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*Pulling the tarp off an awaited aircar sitting on the backyard landing pad, the two hop into the cockpit, then with the ignition of engines, and the closed-cockpit's augmented displays lighting up, showing broadcasted graphics of delineated right-of-skyways kept updated and controlled by New Pahrump's flying hotrod aficionados, they take off into the sky._
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*Passing a gate through the plastic skydome, they circle around to a scene one could only describe as a massive, thin land-starfish made of green, roadstriped tarmac thrashing around to the north, as a visible laser emitted from the town's defense wall burns away at one of the strange creature's two biggest highway-tentacles._*