Bender Cove Township Scenario
Episodes
Episodes #1-100 (8/29/97-12/14/97)
Episodes #101-200
(12/15/97-3/29/98)
Episodes #201-300
(3/29/98-)
Episode #1: First Day (8/29/97) Veraik and Briel see the site of the new Sime Center for the first time, and attempt to get started on making it ready for the public. They are assisted (sort of) by Wise Snake.
Episode #2: Aleiaa's Transfer (8/30/97) Veraik is trying to get the Center ready for its grand opening, with the assistance of Aleiaa and Wise Snake. By the end of the day, Snake's black market connections are no longer in doubt. Veraik assigns Aleiaa to give transfer to Wise Snake, which goes badly when Aleiaa is injured and forced to shen Snake to save herself. Veraik, disgusted with Wise Snake's performance, locks her up and threatens rehabilitation. Snake manages to trick the two of them and escape.
Episode #3: Tramila (8/31/97) Tramila Farris arrives and reveals that Wise Snake is also, in fact, a Farris. Wise Snake denies it although rather halfheartedly. Briael snoops in the files and learns titillating gossip on everybody. Tramila assigns Wise Snake to give Veraik transfer, which goes off without a hitch. The Center has its Grand Opening, which is presided over by Wise Snake since Veraik and Briael are, um, otherwise occupied.
Episode #4: K'Lana (9/1/97) K'Lana Farris arrives, looking to speak to Veraik and Briael who are both absent. Upon discovering Wise Snake there, K'lana first insults her, then enlists her aid in straightening out her field. K'Lana then goes off in search of her new Donor, who was supposed to meet her at the Center but never arrived.
Episode #5: DLaura (9/2/97) A Gen turns up, who turns out to be Veraik's transfer assignment arriving a day late. After failing to seduce Snake into transfer, DLaura tells a disturbing tale connecting Tramila to Distect saboteurs.
Episode #6: Leather Fetish (9/2/97) Veraik and K'Lana spar over how the Center is run and who should have what responsibilities. Veraik takes steps to protect copies of his orders after K'Lana claims they are invalid. When K'Lana fails to produce her Tecton file after claiming she is now assigned to the Center, Veraik asks Wise Snake to sneak into K'Lana's room and look for the file. Wise Snake does so and discovers, among other... interesting... items, that the file contains all falsified information.
Episode #7: Spy Problems? (9/3/97) Veraik, Wise Snake and Aleiaa assist in a changeover. Snake and Veraik have some trouble with the chain-of-command. Veraik learns Aleiaa is pregnant and becomes obsessed with finding out who the father is. He confides to Snake that he fears Aleiaa is a spy. Aleiaa seduces, then almost Genslams, Veraik, in an attempt to escape. Snake storms out of the Center convinced everybody there is insane.
Episode #8: Double Tragedy (9/4/97) Aleiaa learns that K'lana is the spy. K'lana determines that Aleiaa is the person she was sent to seek out and murder: the lover of the Sectuib in Zeor, sent to live in hiding in the obscure Sime Center for her own safety. K'lana murders Aleiaa, but Aleiaa also murders K'lana in an attempt at self-defense.
Episode #9: The Fire (9/4/97) The Sectuib in Zeor arrives at the Sime Center to retrieve the body of his dead lover. He informs Wise Snake that her precipitous ousting from Zeor only two months before was for her own protection and not because she was not wanted there. She is not impressed. Veraik is still Post five days after his transfer and Wise Snake attempts to adjust his hormonal balance with... mixed results. The Sectuib drops the bomb by demanding Wise Snake bear his next heir. After she refuses, he threatens her with public attrition and she flees the Center. After suffering a nearly fatal collapse which the Sectuib saves him from, Veraik attempts to find Wise Snake in the town with little success. A fire breaks out on the docks which spreads to destroy a section of the Warehouse and Dockside districts, including the block the Sime Center building is on. The Sectuib is injured and Veraik gets him to safety.
Episode #10: Zethraim (9/6/97) Veraik having been unsuccessful in saving the original Sime Center, the story has now moved into the replacement building. Veraik's new donor Alea has arrived. Wise Snake is still missing. In the course of an attempt by Veraik to discover her whereabouts, Veraik and Alea are subjected to a seemingly interminable story told by the slow moving Zethraim. Veraik gives Zethraim a message to take to Wise Snake, asking her to come back.
