Yo, I know in the last entry I said I found out Gezora is alive (and that I was working on a project over Spring Break, but that is still ongoing because I overestimated my meager abilities as I so often do), but I messaged our ol' mod and got a response!
I won't reproduce it in full since it ain't pivotal bar info or something, but the user is ok and thriving. He has some cool job with insects that takes up like, half of every month with field work. That's why he stopped hanging around, work! He says he will try to drop by this year when he isn't working, so that will be nice!
His opinion on the rp explosion: He seems to be overwhelmed. The multiple characters, dramas, and romance all kinda surprised him, its probably just the sheer change in procedure that threw him off, but whatever, I can only speculate!
He said an assistant bartender might be helpful since the user Gezora has business to do sometimes, and that was pretty much my boiled down version of the PM.
I responded to the pm and told him some stuff, like how we are going to try and renovate the bar's topic structure next year, that the lack of a mod was felt sometimes and that I was a bit of the de facto RP mod (because I would feel dirty not telling him :/) , and how Walter was an assistant bartender and Gezora was still serving drinks and reffing. I also said we miss him mucho mucho and would love to even just see him a bit again.
This message is kinda old (from pretty soon after my last blog) but my "big plans" have distracted me from telling you how our ol' barsquid is doing!
Other junk on the agenda: JRM is going through story stuff during this break between zoofights so I can do some plot/character things next year. I have a few "theme-exempt" ideas and then back-ups with ideas if certain themes do pop up, but right now Im just thinking Major Failure will come up with something out of left field and throw me for a loop if I commit mentally to a theme idea.
Now, back to the shadows, where I shall continue to be dazzled by ya'll's writing and try to think of funny things to say afterwards.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
The Silver Age
A newspaper is slammed on the desk.
SLAM!
"Curse that brother of mine! The Lord of the Night and his Fearsome Four's crimes have constantly made headlines while my misdeeds never even make it on the front page! 'LORD OF THE NIGHT'S FLOOD FOILED!' 'LORD OF THE NIGHT'S MURDEROUS MACHINE MASHED!' I'm tired of living in the Lord of the Night's shadow! Soon, the world will know to fear the name Dylan!"
Meanwhile, at the King of Beasts Malt Shop...
Gezora, The Amazing Squid, polishes empty glasses after a good day of serving its clientele. Returning to its store room to prepare the next day's batch of special malt drinks. However, upon opening the store room's door, it finds it empty!
The Amazing Squid rushes quickly to its office and lifts the head of its Major Failure bust, revealing a secret button. Pressing the button, the Amazing Squid sends out a distress call to...
The Dawn Soldiers!
Deep in the Everglades, a transceiver begins to beep! Emerging from the foliage is the Giant Mantis! Once an ordinary mantis, a group of super scientists performed genetic experiments on her, increasing her strength and size to heroic proportions! And thus, The Giant Mantis was born! Using her "Mantis Sense", she can sense opportunities no other mortal could ever perceive! The Giant Mantis receives her communicator's message and takes off to rejoin her fellow Soldiers.
Meanwhile, another transceiver beeps in Celestia Labs. Roused from his work on robotic advancements, a certain doctor makes sure to sneak away from his fellow scientists to answer its call. For beneath the labcoat and glasses hid a hero! The robotic wind master, Air Man! Once a human named Victor Zephyrus, he was caught up in a robotics experiment to simulate the power of mother nature's wind. Luckily, the accident spared the young doctor and turned him into a blue robot with the power to manipulate the winds! Shedding his civilian clothes, Air Man rode a tornado towards the King of Beasts.
Teenage janitor Alex Triden was busy at work when the beep of a transceiver alerted him to trouble. Alex, a humble janitor working at his own high school, once happened upon a Crystal while seeking adventure in a nearby cave. A god of fortune had blessed the crystal with the powers of the Earth, and when the young Janitor picked it up, it granted him the ability to transform into the Earth Knight simply by activating his special gem. Alex snuck away and activated the crystal, rushing to meet up with his fellow heroes in time!
"I'll buy it for 100 dollars!" "100? That's not even a fourth of what I paid for it!" A street merchant argued with his customer over the price of a small object, but when it started glimmering with a distress signal, the merchant sheepishly rushed off. Hiding in an alley, the merchant removed his human mask to reveal a strange goat-like man, but quickly put on his superhero costume. For you see, this was The Saberwolf, a man mutated by gamma rays from an exploded atom bomb and turned into a superhuman mutant! The Saberwolf quickly hopped onto his Sabercycle to meet up with the others.
Deep in meditation, Nicholas Water levitates within a waterfall. Dressed in the garb of the Purple Ninja Clan, he is shielded from its powerful pounding force due to his amazing ability to control water. By tapping into his inner chi, he was able to calmly manipulate the water around him, creating beautiful rainbows and streamers of water. However, the sudden beeping of technology pulled him out of his ancient art, crashing into the pond below, Rain grumbles as he checks the transceiver and quickly swims away to his friends when he realizes he is needed.
The last two members of the group were the ones no one would ever suspect of superheroics. Billionaire couple Amanda Jones and Eran Silverman were busy laughing as they wined and dined at a high-class restaurant. However, the call of duty was the greatest in these two. The moment they heard the beeping, the quickly left the restaurant and suited up. Amanda was an ex-marine chosen by her superiors to be a new kind of soldier. Fitted with super armor and flamethrowers, she became the Fire Bat! Her long time boyfriend came from a similar background, a marine who had fought hard, but in his darkest hour, he was rescued by the Night Hunter, who gave him super powers and claws made of lightning. Joining his girlfriend in combat as the Lightning Claw, the two ran at top speed to the Malt Shop.
With the Dawn Soldiers assembled at the Malt Shop, their quirky companion form an alternate dimension appeared! Jumpy the ghost popped in with a big grin.
"Hello Dum Dums! Looks like the dawning of a new adventure!"
After a quick laugh with their silly sidekick, they quickly got the low down on the situation from the Amazing Squid.
"It must have been the Lord of the Night! Only he could have done something so dastardly!" stated the Earth Knight.
"Nay! He is locked up tightly in Friend Computer Asylum." exclaimed Rain.
"Wait! My Mantis Sense is tingling! He seems to have left a clue!" Giant Mantis observed.
The team lifted a note, with a manifesto written in dark ink!
"Don't think you can stop me!
You all should give up hope!
Look high and low,
And you won't find me!
Now you will all know my power!"
The group briefly considered the puzzling conundrum.
"Who could it be?" pondered Air Man.
"Maybe the Warrior Poet?" chimed in Jumpy.
"Wait! Look at the letters! Each sentence starts with a different letter!" the Earth Knight notices.
"Dylan! That dastardly brother of the deliverer of darkness himself!" Lightning Claw states.
"Quickly! We must track him down and foil his nefarious scheme!" Fire Bat says, running off to the lair.
"But we'll never get there in time! Unless..." The Saberwolf whistles, and in a split second a giant dragon descends from the sky!
"Hop on!" Draco the Super-Dragon shouts. The Soldiers board the dragon and fly off to Dylan's headquarters, the Second Banana Shipping Company.
Our heroes land at the doors of the warehouse, bidding farewell to the friendly dragon who carried them there. Opening the warehouse doors, they all gasp in shock! Dylan is standing on a high platform, tinkering with the controls to a doomsday device!
"Ah, the Dawn Soldiers, so good of you all to come!" Dylan turned to the heroes, and quickly, Giant Mantis's mantis senses alert her to an opportunity!
"While he tells you his plan, I'll try to sneak up behind him!" Giant Mantis scurries off as Dylan continues goading our heroes.
"You see, my brother always tried to destroy the world, but he always did it the wrong way! I knew the Amazing Squid's special malt drinks had chemicals that, when mixed together, would created a gas so powerful that the whole world will become intensely thirsty! When they drink, they will drink up their entire water supply, leaving humanity without any water and collapsing from thirst!"
"Your scheme will never succeed Dylan!" Air Man shouts.
"Ah, but I knew you would try to destroy my gas ray the minute you showed up, so I have made sure you will not want to break it! Behold!"
