Explorations of the White Foxx

pressganged into an airship crew

2009-04-03T23:15:00.000-07:00

Well, i'm now the captian/pilot/mechanic/henchfox of Proff. Grendel Footman's airship, the Oroboros III.
He's allowed me to live on the airship, (currently moored in New Babbage Palisades), in exchange for working as part of his crew (his only crewmember so far), I've been given a bed in the cargohold, (actually a pillow and pile of sheets over a crate) and have been indoctrinated into his new club, Ordo Apcicontri-something latin sounding.

So i've been living around New Babbage for now, and seem to miss most of what's going on, such as the sky angel, the dinosaur hunt, the random fires, even the unreality bombs.

But I had entered a machine into a contest for the Oiler Day, the God of Coffee, a large, 30 ton coffe machine that brews the perfect cup. I didn't win, but hopefully noone who looked at the entries, went away without a steamy cup of coffee!

I've also was followed a few nights ago as i was shopping for more apparel, I wasn't quite sure, but I kept watching my back, finally leading my persuer into the stockyard, where i then drew my derringer. It turned out to be a large female reptillian creatre wearing rags, I had heard of the end of the dinosaur hunt, how the raptor was apparently beginning to mutate somehow, and had last been seen falling into the canals, it was quite possible she had somehow evolved (and this is coming from a humanoid fox, so anything is possible). She had called me food, speaking very slowely and childish, I corrected her with my derringer, i was NOT 'food'! then she proceeded to follow me around the city as I shopped, I finally took some time, to take her aside and try teaching her basic manners, such as not to refer to people as 'food'. then a train came by and seemed to scare her as she ran off. it was a very interesting evening, that's for sure!

((and again, i forget to take plenty of pictures!! aarrgh!!))

A visit with Mr. Footman

2008-11-17T01:32:00.000-08:00

I had recently gone to visit Mr. Grendel Footman at his new home in new babbage.
It was an...interesting place.

We sat in his study discussing his research and inventions, apparently Mr. Footman is "seeking scientific solutions to supernatural
problems"

All was fine and good until we got into a heated debate on samophlanges.
somehow the argument led to me in handcuffs.Once I sat back on his worktable, he seemed to relax and offered to show me his new gun turret.

I was eventually able to escape and turn the tides (the gunshot to the head wasn't THAT painful, he assures me later)
Once tempers cooled, we relaxed in the sitting room, as he told me about his ideas for something he calls
'the footman Foundation"

a group to help with New Babbage's supernatural problems (vampires, werewolves, mummies, evil villans in tophats,
((Grendel assures me he's not actually a villian himself, just 'rides the fence'))and the like) and his hopes
to join his 'Footman Foundation' with Foxxworks, (as he himself has said, he really enjoy's my quadbarreled shotgun, but I didn't have the heart to tell him Foxxworks is in hiatus until I can manage to find a new place to land).
as we sat and sipped absinthe, he has to eventually leave for sleep, but invited me to stay in his loft as long as I'd like.
the skull on the desk soo gave me the shivers, so alas, I left back to my Highwind was moored. for some much needed rest.

2008-11-11T15:00:00.000-08:00

Well, After i found all my Halloween pictures missing, I revisited one of the haunted spots, Devil's Labrynth (also the only one NOT taken down already)
It's a rather imposing castle, with large iron doors. When you enter, there's a small lobby as you wait for the next door to unlock, letting you enter a room where you choose a path, I took the Incubus path.....

odd leaving a skull around

This woman chased me down the hall with an axe! then, she vomited blood on me!An evil church, I took a seat on the most comfortable looking chair there (and far away from the evil looking robed preist)

Somehow the journey sent me to the sewers??
An odd room, I had the feeling I was being watched......

An odd book telling me to folow, the Necronomicon's half brother perhaps?

Note to self, never follow strange books...
Locked away, without even a trial

This room looks pleasant enough
if just a little evilWhy do I always have to touch strange objects??

of all the times to forget my parachute

The fall seemed to leave me in some strange cavern
two plinths, wich one to chooseI chose the wrong one...

Somehow, Hell must have gotten it's paperwork lost, because it sent me plummeting back down to the plinths, I took the other one this time, for more pleasant surroundings.
Unfortunatly, in Heaven, they're paperwork was NOT lost, as I was sent again, plummeting into lava. Passing out from the heat (damage WAS on in this area), I awoke to find myself at the entrance, maybe it was all a dream...

