Horsies!

Because sometimes you just wake up in the morning with a feeling that a journey of a thousand miles is beginning today.

What you don't realize is that no one else you're going to come across on that journey is going to give a shit that you're trying to save the god damn world.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

The Ongoing Quest to Save the God Damn World or, Idiots in the Time of the Apocalypse

042811-Lessons Learned From Video games, '90s Edition:
It is perfectly normal to barge into peoples' homes uninvited, rifle through their cabinets, drawers and bookshelves and take anything useful with you when you leave.
+050911- No matter how monumental the importance of your ultimate aim, someone will always have something very nearly pointless, and yet excessively time consuming, for you to do before they give you the information/object you require.


042911-Hm. Just excised a demon from a little girl while at the same time rescuing a small kingdom from imminent bankruptcy.
Now where's that desert I was looking for...?

050311- Well, let's see... I found the desert I was looking for, slew an evil ghost(what a pain that turned out to be), saved the water supply of a whole town and now I can't find the damned elf village.

How is it that no one told me ahead of time that Saving the God Damn World would be so labor intensive?!

050411- Okay. Saving the God Damn World has been put on hold indefinately- I've discovered the city of master chefs.

050511- Okay, back on track here-

After a four and a half hour trek through a cave that really shouldn't have taken that long to traverse, I find out that the Professor I'm looking for is in a place called the Tower of Grief.

This promises to be a happy adventure...

050911- Great. So I finally tracked down the Prof I've been chasing for the last four days and what do I get for my troubles? A leaky submarine(read: useless) and an order to track down the Prof's assistant who's HALFWAY AROUND THE GOD DAMN WORLD!

Y'know, when the four horsemen of the apocalypse are prepping the world for utter annihilation, you'd imagine people would learn to prioritize. Jeez.

On the bright side, however, this does mean I get to make another trip to the city of master chefs.

052511- After an unfortunate hiatus, the quest to Save the God Damn World is scheduled to resume today. Now where the hell am I? Why's it so dark in here? WHAT THE F-!!

053111- Lessons learned while questing in the name of Saving the God Damn World: Caves suck.

I don't mean kinda suck like, "Oh, my soda's flat. That sucks." No, I mean sucks like, "OH MY GOD, A GIANT NINJA WEREFROG IS EATING MY HEAD AND DROWNING MY GIRLFRIEND!"

060211- Crap.

So after I find the Professor and bring back his assistant, he sends me off to find some metals he needs in order to repair the aforementioned leaky submarine required to further my ultimate aim of Saving the God Damn World.

Where do I find these metals, I hear you ask? In caves. Three separate motherfucking CAVES! And after raiding said caves(an endeavor of several hours per cave) I still don't have enough!

In conclusion, I need a sidekick I can send out to do the necessary bitchwork called for in Saving the God Damn World.

060311-Son. Of. A. Bitch. (Yes, I'm aware that none of the above are complete sentences. Shut up.)

So yesterday I gathered six out of the seven necessary pieces of metal to finish the sub I need to Save the God Damn World.

The last piece I needed was in the possesion of a king. How do I convince the king to hand it over? Do I explain how I'm trying to SAVE THE GOD DAMN WORLD?! Noooo... I have to dive into another fucking cave to find a purple newt(who the hell ever heard of a purple newt?!) to make the king something to EAT!

The Fate of the God Damn World is on my shoulders, AND I'M MAKING DINNER FOR THIS ASSHOLE!!! FUCK!

... so anyway- the king makes with the metal after dinner(I raided the fucker's treasury while I was at it), and I head back to the Prof's lab to finish the submarine.

As I step through the door, I'm immediately accosted by one of the Prof's lackeys, who informed me that, not only is the Prof NOT here, the abominable prick left for the pirate island.

Just to make sure we understand one another here- this islet is about 40 meters square. The only thing there is a tower owned and operated by pirates. WHAT THE FUCK WAS HE THINKING!?

So now, instead of continuing my quest to Save the God Damn World, I'm off the rescue the professor. Again.

Fuck.

06/04 - 06/13: on hiatus- The Haps or, a short synopsis on events during the off time: Killed the pirates, saved the Prof, was too busy worrying about Saving the God Damn World to give a damn why he (the Prof) was there (on the pirate island)in the first place, went back to the shop, fixed up the sub, raided underwater caves(much cursing and gnashing of teeth ensues), spent some time with three of the four horsemen, horsemen make worrisome claims about my girlfriend's parentage, and finally returned to the Prof's workshop to receive yet another pointless fetch-quest that accomplishes nothing but to delay my Saving of the God Damn World.


061411- Huh. I had a feeling this wouldn't be quite as simple as I hoped- while traversing the latest in a seemingly unending series of caves, I started getting a sinking feeling when all of the items I pulled out of the chests scattered about were "dragon" somethings or other- dragon tooth, dragon egg, dragon claw, etcetc. Am I surprised to find a living, (fire)breathing dragon at the bottom of the cave? Bummed out, maybe- and resigned- but no, not surprised.


