There are times when one's computer crashes or otherwise goes wacko, and all your villages are in danger! These are Island Quakes.

I've had two Island Quakes. Fortunately, all the villages survived both.

Late November 2006 Island Quake:
The adaptor on my Pentium 3 laptop burned its little circuits to a mess. No access to my computer for two weeks due to very low battery power. Shockingly, all three villages - Rainbowfish Village, Altair Village, and Mintaka Village survived, though not without losses. Rainbowfish Village and Altair Village both lost 50% of the population. Mintaka survived with 80% of its population intact.

After the Quake, some lone villagers from Altair set up Altaira Village.

New Year's 2007 Quake:
The supposedly new adaptor began to degrade, and would only work in one outlet. As a precaution, the Goddess called forth an Ice Age onto the island of Isola, petrifying all Isola villages - Rainbowfish, Altair, Mintaka, and fledging Altaira - in Time. The Goddess copied critical information about all the Villages into the Abyss called the Flash Drive. Just in case.

Sure enough, just a few days later, the quietly strengthening Quake hit, and displaced the entire Island of Isola. Isola's Villages floated in the Abyss of the Flash Drive for two weeks, safely Petrified in Time.

The Goddess found a new home for the poor Villages, and 22 Sunrises after the Winter Solistice, she sent away the Ice Age and thawed out the Villages. The Goddess told the villagers that their entire Island had been moved from planet HP Pavilion to planet Toshiba Satellite, and that it was a much better home for them.

Lo and behold, the villagers were so happy with their new home on Toshiba Satellite, they moved with surprising speed.

Which just goes to show what the difference between a laptop with .75 of a gigabyte and a laptop with 2 gigabytes of memory makes!



So, do you have any stories of Island Quakes of your own? Tell us!

No stories of my own, but I certainly enjoyed yours, thanks.

So did I.. lol

Happy you two enjoyed the tale..

Lovely tales!

I must say that the closest thing I have to an island quake is when my brother dropped the laptop and I was unable to access to my villagers for 3 days. Now, my laptop runs slower (harder to load my village) , and tends to "sleep" on me.

Thank you, Izzy.

Your laptop sounds like my old one, actually. Scary, isn't it? It took my villages a solid ten minutes or twenty minutes just to clean up the blasted skeletons on that computer. On this computer? 2 minutes. Flat.

I was playing with my cat and my villagers at same time, but the cat decided to surpise me, it jumped up onto the keyboard, and ripped one of the keys out. So whats worse? I left my villagers unpaused, then the people came to pick it up, i then relized it hadnt been paused! But a miricle happend!! My computer came back in two weeks, i then saw my viilagers alive!!

Even though my laptop is slow, my other computer is slower! (not my the computer with the crowd-hating GC). The computer i'm talking about (typing about) is the one I had since i was 4 .I haven't even finished the well puzzle because it was that slow.Oh yeah, and that was the computer which I tried to destroy when i was little.

Gawd that makes me feel old. I don't think what we know as a computer even existed when I was 4.

I gave the VV game to my niece for Christmas and was showing her how to play. We'd just upgraded the big hut to a school when her sister, who was jealous of us spending time on the computer, hit the "hard reboot" button. When we reloaded the game we found that the school had disappeared and the (only) master scientist we'd used to build the school had reverted to adept. Yvette spent an hour at the computer after that waiting for him to go back to master, muttering "I hate my sister" all the while.