Visiting the circus

2008-11-10T15:27:00.000-08:00

After the dissapointment of finding all my photos of the past month and a half gone, I visited the new circus opening soon in New Babbage. It was mostly empty, and no shows were preforming, I did however meet one of the organists and his friend (and their pet rat), Mr. Ichabod String and Mr. Jyskel Radek, and had a nice conversation about the circus, New Babbage, missing werewolves, and sporadic dances that make you either look drunk, or half mad. They both eventually had to leave, so i took the oppertunity to look around the huge main tent, once it's open, it should certaintly be an interesting show!

a chance meeting under the bigtop
I can play the organ! No! not THAT organ! get your mind out of the gutter!

Tuckered out?

yes, the tent has BIG wheels!

Halloween and other explorations

2008-11-10T14:59:00.000-08:00

I had a whole slew of pictures, but they were deleted by mistake.

I spent Halloween as I usually do, exploring. I found a secret area in Caledon under the Steamsky City that was swarming with zombies, went to a haunted girl's school (where I got a whole bunch of new clothes for free ^.^) and had a discussion with Prof. Footman about his plans for something called a footman foundation as I looked around his new home in New Babbage.
I also watched a fashion show in Caledon, and might possibly be in another friend's fashion show myself, And I played the part of a damsel in distress for a machinema.

As I said, I had lots of pictures, that all were deleted =(

(seriously, I searched my harddrive, external harddrive, jump drives, everything, they're all gone *cries*)

2008-08-14T16:00:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago, there was a charity ball for the gimpgirl group and victorians with disabilities group on SL, with lots of dancing (including wheelchair and tiny dances) music by Radio Reil and a general good time by all, and they managed to raise a pretty good amount of money as well from what I hear :) .

even the tinys got into it.

If you want to know more about gimpgirl, check out gimpgirl.com

On the Road Again

2008-07-31T23:06:00.000-07:00

I've gotten notification that Gnarli will be selling Greystroke by next week, so I've been packing things up and looks like I will once again be nomadic, fortunatly this time I have plenty of ships and all to travel Caledon in. Until I sort out what I'll be doing myself, I don't beleive I'll be working on any large scale building projects for now. for now I'll focus back on what I've been doing since I first came to Caledon, exploring the sites :) so here's some pictures of greystroke as it is now, without any theme (never did do the whole earth to the moon thing) but just nice views.
once I retreive my external drive, i'll upload pictures of the last big theme of greystroke, Gnarli's nile tour.

Thank You Gnarli for letting me live and build here ^.^

An ancient barrow in Greystroke?

2008-05-01T08:16:00.000-07:00

I went for a walk through greystroke and came across a barrow, I hadn't recognized seeing it before, and the ripped page i found outside raised my curiosity, so in I went!

Inside it was very much like a cave, some poor soul's skeleton was lying off to the side, along with some ancient weapons,

I felt as if I was being watched, so turned around and saw this character standing there leering at me!

I ran and jumped into the only place i could, the hole in the floor, to get away. and after sliding down a chute for a bit, found myself in a narrow hallway.
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Following this passage, i came to a round room with idols to whatever goddess the builders of this tomb worshipped, and a deep pit in the center. After reading the pages I kept finding strewn around, and looking through this room. I began to think this may have been more than a tomb.

I'm not too sure what goddess this depicts, history was not my specialty I'm afraid, but the pages said possibly Ishtar, or was it Mozz? I don't quite remember..

Hearing sounds coming from the passageway I came through, I jumped into the pit in the center of the room.......and landed on bones! piles of them! This must have been some sort of sacrificial pit, I saw the skeletons of many humans and creatures i recognized, along with creatures I didn't...

Exploring the room of bones, I came across this item, the Star of Asthar? according to the pages strewn around the room by my predecessor in these caves..

I then heard more sounds, scritching and scrabblings, echoing down the pit, so I left this room post haste, and found myself in a much older cave. The skeletons of neanderthals were laid out here, as well as some odd cave paintings depicting some many limbed creature, tentacles maybe?

The pages that had been my guide were no longer useful as the last few i had found were becomming little more than insane ramblings. So I pushed on, climbing through the holw in this floor as well... and then i could certaintly understand the writer's insanity, I was in a cave, with large cracks in the walls, what was disturbing was what I saw IN these cracks, in one crack I saw the giant figure of a creature that I can only describe as semi humanoid, with a head resembling that of an octopus. And in the other crack, I saw some bizzarre city, all glowing metal towers and winged figures flying around it. I heard the same sounds from above me, and heard another sound, when i turned to the other gap in the wall, I saw the tentacled thing coming closer. With the creature in the gap approaching, and the sounds above me, I quickly squeezed myself into the other gap, towards the strange city. In all the comotion, I even forgot to take pictures!
Somehow, I'm not sure what happened, but after squeezing through the gap, I found myself back in Greystroke, in front of the barrows again! Swearing off any more spelunking, I decided to head for home and rest.

