Jack and Stephen to the pole...

[nid_dabeille]

Or about as close as they're going to get for a good long while.  The north pole, that is.

When last we heard from our poppets, they were journeying through the arctic tundra, overcoming great obstacles...

And now, they journey well into the arctic, up above even the arctic circle where no poppet has gone before.

Facing great perils!!!






"STEPHEN!!  Clap on to the ice!   Are you all right???"


"Hold fast and don't move!  I'm coming down!"


"Stephen!!!  Stephen, can you hear me?  Just hold on!  I'll get you out of there!"


"Just one more pull - heave!"


"Stephen, look, a boat!  I'll ask these Eskimos if they can give us a lift.  Hello!  Hello!  Stephen, speak to them."
"By all that is holy, I believe I see the immature spotted seal...!"


"I remember there was a story about Admiral Nelson, when he was a young midshipman in the far north, encountering a - STEPHEN!!!"
"There, honey, there is nothing to fear."


"Come, Stephen, this place is far too dangerous for us!"


"I can't seem to make myself understood.  I asked this fellow for soused hog's face."
"Perhaps it is because you speak the Castillian Spanish, and he speaks the Inupiaq Spanish of Mexican Alaska.  Shall I try?"


"Well, we're safe and sound for tonight in the ice cave.  Let's just hope that it doesn't snow on top of us."
"Amen!"


Note:  Actual poppets were hurt during the making of this adventure.  Stephen Poppet performed all his own stunts - entirely by accident.

Comments

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Well, it was actually the frozen arctic ocean, so I suppose it's natural that he should lose his footing. The ice IS the sea! In that first fall, I wasn't meaning for him to be fallen at all. I had just posed him standing next to Jack when he toppled over and landed like that, his hand stuck in the snow midway down the crevasse! In the other fall (where he's pictured head-down), I was trying to pose him again but the ice was too slippery and there was no foot-hold at all for him, poor dear (nor for Jack.) Also my little fingers were getting frozen, or my mittens were making me clumsy if I kept them on. How I suffer for my dear poppets! But I love them. :D