Was
Mighty Tall truly a player possessed? Would the College of Wooster
ever be the same again?
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In our
previous episode, Wayne and Diane had made a horrific discovery.
That evening, they alerted their friends of their concerns regarding
Mighty Tall.
After
Mighty Tall had again mysteriously disappeared, Diane spoke of the
sick carnage Wayne and her had witnessed earlier, before everyone
had arrived. The others gasped and one with a penchant for advancing
a plot quickly blurted out, “Maybe Mighty Tall is possessed
by some angry spirit! How can we drive this darkness out of his
once gentle soul?”
At this
point all eyes turned to the one individual with the training and
the expertise to consider the next step. All eyes rested upon the
Reverend Linda Morgan-Clement who was furiously tying her shoes
and hoping to get out before.........
“Linda!
You could perform an exorcism!” bellowed Mike.
“Well,
you know, really that’s a Catholic thing and, well you know,
I’m kind of a Protestant, a Presbyterian to be exact, and anyway,
the Catholics kicked us out a long time ago, or maybe we left in
a huff, but anyway, we’re not supposed to do those sorts of
things. Its professional courtesy and all. We stick to writing editorials
and bake sales, they do bingo and exorcisms,” she hurriedly
explained.
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just stared at her slack-jawed as the words came at them like
a stampede and they needed time to process them into coherent
sentences. But to Linda they looked like a bunch of lost little
sheep and if there is anything a Reverend can’t resist,
it’s the opportunity to be The Shepherd to a bunch of lost
sheep.
“Oh,
okay, I’ll do it but I’ll need to do some research”
So
Linda consulted the great texts of USVBA,
The Book of Volleyball and other works. She worked long
and hard through the week to try and divine what could be
possessing Mighty Tall. And then, like an unblocked spike,
it hit her. She rushed to the great mall that runs through
the Science ghetto at the College of Morgan (formerly the
College of Wooster). She prayed and asked for a sign and,
lo, it was delivered unto her. All the buildings glowed brilliantly
in the warmth of a Midwest sunset except one, The William
R. Morgan building (formerly the Burton D. Morgan building)
which was shadowed by a large gray cloud that hung ominously
a few feet above the roof. The Presbyterian God is not subtle.
Linda
approached the Volleyball Consortium and revealed what she
had learned.
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Was
this the source of the all the troubles? Could unrestrained
philanthropy be agitating the afterlife?
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A plan
“I
have learned that the spirit that possesses Mighty Tall is
the late William Morgan,
inventor of Volleyball”
All
gasped and the ever alert Dean Fraga, sputtered, “But
he’s not dead yet!” poking a nearby Bill Morgan
in the ribs just to be sure.
“Ow!
Yeah! I never felt better, well, unless you count most of
the preceding forty years” replied Bill.
“No,
no, no, no, not that William Morgan, it's the other one, William
G. Morgan who invented volleyball in 1895. Apparently
his spirit still haunts volleyball courts. He feels he never
got the credit he deserved for inventing such a noble game.
So he was extremely delighted when he heard there was to be
a new building named in his honor at the College of Morgan
(also named, he felt, in his honor)," explained Linda.
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Was
an exorcism the answer? Would Linda be up to the challenge?
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She
continued, "So anyway, this William Morgan was
extremely excited and thought to pay a visit in earthly
form to our college in the Midwest. That form is Mighty
Tall. But unfortunately our College and that building
are not named after William G. Morgan but rather William
R. Morgan. It was only a matter of time before he found
out his error."
Several
people cast disapproving glances at the other William
Morgan who shrugged his shoulders and stared intently
at his sneakers.
Linda
continued, "Unfortunately, rather than get embarrassed,
he got upset and, well, that is what we have been experiencing
these past few weeks. Apparently he just went over the
edge when a student mistook him for the other William
Morgan and asked him to open up the autoclave room,
which he had no idea where it was, let alone
what it was. That really set him off and he behaved
in a belligerent manner that was uncharacteristic of
our William Morgan who simply tells students that Fraga
has the only key to that room.”
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“So
what will we do?”
“An
exorcism, plain and simple. If we can drive out the
spirit that possesses Mighty Tall, we can return him
to his rightful form and character, whatever that might
be.”
Everyone jumped up and said “Yeah! Lets do it!”
like school children about to go on a picnic.
Linda
barked, “Look, this won’t be any school picnic
you know! This is real demons and ghosts kind of stuff!
Somebody could get hurt or worse....you could be converted
into a Republican! We gotta be organized. Let me tell
you my plan”
To
be continued..............................................................................
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