Let's make a story.

[Triple J]

In this little game, we will tell a story.
What will happen is that I will say one sentence that starts a story, and then you post the next part of the story.

Posts can't completely throw the story off kilter, but you can get imaginative. Try to keep it on the subject.

The limit is five sentences for every post. Don't reply to yourself.

I guess, being the thread creator, I will start it.

Once upon a time there was a man in Minnesota named Dusty. He liked his life, but he was a homeless bum. He decided to come up with a get-rich-quick scheme.

[Grim]

For his get-rich-quick scheme to work he needed a plan. He thought and thought for weeks but nothing came to his mind.

[Pig Fucker]

In order to get some inspiration for a plan, Dusty decided he should read the biographies of some of the richest men in the world. The lives of Donald Trump, Bill Gates, and Osama Bin Laden had to have some secrets hidden in their depths. With this thought in mind, he began a trek to the local library to check out some books.

[GnR]

He walked to the library and checked out some books. As he was reading the biography of Bill Gates, he found a peice of paper in the middle of the book. He unfolded it and contained all of the secrets of the wealth of Bill Gates!

[blltmssgy]

Unfortunately for Dusty, the secrets were written in binary code, so he could not understand it. With the sheet of secrets in hand, Dusty left the library in search of the closest computer store in hopes of finding someone who knew binary code.

[Richard_Simmons]

When he got to the store, he met a nerdy clerk named Melvin. Melvin said he knew how to read binary, but wanted something in return. He told Dusty he was a virgin and wanted to get laid.

[HumpRAWR]

When he got to the store, he met a nerdy clerk named Melvin. Melvin said he knew how to read binary, but wanted something in return. He told Dusty he was a virgin and wanted to get laid.

Dusty replied "what a coincidence, that makes two of us." Melvin then realized that trying to get help from a homeless guy isn't the brightest idea, so Melvin decided he would decode the binary message just fro the fun of it.

[Pyro]

So Melvin started decoding but said that it would take some time. Dusty wondered off to the streets to come back later. Suddenly he felt a strong grumbling sensation in his stomach which he blamed to hunger. He really needed to get some food.

[blltmssgy]

Luckily for Dusty he was a hobo, so he began to wander the streets asking anyone who would listen: "Spare some change, please?"

[Werty]

Dusty knew today was not a normal one, and, just as it turns out, it only got stranger. While asking for change, a stranger came up to Dusty with a piece of paper, handed it to him, and walked off.

[Grim]

Dusty looked at the paper, it said "If you want money, meet me at the Burger King at 65th street." Not knowing where 65th street was Dusty decided to ask Melvin for directions.

[Werty]

When he got back to the shop, Melvin was in the back, making loud grunting noises. Dusty followed his instincts to not go in the back, and rang the bell. Melvin came out, gave him the translation, and told Dusty to go away. Dusty tried to ask him for the directions, but Melvin was already in the back room.

[History]

However, this back room was not a normal room. While Dusty spent countless hours on the street searching for the elusive BK, Melvin paced around his "not a room", in search of the antidote. The window was ajar, but the wind that blew in was not from this world.

[Werty]

As Dusty wondered around, he started wondering;

"Is this really my way out of being a bum? I mean, shit like this just doesn't happen to people; it just doesn't."

Just then, as Dusty looked up from his thoughts, there stood the infamous Burger King that he had been looking for. To make sure, he looked at the street sign; 65th street. It was dark out, and the lights were off, but Dusty decided to look in anyways.

[blltmssgy]

Dusty made his away around to the back of the Burger King, as he was told to do. He got to the back, but no one was there. For a while he contemplated leaving, but then, all of a sudden, a voice cried out, "That's him. Get him!" Poor Dusty tried to run, but alas that was not his strong point. Soon, he was knocked unconscious and a burlap sack was placed over his head.

[Pelf]

He tried eating the sack, but that didn't work so he was dragged of to some place he didn't know.

[Pieman]

He tried eating the sack, but that didn't work so he was dragged of to some place he didn't know.


He was tossed into some sort of vehicle, it was slow-moving and bumpy. He heard voices around him talking, but the language was archaic and confusing.

After hours of moving the vehicle stopped, Dusty had spent the time in the bag trying to read the code, but was unsuccessful due to low lighting.

He was lifted out of the vehicle and tossed to the ground, but the sack caught on something and came off, giving dusty a view of the kidnappers.


One thought came to mind, Amish...

(I think I abused commas abit but whatever)

[Atelophobia]

He looked up into the face of an Amish married man. (You could tell he was married because of the beard!) And asked him what his name was. The man smiled and said his name was Merlin!

Dusty started blankly for a moment and then asked Merlin why he was there...

All while some Amish girls were in the backround churning butter or something...

[Phorpus]

Merlin then began to drag him away from the Amish girls and towards a small yet tumultuous river.

"Follow this river, and at the mouth of the river there will be a young woman named 'Scarlett' who will tell you how to find fortune", said Merlin as he began to walk back to the automobile.

Dusty walked into the river and looked at both sides, the very end of one was shrouded in a forest and the other led into a narrow canyon.

He yelled back to Merlin, "Which way do I go?"

But Merlin, the automobile, and the girls were nowhere to be found and he was left holding a burlap sack and a sheet of binary coding.

[Werty]

Dusty, feeling excited because of his new path to fortune, decided that he'd travel equally down both and see which looked better/brought him to the woman. So, Dusty started on his journey. He thought the forest looked the least threatening, so, it was his first path. He took one step into the forest, and CRACK! Dusty feel through a hole for what seemed like forever, and hit what seemed like a stone floor.

[The Super Hannah]

Dusty wouldn't let this minor set back get in the way of his journey to fortune. He tried climbing the wall...

[Werty]

Dusty, filled with sheer adrenaline, was almost at that top. "Oh, thank god," he thought, "I thought I was going to die down there!" Just as he pulled himself out, Dusty looked around. "This is strange," he said aloud, "I don't remember falling down here." "Down where?" a voice said. Dusty, startled by the voice, looked around, and saw nothing. He put that aside, and looked down at where he fell - only, it wasn't there.

[Dresden]

When he looked down, he saw nothing more than an otter staring up at him, lying at its ease on the dirt road.

"G'day mate," said the otter.

"Did you just talk to me?" said Dusty, wondering whether he hit his head a little too hard when he fell.

[Dexide]

The Otter said "No, you must have hit your head a little too hard when you fell." Dusty thought the Otter was right. So he walked on.

[hollywood_haloguy]

Dusty,was walking and walking.
But he got worried for Malvin, so he went to the shop and looked inside the "room"...
inside there was and old newspaper saying:
-Hobo killer in town!His name is Malvin! Beware!
Behind Dusty was Malvin...

[Werty]

Dusty,was walking and walking.
But he got worried for Malvin, so he went to the shop and looked inside the "room"...
inside there was and old newspaper saying:
-Hobo killer in town!His name is Malvin! Beware!
Behind Dusty was Malvin...

Yeah, I think that Dusty was in the forest. I mean, that's just me, but, when I'm in a forest, I can't just walk to a store and see "Malvin." Read the story 'cause you just took the story for a ride right there.

[Phorpus]

(continuing from Dexide because H_H broke the rules and sucks)

Dusty then coaxed the otter into the burlap sack, considering it seemed very wise and peppy.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing?!" protested the Otter, and it jumped into the river and began swimming away.

Dusty, wanting somebody to talk to, chased it down the river.

He then tripped on a rock and fell face-first into the river, and as he got up he realized he was very deep inside the canyon.

He then heard the Otter's laughter echoing from every angle, mockingly.

[Dresden]

Dusty was looking every which way, now quite panicked, as the manic laughter of the otter echoed around him.

"Fetch him here, won't you, fellas?" the otter said

And at that, several short men in black robes jumped out and started spraying Dusty with silly string. But the silly string started wrapping around him like ropes, till he couldn't move an inch.

[hollywood_haloguy]

[QUOTE=Phorpus;362509](continuing from Dexide because H_H broke the rules and sucks)

shut the fuck up.
I'm human, not you!

USER WAS PUT IN TIMEOUT FOR THIS POST. (http://forums.explosm.net/bankamp/)
Reason: Shit posts.

[hollywood_haloguy]

Dusty was looking every which way, now quite panicked, as the manic laughter of the otter echoed around him.

"Fetch him here, won't you, fellas?" the otter said

And at that, several short men in black robes jumped out and started spraying Dusty with silly string. But the silly string started wrapping around him like ropes, till he couldn't move an inch.

Dusty bitch slaps the Otter because he's bored and shout:
"Wasnt I supposed to be rich right now? instead of being here?"

[Awsumerthanyou]

(Continuing from Dresden because H_H is still a fucking dipshit)
They kept on spraying the silly string until it completely wrapped him up like a cocoon, and promptly hung his silly-cocoon from a tree.

Three weeks later, Dusty burst free from his cocoon and found he had butterfly wings! He flew around until he spotted the otter.

[Triple J]

[QUOTE=Phorpus;362509](continuing from Dexide because H_H broke the rules and sucks)

shut the fuck up.
I'm human, not you!

Hey man it's all right not everyone has story telling skills.
Now leave. You're screwing with the story.

[Werty]

Dusty flew around for hours. He spotted several otters, but none of them the same as the one he had found that day three weeks earlier. Dusty, discouraged from finding the otter, remembered Scarlett, and decided to start looking for her.

