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OSOAWEEK
Ezine of Obliviana
Issue 228, 12/8/98
by Frank Edward Nora, Lord of Obliviana
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LORD OF OBLIVIANA
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12/14/98 now. I have a new idea, called "Ciffipur". It's an online fortune-telling game. My reasoning here is that since Obliviana, at its core, involves Wanderings, that I should start things off with an online Wandering, so that people can play Obliviana without having to leave their computer.

I'm still on schedule for the new Obliviana website to be online on 1/1/99--but it'll be pretty minimal at first.

The name "Ciffipur", by the way, comes from an Oblviana slogan I came up with earlier this year: "Clothing for your Presence". CFYPr. See?

Cool.

Get all Obliviana.

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LUCKY STORM
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Lucky Storm 228:

31

(Flip 9, Dire 12, Storm Pelter "Cornflower", Twahokum Stormpost 1)

Previously: 209: 27, 210: 126, 211: 20, 212: 140, 213: 170, 214: 175, 215: 177, 216: 83, 217: 111, 218: 77, 219: 119, 220: 100, 221: 128, 222:198, 223: 189, 224: 17, 225: 150, 226: 44, 227: 54

Note: The Lucky Storm is drawn randomly, using a deck of 30 cards (called a "Storm Codex"), one for each Flip and Dire.

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SONG OF THE WEEK
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Placebo, "Brick Shithouse"
(Album: "I'm Nothing Without You")

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CARNE'S MOISTURE DETECTION FRIEND
Episode Twenty
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CARNE: Today marks the third day that my Moisture Detection Friend is spending in an alternate reality with a bunch of kids who have a secret hideout in a quarry, under a big pile of rocks.

PACER: How'd he get over there?

CARNE: It's easier than you might think. Alternate realities are all over the place. You can walk to them, anytime. Just, normally your mind won't allow you to even consider going to the right places.

PACER: Yeah? So how do you actually go about doing it, then, my friend?

CARNE: Well, he's good friends with two fairies, and they lead him around. But I'm sure there'd have to be some other way of doing it. I mean, most people lose the ability to see fairies at about age six. And the memories are cloudy. Kids have a natural antagonism toward fairies, as evidenced by how few are led off to permanent lostness by them.

PACER: You're talking about fairies as if they're real. Why, man?

CARNE: Because they are!

PACER: And you, do you also have this ability to talk to fairies?

CARNE: I try to. And I think I've had some communication. But it's never very lucid or concrete.

PACER: They say that fairies and aliens are the same thing. Back in the old days, people felt they came from Fairyland, cuz that made sense back then. Now, the only uncharted territory people can conceive of is outer space. So they think the little fuckers are from outer space. People are dumb, man.

CARNE: Yeah, I know. But not all the fairies have flying saucers. The techno-fairies and the trad-fairies split a long time ago. And there a lot of other splits in the fairy world. I think, all-in-all, we're lucky not to have to deal with the fairies and all their problems. We have enough problems of our own.

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INFORMATION
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Obliviana Super Occult Amusement is at "www.obliviana.com"
Send all E-mail to "obliviana@aol.com"

OsoaWeek is copyright 1998 Frank Edward Nora, Lord of Obliviana. It may be copied for personal use only. No part of OsoaWeek may be published, either digitally or physically, without permission.

The Obliviana Mailing List is currently holding steady at 23 members.

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