MEET AND GREET WITH JEZZ

Wednesday October 1, 2008

Zarquad has just arrived.

Zarquad waves.

Zarquad holds a roman candle up in the air and gives it a shake to operate the self-ignition mechanism.

The firework hisses, and then shoots a large ball of green flame into the air, then another, and another. They rise up high into the sky before slowing... slowing... slowing... and then falling back towards the surface. You feel a thrill of anticipation as it looks as if one might land on the roof garden, but they all fizzle out just before touching down.

Zzeria grins at Zarquad

Zzeria says, "she's probably still trying to fix her hair or something"

Zarquad giggles. "That's no excuse..."

The Jezz has just arrived. Jezz is wearing a wedding ring.

Jezz says, "hi folks"

Meteu says, "Hi Jezz"

Examine Founder Jezz
A tiny gold dragon pin is her only jewelry. Her high collared gown graduates from deepest blue to palest cream at the flowing hem. Diaphanous silk shimmers and swirls as she moves like moonlit foam on a midnight wave.
Jezz is married to Zardoz

Zarquad says, "hey Jezz"

Angelfowl says, "Hi Jezz"

Jezz smiles, "Hiya Met, Angel, Mateo, Zarq, Zzer :)"

Zarquad says, "alright. let's break out the duck tape"

Jezz laughs

Angelfowl grins and sits Jezz down before duct-taping her to the chair

Jezz looks at the duct tape

Jezz asks, "you missed a bit... may I please have some more?"

Angelfowl laughs and puts more duct tape on her

Jezz says, "Oooh thank you"

Zarquad grins. "perfect."

Meteu tosses Angel a new roll and says "she needs more"

Jezz has a blissful smile on her face

Jezz says, "this way.. if something happens.. it can't be my fault"

Angelfowl grins but keeps the new roll in her bag just in case

One of too many to be a "The", Zardoz has just arrived. Zardoz is wearing a wedding ring.

Zardoz has given Jezz a hearty kiss.

Zardoz smiles, "Greetings.:)"

Jezz has given Zardoz a duct-tape restricted kiss.

Meteu says, "Hi Zardoz"

Jezz smiles, "Hi Zard :)"

Zardoz says, "Hello all.", as he casually hefts a rocket.

Zardoz holds a rocket up in the air and gives it a shake to operate the self-ignition mechanism.

There is a hissing noise as the rocket's fuse ignites, and then it shoots up into the air with a whoosh, trailing sparks behind it. The trail vanishes, and for a moment nothing happens - you wonder if it was a dud. Then a burst of light appears, followed a second later by a popping noise, as the light resolves into a silver weeping willow shape. The sky is filled with bright lights which twinkle frantically before fading into nothing.

Zardoz grins.

Jezz chuckles

Zardoz straps Zarquad's comm unit to a rocket.

Zardoz holds a rocket up in the air and gives it a shake to operate the self-ignition mechanism.

There is a hissing noise as the rocket's fuse ignites, and then it shoots up into the air with a whoosh, trailing sparks behind it. There's a pause... and then it detonates with a loud *BANG* and releases a crossette of silver sparkles, which twinkle like fairy-lights as they drift apart.

Meteu asks, "Shall we get started?"

Zardoz grins.

Zarquad chuckles. "I thought we had, met!"

Jezz says, "sure"

Zardoz takes a seat and reviews his pages of questions.

Angelfowl giggles

Meteu smiles, "Not really but, lets get Jezz in bed by 1:)"

Jezz looks worriedly at Zardoz

Meteu asks, "How are you tonight Jezz?"

Zardoz raises his eyebrows.

Zardoz winks, "Good idea.;)"

Jezz blinks at Meteu "er.."

Zardoz chuckles.

Jezz smiles, "I'm good thanks :)"

Meteu asks, "Lets start with the easy stuff:) What brought you to Fed?"

Jezz says, "ah.. well.."

Zardoz grumbles that he was going to ask that, and scratches it off his list.

Jezz says, "Well I'd been travelling for a while.. stopped off for a few years in a place where I plied my trade as a warrior until none of the evil creatures could harm me. So when I came across a strange shiny ship, I naturally went in to investigate."

