Ecco Topic Extravaganza Times Two Point One. (Ecco Topic 2) :)

Wow, five posts in and we're already talking about the cetacean equivalent of breastfeeding? Dang, something's gotta be wrong with this board.

...Something Ecco-related. Uh. Uhhh. Here, have a DL outtake. /shameless self plug

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The Clan facility was nothing if not high-tech. Lights shone through every single wall as though they were embedded in the skin of a living creature, and the sheer size of the place made it all too easy to get lost. Ecco felt that he was swimming in circles, and he probably was. After the fourth or fifth dead end (he had lost count), the bottlenose snapped his beak in frustration.

"This is impossible," he whined. "How are we going to get anywhere if all we're doing is swimming like fish in a maze?"

Zanthe glanced at him and rolled her fins, the delphine equivalent of shrugging. "Den't ask me," she replied quietly. "For all we know, we could be sitting on the solution to our problems. I seppose it depends on whether or not they'ere... oh, ye'know. Willing to let us get too far in. I'em starting to think that they heve got a way of fixing up these passages to limit the movements of ane'one who uses them."

"How do you figure that?" Ecco asked, eyeing the outcast female sharply.

A placid yellow iris returned his halfhearted glare, and Zanthe swam a short ways off into the tunnel. "Look," she answered. "Right here. You see where there'es a hard place in this wall?"

"And that means what?" he prompted. Ecco looked at the group of plates she was referring to, but he saw nothing remarkable.

"It'es a gate," Zanthe explained simply. "'End to open it, we'ell need... oh, two stars' rank or so."

"You know this... how, exactly?" The bottlenose glanced around and nearly sighed, but thought better of it when he realized that there were no air vents close by.

"I cen see it," Zanthe responded. She tapped the edge of the gate with her beak, where a two-star symbol had been carved out and brightly dyed.

"Oh," Ecco said, feeling stupid for not having seen that in the first place.

The outcast smiled slightly at him. "Which means," she told him, "we will need to find the machine that creates their marks of rank. 'End you, Ecco, aere going to heve to use it. Fancy being a soldier?" Zanthe's inquiry held the slightest sardonic tone to it.
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Ms. Lurksalot
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This Zanthe has a different accent. Is she british? =þ

British? No, but now that you mention it, you're not the only one who's told me "This character sounds British." XD For the record, I decided to give most of the outcast... well, cast, phonetic difficulties. There's an explanation for it, though.

Will you 'poste' the entire story of your 'heare'? I'd like to see how it endes.

Hey, people actually want to read my story! Anyway, yeah. Once I have the whole thing written and spiffed up, I'll post it on ff.net, and I'll link to it here. I'd post the whole thing on GFAQs, but I get the feeling that even if I copied the whole thing into one large, unbroken topic, I'd hit 500 posts and still not have enough room left over to fit it all in. (Each chapter is gonna be about 3000 words, and there'll be at least 40-50 chapters or so. And with the post character limit on these forums, a single chapter would probably take up several posts.)

I'm going to guess Scottish.

I never really had a 'nationality' in mind for a fictional accent... if I had to take a guess at my own stuff, I'd say Spanish. But I've heard actual Spanish accents, and they tend to actually not over-enunciate 'e', and drop their 'h's. Which Zan doesn't do. But I guess whatever real-life accent is closest is what would be the one. I have no idea. It might be Scottish or British or Irish for all I know. =p

I'm interested in the most unfathomable lifeform of all; women.

Wow. That's a pretty funny way to spell 'men', don'tcha think?

Also my favorite animals are bears, I think. But I'd want to be a falcon.

You guys already know my favorite animal, so I won't say it. Feel free to look at the third word of this page's title, though, if you need a hint.
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Ms. Lurksalot
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Bumpish.
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Ms. Lurksalot
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Well, if you live in the US, that is.

Otherwise, um... happy holiday that you're not celebrating?
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Ms. Lurksalot
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Assuming that that was a serious question (sorry, my rhetoric/humor detector is in for repairs), it's a celebration of the pilgrims who came to America not dying. They survived the first winter and apparently decided to throw a party, although, why Thanksgiving itself doesn't come after winter is a question I can't answer.
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Ms. Lurksalot
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Oh. I think thanks giving (as two words) might have you confused. Thanksgiving itself is the holiday, but thanks giving, or more specifically, giving thanks, is the practice we're all supposed to engage in. Not that I or anyone I know really does it with much enthusiasm. (Probably because we know what we're thankful for and don't need to say it, but that's a different subject. As is the fact that people who say it irritate me for fairly specific and dumb reasons.)
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Ms. Lurksalot
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Sounds like it! Nice to know a UKer who doesn't think all Americans are dumb.

<_<;
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Ms. Lurksalot
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