Saturday, August 16. 2008NEW COUNCIL MEMBERApparently the human world is getting reports on my family in real time via the medium of a webcomic, and I can’t even imagine how to approach that occurrence on a scientific basis. At any rate, I suppose you now know that Dad has been appointed to the Rabbit Council. Very big deal. It’s the absolute highest honor a rabbit can have. For you humans who might not be aware of our political structure, here in the United States of America we have a federal form of government. (We’re now in the middle of a Presidential election.) Beneath that are fifty state governments and under those are numerous counties and municipalities. Existing separately from those but still under their laws are the groups that have jurisdiction for each species. The Rabbit Council that Dad has been appointed to is responsible for all rabbit-related issues in the five-state region. They meet twice a month to rule on various matters. Appointment to this group is a mysterious process, but in Dad’s case it came about because Rudy posted on YouTube the video of Coney saving Gran last week. Their demand that Dad bring Coney to every meeting shows that they mainly want Coney there to protect them, and not for any input Dad might have toward the decision-making process. Nevertheless, Gran is inordinately proud. Because status is so important to her, it’s a dream come true. BTW, there was a hedgehog group but they never meet anymore. Too many quills were used in anger. In other news, we’re having a big worldwide athletic competition. It’s in China this time, but a few years ago it was held right here. Trackbacks
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Congrats to your dad! Of course, I don't get much rabbit news (they probably think that if we got any news about them, we'd use it against them when we're hungry, which I don't blame them for). I really hope that he uses his position, token as it is, to help change attitudes.
And yes, I remember the Olympics held around Domain (lions did really well, so ... Oh, yes. The wonderful Olympics. An event that has been in operation for so long, it would seem to predate civilization. Multiple events that show off the physical and special skills of each species. Competitors and spectators alike come from all over the globe to attend. All nations and species put their aggressions and instincts towards one another aside and come together in the spirit of good will and the challenge of the many games.
The underbelly side is that off the track, heavy security is often required as cultural and species differences too often lead to vicious spats. But, far more often then not, on the field, they leave all that behind for the challenge of the competition. Once the clothes come off out there, they only have the sport in mind. > has been in operation for so long, it would seem to predate civilization.
jup, I'm almost certain they are. From what I know, I heard that the ancient Games were performed "without clothing", this makes me think of the Wild and those that aren't "civilized", so it probably does predate civilization. Yes we saw that, a fun reaction he had when Rudy told him that he where invited.
And there´s this big sport event in china in our world as well. What are the compeditors from Sweden in your side like? Wonder, lives in Sweden on the human side. Sweden does better in the Winter Olympics than in the Summer Games that are being held now. They do very well in snow skiing; it's exciting to watch the moose and elk competitors avoid getting their antlers tangled in the slalom gates.
I am a game developer living in Hawaii and used to live in Atlanta, apparently the equivalent city for Domain. Unfortunately.. Atlanta didn't handle things all that well when we got the Olympics. Things were privately funded... and they choose a really -weird- mascot, Izzy. Hopefully Domain chose a better mascot!
I've been following the Olympics quite closely, and I can't wait to hear how they turn out. My husband tells me frequently on how their doing. It's nice to finally have your real input on everything, or rather, being able to have your response to us.
Unfortunately, I'm not able to read this web comic that mirrors your life, Lindesfarne; but once more, my husband tells me everything that he sees. =D I'm also in the same boat as you, although my wedding is so much closer. I still hate that although I'm a mole, they believe that colors don't matter to me! Have you had any problems with Fenton's family in that matter? Wanting to pick high-contrast colors, or anything in the color range? His family (they are canines, specifically red coonhounds and I'm a North American Mole, adopted into a family of hedgehogs.) and my family are battling it out against each other. It's so bothersome, I mean, I normally couldn't give two worries over colors and such, but I do have limited vision! They seem to forget I can see some things....I wonder if Fenton has encountered anything of that nature? I don't know just how bad bat's vision is compared to moles. Well, good luck on your Father's acsent to the Rabbit Council, it's wonderful to hear that your Gran was not harmed in any way; and hope your schoolwork is still going good for you. -- Renee Duggin In reference to your political system, other then the separate species groups, (No need for them here, really) we have the same form of government. In some areas, it's rather dull, but in others... whew. Not really my forte.
