CL: Right away Goddess! ((Runs out))
GC: Good help is so hard to find. If only I could
remember where in Tartarus I left that bard of mine?
Up in the New Cirran Space Station...
Leicky (LK): ((Singing)) 2,854,320 bottles
of Pepsi on the wall, 2,854,320 bottles of Pepsi. Take one down and
pass it around 2,854,319 bottles of Pepsi on the wall...
Computer (CO): Please stop. I think I'm getting
cyberpsychosis.
LK: Sorry. I've been stuck up here for days. Almost
as if the Goddess [or a bad writer] forgot where I was.
CO: Perhaps another game of Quake?
LK: Not that again! I'm starting to get Quake
dreams, which wouldn't be so bad if my mind could render the graphics
better. Don't you have any other games stored in your data banks that I
can play?
CO: ((Indignant)) I am a scientific research
station with a class A thermonuclear strike capability. I was not
designed to be a video game console. (Or a babysitter for that matter)
LK: You must have something.
CO: Well, there is one simulation...
LK: Cool! Let me play it!
|
CO: ((Sigh)) All right. Starting "Global
Thermonuclear War"...
Back on New Cirra. Tevin's Car Dealership.
Tevin Adaultin (TA): Hi Dave, what's up?
Dave Moore (DM): Shhh. I'm hiding. Pretend I'm a
customer.
TA: You're still not hiding from Cal are you?
DM: You mean the sacrifice? Nah, I got someone else
to take my place.
TA: Good. 'Cause I'm not going up against Cal. She's
spooky, spooky like a mad gerbil on methamphetamines.
DM: ((Blank stare))
TA: But that's a story for another time. So who are
you hiding from?
DM: Groupies.
TA: Guppies? Like rainbow fish?
DM: No, groupies. Like Slinky Fanatics.
TA: ((Blank stare)) You're kidding.
DM: I'm serious. Ever since I rescued the Goddess'
slinky I've been hounded by these groupies. They want my autograph.
They rip off my clothing for souvenirs. They want everything.
~Everything~.
|