Seymour - "Bathroom on a crowded ship"
Posted byPosted: Jun 11, 2009, 4:52pm
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The ointment began melting through the deckplate, with a loud hissing noise.
"Look at that! Vanessa scolded "You would have KILLED HIM!"
"Well" Said Keto, dusting his hands. "Back to the drawing board I guess!"
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Who: Seymour Niples
Where: Starbug
When: A few hours after the ointment catastrophe above
Seymour walked around the Starbug as if he owned the place. The relatively small shuttle was filled to the brim with Blue Dwarf crewmembers who were desperate to get back to the ship, back to their comfortable and spacious quarters. Now they had to stand or sit with several hundred other people in close proximity on a rusting transport ship that only had one toilet.
And that toilet had been out of use for the last few hours since Justin Pancake had been in there.
Seymour walked passed all the bored looking and tired crewmembers. Some of them just wanting to sleep, and curling up on the floor. Seymour had changed into his dressing-gown and trudged confidently to the toilet. He had a fluffy towel draped over one arm and his wash-bag in the other, which had a toothbrush hanging out.
The Captain saw him and intercepted him on the way to the toilet.
"Seymour, what are you doing?"
"I'm going to have a shower. It's 9:40pm, it's time for my second second shower of the day."
"There isn't even a shower in there."
"Yes there is. I jolly well saw one."
"It's a chemical shower, for emergency chemical spills."
Seymour shrugged. "Oh well. Good job we're not using any chemicals then."
Jay pointed through a doorway into the rear section where they could see Dr Keto furiously working away on an ointment. He poured two potions together and they exploded in his face.
"Dr Keto is working on a luck virus. If he makes something toxic... someone might need the emergency shower.
Seymour shrugged again. "He'll be fine. He's good at it."
"Have you met Dr Keto?"
Seymour started to get stern. "Captain. I need my shower. I always have a shower at exactly this time every day.
"We all need showers Seymour, but look at all these people." He pulled Seymour back to see the amount of crewmembers standing around, nowhere else to go. "All these people were here before you. I think there's a queue."
"But I'm more important, I'm a Royal Amb-"
"Actually sir..." Said a voice that interrupted them both. It was Justin Pancake. "...I think the bathroom's free. I used it last."
"Thanks you kind gentleman!" Seymour said to Pancake, and pulled away from Jay towards the bathroom. He opened the bathroom door and a cloud of noxious vapour hit him straight in the face. Seymour gasped and inhaled the foul pooey air into his lungs.
"Jesus Christ that's horrible! PANCAAAAAKEEE!" Seymour shouted, but Justin had disappeared.
<to be continued?