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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: A Sudden Crisis Next Door
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.033315.11108@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:33:15 GMT
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- Rie writes:
- >Suddenly, the group hug seems much larger. This could have something to do
- >with the unexpected entrance of two beings who each outmass most of the patrons
- >put together. The merriment subsides as the callahanians look up, and up, and
- >UP at these guys.
-
- "But not taller than I can be, " Linda.
-
- >All callahaners with weapons reach for them instantly, wondering why this had
- >to happen right on the tails of this alien thing, but then they notice Rie
- >standing between them. Only because he's waving frantically, though. If you
- >thought he was an unprepossessing character surrounded by assorted anthropomor-
- >phic mammalia... Anyway, Rie calls out loudly (loudly, Rie??) from atop a gro-
- >wing stack of soapboxes.
-
- "In many ways, I am a weapon, many many ways, " Linda.
-
- "Relax Linda, thats an Order, " Commodore DJ.
-
- >"Calm down, everyone. Please, calm down. This is Dragonel (gesturing at the
- >gold dude) and this is... oh, I forget his name. Anyway, they are regulars
- >and bouncers at the Taiwan On. We need to talk with Slash."
-
- "Are you sure ??" Linda.
-
- "Of course, " DJ.
-
- >"I'll say! Stargazer's gone. (different one, folx) All was as usual, and
- >then Tilto saw something flash by and she was nowhere. Nobody else saw a d**n
- >thing. No doors opening, no prior warning, nothing. You know what that
- >means."
- [snip]
- >The four rush out the door, Slash muttering something about a bartender's work
- >is never done. On the way out, Rie calls back.
- [snip]
- >And the door slams shut.
-
- { and robbie quietly puts away his 'planet buster' blaster, set to 'stun'
- it was... don't worry, extremly focused beam, multiple nodes... }
-
- Mike notices and says, " Hey ! Watch it with that thing !"
-
- "No problem Mike, no problem," Robbie. { who 'knew' they were arriving }.
-
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