Post #32 [Cecil]

[And without further ado... me. :P

Believe me, I have a lot to annotate on these posts, and I will likely break up my paragraphs A LOT in this. My writing style wasn't "perfected" yet and I typed out paragraphs at a time in blocks. You'll see below. It's likely necessary for me to break them up anyways. Besides, I'm the main annotator, so I suppose I should get a free liberty or two, right? XD]

Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :

Pain. The blaring pain. She came to her senses, immersed within the tremendous head pain that came from the long travel through the time gate of Santranus. It had been only 5 minutes since she jumped through that fated gate. It seemed her body wasn't totally ready for the re-emergence through the gate, just like when she was five, only she didn't pass out as soon into the trip as when she came to Santranus as a 5 year old. She looked around, taking note of the lucious green forests around her. She then noticed she was in the middle of a clearing. No, not just a clearing, THAT clearing. The very same one that she came to on the cursed day of her grandmother's death, and the fated hour she herself had disappeared from this world.

[Above paragraph is a decent example of the writing style I speak of. Compare this style to my "Tenguian" style in "The Gathering" for further proof. o.o]

Sandra held her throbbing head, still in pain from the body wracking trip back to her own world. She sincerely thank the Bourdan Towers for giving her the final right to let her return home.

[I worded this wrong. Techincally, it wasn't that she had to 'earn' the final right. It's just that they finally managed to get a gate open.

I'm gonna also make a ton of stupid grammatical errors. An infamous one will be "boy's boy" in a later post. >_> Trust me. As improved as I am at this point from my "Tengu Man" self as far as style went, I was a fry cry from the style I now use today, which is MUCH more acceptable for most readers. Such examples of my PRESENT style AND detail level can be seen at http://misfittechstudios.duke4.net/Misfits/Series1/ >.>]

Santranus believed her quest and destruction of the Phantom Zone king Sardius was enough for her to endure. The elders of Santranus told Sandra they would go to the Bourdan Towers and from reaching into her mind for the answers, summoned the magic power to reopen the very gate Sandra fell through to her cursed life.

[Yeah, I give a ton of semi-pointless info. However, in hindsight for people who might wonder about this AC so much, it might be of help, since you don't have the "Something I perfer..." topic at hand alongside the annotation of Frozen, but still, back then, some might have seen a lot of this as a bit redundant. >.>]

Now she was home. Home! So much had probably happened within the 10 years she was missing. Would Twoson even remember her from so long ago? She hoped so. Her sugar-pink hair, and her odd black outfit and arm-length gloves stood out, and almost no one in Eagleland had the hair she did.

[Yes, Sandra stands out among most people in the Earthbound world due to her pink-hair, purple eyes, and the unique outfit she wears. I'll be linking you a picture or two of her appearance soon enough, so worry not, brave reader! XD

Also, Sandra LONG LONG precedes the concept of even N64 Kumatora, let alone GBA Kumatora. Sandra and Kumatora are not at all related in any way, despite them sharing the "Pink Hair" thing. >_>]

She shook her head more, trying to drown out the still persistant head-pains of traveling through the gate. Sandra, while doing this, gave a slight gasp at herself. She saw a red outline-like aura around herself. Others around her wouldn't likely see it, since it was part of Sandra's ability to see the effects of magic on sentient things. The red outline indicated she was "Hasted".

[At this stage in Sandra's development (very early in a sense), I was on a huge rekick of FF6 and a lot of the stuff surrounding her references FF6/other FF games in the early series, but she is not based on any actual FF character. :P The whole "Hasted" thing is like in FF games when you see the glowing outline a hasted character's sprites, in real-life form. <.<]

I don't remember using Haste on myself when I jumped in. I must've gone out of it and used it without knowing it. She thought and cast Dispel on herself. The magic coins came down to her, but were repelled.

"What? Dispel's not working." she thought, a nitch surprised Dispel didn't do it's thing. "I guess I'll have to remain this way for now. Not like anyone else can see it anyways."

[Yes, the ability of her to see the "Haste" aura is a skill specfic to her at the moment. Only she can see these auras, unless she teaches her move to another character.]

Sandra had by now managed to completely shove away her recent head pains, and she realized she needed to get re-aquianted with Earth again. First things first, she thought, walking away from the clearing within the Northern forests of Twoson, and out into the path near the back of the Hotel. As she walked out, she noticed a woman, most likely a tour guide or so, frozen still in place, as if she were paralyzed by some kind of force. It was only when Sandra got closer she saw something. A light-pink aura surrounded the woman, which indicated, at least in Sandra's POV from the usage of some of her time spells, that the tour guide was stopped in time.

[In FF6, Pink aura means "Stop", White means "Slow", Red means "Haste". >.>]

"What the heck?" Sandra blurted out loud. She then turned down the street, noting that an elderly woman on the right sidewalk, a Mr. T look-a-like, and a taxi cab in the road were all still, the two living things also having the Pink-aura of "Stop" around them.

"Oh god, please don't tell me I've left one problem, and walked into another. The whole world... couldn't be frozen in time, could it? If so, then why am I not affected? Is it because it might have happened before I got here, or is it something else?"

[Who knows, Sandra... who knows. :P]

Sandra's gut instinct kicked in, and she sprinted like a bolt down the street, making a sharp right, zooming towards a familar place, a familar setting: Polestar Preschool. She was darting so fast she failed to look towards Burglin Park as she ran, and a familar face in it, also an appearant victim of the time anomoly.

[You'll find out later what that reference meant. Trust me. :P]

Sandra did however get a faint notice of the red field that seemed to be surrounding Earth. It was then she realized something was terribly wrong on Earth that fated day, as she arrived at the Polestar house. She pulled on the door. It didn't budge.

Even inanimate things seem to be affected by this. The whole world must be under some time freeze!

[Again, another example of us ignoring the idea "inanimate objects aren't frozen in time". Even I did this. <.<;]

Sandra then gripped the knob of the door hard with her right arm, and with good yank, managed to rip the door off it's hinges and threw it to the side. Hoping they wouldn't kill her about the door later, she ventured into the Polestar house with every right to be suspicious of her surroundings...

[Yeah, hopefully the Polestars won't get too angry you just tore their door off. Lawl. XD]

(finally, I'm back in IF action!! :D)

[Note: the ":D" in the above author comment was actually a forum icon in the original document, but I replaced it to make sure the expressions don't get lost in time. I forget how many other times forum icons show up in the IF, but it's probably at least 4 other times. >.>

Also, this post is a relative tame one as far as detail and paragraph spamming is concerned. Believe me, far bigger headaches await you, dear reader. :o]

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