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But how long will his luck run for?\n\n------------\n\nAnd now we enter the second chapter of the FinalGamer's travels into the unknown, a new universe where a strange yet comfortably acquainted variety of anthros make him feel more closer to home than the last world.\n\nMaybe I should have read up more on what happens to bodies in space. Or at least have watched Event Horizon beforehand.\nEDIT: I actually did manage to read up SOMETHING on how it happens in space. Turns out you don't explode, you just get the same shit you get when coming up too quick from deepsea diving. Crazy!\nThese stories DO get longer later on.\n\nStarfox is copyrighted to Nintendo, FinalGamer to me.","description_bbcode_parsed":"Background Music for the Story:
Floating In Space = Lamp World (Yume Nikki)
Upon The Great Fox = Title (Star Fox 2)
After the strangely miraculous escape from a self-destructing planet, James soon finds himself floating across the ether of space, thankfully rescued by a passing mercenary ship. But how long will his luck run for?
------------
And now we enter the second chapter of the FinalGamer's travels into the unknown, a new universe where a strange yet comfortably acquainted variety of anthros make him feel more closer to home than the last world.
Maybe I should have read up more on what happens to bodies in space. Or at least have watched Event Horizon beforehand.
EDIT: I actually did manage to read up SOMETHING on how it happens in space. Turns out you don't explode, you just get the same shit you get when coming up too quick from deepsea diving. Crazy!
These stories DO get longer later on.
Starfox is copyrighted to Nintendo, FinalGamer to me.","writing":"[center][b]THE CHRONICLES OF FINALGAMER\nTails of the Stars[/b]\n\n[i]\"The stars are the street lights of eternity.\"\nRosicrucian Proverb[/i][/center]\n\n\nSpace has always become a marvel to those residing amongst the planets and moons. Seeing other worlds as tiny twinkling stars among many other similar looking stars. Realising that their own worlds look the same from that far away, offering a strange sense of hopefully mutual equality amongst the denizens of the universe. The space around the stars was nothing but a blank darkness where only light existed, travelling onwards eternally towards infinite eyes everywhere at once. Eyes seeing what had become the past, through the eternity of space.\nFar away in another universe laid one solar system, where galactic unions had become traumatic of late, and were only being resolved by one covert mercenary group. In the Lylat System, a galactic battle was raging, making the worlds more brighter than the stars around them with flames of war. Amidst this chaos was one small tear in the universe that went unnoticed, except for one ship detecting it.\nA body had been thrown through it in a blur of brown and blue. It writhed maddeningly in a panicked futility, the oxygen sucking from its body in the vacuum of space. Nothing to take in, nothing to breathe into, choking and screaming a gargling anguish only to be swallowed by the silence of space.\nHad that body been picked up perhaps 15 seconds later, it would surely have suffocated far beyond the point of saving, like a diver that had surfaced too quickly.\n\nThe raptor awakened within a metallic room, a monotonous hum forever emitting its single-chord song throughout the place as he laid on a bed. Fluorescent lights beamed into his skull to make him squint and cover his eyes sorely. He tried to get up, examining the place around him. It appeared to be a medical bay, judging by the look of the sharp liquid-emitting instruments around him on various cabinets, all of which kept the same colour motif the room gave. Clinical grey.\nAbout a minute later, the door opened, sliding away with a fwish to reveal a short-looking frog with bulbous blue eyes. He was dressed in an oil-stained shirt and beige jacket with a red cap, speaking in an oddly childish voice that sounded like extremely rapid gibberish. James looked at him perplexed.\n\t\"Uhhhh...what the hell's wrong with you?\"\nThe frog spoke again in the same gibbering voice.\n\t\"Are you lost or something? Stop speaking like a retard and tell me where I am!\"\nThis only brought another round of jabber, making the raptor clutch his head. He was already feeling rather dazed and weakened from his experience.\n\t\"Stop talking like that, you little bastard, I have no time to play with you!\"\nThe confusion and the pain in his chest was not helping his mood. Thinking that maybe this was an actual language, he calmed down a bit and tried to sign out his next words.\n\t\"I. DO NOT. UNDERSTAND.\"\nHe signed this to the best of his ability with the loud slow patronising voice everyone used when meeting those of another language.