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The Civil-verse was plagued with associated

  • The Civil-verse was plagued with associated tourists. They self ported through the Master Press like worms in a carcass. My job was to give them a reason to go home.
  • I'm Agent Archo with Civil-verse Port Authority. Returning Illegally ported tourists to their Protoverse is my job. "Eridian Floaters decending on methane fountains of Trithus"
  • I would sing as I strummed my lute and guided the shackled tourists to Transporter 61B. It was just before the Konsumitall holiday of 2674.01 when the great transporter disaster
  • ruined the package tourist business to Zerta )(, the subsequent rioting leading to Emperor U walking the streets accompanied by Terpsichorean camel and a whispering gnorge. My lute
  • Was producing something straight out of the Elizabethan era. The Emperor applauded and hired me as the court musician. Or one of them. It was a dream come true. My lute made me a
  • target in the court of the Monkey King but here my lute made me a Rock Star. I was invited to all the great salons but I couldn't attend any of them. I was chained by my vow to be
  • Monkey Courtesan for the whole of the Monkey King's court. It was actually a suite gig (get it?), but with my lute lessons unused, I gradually forgot how to play all the best licks
  • Until eventually I only knew how to play The Monkees by the similarly named band banned throughout the Monkey kingdom. I was to be peeled and eaten at dawn. That night in th prison
  • mess hall, a coupla nuts and me decided to split. What did we have to lose? We hid in garbage pails and were taken out at midnight. I was a free fruit at last. If only I hadn't hum
  • ped the leg of a Chinese sailor named Fun who knew me as the AWOL fruit (the nuts were rounded up not far from the trash); Fun took me back to the mess hall before chowtime ended.
Started
2013-05-04 01:11:22
Finished
2019-10-20 23:22:10

5 Comments

  1. Avatar

    Jimbeau Oct 20 2019 @ 23:33

    Any time, Or anywhere Just look over your shoulder
  2. Avatar

    LordVacuity Oct 21 2019 @ 00:42

    Almost 6 and half years later...
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    SlimWhitman Oct 22 2019 @ 03:01

    Worth the wait.
  4. Avatar

    Jimbeau Oct 22 2019 @ 19:02

    Any time Or anywhere Just look over your shoulder Guess who'll be standing there? Hey, hey, we're the Monkees And people say we monkey around
  5. Avatar

    SlimWhitman Nov 11 2019 @ 03:32

    ... and we do!

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