Mario's first and only romantic experience — the U.S.S. Millicent Kent

pivotal · mid-Oct YDAU

• When: Mid-Oct YDAU, ~1900h, dusk.
• What: Headed as Mario's "first and only even remotely romantic experience thus far": on a post-dinner stroll (during which Mario tactfully lets Hal slip into the pines and recalls JOI's early Husky IV camera), the two-hundred-kilo Millicent Kent unspools her life, then crushes Mario's head to her thorax, confesses his lashes and police-lock vest drive her wild, and roots under his vest and briefs for a penis; Mario's catastrophic ticklishness detonates his laugh, which lets Hal home in and rescue him. Walking back in the dark, not looking, the three stumble on the Husky tripod. (Mario had earlier filmed Kent for staff-analysis "on several occasions.")