2-2: Fight Water with Fire
I was unable to sleep much last night, for I dreaded heading into that dark tunnel again, with its endless, orange elevators. I was afraid of what new arrangement the horrors I have familiarized myself with would take.
Imagine my surprise when I dropped into the pipe, feeling that same air pressure pull me down, and I found myself completely submerged in water.
I was so terrified as I sank to the bottom that I gasped, and I am lucky that even water is differently here, for I might have taken a huge lungful of death otherwise. As it was, I discovered that I could breath water as easily as I could breath air. I wondered if it was a function of the flower or the star or the mushroom, or any of the other things I have run into on my travels.
Like the trees in 1-3, there was something artificial about the water world. The water was perfectly clear, as if someone had just run it out of a tap and it were not some lake attached to a sewage pipe. Additionally, the pink coral and green, coral-like blocks here resemble Legos just as much as the trees did. It is like everything has to fit into a block exactly half my height in this world, and can only move in one direction.
I found some of the magnificent coins lining the “ocean” floor, but as I went to retrieve them, some giant squid flailed its tentacles and blasted through the water at me. The rush of water reminded me of yet another comic book sound: “BLOOB!” and so I called the thing a Bloober. I might have never gotten a chance to name any other creature, for it was just as malevolent as everything else in Worlds 1 and 2, but in instinct, I opened up my hands in front of my face to shield myself from the thing, and, much to my surprise, the fireballs flew from my hand just as if there was no water to extinguish them, and the Bloober, like everything else, melted away instantaneously.
There were more coins ahead, and two more of the Bloobers, just as intent on taking my life. But they seem unwilling to go near the floor of the ocean itself, and it is remarkably easy to avoid the hideous squids until I can get a got shot with my flower balls (or fireballs, I guess that sounds more intimidating).
At first, it seemed silly to me when I encountered the Bottomless Pit here, for what good could it do? Everything could simply swim above it. I grabbed the coins near its entrance, and felt pure terror as some pressure, much like that within the pipes, began to suck me in. To add to my troubles, a Bloober was swimming straight towards me, accompanied by one of the most twisted creations of nature I have ever laid eyes upon.
The thing was somewhere between a bird and a fish, with fins that could have doubled as wings and a beak just in front of its ugly gills. I threw fire at it before it could come anywhere near me, for even with the harmless, vapid expression on its face, there was something more terrible about this animal than any I had seen on my journey. Through an effort that nearly exhausted my arms, I was able to pull myself away from the Bottomless Whirlpool, where my fear only increased. I had swum directly into an entire school of the cheeping fish. As one of them released its horrifying call, “Cheep! Cheep!” I had my name for them. They came in both red and green, and either way were unnatural looking.
I swam over another of the Bottomless Pits, ignoring the coins within, and shivered as I saw more and more of the Bloobers and Cheep-Cheeps tear their way through the serene waters. Finally, I found the pipe which I knew would lead to my freedom, and plunged inside of it, feeling myself being rushed to the surface.
I must learn to keep my curiosity in check here, for when I turned around to see what was behind me as I emerged in front of a giant, block staircase, I saw that a Piranha Plant was snapping its horrible jaws out of the pipe which I had just emerged from. Every time I think myself safe in this world, some new terror reveals itself, some new law of physics or biology which I could not have dreamed of before.
And all that was behind me was the wall that blocked my path before.
So I climbed the stairs, slid down the flagpole and made my way into the second citadel here. I can see the castle in the distance, and this time there is no long, stretching Bottomless Pit to block my progress.
Oh, Princess Mushpoop, I will see you soon…
Imagine my surprise when I dropped into the pipe, feeling that same air pressure pull me down, and I found myself completely submerged in water.
I was so terrified as I sank to the bottom that I gasped, and I am lucky that even water is differently here, for I might have taken a huge lungful of death otherwise. As it was, I discovered that I could breath water as easily as I could breath air. I wondered if it was a function of the flower or the star or the mushroom, or any of the other things I have run into on my travels.
Like the trees in 1-3, there was something artificial about the water world. The water was perfectly clear, as if someone had just run it out of a tap and it were not some lake attached to a sewage pipe. Additionally, the pink coral and green, coral-like blocks here resemble Legos just as much as the trees did. It is like everything has to fit into a block exactly half my height in this world, and can only move in one direction.
I found some of the magnificent coins lining the “ocean” floor, but as I went to retrieve them, some giant squid flailed its tentacles and blasted through the water at me. The rush of water reminded me of yet another comic book sound: “BLOOB!” and so I called the thing a Bloober. I might have never gotten a chance to name any other creature, for it was just as malevolent as everything else in Worlds 1 and 2, but in instinct, I opened up my hands in front of my face to shield myself from the thing, and, much to my surprise, the fireballs flew from my hand just as if there was no water to extinguish them, and the Bloober, like everything else, melted away instantaneously.
There were more coins ahead, and two more of the Bloobers, just as intent on taking my life. But they seem unwilling to go near the floor of the ocean itself, and it is remarkably easy to avoid the hideous squids until I can get a got shot with my flower balls (or fireballs, I guess that sounds more intimidating).
At first, it seemed silly to me when I encountered the Bottomless Pit here, for what good could it do? Everything could simply swim above it. I grabbed the coins near its entrance, and felt pure terror as some pressure, much like that within the pipes, began to suck me in. To add to my troubles, a Bloober was swimming straight towards me, accompanied by one of the most twisted creations of nature I have ever laid eyes upon.
The thing was somewhere between a bird and a fish, with fins that could have doubled as wings and a beak just in front of its ugly gills. I threw fire at it before it could come anywhere near me, for even with the harmless, vapid expression on its face, there was something more terrible about this animal than any I had seen on my journey. Through an effort that nearly exhausted my arms, I was able to pull myself away from the Bottomless Whirlpool, where my fear only increased. I had swum directly into an entire school of the cheeping fish. As one of them released its horrifying call, “Cheep! Cheep!” I had my name for them. They came in both red and green, and either way were unnatural looking.
I swam over another of the Bottomless Pits, ignoring the coins within, and shivered as I saw more and more of the Bloobers and Cheep-Cheeps tear their way through the serene waters. Finally, I found the pipe which I knew would lead to my freedom, and plunged inside of it, feeling myself being rushed to the surface.
I must learn to keep my curiosity in check here, for when I turned around to see what was behind me as I emerged in front of a giant, block staircase, I saw that a Piranha Plant was snapping its horrible jaws out of the pipe which I had just emerged from. Every time I think myself safe in this world, some new terror reveals itself, some new law of physics or biology which I could not have dreamed of before.
And all that was behind me was the wall that blocked my path before.
So I climbed the stairs, slid down the flagpole and made my way into the second citadel here. I can see the castle in the distance, and this time there is no long, stretching Bottomless Pit to block my progress.
Oh, Princess Mushpoop, I will see you soon…