From wpettey@zianet.com Mon Jun 29 00:10:12 1998 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:27:32 -0600 From: wpettey To: Dante Expeditionary Force List Serve Subject: [DANTEXF] 716NASW: "Southern Comfort" [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] DANTE Expeditionary Force Official E-mail BEGIN TRANSMISSION SD: 100624.1300 MDT FMD: Unknown SCENE: Atlanta, Georgia Peering slowly out of the curtain, the man that looked like COL Ray took in his surroundings. The building looked to be a church of some sort converted into an emergency hospital, but the conditions were horrible and hardly sanitary. When he looked down at his own body, he noticed several blood covered bandages that had hastily been applied right over his uniform. But it wasn't his uniform. This coat was grey and heavy. The pants were dark with blood and his boots were caked with mud. Outside thunder rolled, telling him it was raining...thus accounting for the mud. But where was he? A woman in dingy white hurried past, he outfit seemed old fashioned and uncomfortable. He called out to her, taking a chance, "Nurse?" She whirled around, "Yes, Colonel?" He felt suddenly woozy, and leaned heavily upon the small partition surrounding his bed, "Can you help me?" She came over to him and leaned him back into the bed. In the privacy of the curtains she commented, "Suh, you are talkin' like one of them damned Yankees!" She touched the bandage on his head, causing him to wince, "Are you sure your alright?" He nodded but moaned at the movement. She patted him kindly on the arm, "You just lay here and recover yourself from them nasty wounds, and Ah'll try to get th' doctor in here t' look at you as soon as Ah can." She made him comfortable on the cot and headed for the curtain. As she stepped out, she turned and looked at him one more time, "Ah'm so sorry, Colonel. But your men didn't make it." SCENE: Fighter Wing Medical bay FMD: 06.1800 Yssar, Cort, Mirtox, and Dr. Toc all huddled together around the bio bed where the anesthisized CDR lay. Except for minor differences in DNA and eye color, the manon the bed was the spitting image of CDR Miller. Dr. LeBeau came in and joined them. "What do we know about his situation?" Yssar looked at the station's CMO, "Not much. We believe he may actually be who he says he is...either through past-life regression or some sort of soul-transference." The snort from the station's head doctor told the group he didn't believe either of those options. LT Cort O'Wood gasped, "D' ye think th' Pool O' Souls had anythin' t' do with this?" All the other officer's looked at him wondering. He briefkly explained, "CDR Miller visited a holodeck re-creation o' th' Pool O' Souls, and was there fer some time. I wonder if his sould got lost there...and this soul, displaced by death, travelled through time to find this abode?" Mirtox turned a brighter shade of blue, "LT, you are getting a little too supernatural for my taste. I know that the Irish have many legends of spirits, banshees and leprechuans, but I think this more likely a simple case of engery transferance through an unusual rip in the space-time continuum." Cort muttered under his breath, "An' ye think my idea was far-fetched!" **************************************************************************** ******************* NRPG: Yay for the NASW becoming it's own unit! Thanks to Mike G., Jeff J., David M, and Josh Y. for making it happen! Josh, what do you think of this little addition! :-) Erin/Chris please post soon. Respectfully submitted, Wendon Pettey wpettey@zianet.com ICQ UIN# 11472129 CPT Orleese Forrent (CO USS PERSEPHONE) http://www.angelfire.com/nm/usspersephone/orleese.html CDR TyGarra Bright Eyes (XO USS SORANUS) http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/4846/TyGarra.htm LT Cort O'Wood, "Shamrock" (XO NAsW716) http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/4846/OWood.htm LMAJ Wes Smith, "Joker" (2O/ATL SFFR7) http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/4846/Smith.htm "Accept that somedays you are the pidgeon... and somedays you are the statue." This message sent by an official member of the Dante Expeditionary Force Are you also posting your messages to the newsgroup?!!! END TRANSMISSION