Grizz, in a kind of daze, raised his KI
and took the shot. Then he put one hand on Veronica's
shoulder, and pointed excitedly to the distant strangely
shaped cones (okay, don't anybody get the wrong idea!
They're not that kind of cone! ) in the center near the base
of that pinnacle.
"I've never seen them so
clearly!" he said. "They look even more like dwellings
of some sort. I wonder if they are still being
used."
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Veronica, still feeling unusually
adventurous (or maybe she was just trying to avoid going
into work ), grabbed Grizz's
hand once more and said, "Let's go see." They pushed
through the undergrowth, the insects in the area making
themselves known by the strange sounds filling the air.
Veronica stopped suddenly, her voice filled with
excitement, "This looks like a path, do you see it?"
Grizz followed behind, shaking his head. "As long as
it's a level path and will you please slow down,
Nica? I've fallen through and down enough times
already."
She looked back at him, and saw the grin
on his face, stuck out her tongue, and pulled him even
faster along the path. It was hard packed earth, much
like the earth around the vents, but at least it was
level and smooth. No sharp rocks for his feet incased
only in
socks.
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Cordelia was feeling sad. She could see
that Thietris was upset about Elkae, and to be honest so
was she.
However, it was the fact that RW had
gone off on his adventures that was upsetting her the
most. She realised that he desperately needed to explore
and contribute research to the team, and Rime was as
good a place as any to investigate. Somehow she wished
she could have gone with him.
But no, she
recognised the fact that the professor needed her more
than ever now and there was work to be done here. With
both Grizz and Veronica gone, she realised that someone
needed to keep an eye on the DISCO. She also knew that
she was really needed in the Institution to make sure
that everyone was busy working and fulfilling the
research requirements of the professor.
She
reluctantly left the privacy of her office and wondered
out across the hood to see if anyone was in need of
anything.
As she passed the light garden she had
a brief look to see if Bizzy was around, but there was
no sign of him.
"Oh well, I guess he must be
bizzy" she thought and left it at
that.
Cordelia Personal
Assistant to Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of
Advanced Exploration of Myst Worlds
An umbrella isn't just
for Christmas, it's for life!
Theitris is standing outside the
privy in his office, stepping gingerly alternating
between feet with a pained look on his face. Apparently he is
waiting for Merlin to finish.
Chuckles58 walks in
the wedgied door, walks past Theitris into the EMPTY
privy. Before Theitris knows what happened, Chuckles
heads back out of the office.
G'mornin'
Gov'nah.
He proceeds next door to the Egg Room
for breakfast. He helps himself to a delicious Spanish
omelet and fresh fruit.
These strawberries
are delicious, but when will mangos be in
season?
When he was done eating, he went down
to the Lexus linking book near the fountain. He began to
flip the pages.
Let's see what options this
model came with. Oh there's quite a few links to Eder
Gira and Eder Kemo. There's Kadish and Gareesen.
Teledahn, no I don't want to go there right now ...
allergic to fungus.
He flips many more
pages.
Now here's an interesting
one,
Wow, a Baseball Age! That looks like the
Ballpark in Arlington (Texas). Now you're talking. I bet
some of more the athletic Bahro could form a team and
play in the major leagues. I'd better head over to DISCO
for equipment and uniforms. Then I've got to assemble a
coaching staff and have tryouts.
So much to do,
and so little sense ... I mean so little
time.
---------------------------- Master of
Manipulating Stories (MOMS) Director of Redirecting
Kinesis (DORK)
Note to the
Professor: It has come to our attention that your
aide and right hand woman, Cordelia, has been working
far too hard. She is seeing to everything and everybody
in the hood out of the goodness of her heart. Was this
part of her job description? We here at the OARS suggest
you do something about that immediately, or we will take
action ourselve and provide her with what she fully
deserves. Signed, Secretary Overworked
Assistants Reward
Society
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Thietris Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
posted
"Well, really! Cordelia, did you see
that? I mean, whose daft idea was it to put a privy in
my office in the first place? ... Ah. ... Well, I'm
going to have it filled in. The D'ni managed to exist
without these facilities, and we'll just have to follow
their example."
Thietris Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of Advanced Exploration
of Myst Worlds
posted
Note to Secretary,
Overworked Assistants Reward Society: Yes, it was
indeed part of her job description. Here we are: "...
and other duties as deemed necessary."
"Oh yes Professor, leave it with me and
I'll see to it straight away. I'll go and get the rubble
myself to fill it in"
Suddenly
Cordelia realises that she should be calling in some
kind of construction service to do that and not to try
and do everything herself. If she's not careful some
well meaning person will be calling OARS in to speak to
Thietris, and that would never do
She sits down at
the professors desk and thinks long and
hard.
"Professor, I have to ask you this..... I
think I need a holiday and I wondered whether you would
give me time off to go to Rime?"
The professor
didn't know what to say, he just gave Cordelia a blank
stare
Cordelia Personal
Assistant to Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of
Advanced Exploration of Myst Worlds
An umbrella isn't just
for Christmas, it's for life!
