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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1320 on: January 29, 2013, 09:52:39 AM »
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  • Book XXIII: RAF Comix
The RAFians are sucked into a comic book made by Damien.
  • Book XXIV: The First Master
Cloak meditates alone in a forest, and has a vision about the first Master . . . the first Elements Master.
  • Book XXV: RAF -- The Musical
The RAFians find themselves trapped in a musical where everyone must burst into song occasionally.
  • Book XXVI: Outage Outrage
The RAFians find themselves losing their powers.
  • Book XXVII: Infinity and Eternity
The Infinity Gems and the Eternity Stones make themselves known.
  • Book XXVIII: The Virus Rings
The RAFians are attacked by foes they never thought they'd see again.
  • Book XXIX: Soul-Suckers
The RAFians are attacked by Dementors, which have a rather large effect on Cloak.
  • Book XXX: Mayhem of the Music Miser
Cloak recalls the RAFians' previous confrontation with the Music Miser three years ago.
  • Book XXXI: The Metal-Maker
The RAFians must save their own from a Roboticizer.
  • Book XXXII: Richard is Missing
The RAFians must cope without Richard.
  • Book XXXIII: Emotional Food
The RAFians must confront a different kind of vampire.
  • Book XXXIV: Transformation Confrontation
The RAFians must confront some strange machines.
  • Book XXXV: Richard's Horn
The RAFians must get Richard's Horn, a mystical musical instrument, back from Malice, who received it from a RAFian traitor.
  • Book XXXVI: Feral Scream
A Wildwethel-centric book, he must deal with his feral side.
  • Book XXXVII: Predators and Prey
The RAFians are being preyed upon by some sentient predators.
  • Book XXXVIII: A Protean Problem
The RAFians must deal with a powerful snot-nosed kid who, quite literally, can do whatever he wants.
  • Book XXXIX: The Horsemen
Four RAFians are captured and converted into four Horsemen of the ancient, rogue Realm Walker Cataclysm.
  • Book XL: Sizeable Pain in the Necks
The RAFians must deal with Heinlein aliens.
  • Book XLI: RAF's Nightmare
The RAFians must survive their own nightmares.
  • Book XLII: Unlucky Charms
The RAFians must contend with a rather bloodthirsty leprechaun.
  • Book XLIII: The Piper
The RAFians must contend with a pied piper.
  • Book XLIV: Starlight Desire
The RAFians race Malice, Abomination, and the Banned to a wishing star (no, not Estelore).
  • Book XLV: A War of Armor
Parker is outraged to see knockoffs of his rather unique armor and what they're being used for.
  • Book XLVI: The Worst Plague
The RAFians must weather the worst plague to ever existed -- the Hate Plague.
  • Book XLVII: Little Alien Napoleons
The RAFians are caught in the middle of a war between Helmacrons and Fmeks.
  • Book XLVIII: Go Away!
The RAFians must deal with the paparazzi who are all of a sudden interested in them.
  • Book XLIX: RAFian Tales
RAFians tell various RAFian-themed stories across a lunch table.
  • Book L: Maul
The RAFians must deal with the result of one of Demos's experiments.
  • Book LI: Erised Orbs
The RAFians must face their greatest desires.
  • Book LII: RAFians Alive!
Read the "Mummies Alive" parody in the RAFize songs thread.
  • Book LIII: The Pain Reliever
The RAFians must deal with an elderly Vulcan styling himself the "Pain Reliever".
  • Book LIV: Beyond the Veils
Aquilai and Aila must confront old foes while the other RAFians must put up with a Czarinian bounty hunter.
  • Book LV: Dangerous Deals
Demos meets up with his half-brother, Shenecron, who has a perchant for making deals.
  • Book LVI: Of One Mind
Malice seeks out the Unimind.
  • Book LVII: The End of Time
The RAFians must contend with two Kryptonians (who think they're Time Lords) and prevent them from ending time altogether.
  • Book LVIII: Hematomimic
The RAFians must capture a Plasmavore and put up with it's rather stupid Judoon jailer.
  • Book LIX: Sins of Youth
Estelore, Richard, Parker, and Cloak must survive when the entire city and forum have been reduced to two-year-olds.
  • Book LX: The Replacements
The RAFians must contend with the fame-feeding Eidolon Consciousness.
  • Book LXI: Arachnoids
The RAFians must contend with the Arachnoids and finding a cure for one of their own that was poisoned before it's too late.
