Lt. Cmdr. Smegg - "Silicoid allergies"
OOC - Amazing this is actually working out thanks Kayn & Keto!
Outer hull of the Blue Dwarf, near the engineering deck
Just as Kayn arrives
The rock-creatures writhed over the surface of the starship, madly
secreting acidic fluids and dissolving what was starting to become a
large hole in the hull.
Then suddenly it all turned to chocolate.
If someone could see them, he would describe what the silicoids did next
as "sort of like what a rock would do if it could keel over and barf."
They lost their grip on the hull and floated off into space.
And floated.
And floated.
Finally after several minutes some of the creatures came to and engaged
some unseen space propulsion system, speeding down to the asteroid to
report this strange occurence.
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The asteroid's surface
A few minutes later
The silicoid that had accosted Smegg now hissed at him once again. "WE
HAVE FOUND YOUR SSHIP DISSTASSTEFUL! THISS MUSST BE A TRICK!!!" It
advanced on him - at about 10 centimeters per second.
Smegg realized it would be stupid to kick the advancing 900-degree lump
of rock; it would be much smarter to simply flee - er, walk leisurely
away.
He didn't know the creature had a built-in vacuum flux propulsor.
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Will this be the end for our heroic Chief Engineer?
Will he save the ship posthumously by his own hallucination killing him
and therefore destroying itself and the other ones that just might be
figuring out a way to eat chocolate?
Find out on the next adventure of... BLUE DWARF
"dom dada dom dada DOM! dada DOM!"
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It wasn't over.
The creature had a built-in VACUUM flux propulsor.
The parts factory had a self-contained atmosphere.
And it just so happened that the particular kind of vacuum flux propulsor
that these creatures Smegg had dreamed up happened to not work in an
oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere.
They worked very badly, in fact.
A booming failure, you might say.
The forgetful rock creature exploded, sending red-hot shrapnel all across
half the factory.
(Fortunately everyone happened to be cowering behind an ore processor or
something so there were no injuries.)
"Well, that was weird," a confused Smegg commented. "OK everybody, back
to work, but don't mess with those gray nodules."
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Will the rest of the rock creatures find a way to eat chocolate and thus
destroy the ship?
Will anyone notice the hallucinatory Red Dwarf?
Will Keto treat the sick silicoids?
Will Smegg and the rest of the folks working on the asteroid ever find
out what's really going on?
Find out on the next episode of... BLUE DWARF!
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SELF CONTROL IS JUST CONDITIONED APATHY.
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