Sime~Gen Roleplaying on IRC: Bender Cove Township Scenario
Episode #9: The Fire (9/4/97)
TrelFarris: and who is this? [looking at newcomer]
TrelFarris: [zlins]
TrelFarris: [raises an eyebrow in recognition]
Wise Snake: Oh jeez
TrelFarris: you've grown up
TrelFarris: but why are you here...and not training?
TrelFarris: with your potential...
TrelFarris: I thank you, Veraik for taking care of...Aleiaa's...body for me [grief]
TrelFarris: I had no idea Klana was the traitor
Wise Snake: [eyebrows shoot up nervously] Uh...
TrelFarris: [turns in surprise]
TrelFarris: What is it?
Wise Snake: What are you talking about, Aleiaa's body?
TrelFarris: [grief ringing in nager--companion moves up by him] he couldn't handle the grief either. You see, it was Veraik who found Aleiaa and K'lana [hangs head before squaring shoulders]
Wise Snake: And K'Lana? [confusion] What happened?
TrelFarris: Alieaa was my...she carried my...
TrelFarris: Klana was a spy. She was sent to search out and destroy the heir to Zeor
Wise Snake: So you were the father???
TrelFarris: yes. Aleiaa was sent her for safety reasons. No one knew why she was here. We were trying to find out who was threatening the house of Zeor. Too late I found out it was Klana
TrelFarris: [slips off cloak]
Wise Snake: [massages forehead] I knew I should have stayed away from here.
TrelFarris: [looks up] why is that?
Wise Snake: Things like this just keep happening.
TrelFarris: [studies Snake narrowly]
TrelFarris: like what?
TrelFarris: [rubs forearms slightly and sighs]
TrelFarris: [slips folders to the side with tentacles and leans against desk]
Wise Snake: So do you mind telling me what actually happened?
TrelFarris: why aren't you wearing the Farris mark?
Wise Snake: The what? Oh, that. Because there isn't any point.
TrelFarris: Aleiaa was pregnant.
Wise Snake: Yes, I know.
TrelFarris: A plot was afoot to topple the Zeor household
TrelFarris: I sent Alieaa here for safety until we could find out who was trying to assisassinate me and my family. Unfortunately, the assassin thought me too protected and found Alieaa instead
TrelFarris: does that answer your question
TrelFarris: well?
Wise Snake: So you're saying K'Lana murdered Aleiaa?
TrelFarris: Yes. She attacked my...Aleiaa and then Aleiaa to protect herself, murdered Klana
Wise Snake: oh.
Veraik: [entwines tentacles] How could get tell that just by looking.
TrelFarris: the bodies have been seen to
Veraik: It could have been the other way around.
TrelFarris: I'm a Farris [looks arrogantly down nose at Veraik]
Veraik: Does that make you a mind reader?
TrelFarris: no, but I also know Alieaa and the wife of the Sectuib wouldn't have started the situation, if you understand what I mean [warning glaring in nager]
TrelFarris: [companion moves up by me]
Veraik: She was your wife! I thought Meleena was your wife. At least that is what is said in the papers
TrelFarris: a decoy
TrelFarris: the child was the future of Zeor...we took the chance that sending Alieaa away would save us
Wise Snake: [frown deepens]
TrelFarris: my Donor only escorted me here. I will have to stay awhile until all of the legal matters are straightened out.
Veraik: <snorts> [shakes head] Just like a Sectuib. [realizes what just said and blanches]
TrelFarris: You have something to says Veraik?
Wise Snake: [conflicting emotions]
Veraik: [takes a step back] nothing
TrelFarris: [shudders--covers arms slightly] will you two quit it!
TrelFarris: [nods to companion] please see to thinks at Zeor until I return
TrelFarris: I have quite a few things to accomplish here first
Wise Snake: [expression has become downright ominous... like a thundercloud]
TrelFarris: [back to Veraik] that is of course, if you Veraik, extend your invitation
Veraik: [bows slightly] The House of Liorie extends warm welcome to the House of Zeor.
Wise Snake: uchh!
Wise Snake: I'm going for a walk.
TrelFarris: [bows formally]
Wise Snake: [leaves]
TrelFarris: [aguments to snake]
TrelFarris: I think we should talk
Wise Snake: [keeps nager tightly controlled]
TrelFarris: you've been wronged Snake. Greatly.
Veraik: I'm sorry Sectuib. I know your loss is greater than how we all feel at this Center.
TrelFarris: [tightens his own control]
TrelFarris: thank you Veraik
Wise Snake: Look,
TrelFarris: but Snake...we should forget the past...look only to the future
Wise Snake: I have a different future now. It doesn't have Zeor in it.