  • Book LXII: Personal Tissues
The RAFians must contend with some one misusing Bibliophaetos's discarded book shell.
  • Book LXIII: Memory Today, Gone Tomorrow
The RAFians lose their memory and must find a way to regain it.
  • Book LXIV: Appliance Armageddon
A superintelligent computer controls all electronics, and the RAFians must stop it.
  • Book LXV: Prodigy and Composite
Some RAFians are merged into two separate entities.
  • Book LXVI: The Merging
The Universes begin colliding and merging.
  • Book LXVII: Be A Doll
The RAFians are confronted by a Super Chucky.
  • Book LXVIII: They're Such Cards
The RAFians are sealed into cards, which end up trapped in an ancient leather-bound book, and it's up to three kids to free them.  An out-of-continuity book.
  • Book LXIX: Dinosaur Island
Everyone, except those that bear a Mark, begin turning saurian.
  • Book LXX: Corrupted
The RAFians must deal with the son of Cataclysm, Corruptor.
  • Book LXXI: Artificial Skins
The RAFians must deal with symbiotes.
  • Book LXXII: Separation Anxiety
The RAFians must contend with an ethereal virus.
  • Book LXXIII: A Thing About RAFians
The RAFians must contend with Seekers, which home in onto their Marks.
  • Book LXXIV: A Planted Idea
The RAFians must contend with a floramaniac.
  • Book LXXV: Vacation Photos
The RAFians are sucked into a Polarisoid camera.
  • Book LXXVI: A Personal Gremlin
The RAFians must contend with gremlins.
  • Book LXXVII: The Rust is Silence
The Rafians must deal with an oxidation ray wielded by a criminal.
  • Book LXXVIII: The Toyman Cometh
The RAFians deal with a Toyman-esque character.
  • Book LXXIX: RAFian Idol
Yes, just another excuse to put in more of the (as of writing) nearly 800 parodies.
  • Book LXXX: Savage Heart
Cloak battles an ancient being called Garrotik.
  • Book LXXXI: Slave Islands and Juggernauts
Three RAFians are taken prisoners by the Knights and sold into the slavery of New Genoshia, while the others deal with a juggernaut.
  • Book LXXXII: Shredding a King
The RAFians deal with a demonic Shredder-like ghost called Regiphaetos.
  • Book LXXXIII: RAF -- The TV Show
The RAFians are forcibly recruited to Mojo's programs.
  • Book LXXXIV: The Drinker
The RAFians must contend with a Spirit-Drinker.
  • Book LXXXV: The Last Laugh
The RAFians must face Joker Gas.
  • Book LXXXVI: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Villain
The RAFians must contend with mind control cards which are ineffective on them.
  • Book LXXXVII: Sight Unseen
Six RAFians are rendered functionally blind, optically-speaking.
  • Book LXXXVIII: Don't Let It Snow
The RAFians must face a second Ice Age caused by a Diznee Ice Ifrit.
  • Book LXXXIX: The Rachel Toxin
The RAFians must find a cure to a toxin that increases the fearlessness, hostility and aggressiveness induced in people which the Mark cannot protect the RAFians from.
  • Book XC: Virus Alert!
The RAFians face a dangerous virus seeking a host.
  • Book XCI: A Youthful Thief
The RAFians face a creature that siphons off the youth in its victims, provided they're younger than him.
  • Book XCII: Calendar Creep
The RAFians face the Calendar Creep, a criminal whose crimes are holiday themed.
  • Book XCIII: The Branding
Faerie fights a witch-boy named Salem (and his magical black cat, Saberhagen) for a magical branding iron in Faerie's possession.
  • Book XCIV: The Void Zone
Nothing like a "Subspace Emissary" parody.  Sorry.
  • Book XCV: An Epic Yarn
The RAFians' world is turned into yarn and fabric.
  • Book XCVI: RAFian Gladiators
RAFians are kidnapped by Gamesmaster, another rogue Realm Walker, and force to participate in gladiatorial games.
  • Book XCVII: The Box
The RAFians must cage thirteen Revenants released from Pandora's Box -- each representing and amplifying a particular feeling (i.e. hatred), while looking for the perfect host.
  • Book XCVIII: From the Shadows
The RAFians must save their shadows and the shadows of everyone else from being absorbed (eaten) by the Umbraraptors, but not everything is what it seems.
  • Book XCIX: Grimm Prospects
The RAFians discover Malice controlling several "wesen" with control collars akin to April's in "Catwoman from Channel Six" and get stuck in one-on-one battles to the death with them.  One will die.
