From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 1 04:19:39 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id DAA16594 for sonic-ll; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 03:48:55 -0400 Received: from mailhost.primenet.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id DAA16586 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 03:48:40 -0400 Received: from usr4.primenet.com (root@usr4.primenet.com [198.68.32.14]) by mailhost.primenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA28825 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 00:48:37 -0700 Received: (rotor@localhost) by usr4.primenet.com (8.6.12/wjp-c2.0) id AAA09807; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 00:48:36 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 00:48:36 -0700 (MST) From: Bookshire Draftwood To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Sonic: the Next Generation... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net A story ten years in the future? ARE PEOPLE READING MY MIND!?!? WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP WRITING THE STORIES I COME UP WITH!!! sorry about that...it just that I happen to already be working on something at least vaguely similar in which Sonic and Sally somhow get sent into the future and they see a Mobius ruled by my wonderfully evil character, Packbell. The rebellion's still out ther but things are much worse than they ever were in the present day. Oh well...I'll just write it anyway cause it's my own little Sonic universe and I can do whatever I want with it. So, actually, in a way, I support the idea, but I'll be working solo on my own version of Mobius ten year into the future. Happy Writing! :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I hate you, You hate me" "Let's hang Barney from a tree" "With a kick and a punch and a bullet to the head" "Now that purple freak is dead" David M. Pistone -- rotor@primenet.com __ __ ____ ___ ___ ____ http://www.rat.org/bookshire /__)/__) / / / / /_ /\ / /_ / http://www.primenet.com/~rotor / / \ / / / / /__ / \/ /___ / ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 1 04:49:03 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA16944 for sonic-ll; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 04:44:21 -0400 Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA16939 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 04:44:10 -0400 Received: by saul3.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA16283; Tue, 1 Aug 95 01:44:08 -0700 X-Sender: lazuli@saul3.u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 01:44:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Sloniker To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Sonic: the Next Generation... In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Bookshire Draftwood wrote: > A story ten years in the future? > > ARE PEOPLE READING MY MIND!?!? WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP WRITING THE STORIES I > COME UP WITH!!! (grins) > Oh well...I'll just write it anyway cause it's my own little Sonic > universe and I can do whatever I want with it. You know, you're welcome to play in the Sonic: TNG RPG. You can even play Bookshire if you like... (:3 ---Fred M. Sloniker, stressed undergrad L. Lazuli R'kamos, FurryMUCKer lazuli@u.washington.edu "It's also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling... Hey, you guys, knock it off!" --Police Chief Wiggum From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 1 05:19:03 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id FAA17084 for sonic-ll; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 05:13:45 -0400 Received: from laraby.tiac.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id FAA17079 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 05:13:35 -0400 Received: (from optimus@localhost) by laraby.tiac.net (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta9) id FAA09804 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 05:06:32 -0400 From: Theodore Perrotti Message-Id: <199508010906.FAA09804@laraby.tiac.net> Subject: The Seminar To: sonic@sard.mv.net (sonic) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 05:06:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1423 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Sorry about sending this to the list. I tried to e-mail "The Seminar"'s author directly, but the address given at the beginning of the story doesn't seem to work. So, I'm mailing it here, hoping that the author will see it. Besides, you other fanfic authors might find a couple story ideas I pose interesting. > I just got through reading your Sonic fanfic story, "The Seminar". I > liked it. It was a pleasant change-of-pace which allowed the reader to > get to know the characters a little better. > > The part about Rotor missing his family reminded me of something I had > been wondering about Sonic. Namely, what ever happened to HIS mom and > dad? He must have had some parents at one point, but I've never seen or > heard them mentioned anywhere. A pretty good story could be built around > that. Also, one could write a story about Sonic's difficulty adjusting > to a more peaceful life now that Robotnik's gone. Just a few ideas I > thought you might like to hear from someone else on the Sonic mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It's juice time!"-Sonic the Hedgehog Theodore P. Perrotti optimus@tiac.net (all mail forwarded to here) perrottit.mbr@asme.org tedp@wpi.wpi.edu (account will be axed soon) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 1 08:49:12 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id IAA18015 for sonic-ll; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:30:19 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id IAA18010 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:30:04 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11895; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:29:59 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA11012; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:29:59 -0400 Message-Id: <9508011229.AA11012@edmund> Subject: Re: Sonic: the Next Generation... To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:29:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "Fred Sloniker" at Jul 31, 95 05:29:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net One conceptual question: If Master/Packbell has to resort to terror police, does that mean that the general roboticization of the populace has been undone? Was a way found to override it (c.f. Uncle Chuck's experience) so that Mobians once again have (relatively) free will? Besides, ten years in the future (according to a subthread in my story Bloodlines) most roboticized Mobians would be dead or dying from RTS (robo-toxin syndrome), which would necessitate a certain amount of social breakdown. Sounds interesting to me. ================================================================ || ___------__ || || |\__-- /\ _- || Daniel J. Drazen || | / __ _ || drazen@andrews.edu || //\ / \ /__ || || | o| 0|__ --_ || Custodian of one of the Sonic || \\____-- __ \ ___ - || the Hedgehog FAQ Files || (@@ __/ / /_ || || -_____--- --_ || ASCII Sonic by Han J. Lee ================================================================ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 1 13:19:29 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA20714 for sonic-ll; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:06:11 -0400 Received: from granite.mv.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA20700 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:05:57 -0400 Received: by granite.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA21698; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:05:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:05:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hurley To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: RE: Sonic music... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Another anti-spam victim. Replies should go to metalfox since he wrote it. Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 04:53:43 PDT From: metalfox@su1.in.net (Ryan Fields) At the risk of associating something kewl with someone that sucks, but for some reason, when I think of Robotnik and music, Metallica's "No Remorse" comes to mind. Hmm, I wonder why... From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 1 14:19:24 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA21352 for sonic-ll; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:56:26 -0400 Received: from saul4.u.washington.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA21346 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:56:14 -0400 Received: by saul4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA14931; Tue, 1 Aug 95 10:56:08 -0700 X-Sender: lazuli@saul4.u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 10:56:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Sloniker To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Sonic: the Next Generation... In-Reply-To: <9508011229.AA11012@edmund> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Dan Drazen wrote: > One conceptual question: > > If Master/Packbell has to resort to terror police, Note the first: unless Bookwood Draftshire appears as one of the PCs, I'm not treating any fanfics as 'canon'. Note the second: if he *is* one of the PCs, Packbell suffered a rather messy 'disassembly' at the hands of the Master, who was bright enough to recognize competition when he saw it. (:3 > does that mean that the general roboticization of the populace has been > undone? Yup. In some ways, the Master is a lot nicer than Robotnik, and one of his most benevolent acts was to de-roboticize all his loyal subjects. (This includes Uncle Chuck, yes.) On the other hand, this makes the Rebel Fighters' job more difficult, since many people toe the Imperial line and don't want any trouble from the bosses... The Master has also introduced a new robotization technique, which does not suffer RTS or any similar complications, which he uses on those who suffer crippling injuries or on condemned criminals. PCs will be able to have replaced limbs a la Bunnie Rabbot, but full-body jobs are almost invariably loyal to the Master. Oh, by the way, speaking of Bunnie: she's one of the *bad* guys... (muhuhahaha!) ---Fred M. Sloniker, stressed undergrad L. Lazuli R'kamos, FurryMUCKer lazuli@u.washington.edu "So what are you trying to tell us? You're a closet squirrel?" --Rimmer From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 1 15:26:45 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id PAA22114 for sonic-ll; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 15:04:33 -0400 Received: from maily2.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id PAA22100 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 15:04:17 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail [199.4.137.13]) by maily2.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA59803 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:59:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 14:58:15 EDT From: AHVT94B@prodigy.com (MR THADDEUS R BOYD) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.09345669.AHVT94B@prodigy.com> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Still more Sonic music... Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net >A branch of the Sonic club on the Comics bulletin board, cool! How do I >access that bulletin board (I have a regular Internet account, not >Prodigy). Ummm, unfortunately, you can't, as far as I know. >< Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 1 16:19:30 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id PAA23096 for sonic-ll; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 15:53:43 -0400 Received: from inetgate.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id PAA23091 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 15:53:30 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail.prodigy.com [199.4.137.13]) by inetgate.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA131790 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:59:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 14:58:18 EDT From: AHVT94B@prodigy.com (MR THADDEUS R BOYD) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.09345670.AHVT94B@prodigy.com> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: The Seminar Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net >> Also, one could write a story about Sonic's difficulty adjusting to a >> more peaceful life now that Robotnik's gone. Check out the story "My Brother's Keeper"...that has a taste of what you're talking about... >< 'Nuff Said. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 1 16:48:11 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA23363 for sonic-ll; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 16:12:04 -0400 Received: from inetgate.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA23353 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 16:11:49 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail.prodigy.com [199.4.137.13]) by inetgate.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA70621 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:59:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 14:58:21 EDT From: AHVT94B@prodigy.com (MR THADDEUS R BOYD) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.09345675.AHVT94B@prodigy.com> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Sonic: the Next Generation... Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net >ARE PEOPLE READING MY MIND!?!? WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP WRITING THE STORIES I >COME UP WITH!!! Just use my philosophy: There are infinite different possible realities, so therefore, if people write different stories about Sonic, they're focusing on different realities. I, myself, have been thinking about several different future schemes for Sonic and co. My problem is that he kinda stole my title...I was going to call one of my future stories "Freedom Fighters: The Next Generation"! >< Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 1 17:54:23 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA24534 for sonic-ll; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:32:43 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA24529 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:32:32 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id RAA14777; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:26:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:26:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: Post Sonic Subject: RE: Sonic music... (fwd) Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net This is a forwarded message. If you would like to reply directly to its author, please be sure your reply is addressed to metalfox@su1.in.net. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 04:53:43 PDT From: Ryan Fields To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: RE: Sonic music... At the risk of associating something kewl with someone that sucks, but for some reason, when I think of Robotnik and music, Metallica's "No Remorse" comes to mind. Hmm, I wonder why... From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 2 04:25:47 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA29335 for sonic-ll; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 04:10:57 -0400 Received: from saul1.u.washington.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA29328 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 04:10:45 -0400 Received: by saul1.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.07/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA28003; Wed, 2 Aug 95 01:10:39 -0700 X-Sender: lazuli@saul1.u.washington.edu Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 01:10:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Sloniker To: Sonic the Hedgehog Mailing List Subject: Two quick questions and a comment: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net (1) Is the person who was offering to send folks copies of the S:tH episodes still out there? I need research material. (:3 (2) Would someone be willing to digitize a few more sound clips for the archives? I'd particularly like "Shut your mouth, hedgehog!" (Sally, from the very first episode), "I think I will swoon/hurl", and one of Robotnik's manaical laughs. (:3 (a) I've gotten three responses re: my RPG idea and am putting the final touches on the background material which the players will need to know. Anyone else want in on this? I think it'll be pretty cool... ---Fred M. Sloniker, stressed undergrad L. Lazuli R'kamos, FurryMUCKer lazuli@u.washington.edu "ZOMBIES!" "Please, Lees! They prefer to be called the living-impaired!" From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 2 14:24:14 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA05180 for sonic-ll; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 14:05:29 -0400 Received: from ddi2.digital.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA05171 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 14:05:14 -0400 Received: from outdoor.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by ddi2.digital.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id OAA01400 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 14:02:03 -0500 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: some stuff From: john.mankowski@outdoor.com (JOHN MANKOWSKI) Message-ID: <8AE634A.000100258F.uuout@outdoor.com> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 95 14:02:00 -0500 Organization: The Outdoor Sportsman BBS - Cocoa, FL - 1 (407)635-9590 X-Mailreader: PCBoard Version 15.21 X-Mailer: PCBoard/UUOUT Version 1.10 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Ok lets start 1.(This is offtopic) Some people have been trying to reach me thismorning and yesterday. Well ass you know huracane Eron ripted through my home state and came close to where I life. Ne abd ne fanly where away during the night and when we got back this mornung the power was off. 2.On Topic) Ok i was wondering if anyone whould be interested in an Episode guide to the weekday Sonic cartoon (The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) I am willing to put in the time if all of you are willing to use it. 3.What whould be the best way to covences an idot friend of mine that he is compleatly out of his mind if he thinks that he can right a good 3 way crossover between Sonic the Hedgeh,Star Wars, And The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If he does I WILL KILL HIM! Thank you From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 2 17:49:29 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA07960 for sonic-ll; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:34:29 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA07955 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:34:18 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id RAA23800; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:28:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:28:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: Post Sonic Subject: Re: Two quick questions and a comment: (fwd) Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net This is a forwarded message. If you want to reply to its author directly, please be sure your reply is addressed to metalfox@in.net. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 03:59:59 -400 (EDT) From: Ryan Fields To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Two quick questions and a comment: > (2) Would someone be willing to digitize a few more sound clips for the > archives? I'd particularly like "Shut your mouth, hedgehog!" (Sally, > from the very first episode), "I think I will swoon/hurl", and one of > Robotnik's manaical laughs. (:3 I can probably get all of those. I know I have the 'swoon/hurl' thing on tape, but it would help if someone could give me the episode name. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 2 18:09:05 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA07777 for sonic-ll; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:21:18 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA07772 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:21:07 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id RAA23135; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:15:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:15:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: Post Sonic Subject: Re: Two quick questions and a comment: (fwd) Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net This is a forwarded message. If you would like to reply to its author directly, please be sure your reply is addressed to metalfox@in.net. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 03:59:59 -400 (EDT) From: Ryan Fields To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Two quick questions and a comment: > (2) Would someone be willing to digitize a few more sound clips for the > archives? I'd particularly like "Shut your mouth, hedgehog!" (Sally, > from the very first episode), "I think I will swoon/hurl", and one of > Robotnik's manaical laughs. (:3 I can probably get all of those. I know I have the 'swoon/hurl' thing on tape, but it would help if someone could give me the episode name. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 2 18:23:52 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA07729 for sonic-ll; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:19:35 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA07717 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:19:20 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id RAA23000; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:13:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:13:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Two quick questions and a comment: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Fred Sloniker wrote: > (2) Would someone be willing to digitize a few more sound clips for the > archives? I'd particularly like "Shut your mouth, hedgehog!" (Sally, > from the very first episode), "I think I will swoon/hurl", and one of > Robotnik's manaical laughs. (:3 I'll do it if you can give me the episode titile, and if I have the ep. I have all the 2nd season Saturday morning shows, all of the pre-recorded Saturday morning show video tapes, and none of the weekday shows. Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) [Team OS/2] A net.freedom-fighter for Mobius! "Freedom Fighters are #1!" -- Sonic the Hedgehog A! JW2 WAR++ PI0>+ BR+i SL++++i SK+++ RI0>++/++^ RU+ GDF0>+ BU++ MI- MM- KK-- Do $++ E59 Ee5 TRita Ay68 M Mail: acme@use.usit.net | WWW: http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~eschulma From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 2 19:49:28 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA09280 for sonic-ll; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 19:44:40 -0400 Received: from emout04.mail.aol.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA09274 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 19:44:29 -0400 From: BBlaze@aol.com Received: by emout04.mail.aol.com (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA235126818; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 19:40:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 19:40:18 -0400 Message-Id: <950802193804_46580856@aol.com> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: some stuff Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net In a message dated 95-08-02 14:28:35 EDT, john.mankowski@outdoor.com (JOHN MANKOWSKI) writes: >3.What whould be the best way to covences an idot friend of mine that >he >is compleatly out of his mind if he thinks that he can right a good 3 >way crossover between Sonic the Hedgeh,Star Wars, And The >Hitchhiker's >Guide to the Galaxy. If he does I WILL KILL HIM! Actually...with that infinte improbability drive...anything's possible... -B.B. "Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of." -Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 2 20:19:42 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA09638 for sonic-ll; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 20:10:24 -0400 Received: from mv.mv.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA09631 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 20:10:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 20:10:11 -0400 (EDT) From: White Trash To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: some stuff In-Reply-To: <950802193804_46580856@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Wed, 2 Aug 1995 BBlaze@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 95-08-02 14:28:35 EDT, john.mankowski@outdoor.com (JOHN > MANKOWSKI) writes: > > >3.What whould be the best way to covences an idot friend of mine that > >he > >is compleatly out of his mind if he thinks that he can right a good 3 > >way crossover between Sonic the Hedgeh,Star Wars, And The > >Hitchhiker's > >Guide to the Galaxy. If he does I WILL KILL HIM! > > Actually...with that infinte improbability drive...anything's possible... > > -B.B. > > "Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I > wasn't previously aware of." > -Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy > Well, he obviously has a Heart Of Gold... :) .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Only Amiga makes | Mike Dugas, aka White Trash | Only Commodore | | it possible... | mad@mv.mv.com | stood in the way.. | |--------------------'`------------------------------'`-------------------| | A2000-040/NEC CD-ROM/Flicker Fixer/210MB HD/9MB RAM | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' [(C) 1995, mad] From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 2 20:56:28 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA09817 for sonic-ll; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 20:25:57 -0400 Received: from utpapa.ph.utexas.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA09804 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 20:25:44 -0400 From: lara@physics.utexas.edu Received: from linux4.ph.utexas.edu (lara@linux4.ph.utexas.edu [128.83.131.124]) by utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA57283 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 19:25:42 -0500 Received: (lara@localhost) by linux4.ph.utexas.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA29934; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 19:25:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 19:25:41 -0500 Message-Id: <199508030025.TAA29934@linux4.ph.utexas.edu> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Mouse and Hedgehog Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Dear friends I just heard from somewhere else that as a result of its merger with ABC, Disney now partly owns DIC. So maybe we can egg Disney on to make some sort of settlement with Sega to revive "Sonic". Sincerely - Juan F. Lara Princess Sally - "As for being my boyfriend, in the past you just had to contend with jealousy from a certain Hedgehog ( and believe me, that's enough! ) -- now you're going to have to deal with a rather suave rogue of a skunk! Good luck!" From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 2 22:19:54 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA10943 for sonic-ll; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 21:51:33 -0400 Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA10938 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 21:51:22 -0400 Received: by saul3.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.07/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA18167; Wed, 2 Aug 95 18:51:19 -0700 X-Sender: lazuli@saul3.u.washington.edu Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 18:51:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Sloniker To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Two quick questions and a comment: In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2 wrote: > I'll do it if you can give me the episode titile, and if I have the ep. I > have all the 2nd season Saturday morning shows, all of the pre-recorded > Saturday morning show video tapes, and none of the weekday shows. The "Shut your mouth, hedgehog!" quote was from the episoze with Lezar, the once-evil wizard, who drained Sonic's speed; I think it was titled "Super Sonic", and it was on one of the packaged first-season tapes. The "I think I will swoon!/I think I will hurl." quote came from "Spyhog", I think... ---Fred M. Sloniker, stressed undergrad L. Lazuli R'kamos, FurryMUCKer lazuli@u.washington.edu It's a Zen thing. You wouldn't understand. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 2 22:49:33 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id WAA11548 for sonic-ll; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 22:44:38 -0400 Received: from ns2.ac.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id WAA11543 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 22:44:27 -0400 Received: from jaguar.ac.edu by ns2.ac.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10458; Wed, 2 Aug 95 22:49:46 EDT Received: by jaguar.ac.edu (wcGATE v4) id 32617W Thu, 3 Aug 1995 00:40:56 GMT From: rhaynie@jaguar.ac.edu (Robert Haynie) Subject: some stuff Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 22:56:24 GMT Message-Id: <95080220405659770@jaguar.ac.edu> Organization: Augusta College, Augusta GA To: sonic@sard.mv.net Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net -> From: outdoor.com!john.mankowski (JOHN MANKOWSKI) -> -> 3.What whould be the best way to covences an idot friend of mine that -> is compleatly out of his mind if he thinks that he can right a good 3 -> way crossover between Sonic the Hedgeh,Star Wars, And The Hitchhiker' -> Guide to the Galaxy. If he does I WILL KILL HIM! -> -> Thank you What crazy? Hey, it just might work. At worst, he could post it, and we'd all flame him unmercifully, referring to him a \s the illegetamate spawn of a dyspeptic hyena and a syphilitic leper. Or something. (:(:(:(:(: rob From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 3 04:53:09 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA14272 for sonic-ll; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 04:25:24 -0400 Received: from freenet.calgary.ab.ca by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA14266 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 04:25:11 -0400 Received: from srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca by freenet.calgary.ab.ca (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA38207; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 02:20:41 -0600 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 02:20:41 -0600 (MDT) From: "William T. Graham" To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: some stuff In-Reply-To: <8AE634A.000100258F.uuout@outdoor.com> Message-Id: Organization: Calgary Free-Net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, JOHN MANKOWSKI wrote: > 2.On Topic) Ok i was wondering if anyone whould be interested in an > Episode guide to the weekday Sonic cartoon (The Adventures of Sonic the > Hedgehog) I am willing to put in the time if all of you are willing to > use it. Well, I don't know what I would use it _for_, but since I have all of those episodes on tape, perhaps I could help out with this. > 3.What whould be the best way to convince an idiot friend of mine that he > is completely out of his mind if he thinks that he can write a good 3-way > crossover between Sonic the Hedgehog, Star Wars, and The Hitchhiker's > Guide to the Galaxy. If he does I WILL KILL HIM! One of the better episodes of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog already has a pretty good parody of a scene from Star Wars. I'd say, at least give your friend the chance to prove to us how much of an idiot he is. :-) "Don't even ask." - Sonic (while covered in green slime). - William Graham - a net.freedom-fighter for a free Mobius! - From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 3 05:20:46 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA14353 for sonic-ll; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 04:59:00 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA14348 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 04:58:49 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id EAA02397; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 04:52:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 04:52:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Mouse and Hedgehog In-Reply-To: <199508030025.TAA29934@linux4.ph.utexas.edu> Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Wed, 2 Aug 1995 lara@physics.utexas.edu wrote: > I just heard from somewhere else that as a result of its merger with ABC, > Disney now partly owns DIC. So maybe we can egg Disney on to make some sort > of settlement with Sega to revive "Sonic". One advantage we also have is that the pre-recorded StH video tapes were released by Buena Vista Home Video which is owned by Disney. Many of Disney's movies are on that label. They also use Touchstone, a semi-autonomous company they also own. Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) [Team OS/2] A net.freedom-fighter for Mobius! "Freedom Fighters are #1!" -- Sonic the Hedgehog A! JW2 WAR++ PI0>+ BR+i SL++++i SK+++ RI0>++/++^ RU+ GDF0>+ BU++ MI- MM- KK-- Do $++ E59 Ee5 TRita Ay68 M Mail: acme@use.usit.net | WWW: http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~eschulma From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 3 17:50:05 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA22028 for sonic-ll; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 17:38:41 -0400 Received: from unix.infoserve.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA22023 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 17:38:29 -0400 Received: from localhost (bradc@localhost) by unix.infoserve.