Time: Wednesday, 18 August
Place: The Fiendish Glow
Follows: Look What I Found in the Streets and Experience is a Terrible Thing to Waste
[The Fiendish Glow, Monday, 18 August, 1830 Eastern Daylight Time]
Sukh and MacCousin were getting ready for their travels back to the shrine, trying to ignore Chris's hangdog expression.
"Do ya hafta go?" he whined.
"Yes. We are expected and I don't want to think about the replacement for grout duty the HP has thought of now," grumbled Sukh, straightening her plaid toga.
MacCousin was dabbing an aeromatherapy oil behind her ears, perfume made her sneeze like the dickens. This one was called Elementals.
"Lass..." Chris began.
MacCousin sighed and turned to him. "Sorry Chris, she's right. The last thing I need to do is p*ss off the HP yet again. Besides that I haven't seen Nunkies all war." A drooly grin spread across her face.
"Oh, yucky," grumbled Chris, staring at the drool. He looked down to see Lucius purring at his feet. He picked up Lucius. Lucius purred and curled up around Chris's neck. "How can you leave him, MacHeather?" Chris asked. "How can you leave your wee bairn behind?"
"You'll be a great bairn-sitter, sweetie," grinned the MacCousin.
The two Renegade Addicts took out the door.
Chris stared at MacHeather's retreating back, sadly. He was still convinced that vampire was not going to let her go so easily.
He got a Scotch from the barmaid and sat down with Pen and Brenda. Pen still rubbed her hand.
"So Chris, what should I get Heather for her bridal shower?" Brenda asked.
"Hmmm?" Chris glanced up from his reverie.
"I'm klewless on what to get her. You should know what she wants best," Brenda continued. "Here's the ads for the newspaper. Let me know if you see anything."
[Five minutes later]
"I have it! The perfect gift! She'll love it!" Chris bounded into the kitchen. Brenda was checking on various pots.
Chris pulled out the Comp-Geek ad and pointed it out for Brenda to see. "It's perfect! See! SEE!!!!"
"Settle down!" Brenda pushed the paper away from her face to get a better look at whatever Chris was raving about.
Braveheart: The Game
Plan your strategy! Sharpen your spears and claymores!
Join William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and various others in the brand new strategy game!
Brenda stared at Chris for a moment. Chris grinned. "You're kidding, right?" she asked.
"I mus' certainly am na'! She'll luv it! She's always talkin' 'bout how wunderful Braveheart was.
"Yeah," agreed Brenda. "But she has never said anything about how much she loves strategy games."
"Get this for her, ye canna go wrong!"
"I'm not sure about this..." Brenda looked at the ad again. It was so hard to find suitable gifts these days.
"What's there to be sure about? Trust me!"
"Hmmmm...okay...but if you're wrong, you'll have to deal with her."
"Don't worry -- I can handle her," Chris huffed.
"I'm sure," Brenda rolled her eyes.
There really was an entertainment/game CD-ROM Braveheart at the time this was written; it was put out by Eidos and sold at CompUSA, among other places. The CompUSA ad said only that it's a "Windows® CD". The illo of the packaging included the visible legend, "You've seen the movie... now live the legend!"
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PARALLEL
STORY: EXPERIENCE IS A TERRIBLE THING
TO WASTE
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