As for the Olympics, a few years back, I do believe that there WAS something about various Olympic events. They were mainly framed through your family watching them, I believe. "For you humans who might not be aware of our political structure, here in the United States of America we have a federal form of government. (We’re now in the middle of a Presidential election.) Beneath that are fifty state governments and under those are numerous counties and municipalities."
That much applies to this world's USA as well. Once you get into species separation, tho, the parallels end. I wonder if the RC will listen to your dad at all. They might fake it or openly tune him out. Well, if that happens, I'm sure he'll find a dramatic/comedic way to grab their undivided attention. Actually, I kinda hope that happens. It should be interesting. Congrats on your upcoming wedding, Renee. In the case of Fenton's parents, they're worried about Kell's colorblindness causing clashing colors to be chosen...Not because they could see them themselves but how it would look to others. Gran isn't the only one who worries about what others think!
We've got the Summer Olympics running here as well. Phelps just won his 8th gold medal with the help of his relay team. It's totally awesome!
Has there been the same debate about Phelps' diet as there has been over here? On a regular basis he eats considerably more in one meal than most humans eat in a day, and I can imagine quite a debate occuring in a world where diet is a major part of society.
i realy hevent been payin atencion on the Olympics leatly so i realy dont know whats been hapening
and I realized some thing abot two weeks ago, sins you live in america and i live in finland almost on the other side of the world and shins the time is the same in boath world and your nocturnal then that means that we are awake at the same time in theory at least its an iteresting but mostly useles information. p,s dont be suprised if thers some typos in my text. Just out of curiosity, have you told anyone else of your friends and family that you now have contact with the/a human world?
Not only do we know he's on the council, we also know he and Coney are the only two not wreathed in shadow. (It's strange what gets through on the webcomic link; incidentally, if you get a computer set up with its default gateway being a machine on this side of the portal rather than that, and find an IP address not already in use on this end, then you'll find the webcomic on www.kevinandkell.com (should be an easy enough address to remember. Incidentally, I'm curious - is there a Domain equivalent of that site, and if so, what's on it?))
I have my theories as to why he did that, but I admit that I'm a little curious - is Coney going to protect the rabbit council - or eat them? I mean, most of them aren't her family... Congrats on your fathers successful apointment... if you are ever in need of a body guard just contact me. My current job isn't very entertaining anyhow.
I've told the family and the Hare Link staff about this communication with the human world, and everyone has advised to proceed with caution. Of course, several individuals that post here are also on my side of the portal, so I would encourage everyone to be quiet about it in order to prevent instinct loss from spreading. In the meantime, I'll just treat this as a public forum.
I checked out this "kevinandkell.com" URL that was mentioned and found it wasn't taken. I went ahead and registered it myself. The Rabbit Council does expect Coney to protect them from predators. Whether she does or not might depend on how she perceives Dad is being treated by them. Congrats on your father's council seat.
Of our Olympics, there was a cartoon showing gold medalist Michael Phelps having apparently beaten a dolphin and a shark at a swimming race, "Okay, this is getting humiliating!" Not sure what Domain would think of that As for instinct loss, well, I haven't noticed any instinct gain over here. What a coincidence...on OUR side, he really DID beat a dolphin and a shark!
Wait a minute...Do you suppose that the success of certain human Olympians is partly the result of their gaining non-human instincts from this side? Just a theory!
Actually, I'm kinda wondering if, perhaps, Mr. Phelps might be a sea creature (Dolphin? Shark? From accounts of his diet, I'm betting the latter...) from our side who went through a portal and became a human.
This recording will self-destruct in 5 seconds... Naw- Phelps is probably a Swordfish- they're supposed to be really fast- and if he was a (Domain-side) predator, wouldn't he (in theory) try to eat the other contestants?
Not necessarily. From what I understand about the "human" side, humans eating humans is a rather unusual occurrence -- limited mainly to isolated areas equivalent to their version of "The Wild". My guess is that he has simply adapted his appetites to foods "acceptable" to local conditions and mores.
i dont know its mightbe possible maybe
just remember everythings possible but some things are more unlikely then others. It's possible... a few years ago the traffic around bermuda went up by some 20% due to rumors of a strange anomaly.