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id OAA29336; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 14:44:07 -0700 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 14:44:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Brad Clark Subject: ABC fall schedule To: sonic@sard.mv.net Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Howdy All. I don't know if this had been posted allready or not, but I picked up a copy of Sonic #27 & Triple Trouble #1, and found it rather ironic that ABC would be advertising their 'New Saturday Morning schedule" It goes like this: 8:00 Madeline 8:30 Free Willy 9:00 --not yet decided- (anyone got any info?) 9:30 Bump In The Night 10:00 Fudge 10:30 Reboot 11:00 Bugs Bunny Tweety Show 12:00 What A Mess 12:30 ABC Weekend Special The ad is done up in a sort of labyrinth type game, with the last words of the instructions saying, "Watch out for those FOXes" heh! Well, unless something spectacular goes in that 9:00 time slot, I allready know what channel I'll be watching Sat AM's...and it won't be ABC. I wonder if a letter to the Sonic-Grams, asking in an innocent fashion, where Sonic went would be of any use? I don't see Free Willy with a comic book / mailing list / usenet group! Ahh well, enough ranting. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x RL: Brad D. Clark Furtoonia: Orwin Raccoon x x bradc@unix.infoserve.net FIDO: 1:153/969 x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hanna-Barbera....."We WERE cartoons!" From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 3 18:55:41 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA23404 for sonic-ll; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 18:41:47 -0400 Received: from serv0.cae.wisc.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA23399 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 18:41:35 -0400 Received: from sun-5.cae.wisc.edu (sun-5.cae.wisc.edu [144.92.69.181]) by serv0.cae.wisc.edu (8.6.10 CAE/8.6.10) with ESMTP id RAA17583 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 17:41:12 -0500 From: James Firmiss Received: (firmiss@localhost) by sun-5.cae.wisc.edu (8.6.10 CAE/8.6.9) id RAA01770 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 17:41:12 -0500 Message-Id: <199508032241.RAA01770@sun-5.cae.wisc.edu> Subject: Re: ABC fall schedule [and sonic pictures] To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Thu, 3 Aug 95 17:41:12 CDT In-Reply-To: ; from "Brad Clark" at Aug 3, 95 2:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net > Howdy All. > > I don't know if this had been posted allready or not, but I picked > up a copy of Sonic #27 & Triple Trouble #1, and found it rather ironic > that ABC would be advertising their 'New Saturday Morning schedule" > > It goes like this: > > 8:00 Madeline > 8:30 Free Willy > 9:00 --not yet decided- (anyone got any info?) I wonder if this is where they're planning on putting that 'Dumb and Dumber' cartoon they were threatening. There's two guys in that Sonic 27 ad which look like they could be the Dumb and Dumber guys?. Hey! You got Triple Trouble #1? I haven't been able to find that one by us! > The ad is done up in a sort of labyrinth type game, with the last > words of the instructions saying, "Watch out for those FOXes" heh! Yeah right... A little Anti FOX network propaganda here? -- ON a different subject: I remember someone asking where these pictures came from: sonair.gif sonbin.gif soncycle.gif sonrace.gif sonsea.gif sonspc.gif I just heard about Sega's FTP site (ftp.segaoa.com) and found these in the directory /sega/Pictures/Sonic. There's other stuff too.. including Hints and Cheats for games. -- ===[ James Firmiss --- firmiss@cae.wisc.edu ]=== Hurry Star Force... To Iscandar! The Earth only has 210 days left! From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 3 19:25:16 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23525 for sonic-ll; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:04:44 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23520 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:04:33 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA12424; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:04:28 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA18812; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:04:25 -0400 Message-Id: <9508032304.AA18812@edmund> Subject: Re: ABC fall schedule To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:04:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "Brad Clark" at Aug 3, 95 02:44:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net > > I don't know if this had been posted allready or not, but I picked > up a copy of Sonic #27 & Triple Trouble #1, and found it rather ironic > that ABC would be advertising their 'New Saturday Morning schedule" > > It goes like this: > > 8:00 Madeline > 8:30 Free Willy > 9:00 --not yet decided- (anyone got any info?) > 9:30 Bump In The Night > 10:00 Fudge > 10:30 Reboot > 11:00 Bugs Bunny Tweety Show > 12:00 What A Mess > 12:30 ABC Weekend Special > > The ad is done up in a sort of labyrinth type game, with the last > words of the instructions saying, "Watch out for those FOXes" heh! > > Well, unless something spectacular goes in that 9:00 time slot, > I allready know what channel I'll be watching Sat AM's...and it > won't be ABC. > > I wonder if a letter to the Sonic-Grams, asking in an innocent > fashion, where Sonic went would be of any use? I don't see Free > Willy with a comic book / mailing list / usenet group! > > Ahh well, enough ranting. > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > x RL: Brad D. Clark Furtoonia: Orwin Raccoon x > x bradc@unix.infoserve.net FIDO: 1:153/969 x > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Hmmmmm. It was previously reported in r.a.a that 1) one of ABC's Fall cartoon shows would be based on the film "Dumb and Dumber"; and 2) that the ABC kidvid execs who made that decision had gotten the sack. So perhaps D&Der was supposed to take the 9:00 slot. Don't think that even asking nicely will get Sonic on by Fall; even if Sega and DiC have patched up their differences, you need about 6-8 months to produce a half-hour cartoon. That might get Sonic on in time for the Feb sweeps, but it's still doubtful. Still, I don't suppose it could hurt to make our feelings known to Dic and ABC/Disney or whatever they're going to be calling themselves. Programming for a free Mobius.... ================================================================ || ___------__ || || |\__-- /\ _- || Daniel J. Drazen || | / __ _ || drazen@andrews.edu || //\ / \ /__ || || | o| 0|__ --_ || Custodian of one of the Sonic || \\____-- __ \ ___ - || the Hedgehog FAQ Files || (@@ __/ / /_ || || -_____--- --_ || ASCII Sonic by Han J. Lee ================================================================ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 3 19:49:40 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23659 for sonic-ll; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:25:23 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23649 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:25:09 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA12724; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:24:46 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA20165; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:24:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9508032324.AA20165@edmund> Subject: Alternative Sonic Sighting To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:24:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Well, the annual country youth fair is about a week away here in Berrien County, Michigan (hang in there, I'll get on-topic in a minute). And in addition to the usual booths and rides and such, I expect to see one booth doing business: some people from Lafayette, Indiana, bring their wares to the fair each year. The shop must cater to Deadheads, because they always bring a lot of Grateful Dead and Dead-related t-shirts with them. So once again I can count on seeing a shirt for sale featuring a green forest creature, whose bod is covered, not with quills, but with cannabis leaves. Yes, it's almost time for the annual appearance of... [This is where we get on-topic] CHRONIC THE HEMPHOG!! I think I'd rather wear a Free Willy shirt. ================================================================ || ___------__ || || |\__-- /\ _- || Daniel J. Drazen || | / __ _ || drazen@andrews.edu || //\ / \ /__ || || | o| 0|__ --_ || Custodian of one of the Sonic || \\____-- __ \ ___ - || the Hedgehog FAQ Files || (@@ __/ / /_ || || -_____--- --_ || ASCII Sonic by Han J. Lee ================================================================ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 4 13:21:26 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA02367 for sonic-ll; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 13:13:28 -0400 Received: from rgfn.epcc.Edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA02358 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 13:13:07 -0400 Received: by rgfn.epcc.Edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03427; Fri, 4 Aug 95 11:13:04 MDT Date: Fri, 4 Aug 95 11:13:04 MDT Message-Id: <9508041713.AA03427@rgfn.epcc.Edu> From: ab360@rgfn.epcc.edu (John W. Johnston) To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Going on Vacation Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I guess I need to tell you all that I have to put my E-mail account on Vactaion mode (any incoming mail will be deleted). The reason I have to do this is because I cannot access it at home, because my modem is fried, and the computer lab at my college is shutting down for three weeks. Can someone please send me a summery of what was discussed, when I get back? Thanx. -- ab360@rgfn.epcc.edu| "They call him, | "Well, he ceratinly has John W. Johnston | 'the man with | courage." "It won't do Jedi Knight | no personality." | him any good if he gets Freelance | - Animaniacs. | himself killed." Star Wars From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 4 14:50:10 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA03832 for sonic-ll; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 14:35:43 -0400 Received: from granite.mv.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA03825 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 14:35:32 -0400 Received: by granite.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA23064; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 14:35:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 14:35:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hurley To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Going on Vacation In-Reply-To: <9508041713.AA03427@rgfn.epcc.Edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Fri, 4 Aug 1995, John W. Johnston wrote: > Can someone please send me a summery of what was > discussed, when I get back? Thanx. Hmm.. Maybe we don't advertise this enough. You can get the current month's message archive by mailing to majordomo@lists.mv.net and put this in the message body: get sonic mail.txt It will be mailed to you and in the unix mail format. Just all one big file with all the internet message headers. and if you want older than the current month's, we have every message since the list started at the ftp site. They are all zipped. ftp://rat.org/pub/sonic/message-archive/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work: paul@mv.mv.com | Play: rat@rat.org WWW : http://rat.org/rat | FTP : ftp://rat.org/pub ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 7 08:21:00 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id IAA00903 for sonic-ll; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 08:10:52 -0400 Received: from uu2.psi.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id IAA00898 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 08:10:41 -0400 Received: by uu2.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.940727-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA19413 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 95 08:02:07 -0400 Received: from newyork by icc_lab.bozell.com (NX5.67e/BJKEgate.931116) with SMTP id AA16651; Mon, 7 Aug 95 06:52:45 -0500 Received: from heracles by newyork (NX5.67e/3.0M_BJKE_931108CB) id AA06621; Mon, 7 Aug 95 07:53:03 -0400 Message-Id: <9508071153.AA06621@newyork> Received: by heracles (NX5.67e/NX3.0X_BJKE_931108CB) id AA05932; Mon, 7 Aug 95 07:53:03 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2.RR) From: Bernie Hogya Date: Mon, 7 Aug 95 07:52:59 -0400 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: unsubscribe sonic digest Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net unsubscribe sonic digest How do I remove my name off this mailing list? From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 7 23:23:02 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id WAA11987 for sonic-ll; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 22:59:54 -0400 Received: from laraby.tiac.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id WAA11982 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 22:59:43 -0400 Received: (from optimus@localhost) by laraby.tiac.net (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta9) id XAA09076; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 23:01:35 -0400 From: Theodore Perrotti Message-Id: <199508080301.XAA09076@laraby.tiac.net> Subject: Re: unsubscribe sonic digest To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 23:01:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: optimus@laraby.tiac.net (Theodore Perrotti) In-Reply-To: <9508071153.AA06621@newyork> from "Bernie Hogya" at Aug 7, 95 07:52:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 548 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net > > unsubscribe sonic digest > Simply e-mail the above message to sonic@lists.mv.net to unsubscribe. (Why you'd want to do so is beyond me, but it's your choice.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It's juice time!"-Sonic the Hedgehog Theodore P. Perrotti optimus@tiac.net (all mail forwarded to here) perrottit.mbr@asme.org tedp@wpi.wpi.edu (account will be axed soon) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 7 23:58:50 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id XAA12327 for sonic-ll; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 23:38:51 -0400 Received: from granite.mv.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id XAA12321 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 23:38:41 -0400 Received: by granite.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id XAA20027; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 23:38:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 23:38:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hurley To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: unsubscribe sonic digest In-Reply-To: <199508080301.XAA09076@laraby.tiac.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Theodore Perrotti wrote: > > > > unsubscribe sonic digest > > > > Simply e-mail the above message to sonic@lists.mv.net to unsubscribe. (Why > you'd want to do so is beyond me, but it's your choice.) Wrong. Don't you guys know how to use majordomo? Sheesh!! To unsubscribe, write to majordomo@lists.mv.net and put unsubscribe sonic in the message body. If you write it to sonic@lists.mv.net it goes to everyone and we all get to see that you WANT to unsubscribe, and you get to stay on the list until you write to majordomo@list.mv.net. You see the great thing about computers is they keep us from having to do work, and if someone writes to the list, and the list maintainers have to unsubscribe a person manually, it defeats the purpose. But hopefully we won't get that many people unsubscribing from this list. Ok, I'll sit down now. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work: paul@mv.mv.com | Play: rat@rat.org WWW : http://rat.org/rat | FTP : ftp://rat.org/pub ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 8 04:20:41 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA14017 for sonic-ll; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 04:01:52 -0400 Received: from laraby.tiac.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA14010 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 04:01:41 -0400 Received: (from optimus@localhost) by laraby.tiac.net (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta9) id EAA10771 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 04:03:35 -0400 From: Theodore Perrotti Message-Id: <199508080803.EAA10771@laraby.tiac.net> Subject: Re: unsubscribe sonic digest To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 04:03:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "Paul Hurley" at Aug 7, 95 11:38:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 868 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net > > On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Theodore Perrotti wrote: > > > > > > > unsubscribe sonic digest > > > > > > > Simply e-mail the above message to sonic@lists.mv.net to unsubscribe. (Why > > you'd want to do so is beyond me, but it's your choice.) > > Wrong. > Don't you guys know how to use majordomo? Sheesh!! > > To unsubscribe, write to majordomo@lists.mv.net and put > > unsubscribe sonic > > in the message body. > Sorry. Guess I should've checked my information more carefully. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It's juice time!"-Sonic the Hedgehog Theodore P. Perrotti optimus@tiac.net (all mail forwarded to here) perrottit.mbr@asme.org tedp@wpi.wpi.edu (account will be axed soon) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 8 16:03:25 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id PAA20313 for sonic-ll; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 15:20:48 -0400 Received: from isomedia.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id PAA20306 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 15:20:26 -0400 From: skavland@isomedia.com Received: from 204.157.237.61 (Port001.isomedia.com [204.157.237.61]) by isomedia.com (8.6.10/8) with SMTP id MAA24105 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 12:20:25 -0700 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 12:20:25 -0700 Message-Id: <199508081920.MAA24105@isomedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Tails To: sonic@sard.mv.net X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Hey, does anyone know where I can get cool pictures of Tails? I check the Sega WWW page, but it was pretty bare. . . I think Tails rules! (He's cute!) Thanks for the info. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...And I am the iconoclast, an unconventional eccentric who marches to a different drummer....but you may call me noodle-noggin. -The Brain ----------------- * ---------------- * ----------------- * --------------- Paul Skavland : skavland@isomedia.com From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 8 16:26:09 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA21169 for sonic-ll; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:04:44 -0400 Received: from granite.mv.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA21164 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:04:33 -0400 Received: by granite.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA02913; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:04:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:04:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hurley To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Tails In-Reply-To: <199508081920.MAA24105@isomedia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Tue, 8 Aug 1995 skavland@isomedia.com wrote: > Hey, does anyone know where I can get cool pictures of Tails? I check the > Sega WWW page, but it was pretty bare. . . I think Tails rules! (He's > cute!) Thanks for the info. ftp --- rat.org /pub/sonic/images/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work: paul@mv.mv.com | Play: rat@rat.org WWW : http://rat.org/rat | FTP : ftp://rat.org/pub ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 8 16:51:03 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA22307 for sonic-ll; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:26:19 -0400 Received: from mv.mv.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA22299 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:26:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:26:06 -0400 (EDT) From: White Trash To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Tails In-Reply-To: <199508081920.MAA24105@isomedia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Tue, 8 Aug 1995 skavland@isomedia.com wrote: > Hey, does anyone know where I can get cool pictures of Tails? I check the > Sega WWW page, but it was pretty bare. . . I think Tails rules! (He's > cute!) Thanks for the info. I would suggest ftp://ftp.hff.rat.org/pub/sonic/images, maybe? .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Only Amiga makes | Mike Dugas, aka White Trash | Only Commodore | | it possible... | mad@mv.mv.com | stood in the way.. | |--------------------'`------------------------------'`-------------------| | A2000/NEC CD-ROM/Flicker Fixer/210MB HD/5MB RAM | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' [(C) 1995, mad] From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 8 20:55:42 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA26436 for sonic-ll; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 20:25:03 -0400 Received: from inetgate.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA26421 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 20:24:48 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail.prodigy.com [199.4.137.13]) by inetgate.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA91190 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 18:38:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 18:46:38 EDT From: ZCSN36B@prodigy.com (MISS LINDSAY L CIBOS) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.09634830.ZCSN36B@prodigy.com> To: Sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Amy Rose Story Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I have resently posted my story, "From Amy Rose with Love" on the internet, and the web. {I forgot what the web pages address is, but the sonic internet thing is: Alt.Fan.sonic.hedgehog} I want to here from you if you like it, and what you expect to see in the sequel, "To be or not to Be", which I'm curently working on. Thanks! Lindsay Cibos A.k.a Bunnie Rabbot {Prez of Sonic Club on prodigy} {If you want to join, ask me please! There is a monthly newsleeter too.} From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 8 21:08:21 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA26688 for sonic-ll; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 20:39:41 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA26679 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 20:39:29 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id UAA24047; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 20:33:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 20:33:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: Post Sonic Subject: Web page and Merchandise List Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I just got a big list of unlisted items, enough to take us from ML v3.0 to 4.0 except that 3.0 isn't done yet. I'm going to set v3.0 of the Merchandise List aside for a while to turn my attention to the mailing list's Web page. I'm going to try for a fully-redone Web page installed by Monday. (To those of you who might be drawing pics for the page, they can be added as part of the next revision.) Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) [Team OS/2] A net.freedom-fighter for Mobius! "Freedom Fighters are #1!" -- Sonic the Hedgehog A! JW2 WAR++ PI0>+ BR+i SL++++i SK+++ RI0>++/++^ RU+ GDF0>+ BU++ MI- MM- KK-- Do $++ E59 Ee5 TRita Ay68 M Mail: acme@use.usit.net | WWW: http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~eschulma From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 9 02:56:54 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id CAA29648 for sonic-ll; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 02:31:32 -0400 Received: from inetgate.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id CAA29642 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 02:31:21 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail.prodigy.com [199.4.137.13]) by inetgate.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA135128 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 01:28:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 01:37:18 EDT From: AHVT94B@prodigy.com (MR THADDEUS R BOYD) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.09656090.AHVT94B@prodigy.com> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Amy Rose Story Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net >I want to here from you if you like it, and what you expect to see in >the sequel, "To be or not to Be", which I'm curently working on. Hey, Lindsay! I forgot you were on this list! Anyways, as I told you in the club, I like it. As for my expectations of "To Be or Not To Be", first off, Sonic and Sally MUST be hooked back up. Sally and Antoine make little or no sense together! Also, some romance between Amy and Tails would be a nice touch. I'll leave the rest of the plot up to you and anyone else on the list who has any ideas... >< C> (A)bort (R)etry (I)nfluence with large hammer From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 9 04:29:55 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA00515 for sonic-ll; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 04:14:00 -0400 Received: from laraby.tiac.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id EAA00510 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 04:13:49 -0400 Received: (from optimus@localhost) by laraby.tiac.net (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta9) id EAA10846; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 04:05:43 -0400 From: Theodore Perrotti Message-Id: <199508090805.EAA10846@laraby.tiac.net> Subject: Re: Amy Rose Story To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 04:05:42 -0400 (EDT) Cc: optimus@laraby.tiac.net (Theodore Perrotti) In-Reply-To: <013.09634830.ZCSN36B@prodigy.com> from "MISS LINDSAY L CIBOS" at Aug 8, 95 06:46:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 795 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net > > I have resently posted my story, "From Amy Rose with Love" on the > internet, and the web. {I forgot what the web pages address is, but > the sonic internet thing is: Alt.Fan.sonic.hedgehog} Actually, Lindsay, it's alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog. > > Thanks! > Lindsay Cibos > A.k.a Bunnie Rabbot {Prez of Sonic Club on prodigy} > {If you want to join, ask me please! There is a monthly newsleeter > too.} > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It's juice time!"-Sonic the Hedgehog Theodore P. Perrotti optimus@tiac.net (all mail forwarded to here) perrottit.mbr@asme.org tedp@wpi.wpi.edu (account will be axed soon) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 9 14:51:55 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA07300 for sonic-ll; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:40:00 -0400 Received: from isomedia.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA07293 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:39:47 -0400 From: skavland@isomedia.com Received: from 204.157.237.61 (Port001.isomedia.com [204.157.237.61]) by isomedia.com (8.6.10/8) with SMTP id LAA28638 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 11:39:46 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 11:39:46 -0700 Message-Id: <199508091839.LAA28638@isomedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Amy Rose story To: sonic@sard.mv.net X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I'd like to read it, but I can't find it. . ! I checked in alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog, but I didn't see it. BTW, where is the "normal" place to post Sonic stories? In that newsgroup, or to this list? Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...And I am the iconoclast, an unconventional eccentric who marches to a different drummer....but you may call me noodle-noggin. -The Brain ----------------- * ---------------- * ----------------- * --------------- Paul Skavland : skavland@isomedia.com From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 9 15:23:36 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA07631 for sonic-ll; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:54:56 -0400 Received: from granite.mv.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA07622 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:54:38 -0400 Received: by granite.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA21187; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:54:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:54:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hurley To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Amy Rose story In-Reply-To: <199508091839.LAA28638@isomedia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Wed, 9 Aug 1995 skavland@isomedia.com wrote: > I'd like to read it, but I can't find it. . ! I checked in > alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog, but I didn't see it. BTW, where is the "normal" > place to post Sonic stories? In that newsgroup, or to this list? Thanks. Or mail bookshire@rat.org and he'll put it on his web page. http://www.rat.org/bookshire/stories.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work: paul@mv.mv.com | Play: rat@rat.org WWW : http://rat.org/rat | FTP : ftp://rat.org/pub ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 9 15:51:17 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id PAA08388 for sonic-ll; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 15:33:47 -0400 Received: from mailhost.primenet.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id PAA08380 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 15:33:34 -0400 Received: from usr2.primenet.com (root@usr2.primenet.com [198.68.32.12]) by mailhost.primenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA23369 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:33:32 -0700 Received: (rotor@localhost) by usr2.primenet.com (8.6.12/wjp-c2.0) id MAA25262; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:33:32 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:33:32 -0700 (MST) From: Bookshire Draftwood To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Amy Rose story In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Wed, 9 Aug 1995, Paul Hurley wrote: > On Wed, 9 Aug 1995 skavland@isomedia.com wrote: > > > I'd like to read it, but I can't find it. . ! I checked in > > alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog, but I didn't see it. BTW, where is the "normal" > > place to post Sonic stories? In that newsgroup, or to this list? Thanks. > > Or mail bookshire@rat.org and he'll put it on his web page. > http://www.rat.org/bookshire/stories.html > The Amy rose story "From Amy Rose, with Love" IS on my WW page in two formats. First, is just straight text which you can read online. The other formate is simply a ZIP file of the Windows Write file that includes pictures. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hear these words and reflect... "If you can't win fair, just win!" --U. S. Grant David M. Pistone -- rotor@primenet.com __ __ ____ ___ ___ ____ http://www.rat.org/bookshire /__)/__) / / / / /_ /\ / /_ / / / \ / / / / /__ / \/ /___ / ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 10 01:43:34 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA12611 for sonic-ll; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 00:54:18 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA12592 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 00:53:57 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id XAA23814; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 23:34:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 23:34:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: Post Sonic Subject: Mobius Freedom Fighters' Theme Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net ALL: We are the Freedom Fighters, yes! And we fight for Mobius Our planet is the best, So we will never rest As we fight for Mobius! Sonic: Come join the Blue Blur Hedgehog Tails: And the Happy Fun Fox Tails ALL: To try to rule the planet 'botnik throws us in his jail Knothole is in danger every time that we get caught But we break loose and then vamoose And Robotnik fumes a lot! We're Freedom Fighters, yes! Tails is cute and Rotor works Princess Sally gets the perks And Antoine goes berserk We fight for Mobius! Snively and Robotink want to rule the universe. We're gonna win the battle because we will never shirk. We'll do our sworn-to duty; Sally's plans will work. With Swatbots crashed and Stealthbots trashed We're winning back our turf! Cast: We're Freedom Fighters, yes! And we're going to free Mobius! We'll win peace and justice, and settle for nothing less. Our Rebel 'lliance Is all about defiance! Bunnie: Robotnik can't get by us! Cast: Freedom Fighters, yes! 'botnik's not won yet! /===========\ |LEGAL SWILL| \===========/ "Animaniacs" and all related characters and indicia are trademarks of Warner Bros. Inc. "Sonic the Hedgehog" and all related characters and indicia are trademarks of SEGA of America. Original lyrics by Tom Ruegger and Copyright 1993 Warner Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI) and WB Music Corp. (ASCAP). This adaptation by Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) may be reproduced in the Animaniacs Parody Song File (APSF) as distributed within alt.tv.animaniacs. Format adapted from the Animaniacs Mega Lyric File (AMLF) as distributed within alt.tv.animaniacs. Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) [Team OS/2] A net.freedom-fighter for Mobius! "Freedom Fighters are #1!" -- Sonic the Hedgehog A! JW2 WAR++ PI0>+ BR+i SL++++i SK+++ RI0>++/++^ RU+ GDF0>+ BU++ MI- MM- KK-- Do $++ E59 Ee5 TRita Ay68 M Mail: acme@use.usit.net | WWW: http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~eschulma From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 10 02:11:29 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id BAA13166 for sonic-ll; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 01:50:22 -0400 Received: from Freenet.HSC.Colorado.EDU by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id BAA13159 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 01:50:10 -0400 Received: (from av643@localhost) by Freenet.HSC.Colorado.EDU (8.6.8/8.6.6) id XAA01263; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 23:50:07 -0600 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 23:50:07 -0600 Message-Id: <199508100550.XAA01263@Freenet.HSC.Colorado.EDU> From: av643@Freenet.HSC.Colorado.EDU (Dan Ramos) To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Sonic music... Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Hiya gang! I haven't been able to read the mailing list 'cause this site's been havin' LOTSA problems lately. Aw well. :) I'm back! So anywayz... in answer to Tolouse's questions... > >(a) Which of the game tunes from Sonics 1, 2, 3, K, CD, et cetera are > >your absolute favorites? Sonic 1: Stardust Zone Sonic 2: The music at the end of the game (winning screen with the pics of Tails with the plane coming up to rescue Sonic) Sonic 3: Theme song Sonic & Knuckles: The music in the caves (DOH! Haven't played inna while) Sonic CD: STARDUST ZONE (BOS level... vs Metal Sonic) (redbook TRACK 20) Sonic Spinball: The music in the second pinball table RULES! GT> Funny you should ask this :) GT> I constructed the Knothole Village Pub on FurToonia, and I used GT> to have song plaques dedicated to each Freedom Fighter (I've GT> since taken them down, for personal reasons, but I guess I'll GT> hafta put them up again someday). These are some of the tunes I GT> and others came up with: GT> GT> Sonic: The Theme from 'Sonic the Hedgehog' by Noisy Neighbors. GT> Sally: "Wildflowers" by Tom Petty GT> Bunnie: "Code of Silence" by Billy Joel GT> Sir Charles: "Mr. Roboto" by Styx GT> Antoine: "Too Much Time on My Hands" by Styx GT> Tails: "Somewhere Out There" by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram GT> GT> Also, I think 'I, Robot' by the Alan Parsons Project is very GT> fitting. Ya know, Tolly... I still think RUN LIKE HELL by Pink Floyd is REAL fitting too, though. Later! -Sonic @ FurTooniaMUCK / Miles From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 10 17:51:11 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA22348 for sonic-ll; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 17:31:42 -0400 Received: from seagoon.newcastle.edu.au by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA22343 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 17:31:25 -0400 Received: from scorch.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by seagoon.newcastle.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id HAA11907 for sard.mv.net!sonic; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 07:17:35 +1000 Received: from brushtail.hna.com.au by scorch.hna.com.au with smtp tap_id root (Smail 3.1.28.1 #10) id m0sgcSK-000WU9C; Fri, 11 Aug 95 04:35 EST Received: (from cjb@localhost) by brushtail.hna.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id EAA18619; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 04:41:13 +1000 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 04:41:13 +1000 Message-Id: <199508101841.EAA18619@brushtail.hna.com.au> To: sonic@sard.mv.net In-reply-to: acme@use.usit.net's message of 10 Aug 1995 18:41:44 +1000 From: list-brush-sonic@brushtail.hna.com.au Subject: Re: Mobius Freedom Fighters' Theme References: Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net > [Animaniacs song parody snipped] Bleegh. Why anyone would want to compare Our Favourite Mobians with the still-born merchandising dreck that was A! and its dubiously encouraged fandom is beyond me... :P -- Chris,, From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 10 19:21:18 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23377 for sonic-ll; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 19:13:13 -0400 Received: from serv0.cae.wisc.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23372 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 19:13:02 -0400 Received: from sun-5.cae.wisc.edu (sun-5.cae.wisc.edu [144.92.69.181]) by serv0.cae.wisc.edu (8.6.10 CAE/8.6.10) with ESMTP id RAA00479 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 17:45:57 -0500 From: James Firmiss Received: (firmiss@localhost) by sun-5.cae.wisc.edu (8.6.10 CAE/8.6.9) id RAA06183 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 17:45:56 -0500 Message-Id: <199508102245.RAA06183@sun-5.cae.wisc.edu> Subject: Re: Mobius Freedom Fighters' Theme To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 17:45:55 CDT In-Reply-To: <199508101841.EAA18619@brushtail.hna.com.au>; from "list-brush-sonic@brushtail.hna.com.au" at Aug 11, 95 4:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Chris writes: > > [Animaniacs song parody snipped] > > Bleegh. Why anyone would want to compare Our Favourite Mobians with > the still-born merchandising dreck that was A! and its dubiously > encouraged fandom is beyond me... :P > > -- > Chris,, And Sonic isn't a product of merchandising??!?! Isn't Sonic SEGA's very own mascot of sorts? Aren't there over a hundred different products with Sonic on them? Or are you just complaining about the animaniacs fans .. such as those who write leud stories about Yakko and Hello-Nurse? -- On a different note -- I finally found an issue of the Sonic Triple Trouble 48pp special (Archie) No review... just a few comments: The return of everyone's favorite fall-apart badnik.. Crabmeat! We finally get to see the (possible) covers of the Tails Miniseries. (I say 'possible' because they changed the Sally Miniseries covers). Ya know... the more I see Knuckles, the more I like him? Go Knux! Despite firing the TV execs who made the decision, I'm suspecting we're going to get treated to 'Dumb and Dumber' in that mystery SAT-AM ABC time slot. Anyone on this list hear any rumors as to what's going to be here? I guess I was wrong... I thought that mysterious guy in the S&K 48 page Special [story: Fire Drill] was Nack the Weasel but it looks like its someone else. -- ===[ James Firmiss --- firmiss@cae.wisc.edu ]=== Hurry Star Force... To Iscandar! The Earth only has 203 days left! From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 10 20:21:07 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23798 for sonic-ll; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 19:58:01 -0400 Received: from isomedia.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23791 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 19:57:50 -0400 From: skavland@isomedia.com Received: from 204.157.237.61 (Port001.isomedia.com [204.157.237.61]) by isomedia.com (8.6.10/8) with SMTP id QAA02340 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 16:57:50 -0700 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 16:57:50 -0700 Message-Id: <199508102357.QAA02340@isomedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Sonic Cartoon Show To: sonic@sard.mv.net X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Hmm, so no new episodes, huh? What about re-runs? Maybe? Please? What if a bunch of us organized Hedgehog lovers complained? Oh well, keep the stories coming!!! "Why bother learning, when ignorance is instantanious?" -Hobbes Paul Skavland : skavland@isomedia.com From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 10 20:36:53 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23567 for sonic-ll; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 19:38:16 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23548 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 19:37:53 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id TAA26068; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 19:31:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 19:31:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Mobius Freedom Fighters' Theme In-Reply-To: <199508102245.RAA06183@sun-5.cae.wisc.edu> Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Thu, 10 Aug 1995, James Firmiss wrote: > Despite firing the TV execs who made the decision, I'm suspecting we're > going to get treated to 'Dumb and Dumber' in that mystery SAT-AM ABC > time slot. Anyone on this list hear any rumors as to what's going to > be here? I just got a new "Disney Adventures" magazine with an ad for ABC which puts "Dumb and Dumber" in that time slot. Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) [Team OS/2] A net.freedom-fighter for Mobius! "Freedom Fighters are #1!" -- Sonic the Hedgehog A! JW2 WAR++ PI0>+ BR+i SL++++i SK+++ RI0>++/++^ RU+ GDF0>+ BU++ MI- MM- KK-- Do $++ E59 Ee5 TRita Ay68 M Mail: acme@use.usit.net | WWW: http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~eschulma From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 11 13:56:19 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA01845 for sonic-ll; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 13:38:31 -0400 Received: from maily2.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA01840 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 13:38:20 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail [199.4.137.13]) by maily2.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA43038 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 13:33:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 13:30:58 EDT From: AHVT94B@prodigy.com (MR THADDEUS R BOYD) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.09759402.AHVT94B@prodigy.com> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Mobius Freedom Fighters' Theme Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net >Sonic: Come join the Blue Blur Hedgehog >Tails: And the Happy Fun Fox Tails >ALL: To try to rule the planet 'botnik throws us in his jail > Knothole is in danger every time that we get caught > But we break loose and then vamoose > And Robotnik fumes a lot! Try this: Sonic: Come join the Blue Blur Hedgehog Tails: And the Happy Fun Fox Tails Sonic: Compared to my speed Sneezly and Robuttnik are like snails All: Robotnik tries to find our home and catch us, but he fails But Sonic spins up great, big winds -- You might even call 'em gales! Musical >< C> (A)bort (R)etry (I)nfluence with large hammer From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sun Aug 13 09:22:06 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA19735 for sonic-ll; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 09:15:37 -0400 Received: from emout04.mail.aol.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA19729 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 09:15:26 -0400 From: Sugahhog@aol.com Received: by emout04.mail.aol.com (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA079449467; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 09:11:07 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 09:11:07 -0400 Message-Id: <950813091105_53639133@aol.com> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Mobius Freedom Fighters' ... Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net >Despite firing the TV execs who made the decision, I'm suspecting we're going to get treated to 'Dumb and Dumber' in that mystery SAT-AM ABC time slot. Anyone on this list hear any rumors as to what's going to be here? Checking out some comic books recently from D.C., they had the lineup for the coming Sat AM cartoon shows, and "D&D" *was* in that slot. *Sigh!* *Another* network falls by the Sat AM wayside with programs that I don't want to watch. (Granted Bugs Bunny &Co is classic, but I've already taped everything they show) And then there were two............. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sun Aug 13 23:52:59 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id XAA24636 for sonic-ll; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 23:27:25 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id XAA24629 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 23:27:13 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id XAA28675; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 23:21:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 23:21:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: Post Sonic Subject: Sonic (fwd) Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net This is a forwarded message. If you would like to reply to its author directly, please be sure your reply is addressed to james.walt@mercopus.com. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 95 21:39:00 -0500 From: James Walt To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Sonic >From: Sugahhog@aol.com >Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 09:11:07 -0400 >Message-Id: <950813091105_53639133@aol.com> >To: sonic@sard.mv.net >Subject: Re: Mobius Freedom Fighters' ... >Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net >Content-Type: text >Content-Length: 577 >Status: RO >>Despite firing the TV execs who made the decision, I'm suspecting we're >going to get treated to 'Dumb and Dumber' in that mystery SAT-AM ABC >time slot. Anyone on this list hear any rumors as to what's going to >be here? No kiddings mon ami! As if we didn'st know ze executioners du programming weren't dumb and dumber themselveds. It seems ze mysteries of ze times block is how they puts ze ad in ze Sonique book withouts ze name mentioned and puts it in ze other comiques with the titles in. Cowards! Mon dieu! >Checking out some comic books recently from D.C., they had the lineup for the >coming Sat AM cartoon shows, and "D&D" *was* in that slot. *Sigh!* *Another* >network falls by the Sat AM wayside with programs that I don't want to watch. >(Granted Bugs Bunny &Co is classic, but I've already taped everything they >show) And then there were two............ Yes, and if it weren't for "Reboot" and "Bump in the Night" I wouldn't watch the new 'Disney' channel at all. (Madeline has already been run on the Family Channel otherwise I'd give it half a look) As the execs at ABC might have sang at the merger meeting. . . "Now it's time to say goodbye to our old company, A.B.C. - key, L-o-u-s-y . . ." Jim W. Antoine defender and Bunnie fan __________________________________________________________________ ) ( ( james.walt@mercopus.com - - bare headed - fuzzy minded ) ) @_@ ( ( sfstbr@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us Y anthropomorphically speaking ) ) ( ( A! JW2 WAR+++i" SL++++i^ SK+ MM++!" 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It involves a few familiar characters, and a LOT of characters made up by members of Sonic '95 (the Sonic club I'm in on Prodigy). I'm going to have it available in two formats: Text and Windows executable. Anyone who wants it in *.exe format, let me know; I'll have to transfer it uu-encoded since Prodigy users can only send text over the 'Net. I'll probably send the text version through the list; if not, I'll announce to the list when I'm posting it on Usenet. Only thing is, Sonic isn't a real key character in this story; although he is in it, it mostly revolves around the "new" characters Kabuki, Maxl, Tracker, and Jade. >< Somebody's got to do it! From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 14 01:23:01 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id BAA25335 for sonic-ll; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 01:05:59 -0400 Received: from isomedia.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id BAA25330 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 01:05:48 -0400 From: skavland@isomedia.com Received: from 204.157.237.64 (Port004.isomedia.com [204.157.237.64]) by isomedia.com (8.6.10/8) with SMTP id WAA08618 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 22:05:50 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 22:05:50 -0700 Message-Id: <199508140505.WAA08618@isomedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: New Characters To: sonic@sard.mv.net X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net What kind of new characters have you prodigy guys come up with anyway? Just curious, as I don't have that service. "Why bother learning, when ignorance is instantanious?" -Hobbes Paul Skavland : skavland@isomedia.com From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 14 02:21:39 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id CAA25811 for sonic-ll; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 02:07:44 -0400 Received: from inetgate.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id CAA25806 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 02:07:31 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail.prodigy.com [199.4.137.13]) by inetgate.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA99247 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 01:45:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 01:54:31 EDT From: AHVT94B@prodigy.com (MR THADDEUS R BOYD) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.09851717.AHVT94B@prodigy.com> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: New Characters Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net > What kind of new characters have you prodigy guys come up with >anyway? You can find out when you read the story! (Yes, I'm copping out. The reason is that they're too numerous to name!) >< Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 14 02:51:46 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id CAA25919 for sonic-ll; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 02:27:25 -0400 Received: from inetgate.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id CAA25913 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 02:27:14 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail.prodigy.com [199.4.137.13]) by inetgate.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA99282 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 01:41:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 01:50:15 EDT From: AHVT94B@prodigy.com (MR THADDEUS R BOYD) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.09851614.AHVT94B@prodigy.com> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: New story Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net >Don't use .EXE or your file will only be usable to Windows and OS/2 >users. (A program called 'wine' ((Win)dows (e)mmulator) allows Unix >users to get at Windows 3.0 programs, but wine is still quite primitive >compared to the real thing.) Nah, there's no difference between the *.exe and the *.txt except that the *.exe is a bit more user-friendly (giving you the option to click on the chapter of your choice). I may, eventually, upgrade the *.exe to include pictures, and maybe even limited animations, but that's not happening anytime soon. If it does happen, though, I'll create a *.wri (or maybe an MS-Word *.doc) that has the pictures. >Most list subscribers won't be familiar with your new characters. Be >sure they are well introduced in the story or in a seperate text file. No prob...I explain Hedgehog X's origin in detail, as well as all I know about Kabuki, and all users need to know about the other characters (X, Amaroq, etc.). Of course, since this is where Maxl, Jade, and Tracker are introduced, it goes without saying that they're described pretty well. >< C> (A)bort (R)etry (I)nfluence with large hammer From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 14 13:22:00 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA01778 for sonic-ll; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:18:03 -0400 Received: from ns2.ac.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA01761 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:17:43 -0400 Received: from jaguar.ac.edu by ns2.ac.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00870; Mon, 14 Aug 95 13:23:04 EDT Received: by jaguar.ac.edu (wcGATE v4) id 36874W Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:11:39 GMT From: rhaynie@jaguar.ac.edu (Robert Haynie) Subject: m^ZoKlKius Freedom Fighters' Theme Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 14:26:23 GMT Message-Id: <95081111113963119@jaguar.ac.edu> Organization: Augusta College, Augusta GA To: sonic@sard.mv.net Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net -> From: list-brush-sonic@brushtail.hna.com.au -> To: sard.mv.net!sonic -> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 04:41:13 +1000 -> Subject: Re: Mobius Freedom Fighters' Theme -> -> -> > [Animaniacs song parody snipped] -> -> Bleegh. Why anyone would want to compare Our Favourite Mobians with -> the still-born merchandising dreck that was A! and its dubiously -> encouraged fandom is beyond me... :P -> -> -- -> Chris,, From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 14 13:45:46 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA01781 for sonic-ll; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:18:12 -0400 Received: from ns2.ac.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA01773 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:17:57 -0400 Received: from jaguar.ac.edu by ns2.ac.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00874; Mon, 14 Aug 95 13:23:06 EDT Received: by jaguar.ac.edu (wcGATE v4) id 36875W Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:11:39 GMT From: rhaynie@jaguar.ac.edu (Robert Haynie) Subject: Re: Mobius Freedom Fighters' Theme Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 14:30:23 GMT Message-Id: <95081111113963120@jaguar.ac.edu> Organization: Augusta College, Augusta GA To: sonic@sard.mv.net Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net -> From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" -> To: sard.mv.net!sonic -> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 19:31:52 -0400 (EDT) -> Subject: Re: Mobius Freedom Fighters' Theme -> Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius -> -> On Thu, 10 Aug 1995, James Firmiss wrote: -> -> > Despite firing the TV execs who made the decision, I'm suspecting w -> > going to get treated to 'Dumb and Dumber' in that mystery SAT-AM AB -> > time slot. Anyone on this list hear any rumors as to what's going -> > be here? -> -> I just got a new "Disney Adventures" magazine with an ad for ABC whic -> puts "Dumb and Dumber" in that time slot. -> -> Oh, joy. You mean we get a program about the ABC programming execs? rob From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 15 00:31:17 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA02808 for sonic-ll; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:11:09 -0400 Received: from granite.mv.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA02803 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:11:07 -0400 Received: by granite.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA02309; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:11:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:11:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hurley To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: your message N (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net FYI Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 20:16:00 -0500 From: James Walt To: rat@granite.mv.net Subject: your message N To: rat@granite.mv.net N >Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 23:18:54 -0400 (EDT) >From: Paul Hurley >To: james.walt@mercopus.com >Subject: your message >james.walt@mercopus.com is not on the sonic mailing list, and therefor >you can't post from that address. I thought I was already on the list as I have been receiving the mailing list for over a month now. The system I am calling on does mailing lists in a different way than usual to cut down on the drive space needed, so it might not be addressed to me directly. If this is the case, how can I be added to the list without pissing off the local BBS gods? __________________________________________________________________ ) ( ( james.walt@mercopus.com - - bare headed - fuzzy minded ) ) @_^ ( ( sfstbr@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us Y anthropomorphically speaking ) ) ( ( A! JW2 WAR+++i" SL++++i^ SK+ MM++!" P+ Dpfo $++++ T227 AY1952 M ) )_________________________________________________________________( ---- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mercury Opus BBS - St. Petersburg, Florida, USA - +1-813-321-0734 | | (Please do not send any attached or uuencoded files to this address.) | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 15 01:00:58 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA02991 for sonic-ll; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:41:20 -0400 Received: from granite.mv.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA02986 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:41:17 -0400 Received: by granite.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA02659; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:41:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:41:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hurley To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: your message N (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Did I forward that to the list? I meant to send that to Erich. And I call myself a computer expert. Sorry about the spam. I didn't meant it! :-I On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Paul Hurley wrote: > FYI > > Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 20:16:00 -0500 > From: James Walt > To: rat@granite.mv.net > Subject: your message N From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 15 17:03:58 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA11378 for sonic-ll; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:50:06 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA11373 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:50:03 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id QAA02930; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:44:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:44:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: Post Sonic Subject: Sonic Story Sightings (fwd) Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net This is a forwarded message. If you would like to reply to its author directly, please be sure your message is addressed to james.walt@mercopus.com. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 20:23:00 -0500 From: James Walt To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Sonic Story Sightings To: sonic@sard.mv.net Yesterday while wandering through the grocery store (Kash N' Karry) I found in the magazine/book rack a bundled package of two of the Tietlebaum books (Sonic the Hedgehog and Robotnik's Revenge) Whether these are all over the country or just a regional sort of thing, who knows? The price is $3.50 for the two shrink wrapped together. __________________________________________________________________ ) ( ( james.walt@mercopus.com - - bare headed - fuzzy minded ) ) ^_@ ( ( sfstbr@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us y anthropomorphically speaking ) ) ( ( A! JW2 WAR+++i" SL++++i^ SK+ MM++!" P+ Dpfo $++++ T227 AY1952 M ) )_________________________________________________________________( ---- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mercury Opus BBS - St. Petersburg, Florida, USA - +1-813-321-0734 | | (Please do not send any attached or uuencoded files to this address.) | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 15 20:34:54 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA14036 for sonic-ll; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:25:57 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA14031 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:25:54 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id UAA14249; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:19:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:19:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: Post Sonic Subject: Sonic Story Sightings (fwd) Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net This is a forwarded message. If you would like to reply to its author directly, please be sure your message is addressed to james.walt@mercopus.com. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 10:16:00 -0500 From: James Walt To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Sonic Story Sightings Yesterday while wandering through the grocery store (Kash N' Karry) I found in the magazine/book rack a bundled package of two of the Tietlebaum books (Sonic the Hedgehog and Robotnik's Revenge) Whether these are all over the country or just a regional sort of thing, who knows? The price is $3.50 for the two shrink wrapped together. ---- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mercury Opus BBS - St. Petersburg, Florida, USA - +1-813-321-0734 | | (Please do not send any attached or uuencoded files to this address.) | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 16 00:33:50 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA16184 for sonic-ll; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 00:24:35 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA16179 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 00:24:31 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA17593; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 00:24:11 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA14569; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 00:24:09 -0400 Message-Id: <9508160424.AA14569@edmund> Subject: Re: Sonic Story Sightings (fwd) To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 00:24:09 -0400 (EDT) Cc: james.walt@mercopus.com In-Reply-To: from "Erich Schulman" at Aug 15, 95 08:19:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net > > Yesterday while wandering through the grocery store (Kash N' Karry) I > found in the magazine/book rack a bundled package of two of the > Tietlebaum books (Sonic the Hedgehog and Robotnik's Revenge) Whether > these are all over the country or just a regional sort of thing, who > knows? The price is $3.50 for the two shrink wrapped together. > > I've seen 'em here (Michigan) at Meijer and Wal-Mart. They were originally listing for $2.50 @, so it looks like they're not moving as fast as their subject. ================================================================ || ___------__ || || |\__-- /\ _- || Daniel J. Drazen || | / __ _ || drazen@andrews.edu || //\ / \ /__ || || | o| 0|__ --_ || Custodian of one of the Sonic || \\____-- __ \ ___ - || the Hedgehog FAQ Files || (@@ __/ / /_ || || -_____--- --_ || ASCII Sonic by Han J. Lee ================================================================ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 16 13:05:44 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id MAA21423 for sonic-ll; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 12:42:21 -0400 Received: from serv0.cae.wisc.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id MAA21414 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 12:42:10 -0400 Received: from sun-5.cae.wisc.edu (sun-5.cae.wisc.edu [144.92.69.181]) by serv0.cae.wisc.edu (8.6.10 CAE/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA10410 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:42:04 -0500 From: James Firmiss Received: (firmiss@localhost) by sun-5.cae.wisc.edu (8.6.10 CAE/8.6.9) id LAA24032 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:42:03 -0500 Message-Id: <199508161642.LAA24032@sun-5.cae.wisc.edu> Subject: Re: Sonic Story Sightings (fwd) To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 11:42:02 CDT In-Reply-To: ; from "Erich Schulman" at Aug 15, 95 8:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net > This is a forwarded message. If you would like to reply to its author > directly, please be sure your message is addressed to > james.walt@mercopus.com. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 10:16:00 -0500 > From: James Walt > To: sonic@sard.mv.net > Subject: Sonic Story Sightings > > > Yesterday while wandering through the grocery store (Kash N' Karry) I > found in the magazine/book rack a bundled package of two of the > Tietlebaum books (Sonic the Hedgehog and Robotnik's Revenge) Whether > these are all over the country or just a regional sort of thing, who > knows? The price is $3.50 for the two shrink wrapped together. I just saw these yesterday at "Woodman's"... a grocery store chain I've only seen in Wisconsin. I bought the two bundled books and a third individual book... titled "Palace of Terror" or something to that effect... no need to correct me on this name.. I'm pretty sure its wrong and can always get the right name in 10 minutes. :) Didn't someone review these books? I've been curious as to where I could get them and viola... They're right there on the rack. One curious thing I noticed about them is that unlike the TV series or the Archie comics.. Uncle Chuck and Muttski's been 'deroboticized'. I also noticed that the first book called Rotor a sea lion while a later book called him a walrus. [The first book called Sally a Chipmunk too... I guess the writer wasn't sure what was going on either at this point]. -- ===[ James Firmiss --- firmiss@cae.wisc.edu ]=== Hurry Star Force... To Iscandar! The Earth only has 197 days left! From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 18 09:36:59 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA26862 for sonic-ll; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:29:12 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA26856 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:29:07 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11318; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:29:03 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA10482; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:29:03 -0400 Message-Id: <9508181329.AA10482@edmund> Subject: Sonic FAQ File 5/5 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:29:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net C. OTHER SOURCES Michael Teitelbaum, _Sonic the Hedgehog_ (c)1993; _Sonic the Hedgehog: Robotnik's Revenge_ (c)1994; _Sonic the Hedgehog: Fortress of Fear_ (c)1994; _Sonic the Hedgehog: Friend or Foe?