M9. Favorite Bowser Battle
by Superchao
(With my deep apologies to Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes.
Recommended backing.)
Now let me tell you the story
Of a Koopa named Bowser
On a tragic and fateful eve
He gathered up all of his troops
Added his kids and family
Went to make the...
Speaking as a mod: please only do this if you have actual, useful contributions to do this. We really really do not need people dredging up the past for the sake of it.
You try this key on the coffin of Solaire of the Sun. It clicks.
The coffin lid slowly slides open. Inside is an ancient mummy in full armor, hands clasped around a strange, orange and yellow stone shaped like the sun.
The Sun Stone has been discovered!
You may now put your name forth for...
You take your sledgehammer to the sun and give it a big, heavy smash. The thing cracks down the middle and falls wide open.
Inside lies an ancient-looking key. A single line of text is written on the inside of the sun.
It reads "The baleful rays of the sun should never be unleashed again."
You huck the golden key into the fountain. It bubbles and boils, and the golden key is subsumed into a weird tarnished key.
You hear a loud voice going "This is your key!", and the key is tossed back out of the fountain.
With one swoop, Lash and Victor are hurled into the same void through their two portraits, crashing down on an unfamiliar wooden platform. The spotlights flicker on one by one, revealing that they're on a huge soundstage, ready to perform for an audience of one. The familiar-to-Victor but...
They have an odd, ghostly tint to them. It gives you a weird vibe.
Looking through them blocks your vision. Seems like they cannot be penetrated by visible light.
The roll of duct tape appears to be undamaged.
You look at the lenses. It appears they match the lens placed over the Eye in the wall.
The Nautical Exhibit telescope is not missing its lens, but is both dented and the lens is cracked.
There's some duct tape and a bunch of lens down in the outflow channel that flows from the Sewer, in the Hydro Generators.
The maintenance hub is missing welding gear. Otherwise, you don't notice anything of real significance.
The eye stares aggressively at them, that's what it does.
There's a few skid marks on the tree's inside.
Neither of them sources the rag that is missing.
The coal pile in the Pit Mine seems jostled and touched.
You shine a darklight. The eye stares back at you.