Switching on a spotlight, Dylan reveals that there are people tied to machine! Sarah, girlfriend of Earth Knight and daughter of famed robotic expert Celestia; Sine Cosine, Air Man's on-again off-again love interest who has never returned his feelings... yet; and Stella, the wife of the purple ninja and a high ranking public speaker! With these three lovely ladies tied to the weapon, how could our heroes possibly stop Dylan?
"And that is not all!" continued the archfiend, "While my brother had a Fearsome Four, I have rounded up a Furious Five!"
From out of the shadows step five foes familiar to our band of heroes!
"The Closet Monster!" Air Man said.
"Jeff, The Painted Man!" exclaimed Fire Bat.
"The Technological Magician!" shouted Lightning Claw.
"Sister Alice, The Black Nun!" The Earth Knight screamed.
"The Servitor!" Rain finished.
The villains surrounded the Dawn Soldiers, getting closer and closer to our heroes! Will the Dawn Soldiers be able to stop Dylan's nefarious plot? Can they defeat the Furious Five? Where is Giant Mantis? Will the girls be saved in time?
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As the villains closed in, Dylan prepped his gas ray to fire the chemicals across the globe. What he didn't notice was a gigantic insect lurking in the shadows. As Giant Mantis tried to sneak up on the dreadful Dylan, the rest of the Dawn Soldiers were closed in on by the Furious Five. With a burst of power, our heroes set into motion!
Air Man charged towards the hulking brown mass that is the Closet Monster. Firing a large tornado, Air Man tried to blow the beast away, but its feet seemed to be firmly planted in the ground. It chuckled, and then from its mouth shot out a snake-like tongue. The tongue snapped at Air Man, who dodged it nimbly, but even a robot could not keep out of its reach for long.
Meanwhile, Fire Bat tried to melt the Painted Man with her flamethrowers, but the unique composition of his body allowed him to dodge the flames like he was made of fluid! Flames roared all around him, but the Painted Man quickly closed in on her and began to drench her suit in his vile liquid body. The paint began to turn the bright red armor of Fire Bat into goo!
Lightning Claw saw his girlfriend in trouble, but he was quickly interrupted by the wily Technological Magician. He had clashed with the Magician before, but the distractions gave the villain an edge. With a wave of his metal wand, the Technological Wizard caused Lightning Claw's signature weapon to malfunction. Lightning bounced all around Claw, and the hero was forced to dodge his own weapon as the Magician laughed maniacally.
The Black Nun was a ruthless woman, but the Earth Knight was keeping her at bay. Her sharp fingernails clashed with the Earth Knight's blade, neither one of them gaining any ground. That was until the knight used his earth powers to fire the ground at her. However, the Black Nun quickly shattered the stones with a single blow! A sly grin appeared on her face as she glowed black and charged forward, forcing the Earth Knight to the ground. The Nun slashed constantly at him, her claws blocked only barely by the struggling teenage hero.
The mechanical monstrosity called the Servitor extended its many metal tentacles at the watery ninja Rain, whose water abilities allowed him to weave through them with ease. Rain tried his best to break the machines tough exterior, but the Servitor's tough armor was just too hard to crack! Servitor quickly sent out an electric shock, stunning the water based ninja due to the conductive properties of water!
Seeing his teammates getting trounced, The Saberwolf decided to try and attack the problem at its source. Leaping up to Dylan, The Saberwolf began to swap blows with the archfiend. Dylan laughed as he easily blocked the assault, but he managed to start a countdown timer, 1 minute until the gas was released!!!
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Things were looking bleak for our heroes, but out of the darkness emerged the Giant Mantis! With a quick swipe of her massive claws, she severed the ropes binding the girls to the doom machine. The girls climbed up onto the insect's back as it began to tear away the paneling of the gas ray.
Back on the ground, the Closet Monster's assault met with an unexpected surprise! As Air Man was dodging the snake-like tongue, he managed to position himself just so, causing the tongue to careen into the giant fan the robot had in his chest. Before it could retract, Air Man began to spin his chest fan. The Closet Monster was unable to free itself, and soon it was spinning in the air! Air Man stopped the turning blades and let his foe loose, tossing him into a wall and knocking the Closet Monster unconscious.
"What's wrong? Feeling a little tongue-tied?" Air Man chuckled.
As the Painted Man began to sink into her quickly liquefying armor, Fire Bat thought of a perfect plan. Instead of trying to hit the supervillain with her flamethrowers, she turned the weapons on her own metal suit! The suit quickly heated up, causing the Painted Man's liquid form to boil! The villain slid off her armor, and she quickly contained the liquid fiend in a glass jar.
"Things getting too hot for you, Painted Man?" Fire Bat asked.
As the electricity from his claws danced a dangerous dance around him, Lightning Claw tried to get his bearings. The Technological Magician was beginning to animate nearby appliances to go in and defeat the hero, and Claw needed to think fast. Realizing he was unable to control the path of the electricity, Lightning Claw thought quickly of electricity's properties. Seeing the metal wand of the Technological Magician, Lightning Claw navigated himself toward the Magician. Lightning took its natural course and struck the metal wand like it was a lightning rod, knocking out the Technological Wizard and undoing his magical spells.
"Hope you didn't find that too shocking!" boasted the Lightning Claw.
With the Black Nun about to slash at his face, Earth Knight desperately tried to find a way to free himself. Calling upon the power of his Crystal once more, he used a slab of stone to knock the old woman off of him. Getting up before she could, he quickly formed two slabs of dirt around her powerful claws, effectively handcuffing the criminal. As she tried desperately to free her hands, the Earth Knight fused his sword with the stone in the ground and lashed forward, knocking out the old evil nun.
"Did I just rock your world?" laughed the Earth Knight.
As the other foes fell, Servitor still stood strong. The machine did not seem to be harmed at all, but Rain seemed to be exhausted from its electrical assault. The tentacles seized the ninja and pulled him in toward the body, where a gaping maw opened up. Rain smiled, having set up the situation just for this opportunity. Turning into liquid, Rain flowed out of the machine's tentacles and into its mouth, where he began to flow through the wiring, destroying any and all wires he could! Rain flowed back out of the body and reformed into a human from his watery shape. Servitor quickly short circuited and shut down from the internal assault.
"You are all washed up Servitor!" Rain exclaimed.
Giant Mantis's claws had finally broken into the interior of the gas ray. As the countdown reached the last few seconds, she had to deliberate on which wire to cut. Luckily, her mantis sense quickly told her to cut all the wires, and as the countdown hit 1 second left, the mantis's claws disabled the doomsday device.
Hearing his minions fall and his machine being destroyed distracted Dylan. The Saberwolf delivered a strong series of blows and then swept out a leg, tripping the villain and sending him over the railing. The Saberwolf reached out and grabbed Dylan's foot, leaving him suspended over the vat of chemicals that powered the gas ray. Dylan sputtered, "Don't drop me!"
"Don't worry Dylan, the only place you will be dropped is into a cell in Friend Computer Asylum!" The Saberwolf taunted.
As the police arrived to apprehend Dylan and his minions, the girls were reunited with their heroes. As the group embraced and celebrated a job well done, that old jokester Jumpy chimed in, "Hey guys, look at the paper!" Jumpy produced a newspaper, showing them the front page. "DEADLY DYLAN'S DASTARDLY DOOMSDAY DEVICE DESTROYED!" "Looks like he finally made the front page! I bet he would really get a gas out of that!" The whole gang laughed as their most exciting adventure yet comes to a close.
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Join us next week, when the Dawn Soldiers face their greatest foe yet! How will our brave heroes be able to stop Jaxx, the Invincible Man!?!?!
With a special guest appearance by prominent radio personality Randy Avalon! Make sure you don't miss it!
SLAM!
"Curse that brother of mine! The Lord of the Night and his Fearsome Four's crimes have constantly made headlines while my misdeeds never even make it on the front page! 'LORD OF THE NIGHT'S FLOOD FOILED!' 'LORD OF THE NIGHT'S MURDEROUS MACHINE MASHED!' I'm tired of living in the Lord of the Night's shadow! Soon, the world will know to fear the name Dylan!"
Meanwhile, at the King of Beasts Malt Shop...
