Sime/Gen Roleplaying: Two Roads Diverged Scenario
Episode #95: The Worms of the Early-Bird (9/28/98)
Eliza sits beside Snake's still body.
Wise Snake remains still, pasty and kind of cold to the touch.
Eliza has refused to leave her until she wakes up and is concentrating on keeping the ambient calm.
Wise Snake has been like this for more than 24 hours now.
Eliza puts her head on the cot next to Snake and shuts her eyes.
Riyyh wakes up in the wee hours of the morning, slightly hung-over from the sleeping pill, but wanting to slip out of his house and over to the administrative building before all the farmers rise.
Riyyh studies Mytag's sleeping form, gauging the Gen's condition.
Mytag: ~ asleep ~
Riyyh thinks Mytag looks so peaceful there, he hates to wake him up.
Riyyh leans down and kisses Mytag's forehead.
Mytag: Wa! Was up! I'm awake, I'm awake, what's happening?
Mytag sits up quickly, narrowly missing Riyyh's head.
Riyyh looks up at Mytag from where he is lying propped up on his elbow.
Riyyh: You are certainly jumpy this morning!
Riyyh: Mytag, relax. [chiding]
Riyyh: Will you come over to the Administrative with me now?
Mytag: It's dark still!
Mytag rubs his eyes, but that doesn't make it any lighter.
Mytag: Don't tell me that you have appointments before dawn.
Riyyh: Well, no, but I thought it would be prudent to go before everybody wakes up.
Riyyh reaches out and removes a small piece of lint on Mytag's shoulder.
Mytag remembers that his cot in Riyyh's office is occupied by the unconscious Snake at the moment.
Mytag sighs deeply.
Mytag: Well, if you really feel that way - give me 10 minutes to wake up and get dressed.
Riyyh: Thank you, Mytag.
Mytag: Yeah, yeah. No problem.
Mytag: ~ sleepy ~
Mytag fights the urge to lay down again and sits on the side of the bed instead.
Riyyh gets up and starts fussing over what to wear.
Mytag yawns and throws on some clothing.
Mytag brushes his teeth and decides that he will wait until he gets over there to have some tea.
Riyyh fiddles with his hair, taking about 10 minutes... he'll do it for real when he gets to his office.
Mytag ignores his hair, he knows where it is.
Mytag: You ready, Riyyh?
Riyyh reluctantly leaves off the mirror when he realizes Mytag is standing there.
Riyyh: All right.
Mytag waits for Riyyh to lead.
Riyyh goes down the stairs and out of the house, trying to hide his nervousness.
Mytag follows and slips into ~ support ~.
Riyyh zlins and looks about to make sure nobody is nearby, before he heads toward the building in the darkness.
Riyyh feels much better with Mytag supporting.
Mytag: ~ slightly tired support ~
Riyyh: It's getting colder. [comments, in a low voice]
Mytag: Yes I noticed. Early this year.
Riyyh climbs the front steps of the Admin building.
Wolfa looks up as Riyyh enters the building.
Wolfa: Riyyh! I wasn't expecting you for hours yet!
Riyyh starts.
Hero looks up in ~~excitement~~
Riyyh: Oh... Wolfa.
Riyyh smiles weakly.
Riyyh: I didn't expect anybody to... and Hero. Ah, hello.
Riyyh: How is Hajene Farris doing, do you know?
Wolfa: Well, with Hajene Farris still unconscious in your room, medical staff and so forth, I got up early to check on things.
Riyyh: Ah, she's in my office.... that's right.
Riyyh: Do you have any idea where Tictoc rescheduled my appointments to?
Wolfa: Yes, in my office, and I'm using the spare.
Wolfa: Hajene Farris is the same, nothing has changed.
Riyyh looks discouraged.
Wolfa: Eliza refuses to leave her, and her Companion is in with her now as well.
Riyyh: That was all so... so senseless.
Riyyh feels sorry for the channel, and hopes she lives, but also is glad it's her near death and not him, like it could have been.
