More of Clipper II

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Previously ..

And now, the finish:

Act II: Hastily-Laid Plans
Act III: Me, Myself & Why
Epilogue: The First Step's A Doozy

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Brilliant! I was literally laughing out loud. :)

Some of my favorite bits:

"Hello! I work in the mailroom!" Dave shouted, his Liverpool accent flapping in the breeze. "Spike said to call you and –" The [female American] voice cut him off, and sounded annoyed.

"Excuse me, could you please speak English?" the woman answered.

"I am English!" he yelled. "Listen, you stupid bi—" Spike yanked the phone out of his hand and put it to his ear carefully. He knew who would be on the other end of the line.

"Harmony, shut up for a second," he said.



"Feisty one, aren’t you?" Judas sneered. "All you Yankee women, so cute. In a Neighbours-reject kind of way." That only made Harmony angrier.

"The show’s called Friends!" she said, punctuating the last word with a slash at the stranger’s eyes.



"OI! SMOKE THIS KIPPER, MATE!"



Upon remembering about the switch, Arnold’s face made a perfect O shape, like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone.




"Nasty place," the head Ace replied. "We call it Dimension Zero. It used to be known as Quortoth." The name dangled on the edge of Wesley's memory. He reasoned he probably read about it somewhere.

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Thanks! Both this and the first Clipper came about in one-day bursts. The third one has been a bit more involved, since it's just a bigger story. You'll see.

I was surprised by how fun Harmony was to write; she's just an all-American girl, y'know? (other than the fangs and lack of soul, of course.) And to answer your earlier question, it's Angel who addresses that in the next story.

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According to the Red Dwarf novel I read, Dave's accent is Scouse. The only thing I could find looking that up was "lobscouse," but that's a freaking lobster.

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See, I wasn't able to find anything on either him or Rimmer, so I went with the actors' real-life hometowns and hoped for the best.