The sky is falling! There are SSN's in Destiny! Quick!Shut it down! Shut it doooowwwn. Call the Fairy Godmothers! Call Fuchsia the Follay Fairy! Call someone!Ring!!
Silver "Hello?"
Purple "Hello, Silver. The Lime Green Project Manager says the sky is falling."
Silver "What time is it?"
Purple "Uh, 7:30?"
Silver "In the morning?! Are you sure it's morning? It doesn't feel like morning."
Purple "Uh, yes? He says that if you don't call him immediately, he's turning off everyone's Destiny."
Silver "Tell him he should definitely turn it off." (Always make a bad situation worse.)
Purple "Silver! Behave!"
Silver "Oh, all right! I sent you a pigeon with the procedure for dealing with this. I'll be in shortly."
Purple "We'll get right on it. Will you call the LGPM?"
Silver "Oh, all RIGHT!"
Purple "Oops! I can't seem to get to Destiny any more."
Silver "Well, I guess we can't fix it them. See you later"
Ring!!
Silver "Hello, this is Silver."
LGPM "You have to fix this right NOW!!"
Silver "The Destiny server seems to be down. We can't work on when it's down."
LGPM "We turned it off. You have to fix it NOW before we turn it back on."
Silver "We really can't do anything to Destiny with the server down."
LGPM "But you have to!"
Silver, gently, "We really can't do anything when we can't even talk to Destiny!"
LGPM "You have to fix it right NOW!"
Silver "It's a complex procedure, lots of steps. It will take time. We can't even start until Destiny is up again."
LGPM "Um, I'll see if I can get it turned on again"
Silver put down the phone and went looking for Fuchsia and her Magic Wand. Unfortunately, Fuchsia is on the road with the Bead and Glitter Show and is currently in someplace much cooler than the Duchy. Silver was able to unearth Fuchsia's Magic Wand and took it to Dotland to join the other Fairy Godmothers.
(A digression - Follay thinks that Destiny should be managed by Godfathers. The Dots were really not comfortable wearing all that black and having associates named Guido who carry violin cases with dubious contents, not to mention the horse heads. So the Dots decided they would really rather be Fairy Godmothers.)
The Dots quickly discovered that their Magic Wands were completely exhausted. They had been loaned to the LGPM to deal with the Promethean boards. As a result, the wands are completely out of Fairy Dust, and some of the Promethean boards have odd scratches from being repeatedly whacked with wands. ALL of the connections are full of glitter. The Dots have requistioned more Fairy Dust but there is no budget for Fairy Dust. Besides, Fairy Dust is on backorder at the Godmother Store. So the Dots aka Fairy Godmothers had to deal with the crisis in their usual Nike way - Just do it.
Later, the LGPM said "I knew it would all work out. That's why I didn't panic."
"Hmmmm," thought the Dots "So that's what the LGPM looks like when he's not panicking. I would never have guessed."
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