Riyyh wonders how Nick can allow Eliza to remain near his channel.
Riyyh: Well... there's nothing that can be done about it now.
Riyyh: Thank you, Wolfa.
Riyyh heads toward Wolfa's office.
Hero: Sectuib totally had bags under his eyes. [to Wolfa as soon as they are gone]
Hero: And Mytag looked like his hair was all grown from the same side of his head!
Hero giggles.
Hero: Do you suppose they, you know....
Wolfa: They what, Hero?
Hero: Well, you know, do you suppose they get it on?
Hero: Like he and Ruby did.
Hero: ~childlike innocence~
Wolfa: Well yes, they had transfer the other day. You knew that.
Wolfa wonders what on earth has gotten into Hero.
Hero: I didn't mean transfer, I meant -
Hero: Did you hear that Zenik is leaving here??
Hero: I never thought he'd leave here.
Hero: And even Cheia.
Hero: She didn't even have any of his kids!
Wolfa wonders where Hero gets all this information.
Wolfa: Hero, I swear you haven't left my side since the "accident" yesterday. Where do you hear all these things!
Hero immediately looks completely innocent.
Hero: Well... I just overheard... and then somebody said... nowhere.
Hero looks at the floor, radiating a curious blend of innocence and guilt.
Wolfa shakes her head.
Hero: But I mean, if he can't have kids, do you think that would make him, you know.
Wolfa: Make him what?
Hero: Well, turn to men instead.
Hero: I mean, Mytag is kind of cute.
Hero: That black hair... and those eyes....
Wolfa finds that frustration is becoming a familiar emotion since Hero started working with her.
Wolfa catches on.
Wolfa: What!!!!!
Wolfa: ~ shock ~
Hero blinks.
Wolfa grabs Hero by the arm and bustles her into the spare office they now call "home".
Wolfa: Hero! Where did you hear of such things!
Hero: Wha -!
Hero finds herself suddenly in the office with the door firmly closed, sitting in a chair.
Hero: ~surprise~
Hero: Well, I, Hajene Bum Bum told me.
Hero: That sometimes there are men who like men better, and it's usually not channels, but....
Wolfa: He told you?
Wolfa: What on earth possessed the man!
Hero: Well we were tradi... er, talking about different things each other didn't know, and....
Hero is surprised by how upset Wolfa is.
Hero attempts ~~soothing~~
Wolfa is flabbergasted.
Wolfa: I can't believe that he would talk to you about such things!
Hero notices Wolfa hasn't denied anything about Sectuib Riyyh yet.
Hero: ~~appeasing calming~~
Hero: It's OK Wolfa, he didn't mean any harm or anything, we were just talking.
Wolfa gets the sudden desire to "talk" rather intimately to this honoured guest, preferably away from Hero.
Wolfa thinks, on the other hand, that Hero would get into less trouble if she were with her.
Wolfa: I wonder if Hajene Bum Bum is awake yet....
Wolfa: How about we go see?
Hero: Err... now? Er....
Hero thinks Bum Bum isn't going to be too happy to see an irate Wolfa showing up on his doorstep.
Wolfa: I don't see much point in waiting.
Hero: OK Wolfa.
Wolfa: Do you?
Hero: No, Wolfa.
Hero: [wide eyed]
Hero wonders what the big deal is.
Wolfa: Then let's go.
Wolfa: ~ determined ~
Hero follows Wolfa.
Wolfa storms out of the building and towards the guest huts.
Bum Bum awakened long before Linn and is sitting on a swing in the garden, waiting to see the sun come up.
Bum Bum is also waiting for his shift at the infirmary to begin so he can head over there.
Wolfa zlins him long before she can see him in the gloom.
Bum Bum zlins them coming and looks over in that direction.
Wolfa: May I have a word with you...?
Wolfa can't bring herself to give him an honorific.
Bum Bum: I guess so.
Bum Bum doesn't like the zlin of Wolfa's nager.
