While news from Animalia was welcome, the Summer Events were a lot more interesting, in a matter of speaking, ever since one video outtake from coverage of the Second Great Snow War.
It involved a reporter doing a "war correspondence" on one "offensive" before having an "artillery shell" landing close behind her and getting her with a spray of "collateral" snow spray. While most found it funny, one comment made it officially pulled:
Funny_Frat commented: Talk about a "snow"-job.
Mr._Unamused replied: Don't want to be part of that Frat.
But because of the funny fails of Joe Schmoe's and Jane Schmoe's trying to charm Animalians, there was included several news events which included funny things.
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One guy was doing the big rope climb (some Animalians requiring thicker, stronger ropes to both hold their ropes), and pulled it off in a relatively admirable time, but he nerfed it by sliding down the rope so quickly to give him mild to moderate rope burn on his hands.
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From Animalia Ambassadoria's coverage of what was new in Vilcabamba was a really interesting clip:
During a nighttime dinner at a "diner" near the dig site alongside a visiting native tribe, a big, scary looking thing landed on the screen. While Sarah and Malice wanted to get a closer look, both the staff and the visiting tribe panicked and not only refused to go near it but warned them away from it.
The bartender, nicknamed Ricky Java, called it the Cobra Voadora, or Snake with Wings and translated for one of the elders. Apparently according to tribal legends, when it lands on a twig, it stings it and the branch dries up and dies quickly. But if it lands on a human and spikes them, they die quicker than those stung by a cone snail. While most of the tourists weren't as convinced, Ricky Java brought out one of the cooks who said she knew someone who was killed by it.
At that, one visiting archaeologist decided to get a closer look at it by capturing gently with a cloth. After it was inside, it was determined to be a species of Amazonian cicada known as a Tiranaboia (pronounced with a ch, not a t, but it wasn't the deadly killer that tribal myth made it out to be. It was actually Exhibit A for protective mimicry, its real head camouflaged behind a hollow mass that mimicked a snake head to protect it from would be predators. When it made it onto the news, there was a video shown of a species of insect with a similar adaptation that was placed in a cage containing a spider monkey. When the insect was revealed to the monkey, the monkey screamed in fright and raced around the cage trying to escape it.
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There were other funny things happening during the Summer Events, but they were more or less ordinary ones that were expected. Such as one guy's posers splitting open at the back, to one guy having too much "before noon" and getting a little too handsy. But apart from this, the Summer Animalian Events were shaping up to be quite fun and funny