MiSTing: THE EYE OF ARGON 8/8

[a.ca...@genie.geis.com]

[Continued from Part 7]

> Grignr clameed his right hand over Carthena's mouth and with a slight
>struggle pulled her

Crow: --upper right molar and all of her incisors.

>over to the shadows at the right hand wall of the path,
>while at the same time thrusting this torch

Tom: --into a pile of oily rags.

>beneath an overhanging stone to
>smother its flickering rays. "Be silent;

Mike [falsetto]: But I wasn't saying anyth--
Tom [Grignr]: I said be silent!

>I can hear footfalls approaching
>through the tunnel;" growled Grignr in a hushed tone.
> "All that you hear are the horses corraled at the far end of the
>tunnel. That is a further sign that we are

Crow [falsetto]: --doomed! We're doomed! Waaah!

>nearing our goal." She stated!

Mike: Damn did she state!

> "All that you hear is less than I hear! I heard footsteps coming
>towards us.

Tom [Grignr]: And I heard the CIA beaming satellite transmissions into my
brain!

>Silence yourself

Crow: Hey, it's an episode of "All in the Family"!
Mike: Actually, it's-- oh, close enough.

>that we may find out whom we are being
>brought into contact with.

Tom: After all, it is 2010: The Year We Are Brought Into Contact.

>I doubt that any would have thought as yet of
>searching this passage for us. The advantage of surprize will be upon our
>side." Grignr warned.

Crow: He warned her that something good was going to happen?
Mike: I'm warning you, if you open that box you'll find the keys to your
new Ferrari!

> Carthena cast her eyes downward and ceased any further pursuit towards
>conversation, an irritating habit

Tom: She did exactly what he wanted and he finds it irritating?
Mike: There's just no pleasing some people.

>in which she had gained an amazing
>proficiency. Two figures came into the pairs view, from around a turn in
>the tunnel. They were clothed in rich luxuriant silks and rambling o on

Crow: Much like Jim Theis.

>in conversation while ignorant of their crouching foes waiting in an ambush
>ahead.
> "...That barbarian dog

Tom: What is it that these people have against dogs? I mean, sure,
poodles and chihuahuas are kind of annoying, but still--

>is cringing beneath the weight of the lash at
>this moment sire. He shall cause no more disturbance."
> "Aye, and so it is with any who dare to cross the path of Sargon's
>chosen one." said the 2nd man.

Mike: Meanwhile, the Third Man was busy making a fortune off watered-down
penicillin.

> "But the peasants are showing signs of growing unrest. They complain
>that they cannot feet their families while burdened with your taxes."

Crow: And they can't tax their families while burdened with your feet.

> "I shall teach those sluts

Tom: --calculus, and then Edward James Olmos'll play me in the movie.
Crow: Sluts? Where?

>the meaning of humility! Order an
>immediate increase upon their taxes. They dare to question my sovereign
>authority, Ha-a, they shall soon learn what true oppression can be. I will
>... "

Mike: This little skit could become reality if you, the voter, make the
wrong decision on Election Day. Remember: friends don't let friends
vote for Bob Dornan.

> A shodowed bulk leapt from behind a jutting promontory as it brought
>down a double edged axe with the spped of a striking thought.

Crow: Which, again, this being Grignr, means that it took about forty-five
minutes.

>One of the
>nobles sagged lifeless to the ground, skull split to the teeth.
> Grignr gasped as he observed the bisected face set in its leering
>death agonies. It was Agafnd!

Tom [sighing]: Okay, now was Agafnd the prince, or the advisor, or the
prince's longtime companion, or what?

>The dead mans comrade having recovered from
>his shock drew a jewel encrusted dagger from beneath the folds of his

Crow: G-string?

>robe

Mike: That's a relief. At least =someone= around here is dressed.

>and lunged toward the barbarians back. Grignr spun at the sound from
>behind and smashed down his crimsoned axe once more. His antagonist lunged
>howling to a stream of stagnent green water, grasping a spouting stump that
>had once been a wrist.

Crow: It's just a flesh wound.
Tom [antagonist]: Hey, anyone around here got any Medi-Quik?

>Grignr raised his axe over his head and prepaired
>to finish the incomplete job,

Mike: He had to or it'd revert to an "F" after six weeks.

>but was detered half way through his lunge by
>a frenzied screech from behind.

Crow: It was Alanis Morissette!

> Carthena leapt to the head of the writhing figure, plunging a
>smoldering torch into the agonized face. The howls increased in their
>horrid intensity, stifled by the sizzling of roasting flesh,

Tom: Human -- the other white meat.

