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Gurgle's Domain

"Gurgle's the name and helping's my game
getting out is easier than you managed in
I apologize dearly for my salty speech
You see, lonliness manages here, not me

I've had not a visitor in many a year
since 'someone', not telling, has taken over here
I used to have friends and companions alike
until 'someone' told stories and drove them to flight"

Gurgle offered Dave a friendly boost up
but wanted something in return - just Dave's luck
"I have nought to give but many friendly thanks"
Gurgle just snickered and said, "let me be Frank"

"Don't try to say you've nothing to give
I see what you have on your finger - the ring!
Freedom aint free, didn't anyone tell you that?
Now give it here before I change my mind, you got that?!"

Now Dave ever-so weary of his new acquaintance
realizes his plight and Gurgle's lack of patience
Gurgle goes for it, and Dave dives out of the way
"What am I going to do now?!", to himself he exclaimed.

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Rac7hel "Thanks for your appreciative comments, and nice branch FogCat ;~)"
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Chrystal "Ah, but that is the best part of being a writer. ~<3"
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Chrystal "Very enjoyable and an overall good read. Nice work on imagery as well. Can't wait to read more."
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Rac7hel "No no... scientists have proven that this stuff is good for you ;)"
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bigfatloser "Is it a bad sign that I LOVE this???"
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Writers_Block "Its not my best work, but it'll do for now...keep in mind I'm living in an oven at the moment, its hard to get my brain going."
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Writers_Block "Alright folks....the man of epic is back...here I go."
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Writers_Block "Hrm...there are some inconsistencies with the ratings here. I see some posts have 6 people rating them and some have like 2. Are people just not reading some chapters? It wouldn't make sense to give one author a five without reading the other. You don't know if they deserve that five because maybe they didn't follow through properly from the other chapter.
Not singling any authors out just saying, if you're going to rate...rate everyone.
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Jillian "Haha yeah, this nursery rhyme has definitely lived up to it's title of 'Epic'!"
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Rac7hel "Yeah it's great! I'm surprised every time someone new writes something because the story is like 8973984 chapters long already :p"
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Jillian "Haha I decided to jump in! (Better late than never, I suppose) Hope my first attempt was satisfactory : )"
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Rac7hel "Yay Jillian! I kept hoping eventually you would show up here :)"
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Rac7hel "Hey, great job Tasha! I like how Gurgle just gave up and went back to sleep. lol"
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Tasha_Noble "I read forty-six pages (my family all sleeping)
And I've added a little. I hope it's in keeping
With all of the rest of this fabulous ode
Now I'm off to bed, lest I turn into a toad. :)"
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Writers_Block "I like your writing man, its just about respecting the way the author envisioned this, and it feels like you were kind of getting lazy on the rhyming.

I'm the last person that wants to be a jackass to anyone as I've had the brunt of negative criticism, but I think in this case it just needs to be brought up.

Otherwise good addition, your mind is in the right place, just look over it and make sure you are constantly rhyming. I know its hard but once you get into it, it's like riding a bike.
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GoldenKnight-for-all "Now now, let us watch our language!

Is that Spanish? Surprising how many words can be read in French without too much difficulty. ; )
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Rac7hel "ella es una puta grosera"
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Writers_Block "What'd you say about my Mother?"
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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?"
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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."
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Rac7hel "hahaha... a door, just like that... hmm.... how can I make that door the worst thing that's ever happened to Dave?"
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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"
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Rac7hel ":D"
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Writers_Block "hahahahahaha....well if thats not dark and twisted I dunno what is"
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Rac7hel "How's that for getting out of happyland"
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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"
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snowstormfir "patched up the ring problem =D, it's a naughty little bugger, disappearing, then re-appearing, but it's easy to fix =D"
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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?"
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GoldenKnight-for-all "1 min...!"
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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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GoldenKnight-for-all "15 min..."
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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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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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GoldenKnight-for-all "There we go, all fixed."
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snowstormfir "i didn't write the santa... =O"
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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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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"
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snowstormfir "niiiice new chapter, santa really makes the weirdness of the whole situation stand out"
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snowstormfir "there ya go, in the wild added"
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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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Writers_Block "Haha, water under the bridge my accented friend, nothing to be sorry about, we all make mistakes."
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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"
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Writers_Block "hehehe, oh silly old New Zealand, when will you ever learn to have winter when we do..."
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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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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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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."
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Writers_Block "No I clearly stated I was the jackass, and you were merely protecting your baby :P"
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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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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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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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Writers_Block "*clears throat*"
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Rac7hel "also, he shouldn't have blood on his face. The badgels didn't attack him, they attacked the crocodile"
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Rac7hel "um dave doesn't have the ring..."
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Writers_Block "And add a touch of BAM!"
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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"
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Writers_Block ""I choose, the Penis Mighter""
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Rac7hel "oh sweet, I overlooked this yesterday. I love the title..."
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Writers_Block "Hrm...well he's greedy now"
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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."
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Writers_Block "I'm not sure when Seamus became the good guy, so I'm swinging him back around to bad guy status again."
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Writers_Block "Oh Rachel...we are a dastardly duo...we need to start collaborating on other stories!"
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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."
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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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Rac7hel "oooh, you were writing one too? Gotcha! ;)"
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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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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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Rac7hel "hahaha he hopped up and down like he had to pee. This is getting funnier"
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Rac7hel "yeah that sounds about right, lol. Hmm... I wonder what sort of trouble the rainbow can cause for him..."
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Writers_Block "Lets see where you can go with that....HAHAHA"
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Writers_Block "Haha I know you Rach, you just like presenting me with more of a challenge based on the challenge I previously presented!"
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Rac7hel "yeah yeah, I'm getting there"
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Writers_Block "Oi!!! Wheres the damn branch!!!....I do miss it so :("
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Writers_Block "It is fantastical, with whimsical whims of doodley doods, and puddley...ah screw it i'll be in my trailer"
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