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Below is
the month of May.
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New clues
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Back to DAY ONE (April)
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May 1
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Blogging on Empty
Well, we NOW know the
Besmous are very adorable and
have some freaky super-powers.
Not sure that really helped, but there you go.
But it still doesn’t help us with Astral’s holo-blog. Once we run out
of Besmou Cola, we’ll need to find some other way to turn the pages
2D so we can read Astral’s messages.
Wow, it’s really getting DARK down here. I wonder why…
…OUCH!
HEY - somebody ran into me...
GRAB HIM! |
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02 May 2003 10:44 PM
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Darkness Falls...then
gets right back up
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It’s a Lampyre!
STOP HIM!
uh...stop
HER!
...it?
WAIT a sec.
If THAT's a real Lampyre, I'm a real blonde. Heck, I don't even HAVE
hair.
And THIS...
is just some joker DISGUISED as a Lampyre. Let’s just get this hood off and
see who...
Well, doesn’t THAT just figure! It’s one of the Greys.
HEY, I recognize this guy. His name is Yerg. He’s the one I ran into
in the parking lot. He swiped some of my spare parts and then tried
to SELL them back to me and …NO…I do NOT want to buy some "genuine alien
artifacts."
Save it for the tourists, buddy.
Although...this
MASK does
look pretty authentic.
HEY! Did you swipe this from
THE SHOPS?
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06 May 2003 5:20 PM
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Playing the Odds
Sorry, Yerg.
I’m not buying it.
I mean, what’s the likelihood of a Grey, dressed up like a
LAMPYRE just
happening to run into another group of guys who ALSO just happen to be
disguised as Lampyres?
Okaaay, there WAS that one time I ran into three different groups of
Earthlings dressed as Vulcans, but that was at a convention in
Vegas and I’m not really sure whether that last bunch was Vulcan or
Romulan…but that’s NOT the point!
I think we’d better make sure Yerg here isn’t carrying any weapons.
The Greys make some SILENT but DEADLY fart grenades.
Uuummm. So do YOU wanna
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07 May 2003 10:35 PM
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Joker's Wild
Oh, VERY funny!
REAL mature.
The
BATTLESLUG DRUM-BUZZER was a cute touch, Yerg.
I admit, ya got me. Now let's see what ELSE you have
UP YOUR SLEEVE.
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08 May 2003 12:00 AM
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Wrong Turn at
Hogwart's
WONDERLENS WRISTBANDS?
Shooting Stars, Yerg! Is there anything you HAVEN'T
tried to steal? No...don't EVEN answer that. Just empty your pockets.
...AND the utility belt.
Look at
ALL THIS STUFF! He's
got half the
Gift Shop stashed
inside his belt!
...And what’s THIS?
It’s a
BESMOU magic wand. It’s
Astral’s Besmou wand – the one she uses to decode her holo-blog!
Yerg must have gotten Astral’s wand from her desk!
Remember when we went to search
ASTRAL’S OFFICE and it
was SWARMING with Lampyres? Those weren’t real
LAMPYRES at ALL – it
was Yerg and his buddies in these
GOOFY DISGUISES! |
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08 May 2003 10:00 AM
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Colorful Language
hey...HEY!
Puh-leez, Yerg.
There's NO need for THAT kind of language. I don't need to be a
TRANSLATING ROBOT to
figure THAT out!
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08 May 2003 10:06 PM
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Sweet Talk
It's up to YOU, Yerg.
Do I have to spell it out for you, or should I just
DRAW YOU A PICTURE?
You can either tell us what you're up to RIGHT NOW, or we can send
you back through the
WORMHOLE and you can have a nice chat with our friend
Noir.
He’s a REAL Lampyre, by the way.
I’m sure he’ll be VERY curious to know why you and your CreEpY
little buddies have been lurking around
WONDERLENS disguised as
LAMPYRES.
But uh...just to warn you...I hear Lampyres can get pretty
mean when they've had one too many Pop Tarts.
...and did I mention that Noir has been on a Tart binge for
two weeks running? He should be reaching critical mass at any
moment.
Trust me, Yerg, you do NOT want to be anywhere NEAR a Lampyre
who's about to go Sugar-Nova.
Not Pretty.
If the initial blast of super-heated fruit filling doesn't kill you,
the flying bits of toaster pastry will. The sugar frosting ALONE can put
your eye out!
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12May 2003 11:16 PM
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BOO
Yerg says they all belong to BOO? What the heck is BOO?
Hmmm...he says it stands for the Brotherhood Of Opportunity.
It’s some kind of Grey secret society...I guess.
Sooo...what...are you guys some kind of intergalactic terrorists
or just greedy criminal masterminds?
Or do you just have WAY too much
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13 May 2003 8:17 PM
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It's a Living
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Yerg
swears he's not a criminal mastermind.
Yeah...somehow, I'm inclined to believe him.
He SAYS, that members of B.O.O. dress in disguise and travel from
planet to planet, yelling “BOO.” Apparently people GIVE them things
to make them GO AWAY.
