World Watch OnLine: The Buckaroo Banzai Mailing List
#  65 (20 December 1998)
Submissions: WWatchOne@aol.com
Editor: WWatchOne@aol.com
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Number of subscribers: 559
(NOTE: anyone who doesn't have an "@something" behind their name is
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Contents:
Greetings
EXEC. ADDRESS - Re: World Watch One Strike Team Alert!!
Re: Buckaroo Soundtrack (and more)
Re: World Watch One Strike Team Alert!! - 11 December 1998
Casting
Re: World Watch OnLine 64 - 13 December 1998
Re: Names and Numbers
Re: World Watch OnLine 64 - 13 December 1998
Re: World Watch OnLine 64 - 13 December 1998
BB in the news!
Soundtrack and other thoughts
BB mailing list!!! YAY!!!
Banzai on CNN?
FROM SCIFIWIRE: Fox Developing 'Banzai' Series  
Lock And Key: Disclaimer/notes, Reno's foreword, and Ch.1

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Greetings,

Yikes. A lot of stuff in this one, so Im gonna step out of the way here, right 
after wishing yall Happy Holidays.

Enjoy,
ArcLight (BBI#621)
WWatchOne@aol.com
Owner/Editor
World Watch OnLine: The Buckaroo Banzai Mailing List
http://come.to/BuckarooBanzai
"Nobody is a nobody. Everyone has something to offer." B.Banzai

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Subj:	EXEC. ADDRESS - Re: World Watch One Strike Team Alert!!
Date:	12/13/98 1:45:24 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:	BBISharkey

Knowing I was a huge fan of BB, a buddy forwarded the W.D. Richter
announcement to me.

First, please add me to your mailing list. I didn't realise anyone was even
out there doing what you're doing for Banzai.

Second, if anyone wants to write to the decision makers involved with the
potential Banzai series, Doug Herzog and Rob Dwek can both be reached via:

Fox Broadcasting Co.
10201 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035

Sorry I don't have specific building or office numbers, but I bet their
mailroom folks know where to find the president of the entertainment
division.

Years ago, fans of Star Trek learned the best way to approach the executives
is with praise for their positive interest, and polite understanding of their
busy schedules. Keep it short. No more than a few sentences. Tell them how
much you enjoyed the film. Express your appreciation of their interest in
making a Buckaroo Banzai series. And encourage them to move forward with the
pilot.

Saddle up. We're on the clock.

Sharkey
**** Yes, Im beating this into the ground maybe, but I have to underscore
Sharkeys suggestions for the letters. Short and polite. Doug Herzog wants
to do this already, so dont get all demanding and risk changing his mind.
Also, no petitions or form letters. To easy for them to be discounted as the
work of a small group with lots of time on their hands. Sharpen those pencils.
 - ArcLight ****

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Subj:	 Re: Buckaroo Soundtrack (and more)
Date:	12/13/98 9:11:56 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:	mas@world.std.com (Mark A. Semich)

LREK wrote:

> I keep seeing copies of the BB "soundtrack" CD being offered on
> ebay, and read desperate notes from people looking for them.
> While we all (should) know that there was _never_ an official
> soundtrack CD (or even a bootlegged copy of a promotional release),
> can anyone who bought one of these expensive little buggers confirm
> that there is anything on any of them that could not
> have come directly from a laser disc (or other commercial
> release?). Music without dialog, dialog without music, new
> music or dialog ...anything?

Yes - there is a lot of music on the soundtrack CD that did not make it
into the movie - including an alternate version of the Team March and a
13 minute "8th dimension" suite, all by Michael Boddicker and intended
for the movie.

The dialogue snippets and HK Cavaliers jam are all from the video, but
all the synth-music seems to have been taken from a master tape of the
music - no dialogue or sound FX over it at all.  Whoever put together
this "soundtrack" used a video of the movie and copies of Bodicker's
original music.

Unfortunately, the sound quality is *real* bad - whoever did the
original pirating of this tape had the levels set *way* too high so
there is a lot of clipping and a lot of hiss.  Plus, even though the
asking price for these CDs is usually very high, they are generally made
on el-cheapo no-name CDRs so there is also some data loss on the last
track(s).

