Newan

The Wheel of Time?

This place was yucky. Dirty. There were lots of people. There were old ones, kind of old ones, and really old ones. But he was the only new one. New One saw something shiny and started crawling toward it. Then he looked away and the shiny thing stopped existed. New One began to cry. He had wanted that shiny thing. New One, the Toddler is joining the game! He still has to work on his object permanence, though.

I don't know if you want to be vindicated.

Perhaps he broke off the power before he realized it would gain sentience, and now he can't leave his planet unprotected to go hunt it down.

Perhaps Sazed broke off the extra power of Ruin as a splinter, and then put it on another planet that is not too far away. Maybe that splinter wouldn't have a full-blown magic system, but it would do weird things that gave cognitive shadows more power to attack the living, and use metal as a focus. Is it possible he sent his extra power to Threnody?

What's the new question?

He's a one-off viewpoint character I put in the middle of my most recent Dalles post because I was adding way to much telling and not enough showing. edit: Also, he's almost certainly not going to survive.

And then Snaboon survived.

"Planeshift!" Memori yelled. A rhinoceros charged toward Planeshift, so he reached out and grabbed the fur of a bear that was fifteen feet away and pulled himself out of the path of the charging beast. He kicked his feet up and did and handstand on the bear so he could stretch out and kick a bird. Then the bear stood up on its hind legs. Planeshift fell off, but he went flat so by the time it turned around, he was out of its direct line of sight. The bear didn't even look down. It turned and started to walk away from Planeshift, so he stood up, and casually raised his knife. Current Event grabbed his arm, and Memori put her hand over his mouth. What are these morons doing? I was dominating! Planeshift grabbed Memori's hand with his free hand and was about to bite it when he saw a puckered, half-healed gash across her palm. She got that when Blastaway appeared behind me, Planeshift remembered. He was going to stab me, so she grabbed the knife with her bare hand. Planeshift stopped struggling. "Look around, you stupid slontze." Memori whispered angrily. All of the animals were clamboring and trying to climb over a circular dirt wall. The three epic fugitives stood at the center of the ring, but the animals were completely ignoring them. "While you were busy relapsing into jerk mode, the earthbender epic decided to prove our worthiness, Ancient Roman-style." Memori held her arms out like Russell Crowe in Gladiator and turned all the way around. "They said that they would let us leave the Dalles if we killed all of these animals. Whenever an animal looked away from us, I made it forget we were here." When Calamity chose Tektonix, I made him promise never to use his powers. "I'm slipping," said Memori. "These aren't normal animals. Their minds are stronger. Each time one starts to look back towards us, I let it remember its worst fear, but I don't know how long that will hold them off." "It's ok," said Planeshift. "Give our memories back. It's not like running into a telepath is the worst thing that could happen to us right now." Images and thoughts flooded into Planeshift's mind. His life started to make sense again. Except for the army of pandas. That was still confusing as heck. "Um, I don't know if I can keep going," said Current Event. He was bleeding in multiple places. "So if you need like, a distraction or something..." He trailed off. "What?" said Planeshift. "No. You're not going to sacrifice yourself just because you have an earache." "Come on, man. We all know I'm the expendable one. I got us this far, but you'll be taking a freeway to Boise, not a river. You can step over that wall, but I doubt you'll get through those animals quickly enough to avoid notice while carrying two people." "Pfft, I could do it," said Planeshift. Current Event and Memori looked doubtful. "Current Event," said Memori, "We're not just going to let you die out of convenience. But you're right, it would be difficult to bring you along. Plus, the frequency epic already seems to have singled you out as the weakest member of the group. You might not make it if you come along. But there may be another way." *** Snaboon didn't really understand why he was a baboon, or why he had snakes for arms. He was confused about a lot of things right now. Where did this wall come from? Why was he surrounded by animals? And why did his third grade teacher keep appearing in his mind when he turned around? He turned his head slightly to the left. He saw standing above him. She had a mole right next to her lip, with a single black hair sticking out of it. Behind her was a window. Through the window he saw a tree. He remembered that tree. He used to climb on that tree during recess. But then a few years later it had been cut down. He had actually cried when they chopped the tree down. No epic could bring things back to life. This was definitely just a memory. He turned around completely. Memories of his insane, evil third grade teacher filled his mind, but he focused on what he saw in front of him. An epic stuck his arms straight up, then became flat. The other male epic stood on the flat one. Then the first epic sprung into length, launching the bleeding epic high into the air toward the river. Wait, aren't we supposed to be killing these epics? thought Snaboon. He started screaming at the other animals. A few of them turned toward him. He pointed his slithery snake arms and hissed. But by the time he had gotten the attention of the army, the female epic had climbed onto stretchy epic's back, and Stretchy was running toward them. He was also hundreds of feet tall. Some of the animals cowered for a moment, but Snaboon ran toward Stretchy. It doesn't matter how tall you are; a snakebite's still poisonous. Snaboon's left hand struck toward Stretchy's leg, but the tall epic hopped over him. Snaboon shrieked, then turned around and showed the epic his buttocks, but that didn't even slow Stretchy down. Before any of the other animals could reach the epic, it had stepped over the wall. *** Planeshift adjusted his height so Memori was at eye-level with the epics on the pillar. He held onto the pillars with both his hands so he wouldn't fall over in case of a gust of wind. "All right," said Memori to the frequency epic. We killed plenty of the animals and left the rest of them trapped. You must be growing tired of these games too. Your earthbender can kill the rest of them with a wave of her hand."

