[Downtown, Macaw Way Park]
The spicy fragrance of ferns and heavily blossomed heliconia eddies through the air, as you brush past the leaves which hang over the narrow paths.  Yellow and green crotons grow exuberantly beside the walkways wending their way through this small park, granting you a moment of seclusion and tranquility.  You also see the access to the street and a wrought-iron bench with a poetry book on it.

Jim Nugent says, "And the luckey Seusser to go first is..."
Jim Nugent exclaims, "Julie Green!"
Julie Green grins.
Jim Nugent says, "Please be still everyone, Julie needs all the help she can get."
Julie Green pokes Jim Nugent in the ribs.
Jim Nugent glances at Julie Green.
Julie folds her arms and flashes a playful smile, striking a dramatic pose for all those gathered.
Julie Green recites:

    "This Morada's version of the Seussish ABC's!"

Jim Nugent exclaims, "OK Julie, take it away!"
Julie Green grins and gets ready to speak.
Julie Green recites:

    "Big A, little a... What begins with A?"

Julie Green recites:

    "An awful apparition.... A A A!"

Julie Green cowers in fear.
Julie Green recites:

    "Big B, little b... What begins with B?"

Julie Green recites:

    "Bandits bashing brawlers and a Bob Bergoine!"

Julie Green pretends to ride around on a rental bike.
Julie Green recites:

    "Big C, little c... What begins with C?"

Jim Nugent chuckles.
Mark Grant grins.
Julie Green recites:

    "Crocs and Coral's Cafe... C C C!"

Julie Green grabs her bleeding leg while she sips an iced tea!
Julie Green recites:

    "Big D, little d... "

Julie Green recites:

    "Darling Darla and Darby
     Dreamed a dozen dumpsters
     And a dead dog too!"

Julie Green tries to figure out who could have killed a dog.
Julie Green recites:

    "A B C D E e e!"

Leyra Saevus smiles, showing her dimple.
Julie Green recites:

    "ESP
     Edith
     Esmeralda!
     E!
      E!
       E!!"

Julie Green pretends she knows how to do some hooey and projects to you, "EEEEE!!"
Julie Green recites:

    "Big F, little f... F! F! F!"

Miranda Myles laughs!
Leyra Saevus grins.
Julie Green recites:

    "Ferd fishes flounder with a fickle feathered fez!"

Julie Green does NOT say any other F words.
Miranda Myles chuckles.
Julie Green recites:

    "A B C D E F G!"

Julie Green recites:

    "Goat, Gems, Gigi, gigolos!
     G!
      G!
       G!"

Julie Green stays away from gigolos.  They're bad.
Julie Green recites:

    "Big H, little h..."

Julie Green recites:

    "Happy Hour!
     Hanky panky in the Hideaway!
     Hooray! Hooray!"

Julie Green giggles.
Julie Green smiles innocently.
Julie Green recites:

    "Big I, little i... i ... i... i..."

Julie Green recites:

    "Informer and Icecream, Ingots!"

Julie Green wonders what an ingot really is.
Julie Green recites:

    "Big J, little j... What begins with J?"

Julie Green recites:

    "Jaku jiggles, jitterbugs, and dances away the day!"

Julie Green drools.
Julie Green recites:

    "Big K, little k..."

Julie Green recites:

    "Kitten, KangaROO!
     Kick a killer kissing
     And King's karaoke too!"

Julie Green hops like SUPER ROO!
Julie Green recites:

    "BIG L!! little l"

Julie Green recites:

    "Lucky Lotto loot!
     Long lures
     Little Lazlo
     Licks a lollipop to boot!"

Julie Green scratches a lottery ticket and loses!
Julie Green recites:

    "Big M! little m"

Julie Green recites:

    "Mark and Miranda Myles
     Are making
     Midnight music
     In the moonlight!
     Mighty nice!!"