Speaking of these anomalies I've recently taken a look into them with my friend Chomp. He believes he may have located an area in the Himalaias. He also believes that some of thies "Gateways" may appear and disappear from time to time. I know during my old smuggling days in Indonesia I would hear stories from fellow smugglers, Traders, and Pirates who had "Seen" things. I personally had an experience like this during the Marian storm in April 1991, off Western Australia. Right when the storm hit it's peak several of my compasses and wind gages started to go psycho on me. I'm not sure if Chomp is right or not. What do you think? I've got some mixed news to report on the portal in the Antartic.
We were successful in getting the equipment smuggled there. It took awhile. The effort was indeed grand. We chose to build a remote bot to lower into the portal. This was decided, as there were complaints of a strong smell of ammonia in the air. The bot was successful in operating on the other side and relaying information through the portal. Sadly, it was not the Human world. At least from what has been gathered through this communication blog, the Human world should not have ground made up of rosin. Nor, should the atmosphere consist of 89 percent acidic compounds. Pictures showed a world of fire and brimstone. The bot could find no signs of internet transmissions. Then again, it had about four minutes of active running time. Diagnostic reports warned of circuit failure risk. Then, silence. We've covered up the portal and placed warning flags around the area. After all, if an atmosphere like that were to containinate our world, it might prove highly disasterous. The Underground will continue to seek out other potential portals. I can't help but wonder just how many of them truly exist, either stable or trans-locatable like. The truly odd thing is that early reports said there were signs of transmissions leaking through that very portal. If transmissions are leaking from portals then that means anyone could get hold of them... If I tell Chomp about this he may want to build a device to pick up such transmissions. I'm certen somewhere someone is setting up somthing to prevent such transmissions from being made public.
Now when you said that you had some equipment smuggled there does that mean that you have "Contacts" within the Far East Union or was this by you own ways. While you might be willing to call them "Contacts", the Underground is a bit less organized then that. We're a bunch of like minded species, working together with what we got. Some are very smart. A few have funds. Others have hobbies that are useful. So, one can imagine what a true effort it takes for one with the mind to design and build a bot that another funds the building to. Then, gets a third with a private aircraft to journey half way around the globe, relay with a fourth on a boat to reach Antartica and hand off the bot to the fifth...party to reach the portal and lower the bot in. We are talking the attempt at making a stable connection that the birds wouldn't be as able to disconnect, here. Ranks up there with making trips to the moon and beyond, it does.
I am so glad that Miss Dewclaw has succeeded in keeping a line open for this long. It either means the birds have yet to discover these communications, or a means to jam it. Got to remember that when they communicate, they still choose to yell and sing at the top of their lungs. So, I am counting on them not yet knowing about this.
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jup-reindeer
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2008-08-19 08:17
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As am I. If you are in need of any assistance I could try contacting a few members of the FEU, but I haven't spoken to them in so long, and chances are few of them will even wish to speak to me. (Seeing as several of the lead smugglers want me dead for the incident in Haikou with the... well lets just say the incident in Haikou with the "Thing" from the GBC.
In other news I can't believe that china has the most gold medals at the Olympics. My god if they defeat the United states in basket ball I'll.... I'll... Well I'll most likely get drunk and yell at Bruce the bartender for most of the night!
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Reptileus Concarna
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2008-08-19 15:53
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The Underground will be very thankful for your offer of support. Just remember that we have never been ready to go out and be a "real" force. Keeping our heads out of sight and our ears listening is what we do best.
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jup-reindeer
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2008-08-19 18:10
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I too might be able to offer some help. I've been charting the portals from my side. Granted, "my side" changes rather often, because I tend to go exploring, but I should be able to provide you with the locations of a few portals in the Human world, and you can see if they lead any where on your side. Not all of these lead to inhabitable worlds though, and not all of 'em lead to places you'd want to go, even if it is inhabitable.
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Nifar
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2008-08-19 23:15
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Well what ever happens next we should plan our own moves quietly and alongside one another. We would want an incident where one of us plans something and it counter acts another operations.
Also I've been reading the news recently and hear reports of a Opossum teen going missing in northern Georgia around late July. All they found was his clothes indicating he had gone into the wild, but later reports notice several tree's having been slightly burn. Chomp thinks that scorch marks could be a sign of "Random vortexes. What do you all think of this?
