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Did I mention that we are unarmed already?

What are you talking about, unarmed?!?  We've got das Kubelwagen!  Get that sucker north of 80 km/hr and we can be playing fetch with werewolf road kill for the rest of this adventure.  And if that fails my plan is to smash the lamp beer-bottle-style and use it as a slashing weapon.  ( Why isn't there a bottle-smashing emoticon??  Tabata, a little help, please?)

What I basically want to do is just draw up a more square sprite then a rectangular one in PhotoShop with grass so I can place the grass in multiple areas easier.

Do you mean you want to make animated tiles?

I cannot stress enough the importance of keeping 'to-do' lists.

+1

Nothing is better at fighting procrastination than seeing exactly what you need to be working on written out in front of you just as you sit down.

[>> Take evasive action]

Is that a camel spider sneaking up behind us?

If so.....

>> Take evasive action

If not.... +1 for examining the Kubelwagen.

...on some other forums that have been slowly turning into my internet home.

Oh Dualnames.... 

The tune/video/singing were great! My personal opinion would be to reign in the fuzz/distortion that's on the track just a little bit -I like that it gives it that grungy run-down feeling, but it's just enough to be distracting IMO.  I agree that you should not be so self-conscious about your composition/singing skills -I've heard a lot of commercial stuff that is much, much worse.  Keep it up!

The only real question is, when are you going to croon "I'm Dreaming of a Blue Cup Christmas" for us?

[tire iron!]

Weapons just disappear!  What we need is a tire iron!  Those things are like kryptonite to mummies, werewolves, unicorns, garden gnomes, and various other beings of that ilk.

>> Really examine vehicle and surrounding depot area

Logic dictates that the Ensign in question would perish....

[>>Examine vehicle and surrounding depot area]

Right, that's the tents.  Now if I recall page 5 of the thread correctly, there is a single vehicle in the vehicle depot to the EAST, and an archaeological dig to the WEST.  I think we can all agree that the Phantom Menace (or "Ghost in the Darkness", if you will) has something to do with the dig, so I would propose that we scope out the vehicle first, with the goal of finding more clues as to our situation or maybe exchanging our current swag for more useful items (I don't know about you guys, but I'd feel a whole lot safer with a tire iron in my kit).

>>Examine vehicle and surrounding depot area

Alright, we've got nine characters.  Three of these characters must merge with neighbouring characters to produce 6 "solution characters".  There has to be a cue for when mergers take place: a pattern if you will [/Dr. Evil voice].  An obvious cue would be a character itself, but there are not exactly three of any type of character.  This much we know for sure.
    Now to speculate: the only characters in sufficient numbers to indicate the magic 3 mergers are A and C.  Perhaps the rule is when you see "A", it merges with the very next character to create a new one.  So we have AA B C AC AC C.  It is possible that A always merges with the preceding character, but in such a circumstance the first "A" is rather anomalous.  A third possibility is that the cue to merge is the character "C", and that it always merges with the following character, thus: A A B CA CA CC.  Thus rule might be reversed as well (C merges with the preceding character), but that makes the final "C" awkward.  So chances are there are two possiblities:

AA B C AC AC C     or        A A B CA CA CC

The first one has a more satisfying distribution of accreted characters, so let's go out on a limb and examine it more closely (the second one starts with an awkward double letter anyway).  The end of the word draws the eye, since it has a distinct pattern.  It could be anything, but common word endings in this pattern are ELLE, ESSE and ETTE, or (inverting consonants & vowels) NOON, REER, SEES and DEED.  Suddenly plausible (although not yet mentioned in a ballpark manner....) are words like CAREER or INDEED (especially appealing since only vowels require double characters....).

Reconciling all of the above with your thinly veiled hint that Alan v. Drake was pretty close with either a geometric answer (square or matrix) or puzzling one (sudoku) is harder....

The Devil in Miss Jones!  Or Hell Comes To Mayberry.... probably the vintage pornography one.

Did we forget to press ENTER?

AABCACACC

Is it like one of those letter substitution things?  Like A=E, C=S, etc..?

Or do double letters stand for sequential letters, and singles stand for the next letter in line, then skip by twos, thus creating ABCDEFGHI?  I don't know.  I think without a hint it's all just a shot in the dark.  Is the answer

Spoiler

Watermelon?

[close]

So it`s just an everyday normal bird, except that it has some sort of tree allergy so gives them a wide berth?

[Edit:]

CONGRATULATIONS PONCH!!!!!

Edit: P.S. Can you PM me an autographed copy? 

...To fly a distance free...

An aeroplane?

Nothing is ever free on an aeroplane.  Besides, they sometimes end up in trees when they crash.

I'm thinking it's fat girls.  "Bird" is British slang for girl; "flying" can be a synonym for spanning, and indeed they can span some considerable distances at no cost; and fat girls are never EVER in trees, although sometimes they are found lying near felled timber....  As for naming the particular fat girl... well, that could lead to a whole world of politically incorrect fun.  Who's for it?

[>> Pee, then drink a couple canteens worth of water, then rip out Job 4. Then do pee-pee dance, but don't let any more fluid go no matter what!]

you mean we slept longer than just one night until we found out that all our comrades are gone?

OMG we forgot to PEE!

I say we drink as much water as we can right now, just to hyper-hydrate ourselves.  It works for me before a hockey game, so the same should hold true for crossing the desert, since they are more or less the same thing.  And maybe we should just rip out the one bible passage, just to save room?  Who's feeling irreverent?

>> Pee, then drink a couple canteens worth of water, then rip out Job 4.  Then do pee-pee dance, but don't let any more fluid go no matter what!

Is it some manner of shrubbery, then?

No need to apologize!  I too was ensnared by his wistful vision for the future of mankind.  Let it be so!

...or for Ponch (because his utopian dream as laid out in writing competition format is heavenly blissful).

Duck season!