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Indigo Park

Monitored by: Live-Kluns & Mr. Kluns

Horribly basic expedition.

If it wasn't the abandoned Disneyland (complete with a statue of its founder and the mascot), then the ravenous monsters of those mascots sealed the deal under a fine hot wax. Mr. Kluns had already complained about the similarities, but I preferred to keep my mouth shut and quietly observed if his automatic thinking proved correct.

Dangerous living mascots created under greedy intentions, who else hasn't heard the story at this point? Mr., .exe and I have seen many cases of this throughout these many trips through the mass subconscious, the only difference being the mascots. This time it's a different group of woodland creatures. Not mice, but raccoons now. No clumsy dogs, but clumsy macaws. Seems Rambley the Raccoon likes trains--another connection back to Walt Disney.

Speaking of rambling, Mr. Kluns had taught me a lot about character design while wandering around the vacant plot of rented land. I'd definitely agree some of these characters would not logically exist back in the early days of animation. When easy designs yielded easy profits. When going double digits in a color scheme proved too wasteful. He used himself as an example a lot, though I personally doubt he would actually appear back in that era.

The Rambley AI, as I've seen advertised, didn't activate throughout our trek. Perhaps we didn't activate an event flag? Jokings aside, it kept us focused--you know how we get when we're directed to be recommended something, Goddess.

Interior searches were eventful as that's where most of the living mascots were sheltered. Typical feral behavior; a vain attempt at intimidation, a fear when they're met with greater power. It makes you wonder how they were ever able to entertain guests all day. It... also makes you wonder how they've stayed alive for 8 years without any source of clean food or water--they can bleed, they have circulation attached to them.

But those are my questions, and I know you've commented before on my need to question the worlds down below, but I've been in worlds where they answered these questions. Where protocols are taken, where I could read a handbook and believe an employee could accomplish what the book tells them without leaking it out to expose the company. But those are diamonds in the rough, where I actually smiled...

Perhaps you're right in that I need a break from expeditions, Goddess.