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Bizzaro · Veteran Joined: 01 Jul 2011 Posts: 118 Location: Las Vegas

The bottom half of mine has never lit. Would be nice to have a fully functional one, but I'm not unhappy.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:34 am

Selie · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 79

Off the subject of the icefly drops (sorry!) ... the icefly itself. Magic, or technology? Technomancy? We've seen them help defy the laws of physics (levitating man in the advertisement someone linked from May; levitating icefly container in the other video) and it seems to me like extrasensory perception/ESP is a big deal here...

Lacking any puzzle to solve offhand, instead I'm trying to figure out what's going on in the story. I've just got a bunch of questions... What IS the icefly, a living thing or a machine? Were they artificially created, and if so, who made them?

Maybe this is my mistrust of scientific institutes in science fiction speaking, but it seems to me like the icefly is a very powerful thing and I'm not sure that the Traelek Institute/scientists are the right people to have access to such power. Are they evil scientists looking to utilize that power for control? Or am I just paranoid? Will they accidentally set off a change that begins to destroy humanity - hence the Human Preservation Project?

I'm on a roll here, but I might just be rolling off a cliff. Wink

**Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:26 pm

Ogawa

All valid (and totally on-topic) theories Selie!

I speculated a bit as to the nature of the icefly last week or so. Like you, I wondered if it was a man-made creature or something we dug up, and whether or not the other iceflies that appear outside the Genesis video (hey, there's something to that name come to think of it!) are from the same place.

The ESP theory makes a lot of sense. The block of text on TSN did caution that test subjects' senses would behave/be utilized in a way with which we are likely unfamiliar. This could be the beginning of a very important but dangerous experiment.

I wouldn't worry about that cliff of yours. You might just find something totally awesome buried in the side of it. Laughing

**Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:13 pm

vukcevich23

So they texted me back. Looks like they're going to deliver the new icefly to my house. They said to box the original one so they could exchange them. I'm going to try to talk them into letting me keep both. If possible, maybe one of my Phoenix patrons can have the original.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:12 am

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**Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:03 pm

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sinz · Decorated Joined: 02 Jul 2011 Posts: 168

**Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:46 am

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**Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 1:48 am

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stinji · Decorated Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 270

**Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:05 pm

vukcevich23

Possibly. Though I feel they had to ship the replacement, so maybe they simply produced a few extra. Not sure.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:15 pm

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Bizzaro · Veteran Joined: 01 Jul 2011 Posts: 118 Location: Las Vegas

You know there had to be a few more for emergencies and for the 42E employees.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:40 pm

ginji · Unfettered Joined: 10 Mar 2009 Posts: 376 Location: Home

The color of the Icefly practically puts the flavour of mint into my mouth.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:51 pm

KingdomKeeper · Decorated Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 253

So...wait? Are they seriously using players as messengers? That seems...odd. If they are going to hire people to do drops/exchanges...that is one thing...but if they are getting players to do them, I kinda wonder what the players are getting in return (since the players become ineligible for the drops, I would assume).

**Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:51 pm

sinz · Decorated Joined: 02 Jul 2011 Posts: 168

**Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:14 pm

Nrickolai64 · Guest

So do you think its worth texting the guys about my icefly? Two of the legs were broken off when I received it. At first the bottom didn't light up either but now it does.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:25 am