Gezora, The Amazing Squid, polishes empty glasses after a good day of serving its clientele. Returning to its store room to prepare the next day's batch of special malt drinks. However, upon opening the store room's door, it finds it empty!
The Amazing Squid rushes quickly to its office and lifts the head of its Major Failure bust, revealing a secret button. Pressing the button, the Amazing Squid sends out a distress call to...
The Dawn Soldiers!
Deep in the Everglades, a transceiver begins to beep! Emerging from the foliage is the Giant Mantis! Once an ordinary mantis, a group of super scientists performed genetic experiments on her, increasing her strength and size to heroic proportions! And thus, The Giant Mantis was born! Using her "Mantis Sense", she can sense opportunities no other mortal could ever perceive! The Giant Mantis receives her communicator's message and takes off to rejoin her fellow Soldiers.
Meanwhile, another transceiver beeps in Celestia Labs. Roused from his work on robotic advancements, a certain doctor makes sure to sneak away from his fellow scientists to answer its call. For beneath the labcoat and glasses hid a hero! The robotic wind master, Air Man! Once a human named Victor Zephyrus, he was caught up in a robotics experiment to simulate the power of mother nature's wind. Luckily, the accident spared the young doctor and turned him into a blue robot with the power to manipulate the winds! Shedding his civilian clothes, Air Man rode a tornado towards the King of Beasts.
Teenage janitor Alex Triden was busy at work when the beep of a transceiver alerted him to trouble. Alex, a humble janitor working at his own high school, once happened upon a Crystal while seeking adventure in a nearby cave. A god of fortune had blessed the crystal with the powers of the Earth, and when the young Janitor picked it up, it granted him the ability to transform into the Earth Knight simply by activating his special gem. Alex snuck away and activated the crystal, rushing to meet up with his fellow heroes in time!
"I'll buy it for 100 dollars!" "100? That's not even a fourth of what I paid for it!" A street merchant argued with his customer over the price of a small object, but when it started glimmering with a distress signal, the merchant sheepishly rushed off. Hiding in an alley, the merchant removed his human mask to reveal a strange goat-like man, but quickly put on his superhero costume. For you see, this was The Saberwolf, a man mutated by gamma rays from an exploded atom bomb and turned into a superhuman mutant! The Saberwolf quickly hopped onto his Sabercycle to meet up with the others.
Deep in meditation, Nicholas Water levitates within a waterfall. Dressed in the garb of the Purple Ninja Clan, he is shielded from its powerful pounding force due to his amazing ability to control water. By tapping into his inner chi, he was able to calmly manipulate the water around him, creating beautiful rainbows and streamers of water. However, the sudden beeping of technology pulled him out of his ancient art, crashing into the pond below, Rain grumbles as he checks the transceiver and quickly swims away to his friends when he realizes he is needed.
The last two members of the group were the ones no one would ever suspect of superheroics. Billionaire couple Amanda Jones and Eran Silverman were busy laughing as they wined and dined at a high-class restaurant. However, the call of duty was the greatest in these two. The moment they heard the beeping, the quickly left the restaurant and suited up. Amanda was an ex-marine chosen by her superiors to be a new kind of soldier. Fitted with super armor and flamethrowers, she became the Fire Bat! Her long time boyfriend came from a similar background, a marine who had fought hard, but in his darkest hour, he was rescued by the Night Hunter, who gave him super powers and claws made of lightning. Joining his girlfriend in combat as the Lightning Claw, the two ran at top speed to the Malt Shop.
With the Dawn Soldiers assembled at the Malt Shop, their quirky companion form an alternate dimension appeared! Jumpy the ghost popped in with a big grin.
"Hello Dum Dums! Looks like the dawning of a new adventure!"
After a quick laugh with their silly sidekick, they quickly got the low down on the situation from the Amazing Squid.
"It must have been the Lord of the Night! Only he could have done something so dastardly!" stated the Earth Knight.
"Nay! He is locked up tightly in Friend Computer Asylum." exclaimed Rain.
"Wait! My Mantis Sense is tingling! He seems to have left a clue!" Giant Mantis observed.
The team lifted a note, with a manifesto written in dark ink!
"Don't think you can stop me!
You all should give up hope!
Look high and low,
And you won't find me!
Now you will all know my power!"
The group briefly considered the puzzling conundrum.
"Who could it be?" pondered Air Man.
"Maybe the Warrior Poet?" chimed in Jumpy.
"Wait! Look at the letters! Each sentence starts with a different letter!" the Earth Knight notices.
"Dylan! That dastardly brother of the deliverer of darkness himself!" Lightning Claw states.
"Quickly! We must track him down and foil his nefarious scheme!" Fire Bat says, running off to the lair.
"But we'll never get there in time! Unless..." The Saberwolf whistles, and in a split second a giant dragon descends from the sky!
"Hop on!" Draco the Super-Dragon shouts. The Soldiers board the dragon and fly off to Dylan's headquarters, the Second Banana Shipping Company.
Our heroes land at the doors of the warehouse, bidding farewell to the friendly dragon who carried them there. Opening the warehouse doors, they all gasp in shock! Dylan is standing on a high platform, tinkering with the controls to a doomsday device!
"Ah, the Dawn Soldiers, so good of you all to come!" Dylan turned to the heroes, and quickly, Giant Mantis's mantis senses alert her to an opportunity!
"While he tells you his plan, I'll try to sneak up behind him!" Giant Mantis scurries off as Dylan continues goading our heroes.
"You see, my brother always tried to destroy the world, but he always did it the wrong way! I knew the Amazing Squid's special malt drinks had chemicals that, when mixed together, would created a gas so powerful that the whole world will become intensely thirsty! When they drink, they will drink up their entire water supply, leaving humanity without any water and collapsing from thirst!"
"Your scheme will never succeed Dylan!" Air Man shouts.
"Ah, but I knew you would try to destroy my gas ray the minute you showed up, so I have made sure you will not want to break it! Behold!"
Switching on a spotlight, Dylan reveals that there are people tied to machine! Sarah, girlfriend of Earth Knight and daughter of famed robotic expert Celestia; Sine Cosine, Air Man's on-again off-again love interest who has never returned his feelings... yet; and Stella, the wife of the purple ninja and a high ranking public speaker! With these three lovely ladies tied to the weapon, how could our heroes possibly stop Dylan?
"And that is not all!" continued the archfiend, "While my brother had a Fearsome Four, I have rounded up a Furious Five!"
From out of the shadows step five foes familiar to our band of heroes!
"The Closet Monster!" Air Man said.
"Jeff, The Painted Man!" exclaimed Fire Bat.
"The Technological Magician!" shouted Lightning Claw.
"Sister Alice, The Black Nun!" The Earth Knight screamed.
"The Servitor!" Rain finished.
The villains surrounded the Dawn Soldiers, getting closer and closer to our heroes! Will the Dawn Soldiers be able to stop Dylan's nefarious plot? Can they defeat the Furious Five? Where is Giant Mantis? Will the girls be saved in time?
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As the villains closed in, Dylan prepped his gas ray to fire the chemicals across the globe. What he didn't notice was a gigantic insect lurking in the shadows. As Giant Mantis tried to sneak up on the dreadful Dylan, the rest of the Dawn Soldiers were closed in on by the Furious Five. With a burst of power, our heroes set into motion!
Air Man charged towards the hulking brown mass that is the Closet Monster. Firing a large tornado, Air Man tried to blow the beast away, but its feet seemed to be firmly planted in the ground. It chuckled, and then from its mouth shot out a snake-like tongue. The tongue snapped at Air Man, who dodged it nimbly, but even a robot could not keep out of its reach for long.
Meanwhile, Fire Bat tried to melt the Painted Man with her flamethrowers, but the unique composition of his body allowed him to dodge the flames like he was made of fluid! Flames roared all around him, but the Painted Man quickly closed in on her and began to drench her suit in his vile liquid body. The paint began to turn the bright red armor of Fire Bat into goo!