  • Book C: Loop-De-Loop
Everyone's trapped in a temporal loop, but the only ones that realize it are Cloak, Aila, and Aquilai.
  • Book CI: Get 'Em, Shaw
The RAFians face a creature native to the planet Gossamer, who's under the control of Malice.
  • Book CII: Threadfall
The RAFians must exterminate an epidemic of Thread.
  • Book CIII: Siren's Song
The RAFians must deal with a siren and her alluring song.
  • Book CIV: Resistance is Futile
The RAFians must deal with a hybridization of the Borg and the Hive chips (Ben 10: Alien Swarm) -- which the Mark cannot protect them from, nor the Unity energy can destroy.
  • Book CV: The Titan
The RAFians must contend with the Titan serum and its effects.
  • Book CVI: A Stony Glare
The RAFians must deal with a hungry Stone-Biter and a petrifying venom of a Diznee Stone Ifrit.
  • Book CVII: Spritely Pests
The RAFians must deal with irritating sprites, which Faerie has had some rather tenuous experiences with.
  • Book CVIII: Destroy All . . . What?
The RAFians must contend with a Furon incursion, and it turns out the Nyacs have knowledge of Furons. . . .
  • Book CIX: Going Backwards
A grievious malfunction in Aquilai's TARDIS causes time to reverse its flow and flow backwards.
  • Book CX: Death Takes A Holiday
The RAFians must convince Death to take up his role again.  A RAFian will die in this book, and it is within the continuity.
  • Book CXI: High Price Stakes
Shanker and Gaz must flee and elude Daphne, the vampire hunter.
  • Book CXII: A Killer Housing Market
The RAFians must survive and either destroy or escape a killer house.
  • Book CXIII: A Silenced World
The RAFians must cope with a world that has become muted and a young sorceress, Melissa Spellman.
  • Book CXIV: The Bureau
The RAFians must save their own from the insideous Bureau of Lost.
  • Book CXV: To Tell the Truth
Broken's apprentice, Melissa, accidentally casts a spell forcing everyone to tell the truth.
  • Book CXVI: Skin Crawlers
The RAFians, repulsed and revolted, must contend with Hundred (who eventually becomes Thousand, then becomes Million, then Billion, and then, finally, Trillion).
  • Book CXVII: School of Stepford Lies
The RAFians must save the children from a school that turns them into Stepford students at Terenia's school.
  • Book CXVIII: Ol' Salty
The RAFians must deal with the Salt Man.
  • Book CXIX: The Great Race
The RAFians hold a race that Aloth cons himself into.  Who will win?
  • Book CXX: Ape Escape
The RAFians must help super intelligent apes -- Caesar the chimp, Brutus the gorilla, and Maestro the orangutan -- reconcil their misanthropy.
  • Book CXXI: A Different Kind of Unity
The RAFians must contend with a parasitic "unity".
  • Book CXXII: The Great Brain Robery
Someone is stealing brains for an unknown purpose.
  • Book CXXIII: The Bounty Hunter
The Knights, in their hypocricy, hire a Tsul'Kalu bounty hunter to collect select RAFians (to taxidermy).
  • Book CXXIV: New Controllers
The RAFians confront Zirconians.
  • Book CXXV: Creeping Crystal
A wave of crystallizing energy is sweeping the land. . . .
  • Book CXXVI: The Element Feeder
The RAFians deal with a creature who feeds on a specific element and matures to a different element each time as it matures. . . .
  • Book CXXVII: The Rider and the Walker
The RAFians come up against the Ghost Rider.
  • Book CXXVIII: Headhunters
What will happen when RAFians lose their heads?  Seriously.
  • Book CXXIX: The Color Purple, Man!
The RAFians confront the Purple Man, who manages to turn the entire government against them . . .
  • Book CXXX: The Nemetrix Beetle
The RAFians confront the Black Beetle with Nemetrix properties.
  • Book CXXXI: It's Tought to Be A Mod
The members of a primitive forum declare Demos and Blue to be mods. . . .
  • Book CXXXII:Who-Zilla?
An energy reaction begins turning RAFians into monstrous creatures in 3013.  Out-of-continuity book.
  • Book CXXXIII:Well, Techadon-ally . . .
The RAFians confront Techadons who assign them qualitive quatilities, and refuse to acknowledge any defeats.
  • Book CXXXIV:The Mind's Eye
The RAFians face Spellbinder and his realistic illusions.
  • Book CXXXV:Bas-ic Instincts
Bas awakens and attempts to take control of Cloak and other felines.

