Question lets talk about fullerton!
- lighttech
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So what happened in such a small town in Fullerton Nebraska population 1300. That would shake the world on mutant maters? and would even get noticed with the town so small?
fire away I am standing in a lake of high octain gas with a lit match!!!l LOL

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- Malady
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There was a guess that Fullerton was GOO, not mutants from Forger03: whateleyacademy.net/index.php/forum/revi...ority?start=10#35786
Is Fullerton in the right time for that temporal lining up from Blast from the Past?
The Final Trump isn't gonna end in Fullerton, is it???
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- Kristin Darken
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And Fullerton California (just northeast of Ahaheim) has a population over over 135k.lighttech wrote: So what happened in such a small town in Fullerton Nebraska population 1300.
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Kristin Darken wrote:
And Fullerton California (just northeast of Ahaheim) has a population over over 135k.lighttech wrote: So what happened in such a small town in Fullerton Nebraska population 1300.
Piggybacking off of that, what if rather than a GOO attack or origin event, it was a bio-devisor bug that got loose? 1300 wouldn't be too hard to quarantine given enough time and heads up. 135k, gets a bit more complicated, and it is in proximity to other major population centers with busy airports.
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*puts on tinfoil hat*
Also it would play into the MCO's hand of gaining power, since bio-terror attacks in America have had given and increased amount of funding for "National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) increased by $1.5 billion in 2003. In 2004, Congress passed the Project Bioshield Act, which provides $5.6 billion over ten years for the purchase of new vaccines and drugs"
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*takes off tinfoil hat*
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- Iwasforger03
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So California looks WAY more likely than Nebraska. Of course, it could be misleading. What if Fullerton is the PERSON, not the place? Or there could be a fictional Fullerton somewhere that the TINCC made up for this purpose? Afterall, the world is deviating very heavily from the one we know and recognize.
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- lighttech
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But not TOO big! As that might destroy Disneyland and even the TINCC is not that cruel to waste that happy place?
Besides? I can see one of the kids from "the real house wives of orange county" going all batshit and leveling the school over some small slight!
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- Valentine
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Yolandria wrote: Fullerton must have been a very huge event if it eclipses Tennyo's visit to Norad C.
Norad C is probably almost unknown outside of the people involved.
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Exploding eyes shouldn't be able to do that much damage.
Why why did Sara have to invite her whole extended family. An entire species whipped out in an instant. Those poor Goos.
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- Otherself
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Considering that AJ described Fullerton as "this little bug fuck burg out in the boonies" I think that it sounds more like Nebraska than California.Kristin Darken wrote:
And Fullerton California (just northeast of Ahaheim) has a population over over 135k.lighttech wrote: So what happened in such a small town in Fullerton Nebraska population 1300.
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Otherself wrote:
Considering that AJ described Fullerton as "this little bug fuck burg out in the boonies" I think that it sounds more like Nebraska than California.Kristin Darken wrote:
And Fullerton California (just northeast of Ahaheim) has a population over over 135k.lighttech wrote: So what happened in such a small town in Fullerton Nebraska population 1300.
BOONIES (BOO nees) New York vernacular
1) Any locations outside the city limits of New York
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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My point was that calling a place a bug fuck burg doesn't make it sound like there many people living there.E. E. Nalley wrote:
Otherself wrote:
Considering that AJ described Fullerton as "this little bug fuck burg out in the boonies" I think that it sounds more like Nebraska than California.Kristin Darken wrote:
And Fullerton California (just northeast of Ahaheim) has a population over over 135k.lighttech wrote: So what happened in such a small town in Fullerton Nebraska population 1300.
BOONIES (BOO nees) New York vernacular
1) Any locations outside the city limits of New York
- Valentine
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To someone living in NYC 135k is not a lot of people living there, that's a neighborhood. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NYCOtherself wrote:
My point was that calling a place a bug fuck burg doesn't make it sound like there many people living there.E. E. Nalley wrote:
Otherself wrote:
Considering that AJ described Fullerton as "this little bug fuck burg out in the boonies" I think that it sounds more like Nebraska than California.Kristin Darken wrote:
And Fullerton California (just northeast of Ahaheim) has a population over over 135k.lighttech wrote: So what happened in such a small town in Fullerton Nebraska population 1300.
