Spidere told those attending Prom that someone would be hatching, just outside St. Philips' School, for anyone who would like to attend...but when the word first went out, no one knew who would be inside the egg.

Nothing happens in the first video, except that Spidere tries to distract the audience by ruminating on how the challenge of hatching is an important life lesson. Lank suggests that the eggs needs to be sat upon some more.



That's definitely a beak. I mean, look at it! Definitely not a tool of any kind.



The egg begins to split!



We see our first real view of what's inside the egg!



A piratey emerges! Applause and bow.



A newborn is always a little shakey on its feet at first.



Making an egg big enough to fit someone into was more difficult than expected. But it was worth it, in the end. piratey was reborn.

(Special thanks to Loki for the video! Additional pictures of the making of below)


piratey: I AM REBORN! symbolically, metaphorically, euphamistically, epinumericaly, and actually. Also, this was the first anyone besides Spidere discovered i was coming back to play.

To me this was a very personally fulfilling task. it was my rebirth into sf0. my reemergence into the lifestyle of magic and mayhem that i have missed for so long. though we weren't dressed as an otter, beaver, or dog, i was dressed as a pirate, a pig, and a turtle (as the mock piratey turtle for prom), so i figure that was close..

Armed only with a wire cutter and a will to live, the actual hatching was amazingly difficult. Spidere did a fantastic job creating the egg (thanks Spidey!), but having never met me before, he made it a tad too small so it was difficult to fit in there in the first place. also, bear in mind that i was single handed and left handed. so attempting to force my way out through chicken wire and paper mache was really quite hard. Spidere had thoughtfully built in several splits in the chicken wire with the idea that i could punch them outwards. but that didn't turn out to work all that well.. i only had a range of motion of about 4 inches directly in front of my face. so i painstakingly and painfully cut all the chicken wire in that 4 inch box and bent it back so i could access some part of the paper mache (in the video you see me then poke an air/peeking hole. after that i gave up on cutting (not really feasible left handed). so brute force it was. I made it out, but not without numerous cuts. (but as we all know Time and Medical attention heals all wounds). Also, in case it wasn't clear from the video, Spidere and I were in the midst of Don't Ever Let Go, so had to maintain contact throughout with our toesies.

I think the difficultly and painfulness of this was what really pushed it into the sublime for me. I was in there for so long, and really had to work to get out. It really felt like actually hatching. I feel all sparkly new and shiny and ready to face this big scary world. thanks sf0!