As he is scanning the shelves in
DISCO for the equipment he needs, Chuckles58 sees the
display of snowshoes and ice scrapers. He suddenly has a
fond memory of his time in Rime:
Where do you
suppose Grizz keeps baseball mitts? ... Here they
are:
Wonder why Alex Rodriguez was traded to the New
York Yankees? Was that another clothing
malfunction?
---------------------------- Master
of Manipulating Stories (MOMS) Director of
Redirecting Kinesis (DORK)
Seeing that the professor was none too
happy about Cordelia's request, she started to try and
reassure him that she wouldn't be going immediately and
wouldn't be gone for long.
"Of course I will make
sure that everything is running like clockwork here
before I go" she said in a rush. "You can be sure that I
will leave no loose ends and I won't even be gone long.
In fact, I may not be gone at all - it really does
depend on whether I can get the flights and
accommodation booked" she said hopefully.
The
professor looked at her once again with a great deal of
consternation and wondered what the world was coming to,
that his PA should be asking for time off
Cordelia Personal
Assistant to Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of
Advanced Exploration of Myst Worlds
An umbrella isn't just
for Christmas, it's for life!
A
small helicopter landed in the courtyard, and a
delegation of smartly dressed people got out. They
carried a strange object. Seeing Cordelia, they accosted
her, lined her up between two of themselves, and the
third, holding the strange object, said...
"It is
an honor for me, the Secretary of the Overworked
Assistants Reward Society, to present you with this
small token of our esteem and to imform you that this
award is made at the connivance of, and the full
cooperation of the residents of this hood, (except
perhaps for your boss man, who was off somewhere on a
lark, we suppose, and couldn't be reached.)
Veronica laughed as a small
butterfly-like creature floated past her nose. She could
not remember when she felt so happy and carefree.
Glancing over her shoulder to be sure Grizz was keeping
up, she smiled and pointed out the orange butterfly.
"Did you bring your net?" He returned the smile and
shook his head.
Forging ahead, her curiosity grew
as they drew closer to the pinnacle. What were those
structures? Did someone actually live there?
Grizz, delighted by Veronica's
enjoyment, never-the-less had a cautious streak in him.
He took Veronica's hand and held her back,
saying...
"Let's not jump right into this until
we know for sure what we're up against. If there are
'people' living there, we don't know who they are, or
what they might to about strangers. I'm terribly curious
too, but let's see how close we can get without being
seen."
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RE: Elkae's Pictures The "Black Square" avatar is
picture #23 and represents "Thank You"...so we will
always know what it means when we see it...ah heek,
Elkae...RW...come back when you are
able. [[[[Homies]]]]
Cordelia blushed and stepped forward to
take the award offered to her. Feeling that duty called
upon her to make a speech, she somewhat hurridly tried
to think of something meaningful to say.
"Thank
you all so very much for this award. I am sure that I
don't deserve it - well of course I do, but I must
pretend that I don't (blush, blush). I would like to
thank my mom and my dad for bringing me into this world,
and all my friends here in the hood without whom I would
not have had the chance to earn this
award......"
Sadly, she went on for rather a long
time and everyone was getting a tad bored Eventually, Cordelia
realised that it was time to stop, so she simply took
the award and waving to everyone, made her way back to
her office.
On the way she passed the
professor.
"Look what I got, Professor. Now I
think maybe we should talk more about my duties"
Cordelia Personal
Assistant to Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of
Advanced Exploration of Myst Worlds
An umbrella isn't just
for Christmas, it's for life!
Merlin walk over to the Eggroom* Sees
Ronda thinking* "Grettings, my fair lady. What art
thou pondering?"
"Oh nothing. I just was thinking
about how I should go about reaching the cavern
ceiling." says Ronda.
"Forsooth! I shall have you
on the ceiling in no time flat! Just follow me to the
helicopter."
"Thank you Merlin," says the
goddess.
"Think not of
it."
OOC:When Merlin offered his services
to Boatingirl, he did it only out a desire to help, and
for no other reason. Merlin in utterly, completely,
absolutely, undoubtedly, un waveringly, compassionately,
fully, wholly, and 100% devoted to Ronda, and her
only.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merlin
in the Institution and Mysti in the A&C Team Bahro
Agents Infiltration, Rescue, Espionage, and
Puzzle-Solving
Veronica's curiosity is about to get the
best of her. "But Grizz, we have our Relto books, if we
get into serious trouble we can just link out, right?"
Tugging her hand out of his grasp, she walks forward
into the clearing in front of the
dwellings.
Experimental Program 1
) in the center near the base
of that pinnacle.
), grabbed Grizz's
hand once more and said, "Let's go see." They pushed
through the undergrowth, the insects in the area making
themselves known by the strange sounds filling the air.
Veronica stopped suddenly, her voice filled with
excitement, "This looks like a path, do you see it?"
Grizz followed behind, shaking his head. "As long as
it's a level path and will you please slow down,
Nica? I've fallen through and down enough times
already."
An umbrella isn't just
for Christmas, it's for life!
Apparently he is
waiting for Merlin to finish.
to her. "It's also
useful for whacking recalcitrant bosses into next
week."
Eventually, Cordelia
realised that it was time to stop, so she simply took
the award and waving to everyone, made her way back to
her office.
