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May your home world remain intact for longer than the Galactic Average. Rusty Quill presents Stella Ferma. Oh, Is he up there? uprexel, are you in the vent again?

Trexel, please come out.

Look, if you've got stuck, tap down.

Oh, David.

David, David, how are you?

Uh, yes, thank you, Trexel.

Why are you standing on a chair looking into a vent, David?

Well I thought you might have... You did leave by the vent, so I thought maybe you...

Did I, David? Yes. Did I leave by a vent?

Yes. Or was that perhaps a clever rules that I actually left by a vent? Or was that perhaps a clever ruse that I actually left by a door?

No, you definitely left by the vent. No, you are right David. I have been crawling in the vents again,

but that chapter of my life is over. You know, it was a number of hours after I left last night and I was still crawling around and I think I might got a little smidgen of radiation poisoning, crawled near a reactor somewhere, but I'm fine now and when I came out and you know I was

having a hot radiation removing shower in my quarters you are looking quite

bleached I just thought to myself events really for you anymore Trexil you're not a young man

you know you've got gravitas you've got you've got pull around it you've got sway sure they do

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