TrelFarris: you are a farris...zeor is in your future whether you want it or not
Veraik: [thinks--darn, I should have taken that piece when it was offered]
TrelFarris: do you not agree Veraik?
Veraik: [zlins with jealousy]
Veraik: Absolutely, Sectuib.
Veraik: [and to think I could've had his wife!]
TrelFarris: you will ultimately be the one to make the difference, if you will only help us, Snake
Veraik: [nager become neutral]
Wise Snake: Let me see if I have this straight.
TrelFarris: [waiting patiently--for a farris]
Wise Snake: You know, I can't even begin.
Wise Snake: It doesn't make any sense at all.
TrelFarris: very well...[paces] I will requre your help in a few days...
Wise Snake: After all that, you want _me_ to help _you_? Do you have any idea how ridiculous this sounds to me?
TrelFarris: [rubs tentacles against temples] No. It's not. I've lost almost all my family. Zeor is in dire straits... You are a farris...oh, I just...[rubs tentacles] It's hard to think when I am so close to need
Wise Snake: [exasperated] Zeor threw me out on my ass only two months ago.
Veraik: [listens with interest]
TrelFarris: it was for your own protection.
Wise Snake: [incredulous shreik of laughter]
TrelFarris: You have the potential to be as good a channel as me...
Wise Snake: [second incredulous shreik]
TrelFarris: we couldn't risk the assassain finding you.
Wise Snake: [whooop!! HahaheHehehahahaheh]
TrelFarris: And knowing your brave streak, that loyalty you always showed to Zeor, I feared you just might not go unless you thought you had been disgraced
Wise Snake: [groan] Oh please don't start on that... don't even go there. I refuse to believe you put me through all that for a reason that foolish.
TrelFarris: [guards field at snake's words]
TrelFarris: believe what you will...but we NEED you now. You don't have to leave here... right now, you're safer here until we finish finding the rest of the traitors to zeor
TrelFarris: veraik, you are working with this girl...helping her?
TrelFarris: [Trel zlins Snake]
Veraik: [zlins Snake with interest since she is the only female in the room]
Veraik: of course Sectuib
Wise Snake: [resentment... dangerous restlessness]
TrelFarris: [surprise lifts Trels eyebrows at Veraik]
TrelFarris: her systems aren't at peak. Of course, without working with a Farris I can understand that
Wise Snake: He's been post for five days now. Just ignore him.
Veraik: [covers nager as best he can]
TrelFarris: [trel zlins snake with interest]
TrelFarris: [but quickly loses it...too close to need]
Veraik: Tramila was been helping Snake.
TrelFarris: Tramila!
Veraik: She's a Farris.
TrelFarris: Is she still here?
Veraik: She's perfectly capable to handle her training.
TrelFarris: [you don't have to tell ME rings in Trels nager]
Wise Snake: [hates Tramila]
Wise Snake: Tramila is the antiKlyd
TrelFarris: she has some problems...but it is believed she can be brought around. She's much like you Snake
Wise Snake: No.
TrelFarris: yes...she is confused. She requires our help! And if she comes back, that will be one more duty we will see to. Now, I require your oath your pledge as a Farris that you will help.
Wise Snake: No.
TrelFarris: [projecting after all, I AM your Sectuib]
TrelFarris: What!
Veraik: Snake, it is a great honor.
Wise Snake: [hardens showfield] I said no. I am not an honorable person.
TrelFarris: yes, Snake. You are.
TrelFarris: I've had reports worked up on you and what you've been up to in this area. In your own way, you have been very honorable.
Wise Snake: Well I am not an honorable person with regards to Zeor anymore.
TrelFarris: after all, you had lost everything, your house, everything
Veraik: How can you refuse, Snake? It is anyone's dream and you are refusing it. How could you!
TrelFarris: well then, let me put it this way...as a Sime in Sime Territory, you can only get transfers from one place. As a Farris, you HAVE to have those transfers...you can't go on too many second or third rate transfers.
Wise Snake: [grimaces] Is that how it is, then?
TrelFarris: yes, it is
Wise Snake: Suddenly I feel even less like helping you than I did before.
TrelFarris: whether you feel like it or not doesn't matter
Wise Snake: Nothing quite like having the knife held at my throat to remember what it felt like stabbing me in the back!
