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The Fool presents "The Adventures of the Little People"

 
  

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the Fool
23:34 / 02.11.06
Little People Pt 58 - The Secret History of the World

"Long ago" began Mother Possum, "the world was tended to and maintained by the great mother spirit and her sister the goddess of the moon. God awakened them from the ether to be the energies that bind and gave life to the world. The Great Mother brought forth difference and change, the many creatures that walk the earth. She whispered language and the secret truths of God to the many things brought forth by her care. Her sister guided the tides, and held the gateway to the manifold gardens. Through her all of her sisters creatures came to dream. The first of every creature became the spirit of all that followed. In those early days, I was born and the Great Mother guided my learning in magics.

For a time, all was peaceful and beautiful on our world..."

 
 
Feverfew
07:42 / 03.11.06
Good fluffy-deity-of-choice, but that's beautiful!
 
 
Princess
12:49 / 03.11.06
GREAT GOOGLEY MOOGLEY!
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
16:18 / 03.11.06
Hmm, do I love the image of the Earth more, or the history?

hmmm....

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...
 
 
the Fool
04:08 / 17.11.06
Little People Pt 59 - The way the world was...

In that time, Mother Possum continued, the spirit world was closer than it is today. We spirits could manifest anywhere we wished. Our children could walk between worlds, and visit the spirit citadels in the secret places. This was a time of magic and dreams. This was before the schism that would split the worlds.

 
 
Ender
05:28 / 17.11.06
I would really like to see you revisit and lengthen the beginnging of this story. I think the tales strongest leg is its first 12 frames. its all good, all of it is great. But the best is the first.
 
 
electric monk
12:06 / 17.11.06
Super-Cow!

The Holy Penguin!



Tears of joycore, dude. Just when I think it can't get any better, it does.
 
 
Triplets
12:25 / 17.11.06
Samurai God Bunny is so best.
 
 
Princess
12:45 / 17.11.06
I'm really liking the heart shaped amanita mushrooms in the background.
 
 
Dead Megatron
11:12 / 18.11.06
My favorite is King Naja

Not that they aren't all great, of course.
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
12:07 / 18.11.06
Sweet zombie Jesus that's excellent Fool.
 
 
the Fool
01:33 / 22.11.06
Little People Pt 60 - To be in creation is to be lost in creation

One of my brothers became fascinated by the incarnated world of three dimensional existence. Lord Hampster was intriqued by the lives of his children, their loves, their loses, their hopes and dreams. He longed to feel as they do, to experience reality as directly as they do.

He found a small hole in the fabric of reality and forced himself through it, unbeknown to his brothers and sisters.

Such an act does not come without a price. Lord Hampster's mind was compressed into 3 dimensions. His multitudinal existence stripped from him, his connection to the higher realms was severed. For the first time in his existence he felt fear. Fear of death, fear of hunger, fear of the terrors of the incarnated world. The fear shattered Lord Hampster's mind, fragmented his vision and understanding of the world. His memories, the few which he retained, became darkened. He lost himself that day. He Forgot who he truely was and became something none of us would recognise.

The loss of his spiritual self sent shockwaves through the world. This was the schism. The spirit realms were severed from the world. Suddenly, we spirits could nolonger travel between your world and ours with ease. Only the Great Mother seemed uneffected...

 
 
the Fool
23:34 / 27.11.06
Little People Pt 61 - Into the darkness beneath the world

Lord Hampster was driven by his new fears. Fear of pain, fear of suffering, fear of death. It was fear that began reordering the fragments of his former macro-mind. Restructuring the information that nolonger made sense to his newly 3 dimensional mind.

He would conquer his fear. He would defeat death. He would find a way to remember who he was. These things he promised himself. His mind began to plan a terrible scheme, a scheme that would transform both him and his world.

The fear lead him down into the darkness. Into the deep caves beneath the world. In this total darkness his fear began to speak...

 
 
Triplets
01:13 / 28.11.06
Hampsty is ripped!

This is fantastic, F, keep going. I like how we're seeing the reverso-flipbook side of the world. Meeting the enemy.
 
 
the Fool
21:55 / 28.11.06
Little People Pt 62 - The machines of Purity™

Deep in the dark depths the fallen lord brewed sciences gathered from the fragmented memories of his former self. He built the tools he would need to achieve his masterplan. Great and terrible machines of war, the likes of which this world had never known.

However his greatest tool was not a machine of nuts and bolts, it was the doctrine of Purity™. With this he would legitimise all his crimes against reality and build an army of followers that would live and die by his word.

All the while the Fear whispered...

 
 
the Fool
04:18 / 01.12.06
Little People Pt 63 - The rise of Purity™ and the first crusade

From the depths he arose with his machines of war and terror. The hampster people fell under his spell almost instantly. He was their messiah. He spoke to the secret darkness in their souls, with promises of dominion and power. The more they listened, the more they believed. The more they believed the less colour there was in themselves and their lives. Soon all was Purity™. The hampsters took the teachings of Purity™ across the world. Attempting to convert all to its endless self-defeating dogma. When this proved less successful than expected, the war machines were brought forth and the first crusade began...

 
 
Whisky Priestess
13:18 / 01.12.06
That hamster's one scary mo'fo.
 
