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Sea of Bodies; -A JOURNEY OF DOOM-
Topic Started: Oct 24 2008, 11:24 PM (1,496 Views)
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Hooray that was great. I should do this next year. Anyway um put in either tabs or spaces for paragraphs so it's easier to read.
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There ARE tabs, they just don't show up on forums D=

And spaces are reserved to show changing scenes.
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The Part I Wrote On November 9th
LAST TIME ON SEA OF BODIES!
All seven Sils have gained the powers of the shrines. Matt has been named heir to the throne of Kinok. A young demon boy named Noctus has revealed that Eibmoz is dead. Saul Tapia has challenged Matt’s rule, and I stand to fight him. Will I be able to defeat my former master? What will come from these mysterious powers? And who is Noctus, anyway?
Find out–at least some of it anyway–on this exciting new episode of SEA OF BODIES!
Okay, I didn’t properly pull a Top last time, so I tried making up for it this time. It sort of failed. Oh, well. Anyway, it’s time to du- du- du- du- DU- DU- DESTROY MY ENEMIES!
I leapt forward suddenly, ground of the cave behind me at my back, rising with me and my attack. My first few punches and kicks were quickly blocked, so I switched to firing big rocks at him. He hit each one with enough force to knock it away. I focused everything I had and began to attack him myself while firing the rocks at the same time.
Next I experimented with adding magical powers to my physical attacks. TOO BAD I WASN’T FIRE OR IT’D BE FALCON PUNCH!
But I did show him my moves.
B Normal: Rock Launcher
B Sideways: Magic Rush
B Up: Stone Flip
B Down: Earth Force
And this doesn’t even begin to account for my normal moves, smashes, aerials, grabs... it barely scratches the surface.
Thus I used every move I had at least once to attack Saul, and he of course was almost as good. But we all know it’s not the moves that win a battle.
It’s the way you USE the moves.
Now, of course in this context nobody will ever find a Smash Ball. But I did receive something just as good: The others, after a long discussion, were focusing their energies to power up my own. So now I was pretty much set.
Except he kicked me in the face.
I fell back, the energy falling out and floating around. Saul jumped and grabbed it. But, uh, he didn’t know how to use it apparently.
With a Magic Rush I hit the energy and burst it, absorbing the power and immediately using it. You know, my Final Smash.
Mighty Impalement.
I pulled out my arrowspear and shot it across the stage at him. Upon connecting, it pulled me in for a huge amount of force, magical and physical, and I tripled its size with the power, pulling it out and stabbing him a second time.
He flew back and into the lava, exploding in that flash of light thingy, and I taunted, “Did I miss the fight already?”
Apparently he only had one stock.
THIS GAME’S WINNER IS... EIN!
“That seemed a little too easy,” I said, jumping up with the arrowspear, jamming it back down into the ground, and landing on the side of the blade with a flip.
And now we’re going to switch to Legend of Zelda references instead because I feel like it.
After Saul’s death scene, a Heart Container appeared, and, um... We’ll have Matt be Link because he’s our leader and he uses a sword. He picked up the Heart Container, and a glowing blue light appeared behind it. We all stepped into it, and a huge crystal formed around us.
With a flash of light, the crystal dropped us all in the middle of the city. And a smart-looking sort of person came up to us. It should be someone we knew somewhat.
Um. I’m not sure. Most of anyone important and smart is in the party already. So, um... we’ll just pretend Erik’s not there, since he didn’t really need to be. Even though he was in that scene before. Man, you guys have NO IDEA how much editing I’ll have to do later. It’s because I’m resigned to all of that that I’m just throwing out the first rubbish I can think of right now. You can tell enough, right? But the references aren’t over. OH, NO. This entire part will be made of video game or at least anime or something references. (I already used Phoenix Wright once.)
So Erik, presumably the same person who had sent Matt on the quest into the dungeon in the first place (not really explainably or feasibly but we’ll pretend) walks up to us and says, “Well done, my friends. Now we have all seven Gifts of Mana, we can enter Lost Derriga.”
This is the part in any Zelda game where you’ve gone through enough dungeons that you now have collected all of the whatever-it-is you need to enter a certain place, which somehow ends up revealing that there are more dungeons to conquer yet.
“What are you talking about?” I asked. Matt wasn’t allowed to talk, you see, because Link never speaks. So I, presumably the annoying companion, had to ask. Actually, his Guardian Spirit Argalt would be the annoying companion. I’m just an NPC.
“Do you not know of the final piece of the Legendary Prophecy?” Erik asked.