[Dresden]

After deciding to walk a while to rest his newly developed wings, Dusty set out down the first path he found, hoping it would be the right one. After a few hours walking, he came upon a house that had the appearance of an acorn the size of an elephant.

"What the hell," Dusty figured, and went and knocked on the front door.

"Knock once if you're here to kill me, twice if you're selling cookies, and three times if you're looking for Scarlett!"

Dusty knocked three times.

[HelloThereJayda]

The door opened quickly.
So quickly, Dusty's hobo hat flew off his head and into a nearby bush.
Dusty chased after the hat franticly, but rembered that he was to meet Scarlett.
"Come in," a voice said from inside the acorn. Dusty turned away from the bush and wandered skeptically into the acorn. As he entered, the door shut behind him.
"I've been expecting you dusty." said an oddly farmiliar voice.

[Dexide]

Dusty walked in. Dusty saw and observered Scarlett, she was obviously a nun-- because she was dressed as one, she carried a Pistol in her right hand, and a bible in the left. She had a "Guns & Ammo" sign in front of the back room. In the front room there was just a couch and T.V, the whole house smelled of Acorns. Scarlett didn't have much, considering she lived in an acorn the size of an Elephant.

"So, what can I do for you?" asks Scarlett.

[Phorpus]

Dusty's wings shifted awkwardly in the small home, and he said, "A guy named Merlin told me you knew a way for me to find fortune?"

Scarlett looked the hobo up and down and asked, "How do you know Merlin?"

"He stuffed me in a bag and dragged me to a river" replied Dusty.

Scarlett's eyes beamed and she stood up, took off her habit to reveal a young face and flowing red hair, and began stepping out of the house, putting her bible and pistol into a basket.

She carried the basket on her arm and said in an unusually soothing voice, "That usually means he likes you, well follow me."

(And I agree with Dauntasa. Going to do that from now on)

[Dauntasa]

I know how to avoid all this confusion. When you start writing, make a post saying you've started. Then, when you're finished, edit the post to include your story segment. That should keep things like this from happening.

[blltmssgy]

Dusty followed Scarlett to the back of her acorn, where she promptly pulled a book off the shelf revealing an old-fashioned looking elevator.

Scarlett, noticing the fear in Dusty's eyes, said: "There's nothing to be afraid of, it's only around 150 years old."

"Only 150 years," Dusty thought, "what am I getting myself into."

Dusty then stepped onto the platform and they started going down for what seemed like hours. Finally the elevator stopped, and when they got out, Dusty saw Merlin again. Scarlett went over to Merlin, and the two began talking to each other for a good 15 or 20 minutes.

When they finished, Merlin came up to Dusty and asked:

"Do you still have that sheet with the code on it?"

(sorry for taking so many lines, just had that whole idea in my head)

[Werty]

Dusty handed the piece of paper over. Merlin looked at it, studying it quite throughly. When he was finished, he looked up, crumpled the note, and said;

"This is complete gibberish. Who deciphered it for you?"

Dusty told him who, and Merlin's eyes began to bulge.

[Voracious32]

"This man - Melvin, you called him, is not as he appeared to you", said Merlin. "He was, in fact, a shapeshifting creature of the utmost evil. He most likely took the information he translated for himself and is using it even now to destroy all life."
"Damn, this story is cliched", though Dusty aloud.

[Werty]

Dusty pondered on the idea.

"How would Melvin destroy the world with the secret to extreme wealth?"

He asked Merlin,

"Are you sure he's using it to destroy all life?"

[Phorpus]

Merlin began pacing, holding the note, and said, "Not for certain, but he has tried it before."

"But how can you be sure of who he is if he shapeshifts?", asked Dusty.

"Because, that's my stationery!" yelled a voice from the top of the elevator shaft.

[blltmssgy]

Dusty swung around to see a man who looked like Merlin, except this man was a good 100 or so years older.

"You see, Merlin and Melvin are brothers, and I am their father. Me and my late wife weren't too creative when we named them, but who cares now? 50 years ago, I gave some of my stationary to each of my sons and it was shortly after that when Melvin turned evil. We have stopped him from destroying all life before, but now us Amish are losing our power over the forces of evil. Luckily for us, I think that you and your butterfly wings are just what we need to defeat Marvin for good."

[Triple J]

Dusty put on his best James bond look and said

"Okay, but I'm gonna need some change."

[Werty]

The room went silent. The Amish people started looking at each other, obviously not getting the joke. Dusty decided to break the awkward silence, and said

"So, where do I start?"

[Dresden]

Scarlett pulled out a box from nowhere in particular, opened it, and handed it to Dusty. He looked into the box...

"How exactly is a tweezers, some paper clips, a switchblade, a large bottle of glue, and a roll of duct tape gonna help me defeat Melvin?"

"Use your imagination, you stupid butterfly," Merlin's father snapped, walking off to comb his large Amish beard.

[Voracious32]

Dusty's overactive imagination led him to believe that the items he had been given were not what they seemed. They must be parts of some sort of weapon, the only one that could defeat Melvin, in disguise. He attempted to "forge" them together using the glue. When he had finally glued them all together...
Nothing happened.

[Werty]

Dusty looked at what he made. He gave up. He knew there was no way he could defeat Melvin. I mean, he was just a mere hobo looking to make a fortune. Just then, an idea hit him. He began to re-glue the pieces together, stretching what needed to be stretched and bending what needed to be bent. He looked down as his creation with a sense of pride. He had made... A paperwad flinger.

[Phorpus]

"This is a paperwad flinger, I thought we could...fling...wads", and it was then Dusty realized he had no idea what it would do.

Merlin, sensing the hobo's discomfort, said "We could use it to fling this bottle of Marvincide at him" while holding up a glass flask of clear liquid.

Scarlett then pulled a lever on the wall, opening a hatch on the ground that revealed a floating submarine.

"Well now that we know what we're going to do lets start looking for Marvin", said Scarlett "And don't worry, Dusty, it might not seem like it but all of this has to do with your fortune."

Merlin, Zartan (Merlin's father), Scarlett, and Dusty boarded the submarine and began to head into the ocean.

[Tweek]

'Wait a minute!' said Dusty, 'I thought we were after Melvin, not Marvin!'
Scarlett quickly corrected herself.
'Melvin, of course,' she said, 'How silly of me.'
She glanced at Merlin, who turned away.
Dusty sat, pretending to not notice the knowing look that the two shared when their eyes had locked momentarily, but frantically pondering the meaning of the exchange.
As they descended deeper into the ocean, Dusty leant back in his seat and could not help but feel a sudden sense of unease amongst his companions.

[Irve]

they headed deeper and deeper into the ocean. The engine worked constantly, but suddenly a enormious creatiure Dusty could not define exactly attacked them.

[Dresden]

Fortunately, the submarine was armed with Anti-Undefinable Creature Torpedoes. Merlin punched a few buttons, and several dull thumps announced the firing of the torpedoes, followed by a high, piercing screech announcing their success.

"Don't you just hate undefinable creatures?" Merlin said to nobody in particular

Dusty went to go and find something to drink.

[Awsumerthanyou]

In the lounge of the submarine, Dusty popped a few coins into a vending machine. He looked up and down at the choices.

Iced Tea "Nah"

Water "Nope"

Urine "What The Fuck?"

Otter "Hmmm?"

Dusty pressed the button for Otter, curious of what it was. He waited a few seconds, and out of the vending machine slid the talking otter he had met not an hour ago.

"What the hell were you doing in there?" asked Dusty. "I thought about coming along on your adventure with and decided that you were an okay guy" responded the yet-to-be-named otter.

Dusty continued his interrogation. "How did you know I was going on an adventure? What's your name anyway?" "Number one, Shut The Fuck Up, and number two, my name..." The otter stared off into the distance. "Is Enrique Buckbo"

(Sorry, but it just wouldn't stop flowing out of my brain)

[Werty]

Dusty stood there for a moment, letting it sink in. "The fuck kind of a name is Enrique Buckbo?" Dusty blurted out. The otter sat there in the vending machine, ignoring the question and asked Dusty

"So, you guys have anything good to eat on this boat?"

Dusty looked at the otter again with a blank stare; he said to the otter as he waved a piece of lettuce:

"I'll give you this if you can tell me why you're here."

[blltmssgy]

The otter, remembering he was in a vending machine, replied,
"Oh wait, there's food in here." And with that, he took down a swig of urine.

"Dusty, you have a lot to learn," the otter remarked, "for it does not matter why I am here, it is what you must do that matters."

Dusty quickly glanced behind him to see if Merlin and Scarlett had noticed him talking to the otter, but then Enrique Buckbo spoke again.

"Don't worry Dusty, they cannot see me yet."
"Ok then," Dusty responded, "can you at least tell me why I must do?"

"In due time," replied the otter, "wait until we land and then I will send you signs hinting at where to find me. Until then enjoy your ride, and I recommend searching around on the ship."

And with that Enrique Buckbo vanished.

(a lot of info in my head too)

[Werty]

Dusty chewed on the Otter's words.

... they cannot see me yet

... I will send you signs...

... I recommend searching around the ship.

Dusty, being the Hobo that he was, quickly lost interest, and set out through the ship. He decided to follow the Otter's advice and search around. First, he began in the kitchen. It was rather bland, Dusty thought. Probably not much in here. And so, Dusty did a quick search and found nothing of interest, and with that, moved on to the Mess Hall.

