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The sun was beginning to set as Myen and Taint built a campfire. Horman had left several hours earlier. A quick inventory of the planes dynamite stock revealed that everything was still there, although they had thuroughly looted all the lockers in the sleeping quarters, stole the pillows and bed sheets, and even ripped down and took Topaz's curtain. Horman's friends had also smeared "OURS" on the plane's windshield with mud.

Taint had found and set up his tiny smokehouse, and was pulling the first batch of fresh boar jerky from inside. "Bitchin'" he said as thick billowy smoke rolled out of the top directly into his face. "You dudes want some jerky?" He asked.

Myen turned away from the campfire and looked at Taint. "Huh?" He said.

"No, but would YOU like some jerky? Because that is ours." came from the forest, in a voice much deeper than Horman's.

"THOMPSON'S DICK!" Myen yelled, grabbing his quarterstaff and taking a combat stance.

"HEY HEY!" Taint spoke, pointing at Myen. "Thats my phrase, get your own."

"It's our phrase now. Hello, I'm Loz." The voice spoke as its owner stepped out from the darkness of the woods. Loz had to him the size of a sasquatch but the relative baldness of a human, but really appeared to be neither. Tied to his back like a cape was a big blue tarp folded over in to quarters.

"This your plane? 'Snice. I like it." Taint said.

"Yes, actually. We got it earlier today." Loz replied.

"You a halfsquatch, Loz?"

"Yes, I am."

"Huh, I speak a little Sasquish." Taint said, before jumping up and down and hollering. He pointed at Myen, stomped one foot, yelled out "HRATH!", stomped his other foot, "GLUM! MYEN!", and hit himself on the shoulder.

Loz knocked his fists together, shouted "BROG!", reached back and slapped Horman (who was hiding in Loz's shadow) in the chest, "GLUM! HORMAN!", and hit himself on the shoulder.

Taint slapped his knee, jumped up and stomped, shouted "HAR!", pointed at Horman, and said in plain english "That guy's a dipshit."

Loz and Horman looked at each other, not amused. "He's the guy that wants to be a friend." Horman spoke up, and pointed to Myen.

"Then he is. I declare it." Loz said. "Come, Myen, let's get back to the camp."

"Hey hold on what about me?" Taint asked.

"You called Horman a dipshit." Loz said, as he and Horman walked back into the forest. "Don't eat that jerky. It's ours."

"Well shit. Myen, why don't you go hang out with your new bark-chewer buddies?" Taint said before taking a big bite of jerky.

"You think I'll be okay?" Myen replied.

"Just don't do anything that gets you shoved in a tarp and you're gold."

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- Alpha Communicator <- 10:13:45 pm, sunday, october 29th, 2006 pst