Norman D. Landings wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 4:06 pm
Are Hilaire’s antics fiendishly clever sabotage on behalf of his scaly puppet masters, disguised as reckless incompetence?
You’re thinking that only a true friend would have left the ticking bomb on the plane we’re all on? Interesting.
I’m beginning to understand the Hopkirk incident now.
Huzzah! Hillaire never killed us, Christine was morally reprehensible with a young Bornean, Derek desecrated some graves and Karina unbuttoned her blouse....
It all started so well as Christine inhaled deeply on the yellow cloud of choking spores erupting from the swollen buboes of the poor woman.
Everyone got in the trucks, with Christine made to sit in the back. Various horrors of the plague were seen on the way and Randall got to practice his child abduction skills. All in a good cause but still somewhat disturbing.
They got to the farm, which is surrounded by a shanty town containing the sick and the dying. Hilaire, Christine and Singh helped Shapiro set up the viral analyzer and somehow Singh was prevented from "improving it". The bomb was still ticking.
Randall, Karina and Derrick went to the survey camp which was besieged by an angry mob. Karina unbuttoned her shirt and this resulted in everyone slipping into the rear entrance. The survey team leader, Richard Clemence was happy to see them explaining that he needed his team evacuating to the local town immediately so that they could register the copper deposits they had discovered while surveying the mountain - although unfortunately they had lost men in a landslide a couple of months ago and more due to the yellow death. The camp graveyard was a grim site, although unusually the graves seemed to collapsing down into the ground. How odd.
Meanwhile back at the farm Hilaire and Singh went to see the plantation owner and shared a lovely cup of tea with him. He told them all about the strange fruit (which perked Hilaire's interest) that had appeared and then just as suddenly withered. And about how the yellow death came soon after.
Christine meanwhile administered her "special touch" on a young boy and had a vision where he had seen a strange snake-like human dropping something into the farm well. Better not drink the water. Or beverages made from it.
Randall "The human turret" returned to brief the others and put together a plan.:Truck the surveyors off to the local town and then explore the mountain where they had been surveying. Just time to run the plan past Shapiro, but he wasn’t there…. Hilaire "bomb disposal" Belloc hid the bomb under a sheet and off they went back to the survey camp.
The survey team were loaded into trucks and shipped off to see if they could get through the army cordon. Meanwhile Derrick decided to investigate these strange graves with a shovel. The earth moved easily until it started to give way and his legs plunged through and dangled temptingly into a dark and cavernous opening below the grave.
If Shapiro’s gone for a burton, I’m telling everybody he had my ammunition expenditure account form 47B with him when he disappeared. And it was properly filled in and everything.
I like the survey team leader's priorities. Death destruction and sickness, but what he really wants to get done is filing claim forms for copper shows. Sterling chap, have him on my team any time.
grizzlymc wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 12:51 am
I like the survey team leader's priorities. Death destruction and sickness, but what he really wants to get done is filing claim forms for copper shows. Sterling chap, have him on my team any time.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.) Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