Julie Green snickers.
Miranda Myles laughs!
Kim Canella chuckles.
Julie Green recites:

    "Big N, little n
     What begins with those?"

Leyra Saevus stifles a giggle.
Rain Beringer grins.
Jim Nugent glances at Mark Grant.
Mark Grant smiles.
Jim Nugent glances at Miranda Myles.
Julie Green recites:

    "Nine newbies naked
     And Nbeana
     And a nose!"

Julie Green will not pose as a naked newbie, so don't ask.
Julie Green recites:

    "O is very useful.
     When you use it when you say:"

Mark Grant winks at Miranda Myles.
Leyra Saevus cowers away from Julie Green!
Julie Green recites:

    "Ofberk
     Occult
     Outlaws opened orange oil today!"

Julie Green takes a deep breath before the next line.
Julie Green recites:

    "A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O.....
     P!"

Julie Green recites:

    "Planning perfect punches
     Policeman pilfering pennies
     Peter picks some pockets
     And now
     GranPERE's in the pub!"

Julie Green breathes before she turns purple!
Julie Green recites:

    "Big Q, little q
     What begins with Q?"

Julie Green gets a distant look on her face as she ponders.
Julie Green recites:

    "The quiet Queen of Quartz, and her quacking quacker-oo."

Julie Green says, "That was one was hard."
Julie Green recites:

    "Big R, little r"

Jim Nugent asks, "quacker-oo?"
Julie Green recites:

    "Rosy Rosalie.
     Rosa's riding to Renfaire
     On a rickshaw
     Can't you see?"

Leyra Saevus asks, "A confused duck?"
Julie Green looks into her crystal ball for the next letter...
Leyra Saevus looks at Jim Nugent and shrugs her shoulders.
Julie Green recites:

    "Big S, little s"

Julie Green recites:

    "Silly Sampson Spade
     Sipped six sodas
     And got
     Sick, sick, sick!"

Julie Green exclaims, "BLAH!"
Miranda Myles laughs!
Dylan Perry grins.
Julie Green recites:

    "T...T...t....t
     What begins with T?"

Julie Green recites:

    "Training in the Trench, getting trunks and treasure free!"

Julie Green recites:

    "Big U, little u
     What begins with U?"

Julie Green recites:

    "Uncle Lou's, University..."

Julie Green whispers the next line in secret to you...
Julie Green recites:

    "And no underwear, too!"

Julie Green giggles.
Leyra Saevus snickers.
Miranda Myles chuckles.
Mark Grant giggles.
Jonas Truman says, "smirk"
Julie Green recites:

    "Big V, little V"

Jonas Truman coughs.
Julie Green recites:

    "Violet
     Is
     Very
     Very
     Very awful
     On her violin."

Julie Green recites:

    "W...w..W..."

Julie Green recites:

    "Wacky Whiterose whistles as wind whips through Windsor house!"

Julie Green recites:

    "X is very useful
     If your for writing
     Xenia or Xander's box.
     It also
     Comes in handy
     Spelling ax
     And extra fox."

Julie Green recites:

    "Big Y, little y"

Julie Green recites:

    "A yawning yellow yak.
     Young Yuri is yodeling
     And yelling on his back!"

Julie Green loves the zoo!
Julie Green recites:

    "A B C D E F G... H I J K L M N O P... Q R S T U V... W..X.. Y..."

Julie Green recites:

    "Big Z, little z
     What begins with Z?"

Julie Green uses her best Alouis accent possible.
Leyra Saevus grins.
Julie Green coughs.
Julie Green stands nice and tall.
Julie Green recites:

    "ZOONSHINE, I'm zo Zexy! Az zoo can plainly zee!!"

