Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 16:12:13 -0500 From: BARBARA HARRIS Subject: INT: F: HHR: Valentine Gala Preparations! -- [ From: Barbara Harris * EMC.Ver #2.5.1 ] -- Hi Y'all... this is an open interactive thread until after the Valentine Gala and Award Ceremony... just please don't kill my characters! We'll all cry if you do... sniff, snuffle... weep... (there'll be moaning and gnashing of teeth too!) In case you don't know what I mean by an open thread... it means join in... have fun... party! Remember submission deadline is tonight, midnight, est! A final list of entries and voting instructions will be posted on Groundhog Day! Or Imbolc. Or February 2 if you're into plain old dates! Barbara looked around the Front Hall of the Haven in satisfaction. The green Escher Frog tile floor was polished to perfection, and ready for dancing feet. Pedro, Raini's gardener, had filled all of the beautiful pots Anthony made the year before with fresh soil, and tiny tulip leaves were just beginning to break through the surface. Bunny walked in carrying a large cellophane bag filled with a glittering mixture she said she had begged from Youngblood, and asked if the colors were okay. Barbara looked into sparkling purples and mauves and pinks and shiny gold, with tiny hearts and stars mixed in with the glitter and confetti, and sighed happily. "Oh, Bunny, that's perfect! I'm so glad we decided to go with Hagatha's Passion Purples this year! I think the balloons she got are those exact colors... it will be perfect when we release them all at midnight just after the winners are announced! I know she only chose the colors to match her favorite velvet outfit, but it really is rather grand... and not as cliche as the all red we had last year!" "Oui, I like the colours too, but I haven't a thing to wear! You know my whole wardrobe is green and blue for Alcmaeon. But I suppose he'll just have to suffer through seeing me in something different. What do you think will go with my new red hair?" "Bunny, really, I'm more concerned with decorating the Haven right now than with decorating you... we haven't much time before the ball begins. .. but I expect Hagatha will help you." She paused, startled, as Jacob's miniature dragon Jewel flew into the room with a slightly larger companion. "Hey! I'm the new Cupid I heard you needed to get this event underway, and the dragon said you'd have some cookies for me. You can't expect me to work for nothing, you know!" Barbara laughed and sent Bunny to the kitchen for Strawberry Newtons and sugar cookies. "Well, I hope you do better than the last Cupid! He kept getting inebriated and spilled all his arrows, and boy did we have some odd couples last year! I was chased about by this mad Toad, a long -lost evil twin of Alcmaeon's, and we still don't know where he's gotten off to! But he was one wicked critter from what BT says! Thanks to that Cupid, I actually thought I was in love with the toad myself! He really botched it, and came to an untimely end as a result!" "He sure did, we heard he tasted like chicken and sugar cookies," said Bunny, walking back into the room with a tray of cookies and milk. "Maybe Cupid should stay away from that Dysmal Keep this year, Barbara." She set them down on a sidetable, and Jewel went happily over to get a Strawberry Newton. "Well, of course, _I_ would never get inebriated on duty!" said Cupid, indignantly. He reached back and stroked the carefully arranged arrows in his quiver, and Barbara felt a strange forboding... but shook off the feeling and got back to work. She wanted everything for this party to be perfect, just perfect... -- @>-->-->------ Love & ------<--<--<@ Light, Barbara, wishing Spring would get sprung! @)--,--'-- @>-->-->-- @}~~~~~ @)--,--'-- @>-->-->-- @}~~~~~ @)--,--'-- Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithemetical ratio. -Thomas Robert Malthus (1798!) (He said that without seeing "The Trouble with Tribbles"!) --'--,--(@ --<--<--<@ ~~~~~{@ --'--,--(@ --<--<--<@ ~~~~~{@ --'--,--(@ Barbara Harris ~ TCZJ32B@Prodigy.com "The A-Bomb enables no man." -Bigfoot Heh, and I thought the Adam bomb caused the population explosion! -Hagatha, wielding Eternal PUN-ishment.