It’s not been a pleasant day. If you think that normal trumps smell awful, then you should try having a whiff of a hyperspace one. Bloody awful.
Hans, Sally and myself joined our Sherby44 colleagues, George, Harold and Queeege on a trip in to the unknown. That sounds more dramatic than it actually is; in a universe where everything is energy, every journey is in to the unknown. It’s par for the course. There wasn’t a lot of conversation on our voyage to the fart, Hans was still mooning over Dr Angel and Sally was sulking. At one point, I thought she was going to cast a spell on Hans, but she’s a professional and pulled herself together. Having no frame of reference, it was difficult to put a distance on our journey or how long it took. With the tense atmosphere, it seemed like forever.
We could smell the fart before we could see it, but it was a telepathic smell rather than a physical one, and this means you can’t even hold your nose. I passed out at one point as my body struggled to acclimatise. By the time I recovered, we were there. We started with the most obvious solution – coordinated mental battering. We each reached a zen-like trance and started to kick the fart’s metaphorical ass. Despite several centuries combined experience, we didn’t even make a dent. It was then that Hans came to his senses and suggested the horrific answer, we were going to have to plug it manually.
As it required a phyisical solution, it was down to the Sherby57 gang to step to the plate, and our n0n-corporeal brethren telekinetically launched us at the offending stink! It was like being fired straight up Satan’s bum-hole. But, it worked. Hooray for smelly old us.
It also had the side effect of firing us in to a random universe, one that is ruled by The Lambot!