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Ping_Me

10-08-1999, 11:10 PM

--I have a Ping_Me Part 3 with a side order of fries please.--

"You wouldn't know it was there unless you were right there at the gate." Sakana said, boasting at how well such a huge city could be kept hidden. It was true. Ping_Me didn't know there was a city there untill he was a good hundred paces away. The forest ran right up to meet a deep ravine behind which stood a heavy earthen palisade. Well worked steel gates loomed in the forest light. Two gaurd towers stood on either side, and towers stood every three hundred feet along the ring of earth.

A voice bellowed from the top of one of towers, "The ninth northern patrol returns!" //Obviously our escort has gone beofre us and made my presence known to the king.// Ping, Sakana and Ji'tory made thier way through the gates. The city bustled with the usual medieaval hubbub. Carts rolled along the cobblestone paths, peddlers lined the streets hawking their wares to the myriad of people filling the streets. There was a feel of anxiety in the air, people were worried about something.

Ping soon found that he was standing alone with Ji'tory. She noticed his surprise, "Sakana went to talk with the gate gaurds. Probably to find out why so many people are in the city."

"How many people there are in the city?" Ping asked.

"Yes, I've never seen this many of my people in the city at once. Somthing must be up."

Ping turned to look at the young girl, "So what will happen to you? You lost to me in a battle of wills. They gonna do somthing to you?"

A shadow fell over her face, "Faliure isn't taken well among the trainers. Me being a girl, they'll probably throw me out. The army has to be strong, you see. Can't accept anyone that fails." She bowed her head to the ground.

"There is war." Ping_me turned around to see Sakana. "There is trouble along the shorlines to the south. These people are the beginning of the refugees."

"What kind of trouble?"

Sakana paused. "The rumors are saying a Naval Fleet of the Dead, shipwrecks and sailors called form their watery graves have been attacking the coastal towns with surmounting casualties." He fell silent. The noise of the city continued on around them.

"Ji'tory, I'm sorry," He said regretfully. "Since you failed the final test you must be discharged." Tears welled in Ji'tory's eyes. She leaned on her bow like a crutch. She visibly shook.

Ping couldn't keep still, "Now hang on a second. She's good. You can't just dump her."

"I'm sorry Ping_Me. The final test of the wills in an important one. The will is the warriors most precious weapon. Much like a wizard and his magic. He can still use simple weapons, but his magic is paramount."

"Well she really didn't have a fair test did she? I doubt she'll ever have to stare down a computer generated entity in her normal everyday life now will she?"

"A what?"

Ping then realised the absurdity of what he was saying. "Uh... nevermind. But still the fact remains..."

"I'M SORRY. I don't make the rules." He turned to Ji'tory. "Report to the Commander at once." She turned slowly, her bow tucked under one arm, and disspeared into the crowds.

Ping_Me turned to face Sakana. He cut Ping off before he could say a word. "Save your breath, I know what you're going to say. Come, come. You're a man of wisdom. I have seen it. Please try to understand." Ping let out a sigh.

They both turned and started to walk into the city. Silence hung heavy over the both of them. "She's tanken a likeing to you, you know." Ping said nothing. "She has lots of spirit, strong, and smart. She would have made an excellent soldier."

A beutiful grouping of trees rose out of the city. Trees unlike anything Ping had ever seen. "You gaze upon the heart of the elven kingdom, Ten'shuan, The Royal Seat. The king probably has heard of you now and is waiting for you." Ping_Me seemed to not hear his words.

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Guidelines for heroes:
Girls: It's okay to wear skimpy clothing as long as you can kick butt.
Guys: It's okay to look like a girl as long as you can kick butt.

Merlin

10-08-1999, 11:22 PM

Merlin now rides Balthazar and returns to his citadel.

On route using magic he telepathically sends a message to the people he sent to the different races.

Merlin (telepathically): I need all of you to choose a representative from each race to join me at my citadel for a war council.

Now arriving at his citadel he finds Bug putting out out several fires.

Merlin (with an edge of anger to his voice): What happened here?

Bug (Blurts out): I'm sorry! I accidentally set off the fire works! Don't zap me!

Merlin (With a softer expression): In times like these there is no time for me to punish you. Besides, I forgive you. It is easily fixed.

Merlin closes his eyes and out of the basin where the fire was a ring of light appears and begins to expand out word. The fire reignites and everything is turned back to normal as the ring of light touches it.

Bug: Also Space Orca arrived and set out to contact the Merfolk.

Merlin: I had hoped he would arrive and do just that.

Merlin now turns to bug.

Merlin: I want you to watch this place while I am gone. And if Dirtbag comes back, I feel he might be a danger. Or at least a nuscince. Keep him out. And to do that. . . .

Merlin magically makes Bug's rail detonator reappear.

Merlin: Use this on him if he tries to cause trouble like before (Merlin hand the weapon to Bug)

Merlin climbes back onto Balthazar's back.

Balthazar (telepathically, cause that is how dragon's talk): Where are we going to now Merlin?

Merlin: To the land of the elves to pick up Ping_me and the elf representative. Then to the Northern Forests again, where I will need the elf's help to convice the faries to help us.

Merlin

10-08-1999, 11:59 PM

As they entered the throne room of the Elven King Ping_me was in awe. The room towered around them like an the pine trees had in the Norther forest. On the walls were intracate carvings of carvings of life in the forests. Of past and present. Massive stone pillars held up the roof. They were carved to like like trees. Or perhaps the were ancient pertrified trees. A grass like green carpet seeming flowed from the main door to the throne room down to the King's Throne. A large crowd had gathered, partially to see the new comer, partially to see how this meeting would set their fate. Ping_me knew Ji'tory was in the audience.

Shakana walked next to Ping_me as the approached the throne. After walking up to the throne Ping_me for the first time got a look at the king. He seemed a strong man and a proud man. His dark hair swept back wildly and he wore a light crown of gold upon his head.

Ping_me: King of the Elves, I bring a message to you from the Great Wizard Merlin.

King: What news do you bring.

Ping_me: Merlin says that one of the Dark Wizard's that destroyed his world has come here and threatens this world.

A collective gasp of fear from the crowd.

King (seeming undisturbed, yet his voice is slightly different): It is worse than I had feared. I had thought perhaps the refuges that came here were simply imbelishing what they had seen. I had hoped it was some trick of a goblin army. You say it is a Dark Wizard. Does Merlin fear him?

Ping_me: Yes. And that it will take the aid of every race on this world to defeat him.

King: Work with the vile Goblin!

Ping_me: Your whole world is at stake.

King: I will not work with the Goblins. Maybe you are powerful and great. But not even you could convince me to work with them.

Voice from across the room: Then maybe I can.

King Looks to the entrance and sees Merlin stands in the door way.

King (seemingly unmoved): And why do you say that Merlin.

Merlin: I know you are a proud. And that you hate the goblins. But I also know that above all you love your own people. If you don't not join us your people and this world which you love so dear will be destroyed as mine was.

King seems to back down some.

King: I will have to think on these matters.

King gets up and heads into his war room.

The king's sudden leaving leaves the audience somewhat on edge.

Ping_me (to Merlin, half-jokingly): Hey, I had it under control.

Merlin (smiling): I know. But I also knew that just as I had entered you had hit the one place the king might refuse to help on. He is a prideful man. And never wishes to loose face. I knew if you pressed it it might have alientated him. Not that I think you would have done that. You could see as well as I. He needed to hear it from someone who had lived it. I think you can handle the negotations from here. Tell me what has happened since you arrived?

Ping_Me

10-09-1999, 12:50 AM

--Authors note: Darn you Merlin, I had a lot written that conformed to your second post till you showed up. Now I gotta change it all.--

"Goblins..." The king mused. He heard Ping_Me and Sakana enter his private chambers. Sakana looked somewhat distraught. He turned a level gaze at Ping. "You're not of this world are you? The Goblins and the Elves have been at each others throats since the dawn of time, and now Merlin expects us to be allies..."

Ping_Me paused in thought. The room fell into silence. Time weighed heavily on his shoulders. "Your Madjesty. I can understand your greivances against the Goblins, but no good has ever come out of vengeful feelings. It only eats at you inside. Suffering only breeds suffering. If you cannot forgive them then you must realise that we are all united in a common cause. All the races face the same fate if we allow the Dark One to carry out his plans unhindered. We must stand united. Divided...." Ping_Me fell to silence.

One could feel the struggle in the king. Minutes passed without sound or movement. Sweat beaded on Sakana's face.

"The scouts were right about you." He said turning. "You are wise."

Another minute passed. "I will choose a girl." surprise passed over Ping's and Sakana's faces. "Yes. I have been watching her very closely. She is well trained. Strong. She has done well under your supervision hasn't she Sakana?" Sakana looked from the king to Ping. "Only to fail just this morning."

The king chuckled to himself. "Yes. I am quite impressed with her. You see, it takes a lot to slip past my gaurds. And that is exactly what she has done now. But I have found her out."

"You may come out now Ji'tory." He said to the room. A minute passed and soon a slender elven girl dropped into the window and entered the room. Embarassment shone on her face.

Sakana looked from her to the king and then back to her. And then back to the king again.

"Your majesty certainly not..."

"You see, all of the lords and generals have been sent to deal with the raids on the southern coast.It is unfortunate that she lost to Ping_Me when he came along. Perhaps it was fate. But, I belive that this girl has what it takes to be a general, maybe even a mage like Merlin. Because of the abscence of my lords I must send her."

Ping and Sakana looked at the king, then at Ji'tory then at each other.

--Take it away Merl.---

Merlin

10-09-1999, 01:00 AM

Sorry if I rained on your post (or did you say it was similar to mine). I will change it if you want (I had always envisioned her becoming the representive, I see we think alike. Though I had thought about choosing her out and having her face against me in a test of wills. And more or less winning in that I had planned to tell the king that few people can do as she has done and that she is truly a warrior (but I didn't complete it cause I though you should put in).

Merlin

10-09-1999, 01:27 AM

Dead Jedi finally arrived at the entrance into the underground lair of the Goblins. Journeying into the darkness, he was unafriad. The tunnels seemed to strech on and on. Then branching then branch again and again and so forth. He realized this place was a layrith of tunnels. Finnally he began to hear clanking. The sounds of a forge. But it was on the other side of this wall. So being a spirit the dead jedi went through the wall. At which point he promptly scared the blacksmith.

Blacksmith: What the . . .! By the gods of fire! Who the bogata are you!

Dead Jedi: I am Dead Jedi. I have brought a messege to your lord. Will you take me to him.

Blacksmith Goblin: Oh bogata! I knew I shouldn't have drank that bottle of Zooba!

Dead Jedi: I am not a drunken illusion! Now take me to your lord!

Blacksmith Goblin: Alright! Alright! By the way dead guy I am Yorg.

Dead Jedi: My name is Dead Jedi, not Dead guy.

Yorg: Ya, what ever dead guy.

Dead jedi follows yorg into the tunnels. Yorg is average for a goblin. He is big and brawny. His arms are longer than a mans and his hands hang down by his knees.

Finally after what seems like an hours walk Yorg enters a large chamber with a rough hewn throne carved into a stone pillar. On it sits a very fat and flatulent Despot of the Goblins.

Yorg: Oh, great of flatulent Yar this is Dead body man. Sent by Merlin guy.

Yorg turns to leave.

Dead Jedi: That's Dead Jedi!

Yorg: Whatever.

Dead Jedi turns to Yar.

Dead Jedi: I have been sent here by the Wizard Merlin (Yar's eyes seem to widen at this).

Yar: I have heard of the wizard Merlin. What does he say?

Dead Jedi: He sends me you that a great and evil Dark Wizard has come and will destory us all. That we must all join forces to defeat him.

Yar: What join forces with the elves!!!

At this point Yar begins waving his arms about. The other Goblins in the room abrubtly seem to bow. Dead Jedi wonders why they are giving this goblin so much honor. He wonders that is untill he realizes they are acutally bowwed over by Yar's horrible body odor! Negotiation were not looking good. . .

The dead jedi

10-09-1999, 06:35 AM

The dead jedi summons up all the power that he can, in front of him appears a translucent image image...

"look var, this is what will happen to this world if you do not help, i have forseen it, merlin has forseen it!"

var watches the screen intently with a somewhat nervous expression on his face, he sees his world, a darkshadow covers it, volcanoes erupt, forests burn, seas boil..

var: but our race will be safe, we live down here, away from the destruction you show

the dead jedi: watch closely var....you will see

the image zooms in on a rocky patch

var: our home

the dead jedi: yes..

suddenly there is a tremendous roar, the earth moves on the screen and a hideous dark shadowy figure appears, then with a flash of light he summons stone giants from the ground, the goblins see their home destroyed, some of their race emerge to meet their enemy and upon being sited melt to a puddle on the ground....after a while the destruction dies down as the dark one leaves..all that can be seen amongst the rubble is the decapitated body of var!

the dead jedi: you see var, it is for your own good that you join us!

var comes out from behind his thrown

var: i will join you, the armouries will start work right away.

the dead jedi: I am in need of a representative to take back to merlins citadel..who is ypour strongest soldier?

var: take my nephew Gart, he is well trained in the art of war

the dead jedi and gart leave the underground lair, the dead jedi summons from the little power he has in this world, a giant bird

"take him to merlins citadel!"

the bird takes off and dissapears into the distance, the dead jedi assumes his medatation position and hovers in a ball of light above the entrance to the goblin city.

the dead jedi (thinking to himself): Iam the force, yet my powers are no more than that of a simple mage in this world, why?

no answer comes as the midi-chloreans that guide the dead jedi in his world lay dormant here

"dormant but not non-existant!!" the dead jedi thinks, "all this world needs is the belief in the force to be established and i will be strong again, there are some here who know of the force, thats what gives me the limited power i have, i must teach people of the ways of the jedi to become strong again, it is a difficult time for me now.. if devotion to the dark ways of the sith become to strong i will not be able to hold back my darkside, and i will become a servant of evil!!"

the dead jedi rests for a while... he has a difficult and dangerous patch ahead!

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You cant kill me im already dead!!!!!

Ping_Me

10-09-1999, 11:57 AM

---Actually I had a whole big story planned out. Making her an ambassador was spur of the moment thing once I saw the second post. But it's cool, improvisation is what we're here for.---

Space_Orca

10-09-1999, 12:07 PM

Meanwhile, Space Orca senses a strong change in the world up ahead. A feeling of evil, of dark. He probed ahead, feeling his way into the heart of the dark... and there it was. The Stygian Lord, talking to none other than Volsang himself by way of magic! Obviosly, the Stygians had already decided to help evil. "Typical of Undead!" Space Orca murmered, then took a dive into the ocean, heading for where the Merfolk were.
Space Orca popped up for air, and to take his bearings. Looknig up at the sky, he sensed he was close to the Merfolk's home. He dove down toward the ocean bottom, where he hoped to find Merfolk. As he swam down, he saw something giant lying on a rock. A merfolk colony? Space Orca moved closer to investigate. But in his exitement, Space orca had forgotten to reach out with the force. The thing on the rock moved, and headed right toward him! It was a large, slivery fish, with giant teeth that still glowed red with the blood of former prey. Space Orca drew his lightsaber and ignited it, holding it out in front of him. The fish drew closer, approaching Orca with its mouth open. Orca swung his saber, which functioned only sluggishly underwater. The saber left a big, bloody mark on the creature's cheek, but did no lasting damage. Orca kicked out, hitting the creature in the mouth, knocking it backwards, but getting his foot impaled on one of the teeth. Orca swung his lightsaber around, slicing through the creature again, this time slicing further in. The creature howled out, then started to sink. Orca drew his lightsaber back and sliced at the creature's tooth, only to have his lightsaber fall from his grasp! With a look of horror, Orca realized he was drowining, without his lightsaber, and attached to a dead and sinking giant fish!
NOTE TO OTHER PEOPLE: Do not get me out of this, I'll get myself out in a clever way...

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Space_Orca

10-09-1999, 12:11 PM

*Meanwhile, Salanas is trapped in Volsangs energy cage*
Salanas- I'll NEVER help you! Not as long as I'm imprisoned here by you!
Volsang- You opinion might change with this... do you know someone by the name of Space Orca?
Salanas- As a matter of fact, yes. Why?
Volsang- He is here too. Trying to oppose me.
Salanas- An opportunity for revenge? Just let me up and at him!
Volsang- Very well...
*The energy cage deactivates and Salanas steps out. Salanas immediatly starts heading for where he thinks Space Orca is- The Citadel.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Space_Orca

10-09-1999, 12:13 PM

Oh, and I forgot to mention, just keep his name Volsang, its so much easier... or have Threedee edit my posts so they have a different name if thats what you prefer, as long as he will. Or, you could opt for the third solution- Have there be 2 dark wizards.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Gebohq

10-09-1999, 01:19 PM

Wow, what I miss in 2 days. I'll be adding a new post with my addition of the story soon. Hope I can keep it as good as the rest of your stories. And I still have to do something with them Dwarfs. Merlin, can it be possible to move posts from the discussion board to here? So we can move the beginning of this post over here(not to mention I'd like to see the Nostradomus thread and neverending story thread here too). That would be great.

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"Is it a crime to be (computer)illiterate?"-Krusty the clown

:::Gebohq:::

[This message has been edited by Gebohq (edited October 12, 1999).]

The_Inspector

10-09-1999, 01:24 PM

Whoa! some people have too much time to waste.

The dead jedi

10-09-1999, 01:51 PM

Gart arrives at the citadel to find a strange bearded wizard sitting by a fire, playing with a strange green light, that appears to follow his hands, "come in friend" melin wispers without adjusting his gaze, "i was expecting you!". gart sits by the fire and merlin fills him in on all that has happened.

meanwhile the dead jedi is busy on a tall hill potruding from the forest, he has constructed an altar out of the stone, the altar is surrounded by a circle of tall stone points with strange carvings on them, much like the one merlin used to summon him. Hovering above the alter is a ball of light.

the dead jedi floats above the ball of light exhausted by this mediocre task, used to shaping galaxies with ease he is constsantly reminded of the effects of non-believers in this world.

with a sigh the dead jedi closes his eyes and calls out across the planet..."come to me my friends, learn the way of the force, only with the force as your ally will you live in peace!"

accross the planet creatures of evry discription hear a faint voice calling them to a special place...in trance like states they walk towards the altar.

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You cant kill me im already dead!!!!!

Merlin

10-09-1999, 05:34 PM

-- Actually there were originally 6 dark wizards. The weakest one was defeated earlier. (I mention it earlier in the post on the other board.) As for Volsang he is simply another one of the Dark Wizards, one that attempted to take a world called Midgard, and was imprision by the Song of Dreya. The Dark One I refer to is the head of the Dark Wizards who destroyed my world.--

Dark One (seeing dead jedi's plan): I can make use of this one. . .

Dead Jedi feels an evil presence like a shadow falling on him. He feels it seems to be taking his mind.
He battles it in a battle of wills. Dead Jedi tries to channel the force to help him. But instead finds himself losing the more he draws from the force.
He realizes while the Dark Wizard can't weild the force. He can work his dark magic through it, like a stream flowing through a channel.
Dead Jedi ceases his attempt and his connection with the force and find himself in control of his mind again. He realizs anyone attempting to use the force now risks having his mind controlled by the dark one.
Though his attempt was not a total loss, in that he feels now the leaders will be more willing to help as he feels he has made them more aware of the imminent danger.

-- I did this cause it looked like Dead Jedi was about to destroy much of the story by flexing what he feels is total power over everyone. (And if anyone has any ideas I do have that kind of power, I don't. I can't control other beings minds, nor can I do anythink like raise the dead.)--

Dragonfly

10-09-1999, 05:39 PM

NP Merlin. I think this story is great. The continuing story of Dragonfly will be continued soon..........so leave it to me! http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif

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-Dragonfly
Webmaster of JKBTGExtras (http://www.massassi.net/extras)
"If I'm not cold, I'm freezing, and if I'm not hot, I'm burning"

Merlin

10-09-1999, 06:13 PM

Dead Jedi returns to talk with Lord Yar of the Goblins. The lord of the goblins seems in a better mood now.

Yar: Perhaps you have a point Dead Jedi person. I have heard of this wizard. His name is Bazaal. But do you know how powerful he is.

Dead Jedi: Only that he destroyed Merlin's home realm. And his people who were all wizards like him.

Yar (begins to wave his arms about again and his the other goblins drop to the floor unconious, and Dead Jedi was glad for the 3rd time he didn't have a sense of smell since he was dead): What! He must be powerfull if he can do that! I will send him my great warriors.

Dead Jedi: I also need a one of your people to join us in council.

Yar: I will send Yorg the blacksmith, since he brought you here.

Dead Jedi: Very well.

Dead Jedi and Yorg emerge on the surface. Yorg carries with him his favorite club. I large metal club.

Yorg (blinking profusely due to the sunlight): Ugh! It is bright up here! So, which way to Merlin's place, Dead guy.

Dead Jedi: It's Dead Jedi. And it is this way.

Yorg: Whatever. Lead on. . .

And so they head back to Merlin's citadel.

(PS: Ping_me how can I contact you, I need to talk to you but I don't see any e-mail.)

Ping_Me

10-09-1999, 08:55 PM

---A solitary message sitteth in your Hotmail box Merl. http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif---

Space_Orca

10-09-1999, 09:00 PM

The last bits of air Space Orca had were exausted, and Orca felt ready to die. The dead fish was dragging him down to his grave. Then, with one last thought, he remembered something: He was not any ordinary creature. He reached out, concentrated, as his life boiled away. Orca suddenly catapulted toward the surface. Toward light. And most improtantly, toward air. Orca shot out of the water like a missle seconds later, spitting out water and gathering in enough air for another dive. Orca swallowed in full lungs of fresh air, then finally and regretfully took a dive down toward the bottom again. This time he knew he had to recover his Lightsaber, the only weapon he had. Orca spotted it, only several feet from the corpse of the fish. Orca made a quick speedy plunge toward it, picking it up and igniting it to life. For he was not alone. Other creatures who had been feasting on the remains of the fish now turned to him. Orca's saber cut through the water, slicing through one of the advancing fish. Space Orca realized he was outnumbered and encircled. He had to think of something fast. He had exausted much of his force energy, he could not make another jump for the surface. But he did have enough to prehaps use one power that ordinarly was not useful in one burst: Force Lightning. Orca shot it out, and even the weak burst he emitted pulsed through the water, zapping the fish. Resisting the electrical current himself, Space Orca made a lunge for the surface, arriving just as he thought his air was about to run out.
Orca has swam for another couple of hours when he came upon the true Merfolk city, hidden among some kelp and coral. Orca gradually opened the door that lead into the dome. Three Mergaurds stepped to block his path. "Trespasser, stop!" they ordered. "I am here to see your ruler" Space Orca answered. "Hahaha. Our ruler dosn't LIKE to see trespassers!" The gaurd shoved his long battle spear at Orca. Orca did a flip backwards, using his lightsaber to cut the spear in half. Another gaurd came at Orca from another direction, but Orca kicked him aside. Unfourtunatly, the third gaurd got a perfect unbstructed thrust, and everything spiraled into black for Orca...

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Space_Orca

10-09-1999, 09:13 PM

Oh, and Merlin, Orca will often try to use the force, but nothing major. As I mentioned in a previous post, Orca would be strong in his universe, but here hes about as strong as a young apprentice. And how could anyone tap into your mind during the 2 seconds it takes to send yourself catapulting up out of the water?

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Merlin

10-09-1999, 10:56 PM

It won't. The bigger the use of the force. The better Bazaal (the Dark Wizard) can latch on. Doing small things that take no more than a few seconds won't give him time to lock on.

Also to Ping_me, I sent you a reply (Tell me what you think, but not here, by e-mail so we don't blow the story.)

Dragonfly

10-09-1999, 10:58 PM

Meanwhile Dragonfly stills recovers in the city of the clouds.He awakens..alone but with his thoughts in a small room. His back sore.........his whole body sore. Slowly he makes it out of the bed. Looking around and noticing he is alone, he slowly walks toward the door. As he exits the room, the old man who claimed to be his father waited........ ...........his Father....who was his father?

Old man:Good Morning. It is nice to see you walking on your own after that fight you had.

Dragaonfly:What? Who? When?oh........That fight with the giant Phoenix of Ice.

Old Man: hahaha....yeah. Well you are very lucky one of our sentries was able to catch you before you hit the ground and went "splat."

Dragonfly:Yes.....thanks.

*Unknowingly Dragonfly had been led by the old man to a large square in which various races of people with wings like angels flew and walked about doing their daily chores. The square itself was beautiful. With Roman type architecture and modern-day styles mixed together gave the city a very unique and beautiful feel and look. Dragonfly, who had been staring at the beauty of the city, hadn't realized that he was once again, slowly but surely, being led towards one of the taller buildings.

Old Man:The council has been looking forward to meeting you, my son and great warrior.We must fly up to the upper level of the council building straight ahead.....

Dragonfly:Wait you called me son.........I am not your son! MY father is dead!

Old Man: I knew this would happen. Come let us talk.*leads Dragonfly over to a bench* Son I am your real father. Who you know as your father was a good friend of mine whom I am sorry to hear died. I can see he raised you well. YOU are strong and wise. Now is not the time for this. We must see the council now. I will explain more fully when we have time.

Dragonfly:But........But.......

Old Man:All will be revealed after the meeting. Let us go.

Before Dragonfly could respond the old man began to fly up towards the council room.

The room was circular with large windows along the walls looking over the great city.There were 7 Councilmen who sat in large chairs. These men were the wieset and smartest in the whole city.

GeFair(leader):AHhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......... so you are Turneh's(the old man) son. What a fine man you have grown to become. It is an honor to meet you. A supper will be had in your honor.

Dragonfly:Thank you, but it is a much greater honor of mine to meet you. But festivities must be put aside. There is a great threat to this whole world. A Dark Wizard has been sighted. HE was thought to be dead. He created much havoc last time he was alive if you remember. The wise wizard Merlin has decided that the only way for him to be defeated is if all the species of this world unite. All known groups on this world are being contacted adn asked to help. That is where I come in. I was sent here by Merlin to enlist your aid when I was attacked by the Phoenix of Ice. But luckily you rescued me and I am very grateful. Will you be able to help us?

GeFair:And why??!?!?!?!?! I ask. This Dark Wizard didn't hurt us last time he was alive so why should we help now? We are safe up here in our city in the clouds! We are not threatened by a puny magician with only 2 legs and no wings or means of flight!hahahaha

Dragonfly:But YOU must!!!This whole world is in danger! yOu must help or he will find a way to hurt you!

Turneh(old man):Listen to him GeFair! This world is in danger and that Phoenix of Ice was an example. It has been dormat for 546 years! Why would it suddenly reappear? And if the wise Merlin needs our help I say we give it to him.

GeFair:WE, the council shall consider it..............

Young Soldier:*out of breath* Master GeFair! Council! The Phoenix of Ice is flying straight towards the city! The townspeople are in fright! What should we do? This beast is too strong for our men!What do we do/

GeFair:Ready the fighters! Attack it! Do not allow it to reach our city! And get everyone to safety! GO! now!

*Dragonfly and all the other soldiers prepare for the battle to come. The city is nwo a ghost-town. All the people have either flown down to the groudn and taken safety in their homes. All the fighters fly out towards the beast which has now begun it's attack on the city. As he is about to aid in the fight..................he pauses and has an idea./they will not be able to repel that beast alone.....maybe if I can get the others to help then they will reconsider joining in the fight./*he gives off a call to those whom he had met through Merlin "all I am In the city of the clouds which is under attack by a Phoenix of Ice! Please hurry! Without all of your help this city will surely be lost! I think this might be the Dark Wizard's doing!Hurry!"*

DRagonfly http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gifto himself)I sure hope they come.

Space_Orca

10-09-1999, 11:11 PM

Space Orca is jerked awake by a loud magical call. "A city in the clouds? Dragonfly needs my help in a city in the clouds?" Space Orca thinks, his head throbbing with pain and his left side bleeding. He was in a dark prison cell, illuminated only by a flickering torch outside. Orca saw two gaurds standing by his cell. "Please, you must take me to see your leader!" Orca told one. The gaurd just laughed. Orca pulled all his pride and honor into one statement. "You WILL take me to see your leader!" The gaurd paused, then flung open the cell door. "Come" he said quietly. "We shall see if the great Mermaid Water-Swimmer agrees that this is so important!" the gaurd continued, leading Orca into a buetiflly decorated hall. Orca stood before the great merfolk queen. "Queen Water-Swimmer. I request your assistance in the time of need that all of this kingdom is experiencing now. I have been sent by the great wizard Merlin to request your aid in the struggle against the mighty dark wizards." Orca told her. The queen gave a light chuckle and responded "And why does the great Merfolk race care if the land-dwellers die?" Space Orca looked astonished. "Because you will die as well. While the dark wizards themselves might not bother you, their minions will. Have you had any contact with large beasts attacking recently?" The queen considered this for a moment. "Well, yes. You have me convinced. THe merfolk armies shall join you." Space orca breathed a sigh of relief then said "I have one last request of you. Can you transport me to the great city in the clouds? It is under attack, and I must help them." The queen simply extended her hand, and with a flash Orca was standing in the cloud city. Orca drew his lightsaber and mustered all the courage he had.
Darned bed times... this will be continued.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Merlin

10-09-1999, 11:47 PM

--Note: The dark wizard, the head one, Bazaal. Wasn't dead, he was living in my home realm and ruling it. He only tracked me here. Also just to point out, the Bueto wings are like egales wings (not like a Dragonfly's wings, though this should be interesting. I just metioned it cause I though you might think they all look just like you. Anyway, Dragonfly and Space_Orce I LOVE what you are doing with this stuff!--

Merlin and Ping_me sensed Dragonfly's message at the same time.

Merlin (telepathically): Balthazar something has happened.

Balthazar(telepathically): I heard it to.

Ji'tory: What's going on?

Ping_me: Another one of the ambassadors Merlin sent out is in trouble. We have to help him.

Merlin (telepathically): Balthazar, then head to that cloud to the south, there lies the Bueto capital city.

The cloud is distant on the horizion.

Ping_me: It is so far away. If we do get there, it will be awfully late. I hope it won't be too late by the time we get there.

Balthazar changes direction and flys upward, but the city is still far away.

--take it away Dragonfly--

Ping_Me

10-10-1999, 12:03 AM

---Merlin preempted me before I could reply http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif---

Ping_Me rode on the back of Balthazar toward the great battle. He focused the energy within him and prepared to open up in a full volley...

---Comin right back atcha Merlin. E-mail's in your box. Oh yeah, if any of you like the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings or any of this kinda stuff. I would suggest getting the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. It's currently an eight part series starting with the title: The Eye of the World. Beware though once you start reading it, you will forsake everything else in order to finish reading the book.---

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Guidelines for heroes:
Girls: It's okay to wear skimpy clothing as long as you can kick butt.
Guys: It's okay to look like a girl as long as you can kick butt.

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Dragonfly

10-10-1999, 12:37 AM

--ok here goes.......and Merlin, glad you like it! http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif--

Merlin and Ping_Me riding on the back of Balthazar near the city. They can now see more of the battle. Above the city they see several Beuto soldiers flying around the great Phoenix. Also in the action is Space_Orca, who has just arrived.

Merlin:Space_ORca! What has happened how is the battle going?

Space_Orca:I don't know. I just got here..............but it don't look too good by looks of this city.

*as Balthazar nears the city the damage is able to be seen. Women and children drenched in blood from tjhe beast's attack. Entire buildings frozen like a large block of ice. Bueto with their wihgs red,covered in blood cowering on the ground.........scared. As the wounded look up and see help arriving hope is reborn.Yet above the battle is not going so well. Several of the Beuto fighters are fighting now. As Merlin watch the battle to get a feel for what was happening, he saw the Phoenix breath ice and turn Beuto to ice instantly. Thus they are unable to move and fall to the groudn like heavy bricks only to break open once they hit the ground.

Merlin:We must help!Balthazar! ONwards!

Merlin, Ping_me,Space_Orca, and Balthazar prepare for one tough battle ahead. They watch as the beast cuts through line after line of Bueto defense. Dragonfly as they can see......is leading the troops and has luskily been able to avoid the great Phoenix's icy breath. Upon seeing the dragon coming towards the battle, Dragonfly turns toward its direction.

Dragonfly:Merlin, this beast is the great Phoenix of Ice sister to the Phoenix of Fire. This creature is usually dormant in a cycle of 1000 years and the last time he was active was 542 years ago. So it is not time for it to attack!

MErlin:Yes, I have heard of it. There must be an outside influence affecting the beast.

Ping_Me:It must be the Bazaal who is behind this! Wait, I remember in reading one of your books, Merlin, of the legend of fire and ice. It said that if the two Phoenixes are brought together under certain circumstances.......the two,brither and sister, ice and fire, respectively, will destroy themseleves in a massive explosion only to be born again as one. A beast which is nearly unstoppable. One that would perfectly suit the dark wizard's pruposes! We must be sure that the two never meet!

Merlin:Yes, you are right! Here dragonfly, Ping_Me, and Space_Orca. Drink this! It will protect you from the beast's breath of ice.Come we must fight!

All:yes! Let it be done!

The group heads off into battle with the Phoenix over the city in the clouds.The battle begins. But before long.....without anyone noticing..........the brother.......the Phoenix of Fire,silently flies toward them.

--take it away Merlin, Ping_me or Space_Orca--
btw this is turning out GREAT!

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Space_Orca

10-10-1999, 10:34 AM

Throughout this battle, Orca(PS, its Space Orca or Orca, not Space_Orca) has been riding a Buteo warrior through the battle. But the Buteo mount has been badly injured, and he is giving out. Orca hatches a last desperate plan. As he and his mount swing around the Ice Pheonix, Orca jumps right on top of the Ice Pheonix's neck! Relying on his understanding or animal languages, he whispers something into the Pheonix's ear. The pheonix nods, then does a loop and heads back to where it came, Orca still riding on it. Orca gives a bow back to his friends, then sees the fire pheonix. "Look out! The fire pheonix!" he cries, as the fire pheonix dives into the city, delivering massive devestation. Orca steers his new mount away, calling back to the others "I'll keep my new friend here from uniting with the Fire Pheonix, you guys take care of the thing. I'm going to take this guy back to the Merfolk's city, I need to get an ambassador to send to the war council!" With that, Orca dives away toward the oceans, riding on the Ice Pheonix's back.
-If you don't like that I am able to communicate with the Ice Pheonix, then I jump onto it and use my lightsaber to send it in a circle that allows everyone perfect shots on it. As it tumbles down, I steer it in the direction of the Merfolk city. Just tell me which one you want-

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

The dead jedi

10-10-1999, 10:40 AM

The dead jedi, feeling helpless due to the lack of belief in the force, sets off in search of the dark ones, "i cannot die" he thinks to himself,"as i am already a spirit", "i must sway the darkness and bring it to the light"

the dead jedi opens his hands and a great flash of light appears between them, the light swirls and a whirlpool like effect is created, sucking the deadjedi in, then the light stretches out and shoots towards the grey mountains in the distance.

The dead jedi arrives at the mountains, he feels strong and powerfull, the destructive forces well inside him, his eyes glow red and he is surrounded by a firey glow...

"glad you could join me" came a sinister voice, "together we can conquer this world"

"yes.....together" snarls back the dead jedi, but unknown to the darkone the deadjedi will never share his power!!!...

(that, merlin, is for completely ruining where my story was heading!!!!!!....now you will all die in my hands!!!...muahhahahahaa!!)

