Continuation of videogame pun war?

[Solana]

Aryn had been the first of the Guardians to get into the new motel out of the rain. Knowing her general dislike of it, Solana had shielded her from the falling drops while the hydromaniac herself remained outside for a bit yet with Ambrienne and Reika. After checking out the new digs, Aryn made a beeline for the kitchen to whip up three big pots of stew to feed hungry Shriners-one plain, one kosher, and one atomic for herself and Lark.

Solana finally came in sometime later, looking like she'd been swimming until the dripping water shifted to vapor, leaving her dry. She drifted over to the new gaming table, wondering if anyone else wished to pick up the game where they had left off in the arena, or begin anew.


What do you say, Dear Friends? Shall we continue on or start a brand new pun war?

(One of Billy's techniques from Xenogears.)

[Ambrienne]

Ah, good. I was hoping it would be a new one, because the old was way too far off from this present and distant from reality for me to remember the content and breadth of the lost puns. Except for the (by now) Infamous time traveling toilet.

(The first two are a couple of successive lines from WD's version of the Growlanser 3 opening, and the third one is the name of a game.)

[skylark]

Wait, what? Time traveling toilet?

I must of been absent when that was introduced...

You know, I can see it now...

(We see the Immortal's Circle around a round table. They are all chibis.)

Ninya: We need some sort of temporal portal to escape to if the crap truly does hit the fan. Any ideas?

Schala: I could make a large one to fit us all, but I'd need some kind of medium.

Sae: I got nuthin...

Kiyone: Don't look at me...

(Washu, Rune, Luna, and Lucia enter the conference room. They too are chibi.)

Washu: I have a solution. We have this toilet we pilfered from the Pantheon.

Ninya/Schala/Kiyone/Sae: .... -_-;

....

....

Nah, that wouldn't work. If I brought that joke to the public, I would get Char-red.

(Sazabi funnel appears over Lark.)

The irony... >_<

(The badass rival of Amuro Ray featured in Dynasty Warriors Gundam.)

[Solana]

THAT was a Kukai little topic we plunged into for quite a few posts, being inspired by the one in the second Maniac Mansion game. We turned it into an entire time-traveling bathroom that's looked after by prinnies and has a giant whirlpool and a little bar and videogame system and enough soaps and bath gels to keep a hydromaniac stocked for ages and.... oh, I don't even remember all the goodies we added to it, but it was indeed awesome. That'll be one of the things I hope will be waiting in our beloved Shrine.

Aryn- Right, so then Solana can spend hours in there and everyone else can still have their turn.

Solana- What was that?! It was only ONE hour...

Aryn- Point proven.

(Town in Xenosaga.)

[DarkKnight]

So we've returned to the World of Punwarcraft, have we?

(No, that's not my pun for this post - I don't want my rep to be Linked to such a weak contribution.)

[Ambrienne]

Yes indeed, we have all returned to practice the memorable, intricate discipline of the pun warrior. Though we may not have Infinite Space with which to work, we can finally close the chapter on our Vagrant Story.

(Upcoming DS game, PS game.)

[Solana]

I'm not so certain of that, to be honest. I mean, the last one lasted a glorious five months and several hundred posts. With all the videogame possibilities out there, is it going to become our Neverending Story?

(There were a few games made to the movie.)

[Ambrienne]

Is that how long it lasted? Heh, I didn't notice. Time flies when you're having fun, posting in a legend of Epoch proportions. We could conceivably keep going until the End of Time... or until we make the board explode. Again.

...Bet you didn't know that I made a last reply to that pun thread just a little bit before it went 'boom', did you? It might be inferred that it died laughing. Maybe.

(Chrono Trigger on both, of course)

[Solana]

Oh, miercoles, I HOPE it wasn't our fault! Curse our brilliant puns!

We might want to keep that under our hats for now. I have no wish to be booted for Shrine-icide and have both punwar and story goodness be but a Sounding Echo in our memories.

