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| 07 Apr 2011 04:52 PM |
In December 2009, I started a project about creating my own sword fighting arena. I CFramed a bunch of statues and added flower patches. Some people asked me how I got this idea, but I told them I didn't have an inspiration. After thinking about it, I reconsidered and expanded the garden over the basis of 8 months, drafting up a (sort of) logical story about how the place came to be. I made it up as I went, adding more stuff to the Garden and letting three other places spring up because there was so much to explain.
You would gather information by touching an item of intrest and a message would appear in a gray corner box. Graves, talking flowers, and statues all led the garden's visitors to be interested on how the story ended. Many people did not find the truth. And even more people asked me to publish an explanation behind the whole plot.
This thread isn't intended for the people who haven't played Sword Fight in a Garden, or Preludia. And don't worry, both of the games are broken now so you can't continue the story. After the admins removed the message script, I couldn't find a way to make it all happen again. I decided to just finish the story and leave it for the avid fans who started up alt accounts, fan groups, and donations all just for how great it was.
Now I introduce to you the complete story that so many people had asked me to complete for them. TL;DRers, eat your heart out.
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This thread isn't intended for the people who haven't played Sword Fight in a Garden, or Preludia. And don't worry, both of the games are broken now so you can't continue the story.
In another world, the story starts off as Amani, a girl with a mushroom on her head, finds a special place where she can be alone and away from her tribal village from time to time. She plants flowers all over the place and constructs the hedges located closer to the inside of the garden. At this point, the graveyard, shed, Mirror Room, and the statues do not exist.
A boy named Leon finds the garden and flees when Amani sees him. One of the flowers remembers this scene and speaks of it when you walk near it, hinting the Leon would never return.
And yet Leon does return, brave enough to meet Amani face to face and they become allies. Leon admits that he had used to visit the garden when Amani was not there so he could escape the troubles of the real world. Another flower, which was almost never seen by anyone because of its late creation before the game broke, states "A handshake. A trusting bond." after witnessing the scene.
Leon and Amani meet once in a while continuously in the garden. Amani tells him that the garden is full of magic and the hedges and the flowers can see and speak without anyone knowing. This is why the "Far Away Look" hedge could talk, and so could the flowers. They build a trust together that they would not speak of this garden or its secrets to anyone. Both of them become interested in each other's lifestyle, like how Amani could live for over one hundred years without growing old. A flower says, "If you could live forever, what would you do with it?", as if quoting Amani's words.
Months pass, and Leon and Amani agree to build a tiny wooden shed in the corner of the garden to keep various things. Amani places her diary here, and Leon places a painting of himself on the far wall, which is later destroyed in Preludia and replaced by the Book of Mentions in Sword Fight in a Garden. Yet another flower near the shed reflects this with the statement "This was built to keep them out of the rain."
Amani's brother, Rito, with a similar mushroom on his head, later follows her to the garden and finds out that she had been associating with humans. Rito is very important to this story because he is a trusted member of Amani's tribe. He had been given a magical sword that allows him to travel between worlds in a state of emergency, by entering the Mirror Room. Leon and Amani attempt to convince Rito not to tell the tribe elders, but Rito refuses. He reveals Leon's identity, and only Amani can convince her friend to not run away. She pleads with the members of her tribe to let Leon live. After all, typically any human who found the tribe would be captured and executed, because the tribe fears that they would be hunted by the humans. The tribe accepts, but they are very suspicious of him.
That same suspicion would be tested in an abandoned project I called "The Village", where you would be able to enter the tribe and use Dialog scripts to talk to the various members of the tribe. In December 2010, I also released a gift to about 25 people which later opened to be the Sword Fight in a Garden fountain with a tribe member sitting on the edge. Once you talk to him, he mentions a fortune teller which would have been included in the place.
Getting back to the story, though, more months pass and the tribe warms up to Leon, welcoming him with open arms. Amani finally admits that she had made a secret garden for herself to the rest of tribe. The rest of the tribe is so intrigued by this, they relocate one of their tribe's oldest artifacts, the Dimensional Mirror, inside a room connected to the garden. They trust Amani and Leon to keep it safe. This is what made the Mirror Room. A few people misinterpreted a flower that told about this event that said "One big happy family is one big mistake", wildly assuming that Amani and Leon had... children... at one point. o_o This is not true!!1!11!
