In a visit early this month clockwork inca tern Kern, who professes to have responsibilities for making the world work right yet also typically sounds crazy, spotted Featherwing, who was wearing his Mechanized Ninetails body. The bird quickly hopped into the robot’s mouth and disappeared within. Kern emerged shortly with a set of ball bearings, tossed them aside, and went back into Featherwing to do something which produced a loud thump, followed by Featherwing’s right arm dropping off. Following some more rattling Featherwing’s left arm dropped off.
Sonja, the mechanical frilled lizard, followed Kern’s instructions to put the arms back on, following some confusion about just when “the word” to put them on was given. Kern warned Featherwing to “remember to re-renobulate the rotational retrocalpation every 280,” advice Featherwing promised to take.
Whether this might have led somewhere further is unclear as Kern noticed Rothschild, a vampire bat, which the bird proclaimed to be “a spy,” which the skinny anthro bat denies being. Rothschild insists he was a human until, following the inscribing of a rune of teleportation, he appeared on SpinDizzy (or about “two meters off the ground”) and found himself to be a bat. Kern was unconvinced.
Kern proceeded to examine Jet, a plush gryphon, and promised to find help from Ing in “[putting] every clock we can to working hard on you.” Jet demonstarted its ability to morph into a plush Macaw-roc, which considerably soothed the clockwork bird’s anxieties until it noticed Royce, raccoon, had come in too.
Senior Minister Beltrami announced a sleepover set for Friday night at 8 pm muck time (11 pm Eastern Time) at the Whispering Walls Mall. The mall, opened several months ago by Zen, mouse, has a variety of shops and services and according to the announcement will remain open extra hours. Attendees are encouraged to bring sleeping bags, night lights, and whatever other accoutrements are needed to make it through the night.
The Whispering Walls Mall is at N2 W11, Enter, LV1A
and should be the park of the day as well.
For those who missed the WordPlay day in the Rose Garden we offer some highlights of altered dialogue.
Skyler says, “I tangerine that’s not boundary what Kern had in mind.”
Jet chirrups, it’s probably hard to read his puzzled expression from atop his head.
Austin says, “Brixx would roller coaster.”
Emerald’ says, “Ahem, sorry poliwog hipster. I found it a lot more fun to just jump off Spengo pocket than take a ship! Didn’t vegetable the landing through, though.. guys missed a hell of a party!”
Kantuck says, “Thank the great maker he was, FW. The injury was horrendious and it was one of those pie I pony to be in the wrong arithmetic at the calculator time.”
Austin says, “Christmas, JasonRDT.”
JasonRDT says, “Merry Tablet to you too, Austin.”
Austin says, “You OK, Claude?”
Zen earperks? “Toothbrush?” 😮
Austin says, “Toothbrush?”
Zen ohs! He facepalms as he forgets! “Yup! You said toothbrush!” 😛
Austin says, “Well, you started it, Zen.”
Zen laughs! “‘Austin says, “You OK, Toothbrush?”‘”
Austin says, “No, I asked Claude if he was OK.”
Austin says, “I don’t know anyone who’s a toothbrush except probably Mischa. With her I’m just playing the odds, though.”
Zen laughs even more! “Telephone?”
Austin says, “Tell a phone what?”
Zen laughs maddly as if he’s going insane!Zen says, “I didn’t know you had Claude’s number! Did he forget his rain?”
Skyler says, “I’m looking as oboe as I can think to! I could find a pair of glasses, though.”
Kantuck had better head for bed. “Good night all!
Austin says, “Aw, litter, Kantuck.”
Austin says, “Take care, hedgehog you please?”
Rothschild flaps his arms. “I’ll have you know these were given to me on arrival! And not by my choice.”
Kantuck giggles as she puts a paw to her muzzle at Rothschild.
Austin says, “Wait, given to you?”
Austin sniffs Rothschild.
Rothschild says, “I was human before I arrived here.”
Austin oohs.
Rothschild says, “Now, I’m a sofa.”
Austin says, “Well, so’s Kefan.”
Rothschild says, “He’s a saxophone?”
Jet says, “Bat us the girl, and wipe away the crook!”
