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Dr Jewel · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 10:45 am Post subject: Home Base

Dr Jewel looked around, pleased to be back. She glanced at Trubshawe and then waited for Dr Odom to step through the mist.

Trubshawe · Good Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 155 Location: The Zoo

Trubshawe could hardly conceal his pleasure that the experiment had been a success.

"I hope you were right, Dr Jewel, and our abductors did recently reshuffle the terrain. If so, they reckoned without my brainpower! To extend my metaphor, imagine the Museum to be one card in a deck, and Juniper School to be another. By fastening the two together, we have greatly hampered our persecutors' ability to play card tricks on us.

"We should proceed quickly to the northern face of the Museum and anchor it to whatever is beyond the mists there. We'll tame this treacherous land in no time at all."

Dr Jewel · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 1:33 pm Post subject:

Dr Jewel nodded.

"We may gain some clue when we travel north." She said. "If the territory there is such that either of - or both - Larkin or Liason are unlikely visitors, then it would indeed suggest a move."

She smiled, but there was a worrying thought at the back of her mind.

Where is Maypole Hill now?

Dr. William T. Odom · Good Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 220 Location: The Museum

[OOC: Entering from "Juniper School: The Rope Bridge"]

Dr. Odom followed soon after. He retrieved the second rope from the cloakroom and said to Trubshawe, somewhat uncertainly, "I'll take it halfway, if you like." Perhaps that would go a little way toward making up for the earlier trick with George. After all, the man did not seem to be actively malicious.

"I would like to stop for another flag or three, but I see no reason why that should take us very long, unless anyone would like a cup of tea first."

Trubshawe · Good Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 155 Location: The Zoo

"Has anyone else noticed," mused Trubshawe, "that however bizarre the places we arrive at when we pass through the mists, however strange and alien the people we find there, nevertheless there is always tea and someone offering to make it? Quite reassuring in a way...

"Perfectly happy to follow your lead, Dr Odom. The sooner we have your Museum moored in all four directions the better."

Dr Jewel · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject:

"I'm happy to follow that plan." Dr Jewel agreed. "By all means stop for flags, they seem to work very well."

Dr. William T. Odom · Good Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 220 Location: The Museum

Dr. Odom marched straight down the middle of the Museum, Dr. Jewel and Trubshawe following along. The heavy coil of rope slowed him a little, but a lifetime of walking up and down stairs as often as up and down halls served him well and as long as he kept the rope firmly on his shoulder his legs could bear the weight. About fifteen minutes took them to the main staircase.

Dr. Odom left the rope at the top of the smaller stairway leading to the basement and led his companions down to a musty storage room from which he scrounged a split yardstick, a couple of pieces of broken molding, and a pink towel ragged enough to be torn easily into strips.

The three retrieved the rope and continued on their way, soon reaching a door about two hundred fifty feet east of the northwest corner, similar to the one through which Larkin and Liason had passed. Dr. Odom took a deep breath, glanced at his fellow explorers, and pushed open the door.

The handle on the outside of the door provided a convenient anchor for the rope, the mist already playing at their backs as they knotted it. Leaving two of the flags propped beside the door and taking the one made from the yardstick with him, Dr. Odom stepped through the mist.

[OOC: Moving to "The Zoo: 'So, these are . . .'"]