From the Diary of FM - explorer of
the Badger Age I am not dead yet. Although
this may disappoint many readers it suprises me more
than anything. We are currently holed up in a tiny room
sleeping in shifts in case a badger patrol find us. Dr
Warrell sings in his sleep, something which I find both
strange and disturbing...he is NOT a lumberjack and if
he keeps singing he will NOT be okay....although I would
give a limb or two for some of those buttered scones
right now.
Our diet for the past few days has bee
very varied. For breakfast we had roast mushrooms, for
lunch - boiled mushrooms, and for dinner we had baked
mushrooms. Hopefully tommorrow at some point we can have
badger stew, although even that will probably have a
side of mushrooms. If anyone dares open any sort of cafe
in the Institution that sells mushrooms they will have
to answer to...something bad. Possibly the
Algae..
Whilst everyone has been sleeping (except
for Speedy, who has been on guard with me), I have
devised many plans for escape from this dreaded age. One
of them involves sacrificing everyone else and running
for my life, although I feel that may be somewhat
frowned upon by everyone else.
Plan B involves
luring the badgers away from their comrades one by one,
and killing them in ingenious ways such as by slamming a
door into their face, hitting them over the head with
dried mushrooms, and throwing rocks at them. Then not
only do we get food but we can wear the badger skins and
escape...although there is a slight EWW factor in that
plan...maybe we just kill the badgers, find whatever is
jamming our linking, get Elkae (if we can) and then get
out of this Age...I would say burn the book afterwards
but I feel this Age could be a useful place if we don't
like anyone...or if anyone sings the Badger Song one
time too many.
I shall once again conclude my
entry by saying that if you find this journal near a
pile of bones that are not belonging to a badger, you
are a lucky person for getting this far, privilaged to
be reading our tales, and I really hope for your sake
you like mushrooms..
{{{Homies}}}
FrontMullet Investigative
Researcher/Hermit Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
[This message was edited by
frontmullet on Wed April 21 2004 at 01:41
AM.]
Thietris Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
posted
Professor T went for an early-morning
jog around the Institution. The strangely peculiar
stranger in the light garden, on seeing the professor
approach, quickly touched his Relto book and linked
out.
The professor was thinking about
Boatingirl's findings. Those Great Zero crystals - so
they were made of quartz, possibly. Could naturally
occurring crystals really grow to that size? Or had they
been manufactured?
Should he try ordering a
flatulent elm from Whoops? [The origin of the name is
lost in history. Legend has it that they should really
be called ting trees. A botanist, exploring a foreign
land, saw a group of unusual looking trees on the
horizon. He pointed them out to a native, who said
"Ah, yes. The distant ting trees." Though this
might have lost something in the
translation.]
Grizz gets up early on his Relto and
does a little laundry. Suits are okay now and then, but
that tie just has to go! He puts on some clothes that
are still a little damp, and does a couple of cloud
dives to finish the drying.
He thinks about what
Veronica had been talking about...
quote:
"So I was thinking, back in this corner we could
display the Gucci bags and then over here would be
the..." Her suggestions continue on for a good long
while.
A little bemused, he thinks..."Why
not? The DISCO has a little of everything, why not a
little high fashion too. It might just raise the tone of
the hood.
He goes to the books and heads for the
DISCO.
_______________________________ Prop.
D'ni Internal Supply Co. "If we don't have it, you
don't need it!"
Veronica linked into the Institute and
skipped lightly down the stairs to the DISCO. It
certainly was going to be a wonderful day. Grizz was
back and in one piece and her father had called to say
he might be stopping by to check on her. Perhaps he
would be so impressed with her accomplishments he would
allow her to come home.
She decided to get
breakfast first and yelled, "Good morning!!", into
Professor Thietris's office as she passed
by.
Grizz peeked into the Prof.'s office on
the way to the egg room for breakfast, saw him reading a
book on Cornish nuts, and decided it wasn't a good time
to bother the man...er...squirrel...about his plans for
a new organization to aid Bahro/human
relations.
_______________________________ Prop.
D'ni Internal Supply Co. "If we don't have it, you
don't need it!"
