Please pay careful attention! This means you. Yes, you. Please read the following four words out loud (and no, we are not kidding about this):
KRESPLAP
FURGRIKAT
NOP
DWENT’TAK
There. You remember now, don’t you? If you do, then all is well. Please proceed with the mission as planned.
If you are still puzzled, then please go back and read the words aloud again. This time, try to do it with a vaguely French accent (with perhaps a hint of disgust, as if you were a waiter at an expensive restaurant in Paris who is confronted with an American tourist who obviously has no taste in clothing.) And be sure to pause for the apostrophe in DWENT’TAK for just a moment, but don’t hold it too long.
Did that bring it all back to you? Then you have your orders. Otherwise, please keep reading.
Obviously, among our other problems, we messed up during the briefing implantation. And someone (probably Ungutnol down in Central Processing) is going to be held responsible. But that’s not really important right now. What’s important is this: you have a critical mission, and there’s not much time left.
The beginning of a rather odd story, told mostly in second person. I don’t know if I’ll ever finish it.