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Icey,

It's somewhere in the sound files for SOTU DX.

Get it here.

Hope that helps.

All right. Dinner is done and the dishes are washed. (Kraft mac and cheese with a hot dog sliced up and mixed in, for those of you keeping score at home. I eat like a king when I'm here by myself!)

A few thoughts:

1) Good lord, that game was a lot harder than expected! Well done!
Two) Loved the emotional music and the dramatic reading of the note.
3) Fantastic voice acting. I hope you were alone when you recorded those lines! (Rump dumped my way to victory. Never got tired of it!)
4) "Batman?" Cracked me up.
5) Oh noes, Ray! What have you done!
E) DDQ, get started on that post N&N game forthwith! My own Archipelago Adventures is coming out next spring / summer. These dangling threads need to be resolved. I won't be able to sleep until they are! Poor Dennis!*
%) Well done, Tzachs! I knew you would deliver gaming goodness! I hope you will do another OSD game one day! (Because I still have lots of exclamation points left!)

Truly a worthy entry into the Oceanspirit Dennis canon.

- Ponch
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* Not that he didn't sort of have it coming though.

I pick Ben304. To be his mentor. The boy needs discipline!

Goodness, this thread is getting kinky!

Thanks, I didn't figure out that pimping cane trick.

That's how it usually goes. You don't see the pimp cane coming until it's too late.

Awesomeness! I don't think anyone was expecting you to lower the bar like that! Looks like next time I'll have to make a game that consists of nothing but a menu screen filled with buttons that don't do anything. (Two can play at this game, sir!)

Now I must go make dinner so that I can play this game after dinner!

- Ponch

I was going to enter but Ponch put me off. Naught but Davy Jones can take the wind from his sails.

However, it won't stop me lusting after kconan's sensuous, golden booty.

Hey now, don't be like that! There's still plenty of time to come up with a great pirate story between now and the deadline. Hell, if your story actually has pirates in it then that's a point in your favor! And if it will help, I'll let you on the secret to my inspiration: Two frosted strawberry pop tarts and a large glass of chocolate milk for breakfast. Man, I was riding along the crest of the wave of sugar highness. The story just flew from my fingers this morning.

Of course, the crash soon followed, leaving me sprawled out on the classroom floor in front of all my students. But that's the price you pay for a good (non) pirate story, right?

I have faith in you, Atelier, is what I'm saying. Now get on a sugar high and start typing!

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p.s. We all lust after kconan's eye-catching booty. Most of us just don't have the courage to admit it! So there's another point in your favor!

The ship was huge. Colossal. Mountainous. The largest sailing ship ever put to water some said. The largest thing ever built by man, said those who had actually seen her. Brobdingnagian, a writer with a thesaurus had once opined.

And yet, thought Captain Big Jack Handlebar... I think she could stand to be just a little bigger. He stroked his enormous waxed mustache as he pondered this impossible dream.

There wasn't a tree left in anywhere on the three islands that had been tasked with providing the wood for her construction. There were more men on this ship now than there were left back in his home country. Eventually the press gangs had fallen upon each other in a desperate attempt to make their quotas to fill her crew. The foundries had melted down all the bed frames in a dozen orphanages just to have enough metal to cast the numerous miniature cannon for the model of this ship that sat on a heavy oaken table in the captain's great room. That the model itself was ridiculously large went without saying.

But damn did she cut a fine shape as she sailed into these waters, putting the fear of God into her enemies and scaring the hell out of the wildlife who were convinced that some sort of bizarre eclipse was occurring every day except during the hours just before and after high noon. Show me one other ship that can blot out the sun like this fine girl of mine, though Jack.

Just last week they'd sailed past an island filled with friendly natives. Sadly, the sheer volume of water displaced by the ship as she sailed along had swamped the island, destroying the natives and their village entirely. Pity, thought Big Jack Handlebar. But then they should have had the good sense to have built their island on stilts, shouldn't they?

On the Quarter deck far below, the officer of the watch was busy sending up smoke signals to the captain. But a layer of lazily drifting clouds betwixt Jack and the officer below made a muddle of the message. Betwixt, thought Jack. Fine word, that. I should use it more often. Then, with as much solemness as the moment required of him, Big Jack turned to his messenger boy and informed him that he was to go down to the Quarter deck and see what it was that the officer wanted.

To his credit, the boy didn't cry or even tremble very much.

Good boy, this one, thought Jack to himself. Pity to lose him. The last three messenger boys he had sent down to request extra desserts be sent up on the dumb waiter had never returned. Some said they'd been picked off by rocs the nested amidst the gigantic staircases. Others said that their young bodies simply weren't up to the hardship of the journey. Hopefully, this boy would be different.

Stoically, Jack watched him struggle into his parka and shrug on his back pack filled with survival gear. The Sherpa guide helped him secure the large coil of rope around his tiny shoulders. It took all of Jack's steely resolve not to let the tears well up when the boy crisply saluted him from somewhere inside the depths of his over-sized parka.

"Boy," said Jack, his gruff baritone carrying through the chill, thin air.

"Yes, captain?" said the boy, almost overwhelmed at this simple acknowledgment from his beloved captain before what was surely a suicide mission.

"When you get to down there... Be sure to tell them that I want an extra damned pudding cup next time."

"Yes, sir," said the boy and left without another word.

(Author's note: Upon further reflection, I suddenly realize that this story is really more about the "Age of Sail" and less about "Pirates." But I stand by my little story that came to me while I was eating my morning Pop-Tarts. If the lack of piracy eats away at you, keeping you up at night, then let's say than unbeknown to his crew, Big Jack has discarded his orders and essentially stolen this ship and is preparing to embark on a career of piracy... Just as soon as lunch has been delivered. And there had better be two pudding cups this time. God help them if there isn't!)

