(one) Thalasso wisps: I'd rather try to launch Beale's house.
(one) Kwick wisps that he launches Beale's house with a railgun!
(one) Beale wisps that he comes back with the daily milk to find his house gone.
(one) Beale wisps that he :(
(one) Pthag wisps: At least you have milk.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: "Look here, I'm rather upset about that."
(one) Pthag wisps: And you also might own the first house in orbit.
(one) Beale wisps: Doesn't help much if I can't get there.
(one) Pthag wisps: You could charge rich people lots of money to stay there.
(one) Kwick wisps that he drops Beale's house on Aikanaro.
(one) Pthag wisps: Oh wait, there it is. I blame subsidence.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: I don't think I'm in Kadath anymore.
(one) Beale wisps that he shuffles over with the milk to see if his possessions are intact.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: Touch my ruby slippers and you'll feel the back of my hand, so you will.
(one) Kwick wisps: Aikinaro, I doubt you'd survive having a house dropped on you from orbit. :P
(one) Aikanaro wisps: Depends how big a house it is.
(one) Beale wisps that he smashes a milk bottle over Aikanaro's head, and steals the slippers.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: Hah! I planted a NUCELAR DEVICE in those slippers!
(one) Aikanaro wisps: Click your heels together three times and BANG.
(one) Beale wisps: Shiny!
(one) Pthag wisps: Eh?
(one) Pthag wisps: Can you fit a critical mass of uranium in slippers?
(one) Kwick wisps: I doubt it.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: I can do anything.
(one) Pthag wisps: What about clown shoes?
(one) Kwick wisps: Perhaps he used spatial compression?
(one) Pthag wisps: The Nuclear Clown.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: Those ruby slippers were bigger on the inside than they were on the outside.
(one) Pthag wisps: I wonder how far down they go.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: Nobody knows. The dwarves stopped reporting back after a few months.
(one) Pthag wisps: How long ago was that?
(one) Aikanaro wisps: Sometime last year. Their last discovery was of a vast underground lake.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: They were planning to take a boat out.
(one) Pthag wisps: Eenteresting. I wonder who made the shoes originally.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: Nicholas the Red, Wizard of the Far North.
(one) Kwick wisps: Was he insane?
(one) Kwick wisps: Or just deranged?
(one) Pthag wisps: Or eccentric.
(one) Pthag wisps: I think shoes like those would cost a lot of money.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: Well, he also owned a magic sleigh and flew around the world once a year. That's a 'yes'.
(one) Pthag wisps: Oh, you and your crazy hypotheses.
(one) Pthag wisps: There's no chance that they came from *his* land.
(one) Pthag wisps: It's against the dwarves' religion to do that sort of thing.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: But each slipper has his name sown inside.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: In a dark script which I shall not utter here.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: And sewn inside.
(one) Pthag wisps: But there *is* a pattern to this field of rye.
(one) Pthag wisps: "RF"
(one) Pthag wisps: On reflection, I think it may stand for "Rye Field".
(one) Aikanaro wisps: Oh. The Dwarves have reported back.
(one) Pthag wisps: How convenient.
(one) Kwick wisps: What have they found?
(one) Aikanaro wisps: They say that when they went down through the left slipper, they found themselves coming up through the right one.
(one) Pthag wisps: Then there is only one slipper.
(one) Aikanaro wisps: And there was lots of stuff about horrible monsters and monstrous birds and islands that weren't really islands.