More Wanderings

2008-03-11T13:23:00.000-07:00

While I've been absent, it seems Caledon has linked itself with Winterfell, never haveing been there too often, I decided to look around, I visited Absynthe first. and wandered around the dark houses and ruins.

Starting off from Caledon, just waiting for my ride to Winterfell

A creepy house, there were quite a few bats flittering around

Mysterious ruins? it looked like they were in the process of being excavated, seeing noone around, I decided to snoop..

Skulls? oh dear..

a table under one of the tents was covered in diagrams and parchments, from the ruins? what is that writing?

some strange Idol, it looks as if it's to be sent to some place named 'Miskatonic'

After being chased away from the site by an odd, fish-like man, I came across a gypsy camp, where I relaxed a bit by the fire. Absynthe sure is an odd place...

experiments with the vulpine cannonball

2008-03-06T13:40:00.000-08:00

Today I decided to test the range of the Moon gun.

Aiming it northward, so as to avoid the edges of the world. I coordinated the trajectory to hopefully land in either Tanglewood or Eyre. Then I prepped the shell and boarded..

After a breif countdown (321GO!) I slammed my paw on the button and fired the gun.

BOOM!!!! I sailed through the air over greystroke, up, over the Steamsky city, eventually losing Caledon through the clouds as the ground fell away. The readings in the capsule indicated that i was approaching Eyre, still with no descent, past Eyre, i left Caledon completely, a soared over Winterfell , and soon past that as well, soon I saw the names of lands i never heard of, Bunny Islands, Karamoon, Sexorga? as I sailed through the air, everything suddenly went dark, at this point i felt it was time to evacuate, shouldering my parachute, I bailed out of the capsule, but seemed caught in a void! it was only after careful manipulation of the chute, i was able to return to Caledon safe and sound.

Returned to Caledon after months of leave

2008-03-06T10:01:00.000-08:00

I am finally back at Caledon after many RL things kept me away for months. and seems like we're now bigger, as well as connected with another land, I'll have to explore and find all that I've missed.

From Rezz Day Parties to Haunted Houses

2007-10-18T20:54:00.000-07:00

Just a week or so ago I had gone to the rezz-day party for Miss Lapin Paris, in Regency. There was music, and an unusual amount of clothing worn for a Caledon party, but the main point was there were giant Jello-molds to dance in, and a party just isn't a party now without Jell-O.
Eventually though I had to say my goodbyes and leave for some RL concerns.

For the most part after that, I had been away for awhile on Rl concerns, but eventually, I returned to Caledon.
a few nights ago, after working on my Pneumatic arm, Gnarlihotep and myself had gone to a haunted orphanage. It had a creepy aire to it, with a voice constantly telling us we were insane or orphans, and upside down rooms, nice effect, but the maze was a bit much, wich to be honest, I gave up going through and left for home after a good twenty minutes going in circles with screaming undead babies following me..
(worse part was I forgot to take pictures, went back a second time just for pics)

entering the building..

waiting room of horror? think that's most waiting rooms

nice to know I shouldn't giggle..

a laboratory, now this looks promising

yes, i feel like a fly on the ceiling at this angle

In the Mouth of Madness?

and my companion during the time lost in their maze...

Afterwards, I had gone on a trip to the mainland to find halloween decorations for my cottage, ghosts and all. So a few places were visited that night, and I managed to die a few times I think..

First i had visited a halloween supply store, a lot of nice things, gooey ghosts, and I managed to pick up a reaper who needed a home ^^. their customer service left alot to be desired however, as the above picture shows.
I went to another place, hoping to find some affordable gravestones, unfortunatly they said they'd rather have my soul than money.

attempting to order some items through other means

Unfortunatly, Possession isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Now I know, never open gates to hell, their idea of customer service is a little off.

At this point I stopped taking pictures as the tentacles were becoming a little too touchy. And biting one only proved to only anger them as they tossed me out, but at least I wasn't being felt up by gribblies anymore, though the landing hurt.

spoke too soon -_-
While I recovered my bearings, i came across this puzzle box sitting on a matress soaked in tomato juice..

Wondering if it's anything like a Rubik's Cube?

Turns out it was busted, the colors never changed, it just changed shape, so I moved on, dissapointed.

Don't ask me what I was doing here, might have still been slightly possessed from earlier.
Another Haunted house had ghosts galore, but they all just wanted to kill me, repeatedly..

Last I knew, I wasn't french.

I thought this was a recliner, turns out I was wrong.

