Efof - "Jupiter's Miming Chimps"
Posted byPosted: Sep 22, 2008, 3:46pm
OOC - After Andy posted his fantastic musical post, (which made me
laugh so much) he challenged me to write a post about the crew of an
alternate BD who could only mime. Here is what I came up with!
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Who: Efof and Edward Monsoon
When: After the Action post
Where: One of the alternate BD's
Efof ran for his life. He'd been ordered to start visiting and
cataloguing the various Blue Dwarf's and so far he'd only visited one
before his life was in danger.
Everything seemed familiar about the ship, it was dirty large and
mostly unwelcoming. The welcoming committee that visited him in the
Hangarbay were well dressed in J.M.C branded uniforms, until he
realised that they were far too hairy.
Efof was an alien, to him most humans looked the same anyway, only
two hands, genitalia disturbingly hidden rather than comfortingly
displayed where all can see. Skin ranging from beige to brown rather
then the exciting shades of blue he liked. And a little bit of hair.
Something wasn't quite right about the people from this dimension,
and it finally dawned on him what it was.
The hair.
These people had lots of it.
In fact they had too much.
In fact they were actually monkeys.
Efof turned to Edward Monsoon, who had accompanied him. Edward was a
bit of a useless Security Guard, as he was extremely selfish and only
cared about himself. Edward seemed to realise what was going to
happen before Efof, maybe he could see the murderous look in their
eyes.
He legged it, leaving Efof.
Efof however was far more trusting than most people, and far less
sceptical than Monsoon. "Hi!" He said, holding out his hand. He
stepped closer to the lead ape, whose furry cheek he rubbed. "Aww,
aren't you sooo cuuute!"
The chimp screeched and then made some gesture with his hand to the
other apes, then pointed at Efof and raised a dagger into the air.
Efof took several quick steps backwards.
Horses appeared from nowhere and soon Efof was being chased by
several apes on horseback, each wearing uniforms labelled
J.M.C. "Jupiter's Miming Chimps".
One of the chimps on horseback threw a rope net over him with a
screech. The weight of the net caused Efof to fall to the hard flight-
deck floor, where he scrambled amongst the nuts, bolts and spare
Starbug pieces. Several apes dropped from their horses onto him and
tugged on the net. They pulled Efof close to them and tugged on his
arms.
"Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty apes!" Efof cried.
Then all went black when a bag was put over his head and he was
beaten with sticks.
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Efof woke up later in a cage that seemed to be made from pieces of
scrap metal. The lighting wasn't quite the same, but it looked like
he was in this Blue Dwarf's version of the Promenade. He could see
the outline of shops around him, but they were rudimentary and
underused.
The sound of an ape banging on his cage made him jump. Efof rushed
over and smiled. "Hello there. Look, there seems to have been a
mistake."
The ape looked confused, then turned to walk away.
"No wait!" Efof said, and the ape turned around silently. "Do you
understand me?"
The chimp shrugged, and screeched.
"I'm sorry I don't speak chimp." Efof said. Then watched the chimp's
hands. It used several gestures that Efof didn't understand.
"So you just speak in sign language?"
The chimp nodded. The only gesture that Efof recognised so far. It
then started drawing random shapes in the air, waving it's hands
frantically, and then pretending it was in an invisible box.
"So what is your name?" Efof asked.
The chimp didn't understand, so Efof pointed to himself and
said "Efof".
The chimp instantly looked angry. "No, I wasn't telling you to eff-
off... that's my name!" said the Ffionian.
The chimp then pointed to himself, then stuck up his middle finger,
and then waved his hands off in a 'shooing' motion.
"Go away? Sod off? Fuck you?" Efof guessed what the chimp was trying
to say, then it dawned on him. "That's your name? I think we've got
more in common than we think.... well... despite you being a hairy
short ape, and me being a blue four armed Ffionian."
Efof then looked out of the cage further down the Promenade and
pointed to another ape. "So who is that?"
Efof's namesake then started acting out the chimp's name, involving
holding his own nose, and wafting the air.
"Smelly? Stinky?"
The chimp turned around and showed an unclean bottom.
"Oh. Dirty? Filthy? Filthy Bugger...." Efof gasped. "Phil Febuggure!!"
The chimp jumped up and down with excitement.
"Oh this is so much fun!" Efof said happily. Another chimp started
walking towards them. Efof's new buddy instantly started miming and
gesturing his name.
"Eyes. Look. See." Efof said as the chimp pointed to his eyes and
motioned that he was looking at many things. "See more..." The chimp
them cupped his chest and pointed to his hairy nipples.
"See more nipples. Seymour Niples!"
The chimp squeaked in excitement and then stood to attention as the
hairy chimp version of Seymour Niples stood in front of him.
"Hello Seymour!" Efof said happily.
What happened next was a long series of gestures involving picking up
invisible items, pulling on an invisible rope, and firing invisible
guns. Efof wasn't clever enough to assume these were metaphorical
representations of the miming chimp's grammar, and actually thought
he'd have to pull on some ropes when they let him out.
The door swung open and a bazukoid was thrust into Efof's third hand.
He was a bit confused at the chimp's sudden trust in him, but just
followed them. They took him down to Hangarbay #4 where it sounded
like a battle was raging. The sounds of gunfire and dying monkeys
echoed through the metal corridors.
Efof instantly knew why these chimps had let him out of their prison.
They wanted him to help them fight off some invaders.
He was pushed into the Hangarbay along with other chimps, and quickly
found that he was taking weapons fire from all directions. He quickly
found some cover and peered at his enemy, it was the crew of another
of the Blue Dwarf's attacking this one. Not everyone was as friendly
as Jupiter's Miming Chimps.
Efof ducked some more laser fire and noticed a chimp next to
him. "Hi." He said, between laser shots and explosions. "I'm Efof,
who are you?"
The chimp extended his arm and moved it up and down as if flipping a
frying pan.
"Just my luck. Said Efof. You're Justin Pancake, right?"
<Tag to anyone who wants to join Efof? Who is the other BD crew?>