Chapter 42B: Immorternity Festivus Eggs

Here's some things you may or may not have missed and may or may not find interesting in the previous forty-two chapters, in no particular logical order:

• The name Baer was derived from an alternative name 'Water bears' for Tardigrades.
• Baer's partner Siotha is short for 'significant other'.
• Scientists believe the second hottest planet ever found is orbiting Vega, where iron is found in gas form in its atmosphere (so that is why the Tardigrades left).
• Eddy and Ava's names have been derived from Adam and Eve.
• They live in Eden Drive, Oxford, which really exists. Number 42 does not (anymore?).
• Their dad has the initials JWHW.
• If you put the landing coordinates of the explorers from Vega in the What3words location app / website, it yields ///note.spun.intended , which was the closest I could get to 'No pun intended' in order to follow the NO PUNS rule.
• The grail image in chapter 23 is an actual photo, taken in a German Schwarzwald hamlet of Ramstein, near Schramberg, at what3words location ///ordain.generosity.believe , which I find quite fitting for a grail chapel.
• The cover art photo for the whole thing (the butterflies on flower), was taken in the Butterfly Temple area of Wildlands adventure Zoo in Emmen, The Netherlands.
• Although someone of Irish descent is allowed to become Prime Minister of the UK, I am not sure this also applies for someone who only has a passport from the Irish Republic.
• Miss June is the first female PM after Theresa May.
• The double use of Medusa. Chapter 1: primal jellyfish species, chapter 10 and after: demigoddess and self-proclaimed main Jury member.
• 'COVID-24 chocolate-borne vaccine from Malta': A.k.a. Maltesers.
• The suicidal chickens were already briefly mentioned in chapter 12.
• The parcel containing the green stuff has a 'Pony Express' stamp on it, meaning it was posted in 1860 or 1861.
• Caoilinn's motorbike is the BSA A65 lightning used in the James Bond movie 'Thunderball'. She wasn't allowed to drive it with the missiles mounted.
• The infernal collapsing high chair really exists. I know from personal experience.
• Google Maps and Street view were heavily used to describe the walk from Primary school to the fictional Saint Judtmiss College in chapter 9.
• They sing the 'Cheesy Poofs' song from the South Park animated sitcom while walking through South Parks Road.
• Baer suggests that the whole COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period was a case of forced house arrest for humanity gone out of hand, in chapter 13.

I hope you liked it. I do.

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