Endtown by Aaron Neathery for March 25, 2014

So it is a still-life…

There may be more than the great waste – but it ain’t close.

Amesworth to Amesworth, dust to dustThe go-around concept seems a bustAt least they are focused outside of their clashesWe’d seen Jim and Sarah both acting like ashes=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books

weird. Post Amesworth rad exposure then. Maybe some kind of meteorological effect? Wind and rain caking the stuff up into shapes instead of eroding them down? Or some still unknown biological activity? Or, even seismic, wet dust churned up into static wave fronts and set into the shapes? Will we ever find out? Who will die? Who will survive? And what about Dobby? Stay tuned for the next exciting episode!

Maybe it ain’t the end of the world, but you can see it from here.

Maybe they are similar to sandstone? Seems like despite Jim’s habit of calling Wally cat, they are getting on quite well. I feel sorry for Jim because Sara just used him to get well. Now she is showing she doesn’t love him at all.

“Wait, I’ve just remembered I have some Elven rope, given to me by the Lady Galadriel of Lothlorien.”

Reminds me of “One Nation under a Groove”…"So high you can’t get over it, so low you can’t get under it!The heat and shockwaves created a wind from all the weapons blasts created a sort of “Amesworth Meringue”It’s radioactively delicious!In a transuranic sort of way…

Trapped, like rats!

I think Wally has the idea…FRAGILE?…maybe they can easily break their way through the stuff?

If that was anything natural, it would have started as hills and dynes first.

Where’s the food court?

Clive has a viewscreen? Transporter technology must have advanced since Petey was built. In those days the PTs didn’t have viewscreens and fed the video directly to the biosuits. If it wasn’t for Al’s Chi Pod, Petey’s airscout would have been useless.

Welcome to the Hotel Endtown…..you can drive about but you can never leave.

A hive construct of some kind maybe, like a termite nest or Sandking city.

This would be the time to fit a little Dozer Blade on Clive, use the airscout to pick a fairly straight and level path through the mess, and make your own road.

whiney voice This is what I get for living in Hawaii … it’s 6am here and all the GOOD comments are already taken! POUT

That’s a pretty clean edge…

They’re either meringue or marshmallow fluff. :O)

My guess is they need to go out and touch it……DITTOS have done their “works” before even fooling Al and Gustine to keep one from seeing what is real…..I am surprised no one suggested this.

If topsiders have satellites and our friends try breaking through, that is gonna leave a hell of a tell tale.

Maybe it is an artifacted barrier? APEX (and, presumably others) have demonstrated bulk nanite technologies that could be used to grind out extensive structures. Then there are possible “wild” nanites, not unlike the dittos. The overhead image suggest that it is a deliberate barrier in any case. But what kind of barrier against whom? I’m wondering that it might be a monster fence, depending on how hard and sharp the pointy bits are? If the pointy bits are exceptionally pointy, it may also serve as a anti-suit-wearing fence. Even if the suits are puncture proof (and I’m not convinced that they are “totally” safe) all those sharps would give a TSer pause.

@wereman – not only a clean edge, but it seems to be slightly curved … as if the area of flat dust is a huge circle? Centered on what, I wonder?