A new interpretation of Mario's story

Mikha · 2005-09-02T15:12:21

A friend of mine and I are working on a game. This will be a Mario rpg, but not like other Mario games. We don't have the necessary skills needed to code the game right now, so we are working on other aspects of the game until I (since I'll be the coder) get educated a bit. My friend will be most involved with the art, and I'll be most involved with the coding and story. We collaborate a lot, but I'm taking the initiative to write the story down. Anyway, here is the intro to the story. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was awakened by the loud thud my body made as I hit the wet ground. I had just fallen out of some sort of portal that had opened up below my feet just as I felt myself loosing consciousness. “What happened?” I asked as I furiously checked my body for injuries. I didn't find any, and in fact I felt no pain save for the headache caused by my head hitting the ground--which was surprising since I had just fought off a gang of burley thugs not 2 minutes ago. As I got up I found myself in a clearing in the middle of a forest as it started to rain. “What the hell? Where am I?”, I asked myself. I started saying, “This seems so famil-”, but suddenly, a voice appeared behind me and said, “No, this isn't hell, Mario.” I turned around and saw a man standing in the forest, but it was too dark for me to see his face. The man said, “As you will find out later, it is much worse than hell,” and then as suddenly as he appeared, he vanished. My heart began to race as I realized that I wasn't dreaming. This was real. I was starting to think it couldn't get any worse, but then the formerly-gentle rain turned into a downpour and the lightning and thunder was becoming more intense by the second. Then it started. I jerked around to hear a sound coming out of the forest, a sound that was getting more violent by the second. As the sound got louder, the earth quaked more. I felt an intense desire to run, but I was frozen by fear of what might be coming. Up in the lightening-illuminated night-sky I saw what looked like a flock of birds flying away from the sound, but they seemed too big to be birds. Running from the forest came all manner of strange creature, including colorful lizards that ran on two legs. One of these lizards cried out, “It's Mario!” Then from behind them came a monster that seemed like it could only come out of a child's nightmare. A massive green beast with huge fangs and bright red hair screamed, “KILL HIM!”, and in an instant I ran as fast as I could to get away. I wasn't fast enough though, and the lizards caught up to me and one yelled, “Get on me Mario!” I had no time to think, so I leaped onto the lizard's back and held onto him as tightly as I could as he continued running through the forest. I looked behind and saw sword-wielding turtles riding colossal three-horned dinosaurs that I had only seen in movies. They were catching up quickly, with the massive green beast right behind continuously screaming, “KILL HIM! KILL HIM!” As we left the edge of the forest I could see the huge birds get closer, and it became obvious that they weren't birds, they were the same turtles that were chasing us from behind, but with wings! As we continued to run I could see that we were losing ground quickly--from behind we had an army of reptiles, and in front of us we had a cliff! As the flying turtles swooped down to slash us with their swords, the lizards shot their tongues out of their mouths, swallowed the turtles whole and sprouted wings just in time to fall down the cliff and fly to safety, narrowly escaping the enemies from behind. Not all the lizards made it, and they plummeted down the cliff and into the water below along with some of the turtles and dinosaurs. As we flew away, the green beast made the loudest, blood-curdling howl of anger I had ever heard and blew a ball of fire which hit one of the lizards near me. We escaped, just barely. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I plan on translating that into something more readable as a script, but for right now I'd like to have your opinion of the intro and my writing. Let me have it. [Edited by - Mikha on August 16, 2005 3:53:54 PM]

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Started by Mikha August 03, 2005 10:21 AM

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Mikha

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August 23, 2005 08:46 AM

That's an awesome idea! Ya, Lakitu is his name.

Another thing I forgot to mention, which seems appropriate now, is that none of the 'races' or species of characters in the story are completely good or bad. That is, you'll see bad Yoshi and good Koopas, a bit like there were good Koopas and Goombas in Paper Mario.

So at some point Mario needs to befriend a Lakitu. Sounds like a plan to me. Thanks!

Anonymous

September 02, 2005 03:12 PM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255

;-)

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