(Jan 13.15 EST) Anna is having loads of food (which means she’s getting better I think), Rok’s food of yesterday is bothering (Sushi gone bad it seems) and I’m talking beer. Life is good (for some of us :p).  I found the questions and answers for this chapter very promising…

Chapter 15 Questions

#2D1D #c15q1 Something you buy. // freedom by Rok
#2D1D #c15q2 A financial goal. // Saving up to buy a houseboat by porlob
#2D1D #c15q3 A type of gland. // sweat gland by Rok
#2D1D #c15q4 Name for strip club. // by 1889ca
#2D1D #c15q5 Card game. // by 1889ca
#2D1D #c15q6 Drug name. // Popswiz. by addisoncort
#2D1D #c15q7 Weird Girl Name // by 1889ca
#2D1D #c15q8 Alien Body Part // Squarependix by SolidSpider
#2D1D #c15q9 Strange Clothing Article // wipple by am_harte

Beforehand I’m guessing on a stripper (preferably of the same species as Aphid) who wants to buy her freedom out by playing cards and winning from Darvey, since he’s now famously rich and all.  Note, if it says by 1889ca that means the picker chose a system message, (or in my language, screwed up), and MCM has to be rancom all by his self!! HOW WILL HE MANAGE. Also, I’m very happy Wipple is now not only Wordpress Lag, but a piece of clothing too.

Oh noes. The beer is already kicking in, and not dealing well with the only 3 hours of sleep. I feel suddenly so ver very tired, and it’s not even 8 in the night here. I haven’t even had dinner yet. Which is going to be quite fancy btw. My roommate is doing dinner for her friends, and I can tag along. Which is great for #2D1D because it means great food without ANY hassle of preparing it. On to the Chapter Outline:

Darvey is introduced to Ogro, the kingpin of the city in a freaky alien strip club, {Rok: called [NAME FOR STRIP CLUB]}. Discuss state of the union, how it’s hard to find good [PRODUCT] these days. They seem to be hitting it off, even though Darvey has no idea what he’s talking about.
Ogro asks Darvey why he wants the ship.  Darvey makes up a rambling story about ordering merch, getting stiffed, needing merch so he can sell it and buy [FINANCIAL GOAL].  Ogro questions the logic of the plan, but Darvey isn’t giving up.  He’ll do anything to get that ship back.
Ogro asks why anyone would essentially buy the same merch twice.  Darvey says it’s the principle of the thing.  Ogro likes the spirit, if not the brain-deadness.  He makes an offer: steal back the ship, and he can keep half the merch aboard.
Darvey is intrigued… why is he helping?  Ogro used to own that ship, but lost it in a {Rok: [CARD GAME]} bet to the Tobor traders.  He doesn’t want it wasted when they decide to kamikaze it into a Centaurian freighter somewhere like they are with all their ships these days.
Darvey plays it cool.  He only wants his merch back, not the ship. Theft on that scale is a big deal.  Ogro agrees, decides to throw in some incentives.  A free dose of [DRUG] and an hour with his best girl with large {Najela:[ALIEN BODY PART] and {Najela: [WEIRD HAIR COLOR]} wearing {Najela:[STRANGE CLOTHING ARTICLE]}. Best girl{Najela:[WEIRD GIRL NAME]} comes forward, Darvey is unsure what you’re supposed to do with her.  Kaps isn’t interested either [TYPE OF GLAND].
Darvey agrees to the deal, about to shake hands when a canister drops into the room and explodes.

(Rok 13:58 EST)

First, Yay!, Rok scores again, twice in one chapter this time. That bot sure loves me.

Now, about the sushi thing. So, yesterday I had sushi for lunch and chicken for dinner. The sushi tasted like chicken, which is not surprising considering my alien physiology. The chicken tasted like old fish, and it was delicious. Later in the evening I felt a bit queasy, but not enough to warrant losing any sleep over it. Today, however, I’ve been feeling weird all day and all 3 of my stomachs hurt. I don’t think it was the chicken. For one thing, the sushi was on sale and may have been past its shelf life date. Guess I should have checked. Living and learning…

So, in the end, it looks like I’m joining Anna in solidarity to her chicken pox. Only, in my case, it’s sushi pox. The funny thing is, if I get scales over all my body, they’ll look like roof shingles. Very appropriate name, after all.

(Najela 11:16 PST) I feel like I’m a part of some cult. It started with a DM on twitter, then an email. Then a chat a bunch of rules. Don’t touch the Red Squares. Do you know how tempting it is to touch the red squares? I hovered over them for a while. But I don’t want to kill the system. Anyway, I’m excited… I should be working on a final paper, but this is so much more exciting. Plus you know what they say about procrastination… yeah, I don’t know what they say about it. Anyway, Anna has chicken poisoning, Rok has sushi poisoning, and Jan is feeling fluffy. What have I gotten myself into?

(Anna) 14.36 EST
So now that the chapter is ACTUALLY up… I can say that Jan has clearly no idea where anything is going, and all her predictions were WRONG WRONG WRONG.

And why did Najela write her time in PST? Did we not give her the EST rule? There are so many rules we should write a handbook. On the front cover it’ll say DON’T PANIC and on the back cover it’ll say NOW PANIC.

And can I say, this chapter is where the brilliance of MCM’s writing shines through? As in, he takes all these random jigsaw pieces input by readers and manages to make it seem like he would’ve thought of them in the first place.

But, really, where would this story be without reader input?

Let’s finish off with this little quote:

This is Azariah,” said Ogro. “She can provide many kids of pleasure for you both.”

What do you think? Typo, or intentional?