After several shifts and a few hours
sleep, FM was beginning to get restless...They had spent
quite some time stuck in a small cramped room with
badgers most likely sitting on the other side of the
door..Eventally, FM couldn't take it anymore, and got up
and started walking towards the door.
"What are
you doing!?" Speedy said, her eyes blinking to try and
wake up as she stood up.
"I'm checking to see
what's outside. If there's nothing outside we should try
and move on, or at least try to figure out how the
badgers are blocking out linking books." As he finished
the sentence his hand was almost on the
lock.
"Wait! If we're going to go anywhere
shouldn't we wake up the others?" Speedy said, applying
logic to somewhere where it didn't belong..
FM
however ignored her, and unlocked the door and opened it
a crack. He peered outside into an empty corridor. He
slowly edged the door open, until the door was about
halfway open, and then he stopeed suddenly.
"What
are you...?" Speedy started to ask..
FM didn't
give her a chance to finish her sentence, and he
suddenly swung the door all the way back with all his
strength. These was a loud crunching noise behind the
door. FM then walked out the door, and came back several
seconds later dragging an unconcious badger. He then
went back outside, and came back with a small, sharp
spear.
"I think that went well, don't you?" He
said to Speedy, closing and locking the door behind him,
and propping the spear up against the door.
"Yes
Einstein, bringing a badger in here is the single most
intelligent thing you could have done." Speedy
replied.
"Was that sarcasm?" FM replied,
uncertain.
"...I'm not sure. Anyway, we better
try tieing(sp?) him up, so that when he wakes up we
don't get attacked.." Speedy said, wandering away to get
some ropes..
FrontMullet Investigative
Researcher/Hermit Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
Making haste to finish breakfast,
Veronica called out a warm good morning to Grizz as he
entered the Eggroom and she left to go to the store. She
wanted to be working hard if or when her father made an
appearance. Putting on her "Manager" nametag, she espied
a note from the Professor sitting on the counter:
Grizz, need one brazier.
Blushing
profusely, Veronica went in search of one.
Unfortunately, the Professor had been in
a hurry to write the note and his pensquirrlship
suffered. As a result, instead of braizer
Veronical thought it said blaizer and headed for
the computer to pull up the Gucci
webpage.
Grizz chuckles over his scrambled eggs.
Veronica's proposed changes to the DISCO have begun to
appeal to his whimsical nature. And the whole hood could
use a bit of an upgrade anyway.
He finishes his
toast, and heads to the DISCO to see what Veronica has
decided to
do.
_______________________________ The DISCO
- for high fashion in your hood!
George, in the meantime, has been one
very busy (never to be confused with Bizzy) squee.
Stopping for only a few hours sleep, he has managed to
move the Bahro Stele to a prominant but non-obstructing
place on the porch, converted one of the rooms into a
treatment/minor surgery area, converted another room
into a master bedroom for Shiloh and Ted and is now
currently installing computer-lock cabinets in the
medication room. Industrious sounds echo down from the
open balcony door, attracting the attention of several
Traffic Cones who, deeming the coast to be clear, (but
the DISCO too 'hot' at the moment) come to
investigate.
Speedy groaned as she searched for
ropes. First of all, her body was soooo tired from all
of the running, flying, and carrying she's done in the
past few hours/days(?) Secondly, FM decided to bring in
a badger, and does this before checking out the rest of
the room! With her flashlight, she scours the
room. Alas, the only other thing in the room was
another door. Probably a closet, she thought as she
walked over. She opeend it and her beak dropped. It
wasn't a closet, but it was some stairs going
up... "Frontmullet! Come here!" Speedy
yelled. "What? Too much rope found?" asked
FM. "No, stairs!" "Then go up them," "Okkkay...
just letting you know..." Speedy said as she went up the
stairs. Once she got to the top, there was another door.
She opened it very slowly, letting light creep into the
stairwell. She poked her head through the doorway and
looked through the room. There was a table, with a
person sitting at it. To the right of the table, was a
chalkboard with all sorts of writing on it. And on the
table, there was some mechanical device. The person
looked at the door. "Vhy hello there! Come in!" said
the person with a not-quite-German accent.
