Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Re: a belated gift for cain

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"Pray. This isn't the time for a Chrysler manuevere." said Alota.
"I'll agree with that." said WW walking in...
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Whitewolf stood tall in the drive room, his white mane glowing, his eyes
bright and bubbly. He felt good to get that goo out of his fur, he was back
aboard his craft and in total control. The nice long bath he had in his
lavish quarters made him feel like a new rodent. Unfortunatly, that bath only
delayed the inevitable bad news for about an hour or so.
The status report from the crew members was extraordinarilly large, the
summary itself took up 2 pages.
After reading it, whitewolf lost a bit of that straight posture.
Blue dwarf was out of fuel, they lost 3 shuttlecraft in the battle with the
space beasties, and someone ate all the penguin bars. Whitewolf was disturbed
by these turn of events, he really liked penguins. He was relieved to recieve
an update 10 minutes later, when someone realised they moved them to another
storage compartment last week and no-one updated the inventory. Which brought
him once again to the vertical.
The other two problems were much more serious, Whitewolf pondered these
matters carefully and consulted his crew and Holly about possible soloutions,
at the end of which were two options:
1 - stay here and die
2 - Use the manouvering thrusters to break orbit and move to the next planet
in the system where scans showed high concentration of Hydrogen-sulphide
eminating from the many active volcanoes on it's surface which could be used
to gather enough fuel to get the dwarf back on the move on a permenant basis.
Bad news about plan 2 though, it'd take 5 days to reach the planet with only
the manouvering thrusters working, and even then they'd probably have to
'land'.
"Sir" Dean interupted Wolfs pondering, "a platoon of shuttles would reach the
planet alot quicker than Blue dwarf on thrusters"
"would it?" Questioned Whitewolf
"ofcource sir, and I'd be happy to - "
Whitewolf cut him off - "this isn't a trick to let you pilot another midget,
we've lost to many as it is"
"Just one more chance sir, it is all i ask, and if we can gather enough fuel
to get BD moving again, all the better"
"Fine, " Whitewolf began to hunch over again, "Gather the pilots"
Dean flashed Whitewolf with a cheesy grin "I'll get right on it!" and he
skiped delightedly off towards the lifts
"we're doomed" Wolf mumbled, his body now in total 'hunchback' mode.