_ (c)1995: Mahwah, New Jersey: Troll Associates. _Sonic the Hedgehog_ synopsis: Note: Any resemblance between this book and the original comics miniseries shouldn't be surprising; what IS surprising is how far from the TV series this is. Herewith, the "Cliff's Notes" description: Ch.1: At the beginning, Sonic is 7, Robotnik is 15, and both are staying with Uncle Chuck (you get some idea of how non-canonical this is going to get!). While Robotnik is only interested in gadgets, Sonic is only interested in running fast. While Uncle Chuck works on perfecting a power ring, Robotnik cannibalizes parts from Uncle Chuck's old tractor for a robot. When Uncle Chuck starts up the tractor, it goes out of control and heads for Robotnik. Ch. 2: Sonic interrupts a game of one-against-nine baseball to move the tractor which has pinned Robotnik and Uncle Chuck. He's able to move it with the power ring and he takes both Robotnik and Uncle Chuck to the hospital. Ch. 3: After being released from the hospital, Uncle Chuck and Robotnik return home. Robotnik's robot confesses to Uncle Chuck that he was put together with the stolen tractor parts, and Robotnik is grounded. Robotnik cobbles together another robot from Uncle Chuck's major appliances; it grabs Uncle Chuck but Sonic defeats it by wrapping it up in a garden hose. Robotnik leaves. Ch. 4: "Eight years passed." Sonic, 15, has a pet dog, Muttski, and works as a delivery hedgehog for his Uncle Chuck's chili dog stand. Sonic tests his new sneakers (designed by Uncle Chuck) while filling a large order, but in his absence Robotnik returns and arrests "Uncle Chuck" and his robots trash the stand. Ch. 5: Sonic delivers the chili dogs to an old factory, walking into a trap. He escapes and returns to what's left of the stand. He destroys a couple of robots who try to capture him and learns that Robotnik is responsible. He heads off for Robotnik's factory. Ch. 6: Stopping in the forest just outside the factory he encounters "a cute little chipmunk girl": Princess Sally Acorn. She shows Sonic a short-cut to the "Ro-Bo-Machine." Ch. 7: Reaching the fence around the factory, Sonic sees that Uncle Chuck has already been roboticized. Sally tries to stop him, but Sonic goes over the fence. Ch. 8: Sonic goes into Sonic Spin and takes out the SWATbots. With Sally's help, they get Uncle Chuck and Muttski and head for the Great Forest. Ch. 9: Sally leads them to "Knothole Village" which is "under the forest floor." (cf. Sonic #0). Sonic uses a power ring to restore Uncle Chuck and Muttski. None of the other Freedom Fighters are introduced. _Sonic the Hedgehog: Robotnik's Revenge_ PLOT SYNOPSIS: Ch. 1: Snively interrups Robotnik while he's in the middle of roboticizing Mobians to report that Sonic has joined Sally's cadre of freedom fighters. Robotnik comes up with a plan (via Snively) to capture "one of the weaker freedom fighters" to lure Sonic into a trap. Ch. 2: Nothing much happens as characters are introduced as Sally tries to get a meeting off the ground. A deroboticized Uncle Chuck is part of the Knothole crowd. Ch. 3: Bunnie, Sally, Rotor and Antoine are on patrol when they are attacked by buzzbombers. In the process, Bunnie is captured. Ch. 4: While Bunnie is held prisoner, the Knothole gang comes up with a "Trojan Robotnik" ploy to get inside. Information about the inside of Robotnik's HQ is provided by Uncle Chuck with the aid of a power ring. Ch. 5: You think Robotnik was born yesterday? He lets the image of himself inside his HQ, and still manages to cage Sonic, Sally, Rotor, Antoine and Muttski. Ch. 6: Sonic goes into a spin and cuts the bars of the cage. Sonic takes out a number of bots, and the crew head for Bunnie's holding cell, only to find it empty. Ch. 7: With Muttski tracking the scent, the freedom fighters reach the room where the roboticized is. Sonic has to get past some SWATbots to get inside, but the roboticization of Bunnie has already begun. Ch. 8: Sonic spins into the machinery, destroying it. They get the half-roboticized Bunnie and split. They reach a wall as Bunnie comes to. Angered by what's happened to her, she kicks a hole in the wall. Epilogue: Back at Knothole, Uncle Chuck can't undo what's been done to Bunnie. But she's still got her friends and her heart, so she accepts her new designation as Bunnie Rabbot. _Sonic the Hedgehog: Fortress of Fear_ PLOT SYNOPSIS: Ch. 1: Rotor is being held prisoner by Robotnik in the old royal fortress, which is now Robotnik's headquarters. He shares a cell with a woodchuck named Digger, who says he's from a Freedom Fighter group on the western edge of the Great Forest. Digger tells Rotor about the King's list of freedom fighters. Snively takes Digger away and tells Rotor that Robotnik's looking for the list as well. Ch. 2: Sonic & Bunnie arrive at Robotnik's fortress to bust Rotor out of his cell. Guided by a small transmitter in the lining of Rotor's cap, they locate the cell, take out the bots and "haul some serious haunch" back to Knothole. Ch. 3: Snively reports the escape of Rotor to an unconcerned Robotnik, who is preparing to rip the fortress apart to locate the list. Rotor tells the others about the list and Robotnik's search for it. Sally guesses that the list in question was one of "brave and true warriors" compiled by Sally's father when she was a girl. A box of her father's papers turns out to have a secret compartment which yields the following fragment: ...beside your bed safe and... ...tucked in tight... ...you cannot fall... Ch. 4: Sonic, Sally, Bunnie, Rotor and Antoine set out the following evening. Using a high-frequency generator, they scramble the circuits of the SWATbots at the front gate. Antoine suggests beginning the search with the safe in her father's bedroom. Ch. 5: While Robotnik leads a search of the main level, Snively detects the Freedom Fighters' entry into the fortress. Thinking to score points with Robotnik, Snively plans to capture them himself. The Freedom Fighters arrive at the bedroom, but find Snively and a platoon of SWATbots. Sonic and Bunnie take out the bots while Antoine trips up Snively before he can grab Sally. Unfortunately, they notice that the safe door is open and the safe is empty. Ch. 6: Thinking of the second and third lines of the fragment, Antoine suggests that it might be Sally's old crib--a bed from which one cannot fall. Sneaking to the nursery, they discover that Robotnik hasn't gotten there yet. Rotor tears the mattress apart but finds nothing. Snively arrives and locks the Freedom Fighters in the nursery. Ch. 7: While Snively goes off to find Robotnik, Rotor accidentally bumps into an old music box. Sally suddenly realizes that the fragment of "clues" is actually part of the lyrics of an old lullaby sung to the tune the music box is playing. The lyrics make mention of a clock, which is no longer in the room. Sally guesses that it was hidden in one of the towers. She also remembers a secret passageway from the nursery to the tower. Moving a book on a shelf, a panel slides back, revealing a staircase. Ch. 8: Ascending the staircase, they find the clock in a room filled with old furniture and such, but also find that the clock has been torn apart. Noticing that several pieces of SWATbot are lying about, Sonic and Bunnie get inside the metal parts and act as if the "bot" were escorting the others as prisoners. Robotnik's exultation at finding the list is interrupted when the bot and its "prisoners" arrive. Sonic grabs the list, lays out Robotnik, and the Freedom Fighters escape. _Sonic the Hedgehog: Friend or Foe?_ PLOT SUMMARY: [If you know the plot of the "Game Guy" episode [second season], you pretty much know the plot of this book, though there are several major differences.] Ch. 1: Sally has a nightmare wherein Robotnik displaces her father. Referring to the list that was captured in _Fortress of Fear_, and noting that its descriptions of locations are extremely general, she plans to begin searching in the Caverns in the Great Unknown. Ch. 2: Rotor tests a magnetic field generator, managing to snare Bunnie. While exploring the caverns, they use the generator to dislodge a boulder. Spooked by a swarm of bats, Antoine becomes lost in the cave. Ch. 3: Antoine is found by the bank of an underground river. Using an inflatable raft, they head down the river and are almost hurled over a waterfall. They bed down for the night but awaken in the morning to the sound of approaching SWATbots. Ch. 4: The SWATbots take no notice of the Knothole gang, concentrating on an escaping figure. Sonic helps out the escapee, who turns out to be Ari on his way to free other freedom fighters in his group being held by Robotnik. Ch. 5: Ari explains how his group, which originally numbered 20, has lived on the run. Sonic is all for helping him, but Sally doesn't trust him. When Sonic goes off alone with Ari, Rotor is able to unscramble the bots' orders: to pretend to pursue Ari in order to lure Sonic to a trap. Ch. 6: Sonic and Ari reach the fortress, but not before Sonic pulls Ari out of quicksand. Once inside, Ari lets Sonic get captured. Ch. 7: Sally, Antoine, Rotor and Bunnie are in pursuit of Sonic and Ari. Sonic is deposited into the large pinball game/arena, with the object of avoiding the energy vortex. Ari realizes that his comrades have been roboticized and he's been double-crossed. Ch. 8: The Knothole gang arrive at the fortress and manage to save Ari. He leads them to Sonic. In a major reversal of the TV plot, Ari manages to pull Sonic out of the vortex, then helps him escape the game. As the group approaches Knothole, Ari returns home on his own. OVERSEAS BOOKS: Martin Adams, _Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors_ (c)1993; _Sonic the Hedgehog in Castle Robotnik_ (c)1994; _Sonic the Hedgehog in the Fourth Dimension_ (c)1993; _Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory_ (c)1993: London: Virgin. Attention WEB-Slingers: The following individuals have set up Sonic the Hedgehog home pages on the World Wide Web. You can access them at: [Note: these addresses are current as of the date of this FAQ file edition; beyond that, I make no claims as to the accuracy of accessing these pages. Many WEB sites do have links to other Sonic pages so give 'em a shot] http://rat.org/bookshire (was: http://www.PrimeNet.Com:80/~rotor/) http://www.ysu.edu/~ptighe/sonic.html http://rat.org/sonic/ ftp://ftp.hff.rat.org/pub/sonic From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 18 10:03:57 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA26820 for sonic-ll; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:27:29 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA26815 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:27:25 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11288; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:27:21 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA10442; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:27:20 -0400 Message-Id: <9508181327.AA10442@edmund> Subject: Sonic FAQ File 2/5 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:27:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net NOTICE: The fact that episode and story summaries appear here means there is a good chance that you will encounter spoilers. This is your only notice! II. SOURCE DESCRIPTIONS A. SONIC THE HEDGEHOG EPISODE GUIDE 1. First Season: 1993-94 Super Sonic Writer: Jules Dennis When Nicole malfunctions, Sonic and Sally go to Robotropolis to get replacement parts. While there, they discover the Forbidden Zone and a being named Lezar. Lezar causes Sonic to lose his speed abilities, and teaches him that he can still accomplish things without it. Sonic Boom Writer: Len Janson While on a mission in Robotropolis, Sally intercepts a message which includes the use of her father's pet name for her. They follow the lead to the Dark Swamp and the remains of Ironlock Prison. In the process, a freedom fighter named Cat is captured. The freedom fighters gain maps to Robotropolis, but the search for Sally's father proves futile. Sonic and Sally Writers: Pat Allee and Ben Hurst Before becoming the principle writers for the second season, Allee and Hurst wrote this account of Sally's capture by Robotnik's forces. Sonic rescues what he thinks is Sally but what is instead a robot double. Back in Knothole, Tails begins to doubt Sally's behavior because of small details, such as how she reads a bedtime story. After first dismissing Tails' fears, Sonic also comes to realizes he's been dealing with a "Stepford Sally." Hooked on Sonics Writer: Randy Rogel In an attempt to impress Sally, Antoine tries to capture Robotnik by himself. He attempts to lure Robotnik into the open with the offer of a power ring, but Antoine is himself captured and Sonic has to rescue him. Ultra Sonic Writer: David Villaire While on a raid in Robotropolis, Sonic finds his Uncle Chuck as a robot worker in a crystal mine. Uncle Chuck recovers his mind and will long enough to help destroy a giant crystal which would have damaged the ecosystem of the entire planet. As Uncle Chuck loses control of his will, Sonic vows to return for him. Sonic's Nightmare Writer: Frank Santopadre The freedom fighters are captured and held on a deserted island refinery. Sonic must not only rescue them but he also has to deal with a recurring nightmare where he unable to prevent Sally's being roboticized. Warp Sonic Writer: Matt Uitz The freedom fighters discover an underground civilization called Lower Mobius and one of its citizens, Griff. Lower Mobius draws energy from a power crystal, but it is weakening. Feigning friendship, Griff visits Knothole and steals the power stone which is the source of the power rings. After fighting off some mechanical rats, the power stone is retrieved. Griff apologizes for his theft and is given a portion of the stone to aid Lower Mobius. Harmonic Sonic Writer: David Villaire After Robotnik launches a robot-manned orbiting space station to locate Knothole, the Knothole freedom fighters use a rocket booster to reach and destroy it. Sonic and the Secret Scrolls Writer: Janis Diamond The freedom fighters journey to Mauga (sp?) to recover some legendary scrolls, but Robotnik is tailing them. Robotnik's ship is hurled off a plateau by a violent wind, and the Knothole gang mistakenly believe he is finished. Will they make the same mistake at the end of the second season? Sub-Sonic Writer: Barbara Slade Sonic discovers a stream of water that makes plants grow at a fantastic rate. In their search for the source, the Knothole gang discover a subterranean creature whose habitat has been disturbed by Robotnik's drilling operations. Heads or Tails Writer: Len Janson On a raid of Robotropolis, Sonic runs into Muttski, his now- roboticized pet dog and vows to return him to normal someday. The freedom fighters also have to contend with a squadron of Buzzbombers carrying an orange defoliant [Agent Orange? Hmmmm...] intent on destroying the Great Forest and exposing Knothole. Artwork in this ep is decidedly off-model. Sonic Past Cool Writers: Kayte Kuch & Sheryl Scarborough Tails finds a baby terrapod and the freedom fighters escort the terrapod herd to Boulder Bay, where they will be safe from Robotnik. Sonic Racer Writer: Len Janson While on a mission to disable Robotnik's power generators, Sonic is tempted into participating in a contest against a super-fast robot designed to capture him. While he engages the bot, Bunnie, Sally and Antoine go after their target: Robotnik's back-up generator. 2. Second Season: 1994-95 Game Guy Sonic rescues someone from capture by Robotnik; he turns out to be Ari, a freedom fighter from another group. Ari directs Sonic to a place which turns out to be a trap. Sonic manages to escape (after Robotnik toys with him), but Ari--whose comrades were roboticized and who was himself deceived by Robotnik--is sucked into the Void. Before falling into the Void, Ari says something about a list of other freedom fighters. Sonic Conversion To my way of thinking, THE breakthrough episode for the series! The Knothole gang test a deroboticizing process on Bunnie, whose partially-roboticized body is returned to normal. Sonic then goes after Uncle Chuck and is able to convince him to undergo the process. However, the process turns out to be only temporary as, in a poignant scene, Bunnie reverts to a half-robot. When Uncle Chuck reverts to robotic form, he captures Tails and Antoine for delivery to Robotnik; Sonic confronts him and manages to break the hold on Uncle Chuck's mind. Uncle Chuck returns to Robotropolis to work as a spy for the Knothole gang. No Brainer Sonic's thought processes are temporarily scrambled while on a mission in Robotropolis. Taking advantage of the situation, Snively convinces Sonic that they are friends. The disruption wears off just as the Knothole gang face imminent capture. Blast to the Past (two parts) Dulcy takes Sonic and Sally to a floating island where they use the Time Stones to return to Mobotropolis on the eve of the planet's conquest by Dr. Robotnik (then known as Julian, affiliated with the War Ministry and supposedly in charge of its dismantling). They also encounter themselves as 5-year-olds and learn that it was Sonic's Uncle Chuck who had perfected the roboticizer process in the first place, though Julian/Robotnik stole the process. Sally and Sonic work to keep their child selves from being roboticized, to prevent the Great Forest from being destroyed, and to make sure that Sally's nanny, Rosie, would not get captured. Fed Up With Antoine/Ghost Busted (back to back episodes) Feeling unappreciated, Antoine allows himself to be made "king" by a group of renegades, unaware that with the office comes the "honor" of being an entree./While out camping, Sonic's ghost story panics Tails, and Antoine once more demonstrates his ineptitude. Dulcy Dulcy begins having overpowering urges to fly to Dragonsnest, a nesting site for female dragons. She, Sonic and Sally, arrive just as Robotnik has captured another female dragon; they then discover the dragon's egg inside Dragonsnest. Taking the egg back to Knothole, they rescue the female dragon who returns in time to hatch the egg. The Void Sonic discovers an opening to the Void while out in the "Great Unknown" [another name for the Forbidden Zone?]. Sally and Bunnie are put under a spell and pulled into the Void by a sorcerer named Naugus, who had been imprisoned there years before by Robotnik and who needs Sonic's speed to escape. Sonic learns what has happened from Nicole and allows himself to be pulled into the Void. Attempting to rescue Sally and Bunnie, he is tricked into rescuing what he thinks is Sally's father but is really Naugus. Sonic returns to the Void and finds not only Sally and Bunnie but the King and Ari as well. He brings them all out, but Naugus and the King have spent so much time in the Void that their bodies cannot handle living on Mobius. Naugus breaks off his tormenting of Robotnik, and Sally's father gives her the list of other resistance groups. Sally goes through the emotional rollercoaster ride of her life. The Odd Couple/Ro-Becca (back to back episodes) After a crash landing by Dulcy leaves Sonic homeless he moves in with Antoine, who predictably gets bent out of shape by Sonic's lifestyle./Rotor cobbles together a robot which develops the hots for Antoine. Cry of the Wolf The Knothole freedom fighters search for and discover the Wolf Pack, the remnants of an ancient race who are now one of the other resistance groups. After several unsuccessful attempts to destroy a test pod from the Doomsday Project, Sonic draws it into a lightning storm and destroys it. Drood Henge Sonic and Tails discover an archaeological dig by Robotnik; they learn from Nicole that the object of the search is the Deep Power Stones, and that Robotnik has recovered one of the two. Tails comes up with a plan to retrieve the second stone before Robotnik can get to it. Spyhog On the eve of final preparations of the Doomsday project, Robotnik begins to suspect that there is a spy in his midst. Uncle Chuck's cover is blown, but he escapes capture and goes back underground with a different cover. Doomsday In the season finale, a combined force of the five freedom fighter groups tries to destroy the Doomsday project. Robotnik, however, seems to have too many safeguards built in. As a last resort, Sonic and Sally use the Deep Power Stones. The Doomsday project is destroyed; Robotnik's fate is uncertain but Snively is ready to step into his shoes in a burst of megalomania and overacting. Cliffhanger: who or what does Snively have to help him? We'll never know: ABC chose not to run StH for a third season (see FAQ #9). VOICE CREDITS: SONIC: Jaleel White SALLY: Kath Soucie NICOLE: Kath Soucie (uncredited) TAILS: Bradley Pierce BUNNIE: Christine Cavanaugh ANTOINE: Rob Paulsen ROTOR: Mark Ballou (1st season) Cam Brainard (2d season) DULCY: Cree Summer Franks UNCLE CHUCK: William Windom ROBOTNIK: Jim Cummings SNIVELY: Charlie Adler ADDITIONAL VOICES: (First season): David Doyle Gaille Heindenmann Dana Hill Danny Mann Jason Marsden Charlie Schlatter Frank Welker (Second season): Shari Belafonte: Lupee (?) Michael Bell: Naugus (?) Crystal Cooke Tim Curry: Sally's father; Keeper of the Time Stones Dave Fennoy Dorian Harewood John Kassir Katie Leigh Nancy Linari Victor Love Tahj Mowry Hal Rayle Alaina Reed Hall Lindsay Ridgeway April Winchell Want to contact DiC? Write or phone: DiC 303 North Glenoaks Blvd. Burbank, CA 91502 (818) 955-5400 (818) 955-5696 (FAX) From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 18 10:06:44 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA26810 for sonic-ll; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:27:12 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA26803 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:26:59 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11276; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:26:55 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA10434; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:26:54 -0400 Message-Id: <9508181326.AA10434@edmund> Subject: Sonic FAQ File 1/5 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:26:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net ___------__ |\__-- /\ _- |/ __ _ //\ / \ /__ | o| 0|__ --_ \\____-- __ \ ___ - (@@ __/ / /_ -_____--- --_ // \ \\ - //|\__/ \\ ___- \_-\_____/ \-\ // \\--\| ____// ||_ /___//_\ /___\ ascii Sonic by Han J. Lee |====================== THE SONIC FAQ FILE =====================| August 18, 1995 edition Compiled by: Daniel J. Drazen Contributors: Chris Baird, Ron Bauerle, Brad Clark, James Firmiss, Maureen Furniss, John W. Johnston, Craig Moore, Michiyo Nakajima, Paula O'Keefe, Eric E. Pearson, Jeff Pegnato, David Pistone, Alessandro Sanasi, Erich Schulman, Fred Sloniker, Andy White, Shawn Wolski Address all comments, corrections, contributions and flames to: drazen@andrews.edu ***************************************************************** WHAT'S NEW?: [Note: There WILL be spoilers. You have been warned. DJD] This represents an expanded synosis of the second of Teitelbaum's books. _Sonic the Hedgehog: Robotnik's Revenge_ PLOT SYNOPSIS: Ch. 1: Snively interrups Robotnik while he's in the middle of roboticizing Mobians to report that Sonic has joined Sally's cadre of freedom fighters. Robotnik comes up with a plan (via Snively) to capture "one of the weaker freedom fighters" to lure Sonic into a trap. Ch. 2: Nothing much happens as characters are introduced as Sally tries to get a meeting off the ground. A deroboticized Uncle Chuck is part of the Knothole crowd. Ch. 3: Bunnie, Sally, Rotor and Antoine are on patrol when they are attacked by buzzbombers. In the process, Bunnie is captured. Ch. 4: While Bunnie is held prisoner, the Knothole gang comes up with a "Trojan Robotnik" ploy to get inside. Information about the inside of Robotnik's HQ is provided by Uncle Chuck with the aid of a power ring. Ch. 5: You think Robotnik was born yesterday? He lets the image of himself inside his HQ, and still manages to cage Sonic, Sally, Rotor, Antoine and Muttski. Ch. 6: Sonic goes into a spin and cuts the bars of the cage. Sonic takes out a number of bots, and the crew head for Bunnie's holding cell, only to find it empty. Ch. 7: With Muttski tracking the scent, the freedom fighters reach the room where the roboticized is. Sonic has to get past some SWATbots to get inside, but the roboticization of Bunnie has already begun. Ch. 8: Sonic spins into the machinery, destroying it. They get the half-roboticized Bunnie and split. They reach a wall as Bunnie comes to. Angered by what's happened to her, she kicks a hole in the wall. Epilogue: Back at Knothole, Uncle Chuck can't undo what's been done to Bunnie. But she's still got her friends and her heart, so she accepts her new designation as Bunnie Rabbot. **************************************************************** I. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS II. SOURCE DESCRIPTIONS A. SONIC THE HEDGEHOG EPISODE GUIDE B. SONIC COMICS DESCRIPTIONS C. OTHER SOURCES I. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ============================= Q1: How did Tails come to have two tails? Q2: Is "Tails" his real name? Q3: Is Tails related to Sally? He calls her "Aunt Sally" quite often. Q4: I can't figure out what kinds of animals some of the characters are supposed to be. Q5: "Sally Acorn?" Q6: How old are the characters supposed to be? Q7: What happened with the Princess Sally miniseries? Q8: Does anyone have a theory about Sonic's speed? Q9: Why didn't ABC renew Sonic for a third season? ================================================================ Q1: How did Tails come to have two tails? A: The writers of Sonic comics solicited reader responses to this question; the replies were printed in issue #2 ("All The Mail's About Tails!"). Theories range from transplantation to mutation. The latest entry is in the Sonicgram of #22. They state that Tails just happened to be born that way--with no other comment (thus illustrating the difference between an Explanation and an Answer). At this point, there is no "official" explanation as to how Tails got that way, so you're pretty much free to believe what you like. Personally, I prefer the theory that it is a mutation, induced by Robotnik's pollution of Mobius. This would accord with the fact that Tails had not been born when Robotnik took over (cf. Q6). Q2: Is "Tails" his real name? A: No, his real name is "Miles Prower" (you have to say it sorta fast to get the joke). That was his name when he was introduced on the front screen of the Sonic 2 video game. Tails was given as his nickname, and it stuck. Q3: Is Tails related to Sally? He calls her "Aunt Sally" quite often. A:This argument has been put forward by the "Sally is a fox" camp (see below). However, if that were true, then he'd also be related to Bunnie, as he's been known to address her as "Aunt Bunnie." For that matter, it seems that everyone in the Knothole gang refers to Sir Charles Hedgehog as "Uncle Chuck," though he's technically only uncle to Sonic. While it was not explicitly stated in either the comics or in the cartoons, it has to be kept in mind that all of the freedom fighters' families were disrupted by Robotnik's takeover of Mobius. It's safe to assume that they all have had relatives who have ended up being roboticized. As a result, they have become not so much a paramilitary resistance group as a loose-knit family. Sonic, for instance, clearly relates to Tails as if the latter was his little brother, the difference in species notwithstanding. Q4: I can't figure out what kinds of animals some of the characters are supposed to be. A: Admittedly, it's trickier to spot some species in the series than others. Herewith is the list: Sonic and Sir Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .hedgehogs Bunnie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rabbit Tails. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .fox Rotor. . . . . . . . . . . . . .walrus (sea lion, cf. Teitelbaum) Antoine D'Coolette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .fox Sally Acorn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ground squirrel/chipmunk Sally's father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .fox The identification of Sally as a ground squirrel is based on extended discussion of the topic on Internet {alt.fan.furry and rec.arts.animation). She was also declared to be a ground squirrel in the comics, most recently in the Sonicgram of Sonic #19. As for the designation "ground squirrel/chipmunk", which has been questioned by at least one correspondent, I entered it this way on the assumption that the two terms were synonymous. I have consulted a dictionary, which states that the term "ground squirrel" applies to several kinds of rodents, including the chipmunk genus _Tamias_. Given the present ambiguity, the designation will remain as is. Despite this, controversy continues. Identifying Sally's species has been particularly vexing to some fans, especially those who reason that since Sally's father is clearly a fox, then she must be one herself. It is possible that Sally takes after her mother in this regard more than her father. Cross-species mating is a definite possibility, and an example is implied in the "flashforward" at the end of "Sally's Crusade" [Sonic: In Your Face #1]. At this point, the identification of Sally's nanny, Rosie, remains ambiguous. Given her buck teeth, she could be either a beaver or a woodchuck. Since she is always shown wearing a long cloak, I've been unable to spot the character beaver tail. Final identification is still pending. Q5: "Sally Acorn"? A: This is how she was identified as far back as the beginning of the comics [Sonic Miniseries, #0, Mar 1993]. Technically, royalty do not have surnames or family names in the accepted sense; rather, the title of the personage tends to serve the purpose. Her middle name, Alicia, is apparently seldom used (cf. "Blast to the Past," part 1). If you wanted to be grandiose about it, Sally's formal title would be: Sally Alicia, Princess of the House of Acorn. But in any event it's unlikely that Sally's formal title will come back into use so long as Robotnik is in charge. Q6: How old are the characters supposed to be? A: According to the TV series ["Blast to the Past: part 1"] Sonic and Sally were both 5 years old when Sally's father was overthrown and Robotnik took over. Two other age clues were given in the "Drood Henge" episode: that Tails was 10 years old, and that Sally wouldn't "come of age" for another two years. At one point, Sally's age is explicitly given as being 16, though the comics reportedly put both Sally and Sonic at age 15. Subtracting 5 from 16 leaves the number of years Robotnik has been in charge: 11. Thus, it would appear that Tails was born after the fall of the House of Acorn. Still, the simplest way out of this dilemma would be to put the age of majority on Mobius at 17 instead of 18; that would eliminate the extra year differential without altering the stated ages of Sonic and Sally (in the comics) or of Tails (in "Drood Henge"). Q7: What happened with the Princess Sally miniseries? A: Archie Comics was supposed to roll out a three-part miniseries starring Sally as the main character, but its introduction was delayed--a situation acknowledged in the SonicGram of #21. The story actually began with "Deadliest of the Species" in Sonic #20. The cover art for the miniseries, however, differed in subsequent advertisements: one cover for the first issue prominently featured Geoffrey St. John, while another did not. The third issue cover either does or doesn't feature Sally doing battle with a clone of herself, depending upon where you see it. Two different versions of the cover for #2 appeared in Sonic #22. The fact that the Sally creative team PLUS Archie Comics PLUS Sega reportedly came together to discuss "improving" the series (as reported in Sonic #21 -- hence the delay) would seem to indicate that someone had come down with a case of "creative differences." In any event, the "improved" Sally miniseries began shipping the week of Feb 13, after a slight delay. Q8: Does anyone have a theory about Sonic's speed? A: How, in other words, is Sonic able to run so fast? Apparently the same way you get to Carnegie Hall in the old joke: practice. I'm serious; here is the only print explanation I've come across so far: "Years ago, when things were right on Mobius, there lived a hedgehog named Sonic.... Sonic was only interested in running as fast as he could. Every day he practiced." [Michael Teitelbaum, _Sonic the Hedgehog_. Mahwah, NJ: Troll, 1993, pp.7- 8]. And that's the extent of Teitelbaum's explanation. Thanks a heap, Mike! Chris Baird may be onto something, and it looks like he wants to force the issue by asking Archie Comics about "The rumor going around the Internet that [Sonic] got his speed from falling into a vat of power rings when he was a baby." Q9: Why didn't ABC renew Sonic for a third season? A: There are now three answers to this question -- one appears to be definitive, but the other two are more fun. Believe what you like: 1) ABC got clobbered in the SatAM ratings of the November sweeps because the show was up against the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers on Fox. Despite the fact that ABC shifted Sonic to an earlier time slot (doing so without warning just before the first airing of the "Doomsday" episode), Fox jazzed with its schedule so that MMPR was once more up against Sonic. This 1-2 punch was enough to do it. Source for this item: someone from within the offices of Archie Comics, as posted to alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog. 2) DiC allegedly screwed the pooch by releasing StH animation cels onto the market without clearing it with Sega. Upon learning of this, Sega took umbrage that its property was being sold without its consent or agreement to a cut of the action (can you say "anal retentive"?). Words were exchanged and the show was effectively cancelled. 