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Reptileus Concarna
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2008-08-20 14:09
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Chances are that a good sized chunk of the trees would be missing, as well as his clothes, but it's possible. I'd rather not think of the alternatives, because I've visited your 'Wild' before, and it's not a safe place for herbivores.
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2008-08-20 21:10
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There was one other thing. His rubber sleeping bag was also nowhere to be found. Apparently he took it with him because he's known for wetting his bed.
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Reptileus Concarna
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2008-08-21 11:54
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I already pointed that out. I did develop a taste for fried tarantulas during my time spent as a hedgehog, so it wasn't that bad.
"Apparently the human world is getting reports on my family in real time via the medium of a webcomic, and I can’t even imagine how to approach that occurrence on a scientific basis." Not just the human world, there are and infinite number of worlds out there, and any of them that connect to yours or ours, and have internet, can theoretically read this. Not everything can be proven scientifically either. Once you go inter-dimensional, you cross into "Here be dragons" territory, only sometimes there are dragons, and magic. Granted, you might be able to scientifically explain those, but there are things unable to be touched by science. Tell me, do you have Lovecraft's works over there? If so, have you read any? How would you react if I told you that somewhere out there, it's all true? I find it somewhat interesting that, aside from some obvious comments, it can be hard to tell from which side of the portal some comments are made. What do you folks think?
Perhaps, our two...or three...or...however many Universes are actually tuned in out there...really are not so different, after all. OK. So, I have learned that in the Human world, some things play out a bit different. But, my thinking is that is just a background situation and species thing. Multiple sentient species interact with one another in a complex manor. One poster noted that in the Human world, there were animals. But, they seemed to have little sentience to to them. If the Human world only has sentient Humans, perhaps this limits what can happen. I am curious, though, as to the idea if any Humans are even trying to find out if the animals can think and/or speak. In our world, there was some sort of formula that brought forth intelligence in plants. When I think about that next leaf or shoot of grass that I'm about to bite into, I get a bit of a concern if the owner is going to scream at me. It was far easier when plants were just seen as a thing without any intelligence, I tell ya. Thank civilization for having fresh food in a bowl. Salad is the most wonderful idea. Just tear away the take out menu's section for meat additives. Oh, the nightmares. I...must get going, now...
Actually, there have been some attempts to communicate with them. Some what we call the "great apes" can communicate in sign language to a limited extent (not sure how that would translate, what with animal languages being present, but some of us have learned to use our hands to communicate with those of us who can't hear.) There have also been attempts to decipher dolphin languages, although I'm not really sure how far that's gotten.
We generally don't eat apes, sufficed to say, and eating dolphins is frowned upon by some. As far as I know, the only true extra-dimensional contact is with Lindesferne. These others are probably posers.
Might I also say congratulations on your father's council seat, it must be making everyone in your family very proud.
Well, Being an 'Olympian' is basically like being 'best in the field of sport' so with Michael Phelps's gaining of his eight gold medals might have something to do with gaining instinct. The only thing that I myself have noticed with regards to the instinct issue is that I now can 'sense' when it's going to rain, although that might be part of common sense whenever I see Dark clouds and certain types of cloud formation. Not to get off the current topics today, but do you have a women's singing "group" from the British isles called "Celtic Woman"? They've been very popular around here, especially on Public TV. One of their recent albums included a song called "Walking in the Air" -- which to me needs to be subtitled "Lindesfarne's Song". Basically it's about you and Fenton flying around. (We've got a site called LyricWiki.Com that has the lyrics -- perhaps you do too.) Take a look and see if you agree, and then get the song.
I love that group of singers! Here, they're a flock of songbirds. See if this link works for you on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPeVIuRjUi4 Walking in the Air, BTW, is from an animated show called The Snowman. I was fascinated by it when I was little, without knowing how much it would influence my future. That's a good point made by Patch O'Black; why don't we identity our posts by which side of the portal they're from? That one works fine here -- however, this one is of the actual song I mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl-iM8kpiuE -- the singer Chloe Agnew is quite good. (I also caught the one from The Snowman too.)