\n\t\"WHERE. AM. I?\"\nSomething seemed to have lit up in the frog, as he summoned a robot from down the corridor, a classic-looking thing on treadwheels with beady white eyes and a square \"mouth\". Unfortunately, it spoke in the same sort of gibberish as the frog, only with a metallic twang. James watched the robot move to a cabinet and bring out a small device. It spoke to James, who only replied with a confused tilt of the head, but the frog helped by signalling to lie down onto his side.\nHe did so, and he felt something placed on the back of his head, something like a needle. It soon latched on with little hooks at the base of his neck, sending a strange electrical tingle through his skull that made him pass out without realisation.\n\nThe next time he woke up, his eyes blinked at the now more familiar medical room. The frog was still there, watching him before saying:\n\t\"Hey, you're awake finally!\"\nHis words had suddenly become perfect English, much to the raptor's amazement.\n\t\"Can ya...uhh...you know what I'm saying now?\"\n\t\"Y-yeah...I do now...um...\"\nHe wondered if the frog knew what he had said to him previously, but decided not to draw attention to it.\n\t\"Wha...how'dya do that?\"\n\t\"Do what?\"\n\t\"Make me understand what you're saying, you were just talking total gibberish before!\"\n\t\"Oh that's just a li'l language codex in yer spine, though seems ya got one in there already with a really weird design. So I had to modify it a teeny bit, that's why ya had to be knocked out, so I could work on it. Sorry 'bout that, but on the plus side, now it'll be pretty open-ended for mostly any language you come across. But I warn ya, it's only ones you hear, not stuff you'll read.\"\n\t\"So...I'm gonna instantly know what someone says in another language, but not what's in a book written in another language?\"\n\t\"Weeellll,\" and then the frog began his technological diatribe.\n\t\"It works with yer ears which do lotsa complex stuff like context analysers an' emotional transcribers to give the best estimate for what someone else is saying, which then manipulates the soundwaves of certain vocal sounds slowly into yer own language which is already in yer head, as the language ya think in. Not perfect but yer not gonna get anything better.\n\t\"It's like having a really really smart guy in yer head figuring out every language ya hear, kinda deducing it an' breaking it down. Then after a while of hearing it, it'll be just like yer own, as well as transmitting out the same language to anyone you talk to, like feedback without you realising it! Like right now, yer actually speaking my own language without realising it, it's all subconscious to ya.\n\t\"Actually it was kinda in there already but I just tweaked it to our language and give it a really open easy language codex interface instead of the one language it was built with. Hope ya didn't need it.\"\n\t\".......right. That made absolutely no sense [i]at all[/i].\"\nJames pinched the bridge of his snout and closed his eyes in frustration at the wall of technobabble his ears had smashed up against. He decided to quickly move to another topic to distract the frog, clutching his head as he sat up.","writing_bbcode_parsed":"THE CHRONICLES OF FINALGAMER
Tails of the Stars
"The stars are the street lights of eternity."
Rosicrucian Proverb
Space has always become a marvel to those residing amongst the planets and moons. Seeing other worlds as tiny twinkling stars among many other similar looking stars. Realising that their own worlds look the same from that far away, offering a strange sense of hopefully mutual equality amongst the denizens of the universe. The space around the stars was nothing but a blank darkness where only light existed, travelling onwards eternally towards infinite eyes everywhere at once. Eyes seeing what had become the past, through the eternity of space.
Far away in another universe laid one solar system, where galactic unions had become traumatic of late, and were only being resolved by one covert mercenary group. In the Lylat System, a galactic battle was raging, making the worlds more brighter than the stars around them with flames of war. Amidst this chaos was one small tear in the universe that went unnoticed, except for one ship detecting it.
A body had been thrown through it in a blur of brown and blue. It writhed maddeningly in a panicked futility, the oxygen sucking from its body in the vacuum of space. Nothing to take in, nothing to breathe into, choking and screaming a gargling anguish only to be swallowed by the silence of space.
Had that body been picked up perhaps 15 seconds later, it would surely have suffocated far beyond the point of saving, like a diver that had surfaced too quickly.