3) ABC's kidvid programming has lately been adhering to a policy of "two seasons and out" for shows. Though it's possible that some ideas only last two seasons because they're kinda bankrupt to begin with. ================================================================= From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 18 10:09:45 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA26846 for sonic-ll; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:28:42 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA26841 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:28:36 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11314; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:28:31 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA10472; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:28:30 -0400 Message-Id: <9508181328.AA10472@edmund> Subject: Sonic FAQ File 4/5 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:28:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net #21 [Apr 1995]: "3 Phases of E.V.E" /Spaziante Robotnik unleashes E.V.E. ["exceptionally versatile evolvoid"] to capture Sonic. As Sonic manages to outsmart E.V.E., it simply adapts to another form to compensate. Sonic lures it to Robotnik's headquarters where, assuming a self-conscious form, E.V.E. determines that it is being held back by its biological inheritance from Sonic and Robotnik [i.e., individual cells used in E.V.E.'s creation]. E.V.E. toasts Robotnik, but thanks to some quick thinking by Sonic--apparently, Sally's influence is rubbing off on him ;-) -- E.V.E. spares Sonic and travels out into space on a journey of self-actualization. Is Robotnik really history? That's the tease--stay tuned. Sonicgram: announcement of the delay in rolling out the Sally miniseries; another special issue (48pp) due out in May. Princess Sally Mini-series #1 [April 1995] Summary by Ron Bauerle "Deadliest of the Species!" written by Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders, art by Art Mawhinney & Rich Koslowski. Opens with a nice splash page summarizing the struggle so far and describes the main characters (get this: "Antoine is renouned for his military skills" - okayyyy...). Next it recaps Sally's meeting Geoffrey St. John...in StH #20. Sally & Geoffrey are attacked by SWATbots after destroying the facility and manage to beat them off [hey, Ron, let's leave their private lives out of this ;-) ] and exchange some banter in the process (I can't call it friendly but it's not really sarcastic either). They then head back to the camp where some young trainee freedom fighters are waiting for Sally. Geoffrey mistakes them for enemies and jumps a pig (Hamlin) but they're separated by Sally. This establishes some bad blood between Hamlin and Geoffrey that continues all issue. The team proceeds to its next target (an energy substation) and after battling SWATbots and ORBbots manage to destroy it. During the battle Geoffrey saves Hamlin's life but Hamlin still doesn't trust him. That night, when everyone else is asleep, Geoffrey slips away, activates a teleportal, enters some kind of building and descends to its basement where he speaks to a figure in a glass case: Sally!? Also some fan art: two pics of Sally & Bunnie (both NBD), and one of Sally as a dominatrix (!). #22 [May 1995] "The Return" Penders/Spaziante & Harvey M. The story opens with Sonic & Sally MCW (Married with Children; cf. the end of "Sally's Quest" in _In Your Face #1_). Sonic & Sally are out with the kids when, during a lightning storm, an apparition of Robotnik appears and just as suddenly disappears. Have your pencils and scorecards ready to try and follow the remainder of the plot: Robotnik is actually on a satellite talking with Robo-Robotnik from "Night of a Thousand Sonics," (#19), only in this case only the consciousness of Robo-Robotnik (hereinafter "R-R") remains resident. Robotnik convinces R-R to teleport him back to Mobius, where it turns out Snively has activated an alternative Doomesday device which would go off if Robotnik was ever defeated. Robotnik actually deactivates "Operation Wasteland" himself to keep from being ruler over nothing and to have the pleasure of saying to Sonic: "You owe me!" Robotnik and Sonic MWC are declared to be at a stalemate. What about R-R? Who knows? Muddled story saved by Spaziante artwork. "Tails Knighttime Story," Decesare/Manak & John Dagostino As Tails grumps about "get[ting] baby-sat" while Sonic has all the fun and adventures, Sally tells him a bedtime story wherein Sonic is Sir Runalot and Tails is his page who "borrows" his armour one day and who, mistaken for the aforementioned knight, ends up doing battle with Sir Knightmare of Robotannia (guess who?) until the real Sir Runalot saves his...er...tails. Sonicgram: the comics should get a FAQ File, since two letters pepper them with questions (most are answered: "Keep reading." Translation: "we're working on it!"). The cover of Princess Sally #2 in an ad on the same page differs from one which appears on p. 17 of the same issue(!), thus bolstering the "creative differences" theory in Q7. Princess Sally Miniseries #2 [May 1995] "Deadliest of the Species": Part 2 Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney (Summary by Erich Schulman): The story opens with a fight between St. John and Hamlin, and Sally gives Hamlin a scolding. To reach the third, undestroyed substation, the freedom fighters use a new (!?) technology: hang gliders. Arlo's hang glider is hit by the defenses and he is wounded in action; Penelope volunteers to stay with him. Once inside, Sally and St. John are attacked by an octopod, and everyone barely manages to escape the explosions. Upon leaving, they find that Arlo and Penelope are gone. Sally says they will return to camp without them (to which Hamlin is opposed). Did you have your doubts about St. John? That night, St. John replaces Sally with a lookalike robot and delivers the real Sally to Robotnik. Fan mail (singular; only one letter appears): Will Sonic and Sally marry? "Could be." Has Sally met Knuckles? She will in a forthcoming 48-page S&K special. Does Sally have a mother, and if so what does she look like? "Of course...her origin may yet be told." Or [shameless plug] you can read about it in "Bloodlines" in the fanfic section of Rotor's homepage. #23 [Jun 1995] "Ivo Robotnik, Freedom Fighter" Decesare/Manak Sonic, Sally, Rotor, Tails, Robotnik and Snively are all captured by Car-Heem, a giant alien who wants to study them. In order to save Robotnik from "disposal," Sonic convinces Car-Heem that they are interdependent species, a novelty to the autonomous Car-Heem. Thanks to a diversion by Sonic, the others escape their confinement in a craft of Robotnik's design. Although Robotnik blows Car-Heem and Sonic out of Car-Heem's spacecraft's airlock, Rotor retrieves them. In gratitude, Car-Heem returns everyone to Mobius and Rotor, inspired, releases the inhabitants of his ant farm [Heavy Message]. There's also a really bad pun which I'm not going to reveal. Do-It-Yourself Sonic Contest winners announced. "Vol-ANT-teer" Decesare/Manak Antoine ventures into Robotropolis alone to retrieve Tails' lost backpack with a power ring in it. Bunnie shadows him just in case. Surprising last panel gives the impression that Antoine isn't exactly clueless. Sonicgram: Further indication that Knuckles will put in an appearance in the next Sonic special, though no hint as to his allegiance; look for an appearance by Knack the Weasel [c.f., the Triple Trouble game] in the same issue. Sally Miniseries #3 [June 1995] "Deadliest of the Species, Part III" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney (Summary: James Firmiss) (Recap of parts 0, 1 and 2 omitted) Sally, Hamlin and Dylan are fighting their way into Robotropolis with paint guns and grenades (blinding SWATbots). Dylan believes that attacking at half strength isn't wise, yet they press on. Hamlin nearly falls from a collapsing catwalk but Sally rescues him. They eventually reach their objective, break down the doors and find...Robotnik, St. John and Sally (in the container). Hamlin believes Geoffrey to be a traitor so he jumps him. Sally breaks it up and says she and St. John are on the same side. Robotnic reveals that Sally is an auto-automaton, a perfect robot duplicate, and that there was no weakness in the defense system. His master plan is to replace key members of the freedom fighters--we see auto-automatons of Sonic and Tails being built. Robotnik also plans to roboticize the Sally delivered to him by St. John. Robotnik begins the roboticization process but the chamber blows up because a "feedback loop" has occurred. Something which is impossible unless...he were trying to roboticize a robot! The real Sally was with Dylan and Hamlin. Sally tries to 'arrest' Robotnik, but large StealthBots emerge from the walls and capture the freedom fighters. Note: you could see the outlines of the StealthBots 5 pages back. St. John pushes a button on a remote control and a vehicle burrows its way up through the floor. Out pop Penelope, Arlo and three "moles". They help free Sally, Dylan and Hamlin (more paint guns). Robotnik manages to activate a 30-second self-destruct and disappears down an escape chute. Sally and the others all head for the vehicle maintenance area and grab saucer-shaped air cars (from Hanger 18! X-P ) and get out with no time to spare. With everyone back at the base, Hamlin, Penelope, Arlo and Dylan are promoted to full-fledged freedom fighters. Sally tries to convince Geoffrey to come to Knothole but he declines in order to rejoin the Rebel Underground. He does engage Sally in some serious lip-locking before they part. If you're not confused yet, here's a run-down of the plot- twists, as Sally explains them at the end: The FIRST Sally switch occurred right at the beginning of Part 1 shortly after meeting St. John. St. John really was the leader of the "Rebel Underground" and acted as a double agent in order to gain Robotnik's trust and activate the robot double prematurely in order to find out what its plans were. It was the auto-automaton Sally that helped attack the 2d and 3d substations. It was such a good copy that it could give orders, make hard choices, and even grieve for missing comrades. But did you notice the two clues that would have tipped you off that this was an automated Sally: 1. "Auto" Sally wore a purple vest instead of a blue one. 2. "Auto" Sally referred to Geoffrey by his first name, while the real Sally always called him "Mr. St. John." The SECOND Sally switch occurred in Part II, when Robotnik (and the reader) was supposed to think that Sally was being replaced by a robot double. And what about Arlo and Penelope? They were taken away by the moles from the literal Rebel UNDERGROUND. The Rebel Underground was also supposed to be backup in case anything unexpected happened. "This is definitely one of the most complicated stories Archie's Sonic group has ever come up with. Congrats...." JF SallyGram: Horace Hawkins (14) wishes Sally a Happy Valentine's Day, and expresses the desire to be her boyfriend. LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! Scott Fulop (Editor) asks if there is interest in a MONTHLY Sally comic. If so, send a postcard with the following: Give me Princess Sally. Monthly. NOW!!! to: SallyGrams c/o Archie Comic Publishing 325 Fayette Avenue Mamaroneck, NY 10543 #24 [Jul 1995] "When Hedgehogs Collide" (in 4 parts) Script: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders Art: Dave Manak (Parts 1 and 2); Art Mawhinney & Rich Koslowski (Parts 3 and 4) Part 1 is taken up witnessing antisocial behavior on the part of Sonic, Sally, Tails, Antoine and Rotor. Part 2 is the exposition as to what's happening: Evil Sonic from "The Good, The Bad and the Hedgehog" [Sonic #11] (hereinafter referred to as "the Antisonic," as in "the Antichrist") is looking for some action, so he rounds up the "gang" consisting of the Antisally, the Antitails, the Antirotor and the Antiantoine. They take the Cosmic Interstate to Mobius, dress like their counterparts and begin doing some damage. So where have the Good Guys been all this time? Sonic, Tails and Antoine had been sent by Rotor into "negative reality" though they were unable to penetrate "the Zone of Silence" (aka, The Void) where Sally's father is being held. Sally's been out on a mission with the trainees (cf. the Sally miniseries). Everyone arrives back in time to incur the wrath of their fellow Mobians. In disguise, they come upon the gang about to terrorize some more Mobians. The first fight turns into a draw until Sally realizes that there's no way they can defeat their other selves, who would be able to anticipate their strategies. So it's "Change partners!" as play is resumed: Sonic punches out the Antisally (this frame alone is worth the price of admission!), Sally defeats the Antiantoine, Antoine stops the Antirotor, Rotor defeats the Antitails, and Tails gets the better of the Antisonic. Since the Antisonic got what he came to Mobius for (a fight), the gang agrees to return to their homeworld peacefully. I guess the ol' doppelganger plot device worked so well in Sonic #11 they decided to dust it off and run it past us again. A valiant effort marred by two Plot Holes and a Serious Omission: PH#1: If Sally could figure out that fighting themselves would get them nowhere, wouldn't the Antisally have reached the same conclusion? Then again they might have spent the entire issue second-guessing each other.... ;-) PH#2: On the homeworld of the Antisonic the SWATbots do all the work and "kindly ol' Robotnik is a grade-A wimp!" At least, according to an exposition by the Antisonic. This then leads us to... SO: Where's Bunnie? Despite a "Sonic + Bunnie" graffiti carved into the desk of the Antisonic [along with "Sonic + Sally," "Sonic + Nicole"--THAT I'd like to see!--and "Sonic + Sonic"], Bunnie's legion of fanboys will be disappointed to learn that she doesn't put in an appearance in this comic, either as Bunnie or as the Antibunnie. If indeed Robotnik is more benevolent on the Antisonic's homeworld, does that mean that Bunnie would be intact (i.e., not partially roboticized) there? Interesting question but one that Kanterovich and Penders conveniently sidestepped for the moment. SonicGram: information on two upcoming "special" issues: the 48-page Sonic & Knuckles special will include a solo Knuckles effort and a lead story involving Knuckles' floating island; and the "Silver Anniversary" issue #25 featuring Mecha Sonic from the CD game (artwork by Spaziante). There's a list of "Do-It- Yourself Sonic Contest" winners who have moved and left no forwarding address. Two fan letters to Knuckles, plus word that Tails will have his own miniseries coming out in the fall. Sonic & Knuckles 48 page special [1995] (based on summaries by James Firmiss) "Panic in the Sky!" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney (Part 1), Manak (Part 2) The Mobians living on the western shore of "the Great Continent" [you'd think that Mobians would have come up with another adjective besides "Great": viz.: the Great Forest, the Great Swamp, the Great Unknown, etc. See also the "all-purpose" use of the word _hrair_, or "thousands" by rabbits in Richard Adams' _Watership Down_. But I digress....] are alarmed by the approach of a floating island. Sally and the gang realize that the island is on course for Knothole; Sonic explains to the group (for the first time!?) that he and Tails were on the island a while back and met Knuckles. Antoine flies Sonic and Tails in the turboprop, dodging antiaircraft fire from the underside of the island. After landing on the island, seeing giant mushrooms and avoiding some traps, Sonic falls into one trap and again meets Knuckles. Since this is the second time Sonic has been caught trespassing, Knuckles is about to send him over the edge of the island. Tails tries dropping a rock on Knuckles from above to avoid this from happening, but it ends up that Tails has to rescue both Sonic and Knuckles by airlifting them to safety. It appears that Robotnik is "hijacking" the island by somehow draining the energy from the Chaos Emerald which keeps the island afloat. Already having established a presence on the island, Robotnik has installed weapons on the underside and plans to use the island as a flying fortress to attack Knothole. Knuckles won't allow the island to be used this way; he smashes the Chaos Emerald. With the island losing altitude, Robotnik abandons it, expecting that it'll still smash into Knothole (though how he suddenly knows of Knothole's location is unclear). But Knuckles replaces the "real" Chaos Emerald just in time--I'd tell you how he switched it with a phony one which was the one he broke, but I don't understand it either. Knuckles turns down an invitation to join the Knothole gang; part of his stewardship of the island now involves disarming it since Robotnik is gone. "Fire Drill" Penders/Art: Jon D'Agostino Knuckles investigates an explosion on the island, suspecting that it's Sonic. Catching just a glimpse of an intruder, he follows him to places unfamiliar even to him(!). As the trail leads off the edge of the island, he still thinks it's Sonic; however, we catch a glimpse of a shadowy presence still on the island. Must be Nack the Weasel -- check out the SonicGram in issue #23 for a hint. "Lord of the Floating Island" Penders/Harvey Mercadoocasio While patroling the island on a windy day, he spots a lost joey (baby kangaroo) names Bengy. The kid asks Knuckles to bring back the sky; Knuckles explains that there's an eclipse in progress and that's what's causing the winds. They avoid a pack of (biped) dingoes as Knuckles goes into further exposition about the island-- how it's a paradise which some parties (Sonic and Robotnik) want to change. They eventually find Bengy's mom. Knuckles' exit line: "This is my island! And I live to protect and serve!" The entire story appears to exist to supply needed exposition and to nudge Knuckles closer to the Good Guy category. No SonicGrams, but announcements: Sonic #25 will have a silver ink cover and feature Mecha Sonic; dated August '95. Also slated for that month: a Sonic Triple Trouble 48-page special featuring Nack the Weasel; it will also include a Sonic v. Knuckles story, a Knuckles solo story, and a Tails solo story. Another 48-page special -- Knuckles Chaotix -- is schedules for November '95. Solo Knuckles stories will appear in Sonics #31-33 (Feb-Apr '96) and a Knuckles 3-parter will begin Jan '96. #25 [Aug 1995] "Go Ahead...Mecha My Day" (the only story in this issue) Story: Mike Gallagher Art: Pat Spaziante based on summary by James Firmiss In a bow to the CD game, the story focuses on the freedom fighters' discovery of the Collision Chaos Zone, a "zone portal." Robotnik tries to lure Sonic into the zome portal by kidnapping his #1 fan: Amy Rose, the pink hedgehog (remember her?). Based on her dialogue on page 14, I'd describe her in Foghorn Leghorn terms: "Nice kid, but about as sharp as a sack full of wet mice." Tails investigates from the air and is captured instead. To rescue both Amy and Tails, Sonic must race through the new zones and do battle with Robotnik's Mecha-Sonic. Spaziante's artwork of Sally in this issue is surprising, in that her shape has gotten...well, more shapely. I don't remember her having that much of a bustline in issue #21! Still no SonicGrams; another repeat announcement of the Triple Trouble and Chaotix specials, as well as the Knuckles and Tails miniseries. Also staff artwork. #26 [Sep 1995] "Way, Way Past Cool" Script: A. Decesare; Pencil: D. Manak; Ink: J. D'Agostino Sonic, Tails, Sally, Rotor and Antoine find themselves in a snowstorm...in the middle of summer. Of course it's a plot by Dr. Robotnik: after lowering the temperature on Mobius, he will use infrared heat sensors to locate the warm-blooded freedom fighters. Sonic and the gang take shelter (such as it is) in a cave, where they encounter a group of polar Mobians--they were trapped down south when Robotnik took over and have lived in hiding ever since. After initially attacking the Weather Annihilator with a snowball-loaded catapult, the Knothole gang is captured by Snively. The polar Mobians, however, come to their aid and Sonic destroys the Annihilator. The polar Mobians return north to their home, inspired to put up more of a resistance. This story has inspired renewed argument over species identification since one of the polar Mobians [Erma, presumably an ermine] looks something like Sally. However, Erma doesn't have the white winter coat associated with a true ermine, nor is her tail long and tipped with black, nor is her body long and slender. But, hey, we're talking design by Manak here! Wadja expect? Additional problems/flamebait: Where did the catapult come from? If Sally decided not to wear a vest because of the summer heat, how come she's still got her boots on? [Then again, I'm convinced that furries are Not Clear On The Concept when it comes to clothing]. And why is Sonic shown skittering across the surface of a river in the story's opening when the character guide to Sonic clearly states that Sonic is a non-swimmer and would ordinarily avoid water? Fan art "Fortified" Story: A. Decesare; Pencil: A. Mawhinney; Ink: R. Koslowski The Knothole gang (the cast of the above story PLUS Bunnie!) are in the mountains, trying to keep ahead of Robotnik--not easy, since Sonic has a sprained ankle. Bunnie discovers an old fort, complete with an old muzzle-loading cannon and a blacksmith's forge. Robotnik's "bus" crashes into the fort, only to confront Bunnie, suited up in improvised body armour. She takes out Robotnik's SWATbots and maneuvers the bus to crash through the fort wall and roll back down the mountain. FINALLY an appearance by Bunnie! [One has to wonder whether her (largely out-of-the-way) role in "Vol-Ant-eer" in Sonic #23 even counts as an appearance.] Mawhinney, though, seems to draw her a little on the "squashed" side. After Spaziante's rendering of Sally in Sonic #25, I wonder how *he'd* draw Bunnie. SonicGrams: In-house humor featuring Fulop, Mendez, Pepitone and Pauley [DJD: Leave it at the water cooler, guys!]. Hint that the upcoming StH Triple Trouble special issue will feature Tails in a Sea Fox submarine solo story, by way of warming up for the Happy Fun Fox miniseries in the fall. Question about why the SWATbots carrying out Operation Wasteland in Sonic #22 went after Robotnik and Snively [DJD: What part of "total destruction" don't you understand?]; a fan from Canada complains about Bunnie's seldom appearing in the comics [DJD: Hear! Hear!]; fan letter for Tails from Cleveland. Also cover art for #27 and the Triple Trouble special. NOTES FROM THE NET: that's the heading suggested for comix- related posts to a.f.s-h by none other than Paul Castiglia of Archie Comics. Seems P.C. thinks that NftN would make a good subsection of the Sonic Grams, and said so in a recent post. The idea is that you can post to a.f.s-h, and your post (and e-mail address if you want) will be reprinted in NftN. But ONLY if you specify that it's for NftN. Apparently Archie Comics is still getting a feel for whether they should go ahead with the plan, so let's see some support for it! Hmmm, wonder if Sally's e-mail address is princess@frdmftrs.org ? COMIC PUBLISHERS: For subscriptions and back issues--US & Canada: Archie Comics 325 Fayette Avenue Mamaroneck, NY 10543 (914) 381-5155. $15.00/year US monthly $18.00/year CAN monthly For subscriptions and back issues--United Kingdom (Fleetway Editions comics): Sonic The Comic Subscription Dept. OR Back Issue Zone Aim Ltd. P.O. 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SONIC COMICS DESCRIPTIONS [CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME] Now, direct from the Great White North, Brad Clark summarizes the original four-part Sonic miniseries: Issue 0 "Don't Cry For Me, Mobius" Story: Michael Gallagher, Art: Scott Shaw! Sonic is chased by Dr. Robotnik. After the chase, which Robotnik loses, Sonic returns to Knothole where most of the main characters are introduced for the first time. (Note: Rotor is referred to as "Boomer.") Antoine then announces that there is a leak in Knothole (Knothole is located underground in this issue) that is caused by Robotnik. Sonic defeats Robotnik with a power ring. "The Royal Family of Mobius" Gallagher/Shaw! Takes place before Robotnik was in power and has Sonic and Uncle Chuck running a chilidog take-out stand. Robotnik destroys the stand and captures Muttski and Uncle Chuck. Sonic meets Sally (with yellow hair and red fur) who introduces him to the rest of the freedom fighters in Knothole. Issue 1 "Run, Sally, Run" Gallagher/Shaw! Sally [this time with pink fur and black hair] goes to see Robotnik about the return of her father. Robotnik captures Sally and almost throws her into the "Robo-machine." Sonic rescues Sally only to discover that Sally had wanted to get caught in order to gather information on the roboticizer, using some special boots designed by Boomer/Rotor. Issue 2 "A Crowning Achievement" Gallagher/Shaw! Sally decides to wear the "Crown of the Acorn Kings" which belonged to her father, but the crown is missing. They discover a robotic freedom fighter who tells them that Robotnik has stolen the crown and has scattered its jewels (the four Chaos Emeralds) throughout the land. Sonic retrieves the emeralds and Boomer/Rotor repairs the crown. Issue 3 "Sonic Flashback" Gallagher & Shaw! Sonic and Robotnik recall when they were kids. Uncle Chuck invents the power rings. Sonic and Robotnik have an argument, and it escalates until Robotnik is constructing mechanical monsters out of Uncle Chuck's appliances. Sonic then wakes up -- it was all just a daydream -- and resumes being chased by Robotnik. "Why Ask Spy" Sonic is made to look like a robot to trick Robotnik and to destroy one of his factories. In the process, Sonic discovers Uncle Chuck and Muttski who have both been roboticized. Sonic destroys the factory. And a tip of the ol' freedom fighters' fedora to JOHN W. JOHNSTON for supplying summaries for issues 1-15 plus 17: #1 [Aug 1993] "Meet Me At The Corner of Hedgehog and Vine!" Story: M. Gallagher; art: D. Manak One of Robotnik's SWATbots develops a mechanical plant called "Krudzu" and modifies a Burrobot to plant its seeds in the Great Forest. Antoine, depressed because Sally only pays attention to Sonic, decides to get her a bouquet of flowers. He gets caught by the Krudzu, Sonic saves him, and they discover that the Krudzu is not waterproof. "You Bet My Life!" Gallagher & Manak Boomer/Rotor discovers that Robotnik is making a big presentation in the Casino Night Zone. Sonic crashes the party, only to be subdued by Robotnik's newest baddie: Orbinaut. He is put in a giant pinball machine and sent through a very rough ride. When he escapes from the pinball machine, Sonic blows up the casino and puts Robotnik into orbit. [Notes: Apparently the casino was rebuilt for "The Man From H.E.D.G.E.H.O.G." (#16); the pinball (Spinball?) plot was used to better effect later on in the "Game Guy" episode of the TV series; Rotor was still being called "Boomer" at this time. DJD] #2 [Sep 1993] "Triple Trouble" Gallagher/Manak Robotnik sends his newest badnik, Coconuts, after Sonic and Tails. When they send Coconuts' parts back COD, Robotnik sends two more badniks, Scratch and Grounder, after Sonic. [No, this has no relation to the Game Gear game. It does, however, set up the characters from the syndicated TV series. DJD] "Vertigo A Go Go!" Gallagher/Manak Sonic is out collecting rings when he warps into an extremely warped zone where he meets two friends, Al and Cal. "All The Mail's About Tails" Gallagher (rewrite)/Manak Sonic and Tails read letters from fans who express their opinions about how Tails got his two tails. One theory was: one of Tails' ancestors was owned by Charles Dickens (A Tails of Two Cities). Another theory was that Tails was a mutant (and couldn't get a job with the X-Men). Another theory says he was a loss leader at a carnival freak show. Another theory says he was one of Dr. Frankenstein's creations. Another theory says that Tails has Antoine's tail (and hair). And another theory involved something dealing with evolution. #3 [Oct 1993] "The Bomb Bugs Me" Gallagher/Manak Sonic informs Sally and Boomer/Rotor that Robotnik has "the bomb." To trick Robotnik, they project a picket line on a wall outside his office. Boomer/Rotor disguises himself as Robotnik to trick Crabmeat into giving "the bomb" to the freedom fighters, but this plan backfires when Robotnik shows up dressed in a Boomer suit. "Rabbit Deployment" Gallagher/Manak Sonic and Boomer/Rotor travel to the Southern Section of Mobius (Sonic pulling Boomer who wears inline skates). They come across two SWATbots who have thrown a captured rabbit into a portable roboticizer. They are delayed in rescuing her because they are "tied up." They finally shut down the roboticizer and take it and the half rabbit-half robot with them. When she recovers, she gives her name as Bunnie Rabbot and demonstrates her abilities. Meanwhile the forest above Knothole is being trashed by a giant burrobot. When Sonic gets zapped, Bunnie picks up the burrobot and throws it 50 meters. Sonic then traps the burrobot by burying it. [This represents the first attempt to explain the origins of Bunnie. Since then, both fanfic and professional efforts -- Teitelbaum's second book: Robotnik's Revenge -- have covered the same ground. The situation is complicated by the fact that Bunnie appears as one of the children in Blast to the Past, and so wouldn't be a stranger to the Knothole Gang. In fact, BttP, part 2 featured a tease of Bunnie about to be roboticized as a child. Note also that Knothole is still an underground base at this time. DJD] #4 [Nov 1993] "The Lizard of Odd!" Gallagher/Manak Due to a roboticizer mishap caused by Buzzbomber, Robotnik turns a small salamander into his most powerful badnik [No, it's not Newt Gingrich! DJD]: Universalamander. When Sonic tries to attack him, Universalamander eats Sonic. Sonic escapes by making "Lizard Lips" belch. To defeat him, Sonic transforms into Super Sonic, gets an important component from the confiscated roboticizer [see above, "Rabbit Deployment"], and cuts Universalamander down to size. "Tails' Little Tale" Gallagher/Manak While Sonic rests after defeating Universalamander, Tails embarks on his first solo adventure. Unaware of Tails, Robotnik is in the middle of a company picnic. [You're right, it DOES sound lame! DJD] Tails get plucked by Buzzbomber and Orbinaut, but defeats both of them. Tails gets overconfident and is captured by two SWATbots making shadow-puppets. When they try to roboticize him, Sonic saves Tails. #5 [Dec 1993] "Olympic Trials and Errors" Story: Angelo Decasare [debut]; Art: Manak Robotnik challenges the freedom fighters to compete in Olympic games. If they win even one event, Robotnik "promises" to restore Mobius; if they lose, they'll be turned into robots. Before the competition, a SWATbot switches Sonic's sneakers with energy-draining shoes. When Sonic drops on the track, the other freedom fighters (except for Tails) take his place. While Tails is looking for materials to make a Sonic sculpture, he finds Sonic's real sneakers and returns them to him. [The synopsis ends here; presumably, Sonic wins, Robotnik renegs, and it's back to usiness as usual. The linkage between Tails and sculpture was repeated in "That's The Spirit" (#20). DJD] "Chomp on This, Chump!" Decesare/Manak While Sonic and Tails help Sally deal with a batch of extra- thick pancake batter, Boomer/Rotor decides to buy a mail-order ant farm. What Boomer/Rotor doesn't know is that the farm he receives came from Robotnik. Instead of ants, Boomer/Rotor receives a Termite-nator, a termite which eats wood and paper and which grows as it eats. Remembering Sally's pancake batter recipe, Sonic whips up a batch and fills a hollow log with it. Boomer/Rotor returns the ant farm to sender. [What is it with Rotor and ant farms? He also had one in "Ivo Robotnik, Freedom Fighter" (#23). DJD] #6 [Jan 1994] "The Spin Doctor" Gallagher/Manak When the freedom fighters attack Robotnik's factory, they find that Robotnik has relocated to deep within Mount Mobius, an active volcano. Sonic enters the Veg-O-Matic Fortress where he is attacked by Rexxon and Scorpius. After defeating them, he runs into two allies, Hip and Hop, who warn him about the Ferrons. After Sonic trashes the Ferrons, he comes across a cell full of animals awaiting roboticization. Just as Sonic believes he is on Robotnik's trail, he is shot out of the volcano, only to be rescued by Tails. "Sonic's Christmas Carol" Decesare/Manak [The cast enacts You-Know-What by You-Know-Who -- if you DON'T, better take a refresher course in English Lit. Significant in that they finally get the issue of Rotor's name straightened out. DJD] #7 [Feb 1994] "Uncle Chuck's Treasure" Decesare/Manak When Rotor accidentally sends Tails through the roof (literally), they find an old treasure map belonging to Uncle Chuck. They believe the "treasure" may be an invention that will help them defeat Robotnik. According to the map, the treasure was buried in Mobius National Park; unfortunately, the park had since been destroyed by being turned into a toxic waste dump. When the freedom fighters find the spot, Robotnik attacks. Sonic fights back using the toxic wastes, but Robotnik snatches the treasure from them as soon as they dig it up. Robotnik discovers that the "treasure" is really Sonic's bronzed baby booties (try saying THAT 3 times fast ;-) ). "Sorceress in Distress" Decesare/Manak Sally dresses as a sorceress for the annual Fright Night party, but needs a staff to complete the outfit. She finds one in the Forest and (due to a string of coincidences) believes it to be real. Robotnik sees