Lightning Claw saw his girlfriend in trouble, but he was quickly interrupted by the wily Technological Magician. He had clashed with the Magician before, but the distractions gave the villain an edge. With a wave of his metal wand, the Technological Wizard caused Lightning Claw's signature weapon to malfunction. Lightning bounced all around Claw, and the hero was forced to dodge his own weapon as the Magician laughed maniacally.
The Black Nun was a ruthless woman, but the Earth Knight was keeping her at bay. Her sharp fingernails clashed with the Earth Knight's blade, neither one of them gaining any ground. That was until the knight used his earth powers to fire the ground at her. However, the Black Nun quickly shattered the stones with a single blow! A sly grin appeared on her face as she glowed black and charged forward, forcing the Earth Knight to the ground. The Nun slashed constantly at him, her claws blocked only barely by the struggling teenage hero.
The mechanical monstrosity called the Servitor extended its many metal tentacles at the watery ninja Rain, whose water abilities allowed him to weave through them with ease. Rain tried his best to break the machines tough exterior, but the Servitor's tough armor was just too hard to crack! Servitor quickly sent out an electric shock, stunning the water based ninja due to the conductive properties of water!
Seeing his teammates getting trounced, The Saberwolf decided to try and attack the problem at its source. Leaping up to Dylan, The Saberwolf began to swap blows with the archfiend. Dylan laughed as he easily blocked the assault, but he managed to start a countdown timer, 1 minute until the gas was released!!!
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Things were looking bleak for our heroes, but out of the darkness emerged the Giant Mantis! With a quick swipe of her massive claws, she severed the ropes binding the girls to the doom machine. The girls climbed up onto the insect's back as it began to tear away the paneling of the gas ray.
Back on the ground, the Closet Monster's assault met with an unexpected surprise! As Air Man was dodging the snake-like tongue, he managed to position himself just so, causing the tongue to careen into the giant fan the robot had in his chest. Before it could retract, Air Man began to spin his chest fan. The Closet Monster was unable to free itself, and soon it was spinning in the air! Air Man stopped the turning blades and let his foe loose, tossing him into a wall and knocking the Closet Monster unconscious.
"What's wrong? Feeling a little tongue-tied?" Air Man chuckled.
As the Painted Man began to sink into her quickly liquefying armor, Fire Bat thought of a perfect plan. Instead of trying to hit the supervillain with her flamethrowers, she turned the weapons on her own metal suit! The suit quickly heated up, causing the Painted Man's liquid form to boil! The villain slid off her armor, and she quickly contained the liquid fiend in a glass jar.
"Things getting too hot for you, Painted Man?" Fire Bat asked.
As the electricity from his claws danced a dangerous dance around him, Lightning Claw tried to get his bearings. The Technological Magician was beginning to animate nearby appliances to go in and defeat the hero, and Claw needed to think fast. Realizing he was unable to control the path of the electricity, Lightning Claw thought quickly of electricity's properties. Seeing the metal wand of the Technological Magician, Lightning Claw navigated himself toward the Magician. Lightning took its natural course and struck the metal wand like it was a lightning rod, knocking out the Technological Wizard and undoing his magical spells.
"Hope you didn't find that too shocking!" boasted the Lightning Claw.
With the Black Nun about to slash at his face, Earth Knight desperately tried to find a way to free himself. Calling upon the power of his Crystal once more, he used a slab of stone to knock the old woman off of him. Getting up before she could, he quickly formed two slabs of dirt around her powerful claws, effectively handcuffing the criminal. As she tried desperately to free her hands, the Earth Knight fused his sword with the stone in the ground and lashed forward, knocking out the old evil nun.
"Did I just rock your world?" laughed the Earth Knight.
As the other foes fell, Servitor still stood strong. The machine did not seem to be harmed at all, but Rain seemed to be exhausted from its electrical assault. The tentacles seized the ninja and pulled him in toward the body, where a gaping maw opened up. Rain smiled, having set up the situation just for this opportunity. Turning into liquid, Rain flowed out of the machine's tentacles and into its mouth, where he began to flow through the wiring, destroying any and all wires he could! Rain flowed back out of the body and reformed into a human from his watery shape. Servitor quickly short circuited and shut down from the internal assault.
"You are all washed up Servitor!" Rain exclaimed.
Giant Mantis's claws had finally broken into the interior of the gas ray. As the countdown reached the last few seconds, she had to deliberate on which wire to cut. Luckily, her mantis sense quickly told her to cut all the wires, and as the countdown hit 1 second left, the mantis's claws disabled the doomsday device.
Hearing his minions fall and his machine being destroyed distracted Dylan. The Saberwolf delivered a strong series of blows and then swept out a leg, tripping the villain and sending him over the railing. The Saberwolf reached out and grabbed Dylan's foot, leaving him suspended over the vat of chemicals that powered the gas ray. Dylan sputtered, "Don't drop me!"
"Don't worry Dylan, the only place you will be dropped is into a cell in Friend Computer Asylum!" The Saberwolf taunted.
As the police arrived to apprehend Dylan and his minions, the girls were reunited with their heroes. As the group embraced and celebrated a job well done, that old jokester Jumpy chimed in, "Hey guys, look at the paper!" Jumpy produced a newspaper, showing them the front page. "DEADLY DYLAN'S DASTARDLY DOOMSDAY DEVICE DESTROYED!" "Looks like he finally made the front page! I bet he would really get a gas out of that!" The whole gang laughed as their most exciting adventure yet comes to a close.
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Join us next week, when the Dawn Soldiers face their greatest foe yet! How will our brave heroes be able to stop Jaxx, the Invincible Man!?!?!
With a special guest appearance by prominent radio personality Randy Avalon! Make sure you don't miss it!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Ashes to ashes, then into the goddamn sun
Getting a bit nostalgic for the BBB, I checked it out and realized that Designate pretty much devastated Saberwulf, turning him to ashes. The whole "blasting him with a sun" idea was one of the first things I came up with for the final battle of the year between Designate and Saberwulf, but it seems very appropriate that someone who got burnt to ash would want to one up it in the most epic way possible.
One thing also on my mind lately is going through the bar and finding moments worthy of drawing to practice my style on. There are just so many things worth drawing and things I don't think I could properly capture. I need to work on backgrounds too
Also: What style would you call Zoofights in general? A comic? Illustrated story? Trying to sell the idea to a friend of mine, seeing if I can wrap him up in the forums for next year >:D
One thing also on my mind lately is going through the bar and finding moments worthy of drawing to practice my style on. There are just so many things worth drawing and things I don't think I could properly capture. I need to work on backgrounds too
Also: What style would you call Zoofights in general? A comic? Illustrated story? Trying to sell the idea to a friend of mine, seeing if I can wrap him up in the forums for next year >:D
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
City of Beasts Pt.2: Tapogres
When you live in a city full of murderous machines, mutants, monsters, marines, and mafiosos, beer is a high commodity. People would do anything to briefly forget the terrible world around them, and alcohol provided that comfort to those who could get their hand on it. The bar squid's drinks provided brief sustenance, but as the recipes and ingredients were exhausted, people became desperate for a drink. Even the hardest rivals were willing to briefly work together if it meant that they would be able to get their hands on the scarce amber liquid.
Unfortunately for a young naive Tapogre, this booze trade made him incredibly valuable. Yquem, a young tapogre with wine for blood, was prized for his high class flavor and constant ability to supply it. Although only subpar amounts could be extracted at a time, the refractory period was short enough to warrant a highly monitored trade on the tapogre himself.
Yquem was at first tortured to provide his precious lifeblood, but after a while he learned that his lot in life was to provide the gangs of the city with their juice. Yquem was currently in the hands of the Triden gang, and the red liquid provided their beverages the air of class they futilely tried to imitate. However, the Family had dipped into their mass of riches in order to acquire the wine fountain that is the young tapir. Their penchant for Italian ways often hurt their finances, but they had enough to warrant purchasing the closest thing they could get to the wine of the Old Country.
In transport, the Triden family's goons actively harassed the poor Tapogre, trying to get a few last spurts of wine from his bottle-arms. However, their dilly-dallying proved to be their downfall. A bullet sailed through the air and took down one thug, and as the others fumbled with their weapons to try and fire on the unseen sharpshooter, they were all picked off. Yquem stood alone in the street, and as the sniper loaded another bullet to take down the Tapogre too, a familiar nuisance blocked his view. A shower of flyers were sprayed all over the streets obscuring his aim and allowing the Tapogre to escape. The sniper aimed his gun and fired at the sky, trying to hit the one who had dropped the flyers for Yahoo.com.