TrelFarris: I'm sorry, but that's the way it has to be
TrelFarris: [nager shows regret]
TrelFarris: zeor must come first. It's bigger than any individual. Bigger than you, than me
Veraik: [zlins with anticipation]
TrelFarris: [rubs arms...grimaces]
Wise Snake: [extremely angry... it's slow burning anger that has been building up this whole time]
TrelFarris: well, now that that has been worked out...Snake, you have been doing a good job here, if a little...unorthadox. Would you and your...Veraik, show me around?
Wise Snake: [leaves]
Veraik: I would be happy to show you to your quarters. [trying to suck up]
Wise Snake: [out the front door]
TrelFarris: [sighs] it's not easy for her. I am only glad she will help me
TrelFarris: [greatly weary, rubs arms] that would be nice,
Veraik: [flicks nager around carelessly because of the agitation feels when Snake leaves]
TrelFarris: [flinches and sucks in breath] Hajene!
TrelFarris: [shudders]
Veraik: oh [gets embarrassed] Sorry.
TrelFarris: perhaps I might be able to...work instead
Veraik: [soothes Nager] [zlins] ri..ight this way.
TrelFarris: [bows head and follows]
Veraik: I could use a little work myself.
TrelFarris: yes, you could
TrelFarris: [murmurs as zlinning Veraik]
see note 1
TrelFarris: [goes to find Snake]
Veraik: Oh hi Snake
Wise Snake: [looks at Veraik]
TrelFarris: [comes striding down the hall]
TrelFarris: [zlins veraik strangely as comes up]
Veraik: [sends suggestive nager]
TrelFarris: [eyes widen at Veraik] inappropriate behaviour, Veraik
Veraik: And why is that?
TrelFarris: Snake, are you and Veraik...[hesitates]
Wise Snake: [nager becomes extremely cold during the pause]
Wise Snake: what?
TrelFarris: [embarrsessed]
TrelFarris: sexually involved
Veraik: I had planned on assigning her to me after my next transfer.
Wise Snake: [revolted] Egads!
Veraik: but no ...not yet.
TrelFarris: [relief] I see you are not
Veraik: why?
TrelFarris: then Veraik, that is inappropriate behavior with other Simes around who can zlin you
Wise Snake: [To Trelaine Farris: ] [angry] Excuse me.
Veraik: You weren't here...at least I thought you weren't
TrelFarris: Snake, I ask you to come with me to my room. I must speak with you privately. [not a request]
Wise Snake: [laughs suddenly]
TrelFarris: it will only take a moment. I assure you, I wouldn't want to inconvience you
Wise Snake: Don't you make that nager at me, your position means nothing to me anymore.
TrelFarris: then why do you zlin differently...you know as a farris, you'll end up dying without good transfers...you can't afford that...nor this arguing.
Wise Snake: If you want to talk to me, you can do it after I get done talking to Veraik.
Veraik: [flinches at violent nager between two Farrises]
TrelFarris: [hesitates then nods] as you wish Snake. I have the time to wait.
Wise Snake: [looks at Veraik] We have to talk. [Alone]
Veraik: Fine by me [points with tentacled] in my office?
Wise Snake: [enters Veraik's office]
TrelFarris: [goes over and pours trin tea]
TrelFarris: [new Donor shows up]
TrelFarris: [relief...goes to transfer room...has a raging Farris transfer]
Veraik: [sits down behind huge Controller's desk] So tell me. What is the matter?
Wise Snake: Veraik, you have a serious hormonal imbalance. Let me take care of that for you before you succeed in making a complete ruin of your reputation.
TrelFarris: [first relief in months--cries over loss of wife...lets out all emotion...am cleansed]
Veraik: I...I... what are you talking about? I'm just a normal man. Why would you say hormonal? Hormones are a woman's worry.
Wise Snake: Uh... no. Normal men do not make sex nager at their employees in front of Zeor's Sectuib.
Veraik: [looks at Snake's boobs]
Wise Snake: [she hasn't got much of any]
Wise Snake: Look!
Veraik: I didn't know he was behind me. He's a Farris like you. You never know unless they want you to know.
Wise Snake: [goes around desk]
Veraik: [backs chair up]
Wise Snake: Trust me on this. Your behavior is completely erratic and nobody is going to give you an ounce of respect until you get it fixed.
Veraik: What you going to do?
TrelFarris: [laughing]
Veraik: [perks up] And how are you going to fix it? [leer - looks at boobs again]
Wise Snake: I'll show you. [reaches for Veraik's arms]
Veraik: [nager becomes sexually inticing]
Wise Snake: [takes Veraik in full transfer position and goes into healing mode]
Veraik: [nager shriek from quick movement than settles down]
Wise Snake: [re-adjusts Veraik's hormonal balance to a more healthy and stable mixture]
Wise Snake: [Did it slowly enough and obviously enough that Veraik should have been able to follow what was going on ]
Wise Snake: [releases Veraik]
Wise Snake: There.
