by

Yanick Champoux (38%)

Lee Watts (18%)

Josip Nað (17%)

Michel Lacombe (16%)

Dorian (4%)

goldkngt55 (3%)

Andrew Avila (2%)

Marten (1%)

Oliver (1%)

Part 26

goldkngt55 (18/01/2002)

In the late twentieth century, three thousand years before, a little known but well liked magic latern presentation called "Connections" dealt with how the littlest of things often led to the most catacysmic of events.

It is thus with some temerity that three innoculous peasants, we'll call them for the sake of posterity Larry, Curly and Moe (these were not of course their real names) slowly moving an antique statue for the late and great Baroness Gloriana Hazat on Byzantium Secundus.

The connection, in this case is the fact that the late great Baroness was inexorbibly cheap, and did nothing about the rather nasty hull rate problem in her own domicile. Thus, when the well chewed rope snapped, sending the statue hurdling down to the ground and crushing the three innocent (And now quite dead) men beneath it, the small, seamless metal package inside that wasn't meant to ever be known or seen by the light of day again was exposed to full and public view by all those in the square.

The scraver that swept into the shards of clay that littered it, snatching it up in dextrous young fingers was about to have a date with destiny off world that he could hardly begin to imagine, or its connection with a rather nasty situation going on a spaceship...to which we now return you...

[though a quick note however, our sad but heroic larry, curly and moe, do alas, not make any grad difference in the sceme of things by their death...except perhaps their bartender who will miss them greatly]