(JAN 10.09 am EST)

Nothing but good news. The Console is back up, fast and furious. Eli is here, currently catching on! And then Anna arrived just before the Chapter aired So everything is good in Dispatch Country (Even though Anna should stay in bed and focus on focus getting better, so she can look her pretty self again without the chicken pox.

I noted that yesterday we forgot to add the winning question answers twice, we’ll try to do our duty better today! So without further ado here are this Chapter’s Outlines, heavily altered by both Mjgolli and Rok, yesterday’s mixer uppers.

Jyi is on the Tobor ship, knocked off her feet as it makes its race away.  She’s in the cargo bay, starts to investigate.  Finds drugs of all types in canisters, snags some [DRUG NAME], but leaves the rest.  The canister with {Rok: [DANGEROUS DRUG NAME]} is empty.
She comes across the travel logs *mjg: and cargo manifests*, checks for deliveries near the Centuarian system.  She checks some more, is shocked to see where they’re heading next.
She races *mjg: trying to be stealthy, which isn\’t working out well* to the comm room, tries to broadcast an encoded message for her team, but she’s found out.  Someone tries to break in the door, and she has nowhere left to hide! *mjg: or does she?*  She works the comm frantically as the door crunches inward! *mjg: Hides in [INTERESTING HIDING PLACE], but* {Rok: She starts sweating profusely through her [HUMANOID-ALIEN BODY PART], a defense mechanism she can\’t avoid triggering under stress.} *mjg: Hiding place epic fail!*

Hiding Place Epic Fail FTW. I think this is a great chapter to start the day with, high with suspense and all. It did sound a bit more funny than it was in the chapter, but it’s early morning at MCM.

The questions picked were:

Chapter 12 Questions
#2D1D #c12q1 A drug name. // Vain by porlob
#2D1D #c12q2 Name for a dangerous drug. // kiss of death by Rok
#2D1D #c12q3 Humanoid-alien body part. // Poison neck frills by Memepunks
#2D1D #c12q4 Interesting hiding place // air vent by piratepwnsninja

Even now he’s no longer with us Backstage Rok keeps getting that Botlove, this is why I suspect he lied yesterday, and is not, in fact, an alien, but a lovebot himself, spreading robot pheromones telepathically. I love the Poison Neck Frills, think they fitted the story quite nicely But Where were the Poison Neck Frills? I didn’t catch them.

I’m in need for more coffee to survive the rest of the day, so I’ll leave this for the others.

(Rok 11.08 am EST)

Well, it seems that Jan was napping a bit when I came in, because I am backstage today as well and now I’ve managed to coerce these poor humans to give me the power to add entries here at The Dispatch. As my first entry, I want to dispel these atrocious rumors that I am a lovebot. I am not. I am an alien, as previous pictures have proven. It is true, though, that I emanate powerful pheromones, but they work telepathetically, not telepathically. Unfortunately, I can’t explain how that works here. Too complicated for humans to understand. Suffice it to say that my pheromones make me irresistible to any female humans , and internet bots, except when I’m not dreaming.

Now that I have set the truth straight, I want to say a few words about this writing marathon. You folks not lucky enough to witness the backstage activity have no idea how hard MCM works, while the rest of us just chat  and make fun of him. I’m really impressed by his excellent writing on the face of so much pressure and surrounding noise.

Now the ball is back to you, Jan and Anna.

Okay, so the #2D1D CONSOLE isn’t really working. This is Why:

14:37:50 L. Jan Oda: The Stream died
14:38:48 MCM: excellent
14:38:55 L. Jan Oda: ?
14:38:58 MCM: it’s the server, not me then
14:39:03 MCM: which is still bad, but better
14:39:10 L. Jan Oda: sure?
14:39:18 MCM: at least it’s not my fault
14:40:40 MCM: holy crap, one sec
14:40:42 L. Jan Oda: today is going to be bad
14:40:43 L. Jan Oda: ok
14:41:55 MCM: argh
14:42:13 MCM: i made a little typo this morning and added 500,000 io9 posts to the Stream in about 5 minutes
14:42:18 MCM: stpid stupid stupid
14:42:22 L. Jan Oda: what
14:42:26 L. Jan Oda: OH MY
14:42:34 MCM: i’m such an idiot
14:42:36 L. Jan Oda: This is why it broke?
14:42:43 MCM: yeah
14:42:49 MCM: the database server is probably ahving a fit
14:42:59 L. Jan Oda: is it solvable?
14:43:19 MCM: hopefully soon

As I said before, today is going to bad. As for now, MCM is doing his best to start in time, but we might start a little bit delayed today!

