The rupture was 2 meters in diameter. It

The rupture was 2 meters in diameter. It was easy to find - with all the stuff from the broken pipes floating near the opening. I activated thrusters and counted to 3 - any more

and I'd leave orbit, any less and I wouldn't get high enough off Planet Xog's surface to properly evaluate the extent the damage the broken water main had done. I noticed a small

crack in the Auger Pumps and that worried me. The planet Xog is doomed if the Seal Core doesn't get down there before the Ice Moons rise in a week. Problems. Big Problems

that only people who understand geothermal energy can solve. To solve Xog's seal core-lacking ice moons-rising problem, the planet's inhabitants sought a pony with a cutey mark of

"The Sign Formerly Known As Prince". If only the pony had listened to her mother before putting such a permanent mark on her hide. Instead, she told her mother to

mind her own pony business, like the elves in the garden. But she was sorry now and wished with all her might as tears fell into the enchanted bird bath. A rainbow appeared, burnin

g the pants off a leprechaun who fell from the sky. Clearly pissed, he glared at her with singed beard, bowtie askew, top hat smashed, and missing a shoe. Instead of a pot of gold

there was a bucket of IOU's. And his charms offered no luck on their own, but were as subject to chance and randomness as the next clover. This must be a lepre-con. I feel cheated

, so I contacted the Irish Consumer Protection Agency to inquire about this...this lepre-con. Sure enough, thousands of complaints against him. He was not magically delicious. He

was a greedy old curmudgeon who liked to hoarde his treasure like a gnarly dragon in a cave. Anytime someone won the lottery, he'd become quite literally green with envy.