ÚÄÄÂÄÄÂÄÂÄ¿ ÚÄ¿ÚÄ¿ :::::ÜßßßÜ:ÜÜÛÛÛßß:ܲÛÛÛÛÜ::: ³ Ú¿ ÃÄ´ ³ ³ ÀÙÚÙ :::ÜÛÝ:::ÞÝÛÛܲÛÝßÞÛÛÛÜÜÛ²Ý:: ³°³ ³°³°³°ÀÄ´°Ú¿À¿ and :Ü۲ܲÜ::ß:ß²Û²ÛÛÜÜþÛÛßÛÛÛÛ:: ÀÄÙ ÀÄÁÄÁÄÄÄÁÄÙÀÄÙ ß:Û±Û²ÛÛßßß:±ßßßÛßÜÜÛÝÞÛ²ÜÝ:: ::Û°ß::::ßßß°::ß:::ßÛ:ÛÛ²ß:gh ° ß± File #005: Keet (By Snakelady) ° ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ The distant thunder, amplified by the tunnel and the peculiar geometry of the cavern it led into, startled Keet, causing her to drop the latest batch of stic that she had uncovered. She had to hurry now, to the surface and seal up the entrance, so that the rainwater would not seep into this mine and do damage. She was so proud of herself for probably being the first to find a mine that apparently had never been damaged by water, and its attendant rot. Not that it could damage stic, but she had recently developed an interest in the things found along with it. Some could be smelted, and others could be used unprocessed for fuel, but she knew they had purposes other than summoning evil, as the old ones had said. She grabbed the two sacks of stic, mixed with the other things, and headed to the surface. As she was sealing the entrance, a boy, running home to avoid the ensuing rains, stopped long enough to call her obscene names, which she easily ignored, as he was at a safe distance, and out of range of a rock throw. Diggers were necessary, she thought, but hated and feared. Did they not, after all, make their living out of the excrement from the bowels of the Evil One? Even though the corrosion proof utensils and tools that stic was used to make were necessary, the source was still despised. And a distant clan with knowers had uncovered some things in their mines which required a lot of stic, converted to liquid, to operate. Rumors had it they did wondrous things. Like move on their own and make light. And that clan bartered well. She had even heard that their knowers had passed along knowledge to all who would listen in places called skills. And that they had repulsed attacks from some neighboring clans with magical weapons from the Evil One. Yet the very reason they were attacked was because they had denied the very existence of both magic, and the Evil One. And they did not shun diggers. As she hurried home under the weight of the sacks, she had decided that when her grandfather passed on - as had her parents and two sisters from the Coughing Curse- she would go join that clan. At sixteen seasons, she knew she would be able to select a fine mate amongst the knowers. And be able to provide her own dowery from the collection of things she had amassed from the mines. Especially the woody-things-with-pictures that were extremely rare, that she had just found in the new mine. Legend had it that they also contained words, but she didn't see how. But she did hear a trader from the knower clan ask about them once. He called them 'bux', and said he would trade a cow for each one! As Keet hurried across the field she tripped over a knotted vine, and when she hit the ground the sacks fell open, and some of those 'bux' fell out. Dazed, she looked at the funny drawings on the top of each one that were next to her. Strange drawings with lines and curves, that didn't look like anything. Unbeknownst to her, the drawings did have a pattern: Stedmans Medical Dictionary, Basic Electronics, Principles of Physics, and Floral Arrangements. Getting to her feet, and putting them back in the sack, she smiled as she handled the last one. It had such pretty pictures. She would demand two cows for that one. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ MiLK & TeA Member Listing: ³ ³ ³ ³ James Hetfield Rattle Pip The Angry Youth Nyarlathotep ³ ³ Snakelady ³ ³ ³ ³ MiLK & TeA Sights: ³ ³ ³ ³ The Obloid Sphere 41:708/1 [708]965-3098 [Illinoizze] ³ ³ The Land of Rape and Honey 41:609/1 [609]698-1358 [New Jarsee] ³ ³ ³ ³ Note: These are the only two MiLK & TeA sights to date. There are like ³ ³ 10,000 other boards supposedly ready to be milk and tea sights, but until ³ ³ I get the news that say they are ready to distribute, They'll remain ³ ³ unlisted. -Jamesy ³ ³ ³ ³ An udder note: The addresses listed above are for [LaMENeT], The offical ³ ³ net of M&T. You can reach the editors of M&T through the boards listed ³ ³ above with LaMENeT Addresses. Whoomp, there it is. ³ ³ ³ ³ .nfo: File: #005 Author: Snakelady ³ ³ Size: 5688 Bytes Title: "Keet" ³ ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