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taxonomites2012-07-29 04:12 pm
theextras) wrote in taxonomites2012-07-29 04:12 pm
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[Visual] / [Location | Bronte Beach]
There's a new arrival at Bronte Beach, helpfully broadcast via the tablet as it sails into port. Not a new arrival in the sense of "new person with a bracelet and a lot of hysterical questions," but a definite addition to the scenery.
Some of you definitely remember it, since you were stuck on it for ten days! Dang, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
The HMS Taxon floats next to a newly-appeared dock, securely moored. There is no sign of the damage sustained in the fight with the kraken or in the storm. The ship is in fine form, all the brass polished, the wood gleaming, and a gangplank decorated with streamers leads up to the deck.
Those of the Taxon citizenry who are willing to investigate their erstwhile floating prison will find that the belowdecks space seems to be an impromptu museum to your maritime odyssey.
There are oversized Polaroid images framed and hanging on all the interior hulls: images of the Taxon citizens lounging around on deck, seeking shelter from the sun, getting sunburned, examining their horrible pirate costumes, eating ship's biscuits and drinking from steins of grog. There's action shots too-- a whole wall of them-- the battle against the kraken is captured in exciting detail from a hundred angles, many of them aerial. The wreck of the ship and the various escapades fleeing said ship are also preserved for posterity-- every ungraceful jump, every bellyflop into the surf. Then the pictures of the island itself: a tropical paradise, grottos and white beaches, at least until the pygmy hamsters start showing up. The photo montage ends with shots from the Taxon party boat that become increasingly crooked, as if the unseen photographer were getting steadily sauced on Tiki Punch.
The 'photographer' seems to have had a special gift for managing to capture even heroic moments in those particular moments of 'derp face' that do seem to result. None of the photographs are terribly flattering.
In the center of the belowdecks space is a great honking big gold statue of a pygmy war-hamster, clutching a spear and waving a shield. The base of the statue is inscribed with the names of all the Taxonians who sailed the seven seas, and the inscription: IN MEMORY OF THE EXCITING PROWESS DISPLAYED BY TAXON'S CITIZENS ABOARD THE HMS TAXON AND THE ISLAND ST. TAXONOMEW.
Some of you definitely remember it, since you were stuck on it for ten days! Dang, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
The HMS Taxon floats next to a newly-appeared dock, securely moored. There is no sign of the damage sustained in the fight with the kraken or in the storm. The ship is in fine form, all the brass polished, the wood gleaming, and a gangplank decorated with streamers leads up to the deck.
Those of the Taxon citizenry who are willing to investigate their erstwhile floating prison will find that the belowdecks space seems to be an impromptu museum to your maritime odyssey.
There are oversized Polaroid images framed and hanging on all the interior hulls: images of the Taxon citizens lounging around on deck, seeking shelter from the sun, getting sunburned, examining their horrible pirate costumes, eating ship's biscuits and drinking from steins of grog. There's action shots too-- a whole wall of them-- the battle against the kraken is captured in exciting detail from a hundred angles, many of them aerial. The wreck of the ship and the various escapades fleeing said ship are also preserved for posterity-- every ungraceful jump, every bellyflop into the surf. Then the pictures of the island itself: a tropical paradise, grottos and white beaches, at least until the pygmy hamsters start showing up. The photo montage ends with shots from the Taxon party boat that become increasingly crooked, as if the unseen photographer were getting steadily sauced on Tiki Punch.
The 'photographer' seems to have had a special gift for managing to capture even heroic moments in those particular moments of 'derp face' that do seem to result. None of the photographs are terribly flattering.
In the center of the belowdecks space is a great honking big gold statue of a pygmy war-hamster, clutching a spear and waving a shield. The base of the statue is inscribed with the names of all the Taxonians who sailed the seven seas, and the inscription: IN MEMORY OF THE EXCITING PROWESS DISPLAYED BY TAXON'S CITIZENS ABOARD THE HMS TAXON AND THE ISLAND ST. TAXONOMEW.