Now, another chapter.  Sorry, it's gonna be short.
 
CHAPTER SIXTEEN:
Frozen Fear

"How much further?" Goom asked.
 
"Beyond the next room," Cloak said, eyes shut, attempting to Earthsight.  "I -- I think."
 
"You think?  I'd much rather go on something you know." Parker said, thoroughly agitated.
 
"Go through the Veil," Cloak muttered.  It was synonymous with the human phrase "go to hell".
 
"Whatever."
 
Nerves were getting frayed and they had better come upon this creature soon, or friendships and allegiances could fall apart.  This was a harrowing experience to all who had the misfortune to experience it.  Granted, they appeared to be the only ones that seemed to have survived such a thing.  Well, to their knowledge.
 
Then they walked into a vast room, roughly circular.  The walls seemed to smooth all around until about ten feet up, then it became rocky and craggy as the ceiling.  The floor was pleasantly smooth though.  Set within the walls were little alcoves filled with different slabs or plates . . . each one had a terrorified face as if they all had been frozen in carbonite.  Above each was a small pictoral representation of, presumably, their greatest fears: concrete, tornadoes, mermaids, plugs, jewels, hornets, magma, falsity, blades, running water, commandos, chills, sheep, baseballs to the face, fire, and sunlight.  Two were obviously vampires, the one with running water and sunlight depictions above their alcoves.

"That is gruesome." Goom said, unable to keep the disgust out of his voice.

Cloak did not dawdle his gaze on any of them, while Gaz gazed ruefully at the two vampires.  Cloak instead focused on their goal with a near fanaticism, and said, "Let's move on.  The faster was get to this Koh-It, the faster we get the Veil out of here."

"What?" Underseen asked.

"Let's get the Veil out of here."

"What do you mean 'the Veil'?" he asked.

"Is this the time, Underseen?" Cloak asked, feeling nettled.

"It was just a question."

"The Veil is the separation of life and death." Cloak said, brusquely.  "One who passes through the Oblivion Veil, which is often referred to as the Veil in a short-hand way -- anyway, one who passes through the Veil can never return.  Eventually, it turned out a number of phrases, many of which don't translate well into your languages."

"Great, now that teaching time is over, let's go give this Koh-It whatever a good sock in the nose!!" Faerie said, gung-ho.
« Last Edit: January 29, 2013, 09:54:44 AM by CloakedFigure »


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

RAFians Referenced Specifically: Demos.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1321 on: January 29, 2013, 05:54:41 PM »
Veil rhymes with hell
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1322 on: January 30, 2013, 09:47:42 AM »
Yes.  Yes, it does, Underseen.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:
Lair of the Beast

"Please tell me this thing is close," Parker said, thoroughly nettled.
 
"Should be in the next room," Cloak answered.
 
"Should?"
 
"Don't harp on about it, Parker," Faerie said, clearly lusting for battle.
 
"I said 'should' because it was easier to determine when it was moving around," Cloak said impassively.
 
"So, it's dead?  Or sleeping?" Underseen asked.
 
"I wouldn't give your hopes up, Underseen." Ash said.
 
Then the group entered a cavern large enough for an evolved To'kustar to lay comfortably with enough room for a fully functional Yeerk Pool or two.  But Cloak noticed that there appeared to be a stone columns rather like tree roots.  The light was marginable, but Cloak's feline eyes could easily pierce the gloom.  He noticed that Gaz went bat mode to be able to "see" better, and Ash and Underseen shapeshifted their eyes into ones with superior night vision.  The others would just have to deal . . . although Cloak had no idea how good or dismal goomba night vision was.
 
Suddenly, a sudden vibration so monumental that Cloak announced, "It's here!"
 
"Thanks, I think we got that!" Parker shouted sarcastically.
 
"YOU'RE AFRAID." said a deafening voice.  "GOOD."
 
"I'm NOT afraid," Cloak replied angrily.
 
"Nor am I!"
 
"I'm angry, actually." Cloak clarified.
 
"I'm furious."
 