Jezz says, "seems I accidentally hit something called the Search Engine Ignition button. There was a very odd noise and a lot of shaking and bouncing and here I am."

Meteu asks, "What do you think Fed's best quality is?"

Jezz says, "well I think that the creativity side is great.. freedom of expression and all that."

Fletcher has just arrived.

Zardoz nods to Fletcher and motions to an empty seat.

Jezz says, "plus the people here are pretty friendly once you can get out of Sol and hunt them down"

Zardoz chuckles.

Jezz smiles at Fletcher

Fletcher smiles, ":)"

Jezz says, "I mean visit"

Zardoz thinks it was a hunt with him.

Jezz laughs

Meteu says, "hehe"

Meteu asks, "How long have you been playing Fed?"

Zardoz says, "Play?... we don't "Play" Fed here."

Jezz says, "um.. well let me think.. since I was a groundhog the first time"

Jezz asks, "which was.. heck I don't know.. months?"

Zardoz says, "about 4 months, love."

Meteu looks at his notes and says "It says here that you are on staff, what do you do on staff?

Jezz says, "that's all>"

Zardoz nods and smiles.

Jezz says, "I'm a newsdroid and a moderator in training"

Jezz grins

Zarquad asks, "how do you feel about the cattle prods?"

Jezz says, "love em"

Jezz coughs

Zardoz chuckles.

Jezz asks, "um.. what cattle prods?"

Zardoz says, "He must have been in out bedroom."

Jezz bats her eyelashes innocently

Jezz shusshes Zard

Zardoz chuckles.

Meteu asks, "You also write articles about exchanges for PO's, which is most helpful by the way, what prompted you to start that series?"

Jezz says, "oh I started with the articles on shares because so many people seemed to be having trouble sorting out a business plan for being a factory owner. It was just going to be one article at first"

Jezz says, "but then I realized there was just too much info to go into one article, so there was another.. and another.."

Meteu smiles, "Now we get to the fun part:)"

Jezz winks, "Universal domination by boring the people of Fed to death maybe ;)"

Meteu rubs his hands together

Jezz raises her eyebrow at Met

Meteu asks, "Whats the most embarassing way you have died here in Fed?"

Jezz says, "er.. that's sort of a long story"

Jezz's cheeks turn pink

Meteu looks at his watch and says "we have time"

Jezz says, "It was the day Zardoz became a free man so he could marry me.. I was a bit..er.."

Jezz says, "well I was really happy and not paying attention. I decided to do the Magellan society mission"

Jezz says, "and I walked into ALL the radiation rooms and only insured once"

Zarquad chuckles.

Zardoz remembers and rolls his eyes.

Meteu steps back and put on lead underwear

Angelfowl giggles

Jezz says, "I remember thinking it was all a bad dream... I was a financier about to link a planet, get married.. and then I was a ground hog."

Meteu drawls, "ouch...."

Jezz says, "and worse.. Zard saw my obituary and didn't know it was an accident or whether I'd be back"

Meteu says, "Poor ZArd\"

Zardoz shudders at the memory.

Jezz smiles, "but it worked out in the end :)"

Meteu says, "Lets talk a bit about your planet"

Jezz looks relieved

Zardoz chuckles.

Dinger snickers

Jezz wriggles a finger "can I have more duct tape please?"

Meteu says, "What was your inspiration for designing it the way you did? For those that don't know Jezz is the ruler of The Rift system"

Angelfowl blinks, "Why?"

Zarquad rips a strip of duck tape and tapes down Jezz's finger.

Jezz says, "thanks"

Zardoz says, "I did not know that."

Zardoz must read the news more often.

Meteu asks, "So Jezz, your inspiration?"

Jezz says, "well there is a story behind the design of the Rift System. As more of it is open to exploration I hope that people might discover what the story is."

Zardoz holds a rocket up in the air and gives it a shake to operate the self-ignition mechanism.

There is a hissing noise as the rocket's fuse ignites, and then it shoots up into the air with a whoosh, trailing sparks behind it. The trail vanishes, and for a moment nothing happens - you wonder if it was a dud. Then a burst of light appears, followed a second later by a popping noise, as the light resolves into a silver weeping willow shape. The sky is filled with bright lights which twinkle frantically before fading into nothing.