the "sorceress" and, unaware that it's Sally, drags her back to Robotropolis; object: matrimony! Sonic follows them. Robotnik wants to see a demonstration of the sorceress's "magic" and Sally obliges, with a little help from Sonic. #8 [Mar 1994] "Bot's All, Folks!" Gallagher/Manak When Crabmeat is caught reading Sonic the Hedgehog comics, Robotnik is inspired to build super-powered robots to attack Sonic. Sonic meets, and defeats, "Botman," "Wolvurkel" (a factory second sent by mistake), "Spawnmower," "Magbot--Freedom Fighter Fighter," "Captain Marbot" and "Mighty 'Bot." [Furries might have a hard time slogging through this story! "Wolvurkel" is apparently an amusing *homage* to Jaleel White, the voice of Sonic in both the SatAM and daily syndie series. DJD] "A Little Music Goes A Long Way" Gallagher/Manak Sonic finds an old guitar, and the rest of the freedom fighters decide to form a band. Robotnik hears the music and decides to put a stop to it with a shrink ray. While the Freedom Fighters rummage through the Mobius Music Hall, Robotnik and Snively shrink them. Robotnik uses a Pest Buster vacuum to suck up the shrunken Sonic, but before they can put him inside a mobile roboticizer the shrink ray wears off and the freedom fighters return to normal size. Before Robotnik's reinforcements can arrive, the freedom fighters use music to chase him out of the hall. #9 [Apr 1994] "Pseudo-Sonic!" Gallagher/Manak After a thorough analysis of Sonic's profile, Robotnik builds his ultimate eil robot, "Pseudo-Sonic." Meanwhile, Sonic is out picking flowers for Sally. Unfortunately, he comes in contact with some poison sumac and blows up like a balloon. The Pseudo-Sonic discovers Knothole and is about to reveal its location. Tails, dragging his tails on the ground, builds up a static electricity charge and shorts out Pseudo-Sonic. Sonic tries to get back to Knothole but is apprehended by Robotnik. Bunnie slam-dunks Robotnik and helps cure Sonic's rash. "What's the Point?" Decesare/Manak While looking for a birthday present for Sally, Sonic comes upon a Mobian needl bird with a broken wing. Sonic wants to give it as a present, but Sally reminds him of other animals the freedom fighters have brought back. Meanwhile the needle bird, dubbed Thorny, has eaten Sally's birthday cake. Sally goes off to replace the cake while Sonic goes to return Thorny to the Great Forest. Sally is caught by a mechanical tree; Sonic almost suffers the same fate, but is rescued by Thorny. Sonic then rescues Sally while Thorny goes after Robotnik (who, needless to say, was behind the mechanical trees). #10 [May 1994] "Revenge of the Nerbs!" Decesare/Manak While attempting to steal power from Robotropolis, the freedom fighters are caught in a force field. Before the "Robotropolis Good Neighbor Society" can apprehend them, the freedom fighters escape thropugh a hole in the ground dug for them by a Nerb, part of an underground-dewlling race. The king of the Nerbs maintains that contact with surface-dwellers is bad news, but their air vents and water supply are being threatened by construction activity aboveground. On their way to the surface, they move from a Nerb tunnel to a Mobian sewer pipe. They come up to find Robotnik doing some excavating to build an underground installation; they also find three Nerb prisoners. Sonic frees the Nerbs and directs Tails to escort them back underground; Sonic then opens a line to the Mobius River, flooding Robotnik's construction site. The freedom fighters are proclaimed Honorary Nerbs. "'Twan With The Wind" Story: Angelo Decesare/Art: Art Mawhinney [debut] The freedom fighters use Antoine's hot air balloon to scout out a suitable location for their picnic. Two Buzzbombers attack the balloon. Robotnik learns of the picnic and decides to crash it. While everyone else is having fun at the picnic, Antoine mopes about his balloon. But when Robotnik attacks, it's up to Antoine to patch up the balloon and come to the rescue. #11 [Jun 1994] "The Good, The Bad, And The Hedgehog" Story: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders [debut]/Art: Manak The freedom fighters witness Robotnik dumping toxic waste into a river. Sonic tries taking a "short cut" via the Cosmic Interstate to get there, but winds up on an alternate Mobius where Robotnik is a benevolent person and Sonic is a leather-clad punk. After a round-the-world chase, Sonic captures the Antisonic (c.f., "When Hedgehogs Collide," #24) and the AntiRobotnik devises a way to undo the toxic spill cause by Robotnik. "Beat The Clock" Kanterovich & Penders/Manak Wanting to get to the top slot of Robotnik's Top Ten Badnik List, Coconuts traps the freedom fighters. "Food For Thought, or, You Are What You Eat" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney After scarfing a ton of chili dogs as a midnight snack, Sonic dreams that everyone has turned into junk food: Sonic is a chili dog, Sally is an ice cream cone, Tails is an order of fries (regular), and they all confront Chef Ivo Robo-Burger. The fries get caught by Robo-Burger so chili dog goes to rescue him. But he slips on a banana peel and right before Tails gets deep-fried, Sonic wakes up. #12 [Jul 1994] "A Timely Arrival" Gallagher/Mawhinney Robotnik builds a time machine to get rid of Sonic by transporting him to the past. Sonic enters the trap and lands in prehistoric Mobius. There he meets Sonugh the Boghog, and the caveman Ivo Robughnik. Sonic also meets other prehistoric freedom fighters, but they're all afraid of the surface because it offers no cover [Sounds like they're still dealing with an underground Mobius. DJD]. Sonic finishes transplanting some hedges near the entrance when he is pulled back to his own time by the freedom fighters, who have confiscated the time machine. "Bold-Headed Eagle" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney While avoiding Robotnik in the Mobius Mountains, Sonic comes across an old eagle, Cyril. He tells Sonic how his flock was roboticized and how he has lived in hiding. Sonic convinces him to risk flying, and he discovers that his flock still exists. Cyril returns the favor by rescuing Sonic when Robotnik attacks. "The Lynx Is A Jinx" Decesare/Mawhinney While on a rescue mission, Sonic comes across a lynx named Larry, a.k.a. Super Jinx. He proves this when the branch of a tree that he's sitting on gives way and injures some freedom fighters on the way down. The freedom fighters head back to Knothole to nurse their wounds and Sonic tries to find a hiding place for Larry. When Sonic and Larry learn that the freedom fighters have been captured, Larry is sent out to be captured by the SWATbots who, in turn, suffer various misfortunes. #13 [Aug 1994] "This Island Hedgehog" Kanterovich & Penders/Manak Sonic and Tails discover a floating island, but their plane is shot down by a rocket as they approach. After landing and enduring some hazards, they meet Knuckles the Echidna. Thinking that they have come to steal the island's Chaos Emerald, he gives them a ten-minute head start before giving chase. Meanwhile, Robotnik, who planted the suggestion in Knuckles' mind, is stealing the Emerald himself. Knuckles discovers the theft and Sonic recovers the Emerald. "Space In Your Face" Decesare/Mawhinney Robotnik plans to launch a space-based weapon, RoboStorm. This device will not only turn living beings into robots, it will also jam all regular television broadcasts and replace them with infomercials. The freedom fighters learn of this and enter the ship. Robotnik appears, however, before they can do any damage to the systems, so they blast off with Robotnik in pursuit. They crash-land on the moon Muckery. Using the local materials (i.e., mush), they get the better of Robotnik. #14 [Sep 1994] "Tails' Taste of Power" Decesare/Mawhinney Tails eats a piece of fruit he finds growing in Rotor's greenhouse. This fruit, from the Mobian Tree of Wisdom, makes Tails into a super-genius. Sally and Bunnie are attacked by a giant Shredbot. Tails avoids the bot's blades in such a way that the bot self-destructs. He goes off to face Robotnik, just as the effects of the fruit begin to wear off. Sonic bluffs Robotnik with a medal which Tails gave himself earlier. "Do It Yourself Sonic" Kanterovich & Penders/Manak Readers are invited to fill in the word balloons and color the panels on a page to create their own comic (apparently involving Robotnik interrupting Sonic and Tails on a fishing trip). Winners announced in issue #23. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney Robotnik plans to capture Sally and Bunnie in a booby- trapped shopping mall. After they're caught, the girls accuse Robotnik of being a MCP; they then smash SWATbots and gift-wrap Robotnik. #15 [Oct 1994] "Rockin' The Bot!" Decesare/Manak While out running with lightning, Sonic spies a frog in trouble. For rescuing it, the frog gives Sonic three magic stones: a green one for super strength, a yellow one for leaping great distances, and a red one for elasticity. Since Sonic doesn't believe the frog, he gives the stones to Tails. Robotnik, in a Beetlebot, attack the freedom fighters while they're out testing an all-terrain vehicle. Robotnik throws a boulder at Sonic while he's holding the red stone; Sonic is flattened but resumes his shape. Sonic tries attacking the Beetlebot but (having forgotten which stone does what) he is holding the yellow stone -- he beats the Mobius high-jump record but accomplishes little else. Using the green stone, Sonic crafts a giant flyswatter. "What's The Big Idea?" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney While Rotor works on a top secret project, the rest of the gang recall previous experiments that have gone awry. "Animal Magnetism" Decesare/Mawhinney Robotnik plans to use a giant Magnabot to capture Bunnie and use her as bait to get the other freedom fighters. During an outdoor barbeque, Bunnie (and everything else metal) is suddenly pulled away. Sonic hitches a ride to the Magnabot by grabbing a metal garbage can lid. Sonic then tricks Robotnik into increasing the power and Snively into pointing the Magnabot toward Robotropolis. Rotor coats Bunnie's robotic parts with an anti-magnetism compound to keep it from happening again. #16 [Nov 1994] [Summary by Erich Schulman] "Sonic Under Glass" It appears that Sonic and Sally are tying the knot, having defeated Robotnik once and for all. In reality, Robotnik has lured the freedom fighters to a place called Sleepy Hollow. Once there, they were gassed, put into a sleep, and trapped inside a virtual reality glass dome. As all their fantasies have come true, nobody wants to escape. Uncle Chuck arrives and reveals to Sonic that he is embracing, not Sally, but a broom. Sonic hates to disappoint his friends, who are all so happy, but decides to get back at Robotnik. Sonic gets Robotnik's war machines to reverse course and attack the big guy, so Robotnik reluctantly kills the VR software. Sonic and Sally are reunited, and Sonic concludes that virtual reality is a nice place to visit, but.... "The Man From H.E.D.G.E.H.O.G." Robotnik comes to the conclusion that there is a spy in his midst, since so many of his missions have failed. Thinking that he has found his spy in a mole, he uses the Wheel of Misfortune to randomize his plans to destroy Mobius. On Robotnik's first spin, he lands on "undersea bank heist." Robotnik's lackey's find only an empty vault and the freedom fighters waiting for them. The same thing happens after two more spins. Robotnik finally thinks he has Sonic captured when Sonic and Sally visit Robotnik's casino [Boy, I hope this makes more sense in the comic! DJD], but Sonic narrowly escapes. Belatedly, Robotnik realizes that the Wheel itself was rigged. Sonic-Grams: Aside from now-obsolete announcements, it is stated that Sonic is 15; that Sally is a squirrel (not necessarily a ground squirrel); that Antoine was a donor so that Tails would be able to fly [Yeah, right!] (c.f. "The Mail's About Tails" (#2); that Sonic was just a little slow rescuing Bunnie from the roboticizer ("Rabbit Deployment," #3). On a more useful note, Archie Comics confesses that due to inadequate modelling information, their Sally was a different color from the SatAM version, a situation which has since been rectified. #17 [Dec 1994] "Gorilla Warfare, or, The Apes of Wrath" Kanterovich & Penders/Manak Robotnik travels to Skoal Island and finds one of his original bots: King Gong, a ten-foot tall, 800 lb. gorilla. He sends the big ape to Mobotropolis to attack Sonic. King Gong breaks up a freedom fighters' picnic, but loses interest in Sonic when he sees Sally. With Sally in his grasp, he climbs to the top of a minimall to watch the sunset. The Sonic Spin has no effect on King Gong, so it's on to Plan B: while Tails flies up to rescue Sally, Sonic and Antoine hose him down with banana oil. King Gong slips and falls on top of Robotnik. "First Star I See Tonight: Sally's Crusade, part 1" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney While reminiscing about life as a little girl before Robotnik's takeover, Sally sees something fall from the sky. It turns out to be a shiny metal orb. To be continued. #18 [Jan 1995]: "Wedding Bell Blues" Kanterovich & Penders/Manak Robotnik gets word of Sonic and Sally's impending wedding and plans an attack. "In the Still of the Night" (Sally's Crusade, part 2) Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney While trying to determine the nature of the mysterious orb (cf. "First Star....", #17), Sally is called to the bedside of her old mentor, Julayla, just before she dies. They never use the D- word, but it's an affecting story nevertheless. Sonicgram: includes statement that Sonic is 15, and a German fan disses Dave Manak's artwork Sonic: In Your Face #1 [1995] "Sally's Crusade: The Quest" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney The orb is revealed to be a casing surrounding Nicole. Sally, with the others in tow, searches for what turns out to be Julayla's last testament. The significance of this document is spelled out in a "flashforward" at the end of the story. "Mirror Zone" Story and art: Pat Spaziante [debut] An excuse to practice backwards lettering. Sonicgram: Sally's age is given as "about 15." [Note, if you're going to guess a lady's age, guess on the low side ;-) ] "Tails' Tallest Tale" Story and art: Scott Shaw! Tails substitutes for Sonic, putting in an appearance at a con. His exaggerations almost get him into trouble. The return of Shaw!. #19 [Feb 1995]: "Night of a Thousand Sonics" In order to defeat Robotnik's latest scheme, Sonic has to call in as many versions of himself from as many parallel universes as he can. Artwork by Manak for the first half, Mawhinney for the second. Sonicgram: The name of Sally's father is given as "King Acorn" (but see FAQ #5). Scott Fulop hedges on when Knuckles will make an appearance and whose side he'll be on. Again, Sally is identified as a "ground squirrel." Hint is dropped as to a Sonic motion picture in the works. #20 [Mar 1995]: "That's the Spirit" Exposure to an antimatter explosion renders Sonic invisible; Sally and the others [Tails being the exception] believe he is dead. The comedic pacing and Manak's artwork mar what otherwise might have been a very poignant story. Great line (Sonic to Robotnik--who thinks he's dealing with a ghost): "Give Mobius back to the freedom fighters, lose weight and get a hairpiece!" "Deadliest of the Species" [Prologue to the Princess Sally miniseries] While on a sabotage mission, Sally is confronted by someone claiming to be part of a rebel underground. Sonicgram: Once again lists Sally's age as 15. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sat Aug 19 22:07:05 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15452 for sonic-ll; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:44:43 -0400 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15447 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:44:37 -0400 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt6005a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA01485 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:44:35 -0400 From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) Received: (gt6005a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01666 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:44:33 -0400 Message-Id: <199508200144.VAA01666@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: On My Mother's Grave, Part 6 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:44:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1967 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On My Mother's Grave A Sonic the Hedgehog story Written by Kris Kelley. Story by Kris Kelley and Craig Moore. This story is protected by copyright laws. Feel free to distribute this story, but the authors do not allow any unauthorized alteration of the story or distribution for profit. Part 6 Sonic knocked weakly on Sally's door. "Sonic! What happened? You okay?" "Tails is fine. We got him back, and Bookshire's looking him over right now." Sally breathed a huge sigh of relief. "Oh, that's good to hear. Are Tolouse and Todd okay?" Sonic looked down. "Tolouse is okay. He's over at Bookshire's, too." A cold chill went down Sally's back. "W-what about Todd?" Sonic looked up at her again, silent for a long time. Finally he spoke, his voice even quieter than before. "Tails is fine," he said again. "Todd... Todd saved his life." He fell silent again. A tear came to Sally's eye. "Oh, no..." Sonic only nodded. * * * Tolouse climbed slowly up the tree, ready to start his turn of sentry duty. It was late at night, and the sky was both cloudless and moonless, the stars proudly displaying themselves without any competition. When he reached the platform, he found Antoine snoring away. Tolouse decided to let him sleep while he looked out at the sky. Tolouse tried to think, but he couldn't form his thoughts any more coherently than he had his words that day, which was to say with any comprehension. His mind recycled the same scenes over and over from the past couple of days: the... "event" itself, coming home, explaining to Sally, Bookshire and the others what had happened, the little memorial service they had had for Todd, his feeble attempt at saying something at the service... Finally, his mind pushed out one clear thought, and he sighed, looking at the stars. Goodbye, Todd. * * * ..."MOMMY!!"... And the pain was finally gone. The End. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sat Aug 19 22:20:49 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15355 for sonic-ll; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:41:12 -0400 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15350 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:41:08 -0400 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt6005a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA01284 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:41:00 -0400 From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) Received: (gt6005a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01093 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:40:59 -0400 Message-Id: <199508200140.VAA01093@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: On My Mother's Grave, Part 0 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:40:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1983 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On My Mother's Grave A Sonic the Hedgehog story Written by Kris Kelley. Story by Kris Kelley and Craig Moore. This story is protected by copyright laws. Feel free to distribute this story, but the authors do not allow any unauthorized alteration of the story or distribution for profit. IT'S FINALLY FINISHED!! :) Hello, and welcome to my third and final Sonic story, completing a trilogy (more or less) that started with "Tolouse's Story" and continued with "Run with the Fox". Sorry it took so long. This has been a very unmotivating summer. :) A very special thanks to Craig "Todd" Moore, without whom this story would not have existed in quite the same way. Other "thank you"s and "hiya"s go to all the FurTooniacs: Sonic, Sally, Tails, Bookshire, Rotor, MetalFox, Monolith, Mason, Nemo, Nikko, and many many more. Comments and suggestions can be sent to: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu And now, the legal stuff: All characters depicted herein are the creation and property of Service and Games (SEGA) and/or Archie Publications and/or DiC except for the following: Tolouse: created and owned by Kris Kelley. Bookshire and Packbell: created and owned by David Pistone. Todd: created and owned by Craig Moore. Historian's Note: This story takes place shortly after "Run with the Fox". -- *******Robin Hood (Kris Kelley) gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu***************** * fnord-42-froinlaven-cowabunga-the truth is out there-get out-spin dash * * are you pondering what I'm pondering?-welcome to the next level-yars!! * * finish him!-i hope i've shown you how to treat a lady-i'm a character! * ************************************************************************** * "Don't care what people say / Just follow your own way." - Enigma * * "I'm not sure that the world would be ready for 2 of me!" - P. O'Toole * * "Life: Am I taking this too personally?" - me * ************************************************************************** From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sat Aug 19 22:28:53 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15365 for sonic-ll; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:41:46 -0400 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15359 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:41:43 -0400 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt6005a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA01329 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:41:41 -0400 From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) Received: (gt6005a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01176 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:41:39 -0400 Message-Id: <199508200141.VAA01176@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: On My Mother's Grave, Part 1 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:41:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 4204 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On My Mother's Grave A Sonic the Hedgehog story Written by Kris Kelley. Story by Kris Kelley and Craig Moore. This story is protected by copyright laws. Feel free to distribute this story, but the authors do not allow any unauthorized alteration of the story or distribution for profit. Part 1 ..."MOMMY!!!"... And, all these years later, the pain still remained. The pain, and the bitter, driving desire for revenge. * * * "Did you get it?" "Of course we got it! Let's juice!" Sonic, Sally, and Bunnie raced over to a nearby alleyway, hiding themselves in the shadows. "Okay," Sally said, "I hope this works!" She looked at the timer displayed on Nicole. "10, 9, 8, 7..." Tolouse looked at his chronometer. Hoping that all was going as planned, he began counting down at the time they said the charges would be armed. "...5, 4, 3, 2, 1!" He looked up. The explosion rocked the city, engulfing the coolant treatment plant in an angry display of fire and thunder, reducing it to a pile of twisted metal and jagged concrete in mere seconds. "YES!" Tolouse shouted, his voice drowned out by the din of the blast. "YES!" he shouted again, clapping his paws and howling with victory. "ALL RIGHT!" Sally shouted and grabbed Sonic in a victory hug, a lovely sight silhouetted by the fire consuming what was left of the plant. Bunnie giggled. "Ah don't mean to interrupt y'all, Sugarhog, but we need to be gettin' out of here!" Sonic chuckled. Sally regained her composure (after giving Sonic a quick kiss) and spoke into the com-link. "Tolouse?" Tolouse pulled out his com-link. "Yes, Sally?" They could hear the excitement in each other's voices. "We did it. Meet us over by the building rubble on the northern side of the plant." "I'm on my way." He gave a quick look around, and left his hiding place, cautiously making his way down the streets toward the rubble, eyes continually going back to the demolishment of the plant. It was while he was looking at the destruction when he ran into something, or rather somebody, and both he and this other figure fell to the ground. Tolouse immediately looked for a hiding place, but then he noticed what he had run into. It was a fox! "W-who are you?" this other fox said. Tolouse was about to ask the same thing. The two foxes studied each other for quite some time when the com-link broke their concentration. "Tolouse, are you okay? Where are you?" Tolouse, still keeping his eyes on the other fox, took out the com-link. "I'm okay, Sally. I'm coming." He holstered the com-link and said, "We can't stay here. Come on." He motioned for the other fox to follow him. As the two made their way to where the others were, Tolouse said, "My name is Tolouse. What's yours?" The other fox was silent for a moment before finally saying, "Todd." "And what are you doing here in Robotropolis?" Todd shrugged and then said, "Well, what are you doing here?" Tolouse was thinking about what to say when he heard a new sound. Looking back, they saw a fleet of hovercraft heading towards the remains of the coolant treatment plant. "We better get out of here!" Tolouse ran the rest of the way, with Todd following. They soon reached the rubble, where the others were hiding. "Here he comes!" Sonic said. "And...he's got somebody with him!" Sally and Bunnie looked as well. Tolouse was running towards them, with another fox running along behind him. "I wonder who that is," Sally said. Tolouse was soon there, and he spoke. "Hey. We need to get out of here. There are a bunch of hovercraft coming. Oh, this is Todd." Todd gave a small wave, but kept quiet. Sally studied this new arrival, but not for long. "Hello Todd." Addressing everybody, she said, "Okay, let's get back to Knothole." And they began making there way back to the city limits, where they could safely hide in the junkyards as Sonic transported them home. As they left the city, Todd said only one more thing. "Knothole?" There was a look of hope in his eyes. To be continued. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sat Aug 19 22:34:08 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15393 for sonic-ll; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:43:30 -0400 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15388 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:43:26 -0400 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt6005a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA01448 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:43:24 -0400 From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) Received: (gt6005a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01565 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:43:23 -0400 Message-Id: <199508200143.VAA01565@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: On My Mother's Grave, Part 4 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:43:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 4746 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On My Mother's Grave A Sonic the Hedgehog story Written by Kris Kelley. Story by Kris Kelley and Craig Moore. This story is protected by copyright laws. Feel free to distribute this story, but the authors do not allow any unauthorized alteration of the story or distribution for profit. Part 4 "No, no, Antoine! Like this!" Todd demonstrated the kick yet again as Tolouse and Tails looked on. Then, again, Antoine tried to mimic it, with disastrous results. Tails giggled and Tolouse shook his head and chuckled as Antoine picked himself up from having fallen over. Again. "Zat was better, yes?" Antoine asked. "Uh... Maybe we should try something else," Todd suggested. "No no really, I am wanting to learn zis. Here, I try again." Tolouse helped Antoine back up from another attempt. "Yeah, let's do something else..." It had been two weeks since Todd had first arrived in Knothole, and in that time, he had made himself at home. Perhaps it was because they were all foxes, or perhaps it was because their histories were similar, each having lost family to the forces of Robotropolis, but in that time, Todd, Tails, and Tolouse had become good friends. Now, they were out on a camping trip, deep within the forest and quite a distance from Knothole. Antoine had come with them as well. "Why not?" Tolouse had said. "The poor fox is lonely. Besides, we could use the entertainment." The others had laughed in agreement. Todd was showing off his skills again. He whirled around, and a nearby tree branch was splintered by a kick. "Cool!" Tails said in awe, and the others were equally impressed. None of them noticed a small device hovering behind them in the darkness. "Sir, rebel freedom fighters have been sighted," the Swat-Bot stated. Packbell looked at the screen and chuckled. "Excellent! That is the one we are looking for." All but ignoring Todd's show, he focused the spy-bot's camera on Tails and smiled. Tonight, he would set his plan into action. And to kidnap him out from underneath the noses of three of his friends, he thought in anticipation. How will they be able to live with themselves, knowing that poor, poor Tails was taken from right in front of them, and then killed for all of them to see? It's an easy question. They won't. Not as long as I have anything to do with it. "Swat-bots, start with the preparations for our guest. Then let me know when our campers have fallen asleep." "Yes, Commander," was the automatic reply. * * * An android hand slipped quickly over his muzzle, and before Tails was even fully awake, he felt himself being carried off into the night. He tried to scream, but no sound could emerge from his closed mouth. He soon felt something that was all too familiar: the clamp of a Swat-Bot's metallic hand. "Keep him quiet until we have left the area." Tails squirmed helplessly in the Swat-Bot's grip as Packbell's hovercraft left the area, the engines as quiet as Packbell could make them. Back at the campsite, the remaining three foxes slept on. * * * "Tolouse, Antoine, wake up! He's gone!" Todd was near panic. Tolouse struggled to clear the haze of sleep from his head. "Who?" "Tails! He's gone! I can't find him!" Sleep was winning the battle. "He probably just went into the woods." "No, he hasn't. He's gone! Look at this!" Todd handed Tolouse a pad that he had found where Tails had been sleeping. Tolouse slowly managed to focus his eyes...and they flew open wide when he did. Attention Freedom Fighters: If you want to see your friend alive again, you will come to the old Museum of Arts building by the end of the day. Sincerely: Commander Packbell Tolouse quickly got up. "Okay, let's get back to Knothole and tell the others." Todd shook his head. "No way. I'm going after him!" "Do what?" "I know where that building is, I remember seeing it when I was in the city. I'm going now!" "Todd, wait! Sonic will be able to get us there much faster, and he and Sally need to know about this!" "Fine, you tell them, but I know if I start now, I can make it there in plenty of time." He took off into the woods, at a sprint that Tolouse knew he wouldn't have been able to keep up with. "Todd!" he shouted, but the fox kept running, and was soon out of sight in the dense forest. Tolouse sighed, but he knew what he had to do. If they were lucky, they could make it back to Knothole before the sun was too high. "Antoine, wake up!" To be continued From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sat Aug 19 22:36:59 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id WAA15829 for sonic-ll; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:31:26 -0400 Received: from ns.ge.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id WAA15824 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:31:23 -0400 Received: from engr.erie.ge.com ([3.14.4.3]) by ns.ge.