Episode #11: Snake Returns (9/7/97) Wise Snake returns to the Sime Center, bringing along various assorted first time donors including JonDrake and Vit. Veraik works to make sure Snake won't want to leave again. Tarsh wrestles with files disorganized by the move and inflicts a complicated survey on the new donors. Vit manages to cheat the Sime Center on his payment on the way out. Veraik and Snake figure out Tarsh has had direct Gen transfer. Snake blackmails Tarsh into doing favors for her in return for protection from punishment.
Episode #12: Lowren (9/11/97) Lowren, a Gen just come from Out Territory, comes in for his first donation, which is taken by Wise Snake. Lowren tells how his father disowned him for trying to help his brother survive changeover. Alea spills boiling water on herself and has to be rescued, and healed, by Wise Snake. Tarsh complains that the paperwork hasn't been getting done properly and Veraik gives everybody a lecture on the subject. Veraik assigns Alea and Wise Snake to each other for transfer, then proceeds to attempt to seduce Alea into agreeing to a post-transfer appointment. However, the transfer ends up leaving neither in Post condition. The story of Snake's lifetime of bad transfers is detailed.
Episode #13: Police Inspection (9/13/97) Veraik's new transfer partner shows up and turns out to be completely inadequate. It is decided that Wise Snake will give Veraik transfer again, instead. Before this can occur the Center is visited by Police Chief Tormer. While the Police Chief and his goons are tearing the place apart ("inspecting" it), Wise Snake takes Paulatino and Veraik aside for donation and transfer. Afterward she talks to Tormer and succeeds in striking a deal which should prevent further police difficulties. Veraik at various different times makes it abundantly and repeatedly clear that he would like Alea to share in his post reaction. Mr. and Mrs. Tengstun show up looking to donate and after Mrs. Tengstun nearly kills Veraik in "donation" the two are thrown out of the Center (and barred from returning).
Episode #14: RenSime Seeks Gen Transfer (9/14/97) Various methods of gaining revenge on the Police Department are fantasized about. Various methods of obtaining required equipment to repair the Sime Center after the Inspection are also discussed. Veraik finally gets his chance to seduce Alea. An exterminator arrives to rid the Center of vermin. The chemicals give Alea an allergic reaction. Ola brings in her granddaughter Bess for treatment for transfer burn. Tarsh knows the renSime who burned Bess and has to be restrained from going out to commit physical violence on the man.
Episode #15: The Gnome (9/15/97) JonDrake arrives to fill out some paperwork and Alea attempts to... er... seduce him to the cause of being a Tecton Donor. Lowren arrives for treatment from "accidental" injuries. Linn, an OT teacher, arrives asking for educational materials. Throughout the episode Snake and Alea are unable to work together successfully. Wise Snake delivers Tarsh's transfer and is devastated by his lukewarm feedback afterward. Tarsh is, however, quite Post. He and Alea are just about to come to an understanding when they are interrupted by a wildly jealous Veraik. Later the two of them end up celebrating Tarsh's Post anyway, while Veraik and Tramila attempt to revive Snake, who was discovered sitting in the garden talking to a stone gnome.
Episode #16: Artistry (9/16/97) Some of the items for repair of the Center arrive. Alea proudly displays her, um, artistic skill by hanging her new embroidery work in the lobby (terrifying Snake with her clumsy antics in the process). Snake sends the artwork to Tormer as part cruel joke, part bribe. Snake also discovers a love letter "from" her to Tarsh, inexpertly forged by Alea. Wise Snake finds the letter amusing, not realizing there are dozens of others hidden around the building.
Episode #17: Alea's Dream (9/16/97) In an unnerving, message-laden dream, Alea is tormented by a Wise Snake obsessed with gaining her as permanent transfer partner. Veraik responds with anger to Alea's challenge to his authority, but then is first badly burned in a transfer, then emasculated by a misapplication of the channeling arts. Alea spills all her deepest secrets, apparently unable to stop herself.
Episode #18: OT Wild Safari (9/17/97) Alea requests Tarsh's assistance in hanging her new... artworks. Wise Snake arrives just in time to heal Tarsh of the injuries that predictably result. Tarsh finds another fake love letter and... another item... planted by Alea. Linn comes to schedule a channel to speak to her students that afternoon. Wise Snake and Alea travel into OT to deliver the lecture. Wise Snake's lecture style proves to be somewhat unorthodox, as do her handouts.