More news as soon as it breaks!!

Update at 9.14 EST

The console has been fixed. A little behind shedule, but nothing too much to handle for MCM. Thunderbirds Are Go. Autobots Let’s Roll.

Let’s get this party started

(JAN 8.00 am EST, 5.00 am at MCM’s)

A breakdown indeed. I slept for 3 hours, and don’t feel really well. So yesterday, after we closed down The Dispatch for the day, I still had to wrap my presents for Sinterklaas, in newspaperpaper, because I forgot to buy pretty wrappings *smackleheads*. Then I had to write a poem, to explain the presents. I bought coffee cups btw, large ones, because the roommates’s boyfriends (as in roommates with each 1 boyfriend) use a lot of those, and by the time I get up they are all GONE // DISASTER. Yes I buy presents for myself in disguise.

So anyway, I went to sleep around 7, it was very windy outside, so I slept very bad. At 10 I had to week up to unwrap the presents. Yuppers. I had 3 hours of sleep. I crashed a little bit watching The Lion King (hey it’s Sunday AND a holiday). And now I’m here again, breaking down while doing yesterday’s breakdown. Life is hard.

Lucky for me #2D1D is fun It was at least for us here at The Dispatch. Even though Eli is missed very much, we do have new company, and it has been fun. I have to admit I was a little stressed when the first chapters where airing though. It almost felt as a job!! But then my inner sillyness surfaced and all was good again.

As for an actual breakdown, I found #2D1D very different from #3D1D. Which was partly MCM’s intention, because he wants to disconnect the system from particular stories. However funny this story is, and it’s pretty hilarious, there is a smaller emotional connection with the characters. It is an action comedy after all (though I seem to remember this story being promoted as a thriller somewhere), but still, I prefer my stories a little more deep in general.

The whole io9 thing is great, lot’s of people participating. I do feel a little disappointed with the interaction though. Vocal people as the IO9 crowd are, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of discussion. So please come and enjoy the fun at The Dispatch. We like discussion. You’re even invited to start rumors about Anna. Or send her get well wishes. And learn Sinterklaas songs. I digress.

I also have some minor problems with how the story is posted. The layout isn’t very reader friendly, as after a couple of paragraphs the eyes find it difficult to focus.

Since Anna felt to unfocused to make some charts, I have tried it out. Some basic #2D1D chart fun for you to enjoy.

Rok wins, but Mjgolli and me are closely behind. (THE BOT LOVES ME, YAY). Anna is totally missing out on botlove though, and this is also the first time ever that Eli got picked. Rejoicing around the Globe!

This graph says it all, only 3 (!!!) people believe Anna when she’s spreading rumors, and that includes herself. At the other side of the spectre are the 97 people who believed me. The next Graph shows that they were right about doing so, because we counted the lies told, and it is obvious with a first glance that All posts started by Anna contain more lies.

Please note that before Chapter 8, no lies were told.

Anyway, I’m going to prepare the next Chapters post, and try to make some coffee before the drama and fun begin again. Stay tuned and join in!

(Jan 10.15 pm // 04.15 am of the 6th here)

I can’t believe we made it until chapter 11 without a smacklehead, but it has arrived. For those in the unknown, a smacklehead is what happens when you smack your hands to your face and then smack that to the table. It is common Dispatch behaviour. Anyway Of course, with my luck, my internet broke just before the last chapter. You have no idea how relieved I feel to be able to be here in time. I feel peaceful.  Maybe even feel peaceful enough to forgive everything Anna has done. But I don’t know. She did hurt me. Friends should never hurt you. Friends should also not leave your death wish to serve as a distraction. But they weren’t probably really friends. Yet.

