The Track of the Pocket Miner
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Turel Bevlik jumps when the DISCO 's cabin is suddenly filled with BLASTING NOISE instead of the spunky music he had told Fabio to play. Opening his big mouth , and filling his ancient lungs with air to blast instructions at Fabio Bronstik, he is again taken by surprise when the BLASTING NOISE is killed after a few seconds. Bevlik's long hairy elf-like (some Terries refer to them as jakass like ears due to their large size, but all of his Terrie girlfriends refer to them as his love handles!) twitch in different directions in relief and irritation .
Plonking his raider helmet back on his balding head, Bevlik is stunned to see and hear just wotdafugg is going on outsie the DISCO HORROR.....
In a mind numbing series of events and sounds, he sees Barjhel land on the SYCO TRAKFING, with blazing laspistols, and get snatched around the leg by a robot arm 's claw, while another robot arm reaches out to try and pull his head off!
"XHIT!"
Then from Honehead's point of view he watches in horror as a dis gun fires in his direction at short range, then Honehead's visual goes out in synchronization with the flash!!!!!!
"HOLY XHIT!! DAT SUMBEECHES GOT HONEHAID!!"
And then even before his eyes fully recover, he sees a blurred image from Tuibb's point of view as he bangs off a shot at the SYCOTRAKFING and then is blown threw the air by a direct hit from SOMETHING!!!! Tuibb lands in the vegetation with a heavy thump and does not move. Bevlik hears a feeble "GAK!" that he attributes to Tuibb.over the babble and cursing on the tac-comm......
"XXXXXXXXXHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screams Wutbipe as a burst of shells hit all around him and Bevlik sees Wutbipe stagger - fall - jump into the yawning opening of the shaft head!!!
"GODS OWF SPACE! DA XHIT HAS HITS DA PHAN!!!! ANNA BEEG, BEEG THYMES TEW!!!!!! "
Bevlik's big blue eys are the size of small platters, bulged out like footballs, and his jaw is hanging so low that only the helmet chin strap keeps it from hitting the DISCO 's deck.
Suddenly the old Eli is wondering -- if Hitshaid is going to become a monster is of little importance!
Hitsead, his muti-colored eyes burning with inner fire, grabs up his disintigrator and starts for the cabin door.
Going over to the port airlock, Turel rigs a safety line from cut and tied strapping and hooks it around the mess table, tying the other end around Hitshead, and fastening it with a handy D-ring.
"Fabios, cuts owf da screens!
opens da port ayrelawks! Ayes wees gonna yewse da slaber gun onna
dat puh-cahn fings from hail, anna youse farr up dem emjines soes
wee cahn taykes owf outa heeyars!!! Da boyes needs usses!"
There is, on the panel of the Disco Nightmare, a covered section labled in red, "OPEN ONLY IN EXTREEM EMERGENCY". The Fabian reaches over and flips the panel lid. The old Disco is not a military design, but she was built to safeguard children in a very hostile environment. She has a second, redundant set of engine and power banks. There next to the warning, "DANGER DO NOT OPERATE BOTH SETS OF ENGINES FOR MORE THAN 20 SECONDS," is a flashing red toggle switch.
As the Fabian reaches for the switch, the ships computer speaks, "Hold on tight and fasten your seat belts, kiddies." Red lights flash in the passenger compartment. A klaxon sounds, "Woohoo, woohoo, woohoo." Vlad throws the switch and the Disco shudders then gives a mighty heave. Plant tendrils snap in bursts of green sap and the the Disco soars skyward.
In R-15 Asbeef Monkor and his brother Oerkjof taking cover in the light forest suddenly see several large spider like creatures running out of the trees toward them.
(Find out more about the Disco Nightmare) (Read the stats for the Eli warriors) (See the map for the game.)
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