Episode #19: The Tentacle Chair Tour (9/18/97) Alea attempts to move into Veraik's office. Somebody tampers with Alea's report on Veraik, making the report much less complimentary than originally written. After a fight with Veraik, Alea surprisingly manages to hold her own in a shouting match with Tramila. Jon Drake arrives at the Center looking for help with his overproduction problem. Wise Snake explains to him his options for the future. Linn Haskins arrives with a huge group of kids for a Sime Center tour. Linn's refusal to donate proves too interesting a challenge for shameless Snake to resist. Various Sime Center staff go to various shiltpron parlors and arrive back home in various states.
Episode #20: Transitions (9/19/97) Wise Snake's new Donor arrives early and delivers a mind-blowing transfer before disappearing once again. Alea's love-letter-writing prank comes to a head. Jon Drake arrives, in a panic because an accident has caused his selyn production to soar again. Linn shows up to make the dreaded blackmail donation to Snake. Mr. and Mrs. Tengstun show up to contest their barred-from-donating status and are thrown out of the Sime Center once again. Alea accidentally pushes Mr. Tengstun down the stairs which leads to an injury and the filing of a police report. Veraik and Alea have difficulty in initiating their transfer but Wise Snake is able to help them into it.
Episode #21: Chain of Psychos (9/20/97) Zao arrives at the Center having just killed her father in changeover. Alea nearly destroys the Sime Center in a comedic clumsy rampage that outstrips even her usual performance. A need-crazed RenSime named Febus arrives and attacks Alea. The situation turns interesting when Alea hands him a gun. Later Veraik returns and hears the entire story from Alea and Snake. Dwilin arrives, to all outward appearances a young Gen very enthusiastic to give a donation. Snake recommends that Alea be removed from service as a Donor until she has been trained out of her outrageous behavior.
Episode #22: Kill Lust (9/21/97) The peace is shattered when a seemingly harmless Gen with an evangelical message of "one-ness" suddenly turns into a psycho and attacks Tarsh in the Sime Center's lobby. Alea succeeds in throwing the woman out then tends to Tarsh's injuries. Snake, all unknowing, brings her back to the Center where she heals both the woman and Tarsh. Tarsh is scarred more than physically... his faith in his self control around Gens is shaken.
Episode #23: It's Not-Quite-Legal-Activities Day at the Sime Center (9/22/97) Alea starts a fire in the cafeteria kitchen while trying to cook. Ola arrives for treatment of her angina. Jon Drake makes his decision to go for Donor training; in the course of the decision making he and Alea get royally drunk. Wise Snake reveals that she knows of legal transgressions in Tarsh's past. Zao's brother Sid comes to the Sime Center to learn the facts of life with regards to Larity, which Wise Snake explains with great patience. Veraik tells Alea he loves her and offers her a transfer dependency with him so she does not have to ever be sent on to a different Sime Center. Alea does not know how to respond.
Episode #24: B'Cal (9/23/97) Wise Snake's aggressive new Donor B'cal shows up and terrorizes the Center's staff. Wise Snake goes on a house call to examine a boarder of Ola's and is shocked to discover the boarder is Alice, Linn's former teacher aid. Alea learns some of Jon Drake's life story. B'cal latches onto Snake and gets her started on what B'cal says is a new daily regimen. Alea works with Veraik, trying to be her best as a Donor. Veraik is injured in a bizarre accident in the garden.
Episode #25: Not a Through Street (9/24/97) Veraik is still out of commission, with Alea caring for him. A new channel named Jirelle arrives. Lowren's renSime friend Parnul arrives trying to find him. Jon Drake attempts to show Parnul to the hotel where Lowren is staying and the pair are attacked by street thugs. Parnul is badly injured and JonDrake attempts to save his life despite not yet having received any Donor training. Word is sent to the Sime Center, and Wise Snake and B'Cal rush to the scene of the crime and manage to save both victims.
