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The Never Ending Quest - Episode 75180
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After a few moments of rage, Horace decided to just let it go. He was sure
that Kate would either get what she deserved, or end up going through a lot
of character development and end up becoming a better (but probably still
whiny and manipulative) person. Then, his beeper went off. "Whoa!" exclaimed Horace, "one of my customers who won't call cell phones*." Checking the display, he sees it comes from one of the 'Restricted' levels of the tower, and when he reads the subject of the message he begins to sweat. "Oh hell, I better get down there," he says, and grabs his equipment. See, Horace has an ExtendoBelt, built with space compression technology. Basically, its like a portable hole that you wear. You just put things on the belt, and when you need them you reach for them and there they are. It works most of the time.** Anyway, Horace grabs his LED flashlight, his flood light, his black light, his keys, his other keys, those keys, these keys, his stun gun, his taser, his tranq gun, spare darts, his gun, his shotgun, bullets for all of that, his lunch pail (hey, he may be gone a while), his iPod, his cell phone, his Nintendo DS, his tools, his other tools, his knife set, that other knife set, and his badge. Sure he forgot something, he puts his hat on and saunters out the door.*** Due to the warped space-time of the staircase, you never really know how long it is going to take you to get to any level of the Tower. That is, unless you have a Tower Stabilizer, which is the one item that Horace keeps clipped to his shirt so he does not forget it. After about fifteen minutes of a good paced clip down the stairs, Horace reaches his destination. Leaving the staircase, he comes face to face with a giant double-door. It is unfinished wood, with no symbols or adornments. There are no knobs, only one little plate with one little brass knocker. Horace lifts this knocker, and lets it lightly rap against the plate once. Even outside the room a massive GONNNNNGGGGGG!!!! is heard from behind the door. Horace coughs, mutters "oh boy, here we go", and then the door opens. Horace steps through the door, and it closes behind him. A sound kind of like finality. * - For whatever reason, some denizens of the tower who use Horace's services directly do not like to show up on caller ID. Flagg is not one of these, he likes to have it show up "Its your Ass! - Call Randall" or something else that amuses him. ** - There are numerous highly humorous anecdotes about what has happened when someone has reached for one thing but produced another. It all comes down to clarity of thought, or so the warranty department at MagiTek would have you believe. Personally, I think they have a quality control problem. Oh, you want an anecdote? Sorry, we are out of space. *** - Because you can theoretically put an unlimited number of items on the belt, it is not best to dwell on what you may not have put on there yet. You could spend all day standing there adding additional items that you will probably not need (like a 3-span dingywinder). Of course, also, unless you have recently used the annoying index feature you are probably not aware of all the crap you have put on there over the years and that now is just getting dusty (metaphorically. its a sanitary hermetic and sterile environment in there, there is no dust). Ok, whatever, but what did Horace see when he went through the door?
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Lord Reaibn Daenorth
4/4/2008 4:46:44 AM
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