Anyway CLIFFHANGER ENDING!!! But I’m not shouting DAAAARRRVEEEEY. Maybe that’s because the explosion is coming sooner this time. And because the New Real is overall kinda lighthearted. Or at least more.

MCM promised day 2 would be the most exciting one. I am looking forward to it. I hope are joining in again tomorrow.  Anyway, here are the Chapter outlines

They arrive at the spaceport, Darvey complaining about his suit the whole time. Make their way past customs, security, and a busker who [ALIEN CIRCUS TRICK]. {Rok: To the left, past the corner, he sees a restaurant of sorts, offering what looks like free raw [FOOD ITEM].} The search warrant is still not approved, but they’re going to get in position anyway.
They find the hangar bay, put themselves into position, watching a small cargo vessel just sit there. Jyi asks if Darvey’s still hallucinating. They argue about the relevancy of hallucinations on his ability to do his job. She reads the air, warns him not to go getting himself killed, because he’ll take her down with him. He says he can make no promises… he goes where the wind takes him.
Before she can argue, a Tobor ship slides in beside the smaller one. Traders come out, discuss [SPORT SCORES]. Check time, realize they need to get moving. The cargo from the Tobor ship is moved into the smaller one. Ready for distribution offworld. Stick to the guidelines and everyone’ll have a blast. Darvey is pissed now: if they distribute that to Centaurians, it’ll be a massacre! Jyi is watching her window close, can’t get the warrant in time. She takes off, leaving Darvey behind: “Go ahead and make a distraction.”
{Rok: [possible ACT OF DISTRACTION here]}
He looks at the traders, looks at their weapons, readies himself for death… and then remembers “ready for distribution”, and can’t take it. He tries to take over the smaller ship with [STEALTH OR BRUTE FORCE], only to discover his gun is still empty. He takes cover as the ships race away, and a second later a grenade is fired into the cargo bay. It explodes.

I say goodbye to you now for today. I have to go play sinterklaas for my roommates and hide presents and write a poem. By tomorrow you should all know the following song. Because Sinterklaas kicks Santa’s Claus ass every day

jan over and out!

(Anna) 9.07 pm EST

BREAKING NEWS: JAN IS ACTUALLY ELI IN DISGUISE
The latest Dispatch posts by Jan seemed too good to be true. Well-written, witty, clever; Jan was finally managing to hold her own in the pillow fight between us. This is in utter contrast to conversations with her earlier in the afternoon, where she made faux-sexual-innuendo comments that actually made no sense. It seemed that Jan was finally learning how to make sense.

But everything made an eerie kind of sense when investigative reporting turned up a rather startling fact: Jan is not, in fact, Jan.

My friends, we have all been lied to. Eli is not on some flight travelling home. He is in fact here with us today, posting as Jan, to cover for her unexplained absence. A shoddy alibi, if I may say so myself.

How was this devious scheme uncovered? Well, the fake-Jan was found with a battered old copy of Twilight, a copy that pre-dates the entire sparkly-vampire craze. Prior documentation reveals that Eli was the one to have read Twilight in the before-times, thus proving that fake-Jan is, in fact, Eli.

So where is the real Jan? Sources report that she was last spotted wearing an “Bipeds turn me on” tshirt as she got into a dustrunner pirate ship, her bag overflowing with suspicious-looking vitamin pills.

Friends, today is a sad day for us all. Let us bow our heads in memory of Jan – the girl that was.

STORY-RELATED NEWS:

Some pearls of wisdom from behind-the-scenes:

mjgolli: Ahh, the misunderstood tapeworm. All it wants to do is help people lose weight…
Rok: Tapeworms are soooo 1940s…. today, dvdworms are all the rage.