The scene cut to one that is meant to explain things that are part of history, but it’s still one of those vague ones. The ones with no background, and anything that’s evil surrounded by fire and stuff. The thing that showed up was a castle on a hill.
“Once, there was another island bordering this one. Its name was Derriga. It was the most powerful of all the nations, because of the secrets locked inside.”
The hill faded from view. “But in the days of the Ancient Legends, it is said that the island of Derriga mysteriously disappeared from existence.” The castle faded too, cutting to a mysterious sort of spirit thingy. “The last piece of the Legendary Prophecy said that when the Sils, with the powers of the Shrines, find the gates to lost Derriga, they will manipulate time itself.”

I blinked. “You hear that? If we go back in time, we can stop any of this from happening.” I gestured at the rubble of the city all around me. “We can cut off the conflict before it truly sprouts!”
Matt grunted and nodded. You know, now that I think about it, Matt’s left-handed, too. That makes him even BETTER as Link.
“Then let’s get going!” Mark said.
So the group set off out of the city. Eroa the wolf was no Epona, but he served the purpose well enough, anyway.
“Wait,” I said suddenly, “Where are we going, anyway?”
Matt paused the game and went to the map screen. Our destination was clearly shown in the northeast corner of the island. AHHH THIS PLOT POINT IS GOING WAY TOO FAST I WON’T EVEN MAKE 20,000 WORDS OF BOOK TWO AT THIS RATE WHAT DO I DO?! I GOTTA SLOW THEM DOWN SOMEHOW!
Oh, wait. I could add a bunch of things they have to do to get there. And put in an actual sort of dungeon thingy. THIS IS FAR FROM OVER!
So after a little while (as Zelda overworlds are never really very big) we came into the sight of... unravaged farmlands! And there was actually a pretty scary-looking fortress there. So we of course assumed it was a dungeon.
For some reason, it was simply that easy to enter, though.
We walked in and saw a crapload of monsters to kill. It was a simple hack-and-slash battle sequence as usual, though.
When all of the monsters were defeated, a treasure chest materialized. Tig opened the lid, and the dramatic chest-opening sequence began...
DAA NA NA NAAAAA!!
Or, as some enthusiasts sing the tune, YOU GOT THE THIIING!

You got the Girl’s Diary!
The monsters must have taken it.
Set it to CTRL, ALT, and DELETE keys to read it.
You know, without her permission.

And because this is still a Zelda reference after all, Matt’s aborting all tasks resulted in flipping straight to the page where it said that the girl had seen a mysterious object but left it in the–
The next page was ripped out. But we conveniently flipped to the page that mentioned where she lived. And thus our group went to her house and walked in because nobody ever cares that you went into their houses, for some odd reason.
Matt aborted all tasks again and showed her the diary page.
“Oh, that’s my–“
And now our Zelda references shall come to an end in favor of something that requires an even more ridiculous change.
Suddenly a monster larger than all the rest burst into the house and picked up the girl over its head. She screamed as it laughed in its deep voice.
Mark finally figured out how to transform back into human form, but he now randomly had a mustache and his armor was now red and blue. And light enough to run and jump. Same for Seth only he had green and blue armor now. This all looked terribly familiar and I figured it out when I saw our only way to get out of the house now.
Through a green pipe.
Everyone went into the pipe and emerged in a big grassy area. Mark and Seth then proceeded to jump on every monster in sight and kill it. Mark found a mushroom, ate it, and became stronger immediately.
“This is so ridiculously obvious,” I sighed.
And you can tell that I’m running out of ways to prolong this scene. So Mark and Seth jumped onto a flagpole, slid down and ran into a castle.
Inside, they found a bunch of lava pits and I DON’T KNOW WHY WE’RE NOT FOLLOWING THEM BUT WE’LL CATCH UP LATER I GUESS and fireballs and turtle monsters, and finally Mark-io found the monster, jumped over and hit a switch that threw it into a pit of lava. He went into the next room to find... us. The entire group.
Lynn shouted, “Sorry, looks like the girl’s in a different castle!”
Okay, so I improvised that last bit. And there’s really no point to this, so we’re just going to say the same thing happened again and this time the real one was there. Along with us.
“Oh, that thing?” she asked, ending the references for just two sentences. “Actually, our pet turkey ate it.”
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GRATE Aether!