Yquem stumbled through the city, running the only place he knew he could hide.Far off he could hear the rumblings of two titans fighting in the street, and his fear for his life made him lose his way. It wasn't until nightfall that the Tapogre was able to locate the path to his destination, the only safehouse for Tapogres in the City of Beasts: The Church of Tapogrepogo.
In concept, the City of Beasts was a perfect place for the violent race of tapir-ogre mutants. However, they quickly realized they were outmatched, and even though they wandered the streets still, they knew their lives could end for any reason at any second. The city was ruthless, and they lacked the wits to match their brawn. Tapogres died left and right, and few were able to get the food they needed to survive. That's where the church came in. Unknown to most other denizens of the city, the church was a safe place where Tapogres could sleep for the night and find allies for hunts for human flesh. Pornogres provided them outlets for their carnal desires, and the priests were always encouraging them to have hope.
Yquem approached the church in the dark, and noticed the first of many defense mechanisms. It was simple, meant to inspire fear and teach possible intruders of their fate. Bodies hung from street lamps and makeshift pikes. Some were humans, while others were Tapogres themselves. Dissenters, moles, and spies were ratted out and killed. One looked familiar to Yquem. It was Seo, an old Tapogre acquitance who had told him about the church. However, Seo had been augmented with some sort of machinery, and he must have been executed for suspicion of being a spy for the machines.
As he got closer, he found a short tunnel tipped with razors that led to the church's entrance. Tapogres had many things to fear in the city, but no one was feared more among the race than a certain Tapogre that had taken it upon himself to rig their bodies with phishing lines that allowed him to control their every move. The tunnel was meant to sever any lines that were hooked into a Tapogre or that tried to infiltrate the church's interior. The Tapogres had no idea if it worked, but they attributed the lack of infiltration so far as a sign of its effectiveness.
Yquem had almost reached the door when he was startled by a sudden snarling. The church's last line defense sat by the door in a wooden house. The creature growled at Yquem, but it did not lunge forward. Its uncanny sense of smell allowed it to differentiate between real and fake Tapogres, and its razor sharp teeth made quick work of anyone foolish enough to try to impersonate the mutant tapirs.
Yquem struggled with his bottled hands to grasp the door handles, but when he got it open, he was treated to a sight. Tapogres sat all over the church. all preparing for sleep. A few were busy preparing a few murdered men for a late dinner, and at the altar a few were even praying. On the altar sat a rotting head of a Tapogre, believed to belong to the fabled Tapogrepogo the church had been named after. It was believed by the priests that a unity among Tapogres could lead to the resurrection of the Fallen Saviour. The priests often had little to back up the validity of Tapogrepogo's supposed strength, but when the last Tapogre prophet had lost his life for the cause, few questioned its validity anymore.
On a crucifix above the congregation sat the Fallen Prophet. Although he never claimed to be a Messiah for the Fallen Saviour, the priests were quick to label him one. The humble foreman had sought unity in the city between not only Tapogres but the many races. Unfortunately, his upbeat attitude was his downfall. There was no room for heroes in a city of villains. However, his martyrdom led to the developing unity of the Tapogres, and at least his memory gave them hope for tomorrow.
One of the priests approached Yquem and welcomed him. Yquem had never seen the priests and never had heard them described either, so he was very startled to find they were a trio of cats made of custard. The cat guided him over to an area where other Tapogres sat, some seeming as fresh to the church as he was. One of them had four arms, and was busy picking at the remains of what seemed like golden armor. It was clear he had been mugged, and although he was quite muscular, the wake-up call about his strength must have drove him to the church.
Another kitten tended to the wounds he had received while in transit to the Family while the other went off to perform some other business. The last priest was preparing to give the last sermon of the night before lights-out. This cat looked different than the others. It was obvious he had been through some sort of trauma, and it was later revealed to be have been caused by a bad deal with a jewel fencer over an ark for carrying the Fallen Saviour's head around in. The priest was rather flat and cracked, apparently saved only by flash freezing. His sermons were often punctuated with stuttering, gulping, and a hacking cough, but his ability to inspire the Tapogres was the greatest of the three.
As Yquem went to sleep that night in a cot he had to share with a young Tapogress with pigtails, he finally felt content. His life here had been rough, but after living through all the brutality, he was finally able to find a place he could call home.
Unfortunately for a young naive Tapogre, this booze trade made him incredibly valuable. Yquem, a young tapogre with wine for blood, was prized for his high class flavor and constant ability to supply it. Although only subpar amounts could be extracted at a time, the refractory period was short enough to warrant a highly monitored trade on the tapogre himself.
Yquem was at first tortured to provide his precious lifeblood, but after a while he learned that his lot in life was to provide the gangs of the city with their juice. Yquem was currently in the hands of the Triden gang, and the red liquid provided their beverages the air of class they futilely tried to imitate. However, the Family had dipped into their mass of riches in order to acquire the wine fountain that is the young tapir. Their penchant for Italian ways often hurt their finances, but they had enough to warrant purchasing the closest thing they could get to the wine of the Old Country.
In transport, the Triden family's goons actively harassed the poor Tapogre, trying to get a few last spurts of wine from his bottle-arms. However, their dilly-dallying proved to be their downfall. A bullet sailed through the air and took down one thug, and as the others fumbled with their weapons to try and fire on the unseen sharpshooter, they were all picked off. Yquem stood alone in the street, and as the sniper loaded another bullet to take down the Tapogre too, a familiar nuisance blocked his view. A shower of flyers were sprayed all over the streets obscuring his aim and allowing the Tapogre to escape. The sniper aimed his gun and fired at the sky, trying to hit the one who had dropped the flyers for Yahoo.com.
Yquem stumbled through the city, running the only place he knew he could hide.Far off he could hear the rumblings of two titans fighting in the street, and his fear for his life made him lose his way. It wasn't until nightfall that the Tapogre was able to locate the path to his destination, the only safehouse for Tapogres in the City of Beasts: The Church of Tapogrepogo.
In concept, the City of Beasts was a perfect place for the violent race of tapir-ogre mutants. However, they quickly realized they were outmatched, and even though they wandered the streets still, they knew their lives could end for any reason at any second. The city was ruthless, and they lacked the wits to match their brawn. Tapogres died left and right, and few were able to get the food they needed to survive. That's where the church came in. Unknown to most other denizens of the city, the church was a safe place where Tapogres could sleep for the night and find allies for hunts for human flesh. Pornogres provided them outlets for their carnal desires, and the priests were always encouraging them to have hope.
Yquem approached the church in the dark, and noticed the first of many defense mechanisms. It was simple, meant to inspire fear and teach possible intruders of their fate. Bodies hung from street lamps and makeshift pikes. Some were humans, while others were Tapogres themselves. Dissenters, moles, and spies were ratted out and killed. One looked familiar to Yquem. It was Seo, an old Tapogre acquitance who had told him about the church. However, Seo had been augmented with some sort of machinery, and he must have been executed for suspicion of being a spy for the machines.
As he got closer, he found a short tunnel tipped with razors that led to the church's entrance. Tapogres had many things to fear in the city, but no one was feared more among the race than a certain Tapogre that had taken it upon himself to rig their bodies with phishing lines that allowed him to control their every move. The tunnel was meant to sever any lines that were hooked into a Tapogre or that tried to infiltrate the church's interior. The Tapogres had no idea if it worked, but they attributed the lack of infiltration so far as a sign of its effectiveness.
Yquem had almost reached the door when he was startled by a sudden snarling. The church's last line defense sat by the door in a wooden house. The creature growled at Yquem, but it did not lunge forward. Its uncanny sense of smell allowed it to differentiate between real and fake Tapogres, and its razor sharp teeth made quick work of anyone foolish enough to try to impersonate the mutant tapirs.
