Pessimist's Fog Ship: Difference between revisions

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On one of many routine romanticisation missions to [[Whetstone Park]] in the [[Prime Universe]], the Fog Ship wandered off to check out a “combination greenhouse-theater-diner-aquarium” that had recently opened on the east side of the city. It spent the night there, but did not find it as interesting as it had hoped. When it returned to Whetstone Park, it did not find the real [[Pessimist-242]] but [[Pseudo-Pessimist]], an unconvincing duplicate sent as a decoy by the [[Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries]] after they abducted the real Pessimist. Though much unconvinced, the Fog Ship took Pseudo-Pessimist back to the [[Cupid Homeworld]]. After the [[Blue Feather]] realised he was an impostor, the Fog Ship used the link between its [[positronic brain]] and Pessimist to track down his location, at the Dromedaries' [[Research Laboratory 6]]. There, it was briefly highjacked by [[Darius]], who threatened it with a gun to get it to drive him to the Homeworld. However, it resolved the situation by rematerialising right in front of [[Lord Thymon]], allowing Thymon to handle the business of banishing Darius into [[the Void]]. The Fog Ship then hopped back to the Prime Universe and picked up the Blue Feather, bringing them back to the Homeworld for good. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pessimist and the Dromedaries (short story)|Pessimist and the Dromedaries]]'') The Ship was subsequently fitted with a small, retractable laser cannon to defend itself in case of a further highjacking attempt. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'')