 
Ticker
14:09 / 01.12.06
you said it WP!
 
 
the Fool
04:23 / 05.12.06
Little People Pt 64 - Stealing the floating islands of Obscurace

As the first crusade began, the newly crowned Pope of Purity™ began to enact his dark scheme. To the far south of the hampster lands were the beautiful natural phenomenon of Obscurace, the floating archipelago. The Pope sent a whole legion to this peaceful region and had all its inhabitants exterminated or imprisoned. The floating islands were towed to factories were their natural antigravity properties were used to power Purity's™ new Attackcraft. This was the foundation of the Purity™ cleansing fleet. Purity™ forces could now span the globe, speading its dark cloud ever further...

 
 
the Fool
04:00 / 12.12.06
Little People Pt 65 - The Purity™ cleansing fleet raid the sacred fields of SUPERMOO!

As the crusades progressed and the skies of the world slowly darkened, The Pope attacked the sacred pastures of SUPERMOO and her herd. Petal explosions did little to slow the cleansing fleet, and most of the herd was captured. SUPERMOO, though one of the most powerful of my sisters, could do little but help the remnants of the herd escape to the secret pocket dimension of MOOLAND. Evil Purity™ Sciencepriests attempted to capture SUPERMOO as well, but she was too strong for their magics and she escaped with her the last of her herd to the sanctuary of MOOLAND.

 
 
uncle retrospective
08:05 / 12.12.06
That's one of the weirdest pictures I've ever seen.
Wow, that's great!
 
 
Dead Megatron
20:12 / 12.12.06
Yeah, it's amazing how The Fool manages to make imageries that are simuntaneously creepy and cute. The man is a freakin's genius, I reckon.
 
 
the Fool
01:29 / 14.12.06
Little People Pt 66 - Purity™ begins capturing the animal spirits

Soon, we began to hear rumours of dreadful science boxes that could swallow one of my brothers or sisters whole. The red priests had been taught rituals by the Pope that could drag us across the schism. Once in the real world they would entrap us spirits. At first it was believed the Pope had found a way to destroy spirits, but his purpose was far more sinister. It was only through one of my brave children that I learned this, that he planned to use spirits as soul engines for his dreadnaughts. My child travelled at great risk to the black factories of Minargo, to see the horrors it produced. But this was not the end of his terrible plan...

 
 
matsya
02:50 / 14.12.06
heh. possum magic.

i could suggest a book publisher that might be interested in looking at a sample of this story, fool... Allen & Unwin, based in Melbourne, have been making noises about publishing graphic novels &c for a while now, and have signed up a couple of folk.

pm me if you wanna chat aboot it.
 
 
matsya
02:51 / 14.12.06
also, nice touch that the science boxes have such a magickal pentacles-and-robes kind of interface/user paradigm.
 
 
Dead Megatron
11:16 / 14.12.06
Duuude, stop surpassing yourself at every chapter. It's getting old
 
 
electric monk
11:59 / 14.12.06
No, it's not.

It's definitely not.
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
15:05 / 14.12.06
Yes, indeed, keep doing it. It's fabulous!
 
 
Dead Megatron
19:31 / 14.12.06
I stand corrected
 
 
the Fool
02:56 / 27.12.06
Little People Pt 67 - The awful truth of Purity™ Protien Puree

As the Pope's empire grew he found that keeping the masses subdued was increasingly difficult. In the early days uprising were commonplace in newly conquered territory. Then, almost by accident he discovered something intriguing. He found that his excrement could control other people and destroy their will if they consumed even the tiniest amount. He immediately began production of Purity™ Protien Puree at the black factories of Minago, by mixing his own shit with low grade gruel that wasn't fit for even the lowest of his hampster subjects. This he then had shipped to the furthest corners of his empire. He found people became addicted to the puree. Soon all they ate was Purity™ Protien Puree. The colour drained from their skins and dreams faded from their minds. They chanted the empty doctrines of Purity™ and followed the demands of the red priests without question.

This crushed resistance in all the lands Purity™ had at that time conquered.

He then turned to the final phase of the first crusade. A battle that would truly enslave the world and make him undying. He intended to murder the Mother Goddess...

 
 
Ticker
14:57 / 27.12.06
Then, almost by accident he discovered something intriguing. He found that his excrement could control other people and destroy their will if they consumed even the tiniest amount.

I'm not even going to contemplate what the accident in question was....
However I do think this fabulous realization has now made the story a purely adult experience? I love the fact you can see him on the throne in the picture!
 
 
Triplets
02:47 / 28.12.06
Indeed. It's now a very not-for-kids affair.

Soylent Green is poo!
 
 
the Fool
08:28 / 03.01.07
Little People Pt 68 - Purity™ confronts the Great Mother


The vast army of Purity™ amassed on the fields sacred to the Great Mother. Their presence was polution to the great spirit. She materialised and assumed her battle form, that of a mighty dragon.

She turned to face her enemy...

 
 
the Fool
04:02 / 04.01.07
Little People Pt 69 - The Great Mother battles Purity™

In her dragon battle form the Great Mother breathed fire and destruction on the legions of Purity™. Her mystical auras repelled the Deathcannon fire and for a moment it seemed she might prevail against the army assembled before her. She might be able to unbind the Pope and free Lord Hampster from his entanglement, ending this madness once and for all. She drew closer to the armies in a hope to end the battle before more lives were lost...

 
 
Dutch
17:05 / 04.01.07
It's all like Dick Bruna had a meeting with God on acid, wonderful.
 
  

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