Yquem struggled with his bottled hands to grasp the door handles, but when he got it open, he was treated to a sight. Tapogres sat all over the church. all preparing for sleep. A few were busy preparing a few murdered men for a late dinner, and at the altar a few were even praying. On the altar sat a rotting head of a Tapogre, believed to belong to the fabled Tapogrepogo the church had been named after. It was believed by the priests that a unity among Tapogres could lead to the resurrection of the Fallen Saviour. The priests often had little to back up the validity of Tapogrepogo's supposed strength, but when the last Tapogre prophet had lost his life for the cause, few questioned its validity anymore.
On a crucifix above the congregation sat the Fallen Prophet. Although he never claimed to be a Messiah for the Fallen Saviour, the priests were quick to label him one. The humble foreman had sought unity in the city between not only Tapogres but the many races. Unfortunately, his upbeat attitude was his downfall. There was no room for heroes in a city of villains. However, his martyrdom led to the developing unity of the Tapogres, and at least his memory gave them hope for tomorrow.
One of the priests approached Yquem and welcomed him. Yquem had never seen the priests and never had heard them described either, so he was very startled to find they were a trio of cats made of custard. The cat guided him over to an area where other Tapogres sat, some seeming as fresh to the church as he was. One of them had four arms, and was busy picking at the remains of what seemed like golden armor. It was clear he had been mugged, and although he was quite muscular, the wake-up call about his strength must have drove him to the church.
Another kitten tended to the wounds he had received while in transit to the Family while the other went off to perform some other business. The last priest was preparing to give the last sermon of the night before lights-out. This cat looked different than the others. It was obvious he had been through some sort of trauma, and it was later revealed to be have been caused by a bad deal with a jewel fencer over an ark for carrying the Fallen Saviour's head around in. The priest was rather flat and cracked, apparently saved only by flash freezing. His sermons were often punctuated with stuttering, gulping, and a hacking cough, but his ability to inspire the Tapogres was the greatest of the three.
As Yquem went to sleep that night in a cot he had to share with a young Tapogress with pigtails, he finally felt content. His life here had been rough, but after living through all the brutality, he was finally able to find a place he could call home.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
My new RP character for the next tournament
I'm going to RP as the entire state of North Dakota. Like, the whole damn thing, the entire fucking land mass is going to walk in the bar and drink some booze and vote and shit.
It's going to be so damn rad.
It's going to be so damn rad.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
City of Beasts Pt.1: Jumpropeman
"Back of man, I don't want no part of your stupid group!" Keahi screamed. Two relatively well dressed men were chasing after the young Hawaiian with guns at the ready. Neither fired yet.
"It's for your own good kid! You won't last long in the city on your own!" The two men were not the best recruiters, but they would do anything to please their new Mother.
Keahi ran out of the dark alley and into the street, forgetting the dangers of being out in the open in the City of Beasts. The two men continued pursuing him, but soon the young Hawaiian's stamina allowed him to escape their sights. The two men in suits stopped to catch their breaths.
"God damn, we haven't been able to get one guy to join the Family."
"Well, I've started to think about that, and I think it might be because we run after them with guns pointed at their backs..."
The two men squabbled over what to do next. They were never the brightest criminals, and this lack of brightness made them easily miss the odd distortion of time and space making its way towards them.
The few doors and windows that still could close slammed shut as an aura of warped aura approached the two suited fellows. Heavy footsteps become apparent, and large chunks of road floated up into the air and stayed in place. By the time the men realized what was going on, it was too late to run.
Massive two-dimensional fangs crushed the men and quickly turned the meat into fragments. The beast swallowed its meal and let out a loud "OROAAR!R!"
Lion Jeff continued stalking the streets, a force to be reckoned with if there ever was one. It only sought meals to sustain itself, so those smart enough to notice the distortions were quick to make themselves scarce during its approach. Many had tried foolishly to kill it, but it never seemed to ever stay dead.
On its back lounged its owner, a being who contributed to the distortions with his newfound disregard for his duties. The Jingle Specter had been trapped in an everlasting ennui since entering the City of Beasts, and the fabric of time felt the impact of his inaction. His lack of timekeeping coupled with Lion Jeff's JPEG aura made the city treat them more as a natural disaster than anything.
The buildings-tall feline continued stalking the streets, hoping to find more foolish men who would not notice its obvious approach. Soon, an older gentleman caught its eye. It ran towards him eagerly, but soon the man called out.
"Call off your abomination, Jumpropeman."
The calm voice was familiar to the ghost, and Jumpropeman quickly slowed his mount down with a ring of a bell. "Is that you, Q? I thought Optimus and his raggamuffins killed you."
"Lazy wit as always, Jumpropeman, but I was never killed. Technology needs doctors too, I was lucky I got away when I did though."
Q's body was scarred and battered, and it was apparent that the man had to steal some limbs from his robot captors to replace his own when he escaped.
"What do you want old man? Jeff's gotta eat."
"Your stupid pet can wait. You screwed me over when you sold me out to the Autobot!"
"Hey, I was looking for thrills. Sadly, haven't found any in this whole damn place."
Q scowled at the emotionless ghost but quickly regained his composure.
"You are going to pay now! I got a hold of a little something while I was gone..."
In Q's hand was a vial of green Mutagen, and it was clear some had already been used.
"Jumpropeman, I would like you to meet Bond."
An angry groan rattled through the street as a nearby building caved in. A giant beast came charging after hearing its call. Jumpropeman looked at the newly arrived creature and yawned.
"A monstrous James Bond, how quaint."
The super spy had lost all of his charm after the mutagen mutated him into a behemoth. Muscles bulged irregularly and veins pulsed and popped. The hulking menace stood next to Q, awkwardly trying to keep its imbalanced body on two legs.
Jeff roared at the new monstrosity, and James was quick to moan back. Before either Q or JRM could order them to, both monsters lurched forward and began to tear each other apart.
Q cheered for his manufactured monster, but Jumpropeman still sat on his beast's back, utterly bored by the whole affair.
(Pt.2 coming soon. By the way, I consider Fumes and Midori as portrayed in the other City of Beasts stories canon for mine. I will, however, do all my other characters, so expect many parts!!)
"It's for your own good kid! You won't last long in the city on your own!" The two men were not the best recruiters, but they would do anything to please their new Mother.
Keahi ran out of the dark alley and into the street, forgetting the dangers of being out in the open in the City of Beasts. The two men continued pursuing him, but soon the young Hawaiian's stamina allowed him to escape their sights. The two men in suits stopped to catch their breaths.
"God damn, we haven't been able to get one guy to join the Family."
"Well, I've started to think about that, and I think it might be because we run after them with guns pointed at their backs..."
The two men squabbled over what to do next. They were never the brightest criminals, and this lack of brightness made them easily miss the odd distortion of time and space making its way towards them.
The few doors and windows that still could close slammed shut as an aura of warped aura approached the two suited fellows. Heavy footsteps become apparent, and large chunks of road floated up into the air and stayed in place. By the time the men realized what was going on, it was too late to run.
Massive two-dimensional fangs crushed the men and quickly turned the meat into fragments. The beast swallowed its meal and let out a loud "OROAAR!R!"
Lion Jeff continued stalking the streets, a force to be reckoned with if there ever was one. It only sought meals to sustain itself, so those smart enough to notice the distortions were quick to make themselves scarce during its approach. Many had tried foolishly to kill it, but it never seemed to ever stay dead.
On its back lounged its owner, a being who contributed to the distortions with his newfound disregard for his duties. The Jingle Specter had been trapped in an everlasting ennui since entering the City of Beasts, and the fabric of time felt the impact of his inaction. His lack of timekeeping coupled with Lion Jeff's JPEG aura made the city treat them more as a natural disaster than anything.
The buildings-tall feline continued stalking the streets, hoping to find more foolish men who would not notice its obvious approach. Soon, an older gentleman caught its eye. It ran towards him eagerly, but soon the man called out.
"Call off your abomination, Jumpropeman."
The calm voice was familiar to the ghost, and Jumpropeman quickly slowed his mount down with a ring of a bell. "Is that you, Q? I thought Optimus and his raggamuffins killed you."
"Lazy wit as always, Jumpropeman, but I was never killed. Technology needs doctors too, I was lucky I got away when I did though."
