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Professor Pester becomes a record breaker
Return with us now to life on Piñata Island, striving to raise your own menagerie of paper beasts in jaunty hats...
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"Felicitations, breakers of the fourth wall! Could I be so kind as to enquire after the new Tinkering requirements to be put on show? I must ensure that my art is being presented in a responsible manner." - Bart the Tinker

Golightly: Of course, of course. I must say, a visit to the Tinkerage is so much less intimidating than time spent with some of the other local service providers (although Bart's attempts to Tinker my sidekick's poncho into a fashionable leather jacket were received less than favourably).
   A few examples to set your mind at rest, Mr. Bartholomew: creatures as diverse as the Robean and the Jeli have a soft spot for figgy pudding, while the Peckanmix is naturally a fan of pea soup. The Smelba, a somewhat bipolar creature, will lap up garlic butter while yearning for the stimulating cleanliness of air fresheners. Some of the exotic new beasts of burden also find it hard to shake the coffee habit, while Twingersnaps have been known to perform tricks for stew. Your touch is needed for all these things and more, my capable friend. There is also the matter of the bones...

You see? It LOOKS harmless, then the pincer opens...

   Well, I believe that's that. Assignment completed! Praise be to the great Piñata totems that I got through this one relatively unscathed. No Roario maulings, no Custacean nips in delicate areas, no highly distressing Limeoceros dung incidents. Not in the call of duty, anyway.
   I shall sign off again for now, and when you next hear from me will depend on how rapidly my Employers dispatch a pay packet to ease my passage off the Island. It's not so bad here once you develop a sense of which species should be avoided, which are docile and which take particularly violent exception to a camera flash, but there are other lands to explore and other adventures to embark upon. Opportunities abound for an explorer in the prime of his life! And when this Flapyak removes its flea-ridden hoof from my bruised and painful instep, I shall pursue them with vigour!

H. St. J. Golightly, Explorer & Adventurer
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