Veronica blushes to the roots of her
hair. "Well, sir you know I think that would be
inappropriate of me to ask a cat on a date."
"By
the way, Seymour asked me to pass this to you. He said
that your application would indicate that this shrub
would be a good addition on your Relto."
To:
Professor Thietris From: Seymour I
have placed a special rush order for you. The name of
this species is Acacia greggii. Do enjoy
it.
From the Diary of FM - explorer of
the Badger Age Well I think it can now safely
said be we are DOOMED! Apparently the badgers have some
sort of jamming device, that makes our linking books go
fizzley, I think if I found any Relto pages lying around
I wouldn't add them to my book for fear of Sirrus or
Achenar coming out and trapping me in my Relto book or
something...wouldn't be very fun anyway. Obviously the
badgers have some sort of satellite working, we must
find it and break it somehow so we can get out of this
age, before the badgers and their spears find us
again.
As I write this we are in one of the
underground passages, I can guarantee you don't want to
know of all the tears that had to be cried to get us
here. Yes, that means I'm not going to tell you! I don't
care if you really do want to know, I'm not telling it
unless you get me very drunk, and I don't think there is
enough acorn mead in the underground for me to tell
you...just as Speedy.
Anyway, we're in an
underground passage and we've hit a crossroads. While
we're on the subject of hitting, Speedy and Dr Warrell
have nearly come to blows of which way we're going to
go. Speedy is of the belief we should go to the way that
takes us to the Mushroom Gardens, whereas Dr Warrell
thinks the Homestead would be a wiser place to go.
Personally I will go whichever way the badgers aren't,
because as much as I love Elkae, I have no intention of
being impaled on a badger's spear trying to save her,
I'm just not that noble and am too addicted to living to
want to give up the habit cold-turkey. Not to mention
that the Institution has seen enough death for one
month.
So whatever trepid adventurer or
mysterious stranger finds this, know that someone else
was here before you, and that these human bones lying
beside this book mean something!!...
That we
went to the Mushroom Gardens and Speedy killed DrWarell
to resolve the
argument.
FrontMullet Investigative
Researcher/Hermit Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
With Kestryll's help, the forumites were
able to get far down the tunnels and in the right
direction. The tunnels were narrow so people could only
walk single file; Grassie, MrD, frontmullet, Dr Warrell,
and then Speedy. During this time, Speedy was having fun
poking Dr Warrell with her talons, annoying him and
giving him some pain, and in return, Dr Warrell was
moaning as if he was being killed (hence the idea on why
frontmullet thought Dr Warrell was being killed, but
Speedy likes Dr Warrell too much to kill him and she
doesn't do stuff like that) After passing three
badger checkpoints, something rather spontaneous
happened: a hole appeared underneath Grassie and he fell
into it. And since everyone was moving fast with
Kestryll, they couldn't stop in time and so they fell
down the hole too. A few second later, there was a
high pitch animal squeal and suddenly, a bird, three
people, a ferret, and three badgers came out of the
whole (well, one at a time anyways over a minute span)
Apparently, the badgers that were behind them had caught
up and had guessed to get ahead of them and surprise
them. Instead, they ended up at the same spot at the
same, so there were surprises for both parties. Since
Grassie fell in first, he bit the badger he landed on
(giving off the squeal) which lead the other forumites
to get out of the whole (with some help of the pushing
badger strength from underneath). So the forumites ran
down the tunnels the way they came (amazing how Kestryll
didn't hear anything!), passed the badger checkpoints
again, alarming those badgers that something wasn't
right, so THOSE badgers joined in on the chase. So
now, our five forumites are being chased by over 10
badgers in the underground tunnels. Will they be
captured? Can they escape? Will they rescue Elkae? Will
they ever get to taste the lovely brew of acorn mead or
those chocolate pots that the replica of Speedy made in
the A&C hotel? Stay tune until next time! Same
badger time. Same badger channel!
Studying
gives you knowledge. Knowledge is power. Power corrupts.
I am learning how to be corrupt.
Thietris Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
posted
Thank you, Veronica, that's very, er,
kind of Seymour. Perhaps he can add it to my order for
Coleus canina. Well, can't stand here chatting
all- what? Oh, Grizz. Yes. Thinking caps
on.
Would a Kemo theatre
really work Elkae? I mean it would either be too bright
or there would be rain...or I suppose we could just
convert the auditorium into a theatre, not like Thietris
ever uses it for anything important..
I'm so
tired...went back to school today, only got home at
10pm, and have just finished my homework at 11pm and am
slowly...falling...asleep. Will hopefully be online
tommorrow at some point...g'night/morning
all...
FrontMullet Investigative
Researcher/Hermit Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
Elkae Dr. Elkae Knutsson, Dir., Dept. of
Stymied Peregrinations & Asinine Mischief, Inst. of Advanced
Exploration of Myst Worlds
posted
Elkae begins to get sleepy again
since the coffee and muffins are yet to arrive. She sets
the notebook down and closes her eyes for a couple of
hours.
