Luna, waffle, and Mog stopped on a small hill right before the shining spot.
"Look," Luna started "It's obvious Poo's gaurding the shining spot and we need to lure him away. So I will do that."
"WHAT!?" Both Waffle and Mog shouted at her.
"His PSI is double yours!" Waffle said.
"He has healing PSI! He won't lose any time soon!" Mog said.
"I'm only a diversion!" Luna said angrily. "While I'm battling, you guys can go in and get the melody!" With that, she cracked the sound stone in two and gave part to waffle.
That sounds like a reasonable plan to me. If you're going to throw a diversion on pretty much anyone, Luna is the optimal person to do it. It would be hard for Poo to ignore her and attack the other ACs, because (a) he can't meaningfully inhibit their progress anyway if they don't want it inhibited, and (b) Luna is paying attention to him! This is his chance!"Look, I'f we don't get this melody, evil is sure to win, which we don't want, RIGHT? Right. So let's go!"
As Waffle and Mog crept off to get the melody, Luna ran up to Poo.
"POO! I challange you to a duel!" Luna yelled at him.
"You actually think you can beat me? Ha! This should be good!" Poo smirked.
And so it began...
[This message has been edited by Luna (edited 04-27-2000).]
Post #677, by waffle
Luna and Poo started battling while Waffle and Mog stepped in the sanctuary. Waffle walked over to the Milky Well and pulled out the sound stone from his pocket. He held it up and was full of a strange feeling. An unusual feeling, but still good.
"The melody! I think we got it!" Mog cheered.
As fortune would have it, waffle was able to jump in and snatch the melody before Poo could post and do anything. Although I don't think Poo really cares about the melody; it looks like everyone's getting what they want out of this little exchange.A small, quite tune played and the Sound Stone started glowing.
Quiet."We did it." Waffle said smiling.
Or: "Smiling," waffle said. Also, this is the first I realized waffle has been capitalizing his AC's name.Mog ran back to the entrance of the sanctuary. "Okay! We got it! Now we need to help Luna out!"
"Good idea," waffle replied, slipping the Sound Stone into his pocket.
Heh. So the "diversion" actually was no diversion at all, but rather just Team Waffle doing what they want and not allowing Poo to interfere. I don't imagine that was their plan, but rather they're trying to be Luna's hero. It's too bad, because the story would be better served letting Poo post first. At least there's a chance of some tension if we allow that. Instead what we get is yet another AC God Mode Pissing Match that, let's hope, Poo will make a face and ignore.Both of them left the sanctuary and went to help Luna in the fight against Poo.
Post #678, by Gauntlet Wizard
"We need to focus on Falcon's mind," Siris siad to Alan. "Maybe then we help Osman get out of there..."
"It's, like, worth a try."
"Okay. Concentrate..."
The two closed their eyes, and when they opened them again, the were in a totally different world...
PSIOsman was standing aboout 20 yards away, battling a huge creature. Falcon could be seen rushing toward the creature with two battle blades. "Let's go help..." Siris said...
I missed the part where Osman had engaged the Lavos-thing before Falcon got to attacking it, but sure, we can work with that.
Post #679, by Pikachu3164
[Hello? Poryhedron! Don't just stand there! Get us somewhere! Like Sanctuary 9!]
"Oh, right. I heard it was the Giygan spaceship."
In IF, like everywhere else in life, there are leaders and there are (many more) followers. There are still more than 1,000 posts left in the Gathering, and they will retell again and again the story of a few leaders and many people following them from place to place.With that, Poryhedron did whatever he does to get places. I think he does a really big Tackle. So he did that.
ROFL. 3164 with a humor home run! That was awesome. I love bad IF writers. They are genuinely a lot more entertaining than the kinda-good ones. (And the really good ones tend not to write a lot of IF, because they're capable of writing stories on their own and end up spending their writing time doing that.)Upon reaching the destination, they looked around and saw Sirus and Alan getting ready to help Osman and Falcon out.
"Did I miss something?"
Obviously you didn't miss the recent plot developments, since for no explicable in-story reason you have strongarmed your way here.
Post #680, by PSIOsman
The horrible monstrosity showed no sign of weakening, and the wounds inflicted on it by Osman were like mosquito bites on the behind of a rhinoceros.
Nice imagery. And even more impressive is that every word in the above (correctly structured) sentence is correctly spelled. In fact, every word in this post is correctly spelled. Osman, it turns out, is one of the best technical writers in the Gathering crew, right up near the PSI322/guruzeth/Anthadd class. (And PSI322 and guruzeth have the major advantage of being five years or so older than Osman.)Even in Falcon's mind, Osman's power had its limits.
You lie. You're an AC! The only limits are those imposed by PSI322.His mental energy was slowly weakening, and the beast itself was creating a void of mental energy that sapped him continuously.
That's actually a neat concept, even if most if it is left to our imagination.The Scimitar felt heavy as lead as he dodged multiple strikes of that deadly tail.
On a square-inch-by-square-inch basis, actually, diamond is heavier than lead. So he's saying his Scimitar (note that this is a special Scimitar, hence the capitalization) got lighter.
Also, this is the first mention I can remember of a tail, but he calls it "that deadly tail" like everyone knows it's there. I guess I'm uninformed.Suddenly, Osman misjudged a jump, and got swatted toward the ground. He heard a *crack*... and realized that his leg had broken.
That's what Lifeup and Healing are for!The monster raised its tail for a final cut, when it stopped, apparently distracted. Both it and Osman turned to see a figure moving towards them, holding two massive battle blades...
It makes no sense, given the apparent lag time before the figure's (Falcon24's) arrival, that the creature wouldn't kill Osman and then turn to fight Falcon24. But hey, even such a contrivance beats the usual AC God Mode. This whole post is a breath of fresh air, honestly.
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