The Insane Cafe 2: Rise of the Shurlups

Nick22 · **Reply #1700 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:08:36 AM

"Thanks."Dixie followed her out of the room and down the stairs.
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Ro rour rings rant rus rimmortality?' Scooby asked.
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No' Stripetail said. "While they are powerful, they do not grant immortality. If they did, I would not have given them to you.'

Drake · **Reply #1701 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:17:18 AM

"I wonder how Stitch is doing," Spyro said. "His armor didn't look like ours. I guess it's not adjusted to him yet."

"Hey," Cynder said, jumping over the last two steps to the ground floor. "Dixie and I are feeling refreshed."

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Wataru thrust out his left arm and Tatsulot spat out the Zanvat Sword in a cloud of flames, the sword flying through the air and into the shurlups. He then pulled Tatsulot's horn, the roulette slot stopping on a blue sword with a wolf's head hilt.

"Gurulu Fever!" Wataru drew the blue and gold sword out and connected Tatsulot to the bottom of the sword. Flames shot from Tatsulot's mouth forming a second blade, while the sword's natural blade was covered in flames. The Zanvat Sword came flying back at Wataru and he caught it in his free hand, before mounting an assult on the shurlups with both swords.

Kor · **Reply #1702 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:21:21 AM

"I wonder if Doc is immortal. Littlefoot thinks he is the lone dinosaur." Ducky said.

"We can ask him when we see him next." Petrie said.

Nick22 · **Reply #1703 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:22:51 AM

That is good" Stripetail said smiling. "the next couple challenges won't require your rings though..
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Ri rask, recause Ri rhink rit rould re roool, ro re rimmortal' Scooby said to Stripetail. "Ri rean, rou're rimmortal..."
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Would you become immortal, Scooby, if it meant knowing that in a few years, Dixie would die, and leave you alone?" Stripetail said sadly.
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Ri.. Ri.. rit rould re really really rad, recause Ri Rove rer. Rut, Ri rould rave rundreds rof rears, ro rind ranother rate.."
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And she would in turn die, and so would any future mates." stripetail replied.

Kor · **Reply #1704 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:24:44 AM

The Tourist looked at Scooby, "If you really want to be immortal I can go and fetch Odysseus. He may be only a few thousand years old, but he can tell you what it's like to be an immortal living in a mortal world."

Nick22 · **Reply #1705 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:27:50 AM

'There's no such thing as immortality' Dixie said, entering the room.
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"Yes, there is Dixie." stripetail replied. 'I know, because I'm immortal myself. I've seen a million years.." Dixie's eyes grew wide..
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"Rell, reah, Ri'd rike ro ralk ro ran rimmortal' Scooby said. 'Rother rhan Ripetail.." he added.

Drake · **Reply #1706 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:37:43 AM

"Malefor said he was immortal," Cynder recalled.

"Well, that obviously wasn't true, because you guys killed him right?" Sparx said.

"No, the ancients got rid of him," Spyro said.

Nick22 · **Reply #1707 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:42:25 AM

"many beasts over the ages have claimed to be immortal. 99.9% of those are egotistical narcissists who are powerful, but mortal beings. this Malefor was one of those." Stripetail said. "there is a tiny number of creatures, though, that are truly immortal, and we operate under very strict rules. Immortality cannot be given freely, it must be earned, and only a very small few may gain this. If you are lucky" Stripetail's voice had a strange tenor to it, " enough to gain it, you are immortal forever, you cannot give it up.."

Serris · **Reply #1708 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:47:45 AM

"This is Strut. Nick should be arriving with the ammo soon." Strut said into the radio.

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Down in the tunnels Dr. Kerzach gestured over to where Wataru was fighting the Shurlups. "Shaggy! We have to help him!"

Dr. Zanasiu and Zachary were both keeping a group of Shurlups at bay with a steady barrage of gunfire. Dr. Zanasiu's shot caught a female in the chest, dropping it. Zachary's 3 round burst of hollow points killed a male.

"I hope Nick gets here with that ammo soon!" Rime shouted. He resorted to attacking the Shurlups with his claws, teeth and combat knife. He stabbed a male Shurlup in the stomach, pushed it down and buried the large talon on his foot in its back.

Rime targeted another male Shurlup. He leapt on the Shulrup, slashed its face with his knife and his hand claws and finished it by tearing its throat out with his teeth.

Nick22 · **Reply #1709 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:50:18 AM

Shaggy rushed after Kerzach, his knife held in front of it, he waved his snife and hacked at shurlup, recoiling as Shurlup cried rang in his ears from his knife carving flesh..
Nick ran deeper into the tunnel, a flashlight, Strut had given to himm, lighting his path in front of him..

Kor · **Reply #1710 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:51:57 AM

"If you are serious I can go and get him. I have an idea where he is. He's given me a timeline of some places where he'll be, during one of my visits to New Camelot." The Tourist said, & once or twice after then." He looked at Stripetail, "Not all immortals "earn" it, some have it cursed upon them, like Odysseus."