FM, maybe we could turn
the common room into the "Kemo Improv" ... not many
lighting requirements for that. Get Cordelia to rig
brollies to the bleachers ... okay. I see your point.
Like most of my bright ideas, this one's all
wet.
____________________ Has anybody seen
my ruby slippers?
Elkae Dr. Elkae Knutsson, Dir., Dept. of
Stymied Peregrinations & Asinine Mischief, Inst. of Advanced
Exploration of Myst Worlds
posted
Elkae yawns and stretches, realizing
she's dozed off in what she fondly refers to as one of
her "senior moments". She decides to start reading
"Wheel of Time" that Chuckles thoughtfully
provided.
Hmmm. Ten volumes. He said the
eleventh was due out next year. Plenty here to last me
until then. Let's see, do I have to start with volume
one?
Elkae spreads the set out and notices a
small book sandwiched between volumes eight and nine
entitled, "How to Pick a Lock."
Chuckles is
the best!!
Elkae begins to dig in her black
bag and at last retrieves a hairpin. Holding the manual
in her left hand and the hairpin in the other, she sets
to work.
Let's see, place hairpin in the lock
and rotate (See Diagram A) ...
After a number
of contorted faces and tongue twists, Elkae manages to
pop the lock.
Awesome! Instead of "Wheel of
Time," now I can read my Diary. I don't know how I keep
losing the key to that
thing. ____________________ Has anybody seen my
ruby slippers?
Thietris Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
posted
Professor T, at Veronica's insistence,
has called a meeting in the auditorium. He has explained
the circumstances of Grizz's disappearance, and has
organized a slide show in order to exhibit the note that
Grizz sent to Veronica; the file printout; and last, the
two strange pictures.
"If we could have the
lights dimmed now, please ..."
Merlin takes his Relto book off his belt
and he and Ronda link out.
"So, how do you like
it?"
"Oh, it's lovely," says the
diety.
"Thank you. Here's my hood
book."
Just as Ronda vanishes, Merlin realizes
that he had it on the balcony page. He changes it to the
other page and links out. From down on the roof, he
can see her up on the balcony.
"Hmm...beautiful
lady on a balcony...me down here on the
rooftop...interesting...
*goes into a complete
recitation of the balcony scene from
Hamlet*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merlin Team
Bahro Agent Infiltration, Rescue, Espionage, and
Thinking
Kestryll sits atop a roof high above
the Institution Hood. He sips his coffee and turns to
Kieth.
See? They always manage to find ways
of getting out of places they shouldn't
be. ^^^^ Who? ^^^^ Almech? Oh, the guy who
was stuck down on level 48 that last time. Well,
apparently the whole thing just compressed upwards. I
spotted him on level 2 when I checked on the place
afterwards. ^^^^ Them? Well I'm not sure, but I'd
say that if they were in the elevator at the time then
they went with the elevator to where ever it came
from. If they had stepped out, then they most likely
just had to find the stairs and would have realized they
were on say, level 3? ^^^^ No. Just a Theory of
course. ^^^^ You're right. It is getting late,
time to make the rounds. Hold down the roof then. ^^^^
Kestryll
grins at Kieth for that last comment. Then he finishes
his coffee, stands up, bows to Kieth and links
out.
__________________________ DON'T
TOUCH THE COFFEE!
Elkae Dr. Elkae Knutsson, Dir., Dept. of
Stymied Peregrinations & Asinine Mischief, Inst. of Advanced
Exploration of Myst Worlds
posted
Bizzy excuses himself from the common room and sneaks
out to see what's going on in the courtyard outside the
classroom. He looks up to see Merlin on the roof holding
the skull of Kadish.
Takes all kinds. Hope
Ronda likes it.
The little gnome grabs a
handful of shortbread cookies from the Egg Room (uh,
that would be a total of two) and returns to the common
room to await the next batch of
slides.
____________________ Has
anybody seen my ruby slippers?
"You know
Shakespeare?" says the woman. "Yes, I have read a few
of his plays," says the enchanted fellow. "I suppose
I should help you down now Ronda."
*he vanishes
to his Relto then links to the balcony*
"Now, I
would very much like to see what art concealed behind
this stone tablet. I know what we can do to move it as
well!"
*vanishes for about 5 minutes and then
reappears with a medium-sized chunk of shroom from
Teledahn and a watering can of water from Gira*
"Perfect!" says the marvel.
She takes the
shroom and stuffs it behind the tablet while Merlin
waters it.
"Okay, we should stop watering it
before it gets pushed off the
balcony."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Either
Merlin or Mysti Team Bahro
Agent Infiltration, Rescue, Espionage, and
Puzzle-Solving
Elkae Dr. Elkae Knutsson, Dir., Dept. of
Stymied Peregrinations & Asinine Mischief, Inst. of Advanced
Exploration of Myst Worlds
posted
Merlin, Mysti,
MYSTeriousSage, Sage, MS ... It would really help to
establish just one character name, and refer to yourself
by name on occasion. It's hard to interact with a
character whose name we can't figure out.
____________________ Has
anybody seen my ruby slippers?