TrelFarris: [Trel comes back out and bids Donor bye]
TrelFarris: [drinks tea]
Veraik: [draws legs up to chest and wraps tentacles around knees]
Wise Snake: [zlins Veraik]
Wise Snake: It's for your own good.
Veraik: [never looks up]
Veraik: Wha.at?
Wise Snake: [shakes her head]
Wise Snake: [leaves Veraik's office]
TrelFarris: [stands when snake enters]
TrelFarris: our talk now, Snake
Wise Snake: [ohman, and here HE is still]
Wise Snake: Oh. Yeah.
TrelFarris: right this way [motions with tentacle toward room]
Veraik: [looks at desk...makes trin mindlessly]
Wise Snake: [follows Trelaine]
TrelFarris: [opens door to room, steps back to allow her entrance]
Wise Snake: [enters, but doesn't ever turn her back on Trelaine]
Veraik: [goes back to desk] Looks at transfer assignments card and a Sex paper slot, gets sick and leaves]
TrelFarris: I must apologize again about earlier...I was in...need...you know how that goes
Veraik: [stops when he hears Trel talking]
TrelFarris: [pushes door closed and leans against it...zlinning Snake's nervousnesss]
Wise Snake: Yeah well,
TrelFarris: well, I will thank you again for helping, despite that we are both forced into circumstances that neither one of us appreciates
Veraik: [puts ear to door]
Wise Snake: [irritated, restless] I never said I'd help you.
TrelFarris: [shrugs] you don't have much of a choice, you see, the law will be on my side. If you refuse, the only alternative is death by attrition
Wise Snake: [gives Trelaine the snake-eyes]
TrelFarris: I like it no better than you
Wise Snake: [snorts]
Veraik: [eyes widen at what the Sectuib is saying]
TrelFarris: you understand what I require?
Wise Snake: Zeor threw me away. So for me, it has already ceased to exist. I owe it no loyalty and no self-sacrifice.
TrelFarris: this isn't just zeor's rules but the tecton...of course, since Farris control the tecton
TrelFarris: I don't care about your loyalty...
Wise Snake: [laughs] Ah. of course not. You never did.
TrelFarris: you know, if we're always going to fight, it's going to prove interesting over the next month
TrelFarris: I must simply ask you to abide by the laws
TrelFarris: or die
Wise Snake: [glimpse of very powerful bitterness underneath the showfield]
TrelFarris: I am sorry Snake...I understand you have a right to be bitter... but we must overcome that...we have no choice. You must do this.
Wise Snake: You have no comprehension of what I've endured, at Zeor and afterward.
TrelFarris: you're right, I don't.
Wise Snake: Just what is it you are asking for specifically?
TrelFarris: And there will be time later, to handle that.
TrelFarris: but now...[takes breath] now....
TrelFarris: according to the old laws..the Farris gene is so valuable that I'm allow to take whatever woman I fancy... whenever and however...and that would be....
TrelFarris: you, Snake
Wise Snake: [nager turns to pure poison]
Wise Snake: I'd rather die.
TrelFarris: believe me, that's about how I feel about it
TrelFarris: but you don't have a choice in this...you're going to have my baby. The next heir to Zeor
Wise Snake: Oh, no, you don't understand. [rises to her feet]
TrelFarris: [letting snake see just how POST I am] of course, you're not ready yet. I can give you time...I've alloted three months here
Veraik: [gasp...sputter..... [[physically vomiting]] [runs to the nearest facilities]
Wise Snake: [hate; fury] Never.
TrelFarris: and then we'll have to monitor you.
Wise Snake: No.
TrelFarris: [soothing but determined nager]
Wise Snake: [exits the room]
Wise Snake: [furious]
TrelFarris: [goes out of room, sees Veraik]
TrelFarris: you heard, I assume
Wise Snake: [leaves the Sime Center]
Wise Snake: [disappears down a back street]
Veraik: Trel: [rubs tentacles over eyes] You have to understand
Veraik: Snake is....well Snake. You can't order her around.
Veraik: This is her territory. She is like....well...like the Sectuib here.
TrelFarris: hey, fine, I thought I was doing her a favor...carrying the heir of zeor...
TrelFarris: no problem
TrelFarris: I'll find someone else who wants the honor
Veraik: What she says goes and if you interfer you may find yourself very dead because the Gens [flicks tentacles as if to indicate the outside] are very protective of her.