Episode #26: Rescue (9/25/97) Tarsh looks into getting new locks for the Sime Center. Jon Drake awakens but is in bad shape from his ordeal the day before. Linn asks Wise Snake to help her find a missing student and they discover him trapped in ruins. They manage to rescue the child and his Gen friend, with help from a handsome Seaman. B'cal, enraged at having been made to oversleep by sly Snake, goes on a rampage brandishing a pair of scissors. Upon returning to the Sime Center, Wise Snake is recaptured by B'cal. Veraik tries to defend Snake from B'cal but backs off when Snake fails to make her own position on B'cal known. Tarsh learns of Alea's pregnancy.
Episode #27: Dragon in a Cage (9/26/97) B'cal insists upon accompanying Wise Snake on her personal errands. After mouthing off to thugs and being beaten up for her trouble, B'cal insists upon marching off to the police station to report the illegal activities observed. While engaged in a tirade against Tormer on the subject, she is mistaken for Alea and arrested on assault charges. Feeling herself to have been betrayed by Snake, B'cal refuses to listen to the channel's advice. Wise Snake goes for a walk and never comes back. Linn shows up at the Center to check on Svan. She is ill but her Simephobia causes her to refuse healing. Veraik is still ill with an injured lateral and now has entran. Alea attempts to go rescue B'cal from jail but Veraik and Tarsh do not allow her to risk arrest. Instead, Veraik goes to the jail and uses B'cal's helpless situation to force her to agree to respect his authority in the future.
Episode #28: Misunderstandings (9/27/97) Linn Haskins comes to the Center asking for help dealing with the Eastcove school board. However, she refuses healing for her "cold". Alea "helps" Tarsh sort the keys for the Sime Center's new locks. Veraik has entran and is also going through some kind of emotional crisis. A Torn by Tentacles groupie shows up wanting to donate and is put in the infirmary for detox instead. Lowren arrives and finds Parnul in menar sleep and mistakenly thinks his friend is dead. Veraik becomes suspicious when he discovers someone has been making requisitions using a copy of his seal. Wise Snake finds Linn ill with pneumonia and stumbling through a bad part of town, and rescues her. Veraik, Alea and Linn meet with an angry parent.
Episode #29: Altered States (9/28/97) Tarsh is accidentally put into hunting mode twice, first by the groupie, then by Linn Haskins. Alea is able to avert disaster in both cases, but Jon Drake is unable to stop Linn from running screaming out into the street. Linn is found, and rescued, by Wise Snake some time later in the red light district. After she calms down, Linn offers Snake some teacherly advice on how to deal with B'cal. Tarsh is worried about his next transfer and is afraid that it is inevitable he will one day be junct. Alea finally admits to Tarsh that she is pregnant. Some time later, Alea accidentally discovers Tarsh's counterfeit seals and advises him to hide them more thoroughly. While burning some incriminating evidence of her own, Alea accidentally sets off the sprinkler system. The Center is flooded and must be abandoned for a couple of days.
Episode #30: How the Mighty Have Fallen (9/29/97) B'cal brushes off Jirelle's offer of assistance and continues her fruitless search for Wise Snake. The search ultimately ends in B'cal's collapse.
Episode #31: What a Mess (9/30/97) Various staff members pick through the soaked Sime Center. Jon Drake is going through depression and confusion about his new job as Donor which is currently in limbo. Tarsh is coming up short this month and in bad shape. Alea accidentally allows him to fix on her while trying to comfort him. Veraik separates them and then gives Tarsh transfer. Wise Snake puts in a brief appearance to obtain Farris drugs, and says she is leaving the Sime Center's employ.
Episode #32: Slam! (10/1/97) Parnul is released from the infirmary and goes home with Lowren. A tip from a student leads Linn to rescue B'cal from an abandoned building. Once at the Sime Center, Linn inadvertently signs up for Simephobia treatments with Veraik. Veraik disciplines Alea for tempting Tarsh nagerically. Veraik is still having problems with more-or-less self-inflicted entran. Wise Snake breaks into Alea's office and is caught by Briel, who tries to restrain Snake from leaving and gets slammed for her trouble.
Episode #33: Manipulation (10/2/97) Snake's name becomes mud as various people react to news of the slam by retelling the negative parts of their personal Snake stories. Alea attempts to order Veraik to work off his entran but Veraik resists. Lowren makes his second donation. Veraik terrorizes Linn thinking he is treating her for Simephobia. After leaving the Center, Linn runs into Snake who advises her on how to handle (read: manipulate) the Eastcove school board members. Veraik assigns Jon Drake to Briel.
