Issue #11: April 2010

Issue #11
Date: April 4th, 2010

★The Poptropican’s 911★

For all your Poptropica emergencies!

Welcome to the Poptropica Help Blog’s eleventh issue of the Poptropican’s 911, for all your Poptropica emergencies! April showers bring May flowers!

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Ask PHB

Need some help with Poptropica? The experts are here to answer your questions!

I can’t finish Mythology Island because I can’t find my drachma because I used it to buy the wind bag? ~Lmrfood

You don’t need another drachma, because you can get free refills for your wind bag by going back to the person who sold you the wind bag.

Recently I was on Poptropica and I was playing Reality TV Island and I was delivering the pizza but I never got to keep the pizza! Is there anyway to get it back? ~Kevin O.

Sorry, we don’t think there is any way for you to get the pizza if you have already finished with that part of Reality TV Island. If you wanted to keep it, you could have saved it on your Costume Collector (from the Poptropica Store) while you still had it.

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Stories

Everybody waits for you now… what happens next?

The Unknown Island [Parts 8~12]: by Sparkle Star/Green Seal

[Continued from March’s magazine!] Part 8:

2 hours ago, back in Poptropica…

“What?!  No treasure?  You’ve got to be kidding me, Sam,” said Pete irritably, talking on his cell phone.  Pete was a criminal, and a greedy one at that.  He was smart, but used his brain only for evil plots to get richer.  Pete stomped along the sidewalk angrily.

“No, no, don’t talk in that tone, Sam!  There HAS to be treasure there.  Or else.” said Pete, holding his super-expensive cell phone to his ear.  “Well, check again!” Pete yelled, which caused some poptropicans to stare.  “Listen, Sam,” hissed Pete in a quieter voice, “there has to be treasure in there, and if you don’t get it and give it to me, you’re fired!”

“Yeah, now that’s better, Sam,” said Pete.  He hung up, and put his phone into his pocket.  Pete felt something crunch underneath his leather shoe.  “What’s this?” He stopped and picked it up.  It was a piece of paper which looked very old and was crumpled.

Curious, he straightened the paper and looked at it closer.  “Huh,” he commented as he examined the paper.  “It seems to be a map of some kind,” Pete smiled, and his golden tooth gleamed.

Part 9:

“Er… boss?  Um, don’t you think this might be kind of… fake?” said Carl — one of Pete’s employees– timidly.  “Now, if it was fake, do you think I’d be showing it to you?” replied Pete, aggravated as usual.  “Er…” said Carl, wringing his hands nervously.  “The answer is no, Carl.  It is not fake.” said Pete.  Although Carl disagreed, he kept silent.

“So guys, what I need you to do is help me find the island on my private jet,” said Pete to the rest of his employees.  A bunch of people raised their hands, wanting to board the “Pete Force 500″ : the fanciest, biggest, and most expensive plane in Poptropica.

“Eh, I choose Jack and Fred,” said Pete.  “Yes!” they said simultaneously and high-fived each other.  Pete rolled his dark brown eyes behind his sunglasses.  “When do we start, boss?” asked Fred.  “Now,” said Pete.

The three poptropicans stepped into the “Pete Force 500″ — Jack and Fred ooh-ing and aah-ing and Pete rolling his eyes.  Pete sat down next to the pilot.  “So, uh, pilot-guy, I need you to fly around the sea, looking for some island that isn’t an island that we already know.” said Pete.  “Well, firstly,” he said in a British accent, “my name is not this ‘pilot guy’, it’s George.  And secondly, I have not a clue what you are trying to explain to me.”  Pete frowned.  No one, no one, had ever talked back to him.  He decided to ignore George’s comment.

“All I need you to do is to um, look for an island, but not the islands that we already know and can get to on the blimp.  An island, that looks like this,” said Pete, showing the pilot the map that he’d found.  “Okay,” said George.