Julie Green pozes in her best Zexy poze!
Mark Grant laughs!
Jim Nugent says, "Please, no."
Miranda Myles laughs!
Rain Beringer laughs!
Leyra Saevus giggles.
Jim Nugent collapses in a heap on the floor.
You giggle.
Sinvri Kwenda laughs!
Julie Green curtsies.
Mike Tucker lets out a hearty cheer for Julie Green.
Miranda Myles lets out a hearty cheer for Julie Green.
Jim Nugent stands back up.
Rain Beringer gets an excited expression on her face and lets out a hearty cheer.
Kim Canella lets out a hearty cheer for Julie Green.
You let out a hearty cheer for Julie Green.
Dylan Perry lets out a hearty cheer for Julie Green.
Jonas Truman applauds.
Kim Canella just hugged Julie Green.
Sinvri Kwenda whistles at Julie Green!
You hear someone snickering.
Kim Canella exclaims, "That was great!"
Leyra Saevus grins at Julie Green.
Kim Canella grins at Julie Green.
Leyra Saevus gets a distant look on her face as she ponders.
Jim Nugent says, "A trooly zpectacular endeeng."
Julie Green giggles.
Miranda Myles chuckles.
Jonas Truman rubs his chin, deep in thought as he contemplates his criticism.
Miranda Myles says, "she did the accent just fine"
Leyra Saevus nods to Miranda Myles.
Sinvri Kwenda says, "Joozt fine."
Sinvri Kwenda nods to Miranda Myles.
Mark Grant grins at Leyra Saevus.
Leyra Saevus giggles at Mark Grant.
Jim Nugent says, "And Julie takes a strong first place lead in the voting by our judges."
Jim Nugent grins at Julie Green.
Julie Green laughs!
Miranda Myles laughs!
You giggle.
Jonas Truman says, "Fine story... but not enough made up words to be authentically Suess-ish. Quacker-oo was a nice touch.. coulda used more."
Julie Green glances at Jonas Truman.
Jonas Truman nods approvingly at his criticixm.
Jonas Truman coughs.
Sinvri Kwenda says, "Uh oh.  Mine's not authentically Seuss-ish."
Sinvri Kwenda exclaims, "But it's authentic!"
Miranda Myles says, "He studying to write for the Informer..Theater Critic."
Sinvri Kwenda says, "It's a political one."
Sinvri Kwenda glances around.
Jim Nugent exclaims, "Sinvri!"
Sinvri Kwenda exclaims, "Jim!"

You see Sinvri Kwenda, the Cult Leader.
He appears to be in his early twenties.
He stands 6 feet and 3 inches tall and has a muscular build.  He has mahogany skin, shoulder-length beaded copper hair, and coffee-colored eyes.  He is clean shaven.

Sinvri Kwenda has no wounds.

He is holding nothing in his hands.
Sinvri Kwenda is wearing a long black leather trench coat, a pair of black-framed sunglasses, a tight black t-shirt, a pair of faded black boots, a twisted titanium barbell in his left eyebrow, a water-resistant communicator, a pair of fatigue-style pants, and a matte black tackle bag with silver trim.

Sinvri Kwenda steps up onto the stage, a dark form heading toward you.  He taps his shades a bit further back on the bridge of his nose and smiles slightly.
Sinvri Kwenda watches as a member of his fan club lugs a HUMONGOUS crate into the room.  On the side of the crate you see the word BUGS.
Sinvri Kwenda clears his throat, taking on a deep and masculine voice before he begins his recitation.
Sinvri Kwenda says, "The poem I'll be reciting today is titled "One Pout, Two Pouts, No Job, No Clout" and concerns delicate subject matter that may be offensive to some individuals.  If you are one of these individuals, you should probably leave right about now."
Jim Nugent blinks.
Sinvri Kwenda turns his head toward you and raises an eyebrow in interest.
Mike Tucker chuckles.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "Who am I?  I'm Trevor Rage
     Also known as Trenton Mage"

Sinvri Kwenda poses, showing off his powerful build, perfectly styled hair, and clean shaven jaw.  Preteen girls in the front row begin to swoon.
Leyra Saevus giggles.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "Once a mighty god in black
     Down to earth I've fallen back"

Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "Now the plotline of my story?
     My fast plummet down from glory
     Sit right back and hear my tale
     Guar-Ran-Teed! to make you wail
     Tears for joy or tears of pain
     Message boards that went insane!"