(Track from Ecco:Songs of Time.)

[Ambrienne]

Well, I do know that excessively long threads caused this one other MB site I know of to capsize. But then, they were (and are) considerably bigger in size than we are. And they made the tremendous GOUF of encouraging spamming/lots of posting by making each one worth food. Not that I'm complaining or anything. That's where I got my avi.

But you're right. Let's just sweep that one under the rug somewhere Beyond the Beyond so no one will know that any angel halo we might be wearing is on crooked.

(Mobile suit model in the Gundam games, very early PS game)

[Solana]

Maybe just to be on the safe side, we could start a fresh thread after breaking 500 this time. Besides, what we offer isn't food, but eternal glory in the ranks of the pun warriors!

Until then, I don't know if a Halo alone will cover it. We'd better add the Angel Wings and the garb as well. A lot of the gowns seen in paintings look similar to the Grecian ones my hydro sometimes favors, anyway. (Hands over a folded white gown.)

Hmmm, angels looking like Greeks? That can't have been propaganda in any way. Nope, not possible.

(Game series, Rinoa's limit break in FFVIII.)

[Ambrienne]

Hm... Okay. No one will think we are Dragon Angels, so it should be safe to gear up without someone mistaking us for Althena's security guards.

...That's one thing we never made fun of on why there shouldn't be a Lunar MMORPG. I shall illustrate below.


Dragon Angel 1: This is the Goddess' day off. None may enter!

Player: What about that guy over there? :: points behind the look-alike guards::

Random guy: :: waves and sticks his tongue out ::

Dragon Angel 2: ...He kicked our butts just before midnight and hasn't logged off since. I wish I could petition the Goddess for some heavenly smiting.

DA 1: But we can't boot him unless he starts spamming with random messages. There's no law against people making faces.

Player: Is it illegal to walk on the walls to bypass the tower walking?

DA 2: As the Iluk inventor suction cup quest has not yet been implemented... that would be a yes. This is going to be fun. ;D

:: One call to the nearest available mod and everybody leans out the window to watch. ::

ModGalleon (because Ghaleon is a prohibited name, of course): Mwa, ha, ha. I've been waiting a long time for this moment. Mega Banning Cannon!

:: A large column of purple energy, over which the word 'BANNED' is superimposed comic book style, swooshes through the air, dissolving the hacker in a shower of shining silver 1s and 0s. ::

RG: Ha, ha, ha... LOL, LOL... :: leans out too far and falls:: Aaaah!

Player: Uh... Was that a boundary error bug or was that supposed to happen?

DA 1: A bug. Definitely a bug.

DA 2: It's such a shame. I wish that could be made into a permanent feature.

Mod: Well, I won't report it to the programmers if you won't.

Player: :: retreats so as not to take the unpleasant shortcut courtesy of the deranged NPCs and mod ::

[Solana]

(Laughs) That's quite a potent argument. Besides, then everyone can be dragonmaster in their quest and come on here to share the joys.

The same could be applied to Eternal Blue, as well. I'd hate to see what a banning Hell Wave could do. If Lunar's structure is the same as our own, it might smash one down through the crust and mantle and all the way to the molten iron core of the planet itself.

"And no amount of Angel Rings would bring you back from where THAT would send you."

[Ambrienne]

Then maybe EB would benefit more from a mod that, though a bit less lethal, certainly had the safety of all the servers' virtual citizens at heart. If only his Zeal didn't take him a bit too far at times....

(CT, of course)

Admin 1: Do you know why you have been called here today?

MistereMod: Some grateful citizen must have informed you of my exploits.

Admin 2: Oooh, so close. Remove the word 'grateful' and replace it with 'irate.' That would be closer to the truth.

MM:

Admin 1: (Is he really that clueless or is he just acting in character?) :: clears throat :: Perhaps it would help if you repeated for us what you were doing two days ago during the lunch shift.

