Speedy peeked out the front door, making
sure that the area was clear after Kestryll
spontaneously came through. Seeing that, she bolted out
and flew up. Wow, this schroom really has grown, she
thought as she flew up 200ft into the hair. She got
to the top and found MrD. "We need you to continue
crying! We found a door but it isn't big enough for all
of us to fit through it yet," Speedy said. "How many
more tears do you need?" MrD asked, amazed that they
found a door and that he needs to cry more. "umm...
how about the same amount you did before?" Speedy
suggested. "Groan... I'm almost all dried out. How
easily can you cry?" MrD asked. "Oh boy... I hate
crying..." Speedy moaned as she tried to think of sad
thoughts. But suddenly, the air was getting smokey,
making Speedy's eyes tear up. "Where is that smoke
coming from?" asked MrD, who was tearing up again. "I
don't know..." Speedy said as she looked down. Suddenly,
she yelped. "What!" "We need to cry and get back
down there soon! Those badgers have set up camp right
next to this schroom... and if we don't get down there
soon, I think they set this schroom on fire!" Speedy
said, eyes flooded with salty water. She made sure that
the tears fell on the shroom. "Oh great... more
pressure!" MrD moaned as he got back to crying. Soon,
both man and bird were sobbing, with the help of the
smoke from below...
Studying gives you
knowledge. Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. I am
learning how to be corrupt.
In a continued effort to make Dr.
Elkae's stay in the badger prison more comfortable,
Chuckles58 bundled up the entire 10 volume "Wheel of
Time" series by Robert Jordan. She will have hours of
enjoyment reading about the exploits of the hero with
the heron crest, Rand Al Miller. While she's
reading the books, maybe she can keep an eye out for
OracleSong who is MIA from her quest from the
MotBC.
Then as a last touch, between two of the
books he slips a small instructional manual, entitled
"How to pick a lock".
Now to get this past
the badger guards.
Chuckles goes to his
outdoor storage locker at the WSA office in Ae'gura. He
removes a tattered animal skin, places it on his head
Davey Crockett style, then returns inside to link to the
security checkpoint in the badger world.
I
knew this fur bouquet I picked up along side the road
would come in handy one day. I only wish it had been
raccoon and not a skunk.
He links,
materializing just around the corner from a few badgers.
Carrying his bundle of books, he walked right past the
badger guards. As he passed them, they sniffed, then
each checked to see if they were the offending party
themselves. As they have little use for baths, they
decided the breeze just stirred up their natural aromas.
They went back to their 'guarding'.
He proceeded
along past the largest mushroom in the place, hearing
various muffled voices through the walls, and a sobbing
from above. He continued on to the cell door, not
drawing any suspicious looks from the badger guard
sleeping nearby.
Hey Elkae, I brought you
some reading material. Sorry, the 11th book isn't due
out until sometime in 2005. Hopefully you'll be out by
then. ... Oh sorry about the smell. At least my disguise
worked. But now I need to go to the surface and power
wash my head. Take care.
With that, he linked
back, returned the skunk hat to the locker and entered
his Takotah Alley office looking for a large bottle of
Head & Shoulders
shampoo.
---------------------------- "Where
are the donuts?" - Atrus (realMyst) Save URU Live
"Hmmm...'Welcome to the Institution!
Please proceed to the classroom.' I think I will do just
as the message says." *Starts walking towards the
classroom*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merlin Team
Bahro Agent Infiltration, Rescue, Espionage, and
Thinking
As security is near and dear to him,
Chuckles58 emails an interesting web site he thought
Grizz might find useful for his own computer. The name
of the product was especially amusing:
So as Speedy and MrD continued to cry,
the schroom continued to grow. This alarmed the badgers
below. "What is going on?" one of them asked. "I
don't know... these mushrooms are only suppose to rise
if it rains, but it hasn't," said another. "There
must be something on top of the mushroom that is giving
it water for it to rise at this rate," said a third. By
now, the mushroom was about 300ft high. "We need to
see what it is!" said the first one again. "How?"
asked the second. "Climbing I guess..." said the
first, as he walked over to the schroom and began to
climb it. The other two soon joined in pursuit. But
these are silly badgers. The rate they are climbing is
not faster than the growing rate of the mushroom, so by
the time the schroom is 400ft high, they only had
climbed about 10 feet. Meanwhile, inside the
schroom. "The door is big enough!" said
frontmullet. "We need to get this schroom to stop
growing!" said Grassie. "No! Not yet!" said Dr.
Warrell. "Why?" asked Grassie and frontmullet at the
same time. "Because I am still making observations
down in my notebook about this rapid growth of this
mushroom. I also want a few plant cells so I can examine
them when we get back to the city..." Dr. Warrell said
as he scribbled down information. Grassie and
frontmullet shook their heads. "Actually, we have a
bigger problem. How are we going to tell Speedy and MrD
to stop if Speedy is the only one who can go up there?"
asked frontmullet. Grassie went to try to open the
door. It was locked. "Drat! It's locked!" moaned
Grassie, disappointed. "Wait! I have an idea!" said
frontmullet as he leaned over and whispered into
Grassie's ear. Meanwhile, on top of the
mushroom. "How much more do you think we need to
cry?" asked Speedy. "Not much longer. The smoke is
thinning..." said MrD.