On to the business side of things, the outline:

Darvey catches up with Aphid, argues he needs to go on the mission with Jyi. Admits it’s just so he can die faster, and she agrees, curious about his mental state. She’s interested in bipeds. Also, if he dies today, she wins the bet.
He learns about why everyone seems to have such strange names, about flaws in the translator. Given some examples of known deficiencies like [FREAKY WORDS]. He can file corrections through most terminals.
He hears about the atmosphere at the spaceport he’s going to, how the {Rok: [WEIRD COLOR]} sun is so strong and the atmosphere is so flimsy that he’ll need full-body cover to avoid burning. Also helps him not stand out, so he can pretend to be a variety of races without it being obvious. Finds out last human on their team was very sensitive to the fact that he burned [HUMAN BODY PART] really badly on a similar outing. Aphid thought it looked cute.
She shows him the tracer they’ll install on the ship. He asks about scanning the ships, to see when people sneak on. She explains that at a spaceport, lots of people come and go… and once the ship is in the air, it’s a waste of resources to constantly check the whole ship. She checks the Derra at his request, finds no stowaways, just [SIMPLE LIFE FORM].
Aphid is very curious about Darvey. She is interested in bipeds, but now he realizes she’s really interested. Already slept with Kaps, but it wasn’t satisfying, and now working with him is awkward. Offers to show Darvey her video of the encounter, but he declines, runs off to see them crack the atmosphere. {Rok: In the distance, two [SPACE OBJECT] collide, making for a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle.}

Pretty impressive how well MCM is sticking to the outline so far, although I didn’t spot the [simple life form] bit – maybe I just read too quickly?

And yes, the kinkyness. Aphid likes bipeds. Do you?

(JAN 21.19 pm)

Alas. It’s a strange world if people can’t trust their friends anymore. It is a sad world when friends are struck by insanity. I am struck with grieve that Anna seems to be suffering from a chicken pox variant og the H1N1 string. Which makes for a lot of animals on one little girl. I am very sad that it has come to this day that I now have to declare my friend non-sensical. It is after very obvious I am indeed a girl. And since it is widely known that Eli is of the male variety, her statements cannot be bare any truths whatsoever. Also, would anyone believ Eli, the mastermind behind Novelr, would like Twilight?

But I digress. Anna’s health is now a matter of national healthcare. Alas she starts biting herself when we close down her internetconnection, so we leave her be, with her insanity as company, in peace.

So excuse us for all the uncalled for interventions, we will now focus on the #2D1D event again.

Biped loving insectoids are fun! I want to be able to work on my pheromones too. Also, the next chapter is the last. So stay tuned!!!

I quote:

03:39:12 L. Jan Oda: are you ready for the dispatch?
03:39:30 Anna: i dont know how awesome i’ll be on it
03:39:35 Anna: i have such trouble focusing on things
03:39:41 L. Jan Oda: mmmm
03:39:47 L. Jan Oda: might be extra funny
03:40:25 Anna: ha
03:40:33 Anna: probably will just fade out midsentence
03:40:37 Anna: like:
03:40:49 Anna: “wow this chapter was so great iiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”
03:45:11 L. Jan Oda: hihi
03:45:30 L. Jan Oda: we can blame it on the wipple
03:45:43 Anna: or on timezones!
03:45:49 L. Jan Oda: or on both
03:46:13 L. Jan Oda: Anna just phazed out because the wipple couldn’t handle the timezonechange and broke her mind
03:46:50 Anna:
03:47:00 Anna: i think we should just save that and copy paste it into every entry
03:47:21 L. Jan Oda: ha!
03:47:42 L. Jan Oda: that’s what she said!
03:49:16 Anna: …errr… ok?
03:49:23 Anna: i totally can’t read innuendo into what i wrote
03:49:28 Anna: maybe my brain truly is dead

(Jan 8.02 EST)

The war on drugs keeps going at a pleasurable pace, the war in the Backstage continues in a very ugly direction. After dirty tactics as spreading rumours and lying, Anna’s finally showing her true face. It suffices to say the picture painted isn’t pretty. But what did you espect of a girl who has been evicted out of Italy and Belgium and was forced to flee to Great Britain? Police records show she is searched for not only across the entire EU, but even in space. Yes it is finally in the open that Anna is actually Stacey, also known as Tundra (the old one), who was allegedly held hostage by the Mob, but who was in fact their apprentice, and love slave. She wasn’t harmed by their torturing, but by Ass-Kicking Bondage gone wrong. Now she’s in hiding somewhere in England, only going out at night to kidnap young men, to devour them. After she betrayed her best friend Kani of course. Yes betrayal is the word that comes up most often when you look more closely at Anna’s life.

