Without a mechos a Vanger can only sit in an escave and listen to Leepky's mumbling. On mechos Vangers ride and carry stuff.

As you get out of Podish, Fostral is all around. These vastitudes are green from mould, with bad roads. On the roadsides stinkhorns grow, beebs creep in the ditches and raffas are all around. You'll see a lot before you get out of this dump, into another.

Eleepods inhabit Fostral. They live in their underground burrows and fear to go out. So they send Vangers. Those fat carcasses scold and teach you life all the time.

A very fat Eleepod. Very bombastic and blown up. The first memory in my life is his annoyed mug. Talks plentifully and enigmatically, guess that's why he calls himself "The Counselor of Podish".

That's how Eleepods call their main burrow. It's deep under the ground. A very wet and slippery place. Podish is easy to find-just ride down all the time and you're there. Leepky rules in Podish, the fat Eleepod.

An underground place where hucksters sit. They never get out to the surface and rot in their burrows. A Vanger doesn't have much to do down there. The hucksters sell mechos and some stuff. Several hatches on the ground lead into these burrows. There are two escaves on Fostral: Podish and Incubator.

Leepky tries to scare me with it all the time. An Eleepod can't creep on his own, he needs the pod. In the pod they'll lick and tickle him, smear him with mucus and do other stuff. I wouldn't like living in a pod. How can I share beebs with another Vanger?

Apart from Leepky, there are other Eleepods in Podish. I've never seen them, however. All in all, they're called a bunch: all the creatures that live in an escave. Leepky said, I'm not from their bunch. Sure, I ain't never gonna rot in their stinking escave.

I've got a huge metallic chain in my mechos. And Leepky told me something about The Chain of Worlds. They're not the same. There are some other worlds besides Fostral that I gotta drop by. They're Glorx, Necross, Xplo and some abandoned worlds. All together they're called The Chain of Worlds.

Larva is Eleepods' idol. Leepky asks to bring it. But what it is and where to catch it-he can't tell, just thrills and swells. Also, Larva gives the cirt, and Eleepods need it too. But anyway, it's all very obscure.

Beeboorats live on Glorx. Eleepods fear them terribly. They scold Beeboorats even more than me. I can tell they're good. They won't teach me all the time. Wanna go to the good Beeboorats!

If you ever manage to get out of Fostral, you'll get right to Glorx. Beeboorats live there. Eleepods say, there's a lot of water on that world. Water sucks. But for the Beeboorats' sake I'm ready for anything. Just not to see Leepky and his pod. Also, a thief escaped to Glorx that I chased through half the world. But I'll get 'im sometime anyway.

They're such feeble mechos. Guess they're for those dumb Vangers who can't even remember the way from Podish to Incubator. But they know the way to my hideouts well. I kicked the scoundrels off my place a couple times. They're agile freaks, but even a stinker can kill them.

I've brought a lot of stuff to Leepky, but never came across a kuzowock. The fatty sees them in his dreams. I've asked him many times about kuzowocks and every time he fears that I steal his. Never tells me what they are.

Incubator is Eleepods' second escave. If you ride from Podish up all the time, you'll get right there. Vangers ship nymbos to Incubator. This place is very wet and hot. Guess that's why they don't sell mechos there-they would rot out alive in that hole.

Sticky Eleepods, good Beeboorats and odd Zeexen are all bioses. Each bios lives on their own world. That's because they can't stand each other.

In Podish you can take as much of it as you want. They're such yellow glossy clots. You have to ship them into Incubator, but quick. Fresher nymbos costs more. Leepky says, Beeboorats like eating it; he always fears that I steal some and sell it to them.

Once I came across a box on the road. Brought it to Leepky. He swelled from joy and said it was cirt. The cirt that the mysterious Larva leaves. I didn't catch the Larva then, didn't even spot it leaving the cirt. Later Feenger said that Vangers pick up the cirt themselves.

I'm the Vanger. Well, other ramblers like me and raffas are Vangers too. Only Vangers can ride on the worlds on mechos. It's only due to Vangers that all those underground carcasses live: you bring them nymbos, you get them cirt.