Sinvri Kwenda notices a bug on the ground that has been eluding him forever.  He goes to crush it with his boot, but it scurries away into the crowd.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "February twenty-eight
     Now a date we've come to hate
     Simu's little price increase
     Caused my online life to cease"

Sinvri Kwenda pouts petulantly.  Unbeknownst to him, the bug, hidden within the safety of the crowd, points and makes fun of him.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "Had to say what's on my mind
     And I wasn't very kind
     To a paid account I hopped
     Did you think Rage could be stopped?"

Sinvri Kwenda snickers at the thought of being stopped.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "Raise my bill by <gasp!> three bucks?
     Simu, now, that really sucks!"

Sinvri Kwenda shakes his fist angrily at the accounting muckymucks at the Simu head office.
Leyra Saevus grins.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "Sucks, I say!
     It sucks, sucks, sucks!
     I don't like the three more bucks."

Sinvri Kwenda pouts some more.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "Three bucks more than what I pay?
     All that money just to play?
     Games for profit?  Not for fun?
     To other games, we will run!"

Jim Nugent grins.
Sinvri Kwenda seems sullen and distraught.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "My posts were read, my bosses pissed
     ZIP!  ZAM!  ZOOM!
     I was dismissed
     Now I feel betrayed and bitter
     Kicked out by that Whatley critter"

Sinvri Kwenda draws a sawed-off shotgun with triple titanium short-barrels and takes aim at an imaginary Whatley.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "So I posted to my site
     To our customers's delight
     And my campaign goes on still
     Until Simu's at my will"

Sinvri Kwenda raises his arms over his head, relishing the thought of bending Simu to his will. From the corner of his eye he notices the bug, peeking out at him from the shadows.
Sinvri Kwenda slowly edges over towards the shadows.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "Listen, Siri, hear my voice
     Take me back, you've got no choice
     Twenty GM's in your game
     But it still won't be the same"

Sinvri Kwenda snickers.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "Without me, the combat hero
     Player numbers will be zero!
     No one codes like Trevor can
     That's why I'm my biggest fan!"

Sinvri Kwenda pounces and finally manages to catch the one bug that had been eluding him.
Sinvri Kwenda asks, "Finally!  Thought you could get away from me, did you?"
Sinvri Kwenda snickers as the bug futilely tries to escape.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "One thing, though, fills me with glee..."

Sinvri Kwenda stows the bug securely away in a leather holster slung over his shoulder.
Sinvri Kwenda recites:

    "All this uproar, just for me!"