"Curious." Goom replied.
 
"Indifferent." Faerie said, bored.
 
"A tad hungry." Dino said.
 
"Impatient," Ash said.

"Perplexed," Gaz replied genially.

Underseen blinked momentarily, then said in a way reminescent of Zach Braff's Chicken Little, "What are we talking about?"

"Oh, nothing really, Underseen," Faerie said, waving her hand dismissively.  "This is just the pre-beatdown banter."

"YOU DARE MOCK ME?!"

"You clearly don't know, Faerie." Cloak said, passively.

Then the creature rose into pronounced clarity.  Its ashy-gray body was rather serpentine, but with a metallic black centipede shell and tarnished gold centipede legs.  It was roughly the thrice the diameter of a monster truck tire, while as about long as eight or nine school buses.  Cloak could see how its head -- seemingly a tarnished-gold-and-black fusion of a Taxxon head with a Tyrannopede head ringed with smaller legs of a dark black -- could be seen as frightening.  But he, like the others, were too tired and irritable to be afraid.

"NO ONE MOCKS ME!!"

"I thought I just did." Faerie said, feigning ignorance.
« Last Edit: January 31, 2013, 06:30:45 AM by CloakedFigure »


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

RAFians Referenced Specifically: Demos.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1323 on: January 30, 2013, 07:23:50 PM »
This is why we should never go to the beach
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1324 on: January 31, 2013, 10:33:26 AM »
You so deserve a +1 for that, Underseen.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:
Fury of the Beast

A deafeningly, yet also ear-shatteringly, roar enveloped the space, which was a feat in and of itself.  But the RAFians felt no fear.  Anger and exhaustion had routed the fear right out of them.  They stood their ground, and after the roar, the Koh-It ****ed its head as if it were confused, as if it was thinking, why aren't you cowering before my sheer might and ultimate awesomeness?
 
"No, bub," Faerie snarled.  "We're not scared."
 
"FEAR ME!!"
 
"No." Cloak replied.
 
"I SAID, FEAR ME!!"
 
"We heard you the first time," Dino sighed, as if the Koh-It was a toddler about to throw a temper tantrum.
 
"YOU WILL FEAR ME!!"
 
"Really?" Gaz said, with feigned interest, "How?"
 
It didn't seem to have an answer to that.  It roared again.

"Ah, you don't have an answer." Goom said shrewdly.

It roared again.

"Get a little angrier," Ash advised.  "Then you'd have some small inkling to how we feel."

It was about to open its jaws again to roar, but stopped, and ****ed it's head at Ash, perplexed.

Underseen sighed and said, in a very board way, "We should have never gone to the beach."

"FEAR ME!" the creature roared.  Then it hesitated, and in a smaller voice said, "please."

There was a small pause of the purest silences, until the RAFians burst out in raucous laughter.

"STOP!  STOP THAT!"

They didn't.

"STOP THAT NOW!!"

They did in a stuttering sort of way, but it was mostly to catch their breath.  Gaz was the one that noticed that the creatures shell seemed to be a bit looser on the creature for some reason.


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

RAFians Referenced Specifically: Demos.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1325 on: January 31, 2013, 11:25:17 AM »
Now, a bonus chapter.

CHAPTER NINETEEN:
An Unconventional Weapon

"Guys," Gaz said, uncertainly, laughter gone from her face, "look.  Its armor."
 
The RAFians noticed, and the laughter died from their faces as well, replaced with seriousness.  Cloak halfway expected to see the creature to bloat back up and fill up the shell again.  But this did not happen.  The RAFians could not believe it.  That the key to defeating this monster, the weapon, the weakness, the vulnerability that they could exploit was . . . was simple laughter?
 
"Oh, I don't believe it," Faerie said, nearly pouting.  She had already pulled out her favorite battleaxe from hammerspace -- or "Faeriespace", if you'd prefer.
 
Parker's eyes were narrowed.  He still looked very weird, very naked without his armor.  He said suspiciously, "That's too easy, though.  And how do we know it was the laughter that killed it?"
 
"You know, when you really think about it --" Cloak said, rubbing his chin.
 
"YOU DARE TO IGNORE ME?!  I'M FEAR INCARNATE!"
 
"No, that's Parallax.  You certainly pale in comparison, pet of Phobos and Deimos." Cloak corrected, before ignoring it again.  "Anyway, as I was saying before, if you really think about it, laughter is, in its own way, the antithesis for fear.  As such, it would make plausible sense for it to harm, or even poison, one who feeds upon feelings of fear and terror."
 
