangerously on Nov 15, 2021 16:13:38 GMT -6
ICW The Return
Dave Dangerously has just opened the door to the coordinates given to him by the maybe deceased ABVP containing the Twelfth and final member of the Twelve. The occupant of the residence has opened the door and revealed himself to be…
Dave Glaze: Well, what do you want?
Dave Dangerously: Do you have a minute to talk?
Dave Glaze: What’s this regarding?
Dave Dangerously: Listen…as strange as this sounds…I think I’m…you.
Dave Glaze: What? What are you talking about?
Dave Dangerously: Can I come in?
Dave Glaze: Okay, sure I guess. Don’t try anything weird, man.
Dave Dangerously: Don’t worry, I just want to talk.
Dangerously makes his way in, and sits at the dining room table
Dave Glaze: Okay, so what is this all about?
Dave Dangerously: Can I have a drink, maybe?
Dave Glaze: Okay, is Double Black fine?
Dave Dangerously: Yeah, actually that’d be great.
Dave Glaze pours a glass of whisky as Dangerously sniffs it, swirls it, and sips it
Dave Dangerously: Thanks.
Dave Glaze: Do I know you? I feel like I know you…
Dave Dangerously: You should. You made me.
Dave Glaze: What? Wait, what in the hell do you mean I made you? Oh my God, please tell me you’re not some surprise child of mine…
Dave Dangerously: In a manner of speaking, maybe. But no, nothing like that. Look, my name is Dave Dangerously.
Dave Glaze: Wait. That’s the name of my…wait. What’s going on here?
Dave Dangerously: It’s me. I’m real.
Dave Glaze: But I…I made you up, I mean…you’re just a character…
Dave Dangerously: Look man, I’m as real as you made me. I’m here, talking to you now.
Dave Glaze: How is this possible? Is this some kind of joke? Where’s Ashton?
Dave Dangerously: Dude, Ashton Kutcher hasn’t been on Punk’D in like 15 years. Do you even watch TV anymore?
Dave Glaze: Well, no not really…
Dave Dangerously: Damn man. What is it that you do exactly?
Dave Glaze: Well, I work…I exercise, I spend time with my family, my kids and girlfriend…I go camping…I like to travel…I read a lot, I listen to a lot of music…and I write.
Dave Dangerously: You still write?
Dave Glaze: Well sure…I’ve always wrote. I’ve always enjoyed it.
Dave Dangerously: What are you writing now?
Dave Glaze: Well I compose some music too but if you’re talking about actual writing, I am working on a sci-fi story script, maybe as a movie or a comic book. It’s fun, I mean I dunno. I’d like to be a writer someday. I am taking a master class online with one of my favourite comic book writers, who is a new York times best-seller as well.
Dave Dangerously: So you write for a living?
Dave Glaze: I wish, I have a job that makes ends meet. I’d love to get paid to write. Anything, honestly.
Dave Dangerously: Hmmm.
Dave Glaze: But wait a minute- how exactly did you get here? How is it that you’re here?
Dave Dangerously: I’m still trying to figure that one out.
Dave Glaze: But I created you….you are a work of fiction.
Dave Dangerously: Listen, I’m just as real as you made me. I’ve been more real than you realize. Something must have happened along the way and it gave me life, I can’t explain it. All I know is that I’m here and I have my memories and everything that’s happened has happened to me.
Dave Glaze: Wow, so all of the matches…all of the drama…all of those moments. You know sometimes I’ve wondered what it would have been like to live that life myself.
Dave Dangerously: My life? The suffering I’ve gone through? The battles I’ve waged? I’ve been through hell, son, you don’t even know.
Dave Glaze: Well, I mean I kind of do. I put you through that hell.
Dave Dangerously: You did, didn’t you. You and the rest of them. The rest of the Twelve. You’re the ones that shaped me into me. You’re the ones that wove the tapestry of my story all of these years. And you have been the driving force behind it all.
Dave Glaze: Man, those moments defined my life back then. You don’t understand what it meant to have a creative outlet like that. To have friends who appreciated what I could do, to talk with me into the late hours of the morning. I haven’t had that kind of friendship and support in years. It was great. I wonder how all of those guys are doing?