TrelFarris: fine
Veraik: I really don't know how this came about but it is true nonetheless.
TrelFarris: she can have her small world...but the Tecton will come down hard one day if you don't get this area in line
Veraik: We have only been here a week. Even the Tecton understands that it takes longer than that to get the trust of the area.
TrelFarris: I'm giving you months, though, not weeks
TrelFarris: but I expect it done
TrelFarris: [Farris arrogant glare]
Veraik: This is a hard core town. Months may not even be enough. [suddenly collapses to floor]
TrelFarris: [goes to Veraik]
TrelFarris: [zlins systems]
TrelFarris: [lifts Veraik and carries him to bed]
TrelFarris: Get some help in here!
TrelFarris: [hits panic button]
TrelFarris: [systems are out of balance]
TrelFarris: [hasn't been taking proper care of self]
TrelFarris: [takes Veraiks arms in his]
TrelFarris: [gently leans down to rebalance systems]
TrelFarris: hang on hajene
TrelFarris: [fights desperately to balance systems...overriding problems]
TrelFarris: [continues to work]
TrelFarris: [caring people who have fallen in love with Sime Center leader pour in to help]
TrelFarris: [finally get systems balanced]
TrelFarris: he's alive...gonna be okay, aren't you Veraik?
TrelFarris: [smiles at groan]
TrelFarris: [goes to Veraik's office to fill out reports]
Veraik: [groan] I feel terrible.
Veraik: [looks at renSime] What happened?
Veraik: Really, Sectuib Farris saved my life. [pleased with self because a Farris touched him]
Veraik: [Sectuib Farris that is]
Veraik: [tries to get up]
Veraik: [waves off renSime] I'll be fine. I'm going to thank the Sectuib for his care.
TrelFarris: [zlins problem]
TrelFarris: [gets up and hurries to room]What are you doing up?
Veraik: Trel: Thank you. [fights waves of fatigue]
TrelFarris: you should still be in bed.
Veraik: I'm fine. I just need to work the kinks out of my system.
TrelFarris: [backs away]it is your choice hajene
Veraik: [turns in direction of Donation room]
TrelFarris: [assists]
Veraik: [As soon as Trel is out of zlin range heads out to find Snake]
TrelFarris: [goes to room to rest]
Veraik: Goes to the Western Swell Saloon]
Wise Snake: [It has familiar looking letters on the front spelling WEST SWELL]
Veraik: Bar keep? Give me a ... porstan. [grumbles I need it]
Veraik: [shilpron music plays in the back ground]
Veraik: [wraps tentacles around drink]
Veraik: [feels music beat against nager]
Veraik: [rush as a high order Gen walks over to stand next to the musician]
Veraik: [leans over to barkeep slightly drunk] Have you seen Snake?
TrelFarris: [gets up and decides to investage spy problem to find out who wants to ruin zeor]
TrelFarris: [goes out to talk to people of the area]
TrelFarris: [wanders into bar, thinking might find someone here to help - spots Veraik's nager]
TrelFarris: what are you doing here?
Veraik: Money? How much?
Veraik: Wha.....
TrelFarris: [frowns at Veraik]
TrelFarris: not the best place to be...only a lowlife would come in here and..
TrelFarris: [zlins just what is going on--shudders]
Veraik: I'm...looks at musician.....I'm just enjoying myself
TrelFarris: fine.[sits down studies crowd]
Veraik: Bar keep? [slightly slurred] Get this man a porstan
TrelFarris: hold his porstan..and mine...make it something non alchoholic
Veraik: [Digs in pocket, pulls out a wad of bills]
Veraik: But....but why?
TrelFarris: [takes them, stuffs them back in...pays tab himself]
TrelFarris: you've had enough...why'd you come here anyway?
Barkeep: [angrily] I thought you didn't have money!
Veraik: [gives a bill to the bar keep]
Barkeep: [angily] What is this funny money you are giving me!!!
Veraik: It's the only type that I have
Veraik: [turns to Trel] I had hope to find Snake here.
TrelFarris: [coolly]why do you want to find her?
TrelFarris: she's turned her back on Zeor and the Tecton...there's nothing more I can do
Veraik: And now..I don't even have the money to pay my bill.
Veraik: Look. You come in and demand her to have a child without even getting to know her.
Veraik: How did you expect her to act?
TrelFarris: it's what any farris would understand
TrelFarris: the house has to come first with me...
TrelFarris: if she hadn't ran out, perhap we could have discussed it [shrugs]
Veraik: but you grew up at Zeor, she grew up here.
TrelFarris: [opens mouth to reply, then shrugs]well, it does no good now, does it?
