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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: December 18, 2016

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IT’S A VERY FEDDY CHRISTMAS

by Hazed

Christmas has arrived in Fed DataSpace! Santa’s grotto is back, with the jolly fat man dispensing presents to the good boys and girls, Diesel is offering some treats, and Antonia Gallagher has come out of hibernation to put a new charm on sale.

Here’s all the details of what’s happening.

SANTA’S GROTTO OPEN FOR BUSINESS

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 ‘PUT HAND INTO TUB’, then check your inventory to find out what toy you have ended up with. You can then ‘USE’ the toy to provide fun and games for you and anyone else in the vicinity.

You can talk to Santa, he’s very chatty, but only with people sitting on his lap – ‘SIT ON SANTA’S 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 ‘ENTER SLEIGH’.

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.

DIESEL’S SNOWY FUN

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.

She’s also giving plum puddings to all her customers – ‘BUY PLUM PUDDING’ to get one (it costs 5 groats). If you’re lucky, you’ll find a silver groat inside.

Diesel has also replaced the hopper that transports her customers between the bar and the spaceport with a toboggan. Wheeeee!

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, if a little cold.

ANTONIA GALLAGHER STIRS HERSELF AGAIN WITH A NEW CHRISTMAS CHARM

Antonia (formerly Anton) Gallagher has been enjoying her new life as a glamorous young shop owner, following the change she underwent last Christmas. She’s not had any inclination to do the work required to produce a new charm since then – until now.

It being Christmas, she’s decided to step up to the mark and put a Christmas tree charm on sale. For some reason she didn’t launch it with a big press conference, nor did she demonstrate it to the media. So I can’t tell you anything about what it does, but I am sure it was made to the usual high quality that Gallaghers always displays.

As usual, the charm costs one slithy tove, and it’s available to anybody who owns the TenBrane keyring from which these charms can be dangled. Buy it with ‘BUY CHRISTMAS TREE’ and then once you own it, use ‘SHAKE CHRISTMAS TREE CHARM’ to see what happens.

If you ‘CLIP CHRISTMAS TREE CHARM’ that attaches it to your keyring, so that anybody who looks at you will be able to see it. Why not show off your bling!

The previous charm, a Christmas torch charm, has now officially been taken off the shelves and is no longer available. But unofficially, we know that the venal assistant always keeps a supply hidden under the counter and is always prepared to sell it to those who missed it when it was legally on sale, at double the price. Just ‘BUY CHRISTMAS TORCH’ to get it.

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