Dave Dangerously: You wonder how they’re doing? They’ve left me in the dust, man. I’ve been trying to piece together this company, make a comeback, figure out this mystery of the twelve, to try to stay relevant, and where have you been?
Dave Glaze: What?
Dave Dangerously: You abandoned me! You abandoned all of us!
Dave Glaze: How could you see it that way?
Dave Dangerously: What other way is there to see it?
Dave Glaze: You don’t know what I’ve been through. The loss, the heartbreak, the struggles. Come on, man, I’ve had more important things than efed. Life takes prevalence, always. I wish I could have stuck with it but I mean everyone else spread themselves further too.
Dave Dangerously: Everyone else? You mean the competition I’ve defeated all of these years? I shut everyone out of business!
Dave Glaze: How do you figure?
Dave Dangerously: I took down LWN! I folded EWA, brought it to ICW and merged it! I took out the EFWO! I turned ICW into the leading wrestling company!
Dave Glaze: What are you talking about? LWN ended because they had an idiot manager who locked down their message board, and caused everyone to leave. EWA merged with ICW, you’re right, but you didn’t win anything there. ICW got lucky. And EFWO? They always sucked, dude.
Dave Dangerously: But I, and ICW, emerged as the sole survivor! I won the fed wars!
Dave Glaze: You WON because I didn’t have anything else to do, and I kept coming back because I was bored or lonely. I was able to pick up all of the broken toys that no one played with and kept the banner going when no one was reading anything. Hell, I had to pad the rosters with more of my own characters…
Dave Dangerously: What? What are you talking about? More of your own characters?
Dave Glaze: Yeah, I also created and was Sign Guy/Lou E, Genesis, Los Conquistadors, Hawk and Dove, The Gladiator/Tommy Harrison, Revelation, I was even Healius Maximus.
Dave Dangerously: What???
Dave Glaze: Yeah, they were all me. I never was able to get Healius back in, I just posed as him because I thought it was a good story. It was, right? I just wanted to do some different stuff, I felt reinvigorated in role-playing. Honestly, Dave Dudley bored me to no end.
Dave Dangerously: You thought I was boring?
Dave Glaze: Yeah, I mean you were the product of teenage angst. You were my voice against everything that I didn’t like in this world. You were angry, aggressive, spiteful, vulgar, crude. You were me dialed up to eleven. As I got older, I mellowed out. I stopped caring. I mean, some of it was the anti-depressants I was on in my late 20’s-early 30’s, but you just didn’t resonate anymore.
Dave Dangerously: …
Dave Glaze: That’s why I switched it up to Dave Dangerously. I needed it to be fresh. You were similar, but different enough to make it interesting. You were the version of Dave Dudley that I could relate to as an adult. And then the other characters further represented the other aspects of the creative expression I wanted to get out.
Dave Dangerously: So you just stacked the card with yourself?
Dave Glaze: Well sure, we only had a handful of active people. I mean look at ICW pre EWA, or immediately post-EWA merger…before we had probably a roster of 20. After the merge with EWA, we had like 30-40 on the roster. Our first comeback, we had 20-30. After that, it reduced, quickly. The last time we brought it back, there were MAYBE 10 of us? I needed to stack the deck. And let’s be honest here, I was doing the best promos of my LIFE with Gladiator/Harrison and Genesis. It wasn’t like I didn’t deserve a top spot.
Dave Dangerously: How very Kevin Nash of you.
Dave Glaze: You still haven’t answered my question though…why is it that you’re here? Just to know more about me?
Dave Dangerously: No, I want know…I have to know…what was it all for? For what purpose did you use me? Why did you make me the way I am?
Dave Glaze: I told you, you started out as an exaggerated expression of how I used to be. I used to dial it up even further when posting OOC stuff so I could intentionally muddy the waters between fiction and reality. I pushed it to the limit outside of RP stuff so people wouldn’t know where the character stopped and I began. And I liked it that way.
Dave Dangerously: So I was just your soapbox?
Dave Glaze: In a way, sure. But you helped me in a lot of ways. I really believe you gave me the courage to stand up for myself more. In expressing myself through you, I realized I could be like you, for real. I don’t take any shit from anyone. I say what I want. I get what I want. I got all of these from you. But I’m a kind person too, who enjoys nature and soft music and is sweet to his family, and his cats. You know? I’m not hardcore.
