> Tnt 72 : Spheroids "Whatcha doin'?" Risa asked Laska as the
> little half-elven girl strolled into the garden and found her sister's
> lover on her knees digging in a patch of dirt.
> "I'm making a herb garden," Laska smiled as she regarded a tray
> with little plants and a few sacks of seeds. "There's nothing which
> gets an elf in touch with her elven spirit as maintaining a herb-garden
> does."
> Risa nodded, looked over to a book which lay in the grass and smiled
> smugly. "So," she grinned, "why are you reading 'An elven
> herb-garden in twelve easy steps', then?"
She's just being the Laska we all know and love 
> "What's that plant?" Risa asked, pointing at a greenish vine.
> "Well, it's, errr," Laska said, biting her lip as she tried to
> remember. "I... err," Laska grabbed the book and started to leaf
> through it. Yielding no result Laska turned back to the original page.
> "It's... It's green," Laska finally told Risa.
See above comment.
> "Ah, an herb-garden. It has to be grown with love, and guided by the
> hand of everlasting patience for years to come... Unfortunately, I really
> don't have time for that now, so I'll be using this magical growth
> formulae to speed things up," Laska smiled and produced a erlenmeyer
> flask filled with a purplish fizzing liquid.
Uh-oh...
> "Sure," Risa smiled. "That mint sure smells nice, but...
> are you sure you should use the entire bottle? It says here in the book
> that you never should use more than two milliliters of that stuff."
> "Oh, please!" Laska chuckled when she tossed the whole flask
> over the mint and rest of the herb-garden. "That book was written by
> a human. I'm the one with the Elven spirit here, so I know what I'm
> doing."
See all above comments
> "Nah, tell Rose we'll be back for dinner. That marble isn't going
> anywhere," Laska replied and started to plait her hair.
*snort*
> "Nah, I'm not that crazy, Elven Sister," the elf rogue smiled.
> "But, I did manage to sell this little marble to passing
> nobles."
This is a true businessman.
> In the end, he didn't have to worry. A sultry, yet mechanical female voice
> spoke next : "DNA-pattern verified. Sphere entrance chamber unlocked.
> Welcome back, Mr. Corthala." That said, the small door opened with a
> resounding hiss.
Ah, it's that kind of sphere.
> "Not a speck o'dust," Korgan snarled as he walked through the
> sterile and well lit corridor leading inside the sphere. "I be 'ating
> clean environments."
> "I'd be surprised you can even spell the word 'enviroments',"
> Mazzy muttered.
> "A-n-d-f-i-r-e-u-m-a-n-s," Korgan replied. "It be an easy
> word."
I'm glad I never have to read anything written by him.
> "LOOK!" Jan said, and pointed at the floor. "Did you see
> that, amazing! The dust disappeared! It was sucked right into a vent,
> there! Wow, this could revolutionize spring-cleaning!"
Jan is going to cause problems...
> "Auxiliary control activated. Alert status Green. Controls... ready.
> External sensors activated and operating at half-power. Engines activated
> and energized. WARNING : No course plotted. Conventional thrusters ready
> to fire. Computer library ready to access. Auxiliary control holotable
> activated," the female voice droned.
The sphere has thrusters? I thought it was, well, spherical.
> "Whoa," Laska said as the lights before the table blinked on.
> "This is cool!" as she saw the holographic representation of the
> slums outside. Waving her hands through the illusion, she giggled
> girlishly as she felt the photonic energy shooting through her hand... it
> tickled.
Photonic energy penetrating flesh... Weyoun, that means x-rays, which a) have no place in a hologram, what with them being invisible, and 
don't tickle.
> "I'm going NUTS!" Jan suddenly squealed. "This place is
> great! I... cannot resist! Must... push... buttons!!!!"
Tie him down! Quickly!
> "WARNING : No course plotted... Manual control engaged. Initiating
> planar travel," the computer announced.
Navigating the planes manually... trouble!
> Meanwhile, in the strange parallel world, a yellow man stepped out of the
> house of which the backyard was now occupied by the sphere. The strange
> portly yellow man with the big eyes stepped out and stared at the round
> object. With wide eyes he regarded the item, scratched his butt... and
> belched. But when finally the information reached through the thickness of
> his brain he turned back to his home and shouted, "MARGE?! Did we buy
> a giant marble?! Did Bart?!"
> ' Shut up Homer, ' the man's brain suddenly told him. ' It might have been
> you! Memories of last night at Moe's are fuzzy! '
> "No, no," Homer told his brain. "Better ask Marge."
> ' Oh, come on, Homer, THINK! What could you do with a giant ball? '
> A blank look crossed Homer's features... a feeling not wholly unfamiliar
> to him. "Oooohhhhh!" he groaned eventually. "I can't do
> anything with a giant ball, why did I even buy that thing?! I wish it was
> a giant donut! Hmmmm... Giant Donut... Glllllllrrrrrrggggg."
Great scene, that.
> The low hum of the sphere's engine receeded once more, but this time
> nothing appeared at the holo-table.
> "Hey, look," Laska smiled, "I can make the picture bigger
> with this slider. Hmmm, let's try magnification factor twelve." The
> picture on the table did change this time. Part of a gigantic pitch-black
> orb was visible on the table.
Please tell me that is only a placeholder for what a black hole really looks like? Please?
Oh, and Boo seems to have experience with this sort of travel.
> "Look at the table!" Mazzy said. It seemed the sphere was in the
> middle of a swirling debris-field, currently holding position. Strangely
> enough, there seemed to be two other shapes in the field. One yellow fish
> made of metal was being followed by a blue saucer with a thing under it,
> which was the best way Laska could describe it. The two figures seemed to
> be exchanging bolts of light.
> "Hey, maybe they're communicating," Jan offered. "Or maybe
> it's mating season."
Or maybe blasting away at each other with lasers or phasers or whatever.
> "Gravimetric interference will require extention of the Displacement
> field. Please authorize extention," the computer spoke.
> "Just bloody do it!" Valygar shouted.
> "Working..." the computer spoke. "Ready..." That said,
> the sphere was again away.
Good thing Lavok took the time to set up a forgiving voice recognition AI.
> The Enterprise-D slowly glided out of the grip of danger and resumed its
> continuing mission.
Another nice scene.
> "Gee," Laska said as she overlooked a hellish landscape on the
> holo-table, but focused her attention on the front part of the fish she
> saw earlier. "We wrecked the fish. I hope we don't have to pay for
> it."
*grin*
> As for the Black Hole? Well, one of my favorite games has space combat at
> the edge of a Black Hole and it was damn cool!
Which one is that?
