Follow the Wabbit: The Wabbit and his Adventure Caffè

Monday, February 01, 2016

The Wabbit and his Adventure Caffè

The Wabbit was late. It was a new caffè and he just couldn't find it. Wabsworth ushered him in. "We're in the back room, everything's laid out." Skratch the Cat waved his cat letters. "They fell off in the night!" Lapinette beckoned for a waiter to bring glue and pinned a flower behind her ear. "What was that for a sort of adventure, I really can't recall." Wabsworth was ready. "It was an oneiric adventure." The Wabbit nodded his head, swayed his ears and looked directly at Skratch. "Oneirics is your territory, feline one." Lapinette butted in. "One of us had a nightmare, because they felt they could not accomplish a task." She stared at the Wabbit but spoke to Wabsworth. "You don't dream of course, being an android." Wabsworth shuffled his feet. "I ... am able to create a trance-like episode that is dream proximal." He threw a meaningful glance at the Wabbit and got one back. Now Skratch became impatient. "A dream in a film moves the protagonists across suppressed or hidden boundaries." Lapinette said, "Ah." She tucked her legs under the bar stool and looked slowly around. At last her gaze fell on the Wabbit, "Sleeping well, Wabbit?" The Wabbit wore a deadpan expression. "Like a dog." His attempt at a diversion went nowhere. Lapinette's gaze kept travelling and settled on Wabsworth. "It's you. You tried to help the Wabbit sleep, by successful-ising his dreams." "If only I could," sighed Wabsworth. He laughed quietly to himself. "That would be a dream come true ..."
[Oneiric: pertaining to dreams]

A recent story. The Return of the Sea Phantoms.

The Wabbit begins the story by explaining about Torino. Next day, when he's out hopping with Lapinette, they pass a bookseller and he tells them to beware the Ides of March. The Wabbit dismisses the warning but when all the lights fail and sea phantoms appear, he's forced to pay attention.

The phantoms spot the Wabbit and Lapinette and ask "who goes there?" But they dive out of sight and follow the phantoms to the sea, where they meet Moloch on an outing. He isn't impressed with the monsters and starts a fight before running off.

By the docks, they watch as the phantoms prepare to board a freighter, but Moloch is unable to contain himself. He jumps out and claws a phantom to shreds. It re-assembles but draws away, saying "I'll be back."

The phantoms board the ship and disappear as it moves out to sea. The ship disappears too but, before it goes, it sounds two long blasts. The ship is underway ... with the phantoms on board. The Wabbit admits he should have been warned. But he speculates about what the phantoms portend ...

All about the Wabbit Adventures

Follow the Wabbit is a long running story blog now over 2000 episodes. Commander Wabbit is a Secret Agent loosely attached to the Department of Wabbit Affairs in Turin, Italy. He works with a team of amazing pals who are animals but also pirates, dragons and androids.

Each adventure is separated by an episode set in an Adventure Caffè. That's how you find an adventure in the archives. Use the search box to find Adventure or Caffè. Do cut and paste because of the Italian accent in Caffè. An exciting story has just ended ...and another is starting!

The Adventures are photo collage and text. But everything in the picture is a photograph. Characters and creatures are made from collage material of all sorts, then photographed and cut out. The background photograph is their stage and they are very particular about how it looks.

The Wabbit and Lovely Lapinette adventures are written by Coinneach Shanks. Photographs are by Coinneach Shanks unless otherwise attributed at the bottom of the page. Permissions for photo use may be granted on application and is available at low cost to autism charities and animal welfare organisations. Commander Wabbit himself may be reached at shanks.coinneach@gmail.com He's really most approachable and always looking for new ideas!

Coinneach Shanks

Attributions

The background graphics in ""The Wabbit takes a Quantum Leap" (24-11-11) and "The Wabbit takes the Scenic Route Home," (27-11-11) are courtesy of NASA and are understood to be images in the public domain.

The cover thumbnail in The Wabbit and the Secret Garden (07-12-11) is understood to be fairly used and may be purchased from.

http://www.amazon.com/Clink-Kelly-DiPucchio/dp/006192928X

The book thumbnail used as the Carrrot Museum poster in "The Wabbit and the Carrot Library (18-04-12) is "Carrrots, Plant Life Cycles" by Gail Saunders Smith. It is understood to be used fairly and may be purchased from Amazon Books.

Various very small items such as wine glasses are attributed to various Wikipedia contributors under the Creative Commons Licence 3.0 Share Alike. e.g. Aperol glasses 17-01-13

Acker Bilk by kind permission of FishNote (rights) http://paper.li/FishNoteOx/1348533301 Photo: Pier Corona

Background images of Vesta in the asteroid adventure, courtesy of NASA

Background images of earth in the Orange adventure, February-March, 2014 - courtesy of NASA

The Merlin helicopter and Type 45 Destroyer published in post 11th April 2014, is courtesy of the UK Ministry of Defence under the Open Government Licence. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/