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id WAA05062 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:31:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:30:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Ron Bauerle To: sonic@sard.mv.net CC: BAUERLE@engr.erie.ge.com Message-Id: <950819223052.1b18@engr.erie.ge.com> Subject: Re: On My Mother's Grave, Part 0 (spoiler alert) Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net >From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) >*******Robin Hood (Kris Kelley) gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu***************** Spoiler alert, assuming form feeds do much good for most people: Unfortunately, Part 6 (the last one) came through first, and I couldn't help reading it, thus know that it has a sad ending, thus am not that motivated to read the rest of it when it does come through. Maybe if I get in a better mood... One question though: I didn't get the last two lines - does that mean the whole trilogy was a dream? If not, somebody please explain it to me - I'm too beat to think of it signifying anything else except a cry of catharsis, and I find it hard to believe that _that_ would be enough to take away the pain... RDB From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sat Aug 19 22:42:38 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15384 for sonic-ll; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:43:01 -0400 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15379 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:42:57 -0400 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt6005a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA01402 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:42:54 -0400 From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) Received: (gt6005a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01477 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:42:52 -0400 Message-Id: <199508200142.VAA01477@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: On My Mother's Grave, Part 3 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:42:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 5152 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On My Mother's Grave A Sonic the Hedgehog story Written by Kris Kelley. Story by Kris Kelley and Craig Moore. This story is protected by copyright laws. Feel free to distribute this story, but the authors do not allow any unauthorized alteration of the story or distribution for profit. Part 3 At the time that Sonic and the others were returning to Knothole, sounds of destruction could be heard within the Robotropolis Command Center. "SNIVELY!" Robotnik's voice boomed across the room. "TELL ME!" He grabbed his nephew by the collar and picked him up to look at him face to face. "YOU TELL ME! HOW COULD THEY HAVE DONE IT?! HOW??!!" Because of you! Snively wanted to shout at him. You should have foreseen this and increased security at the plant the very day that freedom fighter was captured! Don't whine to me about something that is completely your fault, *sir*! But out loud, Snively only said, "I am looking into it, sir." Robotnik held him there for a moment longer before finally releasing him...by tossing him into a nearby wall. He turned to say something more, but then turned back around and sat in his command chair, tapping his fingers, leaving Snively to glare at his back. From the entranceway, Packbell stood, watching all this. Packbell always enjoyed tormenting Snively, and he would have been enjoying the abuse Robotnik was dealing Snively now, were it not for the circumstances. Packbell had come to the same conclusion that Snively had: The loss of the coolant treatment plant was the result of Robotnik's short-sightedness. The fool had made yet another mistake, he thought. Only this time, we're all paying for it. He turned and walked away, making his way to his private quarters. It is time for a new plan of action. * * * Late that night, Packbell sat at his workstation. File after file appeared on the screen as Packbell called them up, as if at random. He wasn't really reading them, though. His mind was elsewhere. How to stop the Freedom Fighters? Too many times they have gotten away, he thought, and though Robotnik's poor strategy has a lot to do with it, there's something about them that seems to give them the upper hand. What? Packbell thought hard, working on theories. It couldn't just be the desire to overthrow Robotnik. Packbell had easily dealt with such ambitious people in the past. He didn't think it was just their talents, either. Sure, things like Sonic's speed, Sally's cunning, and Bunnie's strength were all important factors, but again, it wasn't anything that Packbell felt he couldn't handle. Then what was it? Packbell's eyes focused on the screen, and he found himself looking at a file detailing one of Robotnik's excursions from a few months ago. Robotnik had succeeded in kidnapping Sally and Tails, but instead of dealing with them in a timely manner, he had simply held them in the hopes of trapping Sonic as well. Sonic had appeared, but only to succeed in rescuing them, not to be captured. Yet another example of Robotnik's superb planning, Packbell thought sarcastically. The same could be said about what had happened recently. Robotnik's desire to "play" with the Freedom Fighter they had captured had only resulted in his being rescued by Sonic. If only Robotnik wouldn't insist on putting off what needed to be done *when* it needed to be done... Suddenly, it hit him. That's it! That's what kept the Freedom Fighters going strong. Comradery. They were always there for each other. Whenever one of them was in danger, the others always tried to help in any way possible, and usually (again thanks to Robotnik, he thought darkly) there was such a way. Now, how would they react if they couldn't pull off such a rescue? Not just anybody of course, as Robotnik's forces had captured and roboticized Knothole citizens before, but one of the main group. Yes, he thought, what would happen to their precious egos if they watched one of their own die, slowly, painfully, knowing there was absolutely nothing they could do to help? An evil smile came to his face. An excellent idea, he told himself. Now, who should it be? Sonic? No; although the lack of Sonic's speed would certainly hurt them, they would probably use his death as a reason to band together and fight that much harder. Sally? No, for the same reason. His mind went over each name, dismissing them for one reason or another until finally he thought of: Tails. Yes, Tails, the young fox who was always looking up to the Freedom Fighters. To see their young friend vanquished before their very eyes... Packbell began to chuckle. It was almost too perfect. With Tails' death weighing on their minds, he was certain their morale would be destroyed. And soon after, so would they. Packbell typed in a set of commands, and the information that the computer had on Tails appeared on the screen, including a picture. "You are my key," Packbell said to image on the screen, "to disposing of the Freedom Fighters once and for all!" To be continued. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sat Aug 19 22:45:25 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15375 for sonic-ll; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:42:27 -0400 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15370 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:42:22 -0400 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt6005a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA01352 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:42:20 -0400 From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) Received: (gt6005a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01309 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:42:19 -0400 Message-Id: <199508200142.VAA01309@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: On My Mother's Grave, Part 2 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:42:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 12165 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On My Mother's Grave A Sonic the Hedgehog story Written by Kris Kelley. Story by Kris Kelley and Craig Moore. This story is protected by copyright laws. Feel free to distribute this story, but the authors do not allow any unauthorized alteration of the story or distribution for profit. Part 2 The group was soon back home in Knothole, and they all went to Sally's hut to congratulate each other, and to become acquainted with Knothole's newcomer. Todd's spirits had lifted when he entered Knothole, and he was looking excitedly around, taking it all in. He still wasn't saying much, though, and Sally decided to prompt him. "So, tell us about yourself, Todd," she said. Todd looked at her and shrugged, saying, "I've just always wanted to find this place and meet you all. I've heard a lot about you." Sally smiled. "Well thank you, Todd, but that doesn't tell us much about you. Where are you from? How did you know about us?" "Yeah," Sonic chimed in, "and what were you doing all alone back in Robo-ville? That's not a way to easy living, you know!" Todd sighed and looked away from them. "It's a long story." "Hey! We got time," Sonic said, and the others nodded in agreement. Todd turned around, his face looking weary, having lost some of the enthusiasm. "Okay." He looked for a place to sit, and did so. "Should I start at the beginning?" "That's usually the best place." Todd nodded. "I used to live in a small village close to the edge of the Great Forest, north of what I guess used to be Mobotropolis. It was just me and my mother, because my father had disappeared when I was real young. I don't really remember too much about it, I just know that I was happy and my Mom loved me. And then...that day...it was my sixth birthday, no less..." Todd's mind went back to that fateful day nearly a decade ago: the day of the coup. After taking over the city, Robotnik's forces, with Packbell in command, quickly spread all over the northern continent, enslaving the populations of every city and village they could find. It was Packbell himself who had seen to the areas surrounding Mobotropolis, including the Great Forest, and Todd's village... Cammy held her young son close to her. She, her son, and the rest of the villagers (those who had survived the raid) were in a hovercraft, being taken to somewhere in the newly rechristened Robotropolis. There was no sound, save the whine of the hovercraft's motors and the occasional sob from somewhere within. The raid had been very quick, and in under ten minutes all the villagers had either been forced into the hovercraft, or were dead. Now, they were being taken away, and none of them had any idea where. Cammy cradled her son, trying to shield him from the fear that was tearing her apart. Todd, having no idea what was going on, buried himself in his mother's chest fur, not wanting to look out. What was supposed to be a day of celebration for him had turned upside down, and now, all he felt was fear. He cried, and Cammy held him tighter. Eventually, the hovercraft stopped, and the villagers were hoarded out of it and soon found themselves in a wide open room, housing nothing but a raised podium. There they were made to wait, as if dared to imagine what their unknown fates were. And then, Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his android commander entered the room. Robotnik stepped up to the podium and Packbell stood by his side, laser rifle in hand. "Citizens of Mobius," Robotnik began, "I am sure you are all quite confused and curious about what is going on here." He chuckled. "It is all very simple really. I, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, formerly known to you all as Julian, Minister of War, have decided that his majesty King Acorn is unworthy to rule, and therefore I have...persuaded him to step down and allow me to take his place. Now, what does this mean to you all?" He paused, looking around at the frightened faces, grinning with evil pleasure. "I am pleased to tell you that your lives will become much easier to live. No longer will you be burdened with the uncertainty of deciding what to do with yourselves. Gone will be the regrets of having taken the wrong steps in life. Thanks to modern technology, something that King Acorn never had an appropriate appreciaton for, you will be sent through a process called 'roboticization', where you will become living robots, existing only to serve my purposes." Robotnik could still see fear in the faces in the room, but he also noticed disbelief and anger in a few as well. That will change, he thought. "Perhaps some of you have not heard about the work of Sir Charles Hedgehog and do not believe that such a thing is possible. In that case, let us go ahead and demonstrate this remarkable technology to you all. Packbell." The android nodded in reply, and motioned to the Swat-Bots at the edge of the room. Soon, the crowd was escorted out of the room and deeper into the building, finally coming to a room not quite as big as the one before, dominated by machinery surrounding a huge glass cylinder. Robotnik rubbed his hands together in gleeful anticipation. "Now, citizens, who wants to be the first volunteer?" His eyes slowly scanned the room, finally resting on a trembling female squirrel near the far edge of the crowd. "You. Swat-Bots, bring her here." The young squirrel shrieked in terror, but Robotnik seemed deaf to it as the Swat-Bots literally dragged her from the crowd up to the glass cylinder. Robotnik pressed a button, and the cylinder slowly raised, allowing the Swat-Bots to place her on the pad the cylinder had surrounded. Before she could react, the cylinder slid down again, imprisoning her inside, her screams no longer heard outside the encasement. Robotnik pressed another button, and a steady whine gradually increased in volume. The roboticizer was charging. "Now," he said slowly, deeply, "watch carefully." The crowd was taken completely by surprise as the squirrel was suddenly engulfed in a searing yellow light, and they gasped in horror as she transformed right before their eyes. Fur and skin became metal. Eyes glowed red. Her arms, which had been pounding against the cylinder in panic, ceased their movement and hung loosely at her sides. Finally, it was over, and the cylinder slid up again, revealing a robot where a living squirrel had once been. Somebody screamed. Somebody else fainted. Cammy clutched Todd even tighter, a tear wetting her cheek fur. Robotnik only smiled. "The process is a quick one, as you see, and it is not specific to gender, age, or species. Remarkable, is it not? Now, who will be next?" Once again he made a point of looking around slowly, until finally he chose a male fox, not much older than a kit, being held in his mother's arms. "You." "NO!!" Cammy screamed, holding Todd away from the Swat-Bots' reach. "I won't let you! He's just a child!" Robotnik slowly walked over to her and glared, emphasizing every syllable as he stated, "There is nothing to gain from resistance, for you will be roboticized as well. Now. Give - him - to - me!" Cammy shouted her denial again and then, in her panic and anger, the vulpine instincts of her ancestors took over, and she clamped her muzzle down on Robotnik's arm. Todd fell out of her arms and quickly ran behind her, only to be roughly picked up and held by the Swat-Bots. Robotnik howled in pain and surprise, but Packbell was swift, rushing over and forcefully removing her from his arm. Robotnik doubled over, his other arm clutching the wound in an attempt to stop the bleeding. But then, he looked back up, and slowly began walking over to where Packbell was holding her. He stopped in front of her, doing nothing but glaring at her for one long minute. Then, he seized her out of Packbell's grasp, one hand getting a firm grip on her neck. He turned and looked at Todd. "Say goodbye, young fox." Anger burned in his eyes as he tightened his grip until... *SNAP* "MOMMY!!" Todd cried out. He struggled against the Swat-Bots and somehow found himself freed from their clutches. Todd wanted to run to his mother, but in one quick second he looked at her, he looked up at Robotnik, and something inside him took over. He found himself bolting for the doorway, running as fast as he could. Almost instantly Packbell had the laser rifle aimed, but before he could fire, Robotnik pushed it down. "Let him go," he said. "He will learn his lesson soon enough. He'll never make it out of the city alive." He dropped Cammy's lifeless body to the floor, and glared at the remainder of the crowd. "Packbell, see to it that the rest of these prisoners are processed smoothly, using any means necessary. Swat-Bots," he pointed to Cammy, "see to that." He turned and walked out of the room, holding his wounded arm. Robotnik had been wrong. Todd, by nothing short of a miracle, had managed to find his way out of Robotropolis. It was a small victory, however. He was now completely on his own, and he had not the slightest idea where he could go or even what he needed to do to stay alive... Todd paused. It was difficult to continue. "I don't remember what happened right after that too well. I was in the Great Unknown somewhere, half-dead when I was found by a group of travellers also escaping Robotnik. I was with them for several years after that, as we wandered all over, trying to stay away from the patrols. One of them, a wolf named Sebastian, was a master of many martial arts, and the others had looked to him as their leader. He liked me and trained me to fight. We lived as best we could, hiding where we could, and constantly moving so Robotnik wouldn't be able to trap us. And then one day, a few months ago, we met up with another group of travellers. They had a storyteller with them, and that night we all sat around a fire listening to him. One of his stories was about a village somewhere in the Great Forest, where a hedgehog who could move faster than sound led a group of animals in fights against Robotnik." Todd smiled. "You guys." "Whoa!" Sonic said. "Ya hear that, Sal? They're already writing stories about us!" Sally merely rolled her eyes, chuckling. Todd continued. "Soon after that I decided to leave, and I found my way back to the Great Forest. I wanted to find you guys, to meet those who were actually putting up a fight against Robotnik, and maybe..." His voice trailed off, but that look of hope was again in his eyes. Sally was pretty sure what he was about to say, but there was still one unanswered question. "So, Todd, what were you doing in Robotropolis?" Todd looked down. "I had wandered all over the Great Forest looking for this place, but I never found it. And then, this morning, I found myself near the edge of the forest, looking at the city. I thought about what Robotnik did to my mother..." He hesitated. "I just wanted to find something, anything I could do to hurt him." Sally shook her head. "You wouldn't be able to do anything, alone like that. You're very lucky you weren't captured and roboticized." Todd shrugged. Sonic tried to cheer him up. "Well, you're here now, bud! Come on, we're gonna have us a party tonight!" He turned to the others and threw his fist in the air. "We did it!" That night, the Freedom Fighters and most of the villagers sat around a campfire. Sonic was telling the story of their mission with his usual bravado, receiving gasps of astonishment from many, as well as the occasional snicker from those who had been with him. Todd was there as well, and he had been introduced to many of Knothole's residents, and his spirits were high. He had finally found Knothole. Did he finally have a place to call home? More importantly, he thought: Will I finally be able to pay Robotnik back? To be continued. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sat Aug 19 22:46:17 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15443 for sonic-ll; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:44:13 -0400 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15396 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:44:08 -0400 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt6005a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA01465 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:44:04 -0400 From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) Received: (gt6005a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01631 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:44:03 -0400 Message-Id: <199508200144.VAA01631@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: On My Mother's Grave, Part 5 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:44:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 13518 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On My Mother's Grave A Sonic the Hedgehog story Written by Kris Kelley. Story by Kris Kelley and Craig Moore. This story is protected by copyright laws. Feel free to distribute this story, but the authors do not allow any unauthorized alteration of the story or distribution for profit. Part 5 Tolouse didn't even bother knocking. Sally nearly dropped Nicole in surprise as he burst into her hut. "Tolouse, what in the---?" "Tails is gone! Packbell took him! Look at this!" He handed the pad to Sally. She read it. "Oh no. Where's Todd and Antoine?" "Antoine's back at his hut. Todd... He went after them." "He did?" "There was nothing I could do! He said he knew where the building was and then he took off before I could stop him." Sally rubbed her forehead. "This is *not* good. Okay, go get Sonic. We must act quickly." Sonic was soon there, and the three worked out a plan. Sonic gave his usual suggestion. "I say we go bust him out now!" "Sonic, you don't have any power rings, remember? You used them in your little show yesterday, and the next one's not for another three hours!" "I can run fast enough without 'em, and we need every second we got! No telling what Packbell will do if he sees Todd alone!" Sally had to admit Sonic was right. "Okay then, we should get going." Sonic shook his head. "You're staying here, Sal." "I beg your pardon?" "Look, this isn't some carefully planned mission. It's gonna be dangerous and I don't want you getting hurt. Let me handle 'im like only I know how." Sally thought and again admitted to herself that Sonic had a point. They shouldn't risk both of their lives on this one. "Okay, but you're not going alone. I suggest that you take Bunnie with you." "Bunnie's sick, remember? She got a cold." Sally rubbed her forehead again. This was looking worse with each passing minute. "Alright. Tolouse, will you go?" Tolouse had little desire to face Packbell again, but he would not hesitate to help Tails or Todd. "Of course." "Good. Okay, get going!" "C'mon, Tolly! Let's juice!" Sally watched from her doorway as the blue streak melted into the woods. I don't know why, she thought, but I have a bad feeling about this. * * * Todd tore through the woods, his years spent on the run allowing him to keep up a brisk pace. As he ran, his mind was also in high gear. There were many memories: his home, his mother, the years spent with Sebastian and the others, and finally, his time at Knothole. It seemed that at the end of each happy memory, there was a traumatic one waiting to be relived, and in every one, Robotnik or Packbell played a central part. There had been many times like this, when the memories played themselves out, and each time, Todd's hatred of Robotnik and Packbell had grown, and not a day had gone by that he didn't dream of making them pay for what they had done -- by any means, at any cost. Had Sally and the others known just how immense this hatred had become, they would certainly have worried about him. It is sometimes impossible to tell just how far one will go when all other goals, all other thoughts have been tuned out, save one. This time was different, though, for he had not one goal, but two. Tails was his friend. He considered the young two-tailed fox to be one of the closest friends he'd ever had. Packbell's going to pay for ever even thinking of kidnapping him! he thought. Todd would stop at nothing (NOTHING!) to make sure that no harm came to Tails, and that Packbell would suffer for what he'd done. Packbell, I swear to you, on my mother's grave, you WILL NOT GET AWAY THIS TIME! He pushed himself harder, running as fast as he could. Finally, he found himself outside what used to be the Mobotropolis Museum of Arts. He was the first to arrive. Tails shivered in silent fear, wavering in and out of consciousness, as Packbell busied himself at a portable terminal, making sure that his other duties were taken care of and that he would not be missed while his plan was being carried out. They were in the main display hall, where the works of Mobius's legendary artists had once resided. The museum had been neglected during the time of the Great War, and one of King Acorn's hopes had been to have the museum restored back to its full glory when the war ended. Robotnik, of course, had had other ideas when he staged his coup, and now the building was just one among many others, decaying and forgotten in the outskirts of the city, far away from the main activity of Robotnik's factories. Which, of course, made it an excellent place for Packbell to carry out his plan without any worry of Robotnik interfering. Packbell checked the status of his projects, as well as the of the rebuilding of the coolant treatment plant. Good, everything is on schedule, he thought. By this time next week the plant will be operational again, and I can finally turn my attention to--- "Packbell!" A voice broke the silence. Packbell turned around and saw a lone fox standing in the distance entryway. He casually stood up and picked up his laser rifle as he said, "And who are you?" "You should remember me, Packbell, after what you and Robotnik did to me. And my mother!" Packbell, of course, had every face that he had ever enountered memorized, but even for an android it is easier to recall some faces more than others, and he didn't feel the need to waste time scanning his memory for this particular one. "Spare me the bad monologues and tell me why you are here, and I might let you live that much longer." "I have come for my friend Tails and to make sure that you are never able to pull anything like this again." Only one fox, and not one of the main Freedom Fighters at that? This was not the rescue party Packbell had figured on. Perhaps the others were on their way, and for whatever reason this one decided to strive ahead. Personal vendetta, maybe. Packbell chuckled to himself. There's one in every crowd, and they all got what they deserved eventually. Now, however, was not the time. Holding the rifle with both hands, he said, "I'm afraid that you are a little more than helpless to retrieve your friend here. As you can see, he is quite restrained and any motion towards him or me will be quite painful, I can assure you. Now, run along and make sure your friends are here by sundown, or there will be no hope of rescuing him." This quick dismissal was certainly not what Todd had expected, and his anger began to boil, consuming him. "NO!! I will NOT be ignored so easily, do you hear me?!" Packbell, now irritated, turned back around. "Did you not understand me? Get out of my sight!" "You will face me, NOW! You owe me that much for all the misery you have caused me!" Something about this one, Packbell thought. He's different. So, he scanned his mind, and eventually came across the memory of a young kit during the time of the initial coup. He gave Todd a chilling grin. "Ah, now I remember you, and I must admit I am impressed that you are still alive. You know, I have to tell you it was a lovely sight seeing Dr. Robotnik deal with your mother the way he did. Seldom does he get that involved in dealing with prisoners, and it is always a pleasure watching him when he does." Todd trembled. "Shut up! I swear you will pay for that!" Packbell sneered. "I told you to spare me the speeches. I can easily guess what you're here for." Packbell then thought for a moment. "But can you imagine what I am here for? Have you stopped to think about why I kidnapped your young friend here when I could just as easily have taken any or all of you last night?" Todd refused to listen. "All I know is you are not going to get away with it!" Packbell chuckled. "Oh, I think I will. Let me tell you my plan..." Meanwhile, two more figures had slipped quietly into the display hall, from an entranceway on the opposite side of the room. "There they are," Tolouse whispered. "And look, there's Tails!" He pointed to where the unconscious fox sat tied to his chair. Sonic looked. "Packbell's got his back to us, and it sounds like he's bending Todd's ear. C'mon!" "Where're we going?" "We're gonna get Tails out of there super fast. Then we'll get Todd and blow this hole." The two crept stealthily over to Tails and began working on his restraints. Much too close for comfort, Packbell continued detailing his plan to Todd. "...You see, far more times than I would care to remember, your precious Freedom Fighters have succeeded in their plans, resulting in their continued existence as well as the destruction of much of Robotnik's property. I began looking for ways end their luck, and I believe I have found one. What do you think would happen to the Freedom Fighters if they witnessed both the kidnapping and..." he paused, chuckling, "...the killing of one of their closest and youngest friends, right in front of them, while they were utterly helpless to do anything about it?" Todd shuddered. "You would really... just to see how they would react? They would do everything they could to destroy you!" Packbell chuckled. "I think not. Why, to have their free-spirited friend here *crushed* before their very eyes? How would they sleep at night? How would they be able to look at themselves in the mirror?" He took a step towards Todd. "And, how would they fight?" "You-- I won't let you do this!" Packbell chuckled and said with a hideous whisper, "Watch me!" Tolouse was sweating bullets. "Sonic, are you done yet?" "One more to go, bud. Here, help me with this...yeah, that's it. Now pull." Tolouse pulled, and the final restraint gave way, but not silently. CLICK!! Oh, gods... Packbell turned, his eyes instantly focusing on the source of the sound, and then on Sonic. "You!" Sonic was quickly on his feet. "Yeah, me. Who'd you expect, the cleaning lady?" Packbell was in even less of a mood for Sonic's attitude than normal. He raised the laser rifle. "I guess I will just have to execute my plan that much quicker. Say goodbye, hedgehog!" Sonic prepared to dodge, but he noticed the rifle was not being aimed at him. "Huh? Now wait a Sonic sec---" Tolouse's heart pounded as it looked like the rifle was pointed at him. "Oh my---" Packbell focused his aim, ready to pull the trigger. All thoughts and actions were broken by a scream. Todd howled as he raced across the display hall. What happened next took place in much less time than any of those present remembered it. Tolouse darted sideways, bumping into Sonic. Sonic grabbed him and quickly pulled him down behind him, then reached up for Tails. Packbell hesitated slightly... ever so slightly... before pulling the trigger. Todd jumped in front of Tails, still howling. Packbell pulled the trigger. A blinding flash. Thoughts of panic, wondering if these were the last moments. The howling stopped. When he realized that he was still alive, Tolouse looked up. "TODD!!" Sonic didn't waste anytime at all. With adrenaline adding to his strength, he scooped up Tolouse in one arm and Tails in the other, and raced out of the display hall before Packbell had another chance to fire. * * * It was several minutes later before any of the participants were thinking clearly. By that time, Sonic was passing the city limits with his two occupants. Tails was easy to carry, as he was still unconscious. Tolouse was another matter. "We can't just leave him back there, Sonic! We can't!" "There is nothing we can do," Sonic replied, all hints of his famous attitude gone for the moment. "I'm sorry." They moved on, toward their destination of Knothole. It was several minutes later before any of the participants, carbon-based or otherwise, were thinking clearly. By that time, Todd was breathing his last breaths, and Packbell stood over him, exploding with anger. Packbell was going over the events in his mind, and with each replay, his anger and frustration deepened. He couldn't deny the truth to himself. He had hesitated. Todd's scream had distracted him, and although he recovered in a slim fraction of a second, it had been enough. It had been enough for Todd to block his shot. It had been enough to allow Tails and the others to escape. Now here he was, watching the foil of his plan die at his feet, and still not getting any satisfaction from it! He roughly picked up Todd and was ready to shout at him, to threaten him. But what could he say? 'I'll kill you for what you did'? He was already dying! All he could think to say was, "Don't think I'll stop here. Take to your grave the knowledge that I will win! Do you hear me! I *will* win!" But Todd didn't respond to that. Instead, he mustered all of his remaining strength to raise his head, look Packbell eye-to-eye, and whisper one last sentence, which he did with a smile. "I beat you." Then his head fell, and Packbell knew there was nothing more he could do or say to scare or hurt Todd. To be continued. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sat Aug 19 23:06:56 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id WAA15977 for sonic-ll; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:40:40 -0400 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id WAA15972 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:40:37 -0400 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt6005a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA03322 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:40:35 -0400 From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) Received: (gt6005a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA09084 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:40:34 -0400 Message-Id: <199508200240.WAA09084@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: On My Mother's Grave, Part 0 (spoiler alert) To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:40:33 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <950819223052.1b18@engr.erie.ge.com> from "Ron Bauerle" at Aug 19, 95 10:30:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 890 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I *hate* that Part 6 came first, I noticed that, too. And you shouldn't've read it!! :) Those last two lines will make sence when you read the first two lines... as well as the whole story. :) later---Kris -- *******Robin Hood (Kris Kelley) gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu***************** * fnord-42-froinlaven-cowabunga-the truth is out there-get out-spin dash * * are you pondering what I'm pondering?-welcome to the next level-yars!! * * finish him!-i hope i've shown you how to treat a lady-i'm a character! * ************************************************************************** * "Don't care what people say / Just follow your own way." - Enigma * * "I'm not sure that the world would be ready for 2 of me!" - P. O'Toole * * "Life: Am I taking this too personally?" - me * ************************************************************************** From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sun Aug 20 00:36:57 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA17019 for sonic-ll; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 00:09:41 -0400 Received: from ns.ge.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id AAA17012 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 00:09:37 -0400 Received: from engr.erie.ge.com ([3.14.4.3]) by ns.ge.