New Story: The Human Ideal

[V.R.Goh]

Hey readers. I've been lurking for a while and I finally decided to post a story. No muscle growth yet, but I'm getting there. Let me know what you think. The Human Ideal by V.R.Goh Chapter 1 To this day, I bone up every time I remember what had happened that day last year. Before it happened, women wouldn?t give me the time of day in a clock shop. Now, they can barely keep their hands off of me and my friends. Let me tell you all about it, but I have to warn you. It will sound unbelievable, but it?s absolutely true. First, I?ll introduce us. My name?s Omar. My friends and I form an acapella group called Orpheus. I?m the skinny light-skinned brother with the glasses. I?m 5?9?, which would be fine if I wasn?t 120 pounds soaking wet. The bright side is I have very little body fat, so I can get a six-pack with no problem. However, it also makes it hard for me to gain muscle. The guy with the flaming red hair is Connor. He?s an inch shorter than me and kind of pudgy, but he claims to have a dick that a full 12 inches long. We usually tell him that he?s being cocky, pun intended. Adrian is the big guy with the tribal tattoo around his right upper arm. He?s 6? tall and all muscle, but he can?t get washboard abs to save his life. Finally there?s Nick, the pretty-boy at the far end. Girls like him for his good looks, but he?s only 5?5? tall. After rehearsal, we sat around in my apartment. Connor was over by the shelf looking at the pictures and the other stuff I got from my parents. My father is an archaeologist, so I rarely see him. He always sends me weird items from his digs, along with notes about what they are. ?Hey, O. Come here for a minute,? Connor said over his shoulder. I walked up behind him, followed by the others. ?What?s up?? I asked him. Connor held up a brass torque with a spiral pattern. It was open at one end, and had a ram?s head at each end of it. There were runes etched into the inside of the armband. ?Any idea what this is?? he asked. ?According to Dad, that is from Norway,? I responded. ?I?d have to look at his notes to tell you more.? ?Maybe it?ll help you pack on some muscle,? Adrian said with a smirk. ?Girls don?t like rail-thin singers.? ?Ha-ha, smart ass,? I said to him with a smile. Since it was late, the guys decided to head home early. Connor had made me curious as to what the torque was. So I decided to look through Dad?s notes. I went into my room and pulled out all of the notebooks that Dad sent along with the various knick-knacks that he sent. In a notebook marked ?Norway?, I found a drawing of the torque and notes in my father?s handwriting. It said that the torque was worn by Viking warriors and was said to be blessed by the Thor, the Norse god of thunder. According to Dad?s translations, the torque would make a warrior ?as mighty as the mightiest of his fellows.? Since I had no idea what that meant, I put the notebook away and decided to tell the guys tomorrow when we met for drinks after work. Little did I know that that torque would make me into the human ideal. -------------- Just in case you don't know, a torque is an armband that fits around the biceps.

[TheMM]

*thinks*.....It's not a bad start, but it would help if you paragraphed it a bit more. It would also be a good idea if you gave us an idea of why the group is called the Orpheus. A bit of history on it you know?

If you did that, would look a lot better.

[V.R.Goh]

Sorry about that. Like I said, I'm new to posting, so I have no idea how to adjust this thing for paragraphs.

[TheMM]

It's easier to type it up in a seperate word processer such as Microsoft Word or in my case Jarte. Then just copy the whole thing and paste it into the box. You could do it on here, but I just prefer to do it outside of the site, then just paste it in when I'm finished.