Feenger is an Eleepod that sits in Incubator. He's not as fat as Leepky, but looks the same. Maybe while I'm going through Fostral, Leepky quickly crawls under the ground and meets me in Incubator? And loses weight on the way? But why would he need that? And how does he plump out again? Unclear... They also tell tales about some pod, like Feenger is Leepky, but another one...

When Eleerection comes, Feenger gives an eLeech to every Vanger who wishes. It's such a little twisted worm. You have to drive him straight to Podish, without turning off the road. Else the eLeech dies, and you'll be in a bad plight. Better don't look at Leepky when he gets angry at the sight of a dead eLeech. As I got it, eLeech is a juvenile Eleepod that just reincarnated from a pod-eater who had plumped out to death.

I've had enough trouble with this mucus from Incubator. Too sticky and gooey. You should bring it to Podish where you can sell it. The local Eleepods swim in it and smear each other with it, the stupid dolts. Guess if I smeared my mechos with this stuff, it would rust out at once.

They're those glowing stars on Fostral. I've spotted three of them. Been thinking long of getting into one. But it just tosses me up all the time. Other Vangers can get into them. They turn into a cloud of specks and the circle draws them in. And you can't get 'em anymore. Through a Passage you can get into another world. Leepky says, a key is needed for the travel...

Zeexen live on Necross. Feenger says they like fairytales. If I ever get to them, I'll sure ask them why Leepky and Feenger are so much alike, where the beebs hide, what's beyond the mountains near to Incubator, and where to find Leepky's kuzowocks. I'll ask them everything!

Eleerection is when many Vangers with eLeeches in their bays race at full speed from Incubator to Podish. You better keep off the road else they're gonna tread you into the ground. They hurry because Leepky forks out a heap of beebs to the winner. I won an Eleerection once. Another win and I'll get the key to Glorx.

They say nothing of it, just send me to Zeexen. I guess it's after The Clash when Eleepods got hidden in their burrows and never emerged since then. There musta been something horrible.

It seems Softie made all those Passages. I wouldn't believe that the lazy Eleepods made them. And they don't know nothing about Softies. I've been through the length and breadth of Fostral, but never saw them. But I saw an abandoned Passage, nobody ever gets out of it. Maybe they're hiding behind that Passage?

Cryspo are odd beasts that crept on Fostral long ago, when Eleepods didn't even exist. Zeexen can tell about this, but where do I get them now? Sometime I'll catch a zeex and grind her down with questions.

Beebs are little bugs. They creep on Fostral in huddles. I love treading them down, but they often dodge nimbly. They can even get on the mechos and bite something off. You can exchange their skins for some goods in the shop. I wonder, how do Eleepods get beebs themselves? Guess they smear phlegma around escave and beebs get stuck to it. And I've heard beebs have their own escaves!

Zeexen live on Necross. To get there, you need to get to Glorx first. I once saw a mechos plastered with some motley mud and ooze. Guess it's from Necross. There's no such yucky stuff on Fostral. Guess it's a slimy place.

When many Eleepods creep together, they can arrange a P-beam. Leepky boasts of it, says that with the P-beam they can see through anything. Gotta ask them to find that big gun that I once lost in the river near Incubator.

I was digging in Leepky's burrow when he told me about this, so I didn't remember anything. That's something inherent to Eleepods.

During the Plump-up Eleepods swell enormously in their escaves and produce nymbos. Many even burst from the effort. If you go to Incubator during this phase, you can be in time for eLeech giveaways.

If I don't bring the eLeech to Podish before Gulp-down starts, he's dead. And me too. Eleepods watch this. During Gulp-down everything gets darker. Fostral chills out.

There once lived a bios. They'd pick up the cirt, send Vangers to and fro, then they disappeared. It's somehow connected with the Larvae. Maybe Eleepods gonna vanish soon too. That would be fun. I would dig in their escaves to my mechos' content!

A box to ship cirt. Else it's gonna rot. It's expensive in the shop-a cumbersome crock.