I have one of the soundtrack CDs and my offer still stands:

THIS IS ONLY OFFERED TO PEOPLE ON THE "World Watch OnLine" LIST!  (and
probably limited to the first fifty or so respondents - I reserve the
right to back out at any moment if I get overwhelmed with respones - and
please do not distribute this outside of this list, if it gets too big I
will of course have to stop and that wouldn't be fun for anyone :-)  )

If you are on this list and send me a blank recordable CD along with
return packaging (with address and sufficient postage) I will burn you a
copy of my BB soundtrack CD and drop it in the mail to you.  You need to
have sufficient postage on your included packaging, because if I'm doing
a lot of these I will *not* be able to cover any insufficient postage
costs.
 
Contact me for details:  mas@world.std.com

I think it may make sense for anyone else on this list who is willing to
make CD (and-or tape copies) to all step forward, and perhaps we could
organize a copy tree (again, for people on this list).  If each person
is willing to make one or two copies for someone else on this list, we'd
all have the soundtrack.

I plan to put up the soundtrack track listing at
http://www.fortress.am/users/banzai/ but I haven't done it yet, so
you'll probably get a 404 :-)

MRF27 wrote:

>   i just talked (via telephone) to anti-matters president lawrence
> jones. he informed me he does carry the "buckaroo banzai across
> the ...." box print(director's cut?) at a cost of $23 including
> shipping. 

The one that I've seen would be more accurately described as a "work
print" than as a "directors cut" - it's about 89th generation, no
soundtrack, limited (and missing) FX.  Aside from it's letterbox-ness,
the only really good part is the opening home-movie original jet-car
test (with his parents) filmed by Buckaroo himself.  For the rest of the
movie, I'll watch the pan-and-scan version so that I'm able to actually
see what's going on :-)

- M

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Subj:	Re: World Watch One Strike Team Alert!! - 11 December 1998
Date:	12/13/98 2:45:23 AM Eastern Standard Time
From:	SPENSER459

      I think this news about the show is amazing and wonderful!! I am very
happy and happy for everyone who loves Banzai. I hope it goes well, and have
the right people doing it ! About the books you can get, if you have more
info on that please I would love to hear it, if you just have to e-mail about
it or what! I hope eveyone is as excited as I am about it. Carry on BlueBlaze
Irregulars, the boss will be back soon!!!!
Your Fellow BBI,
          Spenser

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Subj:	 Casting
Date:	12/13/98 7:16:09 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:	transam@theinnet.net (Ryan Storm)

Hmm. FOX will want to go younger and hipper? I don't like the sound of
that. Buckaroo Banzai 90210? I believe that, if asked, most of the original
cast would return. Weller apparently loves BB, and the entire cast (except
for maybe Barkin) has always wanted to do more. I can see Weller, Brown,
Smith, Serna, and Ito coming back. Heck I can even see Goldblum making an
appearance or two (provided that the series gets off the ground) Am I too
optimistic? 
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**** Well, the younger and hipper was just a guess on my part based on
the way FOX generally does business. Nothing especially wrong with it.
Fourteen years ago, the original cast was younger and hipper, too. (Though
theyre by no means old, and I think still pretty hip.) - ArcLight ****
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Subj:	Re: World Watch OnLine 64 - 13 December 1998
Date:	12/14/98 3:20:30 AM Eastern Standard Time
From:	Lord TZer0

 Hey Y'all,

I'm sure Earl Mac Rauch will provide a script that will be a televisual feast
for all of us.  I only hope that the central casting at FOX is up to it.
When I thik of the limited budget they had to work withon the film, I am
amazed at what was done with it.  It's a testament to the fine proformances
by those in it, many of who were just starting out.
It may be hard to except new faces in those roles that are so farmiliar to us
now, but lets remember, this is just a TV show.  Let's give 'em a chance.  
Who knows . . . if this is successful we may finally get that long awaited
sequel.  And just maybe they can attract some of the principals back to that
project.  Sure they're older, but they do some great things with make-up
now-a-days.  That could be explained away in the writing anyway.  And Weller
did say it was one of his favorite roles , because he got to do so much in
it.  Cross your fingers, and let's hope for the best!