Episode #34: To Each her Own (10/3/97) Alea's morning sickness continues. Jon Drake attempts to help her. An urchin shows up bearing a message, and Veraik and Alea follow B'cal to where Snake is waiting. Veraik forces Snake to come out of hiding to take transfer with B'cal, then brings B'cal back to the Sime Center. Veraik is still having difficulties and Alea ends up sending him to a deferment suite to wait for his own transfer. Fise arrives at the Sime Center and immediately makes an enemy of Alea, although Jirelle seems to like him. Of course, Jirelle likes everybody!
Episode #35: Linn's Errands (10/4/97) Briel takes it upon herself to continue Linn's unwitting Simephobia therapy, scaring the willies out of Linn in the process. Briel then yells at the neophyte Donor Jon Drake for not handling the situation better. Linn proceeds to search for Snake in order to make another donation (read: blackmail payment). Snake handles various other... customers.. before taking Linn's donation. In a surprising turn of events Linn offers Snake comfort afterward. Wise Snake agrees to talk to Rudy's father.
Episode #36: Reassignments (10/5/97) Wise Snake slips into Gen Territory to pay Rudy's parents a visit, and tricks Rudy's father into signing away legal guardianship of his son. Snake then pays a visit to Linn and informs Linn that Rudy's father has sold him to the Young Anti-Tectonist's League, which is in fact true. Their conversation is interrupted by a brick thrown through Linn's front window by an terrorist. Linn's hand is injured and Snake heals it. Afterward Linn's attitude toward Snake takes on a motherly turn. Jon Drake works with Briel. Alea gives Veraik transfer. In a surprise move Veraik then produces paperwork showing the Tecton has assigned her to him as a post partner.
Episode #37: Simephobia and Simephilia (10/6/97) Tarsh and Alea share a tender moment. Linn comes into the Center to talk to Veraik about the school board and once again ends up unknowingly receiving a terrifying Simephobia treatment at the hands of Briel. Briel becomes suspicious when she notes that Linn, despite her phobia, is somehow low-field. Wise Snake interviews Nick, who she hopes she will be able to train as her personal Donor. She then witnesses, and interrupts, Briel's deliberate stalking of Linn. Briel sees Linn run to Snake for protection and becomes convinced Snake was the one who took Linn's donation. Veraik discovers incriminating evidence of Alea's spying and leaves the Center on a secret mission. Alea breaks into Veraik's office but is unable to discover what it is he found.
Episode #38: Two-faced (10/7/97) Wise Snake goes to the Center and discusses with Alea the incident of Briel stalking Linn. Jon Drake attempts to comfort Briel in the garden and the two of them manage to seduce each other into transfer a day early. Briel aborts and Wise Snake finishes the transfer. Jirelle's incense inspires Alea to paint a new kind of painting. Jon Drake and Briel go to a cafe. Afterward they go for a walk and find a changeover victim or two in the woods.
Episode #39: Blackmail, Veraik? (10/7/97) Veraik uses his knowledge of Alea's secrets to blackmail Zeor.
Episode #40: Hired Changeover (10/8/97) Alea struggles to fill in all the blanks when Dabe the two-headed renSime arrives at the Sime Center. Wise Snake and Linn carry out their diabolical plan to embarrass certain members of the Eastcove School Board by inviting them on a well-publicized visit to a Sime Territory high school where they witness a perfectly handled changeover.
Episode #41: The Chains that Bind (10/9/97) Veraik informs Alea that he knows she is a spy, that he has blackmailed her House, and that she will be staying at the Center under his complete control. Veraik then upsets Tarsh by baldly discussing Tarsh's sexual relationship with Alea. Later, Tarsh and Alea meet and confess their secrets, and forgive each other. Veraik learns of Jon Drake and Briel's abortive transfer and examines them. Wise Snake begins Nick's Donor training. Ola comes to their house to get healing. Wise Snake and Nick then go to the Sime Center and Veraik tells Snake he has secured a Donor for her through his blackmail of Zeor. He is disappointed by Snake's reaction. Later that night Zilla, a young Donor, is haunted by Wise Snake both in life and in dreams. She is rescued from a nightmare by Jirelle.