After all that, I finally managed to take my leave of the ghosts and demons,
and set up my house.
happy halloween ^^

From the Sewers to the Mountains

2007-10-11T16:31:00.000-07:00

I had been working on my pneumatic arm design when I overheard through the aethernet chat of a sewer in Victoria City, Having been there enough times with no idea there even WAS a sewer there (I assumed the lack of restrooms in the city negated the need for one to be honest). Curiosity piqued, I traveled over to find it myself as well. After scouring the ground for a grate, hole, anything that may point to a sewer acess, I finally came across a lone manhole in an empty yard. Accompanied by Miss Laura Flintlock, we opened it up and decended. for a sewer, it was surprisingly clean and dry, and i only saw one lone rat. many of the tunnels we saw were shrouded in darkness, but despite braving the dark, we found mostly deadends. One thing of interest however was the boiler in the corner. to what purpose it served down here by it'self, one can only guess. Wether it truly was the Vic City sewers, abandoned laboratory of some past evil genius, or just a basement, once again, one can only guess.

The entrance to a mystery? or just bad aromas

Miss Flintlock and I by the ladder

tunnel into darkness

someone left a boiler here?

Afterwards, I had joined Gnarli in touring Wellsian, now that people had moved in and put their houses up. very nice area, mountains surrounded by sea, best of both worlds.
we canoed around from the telehub to the other side and strolled among the houses, running into the guv'nah as he was on his way to do something or other to the ocean floor.

canoeing in Wellsian

minecart ride to infinity, or at least to the train crossing

a nautilis, fitted for the air?!

A few days later, Gnarli showed me some of the newer additions to the zoo, including an arena, for ostrich jousting.

Somehow I woke up in a cage, last time I drink that much vodka!

and then a sail around the island in my new ship, the Seadragon, before I hit the covers for the night.

Zoos, high seas and Steambots

2007-09-28T15:47:00.000-07:00

Last few days have been interesting, I have taken it upon myself to add a bit more to the undersea view by my home, adding fish and some rocks, almost like a very large saltwater aquarium. Somehow I've gotten into the habit of wearing outfits in theme with what I happen to be working on, so as I've been working underwater, I've been wearing a swimsuit from the mainland, wich causes interesting reactions when I accept teleport offers without thinking first, as I found myself swimming in midair over Equine and a steam mech he had met, Iason Hassanov, a very friendly machine, new to Caledon, and of a very interesting design. After visiting I had gone back to my work building a reef (more a pile of rocks haphazardly strewn across the sea floor). and eventually took a break for air and to see Gnarli's progress with the zoo. He was in lepoard form tonight, wich basically meant he towered above me, and seemed to have an interest in taking pictures tonight. He showed me the visitor's center for the zoo, complete with a barrel of freebee animals ^-^
eventually taking me for a ride around the greystroke/cymru/NCI/kintyre area on his back, next time I go jousting, I'll have to keep 7 foot lepoards in mind as a steed. eventually he wanted to trade places for the ride back, and almost broke my back, foxes are not riding animals...

visitor's center at the zoo, with an escaped panther...

After the back-breaking trip back, we went to Wellsian to look around, I quickly changed when we got there from the schoolgirl uniform (don't ask), still barefoot, I tried following Gnarli as he bounded away, and eventually gave up and tried to catch up by my rover, wich true to form spiralled out of control off the cliff into the sea (I was later informed of it's wereabouts for retreival) Once I caught up, it seemed the Guv'nah attracted a small crowd just watching him landscape the mountains, it's really looking like it's going to shape up to be a nice sim.

Thenext day I had been in New Babbage, just wandering, mostly for a break from working on a pneumatic arm I'd been planning. when I met a Mr. K. Enoch, who seems to be an aircraft designer, he was testing one out at least. We talked for a bit on aircraft, and I showed off my jetpack, as he showed his wings, eventually, I left him to his work and carried on.

I was called on later that night by Gnarli, he wanted to look around for more animals for the zoo, especially a rideable elephant. We headed for the mainland into some sort of petstore/wildlife preserve.

eventually I came away with my own little fox, I named him Sputnik (yes I know, a fox with a pet fox, it's the whole Goofy/Pluto conundrum , I can live with it without asking questions, can't you? ;p )

And the very next day, I was invited to Tammranoch by Mr. Hassanov to see the progress on his clock tower, Miss Eugena joined us, and the discussion turned to Djinn, lawyers, and machines with souls

eventually, Miss Eugena had to take her leave due to lightning, Gnarli took her place, and eventually, we all called it a night and said our goodbyes.

2007-09-20T11:52:00.000-07:00

After milling about my cottage, I took the time to get to know sailing my tako better, fist attempt, sailing around the new area, it was a smooth enough sail, aside from getting the tako hung up on rocks near Cymru, and I've come to the conclusion I won't be sailing any races anytime soon.

