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| God Like Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Los Angeles, California,U.S.A.
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| "Perhaps we three should find Zhaan, our slime bucked with delusions of godhood, and Chiana. I am thinking as a warrior... even the shadows lo.." Aeryn cut D'Arbo off with a hurried whisper, "If we have to find them can we go back through the welcome gates... or back into gates not our own?" [Edited by jsc on 12-19-2000 at 01:12 AM] |
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| | #17 (permalink) |
| Frelling Wicked Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Texas (of course!)
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| Just then, Zhaan came out of her welcoming "area," finishing what seemed to be a Delvian chant. "That was the most sensuous welcome I have ever received," she sighed. "Even the plants here make one light-headed." As Crighton looked at her, he realized the tatoos on her face and head looked different; more bronze and red than gold. "You're not, ah, going all red-eyed on us, are you, Zhaan?" "And where the hazmalah have you been?" demanded D'Argo. "And where is Rygel and Chiana?" |
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| | #18 (permalink) |
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| "Have they not...?" Zhaan was puzzled. "That welcome was ummm..." she sang seeming immersed in hew own thoughts and sensations. Crighton shook his head,"I'm going to try to sneak back in if the don't wander out in two minutes, well for Chiana, anyway, Sluggo will have to fee..I mean fend for itself!" |
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| | #19 (permalink) |
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| "John, I'm not sure that's a good idea," said Zhaan. "Chiana is a wanted fugitive on her home world. If this planet truly put her through a recreation of that world, then she may have already been mind-cleansed. There will be nothing any of us can do to help her." |
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| | #20 (permalink) |
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| "Well, you came out changed. Your spots are more bronze than gold... perhaps they did not FULLY ... I mean it was kind of like earth but there was a wrongness to it... If Chiana's world is like that... Perhaps there would be something we could do to help..." Out popped Chiana, "Hi! That was nice. Zhaan did you get to meditate?" |
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| | #21 (permalink) |
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| Everyone turned to face Chiana. "Are you alright?" asked D'Argo, trying not to look as concerned as he felt. "Sure I am," she said. "It was like my world was when I was a child, before all the feuding began, before my parents died." They had all seen Chiana in many different situations: crazy, angry, tense, funny, ironic, sexy, hysterical, you name it; everything but serene. It was a little strange. "Where is Rygel?" she asked. |
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| | #22 (permalink) |
| Odi et amo et- CRUCIO! Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Manchester. UK. Or near as dammit.
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| They needn't have worried, for his familiar voice came echoing through the glade. "No! Get away from me!" Chricton looked to Aeryn, "Maybe the happy juice doesn't work on him. Might explain why he wasn't ahppy 'bout comin'." (Texy, I followed you all the way over the board to find this. You watch too much SG... Wizard of Oz!) |
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| | #23 (permalink) |
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| "Maybe the Slug who would be king returned to his world to find they really wished to depose him." D'Argo commented with a smile. "Perhaps they wouldn't feed him or give him women but wanted to incarcerate him." The tall warrior smiled. |
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| | #24 (permalink) |
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| No such luck. Rygel came out of the glade with four women trailing behind him, one hanging onto his leg, and three more carrying food. "It figures," thought Crighton. The rest of us get landscapes; Rygel gets women and food. There is no justice in the alien world. |
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| | #25 (permalink) |
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| Aeryn looked at Zhaan closely then peered at Chiana and finally stared openly at D'Argo. "John Crighton, you look different also. I don't know.. younger..." "This planet is not what it appears.."D'Argo started to say. "Burp" went Rygel simultaneously passing wind and that really ended the speculations... at least in that spot. |
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| | #27 (permalink) |
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| Chiana tilted her head and smiled at John and Aeryn. She winked at D'Argo and replied,"Of course they are alive ... " and she pointed to the welcoming areas, "in there. Everyone is in there because in there is made from our memories. And memories become reality, in there." She smiled again and gently tugged on D'Argo's mustache. "You must meet my parents, please come back with me!" [Edited by jsc on 12-23-2000 at 11:09 PM] |
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| | #28 (permalink) |
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| "Chiana," D'Argo said, now acting like one of her parents (or so she thought), "answer John's question. Are we younger now that we've gone through this world's portals? And will we stay young? And what is the rest of this world like?" [Edited by Texane on 12-24-2000 at 11:10 AM] |
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| | #29 (permalink) |
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| "It is wonderful in there, D'Argo, Crighton, Aeryn, Zhaan please come back with me. Let's go home." She smiled an enchanting smile and tilted her head and looked totally young, charming, and utterly untrustworthy. Rygel shullumped up the path towards Chiana yelling, "Wait for your sovereign!" |
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| | #30 (permalink) |
| Frelling Wicked Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Texas (of course!)
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| But Aeryn was born and bred a Peacekeeper, no matter at what age. "NO, Chiana! For some reason the portals of this world are so enticing, they keep us from exploring the rest of the world. What is here that the inhabitants are trying to hide?" Zhaan nodded her head. "I agree with Aeryn. Either we find out what is being hidden on this world, or we all go back to Moya together." |
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