Sinvri Kwenda bows deeply.  The preteen girls in the front row reach out and try to snag a memento from him.  They jostle each other for position, sending a few of them careening against the crate.  Oh no!  Scores of bugs are set free, scurrying through the crowd and into the night.
Sinvri Kwenda shrugs.
Sinvri Kwenda says, "Not my problem any more.  In fact, think of it as a little memento from yours truly."
Sinvri Kwenda smirks.
Sinvri Kwenda walks away, his form rapidly disappearing into the shadows until he is gone.
Leyra Saevus gets a distant look on her face as she ponders.
Jim Nugent exclaims, "Give it up for Sinvri!"
Mike Tucker lets out a hearty cheer for Sinvri Kwenda.
Jim Nugent applauds.
Kim Canella just applauded Sinvri Kwenda.
Rain Beringer applauds.
Leyra Saevus applauds.
Mark Grant applauds.
Dylan Perry applauds.
You applaud.
Jonas Truman applauds.
Kim Canella exclaims, "You were sure right, it was political!"
Kim Canella just tickled Sinvri Kwenda.
Sinvri Kwenda grins at Kim Canella.
Mike Tucker chuckles.
Miranda Myles says, "I honestly don't know what to say to that.  Sorry."
Sinvri Kwenda says, "S'okay."
Sinvri Kwenda says, "That's what the tomato was for, Miranda."
Sinvri Kwenda grins at Miranda Myles.
Miranda Myles says, "I won't use it."
Jim Nugent exclaims, "And Sinvri scores well, too!"
Dylan Perry lets out a hearty cheer for Sinvri Kwenda.
Leyra Saevus smiles, showing her dimple.
Dylan Perry says, "I pity the next storyteller"
Dylan Perry laughs!
Leyra Saevus asks, "Isn't that you?"
Mike Tucker chuckles.
Sinvri Kwenda grins.
Dylan Perry says, "oh um"
Jim Nugent exclaims, "Dylan!"
Kim Canella chuckles.
Dylan Perry flails his arms about.
Jim Nugent pats Dylan on the back.
Leyra Saevus giggles.
Jim Nugent says, "Hard act to follow, Dylan."
Dylan Perry bows.
Dylan Perry says, "Whenever your ready, Maestro"
Dylan Perry glances at Jim Nugent.
Jim Nugent just nudged Dylan Perry.
Dylan Perry says, "I call this story One perp, two perp, three perp, more."
Leyra Saevus grins.
Dylan Perry says, "Punch 'em, kick 'em, grapple 'em to the floor"
Dylan Perry says, "Make 'em holler, make 'em roar"
Dylan Perry says, "See Mark bash, See Miranda slice"
Dylan Perry says, "See the Mercs run like mice"
Mark Grant giggles.
Dylan Perry says, "See Courtney with knives, see Dylan Fly"
Dylan Perry asks, "See the Guerrillas, see them cry?"
Dylan Perry says, "See Jason fire, see Dexter roar"
Dylan Perry says, "See those poor brawlers dive for the floor"
Jim Nugent chuckles.
Dylan Perry says, "See Amanda do some footwork"
Dylan Perry says, "See the Accusables wish they had homework"
Dylan Perry says, "See Matt soar, see Jess blast"
Dylan Perry says, "See the Nightblades run real fast"
Dylan Perry says, "See Kim stab, see Morgan radiate"
Dylan Perry says, "See the Para's with they'd hibernate"
Dylan Perry says, "So you see this story is done"
Dylan Perry says, "Now if only Dylan would stop it with his puns"
Dylan Perry coughs.
Kim Canella chuckles.
Leyra Saevus grins.
Dylan Perry says, "Special thanks to Julie Green and Miranda Myles for the start of this story."
You chuckle.
Dylan Perry bows.
Kim Canella lets out a hearty cheer for Dylan Perry.
Mike Tucker lets out a hearty cheer for Dylan Perry.
Mark Grant applauds.
Jim Nugent exclaims, "Alright! Let's give Dylan a big case of the clap!"
Jim Nugent applauds.
Sinvri Kwenda whistles at Dylan Perry!
You applaud appreciatively at Dylan Perry.
Leyra Saevus applauds.
Mark Grant laughs!
Dylan Perry coughs.
Kim Canella blinks at Jim Nugent.
Mark Grant applauds.
Sinvri Kwenda groans.
Mark Grant applauds.
Rain Beringer applauds.
Mark Grant applauds.
Mark Grant applauds.
Sinvri Kwenda applauds.
Miranda Myles just applauded Dylan Perry.
Kim Canella lets out a hearty cheer for Dylan Perry.
Jim Nugent says, "Very nice story, Dylan."
Jim Nugent grins.
Dylan Perry grins.
Jim Nugent says, "Very tight scores here, folks."
Jim Nugent says, "And our final contestant."
Jim Nugent points at Kim Canella.
Jim Nugent exclaims, "Kim!"
Kim Canella says, "I am telling an adaptation of The Lorax, I call it The Cricket"
Kim Canella recites:

    "At the corner of town
     Where the tall hedge grows
     Where the air feels hot and humid, and wind rarely blows
     Is the corner of the Lifted Cricket."