By the way pulling a Top would be ending it in the middle and explaining what happened- *shot*
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Oh and will Eibmoz survive death because he was the best. :[
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Nov 9 2008, 10:25 PM
By the way pulling a Top would be ending it in the middle and explaining what happened- *shot*
cry

I technically stopped at the 9/10 mark for Story 9 but plan on finishing it when it's actually possible.

Besides, my original plan for chapter 10 sucked anyway. >_> Heck, it wasn't even a plan.

Meaning.

Um.

I'll get to reading the newest part WHEN I HAVE TIME
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Nov 10 2008, 12:02 AM
Oh and will Eibmoz survive death because he was the best. :[
HE'S COMING BACK IN BOOK THREE

*gasp I just spoiled something* Anyway tonight's part I might finish a little late tonight but it'll help balance out the last part PLUS IT CONTAINS THE LINE I'VE BEEN WAITING TO USE
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The Part I Wrote THAT ALMOST ENDS BOOK TWO AAA
Mark and Seth returned to normal along with the entire overdone, impossible scene. The only video game reference still there is the existence of a dungeon. Sorry, but that was ridiculous.
So, finally, we entered the Turkey Barn.
Okay, there’s not much of a feasible way this could be a dungeon–unless... well, you see, all the turkeys looked the same. So it would take some looking for that missing page to find out about that turkey.
We found a passage in the bottom of the barn. It was full of these monsters that I’ve failed to describe and probably won’t because really, all monster designs end up looking the same anyway. Maybe at some point I’ll build it in Spore...
So after fighting off these monsters, we of course ran into the miniboss, a bigger monster that shot random magic at us. Each of the attacks was absorbed by one of us stepping in against our own element.
Noctus, who had until then been stuck in the back of the group, made an incredible leap. He pulled out an axe in one hand, and a sword in the other. His attacks, blinking-fast, knocked the monster to smithereens faster than you can say miniboss.
Everyone stared. Our plan had been outdone by a child–a non Sil no less! Who was this Noctus kid?
“It wasn’t so long, such a long time, ago, that you considered your own age to yet still be a child,” he said. “And yes, I can read your mind, Ein. I am stronger than you know.”
The diary page floated to the floor in silence. Emily picked it up. “The third turkey on the left wall,” she read.
We went back to the turkey room and looked at that turkey in question. I think turkeys probably lay eggs, so we first picked up the turkey and checked the eggs. They all looked the same.
Lynn started crushing one. “What are you doing?” Mark shouted.
“The thing could be in any of these,” she said. “So we ought to check them out.”
“They’re not our turkeys,” Seth put in.
“We can go back in time and save it,” Matt pointed out.
Humane measures and property disputes erupted into a pointlessly long argument that would have made either hippies or radical capitalists alike to be very proud. It’s hard to generate an argument when I know what’s gonna happen. Along the way it became a fight that injured many innocent turkeys. Ours in particular just got iced up.
Before this could go on, I yelled, “STOP!” Everyone froze. I mean figuratively with the exception of that turkey. “Hand me that frozen turkey. I’m ending this now!”
Lynn picked it up guiltily. As soon as I had it in my hands, I pried open its beak and AAA I FORGOT TO PUT IN ANOTHER CHARACTER I NEEDED AND IT’S A LITTLE UH LATE NOW you know I might as well put her in now anyways. When December starts I need a reminder with the keyword VILLAGE. More like halfway through December really.
Suddenly in walked a girl with the red skin of demons and short dark hair, cat ears and cat tail. “Sorry I’m late,” she said. “Terribly late at that. If Erik hadn’t sent you all of so fast I’d have been in yesterday’s part and in fact we’d just be leaving the city now.”
I smiled. “It’s fine, it was my fault for writing it that way anyway. Now, uh, pretending the last few minutes never exist, who are you?”
She stepped back, her PERSONALITY kicking in for real now. “Oh, um... my friends call me Mouse,” she said quietly, looking down.
If she’d joined when she was supposed to, I mean, APPEARED when she was supposed to, she would have had a great reason to join our perhaps pointless quest. If I finish Books 2 and 2 before I hit 50,000 words, I’ll go back and write this last part and a half with some better accuracy.
Now, back onto the task at hand, I pried open the turkey’s beak, reached down its throat, and felt something hard in its stomach–dangit I forgot a lot of other stuffs too but I’ll save it for later or something–and suddenly the world faded out, turkey and all.