:: The scene flashes back in time to the Marketplace's busiest channel, packed so full of stalls that the shoppers can barely find their own character sprites in the chaos. Then, it shifts to the entryway outside, where those who don't have a booth license shout their wares to passersby. Most are legitmate, but... ::

DrkSimittar: Selling Ghaleon's Hat, Lemina's Diary, the Star Dragon Shotgun, and other rares for $$$.

OffWhtKntRio: Surely, you meant silver, my good man.

DS: Yeah, silver. Riiiight. Never know who might be listening.

Rio: Your name looks rather suspicious.

DS: I was just playing around when my cat walked across the keyboard while I was in character generation. The name got accepted before I could fix it.

Rio: I see. Still, something about you doesn't seem quite right.

DS: It must be your imagination. ;D

Rio: ...

DS: So... Are you going to buy anything or not?

Rio: Unfortunately, I am short on funds. Perhaps another time. :: starts to walk away ::

DS: Whew... (That was a close one.)

:: And then it hits Rio exactly what's wrong with this picture. Ghaleon's Hat was a legitimate rare; however, it was a Silver Star exclusive. In EB, the only Ghaleon headgear you could get was Ghaleon's Circlet. ::

Rio: :: dashes for the nearest telephone booth... er, unoccupied area to transform into call for MistereMod ::

DS: :: may be a hacker but isn't that dim of a bulb :: Uh oh. Time to make my escape.

:: Back to the present ::

MM: And after I received the call, I responded to the scene of the crime as quickly as possible. It was a long chase, hopping over many channels and locales, but I finally cornered him at the Carnival when he missed the boarding time for the Magic Arrow flight. I dispatched him with a well placed Ban of Justice, and no other citizens were mistakenly deleted.

Admin 2: There's always next time.

MM: ... :: eyes Admin 2 as if suspecting him of being a secret agent of evil and corruption ::

Admin 1: You seem to have left out a few things about your chase. Specifically what happened while you were still in the Marketplace.

:: Back in time to the market chase ::

MM: Halt, villain!

DS: :: dashes into a crowd and begins tossing silver and items around ::

Random Guy: FREE ITEMZ!!!

:: Everyone in the channel converges on that point, making it impossible to get a lock on the felonious DS ::

MM: :: frantically tries to delete the ill gotten items and money before anyone can pick them up and is successful... mostly ::

Newbie?: :: picks up a big sack of silver and other random items :: Yeah!

MM: ( How much was in the sack? What did he pick up? Wait, DS is getting away! I'll just have to delete everything he's not wearing. It can't be that much... ) :: click, click ::

:: Back to the present ::

MM: ...He was dressed like a level 1 newbie. How was I supposed to know he was a high level mage that was just trying to provoke PvP attacks?

Admin 1: That may be so, but nevertheless... he demands compensation. Here's the list of his missing items. You will have to work hard to either find the items or pay reasonably MP value for their replacement.

MM: ::takes list:: ... But that third item! It... it only drops, on average, once a month! It's so rare that it disappears within an hour of being put up at the MP, regardless of price.

Admin 2: :: switches the BGM to a sad violin piece ::

MM: ( You fiend. You vile, vile fiend! )

Admin 2:

[Solana]

Oh, poor Mystere, excuse me, MistereMod. He tries so hard and usually gets the job done, all in the name of JUSTICE.

I've never actually played through an online RPG, mostly because 1. I'm too cheap to shell out the Eterna fee and 2. I'm more of a console girl. The King's Quest series was a delightful exception to the rule.

I wonder how Lunar would work as tabletop RPG or even board game style like HeroQuest. The fun of doing a board game is that it's easy to make other classes and items and tweak the rules and one could write other quests or even act out the plotlines from fanfics. Designing the board itself might be kind of tricky with the various dungeons and such, but I suppose one could either incorporate bits and pieces from them all or even make different covers for things like the White Dragon Cave versus the Grindery versus the Meribia sewers.

(Lake in Pokemon Platinum.)