Rito grows to hate Leon for spending time with Amani and barging in to their tribe's ways. He pulls Leon aside and threatens to dispose of him if he did not leave his sister alone. Leon, afraid of the consequences if he defied Rito, does not visit Amani again for some time. Amani begins to worry and blames Rito for her misfortunes, appealing to the tribe elders and accusing her brother of scaring Leon away.
The tribe, enraged by this, reacts by exiling Rito for a long time and sending him out into the wilderness by himself to learn from his actions. This scene was meant to be pictured on a cancelled game called "Exile", which showed several mushroom figures circling a kneeling figure, pointing fingers in other directions demanding him to leave. Rito looks to his sister before he heads out, asking for her to help him, but she refuses.
Rito only manages to stay out of the tribe for a night before he charges back in, ranting to the tribe leaders about their foolhardy attempts to make friends with humans. He threatens to destroy the tribe, and everyone in it, and then flees to the garden, taking the magic sword that opens the dimensional mirror. This action is displayed by the hedge statue "Rito's Panic and Fear", where the hedge shouts that they "will never catch me alive! Never!" He teleports to another world after entering the Mirror Room.
Leon revisits the garden one last time, taking care to not be seen by the not-present Rito, and Amani finds him and brings him up to date. Leon fears that Rito's words might come true. Amani reassures him not to worry and encourages him to help build the garden back up again. They construct the fountain together with the help of the tribe.
(Continued on next post due to length.) |
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| 07 Apr 2011 04:53 PM |
Meanwhile, Rito finds himself in another world; our world. Convincing a group of humans, he explains to them how his own race betrayed him and how he wanted to take revenge against it. They assume the tribe is as bad as Rito says it is, and joins him on the rebellion, organizing more helpers to wage war against Amani's race, and Leon. Players could find a message intended for Rito in The Anonymous Telephone, a now-broken place that instructed Rito on what he needed to do to bring the rebel humans into the other world. The speaker in that phone mentions "Those creepy mushroom people. No offense to you, though." and "Your sister and your family? They're not gonna be spared, right?". We could assume that the attack really was going to be pulled off.
Preludia, the finished place where players could witness the battle between the tribe and the humans, takes full meaning to what is happening at that time. The humans enter through the mirror, which Rito opens for them. Rito then breaks the mirror, leaving it shattered in Sword Fight in a Garden. That is why there is a human running through a wall and joining the fight where the Mirror Room was supposed to be. Leon and Amani, caught in the battle, encourage everyone to flee the garden and save their lives. However, some of the tribe stay behind and many are killed. This includes Leon, who had taken up a sword trying to defend Amani when the humans came close. Rito attacks Leon and defeats him right in front of Amani. This takes place in the area of where the graveyard is. Leon's sword, which, after investigating it, had tallies etched on the metal. It is the number of times Leon had visited the garden with Amani. The number on the sword, which you couldn't see, was 24. A flower near the graveyard had mentioned "We so badly wanted to get 25. They cut us one short." There is also a statue of Amani reading a book by the shed. The statue loses the mushroom hat in Sword Fight in a Garden and is instead constructed into a hedge by someone, who you will soon find out.
Amani also dies by a different human, and Rito witnesses this. Inside he begins to regret his decision to attack his own family. This later takes a toll on his personality. He does not attack any more and leaves the rest of the humans to finish the job, disappearing for a long time. The rest of Amani's tribe are killed. The rebel humans disperse, forever trapped in the other world. The humans, after trying to return to the mirror, find that it is broken. Instead, they decide to declare victory over the tribe by creating statues of their heroes all around the mirror. The initials of the heroes, although they had no meaning, are inscribed on the name plates.
However, Amani and Leon are not fully dead. Their spirits, somehow entwined in the magic of the garden, allow them to live as ghosts at nighttime. You could never see them in the nighttime version, but several of their works are still there. They decide to rebuild the garden, making new hedges, some of them with no literal meaning to the story, and some important. Amani fixes the smashed table in the shed. Leon personally writes a note about his "gift" for Amani in a blue book by the statue of Grunge12. It points in the direction of Leon's sword, which is put in the graveyard. At this time, he had already etched on the 25th tally, now that they were together again. Leon also creates a secret shrine in honor of Amani inside the roots of one of the trees. it shows a statue of Amani with outstretched hands. On the sides of the pathway, there is also a statue of Leon himself. Rito is also there, because Leon felt remorse for his actions.
