48 - Protest

The final session of the annual seismological research conference is the Berbera Keogh (yes, pronounced Koff) Memorial Lecture, given this year by the notorious D. N. Zigwolf, the founder of the International Free CDS Institute. Obviously the event has caused a great deal of media interest, and more student protests are expected. As the speaker begins, banners are unfurled by the Independent Flat Earth Association against Repressive Seismologists, and a chorus of Vuvuzelas blasts out from the opposite gallery where the rival We Will Rock You anti-Repressive Tectonics campaign is mounting a counter-demonstration. Zigwolf presses on, unfazed by the protests. Unfortunately he is taken ill, and cannot complete his speech.