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=== Abduction of Pessimist === | === Abduction of Pessimist === | ||
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]]'') | 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]]'') | ||
=== Later events === | === Later events === | ||
When [[Dandy-432]] and [[Larrikin-1029]] set out to try and bring a [[Old man (The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane)|lost old man]] back to his home universe, they borrowed Pessimist's Fog Ship, on the grounds that it “ran better” than Larrikin's own Ship (which was in poor condition due to Larrikin crashing it all the time). [[Pessimist-242]] was mildly reluctant, but the Fog Ship itself, appreciating the compliment, gladly agreed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane (short story)|The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane]]'') | When [[Dandy-432]] and [[Larrikin-1029]] set out to try and bring a [[Old man (The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane)|lost old man]] back to his home universe, they borrowed Pessimist's Fog Ship, on the grounds that it “ran better” than Larrikin's own Ship (which was in poor condition due to Larrikin crashing it all the time). [[Pessimist-242]] was mildly reluctant, but the Fog Ship itself, appreciating the compliment, gladly agreed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane (short story)|The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane]]'') | ||
=== | === In the Toymaker's Labyrinth === | ||
After being displeased with Pessimist and [[Larrikin-1029]], the Ship | After being displeased with [[Pessimist-242]] and [[Larrikin-1029]], the Ship refused to take them to their assigned destination of [[Dimension 8696-2537]], and instead transported them to a random location which turned out to be the [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa]]. There, the Ship became embroiled in Larrikin and Pessimist's subsequent adventures, getting “shrunk down, [losing its] [[Dimensional warp driv|Dimensional Warp Drive]], and [having] to fight a [[Clay Thing|sentient lump of clay]] as well as [[Madame Tarsa|a giant sword-lady]]”, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'', ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') the latter being [[Madame Tarsa]] herself. The Fog Ship's presence proved decisive, with it being responsible for defeating the Clay Thing in question and later using its laser to shoot out one of Tarsa's eyes. After regenerating her eyes, Tarsa acknowledged that the Cupids and Ship had fought their way out of her [[The Toymaker's Labyrinth|Labyrinth]] fair and square, returning the dimensional warp drive and restoring the Fog Ship to its true size. The Ship then took the two Cupids back to the [[Cupid Homeworld|Homeworld]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') | ||
=== Christmas 2020 === | |||
Nevertheless, when [[Pythagoras-858]] needed to find his way to the Workshop the next year, he managed to persuade the Ship to take him there by convincing it that it would be its direct path to getting a Christmas present of its own. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | Nevertheless, when [[Pythagoras-858]] needed to find his way to the Workshop the next year, he managed to persuade the Ship to take him there by convincing it that it would be its direct path to getting a Christmas present of its own. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | ||
