Cubeworld "Penguins, Aliens and Blackjack"

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Cubeworld

"Penguins, Aliens and Blackjack"

The Assignment

For the assignment "Cubeworld" we were tasked with creating a world inside a 20m x 20m (the height wasn't specified) cube. We also had three themes to work with, mine were: Artic, Evil and Crater.

The Story

Contrary to popular believe, Humans aren’t the most intelligent species on planet Earth. They are actually ranked 7th, with penguins taking the first place, closely followed by the Philodendron scandens (a common house plant). During one of their secret subglacial experiments, the penguins send out a high energy beam of gamma rays, which travelled through the galaxy at the speed of light. 500 years later (the time it takes for light to get to the Kepler-186 system), an alien who hates his job gets a notification on his monitoring device which is not that dissimilar to a modern-day egg timer. After long exhausting talks with only short ten-minute breaks, the aliens who call themselves Kelkeons, decide that they should send out an exploratory vessel to investigate the mysterious signal. The vessel arrives after a couple of seconds of travelling at superluminal speeds while wiping away the interstellar mosquitos of its windscreen. When on earth, the alien tracks the signal to Antarctica. It flooped. Which is the thing a Kelkeon does when the scan a surface of an alien planet for gamma rays. (To floop is also defined as the action of buying a Grombal burger on Sqlopius 4 and then dropping it after one bite because your brain literally melted from the Muskian Death Pepper). After having located the source of the gamma rays, the young kelkeon found a group of penguins in the midst of playing Blackjack. One of these curious creatures turned out to be the smartest being in the galaxy. “Such an intelligent creature shouldn’t live on a planet filled with so many dumb humans.” The Kelkeon thought. He beamed up the penguin and took it to his home planet (stopping at Sqlopius 4 for a Grombal burger of course, he had 42 brains anyway).