>then died down
>until the man was reduced to a blubbering mass of squirming, insensate
>flesh.

Crow: It was as if he'd been forced to sit through a "The Brothers Grunt"
marathon.

> Grignr advance to Carthena's side wincing slightly from the putrid
>aroma of

Tom: --Grignr.

>charred flesh that rose in a puff of thick white smog throughout
>the chamber. Carthena reeled slightly, staring dasedly downward at her
>gruesome handywork.

Mike: Have you ever considered taking some industrial arts classes? They
can help you match up those corners better and teach you how to apply a
more even coat of wood stain.

>"I had to do it ... it was Agaphim ... I had to, "
>she exclaimed!

Crow: It's the dramatic revelation at the climax of the story!
Tom: Now who was Agaphim again?

> "Sargon should be more carful of his right hand men." Added Grignr, a
>smug grin upon his lips.

Tom: Where else would it be?

>"But to hell with Sargon for now, the stench is
>becoming bothersome to me."

Mike [falsetto]: Maybe you should try a different deodorant?

>With that Grignr grasped Carthena

Crow: This guy's all hands!

>around the
>waist leading her around the bend in the cave and into the open.

Mike: Then over the river and through the woods.

> A ball of feral red

Crow: You mean the sun?
Mike: Let's not jump to conclusions.

>was rising through the mists of the eastern horizon,

Tom: Why... yes, the sun =does= rise in the east! Jim must've done some
painstaking research to get all these little details right.

>disipating the slinking shadows of the night. A coral stood
>before the pair, enclosing two grazing mares.

Mike: Oddly, the mares didn't seem to notice that they were underwater and
trapped in a reef.

>Grignr reached into a
>weighted down leather pouch dangling at his side and drew forth

Crow: Eww! Cut! Cut! We don't need the consummation scene!
Mike: Crow, the consummation scene happened five seconds after the characters
met.
Crow: Oh, yeah. Well, once was bad enough.

>the
>scintillant red emerald

Bots: That's three! That's three!
Tom: Once is happenstance...
Crow: And twice is coincidence...
Tom: But when it happens three times...
Crow: The situation is clear: Jim Theis really does think emeralds are red!

>he had obtained from the bloated idol. Raising it
>toward the sun he said, "We shall do well with bauble, eh!"

Mike [falsetto]: Uh, yes, Grignr. We shall do very well with bauble!
Tom: I'm put in the mind of a Boris Badinoff here.
Crow: Wait... didn't he say a while back that his culture hated baubles?

> Carthena gaped at the gem gasping in a terrified manner "The eye of
>Argon, Oh! Kalla!"

Tom: Now who was Kalla?
Mike: I don't think Kalla's been in the story before.
Tom: Great. A few sentences from the end, and Jim's bringing in new
characters.
Crow: I don't even remember any of the old ones.

>At this the gem gave off a blinding glow, then dribbled

Crow: --between a pair of defenders and took it to the hoop for two!

>through Grignr's fingers in a slimy red ooze.

Mike [Grignr]: I should've known it wasn't a real emerald! There was
always something about that emerald that just didn't seem right to me.

>Grignr stepped back, pushing

Tom: --drugs.
Crow: C'mon, you'll like it. The first one's free!

>Carthena behind him. The droplets of slime slowly converged
>into a pulsating jelly-like mass.

Crow: Inside were little pieces of delicious pineapple!

>A single opening transfixed the blob,
>forminf into a leechlike maw.
> Then the hideous transgressor of nature flowed towards Grignr, a trail
>of greenish slime

Bots: GREENISH slime?
Tom: That's it! That's the answer! He's color-blind! To Jim Theis, red
and green are the same!
Mike: He must've done time at the House of Stairs.

>lingering behind it. The single gap puckered repeatedly

Crow [falsetto]: Come on, kiss your Aunt Ethel!

>emitting a ghastly sucking sound.

Tom [Perot]: --as American jobs leave for Mexico!

> Grignr spread his legs

Crow: Isn't Cartagena supposed to be the one to do that?
Mike: It's Carthena, and you're the one who didn't want another consummation
scene.

>into a battle stance, steeling his quivering thews

Tom: My thews'd be quivering too, if I knew what thews were.

>for a battle royal with a thing he knew not how to fight. Carthena
>wound her arms about her protectors neck, mumbling, "Kill it! Kill!"

Crow [Grignr]: Yes! Grignr want to kill! Grignr like kill! But Grignr
not know how to kill!

>While her entire body trembled.

Mike: Except for her left elbow.

> The thing was almost upon Grignr when he buried his axe

Crow [Grignr]: Mebbe it'll make an axe tree and I'll have enough weaponry
to beat this thing!

