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lilfluff: “Polywater real or as a new fraud/mistake”
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Bob tried to think this through. Brother Neuvo seemed nice enough, for an alien menace. Perhaps negotiation was possible. “Look,” he said. “I know you’re just doing your job, but I don’t really like the idea of getting run over by a supposedly superior culture. Couldn’t we just, I don’t know, pay tribute to you all?”
“Well, that may be a possibility,” Neuvo said thoughtfully. “There is precedent in the Book of Precedents.”
“Okay, that’s a start. What would you like? Hopefully not our women.”
“Oh, goodness no. Our, um…” Neuvo’s face flushed purple. “Well, there would be compatibility issues there. But we could use a new source of polywater!”
“Polywater?” Bob thought for a second. “Hey, I heard of that in my chem classes. It was never for real.”
“Of course it’s ‘for real,’” Brother Neuvo exclaimed. “It’s the whole basis for our technology!”
“You’re kidding.”
“Certainly not! If it weren’t for polywater we wouldn’t have the proper solution to use in our cold fusion process to power our Dean drives!”
Oh, no. “Hey, this God of yours. He wouldn’t happen to be a Thetan, would he?”
Neuvo brightened immediately. “You’ve heard of Him!”
“It was a lucky guess…”
lilfluff: “Polywater real or as a new fraud/mistake”* * *
Bob tried to think this through. Brother Neuvo seemed nice enough, for an alien menace. Perhaps negotiation was possible. “Look,” he said. “I know you’re just doing your job, but I don’t really like the idea of getting run over by a supposedly superior culture. Couldn’t we just, I don’t know, pay tribute to you all?”
“Well, that may be a possibility,” Neuvo said thoughtfully. “There is precedent in the Book of Precedents.”
“Okay, that’s a start. What would you like? Hopefully not our women.”
“Oh, goodness no. Our, um…” Neuvo’s face flushed purple. “Well, there would be compatibility issues there. But we could use a new source of polywater!”
“Polywater?” Bob thought for a second. “Hey, I heard of that in my chem classes. It was never for real.”
“Of course it’s ‘for real,’” Brother Neuvo exclaimed. “It’s the whole basis for our technology!”
“You’re kidding.”
“Certainly not! If it weren’t for polywater we wouldn’t have the proper solution to use in our cold fusion process to power our Dean drives!”
Oh, no. “Hey, this God of yours. He wouldn’t happen to be a Thetan, would he?”
Neuvo brightened immediately. “You’ve heard of Him!”
“It was a lucky guess…”
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