Space Opera - The Drip Chronicles

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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> Bob: wake up

You are now Bob the Drip.

You're a bit out of it. You could swear you were experiencing some sort of MADNESS a moment ago, but you've been wrenched out of the WHIRLING HALLUCINATORY CHAOS by an INCESSANT HOWLING, as of some wild beast in its dying throes.



It sounds suspiciously like a KLAXON.



It appears that the door to your DUNGEON has been opened at last, and who do you see standing there, but your old rival, the SMARMY JERK Steve John the Drop!

> Steve John: Interrogate Bob. Awesomely.

Try doing a Good Cop Space Cop approach. You are both.

"Alright, Bob, good, I'm glad to see you're awake," Steve John says, over the blaring sirens. "I'm sorry about the quality of the cell, but the locals insisted you be contained after all the headaches you've caused. I'll do everything I can to assuage their fears, but I'll need your cooperation..."

He fixes you with a SPACE COP look.

"Understand, however, that under Articles 9, 75, and 1889b of the Royal Unity Interstellar X-treme X-plorer Code of Conduct, on any neutral planet on which the local government is engaged in assimilation negotiations with the Royal Unity, exploratory destruction and the spreading of civilization by intrepid space explorers, both licensed and freelance, is prohibited. As publicized in PanGalactic Explorers' Guild Memo 332-F9, this planet, Ueluuria, was discovered by Licensed and Certified Exploration Agent 35 (that is, me), and its government is currently in assimilation negotiations, with Agent 35 (again, me) acting as the Unity's chief diplomat and representative entity. If you would read your memos more[/size][size=4] often, Bob, you wouldn't get into these kinds of messes. Furthermore, your direct violation of sections three through fifteen of the Royal Established and Recognized Space Vessel Landing Procedures suggests that you are overdue for an annual Stellar Transport Operations and Maintenance Exam, which, while not legally obligatory, is strongly recommended by the Interspecies Council for Preventing Hyperwarp Procedural Mishaps, and fully endorsed by both Resolution #462 of the Multistate Spaceways Regulatory Commission and Briefing Statement 0100653 of the Interstellar Exploratory Foundation for the Commercial and Scientific Expansion of The Unity...


...There's something behind Steve John.

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