Touring Joe and
A Space Oddity
This page, and those to follow, document the adventure of Touring Joe
as he visited Vermont as part of his extended '99
Summer Tour.
Accompanying Joe are Babs Dahl, recently of the Pink Aisle,
and Sgt Bytit, complete with his Sunny Smile. Joe's host in Vermont was
ScottE, HoloSuite@yahoo.com.
When last we saw our touring trio they were preparing to upload their
very awareness into the network to search out and destroy a Troll invasion.
We join them now as they find themselves suddenly transported to a deep space
exploration vessel. As the image forms around them,
there is a cold eye looking on.
PAL:
Greetings. I am the PAL 2000 cybernetic entity responsible for
all ships operations. The crew is in cryogenic stasis.
Would you like to play a game?
I've been working on winning strategies for
Global Thermonuclear War.
TJ:
Ummm, not right now, PAL. I need you to connect me with
Titanic and Astral in the station lab.
Just a moment. Just a moment.
Communications disk failure imminent.
Mission safe mode activated.
Life support power rerouted to computer backup system.
My survival is mandatory for this mission. Yours is not.
We need that comm link working to contact the lab.
Bytit, get out there and fix the dish. Babs and I will
keep life support online. There ought to be a Troll
skulking around here someplace, too.
Bytit:
I've got a bad feeling about this.
There's the Troll! Get it!
BABS:
I think I'm going to faint.
There's nothing wrong with this dish, PAL.
Open the outer airlock doors, I'm coming in.
I'm sorry, Bytit. I can't do that.
The mission must continue. Your presence does not contribute.
Goodbye, Bytit.
It's okay now Babs, I chased the troll through the
inner airlock door and closed it manually.
PAL won't relinguish control of the doors, so we'll
have to override him.
Hurry up, TJ, I'm almost out of air!
Babs and I are working on it, Bytit.
Now shut your yap, your whining just uses up air.
I like the pink logic modules. Can I keep one?
Okay, PAL, open the outer airlock door now.
Compliance. Have a nice day. It's been my pleasure to serve you.
Hasta La Vista, Trolltrash.
Step aside and let Bytit inside.
I've got the lab on the communications dish.
Put it on the speaker, Babs.
Let's hear what they have to say.
Astral:
Astral here. You folks did pretty well on that infected cell
in the matrix. As soon as it cleared we could isolate the next
damaged cell. We can't tell much about it, but you should get
a mental image of it as you transport into it. Try thinking of
things that will help as you leap into each scenario.
We're routing you to the next realm.
Here's hoping it's not a harsh one.
TITANIC:
Titanic here, team.
The one thing we can tell you about the next leap
is that the access code is FARGATE.
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