Fourth Howl [Audio, late Monday night]

[professorwolf]

[After a little thought on how best to say this without letting the Outer Authorities know too much, Lyall finally makes an announcement. He feels it's something everyone ought to know, and he'll be happy to field questions, but still: it's a bit vague. It's also very late, but he's nocturnal, anyway. What did anyone expect?

Despite the usual tiredness, though, he actually sounds light-hearted for the first time in days, to anyone who's been paying attention.]

This is Randolph Lyall.

[Yeah, officially dropping the Professor at this point....]

Chime is alive. Apparently that ship has more uses than we thought. Please reply encrypted if you wish details, or find me at the hospital. I'm afraid I can't send a mass message with any kind of locking protocol on it, but this seems rather important.

[Understatement of the year. He disconnects after a moment of trying to decide whether he should include a farewell. In the end, though, it just seems silly.]

Comments

[jimkirk]

[ He thinks of how older Spock taught Scotty...uh, his own equation? Okay, that was a headache. ]

Yeah, man, you could probably really wow some people, huh?

[professorwolf]

I imagine so. Of course, we will have to manage to return first.

[And he's not holding his breath for that one.]

[jimkirk]

Yeah, there's that. Well, hey, there's a lot of brainy people about. Eventually, we'll have to figure something out.

[ Jim doesn't believe in losing, but even he's not entirely sure they'll manage to get home. He's gotta try to hold on to that hope, though. He's gotta. ]

[professorwolf]

Eventually. We can certainly hope for it, given, yes, the number of brainy people about.

[Lyall decides not to get into what detail he knows about that ship, and just how badly damaged it is. Being negative at the moment not only isn't going to help anything, he's just not in the mood, either.]

You are with the group who opted to leave, aren't you?