BOONIES (BOO nees) New York vernacular
1) Any locations outside the city limits of New York
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Anyways: 135k is still way bigger potatoes than 9/11.
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That's an interesting theory!
It's not our fault that the same answer is applicable...

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Malady wrote: ^^ Forger, when we newbies say "Tink", we're refing Domoviye's Tink. Check my archives or the fablab: whateleyacademy.net/index.php/forum/fabrication-lab?start=100
Yah Tink is a hyperactive fairy with at least human levels of strength and a silly streak that only Jade can match. And if she gets any sugar of caffeine in her system the only way you can know of her presence is the fairy sized holes in the walls ceiling and floor. And has a persistence that drove a house mother into a emergency vacation.
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Danny and I were walking towards crystal hall for lunch, him wearing a rather plain Whateley hoodie, and he seemed quite content that he was blending into the crowd and being ignored for once. I'm not sure which of us was more startled when flowers started falling on Danny and we heard the noise of someone pretended to be playing a trumpet from above us.
"Oh no," Danny whimpered, cringing at what he feared was about to happen.
"And now I'm pleased to introduce," shouted an honest-to-goodness 6-inch-tall, purple-winged fairy who flew down to land on Danny's head, flipping his hood down as she did, "the wonderfully cute and totally adorable Kitty Boy!"
This scene broke the minds of several fans, including me. If you had read the fanfics already, you'd understand why.
I am guessing that a lot of her backstory - like the supermarket, the TLW, and everything involving her guardian - will be dropped, assuming there's more than even a little connection there. Losing the stuff about Mouser would be a shame, but... no, way too over the top even compared to Jade.
The rather gruesome manifestation will probably stay, I'm guessing. As will Ethereal Beauties, though probably not in the same way. I expect that it's just too good not to use.
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- Malady
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Esar wrote: Which authors has worked on a story related to somekind of "Nebraskan zombies" plage ? I think it was Nagrij ? I thought they had said that Fullerton was related to this event (might just be my imagination).
That's the story called Hunger.
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(Hey, I wonder how many people were on USENET long enough ago to understand where TINC originally came from. Obviously, someone other than me was, since they were already using TINCC here when I started reading the series. I suppose it could be convergent evolution or cultural osmosis, but I am guessing that who ever came up with it knew about the whole 'USENET Cabal' thing that was a sort of conspiracy theory/in-joke by the early 1990s when I was first there. I'm pretty sure it goes back to the switch from the netnews model to the hierarchical model in the mid-1980s, or the addition of Internet feeds as an alternative to UUCP, as apparently those were both something of a tempest in a teapot at the time.)
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Maybe or maybe not.
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Not any more.
- lighttech
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this from Kristin copied from here
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Consider the existence of the Department of Homeland Security. The Patriot Act. War in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 'popular' opinion about Muslims. Everything that has happened in the US as a result of the hijacked planes on 9/11.
Now imagine that instead of a couple thousand... it was... more. A lot more. And the root cause wasn't a foreign enemy with whom we could go to war... it was someone who could be your neighbor. You own kids. Even if you treated your kids like gods, spoiled them rotten... they could manifest an uncontrollable power that could kill you, along with thousands... if not millions. Make the meltdown at Chernobyl seem like a small blip in a damaged ecosystem. And that's the good kids. With all the kids disconnecting from social settings, playing their games and being on their phones all the time... how hard is it to imagine some kid manifesting and going on a rampage?
Suddenly, the MCO doesn't seem like such a bad idea. Sure, maybe they DO disappear some kids and have some agents who go over the line... but... maybe its ok if we waterboard some terrorists if it prevents another 9/11 right? maybe its ok if one or two questionable kids with powers that we don't understand get sent to a lab somewhere.
That's Fullerton. Would the specific details help you understand more? Maybe... but the 'truth' of Fullerton doesn't matter nearly as much as how the 'aftermath' of it was handled. EVERYONE knows about Fullerton. Everyone knows mutants were involved and there was horrible destruction and loss of life. Very, very few know what really happened. And if some of what really happened becomes public and is believed...well... there are a whole lot of people in power who will do everything they can to prevent that coming about.

