Follow the Wabbit: 3. The Wabbit and the Snooker Planets

Monday, March 13, 2017

3. The Wabbit and the Snooker Planets

Captain Jenny signalled the engine room and the Lepus stood still. The Wabbit felt the faint hum of auxiliary engines to be reassuring - although his heart was pounding. "There they are," he murmured; "Just where the map said." The Lepus swung in a distant orbit round an angry sun. Lapinette touched his shoulder. "They remind me of something." "Pool," said Jenny. The Wabbit shook his head. "Snooker." Jenny and Lapinette had a confab. "What colour has the most points?" "Black, seven" shrugged the Wabbit; "Black, pink, blue, brown, green, yellow, red." "How would you play this one?" asked Lapinette. "We need a break off," answered the Wabbit; "to get everything rolling." Jenny whirled the ship's wheel, which was only for effect. "Send out your Cailleach to stir them up, Commander." The Wabbit wasted no time and a giant Cailleach appeared close to the planets. A loud complaint issued immediately from the engine room. "Ye canna have holographics for long, Commander. It's braw but it's hard on fuel." "Look. Something happened," said Lapinette, She pointed to the Green Planet. "Magnify on screen!" shouted the Wabbit. The Green Planet repeatedly became bigger, then smaller. It seemed like it was breathing. "Looks like our kind of planet," said Lapinette; "but how much is it worth?" "Three," sighed the Wabbit.
[Background: NASA/JPL-Caltech under Creative Commons Licence]

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/