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List of Elemenstor Gearstrike delays

One of the more plagued productions of non-Wizbits animation, Elemenstor Gearstrike has suffered repeated delays and setbacks, some more profitable than others. In order of occurance (although exact dates are fuzzy):

• First day: Richard Gray insinuates that Izumi Suzuki is a secretary and/or prostitute, leading to a hiccup in relations.
• First hour of first day: Richard Gray convinces entire Japanese team to refer to him as "Dick Gray-San."
• Second hour of first day: first claimed sighting of Alexi Chandler hovering above a lamp-post outside the studio, briefly illuminated by a flash of thunder in a sudden, inexplicable thunderstorm.
• Second-and-a-half hour of first day: first "Alexi Chandler does not haunt us" meeting interrupted by second claimed sighting of Alexi Chandler as the mysterious "unclaimed shadow".
• Fifth day: discussion for scripts interrupted by first climactic duel. System of pullies and wires slows down the fight to placid levels.
• Ninth day: Hal Burton claims that there are rats in the walls.
• Tenth day: Rats in the walls make first attempt to claim the coffee room; the gambit is successful, and the teams suffer a crippling blow to their caffiene supplies.
• Twelfth day: "War of the Rats" comes to an end when Annonymous Miranda gets permission from General Defense Dynamics to use the dread Ender of Vermin, clearing out the studio.
• Day 17: First character designs turned in. Many, including Mayumi, are approved.
• Day 18: Character designs mysteriously defiled; "BRAINWORMS" written in red Magic Marker on most early sketches. Handwriting later determined to be Lord ElamenSTAR Q's.
• Day 23: Nothing happens on this day. Seemingly.
• Day 25: Attempt at writing second episode script interrupted by rampant drunkenness and impromptu recording of the studio album Oak and Pine Sing Obscure Rock Songs. Limited release of the album proves a great success..
• Day 33: Ninth sighting of Alexi Chandler results in the legendary Brad Aviar "Bradcast," as well as wide dispersion of emergency foxfire and cold iron packets.
• Day 38: Episode one completes animation. Drunken revelry had by all, accidentally destroying episode one and requiring its recreation.
• Day 42: Episode one successfully re-animated. Drunken revelry aimed at local resturaunt.
• Day 45: Losses from resturaunt destruction successfully recouped by wandering the streets and beating up random brigands and taking their money. Defeat of the "final boss" results in a windfall of cash, which also furnishes the creation of episode 2.
• Day 50: Episode two created. Revelry not undertaken, both to conserve the budget and because a sighting of both wall-dwelling rats and a miscelleneous "shadow person" scare the superstitious members of the cast straight.
• Day 58: Episode three completed. Kintaru Ikari, one of the Japanese writers, faces down Richard Gray in a three-bottle battle, and to the surprise of many, emerges victorious. Kintaru counts coup (say that three times fast) on Richard, who is now referred to as "that stupid foreigner" until he successfully defeats Kintaru.
• Day 62: First three episodes screened, are immediately pirated.
• Day 65: Scrpiting for episode four encounters a stumbling block when Garth Ennis's script loops into a mysterious series of poorly-spelled messages referenced as The Langomedes-on-Ennis Automatic Writings.
• Day 70: Episode four, Gleaners, completed, thanks to new "coterminous animation technique" taht involves hot candle wax and the occasional brandished shotgun.
• Day 73: Massive explosion rocks the studio, along with a hideous stench of burnt popcorn. Richard Gray found responsible for putting in every microwave popcorn pouch in the building into the largest microwave and rigging it to run on "obscenely high."
• Day 78: Script complete for episode five, Walking Death. Portion of the script to be released online pending translation by author.
• Day 80: New "animation laser" arrives. Before it is turned on, it is immediately destroyed with a shovel by an enraged Suki Akira. She claims to have been briefly posessed by Alexi Chandler, which has been reinforced when it was found she used her foxglove and cold iron to add flavor to her rice at lunch.
• Day 81: Salvaging the ruins of the animation laser reveals it is built around the Peerless Automaton of Translation's old AI. Pending kangaroo-court trial by Suki Akira replaced by extra ration of lukewarm American beer.
• Day 120: The Sovreign Animation Nation Incident comes to a close, with Richard Gray exported from both the United States and Japan. Production continues on the series.

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