[piosenniel]

'I like this,' she mused to herself. Reminds me of the parties from my youth. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and red hair and multicolored skies, and great stomping beasts from out of Monty Python!'

Taking a last look at the mayhem in progress, Piosenniel used her stick to scratch her back in a decidedly unladylike manner. Something kept pricking at the small of her back, relentlessly. She turned, sword drawn, only to find Veritas nudging her repeatedly with the crystal in her staff. 'What are you doing here, my grey wizard of the North? You heard the MAN we're supposed to split up and find the REG. It's apparently gone haywire and is causing all this hooplah.'

Veritas put her finger to her lips and motioned with a jerk of her head for pio to follow her.

In a hollow behind a large rock formation, Veritas motioned for pio to sit beside her and proceeded to take a familiar looking laptop from beneath her robes.

'You've got Mithadan's laptop!', good wizard, keeping your head like that. 'But what good is that going to do for us?'

Veritas smiled and entered the startup program for a new icon that apparently had appeared following the fiasco of the boosted REG. The initials MEGPS appeared on the screen.

'What's that?' asked pio, the letters pulsing on the screen in neon blue.

'It's how we are going to find the REG, my dear! It's a Middle Earth Global Positioning Satellite link, and you'll never guess what it's tracking for us!'

Veritas punched in the letters, REG, to the query box and hit enter. There pulsing like a wildly lit Silmaril was the REG.

'We've got it now!', cried pio, 'Let's go!!'