CHRISTMAS IN FED DATASPACE
by Hazed
It's Christmaaaaaas! As a famous pop star bellowed at the start of one of my favorite seasonal songs (see the next article for details). In Fed DataSpace you will find a number of things to keep you occupied if you get bored with trading or building Blish cities.
Santa is in his gotto
Santa's grotto is open once again, on Earth, NW from the LP. You can go and sit on the old man's lap, get a candy cane if you've been nice (and coal if you haven't) and help yourself to a toy from the lucky dip tub. What will you get - a slinky? A doll? Whatever it is, it's sure to be fun. Just examine the thing to see how to get your toy.
You can talk to Santa, he's very chatty, but only with people sitting on his lap. Start with 'TELL SANTA HELLO' and see where the conversation takes you.
Outside of the grotto, Santa has parked his sleigh, and you can take a magical sleigh ride around the Solar System.
If you use FedTerm as your front-end you can download Santa's picture from the picture gallery. Save it into the pictures sub-folder of your FedTerm folder and then you can see what Santa looks like when you SpyNet Report him.
Christmas at Chez Diesel
Santa isn't the only one offering Christmas spirit this year. Diesel has redecorated the bar and the roof garden of Chez Diesel on Mars, and is offering free food and drink to her customers. And she's replaced the hopper that transports her customers between the bar and the spaceport with a toboggan.
And that's not all. As part of the decorations on her roof, she's dumped a whole load of snow up there, which means just one thing...
Snowball fight!
'GET SNOWBALL' does what you would expect, although you can only do this if you're not already carrying one. Then, of course, you can 'THROW SNOWBALL' which results in... well, you'll have to try it and see which of the various possible outcomes you get. (There are 12 in all - keep throwing till you see them all.)
Sounds like fun. Maybe I'll go over and give it a try before I go off on my winterval break.
Christmas charm
Diesel has also invited her old friend the craftsman back to the bar. This year he's set up a miniature glass blowing apparatus, and is making baubles to hang on your keyring. The baubles cost 1 slithy tove and you can get one with 'BUY BAUBLE' - then 'RUB BAUBLE CHARM' to see what it does.
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