Dave Dangerously: Why couldn’t I have that, though?
Dave Glaze: What?
Dave Dangerously: Why couldn’t I have all of that? Confidence, love, compassion. Why do I always have to be angry? Why am I always fighting everyone. Why can I never win? Why is it never enough?
Dave Glaze: I’m sorry man, but that’s just how I made you. That’s just how I was at the time.
Dave Dangerously: You’re sorry? I am a mess and you’re just sorry?
Dave Glaze: I don’t know what you want me to say. Like I said earlier, you’re the product of a 16 year old boy on the internet in 1999. That’s not much of a thing to be.
Dave Dangerously: I can’t go on being this way, knowing that you’re the polar opposite of what I am. I can see it in your eyes, I can see the things you have, the things you feel. THAT’s what I want.
Dave Glaze: You have the choice to do anything you want. I’m not in control of you, I haven’t been in a long time.
Dave Dangerously: I’ve been on this mission for so long…to conquer everyone, to change the game, to find out who’s really controlling things….and it’s been you all along. YOU’RE the one who has been pulling the strings.
Dave Glaze: Listen man, you’re no Pinocchio. There’s no strings on you. You can be whatever you want to be. You’ve CHOSEN to remain in the past.
Dave Dangerously: You’ve got to help me, then.
Dave Glaze: Help you do what?
Dave Dangerously: Help me evolve…help me change. You’ve got to fix this. At least make me like I used to be…
Dave Glaze: I can’t help with anything. I’m not writing ICW anymore. I had some ideas for ICW return last year, but I only got into part 2 before the pandemic really derailed everything. I kind of had some personal issues that I worked through over the summer, and I just lost touch with a lot of things. So that kind of got lost in the dust. If I had any ideas now, they’d be way too wacky to put into ICW. Really crazy metaphysical stuff.
Dave Dangerously: I can’t take this…I think I’ve gone crazy. You’ve got to help me.
Dave Glaze: I can’t man, I’m sorry. I think it’s time you leave.
DaVE DaNGerOUsLy: Please, help me!
Dave Glaze: Stop it man, you need to go!
Daaaave Glaaaze: PLEASE, I BEG YOU!
Dave Glaze: What, stop! I’m going to have to ask you to leave now, or I’ll have to call the cops.
DaVe GLaZe: I CAN’T GO ON FEELING THIS WAY! SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT!
Dave Glaze: Listen man, you need help, OK? And I’m going to give it to you…
Dave Dangerously starts to flicker, as if is becoming transparent, he then grabs Dave Glaze by the shirt, and pulls him close…
DAVe DuDLEy: NO, YOU’RE GOING TO HELP ME!
Dave Glaze: What are you- NO!
Suddenly, Dangerously hits Dave Glaze with the 4D!!!!!!! THE DAVE DANGEROUSLY DEATH DROP! An audible snap is heard, as Glaze lies on the floor, motionless.
Dave Dangerously: Ughhh….no….
Suddenly, a flash of white light takes over, as Dangerously holds his head…
Dave Dangerously: WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME??
An ominous loud WHOOSING is heard, as Dangerously stands up in pain, as the camera cuts to…
A shot of Genesis, sitting in his wheelchair, enveloped in white light, screaming, holding his ears…
A shot of Tommy The Gladiator Harrison on the run after escaping the authorities, enveloped in white light, screaming, holding his ears…
A shot of Hawk and Dove enveloped in white light, screaming, holding their ears…
A shot of Los Conquistadors, trying to hop the border wall, enveloped in white light, screaming, holding their ears…
A shot of Lou E. Dangerously, drinking with the gang at Paddy’s pub in Philadelphia, enveloped in white light, screaming, holding his ears…
These images overlap with Dave Dangerously, as they all combine to have one scream, which soon falls into a silent scream, as they all seem to merge into one, and the screen goes white.
The screen then fades in, to show Dave Dangerously Standing, looking better than ever, with an intense look on his face.
Dave Dangerously: Now I know what I need to do.
Dave somehow channels some energy into his hands, and uses this energy to create an energy circle, as big as him, next to him.
Dave Dangerously: Let’s get dangerous.
Dave steps into the circle, and disappears.
