guruzeth was wandering around fairly aimlessly, not even sure where he was anymore (Summers? Fiveville? Fourside? he was wondering), delved in thoughts, generally along the line of "what the heck's been going on here?"
Delved? I'm not even sure if there's any such word as 'delved'. Not in that context, anyway. I guess he wanted to be fancier than 'absorbed'.Suddenly, he heard a voice gasp his name behind him.
He turned. It was a familiar face belonging to the person standing a ways behind him, kneeled over and panting, apparently having been sprinting. "I MUST know her.." The Rolodex in his head started spinning, until he came to it.
Nice imagery."Tracy?" He jogged back up the hill.
Why all the running? You kids afraid someone will separate you if you don't hurry?"guru!" she said when she had caught her breath. "Where've you been?"
"Caught in the deadly vortex of junk computers," guruzeth said.
Yeah, this was guruzeth's triumphant return after being off the internet. In about March 2000 my mother brought home an AOL PLATINUM disc and ordered me to install it, which I dutifully did. Our Pionex™ brand computer (never heard of that company? There's a good reason for that) immediately ceased allowing internet access. Oh, I could sign onto AOL, get my AOL email, log onto AOL chatrooms (the horror, the horror), but nothing outside AOL's stuff. No internet. That went on for about three months before I purchased an HP Pavilion with my own money, and had a safer version of AOL installed on it. That was around the first of May."Where are you going?" said Tracy. "Can I go with you?"
guruzeth laughed. "I really have no idea where I'm going... perhaps I should be the one asking to go with you. As long as you have some idea where we're going... what's going on here? Where's all the adventure?"
Oh, that, my very stupid friend, is a very, very dangerous question to be asking.
Post #822, by SaturnAl
When Siris, Osman, and ALAN(you forgot me, PSIOsman!!!!)figured out they were in the lost underworld, they went to the tenda cage and took a rest.
Yeah, I think it's more he got tired of you never posting except when you're being forgotten.They talked to the rock and it said, "WHAT?!?! you're not ness! What are you doing here?"
A fine question, dear rock, a fine question."We are collecting the fire springs melody, so we can have all of the melodies for power to defeat Lavos," Osman said.
"What?" said the talking rock. "I only know about Giygas."
Even rocks know the Lavos thing is dumb!The three headed onto fire springs, defeating dinosaurs on the way. When they met carbon dog, it was an easy victory.
"Alan, put out this flame," Osman said.
He used Tsunami, and the flames were put out, and Carbon dog turned into diamond dog. None of there attacks were working.
Oh man, Tengu is going to own this kid's soul over Diamond Dog."I have an idea!" Siris yelled.
Alan and siris both concentrated on the Scimitar, and it started to glow with a mix of the three's PSI. With the scimitar, Osman Slashed Carbon Dog who was sent flying into a wall, and split in two.
Wait, what? You already whacked Carbon Dog? You were fighting Diamond Dog?
Maybe he realized mid-post that Tengu was about to light him up like a movie marquee.Alan, Siris, and Osman absorbed the melody of Fire Springs!
Great.
Post #823, by TsuramiSea
TsuramiSea walked through the trees, leading somewhere he didn't know. He sighed. "I hope pogopunk'll be all right... something was wrong, I know it. But he seemed so insistent I go. Hope his brain wasn't being taken over..." Then, he realized something. "He... stopped saying baby-eater! He must've been going back to normal! Wow.... hope he's okay." Tsurami decided to pray some more for Tim, and for pogopunk as well.
T**r*m**ea kept praying for Tim.
Using that EarthBound gimmick was kind of neat at first, but it's beyond tired now. What's this, the tenth time someone's used the asterisks and the praying-for construct? Fifteenth? Time for a new gag.After finishing his prayer for pogopunk, TsuramiSea abruptly got another psychic call. [Somebody SAVE me!] it cried. Tsurami stopped for a moment, startled. Who was that? he thought. Was it that Tim again? No, it had sounded different. TsuramiSea decided that he would continue on his way and wait for another call with more information.