Time passes, and a man visits the garden. This man is the gravekeeper of the nighttime version, who opens up the graveyard. He makes the graveyard by himself and lives there from time to time. One night, he witnesses two ghosts walking near the statue "of a person running away". That is Rito's Panic and Fear hedge. The gravekeeper writes down in the black diary on his desk that he saw a girl break down and cry. Amani's ghost was with Leon at that time, and, remembering Rito, wept near the hedge. The gravekeeper draws a picture of what he saw on a piece of paper on the wall. Upon examination, the picture was a girl with a deformed head (Amani's mushroom).
The gravekeeper still took care of the garden at night, though, replacing the old, broken statue of Amani reading a book with a similar hedge statue. Amani's spirit finds this new statue and writes a page of her diary on this book, which could be read by examining it.
The gravekeeper also tried to talk with them, but they had ignored him, fooling the gravekeeper into thinking ghosts could not see humans. We can tell that Leon and Amani still see us, because there was a flower in the middle of the arena that simply spoke "We can see you. Good luck." This message was only available in the day, meaning that their spirits could watch us fighting inside the garden with swords.
The gravekeeper still took care of the garden at night, though, replacing the old, broken statue of Amani reading a book with a similar hedge statue. Amani's spirit finds this new statue and writes a page of her diary on this book, which could be read by examining it. The gravekeeper had also found Leon's body and buried him in a grave in the corner of the graveyard. When read, it depicts words that Amani's spirit wrote to point out where her shrine was located. Amani never learned how to spell, so the words were left in a jumbled format: "shrineth burth in the rooths".
Rito eventually returns to the garden. He comes back to pay his debts back to his sister and her friend after the crime he had committed. Rito goes to the Mirror Room and, finding that the humans had built statues, tears one of them down. He uses some of the materials to make a statue out of himself, but he does not etch his initials onto the nameplate. He also leaves a book behind the statue that states that he regrets everything that he had done.
Rito finds no other people that had visited the garden. Launched into a state of depression, he sits underneath a tree in the corner of the garden. He dies. His body stays there for so long that it freezes up "and looks like a statue". All of the members of the tribe are now wiped off the face of the Earth.
Now we reach the present day, and nothing else appears to have changed since then. Time still passes and the hedges are taken cared for even though the gravekeeper no longer does this. The garden will always stay alive, waiting for more visitors to discover its secrets buried in legends of traitors and misery.
So ends the story. |
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Whelk
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| 09 Apr 2011 10:47 AM |
| Well that was long but I read the whole thing. Nice. |
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| 09 Apr 2011 10:48 AM |
| I could go for a good read. :P |
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vader10
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| 09 Apr 2011 12:36 PM |
| why not make guis that pop up instead of message boxes? |
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| 09 Apr 2011 12:42 PM |
| your a writer. Go for it yeah! |
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mmc0208
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| 09 Apr 2011 04:47 PM |
| Nice... Very.... You have TALANT! |
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gama2xo
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gama2xo
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| 30 Apr 2011 12:23 PM |
| They removed the message script |
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| 30 Apr 2011 12:24 PM |
| Second logest forum I have ever seen. |
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| 30 Apr 2011 12:25 PM |
@Blackbrick
Well it's too bad you are too lazy to make a constructive post or too lazy to make an effort to read it. |
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gama2xo
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| 30 Apr 2011 12:27 PM |
ONOES they removed message
Guis,if you cant make them,i could for you. |
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| 30 Apr 2011 12:27 PM |
@keel
Well you didn't have to be mean about it! cyberbully. |
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gama2xo
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| 30 Apr 2011 12:28 PM |
@black
QQ i was cyber offended all i can do is QQ |
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| 30 Apr 2011 12:29 PM |
@Blackbrick
That was hardly mean. I find it mean that you just post things to post them and get a higher post count. Until you are able to create a post that is actually over the two-line minimum, you're still a spammer in my books and you are wasting my time. Cyberbully. |
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