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Epic Nursery Rhyme for Strange Children

There once was a boy about twelve years old
He lived in a place of which stories are told.
Stories so wild, fantastic! You'll see...
Dear child, this tale is a gift - from me.

The boy's name was David, or Dave, if you will,
He was fond of adventure and easily thrilled
He lived in a city, but not one you've found...
This city, my child, is all underground.

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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "ella es una puta grosera"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "What'd you say about my Mother?"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "Okay, just to clear things up... Dave has the ring now, unless I'm mistaken (in which case, please correct me). After Seamus escaped the swamp he realized that the ring was gone, and assumed that Dave must have stolen it back from him somehow. So now he has summoned Dave to this strange empty room and is planning a sneaky way to steal the ring from Dave again and take it to the Leprechaun King and be rewarded with lots of riches. Comprende?"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for snowstormfir "If you like poetry you should contribute to :www.protagonize.com/a-poem-about-waffles, I started it and the last person to contribute was Dr.pinch."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "hahaha... a door, just like that... hmm.... how can I make that door the worst thing that's ever happened to Dave?"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Haha, its alright Falty, you done well my friend. This plot can never be damaged, just watch this demonstration...one hit and it bounces back....if it don't bounce back, you all get yer money back! Thats the Writers Block seal of guaranteed approval of warranty.....patent pending"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel ":D"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "hahahahahaha....well if thats not dark and twisted I dunno what is"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "How's that for getting out of happyland"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Haha guys, lets try to keep this story a little more twisted and dark, it is called epic nursery rhyme for strange children, not adventures in happyland :P"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for snowstormfir "patched up the ring problem =D, it's a naughty little bugger, disappearing, then re-appearing, but it's easy to fix =D"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for GoldenKnight-for-all "OK, I took a chance, I let it go through anyway, I hope we will be able to fix it without too much work?"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for GoldenKnight-for-all "1 min...!"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for GoldenKnight-for-all "Sorry Snowstormfir, what you wrote was fun read too.

The Santa part was pretty interesting, Faltarego. Guess I'm just getting a little tired, must be why I'm make so many mistakes...ZZzzzz
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for GoldenKnight-for-all "15 min..."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for GoldenKnight-for-all "What should I do? Should I delete it or should I leave it for and then later find a way to explain why it's back?

Now it's like it's gone, and then it appears on the ground. Could that be workable?
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for GoldenKnight-for-all "Shoot! shoot! shoot!

I did the same mistake! I was so used to the ring there that I forgot it was gone!!! And only 27 min to fix it!!! Aaahh!!
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for GoldenKnight-for-all "There we go, all fixed."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for snowstormfir "i didn't write the santa... =O"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for GoldenKnight-for-all "Thought I'd try my hand once again. : )

I don't know why the "then" sticks out like that, it was like that in the preview but not in the edit. I tried playing around with spaces but that didn't work.

I like Snowstormfir's Santa, how he just pops in and out. When I first read the comment I was like "OH shoot!" now we have Santa on our hands, but then I read it and now it's one of my favorite moments.
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for snowstormfir "escape! added, i don't know how you'll carry on from this one, he's in the middle of danger, i would of carried on, i just can't think of how to get him OUT of the danger i put him in. I tried to get him out by making them nice, but then i had the idea of them misleading him, which just got him into more trouble @~@ can't wait to see where this goes"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for snowstormfir "niiiice new chapter, santa really makes the weirdness of the whole situation stand out"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for snowstormfir "there ya go, in the wild added"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for snowstormfir "ah, but for winter, it's not our fault you see
for during Christmas, summer it be
for then the only place where it's cold
is the ice skating rink, but that's getting old

but now it happens to be autumn in may
and all the little kids, in the leaves they play
they come home all covered in grass and stuff
but yet of autumn they cant get enough.

Winter will come later on in the year
but we do not get snow around here
occasionally there may be some white
but its usually ice, and that's still a might

why am i wasting time rhyming in comments
when writing in story i could commence
commence and comments are way too the same
and now this comment is starting to get lame.
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Haha, water under the bridge my accented friend, nothing to be sorry about, we all make mistakes."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for snowstormfir "sorry about the badgels were attacking the crocodile thing, i misread it, for i accidentally read it: Then out of the thicket, two things leapt on HIS face., which now that i re-read it is obviously wrong. dont know how i made that mistake"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "hehehe, oh silly old New Zealand, when will you ever learn to have winter when we do..."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for snowstormfir "Ok then,there will be some more, they will come
although my fingers may start to get numb
for over here in New Zealand you see
It is holidays time, so much time for me.

btw i have read the whole storyline now, hopefully no more mistakes in the future =D
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "No no no Snowy, my intent was never to make you feel stupid. Rachel and I both agree your poetry writing skills were excellent.
Just keep an eye on where the story is going, it was really a minor mistake, I think I made it sound worse by going on and on about it, again that was brought to my attention by Rachel.
Neither her nor I are telling you not to post, you're doing a fabulous job my friend.
I'm the last person on this site that wants to inhibit anyone from writing. I would hate to think that I made you feel like you shouldn't post anymore because that was not my intent at all.
Rachel and I are both expecting more branches from you and I swear to God if I don't see one I will hound you for the rest of your days hahaha...I dunno if thats a threat or a compliment :P
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for snowstormfir "Soz about the story line out :( I feel really stupid now that i realised the mistakes, Still that was a great way out of it =D once again sorry, I don't think ill post any more."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "No I clearly stated I was the jackass, and you were merely protecting your baby :P"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "lol you're making me seem like the mean one!