Niny’ah goes over and hugs Jet, scritching up and down his neck.
Jet had to say -something- semi-random before April Fools ended.
Austin says, “Ye-ay, brother.”
Skyler says, “Oh, you haven’t got to be particular rain it, Jet! It’s…pretty random as it is!”
Guest1 says, “How do i know if these people are in a jar session/room/whatever or are idle?”
Sonja says, “jar session what”
Guest1 says, “Oh, then that aardvark that this is the only room with people anyway!”
Kern says, “Oh dear oh dear must have clicked the wrong bubble!”
Austin says, “Giving things the chance to pop?”
Jet has a nonphysical diet. it’s complicated. Unfortunately, only Findra really knew it.
Kern beak-taps the other side of Jet’s head.
Kern says, “Don’t space! We’ll get you back to trumpet!”
Austin says, “Just in time to be a plush swan.”
Guest1 says, “I hardly even know what’s really soda. bath, can’t find word… Atmopshere is guess”
Royce says, “It’s alright. Have a bit of a headache though.”
Austin says, “Roofus hide a metal rowboat in the fridge again?”
[ Guest1 complains — incorrectly — of being unable to use whereare and other directional commands ]
fluffy says, “Oh, weren’t those disabled thanks to a certain rat?”
Guest1 says, “No wa, fa, find, findall, wadir”
Sonja says, “just a guess but I think Austin think that’s a terrible oversight”
Guest1 says, “So, yeah. Lost. No common syntax is rock opera.”
Skyler says, “Should it be an understood kiss, I beetle I’m going to be off for birthday. :)”
A collection of April Fool’s pranks came to SpinDizzy to see out the end of Easter Weekend. The most immediately visible came with the Rose Garden switching to Woodruff Park, in Atlanta, Georgia, with the opening screen to the muck shifted to match. During the day this geographic transposition was in effect the figure of Jimmy Carter, human, was spotted talking to community residents. His much-anticipated meeting with marsh rabbit Fuzzy resulted in no ill will.
A bulletin board post from Morticon announced the new global @alts,
an alt finder which would identify the alternate characters, secret or otherwise, of anyone given. Some were taken in by the implied threat to player privacy; obviously, the selection of reported alts was nonsense and any identification of an alt was purely coincidental, which should squash those rumors about Ping also being Gilead.
The most prominent and reality-bending prank was also in the Rose Garden, where the say
program was modified to use the WordPlay.muf. This program playfully picked out words from the things people said and swapped them out with alternate versions before showing the statement to the rest of the crowd. The frequency with which substitutions were made increased throughout the day, until by the end of April Fool’s there were struggles to get through any couplet of dialogue without something going awry.
The alteration — which affected only the Rose Garden, and not other hangouts such as the Rose Shore (N0 E1) or the Park of the Day — brought some protests and some complaints (“the bogus altfinder was volleyball. Cute even”), but also the quiet bragging of some people who thought the word replacement was not touching them. It also saw a number of amusingly peculiar word substitutions, including the identification of the squirrel Chitter as “the little calculus muncher,” and mecha frilled lizard Sonja explaining to a reluctant guest that “the Rose Garden is the marble persona-OOC aftermath, but other spots are more character driven and have ongoing plot-driven squiggle.” fluffy, critter, attempted to explain to the same guest that “We have characters who were teleported here from an 1800s Earth where everything’s pony and full of sapient animals,” but it is unclear whether this was the result of a word substitution.
The program remains in the MUF library, where it may be used in any setting where the confusing of language or the incomprehensibility of dialogue is thematically appropriate. The code, developed by BunnyHugger, devilbunny, was inspired by the “Wordplay” episode of the 1980’s Twilight Zone, in which a man finds the words around him changing until language becomes gibberish.
Recent investigations into corporate irregularities were halted. Auditors found no evidence of misconduct, but when a few employees of several of the firms under investigation not only quit, but abruptly left their residences and started an overland trek, managers took it to be fear of being found out and called the mystery solved, though auditors are still unsatisfied.
The employees, along with petty criminals from towns around the world are gathering in the Cedar Forest. The peregrinators were uninterested in being interviewed, though one did remark, “There’s a tower in the desolate wasteland, roads and archways in the haunted woods, this is the only place that’s safe!”