Barkeep: [angily] I WANT MY MONEY or I'll HAVE YOUR TENTACLES IN A NOOSE!!!
TrelFarris: [looks askance at Veraik]you want me to pay it?
Veraik: [slumps down] Yes please.
TrelFarris: [gives barkeep money]
Veraik: Thank you.
TrelFarris: Since you have no more use of me here, nor am I needed, I plan to head back to Zeor tomorrow
Veraik: If that is what you want, I can't stop you.
TrelFarris: great. If you hear any news on the others involved with killing my wife and heir...please let me know
Veraik: I think I'll go the Lotta's Whorehouse. Maybe Snake is ther. Want to come along.
TrelFarris: nah...have got to go pack
Veraik: I will. Promise.
Veraik: Well OK
TrelFarris: don't take any of them up on their charms...no telling what you might get
Veraik: [zlins sadness at seeing the Sectuib go]
TrelFarris: [leaves]
Veraik: [goes to Whorehouse]
Wise Snake: [It is a large, pink building with a brand new unpainted door]
Veraik: [rubs tentacles over eyes to avoid glare from the color of the building
Veraik: [enter building]
Veraik: Are you Lotta?
Veraik: Have you seend Snake?
Veraik: You have. Where?
Veraik: [Fishes out Tecton money to give to Lotta]
Veraik: No good. [puts money back in pocket and goes back to the Center.]
Veraik: [exits]
TrelFarris: [sees Veraik come in door]
TrelFarris: what are you doing back so soon?
Veraik: [nager ragged]
TrelFarris: took my advice, did you and steered clear of the ladies
TrelFarris: [projects soothing nager]
TrelFarris: come on, sit down.
Veraik: I didn't bring the right money so I got no where.
TrelFarris: I heard there is more help coming
TrelFarris: ahh....
Veraik: [feels better, sits down]
TrelFarris: one thing to learn...when you're in an area like this..
Veraik: yes
TrelFarris: you have to play along.
TrelFarris: They usually have thier own money, own way of doing things, etcetera [shrugs]
Veraik: I'm trying but sometimes I really have no idea where to begin.
TrelFarris: I learned that during my years of...traveling
TrelFarris: you'll learn.
TrelFarris: before I became Sectuib I went through many many things...that's why... [sighs]
TrelFarris: I really thought Aleiaa would be safe here.
Veraik: This is my first major post and I didn't realize that it would be so hard.
TrelFarris: they'll come around
TrelFarris: step by step
Veraik: I'm sorry about Aleiaa...really.
TrelFarris: she was special
Veraik: I'm really sorry I accused her of being the spy but I had no idea she was your wife.
TrelFarris: I met her...[smiles]did she tell you how...
TrelFarris: no problem...she is a spy
TrelFarris: she and I spied for the Tecton for years
Veraik: [blanch] Really. [settles in to listen]
TrelFarris: that's how I met her...she was out..near the border when I ran across her.
TrelFarris: [curious look at Veraik]
TrelFarris: she helped me get out of a sticky situation...
TrelFarris: if it hadn't been for her...I wouldn't be alive today.
TrelFarris: so, how did you end up here?
Veraik: So it was love at first transfer, huh.
TrelFarris: [grins]something like that
Veraik: Will be make me some tea. I'm not feeling great.
TrelFarris: [looks concerned]
TrelFarris: what is it?
Veraik: [blushes at the asking]
TrelFarris: [goes into working mode]
Veraik: Just too many balance and over balances in one day.
TrelFarris: [nods wisely]
TrelFarris: sounds like you should take off a day and get it all worked out
TrelFarris: mabye a dose of fosebine
TrelFarris: [goes to medicine cabinet]
TrelFarris: [easily opens it and pours medicine for Veraik]
Veraik: I can't. There isn't anybody to take over the place.
TrelFarris: you really should get better locks on this! [grinning] any first year Sime can open it...or are you more worried about the Gens
Veraik: I'm Farris heavy or at least I was so I really wasn't concerned.
TrelFarris: she'll come back[shrugs]
TrelFarris: she can't stay away...she needs the transfers
TrelFarris: how close to her transfer date is she?
TrelFarris: [goes over and pours tea for Veraik and himself]
TrelFarris: [hands cup to Veraik]
Veraik: She had transfer five days ago.
Veraik: Thank you.
TrelFarris: ahh...so she has some time
TrelFarris: three weeks unless she can find a really good gen..and I didn't zlin any of those around
Veraik: yes. A lot of time.
