(Everyone, in case you think there are posts that you missed on part 2 before it dissappeared, look for it at http://www.starmen.net/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000254-8.html . Then just post here.)
Sorry, but that link is, of course, long since dead. This very site is the only known source of the complete Gathering on the internet. Though you might find the .zip archive if you ask around in the right places...
Post #827, by Gauntlet Wizard
(Thanks, Osman. I kind of was unable to read due the disappearance. So, we have nine melodies now and we go fight Lavos.)
I guess what Osman said must have made sense to Gauntlet."Do you think we'll have enough power to defeat Lavos by ourselves?"
I think you, the IF writer, do not have nearly enough power to decide the answer to that question by yourself.Siris asked as the gang began to teleport back to Fourside. "I mean, we don't even know where it is, do we?"...
You'll notice the total lack of anything happening in this post, not even some irrelevant thing. He just asks a question that comes across as kind of dumb, since this is IF and you always know where the Evil Presence is. Gauntlet just wants to encourage his team to move forward and not forget him. He's likely refusing to go out on his own out of fear of (a) being left behind by the guys he's been writing with, and/or (b) incurring the wrath of Falcon24 and/or Tengu Man.
Post #828, by Pikachu3164
Pikachu and Poryhedron came running into the Fire Springs Sanctuary. [Okay. Now let's absorb Fire Springs!]
3164 doesn't give a damn what PSI322 thinks about Poryhedron. She can come and pry Poryhedron from his cold, dead fingers.The familiar short segment of the Sound Stone began to echo through the cave. Pikachu had recorded the melody of Fire Springs!
Very short. The Fire Spring (not Springs) "melody" is one note.Poryhedron was looking around. "Hey! Isn't that Luna and Waffle up there?
[I think it is them! Let's go!] Pikachu exclaimed as he started running up toward Luna and waffle. [Hey! What's u.... What is that?!]
Luna jumped and turned around. "Huh! Oh! Pikachu! Umm... we think it's the entrance to Magicant!"
I guess it's plausible, if we accept on its face the premise that any random schmuck that happens along can enter his own mind at Fire Spring (absurd for reasons we've repeated before, but let's run with it), that maybe some people's Magicant would be activated by a portal. I guess.
But what happens if 3164 races into waffle's portal? Hmm.[Cool! I always wanted to go there!]
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Question! Okay. Everyone knows where the first 8 Sanctuaries are. Most of the people here know that Sanctuary 9 is the Giygan Spaceship. But, now, there is the 10th Sanctuary. I need to know where it is, seeing as Pikachu is collecting melodies.
I wouldn't worry too much about that, kid. No sooner would you collect the 10th than Tengu would announce there's an 11th. Most everyone else has figured out how this works by now.
You'll also notice that almost everyone in the Gathering cast has no grasp on how the Sanctuaries and melodies work. The tunes of the eight Sanctuaries come together to form what we might unofficially call "Ness's Song", which triggers his Magicant sequence that opens up enormous power to him. (The tune forms the basic melody of EarthBound's musical magnum opus and Ness's kinda-sorta theme song, "Smiles And Tears", which is the last song that plays in the ending.)
That means there can't be just a 9th or 10th Sanctuary; if there were more, (a) they can't have anything to do with Ness (this part is fine with Tengu Man, of course; it's possible he already knows all this and is setting up a set of melodies for Paula) and (b) there would have to be at least, I don't know, five or six more of them.[This message has been edited by Pikachu3164 (edited 05-09-2000).]
Post #829, by SuperSpeedy/Mankey Boy
"But I heard that everyone's Magicant is different, yet is connected, at some area, to someone elses Magicant!" said Poryhedron.
Well, that revelation was inevitable, really.[Really?] said Pikachu.
"Yeah!" replied Poryhedron. "I believe they connect at the Sea of Eden or the Dark Red Land of Nightmares."
"NIGHTMARES?!" said waffle.
"You know, evil creatures," said Poryhedron.
It is exceptionally poor form in IF to write a scene that your own character is not present for at all. It's banned in most IF boards.
Post #830, by Luna
Luna stood gawking at the portal to magicant. "I guess we should go in now..." she mumbled.
"Yeah..." Waffle said, also completly lost with the magicant thing.
Subtle jab at how lame the Magicant thing is.Suddenly, a tremendous force pulled everyone into the portal. Everyone was screaming their heads off as they headed to who knows where. Suddenly, everything stopped spinning. It just all went black.
**WHAM**
Luna landed hard on somthing. "Uhhh... my head is spinning..." she grumbled to herself, getting up and dusting herself off. Suddenly, she noticed what she'd landed on.
"Waffle!" Luna gasped as she looked down "How'd you get there!?"
"What do you mean, how'd I get here? I got here the same way you did! Through that portal. So why are we in the same magicant?" Waffle grumbled, picking himself up off the ground.
Because you went through the same portal?
I don't know, man. It's pretty out there."I have no idea. this'd be a LOT simpler if I knew..."
"Well, let's get going anyways. I wanna check this place out!"
So the two walked off to look around this magicant.
It almost appears to be a combination of minds... Luna thought to herself as she watched a jellyfish walk by, followed by a pudding snackpack. Weird... Luna thought
LOL, at least Luna took the absurdity and made it entertaining.
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