Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

Mew: No, I couldn't really do that; Spirit has already used a Ghost-type Curse and it was there shown completely differently, besides that it would just be a random complication that has nothing to do with anything and would say nothing of interest the one-shot hasn't said already.

[30/12/2009 20:25:24]

Sangheili

Torture makes for a good piece of fiction.

[30/12/2009 19:19:27]

Mew

Oh, yeah. i recently got super smash bros. off of virtual consol. it iz awsum! ^_^

[30/12/2009 18:44:57]

Mew

Hello, People!!!! Butterfree, very well-written one-shot. i personally think that you should put in that curse logic into TQFTL.

[30/12/2009 18:41:41]

YamiiDenryuu

"I only torture characters I like."



That's either great or, uh, something.



Then again, as someone who will torture characters regardless of whether I like them or not, perhaps I shouldn't speak.

[30/12/2009 16:12:05]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 12-25-09

o.O A Dragonite defeating all Pokémon ever and never getting hurt wouldn't exactly make for a very interesting work of fiction.



Why do people always act so mortally offended when something bad happens to fictional characters? Bad things happen to fictional characters because that is what makes fiction interesting, not because the author has anything against those characters. I only torture characters I like.

[29/12/2009 19:01:35]

E-ighty
Commenting on: 12-25-09

I hate this! I want one with Dragonite not being hurt! Just one dragonite that defeats all pokemon ever! And can't be hurt!

[29/12/2009 18:49:18]

Terry. T.
Website: The major project of SPPF

As you can tell by now, I'm taking Serebii by storm, and I noticed I can re-register for tCoD. I'm not going to try unless you think I'd be decent to return. PLEASE reply.

[29/12/2009 16:56:28]

Shadow420
Commenting on: 12-25-09

Read curse… yesterday, I think it was? That was just… creepy. Although I myself have only ever used the Ghost-type Curse(and not that often), its easy to picture the loss of soul that might come with the Normal/other than Ghost-type Curse.

[28/12/2009 18:39:42]

Chaos16
Commenting on: 12-25-09

Intriguing by all means; however, I personally found it difficult to distinguish the reverse-chronological order of the Morty flashbacks. Then again, I didn't have time to read the whole thing in one sitting, so that may have been part of the problem. Regardless, great story.

[28/12/2009 02:41:05]

Mudskipper
Commenting on: 12-25-09

Wow, that was very good. It sure portrays the effects of the curse well. And I loved the morbid bits, even though I wish there was even more morbidity.

[27/12/2009 23:41:30]

Sangheili

Morbid, indeed. ._. Good thing I don't like to use Curse… Very good, otherwise.

[27/12/2009 19:40:19]

Kitsune
Commenting on: 12-25-09

Very morbid, but that's what makes it so good. =P I never thought of Curse that way, and now I'm a bit 'fraid to use it…

I could totally imagine Dragonite drawing a pentagram during that chanting…

[27/12/2009 05:33:49]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 12-25-09

Maybe a little. Minus the fact that Kari is all best buddies with her Pokémon. :P They do look kind of alike in my head, but then again that's just because they're both sort of based on the Crystal girl.

[27/12/2009 00:56:56]

Scyther
Commenting on: 12-25-09

Kari kinda reminds me of May.

[27/12/2009 00:37:09]

eeveefan14
Commenting on: 12-25-09

Sorry to comment again, but lol, I just realized this reminds me of something: Voldemort's Horcruxes XD, maybe that's why I liked the last books so much =P

[26/12/2009 23:16:02]

eeveefan14
Commenting on: 12-25-09

Wow, that was awesome, but creepy too… Poor Dragonite….

That plot would be awesome for a book, though, it's a very interesting concept, I feel like writing a longer fan fic about it, but I don't want to steal it from you XD

[26/12/2009 23:08:14]

majicfrog
Commenting on: 12-25-09

That was… interesting! Never thought of curse looking like that, and I get how ghosts can use it unharmed because of that Morty flashback. It took me a moment to figure out one of those Morty flashbacks, but it was good. So that Snorlax was pretty much "soulless". Huh. Morbid, but I like it!

[26/12/2009 18:57:05]

Owlheart
Commenting on: 12-25-09

I have to agree with that last post. I didn't like using curse to begin with (I usually just stick to 'wack things until they die and heal sometimes'. No strategy for me. :P), but now I'm definitely NEVER using curse EVER.

[26/12/2009 18:49:35]

Maecenas

Hey there, this is Maecenas, the awesome fellow who's posted once or twice here in the past. This is a bit out of nowhere, but I have a few bits of in-game humor for your excellent section on it if you're still accepting them. I would've E-mailed, but it's my policy to only e-mail people I know personally, no offense meant. If I'm breaking some sort of rule by putting these here I apologize, go ahead and proclaim "Maecenas is an idiot" from the mountain peaks.

Anyways, the in-game humor: Whenever I run across something funny in a Pokemon game, I tend to think, "Man, I should submit that to TCOD one of these days," and I've finally gotten around to it. Consider it a Christmas present…



1. In the ONBS building in Pokemon XD, there's a bookshelf behind the staircase to the top floor (it's the one with an old man standing near it.) Examining the bookshelf will lead to the message, "There's a book entitled 'Survival in the Paperless Era.'"

The irony is priceless.



2. A good many of the Black Belts in Diamond, Pearl and Platinum have amusing things to say, most often poking fun at American perceptions of karate guys. My personal favorite is the one midway through Victory Road who tells you after you beat him, "I've gotten this far in life using the karate I learned on the Internet!"



3. In the Battle Tower (and probably the other facilities as well) there's a Collector who tells you "I put this team together with my Internet buddies. It took us all day!"

If you ask me, that's a reference to ShoddyBattle users and other Pokemon fans who turn to the Internet to create ideal teams in mere minutes.



4. In Platinum, I always liked your rival's line at Lake Verity: "Hey, we don't have any Pokeballs! You know, P-O-K-accent-E balls!" Finally the series gets around to referencing that crazy accent that's caused so many pronunciation train wrecks over the years…



5. A Black Belt in Maylene's Gym will say after losing, "I lost because I didn't eat enough pizza.

…no, anything I say will sound like I'm making excuses."

As I recall, Maylene also says something about being hungry, which makes me wonder about the Veilstone Gym's training regimen…



Well, that's all for now. Sorry again if I wasn't supposed to do this, and I hope you can use some of these!



Maecenas out.



Oh, and "Curse" was well-written but morbid, just like usual. At least you're consistent!

[26/12/2009 15:17:37]