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P2nya, imprezzt

"Harri Roadcat" wrote in message
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Here is da report that I promised mine lazy hoomin would post fur me. I'm
sorry it took so long; I'z been hafing terrible prolems keeping mine
Seketaries on-task.

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Somewhere to the west of Chicago, in a deep wooded grove shrouded by trees
and heavy overgrowth, a pair of engines start. The noises of the engine
rise in volume, and a small aircraft is seen rising above the grove. The
aircraft is a tilt-rotor aircraft, operating similar to the Osprey, but
this craft is scaled down to fit feline pilots and crew.

The plane skims low over the ground until well clear of it's airbase
before it rises high enough to show on the radar screens of Chicago
Approach Control. Hearing air traffic controllers calling, the pilot
ignores them and sets course to the west. The air traffic controllers
become more and more demanding, finally threatening to call in military
fighter aircraft if the aircraft remains unidentified. The pilot calmly
starts fiddling with some digital controls on the instrument panel, and a
few hundreds yards in front of the aircraft a large faint circle appears,
shimmering with random discharges of electricity. Spotting a couple of
F-18 fighters approaching rapidly, the pilot heads straight for the
circle. As the craft reaches the circle, both the aircraft and the circle
disappear. Two very confused fighter pilots recheck their radars, trying
to figure out how their bogey was able to simply disappear.

Milliseconds later, a similar faint energetic circle appears over the
islands of Hawaii. Dropping quickly to just above the sea, the aircraft
heads for the island of Kaua'i and skirts the island the pilot spots high
cliffs with an isolated plateau beside it. Comparing the plateau with an
ancient parchment drawing in her paws, the pilot nods her head and
carefully guides the tilt-rotor on to the plateau. She sees sheer vertical
cliffs on three sides of the plateau, with the fourth side offering a
vertical drop of hundreds of feet to the ocean rocks below. All of the
cliff faces are covered in thick green growth, and the plateau itself is
an ocean of green. Immediately adjacent to the small plateau us a very
large forested area that slopes gently down to the sea. No development has
been done in this forested area, as it is part of a state forest
preserver. Transitioning the wing to vertical flight mode, the pilot lands
carefully in a clearing on the plateau.

Consulting the ancient parchment and looking at her compass, the pilot
starts hiking toward the inland cliffs. Upon reaching the foot of the
cliffs she searches carefully behind boulders and green growth, until she
finally spots what she was looking for - the entrance to a large cave. The
way the cave mouth is oriented guarantees that it will never be spotted
from the air, from the sea, or from the tops of the surrounding cliffs.
The pilot enters the cave and sees that the cave itself splits into three
branches, a small one heading to the right, an even smaller one straight
ahead, and the largest off to the left. Switching on her flashlight she
sees a great many paw prints in the dust on the cave floor, indicating a
lot of recent paw traffic. She then shines an ultraviolet flashlight on
the cave walls and in unsurprised when she finds directional signs written
in Kitlish near the cave junction.

She jots down a few notes in her notebook, then puts her flashlights back
in her backpack and returns toward her aircraft. When she gets close,
though, she hears many voices meowing from the vicinity of her plane. She
sneaks into a patch of heavy vegetations and watches carefully to see what
is going on. After a few minutes of watching the cats around her aircraft
simply admiring it, she nearly jumps out of her skin when a feline voice
speaks from immediately beside her.

"Hello, Harri, it's been a while. Enjoying our little bit of heaven?"

"Jeez, Morgana, I wish you wouldn't do that! You nearly gave me a heart
attack! How do you move that quietly?"

Another voice speaks from her other side.

"We don't know any other way."

"Jeez, Aed, you too? You need fail to startle me when you do that."

"Sorry", Aed snickers. "Were you planning on joining us for a little
vacation?"

Harri: "No I was researching an ancient parchment I could in the library
of the High Priestess of Bast. I thought it looked kind of like it might
have been leading to a Second World access site, and I guess I was right!"

Aed: "Indeed. While we do live underground most of the time, we come up
here periodically for sunshine and fresh air. This plateau has been
undisturbed by hoomins for hundreds of years, thanks to the hard work of
our ancestors. So , now that you've located us, what's up? Anything new?"

Harry: "Well, actually I was scouting for a good place for this year's
Jellicle Ball. That lovely forest area to the east looks just about
perfect. What do you guys think? Would anyone mind if we gathered there?"

Morgana: "Oh my, not at all! We love to get visitors, and it would be good
for more kitties to learn about our little isolated niche. Visitors can
teleport directly into our little isolated plateau without any fear of
being seen by snoopy homing, and can access the park and the beach easily
through our tunnel system. There is a lovely beach down there, and the
local mongooses, goats, and wild pigs all keep watch for us, and us for
them.

There is a lovely natural rock platform that would serve quite nicely as a
stage for the MC, and the grass is nice and soft. If you want electricity
we can supply that from our cave system, since there's no hoomin-installed
electricity anywhere nearby. We have guest quarters in the caves, and some
kitty-sized huts set up for visitors who want to stay for a while. So yes,
you would all be quite welcome to hold the Jellicle Ball here."

Harri: Fangu, Morgana and Aed! Dat sounds good to me. I can't speak fur da
Community, but I'll report all dis to the Grand Poobah an da Community, an
dey will decide. You guys will be coming too, won't you?"

Aed: "We wouldn't miss it! He Ball is the only chance we get some years to
visit with some of our dear friends."