Post #35 [Ffish]

Posted by Ffish (Member # 262) on :

Ffish opened his eyes. Blinked. Blinked again. Something was wrong. He stood up. He then realized what was wrong. Saturn Valley was usually alive and bustling with noise this time of day.

[You know, until I watched chuggaaconroy's Mother3 Let's Play on Youtube, I could not for the life of me think of a voice in my mind for the Mr. Saturns.]

Rather, he heard silence. Not complete silence, as he could hear wind blowing through the trees and over the valley's cone-shaped rooftops, not to mention the barely noticable pouring of water in the distant Peaceful Rest Valley brooks and rivers, but there was no characteristic nasal Saturn-speak, no walking, no chirping of birds, nothing that would signify that any life-form was still active.

[The mention of the water and rivers above is actually an unintentional reference to a later plot point you'll see in a few posts.]

Ffish stepped outside, humming a bar from a song he heard not long ago. He arrived outside and froze in pure horror. Saturn Valley was in a perpetual stillness. Everywhere he looked, there was a Mr. Saturn in mid-step, or in mid-air. Though he had to admit to himself it was pretty cool, it wasn't every day that your adoptive family of small pink alien creatures defied all the laws of physics and froze in time and space while you were out astroprojecting.

[Ffish was one of the only characters in the IF who used astral projections as an ability.]

He plucked out of midair a young one that was falling off a ladder and stuck him on the ground. If he could just find out what the heck happened. The swooshing of the wind through the trees again caught his attention. A look of resolution spread across his face. He marched up to the nearest tree and placed his palm on the bark. A stone buried deep in on of his pockets glowed and started telepathically giving off lyrics to a soothing tune.
Superman.
It's what you wanted for me.
To be your everything.
I only wish you could see, yea-eah.
I can't be anything,
but I know the One who can.
And all that I've tried to be,
I've left with empty hands.
And I hope you wake up,
and do your best to understand
that I can't be your...
Superman.
(Note: song- Superman; band- Luna Halo)

[To be honest, I didn't fully understand the need to show the lyrics to the song, but it's a kind of interesting 'advertisment' for said song anyways. I should take time to LISTEN to the damn song someday for Ffish's sake. :(]

Somehow, it all made sense to him. It's not quite clear how he understood that a gigantic spaceship piloted by an alien scientest bent on furthering knowledge even if it cost the lives of an entire populated planet froze all beings in the animal kingdom presently residing on the planet except for a few that were for some unknown reason unaffected, but it was still perfectly clear to him.

[The tree must be a relative of the "Great Wise Tree" from Breath of Fire 2 to have that kind of information. :P

Still, a far better way to "learn everything suddenly" than most IFers of the Tenguian era bothered to try (and I refer to ACs just instantly knowing stuff out of nowhere solely due to the information being mentioned by past authors, and Baron von Awesome has referenced this as well in his own annotations).]

The tree did a great job of explaining. It also left him with a strange feeling that in another universe, another consciousness, another IF, another life, another something, he was in a similar predicament, except for the fact that he was a semiomnipotent being from another plane of existence. He just shook off that feeling, though, and forgot it for the rest of this IF.

[XD. As much as it kinda, sorta, actually breaks the fourth-wall some, it's not so much the character is referencing the fact he's in the story, but Ffish as a writer is.]

"Oh, well," Ffish decided. "Might as well go find the other un-frozens. PSI Teleport Beta!"

And with that, he homed in on the nearest un-frozen human. Geez. That was convinient.

[Took the words right out of my mouth, dude. :D]

[ June 12, 2002, 02:06 AM: Message edited by: Ffish ]

[No clue what was edited. However as a note, Ffish only has two posts in this IF. The other won't come until way later. He's got a better record than Cracked Bat does still. I think if he posted more in Frozen, he'd have shown more potential. :\]

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