Episode #42: Nageric Train Wreck (10/10/97) Fise attempts to take the donation of a Big Stupid Gen. Veraik and Alea have yet another unpleasant discussion about Alea's relationship with Tarsh. Jon Drake gives transfer to Fise. Veraik displays rather alarming irrational behavior with regards to Alea. Jirelle reports Zilla's difficulty of the night before. Veraik attempts to ask Zilla about it but the Donor is somewhat incoherent. B'cal seeks out Wise Snake and arrives just in time to support Snake during a healing that Nick is too inexperienced to handle. A rivalry between Nick and B'cal is established. A nageric "train wreck" occurs when Simephobe, Snakephobe, Genphile, disjunct , rogue channel, and duelling Donors collide in the Sime Center's lobby.
Episode #43: After (10/11/97) Jon Drake gets practice supporting Briel while she works in the infirmary. They discuss the train wreck scene (see previous episode) with the various recovering people who'd been involved. Alea signs herself up for charm school. Tarsh thanks Alea for once again preventing him from killing, and confesses he has been considering leaving the employ of the Tecton in order to remove himself from temptation. Jirelle seeks out Fise to share his post reaction.
Episode #44: Apology Deflected (10/12/97) Briel apologizes to Linn. Linn visits Wise Snake and they finally realize Linn has been receiving unwanted Simephobia treatments. Linn goes to apologize for the confusion and winds up using Veraik's guilt to blackmail him into starting a small changeover school in Eastcove. B'cal has gone missing and Veraik promises to secure a replacement Donor for Wise Snake. JonDrake accidentally puts Briel to sleep with his relaxing field. Tarsh alarms Alea by confessing his beliefs that renSime/Gen transfers should be allowed. Alea gives him a new position at the Sime Center, with no public contact. Zilla is once again haunted by Wise Snake when Jirelle, who was supposed to be watching over her, is distracted by Fise.
Episode #45: A Chance Encounter (10/13/97) Nick expresses frustration at not yet being able to have transfer with Wise Snake. Jon Drake happens into the same cafe they are in, and Wise Snake and he converse.
Episode #46: Malpractice (10/14/97) JonDrake sees Fise carelessly burn a donor. Briel gives Fise a severe warning. Afterward Fise and Jirelle talk; being Jirelle she is of course entirely sympathetic.
Episode #47: Attrition, Excision, Poison (10/15/97) Veraik confronts Fise about the incident of the day before, and disgusted by Fise's poor attitude, temporarily suspends him from duty. Nick and Wise Snake go to meet Rafael, Snake's new Tecton Donor, at the train station and discover that he doesn't speak either English or Simelan. Veraik continues avoiding work and his Donor, augmenting to drive himself into need early, and obsessing about sex. Wise Snake and company discover Linn badly beaten lying in the alley behind Snake's house. Alea stumbles across a changeover victim in trouble and serves his First Need.
Episode #48: Sins Come Home (10/16/97) Tarsh moves into his new office. Alea meets Seezi. Nick and Wise Snake check up on Linn. After talking Linn into fighting her Simephobia, Wise Snake perversely refuses to heal her. Snake then springs the news that she has arranged and carried out a kidnaping of Linn's attackers. Alea experiences a burst of homesickness for Zeor. Jon Drake and Briel discuss the nature of turnover. Veraik, suffering from self-inflicted entran and in hard need too soon, is overcome by his passion for Alea and takes her in transfer even though they are not assigned. Alea, feeling guilty for having overlooked Veraik's feelings, allows it. She is burned and Veraik aborts. Wise Snake witnesses both Veraik's condition and the transfer. Unable to deal with this new side of Veraik, she goes into shock. Briel and Jirelle pick up the pieces, and figure out that Veraik has created a transfer dependency with Alea. Zilla finds Wise Snake in the infirmary and takes revenge for the torments visited upon her.
Episode #49: The Death of a Flower (10/17/97) Briel and JonDrake check on the patients in the infirmary. Wise Snake declines Briel's offer of Sime Center work and leaves as soon as she is able. Lowren comes in to donate, and to deliver a gift basket to Center staff from the grateful Parnul. Tarsh suffers a terrible and surreal needmare. Briel assigns a channel to watch him during the nights until his transfer.
