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|number = 8.1 | |number = 8.1 | ||
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | |main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | ||
|featuring = [[312 (The Armageddon Chair)|312]], [[Altazar]], [[Derek the Tree|Derek]], [[Suspension of Geren|Geren]], [[Grizella]], [[ | |featuring = [[312 (The Armageddon Chair)|312]], [[Altazar]], [[Derek the Tree|Derek]], [[Suspension of Geren|Geren]], [[Grizella]], [[Nurse (The Armageddon Chair)|the Nurse]], [[the Oldest]], [[Pym]], [[Starll]] | ||
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|setting = [[Eternity Club]] | |setting = [[Eternity Club]] | ||
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[[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] has joined the [[Eternity Club]] on an [[asteroid]] circling the edge of [[the universe]], but [[Secretary]] [[Pym (The Armageddon Chair)|Pym]] informs her that her fees have not been paid despite her standing order and that she will have to pay her way through menial work until payment has been received. She offends the club members when she sits in the [[chair]] designated for amnesiac [[cyborg]] [[312 (The Armageddon Chair)|312]], despite him being unable to sit for 273 years, and upsets 312 further by repairing his [[knee]], which she was unaware he had kept in disrepair since the [[Fall of Kreldor]] as a sign of [[honour]]. | [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] has joined the [[Eternity Club]] on an [[asteroid]] circling the edge of [[the universe]], but [[Secretary]] [[Pym (The Armageddon Chair)|Pym]] informs her that her fees have not been paid despite her standing order and that she will have to pay her way through menial work until payment has been received. She offends the club members when she sits in the [[chair]] designated for amnesiac [[cyborg]] [[312 (The Armageddon Chair)|312]], despite him being unable to sit for 273 years, and upsets 312 further by repairing his [[knee]], which she was unaware he had kept in disrepair since the [[Fall of Kreldor]] as a sign of [[honour]]. | ||
Although Benny decides to leave because of the resulting complaints to Pym, she is unable to do so until she has paid and continues her work. She walks in on [[Nurse (The Armageddon Chair)|the | Although Benny decides to leave because of the resulting complaints to Pym, she is unable to do so until she has paid and continues her work. She walks in on [[Nurse (The Armageddon Chair)|the Nurse]] as she treats [[the Oldest]], a figure in [[regenerative microweave]] who knows Benny's name, and agrees to locate the [[Ascension Pennant]] for 312 as it is the only proof of his accomplishments in the [[Scarlet Time]]. Following advice from the [[Suspension of Geren]], Benny attempts to locate the [[planet]] Catafalque, whose [[King of the Catafalque|king]] gave 312 the pennant, using the [[holographic observatory]] and finds only stellar debris, making her realise that the Scarlet Time was not a battle. | ||
Benny deduces that 312, whom [[Starll]] knows to have been a [[solar engineer]], had built a [[catafalque]] around a dying [[star|sun]] so that the system's inhabitants could escape its destruction and that the King of the Catafalque was his employer. She informs 312 of this, gets [[Grizella]]'s help to track the system's survivors to [[New Catafalque]] to find the pennant and prepares to leave by shuttle, but [[Derek the Tree]] advises her to think rather than race off and she realises that the pennant is being used as a [[tablecloth]] in the [[dining room]]. | Benny deduces that 312, whom [[Starll]] knows to have been a [[solar engineer]], had built a [[catafalque]] around a dying [[star|sun]] so that the system's inhabitants could escape its destruction and that the King of the Catafalque was his employer. She informs 312 of this, gets [[Grizella]]'s help to track the system's survivors to [[New Catafalque]] to find the pennant and prepares to leave by shuttle, but [[Derek the Tree]] advises her to think rather than race off and she realises that the pennant is being used as a [[tablecloth]] in the [[dining room]]. | ||
312 is delighted by the discovery, remembers his achievements and how he injured himself by staying too long as the system was destroyed and realises that he must have put the pennant in the [[laundry]]. He agrees to allow Benny to sit in his seat as thanks, but he soon forgets about this and again asks for the pennant to be put in the wash, frustrating Benny and leaving her with nowhere to sit. She again encounters the Oldest, who is healthier in the | 312 is delighted by the discovery, remembers his achievements and how he injured himself by staying too long as the system was destroyed and realises that he must have put the pennant in the [[laundry]]. He agrees to allow Benny to sit in his seat as thanks, but he soon forgets about this and again asks for the pennant to be put in the wash, frustrating Benny and leaving her with nowhere to sit. She again encounters the Oldest, who is healthier in the Nurse's absence, and finds that, like her, she cannot remember how she arrived at the Eternity Club. When they do remember, the Oldest says, [[the Death]] will return. | ||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