[blltmssgy]

But this was not your ordinary Mess Hall. It lacked the one thing that makes a mess hall perfect for eating in. It had no chairs for the tables.

[Dresden]

(Also sorry about so much, but I too had diarrhea of the mind)

No, instead of chairs, there were very large, lime green beanbags.

Dusty walked around the mess hall once in confusion, pondering the oddities filling this submarine. Why was the otter here? Why was its name Enrique Buckbo? And WHY was the mess hall filled with lime green beanbags?

"Oh lordy, this is all so confusing."

"Why so serious..."

Dusty yelped and spun around, for there again was Enrique, now wearing a purple coat and carrying a miniature cane.

"Enjoy yourself. I know I am. Catch you later, Butterfly."

And with that Enrique dove behind one of the beanbags. Dusty hurried to catch him, but when he looked behind the beanbag, there was nobody there.

[blltmssgy]

All of a sudden there was a jolt.

"We're here!" someone shouted, and systematically everyone started to get off the sub. Dusty got off and looked around. This was an island like none he had seen before (not that he had seen any before anyways). There were trees over 100 feet tall, many beavers, and other exotic animals. Vegetation grew everywhere. There was even a group of butterflies that flew into a nearby cave.

Suddenly, before he could put everything together in his mind, a voice spoke out from behind him.
"Dusty, come here," called Merlin, "remember that paperwad flinger you made earlier? Well is high time you use it."

[Awsumerthanyou]

Dusty instinctively started shooting paperwads at anything that moved. "Stop that right now!" shouted Merlin. "Wha?" said Dusty, coming back to his senses.

"Don't shoot paperwads!!!" "If not paperwads," said a puzzled Dusty, "Then what?"

"Did you even bother opening the bottom panel of the box?" "Hm?"

Dusty pulled the box he acquired from Scarlett out of his pocket and opened it. Indeed, there was a small nick in the side of the bottom which could be used to open up another section. He opened it. Inside was a bag labeled Do not open before the arrival of the prophesied butterfly-hobo.

"What is thi-"

Dusty turned just in time to see Merlin and Scarlett's submarine(which transforms into a drill) dig into the sand in search for Melvin's underground lair.

Dusty looked up at the butterfly cave, and back at the strange bag.

[Dresden]

Dusty pocketed the paperwad-shooter and the mysterious sack, stretched his wings, and set off towards the butterfly cave, the sound of the submarine-drill slowly fading as he left the beach behind.

"G'day Dusty," Enrique proclaimed as he stepped out onto the path in front of Dusty.

"Oh. It's you."

"Damn straight it is, kiddo. Need some company?"

"Why not..."

As Dusty and Enrique finally reached the cave entrance, Enrique spinning his cane and whistling some random showtune, Dusty pulled out the sack and emptied its contents into his hand.

[Phorpus]

Into his hand tumbled a silver dollar, a small flask marked 'Marvincide', a flare, two vials marked "fire" and "ice", and a cookie.

"Well are we going in or aren't we?" asked Enrique as he jauntily began a small impromptu dance.

Dusty look down the cave, but it was too dark to see.

"Oh for goodness sakes you wanker-" and with that Dusty was pushed into the cave.

But as his foot stepped onto the ground of the cave, he immediately began to feel a burning sensation.

[kissthisrump]

It was then he realized that right when he had entered the cave he caught gonorrhea. Scratching at his painful crotch he walked on. But stopped when he saw what lie ahead...

[blltmssgy]

(ignoring previous post, because it is absolutely horrible, just like what's his face's before)

All of the sudden the cave was illuminated. He looked down and saw hot coals. Quickly, Dusty jumped off of them and found a path leading further into the cave, with Enrique in tow. Dusty reached the back of the cave and discovered a wonderful sight. There was what seemed to be a court of otters, who were surrounded by butterflies.

"I see Enrique has finally brought you to us, Dusty." said the otter who seemed to be seated the highest.

[Werty]

Dusty stood there, in awe. The otters were playing in what seemed like a lazy river with a waterfall at the far end of the cave. There was a hole in the roof that allowed in just enough Sun Light to illuminate the area, but not too much as to make it too bright.

"We've been expecting you," said the High Otter. Dusty murmured, but finally was able to say "How'd you know I was coming?"

[Clint]

Or so did I believe, but the High Otter cut him saying "Bring it to us".
Dusty stood there confused, was the Otter refering to Enrique? or some other plot device that this current poster failed to read about?
Whispers started to be heard amongst the other otters, and Dusty again felt that burning sensation, he was stepping in a natural hot spring (The perfect size for a group of 3 otters) he was starting to think why didn't he noticed it before when sundely the High Otter spoke again.

[Dresden]

Horrible grammar and basically nothing happened even though it was a lengthy paragraph. Work on that...

Dusty looked at the High Otter, utterly bewildered.

"Get yer bum up there, butterfly," Enrique muttered out of the side of his mouth.

"The Phials of Fire and Ice, Dusty. We need them," The Higher Otter proclaimed.

Dusty stared at the High Otter some more, not understanding, then remembered the two phials he found in his pouch.

"Why do you want them?"

[Phorpus]

The High Otter became visibly perturbed, and then said, "You are trying my patience, Dusty, and I've been waiting too long to let a hobo keep me away from our mission."

The Head Otter held up a fin/hand up high to signal an attack when from the mouth of the cave resonated an "OW!"

The butterflies immediately retreated out of the skylight, making the cave fluctuate from light to dark.

When the light stopped strobing, Dusty found himself tangled in a large net along with the High Otter.

"Good job, Dusty, you managed to distract these lard bags long enough for us to enter this cave", said Merlin as he began to reload his crossbow "Now try to move a little bit away from that flabsack's head so I can have a clear shot."

[BKS]

"You're telling me Jesus deciphered this? Jesus Christ?" Merlin shook his head in disbelief, unable to fully communicate his feelings.

Dusty nodded, obviously perplexed over Merlin's reaction.

"We must see him."

[Tweek]

BKS obviously didn't realise there was a second page.

Dusty tried to pull away from the High Otter but the otter scrambled closer to him.

'If you want me, you'll have to take him!' hissed the High Otter.

'So be it, he has finished being useful,' said Merlin as he raised the crossbow.

Dusty closed his eyes and clenched his fists.

[Irve]

sorry, far too long, i know. Just came over me....


He felt something being pressed against his chest. The last thing he knew was, that he was thrown backwards rapidly and he and the High Otter hit the concrete wall badly. Then everything went black.

"butterfly,.... butterfly..... wake up, you son of a..." " Stop it! He´s not gonna wake up faster if you give him bad names!", a familiar female voice said to an almost more familiar male voice.

"Why do we, however, have to take him with us? We´ve got The Phials of Fire and Ice again and we know the next hint! We´re SO close to finishing our mission! And he´s finshed his mission already!"

Dusty, his head turned to his right, opened his eyes a bit and saw an awful view. All the Otters were dead, blood everywhere. Every single one shot, beaten or strangled to death. Some had their eyes opened up widely in despair. Then he heard Merlin speaking and closed his eyes again.

"No. We´re gonna need him once more. I can feel that."

[Voracious32]

"Wait a second, you were just about to kill me. Why should I come with you?", exclaimed Dusty.
"Because without you, there is no hope for the universe", replied Merlin.
"Coming from you, I don't know that's true. You could be the real evil here!"
With that, Dusty jumped to his feet and ran as fast as he could run from the cave.

[Awsumerthanyou]

Dusty soon remembered his butterfly wings, and started to fly from the cave instead. Suddenly, he remembered something else which caused him to turn back. "ENRIQUEEEEEEE!!!" he cried, "NOOOOO!!!"

[Phorpus]

"'Enrique'? Who's 'Enrique'?" asked Merlin as he began to violently scan the cave, brandishing his crossbow.

Dusty's eyes rapidly began to search the faces of dead otters to see Enrique or his cane.

Merlin finally became exasperated, aimed his crossbow at Dusty and said, "Oh, screw it, we can just find another guy"

But then a "NO!" was yelled and Scarlett tackled Merlin into the hot spring.

"Dusty, up here!", whispered Enrique at the hole of the skylight "They left the submarine unmanned!"

But just as Dusty began to flutter out of the skylight he looked down at the hot spring to see Scarlett laying on the ground, a broken arrow sticking from her shoulder, and Merlin beginning to reload his crossbow.

[Awsumerthanyou]

Dusty pulled out the silver dollar in the mysterious bag. "Ha, you cannot bribe me with your silly currency!" said Merlin, "You must remember, despite the fact that I use things like crossbows and highly technologically-advanced submarine-drills, I am still Amish!"

Dusty said nothing, and simply pulled out his paperwad flinger and loaded the silver dollar into it. He fired straight at Merlin's eye. "Oh shit!" cried Merlin, dropping his crossbow and wailing in agony.

Dusty swiftly flew down and grabbed Scarlett. "Enrique!" he called out "Get the crossbow!". Quick as an otter, Enrique scampered down to the bottom of the cave. Dusty flew off out of the skylight and into the sub, with Scarlett in his arms. Enrique quickly followed, crossbow in hand, as Merlin struggled to pull out the silver dollar currently splitting his eye into two useless blobs of blood.