Home sweet Home

Greystroke and Cymru by sea

pirates?
A bit later, as I was installing the retractable ramp to the new loft at home, I had a visit from Gnarli, There was an arena in Lock Aviery for armed sparring, so we went. It was my first time in combat, and I managed to lay out Gnarli each and every time too, next time they have a tournament there, I'm thinking i might try it and see how I do ^^

Warrior Foxx

Come back here!

'Tis only a flesh wound!
Afterwards, we took a trip to the NASA sim, somehow I managed to lose Gnarli (he didn't board the rocket before I basted off) but it was still amazing. Walking the surface of Mars, I began thinking of ways Caledon could enter the space race, etheric zepplins to mars?

Later we had met with Viderian in Cymeru to see his park and relax a bit, the trees were straylight and looked amazing.

The next day, I had been helping Gnarli organize and move in some of his animals for the zoo (in my case, help consisted of trying to ride all of them and rezzing little kitties everywhere)
at some point, (probably on purpose) some of the panthers had gotten loose, and one of them decided to chase me around a bit until i jumped into one of the pens to get away, then it found the ostrich to be more to it's tastes. Eventually the Guvnah came and we started getting quite a few visitors, for the most part it seemed to go over well for a half finished zoological park.

On safari for the zoo

jousting anyone?

Panther attack!

guess he liked chicken better

zoo visitors already?

Nice Stilty, you've been a loyal steed

R'lyeh Comes to Primverness

2007-09-17T14:35:00.000-07:00

A few days ago, a new island appeared next to Primverness, OUTSIDE toe border, in n0-man's land. It had attracted a large crowd, as many of us tried to land on it only to be blocked by the border's invisible wall. Eventually, it was Mr. Vollmar, (in Anubis form no less) who finally suceeded in penetrating the veil into the great unknown, until he stood up from his megaprim block vessel and popped through time and space back into the world. Miss Amber managed to cross the border as well, with a sort of walkway, as she did her own victory dance. Viderian tried a second trip , staying seated this time, and planting a Caledon flag (temporarily as reality and physics on the other side apparently don't like things being left on it's shores for long.) playing his guitar the whole time.

an attempt to colorize the giant prim continent in Caledon's colors

attracted quite a crowd didn't it?

Concert from the great beyond

A few days later, I was in Cymru, one of the newer duchy's,touring the castle with Mr. Viderian and Equine, Mr. Scaggs, and Miss Commons. eventually it turned to talk of winter, and Miss Commons showed us how she can freeze over water (with only one prim even).

Later I was in Greystroke, and my new home as Gnarli told me of his plans for the place (it involves lots of monkeys..)
as we were touring the area, we were visited by a kitty, who then turned into a dragon. the kitty/dragon had some ideas she informed us of, involving Faries, jars, and pressing.

Hey, i can see my house from here!

and suddenly, for no reason whatsoever, PRIM KONG VS. GNARZAN!!!!!!!!!

Fall and other things

2007-09-13T17:03:00.000-07:00

Last few days have been eventful, the past week has been the harvest festival in both Caledon and Steelhead city, I had originally planned on entering Caledon's Tako sailing race, but was a bit late and unable to make it, I was however able to try finding all the pumpkins hidden in Steelhead, as well as get lost in the corn maze. it's actually a nice place, Definatly worth a visit.

nothing here...

ok, spoke too soon

Pumpkining is hard work

somehow I'm not sure how I got in this situation, fortunalty i could get my hand free before the train started

I had also visited the new areas of Caledon recently arrived, Cymru and Greystroke, After talking to Viderian Vollmar about his plans for his new duchy, Cymru, he suggested I visit Straylight Botanicals, it seems to be a very pretty forest with an open air garden shop in the center. Despite feeling the eyes of the fairies there watching my every move, i took plenty of pictures, at least until the fox-eating plant.

Mr. Vollmar plans in Cymru

Miss Darkling's ship, it was docked in Speirling, not in Cymru, but made for an interesting picture anyway

Straylight, a nice place for a picnic

all roads lead to Caledon, even here

Interesting flowers, let's take a closer look

probably shouldn't have done that

gardenshop at Straylight

can say something about this picture, but i won't

Interesting few days

2007-09-05T10:30:00.000-07:00

As I've spent more time on the new sea, I've seen quite a few designs of ships, sailed some more, and sank even more.
I was out sailing the seafox, my little boat, when a pirate ship came up and began firing at me, it turned out to be Gnarli and his crew of penguins. Shortly after that, he and Mr. Trenton compared ironclads, huge, metalbound ships, they must have felt the need to compensate for something.

It had been the next night, when Mr. Equine McMillian offered to show me his engine,
not fully sure what it's powering yet, but it was impressive enough, with a wheel that as it spun was strangely.....hypnotic....... 0-o

How'd i end up here?!