0615-062311- Slew the aforementioned dragon, got the item the Prof wanted, ran back to his lab to fork it over. Turns out I was so busy not giving a crap about what the Prof had to say that I was surprised when he announced that with the use of the item I procured from the dragon, my submarine has become a flying machine- which is unexpectedly useful, considering the big bad guys are presently chilling out on the Floating Island Fortress. Of course, as I attempt to board their Floating Island Fortress, my airship is batted around like a cat toy by some kinda magical air shield, rendering my shiny new airship useless. Thanks for yet another pointless delay, Prof. So how am I expected to get aboard the Floating Island Fortress(Christ that's a mouthful. From now on it's just gonna be 'the FIF')? By climbing the Tower Conveniently Placed Beneath the Floating Island Fortress(or, 'the TCPBtheFIF'). How do I get to the TCPBtheFIF? You guessed it! Through a series of underground caverns(also known as CAVES! MOTHER! FUCKING! CAVES!).

062411- Lessons learned while questing in the name of Saving the God Damn World Volume 2: Teleporters-contrary to their very nature- are not timesavers. More often than not, a teleporter's sole function(within any self respecting dungeon) is to confuse you, get you lost, and/or waste your time.

After scaling the Tower of Teleportation Tiles Conveniently Placed Beneath the Floating Island Fortress('TofTTCPBtheFIF'), and dispatching the Horsemens' underling, there's a big bang and I come to only to find both my girlfriend and my Legendary Ancestral Sword have gone missing. Crap.

The FIF departs the tower I just spent 2 hours scaling, and now I need to find out where it went.

45 minutes later...
Flying around in my yet-to-prove-useful airship

Y'know, you'd imagine a giant island hovering at 15,000ft would be kinda hard to miss. You'd also be wrong.

25 more minutes later...
Good times-I only had to fly all the way around the planet 20 times(LITERALLY!) to find the FIF in the obvious and impossible-to-miss location of IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING OCEAN! FUCK! Oh well- we're here now so let's put 'er down next to that out-of-place-looking shrine and see what's going on inside.

Oh, this is rich! So during the whole of my Quest to Save the God Damn World, I've been teleporting in and out of these mysterious shrines inhabited by a Mysterious Old Man(who will henceforth be referred to as MOM) who always has something creepy to say after reminding me of whatever pissant task I'm performing for the Prof or other random blockheads. I haven't mentioned MOM before now because he doesn't piss me off, and has been rather helpful from time to time. Now I come to find out that the whole time I've been teleporting in and out of the shrine where he's at(the front door was always locked), he's been on the Floating Island Fortress! So basically, I've been to my final destination about 20 times already, BUT THE OLD FOOL NEVER FELT THE NEED TO TELL ME SO!! FUCK!!

Deep breaths... Well, this is (allegedly) the home stretch, so I'm off to stop the 3 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And my girlfriend. Who may or may not be Horseperson of the Apocalypse #4. Talk about awkward reunions...

Several hours of dungeon crawling later...
Facing the 4 Horsepersons of the Apocalypse

Oh, ho ho- so you bastards brainwashed my childhood sweetheart into being Horseperson of the Apocalypse #4 and smashed a priceless family heirloom/world saving sword into pieces, and now you're talking shit? You fuckers are destroyed. Fucking destroyed.

Reforges world saving sword with magical Chutzpah
Epic clash ensues; fate of the world hangs in the balance


Final score: Saviors of the God Damn World- 3, Horsemen of the Apocalypse- zip. And my girl has rejoined the winning team- this day ain't turning out too bad after all.

O, wait. Final form battle- the 3 Horsemen throw themselves into a magical/metaphysical blender and now I have to fight an Apocalytic Smoothie. Great.

Epic clash, blah blah- fate of the world, blah blah blah

Sweet, sweet victory! Oh yeah!

Waaaaaait a minute- so it turns out my girlfriend was, in fact, one of the world ending evildoers reincarnated, and with the death of the Apocalyptic Smoothie, she's doomed, too.

After teleporting off the Falling Island Fortress moments before it crashes back into the sea
This sucks! I went through all this shit to Save the God Damn World so's me and the girl can live happily ever after, and now she's very quickly sinking into the ocean along with the Rapidly Sinking Island Fortress('the RSIF'). Jeez... I'm gonna take a walk.


One year later
Walking into a random town

Christ, my feet are killing me... hey, look- it's deus ex mach- I mean, it's MOM from a few paragraphs up! Who's that he's got with him? It's the girl! And she looks suprisingly well for a girl who's been dead for a year! She doesn't remember me(or anything else), but the BGM is cheery, and we're fading to black! Woohoo...!

THE END.

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