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Chapter 2

The stinging in the back of my brain made walking nearly unbearable, but I soldiered on. My lumbering steps became louder as each foot became lead. My eyelids were shuttering; the lights were flickering.

The hole. I found myself here, again. I could see out of my eyes on the mortal plane, but only through a flickering view.

"You know why you're here, Tim. You must be punished."

"Darling, this isn't the time. I cannot be late. I was walking. What if I hurt someone?"

"Let them be hurt. Maybe you'll fall on that harlot and crush her. Maybe I'll make you strangle her."

"No, Mother, please, it wasn't her fault!"

"But it was her father's. We'll hurt him if we hurt her. Maybe cause his suicide. Maybe. Don't you want these alchemists dead?"

"There are other ways..."

Tears were building up in my eyes, but I had no moisture to give them form. Instead, little sobs forced their way out of my mouth. I was feeling weightless, and then weighted. By my trench coat, and by my mission. She had forgiven me. I thanked her. Silence.

"Mr. Churchill, are you all right? Shall I call a doctor, sir?" The girl's eyes lit up with their unearthly glow. I found myself attached."

"What is your name, miss?"

"I have no name, Mr. Churchill. None of the girls have names, don't you know?"

"I guess not."

At 10/19/13 11:42 PM, EKublai wrote:

At 10/6/13 12:52 AM, bartolomeisgreat wrote:

At 10/5/13 02:13 PM, EKublai wrote:

The whole point is that you're not supposed to know.

Then what's the point of the story?

Mystery. To tease you into craving more. See, the best writers are sadists that demand the cries of the readers in order to fuel their dastardly moon bases in order to enslave us. It's a trade secret.

At 10/5/13 02:13 PM, EKublai wrote: I really have no sense who these characters are. I really don't know about Mother Nature. Is she a ghost? Is she the ethereal representation of Nature surrounding the main character. Is this a post-apocalyptic setting, hence the Vegas 2? Why are they there?

The whole point is that you're not supposed to know.

Mother Nature- a short story by Zoey Mason

The neon soaked streets of Vegas 2 sickened me. Opulent cunts were away gambling their children's college funds whilst the poor vomited dust upon my shoes. The city should've stayed dead.

I observed my surroundings. Purple clouds of various alchemical solutions choked Mother Nature. She was my fierce mistress. My blood would've boiled if she had blessed me with such a handicap. She told me that I must focus, that the end would be near, that I may see her again, that she'll no longer be hurt. I just had to sin again.

The Pearl Arches Casino and Hotel was your standard house of blasphemous activity; whores danced in their underwear, hoping for money. Alchemists obliged. The normal citizens were too focused on wasting their money on chips than wasting their money on teenage shits. I walked to the cashier.

"Hello sir, do you have a reservation or are you here to gamble?" She was pretty. Like Mother Nature.

How dare you think that way, Tim. I love you. You'd want this harlot?

No, Nature. She reminds me of you. From back then.

You insult me. Nine lashes tonight.

I apologize, Nature. She is nothing to you. I deserve your wrath.

Continue with the mission.

"Sir, are you alright?" Her eyes were an electric, unnatural green. Her father was an Alchemist.

"Sorry, miss. I'm reserved under Tim Churchill." My response was robotic, artificial. Like her eyes.

"Churchill... Churchill... here. Room 205. Second floor, on the right. I'll send a bag-girl for your luggage."

Don't you dare let one of those whores take your bags. Do it yourself, you animal.

Yes, nature.

"I'm sorry sir, all the girls are busy. I can take the bags for you."

I paused. I considered rebellion against my love. For a youngling who I didn't even know, who was created to pull me to her, who was made to gain better tips, a slave by her beauty. Her eyes. Tempting.

"Yes, please. Thank you."

How dare you.

How dare I indeed, love.

Feedback?

At 9/18/13 09:51 PM, T3XT wrote: What do you think it should be?