Since you have the sword, Dave the hobo should be hanging out in his dumpster. Talk to him.

Spoiler

Once you ask him enough questions, Shelly the Voodoo pirate will appear down the street. Go talk to her about the pile of dirt. Then go back and use your pimp cane on the dirt.

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That should help you get your pimpin' adventure back on track.

Unspeakably awesome. 

Awesomeness, I would like to see more LPR Games, as well as OSD!

Long live OSD!

Well you're in luck! I happen to know that tzachs is hard at work on his own LPR game. And I have another OSD game I hope to have ready by next spring / summer. And I hope other at least a few AGSers have their own OSD games in the works.

But best of all , if you want to see another OSD game, you can just make one. Almost all the OSD games are open source, so you've got plenty of resources to work with. And since canon isn't an issue with OSD, you don't have to worry about where your story fits in with the others or if it fits in at all.

Anyhoo, thanks for playing!

- Ponch

Dennis can now summon a giant ninja cow that dumps milk on all enemies but has a limit, of a 20 sec wait time.

Giant. Ninja. Cow...

I'm udderly speechless.

Actually, Icey (because you'll always be Icey to me), I don't know if we invented OSD so much as discovered him. I'm starting to suspect that he may be one of eternal "forms" that Plato talked about, back when people didn't have the internet and thus had time to give a damn about such things. I like to think that OSD has always been there, and it was only through happenstance that Snake and ddq accidentally opened the door the greater truth of Dennis.

Humm, Cant argue with that.

I know, right? It's almost cosmic in its truth! Just thinking about it makes me want to go lie down for a bit.

Any community goes through ups and downs. Personally, I think AGS is in the middle of a very exciting time. Going (semi) open source may bring back the old editor, which may help bring more newbies into our world. Also, we have Oceanspirit Dennis now. And any community that has OSD is obviously an awesome online community!

As far a the lower output of games goes, I think that may just be a reflection of the times. I know that I used to have a lot more time to work on Barn Runner games a few years ago. But the economy isn't what it used to be. I'm putting in a lot more hours than I used to at work. That doesn't leave a lot of time for AGSing. I suspect this may be true of others as well.

All in all, I don't think the big blue cup community has anything to worry about. And with Tell Tale games holding the banner and other outfits like Zombie Cow on Steam, I don't think adventure gaming is in any danger either.

Just my two cents, anyway.

**** Oceanspirit ****head, I'll ******* play it when I ******* give a ****!

Your transmission came through a little garbled there, buddy. But from what I can make out, it's something along the lines of "(Thank you, Ponch, for doing your part to bring the word of) Oceanspirit (Dennis to the world. For surely having this good news in such troubled times will ensure that only thoughts of hope fill my) head, I'll (build a shrine to OSD on my lawn and encourage all my friends to) play it when I (finish the shrine, which will obviously help me to spread the word of OSD. I wish I could) give a (gift as wonderful as OSD to the world as you and the other member of Square-Peniks have done)!"

Gosh, Mods. I don't know what to say!    I wish I could take all the credit for creating OSD and giving you a reason to go on living, but the truth is that we all owe it to one person... Icey.

I wonder if OSD would existed if I hadnt made that topic.

Actually, Icey (because you'll always be Icey to me), I don't know if we invented OSD so much as discovered him. I'm starting to suspect that he may be one of eternal "forms" that Plato talked about, back when people didn't have the internet and thus had time to give a damn about such things. I like to think that OSD has always been there, and it was only through happenstance that Snake and ddq accidentally opened the door the greater truth of Dennis.

Caterwaul Crookshanks is definately the best character in OSD univere.  

He's certainly the best man wearing a dress in the OSD universe, that's for sure!

Thanks for the kind replies, everyone. I can't wait to see what someone else does with OSD next!

- Ponch
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(And Ben, I couldn't understand a word of it either. Which is how I knew that Frodo had done a top notch job!)

But can he work two jobs? I did that for a while to help make ends meet.

What an oddly addictive little game. Well done, dude!

Amazing.

Dynamic character development and spot on pacing place this among the top 10 Oceanspirit Dennis games. I congratulate you!

Also, special mention to the awesomeness of the Scottish translation

Top 10?  :o I don't know if I could even dare to dream! Top 40, maybe. But certainly not the top 10!

And thanks for noticing the incredibly tight pacing. I wanted to player to feel like they'd had a great cardio workout by the time they were done, so I made sure to make Ray walk around as much as possible. And thanks goes to Frodo for what I can only hope are accurate Scottish lines. But who can say for sure?

Calin, if we are legion then why haven't you made an OSD game yet? Hop to it, man!

And Icey, er, Studio 3, thanks for adding to the OSD universe. It's only fitting, I suppose, since you inadvertently helped to cause this entire thing!

Cool. Maybe now I'll finally get that elusive gold!

  The funky music puts me in pimp mode, and not just in-game.  Fun stuff!

Thanks. But I have to give the credit to the guys at Newgrounds. I went to the music section and searched for "funky." They certainly delivered! 

Icey, are those bat wings on OSD? I guess he really is the secret lovechild of Batman!

Allow me to repay your early birthday well wishing with my own late birthday well wishing! (I was away from the computer for a week, I have an excuse  )

Ah, that explains why you haven't written a glowing response to the latest OSD game. I was afraid with all the fame and fortune, that you might think that the OSD universe was beneath you. 

Torturing celebrities isn't an excuse Ben. RELEASE TOM SELLECK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!

Haven't you read the latest issue of AGS Today? Tom Selleck has escaped captivity and the police are scouring The Outback for a certain person who is about to celebrate a birthday on the lam. Our long nightmare is over!

Also, happy belated birthday, Xenogia. Sorry I missed that one.

- Ponch