Part 10:

On an unknown island, 3 hours later…

Green Seal took out the laser pen from her bag.  She quickly cut the bars of the cells, allowing 55 poptropicans to break free.  They had gotten in the factory through a window which Friendly Heart had used her shovel to break through.  From there they had laid the stink bomb which Green Seal made on the floor, causing all the guards to leave.

At first the poptropicans were stunned.  To them it seemed like the bars had just cut in half by themselves.  They just stood there in their cells for five minutes, and Green Seal, Friendly Heart, and Shiny Shell took off their chameleon suits and told them to go.

“Go silently, and wear these,” said Green Seal, and passed around chameleon suits.  The poptropicans nodded and did what Green Seal instructed.  In a matter of minutes, the room was empty of poptropicans.

They lead the group of poptropicans to the plane, which was hidden by palm trees.  It was a tight space to fit 58 poptropicans, but they made it, and some were given jet packs.  They flew in the night sky, a strange sight..

But, suddenly, in the middle of their flight, something else was heading their way– a big plane.  Suddenly a large net from the plane shot out, capturing 58 poptropicans..

“Oh no, not again,” some poptropicans moaned.  Then everything turned black.

Part 11:

“Wow,” said Pete, surprised.  “The amount of money in ransom I could get for these poptropicans…”

Green Seal awoke, rubbing her eyes and hoping the event was just a bad dream.  But it wasn’t.  A poptropican with sunglasses stood before her, with two big poptropicans behind him.  “Hey guys, look,” said the poptropican.  “It’s a kid.”

Green Seal froze.  She decided to not say anything until she knew who that person was and whatever it was he wanted.  “And one more,” said the poptropican on the left, pointing at Friendly Heart, who was still unconscious.

Green Seal thought about a way to escape.  They were in a small, white room with no windows and one door, which was locked and had four poptropicans blocking it.  And what happened to their plane?  Green Seal turned around and saw a crushed brown plane behind the poptropicans.  The Nabooti pilot would not be happy.  But at least everyone was alive.  Even if they were held captive.

The poptropican with the sunglasses chuckled.  “What are you going to do now?  Call your mommy?” Green Seal clenched her fists angrily.  “I’m no ordinary kid,” she said, rather boldly.  He chuckled again, which made Green Seal even more mad.

Then, as if out of nowhere, Green Seal punched Pete in the stomach, with such an incredible force, that he and the guards fell back.  They were completely knocked out.  Green Seal stared at her hand for the first few seconds, wondering how she could be so strong.  Then the moans of the poptropicans behind her woke her from her trance.

She woke the other 57 captive poptropicans.  Green Seal realized she was stuck.  Pete and the guards were waking up, meaning they couldn’t get through the door, and that meant there was no exit.  Or was there?  Couldn’t she simply make an exit?  Green Seal smiled.  She could.

Part 12:

First, she looked through her bag in the broken Nabooti plane.  She got out a set of parachutes (from the game, Sky Dive) and jet packs and handed them out to everyone.  Then, using the same force as she did with punching Pete, she used her fist to make a massive hole in the plane wall.

The wall crumbled easily, which was still unexpected.  The poptropicans hurried out the hole, with their parachutes and jet packs, lead by Green Seal.  They went down slowly, as if it were all a dream.

And, as fate would have it, they landed on Spy Island safely.  Pete’s plane was still flying in another direction.  They waited until the plane was gone, then sighed sighs of relief.  They were free.  All 58 of them.

An old poptropican walked up to Green Seal, smiling.  “I knew you would do it.  I just knew it.” she said.
“Aunt Starfish?” Green Seal hadn’t recognized her at first.
“Yes, Green Seal.  I’m sorry I didn’t tell you earlier, but–”
“Tell me what?” Green Seal asked curiously.
“You have magic,” she stated.
Green Seal blinked.  “Magic?”
“Yes.  Magic.  You have the power to do anything you want to.  All you have to do is just think about it hard enough.”
“How do you know?”
“I gave it to you, that’s why.”
Green Seal was confused.  “What?”
Aunt Starfish nodded.  “I gave it to you the day you were born.  My magic was withering.  It needed a new owner.  So I gave it to you.  I performed a spell to transport my magic from me to you.  And from what I’ve seen, it has worked.”
“Oh.” That explained her sudden strength.  “So that’s why you told me to save you.  And that person who teleported the note to me.  Does he have magic, too?”
Aunt Starfish laughed.  “No.  That’s all he can do, just teleport things.  I think he’s just been near radiation too much.”