Finally, just the other night, everyone was in Cymru showing off all sorts of contraptions and vehicles, where i attempted again, to get my Martian warmachine to do more than just stand there, with no success.

The Life Aquatik

2007-08-30T14:04:00.000-07:00

Now that Caledon has a sea apparently, everyone felt the need to see it. To see the sea, so to speak. Having just gotten more or less a new look, i joined the crowds suddenly interested in all matters aquatic.
I more or less arived at one of the small islands contained withing, where an inprovised party was underway, with some familiar faces, and some new ones, I met the squaintance of a Mr. Pertwee.
A fox like myself, but of the more reddish variety. After I managed a few photos, Mr. Pertwee asked me to dance, having never watlzed before and wearing large-ish boots, I was worried on stepping on toes, but he turned out to be just as bad a dancer as i was. And maybe it was a glitch in the danceballs, or our awful dance skills combined, but we began spinning uncontrollably. As we spun like a canine tornado, the friction on the ground caused a fire to break out, possibly the action of spinning creating air resistance around us is what kept the flames from reducing us to ashes, but eventually we were able to slow down a bit. A breif trip to Vic City to show off my temporarily improvised workshop, and the flightpack MK. II, and a trip to Mayfair for him to show off his hats and capes, it seemed the exertions of the day caused my engine to crash, and would not turn back on for a few hours.

Once I was finally able to logg back on, I took out my sailboat for the first time, and after a few crashes into the same house on the shoreline of Matfair, finally moored at another of the small, as yet unnamed islands. Where, after inviting Gnarli to come along in exploring, I met the aquaintance of and Admiral Sin, and a Dr. Figaro. The admiral didn't stay for very long, but the good Doctor showed us her Junk, a ship of oriental make. and gave us a short demo of the Red Cross's new Hoppers. We went for a sail in her junk, when Gnarli seemed to have a flashback to a former life as Blackbeard and taking his own ship, fired his cannons on us, miraculously, they all missed, though I think his own ship sank under it's own power, as he returned to the island on a makeshift raft. Riding around Caledon on Gnarli's raft, was decided to head to Lock Averie to see if we can spot Nessie, after much floating about searching, we saw over the distance, a large shape raise over the water, we followed the creature a bit before it finally submerged and was lost. At this point, falling asleep on the rough planks, I said my goodbyes and headed home and slept.

the SeaFox Sails

Landfall

the good Dcotor's junk

nope, no damage from cannons here

my part-time job as a figure head

Huck Finn, eat your heart out

the Legendary Lock Avery Monster, best photo I could get, all the others
resembled a man in a monkey suit making a rude gesture at us

Driving Test

2007-08-27T11:21:00.000-07:00

After some time surfing on a far off island named after atmospheric phenomenon, I returned to Caledon wringing salt water from my tail. Recently I've aquired a new machine, some sort of Tesla Rover, I unpacked the thing, and took it for it's first drive in Primverness. After a bouncing, jostling, hecktic ride, I finally rode into Vic City, and immediately smashed into a column in front of the Guv'nah's Mansion...

So I discretely sneaked away, hoping no-one would notice the new ornamentation to the building.

After a while of working on the flightpack Mk II (currently it makes the user zip out of control across all of Caledon, and out to the mainand). I joined with The Squirming Discomfort, Gnarlihotep, as he seemed to be planning some graverobbing in the moors. After being shut up in an empty crypt with Gnarli sitting on the lid (not so pleasent, the crypt was fairly dusty)
he left a small rabbit inside, wether this was to appease any possible vampires residing inside with a late night snack, or to try and create an army of vampire bunnies, who can tell what goes on in that head.

Just before Gnarli slammed down the lid

after I managed to get out, I don't think I wounded him too much
(Edit: I did take a picture of the rabbit, but strangely he did not show in the image, perhaps he was a vampire bunny afterall...)

The Wooden Juggernaught

2007-08-19T23:45:00.000-07:00

I had been out yesterday,riding in my own peddle powered mini-zepplin over Caledon. As I was over the highlands, I received the message on he aethernet that a large battleship had appeared at the border between Lionsgate and Tanglewood, and that it was made of wood. Changing my course, i went to see for myself. As I arrived, I saw the ship quite clearly from a distance, landing my craft on it's deck, I wandered for a bit.

Eventually I came across the owner, a Mister Viderian Vollmar, as he was discussing the ship with a few other oglers, a Mr. Mordecal Scraggs, and a Miss who's name escapes me at the moment.
As we talked, eventually Miss ImsosorryIforgetnamessoeasily had to take her leave, as a large clanking construct ambled over in her place. Whatever it was, the metal man must have been an engineering marvel.

As the discussion turned back to the battleship, wich apparently when completed, will be part of Caledon's navy, Mr. Scaggs offered all a ride on the amphibious transport craft he was working on. It resembled a gravey boat to be honest.

