As Elkae sips her steaming coffee, she
suddenly realizes she hasn't seen Stellaflora. She fears
one of his experiments may have gone awry. She looks
down uncomfortably at the KI on her hand and decides to
put it in her black
bag.
Yes, the Kahlo Pub would be one of mine.
I and all the others in my employ now drop by there at
some point. If you can't find me just leave a note there
with one of the Bennys, Bettys, Barrys, or Kieths or who
ever else happens to be about at the time.
Okay?
Now if you'll excuse me I have to finish this and run a
few more errands. Was a pleasure chatting.
Oh, and if they didn't
tell you they were union you're probably having a bit of
a prank pulled on you.
Veronica hesitated just for a moment, a
small twinge of guilt over not being completely honest
(not honest in the least, but that was beside the
point), however the propect of getting out of the cavern
for one night was too much to resist. She smiled
brightly and said, "That would be absolutely fantastic,
Grizz! Thank you very much!" She hugged Grizz once and
hurried into the breakroom to change. Before closing the
door, she stuck her head back out and said, "You will go
with me, won't you, Grizz?" She shut the door without
waiting for a
reply.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm no longer
a danger to
society. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thietris Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
posted
Professor T has called a meeting in
the auditorium.
Ladies and gentlemen, We have
a problem. I have called you all here in the hope that
somebody - some great scientific mind, working at the
forefront of technical research - a theoretical
physicist, perhaps; an applied mathematician; maybe a
cosmologist - will be able to find a solution to this
perplexing problem. The research facilities are here. I
don't care how much time, or how much money, is devoted
to finding a solution. Possibly the greatest minds from
a variety of disciplines will need to collaborate. We
have the conference facilities. Maybe even a
carpenter would do. But will somebody fix
my office door, please?
"Thank you for your cooperation Mr.
Kestryll, I will check on the information you have given
me. I will look for you later on today. I was going to
give you my business card, but I don't seem to have any
available."
Natika thinks to herself if this is a
prank she is going to be so mad...
Bizzy is hard at work in the light garden when something
suddenly wakes him.
"AAAAACK!" screams the little
gnome, jumping to his feet. Polly is dangling from one
of the light posts right above where his head had been.
She must have touched him on the nose. Frightened half
to death by the gnome's reaction, Polly skittered up
into the darkness of the cavern walls.
*walks into DISCO* Hi Grizz! I need some
equipment. I'll get it myself if you point me in the
right direction. Lets see... I'll need a good pair of
boots,standard rock climing equipment, a pickaxe,utility
belt,...oh, and a light for my hardhat.
Kestryll bows to the young ladyas she
heads out. Then hearing something he sticks his head out
the door to hear Professor Thietris better then yells
out,
I'll take a look at it in a few
minutes!
He finishes up and introduces himself
quickly to the Dr. Elkae and runs along to see about the
Professors door.
"I'll show you whee it is anyway, since
you've never been there yet."
He whistles a
little to himself.
He shouts again, "And I may
drop in for a while a little later with my stick so's I
can beat off all the eager young lads that'll be
crowdin' around ya!"
He whistles a little
more.
He shouts once again. "I'll be out by the
water. Come on out when you're ready."
He leaves
the store and crosses to the railing by the stream,
where he leans and contemplates deep thoughts as he
watches the water flow.
All of this, of
course, occurs after he has greeted Boatingirl, and
directed her to the things she
needs.
Cordelia struggles to stand up again.
The professor didn't seem too pleased about her noticing
the jam on his nose and he twitched and rubbed for quite
some time after she had pointed it out.
Just as
she managed to stand up, he scurried off to the common
room to call his meeting.
"I do hope he manages
to find someone to fix that blasted door, I can't go
crawling around on the floor like this, it just isn't
the sort of thing I do"
She listens with
relief to hear Kestryll yelling out that he will have a
look at it. Now hopefully things will return to normal
once more.
Cordelia Personal
Assistant to Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of
Advanced Exploration of Myst Worlds
Natika of the DSPCB links out to go and investigate Mr.
Kestrylls claim. "Investigate, investigate, this is so
reduntant. If they didn't let me wear pink, I think I'd
quit."
Kestryll arrives at Dr. Thietris'
office and stares at the broken button. Thietris comes
up and Kest introduces himself.
T- How did
you hear me from the auditorium? K- Have to learn to
hear things when you're rushing about and listening to
the Bahro speak. Lots of inflection in the little 'ee'
and 'chch' T- Oh, my door? K- Looks like someone
broke your button... T- Do you think you could repair
it? K- It's possible. He gives it a swift kick and
the door gives a quiet *snick!* and pops open. K-
Sorry it'll have to stay open until I can send Kieth
over. He's apparently good at fixing those old D'ni
things. You're welcome.
Grizz, out by the water and still
leaning on the rail, looks at his watch.
"Well,"
he says to himself, "she is a young lady who's
fashion crazy. Gotta figure it'd take her more time than
even a normal woman to get herself dressed
up."
He begins whistling
again.
_______________________________ Prop.
D'ni Internal Supply Co. "If we don't have it, you
don't need it!"
Veronica walked out of the storeroom,
for some reason she felt a bit self-conscious, which had
never happened to her before. She looked around for
Grizz and called his name and heard his reply from
outside. "Well?" She looked at Grizz expectantly. "Will
this do?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm no
longer a danger to
society. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RW, in the middle of a busy day took
a break for coffee. Picking up a vanilla envelope from
CSI(No, not the highly popular TV series. CSI, Cavern
Scene Investigations).
It was an initial report
from his friend Petri, who had kindly offered to analyse
any samples RW brought back his explorations. Catching
RW's eye though was the initial analysis of the hairs
from the comb. For the most part it fit the contents of
the bag which RW recognized as animal care supplies,
when he repacked the contents, but there was something
else, something totally unexpected.
The analysis
was incomplete, but it was enough to increase RW's
desire, and urgency, to meet with Professor
Thietris.
Experimental Program
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Oh, and if they didn't
tell you they were union you're probably having a bit of
a prank pulled on you. 
Bizzy is hard at work in the light garden when something
suddenly wakes him.
Sorry Boatingirl. I
didn't see you come in! 
Supplier of umbrellas to the D'ni for
Centuries.
Natika of the DSPCB links out to go and investigate Mr.
Kestrylls claim. "Investigate, investigate, this is so
reduntant. If they didn't let me wear pink, I think I'd
quit."
Bizzy
