Monday, January 08, 2007

What Did Chaz Do Now?!

So Elaur summons me to Saja and has this look on her face like, well, sorta like this:


Now, I'm busy fussing with something out of window and hardly take notice as E is staring up into the sky, gasping and pointing and running around in circles. I finally turn around to see what all the hubbub was about and WOAH what's THAT!?




What on earth did Chaz do now! That thing is huge! I stared up at it, gasped, pointed, and ran around in circles. We hopped on a boat to get a better look at the beast:


The detail on this thing is incredible. Look at the leaves!




Here's an aerial for you, taken above the fog. Take a look at the placement of those pods. Random, you say?


And wouldn't you know it, look who we bumped into!



'chickendance of glory!



Don't trip, Chaz, it's a long way down!


Now, of course, we tried to squeeze all the juicy information we could out of Chaz. His typical response was either a chicken dance or "la la la". He liked blaming El NiƱo as well.



Meret was able to squeeze some information out of him. The model for this beanstalk was, apparently, built by one Rich Larm years ago.


Ponder got him to admit that the beanstalk has been part of the client installation all this time! That's the reason why no new patch was required for it.

She also pulled one more interesting bit of information out of him. Was Chaz responding to Ponder's question, or to Chicken's? Take a look:


But Elaur got one of the best lines out of Chaz:


Now, when staying up until the sun begins to pop up over the horizon in the morning, some very strange things begin to happen. One might even call them hallucinations. Take, for instance, this unassuming pod that has been busy trying to grow itself into a beanstalk for two months now:


We now know it succeeded and several other pods can be seen near the beanstalk attempting to do the same thing:

But wait, did you look at the picture in the link Chaz gave us earlier? It's upside down! Chaz! What did you do! I saw him log in and out down below the beanstalk and so we went down to have a look at what he was doing. Suddenly, Elaur saw something move out of the corner of her eye. I turned in time to see the pods flip!

E and I were freaking out when we saw them flip in real time! It was so cool!


Later in the morning, everybody was so tired our vision blurred and we thought we saw an Evil Chaz appear for a few brief moments!


As the morning went on, things just got stranger and stranger. First, Chaz appeared to shave his facial hair:

Then, we thought we saw him turn into a newbie!


But that's just crazy. None of that really happened, of course; it was all just our imaginations. The new beanstalk, however, is very real. It's the first new landmark content to be added to There in a very long time! Yay for Chaz!!


Jon Quixote was There!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would like to climb a beanstalk if somebody would come with me. I don't want to face any giants all by myself. Especially if we end up in an alternate virtual world, like HERE.

Jon Quixote said...

How scary would that be! Gah! Gives me nightmares!!

But don't worry, we sent brave Chaz ahead to check for giants. We're still waiting for him to return, though. We're considering sending Emma up next to go find Chaz.