Jane's Story
(For the performance compo at Assembly, organised by the Alternative Party)
Kristoffer Lawson
29th July 2005

Jane Summer had arrived at the big building. Both her parents were there to
escort her all the way to the main doors. Her dad was carrying the heavy
monitor in his arms, huffing and puffing as he went. Her mother held tightly
to her hand. 

Jane had wanted to visit a computer party ever since her dad had brought her
a computer from work, and several MikroBITTI magazines. In one of them was a
short article about the demoscene and she was very excited about it. She
wished to learn about programming.

Inside the big hall she met some so-called sceners. They were of the
Big Crew! True oldskool 'gurus'. She tugged at a big guy's sleeve and
asked him what computer he uses. He said it was the Amiga 500 -- a true
demoscene computer. She smiled. She knew that.

The big scener asked if she wanted to learn how to make demos, and she said,
"Yes, please!". So he told her about registers and interrupts and the copper
and many other exciting things. It was very confusing at first but she soon
learnt and was asked to join the elite's demogroup, which was called The Big
Crew.

It was too early for her to take part in their megademo this year but, the
scener told her, that with a little practise and work she would soon be
making glenz vectors and scrolltexts. She smiled wide.

At the end of the party, the prizes were announced and, much to the surprise
of many, The Big Crew one. Three large sceners climbed up on-stage and said,
"Thank you everyone, and greets to Jane". 

Jane could not believe it. She was a part of it all! A true scener. She felt
so happy.

Exactly ten years later, she puked on to the side of a Boozembly rock. She
was still happy.