Episode #50: Mystery Fluff (10/18/97) Alea sneaks away to spend time with the unconscious Veraik. Briel and Jon Drake go to Wise Snake's house to check up on her and find Linn, who is still in pain from her beating, but who refuses Briel's offer of channel's healing. Briel updates Linn on the progress of the small school Veraik is setting up in Gen Territory. Linn is, for some ungodly reason, actually cleaning Snake's house. On their way back to the Sime Center, Briel and Jon Drake encounter Nick and have some tea with him. Briel can't help but... notice... Nick's nager.
Episode #51: You are Mine!!! (10/19/97) Alea decides to redecorate the Sime Center's lobby and Veraik's office. It certainly is going to look... cheerful! Wise Snake and Nick take Linn to see the Anti-Tectonists who attacked her, now held prisoner in a pen in Garon's whorehouse. Garon gets transfer off Snake in front of the prisoners. Then, in a disturbing and violent scene, the prisoners' fields are taken down. Wise Snake assigns Linn the responsibility of rehabilitating and releasing the prisoners. Veraik, consumed by his obsession with Alea, exhibits various outrageous behaviors including augmenting through the Center in "hunting mode", ripping her bedroom door off its hinges, and screaming.
Episode #52: Motivations (10/20/97) The newly reupholstered furniture and... other items... are returned to the Sime Center. Alea catches Jon Drake reading up on Zeor and accuses him of having exposed her spy activities to Veraik. Linn studies up on what to use as teaching materials for the prisoners. Muffin stops by carrying a message for Snake. Linn ventures down to the docks to deliver it. Linn asks Snake why the channel refused to finish healing her, but is left with no clearer understanding than before.
Episode #53: Try, Try Again (10/21/97) Tramila returns to the Sime Center, sent by Zeor to see to Alea during her pregnancy. She breaks the news that Alea and Veraik are in a transfer dependency, but that Alea is assigned to Tramila now. Linn comes to the Center and allows herself to be talked into channel's healing. The honors are done by Veraik with Jon Drake assisting. Veraik and Alea cook up a plan to try to rid Tarsh of his Gen transfer addiction. Veraik calls an emergency decorating service to put an end to Alea's orange, yellow and lavender decor.
Episode #54: What Friends are For (10/22/97) Veraik and Alea arrange a four person "triangle" to force Tarsh to choose between Gens and a channel during his transfer. Valrie Forrest brings in a friend who she believes is in changeover. Fise retrieves his belongings from the Sime Center. Tarsh and Alea spend time together during his post. Jon Drake learns while assisting Briel in the infirmary.
Episode #55: What the Blue Cannot Cover (10/23/97) Valrie and Frieda come in to donate. Valrie seems disappointed there wasn't more to the donating experience and is sent home with information on becoming a Donor. Alea discovers Tarsh's counterfeit seals missing from their hiding place. The two of them discuss various ways to hide any evidence linking the seals to Tarsh. Alea is inspired to attempt cooking again and Jon Drake rescues her (and the Sime Center). Jon Drake then distracts Briel before the channel has a chance to report the incident to Veraik. Veraik finds out anyway. A sinister figure slips into town undetected.
Episode #56: The "Lost Episode" (10/24/97) We're not kidding. This episode really did get lost.
Episode #57: Easily Fixed (10/25/97) Valrie sneaks to the Sime Center on a school day because she wants to find out more about what it is Donors do. Fise returns to the Sime Center to get some medication and is discovered by Alea. She and Veraik help clear up his condition and leave him to rest. Afterward Veraik uses Alea's slight illness as an excuse to get her into the shower and fondle the Zeor logo on her frilly bath robe. A certain Torn by Tentacles Groupie of the Center's previous acquaintance returns to try to donate for concert ticket money. When his donation is refused due to his being under the influence, he barges into Fise's sick room to search for pills in the garbage can. This doesn't go over well with Fise. A new Second Order Donor, Rache ambrov Ahlvastin, arrives and is shown around by Tarsh. She also gets to meet Alea, who is still frustrated after Fise's behavior earlier.
Episode #58: Right Stuff, Wrong Environment (10/26/97) Alea zealously carries out her plan to convert a disused conference room into a relaxation area for Donors. When certain... problems... crop up as a result, she does her best to remain in denial. Linn arrives with some materials for Veraik, and meets Rache. Rache looks on while Alea and Linn discuss Veraik's plans for a children's education center in Eastcove. She attempts to offer a suggestion, but is frustrated when they argue against it. Briel and Jon share some quiet time before they have to go on shift. They eat breakfast in the cafeteria where they sit with Rache, who is calmed down a bit from earlier but is still finding it difficult to fit in.