Then Friendly Heart emerged from the bushes.  “Have you been spying on our conversation?” Green Seal asked.  “Maybe.” Friendly Heart smiled.  They all smiled, then laughed.  “And you must be Friendly Heart,” said Aunt Starfish.  “Yes, yes, I am.” replied Friendly Heart.

And they all lived happily ever after.  Aunt Starfish and Uncle Starfish came to live with Green Seal and Friendly Heart joined them.  Green Seal was never bored anymore.  Pete and his guards were stuck in jail for twenty years, not only for the kidnapping, but also for the other crimes they had committed.  And the island remained unknown.

THE END.

Author’s Message: I hope you enjoyed the story!  It’s completely fiction, just so you know. Green Seal, Friendly Heart, Shiny Shell, and Blue Starfish are all accounts of mine.

The Counterfeit Case [CHAPTER FOUR]: by Neat Whale

[Continued from March’s magazine!] Neat Whale ran up tho the front stoop, panted, and turned the pine-pop-wood key in the lock. When she opened the door, she put her guard up–anything could happen to her now. But when she got upstairs, she couldn’t help herself. she let her guard down as she ripped off the painting that the man had sold her to see, in horor…

“IT’S THE SCREA–hey, who turned off the lights…?” said NW, slowly, cautiously, when…

LATER, DEEP UNDER POPTROPICA…

Neat Whale finally came to her senses, and woke up to see a woman with frizzled hair and red earings, and some really pretty red lipstick. It took NW a little longer to figure this one out, as she asked, “Who are you?”

The woman smiled mischeviously. “I am the Black Widow–the world’s greatest art theif!” NW’s eyes widened. It all made sense now, every puzzle peice fit. Except…what about the Scared Man…?

“But… but…” sputtered Neat Whale, “I thought you were a cop!” the Black Widow–or should I just say the BW?–silenced her, screaming, “Enough! I’m asking the questions here!” and NW shut up. BW continued.

Neat Whale’s binds were really starting to bother her now…

“I know you spoke to that cursed curator.” said Black Widow. “You know where the art is hidden! Tell me!” she cried, leaning closer to NW’s face, her hair rubbing against Neat Whale’s white lipgloss. NW jerked back as well as she could, and cried, “I have no idea!” Neat Whale’s mind was racing wildly by this point. And she didn’t know…figures that the lady must have read that book she read in second grade, what was it called, ‘Number The Stars’, where the people say it’s easier to be brave when you don’t know anything? Aw, well, where do books matter now, anyways?

BW jumped up in anger. “Don’t get comfortable. I’ll be back!!!” she cried, and left the room. Neat Whale gluped. It was one thing to have always dreamed about, as a child, getting captured by Captian Hook and taken to Neverland where at least Peter Pan would be there to save her, but now, this could be her last moments, and no one was there, and her Mom lived 50 years away! How would she ever find out, ever, ever, ever…?

“Life was so much simpler when I didn’t go off on this stupid quest.” mumbled NW, suddenly notcing the Scared Man behind her, also bound to his seat.. Voice rising in anger, NW yelled, “And you! You set me up! Man, I can’t stand ANYONE in this room–well, except me…me, I like.” The man grunted and said, “I’m afraid we’ve both been set up, my friend. For years I used to be the Black Widow’s right hand man, but now she’s betrayed me.” He stopped and grunted again. “C’mon and see if you can work your way over here and I’ll untie you.”

Neat Whale’s bind were REALLY hurting her now… and pulling on her hair…and now she felt sick….