Studying gives you
knowledge. Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. I am
learning how to be corrupt.
*The man stops for a moment a looks like
he is deep in thought* "There. I hope some one comes
along soon." And he continues to try to find some
one, or the
classroom.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merlin Team
Bahro Agent Infiltration, Rescue, Espionage, and
Thinking
"Those who do not
appreciate the pleasures of learning cannot realize how
great is the glory that they preserve for so long." -
Castiglione - The Book of the Courtier
Finally after crying for what seemed
like eternity, Speedy and MrD were done
crying. "Wow... think that was enough?" asked
MrD. "We'll soon shall see..." said Speedy. "Get on
my back and I'll fly you down," "Oh ok," said MrD.
He's never flown on a bird's back before. He climbed
on and Speedy took off. Slowly she flew down... "Oh
my..." Speedy said. "What?" "How much do you like
heights?" she asked. "Ummm... it depends on how
high," "How about close to 800ft high?" "Yep,
that's high," "And a lot of tears..." Speedy
carefully flew down, making sure that no one got a
sudden pressure drop or her dropping MrD. But when she
was by the 300ft mark, she saw somethign on the side of
the mushroom. "Umm... do you know if badgers can
climb?" she asked. "Why?" asked MrD "Because I see
three that are trying too... oh no, they saw me!" Speedy
exclaimed and flew faster. Indeed, the badgers saw
the blue talking bird with the human on her back. They
all tried to climb down fast, but they stepped on one
another and it all resulted in them losing their grips
and they fell to the ground. These badgers were rather
lucky: 1. they had thick fur and fat 2. the ground
was soft But they were in a jumbled mess. Speedy
managed to land near the door and MrD got
off. "Quickly! Inside!" she said as she ran to the
door (which surprisingly did not change size, something
that was perplexing Dr Warrell on the other
side) Speedy opened the door and Dr Warrell fell
out. "Get back in there!" she yelled as she picked
him up by his coat and pulled him. MrD ran in and
slammed the door behind him and looked for a
lock. "Where is the lock?" he asked. "There isn't
one," said frontmullet, "But there is no time to lose!
Quickly, through this door!" Speedy and MrD ran
through the other door. Dr Warrell got himself back up
and began to walk towards the door again... "Oh no
you don't" said frontmullet as he pulled Dr Warrell by
the coat into the door. "Nooooooooooo!!!" yelled Dr
Warrell as he went through the door. Just as that door
locked, the other door was rammed open and the badgers
came in. No one was there... they went to the other
door, finding it locked. "Drat!" they all
yelled. Meanwhile on the other side, Speedy turned to
Grassie, "Woah, so what happened in here?" she
asked. "I crawled under the door once it got big
enough for me to squeese through. Since the door was
locked, I unlocked it, and apparently, that is what
stopped the door from getting any bigger as the rest of
the plant did. We were waiting for you to return before
we ventured down this tunnel..." Grassie
explained. "Wow! Impressive! And thanks!" Speedy said
as she hugged Grassie. "Awe... thanks..." he said as
he blushed.
Studying gives you knowledge.
Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. I am learning how to
be corrupt.
Elkae Dr. Elkae Knutsson, Dir., Dept. of
Stymied Peregrinations & Asinine Mischief, Inst. of Advanced
Exploration of Myst Worlds
posted
Corun and Sage walked to the
classroom and peeked in. They saw Professor Thietris
asleep in the drawer and decided not to disturb him.
Instead, they walked down to TLG's Heek Inc. to shop for
video games then on to DISCO for a cup of coffee, some
fig newtons and to check out all the marvelous gear
Grizz had for
sale.
Deciding it might be
best to leave Urudawg to his...bizziness... Ronda leaves
the garden, intending to head for WHOOPS. But this is
the mirror-hood, and she gets lost, ending up by the
classroom instead.
Someone is there. Tall, blond.
Smart-looking.
Down, girl! Ronda thinks,
grinning. "'Lo," she says, waving.
But the
smart-looking blond is following Corun, who suddenly
appears, into the classroom.
Ronda follows them
in just far enough to see the Professor asleep again.
She tiptoes back out and tries a different path,
figuring she'll eventually wind her way back to
WHOOPS...
In cavern: Ronda KI # 589268 - Atrus
shard ~ TMP When the going gets weird, the weird turn
pro.
Elkae Dr. Elkae Knutsson, Dir., Dept. of
Stymied Peregrinations & Asinine Mischief, Inst. of Advanced
Exploration of Myst Worlds
posted
Bizzy the Garden Gnome spots the new explorers and
suggests if they want a really good meal before setting
off on an adventure they should stop by the Egg Room.
Kestryll keeps it well stocked and the food is
fantastic. Like most everything around here, the doors
are always open even if nobody's there to greet
you.
He then tells them the Institution isn't
much like the A&C where people can just drop by to
socialize. This is where all the truly great adventures
in the cavern begin. With all the comings and goings,
they're not likely to run into anybody else this time of
the day.
Elkae Dr. Elkae Knutsson, Dir., Dept. of
Stymied Peregrinations & Asinine Mischief, Inst. of Advanced
Exploration of Myst Worlds
posted
Ronda, Urudawg is a
real dog ... the little concrete statue in the light
garden is Bizzy's joke on Urudawg. The real Urudawg
didn't think much of the joke ... you can let your
imagination run from
there.