Nick22 · **Reply #1711 on:** February 12, 2009, 12:55:45 AM

"Yes, in fact, more are cursed with it, then earn it through trial and perserverance.' Stripetail nodded " after ten thousand years though, how you came to be immortal recedes into inconsequence, We immortals tend to reach out to each other, to regale each other with the stories of dozens of lifetimes. "
rEah, ro ret rim" Scooby persisted..
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Thats.. FASCINATING" Dixie said, seating herself on a cot.. and listening closely..

Drake · **Reply #1712 on:** February 12, 2009, 01:04:42 AM

"We need help?" Kivat wondered, as Wataru ducked under a shurlup's claws. He kicked the monster away. The flames around the Gurulu Saber vanished and Tatsulot detached from it. He slashed the sword's semi-normal blade through several shurlups and then swung the Zanvat Sword. The sword bounced off the shurlup's shoulder. Wataru gasped in surprise and the shurlup slashed her claws across his chest. Wataru groaned and rolled away from the blow, dropping the Gurulu Saber. Now with one hand free, Wataru slid the hilt of the Zanvat Sword across the blade. The shurlup charged at him, thinking the sword was still harmless. Wataru raised the sword and swung it down on the shurlup, cleaving it in half. He didn't have time to stop and find the Gurulu Saber though as more shurlup rushed him.

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"Well, I hope you're right about Malefor," Spyro said, laying down on the floor in the same posture that a dog, or cat might take. Cynder moved over next to him.

Nick22 · **Reply #1713 on:** February 12, 2009, 01:10:34 AM

'If he was revived, then he's not immortal' Stripetail said firmly. "immortals, by definition, cannot die. To die, at any point, makes you mortal, or less than immortal.
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"Let me try and get this straight.. You're immortal, right?' Dixie said. "So why don't you just make us immortal?"
_ Stripetail slapped his face with his palm. "Alright, I've already explained this, but you were late in coming in , and must have missed it the first time. I can't just give immortality to just anyone, Dixie. Immortals operate under very strict rules, only a very few beings may be immortal."

Drake · **Reply #1714 on:** February 12, 2009, 01:17:17 AM

"Well, I guess-"

"He didn't really say 'immortal'. He said he was eternal," Cynder interrupted. "Does the wording make any difference?"

Nick22 · **Reply #1715 on:** February 12, 2009, 01:21:56 AM

No, it doesn't. " Stripetail said. To live eternally, means you are immortal. and most beings that make that claim are in reality about to die themselves. "I can't lose, because I'm eternal!- just before they fall into an active volcano, or somesuch" Stripetail snorted derisively. "Malefor may find some way to revive himself again, but even if he does He IS NOT immortal. I want to make that very clear. He's died twice, correct. Once ages ago in your world, and the second time at your hands.."

Kor · **Reply #1716 on:** February 12, 2009, 01:27:59 AM

"I certainly don't want to be immortal. But maybe I should go and get him." He said, taking out what looked like a business card. He looked at it and scrolled through a menu. "Lets see, today's date, where should me be?" he said aloud to himself.

Nick22 · **Reply #1717 on:** February 12, 2009, 01:32:54 AM

"Satisfy his curiousity' Stripetail said, giving a meaningful glance at Dixie. 'Have him learn from someone who has been forced to live endlessly, as punishment.. The gods do not suffer fools, or disobediance..'
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Why would you WANT to be immortal cousin?' dixie asked Scooby. "Ri'm rurious.."
"Curious? you do know curiousity killed the cat, right?'

Kor · **Reply #1718 on:** February 12, 2009, 01:43:22 AM

'I don't think I would want to live forever, no I do not." Ducky said shaking her head.

"It sound scary, live forever." Petrie said, not thinking about being mortal or immortal.

"Ok, maybe best." The Tourist said and went over to his tardis, putting his pda way and went into it to pickup one of his friends. The Tardis soon went away in it's usual way.

Drake · **Reply #1719 on:** February 12, 2009, 01:44:45 AM

"You do realzie that's a strange thing to say to a dog, don't you?" Sparx said.

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Wataru spotted the Gurulu Saber and managed to slash his way over to it. He picked it up, intending to return it to Castle Doran, when a better idea struck him. He tossed the saber into the air.

"Make yourself useful, you stupid wolf," Kivat shouted at the saber.

The sword glowed and grew into a large blue werewolf with a curved yellow horn growing from his head. He dropped towards the shurlup, his red eyes glowing sinisterly in the darkness.

Wataru leapt away from the shurlups, landing behind Nick and Kerzach. He grabbed two fuestles and let Kivat blow into each of them in turn. "Bashaa! Dogga!"

The green and purple statuettes came flying down through the tunnels. The green one morphed into a similarly colored fishman, while the purple statue became a hulking, well-armroed purple monster. The purple monster pounded his fists together, while the fishman twirled on the spot, before both dashed at the horde of shurlups.