NW rocked back and forth, slowly at first, and then more easily as she tried to work over to the scared man. Moments later, they were untied, and the man said, in a soft, gruff voice, “Now let’s catch the Black Widow!” And with that, the pair ran off in the directon that the Black Widow left. Neat Whale still felt sick….

The scared man lead Neat Whale to a new room, and she slowly worked through it, trying her best not to be seen by guards. She started talking to herself to calm down. “Up over that stage…on that box…wait, wait, don’t let that guard see you!…Ahhh, that’s better…look out for that guard…jump up on the couch….Wheeeee, this is funnnnnn!!!…ok, Neat Whale, over there, and…yes, wait, no, what’s this scaner thing doing here? Uh…” Neat Whale stared dumbfounded at the machine before her, and then she snapped her fingers, and grabbed the card that, it’s amazing to believe, yesterday she had obtained, and ran it through the scanner. The door opened, and the Scared Man followed her in.

This was it.

The Scared Man flew past her, and jumped onto a huge…uh…whats-it-called…lever, and yelled, “Turn the handle and rasie me up so I can catch her!” The Black Widow heard, and laughed. “Catch me?!” she jeered, “Catch THIS!” and she threw a beautiful peice of art over the side. The Scared Man’s face looked shocked. “She’s destroying all of the art we’ve stolen!” he said, his voice desprate in despair. “Please, don’t let more than a million dollars of it break!”

The Black Widow laughed.

Neat Whale’s stomach suddenly stopped hurting.

It took a while, but NW finally got all of the artwork from dropping, avoided almost all of the bombs, and the Scared Man made it up there and knocked BW down. Neat Whale climbed up and over and talked to the museum curator, who was waiting for her above the room. The Scared Man ran off before anyone saw him. Neat Whale tried to get him, but wasn’t fast enough…

The Curator then showed where all the valuble art was: right behind the walls! Neat Whale went around, admiring everything. “Another case solved,” she said, smiling. The end.

EPILOGUE: It was about 4 months since NW saved CI that day, and she was thinking about the Scared Man. She never knew where he went, and she always thought of him as the Dad she never had…the Dad she didn’t have…Neat Whale didn’t have a Dad.

Not hesitating, NW grabbed her time device to go back to see if she could find him…ever.

The Mysterious Poptropican, Chapter Three: An Old Friend: by IkeWB

[Continued from March’s magazine!] Finally, Stuart and Peppermint were ready to set off on their adventures. Stuart had the books, and Peppermint had all the equipment. But the hardest part was getting there. Stuart knew a pilot, but he hadn’t seen him for a year and a half. The pilot was a close friend of Stuart’s family, but he had moved farther north in the state. Stuart quickly decided that he should get in contact with him.

“Set sail!”, yelled Golden Bones a ninja. Five ninjas were on deck, three ninjas training, and two ninjas snoring louder two jumbo jets passing right over your head. “Hard to port!”, screamed Golden Bones. The ship was going to crash into a jagged rock!

Monster Carnival: by Daedalus the Friendly Gamer

I was walking threw this path on Reality TV Island the freaky part was I never saw this path. But I did continue to walk, I was curious. I saw a Carnival. I payed the Credits to walk in. I went to the line for cotten candy. There was a boy infront of me he looked at me. All he did was point at the back of me. I looked, thats when I saw a Monster! Everyone ran but besides me I noticed something about this Monster there was a wire on it, and it I saw a remote I picked it up I clicked the purple button the monster roared at me, I clicked another button it started to dance. Hmmm… I thought, someone is pulling a naughty trick…

The Diabolical Scheme, Part 2: by Golden Shell

[Continued from March’s magazine!] Overhead, the Villain King sailed, but very slowly, and you suspect that it’s either on purpose just so the villains on it can see what’s happening below, or that it’s just way too big. Unfortunately, Barry Beast isn’t the only one who’s going to fight you. The huge ship (purposely) drops a huge army of robot versions of Poptropicans, and they all glare at you with gleaming, huge, scarlet eyes. The audience gasps in horror and you gulp, but before you can say anything, one robot jumps on you, wrestling you to the ground. Screaming, you shove him off, but two more jump on you as well. And more. And more. There’s too many on you to fight off! Soon a huge heap of those darn robots are on top of you, wrestling you to the ground, and you squirm and struggle yourself out, panting.