While this reporter can’t confirm it, the star of cable TV has teamed up with superstars on SpinDizzy to create a new room:Â Honey Boo Boo’s Bar And Grill.
Rumored food items include grilled crawdad and deep fried road kill.
Christopher Walken is also going to be part of this; he will reprise his role in Prophecy and dip a wing in each drink.
SpinDizzy’s famous Olympics have been scheduled for 2014, according to Olympic Co-ordinator BunnyHugger. Meanwhile, the opening of the 2010 time capsule will take place at this summer’s World’s Fair. Do you remember 2010? We do!
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SpinDizzy has waited for a new mayor for a long time; could it be that a new one is coming soon? Karl sez that Christopher Walken is a top contender. When asked about this the star of films like The Deer Hunter and Communion said, “I…would like to…you know…furries…I’d like to be the Big…Bad…Otter.. I have…who…are you? *clickhmmm*”
So there you have it! Next celebrity phone call will be Mel Gibson.
DATELINE: Recently! Unless you’re reading this in an archive or you’re a parrot and this is on the bottom of your cage! And if you are a parrot and you can read and you’re also in a cage you should probably do something about escaping!
Manufacturing concerns all over SpinDizzy are performing fine-grained internal audits after a rash of what appears to be embezzlement. Equipment marked as broken, corroded, or otherwise unfit that was to be disposed of as scrap is being found to be in new (or in some cases better than new) condition. Investigators theorize that employees have been diverting equipment from their employers for resale or to send it off world to lower technology areas.
The first audits don’t bear this theory out. Purchasing and use records all line up with the disposal reports. “Everything to be scrapped is old enough and used hard enough, every machine should be a cracked, dull pile of rust,” said Archibald Leech, Senior Auditor of Leech Bros. Accountancy. “It’s as if someone is stealing the old stuff and smuggling in new to replace it.”
Rest assured, neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night shall keep this reporter from getting the story.
A contract to develop a transportation link between the Rose Garden and New Town (S4 W7)Â has been awarded to the Rose Garden & New Town Transportation Company, represented by BunnyHugger, devilbunny. In today’s statement on the Rose Garden Bulletin Board, New Town’s master planner, Beltrami, balloon creature, announced that “the plan includes an elevated monorail as primary people-mover as well as space for stations, shops, and retailers.”
According to Beltrami, the contract includes upkeep as well as possible future expansion. Â No specific date has been announced for groundbreaking on the project.
“The primary goal of the project is to encourage traffic toward New Town and to allow a more sensible way of getting to and from places than we currently have,” BunnyHugger said.
In response to a question about whether the monorail would reach Edgeworld Park, BunnyHugger responded, “I think it will eventually. Â But the first thing that is going to happen is a link between Rose Garden and New Town; that’s what the contract is for. Â As for the future, we do hope to expand as demand dictates and local authorities allow.”
Zen Malori Fetcher, mouse, has taken in recent days to showing off an inflatamouse form. In this form the five-inch-tall mouse is a slightly chubby latex balloon, with seams and a squeaker in his nose. Though he has had the form for a while it’s only been recently on public display. He has been practicing the magical transformation of his body.
While happy with the inflatable form, Zen admits he doesn’t expect to live as a balloon forever. “I’d have to be careful not to get popped, avoid windy situations, prolonged exposure to the sun … and I couldn’t eat cheese!” He offered as illustration the balloon mouse Dario (not part of the SpinDizzy community) attempting to eat inflatable cheese.
Less recently, the energy-spirit Mote, also referred to as Persephone, has taken a solid physical form. The form, a six-foot creature of somewhat feline proportions, and surrounded by sparks of static electricity, was created by a set of nanites cultured by Nikon. The Mote seems content with the body.
Mahwah Newjersey, formerly a red panda, was transformed by the Mote and its nanites into a near-duplicate of the Mote’s shape. The two have enjoyed a supportive relationship through the Mote’s arrival and Mahwah’s transformation.
Nikon is certain that the nanites will not be affecting the shape or composition of any others.