Didn't we see a DNA transaction Steelheart? It's been a while since I read it, but I thought they sold some of Fortuity's DNA to that arms dealer guy.

Wow. That is extremely helpful. Awesome.

I wasn't here when people started using red text in their posts. What does it mean?

You got it, Cheese!

Yes! In this children's movie, a religiously devout man tries to keep his home sacred, but is opposed by a soldier, an indie musician, an outgoing recluse, and three imaginary demon hunters.

Nope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13th_Warrior ? This is not Without Looking It Up, and I refuse to feel guilty about googling "beowulf cannibals 12 movie".

Nope I'm not using Hawaii! I have an epic who can control magma. He created his own archipelago called Order. Speaking of my other epics, I think I'm going to introduce Blastaway in Astoria soon. He'll only be there for a few posts, and then he'll leave for a while. I'm going to hold off on introducing Lillian Razor or Bringer right now. Lillian (rogue epic hunter) doesn't really make sense in the context of Astoria or the Dalles, and Bringer will be more fun if he enters the scene after we know the other characters pretty well. Updated bio for Blastaway, agent of chaos: Reasoning One more thing: I really hope that in the RP, when other characters realize that Blastaway can fight until he's a bloody pulp, then explode himself, one of them will exclaim, "Blood and ashes!"

My thought process went: Beowulf->old english literature->middle english literature->Canterbury Tales, but in the extremely loose movie adaptation (A Knight's Tale), I don't think Geoffrey helped twelve people to kill.

The Hobbit?

Planeshift's back, and he has a dark side. It might take some pretty intense breathing exercises to calm him down after this one.

"Epics, then?" asked the leader of the slontzes. "You are cowards. Get out of the Dalles. Immediately." He then released waves of energy at them, knocking them to the ground. Current Event cried out in pain. Planeshift stood up and steadied his breathing. He hated epics like these. Once he was certain that he would sound submissive and agreeable, he shouted back to the frequency epic, "That was our aim before our vehicle was destroyed. Do you know where we could find a new one?" Planeshift helped Current Event up. The miserable man was still suffering from his previous injury, and now blood was running out of one of his ears. Then Planeshift walked over to Memori. "So we're letting them think they're in control?" she asked softly. "No," said Planeshift, "They are in control. These kind are too powerful to work with. As soon as we have something that they want, they'll kill us out of convenience. Start making them forget what they like about each other. If their alliance is weak, you may be able to break it. Also, act strong, but not strong-willed. We don't want them to--" Planeshift cut off as a herd of animals poured into the street. "AUGH! What the sparking sparkamity is wrong with this stupid city?" he yelled. He turned back to Memori. "Forget whatever I just said. It's time for kill. Make them forget where I am." A panda was a hundred yards in front of him, but then it was right in front of him. It was also paper-thin. Before it even realized he had stretched out to meet it, he grabbed its paper-thin knife from its harness, then planted his foot and returned to normal length and the knife felt normal in his hand. Then he flattened downward, the panda appearing to tower above him. The knife flattened with him, but from the panda's perspective, it would be much sharper than before. He swung in a circle and cut off all four feet, then reached his hands upward and locked his elbows, and then stretched upward quickly enough to launch the panda into the air. Blood sprayed from its stumps across Planeshift and the other animals. He returned to normal size. This all took about a second. The other epics could talk smack about his powers all they wanted. It didn't change the fact that Planeshift was sparking fast. Stretch cut grab shrink cut launch stretch. Blood coursed and animal parts flew across the street. Planeshift shivered with glee.

Finding Nemo? heheh

Yes!