A Conversation for LIL'S ATELIER
A Christmas Tree Hunt
Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Dec 19, 2001
*cannot resist doing it anyway*
Carmel 
seems to be safely tucked away beneath Madam Ruppy (see posting no.291)...
...and as for d'E....
*watching d'E walking - as if in his sleep - towards haywain, climbing up, and slumping down heavily into hay*
Ready to go!
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Dec 20, 2001
/* Groggily pointing in no direction in particular */
Santa? Is that Santa?
Mustn't sleep, no, no...
Marsheleshte! 
A Christmas Tree Hunt
Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Dec 20, 2001
*Amos whistles to the horses, who shake off the snow that has accumulated on their heads and willingly move in a circle. Soon the wain is heading back the way it came*
Amos: I can hardly see ahead of us! Let's trust the horses.
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Afgncaap5 Posted Dec 20, 2001
*Knows that this is a ludicrously inapropriate time, but he chooses this instance to get back at Lil's snowball with a similar snowball*
A Christmas Tree Hunt
dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Dec 20, 2001
/* Begins to warm up in the hay. */
Are we rescued? I think I see lights up ahead.
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Dec 20, 2001
*Amos turns and glares at the passengers, then nearly loses his balance as the horses come to a halt, snorting nervously. There is a large, dark, indistinct form ahead of them, and it appears to be moving*
Lil's gone inside the atelier with the others, when the tree was delivered: Amos has come back on his own.
A Christmas Tree Hunt
Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Dec 21, 2001
What is it? Why have we stopped?
*stands up to have a look*
Why - it seems to be that hill we saw in different directions earlier - or is it?
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Dec 21, 2001
AAAAAAGHHHHH!
SNOW WHALES!
/* Faints */
A Christmas Tree Hunt
Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Dec 21, 2001
Whales? Oooooo.... where? *looks around, eyes shining at the thought of finding new creatures to 
with*
A Christmas Tree Hunt
Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Dec 21, 2001
Whales? Oooooo.... where? *looks around, eyes shining at the thought of finding new creatures to with*
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Dec 21, 2001
/* Comes to, just in time to see a nearby "hill" spout a huge spray of snow. */
Real live snow whales! How do we determine if they are friendly or not?
/* Zeppo wakes up, and charges after the whale. */
A Christmas Tree Hunt
Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Dec 21, 2001
I guess we're about to find out...
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Dec 21, 2001
*Amos tries to calm the horses, who are decidedly unhappy at the strange scent*
Amos: We must be at the river!
A Christmas Tree Hunt
dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Dec 21, 2001
/* Zeppo reaches the top of the "hill" where another plume of snow is spurting, but it abruptly stops. He looks around curiously, the plume shoots up again, he spins around to snap at it, and the plume stops. This continues for several minutes. */
What's odd Affy, the fact that we're at the river, or that we seem to have met a snow whale?
/* The hill has swum to the other side of the haywain, with Zeppo still on top. */
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Dec 22, 2001
*Amos, seeing that none of his passengers are disposed to tackle the oddity, snaps his whip and urges the horses into a smart trot, all the while giving them enough rein to pick their own direction*
*The wain suddenly goes over a hump or small hillock that was definitely not a part of the journey out, but just then the snow seems to let up and the 42's of H2G2 Village become visible*
[Amos]: That's ther way, beauties, take us home now!
A Christmas Tree Hunt
Ludwig the Labrador Posted Dec 22, 2001
*wakes up in dog sled*
*notices Zeppo playing a dangerous game*
Woof! Woof! (stop that and come back here, 
)
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Dec 22, 2001
*the haywain slows as the horses come back to a walk, finding themselves once again amid the street decorations of H2G2 Village*
Amos: This pair will be glad of a rubdown and a bran mash when we get back to the farm. And I could murder an eggnog, meself.
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A Christmas Tree Hunt
- 341: Titania (gone for lunch) (Dec 19, 2001)
- 342: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Dec 20, 2001)
- 343: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Dec 20, 2001)
- 344: Afgncaap5 (Dec 20, 2001)
- 345: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Dec 20, 2001)
- 346: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Dec 20, 2001)
- 347: Titania (gone for lunch) (Dec 21, 2001)
- 348: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Dec 21, 2001)
- 349: Titania (gone for lunch) (Dec 21, 2001)
- 350: Titania (gone for lunch) (Dec 21, 2001)
- 351: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Dec 21, 2001)
- 352: Titania (gone for lunch) (Dec 21, 2001)
- 353: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Dec 21, 2001)
- 354: Afgncaap5 (Dec 21, 2001)
- 355: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Dec 21, 2001)
- 356: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Dec 22, 2001)
- 357: Titania (gone for lunch) (Dec 22, 2001)
- 358: Ludwig the Labrador (Dec 22, 2001)
- 359: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Dec 22, 2001)
- 360: Titania (gone for lunch) (Dec 22, 2001)
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