It was an interesting ride, until a harsh wind blew it upside down and I found myself falling practically under the world. Eventually I made my way back to the battleship, and seeing noone else on board, took to wandering Tanglewood, as i had never really spent much time there yet. Soon I received an invite from Mr. Vollmar at his home, witch apparently he had just moved in, and so furnishings were sparse, at this point, the automoton, a Mr. Lucious Sin, in a more human appearance, took his leave. Mr. Vollmar showed me around Tanglewood a bit, introducing me to a shoe making fae, Kandace Commons she seemed friendly, if a bit shy. then after a ride on the ferry and subsequent launch into the air and crash, Mr. Vollmar suggested we crash a ball held in Loch Avie by a Lady Eva Bellambi. At this point we had missed the formal part, (not that I'm very formal to begin with) and it was in full on rave mode, with many in tartans. I was given a set of tarten mouse ears, so even i had some tarten going. Miss Amber and Mr. Book were there already, though Miss Amber hadn't gone nude quite yet, and even Mr. Gnarli soon arrived as well, as everyone danced, drank, and howled, I eventually needed my sleep and took my leave.

2007-08-18T17:03:00.000-07:00

This is a continuation of my last entry.

Yesterday I spent most of the day fine tuning the Flightpack Mk II, it flies well enough, but leaves so much smoke that I can't see where I'm headed.

I visited Lacy Amber in her gardens to see if she had anymore tips, she was entertaining a visitor and explaining Caledon to him when i arrived. Inviting us for a buggy ride, we piled on, only for an axle to break. Going onto plan two, we boarded the baroness's Zepplin, and despite the loss of the visitor, (whom I fear fell overboard, hopefully he was wearing his parachute) we were off, flying over the moors. It was a very impressive ride, much better than my own pedal powered blimp, but loud as well, I had to shout to be heard over the engines.

Flying over Caledon Cay, we flew lower, as we had picked up Gnarli and a crowd on the zepplin's detection system. Landing, we entered a small gallery and shop, eventually workign our way upstairs to where they were all dancing and celebrating, it was apparently Mr. Able's rezzday.
Soon everyone was dancing and enjoying themselves amongst Cthulian creatures, saytrs, aristocrats, otters, shoggoths, and a very drunk fox. After imbibing enough, Miss Amber suddenly de-garbed herself and started dancing in her knickers. Maybe it was the absynthe talking, but I shortly followed suit, witch then lead to one of our fellow celebrants bringign up a good point, When you're covered in fur, does it really make a difference? While I'll admit to having seen some fellow furs with their more intimate regions showing in other lands, I fear they are suffering from a case of the mange.

Eventually I needed my rest, so I wished Gnarli a happy rezzday, said my goodbyes and returned to my borrowed workshop to sleep off the liquor.

2007-08-18T13:24:00.000-07:00

Well, the last few days were eventful. After witnessing a Martian attack on Tamrannoch, (where, after everyone panicked and fired multiple times into the air, it turned out to be a Mr. O'Toole taking a captured flyer left over from the invasion, for a joyride) I went to work on my flightpack. Having taken Miss Amber's advice to heart, I had been working on the prototype to improve the design. Due to my lack of a proper workshop, I went to an area outside of caledon to develop it, I found myself pounded by what appeared to be watermelons, apparently the locals there didn't appreciate my being in their territory. After the attack, I was then offered room and board by Lady Amber Palinowski, in return for services to be determined at a later time.

AAAh! Martians!

Armed, and Dangerous

I quickly set up shop in a little used building owned by the Lady Amber within the Victoria City.
And after working for a bit, I needed a break. Taking my airship to the Steamsky City, I showed the pack to Miss Falcon, the venusian who has been building a tesla coil there.

Having visited for a bit, I soon was on my way again to leave her to her work.
Wandering into the Moors, I decided to exoplore the mines.
It was an interesting tril, they were full of crystals, and some element I am unfamiliar with, Carbonium or somesuch. The real part of interest is the abyss, the lowest part of the mine, where what appears to be strange ruins and writings have bee found

Who or what left them, we may never know.

Caledon by Air

2007-08-15T17:46:00.000-07:00

Having just recently recieved a small airship, I took it for a test ride over most of Caledon.
Aside from the fog in some areas, and when i was briefly caught in a tree top, it was an enjoyable ride. Then, once I was over the Moors, the engine died, and so, I was stuck for a time a few hundred feet off the ground, and me without my parachute. After a few minutes of tinkering with the machine (consisting of much kicking the sides and cursing, I was so unladylike, fortunatly noone else was that high up to witness), I noticed it was slowly lowering itself anyway, Apparently with the engine stopped, there is nothing keeping the airbags inflated.

