Turns of AXT029 game, second thread

[Googlie]

2142 to Misotu

[Misotu]

2142 to RedFred.

[RedFred]

Glorious day in Vancouver! Upper teens and that odd big yellow thing came out again. Shorts and t-shirt weather for the first time this year.

2143 to Alinestra.

[Alinestra Covelia]

British meteorologists were at a loss to explain the unusual phenomenon of the past few weeks to a bewildered and concerned public. The appearance of a heretofore unidentified astronomical body early in the day, and its slow but fixed course across the sky to a disappearance in the west later, has baffled Oxford's top astronomers.

"It resembles nothing so much as a slowly-moving red or yellow disc," comments Dr Burbblechuff Tutu, head of Post-Natal Studies at Morose College, Oxford. "We have detected strong emanations of infrared and xray radiation from this heavenly body, and caution all members of the public against going out without adequate protection."

Spectrometers have picked up increased amounts of light, heat, and biome growth during the visible hours of this circling object. Reports of the object closely match a similar report made by London residents during the summer of 1766, known for its celestial disturbances.

MY 2001. Sol has reached perihelion. Turn turned to Googlie.

[Googlie]

2143 to Misotu

[RedFred]

Average annual rainfall in millimeters for London: 593
Average annual rainfall in millimeters for Vancouver: 1458

Whaa...? Are you claiming a lack of sun in London, Alinestra?! I figure that London must be a veritable desert. No doubt you have to keep an eye out for those pesky rattlesnakes and scorpions. Be sure to keep your canteen handy so you don't get dehydrated. Those of us out here can only dream of dodging the tumbleweeds in London.

Except for Googlie who has migrated south this winter.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Hey, just because we have less rain doesn't mean we get less them pesky darn cloud thangs *spits tobacco and adjusts umbrella*

And although the weather in London is very nice at present (or so I'm told) the weather in Durham - that hilltop fortress Mecca of the North - is usually much more Gothic.

[Misotu]

Well, currently my yard is 18 inches deep in snow, and there's MORE of the damn stuff falling. I like snow. For a couple of days, moderate amounts, and then a thaw and some nice rain.

Am moving house - back on the internet in my new place but turns may be delayed for another week or so. Apologies.

2143 off to RedFred.

[RedFred]

Gothic, Alinestra? Interesting adjective. I guess you could describe Vancouver's weather as biblical. I'm thinking of ol' Noah and the Flood.

Actually, I shouldn't complain about living here. It is only the months with "r"s in them that are normally damp. And there are advantages to setting up base on a rainy, nutrient bonus tile. A yummy fungus outbreak occurs reliably in the spring and fall.

But the skiing high up in the mountains has been terrible this year. Misotu and the rest of north eastern North America have stolen our snow.

On to Alinestra.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Turn on to Googlie.

Dissertation 1st draft complete. Alinestra very tired.

[Googlie]

2144 to Misotu

[Misotu]

2144 back to RedFred.

[RedFred]

2145 to Alinestra.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Turn 2145 sent to Googlie

[Misotu]

2145 to RedFred.