Australia was feeling left
out of Operation Market Garden and so sent a team of commandos deep-cover into
Nazi-occupied Netherlands. They had been
outfitted by the props department. When accosted by German troops at a
checkpoint, one of the commandos said:
‘Awh, vwe are just poisant
farmers of Deutsch Neitherlands.'
Nobody is sure what accent
he was going for but it was the English that gave them away. In the resulting
kerfuffle, a Nazi skull was beaten in with wooden clog. Said bloodstained clog
was returned to the props department.
The cold-war director of the
Props Department had an eye for enchantments and so detected that the clogs had
accrued +1 Blunt Damage. When ASIO put in
a request for a formal-but-high-stakes outfit for a party in a Shanghai
penthouse, the director had the clogs polished. The +1 blunt damage came in
handy when Agent Valentina roundhouse kicked Mouth Bone into a loft wall. The
clogs gained another +1 blunt damage when Agent Valentina kicked Mouth Bone's
head into the wall.
The Clogs reached +3 blunt damage
when the director spent a quiet day doing some inventory. Standing tippy toes
on step ladder, fingers did not quite grasp the top-shelf box. Alas, clogs fell
out and scored lethal concussion on their own. Nobody has been brave enough to
sign out the Clogs of +3 Blunt Damage until Alexander
snorts a line of cocaine and shrieks 'Yeee-haaaw' before waving ten gallon hat
whilst filling out requisite paperwork.
Now: where the foothills
become the hills. The plant nursery is pretty but pretty lacklustre. The
attached restaurant, requisite for all retail nurseries since about 2015, is
actually good. In a private room, wait staff carefully place a porcelain toilet
between Alexander and Carl. The plastic
seat is laid with teacups on saucers, steeped pot of peppermint tea, cucumber sandwich
slices, five cut lines of cocaine for both parties and a mound between the two.
This is known as high tea.
'Thank you for inviting me
out.' Alexander takes off his hate before a line goes up slobbery nostril. 'But
I suspect you have ulterior motives.'
Carl also snorts, the pinkie
raised on hand pushing in left nostril: 'Bitch, I heard you got clogs. Are they
your size.'
Alexander concedes that they
are one size too small: 'Commerce. Love it.'
'Perhaps you would like to
trade -' Carl skulls the tea. '-them in for something one-size-fits-all.'
'I still have those Condoms
of +4 Bureaucratic Efficiency.'
Carl is mute, potential
responses traffic jammed in doorway, before he returns to line (with nostril): 'I
meant the Perfectly Fluttery Dress.'
Cucumber falls from
Alexander's mouth: 'But I'm a boy.'
'Bitch, you ate that cake
that makes you menstruate.'
Alexander laughs before
throwing toilet to the side and rushing Carl. This is not an explicit 'no'.
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