[Dresden]

(ahhh, that was hilarious, awsumer...)

As Merlin's shouts of agony and anger faded, Dusty's little-used wings struggled to keep him and Scarlett aloft as they flew for the submarine. His grip on Scarlett was beginning to slip.

"Scarlett, you have to wake up! Wake up! I can't hold you up!"

"Huh? Wha--aaaaahhh!!!"

Just then, Dusty lost his grip and watched in horror as Scarlett plummeted towards the trees below. At the last second, however, Enrique leapt from one of the trees and managed to catch Scarlett, landing on another branch with her.

"Go, Butterfly, we'll catch ye up!" Enrique shouted.

[hollywood_haloguy]

Dusty flapped and flapped his wings!
suddenly a great feeling came to him...
Guilt...Dusty couldn't let Enrique back... But there was nothing to do.
Dusty continued to flap his wings untill he saw some kind of otter village and flew down...

(hey guys i descovered I'm a dick but I got to'd so i'll less of a dick ok? forgive me...)

[Dresden]

~your writing still sucks, H_H. Give up.~

[Dauntasa]

This ignores Haloguy, like always.

Dusty flew onwards, leaving Enrique and Scarlett behind. He could see the submarine, he was getting close. Suddenly, Dusty felt a sharp pain in his left wing and began to spiral towards the ground. Wham! Dusty landed hard, and everything went black.

[Dresden]

Enrique cried out as he saw, through a gap in the tree canopy, Dusty plummeting towards the beach with a crossbow bolt jutting from his left wing.

Setting down Scarlett on a branch and making sure she wouldn't fall, Enrique loads the crossbow he nabbed from Merlin and sets off towards where Dusty fell, leaping from branch to branch. He had to wonder where Merlin got another crossbow though...

[hollywood_haloguy]

This ignores Haloguy, like always.

Dusty flew onwards, leaving Enrique and Scarlett behind. He could see the submarine, he was getting close. Suddenly, Dusty felt a sharp pain in his left wing and began to spiral towards the ground. Wham! Dusty landed hard, and everything went black.

Goddamit! Stop it!
Can't you guys be nice?!?
Maybe I'm not that old!
ok?
Jesus Christ!
Ok What about this...I go fucking away and I'll just read the story and not make part of it ok?
I try to say sorry but...It doesn't work...
It just doesn't work...It never worked...

[Dauntasa]

Well maybe it would work if you:
1. Write better stuff
2. Used less than one billion dots per post. Seriously, this isn't a "who can fit the most dots in one post" contest.

[Triple J]

Can we get back to the story?

I could drop a load in anticipation.

[Dauntasa]

Dusty groaned and rubbed his head.
"Argh, what the hell..."
He opened his eyes only to see Merlin, who was standing over him, new crossbow in hand.
"Where'd you get that, we took yours."
"I'm Amish you idiot. We couldn't run the world in secret if we didn't have powers."
"Wait, What?"
"That's right. Now come with me, I have plans for you."
Merlin hauled Dusty to his feet and marched him away at crossbow-point, as Enrique watched from above in the trees, fearing for his friend's safety.

[hollywood_haloguy]

Can we get back to the story?

I could drop a load in anticipation.

Merlin shot Dusty in the wing again.

"Holy shit! Enrique can you catch me!?"

"No!" He replied "I'm imaginary remember?"

"Oh yeah..."

Dusty went down and down untill he got to the ground.
"shit being in the middle of the forest with a crazy guy with a crossbow doesn't look very nice..."


New angel wings grew on Dusty.


(How 'bout my typing now?)

[Phorpus]

(Going from Dauntasa because he was first. Sorry, H_H.)

"No, no, not to the sub, over there" said Merlin as he pointed to a well "The sub's probably compromised by now."

"And why the well?" asked Dusty, the crossbow still painfully poking into his back.

"Well, hobo, the well leads to an underground vault of the otters that holds an extremely valuable thing or things", said Merlin as they reached the well "The most famous theory being it holds a panacea, a cure-all for all illnesses and source for eternal life".

"Oh, and I wanted to know how deep the well was so I brought you-" and with that Merlin began to push Dusty in.

But at that very moment Enrique swung down from a tree, knocking Merlin into the well. After 2 minutes a faint 'Thud' was heard and Enrique said, "Oh my goodness that sounds deep."

But deep underground, Zartan's voice was heard "Merlin, get up, Marvin's almost dead and Melvin's on his way."

Enrique, kneeling down and staring down the well, then faced each other and said, "'Marvin' and Melvin?"

(Holy crap I wrote a lot. Sorry.)

[Awsumerthanyou]

Haloguy, I get the feeling English isn't your first language. If so, I sympathize. If not, you're either like 8 years old or a complete dumbass.

[Far]

Stop bickering over stupid shit, report bad posts instead of backseat modding and stop derailing the thread or I'll close it.

[Dresden]

Dusty stared at Enrique.

Enrique stared at Dusty.

Dusty stared at Enrique some more. Then he coughed. Enrique blinked.

"Did he just say Marvin AND Melvin? So there are actually two of them, and people weren't just typing the wrong name out of stupidity this whole time?"

"I guess so, mate," Enrique said, scratching his back with a crossbow bolt. "Either way, we gotta get down there. We can't let them get their hands on anything important."

So with that, Enrique tied a vine to the crossbow bolt, shot it into a nearby stump, and let the other end down into the well.

"After you, mate."

[blltmssgy]

(massive brain diarrhea)

So Dusty, now with only one working wing, began his way spelunking down the well. A few minutes later he finally reached the bottom, and called up to Enrique to let him know he was done. Enrique came down, much faster than Dusty, rebolted his crossbow and spoke to Dusty:

"We'll it looks like we missed them, but I know where they are going. Before we go any farther though, there is something you should know by now," he said as Scarlett somehow made her way down the well after being left by Enrique in the trees she managed to get there quite easily for someone in her hurt state, "down here in this well are the ruins of the once great otter kingdom."

"Whaaa?" stammered Dusty.

"Yes, long ago us otters were a might race, who as legend tells us, created the human race. What we didn't know was how immoral the humans, especially the Amish, would turn out to be.
"They destroyed our city, but luckily they did not know of our secret treasure. That treasure is the secret of humanity, and with it the triplets, Marivn, Melvin, and Merlin, could do unspeakably evil things. And that is why we need your help Dusty."

"What about her?" Dusty asked as he motioned to Scarlett.

"Oh, she was our spy who infiltrated the Amish for us," said Enrique as, to Dusty amazement, Scarlett turned into an otter right in front of his eyes.

"It is high time we get going," replied Scarlett to Enrique and a stupefied Dusty.

[Dauntasa]

They walked through the ruins for some time until they came upon a large dome. Dusty volunteered to go in first while Enrique and Scarlett kept watch. When he stepped inside and looked around, he saw that he was in a spacious, well-lit chamber with two doors on the far side. Merlin and Zartan were having a conversation next to the doors, while two men Dusty had never seen before were examining a strange device in the centre. No one seemed to have noticed him, so he moved closer to Zartan and Merlin to hear what they were saying.

"So he won't be strong enough to fight?"

"No, that Marvincide was too much for him. He'll be down for at least a week."

"Damn. Well, we can't wait that long. Melvin will be here in less than 2 days."

"Well we can't stay here then."

Merlin shouted an order in some strange language to the two unfamiliar men near the device. They quickly ran through one of the doors and returned one minute later with some canisters of strange liquid, which they started to pour into the device. Lights began to appear on the device and it started to make a strange humming noise. Dusty was watching this intently when he felt a sudden urge to look behind him. He turned and saw that the door he had come in through was gone. He was trapped.

[hollywood_haloguy]

(Going from Dauntasa because he was first. Sorry, H_H.)


THIS WAS WHAT I WANTED! Thanks.

[QUOTE=Awsumerthanyou;368697]Haloguy, I get the feeling English isn't your first language. If so, I sympathize. If not, you're either like 8 years old or a complete dumbass.


I'm 13 and I'm portuguese...

[hollywood_haloguy]

They walked through the ruins for some time until they came upon a large dome. Dusty volunteered to go in first while Enrique and Scarlett kept watch. When he stepped inside and looked around, he saw that he was in a spacious, well-lit chamber with two doors on the far side. Merlin and Zartan were having a conversation next to the doors, while two men Dusty had never seen before were examining a strange device in the centre. No one seemed to have noticed him, so he moved closer to Zartan and Merlin to hear what they were saying.

"So he won't be strong enough to fight?"

"No, that Marvincide was too much for him. He'll be down for at least a week."

"Damn. Well, we can't wait that long. Melvin will be here in less than 2 days."

"Well we can't stay here then."

Merlin shouted an order in some strange language to the two unfamiliar men near the device. They quickly ran through one of the doors and returned one minute later with some canisters of strange liquid, which they started to pour into the device. Lights began to appear on the device and it started to make a strange humming noise. Dusty was watching this intently when he felt a sudden urge to look behind him. He turned and saw that the door he had come in through was gone. He was trapped.


Dusty now trapped waited for the device to do something.
Until, the device start spitting off a giant tower that was giving morse code radio transmissions:
"He is near".

Dusty took a look around a found a pointy rock.

[Dauntasa]

"I repeat, The 342nd Amish Recon brigade has made visual contact, Melvin is near. Do you read me, sir?"

"Loud and clear.", replied Merlin into a hole near the base of the device.