Suddenly, you hear a yell. You look up and see it’s from Fredericka, who’s still entrapped in Barry Beast’s hand. “Catch this!” she yells, and throws something to you. You catch a glimpse of silver before you catch it in your hand. It’s a beautiful silver-bladed sword, with a diamond-and-pearl studded gold hilt. You use to slash at the robots and cut them apart, letting the crackling of wires constantly fill your ears (that can’t be seen, of course). After you slash the last robot in half, you turn and see Barry Beast running off AGAIN.

“OH NO YOU DON’T!” You leap as high as you can through the air and bring the sword down onto the monster’s head. Although he’s not bleeding (his skin is made up of many tough layers) he screams with pain and turns around, his arms waving wildly through the air as he tries to grab you. You jump right out of his reach and bring the sword down onto the fist that is entrapping Fredericka, and then you do the same for Carlotta. You keep banging your sword on the fists until finally, you leap back onto his head and start banging your sword on his head again. He lifts his fist to crush you once and for all, but fortunately, at the last second, you leap off and he bonks himself on the head—HARD.

And then, as he yells with pain, you slash the sword across his chest—although it makes a long mark, it doesn’t bleed since there are many more layers of skin—and let the sword light shoot straight into the mark on his chest. Immediately Barry Beast lets out a loud, long howl of anguish and pain, and then suddenly—BOOM! A blazing hot fire-like cloud from the explosion touches your shoulder, and you yelp with pain, but suddenly you feel a hand grab yours and feel like you’re going up, up, up through the clouds of the explosion. Then, you burst out of the blazing clouds like a rocket, leaping high, although Fredericka’s leaping even higher. Then the two of you land just a few feet away from Barry Beast’s shriveled up body, but you can’t help wondering—where’s Carlotta? Suddenly you see her—sprawled across the ground on the other side of the stadium, struggling to get up.

However, before you can even make a single step toward her, a flash of pink jumps in. It’s Dr. Hare! He has the same sphere that the Binary Bard had, and now he presses a button on the back of it and—NO! The long green ray shoots into Carlotta and turns her into a book!

“NO!” both you and Fredericka scream. Dr. Hare turns to face you, the book form of Carlotta now slung over his shoulder, and he laughs at you. “Guess you won’t be seeing your little princess friend for a while! BWA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!” Then he turns to bound off, but suddenly, POW!

“YOU INSULT TO THE NAME OF BUNNY RABBITS!” Fredericka screams. She lifts her fist, ready to punch him again. He’s rubbing his head, groaning, and—book-transformed Carlotta’s just a few feet away! You scamper to her and grab her up, then run out of the stadium. Fredericka, seeing that you’ve got Carlotta, abandons Dr. Hare and follows you out of the stadium. Once you’re outside, Fredericka casts a star-shaped gold platform, which you and her hop on, with her holding on to you as you drive the gold platform through the air and away from the stadium, the book-transformed Carlotta tightly clutched in your hand. But suddenly, you hear a yell. You turn for a split second to see Dr. Hare on his own platform, chasing you, cackling wickedly.

“DRIVE FASTER!” Fredericka screams at you. “I’m driving as fast as I can, Princess!” you retort back at her. She groans and murmurs something, which suddenly makes our platform speeding up dramatically. The wind whips your hair and whistles loudly in your invisible ears (since you can’t see Poptropicans’ ears), and suddenly, you feel something slip between your hands and—
“NO! CARLOTTA!!!!” Fredericka screams. She pushes you aside (“HEY!”) and drives the platform in a mad rush to grab the book-transformed Carlotta, who’s falling quickly through the air! But Dr. Hare also notices and steers his platform towards the book-formed princess as well. Fredericka reaches out a hand to grab her nearby book-formed sister, but suddenly, Dr. Hare shoves her aside and grabs Carlotta!

