Yard Model

The Yard Model was a large section of Agma Schwa's childhood backyard that, with a hose and shovels, served as the basis for El Fwonk Casanosia.

The Yard Model lasted for over 7 years, from the summer of 2006 until late June 2014, from the time when Agma Schwa was 7 and 14 years old.

Agma Schwa and several of his friends built cities, lakes, and rivers in the red-clay soil of his parents’ yard, working together to play out battles and other historic events that roughly correspond to the chaotic period of the early War of the Continent, especially between 2008 and 2013.

It is from a Chilean Mesquite Tree overhanging the Yard Model that the concept of “The Ick” originated. Each April, the Mesquite Tree bloomed, dropping mass quantities of sticky flowers that made a mess in the yard. After the release of the Spongebob Squarepants episode “Fungus Among Us,” this mass of sickly yellow-green matter was associated with the fungus shown in that episode, wherein the fungus was referred to as “the Ick.”

Use of the Yard Model declined in 2013 and 2014, during a period where canonically the Peninsula was left in ruin from war and strong Ick epidemics. This was interpreted by Agma Schwa’s parents as “a mess,” which was “cleaned up” without Agma Schwa’s knowledge while away at a Boy Scout Camp. When he returned from the camp, he found the Yard Model was destroyed.

Various relics have been found in the dirt over the years and have been kept in a safe location since. From 2014 onward, the lore of the In Pursuit of Bez world would be revamped to make more sense, leading eventually to what we have today.