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A Very Strange World, Part 6

Thursday, the 27th of March, 2008 at 7:57pm GMT
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"Oh my Dog, they annihilated them!"
"This is not good, how are we supposed to do anything about this?" Gregory asked, "What are we doing here? Where is Ed when you need him?"
"Slow down, slow down, Greg," said 'Dora, "All we can do for now, is locate that - " she pointed toward the image of a lone escape pod on the cauldron display, "whoever is in there will have answers for us."
"But the Th'eik were destroyed," protested Gregory, "you saw it too."
"Well, it's worth a pop," reasoned 'Dora, "we've got nothing better to go on."

'Dora returned to the cauldron, Gregory decided not to look this time.

She quickly called up the pertinant details on the mysterious Th'eik pod, it's location could be easily triangulated from the footage recorded, and it wasn't looking good. Over 3000 miles from their current location. They had no transportation to travel such distances.

"We need to steal a vehicle from those Chegwins," 'Dora calmly said.
"Are you mad?!!" Gregory blustered, "They'll kill us!"
"Not if they don't catch us they won't." replied 'Dora, "Start designing some Viagra adverts."

A Very Strange World, Part 5

Wednesday, the 26th of December, 2007 at 12:42pm GMT
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Looking out of the porthole only confirmed Ypicitus’ suspicions. A vast space battle raged across the blackness of local space. Th’eik mother ships had positioned themselves at the Lagrange Point in orbit around a local moon beyond a large array of fighters. Ypicitus and Grzzk looked toward the ship they had left behind, a great fire blazed across her bow - she was breaking up! The Chegwin hordes had somehow managed to break through the Th’eik defensive lines, and had mounted a concerted attack on the ship. They could see thousands of escape pods firing off along the sides of the great ship; many were picked off at almost the instant of launch by the highly manoeuvrable and heavily armed Chegwin crumb-fighters.

Never before had Ypicitus seen such ships, she had always assumed the Chegwins to be a one-off, but clearly there was a greater evil at work here. The attack on The Land of Thud only 5 years ago had clearly been a precursor to something far larger.

Ypicitus stared at the planet they were headed toward, clearly this was the same planet where the Th’eik had initiated their attack. The Th’eik had launched their bombers and fighter escorts a mere three hours previous. Only a few fighters remained when they returned, and were being chased down as what could only be described as a giant space-faring Jammie Dodger. Sending out more fighters to attack the Dodger proved fatal. Whenever a hit was placed on it, the Th’eik lost roughly 23 fighters, and the floating biscuit simply crumbled, each crumb becoming much faster ships and only bringing total defeat closer.

Ypicitus jumped as their escape pod began to rumble and shake, she looked at Grzzk expecting her life to end, but Grzzk merely smiled and said, “Rys’seTrd.”
Sighing a breath of relief, Ypicutus began the systems checks she had been trained to do, they would enter the atmosphere soon, and any failures could be fatal.

A Very Strange World, Part 4

Saturday, the 15th of December, 2007 at 2:23pm GMT
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"Prtz G'lokt! Prtz G'lokt!"
Ypicitus awoke to the sound of claxons blaring, and quickly looked around. The door to her room opened and Grzzk walked in with a worried look on his face. Ypicitus had spent many months with the Th'eik in order to learn some of their ways, and hence had to ability to spot what expression a Th'eik made when concerned. Something your ordinary Thuddite would never know. Especially considering it's recent destruction.

"Trsye t'lol gtar!" Grzzk pronounced.
"Jgl trrk f'rpui?" Ypicutus asked.
"T'Kje yo!" ordered Grzzk.

Ypicitus jumped from her bed and grabbed her robes and pocket-cauldron, then followed Grzzk out of the room. Both of them ran along the long dark corridors, passing other Th'eik dashing around in differing directions. They soon arrived at the ejection pod designated for herself and Grzzk, and climbed in. No sooner had they entered the pod, it was ejected into space, blasting it's directional thrusters to correct its course to the nearest habitable world.

A Very Strange World, Part 3

Saturday, the 15th of December, 2007 at 2:22pm GMT
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Two fist icons were flashing urgently in the top-right of the cauldron screen.

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It should be noted here that ThudEX is a unique open-source Witches Cauldrons Operating System (WCOS), loosely based on the ancient Earthen UNIX kernel, although obviously so advanced by now as to be vastly more powerful and featureful. One particularly innovative feature implemented the first simultaneously-auto-visual-adjusting-display for every user located around the cauldron. The very latest version introduced a simultaneously-auto-physical-adjusting-display, which cleared up the earlier system which meant that users would have to manually work out which button was pressed when another user pressed it (usually by asking). Now, each users hands and arms become symbiotically linked during the entire process. It could be a little disturbing to n00bs.

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Eld quickly passed her hand over the one of the two flashing icons, Gregory felt sick.

The display quickly wiped to a scene of absolute horror, whilst Eld could not recognise the place, she was damn sure what these 'creatures' were. Tens of thousands of Keith Chegwins stood in regimented formations, carrying personal spam guns and pyramid scheme flyers. There was a deep chanting sound coming from the horde, "Um la la la. Um la la la. Biscuits!"

"What are they doing?" Gregory asked, "They seem to be just stood there."
"I'm not sure, but it can't be good," Eld replied, "let's see what the other icon is about"

A Very Strange World, Part 2

Saturday, the 15th of December, 2007 at 2:20pm GMT
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...the ground in a pale blue glow.

They were in some kind of building, a dusty room with rough dry-stone walls and slate roofing. A four-footed mini-cauldron was squatted in one corner.

The cauldron lit up as 'Dora waved her arm over it, "It's installed with ThudEX!" she cried.
"What the?" puzzled Gregory, "I thought your cauldron was destroyed back in Thud."
"It was," replied Eldorado. She closely studied the cauldron display...
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