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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: December 17, 2017

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CHRISTMAS TIME IN FED DATASPACE

by Hazed

Christmas will arrive in Fed DataSpace later this week, with Santa’s Grotto where the jolly fat man will dispense presents to the good boys and girls, Diesel offering her usual seasonal treats, snow and snowballs on the roof of Chez Diesel and the Mars hopper replaced by a snowy toboggan.

Here’s all the details of what’s happening. Watch the noticeboard to find out when it all goes live.

SANTA’S GROTTO

Santa’s grotto will be open for business 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 will be redecorating the bar and the roof garden of Chez Diesel on Mars, and will offer free food and drink to her customers.

She will also sell 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 will also replace 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 going to dump 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.

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