PRINCETON HHH HASH #404.4

Date:  March 28, 1993
Weather:  Inundatory
Set By:  Hand Solo
Hashers:  Geezer, Wacko, LRF, Allan, Steaming & Safe
Rookies:  Kristin & Meredith

WE ALL DIED AT NESHANIC STATION
or
Is S.E.T.I. Redundant?

	Waiting. . . For decades.
	Waiting. . . I am the last.  Aljawzah succumbed to the marsh madness six days ago, and only 
I am left to tend the transmitter.
	Waiting. . . Our autochef failed years ago.  No sunlight for weeks.  The bluehouse is barren.  
Now I must forage among the indigenous fauna.
	Waiting. . . My choices are limited.  I dare not leave the station, or be overcome by the 
intoxicating marshes.  Where is the sun?
	Waiting. . . I have tuned the transmitter to the neural frequency of the local simian bipeds, 
and it is broadcasting lure-images of irresistable appeal.  But where are my prey?
	Waiting. . . HOW CAN THEY RESIST?!?  I find even the harmonic leakage from the 
transmission unendurably desirable!  Oh! to be frolicking in the slime-falls of Zorsl!  Or sampling 
(snarfing!) mud-hopper marinara while slukorzing down the swamp-canyons of Sess!  These 
monkeys have no imagination!
	But wait!
	A clutch of simioids has entered the swamp.  Splashing about in festive zeal! Crashing 
through tree-tendrils, sinking and slipping in succulent slime!!  And bleating and barking, "Oink! 
Oink!" and "Arkoo!"  Totally in my power!!
	But patience!
	Each step brings them closer to the puréeing pits.  Just a bit further . . . they're crossing the 
slushy savannah (frightening long-necked winged honkers into desperate flight) . . . now atop the 
twin iron-veined black carbohydrate arch (the natural formations on this world are extraordinary) . 
. . racing down to the grassy flood-plain (so like the razor-reed delta of the glorious Arfx!) . . . how 
delectable!
	For the final marination I'll just turn up the transmission a bit and lure them into the glacial 
runoff.  Ahh! the aged one is weak-willed, and the first to be drawn in!  Deeper, deeper, yes . . . the 
other simioids stand stunned on the bank . . . a few steps more . . . I slowly open the hatch of the 
station to reach him . . .
	"Oink! Oink!"
	NOOOO!  The other simioids are calling the aged one! . . . dashing to high ground! . . . 
getting away!  I must pursue them! 
	The marsh vapors!  I forgot!  The madness . . . CROAK! CROAK!

Geezer:  "The first frog of the spring!  I heard it first!  I heard it first!"
	

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