Q's body was scarred and battered, and it was apparent that the man had to steal some limbs from his robot captors to replace his own when he escaped.
"What do you want old man? Jeff's gotta eat."
"Your stupid pet can wait. You screwed me over when you sold me out to the Autobot!"
"Hey, I was looking for thrills. Sadly, haven't found any in this whole damn place."
Q scowled at the emotionless ghost but quickly regained his composure.
"You are going to pay now! I got a hold of a little something while I was gone..."
In Q's hand was a vial of green Mutagen, and it was clear some had already been used.
"Jumpropeman, I would like you to meet Bond."
An angry groan rattled through the street as a nearby building caved in. A giant beast came charging after hearing its call. Jumpropeman looked at the newly arrived creature and yawned.
"A monstrous James Bond, how quaint."
The super spy had lost all of his charm after the mutagen mutated him into a behemoth. Muscles bulged irregularly and veins pulsed and popped. The hulking menace stood next to Q, awkwardly trying to keep its imbalanced body on two legs.
Jeff roared at the new monstrosity, and James was quick to moan back. Before either Q or JRM could order them to, both monsters lurched forward and began to tear each other apart.
Q cheered for his manufactured monster, but Jumpropeman still sat on his beast's back, utterly bored by the whole affair.
(Pt.2 coming soon. By the way, I consider Fumes and Midori as portrayed in the other City of Beasts stories canon for mine. I will, however, do all my other characters, so expect many parts!!)
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Monster Collector
So, it's been a while since I told JRM's story, and although I intended to quickly write the origins of Tut-Tut and such, I ended up getting sick on the Thursday I was going to. On the bright side, I got Kirby Mass Attack and have finished Kirby's Return to Dreamland, but not the Extra mode yet.
The thing about those games are, the collectibles are more of a nuisance than anything. I want to enjoy the levels and powers and such in Return to Dreamland, but I'm too busy looking for gears. Kirby Mass Attack has the same issue with medals, just feels like a bunch of item hunting. However, Kirby Mass Attack also feels a bit like a chore. I don't like games where I only have a bit of control over my character and I get punished when the AI decides to be stupid. It's definitely the worst main series Kirby game I've played, and its minigames outshine its actual gameplay. Kirby Quest would be lots of fun if expanded, and Kirby Brawlball would be fun as its own game.
Kirby's Dreamland 3, Kirby 64, Kirby Super Star, all extended play time through either non-distracting collectibles and sidequests or cool new things to do.
So, back to what this is supposed to be about. I said I would explain Tut-Tut, the Snappers, and the concept of being a Time Spirit. To understand those guys, we must go back to a young boy who recently discovered Pokemon and was feeling creative.
I doodled strange creatures a lot, but when I found out about Pokemon, I felt compelled to compile them into one collective group and make a world around them. So, I created something called Monster Collector. In it, the Mons, called simply Monsters, are tamed with hand lasers and pitted against each other in combat a lot less restrictive than four move Pokemon battles. The thing took place in Other World, and it was pretty much a reworked Pokemon idea, but the monsters were not ripoffs at least!
So, this young me drew up tons of characters, all still sitting on papers in my room. Tut-Tut was actually part of the first group, as were the Snappers and the Time Spirit.
Remember him from like, one post?
Anyways, those guys were some of the first and thus pretty important to the formation of the whole thing, and also stuck in my memory pretty well. Come Zoofights time and the Big Bar Brawl, ideas began brewing in my head. The cameras were important, so I decided to bring the Snappers out and have them be the cameras with personality! The characters you see are actually called Snaps, with Snappers being weird camera creatures with tongues and slits for eyes. The name was just better so I transplanted the name to the cuter character. Snapper was whipped up with MSPaint and a camera taken from google image search so that he looked nice. The original image of him was a sketch with no color. None of the Monster were colored.
So those are the Snappers, now why did I rope in Tut-Tut? Well, originally I wanted some sort of commenter for the Big Bar Brawl, to lay out proceedings or something like that. I had to pick someone simple in appearance because I was off at University so scanning was not a choice, so I picked two guys. Tut-Tut and Herc. Herc was pretty much a ragdoll with dreams of grandeur and an inflated ego, but he never got implemented because Tut-tut alone seemed a better idea. Drawing Tut-Tut's basic shape over some ancient looking GIS image made the mummy you all know and love.
Now, we have the Time Spirit and the concept of the spirits. Monster Collector's Other World was ruled by spirits who made the world and maintained it, lacking power in our world but responsible for the creation of the alternate version. There are many spirits, those who create, and those who destroy. Most helpful spirits are simple like the Time Spirit, but their leader, mentioned casually by JRM when talking to those Gods from Alex's RPing, is the Ultra Spirit. He is really a sight to behold, a mishmash of bodies and appearances. He is the spirit of spirits and pretty much the final boss of Monster Collector. The Destroyers are actually pretty cool and you may one day see some, but at the moment, only the Time Spirit has been seen. The similarity between JRM and the Time Spirit led to their connection, and again the simple design made it easy to whip him up on the computer quickly for RP purposes.
Well, I think those have been explained well enough, unless I left some things out without noticing. Hope these were interesting despite having less substances. Their personalities are purely Zoofights creations, and although I have no other real OCs left to explain, I may ramble about other things Zoofights related in later posts. No promises though, unless I tempt fate to make me sick again
The thing about those games are, the collectibles are more of a nuisance than anything. I want to enjoy the levels and powers and such in Return to Dreamland, but I'm too busy looking for gears. Kirby Mass Attack has the same issue with medals, just feels like a bunch of item hunting. However, Kirby Mass Attack also feels a bit like a chore. I don't like games where I only have a bit of control over my character and I get punished when the AI decides to be stupid. It's definitely the worst main series Kirby game I've played, and its minigames outshine its actual gameplay. Kirby Quest would be lots of fun if expanded, and Kirby Brawlball would be fun as its own game.
Kirby's Dreamland 3, Kirby 64, Kirby Super Star, all extended play time through either non-distracting collectibles and sidequests or cool new things to do.
So, back to what this is supposed to be about. I said I would explain Tut-Tut, the Snappers, and the concept of being a Time Spirit. To understand those guys, we must go back to a young boy who recently discovered Pokemon and was feeling creative.
I doodled strange creatures a lot, but when I found out about Pokemon, I felt compelled to compile them into one collective group and make a world around them. So, I created something called Monster Collector. In it, the Mons, called simply Monsters, are tamed with hand lasers and pitted against each other in combat a lot less restrictive than four move Pokemon battles. The thing took place in Other World, and it was pretty much a reworked Pokemon idea, but the monsters were not ripoffs at least!
So, this young me drew up tons of characters, all still sitting on papers in my room. Tut-Tut was actually part of the first group, as were the Snappers and the Time Spirit.
Anyways, those guys were some of the first and thus pretty important to the formation of the whole thing, and also stuck in my memory pretty well. Come Zoofights time and the Big Bar Brawl, ideas began brewing in my head. The cameras were important, so I decided to bring the Snappers out and have them be the cameras with personality! The characters you see are actually called Snaps, with Snappers being weird camera creatures with tongues and slits for eyes. The name was just better so I transplanted the name to the cuter character. Snapper was whipped up with MSPaint and a camera taken from google image search so that he looked nice. The original image of him was a sketch with no color. None of the Monster were colored.
So those are the Snappers, now why did I rope in Tut-Tut? Well, originally I wanted some sort of commenter for the Big Bar Brawl, to lay out proceedings or something like that. I had to pick someone simple in appearance because I was off at University so scanning was not a choice, so I picked two guys. Tut-Tut and Herc. Herc was pretty much a ragdoll with dreams of grandeur and an inflated ego, but he never got implemented because Tut-tut alone seemed a better idea. Drawing Tut-Tut's basic shape over some ancient looking GIS image made the mummy you all know and love.