OK...he says TECHNICALLY speaking, people THROW things at them to
make them go away. But sometimes they throw something good. Like
candy!
Hey, YOU...Poly to Earth person! Don't they have something
like that on your planet? I think it’s called trick or treat.
Ok...enough with the
OFFWORLD TRIVIA. That STILL doesn’t explain why Yerg had
Astral’s wand.
I’m pretty sure she wasn't handing THOSE out with the mini-Snickers.
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14 May 2003 10:48 PM
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Quest for Skittles
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Yerg
says he never SAW Astral. Says his boys only went to
HER OFFICE to bum some candy.
Yeah, yeah...
I can relate.
Ever since they stopped making computer chips with silicon and
started using high fructose Sucrosium, I've had a constant
craving for Skittles.
Anyway, when the Greys got to her office, Astral was already
gone. Yerg grabbed a bottle of |
Besmou  Cola
from Astral's desk, but it spilled all over the Greys and turned them
2D. Yerg knew that the only way to get back into 3D was to use more
Besmou magic. That's when he spotted Astral's Besmou wand.
Yerg grabbed the wand, but when he heard US coming, they all
ran.
Yerg and the other Greys headed for the basement to
hide. But once they got down there, they were distracted by the aroma of
freshly mini-ovenned Pop Tarts.
They followed the scent all the way down to the
BLACK HOLE BUNGEE JUMP.
They walking right into a bunch of REAL Lampyres passing through a
freshly baked
WORMHOLE.
Yerg says he just followed them in. Thought maybe there was some kind
of Pop Tart motherload on the other side.
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15 May 2003 10:20 PM
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Lost and Spaced
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Alright, I guess we've established that the Greys
aren't exactly at the TOP of the evil genius FOOD CHAIN.
According to Yerg, here, once he and the other Greys popped
through the
FRESH WORMHOLE, the REAL Lampyres VANISHED,
the B.O.O. dudes panicked and Yerg here got
hopelessly lost.
Yerg says he's been wandering through the tunnels ever since.
And nobody gave him so much as a box of lousy RAISINS. Poor guy.
Now that you mention it, he DOES look a little woozy.
Well...I guess we can give him one of the last bottles of Besmou
Cola.
Now that we have ASTRAL'SWAND
we can use THAT to decode her holo-blog.
Plus, the pages are getting kind of soggy. Man... Astral's
going to go thermonuclear when she sees what we did to her blog!
Oh-oh. Is Besmou Cola RADIOACTIVE? The holo-blog is starting
to GLOW!
19 May 2003 10:13 PM
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Must Be Monday
Duh!
Astral's holo-blog
is GLOWING because Astral
is trying to CONTACT us!
(I KNEW THAT!)
Let's hope this
Besmou Wand
works!
Nothing is happening! The pages are still BLANK!
Uh...Yerg...ol'
buddy...this is the REAL wand, isn't it?
Well, then why isn't it working?
And WHY does it have a PRICETAG from the
Wonderlens SOUVENIR Shop?!!!
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20 May 2003 5:44 PM
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One Magic Wand...Coming
Up!
Alright Yerg,
cough up the REAL wand.
I KNOW you have it.
Wow. 
He really did
COUGH
it up.
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Ick. |
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It's covered with Besmou Cola and...YOW - what DID you eat for LUNCH,
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I
thought you said you were a VEGETARIAN!
 Never
mind.
Just tell your FORMER LUNCH to keep his tentacles to
himself.
All that wiggling is kinda creeping me out.
Okaaay...let's make some
MAGIC! |
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21 May 2003 5:21 PM
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Astral at the Edge
...A little wave of the magic wand and....
It's
WORKING! 
Dear Poly,
I've
finally reached the end of the tunnels. You won't believe what I've found!
There appear to be ancient ruins miles beneath Wonderlens! I'm standing now
at what seems to be the edge of a huge, underground city.
How is this
possible? Our research proved that this planet was never inhabited. I
studied the scans myself. I would have seen any tunnels, much less a whole
city, but the scans showed nothing like this! All we saw before was solid
rock.
I'm going
to run some tests. I know, I shouldn't waste what little air I have left,
but I need to understand what's going on here! This isn't what I was
expecting to find.
I'll blog
again in just a nano. I'm going to climb up higher - try to get better
readings. There's some kind of temple up ahead. Hopefully my
Illumoths
will give me some better light up there. For some reason, the wings of all
the moths just suddenly stopped glowing. It's like something SUCKED the
light right out of them. It's getting so dark.
Astral -
out.
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21 May 2003 9:25 AM
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…later that day |
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Well, THAT's not good.
Either Astral's
Illumoths
just went on strike or the
LAMPYRES finally caught up with her! |
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22 May 2003 5:14 PM
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The Hidden City
Did Astral say she found RUINS of an
ancient
CITY
beneath
WONDERLENS? But that's
crazy!
Maybe she just found a flock of
Castellar Reefs?
