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12-22-2002, 05:06 PM
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Two replies, and so close together, I know i originally saidone chapter a week but forget that! Hope you enjoy chapter 3.

Chapter 3

Abe
We left Munch to get his breath back and headed for the village.
I was worried about how to get the mudokons to see Splat without running around in circles, screaming their heads off!
I decided to sneak Splat to the village and hide him in my hut while I went and asked Bigface what to do. So I sneaked Splat to the village and hid him in my hut while I went and asked Bigface what to do.
After my normal pile-on of adoring fans, asking for my autograph, I was told that Bigface was in the main assembly hall, preparing for some big town meeting.
I went into the hall and found Bigface lighting the lamps around the hall (with 237 to light it was a long job and took about 3 hours!)
I walked to Bigface and began. “Bigface, Th-“
“There’s a part scrab, part paramite, part mudokon, part Laguameacy thing in your hut and you know he’s a real nice guy but your worried that the others will be terrified of him when you try to introduce him,” he interrupted, without turning round.
“Uh, yeah… Hey, what is town meeting about anyway?”
He turned to face me. “You planning to take Splat round, door to door?!”
“Ah.” I opened my mouth to speak… Then changed my mind. “I’m not even gonna ask!”
I turned to leave. Just as I did, Bigface called to me “I’ll be round in a minute to heal that bullet wound in Splat’s leg.” I left, trying to figure out what just happened!

Splat
Bigface had used some weird plants and a lot of chanting to speed-heal my leg. Now I was standing behind the stage in the hall while Bigface was going on about how I’d blown up a giant lab and how Abe had saved me from that slig and a bunch of rubbish like that.
I suddenly felt worried. If Bigface mentioned the fact I could use shred power or something then I might as well pack my bags and leave.
Suddenly I felt the rage coming on. No, I should have told him! Then I heard his voice in my head. “Don’t worry. I won’t tell them.” No, it was just worse. I had to hold it back. I… couldn’t… mustn’t… let it… loose…
Ok, maybe I should back up a little. I inherited more than wings from the laguameacy. Laguameacies basically go nuts around anything psychic. I inherited a deep-rooted, almost unstoppable rage. I’d learnt in action. 14 mudokons and I were planning an escape. I shred-powered through our cell doors one night, and we crept down the corridor. When we reached the guard block, the mudokons began chanting. That’s when things went wrong.
The slig on guard noticed immediately. He reacted by running around screaming, mindlessly. I reacted by feeling how a scrab probably feels when it’s lunch climbs out of shredding range and feeling like my gut was about to explode, which is what it pretty much did! Only, instead of spewing out guts and stuff, I spewed out a few extra legs, arms, and a load of totally nameless limbs! I basically looked like three shrykalls stuck together at awkward angles! I hadn’t killed the mudokons, but I had ruined their plan. They couldn’t chant while lying on the floor, barely conscious! They gained 3 weeks of solitary confinement. I lost my last friends.
I suddenly realised the rage was subsiding. I’d beaten it down! I then noticed that Bigface had resorted to vocally and physically trying to get me on stage.
I heard the ceaseless chatter of mudokons as I climbed on to stage. The moment I got up, for the very first time in my life, I heard a group of more than 7 mudokons being totally silent. They just stood there, staring at me. Totally silent. At the back of the hall I noticed Abe, whispering into the ear of another mudokon. He suddenly looked up and started clapping and cheering enthusiastically… then began to slow down… and finally, faded into an embarrassed silence.
My arms, ponytail, wings and back drooped. I should of known. There’s no place in Oddworld for a part scrab, part paramite, part mudokon, part Laguameacy freak.

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