#justsayin’

On to more important stuff than lying backstabbing bitches. The Chapter Outline:

Lucas catches up with Jyi in her quarters.  She’s still fuming. {Rok: Lucas suggests that Jyi should drink some [WEIRD BEVERAGE] to calm herself down. She ignores the suggestion and} asks if they can court-martial Darvey for what he’s done.  Legality of threatening witnesses, especially one that asked for a lawyer… Lucas is conferring with his people about the matter, but it appears the law is not fully-developed around this tactic.  Unconventional tactics are dangerous and stupid, Jyi says.
Lucas changes topics abruptly, asks Jyi if she was able to acquire the antidote on the Tobor ship earlier.  She says it wasn’t there, that her mole was going to help her, but now he’s dead, and she’s stuck.  She found out the other agent who took the same dose as her [LIFE OR DEATH].  Lucas asks if her symptoms are worsening, but she thinks she’s still fine.  Told to hold her hands out for him, and her left hand is [SHAPE OR COLOUR].
Lucas ready to take her off the team, put Kaps in charge.  Jyi pleads for more time… they might still find the ship with the antidote, and she’ll be back to normal.  Lucas agrees, says he isn’t due to file his report for [NUMBER] hours, so she has until then to “fix herself.”

Questions Picked were:

Chapter 9 Questions
#2D1D #c9q1 Life or death? // Death, might as well be consistant by HBullseye
#2D1D #c9q2 Shape or colour? // colour by HBullseye
#2D1D #c9q3 A number between 8 and 48. // 19 by akaSabriel
#2D1D #c9q4 Weird beverage // ANNA’s Brain Fluids by janoda

I was a little worried that my suggestion was picked, because Anna and brains is a tough combination, but lucky for us MCM is quite genious.

I loved this chapter. The suspense thickens, in story as well as backstage. But I always like it when personal motivations are story movers too.

Over and Out

(Anna) 8.09pm EST
Ok, it’s time for the truth? Well here’s the truth.

Jan is actually a reincarnation of Rita Skeeter.

You’ve seen the videos. She’s got the same colour hair – sure it’s curly, but a decent pair of curling irons can do that – and she has the same penchant for spreading baseless rumours about others.

Notice how she didn’t do one thing to defend herself from my vitamin d addiction accusations? Not offer one shred of proof to the contrary? No, she chooses instead to attack my most honourable person. These are clearly tactics of a drug-addicted nookie-obsessed space pirate cum journalist.

#justsayin’

(Anna) 7.17 pm EST

BREAKING NEWS: MCM BREAKS i09!
In a twist that had all our knickers twisted, ChaoteR (as they say in my country) 8 was split half way due to some kind of i09/pox/MCM malfunction. What is going to happen next?!

We’re waiting for permission on behalf of i09 to fix things, as they requested MCM stick to only one post per day. But it seems he’s hit the word limit target, so we’re all on tenterhooks to figure out a solution.

MORE BREAKING NEWS: 2D1D ADDICT’S 2ND SECRET ADDICTION!
It’s all over twitter, it’s a trending topic, and she can’t hide from the cameras now…. Jan is officially nookie-obsessed!

“It started as a fairly innocent addiction,” a close friend who wanted to remain nameless confessed. “She was just a nice girl, but when she started taking vitamin D pills all the time… Well, it just didn’t look right.”

High consumption of vitamim D has been linked to illegal space piracy, due to its effectiveness in preventing radiation sickness. Jan has now been detained

It is well known that nookie-addiction – however innocent – is but the tip of a slippery slope into madness. Don’t let it get that far. If you suspect a friend or family member to be consuming overly large doses of vitamin D, contact the authorities and let them decide what’s best.

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Back to the scheduled news, I thought I’d give y’all some background updates: I am still sick. /update.

Haha. No, really. We’ve been chatting about Calvin and Hobbes, and the merits of Neanderthals, and slavery, and slaves… but not about chocolate, which makes me a little sad.