NEXT:
Yeah, it gets weirder. It’s going to get weirder…
Chapter Four:
A Conversation With God
A Conversation With God
Dave Dangerously has just opened the door to the coordinates given to him by the maybe deceased ABVP containing the Twelfth and final member of the Twelve. The occupant of the residence has opened the door and revealed himself to be…
Dave Glaze: Well, what do you want?
Dave Dangerously: Do you have a minute to talk?
Dave Glaze: What’s this regarding?
Dave Dangerously: Listen…as strange as this sounds…I think I’m…you.
Dave Glaze: What? What are you talking about?
Dave Dangerously: Can I come in?
Dave Glaze: Okay, sure I guess. Don’t try anything weird, man.
Dave Dangerously: Don’t worry, I just want to talk.
Dangerously makes his way in, and sits at the dining room table
Dave Glaze: Okay, so what is this all about?
Dave Dangerously: Can I have a drink, maybe?
Dave Glaze: Okay, is Double Black fine?
Dave Dangerously: Yeah, actually that’d be great.
Dave Glaze pours a glass of whisky as Dangerously sniffs it, swirls it, and sips it
Dave Dangerously: Thanks.
Dave Glaze: Do I know you? I feel like I know you…
Dave Dangerously: You should. You made me.
Dave Glaze: What? Wait, what in the hell do you mean I made you? Oh my God, please tell me you’re not some surprise child of mine…
Dave Dangerously: In a manner of speaking, maybe. But no, nothing like that. Look, my name is Dave Dangerously.
Dave Glaze: Wait. That’s the name of my…wait. What’s going on here?
Dave Dangerously: It’s me. I’m real.
Dave Glaze: But I…I made you up, I mean…you’re just a character…
Dave Dangerously: Look man, I’m as real as you made me. I’m here, talking to you now.
Dave Glaze: How is this possible? Is this some kind of joke? Where’s Ashton?
Dave Dangerously: Dude, Ashton Kutcher hasn’t been on Punk’D in like 15 years. Do you even watch TV anymore?
Dave Glaze: Well, no not really…
Dave Dangerously: Damn man. What is it that you do exactly?
Dave Glaze: Well, I work…I exercise, I spend time with my family, my kids and girlfriend…I go camping…I like to travel…I read a lot, I listen to a lot of music…and I write.
Dave Dangerously: You still write?
Dave Glaze: Well sure…I’ve always wrote. I’ve always enjoyed it.
Dave Dangerously: What are you writing now?
Dave Glaze: Well I compose some music too but if you’re talking about actual writing, I am working on a sci-fi story script, maybe as a movie or a comic book. It’s fun, I mean I dunno. I’d like to be a writer someday. I am taking a master class online with one of my favourite comic book writers, who is a new York times best-seller as well.
Dave Dangerously: So you write for a living?
Dave Glaze: I wish, I have a job that makes ends meet. I’d love to get paid to write. Anything, honestly.
Dave Dangerously: Hmmm.
Dave Glaze: But wait a minute- how exactly did you get here? How is it that you’re here?
Dave Dangerously: I’m still trying to figure that one out.
Dave Glaze: But I created you….you are a work of fiction.
Dave Dangerously: Listen, I’m just as real as you made me. I’ve been more real than you realize. Something must have happened along the way and it gave me life, I can’t explain it. All I know is that I’m here and I have my memories and everything that’s happened has happened to me.
Dave Glaze: Wow, so all of the matches…all of the drama…all of those moments. You know sometimes I’ve wondered what it would have been like to live that life myself.
Dave Dangerously: My life? The suffering I’ve gone through? The battles I’ve waged? I’ve been through hell, son, you don’t even know.
Dave Glaze: Well, I mean I kind of do. I put you through that hell.
Dave Dangerously: You did, didn’t you. You and the rest of them. The rest of the Twelve. You’re the ones that shaped me into me. You’re the ones that wove the tapestry of my story all of these years. And you have been the driving force behind it all.
Dave Glaze: Man, those moments defined my life back then. You don’t understand what it meant to have a creative outlet like that. To have friends who appreciated what I could do, to talk with me into the late hours of the morning. I haven’t had that kind of friendship and support in years. It was great. I wonder how all of those guys are doing?