I was going to just ignore the sentence about the ring and pretend like it just didn't happened. But I like your solution too. Nice work.
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "There we go, Jim saves the day, and enter foul mouthed ring. I especially enjoyed the crass British accent. :)
Once again Snowy, you did an awesome job on the writing, just follow the storyline from now on my friend.
And if you think this is mean, usually Rachel is the nicer one, and I'm about ten times worse with my comments than she was...haha just joking though I wasn't being mean. I even gave it a five for the great work and the fact that it was great writing.
Just for Rachel's sake, follow the storyline, cuz I will back her up!
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Well I'm not going to be an !**@!@% like I usually am when this story is screwed, the only reason I am is because this is Rachel's baby, and her and I have worked hard to make it as best as possible.
Anyways the reason why I'm going to be nicer is that I like your style, I like the rhythm, and I like the rhyme, but you just need to pay attention to the storyline. It does clearly state that Seamus took the ring from Dave. Its not an enormous deal I'll just come up with a patch to explain why Dave has the ring again.
I like your writing style for this story like I said, its better than some of the things I sometimes come up with, cuz I get lazy :P, but I do follow the storyline so make sure, and this is to anyone, make sure you read the entire thing before just posting!
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "*clears throat*"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "also, he shouldn't have blood on his face. The badgels didn't attack him, they attacked the crocodile"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "um dave doesn't have the ring..."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "And add a touch of BAM!"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "I think this is the best chapter I've written so far. I loooooooove this one. I can't wait to see what you do with it. :D"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block ""I choose, the Penis Mighter""
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "oh sweet, I overlooked this yesterday. I love the title..."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Hrm...well he's greedy now"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "Oh no, I never intended for him to be the good guy. He only saved David from the troll so he could steal the ring. I was thinking maybe he wanted to use it to bargain with the Leprechaun King, who surely would like to have his ring back. I didn't know if I wanted to make him just power-greedy or like... want to marry the king's daughter or something, lol."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "I'm not sure when Seamus became the good guy, so I'm swinging him back around to bad guy status again."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Oh Rachel...we are a dastardly duo...we need to start collaborating on other stories!"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "Yeah first the magic ring happened, and I was wondering if that would be the one single magic thing in the story, or if we'd add other weird things. But ever since I made the shark a huge eel monster it's decided to go that way."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "That troll really took off in this story, I didn't really believe him to be a large element. To be honest I was debating where I wanted to take this story, should it be more real world style or should we make it completely off the wall zany with weird creatures.
I guess it just went to the latter, but thats more fun cuz it gives us constructive reign, we can pretty much throw whatever we want in there now with little or no recourse.
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "oooh, you were writing one too? Gotcha! ;)"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel ""Imeacht gan teacht ort" means "Leave without returning."

I just found a list of Gaelic phrases online, so if you feel like making Seamus do some magic, find a cool phrase. There are some rather strange ones that could be used interestingly in the future.

Also I'm officially requesting that Seamus not be killed. I like him too much now. You can make Dave separate from him, but I'll just bring him back. Muahahaha
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Yep, it was good but it had the chance to be better, you have the right idea, but you need to kind of keep within the lines. You're writing it more like a story and less like a poem. I can tell you're a novelist.
I used to be that way to. The thing to do is just copy the way that the person that preceded you wrote it. In this case, four lines a paragraph, and every two lines rhyming.
Also you were on the right track with the rhyming but try to keep the words closer together, so that its almost blatantly apparent that you're trying to rhyme.
I know its doesn't seem clever but in a way it is because you've figured out words that end the exact same.
Keep working at it I'd like to see another post.
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "hahaha he hopped up and down like he had to pee. This is getting funnier"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "yeah that sounds about right, lol. Hmm... I wonder what sort of trouble the rainbow can cause for him..."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Lets see where you can go with that....HAHAHA"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Haha I know you Rach, you just like presenting me with more of a challenge based on the challenge I previously presented!"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "yeah yeah, I'm getting there"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Oi!!! Wheres the damn branch!!!....I do miss it so :("
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "It is fantastical, with whimsical whims of doodley doods, and puddley...ah screw it i'll be in my trailer"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "hmm... I get to create a fantastical shark creature now... unless someone else jumps in randomly (!!!)"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Someone gave me a bad rating on this story, and some other stories, its bringing my whole effing rating down to a 4.2....oh man I wish I knew who did that"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "WOOHOO! We're officially Hott again."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Haha I know what you mean, I already did it a few times"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "*goes back to reread The Great Escape*... I like when it's a challenge for me to read the poem aloud and make it sound right. Because I have to sit there and study all the ways I could possibly accent the words and figure out which way is best. It's fun."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "I wasn't overly impressed with the style, after all you and I have developed our own sort of style here, but they did bring a good element in."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "Yeah I hope they come back. That was cool."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Haha I dunno, some OTHER foreign author threw that little monkey wrench into the works...LOVE IT"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "man, I want one of those rings. How did his father get that anyway?"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Comment comment comment comment!"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Especially when you're strapped to the claws of some enormous shrieking beast"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "hahaha he browned his pants... poor little Dave, I imagine flying would be quite a traumatizing experience for a Molemullian."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "I think I'm starting to forget that this is for kids."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "This is actually getting exciting, I want to know what kind of world Dave comes up to, is it the present, the past or a world we don't even know of ourselves."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Haha, I'm actually getting better at this I think"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Haha we're definitely on the same page"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "I doubt they could spell their own names"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "haha... I'm sure they get it confused sometimes themselves"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Haha thanks, it just came to me...now if only I'm able to spell it correctly 3 times in a row..."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Writers_Block "Btw, just for reference despite the title, I didn't actually mean for David to be killed in this just knocked out cold."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Rac7hel "hehe this is silly"