Kim Canella points towards the northwest.
Kim Canella recites:

    "And under that tall hedge, some people say
     If you look deep enough you can still see, today
     Where the Cricket once stood
     Just as long as it could
     Before someone lifted the Cricket away"

Kim Canella recites:

    "What was the Cricket?
     And why was it there?
     And why was it lifted and taken somwhere
     From the corner of town where the tall hedge grows?
     The Nina Personn still lives here.
     Ask her. She knows."

Kim Canella points towards North Jacaranda Way.
Kim Canella recites:

    "You won't see the Nina.
     Don't knock at her doors
     She stays in her treehouse,
     Avoiding all bores."

Kim Canella recites:

    "But sometimes she speaks
     And tells how the Cricket was lifted away.
     She'll tell you perhaps,
     If you're willing to pay."

Kim Canella recites:

    "On the end of a rope,she lets down a tin bucket
     And you have to toss a million bucks in it.
     Then she pulls up the pail,
     Makes a most careful count
     To see if you've paid her
     The proper amount."

Kim Canella recites:

    "Then she growls, "I will call you in the Private Comm zone,
     For the secrets I tell are for your ears alone."

Kim Canella turns on her comm.
Leyra Saevus grins.
Kim Canella recites:

    "Way back in the days when the grass was still green
     And the pond was still wet
     And the clouds were still clean,
     And the song of the seagulls rang out in space...
     One morning, a tourist came to this glorious place.
     And she first saw the trees!
     The bright red Flame Trees!
     The bright-colored tufts of the red Flame Trees!
     Mile after mile in the fresh salt-air breeze."

Kim Canella recites:

    "She chopped down a Flame Tree with one single chop
     And grabbed every single tuft from the top.
     She formed soft sculptures from the tufts of the tree,
     Then raced to the Gallery and sold them to Gigi."

Kim Canella recites:

    "The instant she'd finished, she heard a ga-Zump!
     She looked....
     And she saw something pop out of the stump."

Kim Canella recites:

    "He was shortish. And oldish.
     And greenish. And mossy.
     And he spoke with a voice
     That was chirpish and bossy."

Kim Canella recites:

    "Madame!" he said with a sawdusty sneeze,
     "I am the Cricket. I speak for the trees.
     I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
     And I'm asking you, maam, at the top of my lungs"--
     He was very upset as he chirped and puffed--
     "Whats that THING you've made out of my red Flame tree tuft?"

Kim Canella recites:

    "Look, Cricket," she said. "There's no cause for alarm.
     I chopped just one tree. I am doing no harm."

Kim Canella ponders a moment.
Kim Canella recites:

    "I repeat," cried the Cricket,
     "I speak for the trees!"

Kim Canella recites:

    "I'm busy," she told him.
     "Shut up, if you please."

Kim Canella recites:

    "She turned on her comm, and made a broadcast,
     "Fellow tourists, come quick, we can make money fast!"

Kim Canella rubs her hands together greedily.
Kim Canella recites:

    "And, in no time at all,
     A factory was built,
     All of the tourists
     Were working full tilt.
     They were all sculpting tufts
     Just as busy as bees,
     To the sound of the chopping
     Of the bright red Flame Trees."

Kim Canella recites:

    "Then, again he came back! The tourists stared toward the ground
     Where that old-nuisance Cricket hopped all around."

Kim Canella recites:

    "I am the Cricket," he coughed and he whiffed.
     He sneezed and he snuffled. He snarggled. He sniffed.
     "Please stop!" he cried with a cruffulous croak.
     "Stop now! You're making such smogulous smoke!
     The seagulls can't fly, birds can't sing a note!
     No one can sing who has smog in his throat"

Jim Nugent asks, "Snarggled?"
Kim Canella bursts into a great fit of coughing.
Jim Nugent snickers.
Kim Canella continues in a gravelly voice.
Kim Canella recites:

    "And so," said the Cricket,
     "--please pardon my cough--
     Nothing can live here.
     So I'm sending them off.
     They may have to travel a month...or a year...
     To escape from the smog you've smogged-up around here."