Jezz says, "The inspiration for it was really the struggle of so many people who are slaves to their older.. um.. relatives. But to say more would spoil it."

Zardoz looks around innocently.

Meteu asks, "Did you have any trouble in designing it?"

Jezz chuckles and nods

Jezz says, "too many ideas.. and because I suffered a death between the first design and actually getting to link the planet I found that my ideas had changed in the mean time.. so I rewrote it in about a week."

Meteu smiles, "A week, that must have taken a lot of tea:)"

Zardoz chuckles.

Jezz says, "ideas are unpredictable things you know.. they run wild if they aren't properly restrained"

Jezz blinks at Meteu "tea?"

Zardoz says, "Sounds like Jezz... she runs wild unless properly restrained."

Meteu smiles, "For the all nighters:)"

Jezz says, "coffee, Met.. coffee"

Zardoz chuckles.

Meteu smiles, "Zard I ordered that case of duct tape you asked for, what Hazed doesn't know is that I put it on her bill:)"

Meteu smiles, "Your more American than I am:)"

Zarquad says, "actually, Met, it turns out the Brits drink more coffee than tea, despite the dirty rumor"

Jezz nods earnestly

Zardoz says, "Joe started the dirty rumor."

Meteu asks, "Your planets are designed as a "story mode" so to speak, can you share anything of the story without giving too much away?"

Zardoz smiles at Jezz.

Jezz says, "hmm.. well it's a story of escape only to be trapped again.. of regret and the struggle to make amends for a wrong done long ago but which hasn't happened yet."

Jezz winks, "that didn't give too much away, did it? ;)"

Zardoz is totally confused, so... no.

Jezz laughs

Meteu asks, "Did you have any help in designing your planet?"

Zarquad asks, "does that mean I can never leave if I come visit?"

Jezz says, "it's also a story about the lengths one might go to in order for some part of you to survive. I did ask a couple of people their opinions and they were very helpful."

Jezz chuckles and shakes her head at Zarquad

Zardoz was asked for his opinion, but wasn't helpful.

Meteu says, "With that, we'll open things up to the audience.."

Zardoz grins.

Jezz says, "I also needed permission for a part of the story.. it was granted."

Jezz looks around the room nervously

Zardoz raises his hand and shouts, "Oooooh... Ooooooh... me.... me...."

Jezz winces

Zarquad asks, "oh. were we not supposed to be asking yet?"

Meteu asks, "Zardoz?"

Zardoz smiles and gets out his pages of questions.

Jezz groans quietly

Zardoz asks, "What do you think of Moks?"

Zarquad raises his hand.

Zardoz grins.

Meteu says, "Zq your next."

Jezz says, "Um.. the one I've met is highly educated and everso friendly in a warm fuzzy way"

Meteu asks, "Zard are they on a spreadsheet?"

Meteu says, "Zq, your up"

Jezz says, "Mok's definitely seem to have their..er.. good points"

Zardoz chuckles.

Zarquad asks, "Jezz, what size ears do you like?"

Jezz looks thoughtful "um.. ones that are in proportion to the head they are one.. or equivalent?"

Zardoz raises his hand.

Zarquad grins.

Zardoz asks, "What the hell is a Jezz, anyway?"

Jezz coughs

Jezz says, "Well here's the thing... as I was entering Federation space for the first time I was stopped by immigration officials at the Universe border and had to fill out all the forms."

Zardoz nods.

Jezz says, "I did my level best to explain to the officials that the name of my home dimension, my birth planet and indeed my name, is expressed as an experience of the senses, a whisper of movement with some heavy overtones of race memory and only the slightest hint of actual sound."

Jezz says, "I said "it's just.." and someone misheard and they wrote down Jezz in all the spaces on the form."

Zardoz chuckles.

Meteu asks, "Any other questions?"

Jezz says, "I suppose it's not the first time that immigration officials have misspelled something important"

Zardoz tapes his questions to a rocket

Zardoz holds a rocket up in the air and gives it a shake to operate the self-ignition mechanism.