Everyone jumped back as Ein disappeared, and the turkey exploded without leaving anything behind.
Including whatever they had been looking for. So much for a dungeon reward.
“Now what do we do?” Seth asked.
Noctus read a passage from a book. “It is said that when Derriga’s Heart in the East runs out of power, another will make itself evident in the West. I would guess a campaign in the desert would be the most reliable way to go.”

I found myself in a place that made all of my senses so it was just impossible to describe, and my clouded brain wondered if this was what a seizure felt like.
Suddenly my vision started working just well enough to see where I was a going. A long passage led me into a room made of a white metal–hey I was back to normal! To my right were food, drink, a bed, and a change of clothes. To the left was another jumbled area but just enough to stick my head in.
But I decided to eat, sleep, and take a nap. Wait, that was wrong. I mean, eat drink and have some food. ALRIGHT YOU GET WHAT I’M TRYING TO SAY RIGHT?
After sleeping a long while I got up and put my head in the jumble area. From there I was able to see everything that was going on with my friends. Weird mechanism, but only one of the many I was about to uncover. But that’s not the focus right now–we’ll go back to me... in a few more parts, I’d wager.

Lynn. Fearlessly charging into battle with a mighty strength and her axe.
Seth. Taking out his opponents with both honor and cunning.
Emily. Unleashing the powers of fire against any who oppose her.
Mark. Tearing relentlessly at anything that moves with his huge claws and teeth.
Matt. Bringing the lightning of judgement upon all of his enemies.
Anna. Combining magic with elusive weapon techniques, like a dancer of battle.
Erik. Commanding his troops with utmost wisdom as a powerful leader.
Mouse. Astounding all enemies with her trained ninja prowess.
Noctus. Power, speed, skill, magic, the ultimate fighter, laying waste to his entire path.
All nine charged into battle against an entire army of Tritrite soldiers, led by my own Tactics teacher, Professor Banthien. Those of us who had studied with him knew the man’s tricks by heart, and used that knowledge to counter every bit of it. Despite being a meager number of troops, our side decimated everything in its path. I wondered how that was possible, for us to simply BE so much more powerful. Something seemed a little off, even Sils considered.
Yet the goal was never to destroy all opponents, so much as break their way through towards the mountains and the desert in the West.
The long and weary campaign left everyone angry with each other in the short spans between battles that weren’t spent sleeping. But as the group drew closer to the mountains, something unexpected happened.
The monsters actually began attacking Tritrite. Not preferentially so much as that the common people were mostly dead, and the armies were among the little that was left. Apparently, all of the Shrines were now spewing forth monsters of every kind, for some reason.
So they made their way through the frenzied battles, past the lake, the city, and into the VRAPCANO I mean passage through the mountains. And that was by far the worst of it with the monsters but they fought their way through. And then they got out to the desert and all the wolves and... holy freaking crap. I can’t do this. I CAN’T FINISH BOOK TWO IN TONIGHT’S PART! IT'S FAR, FAR TOO SOON! THIS CAN’T GO ON! I MUST PLOT MORE! THERE MUST BE SOMETHING MORE INTERESTING! WHY DO EVEN THE MOST INTERESTING PARTS SEEM BORING TO TRY TO WRITE? THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA!!!
SO UM STAY TUNED FOR UM TOMORROW’S PART I GUESS
AND EXPECT TO SEE THE END OF BOOK TWO SOON
AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA!!!!
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screw book two I like Eibmoz

But anyway my cat is named Mouse.
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I'M GOING TO END UP GETTING REALLY BEHIND, AREN'T I?
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