Re: The path not taken...

OOC- Speaking of cash strapped students having medical experiments
run on them to raise badly needed cash, I'm being paid £70 to have an
antidepressant drug, Busprinol tested on me on monday...... And who
says art doesn't imitate real life....?
--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@egroups.com, "Chris Farnell" <fatmammoth@h...>
wrote:
> NRPG: Okay, I think everyone knows what's going to happen next, so
I'm just
> going to do the whole "Ironic comments before impending disaster"
scene. As
> well as continuing a couple of plotlines that grabbed my attention.
> RPG:
> Kayn, Johnson, Efof and Doom were sat around the only full table in
the
> Parrot20 0 (Owen could no longer afford to keep all the neon lights
going)
>
> "Sorry about the whole spleen thing Kayn," Johnson said.
>
> "Oh don't worry about it," Kayn said, "I've got another one anyway."
>
> "What?" Johnson said raising an eyebrow.
>
> "Oh you know the story, student, desperate for cash, can't show
your NUS
> card anywhere for fear of being shot, volunteer for military
experiments..."
>
> "Oh, THAT story..." Johnson said, remembering his second colon.
>
> "The cash from that spleen got me through many a hard time," Kayn
said
> shaking his head, "Hate to imagine what would have happened if I
hadn't had
> that cash..."
>
> "It's weird," Johnson said, being unnusually philosophical, "How
one small
> decision can change your life. I mean my Dad was nearly a police
man, and
> his joing Space Corps was my inspiration for joining Blue Dwarf,
imagine
> what would have happened if he'd become a cop?"
>
> "Yeah," Efof said, "And imagine what I would be doing now if my
entire race
> hadn't whiped out by GM bugs?"
>
> "It's the little things that matter," Kayn agreed.
>
> "Imagine what Doom would be like if he wasn't... like he is?"
Johnson
> wondered.
>
> "BE SILENCED! DEVOUR YOUR FOWL CONCOCTIONS OF THE ABYSS! MY WORK
MUST NOT
> REMAIN UNFINISHED!" Doom roared.
>
> "I think he means, drink up, it's our shift in a few hours and we
need our
> sleep," Johnson suggested.
>
> "mmm, I don't know, is beer usually this, purple?" Kayn asked.
>
> Johnson shrugged and drank his in one go, Kayn and Doom did the
same. Efof
> tossed his drink over his shoulder, no way did he want a repeat of
last
> time.
>
> Johnson and Kayn grabbed an Xpress lift (not a turbolift! That's
Star Trek!)
> which would take fifteen minutes to get to the drive room.
>
> They sat in silence for awhile, Johnson looked at Kayn, "You know
that blue
> hair actually looks quite cool, almost sexy," Johnson noted.
>
> "Thanks," Kayn said, "You don't look too bad yourself..."
>
> Back at the Parrot, Owen made a note to buy more aphrodisiacs...
>
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