Yeah, I’ll cut the strip short here…Mopey went on for a long time with that story. A very long time.
Just for clarification: there was “light to medium” fire from heavy machine guns, and “medium to heavy” fire from light mortars. Don’t worry, though, if you had trouble parsing that – Lt. Hayes had the same problem with Mopey’s report. Still wasn’t a smart move by Mopey to call him a numbnut, though…yes, she was supposed to deliver a precise and comprehensive report, but the authority to define what that means lies with the superior officer.
And, no, Mopey was not really in ‘Nam. None of the main cast fought in that war. The Professor was involved in both world wars in some form, and possibly other conflicts of that general era, but by the 60ies he was too old for that sort of thing. Whereas Mopey was too young. Aside from the fact that the US Army allowed no females in combat roles back then. But Mopey doesn’t know that she wasn’t in ‘Nam, because in her youth she made the mistake of watching Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket back-to-back twice over as part of a movie marathon…it was so deeply traumatizing that it left her with a number of implanted memories.
Which is a good thing, since it gave me a way to make the fact that Mopey had to fall back on her trusty tranquilizer-dart gun for a second time more entertaining.
And she had to do that, because this new bout of enhanced awkwardness between Youichi and Hiroki could not have been dealt with in any lesser way. The first time around, alcohol and crushed viagra had a positive* impact, but right now it would be absolutely the wrong thing. Aside from the x12 higher volume of awkwardness.
But this awkwardness wasn’t unexpected, it seems…for why else was Mopey hovering outside the window in a helicopter, with a sniper scope added to her dart gun? It’s almost like she was expecting it…after all, she had to reserve the helicopter in advance. Because she insisted she wanted a Bell 205…which she ‘remembers’ from ‘Nam.
More on Thursday.
*from a certain point of view, as Obi Wan might add.