Cap'n Aya, at your service

foggy out

Shopping in Caledon

2007-08-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

After the excitement of yesterday, I spent some time shopping , buying a few dresses and new goggles, as the old ones had been singed so often, the lenses were now permanently blackened.
>

new dress and goggles

I also visited with some of my new friends, as Miss Amber, who apparently is a baroness (I have so much to learn of this country) showed me her altar she had made, witch was very pretty I thought at least. ^-^ and Mr. Gnarlihotep Able, the Limping Pest (a sort of minor version of the Crawling Horror) showed me his large steamboat, wich, despite being large, luxorious, and ready for a cruise, was lacking one minor details, engines.

ICEBURG STRAIGHT AHEAD!!!

Despite that, it was still a very nice ship. And the rest of the evening was spent fishing on his dock, though all i could hook was crabs (the seafood variety thank you very much), wich for some reason, possibly the leftover lasagna he keeps throwing overboard, they had grown to enormous proportions and one even crawled onto the dock to attack. Fortunatly Mr. Able was able to beat it away with a barrel.

Fishing for crabs

A murder where they don't question witnesses?

2007-08-14T13:08:00.000-07:00

Today was interesting, I had arrived in Babbage Square and immediately heard shouting, as i went to see what the commotion was I found a dead body with a note that meant nothing to me, and a cylinder with a recording that was somewhat disturbing. As I and a Mr. Book prodded the corpse with a stick, the locals finally seemed to realize there was a murder, funny thing though was they outright ignored us, didn't even seem to want to suspect us of committing the crime, I suspect their constability may be on the opiates. Eventually Mr. Book had to leave, and after a few minutes I left on my way again.

Dead Corpse, and with the skills of the local Constability, the murderer is safe and sound

Taking a new flying contraption i have been working on to the flying steam city in Caledon, I wandered amongst the shops in the bay underneath, eventually running into a Miss Falcon, a Unicorn wearing the most unusual outfit, it was ridiculously tight enough she may as well have been naked. She turned out to be from Venus, so the outlandish attire was understandable, and an expert in electricity and electromagnetism. I had come in on her making plans for her workshop, talking with her I picked up a few ideas for a possible Aethyrship to travel to the outer planets. As we talked, the discussion turned into the possibility of utilizing the canisters of chemicals the flying city is always dropping into the bay, as a possible fuel. I will have to try it sometime.

First Time in an ornithopter and midnight whiskeys with new friends

2007-08-13T00:55:00.000-07:00

I wandered the halls and avenues of the Steamcity , high above Caledon, today. and as i browsed the shops, I came across a portal in the floor. Opening it revealed a shaft sunk into the floor. Naturally, this fox dropped herself down the shaft, sliding down to what appeard to be a hangar on the underside, with ornithopters, all primed and ready to go. With nobody around to say no to me, I hopped in and figured my way through starting the device. as the wings began flapping, I soon had liftoff. The resultant ride consisted of much screaming, zigzagging, andterminating in 'Thopter slamming into the underside of the city, getting caught in the iron girders. The only way for me at that point was either to drop to my death on the ground, or a fur raising crawl clinging to the large landing leg of the city. And so, with the wind whipping around me, I inched my way along the landing gear, eventually making my way back up into the steamworks room. Of coures I went straight back to the hanger to 'borrow' another ornithopter, as i had learned enough from the last flight to be able to control my flight much better. After a spectacular nosedive into the lake underneath the flying city, I swam my way to the shoreline. As there was none around, I shed my clothing and hung it to dry in a bush, and stretching out in the sun, allowed my fur to dry. I must have dozed at some point as I woke with a start to voices, it seems some men had been out hunting (luckily for me it wasn't for fox), and had come across my improvised camp. With their rude comments and catcalls ringing behind me (and i swear one of them smacked my behind as i passed them) I hurridly dressed myself and took my leave of the drunkards.
Eventually I followed the tracks to the Moorlands, where I came across some late nights sitting in an outside cafe of some sort . The Lady had left as I arrived, but the gentlemen, a Mr. Abel and Mr. Book, were some interesting conversationalists. We discussed the differance between a machine and a riding horse (though why Mr. Abel felt he had to remind me he was talking about horses when commenting on 'warm flesh and blood underneath me" I honestly have no idea.), my esperiances with flight, clubs, and Caledon in general. Sadly though, it was getting late, and we said our goodbyes as they went to their homes, and I procured lodging for the night.

Caldedon, my home away from home

2007-08-11T23:19:00.000-07:00

First day arriveing and i am impressed, it seems like a very nice country, with a good understanding of the aetheric sciences, and an acceptance of some of the...odder species such as myself.