BBI# 1122  Laredo

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Subj:	 Re: Names and Numbers
Date:	12/14/98 9:09:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:	malon@pacbell.net

As you know, i put The Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and
Strategic Information up when full searches of the Web at the time turned
up nothing but the movie database entries. I began using the number 23 as a
personal thing and because various people started putting up sites called
The Banzai Institute, so i added the Blue Blaze Station #23 to that moniker
to avoid confusion and some stress as to "who has the rights to that name"

i continue to use the designation "Blue Blaze Irregular #23, relayer" as a
matter of habit. Rafterman began using a number after his name also after
we had been in correspondence for quite awhile while he opened his own
branch of the Banzai Institute in the early days of the resurgence of the
Irregulars. Then people began adding numbers to their Registry entries...

There was never a centralized "numbering" system, as i feel that is
antithetical to the Banzai Ethic. No attempt was made to codify names or
ranks or any such silly thing as that. Most numbers are non-linear and
represent personal things to people, as they stated when they first wrote
to BBS23 and the Registry.

perhaps this will clear up some of the confusion regarding the "assigning"
of BBI numbers and who has the "rights" to those numbers.

regards,
relayer

The Banzai Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information
Blue Blaze Station #23
http://members.xoom.com/datamouse/bbanzai.htm

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Subj:	Re: World Watch OnLine 64 - 13 December 1998
Date:	12/15/98 2:38:58 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:	LREK

I, too, would like to see Robert Ito return as Hikita-san. After all those
years on "Quincy,"  he would be comfortable with regular tv. As for recasting
with younger actors, it wouldn't bother me at all as long as they can _act_
and aren't just set dressing.

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Subj:	 Re: World Watch OnLine 64 - 13 December 1998
Date:	12/16/98 9:25:58 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:	protagonist@intelligencia.com

BBI- Jan Wisnowietski (CT Chapter- VelcroJet) 
Not sure if this has been relayed to the World Watch Wire, but...

I hapened to be watching the Larry Sanders Show on HBO. Jeff Goldlumb was a
guest star. Larry Sanders (Gary Shandling) had put one of his employees up to
asking for a guest apperance. She said something to the extent of "Hey I'm a
big fan...Buckaroo Banzai, you know..."
and Goldblum replies "Yeah..Buckaroo Banzai....Perfect
Tommy...Reno...Rawhide...yeah..."

Seemed to be amusing, since I was reading the latest edition of the Wire at
the time. Strange...but fitting some how.

Happy Trails All. 

Good news about the series. 

            BBI Wisnowietski.
             ( History, Movie Lore and Pathos Analyisis)

Ganz gleich, wohin du auch gehest-
du bist shon da. 

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Subj:	 BB in the news!
Date:	12/17/98 12:16:02 AM Eastern Standard Time
From:	figment@slip.net (Sean Murphy)

The word is out about Buckaroo Banzai.  I found the following three
mentions about the BB pilot script on the Cinescape web site, the
Yahoo.com news site and the New York Post web site!

Hope you enjoy them.  I know I did.

Sean Murphy


**** Ive cut the actual text of the articles, which Figment was nice
enough to include, to make room for some other stuff. If theyre not
still at the sites, Ill post them on the new News page at the WWOnLine
site. - ArcLight ****
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Yahoo! News Entertainment Headlines 

This information can be accessed at:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/en/story.html?s=v/nm/19981216/en/television-fox_2.html

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Cinescape Web Site
This information can be accessed at:
http://www.cinescape.com/insider/981216c.shtml

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The New York Post article

This information can be accessed at:
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/8489.htm

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Ridley Scott's LEGEND FAQ - http://www.slip.net/~figment/index.shtml

BUCKAROO BANZAI FAQ - http://www.slip.net/~figment/bb/bbindex.shtml

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Subj:	 Soundtrack and other thoughts
Date:	12/17/98 11:36:49 AM Eastern Standard Time
From:	KorAdam@StarTrekMail.com (J. Adam Korsak)

Has anyone noticed that there is a continuity error in TABB?  When Whorfin
is on the phone with the WW1 bus, Caspar has a 'Lectroid vest' on in the
background.  Unfortunately, this is just after New Jersey has isolated the
cause for the Lectroid's disguise and before the vests are created.