If you ever do impromptu video of you and Fenton flying around, you could set it to this music. (It could happen....) Oooh, so many comments and questions!:
1. I like the theory of athletes gaining bits of animal instinct! Michael Phelps has been called "the Human Dolphin" many times, and I regularly hear of sprinters referred to as gazelles, or jackrabbits. 2. Our Presidential election is currently between John McCain, and Barak Obama, who had a pretty big fight for his party's nomination with Hillary Clinton. Any similarities on your side? 3. Someone mentioned a British music group. Here we had an incredible group called The Beatles. Did your side have such a group? (your parents might be more familiar with them) If so, were they . . . beetles? 4. You father's sitting with the rabbit council reminded me partly of an anime called Evangelion, and their SEELE council. Have you seen Evangelion, or at least your side's equivalent? It's a pretty intense show, and can be love-it-or-hate-it, but is quite a ride if you can make it all the way through! Here, Obama is a gazelle, and McCain is a porcupine. Despite my fondness for quilled species, though, I'm voting for Obama. I'd really like for this not to become a political blog, however.
As for the Beatles (and yes, they were beetles), I mentioned last year how much I liked the movie Across the Universe. (I may be in the minority on that one.) I've seen Evangelion, which is okay but not really my taste. You've seen Evangelion? Just out of curiousity, what kind of species are the pilots (yes, I'm a human)?
Hello again, Lindesfarne.
As much as I hate to shoot down discussion, I must point out that instinct gain would be unlikely to cause any noticeable difference in athletic performance as related to most sports. Instincts here are not going to make you run or swim faster, or lift more weight. They may help in events where reaction time is a major factor. Any athlete at the Olympic level has undergone so much specialized training that it would take years of exposure to the other world or a major imbalance for gained instincts to make more than a token difference in performance. Diet may be a more discussion-worthy topic, but it is not one I will be joining. See you next week. Lindsfarne,
I'm late in adding my own comments on how wonderful it is that you've found a way of opening up the portal between our worlds a bit more. It's been amazing hearing about how so many events in your world have a parallel in ours, right up to your Presidential candidates having the same names as the candidates in our world. One of the things I got a kick out of was that your world also had a group called The Beatles, and that they were real beetles. By any chance did your world also have a group called The Monkees? I expect it was, of course, made up of four monkeys. My last question for this week, I was curious if there might be a web comic in your world about a family named DuBois? All the best and have a good week, Dave This is my final message for the week, so I'll answer as many questions as I can before shutting down until next Sunday.
Yes, there was a group in the 1960s made of four chimpanzees called The Monkees. They were apparently a Guilty Pleasure, according to Elanor. I'm not familiar with any webcomics featuring a family called Dubois. (That's Rudy's department.) I assume you have a theory that it's our world's equivalent of Dewclaw? In our Evangelion the pilots are birds. See you next week with news about Dad and the Rabbit Council! Now there's a scary thought...if the Rabbit Council ever finds out about this "link" and that it goes both between worlds AND leaks to different parts of Domain...well, you can imagine what they'd do. I'd really hate to see it shut down; cat that I am, it's a great way to satisfy my curiosity about how other species live.
Like Ken D. Lion, I can understand that the Rabbit Council would be afraid that news of their votes and secret plans and other sensitive information would leak through to predators and leave them vulnerable. The thing is, security is never airtight anyway; it's probably more a matter of whether a predator actually cares enough to go to the effort of finding a way in...and then once in, will they really take advantage of what they discover? That's hard to say. Some of us get stupid when we get hungry (which is why those hunting classes are SO important; training takes over if you can't think clearly!). I'd like to think the net effect will be for everyone to see what we have in common and learn to appreciate our differences. But what does that leave us to eat? LOL! Well... you could always be selective about who to look for things in common with.
Ha! True enough. I guess that belongs on the list along with the first rule of hunting: "Never talk to your prey."
please don't remind me of the rule... till this day the end result is me turning into an omnivore. I mean who ever heard of a Komodo Dragon being an Omnivore. We have poisonous spit for crying out load! we have Carnivore written all over us!
Awww....and who ever heard of a hedgehog flying or a male lion hunting?
Don't worry, I won't compare you to a bear. I promise. Thank you very much.
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Reptileus Concarna
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