What souvenirs shall I bring you guys from my transdimensional raiding trip?

You’ll bring a Gremlin egg, but not a Tribble?

OK, how about a flatcat, then?

Tribbles are far more insiduous than gremlins.

Well, I have a very simple request: I want books. Specific books: The Stone Pillow, The Sound of His Wings, Da Capo, the novels H. Beam Piper wrote after you foiled his 1964 suicide attempt while a large contract and check was already in the mail to him, the stuff Stanley Weinbaum cranked out for five decades aver his ‘miraculous’ recovery… you know, those books. :slight_smile:

Special request: A Country Doctor, Being the Lives of Ira Johnson, M.D. Capt., U.S.A. (Rtd.), of Thebes, MO and Boondock, Tert.

Great idea! While you’re at it Skald, could you please find a 'verse where George RR Martin isn’t such a procrastinator and pick up the rest of 'Fire and Ice? Thanks ever so much!

First request for the full five-season run of Firefly? You people are slipping…

Nah. As I told everybody after the last cross-time adventure, Firefly jumped the shark after season three, when they moved to HBG. Kaylee & Simon breaking up as did Inara and Malcolm, so that the ladies in question could become apprentice Companions under Inara. I mean, the last season is basically just porn. Summer Glau’s wardrobe budget must have been, like, a dollar, given that when she was wearing anything at all it was only 2-inch-square pats of masking tape to cover her nipples.

I would ask for the palantiri but, with the internet and all, they seem a bit useless.

I’ll take the three rings though. Or at the very least, Nenya. Acutally, the wind made Sunday very miserable here, let’s make sure I get that one too. You can keep Gandalf’s ring for yourself.

:: tossing you all three of the Elven Rings ::

These were the very easiest items to acquire, as they no longer do anything, even in their own universe, what with the One being out of commission. Galadriel gave me hers in exchange for a Papa John’s pizza.

And … my snow globe?

Ooh, how about a Legion flight ring?

Another Babelfish, that would be a neat thing to have here, especially if this whole global economy thing starts to fly.

And some historical Hot Chicks: Mary Magdalene, Helen of Troy…

At least they were wearing more than Yo/Saf/Bridge…

My wishes are modest–just a DVD of Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League. Plus any of the other sequels you might obtain–especially the time-traveling crossover with Briscoe County, Jr.

Ooh, me too!

If live tribbles are out, can I get a tribble steak with that special garlic wine sauce? I hear it’s delicious.

An outfit of unstable molecules. Screw Laundry! (Any superpowers will just be a bonus).

Captain Jack’s compass.

Were you unable to save the One Ring in time? I thought you were going to try and recover it for yourself.

  1. Dora or any of her relations (Minerva, Athene). I really want a sentient computer;
  2. Pixel

Yeah, but just as a keepsake. Taking it out of its home universe is the same as destroying it, from Sauron’s POV. Actually worse.

None of those will fit in the backpack; Dora’s body is a spaceship, and both Minerva and Athena are really, really big.

And how am I supposed to CONTAIN Pixel? He passes through barriers (both space-time and ordinary) the way everybody else crosses through air. The only way to get Pixel to stay with you is to (a) kill him (which I most certainly will not even contemplate) or (b) make him love you more than he loves Maureen.

Yeah but if we can get it working, we’ll be able to take over the world. Whaddya say?