"Your orders?"

"Engage Melvin, keep him distracted until Marvin recovers. We're headed for the mainland soon; the rocket is ready but we haven't finished loading it yet. We need him to think we're still here though, so defend this island to the last man."

"We will, sir. You can count on us."

In the background of the transmission, Dusty could hear sirens and a voice shouting "Scramble, Scramble". He realized that Merlin might be able to defeat Melvin, and Dusty couldn't have that. They were both evil, he had to keep them in stalemate so that they would focus on eachother. But this side had two brothers, while Melvin only had himself. With Marvin and Merlin united, this side would win, break the stalemate, and unleash their evil on the world. It was then Dusty made an impulsive, spur of the moment decision. Grasping the pointy rock tightly, he threw it with all his might. The rock hit Merlin right in the throat. He fell backwards, gurgling, as Zartan and the two strange men grabbed their crossbows and opened fire.

[Irve]

he would have felt the breeze of the arrows nearly affecting his head, if he had not been astonished in fear. Quickly he found camouflage behind the near column.

"cease firing!!! NOW!!!!"

Dusty´s head was suddenly full of confusion. He was just hiding behind a small column. Why did they hesitiate? Somehow they seemed to respect him. He grabbed another stone.

"He´s got mights you can´t imagine. We have to be very careful....", he heard Zatan wispering. He said something else which Dusty could not understand.

Mights?

[Dresden]

Dusty looked carefully around for Scarlett and Enrique. Where'd they gotten to?

"If you must shoot him, aim somewhere non-vital. We need him," he heard Zartan say.

Just then, one of the strange men fell with a gurgle, a crossbow bolt jutting from his throat. Zartan and the other soldier spun around, looking for the source. Dusty risked a peek out from behind the pillar and just barely saw Enrique duck behind a pillar across the room. Taking his opportunity, he pulled out his paper-wad flinger, loaded a rock into it, and aimed at the back of the 2nd soldier's head.

[Phorpus]

He leaned against the column for support, carefully aiming at the soldier's neck, when he pressed a small brick on the side of the column.

The dome began to seemingly crush into itself, the ceiling beginning to crumble, when Merlin began to violently gurgle and point at Dusty.

"Rocks, my plan is falling apart because of a hobo throwing rocks", said Zartan "Well I might not have found the panacea in time to save Marvin, and the Marvincide might have just made him worse, but-"

And just then, Enrique tackled Zartan unconscious. Scarlett, then picked up a small transmission device off of Zartan's body and began to walk towards Dusty with Enrique.

Dusty looked at Scarlett and said, "How do you change back and forth from otter to human?" And just as she replied, "Otter? I'm not an otter" the entire room finally collapsed with the floor giving way.

The three of them tumbled down debris and the flopping bodies of the soldiers and finally landed with a loud "Kachink". Dusty was the first to get up, look around, and realize that they had landed in a huge chamber.

A chamber filled up to their shoulders with gold, treasure, and a tiny flask sitting on a pedestal labeled "Panacea".

(Holy crap, thought flood. We should really start writing by 5-sentences per person again.)

[Dauntasa]

Dusty started to walk towards the pedestal. With every step he took, something rumbled underneath the gold. As he reached for the flask, the room shook so hard that Dusty nearly fell. He turned around to see if Enrique and Scarlett were alright, only to see that they were stuffing their pockets with treasure. He turned back to the pedestal and took the flask. The rumbling started again and this time it didn't stop. Everything in the room quickly disappeared, including Enrique and Scarlett!

[Awsumerthanyou]

Dusty quickly looked all around the room, as all matter slowly began to zap away. Eventually, the entire room disappeared, and in a matter of seconds later, so did he.

Dusty saw nothing. Everything turned black. For thirty seconds Dusty floated around in the nothingness, until finally, he appeared back again in some sort of military base run by Otters. In the corner he spotted Enrique, still an otter of course, and Scarlett, back in human form, going through a scanner of sorts.

"Mr. Dusty, it seems you've finally arrived. Welcome to the International Top-Secret Otter Association of the Earth Headquarters." Dusty turned to see what seemed to be a higher ranking Otter on the other side of the glass wall that seemed to be surrounding him. "General Jaques B. Fields, pleased to meet you."

Dusty was grabbed by two Hazmat-suited Otters and put into a scanner not unlike the ones he saw Scarlett and Enrique going through. "Don't worry sir, this is just standard procedure."

After a few hours of physical checks and questioning, Dusty met up with Enrique and Scarlett, who were just getting seated with Gen. Fields.

[Dauntasa]

Holy crap, that's a lot. Didn't realize how much I'd written 'till I was finished.

Dusty noticed that the seats Enrique and Scarlett were sitting at both had plaques on the table in front of them. One said: "Col. Enrique M. Caldwell" while the other said: "Major Scarlett A. Santon". General Fields gestured at one of the chairs and said "Take a seat, Dusty." Dusty obliged and sat down in the chair the general had pointed at. Dusty looked around the table and saw that there were many otters at the table, not just Scarlett, Enrique, and Fields. Fields tapped a cane on the table to get everyone's attention and then he began to speak.

"Gentlemen, we have a golden oppurtunity. As you all know, Melvin has commenced his attack on the island which holds the lost city of Licin. He is trying to stop Marvin and Merlin from unraveling its secret. What you do not know is that this man" Here he gestured at Dusty, "has managed to kill Merlin with a rock from the Sacred Dome. This means that there are only two brothers of the Trifecta of Sin remaining. Marvin and Melvin will have to get in very close proximity to commence their battle. This means that it will only take one shot from the Doom-Hammer cannon to take them both out."

Everyone at the table started muttering. One of the otters spoke up and said, "But sir, The Doom-Hammer is powerful, but it cannot destroy one of the Trifecta after their tranformation."

"I know that. But if we enhance it with one of the Phials of Fire, it should work."

"But we don't have any, sir. They have all been destroyed or used."

"We thought so, but Caldwell mentioned in one of his reports that Dusty here, had got his hands on one."

Fields turned to Dusty and held out his paw,"Dusty, we thank you for finally bringing us the thing we needed to defeat the Trifecta. Please, give the Phial to me."

[Triple J]

Wow, you guys this is seriously such an awesome story.

i understand you guys can't stop writing once you stop but it's getting a little much in one post don't you agree?

Fine now the limit is SEVEN sentences.

[Phorpus]

Dusty began to reach into his pocket, feeling for the phial, when he noticed a few odd things.

He noticed that the plaque said Enrique's last name was Caldwell when he said it was Buckbo, also that the general said Marvin and Melvin were still alive when Zartan said Marvin had died, and he finally remembered Scarlett saying "Otter? I'm not an otter" and the mysterious shape-shifting otter before her.

"Wait" thought Dusty "Shape-shifting otter? But Merlin said that the only person who shapeshifts is Melvi-"

Dusty suddenly began to panic as he looked around the otters around the table, every single one of them impatiently watching him fumble in his pockets.

But in his pockets he found a small note wrapped around one of the flasks that read: "Dusty, Enrique and I are in the sub, keep calm, we're coming to find you, by the way we found a ton of treasure".

And in a sudden rush of realization, he now saw that Enrique was in the sub, Scarlett was a human and was never a shape-shifting otter, the "Enrique" and "Scarlett" that he met before he entered the dome were the ones who closed the door behind him, Merlin was dead, Marvin was dead, the "Enrique" sitting at the table was absolutely nothing like the cheery otter he knew, the only flask in his pocket was the panacea, the otters around him were in Melvin's army, and that the "Scarlett" sitting to the right of him wasn't "Scarlett".

He nervously looked towards the person sitting to his right, and tried to make a small smile, as he looked into the hateful eyes of Melvin.

[Awsumerthanyou]

Dusty tried to clear his mind, trying to think of some way out of this situation. "Well, where is it?" said General Fields, beginning to become very impatient. "I- I..." Dusty's heart began to beat at an incredible rate, and thick beads of sweat poured down his face. "Dusty!" he heard a small whisper from behind him, but did not turn. "Give it to him!" he soon recognized the voice as Enrique's. "But...but" Dusty soon realized he had little choice, and reluctantly pulled the phial of fire out of his pocket, and slowly deposited it into the hand of the enemy. As soon as it touched General Fields' hand, he pulled it back and clutched it in the other. "I told you fools we wouldn't be able to touch it! It's heat has reached too high a temperature by now! Only the Butterfly-Hobo can grasp the almighty fire Phial!" Fields' paw slowly began to burn to a crisp, and then fall off into a pile of ash. "We have no other choice left...ATTACK!!!"

(Sorry, I tried to keep it in the one-paragraph range!)

[Dresden]

As otters came rushing at Dusty, Enrique and Scarlett dropped down from a vent in the ceiling right in front of Dusty. Enrique was now dressed rather like a samurai, with a katana sheathed on his back. Scarlett simply had a rather sturdy-looking quarterstaff.

"Enrique, where the hell did you get a katana?!"

"Not now, kiddo. We've got some ass to kick."

And with that, Enrique pulled out his sword, Scarlett gripped her stave in both hands, and battle commenced.

[Phorpus]

The otters, all making very menacing sounds, climbed over the table and charged at Enrique, Scarlett, and Dusty.

As Enrique cut the faces of two otters he said, "Dusty, to the exit on the right! As you go straight you'll find the sub on the shore" he then kicked an otter in its nose and stabbed through another.

