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From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith)
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Subject: Re: [CIA] - Jones - Let's Do It!
Date: 8 Sep 1994 07:37:02 -0600
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In article <34mptc$dar@hpscit.sc.hp.com> foxmore@lvld.hp.com (Foxmore de' Foghat) writes:
>Foxmore practically walks into a wall as he is reading his forearm.  The
>fact that he is accepting this occurence without screaming "PLAGUE!"  is
>not really a mystery.  In spite of the numberous magical possibilities
>inherent in this dimension, the letters on his skin can be from only one
>source.  Apparently, one of the other researchers from the starship has
>managed to 'stick' with him (totally unnoticed I might add) during his
>dimensional travels.
>
>"Bigal?  Is that you?"  he questions softly as he stops before bouncing off
>the wall.  "How in space did you manage to stay with me, and why haven't
>you 'spoken' (ok, PRINTED) to me before now?"

"Careful with the name dude," The writing replies, "I teleported an acre or
so downplanet so I could keep an eye on you.  Pieko had misgivings about
what you were doing, and we all decided that I would be the least obtrusive."

>Foxie keeps an eye on the others in the merc group, not knowing how they
>would respond to a truly alien creature in their environment.

"If you can't speak to me just write with your finger on your forearm.  I 
*really* don't want the indigs to have the vaugest clue what I am."

># of course, on the other hand someone *might* think Bigal is just a
># figment...or a slime monster from the very pits of the Shunned Section
># (or wherever).
# That's about the good end.  I suppose Palandun and Vitor Life-Giver would
# study him,but the rest would spook beyond belief, I think.