In any case. TEH OUTLINE OF PART 1:

Jyi enters the interrogation room, starts questioning the Zanzi pusher. Darvey kept out of the room, stuck behind the screen with Lucas and Aphid. Learns about law enforcement rules, how amplification is strictly against the rules during interrogation, how Centaurians are generally barred from this kind of work.
Suspect is dodging questions with expert precision, Jyi isn’t getting anywhere. He feeds her a bone and she heads out to talk to the others, checking their intel to see if he’s telling the truth. Darvey lets himself into the room, blocks the door, and starts into his Bad Cop routine.

DID YOU SEE THE LEFT SOCK? That made me so happy. Thanks, Rok!

Anyway. The story so far, in one sentence: Dravey is a suicidal cop whose met hard times, gets drafted into a space mission he is impossibly unqualified for, and manages to survive through sheer dumb luck and pure hard-headedness.

I think that’s a pretty good summary. But then I thought I’d take it one step further and ask for twitter summaries. Sadly only @nlcobb replied, but with the rather concise answer “insanity.” I think she has a point there.

AND NOW, while we wait for the second half of the chapter… it’s time for something a little cultural, Rok has been telling us about his alien species. Here’s a photo:

Apparently it is the males who conceive, and – even more fascinating – males seem to undergo a number of superfluous biological changes during pregnancy. Below is a photo of a 2.5 year pregnant Rok (gestation period is roughly 10 years Earth time).

Notice the biological differences, from growing facial hair, to developing less-pointed ear lobes? Alien culture is absurdly fascinating, I’m sure you can agree.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE BREAKING NEWS!

This is Anna, over and out.

(JAN ) A little while later, since MCM broke my computer and world clock.

I have only one thing to say. Meet Anna.

Or the Pig and The Pox

Over and out

(Anna) 7.43pm

How dare she say that that is a photo of me? Ridiculous, I tell you.

Anyway now that we have a new page everything has been sorted out and is continuing as planned.

Here’s the rest of the outline for Chapter 8:

Says he’s going to use {Rok: his (Darvey\\\\\\\’s) [COLOR FOR A PIECE OF CLOTHING] left sock to perform} [TERRIBLE TORTURE]. Zanzi doesn’t believe him, gets pushed further, starts to worry. Thinks Darvey is using amplification on him, says it’s illegal. Darvey says “that’s why I blocked the door.” Zanzi is having a breakdown all on his own.
Darvey discusses how he’ll mangle [PART OF ALIEN ANATOMY], Zanzi ready to run, but he can’t. Begs for lawyer, and Darvey says lawyer has no jurisdiction given the Governor’s daughter’s kidnapping. Zanzi claims ignorance, offers him anything else to get free. Darvey asks what he has, given info about a shipment arriving in [NAME OF SPACEPORT] in a few hours. Darvey makes one last crack about the anatomy, leaves the room.
Lucas extremely unhappy, Jyi roughs Darvey up for crossing lines. His info isn’t admissible because of threat of danger. Darvey says otherwise: he wasn’t threatening to get that intel, he was asking about the kidnapping and Zanzi offered the spaceport on his own.
Aphid breaks in, says if they can get a beacon on the ship at the spaceport, they can trace it all the way back to the Tobor home base. Jyi agrees, but still furious.

And the questions & answers for this chapter were:
1. A terrible torture method // unceasing tickling by alphabete
2. Part of alien anatomy // Ickthid by The_Squirrel_
3. Name of a spaceport // Terminal B by retro_neo
4. Color for a piece of clothing // red by alphabete

I love how the random questions/answers all kind of seem to go together so well. I mean, imagine if the kind of torture picked had been slicing. Slicing with a red sock? Wouldn’t make half as much sense.

None of my answers have been picked yet, but MCM told me that people using the console have been submitting multiple answers per question, whereas I have only been submitting one, so… Perhaps I shall have to hack the system somehow.

