Foxboy Wrote:Gotta have the wag who corrects "mysterions" to "Mysterons"
Fixed. Thanks.
And another scene, a huge chunk of which should be recognizable as being from the 0.1a version of the story...
Owner's Office
Stellvia
29 November 2016, 14:19 UTC
"I wonder what stats I have..."
Safety looked up at Noah. "Pardon, sir?"
"Oh, it's nothing really important. I was just musing on transfictionality."
Safety nodded, then blinked, then spoke in a different voice. "Noah, stop dwelling on the past!" Then she blinked again.
Noah stared at his assistant in shock for a moment. Then he took a breath, held it for a five-count, then exhaled. "Safety, go see Kohran right now and get Ms. Nikaido's memories out of your head."
"Yes, sir," she replied as she rose to leave. "I'm sorry to have troubled you."
When he was alone, Noah spoke to the empty air. "I'm not dwelling on the past, Yoriko. I still miss you, but Leda and Helen are almost enough to fill the void you left in my heart." Then he just sat there for a moment, as if expecting a reply.
Instead, the door opened. "Mr. Scott, are you all right? Safety looked upset when I passed her in the hall."
"Kelly! Come in, please. I'm fine, just surprised by something she did. What brings you away from the hotel?"
The bunnygirl who managed Hotel Stellvia sat down in one of her employer's guest chairs. "I was wondering why you wanted me to stop accepting reservations."
"Ah. Officially, it's so we have room for some refugees from the CSA."
She nodded. "And unofficially?"
"So we have room for a mage school. Assuming I can figure out how to set one up."
"I was half-afraid you were going to initiate Plan #3."
"If this just affected us, I would've declared Plan #3 when the continental shift happened, and we'd be a third of the way to Zeta Tucanae by now. But taking Wonderland with us would cause food shortages throughout the L5 cluster, and not taking Wonderland would condemn us to starvation. There's no way we can leave the Sol system right now."
Kelly smiled; it wasn't the reasoning she wanted to hear, but it would do for the time being. "All right; I'll continue refusing new reservations. Now, what else is wrong?"
Noah raised an eyebrow. "What makes you think anything else is wrong?"
"I've known you since before either of us headed Up. You've slipped into your gamemaster mode, which you only do when you're GMing or there's something on your mind that you don't want anyone else to know."
"You remember the campaign I ran on alternate Fridays before I got married?"
"The ISWAT game? I still have my techomage character sheet. Why?"
"I just found out who the Infinity Scout Service agent in our universe is."
Both of Kelly's eyebrows shot up. "Woah. Anybody I know?"
"There's the problem - should I tell anyone? It isn't as if this person's done anything wrong..."
"Aside from spying on us."
"There's no law against spying on us. Maybe there should be, but I never thought one would be necessary."
She thought for a moment. "Good point. Would it make a difference if we knew who the agent is?"
After a longer moment, Noah replied, "Maybe. She might get in trouble with the other factions if I tell them about her."
"'She,' huh? Well, that narrows it down..."
"Kelly!"
"You know people are going to react that way, or worse, if they find out you knew about the agent and didn't say anything."
Noah sighed and activated his PDA's phone directory. "You're right, of course. Better bite the bullet and get the worst reaction over with immediately. Where was Mal's direct number, again?"
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012