The Villain Revealed
Monday, July 21st, 2008The plan worked! Unfortunately, the last image of the sequence reveals that the Tinkerer—or, as I shall call him henceforth by his true identity, Doctor M__ K___, a noted entomologist and amateur horologist—became aware of my spy and attempted to destroy it. The katydid returned to its point of release quite damaged, and I’m afraid […]
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Posted in The Case of the Clockwork Insects | Comments Off on The Villain Revealed>A Plan Is Hatched
Monday, July 21st, 2008After many sleepless nights pondering my dilemma, I struck upon a solution so clear and true that that I was shocked at how long it took me to come to the idea. My philosophy of naturalism dictates that I do not interfere with the clockwork insects, as they have become, in a way, part of […]
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Posted in no-photo, The Case of the Clockwork Insects | Comments Off on A Plan Is Hatched>Another Clockwork Curiosity
Monday, July 21st, 2008My fears are confirmed. Other species of insect have been enhanced with clockwork innards. I discovered this lady bug showing its modifications in a patch of flowers in one of the more civilized pockets of the Park. Its clockwork pieces have transformed it into a faery-devouring apparatus. I observed it chew up grazing aphid-analogues at […]
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Posted in The Case of the Clockwork Insects | Comments Off on Another Clockwork Curiosity>The Clockwork Spider
Monday, July 21st, 2008Someone in this City is working an unsavory science. While searching for my little invader, I instead discovered this vicious creature in the tall grass of the Broad Meadow. Tiny biting gnat pixies flew in a cloud around me as I crawled along the ground searching. I heard a tinny snapping sound, and suddenly, the […]
Tags: clockwork, gears, photonic capture, spider
Posted in The Case of the Clockwork Insects | Comments Off on The Clockwork Spider>An Unusual Mycoid
Monday, July 21st, 2008I am not unaccustomed to my subjects inspecting me in turn as I make my captures, but not by eyeballs growing from the pileus, or cap, of a mushroom. It is these kinds of discoveries that led me to the City Park and its unique ecology. The eye appeared to be functional, tracking me with […]
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