TEOTWAWKI
#108: Melvin: 'We have a problem'
Carl and Melvin talked for a few hours.
“Sorry sir.” Carl interrupted something that Melvin was saying “I have to go now. The ArchMage will speak with you now.”
Just like that Carl was gone. A much older, white bearded patriarch had taken his place. Melvin spared a glance toward all of his people and got the impression that the same thing had happened to them. Their initial “Briefer” had been interrupted and they were now all being addressed by the same man.
“I’m Shelby Winslow. I run the technical side of this lash-up.” Shelby told them all. “We have a problem”
Melvin, and presumably the others, sat and waited. He’d tell them the problem, or not, as he chose.
Shelby grinned and a bit of humor showed through in his voice when he resumed “This isn’t your first rodeo is it? Good. Then this will be easier for you.”
“Our standard operational procedure, that we worked out yesterday, would be to send a fast boat to get you. You’re a few hundred miles out so it’d take several hours to get there. Then the fast boat would bring you back to the banana slug.” he said.
“Murphy didn’t care much about our SOP. He threw us a curve ball. You’re it. There are so many of you. We don’t have any fast boats large enough to carry you all. We don’t have very many fast boats at all actually and they are designed to carry one person at a time. Single survivors are more the norm. You folks are several Sigma’s to the good.” Shelby said.
“Another problem is that there are so many OTHER singles, mostly children, survivors who do need our help, scattered from hell to breakfast. Parents tend to sacrifice themselves so that their children can live a little bit longer and it’s almost scary how tough some kids are. Even so their chances of living are much greater if we help them. Your chances of living are about the same either way, from this point on.” Shelby said. “In other words we’ve done about all the good we can do for you. From now own it’s up to you.”
“I don’t see a problem” Melvin broke in. “Go get them. We’ll make do. We always have.”
“Good man” Shelby said “Look me up if you get a chance. I want to buy you a beer.”
And he was gone. Carl and the little girls were gone to. They were alone.
“Alright Gang!” Melvin fell back into harness easily. Just like old times. “Marauders against the world. Listen up!”
The Next Episode Is
#109: Daniel Freemartin -What to do…
The Previous Episode was
#107: Daniel Freemartin -He made the call…
The First Episode was
# 1 : Prologue…
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Book One: SoulStone
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it's hard to tell what’s true or when they are lying isn’t it? It seems that they are more interested in influencing public opinion than they are reporting the facts.
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MBMM, Melvins Band of Merry Marauders, so they are safe, and will learn to continue to survive.
As a manager, it is sometimes necessary to make difficult decisions that are necessary in order to cause as little damage as possible ... Shelby had to do it now withMelvin and the group that accompanies him ... The Banana Slug Rescue already offered them first aid , keys by the way, to secure a few more days of life, while achieving their final rescue.
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don't stroke out.
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oh thank yew, thank yew!
oh have another, it's weekend!
why grateful to a tree though?
it's the Irish in me.
you're a druid!
NOT ME!
I can't say what my ancestors were...I never knew them.