Wait, was that Anthadd? I think it was Anthadd.After some walking, Tsurami stepped out of the trees into a familiar area. It was a clearing, with a large building off to the left that looked like the Onett library. "Wah! I'm in Onett!" cried Tsurami. He wandered around a bit, straying near the traveling entertainers' shack. Suddenly a Runaway Dog appeared and growled at him!
Oh, that's exciting. It's like Tsurami's experimenting to see just how boring a thing that's already been done he can do again.Tsurami got nervous. Could he really fight an enemy? He'd never done it before in his life (although he and his friends had attacked each other before).
[EBounding] LOL! Want to know what's mad funny? Playing Goldeneye with 'Bein' Friends' playing in the backgroundBut, wanting to protect himself, and live his daydream, TsuramiSea brandished his mallet with as calm a look as he could manage.
You... daydream of beating dogs to death.
Man, this kid and Mike Vick would have made great business partners.The Runaway Dog lunged at Tsurami, but he bashed it on the head. It whimpered. Tsurami wondered if that was it, when the dog bit him in the leg.
TsuramiSea let out a hideous wail of pain. He'd never felt such strong pain before!
You can tell this kid didn't get much exercise!He bet that his HP was rolling down to null right then. He swung at the dog again with his mallet, and it hit it in the leg. The dog limped away whining, as it was tamed. TsuramiSea felt a strange feeling of triumph come over him, and shouted happily. He'd won his first real battle! But, his bleeding leg soon stopped his celebration. He turned his head away in fear.
"Wait! If this is really EarthBound, eating food heals you quickly!" TsuramiSea pulled out an apple from his backpack and gnawed on it.
That was clutch thinking right there. Food truly does heal all wounds.The pain in his leg subsided. After he finished the apple, he looked back at his leg to see that the wound was already healing well! Tsurami smiled, and walked around some more.
Damn it, Tsurami, stop using exclamation points for everything! They lose their effect that way! And the reader gets annoyed because the writer is trying to tell him this is important! But it's not! The writer is lying!He encountered another Runaway Dog, but all it did was howl, so it was tamed pretty quickly. TsuramiSea continued to walk around the clearing, wanting to bring his level up, and waiting for another telepathic call..... then he could adventure further...
So if I have this right, you can't or won't write any content until someone else invites you to join up with them. OK, that would be an example of how to do it wrong. I sentence you to two to three years of adventuring with loid and Foppy King.
Post #824, by Falcon24
Falcon was quickly recovering from his wounds.
As ACs always do, unless they want to be angsty.At last he stood up, hot-headed and fearful.
That is a very good self-description for Falcon24 in general, actually.Lavos needed to be killed, and fast. He began to pace around while the others fought off Lavos, trying to think of his next attack. He turned to Lavos. He noticed the eye. Falcon made a small fingering motion, as if trying to poke Lavos in the eye. "Hmm...that's gotta be his weak point. I know that if I got poked in the eye, it'd hurt..so.."
He turned to the rest and shouted. "Aim for the eye! Try to wound it! I'll see if I can get in close and hurt it in its weakened state!" Falcon crouched low to the ground and took on a pre-eminent charge stance. He placed one hand on the Gutsy Bat at his side and prepared to charge.
So let me get this straight. Lavos is basically a giant armored spiked shell with an eye in the center of it. And your plan, so brilliant and creative that it has never been thought of before by human minds, is to attack the eye? As opposed to the armored spiked shell.
Man, that does sound like a great plan.
Post #825, by 000001:20000505-5-000254.cgi,
Fooled you. There is no text in this post. 000001:20000505-5-000254.cgi, is actually the mythical and dreaded Forum Mini-Ghost, which appeared when something broke in the forum and magically erased random stuff. Fortunately it spared the Gathering, probably because the Gathering is what created the Forum Mini-Ghost, by creating threads too long for the forum software to handle.So yes, this is the end of Thread 2. There are four full threads, plus a fifth that is only two pages long. We are, in terms of post count, right around the halfway point. (Probably slightly short of it.) Four cheers for us!You don't think I'm going to finish this annotation. But I am. By the way, my best estimate is that this blog contains roughly 250,000 words now. We'll easily clear half a million and might actually approach a million before we're done.