I'd also love to get a burned cd of the soundtrack.  Does anyone out there
have the capability?  Let me know about cost etc.

Traditionally,
J. Adam Korsak
President, Association of Residence Hall Students
153 McElwain Hall   University Park, Pa 16802       814.862.1631
KorAdam@StarTrekMail.com	jak240@psu.edu	       BBI #1701  
                     
		   Hoc est qui sumus.

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Subj:	 BB mailing list!!! YAY!!!
Date:	12/18/98 10:55:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:	dillik@impop.bellatlantic.net
Reply-to:	dillik@bellatlantic.net

Hello and WOW!!!   I can't believe it!!!  I looked a few years ago for a
BB web site and didn't find it and on a whim i looked again and POOF!!!
here you are, i guess "no matter where you go, there you are."  I have
been into BB since it first came out in the theaters  ( my dad tricked
me and said we were going to eat and next thing i knew i was sitting in
those big seats in the dark theater  clutching a big tub of popcorn in
my small hands (remember the good old days when the movies only had one
screen in it!)
I remember the first notes of the song starting and thinking what is
this, i had never heard of this movie before, never seen a commercial,
nothing!  After the movie was over( yes i sat through the whole credits)
i had this strange feeling of excitement, my hair was standing on end.
That was one of the best movies i had ever seen!  I saw it again with my
friends and they liked it and when it came on video i bought it, and
bought it again when it broke from watching it too much, correction you
can never watch it too much!!!  Well anyway i love the movie and i am so
happy that there are talks of a series, Although i hope it is not like
the CROW series. Another of my favorite movies ruined by a crappy sequel
and an even crappier tv show (although i still watch it and complain!)
About Me. Im a 25 yr. old male, I live in NJ, Jersey City Yay!!! and
While im not a nerd, i am nerdy. hehehe.
thanks and i hope i didn't write  too much.
Rand Smith

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Subj:	Banzai on CNN?
Date:	12/18/98 1:44:44 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:	BBISharkey

I heard a rumor that the Banzai series press release made it onto CNN's
Entertainment Minute the evening of 12-17, and morning of 12-18. Did anyone
happen to catch this? And it'd be too much to hope it got recorded...right?

The story DID get picked up in both the New York Post and Daily Variety on
12-16. I tell ya, BBIs are everywhere!

Sharkey

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Subj:	 FROM SCIFIWIRE: Fox Developing 'Banzai' Series  
Date:	12/19/98 8:17:01 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:	wwatchone@aol.com (ArcLight)

Also caught Banzai news on the Sci-Fi Channels site:
You can access Sci-Fi Wire on the web at http://wire.scifi.com

And it made the TV Guide site (http://www.tvguide.com) too.

ArcLight

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Subj:	 Lock And Key: Disclaimer/notes, Reno's foreword, and Ch.1
Date:	12/13/98 1:18:48 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:	jetlightfoot@juno.com (Becky M Nelson)

Disclaimer/Author Notes:

This story takes place in Spring 1987 (between the events of the movie
and Rafterman's proposed script for the sequel, from which it takes a few
plot cues). It's written from Reno Nevada's point of view much after the
fact, which seemed the best way to avoid getting flamed by folks who own
the book, and lets me pick up a few details from there more easily as
well. 

Characters and concepts related to Buckaroo Banzai belong to one or more
of the following, as indicated: Movie/DVD -- Banc Generale, Nederlan
and/or MGM; Television -- Polygram Entertainment and Fox Television are
working on this; Print Media -- Simon & Schuster, via their Pocket Books
division. In any event, the author has no intent to make any money hereby
and is just having fun. Don't complain if details here don't coincide
with the TV pilot/series; this was started before the pilot script.