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They
ARE cities...sort of. Ok,
technically they're floating sandcastle cruise ships and
yes, the average Castellar Reef
is about the size of a
basset hound, but...
Ok...forget THAT theory.
Astral is NOT talking about a Castellar Reef...she must have found a
real-live CITY!
And if anybody can figure
out who built it, Astral
can. She knows a LOT about...well, pretty much
everything that has to do with
alien civilizations. I mean,
that's why she's the youngest Head of
Humanoid Resources we've
ever had at Wonderlens.
It usually takes CENTURIES to learn what she knows about offworld
cultures...especially the
Architecturals. You know...the BUILDINGS and STAIRWELLS and
RESTROOMS that are really ALIEN BEINGS.
Didn't you KNOW?
Pretty much every THING at Wonderlens is...well...not exactly a
THING. Most of the
buildings here are
EMPLOYEES.
They're living
architecture. They even have their own union:
M.O.R.T.A.R. It stands for
the Masonic Order Regulating
Thinking Architecturals' Rights. Astral is president of the
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23 May 2003 5:25 PM
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MORTAR
 I
just
remembered
- the Masonic
Order
Regulating
Thinking
Architecturals'
Rights
is the
reason
Astral
came to
WONDERLENS in the FIRST PLACE.
Astral used to be a
field researcher
for
M.O.R.T.A.R.
We had some labor problems at Wonderlens when the amusement planet was being
built, so Astral was sent in by M.O.R.T.A.R. to smooth things out. She did
such a great job, she was hired as Wonderlens Head of
Humanoid Resources.
Everybody thinks Astral is just here to keep the
RestRoomulans
from going on strike or to make sure the
SENTIENT SENTRIES get
hazard pay
when flammable guests like the
Vulcan Peebles
visit.
But Astral does WAY more than that.
She's the one who FINDS the right species to work at Wonderlens. Heck, she
finds the right species to BE Wonderlens! From the
Elektros Eel fences
to the
flocks of
Floradendrons
we employ as
landscaping,
most of the Wonderlens park is MADE of EMPLOYEES. And Astral
DISCOVERED
most of them.
Sure, she hasn't discovered nearly as MANY new species as
Max Darkstar,
the
W.A.R.P. team leader, but Astral has found the really USEFUL ones. Max
tends to seek out the flashy types. You know...the creatures who spit
50 meter jets of
acid or
have
head-mounted buzz saws and toxic farts. Must be a "guy thing"
WAIT...speak of the devil...I'm getting an incoming message from
MAX!
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27 May 2003 8:25 AM
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a Message from Max
Darkstar
Hey Poly!
I hate to hog your blog, but I didn't know how else to contact you. All the
communications sytems have
been acting screwy
today. I hate to even mention
it though - the last time I complained that I wasn't getting my phone
messages, the phone
BIT me! Maybe I should have Astral Geode have a talk with
it. Him.
Her?
Speaking of...have you seen Astral lately?
She missed this month's M.O.R.T.A.R. meeting. Not like her to just not show.
Nobody else seems to have seen her either.
...And now YOU'RE nowhere to be found! What's going on, kiddo? If you're in
any kind of trouble, you know you can always ask me for help.
 By
the way. The Poly-256-B,
your backup model is doing
a...errr...decent job of
filling in for you while you're gone, but DON'T think ol' Max can't tell the
difference! Your copy just doesn't have the same
personality.
Actually, the 256-B
doesn't really have ANY personality. I just asked her
"what's shakin'?" and she
spit out a report on recent
seismic activity.
Hey, did you know we've been having a bunch of small
earthquakes here? Well,
not RIGHT here, but MILES below
Wonderlens. Weird, eh?
Anyway, the Poly-256-B will never
replace the REAL Poly.
Plus, the 256-B still thinks she works in
fast food. Yesterday she kept trying to round up the
Sentries and
paint them
yellow.
She kept saying something about
"golden arches?" Must be something from her old programming.
I'd better go now. I just saw her glide down the hall with a
bucket of yellow paint.
Again.
So long for now, kiddo.
You know where to find me.
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27 May 2003 10:18 AM
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Later That Day...
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SHOOTing stars!
I wish I
COULD ask
Max
for help!
WHY did I
EVER
promise
Astral
I'd keep my mouth shut?
I don't even
HAVE
a
MOUTH!
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28 May 2003 11:22 PM
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Hey...Astral's
HOLOBLOG is glowing again.
Yerg,
have you got the
BESMOU's MAGIC WAND?
Well ok then...Hit
it!
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29 May 2003 11:00 AM
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Nobody Home
Dear Poly,
It's the oddest thing...I could have
sworn I just heard Max Darkstar's voice. I guess my braincells are finally
going. Not much air left. I climbed up to the temple, but the gates are
locked. Nobody home. From the looks of it, nobody's been home for about a
thousand years. I'm so tired. I'm just going to close my eyes for a moment.
Everything's getting so dark. Sun must be setting early tonight.
Astral - out. |
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30 May 2003 10:30 PM
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Lights Off – Astral
Out
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UP
Astral! |
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