"You certainly picked an awful time to be a philosopher," Faerie chided good-naturedly.
 
"All this talking is really nice," Parker said, "but I highly doubt we could talk this thing to . . . death . . ."
 
He turned around to find the creature, curled up on the ground, inert and motionless.  It was not possible!  No one could literally be talked to death!  The RAFians were motionless with surprise and shock, but not by fear . . . then the creature gave a resounding snore that sounded much more like a brief snort.
 
The RAFians all had narrowed eyes -- Underseen deciding to show-off and gaining eyes all over his body so he could narrow them.  He looked remarkably like a human/Opticoid hybrid.
 
"Clever, Koh-It." Cloak said in ringing tones.  "But surprise is not fear.  Not enough for you to feed on, anyway."
 
"I AM NOT A KOH-IT!!" it roared.  "I AM A PHOBEEST!!"
 
"Oh, that's a much better name," Faerie said, rolling her eyes.  And this was met with much snickering.
 
"I AM!!  AND STOP THAT SNICKERING!!"
 
That only made it persist more.
 
"I SAID SHOP!  I MEAN, STOP!!"
 
That cause the RAFians to burst into laugher.
 
"STOP LAUGHING!!  STOP LAUGHING AND FEAR ME!!"
 
And that caused the RAFians to double over with laughter.

"YOU WILL FEAR ME!!"

Now the RAFians were ROFLing, until there was a rather metallic CLANG as the empty shell of the Koh-It clattered to the ground.  Completely empty and headless, as the head had dissolved into nothingness.


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

RAFians Referenced Specifically: Demos.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1326 on: January 31, 2013, 11:48:00 AM »
Eh, let's just finish off this book now.

CHAPTER TWENTY:
Beach Be Gone!

It took a moment or two for the RAFians to collect themselves, and to ensure that the Koh-It was really gone and dead.  It had every appearance as such.  Gaz and Parker were still red in the face from laughing so hard, Goom, Underseen and Ash were hard of breath, Faerie was wiping tears of hilarity from her eyes, and Dino was trying not to think of it to prevent a fresh wave of giggles.

Then Cloak managed to carve a shortcut to the surface, with his mastery over the Earth element.

"Why couldn't just do this before?" Parker exclaimed.

"Never thought of it," Cloak said, which was only partially true.  The whole truth was that, by being forced to face his deepest, most desperate fears, he was shaken.  He wasn't truly thinking at full capacity, until the laughable comments of the Koh-It dispelled the lingering doubts and anger.  He made sure not to tell the others this, preferring to keep that private.

Eventually, they saw sunlight.  While initially wincing at the light, the RAFians embraced the sunlight as if a long-lost, beloved relation.  Then the others were beginning to make their way to RAF, Cloak hesistated and looked back.

"What is it, Cloak?" Gaz asked.  Cloak knew it was only because of her benevolent heart that sunlight didn't affect her like other vampires.  But Cloak didn't reply, just looking intently on the beach, and Gaz and the others noticed this.

"Cloak, it's dead." Faerie said, with cold finality in her voice.

"How can we know that for sure?" Cloak said.  "How can we be a hundred percent certain that it won't return?  Won't claim new victims from the beach?"

"We could tell people," Underseen said.

"And who'd believe us?"

Silence.  The answer was crystal-clear, despite the outrageous things that happen, without proof, no one will believe us.

"There must be a way to protect people from that beach, then." Ash said.

"There is two ways I can think of." Cloak said quietly.  "I could raise sharp stones on the beach . . . or . . ."

Suddenly, Cloak stomped his foot and the land sunk down a great deal, and then Cloak made sweeping movements with his arms, as the water flooded the former beach, stirring up the silica.

"That." Cloak finished.

Then the RAFians returned to RAF, unaware of the fact that there seemed to be two red eyes peeking out from beneath the waves, before vanishing from sight. . . .


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

RAFians Referenced Specifically: Demos.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1327 on: January 31, 2013, 12:52:21 PM »
Haha, that's awesome!  A creature composed of fear whose weakness is laughter.  That's brilliant!

It kinda reminds me of a certain Pinkie Pie song.