Plot elements and other characters are copyright 1998-??? and
1990-infinity, respectively, by Replay. ArcLight has permission to
archive the text version of this story as part of the newsletter. Strike
Team Renegade has permission to include an HTML version in their archives
on a delayed basis. All others should e-mail me at BBI_Replay@yahoo.com
first. Comments and questions should be routed to the same address.

BTW, the title comes from a song of the same name by Rush, from their
1987 album, Hold Your Fire. 
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Lock and Key

To the Reader

It will doubtless be charged by our usual critics that the following
material is little more than a sorry attempt to keep our names in the
popular press. Were that the case, I fear I would have done better to
emulate the trend at present ubiquitous to the film industry and placed
photos of the actual devastation throughout; however, those of you in the
St. Louis area no doubt recall the news reports of the day quite well
enough without my feeble reminders. Likewise, there are those who will
criticize Wayback soundly, when the facts of the matter so clearly
indicate his lack of foreknowledge was no fault of his own. Indeed, it
has only been recently that we learned of some of the occurrences herein,
and if I have taken any liberties, it is to recreate certain
conversations which no one now alive will testify in regard to. That
conversations on the subjects occurred is beyond doubt, but the language
representing them herein is my own interpretation of how they must have
gone, based on the evidence of events themselves. I have, as usual,
attempted to be as faithful as possible to events as they actually
happened, and would particularly like to thank certain of our gypsy
residents, without whose assistance this document would be a much poorer
work. 

Reno 

***

Chapter One

No one who'd ever spent a full 24 hours at the Institute in the last few
years would have been at all surprised to hear Perfect Tommy playing a
Metallica tune; ever since Jet Lightfoot had first turned over her
Stratocaster on permanent loan, he'd been expanding on his guitar skills
to the point that he could have played lead in any band but the
Cavaliers. That Buckaroo would admit to knowing the same song, however,
might well have turned some heads.  Not that he would have noticed under
the circumstances; his full and not inconsiderable attention was entirely
for his patient rather than his voice. 

Another time and place, a different set of circumstances, and he would
have been sitting watch on Replay in the Institute infirmary, using
prerecorded music to keep her relatively quiet. It was a trick he'd
learned in dealing with our non-human wounded, but one that seemed to
work with almost any psychic so long as you didn't offend their ear in
the process. In the aftermath of an attempt on all of our lives, he was
doing the best anyone could have expected from anyone short of Jesus
Christ Himself with what we had to work with. Given our present need for
much tightened security, what we had wasn't a lot.

A bit of background may be helpful for our younger readers. Replay is
hardly your average intern; although there are those who say no such
thing exists, we do consider some talents or degrees of abililty beyond
normal expectations. As a rule, you don't come across even amateur
parapsychologists every day, and when you do, they aren't usually anxious
to tell you whether they're in that field for personal reasons or just
out of curiosity. With this particular intern, the answer was decidedly
both. By education and inclination an ethnomusicologist and
anthropologist, she took up studying the occult at a very early age in an
attempt to figure out her own peculiar talents, which she was evidently
quite forthright with Buckaroo about on the occasion of their first
encounter. While she'd been one of us for a considerable length of time
at this point, she held Hanoi Xan personally responsible for the fact
that she hadn't yet made Residency. To her credit, most of us agree with
her reasoning, but I get ahead of myself. I should also note that she's
fond of almost all genres of music, but some much more than others, and
that this was the first time she'd been in a position to come along on
tour with us.

Had things gone as planned, we would still have been staying in a
downtown St. Louis hotel, with three shows behind us and a two-day
seminar to do at SLU before moving on to Chicago. Instead, we'd been
checked in for less than five hours when Replay, either clairvoyant or
close enough to seem so for once, had ordered an emergency evacuation.
Rawhide had taken her very seriously, to the point of seeing the entire
building cleared except for a few of our demolitions-qualified personnel.
It was her misfortune to locate the bomb first, and she hadn't been able
to clear out in time. As a result of the blast itself, our rooms were in
shambles and a fair amount of our equipment a total write-off, both of
which proved to be the least of our worries. 