Now, we have the Time Spirit and the concept of the spirits. Monster Collector's Other World was ruled by spirits who made the world and maintained it, lacking power in our world but responsible for the creation of the alternate version. There are many spirits, those who create, and those who destroy. Most helpful spirits are simple like the Time Spirit, but their leader, mentioned casually by JRM when talking to those Gods from Alex's RPing, is the Ultra Spirit. He is really a sight to behold, a mishmash of bodies and appearances. He is the spirit of spirits and pretty much the final boss of Monster Collector. The Destroyers are actually pretty cool and you may one day see some, but at the moment, only the Time Spirit has been seen. The similarity between JRM and the Time Spirit led to their connection, and again the simple design made it easy to whip him up on the computer quickly for RP purposes.
Well, I think those have been explained well enough, unless I left some things out without noticing. Hope these were interesting despite having less substances. Their personalities are purely Zoofights creations, and although I have no other real OCs left to explain, I may ramble about other things Zoofights related in later posts. No promises though, unless I tempt fate to make me sick again
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Origins of the Jingle Specter
Being one of the few characters on the board who is drawn, named, and derived completely from the poster's own mind, I feel it would be interesting to tell the tale of how a string of coincidences and situations led to the ghost we call Jumpropeman.
First, I shall begin with the explanation behind his appearance, a simple ghost with a bell (hat came later, from the RedSpy). Jumpropeman is called the Jingle Specter for a reason: It was his original name. A long while back my brother and I discovered the fun of Microsoft Word's thesaurus feature, allowing us to take innocuous and simple writings and turn them into humorous mishmashes full of synonyms.
One day, I decided to try the synonym-swapping silliness with the character profiles of F-Zero X characters. I don't know how many I did it with, but I know did it with at least Captain Falcon, Black Shadow, and The Skull. After doing the swapping of words, I saved it on my flash drive for some reason (might not have been on my computer, I don't know) and forgot about it.
Well, I was in a Science and Engineering Academy in high school, so we had lots of computer labs and we pretty much had to have our flash drives on hand. Which led to me dicking around on the internet in any classes we had computers, but thats not the point. The point is I had that flash drive with me and dicked around with it in Government (which was in a computer lab despite barely ever using them). I found the document again and came across the synonym profiles and found one particularly interesting thing.
In F-Zero X, the Skull's machine is called the Sonic Phantom. A pretty cool name, but Microsoft Word helped me to change it to Jingle Specter. Clinging to the name in memory, I was doodling in a journal and ended up drawing a few stupid things, but one thing I drew was a smiling ghost with a tiny bell he was ringing. AKA, the Jingle Specter.
Drawn in the top margin of notebook paper, he was small but not forgotten. I began drawing him on other papers, including ones I turned in and my SAT and AP tests. That ghost was essentially my graffiti tag. Well, now we get to the part where we get the picture into the computer! Interesting, huh?
Well, NASA was doing some thing where you could submit a picture and have it sent to space. I don't remember the specifics of why, but I put a picture of my real self but also wanted to include my tag, the smiling Jingle Specter. Using his initial drawing in the notebook but lacking a scanner that would treat the image well, I took a pic with my DSi, put it on the computer, and fiddled with its appearance in pixlr (online photoshop tool). The quality of the picture led to the odd blue tint he has, he was drawn on white paper and technically white, but photo quality made that ghost blue.
Touching up his eyes and mouth and cleaning up his outline created the initial Jingle Specter appearance he would have at the board. The picture (presumably) was then sent into space and occupied space on my desktop.
Now why is he called jumpropeman now, you probably didn't ask to a blog that will obviously explain it. Well, I don't remember where the name Jumpropeman comes from perfectly. It was my Youtube name first I think, and then became a go-to name for all my other online accounts. It stemmed, I know, from my attempts to remember a similarly named hero I had come up with. He had an equally odd concept, probably something like Librarian Man or something. Jumpropeman just popped out as a good replacement for the bad-concept hero name I needed.
Incidentally, check this out: I googled Jumpropeman once and found this image on a website. I've toyed with the idea of making it how JRM appeared in life, but I think I don't want to link him to an image I didn't create... and I think this guy is a bit too badass to have been him in life XD
Let's get back to the story, shall we? Wait... I think that might be it. Jumpropeman was transferred to my character because of the username to character conflict that people had early on. I introduced him as the Jingle Specter but I didn't do it well enough to keep up the association, so I just wove it into his character.
The whole time schtick came about to make him organizing Fite Yer' Mates things easy. However, I did weave in a few other Original Characters from the past that all deserve a bit of explanation.
Next time on my blog, read the origin of Tut-Tut, the Snappers, and the broader aspects of JRM's Time Spirit position!
(Hope this was interesting)
First, I shall begin with the explanation behind his appearance, a simple ghost with a bell (hat came later, from the RedSpy). Jumpropeman is called the Jingle Specter for a reason: It was his original name. A long while back my brother and I discovered the fun of Microsoft Word's thesaurus feature, allowing us to take innocuous and simple writings and turn them into humorous mishmashes full of synonyms.
One day, I decided to try the synonym-swapping silliness with the character profiles of F-Zero X characters. I don't know how many I did it with, but I know did it with at least Captain Falcon, Black Shadow, and The Skull. After doing the swapping of words, I saved it on my flash drive for some reason (might not have been on my computer, I don't know) and forgot about it.
Well, I was in a Science and Engineering Academy in high school, so we had lots of computer labs and we pretty much had to have our flash drives on hand. Which led to me dicking around on the internet in any classes we had computers, but thats not the point. The point is I had that flash drive with me and dicked around with it in Government (which was in a computer lab despite barely ever using them). I found the document again and came across the synonym profiles and found one particularly interesting thing.
In F-Zero X, the Skull's machine is called the Sonic Phantom. A pretty cool name, but Microsoft Word helped me to change it to Jingle Specter. Clinging to the name in memory, I was doodling in a journal and ended up drawing a few stupid things, but one thing I drew was a smiling ghost with a tiny bell he was ringing. AKA, the Jingle Specter.
Drawn in the top margin of notebook paper, he was small but not forgotten. I began drawing him on other papers, including ones I turned in and my SAT and AP tests. That ghost was essentially my graffiti tag. Well, now we get to the part where we get the picture into the computer! Interesting, huh?
Well, NASA was doing some thing where you could submit a picture and have it sent to space. I don't remember the specifics of why, but I put a picture of my real self but also wanted to include my tag, the smiling Jingle Specter. Using his initial drawing in the notebook but lacking a scanner that would treat the image well, I took a pic with my DSi, put it on the computer, and fiddled with its appearance in pixlr (online photoshop tool). The quality of the picture led to the odd blue tint he has, he was drawn on white paper and technically white, but photo quality made that ghost blue.
Touching up his eyes and mouth and cleaning up his outline created the initial Jingle Specter appearance he would have at the board. The picture (presumably) was then sent into space and occupied space on my desktop.
Now why is he called jumpropeman now, you probably didn't ask to a blog that will obviously explain it. Well, I don't remember where the name Jumpropeman comes from perfectly. It was my Youtube name first I think, and then became a go-to name for all my other online accounts. It stemmed, I know, from my attempts to remember a similarly named hero I had come up with. He had an equally odd concept, probably something like Librarian Man or something. Jumpropeman just popped out as a good replacement for the bad-concept hero name I needed.
Incidentally, check this out: I googled Jumpropeman once and found this image on a website. I've toyed with the idea of making it how JRM appeared in life, but I think I don't want to link him to an image I didn't create... and I think this guy is a bit too badass to have been him in life XD
The whole time schtick came about to make him organizing Fite Yer' Mates things easy. However, I did weave in a few other Original Characters from the past that all deserve a bit of explanation.
Next time on my blog, read the origin of Tut-Tut, the Snappers, and the broader aspects of JRM's Time Spirit position!
(Hope this was interesting)
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
All we do in the bar is watch movies.
I could probably never read it again and only miss out on characters making comments on movies :P
So many fites to write now though. Essay to write too. Life is full of writing!
This pointless blog post is now being reimagined into...
BLOGGER IMAGE UPLOAD DUMP!
Lolly lolly lolly get your images here.
So many fites to write now though. Essay to write too. Life is full of writing!
This pointless blog post is now being reimagined into...
BLOGGER IMAGE UPLOAD DUMP!
Lolly lolly lolly get your images here.
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