One of the funny things about ley lines and that whole…occult school of thought or what have you is that originally, there was nothing supernatural about them in the slightest. I’ve seen nothing to suggest that Alfred Watkins had a single occult bone in his body; his theory was purely one of archeology and architecture, positing that the pre-Roman peoples of Britain used a straight line arrangement to place their sites. This is generally considered wrong today, but it was a legit and perfectly down-to-earth idea.
Then John Mitchell, of “Earth is only 20,000 years old” and “Queen Elizabeth II needs to reinstate the Divine Right of Kings” fame decided to bolt a load of spiritual/alien shit onto it more than 30 years after Watkin’s death. And after that the Earth Mystery stuff just wrote itself.
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Miedo is a terrornox (also known as a war skunk) who, as a former soldier, escaped his war-torn home planet.
He is a shy, hopeless romantic, looking for a fresh start in the vast galaxy, but his noxious stench makes it tough for him to form meaningful relationships. 🦨💐
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Random Moment!
Peppino in outer space wearing an astronaut suit, meeting some aliens, then suddenly they spot The Noise riding on a rocket and Noisette sitting on a star causing them to have a "What the heck?!" reaction.
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Meet the Augurians - an avian species who can speak to birds, and even see flashes of the future in their songs...
Illustrated by @diabeticspoon92 for Episode 18 of Travelling Light, a science fantasy podcast available wherever you listen 🎧💕
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If we don’t eventually have a random ass Alien Adventure in the middle of this wasteland drama we riot. That’s always the best curveball in these games. If we’re making self referential jokes about the game and its players then I demand a random Alien show up With zero explanation or foreshadowing.
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Good Omens' alien parking ticket - translated!
Curious about the “Alien Parking Ticket”? (Or only hearing about it for the first time?) You’ve come to the right place!
A little background first: there were 690 tickets originally released with the Ineffable and Celestial Editions of the Illustrated Good Omens as part of the “Folio of Ephemera” in 2019.
One more was a prize in a 2021 giveaway, where it was identified as an “alien parking ticket” - https://discworld.com/seven-day-instagram-giveaway/.
More were available with the campaign for the graphic novel, though they are now sold out, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunmanifestin/good-omens/posts/4080374.
What does it actually look like? This is the front and back of a ticket from an Ineffable Edition, image credit to Reddit user lywinis.
The front looks a bit fuzzy because it’s done with lenticular printing (the image appears to move as you tilt it, like this:)
Interestingly, the photo on Kickstarter showed a very slightly different version of the front of the ticket, image credit to Discord user jennythepenny13. It’s still being called an alien parking ticket, and now we know it was issued to Newt by the aliens in the flying saucer.
So what does it say? Spoilers ahead!
Each symbol can be matched one-to-one to the Latin alphabet, or to a digit. After converting, it reads (with a few misspellings):
Most of the digits don’t have enough information to match them up – only 2 and 4 can be inferred from the source material.
The Kickstarter version changes “rotations of your planet” to “temporal units” for unknown reasons.
So it’s not really a parking ticket – it doesn’t even mention parking. But it is a violation ticket issued to humankind for excessive carbon dioxide emissions, high levels of atmospheric hydrocarbons, harnessing artificial wormholes without the proper permits, and insufficient planetary albedo for long-term climate stability. I guess we’ve got work to do!
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