[HG-PBEM] Warming up the track
- From: "Dennis D. Kirkpatrick" <dkirkpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <apaworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:20:21 -0600 (MDT)
John Guilfoyle said:
>> "You heard the woman," Silas barked as he started
>> climbing the ladder up alongside a Warrior Gear parked in
>> leftmost bay. "Mount up! We're first in a long line
>> today."
>
> Casting off her desert robes, Juliette climbed up to her
> Sidewinder's cockpit clad only in her ink-black desert
> suit. Swingly one leg into place with surprising agility,
> she perched for a moment on the edge of the cockpit,
> putting on the helmet she'd retrieved from her seat. With
> it firmly on, she surveyed the bay floor below, worked a
> couple of kinks out of her neck and then dropped into
> place.
>
> The powerful machine roared to life at the beckoning of
> Lemanz's fingertips, and the southerner strapped herself in
> as the v-engine warmed and settled into a low, familiar
> rumble. Flipping a switch to close the cockpit, Juliette
> surveyed several banks of diagnostic readouts as hydraulics
> whined and the hatch closed with a heavy whump.
>
> Satisfied the the gear was in top working order, Juliette
> settled her hands onto the controls and made the machine
> stride out of its stall into the middle of the bay. "All
> systems are go," she reported, bringing the machine around
> to face Silas and his gear.
Jory's Tiger rolled out of its maintenance bay and spun around Lemanz's
Sidewinder balancing on one foot and coming to a stop alongside. "Woo hoo,
feels good to be back in the cockpit, eh? Stripes is all go too."
[...]
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Dennis D. Kirkpatrick
Littleton, CO USA
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