elman (kinome) 17

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Part 17 can be read here!

This chapter involves discussion of food poisoning.



Author's Note: Our stage this episode is the mushroom quarantine station. You might remember it from its brief cameo in part 13.

[sign on spaceship: Shironeko Postal Service]

Jelly: Destination, Safari Park...
Radio: This is a warning broadcast from Traffic HQ! At this time, warping from the Orion District into the Perseus District is forbidden!
Jelly: Whaaaaaaaaat?!
Radio: We apologize for the inconvenience, but please stop by your nearest quarantine station instead.
Ship: Coordinates accepted and entered.
Jelly: No, wait! I don't have time for that!! I have to deliver this package TODAY!!!
Ship: All prepared to warp!
Jelly: LISTEN TO ME!!!
Jelly: Argh...
Jelly: What the hell!!

Jelly (Mailwoman)

ELMAN
The Darkness of Space?! Panic Mushroom Quarantine! (I)

[sfx: pop!]

Hessian: Y... you're good... Keep going straight...

Hessian: Ah... T-there is perfect... Please park right there.
Jelly: HEY! First you force me into warping, and now I'm getting quarantined?! What's the big idea?! I'm in a hurry here!!
Hessian: I-I... I'm so sorry... This is an emergency...
Hessian (Quarantine Station Director)

Hessian: C-currently the Perseus District is experiencing a little problem... so these quarantine stations were set up right away to help...
Jelly: What problem?
Loudspeaker: PLEASE HELP US STOP THE SPREAD OF "TUMMYHURTY MUSHROOM" SPORES INTO THE PERSEUS DISTRICT! I REPEAT, PLEASE HELP US STOP THE SPREAD...

Hessian: Y-your package has also been cleaned of any spores.
Jelly: Thanks.

Jelly: ...Food poisoning?
Hessian: Y, yes... These poisonous mushrooms, they're called Tummyhurty Mushrooms, lately their population is exploding in the Perseus District... I've heard that the cause was a bunch of mushrooms that were growing on the bottom of a ship that came in from the Orion District...
Jelly: Why are people eating them if they're poisonous?
Hessian: Here in the Perseus District we have an edible mushroom called the Veryummy Mushroom that looks just like Tummyhurty Mushrooms... so it seems people have been eating them by accident.
Left: Tummyhurty, Right: Veryummy
Hessian: A-and to make things worse, some of the poisonous mushrooms have gotten mixed in with the market supply, so the damage is becoming worse and worse...
6pc Veryummy Mushrooms for 398 yen (arrows: Tummyhurty Mushroom)
Jelly: Oh, I see.
Jelly: So, how long's it gonna take to decontaminate my ship?
Hessian: L-L-let's see... I believe it should take about an hour...
Jelly: A WHOLE HOUR?!
Hessian: W-we have other travelers in line ahead of you, so...
Jelly: Sigh... I better let my boss know...
(Her cellphone)
Hessian: N-now then, please wait in this room...

Guest room 1
Jelly: Gah! No bars?!

Oscar: Become family with me!!!
Oscar Ohscar (Traveler)

Gyouza: ......
Gyouza (Bio-Programmer)



[sfx: drop]

TO BE CONTINUED

Jelly's mail company, Shironeko, is riffing off the real-life Kuroneko Postal Service in Japan. Hessian is likely named after The Hessian Courier by Georg Büchner.

Readers of Kinome's other series Logica and Fallenstar may find Oscar vaguely familiar.

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