Poxtenbent: The Beforetime/A Concise Summary

We begin with Grodus in his lab in the middle of one of his typical science investigations. He is soon interuppted by Armega, who brings him news of a supposedly important task that has been relayed to her via Murtaw. Grodus finds things to do while Murtaw is busy with whatever it was he was doing until said troll contacts Grodus. Grodus is notified that the task is based off of one of Uskuro's sopor slime "visions" that he gets due to large amounts of smoking said substance. At first Grodus is reluctant to comply due to the request being from such a rediculous source, but due to both his high blood status (a high influence on a good half of Grodus) and thier good friendship, he is able to convince Grodus to at least listen to the plan. Murtaw gives word that the trolls will have to find a way to locate a disk, existant only in a different timeline, without any of the alternate timeline's inhabitants noticing or being effected due to paradoxes. He also urges that Uskuro insists that the completion of this task may be or life-or-death importance. Convinced that the task shouldn't be of extreme difficulty, Grodus agrees to attempt to find a solution.

Meanwhile, Armega continues her daily excercise regiment to stay in even better shape than she already naturally is, as well as practice her dagger skills, these being her specibus of choice. Upon rather violently sparring with a nearby sandbag, Armega is soon interuppted by her trolling client. Armega soon engages in conversation with Nepira. However, as opposed to actually carrying a conversation, she simply inquires as to the fact that Grodus refuses to check his computer, as she had been trying to contact him for a while now. After displaying her contempt for said nerdy troll and Nepira's attraction to him, she ends the conversation.

We cut over to Grodus, who, bent on not being interrupted this time (thus not answering his client), is continuing the experiment Armega had previously interrupted earlier. Ironically, his determination helps him create nothing other than a slimy and goopy substance of relatively no use, which he dubs "gak," based on his initial reaction to the substance's creation. Disappointed by the lab for a bit, he decides to go to a room that contains several strange gadgets and robot parts. He begins to search for some sort of device to aid in the search for the disk.