"Hey, otter, behind you!" said 'Scarlett' making Enrique suddenly turn around holding his sword relatively high above his head.

But 'Scarlett' suddenly morphed into Melvin and said, "You stupid fatbag otters" and shot Enrique in the stomach 4 times.

Scarlett then came from behind and knocked Melvin upside the head with her staff as Dusty took Enrique into his arms and began heading for the exit.

Dusty and Scarlett finally made it inside the sub, when Dusty began to see how badly Enrique was hurt and jokingly asked Scarlett, "You wouldn't happen to be a surgeon would you?"

"No, but if we make it to the mainland in two hours I think we can save hi-" and just as she said this the entire sub took a sudden hit and as she checked the sonar she said, "We have company."

[blltmssgy]

"You know it's really unfortunate that Melvin has his own submarine," said Scarlett "but if we're lucky we should be able to beat him to the shore.

"Just to be safe though, Dusty, go man the guns and see if you can take him out," said Scarlett.

"Alright," said Dusty, begrudgingly because he has had such a long day after only wanting to find a great fortune, "but only if you promise that we can get this damn wings cut off when Enrique sees his surgeon."

[Phorpus]

But as he headed for the gun he saw a chamber filled almost completely in treasure and shiny things.

Then he remembered the end of the small note on the flask of panacea: "...by the way we found a ton of treasure".

After which he also remembered that the panacea should heal all wounds, meaning he could save Enrique's life right now.

But then another sudden jolt knocked Dusty over and into the pile of treasure.

As he picked himself up from a pile of coins he wondered whether he should save Enrique's life now just in case they're too late to get to the mainland, or if he should man the guns in case they get sunk.

[blltmssgy]

Dusty thought "Screw it, Enrique is my friend, I wanna give him another shot at life! Me giving him the panacea shouldn't take that long."

And Dusty made his way back to Enrique.

[hollywood_haloguy]

wow!!!the guy continued from me! Now goimg back to the story... When they got together enrique got emotional and started to cry, Dusty got hugged by him and he stole a assasins knife(like the hidden one in assasins creed) I am terribly sorry for this post i wrote in class with the iphone.

[DaEdge304]

(ignoring the assasins knife comment because it makes no sense)

Dusty was still crying like a little girl as he applied the panacea to Enrique's wounds. Just when Dusty thought he was too late to save Enrique's life. Enrique said in a rather hoarse voice "stop being a pussy and help me man these guns." Enrique had regained conciousness!

Dusty, embarrassed, made his way to the control board for the torpedos in hopes of redeeming himself.

[haza]

But on his way to the torpedoes he tripped, banged his face on the control board and fell unconcious. He looked like a complete prick

[Dresden]

Continuing from DaEdge because haza's a noob.

As Dusty and Enrique settled into their gunner seats, the submarine shook again.

"They're gaining on us. You guys ready?!" Scarlett's voice blared over the intercom

"Let's do this," Dusty said resolutely, gripping his guns tightly. His radar showed about 10 small, one-man subs heading quickly for them, so he spun his turret around and aimed for the nearest. He clicked a button, released a torpedo, and watched in satisfaction as the sub exploded.

"I got him! I got him!" Dusty cried.

"Great kid, don't get cocky!" Enrique yelled from below.

[Phorpus]

As Dusty recovered from his rush of joy he saw three more blips on the sonar, but two on radar, and shouted, "Scarlett! There are two 1cm blips coming at us from the air!"

"Oh my god", and she then flicked the trigger and the sub immediately began to drop.

All of the blips then began to disappear slowly as they rested gently on the dark ocean floor.

Scarlett then threw a wetsuit and SCUBA gear at dusty and began to put one on when she said, "We're going to have to abandon the sub, we can't take that much damage."

Dusty was caught off guard for a second while watching Scarlett changing but then asked, "But where can we go? We're too far away from...what about the treasure?!"

Enrique began stretching for the swim and said, "We'll have to leave it, but don't worry chum, we can salvage it later or find more swag elsewhere."

As they began to leave the sub Dusty looked back at the treasure with forlorn eyes.

[blltmssgy]

Dusty was so reluctant to leave the trip full of treasure, well because, that's the reason he gained his butterfly wings and set off on the adventure in the first place. To find treasure. Luckily for Dusty, he got out of the sub just in time, Dusty had not swam 10 feet when two torpedoes hit the sub and it exploded sending a wave of gold coins and treasure towards Dusty, pushing him up to Scarlett and Enrique.

[Phorpus]

The explosion sent them into a cloud of bubbles, forcing them to move around aimlessly.

But just as the bubbles began to clear they found themselves caught in a huge net, which began to crank up and bring them to the surface.

When they finally reached the surface above the water they heard an Icelandic voice saying "Hey, that isn't fish."

Dusty looked past through the netting and some seaweed and saw that they were hauled up by a ship called 'The Seaspray" and the person who spoke was leaning against the railing.

The man turned around to a lanky brunette girl and said, "Hey there, Penny, bring the menagerie on board."

Scarlett, Enrique, and Dusty were released from the net and landed on the deck as the man knelt down and said with an outstretched hand to Enrique, "Why hello there, good sir, I'm Captain Poland."

After shaking Enrique's fin he then stood up, looked at the three and said, "And I guess from the looks of your fancy gear I'd say you're looking for the lost treasure of Captain Fog, too, eh?"

[hollywood_haloguy]

Dusty thought "Jesus!Finally somebody remembered I'm soppused to be a rich hobo!"

"Well yes, yes I am"

"Oh jolly good show!"Replied the boat owner(who's name is Hoggy)

Afterwards Hoggy and his horrible wife offered them food.
While Dusty was just "goofin'" around he found a map of the nearby island(Who's name was Alfarroba) and put it in his pants,Suddenly he heard screams from the next room, it was Hoggy and his wife Bethany(Yes, Bethany they all need names).
"Holy shit!!!They are trying to find the treasure!We can't let a filthy hobo and a bugger otter get that from us can we?!"
"Wait...Shhh I heard something..."

[hollywood_haloguy]

Dusty thought "Jesus!Finally somebody remembered I'm soppused to be a rich hobo!"

"Well yes, yes I am"

"Oh jolly good show!"Replied the boat owner(who's name is Hoggy)

Afterwards Hoggy and his horrible wife offered them food.
While Dusty was just "goofin'" around he found a map of the nearby island(Who's name was Alfarroba) and put it in his pants,Suddenly he heard screams from the next room, it was Hoggy and his wife Bethany(Yes, Bethany they all need names).
"Holy shit!!!They are trying to find the treasure!We can't let a filthy hobo and a bugger otter get that from us can we?!"
"Wait...Shhh I heard something..."

[hollywood_haloguy]

Ups!Double-post!Sorry!

USER WAS PUT IN TIMEOUT FOR THIS POST. (http://forums.explosm.net/bankamp/)
Reason: Good lord, 4 seperate reports just for you alone. Take some time off and come back when you can get it right.

[Dresden]

Continuing from Phorpus because H_H still can't tell a good story or use proper grammar. And also because he doesn't know how to use the fucking edit OR delete button and triple posts.

Dusty accepted Captain Poland's hand up, and tried to wring the water out of his clothes.

"The treasure of Captain Fog? What is that, exactly?" Enrique said as he shook himself dry, splattering everyone else with water in the process.

"Tis said that there was unimaginable wealth hidden somewhere hereabouts. Been many an expedition tried to find it. None ever have. We're very close, though."

Dusty felt to make the panacaea was still in his pocket, and, looking at Fog, said, "Sorry, don't know anything about it. We were just running from some power-hungry, homicidal wizard brothers in their submarine after killing a bunch of otters."

[hollywood_haloguy]

Continuing from Phorpus because H_H still can't tell a good story or use proper grammar. And also because he doesn't know how to use the fucking edit OR delete button and triple posts.

Dusty accepted Captain Poland's hand up, and tried to wring the water out of his clothes.

"The treasure of Captain Fog? What is that, exactly?" Enrique said as he shook himself dry, splattering everyone else with water in the process.

"Tis said that there was unimaginable wealth hidden somewhere hereabouts. Been many an expedition tried to find it. None ever have. We're very close, though."

Dusty felt to make the panacaea was still in his pocket, and, looking at Fog, said, "Sorry, don't know anything about it. We were just running from some power-hungry, homicidal wizard brothers in their submarine after killing a bunch of otters."

F-YOU THIS WAS MY BEST STORY!AND THERE'S NO SHAME NO TO KNOW HOW TO DELETE!

People I ask you to continue from mine!It only happened once please!
c'mon I took time on that!

[Irve]

haloguy, stop it now. its the best for everyone involved if you just stop being so abject, really.

Dont you see how ridiculous your are? why are you so desperate to find acceptance by writing on our story? We are people you have never ever seen before, and you will never.

boy... you are 13 years old... and english is not your first language, so it´s obvious that you cannot write as good and as clever as we do. That means no harm. English is not my first language too. but if I was treaten like that here, I would say fuck it and leave it. There´s so many things you can do instead.

So please. Fuck it.

[hollywood_haloguy]

haloguy, stop it now. its the best for everyone involved if you just stop being so abject, really.

