Saturday, June 18, 2011
Word of the Week
“Mamihlapinatapai: A look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.”
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Fun with Syllables and Octagons
So if you read that as syllables and octagons, then you are mistaken. You are putting the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syll-AH-ble. It's actually pronounced as syll-AH-bles and oc-TAH-gons. You know, like dragons combined with octopi.
So as we were walking to school today, Jack and Darlene- us, we started to think how cool it would be if we could just open a dimension and have an adventure on our walks. So we decided to try it. This is the totally true and not at all made up way that things happened this morning.\
As we were walking down the street we decided that to make things more interesting we would go to the dimension of Crouf. In Crouf there are octagons and squirds. An octagon is an octopus crossed with a dragon. They are pretty terrifying and should never be messed with. Now a squird is a cross between a squid, and a bird. They too are very dangerous and should not be messed with.
When we entered Crouf, we were immediately met by a monk who told us we were the chosen saviors of their land. Sort of like Hyrule. Ya know, like Link from Legend of Zelda, only there's two of us. The monk quickly told us the monster's stat's and then told us to "get on with it already." Rude, no? Yeah well so we began to fight the octagons and squirds, which was very difficult.
The octagons and squirds almost beat us but we ran off to heal and go get some skills from the skills shoppe down the road. When we got to the skills shoppe, we found out that our skills did not follow us from our past dimension and we had to start over again. Luckily for us every time we hit the octagons or squirds we gained 7 points for using a sword, 3 for damage, and 5 because we're us. So after our fight with the octagons and squirds we had racked ourselves up quite a few points. The only problem was that everything in that dimension cost 12 times more then it did in our old dimension so we still didn't have enough! But then the monk appeared to give us hints because we had leveled up during our fight with the octagons and squirds. The monk said to us, "You, young ones can now bring anything out of your imagination into reality." We squealed with joy and ran around the store picking up skills we wanted.
When we got the the register the store clerk looked at us and our piles of skills dubiously. We immediately imagined bags of skills points behind our backs and offered them to the clerk. After we had finished purchasing our skills we went back out to fight the octagons and squirds. We killed them all in under 5 minutes. Then Jack said, "Hey, I wonder what would happen if I were to imagine a giant man eating Sasquatch who couldn't be defeated by any tool of destruction built before now..." And of course it appeared out of Jacks mind and started tearing apart the whole town.
Word got around that it was Jack who created the monster and a giant mob chased us out of their dimension shouting, "YOU TERRIBLE NINJAS!!! NEVER COME BACK HERE, EVER AGAIN!!!"
So we left their dimension and came back to ours. Right in front of our school.
"Being ninjas was fun while it lasted, at least," Darlene said.
"Yeah. Too bad we can't ever go back," Jack replied.
"Maybe one day they'll forget about us..."
"It was a man eating Sasquatch that couldn't be destroyed."
"You're right. We'll go back after school."
No Big Deal.
So as we were walking to school today, Jack and Darlene- us, we started to think how cool it would be if we could just open a dimension and have an adventure on our walks. So we decided to try it. This is the totally true and not at all made up way that things happened this morning.\
As we were walking down the street we decided that to make things more interesting we would go to the dimension of Crouf. In Crouf there are octagons and squirds. An octagon is an octopus crossed with a dragon. They are pretty terrifying and should never be messed with. Now a squird is a cross between a squid, and a bird. They too are very dangerous and should not be messed with.
When we entered Crouf, we were immediately met by a monk who told us we were the chosen saviors of their land. Sort of like Hyrule. Ya know, like Link from Legend of Zelda, only there's two of us. The monk quickly told us the monster's stat's and then told us to "get on with it already." Rude, no? Yeah well so we began to fight the octagons and squirds, which was very difficult.
The octagons and squirds almost beat us but we ran off to heal and go get some skills from the skills shoppe down the road. When we got to the skills shoppe, we found out that our skills did not follow us from our past dimension and we had to start over again. Luckily for us every time we hit the octagons or squirds we gained 7 points for using a sword, 3 for damage, and 5 because we're us. So after our fight with the octagons and squirds we had racked ourselves up quite a few points. The only problem was that everything in that dimension cost 12 times more then it did in our old dimension so we still didn't have enough! But then the monk appeared to give us hints because we had leveled up during our fight with the octagons and squirds. The monk said to us, "You, young ones can now bring anything out of your imagination into reality." We squealed with joy and ran around the store picking up skills we wanted.
When we got the the register the store clerk looked at us and our piles of skills dubiously. We immediately imagined bags of skills points behind our backs and offered them to the clerk. After we had finished purchasing our skills we went back out to fight the octagons and squirds. We killed them all in under 5 minutes. Then Jack said, "Hey, I wonder what would happen if I were to imagine a giant man eating Sasquatch who couldn't be defeated by any tool of destruction built before now..." And of course it appeared out of Jacks mind and started tearing apart the whole town.
Word got around that it was Jack who created the monster and a giant mob chased us out of their dimension shouting, "YOU TERRIBLE NINJAS!!! NEVER COME BACK HERE, EVER AGAIN!!!"
So we left their dimension and came back to ours. Right in front of our school.
"Being ninjas was fun while it lasted, at least," Darlene said.
"Yeah. Too bad we can't ever go back," Jack replied.
"Maybe one day they'll forget about us..."
"It was a man eating Sasquatch that couldn't be destroyed."
"You're right. We'll go back after school."
No Big Deal.
-DJ
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