So this "Fullerton" is big?
and if that references the city in LA?
That means all in Disneyland park saw it for sure, as it is only a few miles away!
So the story would be a very permanent record in LA's mind and the world in general.
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So it could reference a company/facility "Fullerton Bio-chem" for example. It could refer to the source of a failed water control system... that resulted in a number of small towns being wiped out along the Loup, and Platt... but also Omaha, numerous locations along the Missouri... and the collapse of the banks of the Mississippi in New Orleans, and the after effects of the Mississippi settling into a new path to the Gulf through Texas (which, btw, it's been trying to do for the last seventy years or so, but the Army Corp of Engineers has stayed ahead of it, building up spill off routes, shoring up the banks, and dredging out the river's route to the Gulf).
Or it could just be Fullerton Nebraska... and everything in a hundred mile radius or so... in which case the population of the town of Fullerton itself, is just a small part of the problem.
So... think big.

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Think BIG. I like Big. Big is scary and horrible and sends shudders down the spine. However, Fullerton isn't that recent from the perspective of the freshman in 2016. So it's been a while. that actually suggests it could happen... while Team Kimba is still at Whateley.
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Kristin Darken wrote: So it could reference a company/facility "Fullerton Bio-chem" for example.
I've been thinking the "Fullerton Brush Company" the entire time. It could happen!
But it could just as easily be "Fullerton AFB", on the outskirts of Jacksonville in the Whateley Universe.
Or an over-crowded corporate-run minimum-security facility: thousands of prisoners on lock-down with no way to get out. ( Or students, if it's a previously unmentioned University. Don't expect ANY public sympathy for killing kids in any number.)
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Kristin Darken wrote: I only included Fullerton, California because it's actually a pretty well known city and I wanted to point out that it doesn't have to be the 'obvious'... you've all homed in mostly on cities but have you considered that the 'word' Fullerton could refer to some other sort of marker for location... the name of a company? A power plant? Context that we've given so far would suggest its a location and not a person, but just because the only Fullerton name towns you can find on the map are either a thousand citizens population or something more or less a part of LA... doesn't mean it has to be one of those. Also... even if Fullerton Nebraska IS the point of reference, the fact that its population is only 1300 doesn't mean as much as you think. Fullerton is near Loup River Power system and in the midst of the Loup Rivers, which flow into the Platt and from there into the Missouri and from there to the Mississippi.
So it could reference a company/facility "Fullerton Bio-chem" for example. It could refer to the source of a failed water control system... that resulted in a number of small towns being wiped out along the Loup, and Platt... but also Omaha, numerous locations along the Missouri... and the collapse of the banks of the Mississippi in New Orleans, and the after effects of the Mississippi settling into a new path to the Gulf through Texas (which, btw, it's been trying to do for the last seventy years or so, but the Army Corp of Engineers has stayed ahead of it, building up spill off routes, shoring up the banks, and dredging out the river's route to the Gulf).
Or it could just be Fullerton Nebraska... and everything in a hundred mile radius or so... in which case the population of the town of Fullerton itself, is just a small part of the problem.
So... think big.
Fullerton could also be a person or object. Or even a unrelated reference. The Fullerton incident, known to be cause by a mutants allergic reaction to Fullerton brand cardboard, will go down in history as prof of the hazards of mutant kind.
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DanZilla wrote: Amadeus Fullerton lives on Fullerton Lane in Fullerton, Alabama where he works at the Fullerton Widgets and Gadgets factory. Every day he takes his Fullerton Five to and from work at a sedate speed, returning home to crack open an Old Fullerton while he relaxes to the dulcet tones of the theme song to Fullerton Follies.
Someone sealed tink into a fullerton brand thermos full of divisor coffee and sugar. Then shook until it exploded.
- Valentine
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Valentine wrote: The immensely popular retro rock band the Fullerton Five started a riot when their surprise opening act was Brass Monkey.
However, the special guest appearance by Dethklok sealed the deal, and the emergency exits.
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