Dave Dangerously: You wonder how they’re doing? They’ve left me in the dust, man. I’ve been trying to piece together this company, make a comeback, figure out this mystery of the twelve, to try to stay relevant, and where have you been?
Dave Glaze: What?
Dave Dangerously: You abandoned me! You abandoned all of us!
Dave Glaze: How could you see it that way?
Dave Dangerously: What other way is there to see it?
Dave Glaze: You don’t know what I’ve been through. The loss, the heartbreak, the struggles. Come on, man, I’ve had more important things than efed. Life takes prevalence, always. I wish I could have stuck with it but I mean everyone else spread themselves further too.
Dave Dangerously: Everyone else? You mean the competition I’ve defeated all of these years? I shut everyone out of business!
Dave Glaze: How do you figure?
Dave Dangerously: I took down LWN! I folded EWA, brought it to ICW and merged it! I took out the EFWO! I turned ICW into the leading wrestling company!
Dave Glaze: What are you talking about? LWN ended because they had an idiot manager who locked down their message board, and caused everyone to leave. EWA merged with ICW, you’re right, but you didn’t win anything there. ICW got lucky. And EFWO? They always sucked, dude.
Dave Dangerously: But I, and ICW, emerged as the sole survivor! I won the fed wars!
Dave Glaze: You WON because I didn’t have anything else to do, and I kept coming back because I was bored or lonely. I was able to pick up all of the broken toys that no one played with and kept the banner going when no one was reading anything. Hell, I had to pad the rosters with more of my own characters…
Dave Dangerously: What? What are you talking about? More of your own characters?
Dave Glaze: Yeah, I also created and was Sign Guy/Lou E, Genesis, Los Conquistadors, Hawk and Dove, The Gladiator/Tommy Harrison, Revelation, I was even Healius Maximus.
Dave Dangerously: What???
Dave Glaze: Yeah, they were all me. I never was able to get Healius back in, I just posed as him because I thought it was a good story. It was, right? I just wanted to do some different stuff, I felt reinvigorated in role-playing. Honestly, Dave Dudley bored me to no end.
Dave Dangerously: You thought I was boring?
Dave Glaze: Yeah, I mean you were the product of teenage angst. You were my voice against everything that I didn’t like in this world. You were angry, aggressive, spiteful, vulgar, crude. You were me dialed up to eleven. As I got older, I mellowed out. I stopped caring. I mean, some of it was the anti-depressants I was on in my late 20’s-early 30’s, but you just didn’t resonate anymore.
Dave Dangerously: …
Dave Glaze: That’s why I switched it up to Dave Dangerously. I needed it to be fresh. You were similar, but different enough to make it interesting. You were the version of Dave Dudley that I could relate to as an adult. And then the other characters further represented the other aspects of the creative expression I wanted to get out.
Dave Dangerously: So you just stacked the card with yourself?
Dave Glaze: Well sure, we only had a handful of active people. I mean look at ICW pre EWA, or immediately post-EWA merger…before we had probably a roster of 20. After the merge with EWA, we had like 30-40 on the roster. Our first comeback, we had 20-30. After that, it reduced, quickly. The last time we brought it back, there were MAYBE 10 of us? I needed to stack the deck. And let’s be honest here, I was doing the best promos of my LIFE with Gladiator/Harrison and Genesis. It wasn’t like I didn’t deserve a top spot.
Dave Dangerously: How very Kevin Nash of you.
Dave Glaze: You still haven’t answered my question though…why is it that you’re here? Just to know more about me?
Dave Dangerously: No, I want know…I have to know…what was it all for? For what purpose did you use me? Why did you make me the way I am?
Dave Glaze: I told you, you started out as an exaggerated expression of how I used to be. I used to dial it up even further when posting OOC stuff so I could intentionally muddy the waters between fiction and reality. I pushed it to the limit outside of RP stuff so people wouldn’t know where the character stopped and I began. And I liked it that way.
Dave Dangerously: So I was just your soapbox?
Dave Glaze: In a way, sure. But you helped me in a lot of ways. I really believe you gave me the courage to stand up for myself more. In expressing myself through you, I realized I could be like you, for real. I don’t take any shit from anyone. I say what I want. I get what I want. I got all of these from you. But I’m a kind person too, who enjoys nature and soft music and is sweet to his family, and his cats. You know? I’m not hardcore.