Okay. So Anna is sick. She has the Chicken Pox. So I thought, why don’t I do something nice? Which resulted in this:

HOWEVER.

then this happened:

am_harte: @janoda Not even a teensy weensy bit nookie-obsessed? :p #2d1d

nlcobb: @janoda Lol, sure…;) #2D1D

alphabete: NEXT AT #2D1D: @janoda nookie-obsessed?

janoda: @am_harte nope. not at all :p #2D1D

am_harte: @alphabete Haha! Let’s all team up against @janoda ! #2D1D

alphabete: @am_harte I am a terrible person. Just got here and already spreading rumors. Maybe people will check out #2D1D just for the @janoda scoop

nlcobb: @alphabete People love a good scandal. Lol #2D1D

am_harte: @alphabete You mean you’re a terribly great person! We <3 rumours! #2D1D

YOU HAVE DOOMED YOURSELD KIDDO!!! THE WAR IS ON!!
I’m never being nice to you again!

(Jan 5.51pm) Ahh the painkillers finally kicked in. I think it’s funny Anna and I are taking pills in a story about drugs. Metafiction FTW!! I should also add that Rok isn’t from Denmark, but from Brazil, he’s just lives in Denmark. He also prefers Classical Music, which is why we are torturing him with Metallica.We’re nice people like that.

In other news, it’s not only people who take toilet breaks here at The Dispatch, but dogs too.

In bad new. I just made Anna cry. She has the chicken pox, and I joked that MCM should write a story called The Pig and The Pox. Woops. So, to make her feel better, I’m afraid I’ll have to speak Lolcat for a minute. Yes it is that late here. Just scroll down if you don’t want to see.

Okay. Sorry for that. Onto more serious matters, the outline for Chapter 7. Starting from here things changed by either Rok or Mjgolli will have their names between brackets.

Darvey and his wife have short discussion about her death and afterlife, where she seems unnaturally concerned with [HOUSEHOLD CHORE].  Darvey is just about to kiss her when lights come on and Jyi barges in.
She’d “read the air” and figured out something was wrong.  Explains Centaurian “mind reading”, amplification etc.  She’s very worried about hallucinations, figures it must be a result of alcohol and some other neural radiation getting out of control.  Darvey volunteers to find out.  Jyi dumps the rest of his alcohol, says she’s going to request a new human.  He’s obviously not fit to be on the team.  Says he can go back to his life, happy and safe.  This makes him extremely unhappy.
They argue about wasted time, about drug problem out of control, kidnappings, that Governor’s daughter missing {Rok} [YOUNG ADULT ALIEN FEMALE NAME], and they can’t take the time to find her because Darvey is busy getting drunk and messing around with ghosts, {Rok} doing [ACTIVITY YOU DO WITH A PARTNER].  Darvey is getting progressively more [ANGRY OR SAD], about to act on it…
Call comes in from Kaps.  He’s picked up a pusher from [PLANET NAME] who has a history dealing Tobor merch.  In the interrogation room, if they’re interested.  Darvey’s mood flatlines as Jyi leaves.

As for the questions:

Chapter 7 Questions
#2D1D #c7q1 A household chore. //  Go hunting for robotic vermin by Bismod (I really like this one!)
#2D1D #c7q2 Angry or sad? // Sad by The_Squirrel_
#2D1D #c7q3 A planet outside our solar system. // HelenaH10 by miladysa (she’s on a roll!)
#2D1D #c7q4 Young adult alien female name // Young adult alien female name by sys (this is confusing)
#2D1D #c7q5 Activity you do with a partner // the naughty! XD by mjgolli

The Squirrel got it right, this chapter is very sad. I always like it when MCM goes on the emotional route. I have a feeling we’ll be screaming DAAAARRRVEEEEYY, just like we cried YYYUUUURRRIII last time. MCM is good at emotional. On to Anna.

(Anna) 5.55pm
I am still confused re: ghost. Why would it have been bad for him to kiss the ghost? I mean, it’s air, right?

And I like how MCM has a kickass female character. I bet she will be wicked during the interrogation… but I suspect Darvey will have to prove his usefulness somehow otherwise he’ll get booted, no?

Any guesses as to where the story’s going next? I think that there will be socks in it somewhere.

(Jan) 6.02 pm (it’s midnight here) MCM often has kick ass female characters. Like Chenne. And Rache. And even Kani kicked ass in the end of Typhoon.