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[Juxta]

[UPDATE] Path of Least Time 5th January 2006

[cassandra]

Miranda, indeed. Where's Prospero?

More evidence for the pheromone theory

[duckiemonster]

What is it with men?! One sniff of a pretty girl, off they go, trying to be heroes...

[Scott]

oi vey! while i'm impressed at his gusto ... 'e's gonna git 'imself killed!

[meta] entirely as an aside .. i do so enjoy reading kurt's posts they're so eloquent and nice to read And, i add, i was a little worried the whole game would be put on hold fFor a while fFor holidays and things ... I'm so delighted to be right back into the game this is exciting, says me [/meta] TINAG!

EDIT: oh, and i mailed helix:

[Juxta]

*He pulled the goggles down to cover his eyes and grabbing his ski poles launches himself full length down the unspoilt mountainside.

*He looks around at the unmistakeable crack of gunfire, to see, closing in fast, also on skis, a pair of crack monkey-ninja-assassins, bearing a fearsome array of weaponry.

*Ducking lower, he evades the vicious torrent of simian-bullets, cutting in and out of the tree cover.

*The deafening rumble, like the stomach of a gorilla who has missed both breakfast *and* lunch today, and is now seeking a lightweight afternoon nibble, alerted him to the almost inevitable cinematic convention of the avalanche as it hurtled towards him and his pursuers.

*As the slabs of icy death bear down upon our hero and his would-be murderers, he reaches into his pocket and throws back what appear to be a couple of banana skins. The foolish primates cannot possibly avoid their slippery yellow fates and whilst one hits his banana skin and is swallowed by the maw of the avalanche, the other commits the fatal error of thinking he has escaped...looking back over his shoulder, he careens unwittingly into a handily placed tree (Cue comedy "Wack wack waaaack" sound effect)

*As our hero gives a grim, and yet still lantern-jawed side profile view, he realises that he is about to run out of mountainside and resigning himself to his fate, soars over the edge of the crevasse...only to be plucked from the air by a pair of passing penguins (The sworn natural enemies of evil monkeys, obviously)

*The penguins circle for a moment, before spotting the target, a small mountainside cabin, all logs, open hearths and huge fire insurance premiums...

*As the penguins deposit him onto the roof, he shins down the drainpipe and spotting the open bedroom window, reaches into his backpack. Then checks his pockets. The the backpack again.

*A sorrowful cry of "Bugger it. Sodding chocolates. Bloody women" is heard to emanate from our hero as he mournfully trudges off back up the mountain.


Because, of course, women don't perpetuate the myths about heroes at all....pfft...



J

[cassandra]

er, my email:

[Scott]

we are nothing if not duplicative i imagine really he's probably gotten a fFew hundred emails in the past hour. hooray fFor fFlash crowds!

[patrick]

Isn't it possible that Hesh was completely ignorant of the message until now? After all, it could have been snuck in by anyone working on the production/mastering process towards the Earth release...

Even if he does know, I'd be very surprised if we got a straight answer at this point.

[neuromancer]

Here's what I sent:

[GasparLewis]

I'm going to tell Kurt not to go alone. I'm really proud of him for going and putting his life on the line, but perhaps the brain being the face isn't the best, safest move we can make. I also plan to wish him well with Miranda, and to stay vigilant (in the same order but seemingly unconnected, natch.)

Who agrees?
(And I'll send it myself. No need to break the mailbox!)

[Mikeyj]

Miranda is pushing all his buttons...this makes me suspicious...they should be having terrible disagreements by now...she's a baddie. (note that lots of the academy team and those associated have suddenly developed friends...I've said this before, but I don't like it, not one little bit, they should be kept in antisocial boxes.

Definitely should at least inform someone as back-up...the reason he's going is out of some misguided sense of heroics; his initial rationalisation of the situation was that he wasn't going to go, and this appraisal seems sound.

[sledgecallier]

Ok, a couple of thoughts on a couple of points...

I would think it very strange that Hesh wouldn't be aware of the message, or indeed sanctioned its presence. I'm sure the final copy would have been listerned too once completed and pressed and I'm sure that even if Hesh didn't listen all the way through he would have noticed that the CD still had a long time to run after the music had supposedly finished.

Also, I think we should send Kurt alone to Gillet Road as the more people there the more chance of being spotted. He should just take his big old scarf and wrap himeslf up in it as a disguise.* This is not to say that he shouldn't tell anyone else and should have his key set to auto-record and send alerts if things go wrong but I still say one man will be less obvious than a crowd.

*Actually, scotch that idea, if we are not trusting of Kurt's new girlfriend then we shouldn't trust any gifts given as they may include unknown gagets/tracers etc that could give him away. (Or could just be bright pink and make him stand out like a sore thumb!)

[travelling performer?]

1) Kurt is going to go alone. He isnt going to answer to a whiny email. The story is naturally progressing and its Kurts job to go. Leave him be.

2) regarding viards album, this is from the hesh records site :

[European Chris]

Oh, you're bothering with us now?

[travelling performer?]

Well if hes gonna email kurt and whine and cry, mind candy might think its the "majoritys" wish.

Its silly. Kurt is going. He was going to go anyway, regardless of what anyone said or did. Leave him be.