Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 22:37:30 +0800 From: Wolfess Elle Subject: INT: The Resort: The Invasion Continues at the Haven At 10:18 PM 2/13/97 -0600, raymond.mcdowell@bakernet.com wrote: > >"What's the quickest way to this Haven place?" > >"They all took to swimmin' there, but the quickest ways has to be the >transporter beams over in the shower area. If'n you pholks wanna go, >you can even spruce up a bit bephore you beam over." > > >The aliens all rushed to the showers where they scrubbed one another >avidly, then beamed over to the Haven en masse. > A low dark shape slinks around the corner of the haven, nose to the ground, intently sniffing with a grin appearing on her jowls from time to time. "Good thing I decided ter shape shift back ter me natchurl form..folks will never recognise me..Cripes!!!!! Wot in wolfnation is that!!???" The wolf is startled by the appearance of what appears to be a pair of octapuses..err octapi..err octa..octa...dammit..cephalopods. She circles them or rather octagonals them, sniffing at their pods.. "How comes youse fellas has all them leggy thingies? Ain't 4 enough fer yers?" "Earth creature, you are obviously a more primitive example of evolution..more advanced creatures have 8 motile appendages..octaples the fun you see.." "Bleedin octaples alla rhoomatiz wid all them extra joints, I spect" "Foolish creature...we don't have joints, we are not articulated" "Well,,yer bleedin articulate fer unarticulated critters!!..Anyways..wot the Hades is yer doin here? Yer feelin romantic or summat?" "We are on a mission from Octagod to rescue two of our leaders, Zobar and Cratchett. We are informed that you also are on the same mission" "Yup..that's right..some weird wussy flyin critter stabbed em wid arrows and they went all funny and high tailed it over here..they is obviously bin put unner a spell by some bad ju ju..they has ter be rescued!!" "What is this place, this Haven?" The Wolf points up to the sign over the door. "See..it sez Haven fer Hopeful Romantics...." The aliens follow the direction of the Wolf's gaze and stare at the sign in astonishment. "No it doesn't..it says "Happy Haven" "Well..same thing..readin ain't one of me strong points..Happy Haven???? Did you say Happy Haven????" "Certainly...that is what it says..see..is only two words..H-A-P-P-Y H-A-V-E-N..." The wolf flops back down on her haunches, her muzzle wrinkled with concern and shock. "But it can't be..it can't be..unless..maybe we came to the wrong place....no..that can't be right...we came separately and Zobar and Cratchett certainly went in there...hmm...does it mean that the Haven for Hopeful Romantics is really a front and that all this time.....?" "What ails you earth organism?" "Well you see.....Happy Haven is the name of a notorious brothel in Perth....." The Wolf is silenced and her mouth hangs open in consternation as both aliens make a flying leap for the front door of the Haven, each trying to get through the door first, but ending up a writhing tangled mess of knotted tentacles.... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfess Elle - onna mission from some idjit or other to solve the world's spellin probs. http://www.iinet.net.au/~pearson/ -------------------------------------------------------------------