Kim Canella recites:

    "And at that very moment, we heard a load whack!
     From outside in the fields came a sickening smack
     Of an axe on a tree. Then we heard the tree fall.
     The very last Flame Tree of all!"

Kim Canella recites:

    "No more trees. No more tufts. No more work to be done.
     The tourists all waved me good-bye, every last one,
     Now all that was left 'neath the bad-smelling sky
     Was the big empty factory
     The Cricket...
     And I."

Kim Canella recites:

    "The Cricket said nothing. Just gave me a stare...
     Just gave me a very sad, sad backward stare...
     And then one very long glare.
     And I'll never forget the grim look on his face
     When he hoisted himself and took leave of this place,
     Through a hole in the smog, without leaving a trace."

Kim Canella sighs sadly.
Kim Canella recites:

    "And all that the Cricket left here in this mess
     Was a small pike of rocks, with the one word...
     "UNLESS."
     Whatever that meant, well, I just couldn't guess."

Kim Canella scratches her head, looking a bit confused.
Kim Canella recites:

    "But now," says the Nina Personn,
     "Now that you're here,
     The word of the Cricket seems perfectly clear.
     UNLESS someone like you
     Cares a whole awful lot,
     Nothing is going to get better.
     It's not."

Kim Canella recites:

    "SO...
     Catch!" calls the Nina.
     She lets something fall.
     "It's a Red Flame Tree Seed.
     It's the last one of all!"

Kim Canella recites:

    "You're in charge of the last of the Flame Tree Seeds.
     And bright red Flame Trees are what everyone needs.
     Plant a new Flame Tree. Treat it with care.
     Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
     Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack.
     Then the Cricket
     And all of his friends
     May come back."

Kim Canella smiles and holds out her closed hand, then unfolds her fingers to reveal what is in her palm.
Jim Nugent leans forward.
Kim Canella bows.
Sinvri Kwenda lets out a hearty cheer for Kim Canella.
Mark Grant applauds.
You hear someone whistle at Kim Canella.
Jim Nugent lets out a hearty cheer for Kim Canella.
Dylan Perry lets out a hearty cheer for Kim Canella.
You applaud appreciatively at Kim Canella.
Rain Beringer says, "wow"
Leyra Saevus gets an excited expression on her face and lets out a hearty cheer.
Miranda Myles reaches over and gives Kim Canella a triumphant high five.
Mike Tucker lets out a hearty cheer for Kim Canella.
Kim Canella says, "And, don't be dropping that bucket down at me, Nina, I don't have a million to spare, I don't dare"

Jim Nugent says, "The judges have tallied the scores on their tallying machines."
Jim Nugent says, "Coming in 4th place, and the winner of a voucher..."
Jim Nugent offers an official merchant voucher to Dylan Perry.
Jim Nugent says, "Coming in 3rd, and the winner of a 30K merchant gift certificate..."
Jim Nugent offers a merchant gift certificate to Sinvri Kwenda.
Jim Nugent says, "Placing 2nd overall, and the winner of a 50k merchant gift certificate..."
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Jim Nugent says, "And our First Place prize winner..."
Jim Nugent points at Kim Canella.
Jim Nugent gets a specially designed moose carved out of oak, complete with googly-eyes over its rather large snout from inside his prize bag.
Jim pushes down on the moose's head and a small candy plops out the moose's hindquarters and into his hand.
Jim beams over his freshly dispensed caramel candy!
Jim Nugent offers a specially designed moose carved out of oak, complete with googly-eyes over its rather large snout to Kim Canella.