To delay further incidents and to keep bystanders out of any potential
crossfire, we'd been forced to relocate hastily. As a result, we were now
holed up in a former Catholic girls school on the outskirts of the
metropolitan area, with little more in its favor than it's low profile
and the fact that the utilities were still turned on. The concerts we'd
originally been scheduled to play had been postponed indefinitely, as
much at the request of local authorities as by our own reluctance to
appear publically without Buckaroo, who himself had strayed little more
than a few dozen feet from his patient from the time we'd found her among
the wreckage with hundreds of tiny needles protruding from her hands,
arms, and face. Removing the shrapnel had been a considerably higher
priority than figuring out immediately why it took that particular form.
Only after we'd set up in the former school had anyone realized that we
might be safe from further attack from the outside for awhile.

Sometimes it seems that we know considerably more about Xan than even
Interpol does. For years, we'd been aware that he was given to using the
nerve poison Talava, which I have described in some detail elsewhere. Not
content with merely destroying our rooms and killing people, on this
occasion Xan had devised something more dastardly -- a shaped charge
meant to direct most of the blast against the building itself, but also
to spray any survivors with thousands of projectiles coated in that
poison. Thanks to the warning she'd given us, only Replay had been
exposed, but that was bad enough.

According to Interpol records, no one has ever actually died of Talava
poisoning. That sort of thing just doesn't happen. We have to concur that
there are currently no deaths recorded as directly related, but disagree
with that official estimation of the possibility. While it is true that
in most people, Talava improves physical health but leaves only a kind of
zombie, we have cause to believe that a certain Agency of the federal
government conducted experiments during Vietnam which involved Talava
combined with a number of other drugs. Our own early research into one
such possible case, backed up by work at another lab in California, has
proven sufficient cause to believe that Talava can be addictive under the
proper conditions, and very possibly fatal if stopped cold turkey. Some
of that research had proven vital to keeping Replay alive the first time
she'd been exposed to the drug, and to clearing most of it from her
system. Paranoid that she either was or would become one of Xan's puppets
and therefore a danger to us because of it, she'd departed the Institute
as soon as she was well enough to travel. We'd had word of extensive
consultations with some of Jet's folk in the months since, although
little seemed to have come of it apart from repeated assurances, and it
had only been in the last six weeks that she'd become convinced we might
be safe if she returned.

More concerned that we'd lose her this time than that she was suddenly
more dangerous to know than before, Buckaroo had put himself directly in
the path of any trouble she was still capable of. Wherefore he was
sitting there in the chemistry lab turned makeshift isolation ward,
singing for an audience of one as though nothing else mattered. He'd been
in there for the last three days, apart from brief moments spent dealing
with such logistics issues as even Rawhide couldn't cover for him on; if
he'd slept at all, he'd done so close enough to Replay that he would have
been one of the first things she noticed if she'd regained consciousness.
Always he'd been in earshot; she was far too much like some of our gypsy
residents in that regard, and we had more than adequate experience with
the reactions of a panicky telekinetic to want her left alone for more
than a few seconds at a stretch if she was wounded and out of it. That
Buckaroo hadn't let any of us take some of the watch duty for him was
more than sufficient indication of how worried he was. Likewise, the way
he was careful not to push his voice; Replay was easily as much of an
audiophile as any of her "cousins" in California, and as given to
critique a poor performance from any resident rather harshly. Instead,
he'd called on a few specific interns in to back him in rotation with
those of us who are Cavaliers, so that she was never completely alone. So
far as he was concerned, she was and had always been more dangerous to
all concerned while sick or hurt if there wasn't someone at hand to at
least warn her of incoming trouble, if only by getting in its way. 

As a result, Perfect Tommy had a front row seat when she finally began to
regain consciousness, and he was wise enough not to call attention to
himself immediately for once. This was a slow and painful process,
something she rarely had to deal with. Generally the times she'd had to
fight seditives in order to wake up, it was either slow or painful, not
both; on this occasion, she was dealing with her own exhaustion rather
than soporifics, which she didn't properly appreciate until much later.
Buckaroo finished the last verse much aware that she was close to
rejoining the world of the living, willing to give her all the time she
needed so long as she either opened her eyes or fell asleep. 

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