Episode #59: Phobic (10/27/97) Groupie returns in the hopes of securing a donation one way or another. Unfortunately his plan involves groping Tarsh, a renSime. While Alea and Tarsh are wrestling the stubborn intruder (and an innocent filing cabinet), Fise enters the lobby but he doesn't exactly leap to help resolve the situation. When he does get involved, he only makes it worse. Fortunately Rache and Jon Drake arrive on the scene and manage to break the standoff. Alea tricks Groupie into leaving. Tarsh has a hurt foot and Fise freaks out completely. When Briel tries to help him he flees in terror. Alea loses her baby.
Episode #60: "Lost Episode" Redux (10/28/97) We thought this episode wasn't lost, but maybe it is. If you have a log for it, please email tentacled@aol.com. Thank you. Probable content alluded to by Snake in BCT #62: Snake encounters Veraik and Rache on the street and accompanies them back to the Sime Center, with the idea that she and Rache will go out looking for Fise afterward.
Episode #61: Services of Ill Repute (10/29/97) Valrie's father, Forrest, storms into the Sime Center outraged because she was able to go to a Torn by Tentacles concert using money gained by donating, both of which activities were against her parents' wishes. He is greeted by Rache and Jorgre, who are less than sympathetic. Groupie finally gets the 'Torn by Tentacles Near Death Experience' donation he's been looking for, from Wise Snake. On the way to return the bod, er, Groupie to his flophouse, Nick and Snake run into Linn, who decides to tag along much to Snake's dismay.
Episode #62: Place Needs a Cleanup (10/30/97) Rache is frustrated by how bizarre and disorganized the Bender Cove Lower Sime Center is. Jorgre offers to show her around town some. However, the outdoor Bender Cove experience does not do much to reassure the Donor. Jon Drake and Briel have their transfer, which goes well, and afterward Briel finds out just how much Jon cares about her.
Episode #63: Smile! (10/31/97) Phylis, a Gen tourist, arrives at the Sime Center to make a donation. She is helped by Briel and Jon, who seem very pleased with themselves after the efforts of the night before.
Episode #64: Hot Veggie Surprise (11/1/97) Rache finally meets Briel and receives her assignment. She is to be in charge of the housekeeping staff. Jon Drake shows her to her new office. Alea attempts to cook, with predictably bad results. After she is rescued, John takes Alea upstairs to dry off and warm up, while Rache sees to disciplining the cafeteria and kitchen staff for letting Alea get in trouble again. However, while she is at it, Jorgre arrives and makes it clear that he considers himself in charge of that particular department of the Center. A frustrated Rache returns to her office, where she encounters the cleaning lady Maleane and gives her her instructions.
Episode #65: Fits and Starts (11/2/97) Briel and Jon Drake encounter Nick in a grocery store, but quickly leave again. Jon is confused and upset when he believes Briel has requested a different Donor. Even when she tells him what's really going on it isn't very good news. Linn berates Snake for having intentionally burned a customer... and then turns around and lets her take her donation anyway. Depressed in the aftermath of her miscarriage, Alea goes out and gets drunk. Nick finds her roaming the streets and brings her home to Snake's apartment, where she is forced to warm up and rest despite her best efforts. Briel comes from the Center and takes Alea home.
Episode #66: Iholo-who? (11/3/97) Zhopchus, a foreign-sounding Gen, arrives at the Sime Center looking to donate... or something. He is assisted by Briel. Alea looks for some medicine for her headache and discovers that the supplies order for the Sime Center has been screwed up. As one might imagine, this does nothing for her headache. She enlists Jon's aid in trying to straighten the mess out. While they're at it they discuss their imminent changes of assignment. Nick falls ill, forcing Snake to miss some work. Linn finds out what the truth was behind the 'Zhopchus' donation. Snake falls victim to some of the mis-ordered pills from the Sime Center. Linn and Rafe take her to the Sime Center for treatment. Alea attempts to explain about the medicine mixup to Veraik, but he is distracted -- mostly by her presence. A horseman named Tamlen rides into Bender Cove. He meets Piotr, the dark stranger who's been lurking in town.
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