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You cant kill me im already dead!!!!!

Space_Orca

10-10-1999, 11:25 AM

Orca arrives at the Merfolk city, arriving at the gates where he had entered before. The gaurds only gave him dirty looks, allowing him to enter uncontested. He wound his way through the city, finally arriving at the main hall. "Mermaid Water-Swimmer. I request your audience again." Space Orca said. "You may speak." Water-Swimmer answered. Orca made a bow, then continued "The great wizard Merlin is very glad that you are willing to join our crusade. But he wishes for you to elect a representitive to our war council." Water-Swimmer paused for a moment, then summoned a dolphin/human hybird. Water-Swimer adressed the hybird being. "Arfrasa, go with this cosuin-from-the-water and help him and his allies as best as you can. I am entrusting this mission to you, my most trusted commander."
Orca nodded, then took Arfrasa and her four personal gaurds to the exit. There, they headed for the surface and the Citadel, where they would meet. Meanwhile, Orca sensed a disturbance. "Arfrasa, you and your gaurds should proceed to the Citadel. I shall join you shortly. But first, do you know the magic of teleporting?" Orca asked. "Yes. But I can only transport single people." Arfrasa answered. "Then transport me to the misty mountains, near the dark palace." Orca answered in turn. Arfrasa closed her eyes and concentrated, sending Orca to his destination. There, in front of him, was Dead Jedi. Dead jedi spiraled around, turning to confront Orca. Orca smiled as Dead Jedi reached out with the force to kill him. Instead, Dead Jedi gave a shriek as the Dark Wizards tried to control him. As he was in conflict, Orca plunged his lightsaber through Dead Jedi, sending him back to his native realm in disarray. Orca breathed a sigh of relief and started the long trek back to the citadel.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

The dead jedi

10-10-1999, 12:14 PM

As sapce orca was wondering back accross the plains, heading towards the forest large stone spikes errupted from the ground, surrounding space orca and trapping him, thunder clouds arose above him and formed the face of the dead jedi..

"you really thought it would be that easy to destroy me, Im dead you fool, you cant kill me with a lightsaber...i am the force!!!"

space orca drops to his knees in fear, the stone points around him glow red hot, a loud high pitched shriek echos around him, defening him.

"you did not send me back to my old world, you sent me to the dark plane of the sith, you made me stronger, the dark wizard cannot control me...he is now nothing but a pet to me!!"

the ground around space orca begins to rumble, the stone circle is thrust hign into the air, above the clouds, the rd glow of the rocks, a beacon to all others

"here you shall lie, a reminder to all who challenge me"

the face of the dead jedi dissapears.... a strange ghostly figure is seen in the distance floating above the crater of a volcano

"come to me my demon of fire......."

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You cant kill me im already dead!!!!!

ThreeDee

10-10-1999, 12:38 PM

ThreeDee has been wandering around for days, he is quite lost. Suddenly he feels a huge, dark disturbance nearby.. He takes cover behind a tree and watches as strange red spikes surround space orca while a strange being is shouting something nearby...

*ThreeDee does a double take*

He looks closer, and to his horror the strange being is none other than the Dead Jedi, and it seems he is now the Dead Sith...

Something must be done... thinks ThreeDee. The Dead Sith appears to have gained immense strength from the Dark Side...

He suddenly feels very calm... as he reaches out with all of his might...

Anger is a powerful source of energy, Dead Sith, but it cannot compete with the rest of the universe...

Still further he reaches, drawing little bits of energy from every life form he encounters, from every single thing in our dimension...

By now there is a bright glow around him, making the Dead Sith look up.

Your only weakness is our greatest strength!

And with that he summons all that is good and wholesome, everything pure an true, all things warm and safe out of the energy he has been building up. And with this energy he projects the blinding light of truth into this Dark warrior.

The whole world seemed to stand still as an intense consentration of goodness and light flowed across the country side...

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-ThreeDee
Emissary from the third dimension

The dead jedi

10-10-1999, 12:42 PM

dead jedi = dead + since he was the force..with him goes all force...only magic left!!...blah blah!!!!

(see u guys...nice story...have fun...me gonna sulk!!)

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You cant kill me im already dead!!!!!

ThreeDee

10-10-1999, 12:45 PM

er.... *note: look at your sig, jedi. I can't kill ya, and besides you were only made of magic to start out with.. so now you are purely the force again, but the darkness was scared off and ran away to call re-enforcements http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif

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-ThreeDee
Emissary from the third dimension

The dead jedi

10-10-1999, 12:49 PM

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............

ok

the dead jedi feels he is too much of a danger to this world, he consists entirely of the beliefs of the ppl, there fore he can be too easily swayed to the darkside....he opens up big round portal...jumps into it and goes back to everday life trying to iradicate the sith in order to keep his dark side under control!

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You cant kill me im already dead!!!!!

ThreeDee

10-10-1999, 12:51 PM

see?see? its aaaalll good.

Ping_Me

10-10-1999, 01:05 PM

MEANWHILE....!!!

Ping concentrated the enregy necassary to perfrom flight. Orca had just taken the Ice Pheonix off to parts unknown, which left the Fire Pheonix. It paused as if receiving a command and began to fly off in haste to follow the Ice Pheonix. Ping flew into the path of the beast and created a vast energy shield to block it. In front of the Pheonix a huge transparent dome appeared it's open end toward the bird. Enraged by forces unknown it began to rake it's talon's across the shield in desperation!

Ping pitched up the volume in his voice. "SOMEBODY DESTROY THIS THING BEFORE MY ENERGY GIVES OUT!!" Ping let out a low growl under the strain of the Pheonix's attack.

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Guidelines for heroes:
Girls: It's okay to wear skimpy clothing as long as you can kick butt.
Guys: It's okay to look like a girl as long as you can kick butt.

Merlin

10-10-1999, 03:06 PM

I accidentally sent this post before it was done. Please ignore this. Or better yet, delete this part of the messge (though not the story!).

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Dirtbag

10-10-1999, 03:09 PM

*Sitting on his haunches atop of dead Bueto warrior whose head is on fire is Dirtbag, holding a marshmellow skewer over the flames. He holds a "Go Evil!" flag in one hand, waving it enthusiastically as the Fire Phoenix roasts the bird men.

Merlin

10-10-1999, 03:15 PM

--Dead Jedi, I apologize about that. I was afraid you were about to bascially kinda end the story. As to Space Orca, I don't mind you talk to the Ice Pheonix.--

Merlin now levatates using magic so now stands/floats next to Ping_me. Merlin begins uttering Runic (from the word Runes, a language used by wizards in spells) words and streching out his hand.

The Pheonix seems to flicker some, then reform it self, then flicker agian, the refrom it self again.

Merlin: Its no good I can't make it disapate. Let me try something else.

Merlin begins again with different words.

Pheonix seems to become confused.

Ping_me: What are you doing?

Suddenly the tips of the Pheonix's feathers begin to change. The begin to change from a brilliant blue then turn yellow, then orange, then red. The color changes spread throught its body. Ping_me realizes what is happening, the Fire Pheonix is starting to cool off. Suddenly the creature retreats.

Ping_me: Where is it going?

Merlin: Back to its resting place to recharge and sleep for another 1000 years. You look like you need a recharge. Come let us return to the Beuto city.

They decend with the rest of the fighters back into the city. There Merlin recharges Ping_me's energy.

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Space_Orca

10-10-1999, 03:17 PM

*Ignores Dead jedi's post, that never happened. Orcas do not go down to their knees in fear... and my lightsaber has slain the spirits of 25 dark whaleis and 18 dark jedis and 15 sith!

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Merlin

10-10-1999, 03:26 PM

--Ok. running from the assumtion the dark jedi stuff post didn't happen (at least the part where you were involved, then I am assuming you are traveling with Afarassa back to the citadel But what about Dead Jedi then. Is working with Bazaal (the head Dark Wizard)? Assuming this I will also assume that Yorg, the goblin representatvie continued on his own.--

Yorg: Hey. Dead body guy where did you go? Oh, well. I better get to Merlin's place.

Yorg hurries along through the forest making a good deal of noise in the process.

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Gebohq

10-10-1999, 05:25 PM

Ignore this post

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Shawn Templar

10-10-1999, 08:00 PM

*Shawn starts to block punches from his brother and then ducks and hits him in his chest. his brother staggers back then charges at shawn with a few kicks which shawn blocks but doesn't block the uppercut to his jaw. just then their father walks out of their house*

Father - thats enough training for now. come inside for some food.

shawn and brother - Yes father.

*just then they see their father duck just in time to see lasers hit where there father had been standing. they turn around to see the Tecklon corporation's Battle Mechas. they charge at the mechas and jump to dodge mechine gun fire. they dash in and punch the face plates on 2 of the mechas, knocking out the pilots sight. they begin to shoot wildly taking out 3 of their own mechas. Shawn's father returns out of the house with the 2 family katana's. they had been in the Templar family for generations. Shawns father runs in and starts to hack at 2 of the
Mechas. He is then shot into the house.*

Shawn - FATHER, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

*Shawn's brother(Alex) turns around to see what had just happened.)

Alex - Noooooooooooo, You Corporation scum. I'll kill you all.

*the 3 remaining mechas then grab alex and toss him in the house and fire 2 missles intot the house.*

Shawn - NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. huh, It.... was just a dream. I'll never forgive the leader of the Tecklon Corp.

*Shawn gets out of his bed that he was sleeping in when he got back from training in the forest.*

shawn - Wonder when everone will be back. Oh well, might as well find something to eat. Now where do they keep there food i wonder.

* Shawn still has the feeling that he is being watched, not just now. but while he was dreaming, he feels that something was there, watching, almost as if something had brought that memory out of shawn and made him dream about it.*

Shawn - I'll have to be strong to survive the upcoming battle. wonder what's going on with the everyone else.

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I can become enraged like Vegeta, if i smile, run...................very fast.

Space_Orca

10-10-1999, 08:22 PM

-Okay, Merlin, heres what I think happened with Dead Jedi: Ignore his joining the dark etc. post, just he feels tempted by the dark wizards and so returns to his native land. Oh, and Dead Jedi, for hecks sake orcas don't even have knees, not even Orcanoids!-
Meanwhile, Arfrasa and Space Orca continue the journey to the citadel Ice-Pheonix back. Arfrasa holds on tight, not used to flying, or being any place but the sea and the shores. She has never been in the air before, and it is obvious to Orca that despite being a ferocious warrior on the outside, she is only a young girl on the inside. Orca makes the Ice Pheonix fly a little lower, comforting Arfrasa somewhat. As the Ice Pheonix swoops down to a low altidute, Orca sees a battle going on down below. It would appear as if some renegade goblins who had refused to work with the elves were attacking an elven archer team. With a loud battle cry, orca led the ice pheonix down in a plunge, swooping down on top of the Goblins. The horrified goblins and their troll companions started to freeze to ice, then being pecked to death by the mighty Ice Pheonix. Meanwhile, Orca jumped off, his lightsaber dancing from here to there, cutting through goblins and trolls. For once he was confronting a normal enemy in a place they were not native too. Orca had killed 21 goblins and 8 trolls by the end of the battle, but the Ice Pheonix had claimed 24 goblins and 9 trolls. The elven archers saluted Orca and his Pheonix, then started heading back to their native city to report. Orca and Arfrasa continued their journey, finally arriving at the Citadel. There bug was relaxing back in Merlins chair. Or so it seemed. As Orca approached closer, he saw bug had been sedated and was lying tied to merlin's chair! Just as Orca made a move to cut bug free, he saw his old dark enemy, Salanas, moving out from the bedroom. "Aha, so there you are!" Salanas remarked as he ignited his blood red saber. Space orca snapped his on as well. Salanas made a leap on top of Orca, knocking him backwards and sending him flying into a wall. Orca brought his lightsaber to block Salanas's, but it looked like it was over. Then orca got a sudden surge of strength from the good powers that inhabited the Citadel, and he flung himself forward, right past the surprised Salanas. Salanas's right flipper seperated from his body as Orca's saber swung. Salanas hastily summoned the force around him and vanished, teleporting to places unknown. Blue orcanoid blood splashed across the nice rug of the citadel. "Merlin won't like this mess." Space Orca thought.
Salanas, meanwhile, was travelling through the force, stuck in his teleportation. He felt some kind of an evil reach out and toy with his mind. Then he emerged from the teleportation in the dark palace, another mindless servant of dark.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Dirtbag

10-10-1999, 09:21 PM

As lonely Yorg picks his way through the forest towards Merlin's Citadel, he is spots a small black rat scuttle up on top of a rock in front of him.

"Heh, heh, heh, looks like dinner time," Yorg says to himself as he raises his big metal club over his head.

The rat looks at him as he prepares to strike. "And just what the **** do you think you're doing?"

Yorg stops big swing and stars at the rat. "You can talk, little rat?"

"Gee, what was your first clue you gap-toothed mongoloid? Now listen up, fat-head, you've been recruited to serve as the Goblin's representative to Merlin, right?"

"Whatsa mongee-loyd, little ratty person?"

Dirtbag slaps his forehead. "Well, at least he doesn't write posts that consist of one long, entirely indecipherable paragraph," he mumbled to himself. To Yorg, he continues. "Ok, Yorgie-baby, I have to say, I kinda like you. I mean ****, at least you're not another warrior maiden, right?" He looks the Gobline over. "At least I hope you're not. Anyway, the point is this: Merlin has been possessed by the Dark Wizard!"

Yorg's eyes went wide. "But Merlin is good man..."

Dirtbag holds his hands up. "I know, I know, he was a very good man. But you know how strong the darkness can be. In actuality, he's made a deal with the Elves to lead your people into a trap! If the Goblins join his army, they'll be wiped out, all of them!"

"That's bad, Mr. Rat. What can I do?"

"Just play along now, and for Sith's sake don't let them know that you know what they're up to. But when the armies gather, ambush the Elves and take them out first. It's your only hope at this point. Got that?"

Yorg nods enthusiastically.

"Good mongoloid. Remember that and everything will be all right." With a friendly wave goodbye, Dirtbag lept back into the shadows and was gone.

Dragonfly

10-10-1999, 09:57 PM

Peace, if you could call it that had returned to the Beuton capital. The Phoenixes were gone......yet evidence of their recent attacks was still visible. The city was a contradiction in and of itself. Burning buildings stood right next to ones frozen solid of ice. The city smelled of decaying flesh and the rebiulding process was just begun. The few surviving warriors were in the city square recuperating from the battle. There Merlin was recovering Ping_me's energy and helping all those hurt hoping to save more lives on this horrid day.
The bodies of the dead were being piled up to be buried in a honorary ceremony at night. Even the bodies of those warroirs frozen to ice, what was left of them anyways, were also being collected. Dragonlfy was nowhere to be seen though.

Merlin:Where is dragonfly?

Ping_me:I don't know I never saw him after the battle.Where could he be? I would look for him......but my energy levels are too low.

Merlin:Yes and I must stay here to help the injured. Dragonlfy will be fine.

Turneh:so you do not know where my son is?

Merlin and Ping_me:no we do not.

MErlin:dragonfly is your son? How can it be? For your wings are different in size and shape!

Turnh:Well let me tell you a story. Years ago a strange human wonder wandered into this world through a strange portal in the old capital of the skies.She was found there, by me, beaten hurt and near death. I rescued her. and we became great friends. As you can guess, we fell in love. We were married and wished to have children, yet Beuto customs and rules stated that any child made with any non-bueto must have wings liek a beuto and if the child doesn't then it is to be killed.This left us in great fear for she was already pregnant! We hoped the child would be born with wings, but , alas, when the child was born in the middle of the night, it was a wing-less boy. We feared for his life and wished him not to live. For that i never saw my wife or son again until.........now.The only way for him to live was for her to leave this world to her own and raise the child there. That is wahat she did.

Ping_me: oh................but how did he get his wings?

Turneh: I have no idea............I will have to ask him that.

Merlin:yes...............it is very strange

GeFair:Wizard Merlin, the council has made a decision. With the reawakening of the Phoenixes and the pain caused here......we have no choice but to help. We have little now, but whatever forces we can muster are yours! We are sorry that a great disaster had to show us the light.

Merlin:Good. I am glad you changed your mind. Now i can ask of you to choose a represntative to come with me to my citadel.

GeFair:I choose for Turneh to go.

Turneh:Thank you.....but I cannot go. I first must find my son and pathc up our wounds.

GeFair:You will still go. YOu are the best one to represent us! Please do not make us choose someone else!

Turneh:Ok..............I will go....but first I will see if Dragonlfy is alright.

They hear a moaning from high above."It is comin from the roof of the council building!"someone yelled. They all ascended up to the roof of the now-frozen building.There lay Dragonfly, with two wings burnt also all the way down to his body and cuts all over his body. His body itself was frozen to the building.

Turneh: DRAGONFLY!!!!!!!!!! (yells into sky)

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Space_Orca

10-10-1999, 10:06 PM

Space Orca gets up from his chair in the citadel and looks around, staring at all Merlin's decorations. As he does, he hears a sound. The Ice Pheonix hears it too, and springs to his feet. Soon, a hail of arrows and spears are raining down on the citadel. "Goblins!" Orca exclaims. He sees the dead carccases of a group of elves lying on the ground around the goblins. Orca takes out his lightsaber, and bug takes out his rail detonator. The two of them advance toward the door, holding their weapons. Bug fires into the huge croud of goblins, scattering them every which way, and Orca follows bug's attacks up with attacks on Goblin straggglers. Each time the goblins reorganize, they are mauled by Orca and bug's attacks. Until five goblins rush at the pair. Orca dives in the way and blasts one Goblin, but the other four leap past and attack bug. Space Orca quickly sends bug back through the universal portal to the star wars universe, then seals it behind him to stop the goblins -Note to bug: if you come back and want to partcipate, the gate just sent you into the forests- The goblins, now seeing only a lone orca standing there, charge. Orca sees Yorg, the Goblin's ambassador, at the head of the charge. A goblin club comes around and hammers Orca on the head. Orca fights back, but he does not have enough strength. Then, suddenly, the three GOblins on top of Orca are grabbed and hurled off. Arfrasa stood over Orca, a determined look on her face and a spear in her hand. She deflected Goblin blow after goblin blow, sending the Goblins retreating in disarray. Orca got up, and saw the goblins reorganizing. Even him and Arfrasa would be no match for them! And then the Ice Pheonix swooped from the sky. Its talons flashed, and its ice breath roared. The goblins had never encountered anything of the sort. They retreated, with only 25% of their original army still alive. The fields outside Merlin's citadel were awash with goblin blood, painted a unnatural green. Orca raised his lightsaber in triumph. Then he saw something move in a blur behind him. At the same time, Yorg struck Space Orca over the head hard enough to knock him uncouncious, and Arfrasa stabbed him in the back with a spear. Space Orca grabbed his aching head and twirled into uncounciousness.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Gebohq

10-10-1999, 10:08 PM

(First off, I love how you put yourself in the story Dirtbag, and second, for real, here is my new part. Its kind of going back in time, about where the fireworks at the citadel went off. And I have read Lord of the Rings, so I am familiar with these types of stories. However, since my character is from the Star Wars universe, he is not familiar with this type of world, a challange indead)

*Gebohq finds himself at Merlin's citadel, hoping to warn the others about the newly found Dark Child. Finding no one in the first room, he examines the other rooms. He places the weapons of Flamethrower on a table, hoping that he will soon be able to use them again.*

Gebohq: "The rest of the people must of left already. Well, I suppose I will have to go back and go knock on the dwarf's front door, so to speak."

*With that, Gebohq uses his ability to transport himself in a puff of smoke to the Misty Mountains, something he most likely could never do back in his universe. As he dissapears, Dirtbag scuttles in the room ready to place the proton torpedo in the fireplace.

Gebohq rematerializes at the mouth of the caves leading to the dwarf dwellings. To his relief, he finds no presence of the Dark Child or his dragon, though he wonders where they might be. He walks up to a guard*

Guard: "Halt! Who are you?"

Gebohq: "I am Gebohq, a messanger sent from Merlin, and-"

Guard: "Merlin, bah! He's an old man who entertains our young ones with circus tricks"

Gebohq: "I beg to differ, he's...(thinks to himself how much he hates diplomatic situations)..well that's not the point! I need to see your leader, king, whatever."

Guard: "You should hold more respect for me, I am his second-in-command. I will enjoy seeing what will happen with you. Come Gebeh--Gabou--Geb.

Gebohq: *sigh*"It's Gebohq."

Guard: "Whatever."

*Gebohq and the guard prepare to meet the dwarf king*

(Please, I don't have as much time as I use too, help me out here. Thanks)

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The Avenger

10-10-1999, 11:20 PM

Avenger: Don't worry, Gebohq, I'll save you!

Gebohq: I don't think I really need some saving around here!

Avenger: Of course you do! *cuts down Guard* See?

Gebohq: Yeah, whatever.

Merlin

10-11-1999, 12:09 AM

Merlin leans over the badly injured Dragonfly and examines him.

Merlin: I can't heal him myself, he is too badly injured. I'll need some materials back at my citadel to heal him.

Merlin (telepathically): Balthazar, I need your help.

Balthazar who was resting in the forests below rises to the Beuto city. Now flying over head he casts a shadow over the square, frightening some people.

Merlin: I can't heal him, but I will put him into a deep sleep. This may help heal him a little. And he won't feel any pain.

Merlin leans over Dragonfly and places his hands upon his head.

Merlin: Sleep. Rest easy my friend.

Dragonfly eyes flutter, then an expression of peace crosses his face, which is in great contrast to the state of his body. Merlin stands up and turns to face a very worried Turneh.

Merlin: Try to thaw the ice from him carefully. Then move him somewhere warm. (Merlin pauses then speaks with an odd almost prophetic tone). . . Perhaps his sleep will bring you some answers too, for such sleeps are said to at times awaken old memories.

Merlin strides quicky across the square and climbs a top Balthazar. Then balthazar and him decend into the clouds.

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Merlin

10-11-1999, 12:45 AM

Balthzar flying low over the trees come to the clearing just next to the mountian in which Merlin's citedal lies. He sees the clearing covered with goblin blood.

Merlin (to himself): What has happened here?!

Blathazar drops off Merlin at the citadel entrance only to find Afarassa being sourounded by a ring of mangy goblins, Space Orca lies on the floor unconcious and Yorg lays on the floor unconcious with a wound in his back (though it isn't fatal, at least not in goblins anyway). At this point the Goblins notice Merlin and promptly charge him.

Merlin: I would not do that if I were you.

Goblins pause for a moment, then resume their charge.

Merlin spreads his arms wide and a whirl wind picks up the oncoming goblins and carries them safely to the forest below the mountian, but several miles away. Merlin now walks over Orca. Seeing he is not to wounded he wakes him up.

Orca: Merlin, what happened. (touches his head) Ow!

Merlin: You'll be find.

Merlin quickly walks to the other room and gathers some cloth bandages (the kind you wrap around a wound).

Merlin walks back to the room and wraps Orca's wounds then walks over to Yorg's and does the same.

Afarassa: I though that wound would have killed him.

Merlin (while covering his York's wound): You would be suprised. Goblin physiology makes them pretty hard to kill. And they heal pretty fast as well.

Yorg starts to wake up.

Afarasa: Look out he's coming around!

Merlin (with a slight bit of impatentence to his voice): I know. I know.

Yorg sees Merlin and backs away.

Yorg: You leave me alone! You not gonna give me to evil one!

Merlin: What are you talking about? Who said I work with the the Dark One?

Yorg: Fat Rat says so.

Merlin and Orca at the same time: Dirtbag!

Merlin: Yorg, the rat, whose name is Dirtbag, lied to you.

Yorg: How do I know you ain't lying now!

Merlin: If I worked for the evil one I could have just destroyed your other goblin friends. Instead I sent them outside and they are safe.

Yorg (with a look of genuine suprise): You not going to hurt us.

Merlin: No. I want to help you defeat the Dark one.

Yorg: Then . . . (Yorg slowly takes on an angry expression as he finally understands) . . . Me gonna eat RAT!

Merlin: No. Don't eat him. We will put him in jail or something. We don't eat criminals.

Yorg: We don't?

Merlin: No we don't. (Merlin helps Yorg up).

Yorg (head for the door): I have to tell king of goblins then. I'll be back quickly!

Yorg waddles out.

Merlin: Now back to the task at hand. He hurriedly rushes over to his lab and begins to gather more bandages and several oinments and a couple of potions.

Orca: What's the task at hand?

Merlin (speaking from the other room): Dragonfly has been badly injured. I needed somethings to heal him.

Merlin walks back into the other room.

Merlin: I am heading back to the Beuto city. Stay here at keep watch for Yorg's return or the arrival of anyone else.

Merlin pauses. Then turns around and shuts any portals that were still open.

Merlin: I can't have any of those things open at a time like this. (Merlin climbs back onto Balthazar's back) Also you should send the Ice pheonix back to its resting place. You may be able to talk to it, but if the Dark Wizard Bazaal can wake it up, there is a very good possiblity he could take control of it if he needs too. And we don't want it attacking us at a time like this.

Balthazar and Merlin rise into the clouds and back to the Beuto city.

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Shawn Templar

10-11-1999, 01:17 AM

---Yo, Merlin, I was wondering, you've put in every race in this world except the humans. Just curious if you left them out on purpose or not. if you just forgot about them, then let me try to convince them to join in the fight.

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I can become enraged like Vegeta, if i smile, run...................very fast.

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Space_Orca

10-11-1999, 11:22 AM

Note to Merlin: This was much better first draft, but when I was about to hit submit Internet Explorer crashed so this is really a short version-
Orca decided his first priority was talking to the Ice Pheonix. Luckily, the Ice Pheonix was sleepy and annoyed because of how early it was woken up from its regenerating cycle, so it was fully willing to go back. Just in case, Orca attached a device that allowed him to call it out. After that, Orca went back inside the Citadel to talk to Arfrasa. He warned her about Dirtbag, then he went outside again to watch the Ice Pheonix depart. As he watched the buetifal bird soar over the forest, he remembered something that was inside the forest: the Goliath Berry. Now, these berrys weren't big. The only remarkable thing about them was their amazing healing ability. Orca knew that this was probably the only thing that could cure Dragonfly. But, here we get to why it is called the Goliath berry: it is only found in the small clearing in the forest where the Goliaths live. The Goliaths gaurd the berries like treasure, and there is always at least one goliath protecting each berry bush. But, despite the risks, Orca set off into the forest toward where the Goliaths lived. He walked through the forest for hours until he reached Goliath land. There, he saw that a full 20 Goliaths were up and awake. Now, Goliaths are 20-meter tall monstrosities that live in giant caves in the sides of mountains. This place in the forest had a strange, almost arficial, solitary mountain with lots of caves. It was a natural home for Goliaths. The goliaths didn't rely on their slow, stone-skinned hands to catch intruders. They used giant clubs almost the length of 3 or 4 people stretched on end. So, despite this danger, Orca entered the clearing. "W-H-A-T A-R-E Y-O-U D-O-I-N-G H-E-R-E?" A Goliath standing nearby asked. "Simply here to look around..." Space Orca said cautiously. "W-E-L-L T-O-O B-A-D F-O-R Y-O-U B-E-C-A-U-S-E W-E K-I-L-L I-N-T-R-U-D-E-R-S!" The Goliath responded, its club slamming into the earth beside Orca. Orca was knocked off his feet, sending him rolling toward another Goliath. Orca drew his lightsaber and cut at the Goliath nearest him, cutting through its thick stone skin and reaching the flesh inside. The Goliath hollered out and slammed his club down. Orca rolled out of the way, allowing the club to slam into the Goliath's toe. But another few Goliaths were closing. Orca made a dive for a berry bush, quickly grabbing four and storing them in his pockets. He took a step forward... and found himself staring right into the side of a club. Orca got an ingenious idea. He jumped on the club as the GOliath rasied it for another blow, then jumped from the club to the Goliath's shoulder, then from there to the Goliath's head. Orca cut his lightsaber down, causing the Goliath to howl out and fall, knocking several more Goliaths down. Orca started to run toward the edge, and was almost there when he saw ahead of him several undead skeleton warriors from the Stygians! A quick sword strike was enough to send him into uncounciousness. Luckily, his friends, the animals, picked up the berries and quickly delivered them to Merlin's Citadel. But the Stygians were dragging Orca away, toward their secret base under the forest.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Gebohq

10-11-1999, 03:09 PM

Gebohq: "Yeah, whatever."

*Gebohq grows wide-eyed as he realized that killing the dwarf meant trouble for him. He stares at disbelief as the Avenger slayed the second-in-command.*

Gebohq: "You idiot! Do you know what you've just done?"

Avenger: "I've just saved you from a horrible beast." He then smiles in confidence, looks at the dead dwarf, and looks back at Gebohq. "What? Was that a bad thing?"

*The two are then surrounded by a group of dwarfs, armed with swords and bearing armour on their bodies.*

Gebohq: "Only if you consider being surrounded by a thousand dwarfs, eager to carry out the ultimate punishment for the death of their best warrior."

*The dwarf closest to Gebohq and the Avenger nudges them towards a darken part of the cave.*

Gebohq: "Now the best way to help me is NOT to do anything. I have to think how I can regain their trust."

*They walk towards their inevitable fate.*

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Gebohq

10-11-1999, 03:15 PM

(Note: I really wish the Avenger character hadn't come in, but it does pose a challange to the two, so I kept it in. Just please don't solve the situation by killing all teh dwarfs or something else incredibly stupid)

*As Gebohq and the Avenger pace to their doom, Gebohq thinks back to the fight with the Dark Child. He thinks of how he almost gave into the Dark Wizard's control, how he had actually gave totally into the dark side of the Force. He had never done that before, and hoped that he would not be faced with such a situation again, for Gebohq did not know how he came back from the Dark side. He also thought about Flamethrower, lying injured by the water. He hoped that he would heal soon, so that maybe Merlin could send him here and help them. But that was wishful thinking, Gebohq would most likely never see the sun again. But he could always hope...*

Merlin

10-11-1999, 05:33 PM

--Actually I didn't forget about the humans. They are the last race we visit before the war council at my citadel (after the faries). My medicines should suffice to heal Dragonfly (but I have a more important role for those berries latter).--

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Gebohq

10-11-1999, 06:08 PM

(Hey Merlin, i noticed that you are on. I will replace this post with more story, but I wanted to know how I was doing. And if I was going in the right direction and all. Thanks. Oh, and I hope Flamethrower can come back soon, I'd like him to help me out.)

*Gebohq and the Avenger continue to wander through the dwarf caves, which to them seems maze-like, and would not be able to find their way back out. Finally, after the long trek through the shadowy passages, they reach a grand open space, lit by torches. A huge crowd is gathered round, and the crowd gawks at the two strangers being pushed by the guards. The crowd parts as the two are guided towards the back of the hall-like area, where there lies a magnificent throne, occupied by an acient dwarf with a long, scruffy beard. Before reaching to the throne, the two strangers are stopped momentarily, and a guard removes their weapons.*

Guard: "In case you try anything stupid. I think you two understand."

*After being stripped of their weapons, he two are pushed again, continuing to take the final steps towards the throne.*

Gebohq: "Avenger, don't say a word, understand? Let me do the talking."

*But before the Avenger can respond, the guards pokes at Gebohq and the Avenger with their swords.*

Guard: "Kneel before his majesty."

*Gebohq kneels before the king in a friendly gesture, hoping the best out of it. The Avenger though, is shoved to his knees by the guard behind him. The crowd quiets, followed by the blare of deep trumpets. The dwarf king addresses the two strangers*

King: "The two of you have been convicted with killing our finest warrior. Before sentencing you to death, do either of you have any final words?"

Gebohq: "Honorable king: I know we have started on the wrong foot. A tragic death has occured, quite accidental I assure you. I was about to deliver a message to you when this simple-minded man beside me, who I am not associated with, came and killed-"

Avenger: "Simple-minded I am not! I was saving you from that brute who was carting you off. And I thought I was your friend."

*The crowd gasps at the obviously mistaken fool, at least in their eyes*

Avenger: "Oops, sorry."

*The king waves his hand towards the side of the hall, signaling the guards to take them to their sentence*

Gebohq: "Too late for that now."

*The crowd bottlenecks after the guards with the two strangers, eager to see a good death.*

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Merlin

10-11-1999, 06:13 PM

Merlin returned to the Bueto city. Once he reached the square Turneh meet him.

Turneh: Merlin, he did as you said we melted the ice off of him and carried him to his room he is wrapped up in several blankets. I will take you to him.

Merlin follows Turneh to Dragonfly's room. He sees Ping_me and Ji'tory standing near by.

Merlin: Turneh, help me carefully remove the blankets so I can treat his wounds.

Turneh and Merlin carefully remove the covers of the bed. Dragonfly is still severly burn, and some places are frost bitten, and he has many cuts all over his body, and his wings are burned off. Merlin takes some of the ointments and rubs them on the frost bitten areas, which begin to regain their color. Then Merlin takes a second ointment and palces it one his burns, the oinment begins to sizzle and Merlin wraps them with some of the bandages. An expression of concern appears on Turneh's face.

Merlin (Noticing Turneh expression): Don't worry, that is suppose to happen, he won't feel it though because he is still asleep.

Merlin now places a third oinment on the bandages and with them wraps the cuts.

Merlin: Help me roll him over on his side so I can treat his wings.

Turneh and Ji'tory help Merlin carefully push Dragonfly on his side. Then merlin takes two of the potions he brought and mixes them. Then he pours them mixture onto the burned part of Dragonfly's wings. Then he places the covers over Dragonfly again.

Merlin (to Turneh): Don't worry. He will be fine. It will take a couple of hours for his wings to regenerate.

Turneh: I will stay here. I want to watch over him.

Merlin: As you wish. (Merlin turns to Ping_me and Ji'tory) As for everyone else, myself included, we should leave and let Dragonfly get his rest.

Merlin, Ji'tory, and Ping_me leave the room and close the door behind them.

Merlin (now to Ping_me and Ji'tory): I suggest you two might wish to have a look around the city. Since you may not have the chance to find yourself among the clouds again for a good while. I don't intend to leave untill Dragonfly has healed. Then all four of us will head to Fairy Ring, an area of the Northern Forest where the fariy race lives.

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Merlin

10-11-1999, 06:25 PM

--Well, Gebohq, as for is your story going in the right direction. Actually there was a very good reason why I sent everyone out to contact the different races. This allowed everyone to create their own part in the tale and place in their own struggles. This also allows the story to take alot longer too. As for how good is it. It seems to be going great. You have a good conflict going with the Avenger. I look foward to seeing how you get out of it. Also one other thing. I just wanted to point out about the undead. I didn't think of them as their own race, rather just people who were dead who were "raised" as skeletal warrior by the Dark Wizard Bazaal. The reason for this is that at the end of the tale when the Dark Wizard is defeated (if he is) the skeletons return to being dead since the are no longer supported by his magic. If they were their own race (then they would continue the battle after their master is dead.--

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Space_Orca

10-11-1999, 06:33 PM

-The Stygians are their own race, the Dark Wizard's warriors are different. The stygians serve the Dark Wizard, but only because they don't want to be destroyed. When we kill the dark wizard, then they should stop bothering us.-

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

bug

10-11-1999, 06:57 PM

*Im back*

Bug steps through a portal into merlin's citadel wearing a Saruman Sucks T-shirt and a mickey mouse hat. Geeze, I leave for 2 days and I get drugged, attacked by a goblin army, and teleported to another universe.

Well, I did need a vacation, and I also got this lovely T-shirt. I had to pawn my Ring of Power, but I also picked up some fireworks for merlin.

