(JAN)

In the backstage we are all learning each other strange sentences in even stranger languages. We’ve also come up with the plan to make all future songs EUROTRASH. Let’s unite and make MCM shiver. After all, it is the end of the World we’re talking about here! We’ve also discovered a Dutch rapper named MCM. In the linked video he sings about how sorry he is. He also sings about the big and the small MCM, but even I don’t get that, and I speak Dutch FTW!

Aphid and Kaps are bickering about the technique of escaping the bomb earlier.  Aphid suggests {Najela: [ESCAPE PLAN]}Kaps goes off to ready the weapons… Aphid warns Jyi said he can’t shoot anymore, he’s too wild.  He says Jyi was joking, he’s doing it anyway.  Aphid points out the [SOMETHING YOU SHOULDN’T SHOOT] wouldn’t agree. {Rok: Suddenly, the [SIMPLE LIFE FORM STOWAWAY] scurries across the floor, as if afraid to be shot. Neither Aphid nor Kaps seem to notice it, despite the irritating cricket-like noise it makes when it moves (Life form from a previous question, in ch. 10)}
Darvey argues with Lucas about the legality of the techniques he’s using.  Darvey says legalities aren’t important when there are lives at stake.  Lucas disagrees: the key to law enforcement is replicable results that deter crime.  If you don’t build your case carefully, the Orillians will put up a big fight for jurisdiction and sabotage the case.  Also, giving away the game to the Orillians is blowing their carefully-crafted cover.  They may be transferred out of District 27, which would mean Darvey wouldn’t be near his home anymore.
{Rok: Darvey stares directly at the [SIMPLE LIFE FORM], which now has reached their room, but he doesn\’t seem to register that it\’s there. The creature stares back for a few seconds and says [Najela: A JOKE], then scurries again into an out-of-the-way corner.} {Najela:
Wait, the Orillians are in charge of the district Earth is in?  Yes, Earth has one council member, and the other [NUMBER] are Orillian.  So don’t think you can depend on the district authorities to back you up if…
Darvey realizes a power grab when he sees one.  The Orillians aren’t trying to kill Centaurians, they’re developing a drug, using the Tobor to test it, and planning to use it to wipe out the human race!

I love how it was all very obvious 2 chapters ago, and now it’s in the outline officially :p However, if they only have 1 earthmember in the council, is a powergrab really necessary then? As in, don’t the Orrillians have power already?

Chapter 19 Answers
Something you shouldn’t shoot.: crates full of contact explosive by porlob
Number between 10 and 30.: 24 by mjgoilli
Escape Plan: just stroll out, nonchalantly by porlob
A joke: What do you call three indians in a tree? by mjgoilli

Mike totally was a bad slave and entered that joke like a gazillion times. CHEATING I call it!! I wanted my joke to win.

Don’t inhale ramen, you’ll need curtains!!!

It’s really really funny. If you don’t get it. ramen are also windows in dutch. but if you’d inhale spicey ramen, your nose would probably run a lot, soooooo, a handkerchief wouldn’t be enough. No? Anyone? ok. Backing away now.

(Anna) 18.50 EST
Jan forgot to put the time on her post. AND forgot to bold the changed bits of the outline. Gosh! And told a joke that no one will find funny! Double gosh!

Anyway, about Chapter 19? I loved the part where she had trouble hearing the guy at the drive-through! So true!

Can’t wait for the next bit.

(Rok) 19.05 EST

I also want to register my complaint against Mike’s condemnable tactics. Not only he entered that joke a gazillion times, but he wasn’t the one who told that joke backstage in the first place. I was, yesterday! And no one got it or laugh at it. Personally, I’d have preferred a different joke, such as: “Toborians are so fat that when they enter a solar system, an eclipse happens.”

But, we can’t win all the time, so all is well. Mike got this round, but the war ain’t over yet…