"Wow, this is so great!" Tracy exclaimed. She ran toward the different little booth-type areas. She nealt down to examine a small glass bottle.
She means knelt. I usually don't point out all of Traceh's typos (I'm a busy man), but I thought there was a chance some reader out there might be unable to figure out what she was trying to spell there. kik.guruzeth was a few turbans away, checking out the legendary pig noses. He grabed a small one and payed the man, gawking at his wallet (which seemed to be shrinking by the second).
Well, if he'd quit leaving the damn thing in his pants pocket every night, it wouldn't get washed all the time and it wouldn't keep shrinking."guru! Come here quick! You gotta see this!" Tracy hollared over the humming noise of the market. He made his way to the booth.
"There is something inside this...bottle, guru. See?" She held up the small purple bottle which held some type of bug. Tracy handed it to him and he took a closer look.
"Looks like a bug, but nothing I've seen before," he replied, still eyeing the small creature inside.
And we care about an insect some salesman's kid caught in a bottle because..?"We'll take it!" Tracy told the glass blower, sliding her opal ring off her ring finger and placing it in his browned palm. "I wager this is a fair trade." She flinched as he tossed her ring into his rough brown bag.
Wait. Did she just trade an opal ring for an insect? What kind of economy is this? That had better be some kind of damn fine bottle. Maybe it's a Zelda-style magic bottle. You could catch bugs in those, right?They walked off a bit and guruzeth turned to her. "What did you do that for?" he asked, Tracy catching the slight look of pain he made from the head wound.
Yeah, but the dislocated shoulder ain't no thang."I didnt want to," she replied, "but I have a feeling about this little bug. Trust me okay?" guru proceded to find a small bistro with gooood food, relativly cheap for Eagleland standards.
I like how she drew out 'gooood' for effect. It's a variation on "delicious" writers everywhere should try.After eating and readying for the journey they both looked up to catch a breath taking sight-the sun setting behind the pyamids in the distance. "Wow...," sighed Tracy.
Honestly, it's like they're in some kind of competition with Chris here. But I guess that's part of the fun of IF, writing breathtaking scenery and pretending you're seeing it yourself.
With someone special.
Sorry. I couldn't resist. You knew I wouldn't be able to resist, right?"Okay, well if we're gonna get there any time soon, we better get going," guruzeth said. He pointed to some shadowed figures next to the wall that seemed to be... spitting? "How are you at camel riding?"
"How about your VERY OWN, BRAND NEW.... CAMEL! (Watch out: they spit.) remains one of my favorite Aladdin lines.
Post #882, by guruzeth
This is ten minutes behind Traceh's post. guruzeth was on his computer all the time."Um, hehe, I couldn't say," said Tracy. "I haven't done it before."
Riding even a tamed and trained quadruped with no training is very difficult and likely to produce comical results."Ah, well, me neither," said guruzeth. "But I like to live dangerously. He went to check out the camel. "Good, two humps," he said. "We can each take one, but who does this camel belong to?"
The jokes are so obvious I'm not even going to write them. Now I'm starting to perceive why PSI322 was so annoyed by the whole thing. Even if it was unintentional, well, there is a lot of unintentional... shall we say, tension in here."It says it's a public camel," said Tracy, pointing to the sign near the camel's feet that said "PUBLIC CAMEL: FREE."
LOL @ Public Camel. Not so sure I'd want to ride one of those."Ah yes," said guruzeth. "I was just... checking to see if you were paying attention. Shouldnt' be too much different from a horse..." He clambered up into the front one of the two saddles, and Tracy climbed into the back one. guruzeth took the reins.
guruzeth once again pretends to be an expert when he doesn't have a clue. I have never ridden a horse in my life."Hmmm..." he gave a small pull on the reins, and the camel started walking, slowly, toward the Pyramid...
Because the camel is trained to go to the Pyramid without the rider having to aim it? Or perhaps it's a telepathic camel that just knows where its rider wants to go.
Post #883, by Chris
Chris seems perfectly happy at this point to regard Juliana as a fictional character that functions more or less as his own AC.After a few days of traveling and testing their battle skills, both Chris and Juliana had become quite skilled in combat. Their psychic powers hadn't expanded any, but they both could feel that they were growing stronger physically from the combat. They had beaten Chompasaurs, Wetnosaurs, and even an Ego Orb or two. They would set camp up in a cave, alternating shifts of sleeping and watching over each other.
Um...
...
