Krysalis Stories

Krysalis stories
	The caterpillar's story
	Conversations with a grasshopper

The caterpillar's story

Ewpee looked out from his leaf one day and saw...
Leonardis Decapium climbing ever higher in the eco system - always being given the best leaves... not that there were many leaves..."Why does he do so well? Just because he's good looking and women fancy the thorax off him...'

Caterpillar

? At which point a big fat cigar smoking Bigbosseous Shagssecretarius dropped down from her leaf. She was terribly worried.
"The flowers are being eaten by the ants!' she cried.
"Shouldn't they be eating leaves?' asked Ewpee.'
"You are so stupid,' interjected Leonardis. "Ants eat flowers!'
"Not quite, my well hung little larvae,' said Bigbosseous, "They're leaf cutter ants so they're supposed to eat leaves.'
"Well, let them eat the damn flowers, I say. All the more for us," said Leonardis.
"A terrible fungus had swept through the jungle killing the trees. Some said this had started not long after a terrible monster had appeared. It went by the name of "Ohhh-shhhi -' legend has it because these were the last words anyone said before they were eaten.
"The result was that the leaf cutter ants no longer had leaves to store and harvest. Now they were eating the flowers which meant...!

CUE DRAMATIC MUSIC

"No nectar for the butterflies!'
"So?' said Leonardis sulkily whilst gently rotating one of his plump but oh so attractive little legs.
"Butterflies happen to be the next stage in our evolutionary trail. We should call in the ants and see if we can talk through a SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEM,' suggested Ewpee.
"Leonardis looked mockingly at Ewpee, "THAT IS SOOOOO STUPID, EWPEE'
"Yes, that is so stupid - you ugly bug,' agreed Bigbosseous.
"Suddenly, a long time after everyone else, Ewpee realised why he kept being passed over for promotion. In the female dominated world of Big Caterpillars he was ugly - and as much as he hated to admit it - looks seem to matter...
"A white butterfly facilitatorix mademintsowantstohelpix flew past. She whispered to Ewpee,
"Get in touch with the Grasshopper."

Conversations with a grasshopper

Ewpee crawled slowly across the jungle until he found the aged and wise old glass hopper (this is getting dodgy. ED) Davus Carridinus. He told the inscrutable Glasshopper his problem - how the leaves were dying so the ants were eating all the flowers - and waited for the crusty orthopteran to give him the answer.
Whether it was the venerable one's extreme age or just simply that he was a grasshopper and hey, have you ever tried getting a word of sense from a creature who's claim to fame is overdeveloped thighs... but Glasshopper said nothing.
Ewpee tried again. But this time he was a bit more assertive. He'd been hoping for a bit more from his would be mentor than a couple of rheumatic clicks on his pronotum.

Grasshopper
"Let's talk."

	Come on then... Come on. Who the hell are you?
	We're a community of interests...
	What?
	Sorry. I was speaking Jargonese. "We are a home, a site. A place where you can talk, exchange ideas, listen, suggest, make software, buy, sell, eat aphids, flap, hop... AND DO IT ALL ON THE NET...
	So you don't want spondulux?
	Erm... Well that's not the point of getting started. If we have a community of interests then some of the ideas created might rub off on us...
	So you can make better software?
	So we can all make better software.
	And this software helps us with difficult decisions.
	That's it.
	But isn't this software so difficult to use that only facilitatorix flashius bastardius understands it?
	No. The idea is that anyone with half a brain...
	I'm an insect. i don't even have a quarter of a brain.
	OK. Well, it's not difficult.

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