Much Confusion All Round

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 15189

In a room within the pyramid, a group of four people are looking at one another in bewilderment. That they have no idea where they are is the least of their concerns. The Fred and Astra who had come through a portal on a snowy mountainside see a pair of strange creatures some three feet tall. One of them looks rather like Fred himself, but a very boyish looking Fred. He has a ruddy complexion, and the ears and tail of a fox. The other is much more foxlike, especially as regards her head, but she stands erect and her torso - though largely fur-covered - has the shape of a voluptuous human woman, but a very pregnant one.

Meanwhile the two demifoxes who have been snatched from the hands of Ringroot are looking at near doubles of the people that they themselves once were. The humans both look half frozen, especially the woman, who is naked and is attempting to warm her hands by holding them in the opposite armpits. However, demifox Astra is not paying that much attention to them. Rather, she is looking down at her own very swollen belly in stunned disbelief. A few minutes ago she had been in the early stages of her pregnancy, but now she looks as if she might go into labour at any minute. Damn! she thinks. Having a family was not part of my plans. And any hope of Fred and me getting changed back to human seems to have vanished. Just then she feels her waters break, and realises that she is going into labour. "I don't suppose any of you happens to have any training in midwifery?" she asks.


Meanwhile, in another room there is a rather larger group of new arrivals. [14984] There are, from Terra Prime, Manfox Fred and his two wives (Alicia and Alicia 3, the Shefoxes), who had been on vacation and were swept up accidently by the Book. There are also Fred 5b, his sister Rowena 3, Thelma 2, Joan 2, Annafrid 2, Jarlath 2, Andrea 3 and Astra 9a (the one that Fred 5b mistook for "his" Astra). Pulled from a different location on the same world is Astra 5b. She has (in addition to having had a similar vision of her goddess as Astra 5a) been restored to her proper coloring and physical condition before Rift messed with the Crystallic. She also has had her pregnancy accelerated by the Book, and is looking in a dazed fashion at her extremely distended belly.

All in this group are naked. [14984] Normally the Book would have brought along the clothes of those whom it teleported, but it was in a bit of a "state" at the time of this teleport. As a result, it picked up only living organic matter and essential things like hair and fingernails (things not alive but attached to the body and natural). Most of the group are not too concerned by their nudity ('not again!' is a common reaction), but Fred 5b and - especially - Rowena 3 are rather embarrassed by it.

More people being in this group naturally means there is an even greater degree of confusion than with the other group, but the hubbub is interrupted when Astra 5b lets out a loud groan, and then says: "Is anybody here a midwife, by any chance?"


Elsewhere in the pyramid, things are rather more peaceful. There are seven more Freds and seven Astras [11390], two sets of whom - together with a Belinda [12107] - are currently in the library. They have been startled to hear the Book start reciting dirty limericks [14830] when it got temporarily scrambled from its bungled teleportation effort.

  1. Before they can determine precisely which book is responsible, though, they hear almost simultaneous loud groans coming from two different directions.

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