*Drops a big box of fireworks*

maybe we can set these off after we kick that dark wizard's butt.

Oh, and I got a present for Dirtbag.

*Reaches into the shadows and pulls out dirtbag by the tail*

Bug: "Hi dirtbag"

Dirtbag starts biting bug's hand

Bug: "ouch stop it!!"

Dirtbag: "How did you know I was there?"

Bug: "No offense dirtbag, but it is kindof hard for you to hide in the shadows when someone can smell your stench a mile away"

*Pulls out a stick of deoderent and a can of air freshener and sprays dirtbag with the air freshener*

Bug: "Here you go, you might want to use these"

Dirtbag grabs the 2 items, bites bug's hand, then scurries off into the darkness.

*Bug clutching his bleeding hand* "Ungrateful little rodent!!!"

Well, I can finally get back to my reading, I believe I was halfway through "The Fellowship of the Ring" before I got drugged.

Bug sets his rail detonater down on the table and sits back in the easy chair in front of the fire.

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I go a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes...

Gebohq

10-11-1999, 07:52 PM

Check out any changes to posts, like mine. Oh, and...umm...COME BACK FLAMETHROWER!

Merlin

10-11-1999, 08:23 PM

--That makes much more sense Space Orca. Thanks you for pointing that out. hmmmmmm. . . Maybe someone could even have rebel Stygians.
Also I wanted to point out about the Misty Mountians and the Dark Forest. That isn't what they are called right now (at present they are called the Granite Mountians and the Wastern Woods.) They don't receive their new name until during the war council when the faries update our maps to the landscape changes and we rename the Mountians and Forest.--

Merlin heads to the local records to brush up his knowledge of Bueto history.

Meanwhile Ping_me and Ji'tory take a look around the city. Finally as the sun begins to set Ji'tory tells Ping_me she wants to watch the sun set from the up in the clouds. So they head to a house at the edge of the city and they sit at top its slightly sloped roof top watching the sun set.

Ji'tory: Beautiful isn't it?

Ping_me: Yes. Quite.

For a while neither speak as they watch the sun set.

Then Ping_me realizes Ji'tory is now not looking at the sun, but at him.

Ping_me (still looking out at the sun and looking directly at Ji'tory): Back in Elven country, Shakana said something to me.

Ji'tory (still looking intently at Ping_me): What did he say?

Ping_me: He said you liked me. (At this point Ping_me wonders if this is not another one of those test of wills thing. So he now looks Ji'tory in the eyes.)

She quickly looks away and her face reddens somewhat.

Ji'tory (looking out at the sun again): Perhaps I do.

Ping_me wonders if he misread her looking at him. Then he decides to go back to looking at the sun rather than press the matter further.

The sun sets and the stars come out.

Meanwhile Dragonfly has finished healing and now awakens to see his father Turneh stand over him with an expression of releif that he has woken up.

--Dragonfly, this would be a really good time for you for you to take over (partially to report any experinces you might have had or dreams).--

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Dragonfly

10-11-1999, 09:43 PM

-- I would liek to thank you all for keeping me alive.Thanks! ?Anyways i had a lot more,but i had problems so to let this tory move ahead I am just gonna post a summary 'k?--

Dragonfly:huh.....

Turneh http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gifragonfly.......good night or whatever time it is ..i have lost track.

DRagonfly:ahhhhhhh..........Father....nice to see you here.

Turneh:So you accept the truth?that I am your father?

DRagonfly:I accept it but do not entirely understand.

Turneh:Will you ever to be able to love me as a Father?

DRagonfly:yes, but it will take time.NOt mush though since your words are right and just and I already have accepted the truth.The long rest has allowed me to remember things.....good and bad.........past and present.........and I have been able to think.

Turneh:Ahhhhhh...yes. YOu were out for a while.what did you think about?

Dragonfly:my life. I remembered being as a child taken from my home and raised in torture and pain in a research faicilty on wings.There great acts of torture.....all in the name of science were done on me.that is where I go these wings.....I can still remember the pain when the scientists grafted them onto my body.I remember losing my family. I found my mother once i was able to escape from the facility. We lived in peace. Then I met the woman whom I soon married. WE were deeply in love. She soon bore a son.HE was rightueos and strong even as a baby. AFter a few years though, the administrator of the facility heard of my son's birht and sent troops to apprehend him. When the troops arrived i knew nothing to do except fight back and that is what I did. Iwas able to fight them out of my house that day, but later was different. They soon cught us and brought us to the facility. I remember looking out the window of my room at the sun and stars at night with hope now with my son the hope had been replaced by sadness and dread.Horrible experiments and tortures were done on me and my family. My wife, mother, and child were all killed before my own eyes. They(my eyes)will never be the same.They let me go after that..............deciding I was too week and sadd to do anything to them. I lived in saddness fo rmany years and wandered the world. i found a temple hidden in the forest and made it my home.......years passed the leaves changed colors and so on and i was still sad...........then one day i saw a strange portal form in the temple and a perosn walked thorough it. I soon followed and here I am.ANd then i met you and my life was changed for the better. I had found hope and reason to live.Thanks

TUrneh:I don't know what to say............*with tears*....If I had been there.,,things would be different!

DRagonfly:No they wouldn't have! they would've*with tears* been .........worse! YOu could have done nothing. But the past does not matter! What we have is the future! Let us look ahead and live!

Turneh:............yes

The two embrace and they are happy.

DRagonfly:COme we must be going, I am sure MErlin is waiting. It is time for this journey to conitnue.

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Ping_Me

10-11-1999, 11:27 PM

---ARGGH!! I hate it when my Mom works all night on the computer! Ah, well maybe I'll try to write somthing... I had some free time today. So I drew somthing up. Please forgive me I couldn't resist the temptation.---

http://crusader_5.tripod.com/Dirtbag.jpg

Merlin

10-12-1999, 12:02 AM

--That's not too different from how I envisioned him, except he has black fur and no shirt. By the way Ping_me, I sent you another e-mail, take a look and tell me your thoughts. Say can anybody else her able to vividly see this story in their head like I can? If I were any kind of an artist I would draw up some pictures for this story.--

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

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ThreeDee

10-12-1999, 12:19 AM

Yup I can... dang what a beautiful landscape... http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif

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-ThreeDee
Emissary from the Third Dimension

Ping_Me

10-12-1999, 12:51 AM

Ping and Ji'tory watched the night sky set in. The cloud cover opened up and the stars could be seen more brilliantly than on the ground. Maybe it was the magic of the place, if the Beuto were magic. But soon the owner of the house began to shout at them for standing on his roof.

Ji'troy yawned. They walked down a lamp lighted street. They passed a lamplighter. He flew from pole to pole lighting each one as he went. down the nearly endless street in the city in the sky.

Ji'tory's stomach rumbled. "Hey, you seem pretty well travelled know of any good places to eat around here?" She said with a coy smile.

Ping was taken aback by the question. In the seconds that followed he thought about himself and what he was. And what followed was the fact that he hadn't told her what he was yet. Ping doesn't need food and he had forgotten that the people around him do need it.

"Ummm, no actually. Never been here before."

"Oh. I guess it doesn't matter anyway I didn't remember to bring any money. Do you have any?"

"No I don't have any money on me." Ping said. But on seeing the dissapointment in her face, thought quickly. "But I do know where we can get some." She looked at him questioningly.

Merlin sat. Not in a chair but on a mountain of books piled high to nearly the apex of the library's dome. All of them thuroughly read and piled for reaching the oldest books on the highest shelves. The Beuto had no need of ladders.

"Merlin!" Ping_Me called. No answer.

"Merlin!!" Ping called agin. no answer.

Ji'tory looked at Ping and said, "OK on three. Ready... one... two.. three..."

"MERLIN!!!!"

"What! What!!" A hooded head peeked over the side of the monumental pile of books. Ji'tory started to laugh. Ping smiled at her and looked at Merlin.

"We need some money. Got one of those gold bars on you?"

"As always!" A golden speck appeared from over the side. It grew larger and larger as it came more fully into veiw. Ping_Me focused the energy needed to make his hand solid. He caught the bar as if it were nothing. Ji'tory's eyes grew to the size of hubcaps at the sight of it. Ping handed it to her and she dearly dropped to the floor with the weight of it. She looked at him.

"Well I suppose I could have asked for smaller change..."

The inn they checked into treated them very well, with little wonder! The best room, dinner on a balcony, the choicest wine and the best food. The table was set with the best, candlelight, and a soft breeze ushering in fresh air. Ping_Me did his best to eat. As he took in each little bit of food it was zapped and transferred into energy. Very samll bits of energy. The whole meal wouldn't have been enough to power him for a day.

Ji'tory and Ping talked into the night. Ping revealing very little about himself in an effort not to scare her off. They talked a lot about the elven kingdom and her life there. While Ping entertained her with stories drawn from his life in the CyberNet (Leaving out the CyberNet part. that might have been a little too much for her to handle). Mostly his adventures in the cybergames rooms, rooting out kid hackers.
Often enough he made the hackers sound like real people threatening other real people. Ping_Me noticed throughout the evening Ji'tory was becoming more jovial due to her intake of wine. Soon her whole face was flushed with red.

Winged people were now nearly vanished from the streets, and it was quite apparent that the washing ladies had gone to bed for the night. Ji'troy simple gazed across the table at Ping_Me. Ping knew from what he's read and seen with his own eyes, that when drunk, carbon-based lifeforms could act quite out of the ordinary. QUITE out of the ordinary. That coupled with the fact of what Sakana (please leave out the H in Sakana, Merlin) told him, he knew he was in for trouble.

Ping got up from the table and walked over to where Ji'troy was sitting. "Are you ready to go to sleep?" He said choosing his words carefully.

"Uhh huuuh!" She said and got to her feet. She stumbled a little and fell toward Ping. Quickly making his whole body pysical, he caught her. She laughed into his robes. //Oh great.// Ping thought to himself. Whether by cricumstance or on purpose Ji'tory was unable to walk. With great hesitation Ping decided to carry her to the bedroom. She sighed as he carried her over to one of the beds. He laid her there on a patch of moonlight. He drew back the covers and tucked her in. Quickly he walked over to the other bed and sat down on it. He looked at her and he realised she was looking back.

"Why don't you come sleep in this bed?" she said to him. Ping_Me questioned himself if there were any Gods. Her eyes looked insistantly at him. Ping_Me steeled himself and walked to her bedside. He knelt by it and took her hand. He altered his voice to the point where the sound waves became hypnotic.
And sang a lullaby. Her eyelids dropped lower and lower. Ping waited until her breathing became even and she had gone into R.E.M. sleep.

Ping_Me stood up and gazed out the nearby window. And breathed a sigh of relief.

---Okay, lets be mature. On pictures, I had thought about making sketches on the various places while this thread goes on, while i was working on Dirtbag and a picture of my character. But I might not have enough time or enough paper in my sketchbook.---

Dirtbag

10-12-1999, 10:26 AM

As bug sits reading, all of a sudden something comes flying out of nowhere to smack him in the back of the head.

"Ow!" bug mutters, getting up and doing a quick search of the floor. Bending over, he picks up a can of deoderant. "Great," he mumbles as he picks up his rail detonator. "Here ratty, ratty, ratty..."

"It's all your fault, you know," Dirbag's voice comes from seemingly nowhere and everwhere at once. "Innocent little me comes popping through the portal, and then you take a pot shot at me. Good job."

"Come on out," bug called. "You know you want to."

Without warning, the can of air spray slams against bug's skull. Spinning, he fires automatically, the explosion blowing out a random wall but otherwise hitting nothing.

"I get it, you're a coward!" bug says. "A little chicken. A little ratty chicken. Little ratty chicken!"

"Over here, buggy-poo," comes a voice from behind him. Spinning again, bug is suprised to see that Dirtbag is actually visible out on the floor. He holds his hands up. "Here I am, big boy, take yer best shot!"

bug shrugs. "All right." Taking quick aim, bug fires off a rail at the dirty rodent that probably looks a lot like a certain jpg file, but Dirtbag didn't move. Instead, his mouth warps, his teeth and jaw stretching madly out of proportion, and the rail disappears into the darkness of his gaping maw. His face returning to normal, the rat pats his stomach . "**** things always give me heartburn."

bug lowers the rail detonator and looks at the rat in wonder. "Nice trick," he commented.

Dirtbag grinned. "This one's better." Setting himself, Dirtbag belches out the rail detonator again, the projectile arcing across the room as though freshly shot from a gun.

Diving for cover as the rail zooms over his head, bug looses sight of Dirtbag for just a moment, but when he rolled up on to his side, the rat was already gone.

"Bang," the rat's voice echoed through the chamber. "Bang, bang, bang."

Gebohq

10-12-1999, 04:12 PM

(It took a while, but I think I've thought of a worthy monster for the two to face. But I'm not quite sure how to resolve it, just that somehow the Avenger will help out a bit, making Gebohq appreciate him more...or something like that, and maybe Flamethrower can come back, where are you flame?)

*Gebohq and the Avenger continue to be led in the dark passages by the dwarf guards, followed by a raging crowd carrying torches. Towards the end of their journey, the passage forks in two, one going upwards and the other down. The crowd followed the path leading upwards while the guards took the two strangers down the other path. The passage taken by Gebohq and the Avenger ended with two towering wooden doors, opening towards the sides, beckoning the two into a forboding and dank area. The two were shoved beyond the doors, but before they could turn around and try to escape, the doors slammed shut, reverberating ominously throughout the cavern.*

Avenger: "Some place. Hope our death is quick and painless."

Gebohq: "Somehow I doubt it."

*The two looked at their surroundings. Behind them were the doors sealed tight. In front of them was a short rock path ending in an circle. The ground they were on was like a peninsula in midair, for below them seemed to be an endless pit, to them giving an appearance of a gaping mouth. Above them, there seemed to be no ceiling, the darkness made up what distance they could see. It gave the whole cavern an illusion that the area was cone-shape, but in fact was more of a straight crevice. Up along the wall, thin slits could be seen, and safely behind the small openings were the onlooking dwarfs, ready for the beast to come feed on them. The low murmur of the crowd died, leaving an errie silence behind. The silence seemed to hold for an eternity. Then, a very low hissing sound from below them could be heard, mixed with the sound of a thousand claws tapping rock. The two looked down to see hundreds of shapes moving up the wall, black sillouettes against the dark wall.*

Gebohq: "To the Empire..."he gasps

*When coming out of the shadow, the two could see that a thousand black spider-like creatures the size of their head were scaling the wall. But the swarm did not act like a group, but rather one huge entity, the shape reminding Gebohq of a vorsknr, but with 6 legs, smaller and shorter in height, and where the snout would be, a gaping hole, like the snout was turned inside out. After reaching at level with Gebohq and the Avenger, the "beast" stopped.*

Avenger: "Looks like we'll be fine. That thing won't be able to cross the gap."

*But the Avenger spoke too soon, for the "beast" appeared to take one of its collective legs and ram it in the side of the rock wall. It then in one smooth motion pulled the leg back out with the paw grasping an uneven slab of rock, and tossed it towards their direction, forming a bridge. It then began to cross.*

Avenger: "Wow! That thing can wield the rock like a knife through butter!"

*The two attept to go for their weapons, but to their despair remembered that the guards took their weapons before meeting the king. They look up to see one of the dwarfs waving their weapons mockingly at them.*

Gebohq: "If you got any bright ideas, this would be a good time as any."

*They look upon the great beast and could only contimplate jumping into the inviting pit below...*

(Hey, I'd love to draw some pictures for this story, and I even got a scanner. But I need to know how to post them up, exactly, because I'm stupid with computers. And how is "A Jedi's Journey" coming along?)

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Merlin

10-12-1999, 08:19 PM

--You post you picture by putting a and a around the location of you picture once you've uploaded it onto the net (example of a location would be http://sever/site/areawithinsite/pic.jpg ) Remeber to put no spaces in there. Also the TC is going ok. Also by the way, I am collecting this and intent to then reedit it (cut out messages like these and parts that didn't happen and stuff at the start in the disscussion board that had no part in the story.) Put it into a section of my site called Merlin's Library and store it there for good.--

Merlin, Ping_me, Ji'tory, Dragonfly, Turneh, and Balthazar fly low over the trees in the early morning. Turney flies on their right. Dragonfly to the left. And Balthazar with Merlin, Ping_me, and Ji'tory riding on his back, flies bettween and a little below Dragonfly and Turneh.

Ping_me: How far to the Fairy Ring area?

Merlin: Not much farther. Only a couple of minutes away now.

They had been flying since dawn and it was now near noon.

Ping_me: Good, I think Dragonfly, Turneh, and Balthazar are getting tired.

Merlin: I think so too, but were almost there. (now to Ji'tory) I'll need your help especially in the upcoming talks with the fairies.

Ji'tory: Why? What can I do?

Merlin: Elves have always been on good terms to the Fairy race. More so than humans.

Ji'tory: But I've never met a Fairy in my life!

Merlin: That won't matter, they'll trust your word better than anyone elses just because you are an elf.

Balthazar now decends into the forest. Merlin now leads the way. After a few minutes of walking they reach an area that is like a clearing but the trees at the edges of this clears have their branches intertwined and they create a canopy over they area. In the center there is a large circle of mushrooms. Ping_me notices a very realistic statue of to the side.

Merlin: Here. This is the fairy ring.

Suddnely several small lights seem to wink on as the lights come closer we see two very small figures, human in form with the addition of four translucent wings which fluttered very fast. Ji'tory stepped foward.

Ji'tory: We come to see the king and queen of the fairies.

1st Fairy (Who now closer gets a better look at Ji'tory): So you are an elf. Who are these people with you. I don't recgonzize their race.

Ji'tory: I am Ji'tory. This is Dragonfly (Dragonfly bows slightly). This is Turneh of the Beuto (Turneh bows slightly). This is Ping_me (Ping_me bows). And this is Merl-

1st Fairy (with great suprise): The Wizard Merlin! (Now the fariy becomes distrustful) What do you want?

Ji'tory: We only wish an audience with your king and queen. Please, it is most important.

1st Fairy: We will hear you, but we do not trust Merlin.

Ji'tory: Merlin only means you good will.

1st Fairy: How do we know he doesn't want our magic.

Merlin: If I wanted to take your magic would I be asking for your help.

The 1st Fairy pauses to think on this.

1st Fairy: This sounds wise. But we are still wary. Come I will take yo there. I am Tsari.

Tsari leads them into the ring of Mushrooms. Once all of them stand inside it the world seems to go out of focus, then once it comes back into focus they stand in a vast cavern filled with faires flitting here and there. Tsari leads them to a part of the cave that seems to lead up to tiny steps at the pinnicle of the steps (at eye level) there are two thrones. In the thone to the left sits a male fairy wearing a crown and in the right hand throne sites a female fairy also wearing a crown.

Tsari: King Titan and Queen Titana I give you Ji'tory of the elves and her company, with whom travels Merlin.

King Titan: Merlin, you must have given a very good explanation to our guard for him to have let you in. I trust you know the extent of our magic and what our retaliation would be on any attack.

Merlin: I do.

Ji'tory: This is why we need your help. A Dark Wizard from Merlin's home realm threatens this one. He, all of us, wish to save this world. Will you help us?

King Titan: I have felt evil begin to affect this world. But though you look an honorable elf, we do not trust Merlin. We will not commit any of our people to help you fight.

Ji'tory begins to speak again but Merlin cuts her off.

Merlin: If you will not help us by sending your people I need a bit of some magic stone you have to defend us from the Dark Wizard's fireball attacks. It is called Moonstone.

King Titan: We will give at least that. You can use it only once. After that it looses its power. (he pauses) One more thing Merlin. Evil has covered the moutians and forest sourounding the Dark Ones castle. The Mountians are now covered in thick misty and the woods have gone dead as though burned by a great fire. We have given these lands new names. Misty Mountians and the Dark Forest. Tread lightly there Merlin. For the Dark One will be ready.

Tsari brings a palm sized stone which is shiny and black as obsidian and gives it to Merlin.

King Titan: Perhaps when and if you defeat the Dark One the relationship bettween our races will be more open. But untill they we will not trust any of you. Good bye.

With that the room went out of focus, once it came back in focus they again stood in the middle of the ring of mushrooms. Merlin again lead the way and they were soon air born again and returning to the citadel to pick up Space Orca and Afarassa before they all headed off the the continet where the humans lived, the most distant and last race to visit before the war council. As Balthazar lifted into the air Dragonfly turned to Merlin.

Dragonfly: Merlin, why did you put up with that from those little people.

Merlin: Did you see the statue in the clearing?

Dragonfly: Yes. Why?

Merlin: I have no doubt that is it some unfourtunate person who assumed just that too. Don't underestimate a Fariy by its size, they can be lethal. I only know of a few things more dangerous, The Dark Wizard being one of them. You must not judge them too harshly. They are very fearfull of other races because of what happened in the first war. Now they only wish to be left alone.

Merlin, Dragonfly, Turneh, Ping_me, Ji'tory, and Balthazar head back to the citadel.

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Ping_Me

10-12-1999, 11:43 PM

"Ping?"

Ping_Me's thoughts were distant untill he heard Ji'tory's voice. He was thinking about the battle ahead, and whatever lay in store for them. Ping noticed her looking at him. But as he brought his eyes up to meet hers she looked away.

"I..... I, want to apologize.... for the way I acted the other night. And thank you..... for not taking advantage of me...."

Ping sat in full awareness of the fact that he couldn't take advantage of her. He also knew due to the events of that night that he couldn't hide what he was much longer.

".... I tried to seduce you..... that was inexcuseable....." she went on her face covered in shame. "I hope that you can forgive my actions..."

"Of course!" Ping said.

"huh?"

"You're not at fault. You did me no wrong that I know of. I knew your condition, it's only natural to have that kind of reaction to alcohol. Your thoughts get fuzzy and you can't think straight. You only see perceptions of yourself and other people. You should probably forgive me for the use of hypnotics against your will."

"Hyp... what?"

//doh// "Uhhh..... nevermind."

She kept looking away for awhile. Minutes later she looked back at him. she blushed and smiled at him. "You." she said still smiling happily.

Ping smiled back. //Geez, she looking at me like that agian. What does she want from me?//

Merlin

10-13-1999, 03:33 PM

Balthazar lands back at Merlin's Citadel. Merlin now notices Space Orca isn't there.

Merlin: Afarassa, where is Orca?

Afarassa: He went to find something called Goliath Berries. But he hasn't returned yet.

Merlin: I bet he's been captured by the Goliath giants by now. Come, all of you, you to bug. Afarassa stay here in case Orca returns. We may not be back for a few days as we go to meet the last race we need to contact, the humans.

Merlin now strides over to a near by shadow and picks up Dirtbag by his tail.

Dirtbag: AHHHHHHHHH! Put me down!

Merlin walks over to the opening where Balthazar sits at the edge of the citadel and promptly, yet with careful aim, throws Dirtbag out the entrance. Dirtbag falls from the mountian screaming and lands safely and unharmed (except for his dignity) in the bushes at the mountians base.

Now Ping_me, Ji'tory, Merlin, and Bug climb onto Balthazar's back.

After about an 15 minutes of flight they arrive at the area around the mountians. Balthazar flies in low and hovers with out landing.

Merlin (from Balthazar's back): Goliaths. Hear me. You have caputured one of our friends. We want him back. He only came here beliveing your berries could heal his friend.

One of the Goliaths: W-E D-O N-O-T C-A-R-E W-H-A-T H-E N-E-E-D-E-D I-T F-O-R! W-E D-O N-O-T H-A-V-E H-I-M. T-H-E S-T-Y-G-I-A-N-S T-O-O-K H-I-M. B-U-T N-O-W W-E W-I-L-L D-E-S-T-R-O-Y Y-O-U!

Merlin: I think not.

The nearest Goliath swings his club at Balthazar.

Merlin: Now Balthazar!

Balthazar pulls back some just beyond the arc of the giants swing. Then the dragon breathed fire onto the giants club. The goliath now realizing his club was on fire begins swinging it about accidently bashing his fellow Goliaths over the head in the process!

Merlin: Balthazar get us out of here.

The Dragon turns and flies to the west away from the Goliaths.

Ping_me: What about Space Orca?

Merlin: If he's been captured by the Stygians he is undoubtably already a prisoner at the Dark Wizard's Castle. We can't rescue him from there on our own. We will have to wait until the attack to do that. Keep this course to the West, Balthazar. It will take a little over the rest of this day travel to reach the edge of this continet.

Some hours later after flying over seemingly miles and miles of forest the sun begins to set and Balthazar lands into a clearing in the woods only a few minutes walk from the channel dividing the two continents and they set up camp.

The stars shown brightly over head. Merlin sat gazing at the fire. Nearby Ping_me sits Ping_me and Ji'tory. Near the fire Bug is asleep too. Turneh and Dragonfly stand watch and talk with each other softly. Nearby Balthazar lays sleeping in the forest.

Merlin (to Ping_me and Ji'tory): We won't be able to take Balthzar onto the smaller continet where the humans live. They might feel him a threat. I will send a message to the ferryman across the channel to come over and ferry us across in the morning.
We best all get some sleep it will be a long journey ahead.

Merlin lies down next to the fire and quickly falls into a deep sleep.

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

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Space_Orca

10-13-1999, 03:56 PM

But it was not so. Instead, Orca woke up with his head throbbing in some kind of a dark cellar. He could hear creaky, mystical voices overhead that obviously belonged to Stygians. A skeleton dressed in fancy red robes decended the stairs toward Orca. "What do you want?" Orca demanded, reaching toward his waist instinctivly and finding his Lightsaber still there. Orca drew it and assumed an defensive posture. The Stygian cackled "Do not be so afraid, Space-Orca. We will not kill you. You will be our weapon to get away." "Away from what?" Space Orca asked skepticlly. "Away from the dark wizard's grasp of course!" the Stygian rasped from his non-existant throat. "Then you realize the evils of the great dark wizard?" the Stygian nodded. "We are kept with him under force. Some Stygians are truly loyal to him, but some are not. We allied with him in hopes of stalling." Orca puzzeled this for a minute, then responded "If you wish to join the wizard Merlin, me, and his allies in defeating the Dark Wizard, simply elect a representitive to send to the war council." The skelton's face showed surprised, at least in the way skeletons do. "Wizard-Merlin? Help Wizard-Merlin?" the skelton ruler questioned. Orca, impatient with this by now said "Yeah, or your going to find yourself a dead undead under the Dark Wizard's oppresive boot." the Stygian again paused. "Then we shall help. I have only one condition: I myself wish to be the representitive of the war council." "Fine" Orca said. The two, along with a large escort, moved out of the building. "I forgot to ask, what is your name?" Orca questioned the Stygian representitive. "Master-Dead-Man" said the Stygian in response. "Makes sense. Can I just call you Master Dead?" Orca responded. The skeleton looked surprised. "If you wish. Our culture always uses full names, but I am fine if you wish to use what you call a nick-name." The large group continued in silence for a bit. Then they saw something upahead. "A patrol of Death Demons, working for the Dark Lord!" Orca cried, turning his lightsaber on with a hiss, then charging at the eight firey beings. "Come back!" The Stygian yelled, but it was too late. Orca's saber slashed through the first one, and with a unearthly howl, it disappeared. The other demons drew back, extending their firey arms to strike at Orca. Orca dodged and blocked, slicing through several more demons. But even more were coming. Orca was surrounded by hundreds of Death Demons. Their fire radiated around them, backing Orca into a tiny space. And then, suddenly, they all drew back, howling. The Ice Pheonix dived from above, howling as it went, slicing through the ranks of demons, sending them all back to the vile land from which they came. Orca realized that he must have accidentally called the Ice Pheonix in. "Pheonix, I'd like you to fly me and that red-cloaked Stygian Master-Dead-Man to the Citadel. Then go back into resting. We don't want the dark wizard taking over your mind again." The Ice Pheonix nodded, then grabbed Orca and Master-Dead-Man with its talons and swung them onto its back. Then the Ice Pheonix was away.
Hours later, Orca and Master-Dead-Man arrived at the Citadel to find it deserted. The Ice Pheonix went back up to its resting place, but Orca still sensed life around. Arfrasa stepped out and pointed a spear at the Stygian. "Hes friendly" Orca said. "Good" Arfrasa responded, still eying the Stygian suspiciously.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

[This message has been edited by Space_Orca (edited October 13, 1999).]

Gebohq

10-13-1999, 05:00 PM

Hey, can I ask a big favor Merlin? Can you also do the same thing that your doing with this story with the "Nostradomous...Scary Stuff here" started by GA Farret and "The neverending story thread", which is a continuation of the first started by Ares. I'd like to see it have a home, but I don't know how you plan to copy this story, so it might be a lot of work, and if so, I understand if you don't. And I'm still thinking how to resolve my part of the story(I can do it, I just have to think of something good, and I hope it to be a surprise). Maybe if they ever get the chat room up we could talk there Merlin. Do you have AOL Instant Messanger? If so, just contact me with that, my name on that is Gebohq. One last thing: you said that the dwarfs lived in the Misty mountains. Does that mean that they live right by the Dark One? If so, I just wanted to keep that in mind. Now time to think of a good end to my tale, and then my character can join yours and invade the castle(at least that's what I think your gonna do, right?)

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Space_Orca

10-13-1999, 07:08 PM

-Okay, now my charechter's part until the war council is over. I'm just back at the Citadel, keeping Arfrasa from killing Master-Dead-Man and working on strategies. If you want to notify me of anything about the story, my e-mail is Space_Orca@hotmail.com-

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

bug

10-13-1999, 07:52 PM

Bug wakes up next to the fire which has burned down to glowing embers.

What the hell am I doing here? I don't go around invading castles! Merl, didn't even explain what was going on. He just walked in and pushed me out the door. "Hop on the dragon" he said. "we have to go rescue space orca".

Looking around Bug suddenly realizes that he left his rail detonater on the table back in merl's castle.

"Oh crap, now I don't even have a weapon! That's it im going back!"

Bug leaves the party lying by the fire and heads off into the woods to find merlin's dragon.

He finds the dragon lying curled up, and snoring softly. Wisps of smoke rise from his nostrels every time he breaths.

Bug picks up a stick and starts poking the dragon in the eye. "Hey Mr. dragon, wake up, time to rise and shine. wake up time."

The dragon blinks a few times, and looks over at bug.

Dragon: "Bug, do you want some advice? Never wake a sleeping dragon."

Bug: "why not?"

Dragon: "do you like getting eaten?"

Bug: "um, not really. May I ask a favor of you?"

Dragon: "you can ask it."

Bug: "will you fly be back to merlin's castle?"

The dragon coughs, setting several trees and bushes on fire.

Dragon: "I've spent the whole day flying carrying a bunch of people on my back, I settle down to get a good nights sleep, and I get waken up after a few hours by some jerk poking me in the eye. Next thing I know he wants me to get up and fly him back to where he came from in the middle of the night!!!!"

Bug: "yeah, that's about right."

The dragon glares at bug. Little flames shoot out it's mouth as it breaths heavly.

Bug: "actually if you look at it, this is all really merlin's fault. He dragged out before I had a chance to pick up my rail detonater. You can blame him. Besides, he won't be needing you for a while"

The dragon considers this, "Oh well, merl has been getting on my nerves recently, 'Fly me here', 'Fly me there', It would be nice for him to walk for a change"

Bug climbs up on the dragon's back and the two of them head off in the night

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Good hitting can always stop good pitching and vice versa.

Gebohq

10-13-1999, 08:33 PM

*Back at the Misty Mountains, deep within the dwarf stronghold, Gebohq and the Avenger are faced with the "beast", a single entity made up of many black spider-like creatures intertwined toghether. gebohq and the Avenger are weaponless, left to contimplate suicide. The "beast" advances towards them. Gebohq is walking to the edge of the platform they are on, ready to jump and end what misery may come.*

Avenger: "Wait! There must be SOMETHING we can do."

Gebohq: "Like what? Reason with it?"he says in a sarcastic tone

Avenger: "Can't you use the Force to kill it?"

Gebohq: "Last time I did that, I almost turned to the Dark side, not to mentioned almost controlled by the Dark Wizard. But maybe if I use it in small bursts..."

*Gebohq lifts the rock debris made by the makeshift bridge the beast had made and launched the rock pieces towards his foe. But the rocks only damaged one of the spider creatures, where the spider was tehn rejected from teh body like a defected cell. The rest of the spiders contorted their collective body to soften the impact of the rocks, then the beast moved the pieces of rock throughout its body until they reached one of its legs, where it then threw the pieces back at Gebohq.*

Gebohq: "It's no use, the debris doesn't have enough effect on it. I don't want to die like this, I'm making sure it can't find me before I jump"

*Gebohq transforms himself to look like one of the pieces of rock, then prepares again to jump off the platform*

Avenger: "You can change your shape?"

Gebohq: "Yes, but what good will that do? I can only transform into one form, I can't turn into a thousand spiders, even if they act as one being."

Avenger: "You won't have to, I got an idea. Quick, I must tell you quick!"

*Gebohq stops where he is, and the Avenger moves towards him, though looking at the beast to make sure it does not notice Gebohq. The Avenger then wispers teh plan to Gebohq. He then moves away from Gebohq, waving his arms wildly at the beast.*

Avenger: "Come get me you overgrown excuse for a vorsknr."

*The beast shifts its body to confront the Avenger. While the beast is distracted, Gebohq, still appearing as a piece of rock, creeps over behind the beast. Gebohq then touches the dead spider creature detached from the body of the beast, transforming to mirror the appearance of the once dead spider creature. Gebohq then crawls into the beast's body, the beast accepting Gebohq as part of itself. It continues to try to attack the Avenger, but the Avenger dodges each of its attack.*

Avenger: "Hurry Gebohq, I don't know how long I can keep this up."

*Gebohq then starts to attack the individual spiders like a cancerous cell. Before the beast can notice a forign part inside it and react, Gebohq destroys all but one spider creature. Gebohq then transform back into his original state. Knowing itself at a disadvantage, the spider crosses the bridge and scurries back down the bottomless pit.*

Avenger: "Woohoo! We did it!"

Gebohq: "Don't celebrate just yet, look up."

*The dwarfs that were looking through the openings in the wall were now outraged. The guards opened the doors with orders to kill the two immediately. Gebohq and the Avenger prepare to fight when the guards and the crowd divert their attention to the passages they came through. Quick footsteps could be heard, and when the being comes in view, it appears to be a humanoid. The crowd murmurs at the new stranger.*

Gebohq: "Flamethrower!"

To be continued...

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Dragonfly

10-13-1999, 10:29 PM

Attn:all invovled in story:I am making an effort to draw up sketches of each character. If have thought about it, please draw your character, scan it, and send me a jpeg to my email mailto:dragonfly@massassi.netdragonfly@massassi.ne t</A> if you do not wich to draw your character (it is better if you do for you may have a better idea in your head then me) then send a description of your character:height, clothing, features(facial and body), and so on. Thanks. If you want to see other stuff done by me(drawings) i will have a picture of myself up in a day or two(whenever i get access to a scanner at school)

PS Anyone who would like to offer their artistic help(in drawing etc.)then please email me mailto:Dragonfly@massassi.netDragonfly@massassi.ne t</A>

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Ping_Me

10-13-1999, 10:47 PM

Ping_me observed Bug persuading Balthazar to go back to the Citadel. Ping_Me rushed back to the fireside and tried to rouse Merlin whose bushy whiskers moved whenever he breathed the slightest breath.

"Merlin!" Making his hands phsyical he shook him, "Wake up! Bug's trying to hijack Balthazar!"

