Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:I don't think it would happen that way. Garrick, once he decides to move on a bad guy, holds nothing back. Granted, he'll always hold back an ace when a deuce will do the trick, but you can bet that deuce is gonna be a bit overkill regardless. And as you've seen, escalation with Garrick gets messy real fast. In short, Doug is gonna notice someone's making some noise out there, and knowing how curious he is, it won't take him long to find Garrick.Quote:In short, Garrick finds that he likes being a teacher and will pursue such occupations in the future where possible.Heh. Not all that different from Doug. Might be fun to have a brief intersection where they are both staff in a school somewhere, and completely unaware of each other's "dimensional wanderer" status.
Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:Interesting, though I'll be starting another thread for Garrick's time in Equestria here in a minute. Less chance of people getting confused. "Wait a minute, I thought we were talking about humans here!" :pQuote:...one thing I'd like to see is Garrick having problemsI recall that there was
speaking Equestrian. Like, he can get most of it, but his mouth/throat
can't quite make some of the sounds.
an attempt to teach a chimp to speak English during the 1950s, I think
it was. Late enough at least for substantial film documentation of the
process and the results. The results were... mixed; one of the details
thereof is one that might be of use here -- in order to say some sounds,
the chimp had to use its fingers to force its mouth into a shape its
facial muscles couldn't make. It might be interesting if Garrick had to
do the same for some Equestrian sounds.
Now, more on topic... Hey-hey-HEEEYYY! C'mon over and have some fun with CrrRRAAzzZZY TAXI! Whoops! Wrong game! >2:10
As I reached a balcony below I was just beginning to think that I was
safe for the moment... That was, until one of the girls suddenly
slammed into the balcony right in front of me, feet first, and sprung
back up with her arms spread wide and a shit-eating grin on her face.
I half-way expected to see 'Perfect 10!' start flashing over her
head.
“JESUS H. CHRIST!” I yelped in shock. “Are you from planet
Krypton or something!?”
The girl gave me a clueless look – of course she wouldn't get the
reference! Regardless, I used the distraction to get away from her,
vaulting from one terrace to the next, and dashing into the next open
door I found.
>>2:30
I found that I was in what looked like a ballroom. The faint scent
of food cooking caught my nose and I followed it, quickly finding
myself in the kitchens and being eyeballed by the staff.
“Gar-kun! What are you doing here!?” I turned and found
Sasami-chan in her carrot apron and bowl of batter in her hands.
“Grandmother set the bachelorettes on me, Sasami-chan,” I said
with a smile. “Got any cooking oil I can borrow?”
Her face lit up in glee and she darted off, and then quickly returned
with a plastic bottle with a nozzle on the end filled with oil.
“You're the best little sister ever!” I said giving the little
princess a quick hug.
“I know,” Sasami said impishly. I then made a hasty exit because
I hated to bring the chaos that was following me into the kitchens.
I wound up in the foyer to the ballroom when the girls found me again
– this time it seemed that the all the groups had converged
together. Once again, I cheesed it as fast as my legs could carry me
and rounded a corner. Once I did, I turned around and frantically
started spraying the floor with the cooking oil Sasami had given me,
quickly emptying the bottle.
And not a moment too soon as the girls all rounded the corner like a
flock of birds... and almost as one, they all went down in a
squealing, screaming, tangled heap on limbs.
“Looks like you're having fun,” said a voice behind me. I turned
and found Achika giving me a wicked grin. “I like the way you
think, but I have a better method. C'mon, follow me!” And with
that, she grabbed my hand and dragged me over to an anti-gravity lift
that sent us both rocketing upwards.
It left us off at a wide, open platform. A few feet away were some
strange looking rigs. I couldn't quite make out what they were
because they blended in with the leaves around us, but as Achika led
me closer to them I realized that they were hang gliders made with
giant leaves.
“Can you fly one of these?” she asked.
“Never have,” I replied honestly. “Pretty sure I could pick it
up quickly, though.”
“Better get a tandem, then,” she said as she went for a larger
glider. “Hurry up – we want to be airborne before the get up and
and start getting ideas.” With expert hand, Achika quickly
made the glider ready for flight while I watched carefully, mentally
noting everything she did.
>Homestuck - Ecstasy" href="http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ecstasy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">>>Homestuck - Ecstasy
Soon enough, we were ready to launch, perched at the edge of the
platform with the wind tugging at the wings.
Achika looked to me and must have seen that I was a little bit
nervous. “You ready?” she asked.
“Yeah, just some jitters. I'll be good once I get going. On
three?”
Achika smiled and nodded her head. “On three.”
I nodded back, then smiled at her as together we suddenly yelled
“THREE!”
Gravity tried, but it didn't even have a chance. We dropped maybe
half a meter before the updraft caught hold and sent us rocketing
upwards and I whooped from the thrill while Achika laughed
hysterically.
“I honestly thought I had you there!” said Achika mirthfully as
we rose, shifting the bar to the right and causing us to bank left
and keep us in the updraft.
I laughed. “Well, where I come from it's an old but treasured
joke. I figured you might try and get me with it.”
Right then, I couldn't help but notice how close we were. This
tandem's sling didn't have a dividing wall between passenger and
pilot, so it must have been made with couples in mind. Not that I
minded, though. In fact, it was nice to feel the warm softness of
Achika's body alongside mine. With a smile, I let go with the hand
next to her and gently draped it over her shoulder.
Achika gave me a smile. “It'll be hard to control this glider like
this.”
I grinned back at her. “So I guess we'll have to work together
then.”
“But you don't know how,” Achika countered coyly.
“I told you I'm a fast learner,” I retorted. “Just tell me
what to do.”
Achika gave me a challenging look. “This could be a problem... you
know, you being stubborn like this.”
“I know,” I replied as my smile melted into a more gentle one.
“But you also know I'd never go out of my way to hurt anyone that I
love.”
“Do you love me?” asked Achika as she gave me the bedroom eyes.
Before I knew it, she put her arm around me as well and we pulled
each other into a short, but passionate kiss.
“The seed has been planted,” I said as she took a quick glance
around to reorient herself. “Let us be patient and see what grows
from it.”
Achika giggled. “I would never have thought that someone would
have gotten to you with the old love poems already! Who was it?”
“Ayeka, of course,” I replied gamely. “She felt that I should
know about the great romances of Jurai if I was to court a woman of
her homeworld.”
“I should have known,” she replied with a roll of her eyes. She
then gave me a smile. “Well, I'll let you in on a little secret...
despite my tough-girl exterior, I'm really a sucker for romance.
Keep that shit up and I'll be ripping your clothes off in no time.”
I chuckled and gave Achika a squeeze. “I'll keep that in mind,
milady.”
Well, I tried to embed the music player for the Band Camp website, but Yuku wasn't having any of it. :p
Anyhow, now that I'm past that chase scene I am back in business! Honestly, I wanted to come up with more to better fit the music provided, but I couldn't quite hack it.