Dont you see how ridiculous your are? why are you so desperate to find acceptance by writing on our story? We are people you have never ever seen before, and you will never.

boy... you are 13 years old... and english is not your first language, so it´s obvious that you cannot write as good and as clever as we do. That means no harm. English is not my first language too. but if I was treaten like that here, I would say fuck it and leave it. There´s so many things you can do instead.

So please. Fuck it.


PS: you cant delete comments that have been posted. but if you would have looked carefully, you would have seen that you can edit them ;-)



You're the closest thing to my dad...
ok ,from now on I will do maximum 7 lines(like the rules).
Don't worry I won't bug you all...
ps: I'll be less bugging if you guys continue from what I wrote...

[Irve]

ignoring what has been said and continuing the story

The Captain looked at Dusty as if he was the strangest kind of alien he´d ever seen. "erm.... ok..", he murmured. "You wanna help us find the treasure?"

Dusty looked at Enrique and Scarlett which nodded. He also did so and an indefinable grin appeared on the Captains face. " OK then. You guys seem to be hungry.", he said and offered them to go below.

They entered a small cabine, in the middle there was a small table which was set luxoriously. "Come. Eat!"

A strange feeling came over Dusty. How could they know they would come? And if not, how could the table be set that quickly? He looked at his two friends and they seemed to think the same. Captain Poland noticed that and his face went red.

"EAT! EAT NOW!"

[Awsumerthanyou]

They sat at the table silently for a while, staring down at their meals. Dusty started to look around, as Captain Poland looked at him impatiently. He looked at the strange soup set before them, and noticed that Scarlett's was a different color than Enrique's and his. Suddenly, Dusty spotted something horrifying. He looked on the wall, and saw a collection of preserved butterfly bodies. He looked at Poland in shock. He noticed that the Captain's shirt was made of fur. Otter Fur.

[Phorpus]

Then the brunette girl came in with two more pots of soup and said, "So how is it? Does it taste all right? Why aren't you eating?"

Poland said, "No, no, honey snookums, the soup's great but they're just a little off-kilter from just coming out of the water."

With an incredulous look she left the room, and as she left Poland leaned over and whispered, "Look, I know we just met but my daughter's been really insecure about her cooking lately so can you guys please eat something?"

Dusty then said, "But how come Enrique's soup and mine are a different color than Scarlett's? And what's with the otter fur and butterfly wings?!"

"Because your soup is from last night, your friend got the new batch of soup Penny just made, and those are just some souvenirs from other travels...you thought I was going to hunt you?"

Enrique chimed in and said, "Actually, Dusty, that's not otter fur, that's walrus fur. And to be fair Walruses are bastards."

Then Penny came back in with her own bowl of soup, the same color as Dusty and Enrique's, and Poland began to drink in mouthfuls of chunky brown soup saying, "It tastes" (He gags in his mouth at the texture) "...delightful."

[Dresden]

Dusty laughed to himself, quickly turning it into a cough when Penny looked over, and forced down some soup.

"It really is quite...unique. The texture and flavor are unlike anything else."

Enrique didn't even bother with this. When nobody was looking, he quickly tossed his soup out the window and placed the empty bowl back on the table.

"MMMM mmm!! Nummers! How tasty!" he exclaimed, bringing incredulous looks from everyone in the room besides Penny. Oblivious, he pulled out his pipe, lit it, and started puffing away. "Boy do I miss my bowler hat and cane..."

[haza]

Continuing from DaEdge because haza's a noob.

...

Fuck you

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[Phorpus]

Enrique puffed on his pipe for a while and leaned back on his chair, beginning to relax a bit after such a weird adventure.

He looked over with the corner of his eye at Dusty and saw him cautiously about to take a lick at the soup when Poland slipped him a strip of beef jerky under the table with a wink.

Enrique then leaned his chair all the way against the wall and was able to look over his shoulder and out the porthole, looking at the night sky as the boat bobbed up and down.

"So you're a real otter, then?", asked Penny as she looked at Enrique with wide eyes and a subdued smile "I wish I was an otter, must be fun."

"You'd think" he said as he took in another drag from his pipe "But, otters haven't been doing all that well".

Her face showed genuine concern as she asked, "What do you mean? Are otters an endangered species?"

Enrique's eyes hardened as he said, "Well, that's one way to put it."

[Dresden]

"The otters have been at war with the wizarding community for a long time. Both sides are rather ragged after so long. Only a few hundred otters left. And only two wizards -- the ones trying to kill me and my friends here."

Dusty came back to reality from wherever his mind was, paying more attention to Enrique. Poland, Penny, and Scarlett also looked at the otter with intense interest.

"You see, otters were at one point the protectors of nature and magic. Why else do you think we always seem so playful and happy? Anyway, some folk took offense at Mother giving her magic to otters. They stole some for themselves, and so there were wizards like Merlin and Melvin."

[blltmssgy]

"These wizards have unfortunately infiltrated into the human society, and seek to destroy it; Mother gave us the job of putting an end to this situation," Enrique motioned to him and Scarlett, and then continued. "For whatever reason they seem to like to pose as devout Christians, and hence the Amish peoples were born."

"Amish! Amish, you say?" replied Capt. Poland, "Well you're in luck you three, it just so happens that I found an Amish man floating on some metal a little while back."

Capt. Poland went over to a cabin door, opened it, and inside sat, Melvin, bound and tied.

[Phorpus]

Enrique dropped out of his chair, tap-tapped towards the door and shut it saying, "Okay, Poland, we're going to have to toss him overboard."

"Huh? But I barely know the guy and you're telling me we have to kill him?", said Poland as he stood up.

"He's far too much a risk to us here, especially being a shapeshifter. Scarlett and Dusty, as soon as I open the door you guys carry him up to the deck." Enrique said while opening the door.

Dusty got up and stood in front of the door when an otter with red hair slid next to him.

"Scarlett? I thought you said you're not an otter?", asked Dusty just as Enrique began to open the door.

But just as the door opened they found Scarlett, with a black eye, saying, "I'm not an otter! I'm a normal human! That's Melvin!"

Just as Dusty turned his head Melvin punched him across the nose and held a gun to Penny's head, "Seriously? You still thought she was an otter?"

[Awsumerthanyou]

"We don't care much about her, I mean we've just met" said Enrique. Melvin promptly let Penny go and held his gun to the head of Scarlett. "Oh no!" said Dusty.

[Phorpus]

The entire room tensed up, and Enrique said, "Alright, what are your demands?"

"Take me to the nearest port and-" but Melvin was cut off as Penny smashed a chair into his head from behind.

She then looked at Enrique and said, "Really? You don't care much about me?"

"Well, I do now because you knocked him out. Now I think you're pretty smashing.", he said while sliding over to Melvin.

Dusty knelt down over Melvin's unconscious body and asked , "So, what do we do now?"

Poland sat in a rocking chair and said, "I guess we toss the body overboard, this 'Melvin' seems like a pretty mean guy there. And from our current location we can go to either the shores of Ariadne or the supposed treasure of Captain Fog."

[blltmssgy]

"Well, since I started this day looking for my fortune," Dusty began, "I say that we go look for this treasure of Captain Fog."

[Dresden]

Dusty thought to himself as they sailed towards where Captain Poland said Fog's treasure was. At first he was just staring off at the horizon, but slowly he began to notice something. It was a lot brighter out. Golden, even.

"Blimey, bright as a bugger, i'n't it?" Enrique proclaimed.

Scarlett was applying copious amounts of sunscreen. Captain Poland was rubbing his hands together excitedly.

"Aye, that it is, little otter. That be the shine of Fog's Island. You'll want to put these on," And with that he pulled out a half dozen black blindfolds, handing them out before putting on his own. "These'll let us see on the island without going instantly blind."

(I know it was a lot. Brain diarrhea)

[Phorpus]

Dusty put his blindfold on when he asked, "But...I can't see anything."

"Just wait for it" Fog said as he giddily rubbed his hands together "If the legend's true then you'll be able to see just fine when we're closer to the island."

And after a few minutes of them looking at nothing, with Dusty looking in the wrong direction, the island suddenly came into view.

Poland began pointing out a few details of the island with the fervor of a child, saying "See those giant walls of gold? That's what's making the sun shine so mighty fine."

Scarlett squinted her eyes, seeing small figures walking along the battlements of the wall, "Is the entire wall made of gold?"

"Nah, that'd be insane" said Poland "They're just gold-plated. The actual walls are made of ivory, pearl, whale bones, and diamonds."

"That's fascinating" Dusty said while blindly walking about the deck "Can I take off this blindfold now?"

[Dresden]

(Little note: my intention was that the island was so bright from all the glittery treasure that they'd be blind; but the light is so bright that with the blindfolds on there's just the right amount so they can see normally, with cloth over their eyes. If that made any sense. But whatever, do with it what you will)

[blltmssgy]

"Well you could, I guess." Replied Captain Poland. "But that'd just be stupid, you'd go blind, and what joy is an endless amount of treasure if you can't see it?"

"I agree," said a happy Dusty, "I think that I'm going to take the ivory, pearls, diamonds, and other stuff, so that when I get back home ---"

Dusty's sentence was cut off right then by a hearty laugh by Captain Poland.

[Phorpus]

Everybody was pretty creeped out so Penny asked, "Dad? What's so...funny?"

"Well for one thing I just realized he has butterfly wings" he said while pointing to Dusty, "and the other is that we can't take their treasure from the island."

