Posts #541-545: 23 April 2000

Post #541, by Foppy King

(Uh oh! I'm in 2 places at once! This isn't good...) "Fortunetely, I can split myself into 2 Foppys!" (Woo fixed that one.)

Thank you for reminding us why nobody wanted to include you in their writing, in about ten different ways. Now let's hope the "no problem, I can split myself into two and participate in two storylines at once!" idea never gets Tengu's brain churning.

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Post #542, by Godeg

Mike promptly appeared on pink cloud, appearing next to Nathan.

You'll notice how a lot of things happen promptly in IF. It's for the best; not only does nobody want to write two or three posts that consist of "[character] climbed by himself up the mountain and some irrelevant stuff happened...", nobody wants to read it, either. I mean, people could make more of an effort to add a dash of interesting to the story ("Mike climbed the unforgiving mountain, struggling through rain, cold and fatigue, and finally caught up to Nathan...") but it's just hopeless to expect an IF'er to pull that off.

"Hey Nathan, how's it goin? You know me as Godeg off of StarCraft and whatnot. I thought there was some sort of party goin' on... what happened?" Mike asked Nathan.

The question of how Godeg recognizes Nathan, but does not expect Nathan to recognize him, is tossed onto the big ol' heapin' Pile of Questions in the Gathering That Will Never Be Answered.

"Well, it appears as if this island really is eagleland. Everybody decided to go out and look for the sanctuaries." Nathan replied.

"Well... since ive got nobody else, can i follow you for awhile? I mean, that is, if you want to..." Mike awaits Nathan's reply.

Aww, it almost sounds like something Chris would post. "I've got nobody else. I mean, that is, if you want to..."

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Post #543, by Ness The Skittleboy

Back In Scaraba...

Ness The Skittleboy woke up from a very disturbing dream,a dream in which had answered the question of what was following Juilana and Chris.

This is, I'm pretty sure, the first mention of anything following Chris and "Juilana," whoever that is. (Let's hope he/she/it is not related to Juiblex.) Unless he's talking about PSIOsman.

Fate has been following him,and he had an image of Chris and Juliana in trouble.

No... that's not what all that groaning and moaning means, kiddo.

Oh... sorry. I got confused there. I thought this was Chris dreaming.

He sat down on the floor of his tent and began to concentrate.He transported to Stonehenge base and searched for the secret passage beneath the snow.He walked down the steps into the behemoth of the base and began searching for Chris and Juilana in the darkness.

I'm getting concerned that this "Juilana" is a Great Old One in disguise.

The path was littered with broken robotic parts of unkown orgin.Ness The Skittleboy suddenly saw a flash and he saw Juliana and another individual in front of him. The person with Juliana was fighting a starman and he saw Chris lying on a table in the corner.Juliana turned around,startled at Skittleboy's appearence and he nodded and said "Have no fear..I have no evil intent."

Well, then. He said he has no evil intent, so that's that. There's no way he could be a bad guy now! I'm glad that's settled.

Also, wait, what the hell? When did Chris say "I get incapacitated"? It's going to be funny to see how Chris responds to that. By swinging his Holy Mace of Admin Kickass, or by moping around? DON'T MISS NEXT WEEK'S SHOW.

With that he pulled out his katana and did the samurai luck ceremony.He then raised his katana into attack position and spun through the air,slicing the starman with a fierce backslash.The starman blocked and reversed,drawing his attention to Skittleboy instead of PsiOman.Blocking blows from the starman Skittleboy yelled "Now..get Chris off the table..hurry"

Ah, it's the White Knight play. Get the fair maiden's attention via heroic sacrifice. It's especially effective when, thanks to AC Immortality, there's no actual risk of having to sacrifice anything!

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Post #544, by Anthadd

"Shrooom!" Anthadd exclaimed. "I challenge you for the Your Sanctuary you now control!"

Anthadd should know better. Shrooom! accepts challenges from no one but Ness. But I'm being as boring as Anthadd is, pointing that out all the time, so I'll shut up.

"Foolish child," Shrooom! hissed. "They never learn. Ness barely escaped with his life."

But you did not escape with yours. What in the hell are you doing back here again? This does not make sense.

"Maybe we're luckier," Kiyo retorted.
"Not."

...not? Shrooom! is a 13-year-old valley girl?

Writing like that in the Lumine Hall appeared in an empty hall.
"The denizens of Starmen.Net fare well...but can they survive the evil among them?"
"Yes...but only if they learn to work together."
"Then, we must test them."
"They have already proven their worthiness, by finding their way in such amazing ways. Magic, jets, swimming."
The writing disappeared.

There's a 67% chance Anthadd was tripping on shrooms when he wrote this. That makes that first part make a lot more sense.

The SM.Netters within the Stonehenge base had been defeated, and now lay encased within the capsules the test subjects were, their strength ebbing.
"Help us...someone...please..." PSIOsman telepathically communicated.

Man, this is weird. Declaring that other people's ACs in a battle that has nothing to do with what your AC is doing have been defeated and captured is a great way to get a whole bunch of people pissed off at you. Anthadd has just done this very thing to the forum admins. I guess this is the kind of stuff that happens when you (as the admins have lately) go a while without posting. People just assume you're not really coming back and start doing whatever they want with your ACs.

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Post #545, by Mog116

(HELLO! THE NINTH SANCTUARY IS AT THE SUNKEN GIYGAN SPACE SHIP FROM MOTHER1!!!!!! AND IF I"M THE ONLY ONE THERE, I'LL UNLOCK IT, WITHOUT YOUR HELP!)

Yeah, I wish you every luck in your effort to make that fly, bucko.

Mog reached the top of the wall he wasw climbing. "Huh?" There was a huge spaceship looming in front of him. It had to be several hundred feet tall. "Dang." Mog looked at the things gaurding it. They looked like super-deformed Starmen.

Pretty much every baddie in bad Earthbound fic looks like some variation on Starmen.

They were all wearing white robes, which were dangling above their feet. "I'm gonna need some help..." Mog, without thinking jumped forward.

Mog, without thinking wrote an IF post. Mog, without thinking could not understand why everyone either ignored it or got pissed off by it.

"PSI SUMMON: STRAY!" There was a flash, and a cat appeared. It did a quick dance, and confused all the Hooded Starmen.

Yeah... I didn't know you could use PSI to invoke Espers from Final Fantasy VI either. But apparently PSI can only summon the really sucky ones.

They started beating the well... er... They beat each other up. Mog won! Mog gained 12 PSI Counters (The measure of points you need to learn a new PSI) Mog realized the power of PSI Quake! Mog Realized the power of PSI Summon: Starmen! Mog gained 3675 exp.

Everyone else Realized the power of PSI Set to Ignore: Mog116. You begin to see why I am the very first person to read this entire thing. Or at least, I assume I will be. We're still only one-third of the way through it at best, so my sanity still has to stretch a long way yet.

[This message has been edited by Mog116 (edited 04-23-2000).]