Posts #671-675: 26 April 2000

Post #671, by SaturnAl

(I'm still in this IF!!!)

But you're not really in Osman's plotline anymore. He went out of his way to leave you behind. You were keeping the man down, man.

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Alan didn't know what to do. He thought Falcon was acting like Osman. So he said, "Osman, what's my best PSI move?"
"Tsunami, duh."
"Whooooah! dOOd! You really are Osman! If you can like, totally concentrate, you'll be able to get your old body back."

Well, that's assuming he wants his old body back. There's a fair chance Falcon24 is hotter than PSIOsman, in which case Falcon's body would be just fine. But you'll notice how nowhere was it ever implied that PSIOsman was in control of Falcon24's mind or body; I'm almost certain Falcon24 would not be amused by that. He's just kind of there.

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Post #672, by Little Yoshi

[Thank you very much, for those melodies, Nathan!]

And also, for this neat, sack full of commas, so I can, sprinkle them, at random through, my sentences!

Unforunatley, Tim was still unable to move, and he had lost about 1/5 of his Max HP by now.
(Didn't Chris and Juliana already get Milky Well?)

I vaguely remember that happening, only because Chris insisted on spelling it "Trilliongage Sprout" over and over. But why's that matter?

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Post #673, by PSIOsman

When Osman head Alan's voice, he tried to control Falcon's mind. He managed to do so only long enough to reply to Alan's query. The evil power inside Falcon's mind was blocking everything getting out.

Very smartly played. Probably saved SaturnAl's bacon there.

PSIOsman tried to concentrae on teleporting out, but he was blocked in that endeavor too.

He looked around. He saw a tortured landscape, and a huge dark cloud spreading over it. The cloud was far away, but Osman was being drawn toward it. He started walking... A strange nightmare creature materialized! It had a huge yellow body, and a massive spiked tail. The horns on its head glowed with energy. Osman suddenly realized that he couldn't do this alone. He drew his Scimitar and hoped that Alan could get help
and find his way in here...

So basically this post represents the second time Osman has ditched SaturnAl, then SaturnAl immediately turned up, then Osman wrote his way back into allowing SaturnAl along. It seems like SaturnAl doesn't really post except when he's about to be forgotten.

(By the way, only a few seconds have passed in the real world. Time in Falcon's mind, which is being controlled by some Evil power, is sped up )

It's very poor form to include such a thing in an OOC comment. You're supposed to think up a way to write it into the story.

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Post #674, by Ness The Skittleboy

After Chris bailed off the bus,leaving his hamburgers,Ness The Skittleboy tried to contact other people off in eagleland,but failed.

LOL @ "leaving the hamburgers." Well played. 

It was a long trip to Winters,and when he arrived,he was exhausted.He treaded through the snow,wondering why he hadn't just teleported after Chris left.

The rest of us are wondering why you didn't just teleport in the first place, like everyone else does. Or at any rate why you didn't get to where you were going in half of one post. 

He sat down on a ledge,watching the gruff goats feed on a bush below,and began walking towards milky well,but as he was walking,there occured such a shaking that it threw NessTSB off his feet.

NessTSB never played EarthBound more than maybe once. Milky Well is in Saturn Valley. Rainy Circle is in Winters, where pretty much everyone else has already been. 

A few hundred yards away,a black portal opened up and out emerged a figure.The figure was hidden because of the night and rushed off into the bushes.

I wonder where the mysterious black figure was off to in such a hurry?

The portal sealed up and NessTSB sprang to his feet. He crawled towards the edge, hidden in shadows and waited.Suddenly his ki went crazy and a dark figure leapt from the ledge above. NessTSB withdrew his katana and slashed at the figure.A metallic clink sounded out sparks flew as the figure's identical katana met Ness's.The figure was dressed in ninja attire,except it was all black.You couldn't see his eyes,and he swung his blade in a diagonal,in which NessTSB guarded.NessTSB spun around a slashed down and the figure guarded and strafed right.He met Ness's attack with three slashes,horizontal,vertical,and diagonal.Each were met by his katana in great resistance.NessTSB dodged right,and the figure's blade hit ground.He arched it towards skittleboy and jumped into the air.With this Ness swung his sword and it connected with the figure's frame.The black ninja hit the ground with a gasp of breath and flung his blade across the ledge."Who are you?" skittleboy demanded.The ninja gasped for air,saying its final words "I..die..in honor..and not..treason." And he sighed back and layed there.

I have to admit, if you can overlook the various spacing and grammatical problems, that's probably the best-written fight sequence in the Gathering so far.

Skittleboy looked into the snowy night and realized that something was going on,and his Ki felt like that everybody on the island would be in danger.And so he started out into the night,to look for Juliana and Tim.A ninja,only with light,void of darkness.

Is Juliana even in Winters anymore? It's been so long since the last PSI322 post I can't remember.

(Sorry Chris for the bad mistake I made,It wont happen again)

This probably means he's learned his lesson and will steer clear of Chris for a while, at least.

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Post #675, by Falcon24

Falcon mumbled, falling deeper into his coma. "It was a trap...the 9th sanctuary was a trap and I fell for it!!" As if by magic he suddenly saw Osman, battling some strange creature. At once he recognized it. "It's on of Lavos' forms...he's in my mind!!" It was at this moment that Falcon understood everything. He had been tricked, duped, made out as a pawn all this time. Lavos had been controlling him from the very beginning, and with the consuming of the sanctuaries his black soul only got darker. This 9th sanctuary was embued with a heavenly energy, a place where Lavos' presence could not penetrate. That is why Lavos' powers had weakened when he entered.

Is this some kind of attempt to transfer Falcon's AC authority to Lavos while ostensibly still keeping his own AC in his back pocket? Pretty smart, if so.

It became clear to him that an unseen force, a force that had been watching over him the whole time had shown him the way to the sanctuary. Could it have been...the Earth itself? Was Mother Earth truly alive, and was watching one of it's children go astray? Or was it truly a greater power that had led him to his destiny?

Nah, it was probably Lavos duping the living hell out of you. 

All Falcon knew at the moment was that Lavos still had his twisted claws on a considerable portion of his mind, and he needed to force it out. He slowly brought up his courage, using his mind to aid him in his goal, he formed two psychic battle blades. He rushed off towards the Lavoian apparition, ready to reclaim his soul.

I guess that's kind of a pretty good post, if a little overdone. It would take some creativity for Osman or anyone else to find his way in through all of that.