Merlin got up and they both rushed to the clearing Balthazar was sleeping in. Just in time to see Balthazar's gigantic wings speed him into the night air.

Merlin looked completely calm and serene. Ping_Me looked at him and expected panic or some such thing.

"What did Bug say?" Merlin asked as they gazed after the quickly dissapearing speck in the sky.

"He wanted to go back for his raildetonator."

"Oh that. I brought it with me."

"What!?"

Merlin reached up one of his sleaves and produced Bug's Rail Detonator as if from no where. "I picked it up in all the rush when we were leaving. I was hoping he would ask me about it and not do somthing rash like this."

"What about Balthazar?"

"Don't worry about it. Remember I can ask him to carry us at anytime from almost anywhere."

"Boy, Bug's gonna be pissed when he get's back to find his Rail Det's not there."

They both went chuckling back to the fire.

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Guidelines for heroes:
Girls: It's okay to wear skimpy clothing as long as you can kick butt.
Guys: It's okay to look like a girl as long as you can kick butt.

Merlin

10-13-1999, 10:50 PM

--I'd just like to point out a couple of things. One, yes I am keeping a record of this, I will reedit it when it is done (cut out our remarks to each other, edit the story for inconsitences. Then post the final version as the complete Saga of the Third War in a section of my site called Merlin's Library. Speaking of inconsitices I don't know if you notice Orca, but Afarassa, went with us. She isn't there. But I will go and reedit my previous post so that she stays behind in case you return. As to bug, I don't mind if you take Balthazar back (though when I edit the story after it is complete I don't care that you call me Merl actually it kinda annoys me but I don't mind if you say it, but Balthazar wouldn't. Nor do I mind he argument about being annoyed about traveling so much. But one little problem, We are still a good distance from the channel. But I will fix this to when I edit the earlier post. I will simply make it so that we are only a few hours walk from the channel. Anyway I just wanted to point those inconsitences out. And that I will edit my post to fix them.--

Gebohq

10-14-1999, 02:40 PM

(Don't worry Merlin, I went back and fix all the inconsistencies I could find in my stories. And Dragonfly, I'll send an e-mail, but just wanted to say I would help with the pictures if you want, I've already done a picture of mine and over at the Massassi skin pack thread, squall is helping to make my drawing a skin! Now the conclusion of my tale with the dwarfs.)

Gebohq: "Flamethrower!"

Flame: "Yes Gebohq, it is me, and I have healed from the previous battle when we fought that dark child and his dragon. I thought you may have needed my help."

*The king steps out of the crowd of dwarfs.*

King: "You fought the servent of the Dark Wizard and his evil dragon? You are brave indeed. But why do you fight with this criminal?"(points at Gebohq)

Flame: "He is no criminal, the both of us came to deliver a message that the Dark Wizard planned to take over this world. We were here to ask your assistance."

King: "But we saw the one who calls himself the Avenger kill our best warrior and also saw Gebohq cooperating with him."

Gebohq: "Your Majesty, I came to deliver the message Flamethrower speaks of when, because of his apparent role and my seemingly apparent situation, the Avenger took action and stopped your second in command from taking me hostage. I assure you, he had good intentions."

King: "I wish I had more time to consult this matter over, but with the coming of the Dark Wizard, I must make haste. Therefore, the Avenger will have to serve out his sentence of penal work in the mines until I deem him worthy of freedom.(the Avenger nods solemnly in acceptance) What do the two of you need me to do on behalf of saving my people."

Gebohq: "We need a representative of your race to meet at Merlin's citadel, where we will discuss our assult on the Dark Wizard's fortress."

King: "Well, since we can not spare you our second in command for obvious reasons, we will have to send his trainee who has been preparing to take his place. Come out Dwin."

*Out of the crowd emerges a small dwarf, clad in armor and sporting a sword, he stands erect.*

Dwin: "I will serve my people as needed your Highness."

Flame: "We must depart now. Goodbye then."

*With that, Gebohq, Flamethrower, and Dwin exit the dwarf caves.*

Gebohq: "How will we get back? We could never ttransport Dwin with us, could we?"

Flame: "No need, while healing, I contacted Merlin and asked for him to send three dragons to our aid."

*And as Flamethrower said, three dragons awaited then outside the cave entrances. They each mounted one and departed for Merlin's citadel.*
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*Elsewhere in the Misty Mountains, the Dark Child recieves a message from his master, the Dark Wizard.*

Dark Wizard: "Son, it is almost time for the final battle. Come with your dragon, we have much to prepare for."

Dark Child: "Yes father."
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*The trio reach Merlin's citadel, where they dismount their dragons. Dwin looks at the outside of the citadel while Gebohq and Flame talk privately.*

Flame: "I must go now. I have too many responsibilities back in my universe for me to ignore."

Gebohq: "I wish you could stay and help, but I understand your situation. Oh wait, I almost forgot.(Gebohq runs into the citadel, and emerges with Flamethrower's weapons) Here, you should have them back."

Flame: "Thank you. Goodbye, and may the Force be with you."

*A portal then opens next to Flame. Flamethrower then jumps into the portal, where it then closes behind him.*

Gebohq: "Farewell."(Gebohq stands still for a few moments in thought)"I should meet up with Merlin and the rest. Come Dwin."

*Gebohq and Dwin mount their Dragons and head to meet with Merlin.*

(This is where my character will be until either my character is sent elsewhere or Merlin is prepared to attack the Dark Wizard's fortress.)

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Space_Orca

10-14-1999, 04:02 PM

I'm going away on a vacation for 3 days, so postpone the war council till monday at least.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Dirtbag

10-14-1999, 06:22 PM

While Merlin's party lies sleeping, Dirtbag silently emerges from the shadows, and observes them for a moment. After a moment, he makes a decision, then turns, and scampers back into the shadow, heading directly for the deepest, darkest part where reality is the thinnest. In one instant, the entity known as Dirtbag has ceased to exist on this world.

In the next instant, the slimy little rodent is back, an evil grin on his face. His mouth stretchs open, unleashing a horde of shadowy, flying red-eyed monsters onto the group.

Dirtbag snickers to himself and scampers off to a safe distance to watch.

Dragonfly

10-14-1999, 08:22 PM

Dragonfly and Turneh were standing guard a few feet from the camp.

DRagonfly:yeah.......that is how i got my wings.

Turneh:that must've been horrible.

Dragonfly:yeah, it was bad for the memories will forever remain in my mind and soul....

Then out of the forest comes several red-eyed flying creatures heading straight towards the camp.

Turneh:WEll i am sure.............what the heck?!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!?!?!?

Dragonfly:*running back to camp* MErlin! Bug! ping_me! Space Orce! everyone! Wake up! There are several creatures coming towards us on the attack! hurry! ready for a fight!

The creatures quickly descend upon the camp stealing supplies and attacking the group.All there are fully awake now....fighting this new threat.

Dragonfly:Merlin! Where's bug?

Merlin:He left to get something....he should be back soon.

Then the creatures with their eyes blazing red swoop down and attack the group.Each person fighting their hardest, yet the battle does not end..........it is an even match!Then out from the forest comes a blazing green light and as it nears it morphs into the shape of ThreeDee!

ThreeDee:I thought you might need my help!

Ping_Me:Yeah...we kinda do! This fight is too even! Help us tip the odds!

With ThreeDee's return the group are able to repel the creatures.

Merlin:Now where did those things come from?

PIng_ME:I think I know where they came from!

He quietly sneaks off into the forest so as not to alert his prey. Then with a quick snatch he holds in his right hand Dirtbag!by the tail!

Dirtbag:Let me down you over huncked peice of C$@%! LEt me go you f*&%! Get your d#@$ hand off my f%$^ing tail!

Ping_Me:haha you dumb rat! You are more trouble than you are worth.

Ping_me returns to the camp to find everyone trying to clean up the mess. He walks towards Merlin.

Ping_ME:I found the problem. This little rat!

MErlin:*sighs in exxasperation* Dirtbag.........i should have known. Now what are we to do with you?*after pondering he procures a small cage from his pocket and puts the rat ever so gently into the cage and locks it* I know.........you shall be kept in this cage so as to not cause any more trouble!

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Dirtbag

10-14-1999, 08:29 PM

Dammit! Anybody comes near me and I'll bite their arm off! And just you wait until I get into a little bit of shadow...

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Ping_Me

10-14-1999, 08:52 PM

---LOL! You shouldn't have done that! Dirtbag makes our lives interesting! hehehe!---

Dragonfly

10-14-1999, 09:42 PM

--Dirtbag is still there! BUt he won't be causeing a lot of trouble anymore now that he is in a cage! hahahahah --

Gebohq

10-14-1999, 10:19 PM

Yeah, but they gotta have dirtbag show up at the end to hinder us in defeating the Dark Wizard. Go Dirtbag! Oh, and make sure to look at my last post, I added my conclusion to it, I think it will make the final battle much more interesting if it follows.

Gebohq

10-15-1999, 03:41 PM

*Late one night after Gebohq and Dwin had reached Merlin's party, Gebohq was holding watchout at Dirtbag's cage while everyone else was asleep. Well, almost everyone...*

Dirtbag: (singing very bad)"...Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage..."

Gebohq: "Don't you EVER shut up?"

Dirtbag: "Not for you."

Gebohq: "Serves you right to be in that cage."

Dirtbag: "Well, you serve right too, serve for the Dark Wizard."

*Gebohq gives Dirtabg a cold stare.*

Gebohq: "I serve NO ONE. I do what I decide is best for me, got that?"

Dirtbag: "Oh, did I touch a soft spot? I know you, and your just as pathetic as the rest of Merlin's goonies. The Dark Wizard will crush you easily, even without me. And you my friend, will be his servent."

*In a wave of fury, Gebohq violently shakes the cage Dirtbag is in, then realizing that he had justified Dirtbag's assumptions, put the cage back down.*

Dirtbag: "Pathetic, heh."

Gebohq: "You think I'm a goody two-shoes? You don't know me at all, I've been to the Dark side before and I know your kind Dirtbag, because I've been there."

*Gebohq in a wave of anger left Dirtbag in isolation once again.*

Dirtbag: "I'm not going to let you sleep you know."

*And with that Dirtbag began to scream and make loud noises. Gebohq goes to Ping_Me to wake him up, though he finds out Ping_Me and the others have been woken up already by Dirtbag.*

Gebohq: "It's your turn to watch now Ping_Me."

Ping_Me: "But I still have 2 hours-"

*But Gebohq has already walked away to ponder his thoughts.*

Ping_Me: (to Merlin)"What's up with him?"

Merlin: "I'm not sure, but let's hope he works it out before our assult on the Dark Wizard. You better take your post now over Dirtbag, and see if you can't shut him up."

*Ping_me then walks to Dirtbag to stand guard.*

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Dragonfly

10-15-1999, 04:13 PM

disregard

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Dragonfly

10-15-1999, 04:31 PM

OK as promised my sketch of myself. http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif Remember it is only a quick sketch of my character.
http://www.massassi.net/extras/images/dragonfly.JPG

Post comments below! I would really love to hear what you all think! thanks!

ThreeDee

10-15-1999, 04:40 PM

Hey that's neat! I kinda imagined your character being a bit more upright, sorta hero-looking.. but that's cool. You a regular guy who's part Dragonfly! Hey that rimes hehe

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-ThreeDee
Emissary from the Third Dimension

bug

10-15-1999, 07:21 PM

Bug and a very tired Balthazar arrive at merlins citadel. Balthazer glides in, does a small hop, then promptly lays down and goes to sleep. Bug jumps down from his shoulders onto the ground. "Thanks for the ride".

upon entering Bug is surprised to find that his rail detonater is not where he left it. He is even more surprised when Space Orca stands up from the chair in front of the fireplace.

Bug: "What are you doing here?!!"

Orca: "Oh, I didn't like being inprisoned so I left with the help of Master Dead here."

A bony figure emerges from the shadows. Bug jumps in surprise.

Orca: "Bug, this is Master Dead. Master Dead, Bug"

Master Dead: "hello"

Bug: "hi"

Bug: "so, orca, you just walked out? And what's with the undead? are they on our side?"

Orca: "well, I we did have some problems with some patrols, but nothing I couldn't handle. As for the undead, most of the skeletons don't like the dark wizard either, but there are a few that are still loyal. By the way, where did everyone go? I got here and the place was deserted."

Bug: "Oh, Merl came up with some boneheaded plan to rescue you. We might want to stop him now that the undead are on our side. And have you seen my rail detonater lying around here? I could swear I left it lying on this table."

Orca: "No. Are you sure you left I here?"

Bug: "Yeah. It was sitting right here on this table. If dirtbag ran off with it I'm going to squish him! We better leave if we want to get there before merlin decides to attack. I'll get some weapons, you can wake up Balthazer"

Orca looks out the window at Balthazer who is deep in sleep.

Orca: "I think we better take the pheonix, unless of course you want to wake up the dragon."

Bug: "nah, I'd better not. He said he would eat me if I woke him up again."

Orca: "Did you get a weapon for yourself?"

Bug: "no, but I found an invisibility potion in the other room. I can just pour some on myself and run away until I find the joker who took my gun."

Orca: "Ok everyone packed?"

Bug: "yep"

Master Dead: "hey, don't forget me!"

The three of them climb on the back of the Ice Pheonix and they take off to find merlin and the rest of the gang.

However, what bug does not know is that merlin still has to employ the humans to help on the raid against the dark wizards castle. Humans, being the quarrelsome people they are will probably argue amongst themselves for months about the pros and cons of joining in the attack. Therefore Bug, Space Orca and Master Dead could have waited happily in merlin's citadel eating pizza. But noooo... they all have to go on a camping trip with merlin.
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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- Yogi Berra?

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bug

10-15-1999, 07:25 PM

Note - If I find dirtbag in a cage when I get back I'm going to stomp on that stupid rat!

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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- does anyone know who said this???? (was it Yogi Berra??)

bug

10-15-1999, 07:25 PM

Dirtbag

10-15-1999, 08:00 PM

While everyone in camp tries to sleep, Dirtbag continually yells at them at the top of his impressively loud lungs, all the while scratching at the bars with his nails, creating a sound akin to fingernails on a chalkboard.

Merlin

10-15-1999, 08:08 PM

--I will post a continuation of the story shortly. A couple of problems though. One, How did Dirtbag in his cage get all the way to the citadel, when we caught him on the farside of this continent. Second, bug, if you remeber our party is now headed to the humans continent and we all thought Orca would be imprisioned by the Dark Wizard by now and I said the only way to save him was during the attack on the Dark Wizard's castle later. We still have to go to the humans and enlist their help (and it does become very important to the plot that we do this) and I wanted to clear that up cause some of you (it seemed to me from you posts) where getting the idea we were going to strike his castle soon. So Gebohq and bug could you fix these points. Thank you.--

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Gebohq

10-15-1999, 09:13 PM

Ignore this post.

[This message has been edited by Gebohq (edited October 17, 1999).]

Ping_Me

10-15-1999, 09:15 PM

*sigh*

Ping_Me keeps watch over Dirtbag through the night. It had become evident that by Dirtbag's incessant whining, Merlin and company where losing sleep. Ping_me's automatic cool attitude never wavered. But out of concern for the party walked over to Dirtbag's cage which sat on a rock not far away. Ping_Me sat upon the rock next to him. and generated a sphere around himself and Dirtbag.

"Now, little one, since they can't hear you, you can tell me about your problems." he said.

"But this, what if we run out of air in here?"

"I don't need air to survive, but don't worry, this will let enough air in for you to breathe."

"Ah! But maintaining this shield must be a trmendous drain on you!"

"No. this is only a small sheild designed to block out sound. And besides I got a fresh jolt from Merlin before we left."

Dirtbag seeing his only route of escape lay in annoying Ping, set about his impossible task. Ping_Me looked into the night sky and let Dirtbag ramble on.

Gebohq

10-15-1999, 09:58 PM

There we go, I fixed up my plot holes in my last two posts. I suggest that all of you go back to your previous posts and do the same, so it makes Merlin's copy of the story to his website that much easier. Oh, and I promise as soon as I can get hold of my scanner(its at my father's house)I will scan the picture of my character and send it to you, along with a scene done in pencil(I hate coloring)of part of my story. Or if Squall finishes my skin, I can just get a game picture of that. And one final thing: Besides my plot hole I made, am I doing a good job keeping the interest for my parts going? Honestly now, I can't learn if I don't know what I do wrong. Thanks

Dirtbag

10-15-1999, 10:10 PM

Dirtbag sits back in his cage and watches Ping Me carefully as he blathers onward. "So, how does it feel to know you're working for the wrong side?"

But Ping Me doesn't answer.

Dirtbag shrugs anyway. He knows the Digital Entity is listening; input is a computer's best friend. "No, really," he continues. "Darkness is actual the default state of existance. I mean, hell, ever heard of something called Entropy? Organized systems breaking down into their chaotic preexistance."

Ping Me continues staring at the sky, seemingly ignoring the rat.

"Think about it. What's the world without light? Darkness. Actually, reality works the same way, didja know that? It's true that reality is what you make of it, what you see is what you get. I mean, that's why I can zip through the shadows like I can, reality's the weakest there." The rat snickers. "In fact, there's lots of fun stuff you can do once you realize that reality isn't absolute. What do you think magic is, anyway?"

Ping_Me still isn't looking at Dirtbag, but his face has taken on an unconscious look of listening.

Dirtnap taps the metal bars around him. "Take this cage for example. You guys think it can hold me because it holds most small ratty things in your experience. That's taking for granted that all I am is a talking rat who knows some magic tricks. In quote-unquote reality, though, the only thing keeping me in this cage is myself. The only thing that lets you people catch me by the tail is my own amusement with you. In fact," he says, his eyes flashing red briefly, "The only things keeping you all alive is the boredom that would result from your premature deaths."

Now Ping_Me is obviously keeping his gaze away from Dirtnap. The rat grins. "But anyway, Pingy-baby, let's talk about you, me, and little Ji'tory over there."

Ping_Me's head snaps around to look at the rat. "What?"

Dirtnap grins maliciously. "Gotcha."

The Avenger

10-15-1999, 10:54 PM

During the night, all are asleep. The Avenger silently approaches the site where Dirtbag is being held captive...

"Psssst... Hey, Dirtbag"

"What"

"I'll let you out of that there cage if you'll do something for me..."

"Such as?"

"Give me whatever you have"

"Geez, man, I'm just a rat, what the hell do you want?"

"YOUR SOUL!!!"

"Well... hmmm... I don't... I guess I'm not that attached to it..."

"Cool, then give it to me"

"I don't know... Well, fine. I don't know what I'm gonna do with it."

[Avenger takes Dirtbag's soul. Dirtbag seems strangely empty. Avenger lets Dirtbag out of the cage and lies down to sleep]

Meanwhilst...

Dirtbag

10-15-1999, 11:11 PM

I defy your post, Avenger! Defy! Defy!

bug

10-15-1999, 11:18 PM

Bite his ear off dirtbag. Bite his ear off and make him give you back your soul

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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- does anyone know who said this???? (was it Yogi Berra??)

The Avenger

10-16-1999, 10:38 AM

[Dirtbag and Bug confront Avenger]

"Alright, Dirtbag, you can have your sould back. It was getting kinda rowdy anyway."

[Gives soul to Dirtbag]

"But can I at least hang out with you guys? You are so cool."

Dirtbag

10-16-1999, 11:58 AM

"All right, that works for me."

Dirtbag scampers off into the forest.

Ji'tory

10-16-1999, 01:35 PM

Ji'tory suddenly wakes up in the middle of the night. A strange feeling goes through her body. Suddenly she is not herself. She gets up and starts looking through merlin's bag. Pulling out bug's rail detonater she laughs to herself. I'll bet they never say this comming. "Hey Avenger, guess who!!" she yells

Avenger spins around. "Ji'tory!! No!! Im sorry I let dirtbag escape. It was an accident!"

he takes off in a run trying to escape.

Ji'tory takes quick aim and fires a rail. The rail hisses along it's path at Avenger. Avenger leaps, and the rail hits the ground, exploding just below his feet.

The force of the explosion blows avenger off his feet. a piece of shrapnel cuts through his leg. He lands on his side, hitting his arm at a weird angle.

The blast from the explosion echos through the forest. Merlin wakes up, and so does everyone else except ping_me who is still sleeping in his soundproof bubble. They wake up ping_me and run towards Ji'tory who is pointing a rail detonater at Avenger.

"Well, it's been nice knowing you avenger"

"Wait" yells ping_me. "Ji'tory, what are you doing!!! Have you completely lost your mind!"

"No. I've just got a new one. Sorry ping_me, but I'm not your little Ji'tory anymore."

She looks at avenger and fires a rail. The rail hits him and explodes. Avenger's body is blow apart by the force of the explosion. They look on in horror, "NO, you can't DO that" sputters merlin.

"Sorry Merl, but I think is is a bit too late too stop me."

"Wait a minute" snaps ping_me. "You called him Merl. That's the same thing that bug called called him"

Ji'tory laughs, "very good ping_me, you figured it out." pointing the rail detonater at herself she continues. "I suggest that you all do what bug says from now on. Unless, of course you never want to see me again. Oh, and by the way, if any harm comes to bug, or if any of you try anything dumb..." She pauses to laugh. "You will have to answer to ping_me at my funeral."

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Read this and weep ping_me!

[This message has been edited by Ji'tory (edited October 16, 1999).]

Gebohq

10-16-1999, 02:24 PM

Damnit I try my best, but I really hate it when people take their all-powerful characters, have them pop out of nowhere, and do something only God could do in the story. Avenger, at least make up an excuse how you got out of teh dwarves' punishment. I wonder if anyone even bothers to read my posts...

And I won't be able to come online again until Sunday night, just so you know. And check your e-mail Merlin, I sent you something, and if I sent you 2 e-mails, sorry about that.

[This message has been edited by Gebohq (edited October 16, 1999).]

Dirtbag

10-16-1999, 03:02 PM

Dirtnap watches as chaos descends upon the story.

Ji'tory

10-16-1999, 03:23 PM

hey if this really pisses some of you people off i can edit it out.

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Read this and weep ping_me!

Ji'tory

10-16-1999, 08:31 PM

all the posts from when Avenger joined in make no sense. Avenger is supposed to be slaving away in the mines a hundred miles away. Merlin, you should go back and edit all those out when you put this on your web site. We should continue back from before avenger joined in, or there should be some major editing done.

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Read this and weep ping_me!

Ji'tory

10-16-1999, 08:46 PM

bug suddenly realizes that whenever he tries to post something with his real name the name gets switched Ji'tory. Bug getting angry.

Hey! can someone tell me how to keep this from happening.

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Read this and weep ping_me!

Ping_Me

10-16-1999, 09:14 PM

Ping_Me stares long and hard at Ji'tory. He knows that this isn't Ji'tory's behavior.// Bug is controlling her. But bug does normally act this way either. Someone must be controlling him too.//

Ping_Me folded his hands in his shimmering robes. "Okay Ji'tory. Go ahead and do what you like. But remember that this is not about personal power. Our whole journey is about the lives of the people in this world. There is a darkness covering the land and we are united together to stop it."

Ping_Me turns but still looks at Ji'tory. It seems there is a weight on the clearing. The attention of the people around the fire gravitate toward either Ping_Me or Ji'tory. Ping looks at all the people there.

"I must go. Alone. Since Ji'troy seems to want everyone to do what she wants by way of manipulating me, I must remove myself from the situation." Ping_me starts to head toward the direction of the sea. He turns for a final time. "You may resolve this situation as you please, but I will not be party to it."

"Ping_Me wait!" Merlin says.

"I must do this Merlin. I will cross the channel before you and await you in the human kingdom." Ping_Me assumes a sheild as he steps out of the clearing and into the night.

Hours pass.

Ping_Me steps onto a sandy shore in the murky morning. No sun was visible yet to burn off the early morning fog. Without hesitation or thought Ping_Me steps onto the sea and continues walking. The morning is cold, like his disposition. Passing the breaker waves he strides off into the gloom.

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Eat that.

The Avenger

10-16-1999, 09:18 PM

Well, those dwarves thought I was so annoying and *****y that they let me go with no clothes, no food, no nothing. I really need you guys to help me out here.

P.S. Ji'tory
You really didn't help me at all by killing me....

I think I need to find a new body for my soul. I'll just follow you guys inconspicuously and pick up the next rotting corpse I see...

That help?

P.S. I don't think I'm all powerful. If I was, I just would have conjured up another body out of earth or something. Think of me as Yoda and OBI-WAN's ghost-thingies

[This message has been edited by The Avenger (edited October 16, 1999).]

Gebohq

10-16-1999, 09:33 PM

Hey, I got 5 more min. today, woohoo! And sorry everyone, I just blew a fuse earlier because I take this story stuff way too seriously, which I shouldn't because this is suppose to be something to enjoy. And about Avenger: how about we just start off where Avenger met our party again, say that because of the Dark wizard threat that they should let Avenger help out and stuff. The only real reason why I had him in prison is because I thought he wouldn't come back to write some more. Or I can edit my earlier post saying that he went with me, but that wouldn't make as much sense. Again, sorry everyone. Lets see if we can't make all of the members have an impact on the story. And how many are in our party anyway? I hope not 13, because that's an unlucky number.

The Avenger

10-16-1999, 10:36 PM

Cool Idea Geobhq!

bug

10-16-1999, 10:37 PM

The Ice Pheonix swoops in, landing in a clearing across from merlin's camp. Bug, Master Dead, and Orca all get off. Letting Orca and Master Dead walk ahead bug grins evilily as he follows them into the camp. "Hello Merlin, how are you doing tonight"

Merlin spins around. "Bug!! what have you done with Ji'tory. And what has happend to you!"

Bug lets out a laugh. "ha ha ha ha! Merlin, you are such a fool. You have been working on the wrong side the whole time. It's so clear to me now. The light side is weak. It is pitiful. The dark side is where the true power is." Looking over at Ji'tory, "I have powers I never knew about. The dark side is much stronger."

"If you want to know what happened to me, it's simple. I tested out one of your invisibility potions. Needless to say, the side effects were somewhat odd. We have all been working to defeat the dark wizard. And for what!! Even if we win sooner or later another will turn up. Then the battle will begin all over again. Eventually the light will be crushed and there will be only darkness. I intend to make that time now. None of you can understand, but you will soon. Merlin! I want you to make a whole batch of this potion. If anyone else moves Ji'tory here will take them out with the rail detonater."

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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- Yogi Berra?

Merlin

10-16-1999, 11:37 PM

--Note: I'm back and I am going to clean up the confusion (this will also be a note to myself later to edit stuff). I will assume Avenger arrived but didn't do that stuff with Souls. But rather he atoned for his transgressions to the dwarves and the were later merciful and set him free. Then he arrived to help only to have Ji'tory nearly kill him (didn't kill him, just disabled him with his wound.) As for bug I will assume that bug not fully understanding magic used the potion and it allowed the Dark Wizard to control him. And through that same potion in bug, control Ji'tory. If the potions effect are netrualized bug and Ji'tory are free from the Dark Wizard's control. But I am too magically protected to come under remote control. Bug wants me to drink the potion so the Dark Wizard can take control directly. Assume Dirtbag didn't get loose and he is still in his cage.--

Merlin: No, Bug.

Bug: What?!!

Merlin: I said no!

Bug: I'll kill her! I kill her!!!

Merlin stares right into bug's eyes. Bug doesn't look away. Merlin's stare remains intenese, Ji'tory freezes, bug begins to shake visible.

Merlin (with cold fury): Get out! GET OUT OF HIS MIND!

Ji'tory collapses to the ground. Bug shakes violently. Then bug too collapse. Then Merlin drops to his knees with his eyes now shut and breathing heavily. Nearby they hear moaning.

Merlin: Orca, get Avenger and take care of his wounds. I will be alright. It just took a lot out of me.

Orca helps the limping Avenger into the camp.

Merlin: Ji'tory will be alright. The affect was only going through bug. Once I push the Dark Wizard's will hard enough he had to let go. She will wake up unaffected back to her normal self. Bug on the other hand is still under the affect of the potion he drunk.

Merlin gets up and pours the potion that bug brought into the fire and destroys it. Then chanting some archane words, then abruptly Bug wakes up and before he can say a word, he vomits violently. After which he falls backwards recollapses into sleep.

Merlin: Now the potion is out of his body.

Ji'tory begins to wake up.

Ji'tory (only half awake): Merlin, Ping_me, help me. No don't . . . NO! (she now wakes up with a abrubtly). Merlin! What . . .It wasn't a dream was it. My God, he was inside me! (she recoils with a expression of disgust).

Merlin: It is all right now Ji'tory. He's gone. . . And just to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Merlin speaks some runic words and everyone their feels a slight cooling wind.

Merlin: Now the Dark Wizard won't be able to do that ever again. At least to none of you that were here. Your minds our now protected.

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

[This message has been edited by Merlin (edited October 17, 1999).]

Merlin

10-17-1999, 01:43 AM

They all return to sleep except Merlin who decides to keep watch himself. Thought the rest of the night passes uneventfully. (Even Dirtbag seemed tired by now).

In the morning Ji'tory awoke noticing Merlin wasn't anywhere to be seen she walked out to the beach. She sees Merlin standing at the beach looking out over the water.

Ji'tory: Merlin, about last night and what happened to me. . . Thank you for getting him out of my mind.

Merlin smiles with a reaction of that like a grandfather to his grand daughter.

Merlin: Ji'tory, I care for you as if you were my own daughter. I don't want anything to happen to you.

Merlin: Ping_me feeling he possible endangered you left.

Ji'tory winces.

Ji'tory: I know I remember. I . . . remeber everything. . . (Ji'tory drops to her knees and breaks down and cries and Merlin kneels down beside her and puts his arm around her to comfort her) It was . . . horrible . . . He . . IT . . was inside my MIND. (She puts her hands over her ears with her head bowed). And. . . he was in my . . . body (now she wraps her arms around her self) I . . . was . . . IT. Oh, God. (she shudders violently).

As the surf rolls in the waves crashing drowns out her sobs from the sleeping party nearby.

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"Are you really a Wizard?" she asked. "That is what they say." I replied.

~The Wizard Merlin~

Leader of A Jedi's Journey TC (http://journey.fforce.net)

Merlin

10-17-1999, 02:40 AM

--Note: I went back and edited my earlier post, now I just sent for the ferryman to carry us across the channel (I felt the display of power of making a ship would kill the emotional tension created by the earlier scene).--

About an hour later once Ji'tory had at least outwardly regained control Merlin woke the camp memebers.

Merlin: Alright everyone come down to the beach, the ship will be arriving shortly.

They all stand at the beach (though avenger with his injuries leans on orca and Bug, still unconsicous from having the potion expelled from his body, is carried by Afarassa and Dirtbag is still in the cage which is now carried by Merlin). A ship comes out of the mist over the sea, it is a small sail driven ship. Merlin pays the ferryman and they climb aboard and with in an hour they have sailed across the channel to the other side. Once they reach the other side they are rejoined by Ping_me and then set out across the island. Ji'tory during this journey remains silent in thought. Ping_me not wishing to press the subject with other present doesn't talk with her about what happened during the walk. Finally as night begins to fall they reach a clearing with a monestary in it. Suddenly a man about 40 in the nearby garden sees them with suprise.

Man: Merlin!

Merlin: Johnathan!

Man rushes over to Merlin.

Merlin: My goodness! It is you Johnathan. (to rest of the party) This is Johnathan, when he was a boy I was his tutor, not in magic of course, but in othe matters. He left me some years ago on good terms seeking God. I had heard you had joined the monestary. Johnathan, can you and your fellow brothers help us. We need a place to stay the night and our friend here avenger has been injured.

Johnathan: Of course. You may all say the night here we have room enough for all of you. Come.

Johnathan walks over to Orca and allows Avenger to lean on him as they enter the monestary. They are each shown to their seperate rooms and some of the monks who specialize in medicine tend to Avengers wounds. Dirtbag is carefully placed in his own room (which has no windows) with the door locked from the outside. Meanwhile Merlin and Johnathan have a chance to talk.

Johnathan: Since you last saw me I've become abbot of this monestary.

Merlin: I am proud of you my boy. It is good to see you found a place in the world.

Johnathan: And I am glad to get a chance to speak with you again.

Merlin and Johnathan talk long into the night. Meanwhile Ping_me visits Ji'tory to see how she is doing. Not finding her in her room his wanders the monestary looking for her. He finally finds her siting on a bench in the court yard. She wears a blank expression. Either hiding her emotions or so very busy with her own thoughts.

--This is a good time for you to come in Ping_me.--

Space_Orca

10-17-1999, 01:21 PM

-I'm back! Now on with the story-
*Meanwhile, Orca is out in the gardens outside the Monastary. A small graveyard is located nearby. Master Dead is there conferring with the dead in these tombs.*
Orca: What a nice place. Almost like where I grew up.
Monk: And where was that?
Orca: Why is that any of your buisness?
Monk: Just wondering...
*Orca spirals around*
Orca: Who in hecks name are you!
Monk: Why is that any of your buisness?
Orca: Because you aren't any monk!
Monk: Why not?
Orca: Because of *Orca whips the Monk's cloak off. It reveals a flaming demon* THIS!
Demon: A clever one? My disguise has finally been infiltrated? After all these years?
Orca: Yup. Are there any others?
Demon: No. But I have been responsible for 7 of the humans major defeats.
Orca: A servant of the dark wizard?
Demon: No. Master-Dead-Man commisioned me to spy on the humans.
Orca: Master Dead! GET OVER HERE!
Master Dead(Standong beside Orca): You found my spy?
Orca: I sure as heck did!
Master Dead: Good, then I can enlist him to help. This is my personal bodygaurd. Demon-Who-Kills-Many, come with me and I will introduce you to Merlin.
*Orca looks in shock*
Orca: Merlin may not be the biggest fan of demons...

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Merlin

10-17-1999, 02:52 PM

Merlin wasn't happy. Neither were the Monks.

Merlin (to Master dead): Why did you commision a spy to do this.

Master Dead: He was commisioned before any of this happened, we were afraid of the humans. We feared if they were successful in any major wars they might make it a holy cause to wipe out us out.

Flaming Demon: I am not what you think Merlin. I am not a demon in your sense of the word. I am not some malevolent force of evil. I am only a stygian serving my people. I would do the same against the Dark Wizard as I have here. My only concern is the protection of my people. If my presence here is a threat I will go.

Merlin: If you remain with us it will hurt our credibility alot. (now to Master Dead) I'm afraid I will have to ask you to send him back to your kingdom.

Master Dead (after a moments thought): Very well, if his presence is to much of a danger to our cause, I will send him back to our capital. (to Flaming Demon): Return to the capital, and await further orders there.

Flaming demon nods and vanishes.

--This character (the spy) could be useful later, perhaps during the attack. Though I don't know if you minded I made the phrase demon into a quirk in the Stygian language which doesn't mean what we think. (I did it cause when I think of demons, I think of what happened to Ji'tory, that is demonic. Sorry. I associate demons naturally with evil, throwing that out caught me off gaurd. For some reason I have a nasty aversion to mixing anything demon with heros as being on the same side. (Unless we like use demon as a military status in the Stygian army and point out its difference to the other thing.) Allow me to explain this aversion. I've read a book that deals with modern case studies of demonic possession. This book is not light reading. It will give you nightmares, because the records are factual with only the names changed. I am drawing from it somewhat in helping me create the Dark Wizard character and how he affect Ji'tory. That is why I had an aversion to the use of a demon character. By the way, I'd like to say I like what has happened in the tale concerning Dirtbags capture (because I found he could fit so well into the serpent role (the role being that of a tempter, put doubt in our heros minds about good).--

[This message has been edited by Merlin (edited October 17, 1999).]