...yeah. That stuff where I was making fun of guruzeth? I insulted guruzeth by comparing him to Chris, on the creepy-stalker level. I apologize, guruzeth.
And this was six years before Stephenie Meyer proclaimed that this kind of thing was not only normal, but romantic! Chris was way ahead of the curve here.On the fourth morning of their travels since they had left Tenda Village, Chris noticed that there were less animals around than usual. This struck him as odd, and when Juliana awoke, he brought it up over breakfast.
"You know, Juliana, it seems that all we've been doing out here is wandering around together, fighting a few monsters here and there, but never involving anything really dangerous. Now, I'm not saying that we should suddenly go running in search of danger, but perhaps we might leave the Lost Underworld and explore elsewhere."
"But why, Chris? It's so beautiful here, and I've been enjoying traveling with you." she replied.
LOL. I love Chris so much. If I made up that exact line and put it in an annotation of a Chris post to make fun of him, you would say "come on, Baron, Chris isn't THAT bad." But he is!"I know. And we'll stay together.
See if you can spot what is still Chris's favorite word.But, there are many other places in Eagleand to explore, and I want to see them all. Don't you?" Chris answered.
Juliana sighed. "Yeah, I wanna see the world too. But where could we go that we haven't been yet? We both have been in Winters, and we both almost died there. We've seen Saturn Valley; we've been through Deep Darkness and Scaraba. Now we're in the Lost Underworld. Where should we go next?"
Chris thought about this for a moment. 'She's right; we've been to all the really interesting places, and we're not ready to fight Lavos in Fourside.'
"I'd love to go somewhere to relax, but where could one go in Eagleland to relax..." Chris trailed off, a thought forming in his head.
"Wait, I know, we haven't been to the perfect place to relax yet!" Suddenly, Juliana knew where Chris was thinking of.
"Summers!" They said in unison.
The beach thing's already been done, of course. But, you know... swimsuits."Well, we have to find a way to get there, and it seems difficult to leave the Lost Underworld. Let's go back to Tenda Village, they might know how we can leave the Lost Underworld."
And the two set off for Tenda Village again, wondering at what adventures awaited them next...
Sooner or later PSI322 is finally going to read this, and she's going to PSI322 Gambit her ass away from Chris so fast she may actually travel backward in time. Probably in a straight line to wherever guruzeth and Traceh are (or, if time travel occurs, were).
Post #884, by waffle
Luna and Waffle looked around Magicant some more, seeing what else was in their minds there.
All I'm saying is, if you're traveling with a hot girl you are very much into, very likely you really, really don't want to give her a guided tour of your own mind. I'm a guy, trust me on this.
* 'Hot' may be used in the internet sense here, as Luna was just in the process of superseding PSI322 as the Alpha Female. It doesn't necessarily have any connection to the poster's IRL physical appearance. (Although in this case, both PSI322 and Luna were and are certifiably hot in that sense too, for the record.)"I'm awfully tired," waffle mumbled, "Pretty worn out after all this stuff..."
"Well, we'll see if we can rest somewhere. Maybe theres a hotel or something here."
I doubt waffle was aware of the "get a room" implications."Yeah, like over there." Waffle pointed farther down towards a hotel.
Which is called--its name is on the sign--the No Questions Asked Motel. This is inside waffle's mind, remember?"Well that was easy enough."
They walked over to it and went inside, where the guy behind the counter greeted them.
"Welcome! 100 bucks a night! Ye want room, eh?"
Waffle and Luna looked at each other and Waffle walked over to the man.
"Hey...This is OUR mind, ya know. We shouldn't have to pay for a couple rooms."
"Okay sir! Okay! You can stay for free! And you get two free pudding snacks with it! okay?"
If someone tried that one on me, I would call the cops.Waffle grinned while Luna chuckled. So they went up to their rooms...
Clutch use of the plural there. Very clutch.
Post #885, by Tengu Maul
Back in Twoson, Ness had been taken to the hosptial, and Paula and Jeff stayed with him, while Mani and Darth went to the hotel to rest.
No reference to plural rooms here, but none is needed. Mani is not Paula; therefore Tengu has no sexual interest in her.Darth however, had fallen into a deep sleep, and hen found himself in a new world.
He awoke, and one thing came over him. He was in his Magicant...
Tengu was too smart to simply be asleep at the switch and not notice how you're supposed to get into Magicant. No doubt he did this as a middle finger wave to everyone else who did such stupid things with his Extra Sanctuaries concept.
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