Thietris Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
posted
Hello Speedy, Grassie, Dr Warrell. Where
do I want you to go? Ummm. Well, you could have a nose
around the city and see if anything's going on. Then
maybe you could end up at the Rotunda and see how
Topherring is getting on with his research on the D'ni
kings.
Excuse me.
Grizz! Grizz! The whole
cavern can hear you. It's "Cleaner to the coffee maker,
please. Cleaner to the coffee maker, please." You see? A
nice, polite, calm, sing-song voice.
[This
message was edited by Thietris on Wed April 07 2004 at
06:02 AM.]
Grizz runs up the steps to have a word
with the Prof.
"My apologies Prof., but
apparently you haven't met Ronnie yet. She doesn't seem
to respond to polite, but I still believe there's hope
for her, if I can just get her attention long
enough."
He runs back down to the Cavern Supply
to see if Ronnie has showed up
yet.
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D'ni Cavern Supply "If we don't have it, you don't
need it!"
Veronica finally finds the way back to
the front of the store to see Grizz re-entering. "Did
you say the coffee is ready? Well, its about time and
I'm starving, what's for
breakfast?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dream
as if you will live forever, live as if you will die
today. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"but Professor I thought that the
gnome, er Bizzy, would be quite handy - you know they do
make the place feel more like gno... I mean
home"
Thietris gives Cordelia a faint smile and
wanders on over to Heek Inc.
"Now then, we need
to get this place removed as soon as possible - perhaps
we can get Grizz and that new employee of his on to it.
See to it will you Cordelia."
Cordelia watches
Thietris scurry away and starts her walk over to the
D'ni Cavern Supply
Store.
Cordelia Personal
Assistant to Professor Thietris Institution of
Advanced Exploration of Myst Worlds
Grizz just smiles at Veronica. (It's the
one that you can't tell from an evil
grin.)
"Breakfast? You want breakfast? Coffee?
The coffee's all over the floor. Breakfast is going to
be a little delayed until the coffee is cleaned up, and
a new pot made. This is your mop I believe. It has your
name on it. When you have that floor clean enough to eat
breakfast on it, and a new pot of coffee made, then you
can have breakfast."
Grizz hands her the mop,
which drips soapy water on her feet and
legs.
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D'ni Cavern Supply "If we don't have it, you don't
need it!"
Speedy and Grassie look at one
another. "Let's see... what hasn't been explored
yet?" Speedy asked. "Let's check the north side of
the Rotunda," Grassie suggested as he pointed. "Ok,
that sounds fine to me!" Speedy said and she turned to
Dr. Warrell. "Ready to explore?" "Umm... sure," Dr.
Warrell shrugged. "Ok great! Let's go!" Grassie said
as he scampered off, with Speedy and then Dr. Warrell in
tow.
Studying gives you knowledge. Knowledge
is power. Power corrupts. I am learning how to be
corrupt.
Veronica stares at Grizz in
astonishment. When he walks away she envisions the wet
mop wrapped around his head and lifts it as if to follow
through on the thought. "So tempted...just one swipe..."
Grizz looks back sharply, "Did you say
something?"
With much restraint, "No...nothing."
She looks down at the mess and begins to mop,
making an even bigger mess with the soapy
water...grumbling under her breath all the while. "I
can't believe this is what I've been reduced to.
Unthinkable...me, having to mop the floor. Pfft!" When
it looks clean to her, she attempts to make the coffee
and not bothering with the ratio directions, she pours
about 2 cups of coffee per 12 cups of water. "There."
She sees the rag behind the counter (Grizz's shirt) that
she had used to clean the spill originally and quickly
takes it and tosses it in the garbage can. "That should
make his royal highness happy!" She turns to walk into
the office/retreat/Fig Newton break room and demands
breakfast.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dream
as if you will live forever, live as if you will die
today. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Veronica begins to fidget a little, trying to
hold eye contact, but she drops her eyes
first.
Grizz, eyes twinkling, takes her arm and
leads her to a chair at a small table. He sits her
there, then returns to a counter where he has a pan
heating over a can of sterno. He takes scrambled eggs
and bacon from the pan, heaps them on a plate, adds some
freshly buttered toast, grabs a fork, and crosses to the
table where he sets the plate in front of Veronica. Then
he goes to his private coffee maker, pours a mug of his
coffee made with the secret family recipe (it's good for
lots of things besides hang-overs) and takes it to the
table and sets it beside the plate. Then he sits down
opposite Veronica. She begins to eat daintily at first,
then she starts to shovel in the food like she is
starved, which is pretty much right. Grizz watches a
moment.