Ping_Me

10-17-1999, 07:40 PM

---Well, it's taken me about week but I finally got my drawing done. I REALLY hate my scanner. First it wouldn't pick up the pencil lines. So I went back and inked the drawing. Then I tried to scan it again and the (fire trucking) scanner put this red and blue crap on it. So I went back and scanned it as a Black/White drawing. Then I had some fun with Corel8. ---

http://crusader_5.tripod.com/newping.jpg

[This message has been edited by Ping_Me (edited October 17, 1999).]

Merlin

10-17-1999, 07:47 PM

--Say is that slightly anime style drawing? Er, nevermind. Just remarking on how interesting that picture is. Oh, Ping_me read the e-mail I sent you before you post. I just wanted to explain something.--

The Avenger

10-17-1999, 08:49 PM

Yes! I have been released from the clutches of those evil dwarves. Man, they were getting on my nerves. But, we must be on with our quest! There are more battles to be fought!

Ahh yes and maybe we should make a list of who's in our party.

[This message has been edited by The Avenger (edited October 17, 1999).]

Space_Orca

10-17-1999, 08:52 PM

-Merlin, you are correct about Demon. It has two other meanings in Stygian. it is both a very high rank(Second to highest military rank) and a term for creatures from a certain plane of existance called the "Demonic Plane".-
*Orca enters the monastary*
Orca: Merlin, we should move on. Master-Dead established a communication with the Flaming Demon, and he told of terrible occurances in the Stygian capital. The minions of the Dark Wizard are combing the streets, forcing every living or undead creature into its basements in fear, as fear itself prowls the streets.
Merlin- How can fear itself prowl the streets?
Orca- In the form of the Vetrecitys, a strange creature that draws upon every living and undeads mind and memories. They feed off of that, and they leave creatures as empty-minded wanderers.
Merlin- Then why have we not heard of them before? They sound like a dangerous creature.
Orca- The answer is simple: I have, you haven't. They live in MY dimension. The Dark Wizard no doubt summoned them through the same dimension portals that brought me and all the others here.
Merlin- Those creatures live around you? Then how come you survive?
Orca-Because they are locked up in the highest security prison, with security provided only by robots. My guess is the Dark Wizard pulled them out of their cells to help him.
Merlin- This could be problamatic indeed. Alert Flaming Demon that these creatures are from your realm. Do you know how to deal with them?
Orca- Oh yes, very well. I almost ENJOY meeting them these days. I love the looks on their faces when they are flooded with happy memories.
Merlin- Then I will assign you to deal with any we encounter.
Orca- Fine by me.
-Anyone want to guess where I pulled those creatures from? Their name isn't the same, but almost all of the things I described about them are. I thought they would be good servants of evil so I inserted them.-

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Gebohq

10-17-1999, 09:09 PM

(Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Space Orca captured by the Dark Wizard and has been held in his castle? Not that I don't want him here, the more the merrier, but I think Merlin may have to note to edit a part to explain his escape. And Avenger, did I use your character OK in the fight scene at the dwarves' place? And a few lines for the story)

*Gebohq pondered about Ji'tory's possesion by the Dark Wizard. It sent shivers down his back thinking about being controlled by someone else, for he knew also what it was like to unwillingly serve under someone else. Thinking about what was to happen if he were to be in Ji'Tory's position only made him depressed, so he tried ignoring the evil thoughts. Yet they continued to taunt him...*

(and to make a head count, not including representatives of other races, there's Merlin, Ping_Me, bug, Gebohq(me), Avenger, Space Orca, umm....well, that's 6, who am I missing? Question being: how many, because in the Hobbit, having 13 was bad, and if we have 13...and if I spelled Ji'tory's name wrong, sorry. One last thing, do you want a hand-drawn pic of my character on Monday or wait until my skin is done and I show a pic of that[which shouldn't be too long I hope]?)

[This message has been edited by Gebohq (edited October 17, 1999).]

The Avenger

10-17-1999, 09:29 PM

You did good Gebohq. I'm almost done with my character drawing.

Space_Orca

10-17-1999, 09:45 PM

Merlin thought I was captured by the dark wizard, really I was just captured by the Stygians who wanted me to help them overthrow the dark wizard.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Gebohq

10-17-1999, 09:51 PM

(How easily I forget. Merlin, check your mail, and I'll be back Monday. I know, what a waste of a reply. Well, we could talk about the philosical aspects of religion...nah. How about a raise of hands who like the following things: Freakazoid, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Amazon Women on the Moon, Wierd Al and his new CD, Star Trek(and still like Star Wars too), Lord of the Rings(if you don't what are you doing here?), the Matrix...OK I'll stop there before the ranting gets the better of me. Until tommorow, bye.)

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"Is it a crime to be (computer)illiterate?"-Krusty the clown

:::Gebohq:::

Ping_Me

10-17-1999, 10:51 PM

Ji'tory stared into space. She sat on a stone bench. It was only when Ping_me stood in front of her did she realise he was there. He sat down next to her, and she looked into his eyes.

Not far away in some part of the Monastary, a bell chimed. That was soon followed by a voice:
"In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Introibo ad altare Dei.
Another voice responded:
"Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.

"I feel like I've been raped." she said to him finally. She looked at the floor with tears in her eyes.

P: Judica me, Deus, et diserne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab homine iniquo et doloso erue me."
S: Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea: quare me repulisti, et quare tristis incedo, dum affligit me inimicus?"

"I was weak," she went on, "I'm endangering us... It's all my fault." She sobbed.
"No it isn't. It's not your fault. The Dark One is powerful. It could have been anyone of us."

P: "Emitte lucem tuam, et veritatem tuam: ispa me deduxerant, et adduxerant in montem sanctem tuum, et in tabernacula tua."
S: "Et introibo ad altare Dei: ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam."

"What do you think of me?" she asked.
Ping looked startled. Ji'tory leaned over and buried her face in his robes.

P: "Confitebor tibi in cithara, Deus, Deus meus: quare tristis es, anima mea, et quare conturbas me?"
S: "Spera in Deo quoniam adhuc confitebor illi: salutare vultus mei, et Deus meus."

"You're a warrior. Strong of will, mind and body. You have a beautiful spirit." She started to hold him tighter. //Hoo Boy// he thought to himself.

P: "Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto."
S: "Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper: et in saecula saeculorum. Amen."

"People love you, Ji'tory." she jerked up to meet his eyes. "They feel that you're important to them. You are important." She put her head on his shoulder.

P: "Introibo ad altare Dei."
S: "Ad Deum qui leatificat juventuem meam."

"C'mon. Let's take a walk." Ping said. They both got up, but Ji'tory still insisted on leaning on his shoulder.
"I guess what I need are freinds. Merlin and Dragonfly... " She paused and looked at him. "And.... you." she smiled. //There she goes again. Well she really need to be with someone right now.//

P: "Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini."
S: "Qui fecit caelum et terram."

After a short time they rounded a corner and saw a Mass in progress. The voice was Johnathan's and he stood slightly bowed toward an altar and a suspended statue of a man with his arms stretched out across a pair of wooden beams, apparently nailed there. The second voice came from another man kneeling and the foot of the altar steps. The small chapel was filled with monks. Ping lead Ji'tory to a place to kneel. He knelt down on the kneeler and he motioned for her to do so too.

Johnathan: "Kyrie eleison"
S: "Christe eleison"
J: "Kyrie eleison"

Congragation:
"Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus voluntatis. Laudamus te..." going on for minutes.

Ji'tory seemd to relax in the comforting atmosphere. They knelt together for a long time.

J: "Dominus vobiscum."
All: "Et cum spirtiu tuo."

J: "In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti."

Merlin

10-18-1999, 12:07 AM

--PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS IT IS IMPORTANT!

I know this is long, but I hope it will clarify the story and help you understand what I am doing.

Ok. I will do a inventory of all major characters and where they are and what state they are in. Everybody look at this so we can get things straight. Also I will sum up the characters emotional/psychological/physical states and how they have evolved in the story so far. (This will kinda be a story analysis like teachers do). Note I have divided them into message board people, story characters, story villians.

Major characters:

Merlin (with party)
Bug (with party, still unconsious)
Ping_me (with party)
Space Orca (with party)
Dirtbag (with party, held in cage)
Gebohq (with party)
Avenger (with party after being released by dwarves)
Dragonfly (with party)
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Ji'tory (elf, with party, in state of shock at present)
Dwin (dwarve, with party)
Afarassa (merfolk, with party)
Turneh (beuto, with party)
Master Dead (Stygian, with party)
Yorg (Goblin, elsewhere hasn't returned yet)
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Note: There are 6 Dark Wizards (including Bazaal, though the Dark Child isn't in that count of 6)
Dark Wizard Bazaal (Dark Wizard, tring to corrupt world, in Dark Towers (Dark Towers is his castle)
Dark Child (Son of Dark Wizard)
Jezaba (mistress to Bazaal, mother of Dark Child, one of the 6 Dark Wizards)
4 other Dark Wizards

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Ok. First I wish to explain something. One, I hope some of you have noticed how much I work with emotions of the characters. First I need to explain where I am coming from as a writer. One I've seen authors (not just in post stories, but in level plots too) make (what I feel) is the mistake of not working with the mind of characters. I don't want anybody to feel I am saying what I do is better than anyone else, I am just saying my philosophy about story writing. I see people at time write posts where new enemies show up and we fight them and a story is made longer by adding more enemies to fight. So the only conflict one has is physical. But many people forget the spirtual, emotional, and psychological side to a character, using these adds depth to characters, story, and gives the work meaning. Also I run from the assumtion in fiction that my characters are REAL people and react and feel like real people. Let me give an example, in the scene after Ji'tory's mind control bit. Some of us would simply walk away from that and not take it any further. But if you assume Ji'tory is a real woman, with real feelings a whole new dimension is added in which the mind control was parmount to rape (rape as an act done to by a rapist to dominate a woman, not cuase he is lusty, this is how it really works in real life) only worse, becuase it was a violation not just of her body, but of her mind and soul! This is compounded by the fact Ji'tory is a warrior, who then is totally violated and dominated by another. The result in a real woman is pain, shame, saddness, fear. Thus we have her emotional break down on the beach. But emotional conflict goes beyond just this. Flaws or uniqueness in each character becomes involved too, for example Ping_me being an electronic being is incapable of romantic love with a woman, BUT Ji'tory falls/is falling in love with him. As you can see this will force him to come out on this subject eventually and it will hurt her. This is compounded by the fact that in a time like this she needs people who she can be close to (emotionally) and trust. This makes that moment where Ping_me will have to turn her away all the MORE painful. In this matter I apologize for not developing your characters more, to help this I need to understand about your characters, their needs, desires, dreams, flaws, strengths, weakness and hopes. Then I can begin to develop and intergrate them into the story. Now, I wasn't going to give this away, but I think you need to know where I am heading. I will do it generally speaking, Ji'tory after finding Ping_me can't love her is not the end, she eventually falls in love with the human knight who will be the representative. Now, I also need to explain I am a very relegious man. So as an author I draw upon that too. I beleive that in the end mankind doesn't truly defeat evil, God does in the end. (Now you are welcome to disagree with me, I am just telling you what I plan to do, please give input). At the war council I and the dwarf forge a powerful Excalibur like sword. At first we don't give it a name. The human knight doesn't see how one sword will help us. So we decide to test its power, so he and I duel. Finally at one point the magic sword hits the knights sword with a sound that shakes the room like thunder, and the knights sword is split in two. Ji'tory then remebers with awe and ancient mellinum old elven phrophecy told to her by her grandfather when she was young. How in the time of great need a sword of power would be forged, and it would be named, "Consilium ex Deo" (Latin for Will of God) and that in the hands of a warrior the evil would be defeated by it. Finally she adds one last cryptic message of the phrophecy, "The sword shall wield the warrior" Merlin agrees that it is a good name, so they call it "Consilium ex Deo" Feeling that the human knight is that warrior he is give it to wield (Merlin: I am a wizard, not a warrior. I will not weild the sword myslef). Then start the long trek to the Dark Towers (Dark Wizard's castle) by going through the Misty Mountians and the Dark Forest (which will take several days) (note: We can't simply ride Balthazar in cause he would be blasted out of the sky. Nor can all the armies simply go with us (due to risk of our army being ambushed and loosing everyone before we got there), a fowarding party (our council) must go a head to the Dark Towers, once there I will use magic to trasport the armies there. Once there, and I teleport in the armies, the battle begins. There is a large undead (Non-Stygian, this is only the Dark Wizard personal undead army not the Stygians, or at least only a few of the higher captians are Stygians) There is an foot soldier army in the valley below with an skeletal archers behind them. The elven archers star the offensive (with minimal effect) then human knights and elven soldiers head in (Ji'tory is with the archers) At one point the Human Kinght (the guy with "Consilium ex Deo" is injured by and arrow in his shoulder. Ji'tory immedately risk her life to pull him from the battle field, once behind our lines, we find while he is not fatally wounded he can't fight in such a condition. So Ji'tory must fufill her destiny and weild the sword. (Now during this time depending on what each of you wish to do, some of you may be out on the battle field, some even fights a two of the dark wizards in the feild itself) Others may wish to come with me and Ji'tory and head into the castle itself. As we travel, some of us may be taken from this party to go one on one with various others we meet in the castle. But eventually I and Ji'tory (possible with others) must face the Dark Wizard. In the battle none of us can beat him. Eventually I am knocked to the ground and am unable to get up. At this point only Ji'tory with the sword is still standing. Bazaal (the Dark Wizard) advances on her, she is filled with fear of what happened earlier, and he knows it and he uses it, he tells how hes going to take her over again, and how hes going to make her like it. Suddenly Ji'tory finds she can hear my mind and I hers. And their is a new will present. At this point I describe this will from Ji'tory's experince and show it in contrast to the experince she had earlier with the dark wizard. How this will is powerful, yet it restrains that power, alien, yet famillar, distant yet near, visible, yet hidden. I and Ji'tory realize it is coming from the sword (she asks me if I didn't and I tell her no, I am not that powerful) eventually I realize the meaning the the phrase, "The sword shall wield the warrior" in that, it isn't a sword but a vehicle for something else. Once we set our minds in accordance to that will, Ji'tory describes it as sourounding her, yet feeling more her self than she ever had before. Then the sword begins to glow white hot and a sound like the wind fills the room and the Dark wizard is literally ripped to shreds like an idol made of stand before an angry storm. After this the army out side collapses and the battle is over. Then I add the epilouge (the after story) of how the Knight and Ji'tory marry, they and their decendants create a multi-racial (as in it is open to all races) Order called the "Knights of the sword" who guard and hid the powerful sword. They also, due to the many different races involved become mediators bettween the races (kinda like the jedi knights, but focusing on diplomacy not war) and begins a new age of peace on the world. Merlin retires to his citadel and writes down the legend of what happened and that is the copy you are reading today.

Finnally, I would like each of you to add yourselves to the epilouge of the tale (where you go, stay in this world or return to your own, ect.) Well that is what I had in mind. I don't know if you'll like it or not. As for my character, Merlin is wise and caring, he's grown fond of Ji'tory and loves her like a daughter. And though powerful in lore and magic, he had limits, most of all he is powerless in the face of death. Please remeber I asked all of you to give me an understanding of your characters. Thank you.--

bug

10-18-1999, 12:11 AM

Bug wakes up in a dark room with a killer headache.

"Ow, Ow, Ow!"

*Falls back asleep*

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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- Yogi Berra?

ThreeDee

10-18-1999, 01:35 AM

Wow. Althought I'm finding I don't have time anymore to write anything of importance I want you to know I'm still following this and it all sounds great! http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif Every thread on this board should be like this.

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-ThreeDee
Emissary from the Third Dimension

Space_Orca

10-18-1999, 11:15 AM

Orca is a ferocious warrior of 200 years of age. This is not all that old for an orcanoid, but he still has to contend with the fact that his body is starting to age(This will be fixed later, but not in this story). Orca was the captain of a starship+a Whalei(Like Jedi, but of whales, use both sides of the force) Master in his own universe. Orca cares mostly about battle and honor. It might be interesting to have a human woman fall in love with him, but Orca resits. The woman continues, until Orca becomes so annyoed that he kills her in a rage. Then Orca is brought before the human courts, thus complicating our diplomatic negotiations. Just a thought. The other complication is Orca has a grudge against humans because in his universe they are enviormentally-destroying destructive idiots(No offense intended, but sort of like in our Earth universe). And finally, Orca would not weild a sword believed to be a "Magical holy sword" such as the sword to be crafted, because he does not believe in any gods or in silly old prophicies. (Boy, I'm making my charechter a burden, aren't I?) Anyway, thats about all for Orca.-

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Dirtbag

10-18-1999, 03:28 PM

Dirtbag sits at the floor of his cage, in the barren, windowless room, tapping his fingers against the floor in boredom. Around him is a ring of candles, all burning brightly enough to drive away the shadows.

All of a sudden, he kicks at the cage, muttering. "Stupid rassa-frassin' do gooder sons of bastiches..."

But then, a scuttling, skittering sound attracts Dirtbag's attention. He grins as he spots a normal brown rat poking his nose experimentally out of the stone wall. "Come here, my brotha," Dirtbag whispers to himself, as the rat inches his way across the floor, his nose twitching in the hunt for food.

Reaching inside his mouth, Dirtbag produces a fragment of some long gone meal, and holds it out to attract the rat. Cautiously, the rat approaches the morsel, but when it tries for a nibble, Dirtbag suddenly snatches out a paw and yanks the other rat against the bars of the cage. Dirtbag's eyes glow red for a moment.

A little while later, the heavy lock on the door turns, and a candle-bearing monk cautiously enters the room, a tray of food in one hand. "Unclean one?" the monk intones. "I have come to deliver your meal." But when the monk looks into the cage, all he sees is an ordinary brown rat, sniffing in confusion at the bars.

"Thanks, so much!" comes a demeaning voice from behind the monk. He spins, to find Dirtbag layed out on the top of the doorframe, grinning at him with a mouth full of entirely-too-long and entirely-too-sharp teeth. "I'm so hungry I could eat an ape."

At the time of Dirtbag's next feeding, all that could be found was one caged rat, eight unlit candles, and what was left of the monk.

Dragonfly

10-18-1999, 04:53 PM

--disregard--double post--disregard--

[This message has been edited by Dragonfly (edited October 18, 1999).]

Dragonfly

10-18-1999, 04:55 PM

ok here you go. Dragonfly is a male. He is strong on the outside yet perfers peace not war. As a young child he was taken from his home and experimented on a research facility under the sea in his world. Later he was able to escape and lived his life hiding from those who wanted him back. Years past and he bacame lonely, and became a type of hermit. Then one day in a town he met a woman who caught his eye. After a while they fell in love and married. Soon a son was born. By then though word had reached the reasearch place of the birth and they set out to capture the whole family. They lived many years in fear and was not able to outfox their pursuers. Soon the soldiers of the reasearch place found them and were able to capture dragonfly's wife and child. He ran away to avoid being captured to go back and save his family. He went back to the research facility and snook in to save his family. They were being experimented on and when his wife was killed, he screamed out in pain and he was almost caught he made a run to save his son, but due to his son's encouragement he left that place to live.He never knew what happened to his son. He lived from then on in a temple in a forest on his planet in peace.---there you go- character history of Dragonfly now back to the story!--

Dragonfly awakens after a long night's rest refreshed in the physical sense but drained in the mental sense. He was lonely and wanted to love again........but couldn't bring himslef to it.The pain was still there.....He had found part of his family but was Turneh enough?

Dragonfly/oh gotta get these thoughts outta my head......have more important things to do//

He walks out to talk to the monks and eat some breakfast.The sun sure shone bright this morning.After he ate he walked out to one of the outer courtyard's to think........
He sits on a stone bench. He closes his eyes to help clear his mind and when he opens them he sees a ghostly beautifull figure standing there in front of him....no one else is around this early in the morning.The figure looks vaguely familiar.........

Ghost:Hello DRagonfly.....how are you?

DRagonfly:I am fine, but who are you?

Ghost:awwwww..........poor DRagonfly.........you have forgot those that were the closest to you........how easily we forget....

DRagonfly:NO! it can't be!.......but it is...............it is you.......my.............my wife! But you are dead! I saw your death with my own two eyes!

Ghost:Yes it is me....I am glad you remember......I can't believe you saw my death.....I have come from above with a message.

Dragonfly:From who? And how did you get here?

Ghost:I have died and am now in a much better place........How i got here does not matter but i will tell you there is more to this world then you think.......The message is from the one above...i was sent because you know me and will beleive me.

Dragonfly:...So what is the message?

Ghost:The message is very simple yet very complex.First you must learn to love again for you deserve a purpose in life and someone lucky out there deserves you......it is your destiny......When the time comes you must love again remember me yet move on with your life! Live again! become the Dragonfly i knew! not this loner looking for something to live for! you may not know it now, but you soon will for the phoenix will reborn and so must you!

DRagonfly:REborn?!?! wha??? And you should know I can never love again! YOu are my one and only!

Ghost:THat makes me feel good, but how does it make you feel? You must let go with your soul......remember but do not dwell! live again! Help MErlin and your new friends for their cause is right and true.

Dragonfly:Yes it is time I must give you something then.ONly then can i truly love again and let go....but know i will always remember you! always!*pulls out locket and walks slowly toward ghost and hands it to her*Here you should know what it is..

Ghost:*with tears in eyes*this is from our honeymoon.........oh we had so much fun...........here and i must give you this *she plucks four feathers and hands them to him*HEre Keep thesse close to your heart for they are blessed and as long as you fly true you will fly fast and strong.Now i must be going you have touched me deeply and the one above knows!YOu are wise! I love you!

Dragonfly:I love you! Don't leave! Stay!*tears fall from eyes*

Ghost:But it is the way things are.YOu will see me again but in a long time....trust me.oh wait*as she begins to fly up she throws down a stone to him*Here this is a gift from the one above (God) Give it to Merlin..he will know what to do with it. Goodbye! remember! always!

Dragonfly:Goodbye*screams as ghost fades into sky* *whispers* goodbye*stops crying and walk towards Merlin's room proud and strong with a great burden lifted off his soul.

AS he walks to Merlin's room, he runs into Turneh.

Turneh:Who was that?Who were you talking to?

DRagonfly:Someone out of the past it was nothing.

Turneh:Ok then but if you need anything you know where i will be..

DRagonfly:Yes...thank you.

Turneh flies off and Dragonfly continues on his walk. Along the way he puts the feathers onto a chain and holds them close to his heart. In his right hand, he holds the rock.It is marbly, bright and beautiful//this is the most beautifull rock i have ever seen//He walks off in search of MErlin to give him the stone.And back in the spot where the ghost stood there was formerly no grass but now beautiful roses grew towards the sun

Space_Orca

10-18-1999, 05:26 PM

The winds outside blow through the gardens, slpalshing against Space Orca as he stands by the gardens. He hears a squel from inside, and enters the building. Suspecting something, he heads to where dirtbag was kept. Sure enough, there he finds the remains of a monk, 12 unlit candles, and dirtbag's cage, now occupied by an ordinary rat. Orca utters a word that I would not care to repeat as he lookes around for clues. Dirtbag, being the dirty rascal he is, leaves a pretty easy to follow trail, thought Space Orca as he followed the line of dirt to the temple doors. It stopped abruply there, and Orca guessed Dirtbag had hid when a more powerful figure (Merlin perhaps) walked by. Orca looked around for likely places for Dirtbag to hide. He spotted a small, velvet covered cabnit. Opening it slowly, Orca found a hole being gnawed in the back by a rat. Orca's hands snatched up the rat, but it was only an ordinary black rat. Putting it back with care, Orca continued looking. Finally, Orca found Dirtbag trying to open a secret monk escape tunnel. Dirtbag had eaten through the lock, and was just now inching the door open. Orca entered, a big grin on his face. "We meet on the field of battle at last" Orca said as Dirtbag spun around. The rat sneered, then sped off, not down the tunnel, but towards the main room of the monastary. Orca sprinted after, finding Dirtbag desperatly attempting to squeeze through a crack and get to freedom. Orca grabbed Dirtbag by the tail and hurled him against the room's opposite wall. Dirtbag snarled, blood dripping from his back. Then he made a leap for some potions Merlin had set down. "No you don't!" Orca screamed as Dirtbag smeared one on and grew to human size. Dirtbag then charged at Orca, who nimbly dodged the now big rat. Orca fumbled for his lightsaber, which he realized was in his bedroom. Shrugging, Orca slammed his fist into Dirtbag as he came barreling in. But Dirtbag knocked Orca over and kept on running. Dirtbag was maknig a beeline for where Merlin had put Bug's Rail Detonator! Dirtbag snatched it up, turned it around, and aimed it at Orca. "Now, you enjoying your time fighting me?" Dirtbag asked. "Every last little bit of it!" Space Orca muttered, ducking and dodging the incoming rail shots. Springing behind a line of Chairs, Orca snuck up behind Dirtbag. He knocked the rail detonator out of Dirtbag's hands, sending it onto the floor. As Dirtbag bent to pick it up, Orca gathered the force around him and muttered "Forgive me Merlin". Then, he channeled all the force energy into a ball of pure destruction. It lept from his hands and sent Dirtbag flying backwards. Space Orca fell onto his knees as the Dark Wizard started cackling into his ear, and the last thing he saw was the bloody heap that was the barely-alive Dirtbag.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Gebohq

10-18-1999, 05:46 PM

OK, ab it of info on my character, Gebohq:

physical&bio: He was born on a planet called Mirare in the Unknown regions(the Star Wars universe). Gebohq's race is humanoid, but can give themselves a new "skin", an evolutionary process that let their species hide in hunt of the many dangerous beasts on their planet. The skin can be (practically) any shape or size because the insides of their bodies can contort to the skin, which allows them to perform the actions that they usually perform as a humanoid(that is, if they do not transform in a humanoid shape). Unfortunately, Grand Admiral Thrawn discovered their planet and, his race being decieved, welcomed the Empire with open hands. Before they could realize the evil in the Empire they were enslaved and in no position to fight. Gebohq was one of the few to escape, though the Imperials tried hard to restrain him. Gebohq would not have been hunted down if the Grand Admiral did not notice Gebohq's power with the Force, and reported the finding to the Emperor. Because the Emperor desired power and control over all of the Force, he enlisted as many possible canadites for him to teach. So the Emperor issued for the Imperials to detain him alive and bring him to the him, the Emperor. So Gebohq continues to run from the Imperials, not being able to trust anybody anymore. Only once did he find friendship in someone else, a Jedi Knight(I will not go into this because I plan to write a story about this). Gebohq's physical appearance is humanoid, very dark grey skin with insectoid qualities, though he has a human aspect that makes him more friendly. He wields a dark blue lightsaber with black/grey hints in it. Without the Force, he is still more agile than most, is very hard to restrain him physically, can quickly learn things about operation of weapons, cultures, etc.

Psiciological aspect: Though he tries to be friendly to those in need(taught by his Jedi friend), he finds it hard to trust. He has insight on the motives and thoughts of evil because Gebohq is considered a Grey Jedi, one who walks the line between Light and Dark, he often finds himself using the Dark side. He finds the most difficult of the agents of the Dark side to be depression, for he finds that sometimes the evil in the universe is too much.

He needs only to feel that he can accomplish. He desires to be able to feel that he can trust more easily. He dreams that he can teach others the ways of the Force like his Jedi friend did for him, a bit of immortality in education. His flaws consist of waves of depression and anger of the evil in the universe, "reality checks" he often percieves them as, and feels that fighting for good is futile, he is also not very good in diplomatic situations. His strengths are to be able to look at a situation logically(when he is not depressed), wisdom, and an ease to learn the physical and intellectual. His weaknesses are Force grip and emotionally to feel that he is being controlled by another person or people, to serve them unwillingly. His hopes are to be able to be free of the Imperials' attention and to be able to choose a side of the Force(for the longer you stay a grey Jedi, the more he has to struggle with good and evil in his mind).

There you go, I think I covered everything(and now my fingers are numb). Hope this helps.

[This message has been edited by Gebohq (edited October 24, 1999).]

Merlin

10-18-1999, 06:52 PM

--Just to let everybody know, space orca you know how you wrote in your last post, well when I rewrite I will put everything into the format I use so it is consistant. So when I look at what you wrote I will probably put them in lines form, ect. Just to let you know. Also Orca, you introduced a new thing into the story with the fear using creatures. But you went no further with it. Do you want to continue it in any way, or should I ingnore it when I edit the tale? Also I intend to edit the opening of the story (boy, was that a LONG time ago) and make it better by cutting out some of the early silly stuff.--

Merlin felt the evil presence even though he was quite a ways from the fight. By the time he arrives he finds neither Dirtbag or Orca anywhere in sight. But Merlin can still feel that evil presence.

Merlin: Bazaal! I know your here.

Voice (filled with a cold darkness): You worry about Orca. . . But you have no say in this. . . You might be able to keep me out of their minds if they don't want me there, but not even you can keep me out if they welcome me. Which he did in his use of dark power like mine. I am taking care of Dirtbag, he is most useful to me.

Ping_me, Ji'tory, and Johnathan enter the room since had heard the fight and came to see what had happened.

Voice (noticing Ji'tory): Ah, Ji'tory. . . remeber how special it was last night.

Ji'tory goes cold and can hear her heart beat in her ears as she hears that voice.

Merlin: Stop this NOW Bazaal!

Voice: Oh, but it is so much fun. Wasn't it Ji'tory. . . Come open your mind to me as Orca has.

Ji'tory eyes grow wide and her hand goes to her mouth as she realizes what he is saying and implying about her.

Merlin: Be silent!

Voice (voice builds to a climax): Then it'll be just like last night. Oh, when I tasted your body. . . hahahaha

Ji'tory steps backwards several paces then turns and runs from the room in terror and shame.

Ping_me: You *******!

Ping_me runs after her.

The presence ceases in the room.

Johnathan (with an expression of fear): Surely, that was Satan.

Merlin turns to leave the room.

Merlin (softly as he walks out): No. But it was close enough.

[This message has been edited by Merlin (edited October 18, 1999).]

Space_Orca

10-18-1999, 08:00 PM

-Yes, I am going to include these creatures of fear themselves soon enough. They just wouldn't bother us in the human's land, their busy garrisoning the Stygian land-
*Orca awakes, his head throbbing with pain. He reaches out, and finds that he can't find anything*
Orca: HELP!!!
Voice: oh, you will get it in time, my new friend. But for now you are with me. And you are trapped here in my nothingness.
Orca: Who in hecks name are you? The Dark Wizard?
Voice: *Cackles* of course not. I am your old "friend", Salanas. My body is under the control of the Dark Wizard, my mind lives in this blackness.
*Orca grabs his lightsaber*
Orca: I'm not afraid to use this!
Voice: But it will not hurt me, my friend. GO ahead, take your best shot.
*A ghostly figure slides out from the dark mist*
Ghost: Take your shot!
*Orcas saber swings right through the ghostly figure, but it has an effect.*
Ghost: AHHHH!
*Ghost is sucked up and destroyed*
*Orca awakes in his own world*
Merlin: What happened?
Orca: I was sucked into a blackness where the ghost of Salanas's mind lived. I killed the ghost of Salanas.
Merlin: Interesting...

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Dragonfly

10-18-1999, 08:48 PM

Dragonfly wanders around the monastary, thinking about his wife, whom he had just seen(she was an angel), when he turns a corner to see a bright blast, some people running somewhere, and screams......then silence.....worried he runs off to find the trouble.He comes upon a hallway in which everyone is standing looking at something on the floor and Merlin, PIng_me, and Ji'orty off in a room nearby talking to Ji'orty(sorry if i spelled it wrong)There Space Orca sits looking over a red stained object on the floor.

DRagonfly:WHat is that?*poiting to dark red stained object*

As he gets closer he sees the shape is rather large, almost human-size in shape and a broken glass, a broken rail detonator, and a burnt part of the wall.

DRagonfly:WHAt the heck happened here?

Space Orca:I lost control........fell to the dark side.........Dirtbag was trying to escape.....but he took that potion and..............and.........we fought.............and i lost control............and i hurt him horribly.

DRaognfly:YOu shouldn't worry....that rat deserved all he got.....it wasn't your fault.....

Space Orca:yeah................it was.........i........shoudl be...........i should be more strong.........

Jonathon: Do not worry friend, we will help this rat to recover.....he will be find........come talk with me.......I can help

Space Orca and Jonathon walk off to talk.

Monk in room:I can feel a feeling of justness and truth somewhere in this room all of a sudden.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......

DRagonfly://I wonder if it is this little rock/i better hold on to it//

Dragonfly walks to room where Merlin is at and asks to speak to Merlin alone.

DRagonfly:Merlin i just saw an angel(ghost).....out in the courtyard.And it was my deceased wife...........she gave me these feathers....Here*gives Merlin feathers*

Merlin: OH my............these are.........these are angel feathers.......so they do exist............I must go speak with JOnathon now come follow me.

Dragonfly:yeah ok......and she gave me this rock*MErlin doesn't hear as he runs off in search of Jonathon

The two find Jonathon talking to Space Orca out in the same courtyard earlier where DRagonfly had seen a ghost.Merlin and Dragonfly wait patiently as Jonathon and Space Orca finish talking

Jonathon:MErlin......what can i do for you?

Merlin: DRagonfly here he said he saw an angel earlier of his wife and she gave him this...*shows JOnathon feathers*

jonathon:*with admiration and aww* These are the feathers of an angel.......where did you get them DRagonfly?

Dragonfly:This courtyard was where she appeared to me............we talked *tells them of the conversation he had with the ghost* and then she gave me these feathers and this rock*pulls out rock* i was supposed to give this to you MErlin...she said you would know what to do with it........

Jonathon:*looking at ground* Hmmmmm..........this is strange........last night this ground was barren now roses grow.....

Merlin:*can't say a word broken back in awe and wonder*

[This message has been edited by Dragonfly (edited October 18, 1999).]

Dragonfly

10-18-1999, 09:31 PM

Hot off the presses......a drawing of Gebohq! This was drawn by Gebohq himself! Enjoy!Thanks!
http://www.massassi.net/extras/images/2gebohq.jpg

The Avenger

10-18-1999, 09:31 PM

The Avenger is a warrior and jedi healer. Instead of a lightsaber he wields a magical sword. Born somewhere in the unknown regions of the galaxy, he lived on his own...

http://homepages.go.com/~cygnusx15/theavenger.jpg

Dragonfly

10-18-1999, 09:36 PM

Waoh! that was creepy! Two pictures are posted at exactly the same time! wow! 2 pics posted at 9:31 geez dudududu dudududu(the outer limits theme) and could everyone do me a favor? cpould you all if you have drawn a pic of yourself please email it to me mailto:dragonfly@massassi.netdragonfly@massassi.ne t</A> Thanks!