The raptor awakened within a metallic room, a monotonous hum forever emitting its single-chord song throughout the place as he laid on a bed. Fluorescent lights beamed into his skull to make him squint and cover his eyes sorely. He tried to get up, examining the place around him. It appeared to be a medical bay, judging by the look of the sharp liquid-emitting instruments around him on various cabinets, all of which kept the same colour motif the room gave. Clinical grey.
About a minute later, the door opened, sliding away with a fwish to reveal a short-looking frog with bulbous blue eyes. He was dressed in an oil-stained shirt and beige jacket with a red cap, speaking in an oddly childish voice that sounded like extremely rapid gibberish. James looked at him perplexed.
\t"Uhhhh...what the hell's wrong with you?"
The frog spoke again in the same gibbering voice.
\t"Are you lost or something? Stop speaking like a retard and tell me where I am!"
This only brought another round of jabber, making the raptor clutch his head. He was already feeling rather dazed and weakened from his experience.
\t"Stop talking like that, you little bastard, I have no time to play with you!"
The confusion and the pain in his chest was not helping his mood. Thinking that maybe this was an actual language, he calmed down a bit and tried to sign out his next words.
\t"I. DO NOT. UNDERSTAND."
He signed this to the best of his ability with the loud slow patronising voice everyone used when meeting those of another language.
\t"WHERE. AM. I?"
Something seemed to have lit up in the frog, as he summoned a robot from down the corridor, a classic-looking thing on treadwheels with beady white eyes and a square "mouth". Unfortunately, it spoke in the same sort of gibberish as the frog, only with a metallic twang. James watched the robot move to a cabinet and bring out a small device. It spoke to James, who only replied with a confused tilt of the head, but the frog helped by signalling to lie down onto his side.
He did so, and he felt something placed on the back of his head, something like a needle. It soon latched on with little hooks at the base of his neck, sending a strange electrical tingle through his skull that made him pass out without realisation.
The next time he woke up, his eyes blinked at the now more familiar medical room. The frog was still there, watching him before saying:
\t"Hey, you're awake finally!"
His words had suddenly become perfect English, much to the raptor's amazement.
\t"Can ya...uhh...you know what I'm saying now?"
\t"Y-yeah...I do now...um..."
He wondered if the frog knew what he had said to him previously, but decided not to draw attention to it.
\t"Wha...how'dya do that?"
\t"Do what?"
\t"Make me understand what you're saying, you were just talking total gibberish before!"
\t"Oh that's just a li'l language codex in yer spine, though seems ya got one in there already with a really weird design. So I had to modify it a teeny bit, that's why ya had to be knocked out, so I could work on it. Sorry 'bout that, but on the plus side, now it'll be pretty open-ended for mostly any language you come across. But I warn ya, it's only ones you hear, not stuff you'll read."
\t"So...I'm gonna instantly know what someone says in another language, but not what's in a book written in another language?"
\t"Weeellll," and then the frog began his technological diatribe.
\t"It works with yer ears which do lotsa complex stuff like context analysers an' emotional transcribers to give the best estimate for what someone else is saying, which then manipulates the soundwaves of certain vocal sounds slowly into yer own language which is already in yer head, as the language ya think in. Not perfect but yer not gonna get anything better.
\t"It's like having a really really smart guy in yer head figuring out every language ya hear, kinda deducing it an' breaking it down. Then after a while of hearing it, it'll be just like yer own, as well as transmitting out the same language to anyone you talk to, like feedback without you realising it! Like right now, yer actually speaking my own language without realising it, it's all subconscious to ya.
\t"Actually it was kinda in there already but I just tweaked it to our language and give it a really open easy language codex interface instead of the one language it was built with. Hope ya didn't need it."
\t".......right. That made absolutely no sense at all."
James pinched the bridge of his snout and closed his eyes in frustration at the wall of technobabble his ears had smashed up against. He decided to quickly move to another topic to distract the frog, clutching his head as he sat up.","pools_count":1,"title":"Tails of the Stars 1 - An Anomaly of Some Scale","deleted":"f","public":"t","mimetype":"text/rtf","pagecount":"1","rating_id":"0","rating_name":"General","ratings":[],"submission_type_id":"12","type_name":"Writing - Document","guest_block":"f","friends_only":"f","comments_count":"0","views":"37","sales_description":null,"forsale":"f","digitalsales":"f","printsales":"f","digital_price":""}