Far Beyond The Black Horizon: Episode 8 – Flight Of The Dodos

27 March, 2020

Episode 8 – Flight Of The Dodos

‘When you wish upon a star … ‘

There’s one wish I have, and that’s an end to all the wasps.

To get the extra branches to replace the broken flimsy tools, I have to shake the trees.

There are never enough windfall branches, and with Renée and Lyman also gathering them to replace their own tools, it’s the only way to keep the momentum.

The danger is dropping at least two wasp nests during my tree shakedowns.

Unless I manage to run indoors quick enough, they get me every time. Every attempt to get them with the net failed. Wasps are evil nazi scum.

The final straw was the tarantula was wandering nearby during one attack.

The moment the wasps had finished stinging me, it gave the coup de grace (as I was holding the net) – right after I’d wasted a medicine (Renée gave me the recipe) to stop myself passing out and being sent back to base.

If they’re going to tag team, time to get rough.

Note of future plan – all non-fruit producing trees to be cut down and replaced with fruit ones. Wasps nests never fall from fruit trees bearing fruit.

I’m on the property ladder again. I’m in the debt cycle again.

I need a break.

I need my head examined.

Not as much as Orville of Dodo Airlines – who forgets what he told you a second earlier.

A Mystery Tour. Isn’t being stuck on one uncharted island enough?

Sounds legit.

Why do I get the feeling this Wilbur takes passengers to islands without their owner’s permission to do the seaplane equivalent of a viking raid?

Ten seconds later …

I am getting really pissed off with those little skeets.

You, meanwhile, need sectioned.

Later it struck me.

This dude’s changing his call sign’s continuously over the same flight!

Is this all some sort of hard drugs courier operation masquerading as a short haul flight operator between inhospitable islands?

Back on Dalby, the Nooks got me roped into their scheme to build a proper shop instead of Timmy’s jumped up street trader operation good only for selling.

The old routines still work – dig a hole behind and to either side of the rock you want to strike with your spade, push forward towards the rock and hit seven times.

This way you get the maximum amount of materials without losing any from delaying rock strikes.

Even a millisecond’s pause between blows is the difference between another piece of material and no more from it until reset time (sometime very, very early in the morning when you should be sleeping – unless your name is Switch/Cloverstardropper).