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-Dragonfly
Webmaster of JKBTGExtras (http://www.massassi.net/extras)
"If I'm not cold, I'm freezing, and if I'm not hot, I'm burning"

Space_Orca

10-18-1999, 09:37 PM

-Dragonfly, I did not fall to the dark side, Whaleis are grey Jedi who have discovered how to control the battle of good and eveil in their minds. I would have been fine in my own universe, but my use of dark powers+the force opened my mind up to the dark wizard. Salanas sent the Dark Wizard out of my mind, infesting it himself. But he brought me in to face him, and I defeated him. So I am normal now. And Merlin, I wrote the Dirtbag action scene in the story way not the play way because it involved VERY little talking and a lot of action, which the story version amplifies. I can't explain it much further... I'm like Sulustans, who have a natural gift for navigation. I have a natural gift for writing. I can't explain what I say about writing because I was never taught some of these things, I just knew them. Oh well, I'm getting WAY off subject.-

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Ping_Me

10-18-1999, 10:33 PM

"Ji'tory wait!!" Ping yelled as he pursued her down the basement halls. Almost losing her around a corner, he zoomed up a flight of stairs leading to the main floor. He passed Dragonfly who was holding a rock and some feathers. He glanced around trying to find where she went. Seeing her turn down another hall he ran after her.

"Ji'tory!" He ran across the central garden to the sanctuary, many monks snapped out of meditation and chores to watch the passing spectacle. Ping flung open the heavy wooden doors to the Sanctuary and there he found her shivering on a bench. She had her arms wrapped around herself and was rocking back and forth.

"Ji'tory. Ji'tory!" He said urgently. He knelt down in front of her and placed his hands on he upper arms trying to shake her.

"Ji'tory! C'mon snap out of it!" She only more insistantly rocked and now shook her head and moaned.

Ping never really figured out what made him say what he said next, "Ji'tory, wake up! The nightmare is over!"

She stopped rocking and brought her eyes up to meet his. They were red from excessive crying and the glistened with new tears. She threw her arms around him and sobbed all the more. Ping reciprocated the action trying to quiet her all the while.

Later Johnathan strode in followed by Merlin. Ping_Me still knelt on the ground in front of her while she sat on the bench. She held his hand firmly in her lap.

Ping looked from Johnathan to Merlin, with a face that spoke volumes without saying a word. Merlin simply shook his head while Johnathan made a motion over Ji'tory, a single hand movement down and another across the first. Mumbling "In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti." Finally resting his hand on her brunette head. He walked away after a breif pause.

Merlin and Ping looked on helplessly as Johnathan comforted her and walk away. Both realising that with all their powers they could do nothing. Ji'tory calmed down, then with a tear streaked face she looked from Ping to Merlin with determination.

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Guidelines for heroes:
Girls: It's okay to wear skimpy clothing as long as you can kick butt.
Guys: It's okay to look like a girl as long as you can kick butt.

bug

10-18-1999, 11:35 PM

Bug is busy trying to get some sleep when he is waken up by some voices in the other room. They are yelling loudly at each other, making bug's head throb due to his terrible headache.

Bug gets up from the bed and walks over to the wall. "HEY!! KEEP IT DOWN IN-" He is interrupted by several loud explosions.

"What the?!! Some jerk's using my rail detonater!" Bug walks towards the door. "someone is going to get smacked!" The explosions continue. Suddenly there is a loud blast of force destruction, then silence. Bug stops in his tracks. "uh, oh. That didn't sound good." There are voices echoing through the halls as people come running. Then one terrible voice overshadows them all. "You worry about Orca. . . But you have no say in this. . . You might be able to keep me out of their minds if they don't want me there, but not even you can keep me out if they welcome me. Which he did in his use of dark power like mine. I am taking care of Dirtbag, he is most useful to me." This is too much thinks bug to himself. The voice continues talking, making bug's head throb with every word. Someone runs out of the other room, and down the hallway. Bug starts pounding on the wall again. "HEY! SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP IN HERE, YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT! NOW SHUT UP BEFORE I COME IN THERE AND BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF YOU"

The voice ceases in the other room. "Hmm... that worked better than I thought it would" thinks bug to himself. He climbs back into his bed and starts to drift off into sleep. Suddenly the voice is back, this time right above his head.

Voice: "That wouldn't be bug would it?"

Bug: "who the **** are you? And keep it down. I have a headache"

Voice: "So sorry. What's the problem? Is your weak little mind hurting you? That wouldn't have anything to do with drinking that potion last night would it?"

Bug: "How did you know about that! That's the last thing I remember before I woke up here. Where the hell am I anyways?"

Voice: "That potion allowed me to take over your mind. A little incident which was sadly shortlived. By the way, I wouldn't talk to Ji'tory or Avenger for a while. They might be holding a gruge against you. Could have something to do with taking over Ji'tory's mind and trying to kill Avenger. Oh and where you are. Well, it looks like you are sitting in a dark room. Well so long until we meet again. You are different than the others, bug, you are a lot easier to control. You could be really useful to me. Be a good servent, and get lots of sleep. You may have a big day ahead of you."

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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- Yogi Berra?

Dirtbag

10-19-1999, 01:58 PM

When Dirtbag awoke, he was in a dark place. It was pretty comforting actually. Looking around, he found himself in some underground cavern made up of black, volcanic rock. He was on an island of rock in the midst of a lake of boiling blood, on which sat a throne of skulls. And on that throne sat a man hidden away in black robes, whose very presence seemed to suck in all light and all goodness and all hope like a black hole. "Woah," Dirtbag commented. "Cool digs."

"Welcome back to the land of the living, Dirtbag," said the robed man.

"Dark Wizard extrodinaire Bazaal, I presume?" he replied, offering a ratty little bow.

"You presume correctly, my friend. Have I presumed as accuratly in assuming your preferrance for your 'natural' rodent form?"

"Yeah, you guessed right, all right. I don't know what I was thinking, drinking that crap of Merlin's. And taking on that fish guy in a stand up fight? What kind of crack was I on? Anyway, Bazzy, thanks for the first aid, but if you don't mind, I'll be on my way..."

"KNOW THAT I HAVE SAVED YOUR VERY LIFE!" Bazaal boomed. "You owe your existance to me."

Dirtbag sniffed. "Yeah, don't do me no favors now."

"SILENCE! Dirtbag, from this moment on, I own you. You are now MINE!"

Dirtbag looked around for a shadow, unimpressed. "Show me a reciept on that one, will ya," he returned casually. "Meanwhile, where's the nearest pan-dimension portal out of Hell?"

Bazaal leaned back in his throne. "I like you Dirtbag; you amuse me. I will let you go now for the same reason, with the knowledge that whatever you do will be for the side of darkness, and whatever you do for darkness will be for me."

Suddenly, Dirtbag awoke in a forest outside human monestary. He scratched his head, looked around, then abruptly lashed out a tree. "Dammit," he sighed to himself. "I was so close..."

(Note: Storywise, leave me out of circulation until my next post. I'm cooking something up. Heh heh heh...)

Merlin

10-19-1999, 03:06 PM

--Ok. I need a bit of help clearing up some stuff. (specifically if my slight plot alterations are ok). Both Dirtbag and Orca have disappeared during the disscussion involving Ji'tory (Dirtbag shows this in his writing too) Ok, now Orca you have a vision of your mortal enemy. Now is it really him, or a division of your self you face? Or is it an extension of the Dark Wizard. Also I like what bug did, but I wanted to point out it wasn't bug who was controling Ji'tory it was the Dark Wizard going through bug. Orca you said you reappeared after you defeated it. Assuming for a minute it was your darker side you fought, I could work the idea that your choice to fight him was a choice of rebellion against evil (thus the Dark Wizard was unable to finish transport to where he was takeing you unlike Dirtbag who did make it there. So that bit (whoever mentioned it) about Johnathan taking care of Dirtbag doesn't happen just by what dirtbag shows. As for what happens to her. I liked the way everybody worked around the event. But I was a bit confused by some of them. I think one of you said they see dirtbag on the floor but he is gone, I'm not asking you to change anything in your posts, this is more of a note to myself on what to do later. So I needed to know if that sounds alright Orca. As for Dragonfly I liked what you introduced with the bit about the feathers and the stone. (though I have an idea for the stone as soon as you put it in.) But I will later have to really flesh out what happened in what order. I know Orca couldn't have reappeared until after I had left the room, so the bit with Ji'tory and Ping_me must have happened next. Then after that I must have meet you Orca, then the bit about Dragonfly and the stone. While bug's bit must have happened at the same time as the bit with Bazaal talking to Ji'tory.--

Merlin (to Dragonfly as he hands him back the feathers): Thank you for showing us these. But if your wife gave them to you, they are meant for you. I know not what they mean, but keep them close to you. As for this stone, I am actually puzzled by it. I don't recognize it as natural. But it seems to have a quality about it similar to magic, yet not. I am not sure what it does, but I think we will know what to do with it when the time comes.

Ping_Me

10-19-1999, 03:14 PM

My syonpsis of character:

Name: Ping_Me
Race: Computer generated entity (Human appearance)
Homeworld: Coruscant Cyberspace
Home System: Whatever System Coruscant is in.
Age: (chronological): 137 (physical): 20
Profession: Indeleble Computer Phenomena
Place of Education (if applicable): N/A
Place of Residence: Galctic CyberNet
Abilites: Hyperintelligence. Ability to use and manipulate energy as a means of defence. Able to manifest himself anywhere there is a CyberNet terminal.
Weapon of coice: Energy Sword (not lightsaber mind you.)

Origins: Created by 12 year old girl hacker on the lower levels of Courscant. Since the death of his creator, roams Galactic CyberNet as a benevolent entity. During Imperial reign, he reteated to the lower depths and
unknown regions of the CyberNet so as not to be detected by Imperials. Spent most of his time talking to mousebots. Secretly assisted the Alliance. Almost bought it in the destruction of the first Death Star, knew
better than to be on the second one. Known to create pockets of excellent transfer rates to online gamers.

You can find this and others in that funky little post Merlin started so long ago:
http://forums.massassi.net/html/Forum1/HTML/001105.html

Space_Orca

10-19-1999, 03:48 PM

-No, I did not fight the "darker side of myself." As you recall, my archrival was on the side of thte dark wizard but plotting against him. So when Solanas used the force, teh Dark Wizard locked on and took over Solonas. But SOlanos was trong enough to transport his mind and force enrgy into the void of the soul-world. Then, when the dark wizard latched onto my mind, he stopped the dark wizard and took over my mind INSTEAD and took me INSIDE my own mind to where he was. There I killed him, and I was back to normal. Everyone get that now?-

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

The Avenger

10-19-1999, 09:42 PM

Synopsis:
*Incoming Message*
Technical Data: Avenger

Name: Avenger, The (Yes, first name The, last name Avenger)
Race: Unknown
Homeworld: Malacrest (No longer exists)System: Outer Realm
Age: 37
Profession: Assassin
Place of Education: Unknown
Residence: Anywhere he damn well pleases
Abilities: Superintelligence, Huge grasp of Force Power.
Weapon of Choice: The Mytical Energizer sword.
http://homepages.go.com/~cygnusx15/theavenger.jpg
The Origin of The Avenger:
Created in a freak accident in a neo-genetic experiment, The Avenger was doomed to roam the galaxy as a mistake. His body left him to live forever fused inside his suit, his features deformed. Using his intelligence, he stole an advanced spacecraft and escaped Malacrest shortly before it was destroyed. He was almost captured by the Galactic Empire and was forced to make an emergency landing on an indeveloped planet. There' he met a Jedi Master, who took pity on the deformed figure and trained him in the ways of the force. This seemed to be his destiny, and he excelled. After years of training, his Master was weak and bedraggled, and The Avenger watched in horror as his Master fell into a long sleep and died. The Avenger, crushed and depressed, found his buried starcraft, boarded it, and set a random hypercourse and flashed off towards the center of the galaxy...

Merlin

10-20-1999, 12:53 AM

--Thank you Orca, that is what I thought you meant but when you put it down like that it was much clearer. Thank you. Say I have a question. When I finish the revisions and post the final version of the story, will any of you read it? The reason why I ask is that I plan to do things with the plot (add details to make it fuller, add dialouge to make it clearer or what I feel better fits my characters (that is why I want to grasp what kinda person your characters are, not bio data I mean inside in their hearts what are they like, what are their issues, what are their hopes and fears and desires) and also like in places earlier where like Orca wrote everything in a paragraph form because he lost the original he had so he just described what happened, I would turn that into dialouge and experince parts (experince parts refer to what I do when I don't write dialouge and instead write paragraph style to describe souroundings or sensations characters have). And sometime plot alterations, like when dragonfly showed me those angel feathers. I felt after reading that, that those where a special gift to you from your wife and meant for you. This caused me a problem with you showing them to my character and how he rushes off to tell Johnathan like "show and tell" when I felt the feathers were something sacred bettween you and your wife (like marriage vows are). That was why I had trouble doing anything with them story wise. When I read it I kept getting the feeling like Merlin and Johnathan gawking at something emotionally and spiritually sacred bettween Dragonfly and his wife. The result was I felt it was out of character for Merlin. But then maybe I am misunderstanding Dragonfly's use of the feathers.--

Dragonfly

10-20-1999, 04:16 PM

--to put it nicely, you did in fact get it wrong because when you were, as you say, "gawking" you didn't know it was from my wife yet and thought the items were beautifull and special in some now-unknown way.you were admiring them and knew they were veryspecial.there you go--

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-Dragonfly
Webmaster of JKBTGExtras (http://www.massassi.net/extras)
"Four legs good, two legs better!"

Gebohq

10-20-1999, 04:43 PM

I will most definately read it Merlin. And I hope to have a picture of my skin(which will most likely look better than my hand-drawn one) up on the board. Now if I could only think of something for Gebohq to do right now...any ideas guys? If you do, don't be afraid to write it.

Merlin

10-20-1999, 10:51 PM

--I apologize Dragonfly if I made you angery by that remark. I was just describing my impression. If you did show them to Merlin (Merlin is basically me, he is an extension of who I am), Why? If you have plans for doing something with this in the story, please e-mail me and tell me what it is you are planning so I can work with it and work it better into what I write.
You see for me, I am not just writing a story. For me as an author I pour part of my self (even part of my soul) into my characters like Merlin, how he feels toward Ji'tory spring directly from in my mind assuming Ji'tory is real, then acting toward her as I would as Merlin. Loving her as a daughter, denfending her like a knight, shouting with righteous anger like a prophet in the wilderness. I am not married. I have no children, so I've never loved a real child as a daughter. But my mind is so vivid and my emotions so empathic I feel as though it were real. I don't read a story, I live it. I don't write a story, I become it with a passion. And when I write a Bazaal, I open up that part of me that is evil. And I can feel the power of evil in my hands. And I feel as if I could stretch out my hand a destroy. And after I push back that part of me, my hands still tingle and I still feel the rush of power. When I write with such passion I want to make the whole story coherent. I want to fill its pages with the passion of love and the terror of evil. That is why I want to understand you. I don't want you to write about your characters, I desire you to write yourself. When I wrote those sections like that scene on the beach with Ji'tory, or the scene in the monestary when Bazaal speaks. I wanted to make those scenes move the readers who read them. Do they? I am sorry. I just needed to write from the heart what I feel and experince. If you disagree, I ask your forgiveness.

Dragonfly

10-21-1999, 06:58 PM

Merlin, you did not anger me, I was just clearing it up......I showed them to you kinda to show off...and because my ghost of a wife told me to show them to ya.no harm intended http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif

Dirtbag

10-21-1999, 08:56 PM

"...think they can come in here and get us involved in some war..."
"They're unnatural!"
"...ought to do something about them..."
"...if it weren't for them no one would even care about this rot hole of a world..."
"...high and mighty with his Dragon buddies..."
"...yeah, we got an army for ya..."
"...inhuman monsters..."
"...some should take care of them..."
"Some one like us!"

Through the dirty glass of the basement window, Dirtbag watched as the mob worked itself into a killing frenzy, ready to unleash their 'mighty' human selves upon Merlin and his allies. The best part was, the goody-goodies would have a hell of a time fighting this group of townspeople. After all, heros were for saving the common man from evil, not slaughting them, even in self defense. And if things went wrong... well, most humans don't appreciate their own kind being killed by strangers, even if it was Merlin and his mighty minions vs. the small group of disgruntled dimwits. Dirtbag grinned to himself. This would be an interesting event.

Gebohq

10-21-1999, 10:11 PM

Merlin, check your mail, and if it interests you, post it up(the topic). And Dragonfly, I'm gonna be sending a better pic of my character soon, so if you could replace the old one with the new one, that would be great. And soon will be tommorow.

Ping_Me

10-21-1999, 11:21 PM

*His hands folded in his robe, Ping_Me walked complacently through the gardens of the monastary. Ji'tory lay resting in her cell (before anyone freaks out, a "cell" is the term for bedroom in places like convents and monastaries.) Exiting the gardens and walking through the open air hallways he came to the main entrance.*

*The front of the monastary overlooked a pastoral setting. Most of the land belonged to the monks for thier subsistance, but one could see rolling green hills and dots of farmhouses and their feilds. Off in the distance a sizable village could be seen, but somthing was wrong...*

*Smoke rose from the center of the village and bells rang faintly.*

//A celebration? I heard nothing from the monks about the events in town. They would surely know somthing.//

*Ping_Me walked down the grassy hill toward one of the monks trimming the hedges the boarderd the mian path to the santuary. As Ping approached the young Friar looked up from his work.*

"Ah! Strange one, hasn't the Lord given us a beutiful day?"

Ping smiled and bowed at the waist, "Greetings, Father, yes indeed He has. Father, tell me, I stood on top of the hill just now and I saw smoke coming from the village. Is there a festival in town?"

The monk looked puzzled. "No, not that I know of." he paused for a moment. The bells rang. "The church bells are ringing. I'm not sure what's going on."

A worried expression crossed Ping_Me's face.

"I share your sentiments Strange One." He again paused and tipped his wide brimmed straw hat. "Perhaps we should speak with Monseignior Johnathan and good Merlin." Together the proceded up the hill.

Ping_Me paused at the top of the hill while the young monk went ahead of him. He turned and looked back toward the village. A wind blew Ping's hair around as he stood there. Though faintly he could hear shouts on the breeze.

He frowned.

[This message has been edited by Ping_Me (edited October 21, 1999).]

Merlin

10-22-1999, 12:40 AM

Ping_me and the young monk enter the room where Merlin and Johnathan are talking.

Merlin (seeing Ping_me's concerned expression): Ping_me, what is wrong?

Ping_me: Something is going on in the town, you'd better take a look.

With Ping_me in the lead Merlin, Johnathan, and the young monk, brow to the hill where Ping_me saw the smoke. Only now a small band of villagers now marches toward the monestary carrying torches and sharp farming implements.

Young Monk: I'll go lock the monestary gate.

Merlin: No. Open the gate.

Young Monk: What?! But . . . they'll kill you!

Merlin: I didn't come here to fight humans, and I have no intention of fighting them. I am going to talk to them.

The crowd arrives at the gate and to their suprise it opens for them rather than them having to storm it. Beyond it stands Merlin out in the open and alone.

Merlin (streching out his hands): I am unarmed as you can see.

A old bald man dressed in rags emerges from the crowd. He hobbles with a small wooden stick for a cane. It is obvious he is the one who formed the mob.

Man: That doesn't mean anything! You're a wizard! You could zap us with fire!

Merlin(let's his arms fall back to his side, and speaks with a voice far calmer that the other's voice):
If I were going to do that, wouldn't I have done that already rather than letting you just walk in.

Man: We know your evil! Your friends are monsters!

Merlin (glacially calm): What makes a man more a moster? What he looks like or what is in his heart. These beings I brought with me have kind hearts. They offer their live to protect you and this world. But the Dark Wizard has a heart of evil. He is more a monster than any here. And he is who we are trying to defeat.

Man: Yes! The Dark Wizard. I've heard rumors that you actually work for him. And that this is all a trick! Isn't it Merlin?!!

Merlin: Would these servants of God let a man of evil into their monestary?

Pausing the Man hobbles around Merlin to look at him from all sides. He hobblea back around to face Merlin at a distance.

Man: I HEARD you almost let something rape that girl who is with you before you finally decided to act like you were awake! (the man turns away from Merlin to face the mob).

Merlin clenches his teeth. Merlin did blame himself. Feeling he should have been able to some how stop the Dark Wizard before it happened. Even thought he had been asleep and was not awake as this man said.

Merlin: I was asleep. How could you know that unless you worked for Bazaal? We've told no one.

Man (screaming at the top of his lungs): HE TRYING TO TRICK YOU! HE'S TRYING TO TURN YOU AGAINST EACH OTHER!

Merlin: Their not listening Bazaal.

Man (laughs then swings around to face Merlin): Not quite OLD MAN! (The figure of the man melts away revealing a tall and guant man with wire spectacles on his nose. The light constantly refelcted of the lenses so that we never see his eyes. He is cold and calcualting.) (Now, in a calm voice of superiority) I am not Bazaal, but one of his fellow wizards. I am Cathar. You were wrong as usual Merlin. But you've one this round.

Cathar laughs, and as he laughs his laughing fades into an echo of itself and his form fades into a dark shadow of itself and that shadow too fades away.

Merlin (to the crowd): Go home to you friends and family. You were decived by Bazaal. Be careful of those who suggest rash violence over the hopes of peaceful disscussion.

The crowd disperses and heads toward the village. Ping_me walks up to Merlin.

Ping_me: Merlin, did you know Cathar before?

Merlin: Yes. Before he turned to the use of evil he was one of my harshest school teachers. He was actually out of character. He perfers to use his intellect and senese of superiority to overpower his enemies. Like he decived those good townspeople.

Ping_me and Merlin turn back into the monestary as the monks reclose the doors.

bug

10-22-1999, 01:21 AM

Halfway back to the village the the angry crowd of disgrunted villagers stops. "Hey! wait a minute, we didn't get to kill anyone!".
"They aren't working to help us!"
"Did you see that one monster who was with them? he was half human and half dragonfly."
"The wizard tricked us!"
"Death to the wizard!"
"Death to the freaks!"
"We'll burn them out, and kill the evil monks who are helping them!"
"Burn! Burn! BURN!!!"

The angry mob turns around and starts marching back to the monestary. They are carrying torches and shaking pitchforks above their heads.

(lets see you get out of this one merlin)

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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- Yogi Berra?

bug

10-22-1999, 01:23 AM

You just can't talk sense into an angry mob Merlin. You can try if you feel like being riped apart limb from limb.

[This message has been edited by bug (edited October 22, 1999).]

Merlin

10-22-1999, 02:21 AM

--Hey guys, you've inspired me. I am going to go write my own version of this story based on this one. (Is that ok with everyone if I use this stuff we have here as a base? I will give you credit for your ideas of course.) I will continue to work in this one. But I really really have found a disire to continue this story too in my own way as well. So I feel I need your permission to do this (base it from the stuff here since some of the stuff here is your ideas). This will free me up more. You see I've had a desire write my own version of this story based on this for a while now. So sometimes I kept having my ideas come in here and interfere with you guys interacting with the story. I know I need to be less controlive (and I want to be) so as an outlet I need to do my own story by myself based on what we have here and I will post it in a site I will create just for that purpose rather than editing this one in any way. So in doing that I can create the story I dream of and not interfere with what we do here. But I feel I need your ok. That is from Ping_me, Gebohq, Dirtbag, bug, ect. As I said a minute ago I will list you in the story credits (along with others who have influnced it). And I will keep up here too, and I can lighten up around here. This means I wouldn't make a copy of this thought and edit it (when I kept saying edit it, I kept leaning toward what I was planing on writing in my story, really) So as I said I felt I need to ask you. (Partially since I would still use your characters in the tale, unless you want me not to, in which case I could always change their name, tell me if you want me to do that). Thank you.--

Dirtbag

10-22-1999, 10:57 AM

I'm all for anything that spreads me around.

Ping_Me

10-22-1999, 11:53 AM

Got my ok.

Dragonfly

10-22-1999, 05:02 PM

Fine by me, Merlin! I can't wait to read it! And if you need any help *maybe setting a page up*cough* let me know http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif All the artwork I have done and anyone else can probably go up with the story!

Gebohq

10-22-1999, 05:32 PM

Got my OK Merlin. And I still say you should edit this story too, just make sure that your revised copy passes with the other writers before making a final. Now that I think about it though, that's a lot of work, so if you don't want to, that's OK too. And maybe I should introduce the dark wizard that I talked about with you merlin, what do you think? Only problem is I'm not sure how to introduce him, so feel free to give me any senarios.(gebohq waves hand in front of Merlin)"You WILL help write the sith hell story...". Heehee.

bug

10-22-1999, 07:23 PM

*Places big boxes full of explosives in the basement of the monestary.

After setting a remote triggered mine on each box, bug climbes to the top tower.

"Sure that's fine with me, Merlin, as of...."

*presses the detonater switch*

"Now!!!"

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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- Yogi Berra?

Merlin

10-22-1999, 08:19 PM

--Thanks guys for your permission. And also thanks for the offer concerning site creation Dragonfly. I've actually started the site. You can find it at members.xoom.com/jedi_merlin/index.htm (http://members.xoom.com/jedi_merlin/index.htm) that was my old "A Jedi's Journey TC" sites location when we were at xoom. I've just started building there again. Though I realize writing the story will be hard for one major reason. Unlike in normal txt and stuff you can't just push return and start a new line! You have to write a huge mess of code! Does anybody know of a free program that could let me simply write the story text like I would here and then the program you put it into the right format. THAT WOULD BE SOOOOOOO HELPFUL! Once I do get the "Saga of the Third War" written I hope to make more fantasy stories like it (some already in mind "Saga of the First War" and "The Dawn of the Knights of the Sword" (that one would be set 20 years after "Saga of the Third War" dealing with what happens to "Consilium ex Deo" and involving Merlin and Ji'traya))! Now back to the tale!--

The explosion from the deep monestary basment could be heard all the way to the village! Foutuneately the monestary was designed to be extremely sturdy so nothing collapsed. Thought the mob that had just returned hear the massive explosion and feared Merlin was going to blow them up next! So they quickly fled back to the village and hid in their storm selters for a couple of days. Merlin decides this is a good time to leave. The party gathers their things and Merlin and Johnathan part company at the monestary gates.

Merlin: It has been good to see you again and have this time to talk. And apologize for the disruption it has caused to your monestary.

Johnathan: Well, there are always tests of faith. (he chuckles) Also I nearly forgot to tell you the good news.

Merlin: Good news?

Johnathan: Yes. The king's daughter has just married one of the highest knights in the land! By the time you arrive there the celebration should be in full swing.

Merlin: Then I hate to be the bearer of bad news during such an occasion.

Johnathan: Well you could always wait a day to tell them. Besides he may know already what you are there for. Good bye Merlin, and my God go with you.

Merlin: And also with you Johnathan.

Merlin and party head toward the king's castle. Merlin figures they should reach it a couple of hours before sun set.

Merlin

10-23-1999, 01:46 AM

As the sun begins to set they arrive at the castle gates. As snow falls around them Merlin approaches the gate. To the right is a small aclove where a guard stands.

Guard: Who goes there?

Merlin: I am the Wizard Merlin and these are my friends.

Guard: Ahhhhh. . . the King has been expecting you. Please enter.

They enter the gates and cross the courtyard. They are meet by one of the king's ministers.

Minister: I am Lord Tchika. I will announce you to the king.

Following Tchika they walk down several hallways untill they come to the main banquet hall. Judging from music and the singing beyond the celebration is in full swing (as Johnathan had predicted). Tchika opens the doors wide.

Tchika (in a loud voice): May I present to you the Wizard Merlin and company.

The king who is siting on the throne at the farside of the room, looks on benevolently and the crowd. Especially at his daughter. Now seeing Merlin he gets up and briskly crosses the floor to greet them.

King (talking Merlin's hand in a strong grip): Welcome! It is good that you came. The more the merrier! I know we have much to discuss Merlin, but first let us all join in the celebrations, for this only happens once a generation.

Merlin: Wisely put, oh King.

And with that Merlin walks with the King back to the King's throne to speak. And the rest of the part disperses into the gathered crowd.

Ping_me standing at the edge of the crowd watches Ji'tory. She is laughing and dancing with the others. He realizes, he hadn't seen her laugh for a couple of days now. It felt good to see her forget the past for a little while.

Meanwhile Gebohq, Avenger, and Dwin the Dwarve stand by the buffet table. Avenger just ate an entire turkey.

Dwin (whispered to Avenger): I can't beleive you at the WHOLE thing!

Avenger (in kinda stupor): I CAN'T beleive I at the whole thing.

Dwin and Gebohq (unison): You ate the whole thing.

Meanwhile Merlin is speaking with the King.

Merlin: But let us not talk of business. There will be time enough for that later.

King (raising his cup to his lips): I'll drink to that.

King takes a long draught from his cup.

Merlin: Who married your duaghter?

King: One of my greatest knights, Sir Lyonal.

King point throught the crowd to the man who is dancing with his daughter. He is a tall and strong man with golden hair and brawd shoulders.

Merlin: He looks like a good man.

King: He is, he is indeed! Saved my life once.

Merlin: Really, what happened?

King: We were on a hunt for a stag. The stag nearly impaled me but Sir Lyonal grabed the stag by its horns and turned it aside and in the process breaking its neck!

Merlin: Most interesting . . .

As the evening contiues its merry way Merlin eventually takes a one corner of the room by a window and watchs the celebration.

Meanwhile Ji'tory has convinced Ping_me to meet her in a private side room.

Ji'tory (to Ping_me): Now that we are alone, there is something I wanted to tell you. I want to thank you for being there for me all this time. And I know you've probably figured it out from the way I've been acting. And in the spirit of the festivities I just wanted to tell you how I feel . . . (she takes a deep breath) Ping_me I am in love with you and I never want you to leave me.

--Ping_me you said you wanted to handle this part so here you go.--

Jkior

10-23-1999, 11:00 AM

Wrecks the continuity of the story by stuffing Dirtbag in a vacuum cleaner like any proper dirtbag should be...

Space_Orca

10-23-1999, 07:16 PM

-Fine with me Merlin. Orca will be out of the story for a little while after this post, he dosn't like Humans so he stayed at the monastary-
*Orca sees bug escaping from the Monastary.*
Orca(shouts to bug): What the heck happened?
Bug: I blew that wretched place up!
Orca: How dare you!
*Bug runs off. Orca looks very annoyed*
-Merlin, if you agree, I'd like to start a new line of the story while you are talking to the Humans involving Flaming Demon.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Merlin

10-23-1999, 09:13 PM

Fine by me. I can't continue what I was doing till Ping_me does his post.

Ping_Me

10-23-1999, 11:01 PM

//Is that it.// Ping thought to himself.

A memory stirred. The deepest levels of Coruscant. A dark and murky place lit only by the light of a computer screen. A young girl is surrounded by a group of freinds. She types feverishly at a keyboard.

"And here he is!" she said with a fourish of her hand. Ping_Me felt himself materialise from the computer terminal. The group stood in wonder. One of the boys came forward.

"You're a genius Sarrahh!" She blushed at his comment, all the others gave her praise but only his praise elicted that special response from her. "What can he do?"

"Show us whatcha got Ping!" As if programmed Ping obeyed his creator and his energy sword cracked into being. Holographic images came to life and he fought with them. Great duels. Sparks flew from his hand and his sword danced.

"WOW!!" everyone said. "He sword fights just like one of the old Jedi Knights!"

"He can manipulate energy in almost any form and can feel any emotion except one..."

"Which one's that?"

"Love...." she said.

"Love?" they said. "Love is for grownups!"

"Yeah I know! That's why I didn't give it to him!" They all laughed hysterically in unison, while Ping looked on with an ignorant gaze.

"Ping?" Ping_Me returned to the present. "What's wrong aren't you happy? I am!!" she threw her arms around him.

"Ji'tory...." Ping said.

"mmhmm?"

"I can't return your love."

"What do you mean?" her eyes went up to meet his.

He looked down at her. "I can't love you."

She pushed away from him. "Wh...why? Is there somone else?"

Ping sighed. //No beating around the bush now.// "I'm not real Ji'tory. I'm not flesh and bone like you are. I'm made of energy. I know you can't understand this, but I was created, not born."

"So... what does that have to do with anything?" She said.

"Everyone has a full set of emotions right? Fear, Hate, Saddness. I lack one. And that is Love."

Ji'tory's eyes began to water. "What do you mean?"

"That means that we can't share that I can't feel the feeling you feel for me."

Her eyes got shinier with tears. "What about all those times we've been together. What about the time we were in the Beuto city. I was drunk and you didn't make love to me? I thought that was a sign that you loved me!"

"I couldn't. I'm not real. I couldn't make love to you. Besides I respect you as a person too much to have done anything like that anyway."

Her face became livid with rage. "And all this time you just strung me along like I was some little toy." She shook her head. "Why didn't you tell me somthing!"

"I was afraid I'd scare you away. It was important that you came with us to complete the mission..."

"Oh right the mission.."She said sarcastically, "You could have told me! You just wanted to wait untill you had the chance to break my heart!!"

"No! That's not.." He reached out for her.

She turned, "No! GET AWAY FROM ME!" and started to run. Tears continued to stream down her face.

Ping_Me listened in agony she ran further away from him through the castle, her sobs waning as she ran further away.

Ping_Me stood by himself, the sound of the party faint in the background. His light slowly faded and his image fell apart a little peice at a time until there was nothing left.

He was not seen for several hours.

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Ping_Me watched at the lower levels of Coruscant burned. Laser fire streamed from all directions toward Sarrahh and himself. He was running behind her. The shield he generated absorbed blast after blast of laser fire. Her dead companions lay strewn about the complex. Most of them were the same freinds that Ping had seen on his first day. they were all the age of 30 or so. many years had passed since then

They arrived at the computer terminal. A man was waiting there from them. Ping recognized him as the boy who made her blush, on that first day.

"They've got us surrounded. There's no way out! Sarrahh said in despair.

"Yes, not even Ping_Me could fight all of them off."

Sarrahh began typing on the control console.

"What are you doing?" the man said.

"I'm uploading all of Ping_Me's files into the Galactic CyberNet. I'm not going to let the Empire have the satisfaction of destorying him............ There it's all done! They can never destroy my creation now!!

"We've got them now! This way!!" the voices echoed aroung the corridors.

She turned to face Ping. "I'm sorry I never had the chance to finish you." The footsteps came closer. "Ping_Me: Invisibility! Now!"

Ping's form dematerialised. The man and Sarrahh looked at each other and kissed for a final time. The returned fire with their blasters. It wasn't long before the man was shot directly in the chest.

"Get... to.. the air duct... there could be.. a way out...!!" he promptly crumpled over.

In tears Sarrahh ran turning every so often to return fire. It wasn't long beforee she reached the air duct. She cut and bruised her fingers trying to get it open. Suddenly a rifle blast went straight through her head. Her lifeless form sank to the ground and she knew no more. Blood ran from her wound onto the cold harsh metal floor

"Good shooting kkt64j!" Three stormtroopers appeared from the smoky haze that now covered most of the level. One was clearly a superior to the two others. "You two secure this area while we search the remainder of the sector."

The two saluted and the feild trooper vanished in the smoke.

"That was a nice shot!"

"Thanks." He rolled Sarrahh's body over onto her back. "Man, would you look at the body on her! I wonder how much I would have to pay to get her into my bed huh?" They both laughed in unison. Their harsh voices filling the hallways.

Her cold lifeless eyes stared up at nothing.
"Hey! She's looking at you man! I think she likes you! AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!"

They never saw the green blade come down on them.

Dragonfly

10-24-1999, 12:07 AM

--disregard, double-post--

[This message has been edited by Dragonfly (edited October 24, 1999).]