There is a hissing noise as the rocket's fuse ignites, and then it shoots up into the air with a whoosh, trailing sparks behind it. The trail vanishes, and for a moment nothing happens - you wonder if it was a dud. Then a burst of light appears, followed a second later by a popping noise, as the light resolves into a silver weeping willow shape. The sky is filled with bright lights which twinkle frantically before fading into nothing.

Meteu says, "Zard"

Zardoz says, "No more questions from me."

Jezz grins at Zardoz

Zardoz smiles at Jezz.

Zarquad drawls, "you seem to enjoy duck tape..."

Jezz says, "um.. it's comforting"

Meteu asks, "What else do we have for the lovely Jezz this morning?"

Zardoz hands Jezz a cup of coffee.

Jezz shrugs and says "If I'm duct taped I can't be blamed for what happens next"

Meteu asks, "Any other questions?"

Zardoz tapes rocket to Jezz's chair.

Jezz looks at the cup and ponders taking it in her teeth

Zardoz holds a rocket up in the air and gives it a shake to operate the self-ignition mechanism.

There is a hissing noise as the rocket's fuse ignites, and then it shoots up into the air with a whoosh, trailing sparks behind it. The trail vanishes, and for a moment nothing happens - you wonder if it was a dud. Then a burst of light appears, followed a second later by a popping noise, as the light resolves into a silver weeping willow shape. The sky is filled with bright lights which twinkle frantically before fading into nothing.

Jezz says, "Hey.. no! Arrghhh"

Zardoz grins.

Fletcher says, "act laughs"

Jezz exclaims, "Zardoz.. you singed my hair!"

Zardoz tapes a rocket to a wait droid.

Zarquad asks, "what, it wasn't funny enough that you have to act like you laughed?"

Zardoz holds a rocket up in the air and gives it a shake to operate the self-ignition mechanism.

There is a hissing noise as the rocket's fuse ignites, and then it shoots up into the air with a whoosh, trailing sparks behind it. There's a pause... and then it detonates with a loud *BANG* and releases its sparkles in concentric rings of different colors, one after the other, which widen to fill the sky and then vanish.

First red, then purple, then green, then blue, then white, each ring expanding and then fading to be replaced by the next one, until the final ring burns out.

Jezz says, "you are in Soo much trouble"

Meteu says, "If there are no other questions we'll cut Jezz loose."

Zardoz chuckles.

Zarquad asks, "do we have to?"

Meteu drawls, "Yeah...."

Zardoz can just take her home in the chair.

Meteu smiles, "Unless you want to keep asking her questions:)"

Jezz looks at the duct tape mournfully

Zardoz wonders if Jezz was expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

Zarquad exclaims, "NOBODY expects the spanish inquisition!"

Zardoz chuckles.

Angelfowl asks, "want me to cut her loose?"

Zardoz says, "Yeah... I'm ready for my lumps."

Jezz smiles, "actually I thought there might be questions about marrying into such a large family :)"

Zardoz laughs and says, "Yeah, like, "WHY?"

Zarquad asks, "well, how large is your family?"

Zardoz lost count.

Meteu asks, "Do you have a room at every planet the House has control of?"

Jezz says, "probably larger than most but it's always fun to meet new relatives.. except when they all turn up for dinner at the same time"

Zarquad slaps Zardoz. "Not you, dope. I'm asking Jezz. Maybe she's from a large family too."

Jezz says, "I don't have a large family myself.. no"

Zardoz asks, "ahem.... dope?"

Jezz says, "I've got a few places dotted around the galaxy, thanks to Zard's building skills"

Meteu smiles, "Angel cut her loose:)"

Zarquad grins at Zardoz. "No, not really, but I wanted to be family friendly. THere are kids present."

Angelfowl nods, and pulls out a knife and starts cutting the duct-tape

Zardoz says, "Really."

Jezz says, "now now guys"

Jezz wriggles her newly freed extremities

Angelfowl asks, "Kids? Where?"

Zarquad grins at Zardoz.

Meteu says, "That ends our Meet and Greet for this week, thank you Jezz for agreeing to stay up with us tonight."

Jezz says, "Zard and I were thinking of having some you know.. but he's not ready to be pregnant yet."

Zardoz wonders if anybody ever is.

Jezz gets up from the chair and stretches

Jezz smiles, "cloning them just isn't the same :)"

Zardoz chuckles.

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