Dusty looked a bit perturbed and asked, "Why not? It's just sitting there in piles and hills. Who'd notice if we took a bucketful or something?"

"They would" Poland said while pointing to the small moving figures Scarlett had seen earlier "They keep a very good inventory of what they have and they rarely give their treasure to anybody else."

Enrique, Scarlett, Dusty, and Penny were a quiet for a minute and Enrique asked, "So what was the ruddy point of coming here if we can't even get the treasure?"

"Well it's said they're willing to barter" Poland said while preparing a lifeboat "And they've been pretty interested in finding a wizard."

[blltmssgy]

"Well it's a good thing we didn't take your advice, Poland, and throw Melvin overboard." Enrique replied. "Because if they like wizards, by G-d, they are going to love an Amish wizard!"

[Phorpus]

"Hey, to be fair, throwing him overboard was your idea little fella'" Poland said while brandishing a small flashlight.

"Don't call me little fella' you-" but Enrique was cut short as the ship ran side-first into the gold-plated wall, scraping small bits of it off.

A tiny shadowy figure at the top of the high wall yelled down, "Hey! Tha's an espensive wall you just hit thar, you did, I think, yeah?"

Dusty reeled back from the odd mix of what he thought was Minnesotan and Scottish and was about to reply when Poland hollered, "We have an Amish wizard!"

"Oh wow tha's quite super thar. I'll be sending down some hooks and you hook them to yer boat thar and we'll crank you up, you think? Yeah?" and then the shadowy figure disappeared and 8 ropes and hooks were thrown down.

[Dresden]

Dusty scratched his head and flapped his wings a little bit as he pondered the extremely odd vernacular of the island.

"So. They're gonna haul our ship up with hooks. A several hundred ton pirate ship. With hooks. And ropes."

"Yepper, that's basically it," said Enrique, taking out his pipe and lighting it again.

"What if the ropes break?"

"Ah, ya gots nothin' to be wor--"

The whole port side of the ship exploded in fire and splinters.

"Again!" shouted Merlin.

[Phorpus]

Ropes began to snap and the ship began to crackle apart, making everybody on board slide down to the port side.

"Dusty! Get help from the people at the top of the wall!", yelled Poland as he clung onto a twisting metal railing.

Dusty began to flap his wings and headed to the top of the wall yelling, "Help! Help!"

"There he is! Aim and fire the net pods!" yelled Merlin.

Alarms began to sound from inside the walls, with what sounded like millions of feet beginning to run about and he saw machinery beginning to crank out giant solid-diamond cannons.

Dusty evaded the firing net pods, serpentining side to side, and as he made it to the top of the wall he looked down to see the ship finally fall apart and saw his friends plummet into the ocean amidst the wreckage.

And as Dusty tried to recover from the exhausting flight up the wall he was helped up by a man wearing a button-down jacket and a bandolier who said with a clear English accent, "Welcome to my island, I'm Captain Fog."

[blltmssgy]

"You must a pretty special hobo-butterfly," continued Captain Fog, "considering there's a gaint hole in one of your wings, that looks to have been made by a crossbow bolt, and you still managed to fly out of that ship and get up here.

"It seems like me and you need to have a little chit-chat, because as much as I like wizards and Amish people, Merlin really isn't my cup of tea."

[Awsumerthanyou]

"Wait, what about your treasure?" asked Dusty.
"Oh yeah, I don't really have any!"
"What about the gold walls?"
"Paint!"
Dusty looked at him in utter shock. "So we came all the way out here for no reason?!" "No, you came out here to team up with me so I could help you beat Merlin! Plus, the whole "Captain Fog's treasure" subplot was really putting a strain on the story's progression, or at least that's what I think"
"Huh?"
"Oh, just nothing! Now, we need to talk!"

[Dresden]

"Personally, I don't much care for tea at all. I'm more of a whiskey chap," Enrique proclaimed, climbing up the last few feet of one of the ropes hanging over the wall. Scarlett clambered up behind him.

"Enrique, Scarlett, you made it! Poland? Penny?" Dusty said breathlessly.

Scarlett shook her head, looking morose. Fog looked around at the three of them, pushing his dead-black-lensed spectacles further up the bridge of his nose, and motioned.

"Come with me. We have things to discuss, and I have something may cheer ye up."

EDIT: Oh woops, me and awsumer posted at the same time. Sorry!

[Phorpus]

(Continuing from Dresden because Awsumerthanyou's was too random)

"But what about Merlin?" asked Dusty as he followed Fog over a hill of gold bars.

"Well, they'll never be able to breach the fortifications of my island, which they know, so they'll reserve their ammunition and attempt to scale the walls."

Enrique lit his soggy pipe and said, "And what's this good news you spoke of?" and as he began to walk over into a pile of gold statues he added "I hope it entails treasure"

"Oh it mi-" but Fog was cut off as Scarlett tripped over a gold statue.

Fog caught her and said, "Be careful, one bad step into a pile of diamonds and you'll end up in ribbons"

Merlin began to cease firing and Enrique said, "My, well I wonder if Merlin's met his match with this island. Meeting Fog's been quite the windfall, eh, Dusty?"

But Dusty was too busy wondering what they have to bargain with now, and also the little wink Fog had given to Scarlett.

[Dresden]

Did you mean Fog? You said Poland three times, even though I said he died...

[Phorpus]

Oh crap, yeah, sorry.
Fixing it now.

[Dresden]

I didn't post right after Phorpus cause I did just before him, but I want to get the thread going again

Fog led the group deeper into the golden jungles of the island; nobody spoke for quite some time. After about 40 minutes, he called a halt, and they all sat down up against some trees, pulling out some water and food.

"So, what's the plan now chief?" Enrique inquired.

"We'll head back to my compound, get some weapons and reinforcements. Then I'll call the whole armada to mobilize and sail around the far side of the island to come up behind Merlin, trap him up against the Golden Wall."

Dusty, Enrique and Scarlett just kind of stared at Fog for a few seconds.

"Sounds like a bloody good idea," said Enrique. Dusty just wondered where Fog had gotten a whole fleet of ships from.

[Phorpus]

They kept walking deep into the island until they were in front of a very small door.

"Well, here's my residency" Fog said as he took out a ring of keys and began sifting through them.

"But isn't that door a bit small for us?" asked Dusty.

"Door?" said Fog as he put a key into the door "What door?"

As he turned the key the ground below them began to lower, going down many levels of ground before settling into the middle of a large room.

Fog tucked the keys back into his pocket when a large rumbling sound began to growl from around the room.

Fog noticed a very concerned look on Scarlett's face and said, "Don't worry, it's probably just Merlin trying to tunnel under the island."

[blltmssgy]

"No, not the drilling sound, we all have been hearing that for a while now." Scarlett replied. "I'm talking about the growling that's coming from that corner over there."

[Phorpus]

"What sou-" Fog began to say when the entire room suddenly jolted.

The lights went out and the walls began to crackle and cave in.

Dusty looked around frantically when a roaring 'Whoosh' was heard and the room became filled with seawater.

He then blacked out, his last sight being a rush of foam and water.

Dusty woke up five hours later, lying on his back in the middle of a river.

He got up and shook his wings dry, looking around, seeing a forest to one side and a canyon to the other; Enrique, Scarlett, and Fog were nowhere to be seen.

"What the hell?" he said as he realized where he was "This is where Merlin brought me at the beginning."

(I think we should make an ending for this story now. After all, it's pretty much dead.)

[gordanthefree]

Then he fell off a cliff and died, so did Merlin, Enrique, Scarlett, and Fog.

[haza]

Then he fell off a cliff and died, so did Merlin, Enrique, Scarlett, and Fog.Random but i'll go with it.

But then before they realised they were falling they had all landed in deep deep snow in the middle of nowhere. Enrique got up and looked around but all he could see was snow.

[gordanthefree]

SHIT, the sun came out of nowhere and now Enrique is snow blind :(

Luckily all the others had sun glasses

[Xambesi]

Suddenly, in the distance, there was a flash of light.
"Avast!" cried Enrique "Help is near!"
A rumbling sound permeated the frosty night air, and the earth juddered. The flash of light appeared again.
"It seems to be coming towards us..." whispered Scarlett, "Coming towards us very quickly."

[Xambesi]

(snap, gordons post wasn't there when i started typing)

[Dresden]

(It's ok, gordon's post was shit anyway)

Scarlett and Enrique stared as a half dozen men on snowmobiles drove up, stopped, and pulled up their goggles.

"What you be doin' out here, yeah?"

"Don't rightly know, to be sure," Enrique said, feeling around in his pockets for his pipe.

"We just sorta appeared here. We were on an island... There was someone attacking. And Dusty..." Scarlett trailed off.

"Who the bloody hell is Dusty?" Enrique asked. "We were out scouting for a good campsite for the rest of the group. We fell down or somethin'. You musta hit your head, darling."

"I suppose so. Sure was an odd dream though," Scarlett stared off into the distance.

Yes. It was all a dream. How original, huh?

[gordanthefree]

She stared off, and suddenly saw Dusty, he was wearing his shorts and t-shirt, he looked slightly purple.

He took off his T-shirt.

[Phorpus]

(Dresden's last post is going to be what I consider the ending of this story. It's not "official" in the "continuity" in any way but it'll put my mind at ease. The story's pretty much gone to hell anyways.)

[Far]

Closing this before it spirals any further into jackassery.