Dragonfly

10-24-1999, 12:07 AM

--first off, PIng_me.........WOW! that was awesome! i was heartbroken!it was deep and touching. Great man GREAT!--

The celbrations in the castle made everyone joyfull........wait.......not everyone....Crys were heard through the darkest corners of the castle and the fear and sadness could be tasted in the air. Except in the Grand Hall....there all the people feasted and celebrated a great marriage! It was not this way though for DRagonfly....EH stood quiet on this snowy night on the walkway over the castle gate, which was now closed.....The feezing wind knawed at his warm flesh....the snow dropped down over his clothes. Not much could be seen in any direction.Dragonfly stood. He thuoght...about his family.....about Turneh..........about hiw ghost wife appearing to him..........hiw dead wife appearing to him made no sense......why did she show up? And what is with this stone and these feathers? only time will tell i guess.......Looking over the snow, Dragonfly sometimes sees a deer wander by or a horse ride up to the gate to ask for entrance into the mighty castle.......Looking out he sees several figures....2 in fact slowly walking out of the heavy snow toward the castle..

Dragonfly://who could that be?//

The shape become larger and materialize into the shape of people as they come nearer to the castle.AS they came nearer and were near the gate, Dragonfly was a little suprised when the guardsmen didn't n otice them walk almost right up to the gate......

DRagonfly:*screams*Hey! Guardsmen! What are you doing? Don't you see 2 people down there?

Guardsman:What?!?!?!?I don't see anybody!

Guardsman2:Yeah i see no one! You better go in and rest and get warm this coldness is making you crazy.....

Dragonfly:Whatever i am going down to check it out ok?

Guardsman http://forums.massassi.net/html/redface.gifk your choice...here take this coat it will warm you a little*throws Dragonfly coat*

DRagonfly:Thanks!

DRagonfly walks down to the gates wondering what is going on....He runs down flights of stairs and many other obstacles to get to the gate.....Once he gets there he slowly walks up to the gate to talk to the people outside......Two guards walk beside him to be sure no one gets in............he walks out into the cold.

Dragonfly:Guards, stay here and guard the entrance i will be right back.

Guardsmen:Yes,sir!

Dragonfly walks out across the bridge pulling the coat ever so much closer upon himself......as he nears the figures, who stopped walking and are just standing still, he starts to recognize them as being familiar.......

Dragonfly:hello there.Can i help you?

The two figures remove their hoods and their faces become visible....Dragonfly is taken aback in shock as he sees his dead wife and son standing before him!

DRagonfly:No you can't be?!?!?!?!!?Can you?

Woman:yes it is me dear I have come back.......

Boy:Me too, Father..I have returned....

DRagonfly:I am glad to se...........wait............how are you two here? YOu two are dead?!?!?!!?? I watched them kill you! HOw can you be here!

Wife:This is a new world and we hvae been reborn here...........

Son:Yes thanks to the all-powerfull Bazaall we are now alive!

The face then turns into that of an evil person.....short skinny and a long beard.......his bald head and dark eyes look straight at Dragonfly as he bellows as evil laugh.....The laugh shakes the very ground Dragonfly is standing on......the shape of his wife vanishes into the air......

Dragonfly:Where did you put them? What did you do? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Man:AHAHa i see you don't recognize me........but then how would you for we have never met.........muahahahahahahahhaahahhaahh

DRagonfly:Who are you?

Man:ahhhhhhh.........such a funny question..........who am I? I think the question is who are you.........*evil smile* Wait i know who you are..........you are.............you are..........ahhhh yes you are DRagonfly! i remember you! I know a lot about you.......your hopes..........your fears..........your dreams......etc...etc..hahahha

DRagonfly:what the...........

Man http://forums.massassi.net/html/redface.gifh yes........and what about me............what about me? I am Kricha, one of Bazaal's fellow dark wizards.........yes i am...........I have been following your little group.......hahah..........very funny I must say!You will never make it to Bazaal's castle! muahahahahahahahahahahah

Dragonfly:ANd what makes you so sure of that?

Kricha:I know.......things.........and you may be wondering about your wife and son............That was just an illusion............but if you join us, as i think you should, we will make exact duplicates of them in almost every way.........you will never know it wasn't themn!!!!!!!!

Dragonfly:NO that is just sick! I will never join you! NEVER!My family is dead and they are better off that way!.in a better place!
LEt me be!

Kricha:Fine be that way...............but you will be sorry...........you will be..........

And with that the evil wizard disappeared in a giant huff of snow and air.........

Dragonfly://where did he go?ph well i better talk to Merlin..//

As Dragonfly walks back towards the gate he notices the two guards he brought out with him were almost falling asleep.........he say a message written on the back of one's shirt......it read "you will pay..." Dragonfly carefyully picked up the men and brought them through the gate......AS soon as he was through the gate, it closed shut behind him.......He brought the men the wizard who was the king's peronal wizard and lived in one of the towers........The wizard look over them and asked

Wizard:WHat happened? These men are torn apart like they were eaten........and spat up..

Dragonfly:I don't know I never heard a word from them........i turned my back for a minute and when i looked back.......bang.Can you do anything for them?

Wizard:NOt much...i will try though....

DRagonfly exited the room and walked back out into the cold air to the top of the tower..........He could see for miles in all directions.........OFf to the north he could see a few red specks moving among the white snow on this moonlit night........he went back to the wizard's study......

DRagonfly:Sir Wizard, do you have anything that can help me see far away?

Wizard:yes,*searches through heep of stuff* here, try this.....*hands Dragonfly something similar to a pair of binoculars....*

DRagonfly:Thanks a lot.

Wizard:no problem..

Dragonfly walked back up to the top of the tower and looked at the now-icreasing red specks.......As he looked down, he could see an army of the some creatures.....undead, dark knights......he could not tell.....but he could tell they weren't happy......They silently galloped towards the castle,each carrying a lit torch in one hand...........

DRagonfly: OH no smells like trouble.....i better go alert the others and the king......i hate to ruin his fun though.......

Gebohq

10-24-1999, 01:23 AM

*Gebohq, despite all the conflict that seems to have befallen on this world, is very content and feels like he is for once having fun. He had a wonderful meal, listened to teh beautiful music, and even danced! He then sees Dragonfly entering the main hall, looking very glum. //wonder what has upset him in such a glorious celebration?//*

Space_Orca

10-24-1999, 09:33 AM

-First, I would like to say something: Orca can sense things through the force without the dark wizard taking over him as long as he is asleep, and he is getting them in dreams. This is beacause the Dark Wizard cannot take over an inactive and yet still alive mind. So maybe certain stupid 7th graders I know would be perfect weapons against him :-) (Inside joke)-
*Orca lies sleeping*
*in his dream Orca sees hundreds of dark figures approaching and preparing to attack. He recognizes the surroundings. The castle!*
*Orca wakes up and pulls on his coat.*
Orca: The castle... its under attack!
Monks: What?
Orca: I saw it in a dream. Come on, do you have any armed men?
Lead Monk: Just our eight security gaurds.
Orca: Then come with me, gaurds. We have to go to the castle. Merlin is in danger!
*Orca and the gaurds get on horses outside. Orca conveys the urgency of what is happening to the horses in horse-language, and the horses go as fast as they can*
Orca: Hang on tight! We're heading for the castle!

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Flaming_Demon

10-24-1999, 09:50 AM

-Flaming Demon is HERE! His story will be coming soon-

Merlin

10-24-1999, 02:41 PM

--Dragonfly, I love that addition you made. Unless you've been talking with Gebohq, I'd like to fill all of you in on something I've been talking about with Gebohq (which your addition fits very nicely with) I had the idea (well, actually it would be more proper to say, Gebohq made me have the idea, but I don't know if he thought of it in these terms). That each of the Dark Wizards are examples of evil in varing forms. Like Cathar goes to far with his intellect. He uses it at his way of dominating others, he is filled with the idea he is better than everybody else due to his great intellegence, and loves to lay down clever traps, and can't resist a chance to duel it out verbally with another person to prove he is superior to them (like what happened at the monestary). What you added Dragonfly fits so well with this. Kricha sounds like the kinda guy who lives by illusions and hypocrisy, offering the heros their fondest dreams (even though they aren't real) in exchange for giving up what they are trying to do. So this makes that character soooo good (not as in a good "nice" character, but as in an excellent character to put in the story). Thanks Dragonfly for adding him! I'm going to stay out and see what Dragonfly does with this.--

Gebohq

10-24-1999, 06:47 PM

Hey dragonfly, I thought you were going to replace the pic of Gebohq with teh one I sent you(it is different, though it isn't by much). Are you going to post the other pic I sent you too(though the file size is kind of big)? One last note, if anyone adds any more dark wizards, leave one space left for me(Merlin knows why http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif). And Merlin, about the revised version you wrote of this story, I don't mind my character knowing Avenger, but there are a few physical descriptions that are innacurate(my fault because you described the pic that's up right now well). The 3 flaps of skin where the hair should be is actually like an extension of the skull(like the queen alien in ALIENS), the eyes are straight across now(describe the eyes as glowing powerful blue or something liek that) and a normal mouth(they were suppose to be like gill-like things at first, but I can see how you took it as cloth). can't wait to see the rest of the revised story!

Flaming_Demon

10-24-1999, 08:29 PM

*Flaming Demon is in the basemant of the giant Stygian capital. He is surrounded by skeletons and other various undead*
Flaming Demon: Creatures of the Dead, men of the Underworld, rise up against our oppresors!
Skeleton#1: I don't think so!
Flaming Demon: Why not?
Skeleton#2: Yeah, why not?
Skeleton#1: Because Bazaal's minions will slaughter us!
Flaming Demon: Yeah right!
*A ball of fire shoots from Flaming Demon's hand and the Skeleton is vaporized.*
Flaming Demon: Now, unless anyone else would care to resist, lets move out!

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MWAHAHAHAH! YOU SHALL BECOME AN UNDEAD!

Scout

10-24-1999, 09:04 PM

*Deep in the dungeons of the human castle, a wall into the hallway between cells suddenly collapses outward. The lone guard on station runs up to the disturbance, and sees a form emerging from the hole.*

Guard: Halt, or I'll be forced to run you through!

*He stops as the figure emerges into the candle light. It is a short, thin young woman dressed in rags, her dark, dirty hair matted to her face. Most amazing of all, however, her skin is as white as snow. She coughs once, then takes one look at him and flees down the corridor.*

Guard: Hey, stop!

*runs after the girl, quickly catching her and tackling her to the ground. She manages to push him off and stand, then grabs an axe hanging on the wall and turns bravely to face the guard. They both stare at each other for a moment, but the girl can't bring herself to attack the guard. Near panic, the guard himself suddenly strikes at the young woman with his sword, but though it cuts through her clothes, it cannot penetrate her skin, or crush her body; instead it slams her back agains the wall. With a yelp, she drops the axe and scuttles down the wall away from the guard.*

*The girl runs again, and now the guard is too shocked to persue. She runs and runs, passing several surprised people as she hurtles down halls and up stairs, frantic to find her way out. Finally, she bursts through a pair of doors into a large room filled with partying people.*

*As soon as she enters, those nearest her paused in their revelry to stare at her in curiousity. After a moment, a robed man with a long white beard walks up to her and looks her over.*

Merlin: Hello, I am the wizard Merlin. May I ask *your* name?

*The girl looks around at the partygoers with wide eyes, then back at Merlin. She swallows, and takes a deep breath.*

Woman: I never had a name. But the old man called me... Scout.

(Note: Hi! Can I work myself in this late in the game?)

Dragonfly

10-24-1999, 10:04 PM

Gebohq:The revised pic and the new one will more than likely be up tommorrow.....I have been very busy this weekend so i will upload em tomorrow. 'k?

Merlin:Glad you like the new character, but i knida don't know where to go with it next...........no real solid ideas i will think about it tommorrow though.........i was hoping you'd take it over.....but oh well.....I guess i will have to continue it on.....hehe http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif ok read the next part tommorrow.....

:and i gotta say it is wierd how all of a sudden we have like 3 people add themselves in the tale...strange huh? http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif

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-Dragonfly
Webmaster of JKBTGExtras (http://www.massassi.net/extras)
"Four legs good, two legs better!"

Ping_Me

10-24-1999, 10:51 PM

---1. Hi, Scout!---

---2. Thanks, Dragonfly!---

---3. Can we take all this conversation somwhere else? like across e-mails or somthing?---

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Guidelines for heroes:
Girls: It's okay to wear skimpy clothing as long as you can kick butt.
Guys: It's okay to look like a girl as long as you can kick butt.

Merlin

10-25-1999, 12:06 AM

--Welcome, Scout. Actually flaming demon is just Orca with a new name (I looked at the e-mail). I'll see if I can help integrate you in (I'm assuming your native to this world). And at your request dragonfly I will help do something with that character)--

Merlin: Welcome scout.

Dragonfly rushes in.

Dragonfly: Merlin, we've got trouble! I saw another of the Dark Wizards and a band of evil riders are coming this way.

Merlin, Dragonfly, and Scout stand atop the castle wall.

Merlin (to scout): How good are you with a sword?

Scout: Pretty good, why?

Merlin: We're going to need all the help we can get.

Suddenly in a flash like lightning Kricha appears standing one the roof of a nearby tower.

Kricha (howling over the icy wind with spite): Hello Merlin! A little cold out here isn't it! How about I heat things up.

He cocks one arm back with palm flat and a fireball materializes in his had and he hurls it at Merlin!

Merlin: GET DOWN!

Scout and Dragonfly duck. Merlin puts up a translucent magical sheild which absorbs the fireball.

Merlin: Both of you get down from here and get the others to deal with the Dark Riders. I'll deal with Kricha.

Scout and Dragonfly go get Avenger, Gebohq, Dwin and Afarassa. They all gather just outside the gates to prepare to fight the one coming Dark Riders. Looking over head into the dark icy sky overhead, Dragonfly can see Merlin taking a beating from Kricha's fireball attacks.

Dragonfly (to himself): Hold on Merlin. I'm sorry we can't help you.

The party on the ground marches toward the oncoming calvary in hopes of intercepting it before it reaches the castle. The Dark Riders charge right at them. Dwin rushes in first and begins to hack at the horses with his axe. The others follow suit and the horsemen scatter in several directions. Then the Dark Riders turn about and begin charging from multiple directions. Dwin lets loose with his axe and hacks viciously at the horses legs, but to no effect! Scout is also charged by another of the horsemen, as he strikes her with his sword rather than cutting her the horseman looses his balance and falls to the ground. Scout impales him with her sword. Dragonfly sees this with amazement, but he has his own problems a horseman charges him. Dragonfly using his wings flies up and over him expertly landing right behind him on the horse! He quickly throws the being from his horse and right onto Avenger's waiting sword! As Dragonfly struggles to gain control of the bucking horse, he sees a fireball coming right at him. He jumps from the horse just as the fireball races right through where he was. He realize that Kricha must have now decided focus on their group on the ground. Merlin sees this too. He notices one of the fireballs goes right through one of the horseman with no effect.

Merlin: Of COURSE!

Merlin spreads his arms wide.

Merlin: Kricha!

Kricha sees Merlin standing there and he fires off a fireball at Merlin. On the ground Dragonfly sees Merlin through the blinding snow and wind just standing there with his arms open and the fireball racing toward him!

Dragonfly: Merlin! NO!

The fireball strikes Merlin, but the fire doesn't burn him, it just fizzles out. Merlin stares with triumph at Kricha. In a rage Kricha disappears in a flash of lighting. Below on the ground the Dark Riders vanish as well.

The party rushes back into the castle walls as they reach the courtyard beyond the gate, Dragonfly sees Merlin walking toward them.

Dragonfly: How?! I saw the fireball hit you. Your sheild was down.

Merlin smiled broadly.

Merlin: Cause it wasn't real! None of it was. Not the riders or the fireballs. That's what Kricha is, an illusionist. His illusions only hurt you if you beleive in them. But this will be of little help to us for we will never know if what he throws at us is real or not.

Merlin

10-25-1999, 12:32 AM

--Also to Gebohq, I almost forgot to tell you. I know I described your mouth the wrong way. I looked at the pic and started trying to describe it and I found I couldn't handle trying to decribe you talking through these slits like that, so I purposely described it like that (I did know it wasn't a mask). But if your new picture is different I will redescribe it. As for Orca for instance though I had a good deal of trouble describing him cause, at one point he said they (his race) doesn't have knees. So I am thinking what does that mean, he hops about on a flipper? I kept getting this picture in my mind of "Free Willy" hopping about. (I know that isn't correct, but that was all I kept thinking of cause you never described your appearence). So I purposely described him looking human, except with (well you can read it). Also I don't mind going back and making changes to improve the work. (Also if anybody catches a misspelled word or a sentence that doesn't make sense, ect. Tell me so I can fix it). But I did want to try not to go back and edit plot stuff I had already written cause people who read it might stop at a certian point and not want to go back and reread it all again due to a plot change. On the other hand I am open to suggestions and any thing more you can tell me about your characters (cuase the better I know them and you, the better I can portray them and integrate them into my story) again the address is http://members.xoom.com/jedi_merlin/index.htm . Come and check it out and tell me what you think. I am continually updating the story also.

Merlin

10-25-1999, 01:18 AM

Just to let everybody know, the story now has 3 chapters (chapters are very very short though, less than a page in length.) Once again you can find it at http://members.xoom.com/jedi_merlin/index.htm By the way, when I finally finish this story that won't be the end! I will add more stories to the library if people want me too. (I've already having ideas about such stories as "Saga of the First War" and "The Dawn of the Knights of the Sword" all set in this world (I've got to give the world this is story is taking place in).

Scout

10-25-1999, 10:14 AM

--Thanks for working me in! I'll see if I can't clarify my situation a little for you Merlin--

*After the battle with Kricha, Merlin walks with Scout as they return to tell the king what's happened*

Merlin: Your prowess and bravery have easily proven you worthy of joining us in our fight against the Dark Wizards, but still there are some things I feel compelled to ask you.

Scout: Ask away. I don't have anything to hide.

Merlin: My first one is rather obvious; where exactly did you come from?

Scout: *grins* You mean originally, or just now?

Merlin: *raises eyebrows* Either or both will suffice, I think.

Scout: *deep breath* Well, originally, I came to this world through some kind of dimension rift. There was this big black tower, you know, and it was some kind of nexus point between worlds. An evil man named Strage had opened it, trying to invade and conquer my world, but had just gotten me instead. He was so angry he cast some kind of stasis spell on me, that gave me this white skin, made me pretty much invulnerable to physical harm, and gave me eternal life. Basically, I can't change physically. *shrugs* Then he locked me in the tower dungeon and I've been there ever since.

Merlin: Then how did you get into this castle?

Scout: I don't know. I just managed to escape from my dungeon a few hours ago, and when I emerged, I was in the castle.

Merlin: (with concern) By all thats... The castle must have been built on top of the black tower's dungeons... How long have you been imprisoned there.

Scout: *shrugs* No idea, there aren't any calenders. All I know is that's it's been a long, long time.

Merlin: *puts his arm around Scout's shoulders as they enter the Grand Hall of the castle* I'm sorry, Scout, for that. But I'm afraid the land is in peril and your freedom may be shortlived. Will you join us to rid this world of the Dark Wizards?

Scout: *smirks* Try and stop me.

Space_Orca

10-25-1999, 11:18 AM

-Merlin, you described me correctly. Orca is humanoid, but is also somewhat whale like. He has less flexibility of his legs because he has no knees but this does not himder him.-
*Orca rides up on a horse, approaching the castle. He approaches the gate.*
Orca: I must speak to Merlin!
Gaurd(Eyes Orca suspiciously): Who are you?
Orca: I am one of Merlin's party, Space Orca.
Gaurd: Very well. Procede in.
*Gaurd continues to watch Orca suspiciously*
*Orca arrives in the great hall*
Orca: Merlin. I heard you were under attack. I came to assist, but there is nothing out there any more. Not even the bodies that follow a battle.
Merlin: The attackers were illusions created by the Dark Wizard Kricha.
Orca: Then why did I sense a living presence of evil?
Merlin: That I do not know.
Orca: I have a hunch. I will be back shortly.
*Orca walks out of the room and approaches the gates once again*
Gaurd: Merlin kick you out?
Orca(Filled with an

Space_Orca

10-27-1999, 08:04 PM

*Orca stands at the top of a large ledge, looking down on the country side below. He takes one last look, then slips out something he found in the castle as he left. Opening the small book, it reveals itself to be a book of magic. Orca flips the pages until he find the spell he wants*
Orca: Novac, Havacino, Ponoia, Stygian Capital, Bacatu!
*Orca rematerializes in the Stygian capital. He find himself right next to Flaming Demon.*
Flaming Demon: Orca, I remember you.
Orca: So do I. What's going on here?
Flaming Demon: I'm leading a little uprising against Bazaal's rule.
Orca: The Vetrecitys?
Flaming Demon: We'll just have to deal with them.
*Flaming Demon, Orca, and the rest of the troops march out onto the road. A Vetrecity is approaching.*
Flaming Demon: Troops, fall back! Don't let them near you!
Vetrecity: You'll never get away!
Orca: Doubtful.
*Orca floods all of his happy memories into a single thought, and directs it at the Vetrecity.*
Vetrecity: AHHHHHHHHHHH!
*The Vetrecity disappears in a cloud of fire. In his place, hundreds of firey little creatures wink into existance.*
Fiery Creature: We are the Devopt. Goodbye.
*Blasts of fire strike out in all directions. Hundreds of Flaming Demon's men fall*
Orca: Not so fast!
*Orca draws his lightsaber and goes charging, ducking all the fire bolts. He starts bashing at the Devopt*
Orca: Eat that! And that!
*As Orca is distracting the Devopt the not-so-bright little beings don't realize they are slowly falling as Flaming Demon's troops pick them off with water arrows*
Flaming Demon: Orca, pull back!
Orca: Not *Slices a Devopt in half* yet!
Flaming Demon: Orca, NOW!
*As Orca starts to pull back, the fire creatures wink out again. Orca breathes a sigh of relief*
Orca: That was close.
*Then Orca sees someone striding down the street.*
Orca: Heisa!
Heisa: Ah, yes Orca. I thought we would meet again.
*Heisa and Orca simoltaniously draw their swords. Heisa's is a magic fire-sword that can not be destroyed by a lightsaber.*
Orca: En gaurde!
*Orca charges forward and attacks, Heisa parrys, and a furious swordfight begins*

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Space_Orca

10-27-1999, 08:08 PM

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! At least to me it seems like half our posts from page 6 and page 5 were deleted! HELP!

Dragonfly

10-27-1999, 09:21 PM

it wasn;t just you! ahhhhhhhhhhh no! great moderators and admins please fix! Orca, shoudl i take this to the discussion board?

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-Dragonfly
Webmaster of JKBTGExtras (http://www.massassi.net/extras)
"Four legs good, two legs better!"

Merlin

10-27-1999, 11:51 PM

Good Heavens! Bazaal has destroyed page six in an attempt to keep us from completing the tale! Where is that blasted spell book. Oh, great! The message board won't let me type in Runes. Great! Just great! Hmmmm. . . maybe if I. . .

< |-| /\/\ |X|

No! That's no good. That doesn't look like proper Runes at all. Well I can't do anything so Threedee or Brian L. can you do anything to fix this.

Ping_Me

10-28-1999, 08:02 PM

*Ping_Me somersaults into the room through an open window.*

"Allright! Who's the guy whose responsible for all this??"

*charges in waving energy sword. Accidentally slips on bananna peel an somersaults quite UN-intentionally out an opposing window*

"Nevermmmiiiiiiiinnnnnnddddddddd........!!!!!!!!!!"

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When driving on the highway,
The guy you pass on your right, is an idiot
The guy who passes you on your left, is a maniac

Gebohq

10-28-1999, 08:20 PM

*Gebohq blinks, dazed by a strange sense of deja vu. He thought he had done things after the grand festivities, but he couldn't rememberd them. He looks at the other party members, dumbfounded like him. Gebohq then wondered what he was doing standing in a field of undead. All this thinking made him hungary, so he ate a nearby bannana and threw away the peel. He walks away to find more food when behind him Ping_Me slips on the bannana peel he had just dropped.*

Dragonfly

10-28-1999, 08:47 PM

OH no!!!!!!! i think the evil wizrads have brought us back in time! oh noo!!!! I hope everyone remembers what happened!

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-Dragonfly
Webmaster of JKBTGExtras (http://www.massassi.net/extras)
"Four legs good, two legs better!"

Gebohq

10-28-1999, 09:43 PM

I do, but I don't think everyone got to see the pic you posted dragonfly(I did though, it was a bit fuzzier than I thought, gues that's what I get when I make the file smaller). But I hadn't seen the updated Gebohq pic when you posted the other up. You did get it right?(it was not that much different, but it was different enough to be signifigant). Sum up what's not here: undead army attacks celebration of the marriage between the knight and the princess(right?), we fight, its a deception and is to lure us away from the exploding kamakazie dragons that was sent to each major city. Did we want to set off for the Dark Towers now? And Merlin: if you could describe any of the locations mentioned in the story (dark towers, Merlin's citadel...)in extreme detail(like to technical detailex.the second floor is layed out from left to right yadda-yadda...)so I can try drawing them(I'm a lot better with setting drawing than people drawings). I wonder how the story did dissapear...

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"The difference between insanity and genius is sucess."

])}Gebohq{([

Ping_Me

10-28-1999, 10:42 PM

I seem to recall somthing about Dark Riders, Undead warriors and two evil girls on horseback.

Buuuuuuuttt, I could be wrong.

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When driving on the highway,
The guy you pass on your right, is an idiot
The guy who passes you on your left, is a maniac

Merlin

10-28-1999, 10:44 PM

You want the lay out the Merlin's citadel? There is a large central room that is circular. In the center of that room is a large basin which holds a large fire that warms and illuminates the room. Around the circle of the basin is a ring of gold inset into the floor, it has a latin inscription on it. The room has dark granite walls that stretch upward into the darkness. About the room is scattered various comfortable couches and chairs. To the front of the room is a large archway that leads to the large ledge, where Balthazar often lands. From the ledge (at least in the story I'm writing) their is a gentle sloping ledge that leads all the way down to the forest floor. If you faced the ledge while still in the large circular room where the fire is, to your right would be the alchemy lab, behind you the library, to your left a wooden door.

The alchemy lab has several stone shelves and a large wooden table in the center. Upon the table and shelves are various beakers, powders, potions, and artifacts.

The Library is a vast hall stretching a huge distance. Lined on either side are book shelves filled with books of lore. The bookshelves are 10 levels high. There is also a ladder to reach the higher books. At the far end of the hall near the ceiling is a large stained glass window which sunlight pours through filling the room with colors of yellow, red, and blue.

The wooden door to the right is locked and can be opened only by me (Merlin). Beyond it is a spiral stair case leading deeper into the mountian. The stair case ends in a circular room made of gray rock. In one corner rests a staff. In the center of the room there is a raised area, octagonal carvings on the floor go outward from the raised part of the floor, upon the raised part of the floor stads a podium. Upon the podium rest a book. The book is a powerful book of magic that Merlin rarely needs to use. The book is written in Runes. (A languge only a few people can translate, Merlin one of them).

Merlin

10-28-1999, 10:44 PM

Disreagard this, it was an accidental doubble post.

[This message has been edited by Merlin (edited October 29, 1999).]

bug

10-28-1999, 11:49 PM

you're wrong merlin. Completely wrong. The main room is a half circle, with the fireplace in the middle of the flat wall. Walking in the main entrance you face the flat wall with the fireplace. To the right is the arch, and ledge where (Balzalth. Baahazla. MR DRAGON) lands. The library is through an open doorway to the left and forward. To your left is a big wooden door into the basement. Forward and right leads to a hallway. going down the hallway is the lab, and you can follow it to a stairway that goes up.

stairs
| |_____
| lab |
____ | |_____|
/ ** \| |
library |
| ledge
door ] |
==== ====

** = fireplace

bug

10-28-1999, 11:51 PM

arrrrrgggg!!!!!! my beautiful picture! ruined http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif sob, *blows nose* why did it have to do that?

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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- Yogi Berra?

Merlin

10-29-1999, 01:56 AM

Hey everbody (especially Dragonfly) I've added "City in the Clouds" chapter (Chapter 6) to the tale. Come and take a look! Go to:

http://members.xoom.com/jedi_merlin/legend/legend1.htm

This link will lead you directly to the story itself.

Space_Orca

10-29-1999, 04:04 PM

BASIC SUMMARY: We are attacked by a bunch of Dark Riders that are just an illusion. But it is also a distraction so big dragons can explode in all the major capitals. Heavy damage inflicted. Then Orca arrives at castle to find out REAL undead are advancing on it. We fight them and eventually win. Then, Orca, realizing so many people have died because of the evil dragons, swears revenge and charges off to the Stygian capital to help the Stygians.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Ping_Me

10-29-1999, 06:27 PM

Has anybody e-mailed Brian about this? or even Three-Dee?

Gebohq

10-29-1999, 06:56 PM

I won't be able to reply to any posts until Sunday night, just so you know.

Jkior

10-30-1999, 05:55 AM

Betcha I know what happened.

An evil infiltrator futilly attempted to gain admin priviledges, made a mistake, and deleted part of this tread.

By the way, anybody know what OS Massassi runs on?

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Jkior...the ultimate joker!
http://free.prohosting.com/~jkior/index.html
The only editing group with one member and a sense of humor.

Dirtbag

10-31-1999, 01:44 PM

Hello dead story, how are you?

Jkior

10-31-1999, 07:13 PM

You answered yer own question.

Duh.

Gebohq

10-31-1999, 08:22 PM

It's not a dead story. We all just need a breather(at least I did) because we've been writing non-stop on this story. Not to mention that having someone erase the 6th page of our story dampered things a bit. I'm actually assuming that Merlin wanted the party to start moving to the Dark Towers now, but I wasn't sure. Hey Merlin, give us some info!

Gebohq

11-01-1999, 09:05 PM

Where are you Merlin!

Ping_Me

11-02-1999, 06:04 PM

I contacted Brian about the problem, but I don't believe that there is anything he can do.

bug

11-02-1999, 09:15 PM

ok, Im done breathing now...

When this story last left off I believe I was at the castle after the battle.
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Bug is standing outside the castle in the battle grounds talking to merlin.

Merlin: "You see the dark wizard set all this up as a diversion. His main battle plan..."

Suddenly bug blacks out. What seems like a few seconds later he wakes up and picks himself up off the ground. Looking around, and trying to remember where he is he notices that everyone else has been subject to the same effect.

Bug: "wWhat just happened?"

Merlin: "I fear the dark wizard has cast an evil spell over all of us. We may have been unconsious for a long time Im afraid."

Bug: "You mean we've been lying here for hours?!!"

Merlin: "judging by the look and smell of those corpses out on the battlefield, I'd say about a week. or longer"

Bug: "ugggggg.. that takes away your appitite. well, maybe just a little. I don't know about you merlin, but after going for a week without eating I could probably eat one of those corpses."

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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- Yogi Berra?

Ping_Me

11-03-1999, 08:05 PM

Well guys, I talked with Brian and he said that there weren't any stray messages in the forums. I guess that means that the posts are gone, eliminated, and kaput. Also I got an e-mail from Merlin saying that he had to wipe his hard drive and in the process lost his modem! So he won't be online much. Seem this thread is ill fated. But let's not get discouraged! This has been a great story! Lat's keep goin kids!

Gebohq

11-04-1999, 07:42 PM

Well Ping_Me, if you could start it off again, I'm sure I can pick it up again(writing). And Merlin feared of being controllitive of this story, yet I think we all really needed him to help guide us in writing. If only I could think of a good way to pick up on the story again, I would write tons more.

Ping_Me

11-04-1999, 10:21 PM

---You're absolutly right!!! Here we go!!---

King (What-is-this-guy's-name-anyway?) looked over the battle field. He couldn't feel sorry for the loss of his men. There was no time for that. The wind blew chill from the high window he looked out from. Soldiers and peasant's alike milled about below tending to the dead and disposing of the bones. An entire separate group had been formed to dispose of the undead. Many feared a curse mmight be laid on those who handled them, those that did handle them were paid well...

It was time to put aside the this and his daughter's wedding for the very important business that now faced him, his kindom and the rest of the kindoms in the world. He solemnly turned to the page who was waiting on him.

"Summon Merlin and Company and my War Council to the main hall." the page bowed and headed off. The king snapped his fingers and servants appeared with a golden suit of armor.

*From my ancestors time this suit has been worn in the most dire times. I pray to God that it will serve us in our time of need.* He thought to himself.

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Ji'tory wept. Sobbs wracking her body. She had had a long time to think on the events that took place between herself and the man she thought she loved, and who she thought loved her back. She was beginning to wan't to take back what she had said. Her words were spoken in haste and in anger. But not just anger at Ping but anger at herself. She knew that Ping told the truth when he had spoken to her, her world had suddenly fallen apart and the only thing she could do is strike out at some one to make herself feel better.

Did her world fall apart? Or did it come together? When he said that he never meant any romantic innuendo, she knew it for truth and berated herself for not seeing it before. Everything had come together -painfully-.

She soon realized that she was huddled in a ball in a corner of a wine cellar. The corner was dirty, even a little slimy. There was no light. But her elven eyes could see much better in the dark than any human could. The room was small, only contaiing herself and three large wooden barrels, quite possibly filled with wine.

She sat upright and drew her knees up to her chest. She laid her arms on her knees, then her chin on her arms. She was unaware of the passage of time there and had not known about the battles that had been fought outside. Had she known she wouldn't have cared if the world had come to an end, even if she had front row seats for it. Time passed slowly and her tears lessened. She still felt very empty inside.

She heard footsteps in the hall accompanied by a small light that she could see through the crack that separated the door and the stone floor. The latch on the door lifted and it creaked open, light spilled into the room. Her eyes stung at the sight of a single candle and a hooded man carrying that candle. He brought the candle before him so that she could see him face.

Merlin smiled at her, really the only thing he could do. Ji'tory looked at him and then at the floor again. Somtimes words aren't needed to have a conversation. The silence that filled to room spoke of her guilt and her sorrow. Merlin simle faded to a knowing look. He had heard everything from Ping_me. Except for where to find her. That hadn't been too hard. Still sitting on the ground she turned her head to look at Merlin.

"What can I do now?" She spoke barely above a whisper. Her voice was cracking due to hours of crying.

Merlin set the candle upon one of the casks of wine in the room and crouched down next to her. "There is only healing now." He looked at her like a long lost daughter. "When you've fallen so far that there is nowhere left to fall, that is when healing begins." Her took her by the hand and brought her to her feet. "That will come in time. We have a world to heal now. You are key to that healing. In time you will see that." He started to exit the room. "The king has summoned us all to a war council in the main hall."

He turned to notice that she was not following. She held her head in her hands. "I can't face him." She nearly sobbed.

Coming back to her, "Ji'tory you have to. This pain will only eat you from the inside if you continue to let it go." She looked at him and nodded. Reluctantly she followed him up the long stairs into the main part of the castle.

Ping_Me

11-04-1999, 11:43 PM

PIng_Me absently fingered the wooden table in front of him. The BIG, LONG, wooden table. Excessivly long in fact. One could stretch out his arms at both sides and not touch the person next to him. The table was shaped much like a thermometer, in that it was rectangular at one end but was wide and circular at the other. The latter reseved for the king and his councilors. Ping sat one seat down from the bulbous, circular end. The seat to his left was vacant, reserved for Merlin. The seat across from him was also vacant, it was Ji'tory's. However to his right Dragonfly sat. Across from him Turneh (sp?) sat. Right to Dragonfly sat Gebohq and then Avenger, Orca, and Bug. Across from Gebhoq sat Dwin, Across from where Merlin would sit, sat Scout.