Oooh, and nice touch with the ominous ending.  I mean, uh . . . *nervous laugh* red glowing eyes, am I right?  *obviously-forced laughter at whatever-it-is*

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« Reply #1328 on: January 31, 2013, 02:39:17 PM »
Thanks, and the whatever-it-is will probably or probably not make an appearance in Book L.


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« Reply #1329 on: January 31, 2013, 03:55:56 PM »
Great stuff!

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #1330 on: January 31, 2013, 06:04:37 PM »
Now you are making new chapters at a good rate... at least for me
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« Reply #1331 on: January 31, 2013, 07:58:55 PM »
I just had sufficent time and an unusally abundant amount of energy to do three chapters today, Underseen.  I may not be able to do the same number tomorrow or Monday.

And just looking at the next book's title makes me wonder what a graphic novel of these books would look like. . . .


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« Reply #1332 on: January 31, 2013, 08:33:06 PM »
I understand you. My chapters are half your size and come once every blue moon.
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« Reply #1333 on: January 31, 2013, 11:30:40 PM »
Heh, you both put me to shame as far as 'chapters-per-time-unit' goes.  :P

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« Reply #1334 on: February 01, 2013, 11:48:12 AM »
Eh, as strange as it may sound, "Memoirs" actually is helping me through my recovery. . . . *blinks* "Memoirs is over a year old!  It's birthday was on the 18th!
 
Anyway, time for the twenty-third book. . . . Out of 135 . . .

BOOK XXIII:
RAF Comix

CHAPTER ONE:
Topsy Turvy RAFParty Day

 
The sun rose on the forum as a joyful, celebrating music streaked into the air as a parade of RAFians rejoiced.  Their song filled the air, waking the more stubbornly somnolent RAFians.
 
"Come one, come all!
Leave your threads and tools,
Coop your inhibitions and don't be mules.
Come one, come all!
Close the churches and the schools,
It's the day for bending rules.
Come and join the . . .
"

SuperNate declared:

"RAFparty!

Once a month, we throw a party here in RAF town!
Once a month, we turn all RAF upside down!
Ev'ry man's a king and ev'ry king's a clown!
Once again, it's RAFparty Day!
It's the day the devil in us gets released.
It's the day we mock the users and shock the admins!
Ev'rything is topsy turvy at the RAFparty!
"

Then the crowd sang, "Topsy turvy!" twice as SuperNate continued:

"Ev'rything is upsy daysy!
Ev'ryone is acting crazy
Grass is gold and weeds are a bouquet
That's the way on RAFparty Day!
"

Then the crowd repeated and sang, "Topsy turvy!"

Then together, SuperNate and the crowd sang:

"Beat the drums and blow the trumpets
Topsy Turvy!
Join the users and admins and donators
Streaming in from RAFev'rywhere!
'

Then SuperNate continued solo:

"Even scurvy RAFians are extra scurvy
On the sixth of 'Januervy'!
"

Then the crowd joined into the song once again:

"All because it's RAFparty Day!"

Then SuperNate continued the song, solo, once again:

"Come one, come all!
Hurry, hurry, here's your chance!
See the myst'ry and romance.
Come one, come all!
See the one of the finest girls in RAF!
Make an entrance to en-trance!
Dance la Gaz!

Dance!"

Suddenly, in a sudden blast of smoke, SuperNate had vanished and Gaz was in his place performing some vampire fighting poses and movements and such.  She was executing them with such grace and charm that it almost looked like a dance.  Suddenly, the music heated up again, as SuperNate reappeared off-stage, singing:

"Here it is, the moment you've been waiting for.
Here it is, you know exactly what's in store.
Now's the time we laugh until our sides get sore!
"

Then the crowd began to alternate with SuperNate:

"Once a month we throw a party here in town!"

"Once a month we turn all RAF upside down!"

"Once a month on RAFparty Day!"

Then they joined together again:

"And it's the day we do the things that we daren't explore
On the other three hundred and sixty-four!
Once a year, we love to drop in
Where the beverages are never stoppin'
For the chance to pop some popinjay.
Mad and crazy, upsy-daisy, RAFparty Day!
"

And the celebration continued, celebrating the anniversary of something.  Cloak only stood by and watched passively, with his arms crossed.  He was still unaccustomed to feeling comfortable in frivolity and "letting his hair down", so to speak.
 
Meanwhile, Damien was setting up his own little booth, promoting a little project near and dear to his heart. . . .


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

RAFians Referenced Specifically: Demos.