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Ivanna Cooks

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[An excerpted recipe from a self-published cookbook that contains complex recipes well beyond the abilities of most ordinary chefs. Many of the ingredients described cannot even be found on Nexus, and some have been extinct for many centuries. Ivanna seems to enjoy a cooking challenge.]

IVANNA’S DEADLY SOUFFLÉ
2 royalspoons finely grated tynes
1 scupper whole mammodin milk
2.5 royalspoons girrok butter
3 royalspoons refined Cassian millgrind
0.5 commonspoon kartiffe
0.5 commonspoon smalt
Pinch
of ground znarlu root
5 large wild ravenok eggs (fresh)
1 scupper coarse-grated Jeleb cheese

0.2 commonspoon hellpepper

Spread the prepared girrok butter in a metal soufflé dish with a spatula. Add millgrind and kartiffe to the butter.
Separate the eggs, and in a separate bowl, beat the whites with the tynes and Jeleb cheese.
Spread this mixture over the prepared butter and spice mixture to create an entirely new mixture.
Beat the egg
yolks and the zarlu root until creamy.
Bake in a moderately hot oven for 12 minutes.
Serve immediately.
Inform guests of hellpepper ingredient after consumption.
Pass out antidote to hellpepper poison before death ensues.
A slight delay in dessert service is recommended.

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Call of the Chompacabra

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[A worn copy of the famed romantic adventure story about a Cassian lowborn child and his pet chompacabra. This excerpt follows the surprising events of the story’s climax.]

Terren could hardly believe his eyes. He’d never seen so much blood in all his young life! And to think, just a single chompacabra did all that – his pal Nompy, the wild beast who’d befriended a slightly disturbed boy in the woods near the family estate. Nompy was
a chompacabra who called Terren a friend, in his own growling, homicidal way; and definitely not with actual words so much. It was just something Terren felt deep down. Especially when he saw the carnage and slaughter his new best friend had wrought upon his enemies.

What luck father had chosen to bring their highborn family to Nexus, where the chompacabra runs wild, free, and unbelievably deadly on the surface of the
planet. And even better luck that Terren had gotten lost the second day after their arrival, nearly starving to death as he wandered, lost and alone – until a chompacabra found him, kept him warm and safe, and even shared food with him. Really disgusting, terrible food, but it had kept young Terren alive. That chompacabra had followed him home, and subsequently followed him on countless adventures.

And STILL Terren had never seen
so much blood! He ran to find his holo-camera. He loved Nompy so very much.

They made fun of his chompacabra? He would make fun of their innards! Except Nompy’d already eaten them.

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Captain Aurelius’s Log

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[This journal comprises the last words of Captain Phillip Aurelius. They are noble and courageous, just as he was.]

Recon Patrol 3.1
2300 Hours
Captain Phillip Aurelius recording. Engagement with the Exile invaders is no longer a matter of “if” but of “when.” Whitevale is not big enough, to use a colloquialism, for the both of us. Only one faction will be in charge of this region eventually, and the traitors seem to be champing at the bloody
bit.

Recon Patrol 3.2
2350 Hours
Captain Phillip Aurelius recording. Engagement did not go well, I’m afraid. Not that I intended to take on half the Exile Free Companies with my service weapon and the odd bits of string from my pockets. Sustained minor injuries. I think. Might be bleeding internally. Datachron took a shot so can’t scan to be sure.

Yes, there was… definitely interna – internal bleeding. By the Scions, this hurts.

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An Innocent Granok

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TO: The Warden
FROM: Gruk
RE: The Specifical Disposition of Gruk
SEE ALSO: Specifical Testimony RE: Gruk

Hi Warden. This is Gruk. Ya gone and left me stuck here in Deadrock for slag knows how long, but I wasn’t even doing nothing wrong when ya caught me! I was just saying hello to some friends who just HAPPEN to be in the F-Troop or whatever they call themselves, ya know, none of my concern. Gruk? Just a miner.
Independent type! I’m no Exile. I mean, what? Exile? Who would even think that? I just knew those guys, and was catching up, like I said.

So there ya have it, Warden. Clear testimonial-type stuff. That’s gotta hold water with the review board. Ya got one of those?

In closing,
Sincerely,
Gruk the Granok Who Ain’t an Exile

So shut up, youse. I mean, Warden.

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Prison Schedule

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[This document appears to be a copy of the daily schedule of the warden of Deadrock Prison, and the disposition of guards and other security measures – including securitybots – on a weekly basis.]

0000: Guard Shift B-1 Begins

0130: Warden on premises

0215 Guard Shift A-1 Ends

0400: Guard Shift C-1 Begins

0615 Guard shift B-1 Ends.

0800 Guard Shift D-1 Begins

1015 Guard Shift C-1 Ends

1200 Guard Shift
A-2 Begins

RANDOM SEARCH SCHEDULE
0227 – Block TF3
0747 – Block TF3
0812- Block TF3
1013 – Block TF3

[The back of the document is covered with bloody scratches that form a crude map of the prison grounds, with marks indicating specific targets within the prison infrastructure. Whoever made the map did not likely have access to traditional writing implements.]

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Modern Lopp Bride

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[A popular periodical among prospective Lopp brides, as might be expected.]

Vol. 28 Issue 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS so shiny

Page 004 ….. Shiniest Shinies of the Season!
Page 008 ….. Shinies: Are They Really EVERYthing? (Spoiler: YES!)
Page 010 ….. Editorial: Lopp Brides Too Focused on Shinies? (Spoiler: NO!)
Page 022 ….. FICTION: I Married a Marauder! Harrowing story of love gone wrong! Will bride escape marauder groom with shinies anyway? (Spoiler: PROBABLY!)

[…]

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The Love Song of the Skeech Queen

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[This lengthy but uncomplicated ballad sung from the point of view of the lovelorn Skeech Queen could not be more accurately titled.]
Skeech Skeech me Skeech
SKEECH Skeech Skeech love Skeech
Skeech me Skeech love
Skeech you Skeech me
Skeech dream Skeech love Skeech heart

Skeech Skeech you Skeech
SKEECH love Skeech heart Skeech
Skeech love Skeech you
Skeech me Skeech true
Skeech break Skeech heart
Skeech queen

Skeech home Skeech hearth
Skeech Skeech love Skeech you
Skeech me Skeech too
Skeech to me and you
Skeech Skeech Skeech Skeech Skeech queen
Skeech SKEECH!