"Veronica," he says quietly, "I know you
don't like me calling you Ronnie. I think you should
know something about me. I can't seem to help myself
about giving people nicks, especially if I like them.
And Veronica seem like some kind of native
language...Ver-on-ick-ahhhh! Just too much. Maybe I
could call you Nica. Would that be
better?"
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D'ni Cavern Supply "If we don't have it, you don't
need it!"
"Well Nica, when you've finished
breakfast, there's a comfortable cot over there. You can
have a nap."
Grizz looks around. Makes another
decision.
"In fact, you can consider this room
yours if you like. I can link to my Relto to get out of
your hair. Anyway, your first shift is over. I know you
had a problem or two, but nothin' major. I really think
you can work in here pretty good. Now you just relax and
I'll see to it that nobody bothers you for a few hours
if you don't feel like coming out."
Grizz pats
her on the shoulder as he passes, and goes out, shutting
the
door.
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D'ni Cavern Supply "If we don't have it, you don't
need it!"
Cordelia ponders some on what Thietris
has just asked her to do and she feels a little
concerned that Grizz will be far too busy to do anything
about Heek Inc.
"If I could just get TLG to
smarten the place up a little and make it look a little
more homely, maybe the Professor won't notice it quite
so much."
She wanders over to the store and peers
through the open door. Seeing no-one inside she
cautiously walks in and starts looking around. There are
games stacked high and she starts to browse the titles
to see if there is anything she is interested in.....
not that she's got time to play games of course, but
there's no harm in
looking........
Cordelia Personal
Assistant to Professor Thietris Institution of
Advanced Exploration of Myst Worlds
After devouring all the food on her
plate, Veronica eyes the cot warily. Knowing that her
funds were limited she had wondered what to do about
accommodations and somehow Grizz had seemed to know. She
was puzzled by his kindness as she had not experienced
that kind of treatment in the other neighborhoods.
Mostly she had been ridiculed and scorned. Walking over
to the cot, she checks underneath to make sure there are
no living creatures below and after shaking out the
blankets, she climbs into the bed and promptly falls
asleep.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dream as
if you will live forever, live as if you will die
today. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Grizz wanders out into the alley along
the waterway. He ambles along until he sees the heek
alcove all boarded up again. He stops, shaking his head,
wondering again what happened to Shiloh's crystals. He
thinks that there must be some way to dress the place up
so it doesn't look like someone's back fence, but he
doesn't know quite what that would take. Maybe he should
talk to the propietor.
He walks directly up to
the door of the shop and goes in.
"Where's the
manager?" he says. "I'd like to see the
manager."
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D'ni Cavern Supply "If we don't have it, you don't
need it!"
Notes of Dr Warrell I have been
generously invited to participate in an investigation of
the city. Will be working under the direction of two
of the most fascinating people, well, associates, I have
ever seen. Mr Grassie is amazingly quick witted and
inquisitive, also, he is able to explore the smallest of
excavations, his climbing skills are unsurpassed, and
once he on the scent of a discovery (ahem) he doesn’t
let go. Miss Speedy is capable of conducting aerial
surveys without recourse to expensive equipment, her
eyes are very sharp indeed, she can spot the smallest of
artifacts from astonishing distances. She is naturally
equipped to gently brush away dust from the most fragile
of items, and she can traverse any terrain without
spoiling it with footprints! I have been examining a
rather remarkable fountain as Professor Thietris gives
us our challenging assignment. This fountain apparently
recycles its water, since there is no plumbing, and it
seemingly violates the laws of inertia, conservation of
energy, and entropy! It may well indeed be a form of
perpetual motion! In addition, it is illuminated by
floodlights that contain no light bulbs, wiring,
switches, or power source! I am looking forward to
our next discoveries with some trepidation, but am eager
to continue.
Experimental Program
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Umbrellas supplied for all occasions.
Where did I leave
my teddy bear? You know, the Grizzly one? He was here
yesterday. 