Dave Dangerously: Why couldn’t I have that, though?
Dave Glaze: What?
Dave Dangerously: Why couldn’t I have all of that? Confidence, love, compassion. Why do I always have to be angry? Why am I always fighting everyone. Why can I never win? Why is it never enough?
Dave Glaze: I’m sorry man, but that’s just how I made you. That’s just how I was at the time.
Dave Dangerously: You’re sorry? I am a mess and you’re just sorry?
Dave Glaze: I don’t know what you want me to say. Like I said earlier, you’re the product of a 16 year old boy on the internet in 1999. That’s not much of a thing to be.
Dave Dangerously: I can’t go on being this way, knowing that you’re the polar opposite of what I am. I can see it in your eyes, I can see the things you have, the things you feel. THAT’s what I want.
Dave Glaze: You have the choice to do anything you want. I’m not in control of you, I haven’t been in a long time.
Dave Dangerously: I’ve been on this mission for so long…to conquer everyone, to change the game, to find out who’s really controlling things….and it’s been you all along. YOU’RE the one who has been pulling the strings.
Dave Glaze: Listen man, you’re no Pinocchio. There’s no strings on you. You can be whatever you want to be. You’ve CHOSEN to remain in the past.
Dave Dangerously: You’ve got to help me, then.
Dave Glaze: Help you do what?
Dave Dangerously: Help me evolve…help me change. You’ve got to fix this. At least make me like I used to be…
Dave Glaze: I can’t help with anything. I’m not writing ICW anymore. I had some ideas for ICW return last year, but I only got into part 2 before the pandemic really derailed everything. I kind of had some personal issues that I worked through over the summer, and I just lost touch with a lot of things. So that kind of got lost in the dust. If I had any ideas now, they’d be way too wacky to put into ICW. Really crazy metaphysical stuff.
Dave Dangerously: I can’t take this…I think I’ve gone crazy. You’ve got to help me.
Dave Glaze: I can’t man, I’m sorry. I think it’s time you leave.
DaVE DaNGerOUsLy: Please, help me!
Dave Glaze: Stop it man, you need to go!
Daaaave Glaaaze: PLEASE, I BEG YOU!
Dave Glaze: What, stop! I’m going to have to ask you to leave now, or I’ll have to call the cops.
DaVe GLaZe: I CAN’T GO ON FEELING THIS WAY! SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT!
Dave Glaze: Listen man, you need help, OK? And I’m going to give it to you…
Dave Dangerously starts to flicker, as if is becoming transparent, he then grabs Dave Glaze by the shirt, and pulls him close…
DAVe DuDLEy: NO, YOU’RE GOING TO HELP ME!
Dave Glaze: What are you- NO!
Suddenly, Dangerously hits Dave Glaze with the 4D!!!!!!! THE DAVE DANGEROUSLY DEATH DROP! An audible snap is heard, as Glaze lies on the floor, motionless.
Dave Dangerously: Ughhh….no….
Suddenly, a flash of white light takes over, as Dangerously holds his head…
Dave Dangerously: WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME??
An ominous loud WHOOSING is heard, as Dangerously stands up in pain, as the camera cuts to…
A shot of Genesis, sitting in his wheelchair, enveloped in white light, screaming, holding his ears…
A shot of Tommy The Gladiator Harrison on the run after escaping the authorities, enveloped in white light, screaming, holding his ears…
A shot of Hawk and Dove enveloped in white light, screaming, holding their ears…
A shot of Los Conquistadors, trying to hop the border wall, enveloped in white light, screaming, holding their ears…
A shot of Lou E. Dangerously, drinking with the gang at Paddy’s pub in Philadelphia, enveloped in white light, screaming, holding his ears…
These images overlap with Dave Dangerously, as they all combine to have one scream, which soon falls into a silent scream, as they all seem to merge into one, and the screen goes white.
The screen then fades in, to show Dave Dangerously Standing, looking better than ever, with an intense look on his face.
Dave Dangerously: Now I know what I need to do.
Dave somehow channels some energy into his hands, and uses this energy to create an energy circle, as big as him, next to him.
Dave Dangerously: Let’s get dangerous.
Dave steps into the circle, and disappears.
NEXT:
Yeah, it gets weirder. It’s going to get weirder…