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Spike: Greetings Sports Fans! Spike Baltrihper here with your two-minute Silkball Highlight Reel.
Aurora: Why are talking to a strange piece of glass?
Spike sighs: It’s a CAMERA, haven’t you ever heard of one?
Aurora looks down: …no…
Spike sighs again: It takes pictures of us so other people can see.
Aurora leaps in fright: really? It can see me right now?
Spike gets up, moves to the far end, and looks through: wwwhhhooaaa…
Aurora, impatiently: Well? Can it see me?
Spike takes a rolled up bunch of…something…and begins smoking it: Oh yeah! I can see eeevveeerrryyyttthhiinngg…
Aurora instinctively covers up her girly parts: Everything?
Spike moves his head back and forth quickly: ddoooodd, this is b@#$%in…
Aurora, keeping herself covered, backs away slowly before simply running away.
Spike, moderately spiked, moves back to his stool and slides it forward until he is just inches away from the piece of glass.
Spike: ‘Sup @#$%ers? I got y’alls scores and stuff.
Spike looks down and is amazed at what he finds: Dood, there is like writing on this parchment.
Spike moves it closer and farther away from his face trying to read it.
Aurora, wearing multiple layers and a long overcoat, snatches the parchment out of his hand.
Aurora: This is hard to read.
Spike, leaning off to one side: must be written in some archaic script or somethin’
Aurora scoffs: Yeah, male handwriting.
Spike sits up straight, suddenly alert: I saw that once, somewhere between here and that sphere thingy that they found underwater. You know, that shiny thing that made those people do that stuff.
Aurora stares blankly at Spike: Sure.
Spike slumps to the other side.
Aurora: I think this says “Stuff 3, Nameless 1”
Spike, smoking, nods: Oh yeah. Dood, like the Nameless right. They like came out thinking they could beat Grace and stuff and they didn’t.
Aurora tries not to laugh: So I gathered from the score card.
Spike: No way dood, like Grace’s team and stuff. They like, umm…played a balanced game and @#$%. Her Coin Dazzle or whatever, it like was super-effective against the Nameless and stuff. Grace like kicked @$$.
Aurora: Right on.
Spike giggles at himself: I said @$$.
Aurora sighs.
Aurora: I think this next one says “Newtypes 1, Arrow 0” How does that work?
Spike sways around a bit.
Spike: Oh yeah. So like Balreth and stuff, he’s like tired and so after Rain like scored so easily, they called off the game and @#$%.
Aurora: That was sweet of them.
Spike giggles to himself: I said score.
Aurora sighs again: Lets just see what this last one said. I think… “Friend 3, Legionnaires 2” That sounds like a fun game to watch.
Spike baby talks to the ‘camera:’ OH, who’s just the cutest little…
Aurora interrupts: Spike!
Spike visibly jolts up: Oh yeah.
Spike looks longingly into the camera: It was like a close game and stuff. Like no one could really make a breakthrough or something. Like, I dunno why, but Lalandra and stuff? Yeah, she like had the ball and then instead of running into the scoring area place thingy she like ran into the Underworld. That made it easy for Nyx to win.
Aurora, skeptically: The Underworld?
Spike: Totally, dood, go ask her.
Aurora: I think I will.
Spike: So like, I’m Spike Baltrihper signing off. Quin or Quit and you know, stuff like that. Laters.
Spike flashes some strange hand gesture to the piece of glass before falling over backward, napping.
Aurora looks around, and then takes Spike’s ‘Dr. Feelgood’ to try for herself.
Aurora decides to look through the Glass to see what Spike loved so much.
[fast forward a short time, with Aurora continuing to smoke]
Simon comes into the room, wondering why Aurora hasn’t come back yet, only to find her and Spike napping on the floor.
Simon, pretending to stroke his beard, moves Aurora and Spike into a suggestive position and moves the piece of glass onto the floor nearby the ‘couple.’
Simon leaves without making a sound, but giddy as a schoolboy.
[fast forward another short time]
Spike wakes up to find Aurora on his chest. Panicking, Spike tries to quietly slip away but wakes up Aurora in the process.
Aurora opens her eyes to find she’s laying on Spike…and the Camera can still see them both.
Aurora leaps off of Spike: Camera!
Spike: Oh @#$%…
Aurora looks at her feet in shame: Simon…
[To be Continued]
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Episode 63
28 Nov 2011
Notes: Full references to be added soon.
References: Guild History
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