Left, right ... okay, stop and think. Right this could be easier. How about down here? Oh! A rose! How nice. So not that way. And another rose - there are a lot of roses round here! What's that growling? My stomach, as usual, and where is the giggling coming from? Not me!

When Wurm is not about survival, or communities, or war plans, or just finding your next meal, Wurm is about projects. From little cosy villages to massive undertakings, Wurm delivers big time!

The giggling belonged, predictably enough, to young Tich, one of the co-conspirators who have decided to drive all right thinking Wurmians half mad with their new maze by Rockcliff Lookout in the homelands of Jenn Kellon. Somewhere around May 2008, the project-mad residents of Rockcliff began the massive task of building a Wurm sized maze based on the famous Hampton Court maze found near London UK. But rather than nice neat little hedges punctuated by the laughter (and occasional panic) of a thousand London 5 year olds and their parents, this version consists of whopping great big ramparts, decorated by a thousand rose bushes, and soon to be made even more massive by the addition of tall stone walls on top of everything else. "Silly Masons," Uzetaab mumbles when I comment on the two rather lonely sections of wall currently near the central area. "Yes, was our masons descision!" Confirmed Tich, mentioning no names. The size of the project is truly immense. From atop Rockcliff Lookout (an impressive enough tower in its own right) I had to balance on tip toes on the far side to actually get the maze to fit into my camera lens. The maze is some forty two tiles wide and fifty four tiles long, plus the high walkway that surrounds it. This meant leveling a huge area on top of a natural low plateau before construction on the carefully mapped project could begin.

This is not the first time that these eager diggers have made a maze. Their first attempt was on a previous land of Wurm, but this one is substantially bigger and the more impressive for all that. On the rare occasions I make it up to this area of Jenn Kellon, I enjoy my visits. Gathered around were Tich (who has been nagging me to come look see for months) Uzetaab, Neddie and Annette.

"So by the time it is finished," I asked hopefully, " it will have taken around a year?"
"Yes," Tich affirmed, "But we are not in a hurry."
"Doing two or three other projects too," Neddie explained. "We start other things, then we come back to this."
"We swap around to keep our interest up," added Tich.

Apparently, other projects include a spire, another chess set, "and there is the water tunnel across the Island," supplied Uzetaab. When I managed to make my way to the tunnel, Tich was waiting for me outside the stone door. Despite the restrictions for tunnel entrances to be only one tile wide, this is, or will be an impressive water entrance as you can see. Inside, it is wonderful! The tunnel is five tiles wide, cut just a little above water level at either side, then the centre mined down to create the canal down the middle. A perfect example of well planned engineering - and on my travels around the many fields and mountains and steppes of this world, I have seen many great designs.

"Annette does most of it," Tich pointed out as we walked down the smoothly cut walkways. And that says so much about the project that is Rockcliff - everyone does something. Slacking is not an option, and nor does anyone want to slack. They all want this, and they all want to do it - so they just get on with it. It is difficult to see who the driver, organiser or inspiration for any of the projects is, but there is no doubting from where the enthusiasm pours like a crystal clear spring.

"Shes' a good girl," mentioned Neddie referring to the ever bouncy Tich. "Slave driver, but a good girl."