Bum Bum doesn't like higher-order channels anyway, and this one is zlinning distinctly unfriendly.
Hero: Wolfa... ~~come on!! calm calm calm~~
Wolfa takes Hero by the shoulders and holds her in front of her.
Hero: ~surprise~
Wolfa: I'd like to discuss with you the sort of things you think that a young innocent girl should hear about from strange men!
Bum Bum has a feeling this isn't going to be as pleasurable a conversation as it sounds like it should be.
Wolfa is refering to Hero, of course, in case the reference to "young and innocent" confused you.
Bum Bum: You would?
Bum Bum: OK.
Wolfa is taken aback by his reply, which isn't what she was expecting.
Wolfa: Well, yes!
Bum Bum: But I really didn't say that much to her.
Bum Bum thinks that for the most part, he barely got a word in edgewise.
Wolfa: May I remind you, that despite what you people seem to think, you are guests here!
Hero: ~~support shattered briefly by EEK! during "guests here!" ~~
Wolfa: Going around, attempting to stab people, corrupting young minds, slamming people....
Wolfa: Is there no end to your evil?!
Bum Bum: Evil??
Bum Bum: Hey, I don't take the blame for anything Snake or Eliza do.
Wolfa: Then let's address the corrupting of young minds! Which does seem to be your specialty.
Bum Bum: And I sincerely doubt that any corrupting was done by me, to her.
Bum Bum points a tentacle in Hero's general direction.
Wolfa considers briefly ripping it off.
Wolfa: Let me just warn you fella, you stay away from my Companion, you hear me?
Wolfa: Stay away from everyone!
Bum Bum stares at Wolfa.
Bum Bum thinks this lady is off her rocker.
Bum Bum: Whatever you say.
Wolfa: Right, good, well, come on Hero.
Wolfa turns and stalks off, dragging the young innocent with her.
Hero follows.
Hero: Do you think it's true that he and Linn --
Wolfa: No! Just shut up!
Hero: ~wide eyed amazement at how angry Wolfa is~
Hero: OK Wolfa.
Wolfa drags Hero all the way back to the temporary office, picks her up and puts her on the desk.
Hero: ~surprise at being picked up~
Wolfa: Listen to me, young woman. I know that you think that just because you have Established that you are all grown up.
Wolfa: You still have a long way to go. Don't rush it!
Hero: ~confusion~
Wolfa: Don't hang out with scumbags like that!
Hero: But Hajene Bum Bum was nice.
Wolfa: Don't go poking your nose into other people's private business.
Hero's concept of what "private business" is is completely distorted, of course.
Wolfa is too.
Wolfa: What people do in the privacy of their bedrooms is up to them.
Wolfa: Do you understand me?
Wolfa: How would you like an audience when you finally find someone nice and....
Wolfa looks at Hero in horror. "Or, have you already?"
Hero: I think Sectuib Riyyh is the one for me.
Hero: I'm going to save myself for him.
Wolfa: Hero! He is your father! And very likely your grandfather too.
Wolfa: Haven't you seen the charts? Don't you listen?
Hero looks stubborn.
Hero: My momma says she didn't sleep with him.
Wolfa: Your genes say otherwise!
Hero: So? You wanted to sleep with him.
Hero thinks it's not fair.
Wolfa blushes.
Wolfa: Yes, but that was before I knew he was my father!
Hero: And you don't feel anything anymore?
Hero: I think you're just jealous!
Hero is starting to get upset.
Hero: [12 year old upset]
Wolfa: Oh don't be stupid!
Wolfa is getting upset too.
Hero: You don't want me to have any fun! Ever!
Wolfa: You are too young to understand!
Hero: All you talk about is Hero don't do this, and Hero don't do that.
Wolfa, to her horror, finds that there are tears in her eyes.
Hero: You never tell me anything!
Wolfa: Hero!
Wolfa lets out a sob.
Wolfa: It's all just tooooo much!
Hero: Wolfa!!
Hero: Don't.
Hero: ~~I'm not going to let you cry~~