TrelFarris: well, I can stay around and help...I did tell my Donor three months and believe me...this place isn't shielded enough for anyone to sneak in and out without me knowing it
Veraik: Something like that but I alwasy suspected that she may have someone in her world who can almost but not quite handle her transfer.
TrelFarris: [raises eyebrow]the tecton could use someone like that
TrelFarris: so, how many do you run through here a day?
Veraik: True but can you find that Gen..[waves tentacle] out there..in that man-made jungle
TrelFarris: [arrogant look of smug self assurance]
TrelFarris: [takes a sip of tea and doesn't comment]
Veraik: We had 50 the first day.
TrelFarris: [eyes widen in surprise]that's very good
TrelFarris: I wouldn't have thought it in this area
Veraik: And we had almost 100 today. Snake, before she left predicted that the number would raise to approximately 300.
TrelFarris: very unlikely for a town this size.
TrelFarris: Especially if you don't get help soon
TrelFarris: what about resistance?
Veraik: This is a huge town and I've been trying to get extra help.
Veraik: Perhaps you can make the difference.
TrelFarris: well, as I said, there is supposedly others coming to help
TrelFarris: we'll see
Veraik: That depends on Snake.
Veraik: If she says anything to the people, we won't get anybody today or ever.
TrelFarris: oh you'll get them[grimly]but too late to help them. You'll get them after they've gone through changerover...as corpses
Veraik: [groans] Probably
TrelFarris: like the dark ages when they first started building these places and the people would use bells to call people if one of their children changed over...so they could murder them. It took a lot of brave people to overcome the fears
Veraik: [shudders] That was a terrible time.
TrelFarris: sometimes though, I wonder if their time wasn't actually better
Veraik: Why is that?
TrelFarris: no Tecton, no spies...a Companion was that...a Companion. They lived to give their selyn. You didn't have the problems of today, nor the politics
Veraik: but the Companions had to live confined.
Veraik: I like it now.
TrelFarris: [shrugs]and so basically did the channels
TrelFarris: the time had it's drawbacks
TrelFarris: but the relationship between channel and Gen was different..
TrelFarris: at least looking at history books it looked better
TrelFarris: [thinking of all the dead, then and even now]
Veraik: To live with seeing renSimes half dead because the pen Gens died before they could give all their selyn since they were so very scared or drugged.
TrelFarris: I'm not debating that...that was the dark part of the past...
TrelFarris: what I'm debating is the channel/Companion relationship
TrelFarris: look at you for an example
Veraik: What about me?
TrelFarris: you're in awful shape simply because you don't have a regular Companion
TrelFarris: You are assigned different donors a month, some good, some bad...and the way you have to live... [shrugs]
TrelFarris: just my view
TrelFarris: you know, I haven't seen the dock...how about we take a walk?
Veraik: I know but it is better that I do not get fixed on one Donor.
TrelFarris: now there is where I disagree, to a point...some people SHOULD only have one Donor
Veraik: Fine by me. I'm feeling better.
TrelFarris: [get up and leave]
TrelFarris: this place is really run down[looking around]
Veraik: [follows, get some local money before leaves]
TrelFarris: [smell of fish grows strong]
TrelFarris: they found Klana's donor dead about three miles from here
Veraik: [wrinkles nose]
TrelFarris: it looks like it was Klana's doing
TrelFarris: [shudders and reteracts tentaclese at thought]
Veraik: Yes, I know. I had to sign the paperwork.
TrelFarris: evidently, her donor found out something[shakes head]a sad loss
TrelFarris: one more name to add...[trails off]
TrelFarris: what's going on here?[looks around dock]
Veraik: They said it was drowning but I zlin some burning as well.
TrelFarris: [looks annoyed]exactly
Veraik: [looks around]
TrelFarris: [zlinning]
Veraik: I don't zlin anything but with your sensitivity.....
TrelFarris: a trash fire.
TrelFarris: look down there...some people have dumped thier garbage...near the end of the street
TrelFarris: where's the fire bridgade? that fire is spreading fast.
TrelFarris: [zlinning people running and screaming]
TrelFarris: watch out...we're going to get trampled!
TrelFarris: [fire spreads rapidly...][grab bucket to help put it out but realize it's useless]
TrelFarris: this old wood was an accident waiting to happen!
TrelFarris: come on, let's get what we can out of the Center before it goes!
Veraik: Runs to Fire Bridgade but the fire are just winding up the hoses and have no water.
TrelFarris: [augments to Sime Center...getting patients out as well as workers]
TrelFarris: hurry, over here!
