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| Author: | Isis-sama [ Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | The Graveyard and Dampe |
It was night, and everyone was asleep, (with the exception of the robots). Keely was also not asleep, since she could rest one hemisphere of her brain at a time, and since she breathing was a conscious feat for her, sleep would mean she was dying. She sat next to Corak, who was putting the finishing touches on his dolphin-squirtle-human language translator. "Miss Keely, if you wouldn't mind just saying a few words in your native language so I can be sure that your end of it is at least working?" Corak asked. But Keely wasn't listening anymore. She could hear a sad song being sung somewhere far away. It was so lonely, she felt her eyes tear up. "I want to meet whoever's singing that song," she said, and started to walk towards it. "Miss Keely, I said your native language, not a human one," Corak said, but Keely was already devoted to finding the singer. |
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| Author: | Kamidake88 [ Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:04 am ] |
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Meanwhile, Squirtle lay asleep, actually...it was floating asleep in the town's fountain that stood in the middle of the square. Currently, it was in the middle of a dream... * * * "Squirtle, use Water Gun!" "Squirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtle!" it complied, blasting a Geodude with a full blast water stream. The Geodude collapsed on the ground, unconscious. "Squirtle is the winner!" "Go Dragonite!" "All-right, Squirtle, use Skull Bash!" Squirtle did just that, flying headlong into the large, orange dragon, immediately knocking it out. Pokémon after Pokémon...each one fell at Squirtle's feet. Squirtle stood laughing at the top of the Pokémon pile, victorious. * * * Squirtle woke up from its dream of winning and climbed out of the fountain, rubbing its eyes. "Squirtle Squirt?" it asked, looking around the town. Apparently, it was barren, save the fact that Corak was tinkering with a strange device. The turtle did a flip off the stone steps and approached Corak. "Ah, young creature, I was waiting for your arrival!" he exclaimed. "Would you care to say a few words as input to put into my device here?" Corak asked, holding up the device. Squirtle scratched its head. "Squirrrrtle? Squirt Squirtle Squirtle? Squirtle! Squirt Squirt Squirtle!" it replied, not understanding the character's intentions. "Ah, excellent, excellent...thank you for the input," Corak said, doing a few more modifications to the device. Squirtle shook its head, giving up trying to understand what was going on. "By the way, would you care to look for Miss Keely? I need her input as well, and she walked off in the opposite direction!" Corak explained, pointing off into the distance. "Squirtle Squirtle!" the Pokémon replied, pounding its fist on its chest, which meant that it accepted the request. Besides, Keely was a water type like itself...Squirtle felt that they needed to stick together anyway. The Pokémon did a few warmup stretches and soon followed after where Keely was last seen heading. A soft melody could be heard echoing in the sky as Squirtle's mind raced with questions. |
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| Author: | Zuki chan [ Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:51 am ] |
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Corak continued on with the device. He was actually quite proud of himself, as he had not had the sufficient materials that would help him easily create the translator, and yet he had still triumphed. Another element of sucess for Corak. Well, he hadn't triumphed yet, although, as he was inputting the Turtle creature, "Squirtle",'s speech waves, he was almost there. Once he had decoded Squirtle's voice file, he would only need Miss Keely's voice sample, and he would have a semi-realistic, at best, completely realistic, translation of Aquatic Speech. Actually, in reality, this project had no real use at all, except mainly being able to understand Squirtle better, or Keely when she was underwater, but it kept Corak busy. Being Idle was a state that was highly looked down upon by the Ancients, and as Corak was a creation of the Ancients, he followed the same ideas. "I do hope that Squirtle can locate Miss Keely efficiently." Corak commented to himself, as he began matching up wave patterns. |
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| Author: | Isis-sama [ Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Graveyard and Dampe |
Keely followed her ears to the source of the beautiful song. Before long, she found herself in a place where there were a lot of stones whose cut looked artificial sticking up from the ground, and the dirt was sticking up in small mounds in front of them. There was a calming influence hanging over the place, and it gave the place a definite charm. In the middle of the stones and mounds was a pale-skinned man with a hump on his back digging a hole with an artificial implement that looked like it was made for that purpose. His song was one of the most beautiful sounds Keely had yet heard from the human world. Anyone who could make sounds like that had to be a good person, whether or not he was human. Keely waited for him to acknowledge her, then, realizing he couldn't see her like she could, called out, "Hey, I like your song!" The man turned and saw her, and then tried to hide behind one of the stones. Keely walked over to the stone and peered down at him, not comprehending the problem. "What's wrong? Don't you want to talk to me?" "Oh, no, miss," the humpbacked man said, "a woman as beautiful as you shouldn't be talking to someone like me. I am not fit to be seen around you." Keely had no concept of human beauty. She had made her human body based on purely practical applications and only by chance had it come out looking beautiful to human eyes. "Why not? Do you have a disease? I can cure you if you do." "No, there's nothing you can do, miss. But why would you ever want to help me? I am ugly. No one in the town wants to be around me. That's why I'm a gravedigger." "I don't care what you look like, whoever can sing like that is beautiful in my book. My name's Keely, by the way. What's yours?" The humpback suddenly burst into tears. "I can't believe someone as beautiful as you thinks I'm worth spending time with! I'm so happy! Truly this is Dampe's luckiest day ever!" "Your name is Dampe, then? Good! Can you sing your song for me again?" Before Dampe could reply, Squirtle burst in onto the scene. "Squirtle squirtle squirtle squirtle squirt!" it yelled at her, guesticulating wildy. "Corak wants me to come back to finish the translator?" Keely asked. "Okay, but that can wait, can't it? I'm busy with my new friend now." Dampe, meanwhile, was staring at Squirtle. "What's that?" he said, eyes wide with surprise and fear. |
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