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A Quartet
our challenge for you is to write dialogue - four characters - each has one line only - those four "lines" can be as long as you like - but should tell a story from beginning to end in just those four lines; from only those four characters
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Boldly going...

A: ‘Medical department reports only a few minor injuries, sir: otherwise, it seems to have been a successful first jump, though the quantum capacitors will take at least an hour to recharge.’

B: ‘Hmm - hell of a rough maiden voyage, though...Activate the view-screen: let’s see what the England of 2022, 65 years ago, really looked like.’

C: ‘Wait, Captain - the space-time coordinates aren’t as predicted: still Earth, yes - but we’re on the north coast of the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, not the quad of St Ignatius, Oxford - and the temporal beam is off by a factor of…One million!’

D: ‘Sir, the external monitor’s picking up something…A perturbation in the upper atmosphere - a vast object, perhaps 10 klicks in diameter - rate of descent - 20 kilometres per second - vector…Cap’n, it’s headin’ right for us!’