Why Dung?
Pull up a seat and keep your shoes on, this is going
to be a very messy story.
Hi, my name is Durenity and I am addicted to
collecting piles of dung. I get asked at least once or twice a week; "Why do you
collect stinky dung items and most of all Piles of dung? And what
are you going to do with all that dung?"
Well, I would have to say it all began with the coming
of Meridell and Meri Acres Farms *Pick your own berries*.
(Which if I'm not mistaken use to be much cheaper.) And
shortly following came the invention of the Avatars.
Just so happen that the dung avatar was the first that I received.
One day back before this insane Dung addiction. I
remember they were having one of those polls on the
main page asking " If there could be a new land which would you choose?" Now I
can not remember the other
options but I do remember I chose the Medieval land thinking to
myself " Wow, it would be awesome to see a cool medieval
theme land around Neopia." Then about
six months later, there it was, sitting innocently next
to Neopia Central. Now in the beginning I remember it
to be much different than it is now but
the one thing that seemed to stick out in the very
beginning was the *Pick your Own Berries on Meri Acres Farms. I thought it was
funny how you could be pick'in for berries and
instead of finding delicious Loveberrys, Mortogberrys
or even Half-eaten berries, you would suddenly find a piece of wool, or a piece of barb
wire, or even better a NICE FRESH PILE OF DUNG. Everyday it seemed that
I would collect more and more piles of smelly dung and as hard as I tried I could not sale it in the shops
nor trade it in the auctions, and now the money tree will not
even take it. So, there it sat in my Safety Deposit Box, until one
day, I came across a dung bed from the Tyrannian Furniture store and thought to
myself, wow that's cool not only are there piles of dung floating
around Neopia they make furniture, also. Seeing that the price of the furniture was
not that much at the time I purchased a few pieces here and there and threw
them in my gallery. Every time I would find a piece furniture or food
made of dung I would buy it until I had almost an entire collection.
Then one day, after about a week or so (or Longer) of not being
able to get on or around a computer, I signed on to find the invention of the Avatars
and somehow I managed
to hear about the dung avatar and seeing that I had
already began my collection, the dung avatar became
the first avatar I would work to receive.
When the SDB avatar came along I used all my dung
items and other gallery items to help fill it up and when
I finally had finished after almost one whole year of
collecting items for my Safety Deposit box
I started to empty it and found several piles of dung
left and not knowing what to do with them I decided to
keep them and see how many I could actually
collect. I started by buying every piece of dung I
could find for under two Np. Then I found someone that
had over one hundred piles and I bought all of them in a single day.
It took only one week to reach Four Hundred piles and now I
receive and buy piles randomly every day. My collection is
growing and soon I should reach the Six hundred
mark. My collection of Piles have been
growing so fast that I can not seem to
make my gallery big enough to hold it all so I keep my
smelly piles of dung in my safety deposit box
until the day I have
collected all the Dung in Neopia. ::Mawwhaaha::
Now I am pretty sure that this may be impossible because
dung is produced everyday .However I will do my best to
help keep Neopia clean from piles of dung. Even if it means
filling up my Safety Deposit box day after day.
And even if I can not collect all the dung in Neopia
Maybe one day I will be named the Stinkiest of all Neopia.
Until then if you ever come across or get caught
stepping on a pile of dung, don't just discard it. Send it
on over, I will be more than glad to take it off your
hands (or should I say feet).
If you would like to see my collection just stop by
anytime but remember to watch your step it tends to
get a bit messy sometimes with all that stinky dung
lying around everywhere. Also be cautious of my pets
they tend to have dung fight every now and then. When
that happens dung flies and sometimes lands on
unexpected neopians. ::Ewwwww::
So finally I would like to say after three years of
Neopets you would think that I would have found a
better hobby than collecting stinky Dung. I have
collected several other types of items but the most
interesting item it seems for me to collect is dung. I
do not know why it is so fasinating.Just the thought of
being able to say. "Hey did you know that I have Five
Hundred and Forty Piles of dung, or You better watch
out or I will toss dung at you" seems so great to me.
And now for the answer to the grueling question asked
by so many. Why Dung?
Well, why not. Where else besides Neopia could someone
collect such a stinky thing and get away with it. No
other place that I can think of and what better way
to keep that sneaky Pant Devil away than to have an
inventory full of dung. Have you ever known him to
steal dung? I haven't!
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