Everyone looked equally bored.

Suddenly the main hall doors opened revealing Merlin and Ji'tory. He directed her to her seat across from Ping. He himself strode to his proper seat. Ji'tory slowly sat down not looking at Ping. After a while she did. Ping could see her red eyes and tear streaked face. They held eack others gaze for a minute until they were interrupted by a fanfare of trumpets.

In front of the kings end of the table there were a great set of stairs. Long mostly. Pillars lined the top of them. One the back wall a pair of heavy, ornate wooden door slowly opened admitting the king and his advisors. Most of the advisors were clad in bule or purple cloaks. Under those thier fasions varied as to which land province they came from. They all took their respective seats. The kind himself walk ceremoniusly down the stairs in a heavy gold outfit of armor. He sat down on the throne that was placed for him at the head of the table. And then there was another fanfare of trumpets.

"I don't belieeeve this." Bug said in annoyance.

All attention was on the king and his attention was on everyone else. His gaze drifted across the assembly untill his eyes fell on Scout.

"I am not familiar with you. You were not among Merlins origional party when he arrived here."

One of the king's advisors rose. "Her name is Scout your highness. Her story is that she "dug" her way out from the cellar floor in one of the bottomost parts of the castle. Senty reports confirm that."

"Do you trust her Merlin?" the king said

"She fought one of the Dark Wizards on the battlefield, your majesty, nearly to the point of death, hadn't it been for Dragonfly. Yes, I trust her."

"Then I will trust her as well." the king said sagely, "Now Merlin you will explain your business here."

"But.. sire!" The advisor stuttered. "You can't know.."

The king waved his hand in dissmissal of the matter. "There is no time for discussion of this matter. If I begin to question to loyalty of all these warriors here present we will be here when the world falls on us." The advisor sat down meekly. "Please, Merlin, if you will..."

(Read the citadel post and pages 1-5 of this post if you have nothing better to do.)

"...and that's about it king." Bug and Avenger openly dozed. Even Ping_Me, who needs no sleep, started to nodd. Merlin rolled his eyes at the snoring. "I will hold a war council at my Citadel, and bring an ambassador from every race to this council. There we shall forge plans for the attack on the dwelling of the Dark Wizards."

"Then you will need an ambassador from my people then. I would come myself but I must remain here if there is another battle to be fought." He motioned to a servant. Who knelt beside him. The king spoke somthing inaudible and the servant rushed off. "I will therefore send my eldest son. He is very able-bodied and is good at tactics."

After a short while the servant returned followed by a big man. He was very broad in the shoulders and muscular. He face was rugged and he had raven dark hair. He wore very plain clothes, for a prince. A white shirt and brown pants. About his shoulders he wore a large red cloak fastened on one side by a golden brooch. He stood proudly next to his father.

"Reyuan shall be my ambassador to the council." the king said with finality.

The council broke up an hour later, after dicussing plans of war on the Dark Wizards.
Ping rose from his chair and found that Reyuan and speaking with Ji'tory. She was actually laughing with him and converseing freely! Ping looked at them and decided not to interfere. Merlin put a hand on Ping shoulder and said, "That would be the better thing for her." Ping tried not to show any surprise. It was weird the way Merlin knew thing somtimes. Merlin watched as Ping walked out of the hall.

Space_Orca

11-05-1999, 03:48 PM

Um, I couldn't be at the council meeting. I'm a LONG way away, in the Stygian capital, helping Flaming Demon.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Gebohq

11-05-1999, 07:06 PM

(wow! I'm feeling like a novice writer now because of Ping's great writing. In other words Ping, good job and keep it up! Now it is my turn to write...)

Avenger: "Ok, we're all set. Let's get going back to the monestary."

*The others patiently sit still at the table while Avenger runs out of the castle. Moments later, he comes back, with a confused look on his face.*

Avenger: "Merlin, where are the dragons to take us back?"

Merlin: "They are performing their ritual, a very important one that prepares them for a great battle. I am sorry, all of you, but we will have to walk back to the monestary.*

*Everybody groans at the thought of walking, they were all hoping to take a break.*

Merlin: "Well, we better be heading out. We can't waste any time, for we need all the time we can get."

*Merlin and his party then get up from their seats, collect their inventory needed, and head off for the monestary. It would be a tedious trek indeed.*
(I put this part in the story so if anyone would like to develop on their characters by probing into their minds, their thoughts, they could do so.)
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*The party trekked through the mountainous trail, heading for the monestary. The party walked in a semi-single file line, with Ping_me and the human ambasador named Reyeun in front, Merlin and Ji'tory following them, then Dragonfly, Avenger, Dwin, Bug, and the others. Trodding behind the group was Gebohq, leading the rear with his head down and his mind elsewhere. //There's a lot ahead to deal with. How am I going to fight these powerful Dark Wizards? How am I going to help? What am I talking about, I only get in the way. I should just stay out of the way, let them deal with it. It's not my problem, I could just go back and forget about it all. NO! If I do that, I'd become my own enemy. I got involved with this as soon as I came into the situation. I can't back out of this now. But what can I do? I wish I knew...//

[This message has been edited by Gebohq (edited November 06, 1999).]

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Gebohq

11-06-1999, 10:56 AM

(few notes on the story for Ping_Me. From what Merlin told me a long time ago, when the party is at Merlin's citadel, they hold the war coucil and decide on the plans. They also have Merlin and Dwin make the sword that is destined to defeat the Dark Wizard. I'm pretty sure the party has to hike through the Misty Mountains and the dead forest to the Dark Towers, where Merlin transporst the armys to fight the Dark Wizard's Army(I don't know how) and the party members fight the dark wizards. I don't know if he told you this, so I just made a note of it. Now back to the story)

*Deep within the Dark Towers, Bazaal the leader of the Dark Wizards, was holding a meeting with his other subservient wizards. They all stood around a dark pool of water embedded into the floor. The water reflected an image not of them, but of their enemy: Merlin and his party.*

Bazaal: "None of you have yet to stop Merlin and his party members. (looks at Cathar and Kircha)You had your chance to stop them and you failed."

Kircha: "So did your son."

*They look at the Dark Child, smiling at his father with a malignant innocence.*

Bazaal: "You are not to call my son a failure like yourselves. He did a better job than you did, he drove away a previous member of Merlin's part, Flamethrower they called him.(Bazaal smiled at his son approvingly, then back at the others) You all will do better to stop Merlin's party, or else. Dismissed."

*The dark wizards were leaving the room except his wife Jezaba and his son to assist Bazaal in the final battle.*

Bazaal: (to the dark wizards leaving) "You, come here. I must talk to you about our plans."

*The unidentified dark wizard, cloaked by the darkness of the room, came to Bazaal.*

Bazaal: "I have something special planned for Merlin's party. You will crush their will to fight along with their hope of winning."

*They continued to talk about the plans. The pool of water in the center continued to show Merlin's party trudging through the mountanous path. Bazaal looked into the reflection of them and laughed.*

(I will put in my Dark wizard, so please do not have teh unidentified wizard do anything, he is the wizard I plan to include. But I'll need to know if Ping will continue the story as Merlin planned it, going through teh misty mountains and all.)

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Ping_Me

11-06-1999, 11:54 AM

---Thanks, for telling me Orca. I wasn't really sure who was here and who wasn't. Yeah, Gebohq, I basically know the story like the back of my hand. http://198.92.131.6/html/smile.gif Merlin and I have milled over it time and again. But, I'm really afraid of everyone not having any imput or say in the story. Side note: Merlin wanted to stop back at the Monastary before we went to the citadel. So nobody jump ahead of me just yet.---

Merlin

11-06-1999, 12:00 PM

*I'm back! I can see Ping_me and Gebohq having been doing wonderfully in my breif absence. Thanks! Thank you also Gebohq for reminding everyone about what I said earlier, and yes I intend to continue the story with a journey on foot through the Misty Mountians and Dark Woods (which will take a while post wise).*

The party continued to walk through the woods. Ping_me and Merlin now are in a postion of the line so none of the rest of the party can hear them.

Ping_me (to Merlin): Merlin, have you ever known what it is to love a woman?

Merlin pauses.

Merlin: Yes. Once. I didn't tell this to everyone, but . . . if you remeber the young woman you saw in my memories, the one that was . . . corrupted, by Bazaal's shadow.

Ping_me (softly): Yes.

Merlin (his voice now breaks): She was to be my wife.

Merlin exhales raggedly.

Merlin (his voice now more under control, but he stares foward without looking): I heard he cry out my name as it happened. . . as she . . . writhed in pain, she begged me to kill her. . . I did in mercy. I have never loved another like that since.

Both walk silently for several minutes.

Merlin (now with a soft smile on his face): She always dreamed of having a daughter. I shared that dream too. That is why I care so much for Ji'tory. Even though she isn't really my daughter, I care for her like the daughter I never had. That is why it hurts me so much, what Bazaal did to her. Why I keep blaming myself.

Ping_me (softly): Merlin, you were asleep, you didn't know what was happening.

Merlin: But still, with all my power I should have been able to do something. . .

Ping_me: It isn't your fault.

Merlin: I just don't know. . .

Ping_me now looks foward to Ji'tory and Reyuan who are talking with each other. Merlin notices Ping_me watching Ji'tory.

Merlin: The begining of love. Strange isn't it Ping_me. How in losing you she finds another. Suffering leads at times to renewal. You and I have both lost our chance at that kind of love. You by incapablilty, I by loss. Let us pray theirs shines through.

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Merlin

11-06-1999, 12:26 PM

The party continued on soon night began to fall again and they approached the monestary they had stayed not more than a couple of days before. As they approached they heard a bell tolling.

Gebohq (to Merlin): The bells. What do they mean?

Merlin: Their funeral bells.

Everyone began to pick up their pace to see what had happened. As they now could see the gates they could see the procession emerging from the gates carrying a very ornamental casket.

Everyone in the party stopped in their tracks. Merlin fell to his knees. Ji'tory's hand went to her mouth as she saw the casket.

Avenger (looking at everyone else): I don't understand?

Reyuan: Only one man in a monestary has a casket that ornate. . . the abbot.

Ji'tory (whispered sadly): Johnathan.

Merlin stares up into the overcast heavens and cries out.

Merlin: Johnathan!

Thunder rumbles in the heavens. Suddenly the sky let loose with a down pour of rain. Merlin kneels there in the rain. Merlin's head falls to his chest covering his eyes with his hands. He weeps bitterly. Ji'tory kneels down next to him, putting her arm around him to comfort him as the heavens cry.

Gebohq

11-06-1999, 01:10 PM

Umm...whoops. I'll just change my previous post about going to the citadel to having them go to the monestary. And now that your back Merlin, expect an e-mail from me soon.

Ping_Me

11-06-1999, 01:37 PM

---alright! Nevermind, We got Merlin back, I was afraid we'd have lost him for a long time.---

Ping walked slowly by himself. They were crossing a large field of open grass. Off to their far right mountains rose up into the crystal blue sky. Due to the type of rock they seemed purple, capped with pure white snow. The land rolled on in front of them, dipping and rising again in a series of hills that stretched into the distance.

Ping noticed hardly any of it. There was a gloom about him as of late. He looked disconsolantly at the ground. Watching every mile go by. Stone by stone, pebble by pebble.
Time had no meaning and seemed to fly by. He was startled to notice a shadow on the ground next to him. He followed the shadow up to it's owner and saw Reyuan. He walked silently next to him. A fresh spring in his step.

Ping looked back behind him. Ji'tory walked some ways back talking to Dragonfly. Ping resumed his forward gaze at the ground, but noticed Reyuan looking at him. With a goofy grin on his face.

"She's really somthing isn't she? Beautiful, intelligent..." He trailed off expecting an answer.

Ping looked at him from out of the corner of his eye, "Yeah.. I guess.." He said non-commitally. He faded back into silence.

They walked on. Reyuan looked at him for awhile. Ping didn't return his look. "There's somthing going on between you two isn't there? Yes, I think so. Whenever she looks at you there is pain in her face. I haven't ever seen you two talk together since I met all of you. You didn't do somthing to hurt her did you?!?"

Ping continued to look at the ground. "Go ask her for yourself."

Reyuan frowned at Ping_Me and fell back to talk to Ji'tory. Ping continued to look at the ground for some amount of time. By this time the sun was beginning to dip to the horizon. The afternoon was turning golden. Truly like the song they seemed to walk in feilds of gold. After a while they exited the field for a stony forest. small boulders rose from the ground amid tall oaks. Their path began to slope upward. Ping never looked back for fear of maybe embarassing Ji'tory. Time passed and Ping knew that telling the story of what happened would be painful for her. It was painful for him. He wasn't totally devoid of emotion. His compassion level had been set very high in his creator's latter days as a "quick fix" to his shortcoming. But it was sort of like building a house with duct tape instead of nails. I just doesn't work.

The forest path leveled out. But the trees became more sparse -but not losing their height- and the boulders more numerous. Varying in hight and width, light-grey to white in color. The path ran on in front of them. Somtimes it had cart tracks on it, somtimes not. Somtimes it ran on rock, somtimes not. Evening approached. Reyuan returned.

Reyuan looked at Ping for a minute. "She's afraid you won't forgive her."

Now Ping was genuinely surprised, and unlike himself he showed it. "It against my nature not to forgive somone."

"Go tell her that for yourself." He said in direct relation to Ping's earlier words to him.

Ping stopped dead in his tracks and let the party pass. Bug seemed to be entertaining Avenger and Dragonfly, trying to play Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on a single blade of grass. Her started walking again as soon an Ji'tory approached. She looked at him in surprise and turned her head away.

Ping matched her pace. "It's okay, Ji'tory."

She jumped a little and looked at him out of the corner of her eye, her head slightly bowed. She then sighed heavily. "Thank you, Ping." They walked onward for sometime in silence. Not the silence that speaks. Just silence.

The boulder forest continued on.

"He's really somthing isn't he? Beautiful, intelligent..." She said.

If Ping was surprised before, he was even more so now. (hello anime face-fault ^_^).
"Uh, yeah..." He said.

//Seems she's healing just fine!// Ping thought to himself.

---Thanks all you guys for the compliments!! I got the warm fuzzies now http://198.92.131.6/html/smile.gif http://198.92.131.6/html/smile.gif http://198.92.131.6/html/smile.gif http://198.92.131.6/html/smile.gif )---

Ping_Me

11-06-1999, 01:42 PM

---whoops looks like I was gone a little long there. I thought we we're going to have some character development. Just read my post in context of before Merlins new one.--

Space_Orca

11-06-1999, 03:46 PM

[I'm just gonig to be at the Stygian capital until you come for me. Time to try to convince me to come with you...]
*Meanwhile, the Stygians are having celebrations as they have liberated their capital.*
Orca-Flaming Demon, you did well. But how can we expect to hold the city aganst futher attacks?
Flaming Demon-Its quite simple. I want you to defend the city. You proved yourself by holding off one of the Dark Wizards in a sword fight and even scoring a minor injury.
Orca-But I can't fight a horde of enemies!
Flaming Demon-Ah, but you can. Eveil can overcome other evil. While inside the Stygian Capital's limits you have no need to worry about the Dark Wizards taking your mind over. Use your "force" spells on the enemy!
Orca-If you say so... //I'm still a little nervous!//

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Shawn Templar

11-06-1999, 10:24 PM

Hey Merlin, I was wondering if you could write me into the story some how. I've been out of the loop cuz of computer failure and I wanted to play a more active role in the story but my comp screwed up on me and I had to go get it fixed. I would write myself in but wouldn't know where to start at this point in the story. Thx.

Gebohq

11-06-1999, 10:27 PM

2 things to Ping_Me:

1) I wanted to ask about the second question over e-mail when I realized you don't have it posted up with your member name! How am I suppose to contact you? Argh! If you want to keep it personal, just e-mail me, I promise not to spread it or anything(why would I want to anyway?)

2) I wanted to know how old you are. Mainly because if your older or the same age as me, I'd feel better about having a writer that writes better than me(and yes I am jealous http://198.92.131.6/html/smile.gif). Again, if you'd rather not disperse your age over the net, e-mail it to me. And for the rest of you, I'm 16 and plan to take a creative writing class next semester(so this is like brushing up on my writing skills!).
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And oh my god! It's Shawn Templer, risen from the dead! Hey shawn, last I remembered, you were practicing at Merlin's citadel for the big battle. Since our party will come back there before the final battle, you can join in there. But then we're left to wonder why Mr. Templer didn't come with Merlin's party to the human's area of the world. Hmm....

What will happen to our party in peril? What's in store for their future? If only I knew...

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Dirtbag

11-07-1999, 12:47 AM

As the mournful rain pours down on the funeral procession, Scout trails behind Merlin's company, able to tell that it is a sad occasion, but unable to connect with it directly.

"Such a sad tale, isn't it?" came a quiet voice from beside her. She looked down, and spotted a wet, mangy looking black rat.

Stopping in her tracks, Scout looks at the talking rat. "Who are you?"

Dirtbag points after the receding ressession. "They... they haven't told you about me? Really, I'm shocked. Probably no one outside their own party has had such an affect on the poor souls." He shook his head. "Ungrateful so-and-sos, but hey, that's life, y'know? In any event, you can call me Dirtbag. It's a term of endearment, really."

Scout nodded skeptically. "Right, whatever you say. Now what do you want?"

"Want?" Dirtbag said innocently. "I just want to mourn the poor abbot, just like all these other yahoos. Such a sad, sad thing, isn't it?"

"I suppose it is..."

"So you're new to Merlin's little party, eh?"

"That's right."

Dirtbag looked her over, focusing especially on the dull, chipped sword she'd been carrying around strapped to her back. "In the name of goodness and light," Dirtbag exclaimed. "They don't make you fight with that!"

Scout glanced at the swords hilt. "Well, it's worked all right so far..."

"My dear," Dirtbag said sternly, "That is no weapon for a warrior such as yourself." After reaching into his mouth, the rat, like a sword swallow yakking up his lunch, pulled out a sword that was entirely too long to fit inside of his body. "Take this one instead, I insist."

Scout took the sword tentatively. It gleamed in the filted sunlight showing through the rough storm clouds, the jewels on it's golden hilt sparkling. It was long and thin, designed for speed and movement instead of powerful whacking. "How did you do that?"

Dirtbag shrugged. "Hey, no ordinary rat can talk, right?"

Scout managed a smirk. "Thanks."

"No problem. Hey, I'll let you get back to your party. You need bonding and all that good stuff."

Scout looked at the little rodent. "What about you? Why don't you join us?"

"Eh, it's not my thing. I'm sort of a loner with a big heart, y'know? Don't worry, I'll be around. But hey, let's just keep this to yourself, all right? I can't be lobbing schimitars at every poor schmoe in Merlin's army, now can I?" And with that, Dirtbag scampered off into the shadowy woods.

Scout gave her new sword another look, it's sparkle reflecting in her dark eyes. She hurried to catch up with the rest of the procession.

Space_Orca

11-07-1999, 06:45 AM

*Meanwhile, in Bazaal's tower, Bazaal orders his whole second and third armies to assault the Stygian Capital*
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Two days later....

Orca- Hey, Flaming Demon, look at that!
Flaming Demon-What?
Orca-Those black specks in the distance that are gettign bigger... Can you get me my telescope?
*Flaming Demon runs off and returns a minute later with Orca's telescope.*
Orca-Never mind, they're closing fast enough anyway! Those are death knights, probably the prelude to a full-scale assault on us!
Flaming Demon-I shall rally our armies and station by the gates.
Orca-NO! Equip almost all of your troops with lnog range weapons such as bows or throwing spears. Have them hide in buildings. It looks like we're going to have to wage a guerilla war.
Flaming Demon-You want me to use my magic powers to transform you all into guerillas? That just dosn't make sense!
Orca-No! Never mind, okay? Guerilla war means sniping at the enemy, never fighting a decisive engagement.
Flaming Demon-Oh, all right. I'll get the troops and position them.
Orca-Good.
Flaming Demon-But what about you? Aren't you coming?
Orca-No.
Flaming Demon-What in hecks name are you going to do then?
Orca-Play some little tricks on them... You'll see. Just get me control of the gates and everything else around here. Thats key!
Flaming Demon-Here you go then! *Hands Orca a control device*
Orca-Thanks. Now go get the troops under cover!
*Meanwhile, as this is happening, the armies of darkness have almost reached the gates. Flaming Demon's troops hide themselves as instructed, and Orca places some homemade explosives in key places, getting ready.*

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Ping_Me

11-07-1999, 08:46 AM

---I e-mailed ya Gebohq. I never put up my e-mail adress cos somebody might decide to start spamming me or somthing. I know Massassi doesn't give out that info but I just like to be safe.

Welcome back Shawn.

I just want to clear up somthing here. Who and where is the Merfolk ambassador? I know the Goblin ambassador is at the Citadel. Is there anybody else waiting there besides Shawn?---

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Highway psycology:
The guy you pass on your right, is an idiot
The guy who passes you on your left, is a maniac

Shawn Templar

11-07-1999, 09:48 AM

well my comp was screwing up on me and i had to get it fixed so i wasn't able to write anything. oh well, guess i missed all of the action.
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*Shawn sits on one of the balconys of the citidal, he closes his eyes and begins to concentrate. with much effort, shawn is lifted off of the ground and leveates a few feet above it. He opens his eyes and falls hard on the ground below.*

Shawn - ouch, well, I won't try that again. wonder when Merlin and his party will be getting back. oh well, guess I'll rest up a bit before i head out for some fun.

*shawn walks toward his room passing the goblin and merfolk ambassador. he gets to his room and lies his sword next to the bed and layes down, shawn soon falls asleep.*

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*meanwhile back the Dark Wizards tower. The Dark wizard looks over the situation.*

dark wizard - hmmmm, there are only three people at Merlins citidal. Shawn Templar, what strange powers do you hold. Powers that i have not seen in this realm. You would make an excellent addition to my army.

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*shawn wakes up in a feild of grass somewhere deep in the forests near Merlins Citidal.*

Shawn - What?! how did i get here. Last thing i remember is going to sleep in Merlins Citidal.

*he hears something behind him. Shawn snaps around to see what it is and draws his sword. he looks around to see what it is when he realises for the first time that there is blood on his sword.*

Shawn - Huh, How did blood get on my sword. This is too strange,

Strange voice - Shawn do you really think that you would be the only one untouched by my power. You have done all of my work for me, as you sleep, you kill your friends in this realm.

Shawn - You Lie! I did no such thing.

Strange voice - See for your self.

*with that said, a strange mist appears and forms into a circle, in the circle shawn sees Merlin and company all dead, slain by himself.*

Shawn - This didn't happen, its not true. I could never do this to them.

*Shawn drops his sword and falls to his knees holding his head in pain form the vision that he just saw.*

Shawn - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Strange voice - hahahahahahaa. You see shawn, you are the evil one that they feared. you slayed all of them for me.

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I can become enraged like Vegeta, if i smile, run...................very fast.

Space_Orca

11-07-1999, 03:08 PM

The Merfolk ambassador is with Merlin, she's the only one who knows where I went.

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-Space Orca
Space Orca's best qoutes:
"The Force is strong in you. The force of my lightsaber coming down!"
"A planet of pokemon? Don't bomb it from orbit. A few might survive. Get the Death Star in here!"
"Hmmmm... It looks like my Lightsaber needs a little repair work. Know of any lightsaber repair shops in town?"
"Luke Skywalker drew his lightsaber... and turned it in to the art teacher"
"Pokemon is spelled S-T-U-P-I-D!"
If you have any more funny quotes, just send them to me.

Space_Orca

11-07-1999, 03:08 PM

Merlin

11-07-1999, 03:17 PM

Welcome back Shawn. As for the Merfolk Ambassador Afarassa is with Merlin's party, I just never used the character cause (I have lots of characters as it is).
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(start music from Battle with Magus from Nintedo's Chrono trigger)

Meanwhile a human scout traveling in the Northern Woods.

Jason (to himself): I wonder what fire burned all these trees. Surely if a fire big enough to burn all of this would have been seen miles away.

Suddenly there is a dark shadows in the mist ahead. A band of skeletal soldiers wraped in black cloth around their bodies. Some wear armor. They march out of the mist. They all carry their swords ready for battle. They march in lock step, looking unseeingly with their hollow eye sockets. Their bones clack together in unison as if the march of boots. They seem not to notice Jason at first. In fact they march around him. It is almost as if they are ignoring him. Now he is in the center of the crowd a skeletons.

Suddenly they stop. Then they all in unison turn their heads to face him (some turning their heads all the way around backward to stare at him with their hollow eyes).

They just stand there for a minute . . . looking at him.

Suddenly a skeletal hand pull his sword from his hand. Then another grabs him by his hair. And another grabing him by his leg. Another by his left arm. Another his right arm. They crowd him now. Sourrounding him. They tear at his clothes and skin. He screams out in the mist, but the only answer are his own echos.

Jason: NOOO!

They hoist him over their shoulders and carry him into the mist toward Bazaal's castle.

(Magus theme end)

Hours later he awakens. He is laying on the floor. With two skeletal guards at either side. The room has some very heavy oak doors at its entrance. There is a lower level with a table to one side, from here is a short stair case (8 steps) up to a second level at the top of the stairs stands man. He is gaunt wearing black clothing and a black cloak, he wears black boots that come nearly to his knees and black gloves. He has sharp features and dark eyes. He stands at the top of the stairs looking down onto Jason.

Bazaal: I see you were scouting out my lands little man.

Jason remains silent.

Bazaal: But I can sense your anger. You want to challenge me. Very well. GUARDS LEAVE US!

The skeletal guards turn and leave in lockstep march. Bazaal remains at the top of the stairs.

Jason stands up and draws his sword. Suddenly he bolts for the door. But Bazaal with a gesture of his hand, and the door seal themselves. They are too heavy for Jason to move.

Bazaal: Come. You wanted your chance to kill me. I am unarmed.

Bazaal smiled coldly. Suddenly Jason turned and charged toward the stairs.

Suddenly Bazaal's form became like a dark formless shadow. It moved with blinding speed toward Jason.

The only thing Jason experinced was a dark shadow in front of him and something cold on his throat. The shadow reformed into Bazaal. Bazaal's hand was grasping Jason by the throat. Bazaal wore a dark expression of anger. Bazaal gripped tighter. Jason could feel the blood pulse through his neck. Bazaal now lifted him physically several feet off the floor. Jason dropped his sword as his hands went to Bazaal's hand. Jason was gasping for air.

Bazaal: You are a very foolish scout. Now I make sure you never be any help to anyone as a scout again.

Bazaal withdrew a blade from his belt. . . .

A few minutes later the skeletal guard toss Jason outside the castle gates. He crawls slowly unseeingly into the woods. Unseeingly for Bazaal had taken away his eyes.

[This message has been edited by Merlin (edited November 07, 1999).]

Ping_Me

11-07-1999, 03:24 PM

---I love Chrono Trigger! ^_^---

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Highway psycology:
The guy you pass on your right, is an idiot
The guy who passes you on your left, is a maniac

Gebohq

11-07-1999, 06:49 PM

(Me too! Actually, its the only RPG I've ever gotten into. And Merlin, I'm gonna have nightmares now because of that description of the scout with no eyes http://198.92.131.6/html/smile.gif. And I wonder why Dirtbag was so nice as to give Scout that sword, hmm.....)

Shawn Templar

11-07-1999, 09:14 PM

*Shawn staggers out of the forest, he is devastated from what he had done, what he had become. He keeps walking and spots a stream, he walks to the stream to wash the blood off of his sword and hands. He heads to the nearest town. The sun starts to go down and shawn puts on his short cloak. He enters the town and hears a scream, he runs to the direction of the scream and sees the men standing around a girl. He walks in there direction.*

Man 1 - Your insurance is due, time to pay up.

girl - I don't have the money yet. give me a few more days and i can give it to you.

Man 2 - Sorry, but we don't accept late payments. one way or another, we will be paid.

*The man begins to reach for her when he hears a voice.*

Shawn - Leave her be.

man 2 - says who.

shawn - I say so(I'll try to make up for what i did to my friends). Leave her alone, she doesn't have to pay you creatins anything.

man 3 - Say what?!! Your dead, come here and die at the end of my blade.

*the three men draw there weapons and shawn does the same. the first man charges at shawn and shawn jumps over the guy and kicks him in his back, knocking him on his face. The second man starts to swing at shawn, shawn starts to dodge and block his attacks and then jumps back just in time to miss the third mans attack. the first man gets up and grabs the girl, he heads off out of town. Shawn seeing this starts to head for him but is stopped by the other two guys. Shawn runs toward the guy toward his right and throws his sword at him, the guy caught shawns sword and a kick to the stomach, he goes down and shawn sweeps around and is hit in the head by the handle of the other guys battle axe.*

*shawn is brought into the woods along with the girl, the three men tie shawn up in a tree upside down over a small pond. the girl is tied to the base of the tree. Shawn wakes up.*

shawn - uhhh, man, what happened?

Man 1 - well well well, its awake. allow me to introduce our selves, i'm Matt, this one here is John and the one that knocked you out is Chadwin. So, who are you?

Shawn - my name is left for my friends, but you can call me death.

chadwin - cocky, hehe, he'll die slow and struggleing.

john - incase you haven't guessed were gonna drown you. then we'll pull your body from the water and stab you with your own sword.

shawn - how nice you guys are. Not only do i get to take another bath today, your gonna give me my sword back.

girl - Leave him alone and i'll......do what ever you want.

matt - shut up, you'll do that anyway. we just have to make sure this guy here don't interfere. Chadwin, cut the rope.

Chadwin - hehehe, with pleasure.

*chadwin cuts the rope and shawn is submerged into the water below. shawn starts to struggle but can't seem to break the ropes.*

Shawn - (Ohh great, what have I gotten myself into this time.)

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note: don't rescue me, i'll get myself out of this on my own.
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I can become enraged like Vegeta, if i smile, run...................very fast.

[This message has been edited by Shawn Templar (edited November 07, 1999).]

bug

11-08-1999, 12:58 AM

The rain pours down on merlin's party. Walking near the end of the funeral procession, bug picks up the faint smell of a rat. Pulling out his rail detonater from under his cloak, bug looks around through the rain. Dirtbag is nowhere in sight, however, upon putting the rail detonater back under his cloak bug is surprised to see Scout sporting a new sword.

Bug: "Wow! that's a nice blade. Where did you get that?"

Scout: "Oh, um. I got it back at the castle."

Bug gives scout a sideways glance

Bug: "You didn't steal it did you?"

Scout: "Of course not! It was given to me."

Bug: "So, some stranger just walked up to you and gave you a sword worth a year's taxes."

Scout: (trying to yell under a hushed voice) "I DIDN'T STEAL IT!"

Bug: "sure you didn't... can you wait here, I have to go talk to Merlin about something."

Scout: (in a hushed voice) "ok, ok, Ill tell you who gave it to me! Just promise not to tell anyone"

Bug cracks a little smile

Bug: "ok, I promise"

Scout: "He didn't want everyone to know that he gave me this sword, he was afraid everyone else would be asking for one then."

Bug: "Doesn't bother me, I've always got my rail det. So who was it?"

Scout: "Um, it was a talking black rat. He said his name was dirtbag"

Bug: "DIRTBAG!!! You were talking to Dirtbag?!! That filthy creature has caused us more trouble than all the dark wizards put together. He even bit part of my ear off.

Scout: "Really? he seemed like a nice rat to me. He was very polite, he seemed concerned about everyone. Maybe you just got off on the wrong foot?

Bug hold his head and groans.

Bug: "You don't know dirtbag. He is tricky, manupilative, and almost evil. I hope you know he killed one of the monks at the monastery when he escaped."

Scout: "He killed a monk?! I don't believe that! and what do you mean by 'escaped'? you mean to say that you were holding him captive?"

Bug: "Well, actually I wasn't really there at the time, but Merlin told me about it after I got back to the castle. Merl was holding dirtbag captive because he was too compasionate to kill him like he sould have. Dirtbag holds a grudge against our whole party. If he gave you that sword then you can be sure there is something wrong with it. There could be a curse on it or anything. Im telling you, you should get rid of that sword as soon as you can."

Scout: "Im not getting rid of this sword. I don't know why you all have such a bad opinion of dirtbag, but I have met him and he is not as bad as you say."

Bug: "Maybe you hold him in a high opinion, but you just don't know what he is really like. If you don't mind, I'd like to discuss this matter with Merlin."

Scout: "Oh, no you don't! You'll blab about this to everyone in the party. You promised to keep this a secret. I'll talk to merlin by myself, AFTER the funeral. I don't want everyone here knowing where I got my new sword."

Scout points the sword at bug

Scout "And if anyone does find out, you had better hope you are a fast runner"

(The king is going to be hunting us down, looking for whoever stole his sword. Isn't he?)

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Good pitching can always stop good hitting and vice versa.
- Yogi Berra?

[This message has been edited by bug (edited November 08, 1999).]

[This message has been edited by bug (edited November 08, 1999).]

Gebohq

11-08-1999, 02:24 PM

Hey bug, I think Dirtbag wrote the sceen with him and Scout so that her sword could fail at a crutial moment. Now that bug(and shortly the party I'm sure)know about where she got it, why would she use it knowing that the sword has some bad conotation? And besides, in Dirtbag's sceen, Dirtbag tells Scout to keep it a secret. Why would she then tell bug? Just pointing this things out early, and I'd expect everyone else to do the same if I made a similar mistake.

Dragonfly

11-08-1999, 05:13 PM

--I thougth i posted this eralier......if I did .......forgive me..
MErlin:NIce to see you back!
Gebohq:Those pics you sent me will be up as soon as the hosted sites here are finally completely moved on to the new server.....--

Turneh reached the Beuto capital that afternoon...........He arrived to see dead bodies and smashed buildings all over the city.........Dead bodies standing still in there death screams.......a few Beuto scampered around...........collecting the bodies of families and friends....They were all hurt and the city was in ruins......Turnhe let out a long scream.

He ran to the government building...........he had hoped to find the city council alive.........but with the large hole on the wall, he doubtled it....
Upon entering the council room........Turneh saw the dead bodies of the High Council laying......all that was left was their skeletons and loose pieces of skin.........Turneh walked up to the council' dead bodies........and looked

Turneh:These people were recently killed......hmmmm..........*....then realizing what had ahppened...*.YOU BAST*&^! How could you bring yourself to do this?

With that he dropped to let out his tears on the scroched carpet.........then the doors suddenly closed tight....

Turneh:what the?!?!?!?!?

IN walked Kricha, followed by several knights of the dark who followed BAzaal

Kricha:ahahahaha HOw could we? what a nice phrase! I would allow you to go.........but your SON killed my love! Now you must both DIE! *recieving impulse, looks up* YEs BAzaal..........i shall take him prisoner........he is a good use for us......i shall have my revenge later....*looks back at Turneh* Come with me old man! YOu are going to Bazaal's castle!

Turneh:NO way!

Kricha:THen you leave me no choice.....

The two fight a long fight........each fighting their hardest..but Kricha lands a horrid blow to Kricha stomach knocking him unconscious.

Kricha:Guards! Tie him up and take him to the Dark Dragon! I will be there in an instant..

Guards:yes sir!

The guards tie up Turneh and strap him to a dragon........and thus Turneh's trip into The Drak Wizard's lair began......
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Back in the raining forest............DRagonfly sensed something had happened.........but could not utterly grasp it.............a sad feeling settled in his stomach....

--OH and MErlin, me first RPG was Final Fantasy 7! that game was awesome! Me now playing Final Fantasy 5! yay!--