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the Settlement is the elven home on earth. The settlement is an offshore centre. | the Settlement is the elven home on earth. The settlement is an offshore centre. | ||
==[[NAV Trigger Point: An Opco Boone Adventure|NAV Trigger Point]]== | ==[[NAV Trigger Point: An Opco Boone Adventure|NAV Trigger Point]]== | ||
===The Secret [[Calculation Agent]]=== | |||
:“G... g... guys?” stuttered [[Edd Sweeney|Edd]]. “I th ... th ... think we better get outta here.” | |||
:[[Roly Punchface|Roly]] snorted. “What’s ''wrong'' Eddy-boy? Scared like a — ” The tubster yawped and clucked and duck-walked around Cadet Sweeney, a fierce, brittle enjoyment squalling in his pink little eyes. | |||
:“I’m not yeller!” Edd squeaked. | |||
:“Are too! —” Roly’s little apple cheeks flushed with brimming petulance. | |||
:“Cut it out Roly,” barked [[A.J. Paul|AJ]]. Don’t pay him no mind, [[Edd Sweeney|Sweeney]]. You carry on.” | |||
:“Lads! ''Quiet''!” hissed Squadron Leader [[Opco Boone]]. “I have to finish this determination dispute trigger. I need bit of quiet. It’s — fiddly ... multi-lat ... ” Boone jabbed his screwdriver into the mechanism, and spluttered as a shower of rust sprinkled his face. | |||
:“Don’t forget the double counting, Opco,” said [[Georgia Apathy|George]]. | |||
:Boone wiped his face and adjusted his goggles. “I got it, G. Just a little further —” | |||
:The Eagle Squad leader reached into ancient contraption again, but as he did so, deep in the bowels of the [[ETS]] there was a deep, subsonic moan, as if a God, or a monster, was finally stirring from the slumber of aeons. | |||
:''What the fuck was that?'' | |||
:Nearby, a vigorous flutter, an explosion of limbs, like a scrambling bird escaping from its predator’s clutch. | |||
:“Roly! ''Roly''! Come back! Where are you going?” | |||
:But the young [[squadsman]] had gone. A righteous sneer curled [[A.J. Paul|A.J.]]’s lip. | |||
:Boone stood up. “C’mon gang, this is a dead end. No-one will read this, or understand it, much less ever use it. We better find [[Roly]]. Let’s get out of here.” | |||
===The boobytrap=== | ===The boobytrap=== | ||
Boone snaps out of his reverie as the whizzkid excitedly tells him there is a scramble briefing. A.J. slapped his hands and rubbed them together with glee, his eyes fiercely aglow. “This is it, Boone! This is it! I’m ''finally'' going to see action!” | Boone snaps out of his reverie as the whizzkid excitedly tells him there is a scramble briefing. A.J. slapped his hands and rubbed them together with glee, his eyes fiercely aglow. “This is it, Boone! This is it! I’m ''finally'' going to see action!” |