"oh, thank you, sir..." Speedy said as she came
into the room. "Oh...don't call me sir. Call me Dr E.
Osmostien, scientist of the cosmos! Vell... maybe just
of this mushroom vorld," said the scientist, Dr
Osmostien. "Well, thank you Dr Osmostien. My name is
Speedyserd, just Speedy for short..." said Speedy. Dr
Osmostien stood up and walked over to Speedy. He pulled
out a magnifying glass from his fron pocket. "Vhat an
interesting creature you are... a bird that can speak! I
can barely get vords out of these bloody badgers here!"
Dr Osmostien said as he began to inspect
Speedy. "Umm.. I was wondering if you would happened
to have any rope?" asked Speedy. "Rope? Vhy vould you
need it? To tie up some badgers? Bah! They're too strong
for rope... if anything, just leave them vhere they
lie," Dr Osmostien said. "Well, convience my friend
downstairs," Speedy said as she pointed at the
door. "Okay, I shall try... is there a chalkboard
down there?" he asked. "Ummm... I don't know,"
replied Speedy. "Bah, it doesn't matter. Come on
Speedy!" Dr Osmostien said as he went to the door and
walked down the stairs. Speedy followed
behind.
Studying gives you knowledge.
Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. I am learning how to
be corrupt.
*TLG has an idea* If Speedy and
Merlin/Mysti did it, then so can I. *TLG somehow
splits himself into three TLGs (don't ask)* *TLG
tells Copy #1 to tend the A&C.* *TLG tells Copy
#2 to tend Heek Inc.* *TLG and Copy #1 walk
out.* *Copy #1 links out.* *TLG walks around
looking for anything to
do.*
____________________________ Official
proprietor of Heek Inc. Second Bartender of the
A&C Hotel.
Chuckles58 is out through the streets
and stairs of Ae'gura doing his morning run (seem to
always run in this game, who needs to do it for
exercise?).
He stops at the observation point
between the Hall of Kings and the Library, overlooking
the broken bridge. He decides to practice his yodeling,
a lost art he learned a little of from his grandfather
years ago (he actually yodelled when he
sneezed).
YODELADEEHOO ... "Your
old lady who?" was the echo through the
cavern.
Hmmpf HELLO ... "HELLOO
Helloo helloo"
Now batting for the
Dodgers, Manny Mota ... He hears a ballpark organ
going through the usual charge theme
He
resumes his morning workout. As he is doing his stairs
training on the Great Stairs, he notices a familiar box
on the next to last landing, just up from the entrance
to the Kahlo Pub. Next to a mountain of empty Pizza Hut
boxes is the box of used tennis shoes. It has a sign
taped to it that said "Trash/Basura"
Now
how'd this get here? Why would Kestryll have had it, and
why would it be set out in the trash? He opened the
box and noticed a few more pair of smelly sneakers have
been added. Great, the more the merrier. I'll just
have to run this over to Cordelia a bit
later.
---------------------------- "Where are
the donuts?" - Atrus (realMyst) Save URU Live
"What mammal through yonder doorway
waits?" No answer. Merlin walks in and puts the
J'nanin, Amateria, Voltaic, Edanna, and Narayan linking
books on the most noble Professor's desk.
"Now,
onward to the Eggroom, breakfest, and the apple of my
eye."
And he goes out and then in the very next
door.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merlin
in the Institution and Mysti in the A&C Team Bahro
Agents Infiltration, Rescue, Espionage, and
Puzzle-Solving
Veronica had taken a break from trying
to find a gucci blazer on the internet small enough for
Professor Thietris and walked over to the WHOOPS store
to say good morning to Seymour. "Hello there, precious."
He jumped into her arms and licked her cheek. "Aww...so
sweet! Stop by and see me later."
Walking back to
the DISCO, she noticed that someone had changed the
welcome sign. Instead of "For more information, go to
the classroom" it now read this.
"Hmm...I wonder how the
Professor will feel about that?"