“This is Phred Phreely with the Crystal View News Channel,
with the latest on Critter-gate. We join
our correspondent in the field, live at the scene of the battle. Take it away Fritz! What’s the latest on the action at the
embattled editor’s desk?”
“Well Phred, things are lightening up in here and the smoke
is clearing, but the casualty reports are only just now starting to arrive, and
I don’t think the shredder will ever be the same again. I really must say it was grim there for a
while. The red ink was flowing across
the pages like the waters of the mighty Mississippi, and all I can tell you at
the moment is that we have unconfirmed reports of heavy casualties.”
“Wow, Fritz, it sounds awful. Is there any hope?”
“Well Phred I think it is safe to say that it will survive
to see the light of day… Wait a moment Phred… (Listening to an earpiece) I can
now confirm that an entire chapter was among the casualties. It seems that the Crossbreeding section
wasn’t bringing enough to the work to justify its inclusion as a separate
entity. Unconfirmed sources are saying
that it has left its legacy as a couple of re-written entries on the Mutations
chart.”
“Amazing… what else can you tell us?”
“Well Phred, I can tell you that late in the reviewing
process we learned that most of the work on magic has been well received and delivered
up to the neo-natal intensive care unit.
I’m told that it will remain there on life-support pending the start of
a new work on spells and the metaverse.”
(Looks shocked for a moment, hand flying up to his ear, then covers
microphone and whispers vigorously with someone off camera.)
“WHAT is it Fritz?!
What has happened?!”
“Well Phred, I can confirm now that the Book has had to have
emergency surgery to amputate its title…
It seems that the title of: “Creature Catalog,” has been sorely overused
in recent years. I’m being told now that
a new one has been chosen. Yes, it is
referring to itself now as: ‘Critters, Creatures, & Denizens” and has been
moved off the critical list and is considered stable and it is now being sent
off to artwork & layout for recovery.
There are unconfirmed rumors of perhaps yet another round of editing
after some more play testing. I’m going
to continue monitoring the situation here at the editing desk while we all wait
for more information. This is Frtiz
Frelgerwunten saying: Back to you in the studios Phred.”
“Well, an amazing journey so far Fritz! We’ll be waiting for your next up-date, but
for now, this is Phred Phreely saying goodnight to all of you out there in
adventure-land; and if you’re out there on the trails, remember… don’t stop to
feed the trolls.”
