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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;margin:0px">Mission: Prelude</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;margin:0px">Stardate: 2446.03.25</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;margin:0px">(USS Illuminar - Deck 11 - Main Engineering - Cadet Wednesday Adams- 1451)</span></p>
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Wednesday looked at Vermyx with a questioning face, "Dano... the Kronk? Is that a title? A nickname?"</div>
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(reply Vermyx)</div>
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"Fluffy, huh," she finally said. "Vibrations?" she had started to think. "Well, if she likes vibrations she'd be around the warp core. That's where the deck plating vibrates the most."</div>
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She started to move around the thrumming core and saw something small and... well... fluffy, flittering around it. <br>
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"Dano," she called out softly, "I think I found your little friend." </div>
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She held out her hand and the lucidan landed on it. She smiled and looked over at Vermyx. "I've always had a way with animals."</div>
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"Listen," she said after a pause, "I know you said you wouldn't tell on me but.... well... I'm on kind of a scavenger hunt. All of the cadets are playing. My... friends," it was a word she wasn't used to saying, "are kicking my butt in it. Would you be willing
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(reply Vermyx)</div>
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