“HEY! YOU DIRTY CHEATER!” both you and Fredericka shriek. Dr. Hare only laughs at you and disappears into the nearby sailing Villain King (when did THAT get here?) and you and Fredericka jump off the platform and onto the deck of the ship, before the blonde princess waves her hand and makes the platform disappear. Then, the two of you start searching for an entrance to get in—

“MAYDAY! MAYDAY! WE’RE GOING DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

You and Fredericka look up to see a spiraling little green plane with smoke coming out of its damaged side, and you catch a glimpse of Coskit inside, trying frantically to steer it, and some brown-haired girl next to her. The brown-haired girl is wearing a pink shirt that has a little name tag on it that says: QUICK FISH. So the girl’s name is Quick Fish.

“RUN!” Fredericka screams, and both you and her are just about to turn to run for your lives when suddenly— BAM!

The little green plane slams right into the deck of the ship and blows you and Fredericka right off your feet and off the ship! You catch a brief glimpse of Coskit and Quick Fish falling in the opposite direction as well. But you frantically wave your arms through the air as you fall, praying inside your head that you and Fredericka won’t get killed once you two land.

Where will you and Fredericka end up? Why are Poptropica’s most evil villains turning Poptropicans into books without pages? What will happen to Carlotta, Green Seal, Scary Tomato, Neat Whale, Coskit, and Quick Fish? And when will Carlotta, Green Seal, and Scary Tomato be rescued? [To be continued in future Poptropican’s 911 issues!]

Island Ideas

It’s time to save the day!

Music Island: by Denise H.

You arrive to an island with green pasture and cottages.(why can’t the be cottage cheese cottages? 😦  )  You walk up to a woman saying “ Welcome to Music Island.”  She tells you to sing. You do. Then, Binary Bard takes away the music notes! You Have recover  them and get the magic golden harp! You play the harp and music is restored!

Bayou Island: by Denise H.

You land in the swamps of Louisiana, go on a adventure that includes gators, egrets, and catfish. The problem? YOU ARE TURNED INTO A FROG! Escape the voodoo shadow man and turn poptropican again!

Money Island: by Kelp346

The DimeTown Mint Has Lost all It’s Money-Making Equipment!  Search in underground caves, on top of buildings, and more To find all of the equipment and save the country!

Celebrity Island: by Golden Goose

First you go to Celebrity Inc then you mean any super star and a new`s reporter is there then there you say stuff into the mike then you become a super star then a new`s paper come`s up and you will be in the new`s paper. Then the reporter will teach you a song called You Belong With Me and Taylor Swift will have a competition with you and she will forget some of the lyric`s and you keep singing and you will win the competition and you will get a medallion from Taylor Swift’s Manager.

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Easter Egg

Stand On Wire: by Lucky Hero

1. Go to Big Nate Island, go on top of the wire.
2. Keep going until you see the chimney.
3. Now, jump!
4. Make sure you land on the chimney to help you. Be sure that the wire is underneath your feet!

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Fashion

Now that spring has sprung, you can walk a little more casually around the streets of Poptropica! Put on a loose jacket, chew some bubble gum, and plant flowers wherever you go and bring smiles to people’s faces!

Here’s Golden Hammer already getting into the swing of things:

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Fan Art

Check out this month’s refreshing new artwork!

Picture of Poptropican: by Goldenbutterfly/Maroonfire23

A simple yet cool line drawing of a Poptropica player’s self portrait.

[This image is no longer available. 😦 ]

Me and My Follower: by Young Tooth

This young Poptropican loves her butterfly follower!

The Grammar Cop Victim’s Fiasco: by Happy Storm

*sigh* No, they are not vampires… been reading too much Twilight? Just kidding!

A Tribute to Golden Eagle: by CoolWing

*sniff* A missed PHB author.

Edison, Poptropica Style: by Hijuyo

Meet Eddie, the Poptropica kid football legend with a victorious attitude!

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