|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- OFFICE COMPLEX--CUP 27--"ENJOYABLE" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Office Complex  ||  -------> (Cup SRoc027, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "This situation is fucked up enough, without someone like that." Hate said. "I just couldn't stand listening to that scumbag anymore! And when I found out she was Noaster Sitar--well, let's just say there were no options left." "THE Noaster Sitar--the one you told me about?" Ferrajalt asked. "The same." Hate said. "But isn't that--I don't know--a little too weird? I mean, a time traveller, yeah, but we're pretty far out into Aconck." the Prince said. "I know. I don't like it either." Hate said. "I'm starting to really hate all this supernatural shit." Ferrajalt said. "I remember a time when my life was enjoyable." Hate glanced at the prince. "I wish I could say that." Injure Bodoni turned to Ledrant Hate. "So what was it that happened with you and that previous version of that girl, Noaster Sitar?" Hate stared at the scientist. "The thing is, I had to kill him." "You killed her?" Bodoni exclaimed. "I mean, her in a former incarnation? Cool! I mean..." "I was not 'cool'." Hate said. "A lot of people got hurt. And I don't feel like talking about it--we have other concerns at the moment. Such as--what sort of timeframe are we looking at here? Are we in a hurry, or might we as well take our time?" "My calculations conclude that the state we're in is a stable-answer state. That is, the ways things are now, they're going to stay. The sun will not come up, and additional transformations from baseline will not occur." Bodoni said. "But what about the building?" Hate asked. "You told us that getting rid of Office Complex of Gumhanshire COULD cause reality to come back. Is there a time limit for that?" "Oh." Bodoni said, nodding his head. "I didn't put that into the calculation." "Why not?" Prince Ferrajalt said. "Because! I don't know!" Bodoni said. "That wasn't the question. It was just whether or not it would work." "Crap!" Ferrajalt said. "So already, it might not work anymore!" Ann Saply, the little yellow cat lady in the black dress, spoke up. "Scientists often lack common sense." she said with a smile. "Thanks a lot!" Bodoni said. Suddenly, the central kemig communicator started ringing and beeping. All four turned toward it. "Another alien?" Ferrajalt asked. "Let's hope not." Bodoni said, turning toward the device. "If V and Nevrippa don't call in soon, we're in big trouble--we need them for this whole boat thing of yours, Prince." "Of mine?" Ferrajalt said. Bodoni switched on the kemig, and V Sincein appeared on the screen. They could see he was inside a moving vehicle. "V! Thank goodness it's you!" Bodoni said. "Um..." V said. "Sorry about not calling and not waiting for the others at that rendezvous point, but, uh..." Suddenly, the picture shook, and Nevrippa Den came into view. Looking back and forth from the road to the screen as she was driving. "Hi guys! Yeah, sorry about all the confusion. We're just doing some advanced looting--got a lot of great stuff in the van, so..." "Nevrippa--where are you? Vike and Treyess still haven't come back--and we have no way of calling them." Bodoni said. "Sorry kid." Nevrippa said. "We just didn't want to waste the battery. And we're coming back anyway--to unload the van, so we can come back out and get more stuff." "Nevrippa, uh... I mean, I don't know if, uh, looting is really the most important thing we need to be doing now, and, uh..." Bodoni said. "Oh, don't worry Injy. Once you see what we got, you'll see why we've been doing it. Okay? So we'll be back in about twenty minutes, if all the roads we think still exist do. Okay? Don't want to waste the battery any more. Bye!" the crazy girl said, and the screen went blank. "Damn!" Bodoni exclaimed. "Leave it to her! I could kill her!" "So could we." Treyess Arcomany said from the doorway. They all turned to see her and Vike Varmabey coming in. "Treyess!" Bodoni said. "Thank goodness you're back. I guess you just saw what happened to those two out there. Looting! Man!" "Well," Treyess said, coming into the room, "we did a little looting too. A lot of good stuff out there, you know." "Yeah." Vike said. "Everything's shot to hell out there." -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----