Here in murica the age is 18, higher than most countries. I hear about too many horny teenagers getting registered as sex offenders because mommy found out that her 17-year-old consensually made fucky with a university student. Now, I'm not encouraging frat boys to go out seeking jailbait pussy, but I think that once you hit about sixteen it's okay to learn how to drive stick.

I honestly believe that teenagers should be able to have control over their bodies at a younger age, but you have to admit that many young teens are fucking idiots. If the Sex Ed program was better than "abstinence or die" I could agree to lowering the age, but I doubt the schools will change.

At 9/27/13 09:48 AM, Viper50 wrote: I would love to see this happen. Bully is a great game.
Although I kinda want to see them re-release Bully with updated graphics first if they're ever decide to make a sequel.

They released Bully on the Playstation Store... I don't know if the graphics are HD, but it's a re-release.

At 9/27/13 05:02 AM, Trambamboline wrote:

I don't really mean have her be some bitchy gossip factory or anything. She should still be able to beat the crap out of someone, or stuff a nerd in a locker if she wants. What I mean is that in the first game Jimmy never really had any plans. He just decided he was gonna be the king of the school and waited. That was it, he just waited and hung around everyone else until he was the top dog. The only person he really set out with a plan to ruin was Gary, right at the end. And that's my thing. I would love to play as a character like Gary in the Bully universe. The one behind the scenes, setting all these different groups against one another. In the setting a female protagonist could do that and get away with it because most of the characters would just let anything she did slide when she bats her eyelids at them. And then if they don't, she stomps a mud-hole in them.

Actually, thinking about it now it'd be kinda interesting to just do a straight up role switch with the first game. The protagonist is the "Gary" and your antagonist is the "Jimmy". You spend the entire game basically making this one person's life hell because they threaten your position, by playing the entire school against them. Not sure how it'd end though. Either the same way it did in the first game and you get usurped, or you just beat them down and keep your throne.

That's how I could see it working in the story, as for gameplay... I dunno, honestly. I mean having abilities like, "tattling" to prefects or groups that you're friendly with joining in when you get into a fight would be be a given but beyond that I can't think of anything that wouldn't drastically change the game, probably for the worst.

I think that if tattling was added, it might make the game a bit easy... and a bit stupid. It'd be weird running up to a prefect with a baseball bat complaining about the jocks trying to kick your ass.

Also, wouldn't the guys all be trying to court you? Who would you kiss for health? There were very few female characters in the first game so that health wasn't everywhere.

And Gary as a protag.. that would be violent... very, very violent. And Jimmy wasn't the antagonist for Gary. Everyone was Gary's enemy. He was paranoid.

At 9/27/13 03:50 AM, Trambamboline wrote:
I'm aware. Use that. Give her the ability to call a prefect if you're having trouble in a fight. Needs to have a huge cool-down, or limited uses somehow, but still. Having a female bully be the protag give you some interesting possibilities. Having her be more of a manipulative bully than Jimmy was would likely be labelled as sexist, but the Bully universe is so silly, campy and over the top to begin with that it could work.

Of course that's only if you really want to keep the school the same. Could just have it so that girls aren't given preferential treatment anymore, buy I liked it in the first game. It fit really well in the setting that hitting a girl or a little kid brought the "law" down on your ass much harder than beating the crap out of a jock or a nerd.

Jimmy wasn't really a bully, unless you shook down some nerds for kicks, which was optional. Anyway, how would manipulation fit into gameplay? Brute force is more fun than rumours.

At 9/26/13 02:11 AM, Trambamboline wrote: I'd play it. Female protagonist could be interesting, and not necessarily hard to write. Given the bully universe they can afford to fall back on clichés and stereotypes a little bit.

In the Bully universe, if you hit a girl, prefects get on your ass faster than moonshine bootleggers. Sexist, I know, but I think they'd be consistent with that in a sequel.

Merill from Dragon Age 2. Her little sister act was contrived and her accent made me want to cringe. It wasn't even consistent. Welsh? Irish? Scottish? pick one for fuck's sake!

Also, Ashley from Mass Effect. She was a bitch. I let her die. I picked Kaiden over her, and that is the worst insult imaginable.