The meager plain rice collected carelessly in his bowl represented his hopes and aspirations, and each one Ment slowly digested, obtaining it's taste and then dismissing it as a distraction from his true goal. He did this over and over again until the bowl was empty. He reached towards his beard to the bowl's worth of rice of rice he knew was in there when one of the elders walked up to him and started to speak. It was the full, reverberating voice of the Elder Nhin-Comphoo, obviously come to reassure Ment on his troubled quest. How he could be so friendly without hope for others no one knew.
"Hello, Menteh. I see you are facing inner troubles. May I help? -No, don't answer, I already know you. Did you know that this very place was once occupied by a quite mad person, one who took in the spirit of power and body of hate instead of his own? Yes, you already know him, it was FURB, and excuse me for saying this, but kicking his a$$ outta here was the funnest thing I've done in years."
Dismissed it, the temples do this to some mortals....was FERB's comforting words, he and ment continued up the large stone steps and into the main structure at the top, they were suprised to find that it wasnt a place of great power or a weapon atop this temple, it was a museum, ancient artifacts lay, still in place but with covered with dust, yet there was still an ominous sense of dark energy pulsating from the floor....
... Grabs one, opens it and just as he's about to drink he notices the skeleton of a man with a bag behind an exhibition, upon asking about this the Elder says it was a man who was found like that on the mountains, presumably from a different and distant time, in his bag there were a ball of yarn and fozilised pokegore, they're still there but it's just crap...
Back on a stretcher, and with three doctors trying to take the burning ball of yarn out of his hands, Jack is visited by the mayor of #0x0034bb , he's congratulated for destroying Prof. Nhin-Compo's evil lair that hosted unspeakable evils, actually they just looted the museum and made profit.
Jack's given a handshake and the mayor takes a picture with him, then leaves.
The mayor's officials confiscate the ball of yarn, which alerts Jack..
Now stripped of his ball of yarn, and ultimate treasure and mission, Jack looks at the now closed door, his hands are bandaged, he looks a lot like darkman, and taking a decisive course of action, he proceeds to..
And due to there being no timezones in space, they crashed into each-other, both rupturing their Shaw-Fujikawa drives and completely accidentally the Halos.
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"Hello, Menteh. I see you are facing inner troubles. May I help? -No, don't answer, I already know you. Did you know that this very place was once occupied by a quite mad person, one who took in the spirit of power and body of hate instead of his own? Yes, you already know him, it was FURB, and excuse me for saying this, but kicking his a$$ outta here was the funnest thing I've done in years."
"What's this?"
Asked ment, eager to know of this unknown contraption
Elder Nhin-Comphoo, looked at ment and with all his wisdom he said:
Jack coughs up yarn.
The Coke was apple flavored.
Machinery that has waited for hundreds of years suddenly starts...
Jack's given a handshake and the mayor takes a picture with him, then leaves.
The mayor's officials confiscate the ball of yarn, which alerts Jack..
Now stripped of his ball of yarn, and ultimate treasure and mission, Jack looks at the now closed door, his hands are bandaged, he looks a lot like darkman, and taking a decisive course of action, he proceeds to..
Oh and recover his ball of yarn