{"id":4728,"date":"2017-03-27T08:27:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T12:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2017-03-28T20:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:07:59","slug":"this-was-not-part-of-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/this-was-not-part-of-the-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"This Was Not Part of the Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>sufficiently versed in the stranger\u2019s system of stenography<\/li>\n<li>sealed in a test tube of acid<\/li>\n<li>you\u2019d have to pay pounds and pounds and pounds<\/li>\n<li>One September morning<\/li>\n<li>a traveler\u2019s worst nightmare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 165\u00a0<\/strong><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was not part of the plan. It was in fact <em>a traveler&#8217;s worst nightmare<\/em>. Forgetting for a moment that I wore only a dog collar, a spiky codpiece, and the tinsel still clinging to my thigh hair, I was surrounded by a busload of school children on a field trip, all of them hyper from the cotton candy they ate by the fistful. <em>One September morning<\/em>, during my first year at the academy, I&#8217;d gone on a field trip much like this one, only instead of visiting a whimsically saccharine paean to love we had taken a tour of the recently excavated mime settlement. The looks on the faces of our chaperones were burned into my memory and <em>you&#8217;d have to pay pounds and pounds and pounds<\/em>\u00a0of either British Sterling or Swiss chocolate if you ever expected me to participate in another field trip in my life. And even then I&#8217;d probably rather sacrifice a body part and see it <em>sealed in a test tube of acid<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m saying is I don&#8217;t really like kids. Especially not in groups.<\/p>\n<p>The pink, sticky horde took up the entire walkway through the heart of Valentine Village. To avoid them, I vaulted up onto a\u00a0heart-shaped sign hanging over a shopfront, and from there clambered through a window.<\/p>\n<p>A man dressed entirely in lace frills was seated at a desk, scribbling something in a small notebook. Upon my arrival he leapt to his feet. Before he could sound the alarm, or even cry out, I applied a nerve pinch to his neck and he collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>If I was quick, I could escape this ghastly place. I began to strip the lace costume off my victim, but my eye was snagged by his abandoned notebook. Luckily I was <em>sufficiently versed in the stranger&#8217;s system of stenography<\/em> that I could decipher his notes with little trouble.<\/p>\n<p>What I read shocked me. If it was true, it would blow this whole operation wide open!<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in reverse order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sufficiently versed in the stranger\u2019s system of stenography sealed in a test tube of acid you\u2019d have to pay pounds and pounds and pounds One September morning a traveler\u2019s worst nightmare Tune in next time part 165\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,341,342,403],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-clothes","tag-food","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4739,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}