>into the
>gristly maw. It passed through the blob and clanged upon the ground.
>Grignr drew his axe back with a film of yellow-green slime clinging to the
>blade.

Crow: Was it "The Castle of Fu Manchu"?
Tom: No. That film was far worse than yellow-green slime.

>The thing was seemingly unaffected. Then it started to slooze up

Mike: Don't you just hate it when your underwear starts to slooze up on you?

>his leg. The hairs upon his nape stoode on end from the slimey feel of the
>things buly, bulk.

Tom: Okay, we're getting downright Joycean here.

>The Nautous sucking sound became louder, and

Mike: --Ross Perot jumped up and down yelling, "I told you so!" while
Mexican entrepreneurs went on to dominate the world market.

>Grignr felt the blood being drawn from his body.

Tom [falsetto]: Are you 17? Are you 110 pounds? Okay, then, have a seat
right here and the nurse'll be with you in a moment.

>With each hiss of hideous pucker

Mike: But I don't want to kiss Aunt Ethel!

>the thing increased in size.

Crow: I'm still not so sure this isn't really a consummation scene. Sort
of the literary equivalent of the train going through the tunnel...?
Tom: You call this literary?

> Grignr shook his foot about madly

Mike: He did the Hokey Pokey and he turned himself around. That's what it's
all about!

>in an attempt to dislodge the blob,
>but it clung like a leech, still feeding upon his rapidly draining life
>fluid.

Crow: You mean blood?
Mike: Let's not jump to-- aw, heck with it. Yes. He means blood.

>He grasped with his hands trying to rip it off, but only found his
>hands entangled in a sickly glue- like substance.

Tom: So that's what happened to his horse!

>The slimey thing
>continued its puckering ; now having grown the size of Grignr's leg from
>its vampiric feast.

Crow: I don't believe I'm saying this, but this is almost... interesting!

> Grignr began to reel

Mike: In a twelve-pounder, but it was too strong and got away.

>and stagger under the blob, his chalk white face
>and faltering muscles attesting to the gigantic loss of blood. Carthena
>slipped from Grignr in a death-like faint,

Tom: Then Romeo showed up and stabbed himself.

>a morrow chilling scream upon her red rubish

Bots: Emeraldish!

>lips. In final desperation Grignr grasped the smoldering
>torch upon the ground and plunged it into the reeking maw of the travestry.
>A shudder passed through the thing.

Bots: Yeah! Go Grignr!
Mike: Even I'm starting to get into it!

>Grignr felt the blackness closing upon
>his eyes, but held on with the last ebb of his rapidly waning vitality.

All: Come on, Grignr! Go! Go!

>He
>could feel its grip lessoning as a hideous gurgling sound erupted from the
>writhing maw.

All: ALL RIGHT, GRIGNR! You can do it, buddy!

>The jelly like mass began to bubble like a vat of boiling
>tar as quavers passed up and down its entire form.

All: Yes? AND???

> -END OF STORY-

All: AGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Crow: It's over... all that time I wanted it to be over... page after page
when I would've chewed my own leg off to end the story... and he can't even
tack on a lousy concluding sentence? Jim Dickweed Theis can't finish with
ONE LOUSY CONCLUDING SENTENCE???
Tom: Guess not. C'mon, guys, time to go.
Mike: You coming, Crow?
Crow: No. I no longer have any will to live.

[1...2...3...4...5...6...]

Tom: Hey, Mike, I just noticed -- THE EYE OF ARGON is exactly 11,111 words
and exactly 1000 paragraphs long.
Mike: Why would you bother to count them?
Tom: Well, it's better than actually reading it.
Mike: You got me there. Think Crow's going to come out any time soon?
Tom: Who?
Mike: Never mind. Whaddaya think, sir?

[Deep 13]

Dr.F.: So the gold one kicked the bucket after all, eh? No longer perusing
his longevity, I take it? I knew it! The tarot cards set him up, and THE
EYE OF ARGON pushed him over the edge! Scored all over you, Nelson! Score!
Score!
Perkins [reading]: "...which dominates large portions of the Norgoli-- the
Norgol-- the Nor-- the--" BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!
Dr.F.: That's, what, six words? And now it's my turn again. Today's just
my day! Now, if you would... push the button, Jack.
Perkins: But... but... the Norgoli-- the Norgo-- the-- BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH--

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>Gaping from its single obling socket was scintillating,
>many fauceted scarlet emerald, a brilliant gem seeming to possess a life
>all of its own. A priceless gleaming stone, capable of domineering the
>wealth of conquering empires...the eye of Argon.