(Gouhan gets back to L3 from being at the CoN gate to check on HR-1
and Tenchi-clone.  HR-1 and Tenchi-clone have been put on temporary
shutdown for the time being.   Gouhan, satisfied,  walks back out to the
main area and over to the computer console noticing the message light
blinking.  Gouhan tries to 'play' the message and gets a notice.  it
reads:)

<_________________________________________>
<Message scrambled                                               >
<voice prints of roshi and holly can unscramble>

=Gouhan:  What the???  Awww man...  hiroshin's still in the hospital...
It's probably pretty important, too.

     Gouhan starrts to search through his internal programs.  A couple
minutes later he finds what he was looking for.  "Hmmm... I hope this
works..." *in Gouhan's best synthesized hiroshin-ken voice* "computer,
play message..."

     A few seconds later the computer decodes the message.

=Gouhan:  Whew...  Good. [Gouhan reads the message] *thinking*  Yes...
ken would _love_ to get this message... *to computer in hiroshin's voice,
just in case*  computer print message.

     The computer prints out the message and Gouhan leaves in haste to
get to the hospital to relay the message to hiroshin.  But before he
heads out the door Gouhan yells out to the computer from the hall still
using the synesized voice...  "COMPUTER... DELETE MESSAGE!"

     As Gouhan gets to the hospital room, he goes through the routine of
signing in, and walks in.  hiroshin, who is still recovering, but
conscious now, acknowledges Gouhan by nodding his head...

=hiroshin:  Hey Gouhan.  How's the gate...
=Gouhan:  The gate's fine.  I also went to check on HR and Tenchi. 
They're on temp.  shutdown...  Nothin much's goin' on there, though.  Oh
yeah, you got a message from U2R... here. *hands hiroshin the printout*

     hiroshin reads the printout, and smiles...
=hiroshin:  *thinking aloud* No problem...  *to Gouhan*  Record a message
for me Gouhan...
=Gouhan:  [after a couple seconds]  Internal recorder initiated... Go
right ahead..

----- Begin message

Hello U2R...  Sorry it took me a while to respond, I'm still in the
hospital at the moment.  Don't worry, hopefully I'll be out soon...  Of
course, I  just read your message, and I'd love to join you on that
scouting trip.  I've been hoping I could get in on this action against
that old pervert.  If you send over some of those goodies, more than
likely my clone Gouhan'll be there to recieve them...

     Oh, yeah...  Holly said she may be gone for a while...  Something
about having to think about things...  So she might not be able to reply
for a while...  If you want to wait for her, fine.  As I said, I'm still
not sure when I'll get out of here.  hiroshin-ken over and out...

----- End message

...to be continued...

(^_^)oooo<  (ML PARTIAL LURK MODE)
---i am... ... ...hiroshin-ken  (hiroshin-ken@juno.com)
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