TrelFarris: [people running wild everywhere]
TrelFarris: [smoke thick]
TrelFarris: [channel cries out in agony when first spark hits Sime Center]
Veraik: [runs from house to house and warn people of FIRE!!!!
TrelFarris: [fire spreads]
Wise Snake: [a bunch of people run up to the Sime Center carrying buckets]
Wise Snake: [somebody sticks one in your hands] "Throw it on the front of the building!
Wise Snake: [you see a chain of people standing between you and the waterfront]
Wise Snake: [braving the sparks to hand buckets along the line]
Wise Snake: [when you do nothing, they throw water on the front of the Sime Center]
TrelFarris: [augment to finish putting out fire]
Wise Snake: [sparks fly through the air from the advancing fire]
Veraik: [runs to river to get another bucket of water]
Wise Snake: [some sparks land on the wet face and die out, while others land higher and try to catch]
TrelFarris: [put them out]
Wise Snake: [A wagon lumbers past with fire fighting equipment but it is headed farther into town]
Veraik: [augments to child who has been burnt]
Wise Snake: [Smoke threatens to overcome you and sparks singe your skin. The temperature is ferocious]
Wise Snake: [The buildings closest to the Center are on fire]
Veraik: [pulls child from a window]
Wise Snake: [people run up the burning street like ghosts in the black haze]
Veraik: [gives child to another for care of minor burns, runs to Center]
Wise Snake: [somebody yells out: ] "The canal! They're trying to stop it at the canal! [points east, away from the fire]
Wise Snake: [the Center's roof has not been protected and sparks have fallen, starting small fires]
Wise Snake: [the intense heat is drying off the front]
Wise Snake: [the bucket brigade is thinning out as some people flee]
Veraik: [goes to get very old pump]
Veraik: [organizes team to get water to roof of the Center]
Wise Snake: [some people stay to help]
TrelFarris: [trel stiffens..]my wife...she left something in the center! [runs into center to get it]
Veraik: No!!!!
TrelFarris: [finds the ring he gave her years ago that first time they met OT]
Wise Snake: [inside is hot, smoky, eerily quiet with the big fire's roar audible outside]
TrelFarris: [choking...]
TrelFarris: [overcome by smoke--catches on fire...falls down unconscous]
Veraik: [grabs blanket and put out fire on Trel]
Wise Snake: [there is less smoke near the floor]
Veraik: SNAKE!!! Help me with the Sectuib!!! My field isn't strong enough!
TrelFarris: [shuddering]
Wise Snake: [Some Gens crawl from the front door towards you, using a rope for guidance]
Wise Snake: [Gen hands touch the two of you, trying to make you get up] "Get out of there!"
Wise Snake: [scared Gens]
Veraik: Fine..[picks up Trel and carries him to an immediate medical care tent set up to handle the injured
Veraik: [looks at Sectuib but know that he has to help with the fire or all will be lost.
Veraik: [augments back to the Center to help the roof Bridgade]
Wise Snake: [To your horror you are cut off from the Center by a wall of fire]
Veraik: [raises tentacles] [zlins for a different path back to the Center]
Wise Snake: [The fire has been temporarily stalled along the canal]
Wise Snake: [The canal runs parallel to the street the Center is on, you might find a way through farther down]
Veraik: [to boatman] Take me to the Center dock!!!
Wise Snake: [hundreds of people have rallied on the bank opposite to the fire, trying to wet down the buildings to keep sparks flying over the canal from catching]
Veraik: Augment to jump the last 8 feet from the boat to shore.
Wise Snake: [what few boats there are, are loaded with screaming injured.]
Wise Snake: [You are on the same shore with the front of the fire.]
Wise Snake: [You think you zlin a gap enough to go through to the block the Center is on]
Veraik: [makes way to the Center's Brigade]
Wise Snake: [they are all gone]
Wise Snake: [it's just you on this side, at least this close to shore]
Veraik: [runs to pump and tries to start it]
Veraik: [shudders then fills battery]
Veraik: [tries it again, it starts]
Veraik: [grabs hose and turns it on the roof]
Wise Snake: [not much water pressure]
Wise Snake: [but you are getting water]
Veraik: [zlins a ladder, gets it, climbs on the ladder, finds the water reaches the roof]
Wise Snake: [Alone and surrounded by towering walls of fire and smoke, you battle to stop sparks from catching on the roof of the center. You wonder if you have the strength to last until the fire is past. It could take hours...]
Notes:
1) Part of the log missing here. In the missing section, Veraik and Trel Farris do some channeling work. Wise Snake slips back into the Sime Center and sits down holding her head and trying to think things through. Veraik and Trel Farris eventually finish their work. [return]