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id AAA06773 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 00:09:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 0:09:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Ron Bauerle To: sonic@sard.mv.net CC: BAUERLE@engr.erie.ge.com Message-Id: <950820000901.1b24@engr.erie.ge.com> Subject: Re: On My Mother's Grave, Part 0 (spoiler alert) Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net >From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) >I *hate* that Part 6 came first, I noticed that, too. Pity the list software can't forward the stuff in the order it's received (I assume you uploaded them in the proper order :^)) >And you shouldn't've read it!! :) I wanted to get a feel for the story, and didn't know it was the last part. Helpful hint: show the parts as Part X of Y or X/Y. >Those last two lines will make sence when you read the first two lines... >as well as the whole story. :) Indeed; here's another spoiler alert: I'll interpret it as a cry of reunion; nice touch! Reminded me of the ones Christians will have with each other and with Jesus some day in heaven - sort of like the little girl in that Disney World commercial: "I've been waiting to meet you my whole life!" Nicely written story, but still depressing; I guess I've been watching too much network TV where death hardly ever shows up. Ron From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sun Aug 20 07:37:02 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id HAA21938 for sonic-ll; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 07:17:54 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id HAA21933 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 07:17:51 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id HAA10216; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 07:11:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 07:11:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: On My Mother's Grave, Part 0 (spoiler alert) In-Reply-To: <950820000901.1b24@engr.erie.ge.com> Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Sun, 20 Aug 1995, Ron Bauerle wrote: > >From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) > > >I *hate* that Part 6 came first, I noticed that, too. > > Pity the list software can't forward the stuff in the order it's received > (I assume you uploaded them in the proper order :^)) majordomo does begin distributing posts in the order that they arrive at the list server. Sending each part in the correct numerical order does not guarantee each part will arrive in the correct numerical order. You can increase your chances by waiting 3 minutes between sending each part. A delay of several hours between sending parts is almost a guarantee, albeit inconvenient. BTW, the same rule applies for uploading large files to alt.binaries.* newsgroups. Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) [Team OS/2] A net.freedom-fighter for Mobius! "Freedom Fighters are #1!" -- Sonic the Hedgehog A! JW2 WAR++ PI0>+ BR+i SL++++i SK+++ RI0>++/++^ RU+ GDF0>+ BU++ MI- MM- KK-- Do $++ E59 Ee5 TRita Ay68 M Mail: acme@use.usit.net | WWW: http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~eschulma From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sun Aug 20 17:37:19 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA25185 for sonic-ll; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 17:18:08 -0400 Received: from inetgate.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA25180 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 17:18:02 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail.prodigy.com [199.4.137.13]) by inetgate.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA113518 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 16:53:35 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 17:03:03 EDT From: AHVT94B@prodigy.com (MR THADDEUS R BOYD) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.00122265.AHVT94B@prodigy.com> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Weekends Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Well, school's starting, which means I'm only going to be here on weekends for the rest of the school-year...good news is, I've skipped 7th grade. >< Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of Magic. - Arthur C. Clarke From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sun Aug 20 18:37:13 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA25464 for sonic-ll; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:18:59 -0400 Received: from granite.mv.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA25459 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:18:57 -0400 Received: by granite.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA23288; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:18:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:18:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hurley To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: new images at rat.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I found some ppats on info-mac and converted them into JPEGs so anyone can use them. They were origionally ppats which means they were Mac wallpaper. So they are great for Mac or Windows wallpaper! Some I already had, but 8 of them were little screen grabs from the Sat. AM show, which I didn't have, and I just added them. As you can see, they are quite small, but as always, "way past cool". :-) host: rat.org directory: /pub/sonic/images/icons/ file bytes ---------- ----- sonic1.jpg 3651 sonic2.jpg 2723 sonic3.jpg 4789 sonic4.jpg 3887 sonic5.jpg 3754 sonic6.jpg 6144 sonic7.jpg 5202 sonic8.jpg 5680 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work: paul@mv.mv.com | Play: rat@rat.org WWW : http://rat.org/rat | FTP : ftp://rat.org/pub ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 21 08:37:39 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id IAA00928 for sonic-ll; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:18:02 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id IAA00923 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:17:59 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA26654; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:17:54 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA03759; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:17:53 -0400 Message-Id: <9508211217.AA03759@edmund> Subject: Sonic Express To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:17:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net While scanning the dial this weekend, bumped into a commercial on the USA Network which stated that Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (the syndie show) is moving to USA. Presumably it will become part of their Cartoon Express package. Don't know whether that means it will disappear from your local UHF outlet or not. The move will probably happen some time in September; consult your local listings. ================================================================ || ___------__ || || |\__-- /\ _- || Daniel J. Drazen || | / __ _ || drazen@andrews.edu || //\ / \ /__ || || | o| 0|__ --_ || Custodian of one of the Sonic || \\____-- __ \ ___ - || the Hedgehog FAQ Files || (@@ __/ / /_ || || -_____--- --_ || ASCII Sonic by Han J. Lee ================================================================ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 21 09:07:18 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id IAA01408 for sonic-ll; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:56:02 -0400 Received: from ns.ge.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id IAA01399 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:55:58 -0400 Received: from engr.erie.ge.com ([3.14.4.3]) by ns.ge.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id IAA22131 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:55:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 8:55:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Ron Bauerle To: sonic@sard.mv.net CC: BAUERLE@engr.erie.ge.com Message-Id: <950821085525.1cef@engr.erie.ge.com> Subject: Skipping grades (off-topic), was Re: weekends Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Note: the following is off-topic, but I wanted to let everybody else have the opportunity to get involved in any further discussions... >From: AHVT94B@prodigy.com (MR THADDEUS R BOYD) >Well, school's starting, which means I'm only going to be here on weekends >for the rest of the school-year...good news is, I've skipped 7th grade. Hmm, maybe I should forward you the logs I made from rec.org.mensa when I posted about this several months back - from what I remember of the follow-ups and e-mail replies, this wasn't universally a negative experience, but in general it was. I posted about it to see if anybody else's experience was like mine: I skipped 5th grade, and have suffered socially for it ever since. While it's possible that this still would have been the case had I not skipped the grade and thus been that much smarter than my colleagues, the fact that after skipping the grade I was still smarter than most of them, _plus_ being a year behind them physically, pretty much destroyed any dating and other social opportunities I might have had... I don't mean for this to be a self-fulfilling prophecy for you though, so my advice is to take advantage of as many social opportunities as you can to get to know your new classmates and establish some good friendships if possible. If you're into sports, go out for them, but hopefully the year's difference won't be too much to overcome (I'm not athletic, which was another strike against me). I'm curious as to whether or not any of this came up as an issue during the supposed discussions you had with your counselor, parents, etc. Anyway, if anybody wants to discuss this further, I suggest we take it to e-mail and not clutter up the list any more... Ron Bauerle From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 21 12:37:15 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id MAA04183 for sonic-ll; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:18:14 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id MAA04178 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:18:10 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id MAA16902; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:11:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:11:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: Sonic Express In-Reply-To: <9508211217.AA03759@edmund> Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Dan Drazen wrote: > disappear from your local UHF outlet or not. The move will probably > happen some time in September; consult your local listings. Unfortunately, my local listings only say "Cartoon Express" and indicate the duration (5 hours, or whatever). They used to break it down by the individual shows, but they've not done that in a long time. It's not very often I can take out enough time to watch the whole block to derive the schedule, so please post Sonic's time slot if you find out. Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) [Team OS/2] A net.freedom-fighter for Mobius! "Freedom Fighters are #1!" -- Sonic the Hedgehog A! JW2 WAR++ PI0>+ BR+i SL++++i SK+++ RI0>++/++^ RU+ GDF0>+ BU++ MI- MM- KK-- Do $++ E59 Ee5 TRita Ay68 M Mail: acme@use.usit.net | WWW: http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~eschulma From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 21 20:40:33 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA10753 for sonic-ll; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:21:21 -0400 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA10748 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:21:18 -0400 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt6005a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA20681 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:21:11 -0400 From: gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu (Robin Hood) Received: (gt6005a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA01883 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:21:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199508220021.UAA01883@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: Alessandro, where are you? To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:21:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 841 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Sorry for the public post, but I don't know the e-mail address. Alessandro, where and how are you? We miss Tyro, what happened? Let us know! :) later---Kris -- *******Robin Hood (Kris Kelley) gt6005a@prism.gatech.edu***************** * fnord-42-froinlaven-cowabunga-the truth is out there-get out-spin dash * * are you pondering what I'm pondering?-welcome to the next level-yars!! * * finish him!-i hope i've shown you how to treat a lady-i'm a character! * ************************************************************************** * "Don't care what people say / Just follow your own way." - Enigma * * "I'm not sure that the world would be ready for 2 of me!" - P. O'Toole * * "Life: Am I taking this too personally?" - me * ************************************************************************** From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 22 21:07:30 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA26829 for sonic-ll; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 21:06:06 -0400 Received: from maily2.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA26824 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 21:06:03 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail [199.4.137.13]) by maily2.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA76114 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 20:06:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 20:16:12 EDT From: ZCSN36B@prodigy.com (MISS LINDSAY L CIBOS) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.00222934.ZCSN36B@prodigy.com> To: Sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Amy Rose Story Ideas Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I've posted the Story From amy Rose with love in a couple of places on the web, and on the internet. I now need ideas for what should happen now. If you've read my story, please tell me what you want to happen this is what i have so far: Darn I lost it! Oh well I know Ratman or someone has it on a disk I sent him. I'll post it later if I find it. Bye, Bunnie Rabbot (Prez of Sonic Club) (Lindsay Cibos) From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 22 22:19:54 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA27274 for sonic-ll; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 21:47:16 -0400 Received: from inetgate.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA27269 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 21:47:12 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail.prodigy.com [199.4.137.13]) by inetgate.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA71172 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 20:12:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 20:21:58 EDT From: ZCSN36B@prodigy.com (MISS LINDSAY L CIBOS) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.00223297.ZCSN36B@prodigy.com> To: Sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Amy Rose Story Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Well I found it. Heres what I have so far: Prologue (continued from "From Amy Rose, with Love) "I'm sorry I slapped you Sonic." Sally started, "I'm going out with Antoine now. He's a prince. Anyway I think we should see other animals." "I guess so." Sonic said. A tear formed in his eye. "Comeon my princez." Antoine said, he smiled. Sally smiled. She took Antoines hand. "Antoine....yes."Sally said, her words full of meaning. Sonic glared at Antoine. Antoine smiled and slid the ring on Sally's hand. They held hands as they walked off into the sunlight. To Be Or Not To Be Chapter One THE NEXT DAY..... Antoine slid out of bed slowly. Antoine opened his eyes,and saw Sonic. Sonic had an angry look on his face. Antoine fell out of bed. "ECKKK!" Antoine screamed. "Yo, Shut-up Ant. You want to wake everybody?!" Sonic said. A red hand-print wear Princess Sally slapped Sonic was still visable. Sonic wore green boxers. He looked like he was angry, but the way he told Antoine to shut-up, it was clear that he was not mad at Antoine, he was mad at Sally. "Whatz to youz want?" Antoine said, wide awake now. "It's Tails! He's gone! I woulda' gone to someone else, but they went on a mission. The only ones left are supposed to be Bunnie, Amy- Rose, and Tails. "Thank-you so much for you're ze encoragement" Antoine said. He then quickly got dressed and they went outside. "I thought you mightze want to knowz that me and my mon-sherie,Sally iz ouw you zay, engaded. Pleasez excuse my french." "Is that a joke Antoine?" Sonic asked. "No joke,me an ze Sally iz en-" Antoine started, but Sonic interupted. "Not that 'twain! The part about "Excusing your french" "I am ze french, am I not?" Antoine said, now becoming confused. "Never mind Ant." They walked towards Tails hut. When they got there, Sonic pointed out that there was no sign of struggle, and no sign that Tails had ran away. The only possible thing Tails could have done was followed the others on the mission. A top secret mission that is. "Sonic, I zay we not worries about Tails. He's probally fine, no?" "No." "Sonic,trust me." And thats what i have, I plan on having Sally Break up with Antoine, and tails is captured by robotnik. Any Sugestions? thanks, Bunnie Rabbot (Lindsay Cibos) From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 25 01:38:03 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id BAA02769 for sonic-ll; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 01:16:59 -0400 Received: from laraby.tiac.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id BAA02764 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 01:16:56 -0400 Received: (from optimus@localhost) by laraby.tiac.net (8.6.9/8.6.6.Beta9) id BAA18153; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 01:14:34 -0400 From: Theodore Perrotti Message-Id: <199508250514.BAA18153@laraby.tiac.net> Subject: Prodigy Sonic Club To: sonic@sard.mv.net (sonic), optimus@laraby.tiac.net (Theodore Perrotti) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 01:14:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 881 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net A while back, I requested information from the (I believe) president of the "Sonic the Hedgehog Club" on Prodigy on how one can join the club if one has just a regular internet account, not a Prodigy account. I was told by this person that the requested information would be posted to alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog, but I haven't seen it there. To this person: If you (I can't remember your name) read this, please send me the info asap, ok? Sorry to everyone else, but I couldn't remember her name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It's juice time!"-Sonic the Hedgehog Theodore P. Perrotti optimus@tiac.net (all mail forwarded to here) perrottit.mbr@asme.org tedp@wpi.wpi.edu (account will be axed soon) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 25 09:45:44 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05881 for sonic-ll; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:24:34 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05876 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:24:31 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA10753; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:24:27 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA02627; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:24:27 -0400 Message-Id: <9508251324.AA02627@edmund> Subject: Re: Prodigy Sonic Club To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:24:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199508250514.BAA18153@laraby.tiac.net> from "Theodore Perrotti" at Aug 25, 95 01:14:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net > > A while back, I requested information from the (I believe) president > of the "Sonic the Hedgehog Club" on Prodigy on how one can join the club > if one has just a regular internet account, not a Prodigy account. I > was told by this person that the requested information would be posted to > alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog, but I haven't seen it there. To this person: > If you (I can't remember your name) read this, please send me the info > asap, ok? > And if you get same, could you please post it to the Sonic mailing list as well? Our local sysop refuses to grant access to ANY alt.fan.* groups, which includes a.f.s-h. Thanx. ================================================================ || ___------__ || || |\__-- /\ _- || Daniel J. Drazen || | / __ _ || drazen@andrews.edu || //\ / \ /__ || || | o| 0|__ --_ || Custodian of one of the Sonic || \\____-- __ \ ___ - || the Hedgehog FAQ Files || (@@ __/ / /_ || || -_____--- --_ || ASCII Sonic by Han J. Lee ================================================================ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 25 09:56:09 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05852 for sonic-ll; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:20:09 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05845 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:20:04 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA10693; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:20:00 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA02499; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:20:01 -0400 Message-Id: <9508251320.AA02499@edmund> Subject: Sonic FAQ File 5/5 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:20:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net C. OTHER SOURCES Michael Teitelbaum, _Sonic the Hedgehog_ (c)1993; _Sonic the Hedgehog: Robotnik's Revenge_ (c)1994; _Sonic the Hedgehog: Fortress of Fear_ (c)1994; _Sonic the Hedgehog: Friend or Foe?_ (c)1995: Mahwah, New Jersey: Troll Associates. _Sonic the Hedgehog_ synopsis: Note: Any resemblance between this book and the original comics miniseries shouldn't be surprising; what IS surprising is how far from the TV series this is. Herewith, the "Cliff's Notes" description: Ch.1: At the beginning, Sonic is 7, Robotnik is 15, and both are staying with Uncle Chuck (you get some idea of how non-canonical this is going to get!). While Robotnik is only interested in gadgets, Sonic is only interested in running fast. While Uncle Chuck works on perfecting a power ring, Robotnik cannibalizes parts from Uncle Chuck's old tractor for a robot. When Uncle Chuck starts up the tractor, it goes out of control and heads for Robotnik. Ch. 2: Sonic interrupts a game of one-against-nine baseball to move the tractor which has pinned Robotnik and Uncle Chuck. He's able to move it with the power ring and he takes both Robotnik and Uncle Chuck to the hospital. Ch. 3: After being released from the hospital, Uncle Chuck and Robotnik return home. Robotnik's robot confesses to Uncle Chuck that he was put together with the stolen tractor parts, and Robotnik is grounded. Robotnik cobbles together another robot from Uncle Chuck's major appliances; it grabs Uncle Chuck but Sonic defeats it by wrapping it up in a garden hose. Robotnik leaves. Ch. 4: "Eight years passed." Sonic, 15, has a pet dog, Muttski, and works as a delivery hedgehog for his Uncle Chuck's chili dog stand. Sonic tests his new sneakers (designed by Uncle Chuck) while filling a large order, but in his absence Robotnik returns and arrests "Uncle Chuck" and his robots trash the stand. Ch. 5: Sonic delivers the chili dogs to an old factory, walking into a trap. He escapes and returns to what's left of the stand. He destroys a couple of robots who try to capture him and learns that Robotnik is responsible. He heads off for Robotnik's factory. Ch. 6: Stopping in the forest just outside the factory he encounters "a cute little chipmunk girl": Princess Sally Acorn. She shows Sonic a short-cut to the "Ro-Bo-Machine." Ch. 7: Reaching the fence around the factory, Sonic sees that Uncle Chuck has already been roboticized. Sally tries to stop him, but Sonic goes over the fence. Ch. 8: Sonic goes into Sonic Spin and takes out the SWATbots. With Sally's help, they get Uncle Chuck and Muttski and head for the Great Forest. Ch. 9: Sally leads them to "Knothole Village" which is "under the forest floor." (cf. Sonic #0). Sonic uses a power ring to restore Uncle Chuck and Muttski. None of the other Freedom Fighters are introduced. _Sonic the Hedgehog: Robotnik's Revenge_ PLOT SYNOPSIS: Ch. 1: Snively interrups Robotnik while he's in the middle of roboticizing Mobians to report that Sonic has joined Sally's cadre of freedom fighters. Robotnik comes up with a plan (via Snively) to capture "one of the weaker freedom fighters" to lure Sonic into a trap. Ch. 2: Nothing much happens as characters are introduced as Sally tries to get a meeting off the ground. A deroboticized Uncle Chuck is part of the Knothole crowd. Ch. 3: Bunnie, Sally, Rotor and Antoine are on patrol when they are attacked by buzzbombers. In the process, Bunnie is captured. Ch. 4: While Bunnie is held prisoner, the Knothole gang comes up with a "Trojan Robotnik" ploy to get inside. Information about the inside of Robotnik's HQ is provided by Uncle Chuck with the aid of a power ring. Ch. 5: You think Robotnik was born yesterday? He lets the image of himself inside his HQ, and still manages to cage Sonic, Sally, Rotor, Antoine and Muttski. Ch. 6: Sonic goes into a spin and cuts the bars of the cage. Sonic takes out a number of bots, and the crew head for Bunnie's holding cell, only to find it empty. Ch. 7: With Muttski tracking the scent, the freedom fighters reach the room where the roboticized is. Sonic has to get past some SWATbots to get inside, but the roboticization of Bunnie has already begun. Ch. 8: Sonic spins into the machinery, destroying it. They get the half-roboticized Bunnie and split. They reach a wall as Bunnie comes to. Angered by what's happened to her, she kicks a hole in the wall. Epilogue: Back at Knothole, Uncle Chuck can't undo what's been done to Bunnie. But she's still got her friends and her heart, so she accepts her new designation as Bunnie Rabbot. _Sonic the Hedgehog: Fortress of Fear_ PLOT SYNOPSIS: Ch. 1: Rotor is being held prisoner by Robotnik in the old royal fortress, which is now Robotnik's headquarters. He shares a cell with a woodchuck named Digger, who says he's from a Freedom Fighter group on the western edge of the Great Forest. Digger tells Rotor about the King's list of freedom fighters. Snively takes Digger away and tells Rotor that Robotnik's looking for the list as well. Ch. 2: Sonic & Bunnie arrive at Robotnik's fortress to bust Rotor out of his cell. Guided by a small transmitter in the lining of Rotor's cap, they locate the cell, take out the bots and "haul some serious haunch" back to Knothole. Ch. 3: Snively reports the escape of Rotor to an unconcerned Robotnik, who is preparing to rip the fortress apart to locate the list. Rotor tells the others about the list and Robotnik's search for it. Sally guesses that the list in question was one of "brave and true warriors" compiled by Sally's father when she was a girl. A box of her father's papers turns out to have a secret compartment which yields the following fragment: ...beside your bed safe and... ...tucked in tight... ...you cannot fall... Ch. 4: Sonic, Sally, Bunnie, Rotor and Antoine set out the following evening. Using a high-frequency generator, they scramble the circuits of the SWATbots at the front gate. Antoine suggests beginning the search with the safe in her father's bedroom. Ch. 5: While Robotnik leads a search of the main level, Snively detects the Freedom Fighters' entry into the fortress. Thinking to score points with Robotnik, Snively plans to capture them himself. The Freedom Fighters arrive at the bedroom, but find Snively and a platoon of SWATbots. Sonic and Bunnie take out the bots while Antoine trips up Snively before he can grab Sally. Unfortunately, they notice that the safe door is open and the safe is empty. Ch. 6: Thinking of the second and third lines of the fragment, Antoine suggests that it might be Sally's old crib--a bed from which one cannot fall. Sneaking to the nursery, they discover that Robotnik hasn't gotten there yet. Rotor tears the mattress apart but finds nothing. Snively arrives and locks the Freedom Fighters in the nursery. Ch. 7: While Snively goes off to find Robotnik, Rotor accidentally bumps into an old music box. Sally suddenly realizes that the fragment of "clues" is actually part of the lyrics of an old lullaby sung to the tune the music box is playing. The lyrics make mention of a clock, which is no longer in the room. Sally guesses that it was hidden in one of the towers. She also remembers a secret passageway from the nursery to the tower. Moving a book on a shelf, a panel slides back, revealing a staircase. Ch. 8: Ascending the staircase, they find the clock in a room filled with old furniture and such, but also find that the clock has been torn apart. Noticing that several pieces of SWATbot are lying about, Sonic and Bunnie get inside the metal parts and act as if the "bot" were escorting the others as prisoners. Robotnik's exultation at finding the list is interrupted when the bot and its "prisoners" arrive. Sonic grabs the list, lays out Robotnik, and the Freedom Fighters escape. _Sonic the Hedgehog: Friend or Foe?_ PLOT SUMMARY: [If you know the plot of the "Game Guy" episode [second season], you pretty much know the plot of this book, though there are several major differences.] Ch. 1: Sally has a nightmare wherein Robotnik displaces her father. Referring to the list that was captured in _Fortress of Fear_, and noting that its descriptions of locations are extremely general, she plans to begin searching in the Caverns in the Great Unknown. Ch. 2: Rotor tests a magnetic field generator, managing to snare Bunnie. While exploring the caverns, they use the generator to dislodge a boulder. Spooked by a swarm of bats, Antoine becomes lost in the cave. Ch. 3: Antoine is found by the bank of an underground river. Using an inflatable raft, they head down the river and are almost hurled over a waterfall. They bed down for the night but awaken in the morning to the sound of approaching SWATbots. Ch. 4: The SWATbots take no notice of the Knothole gang, concentrating on an escaping figure. Sonic helps out the escapee, who turns out to be Ari on his way to free other freedom fighters in his group being held by Robotnik. Ch. 5: Ari explains how his group, which originally numbered 20, has lived on the run. Sonic is all for helping him, but Sally doesn't trust him. When Sonic goes off alone with Ari, Rotor is able to unscramble the bots' orders: to pretend to pursue Ari in order to lure Sonic to a trap. Ch. 6: Sonic and Ari reach the fortress, but not before Sonic pulls Ari out of quicksand. Once inside, Ari lets Sonic get captured. Ch. 7: Sally, Antoine, Rotor and Bunnie are in pursuit of Sonic and Ari. Sonic is deposited into the large pinball game/arena, with the object of avoiding the energy vortex. Ari realizes that his comrades have been roboticized and he's been double-crossed. Ch. 8: The Knothole gang arrive at the fortress and manage to save Ari. He leads them to Sonic. In a major reversal of the TV plot, Ari manages to pull Sonic out of the vortex, then helps him escape the game. As the group approaches Knothole, Ari returns home on his own. OVERSEAS BOOKS: Martin Adams, _Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors_ (c)1993; _Sonic the Hedgehog in Castle Robotnik_ (c)1994; _Sonic the Hedgehog in the Fourth Dimension_ (c)1993; _Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory_ (c)1993: London: Virgin. Attention WEB-Slingers: The following individuals have set up Sonic the Hedgehog home pages on the World Wide Web. You can access them at: [Note: these addresses are current as of the date of this FAQ file edition; beyond that, I make no claims as to the accuracy of accessing these pages. Many WEB sites do have links to other Sonic pages so give 'em a shot] http://rat.org/bookshire (was: http://www.PrimeNet.Com:80/~rotor/) http://www.ysu.edu/~ptighe/sonic.html http://rat.org/sonic/ ftp://ftp.hff.rat.org/pub/sonic From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 25 10:07:59 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05820 for sonic-ll; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:18:19 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05815 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:18:15 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA10630; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:18:11 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA02445; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:18:12 -0400 Message-Id: <9508251318.AA02445@edmund> Subject: Sonic FAQ File 2/5 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:18:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net NOTICE: The fact that episode and story summaries appear here means there is a good chance that you will encounter spoilers. This is your only notice! II. SOURCE DESCRIPTIONS A. SONIC THE HEDGEHOG EPISODE GUIDE 1. First Season: 1993-94 Super Sonic Writer: Jules Dennis When Nicole malfunctions, Sonic and Sally go to Robotropolis to get replacement parts. While there, they discover the Forbidden Zone and a being named Lezar. Lezar causes Sonic to lose his speed abilities, and teaches him that he can still accomplish things without it. Sonic Boom Writer: Len Janson While on a mission in Robotropolis, Sally intercepts a message which includes the use of her father's pet name for her. They follow the lead to the Dark Swamp and the remains of Ironlock Prison. In the process, a freedom fighter named Cat is captured. The freedom fighters gain maps to Robotropolis, but the search for Sally's father proves futile. Sonic and Sally Writers: Pat Allee and Ben Hurst Before becoming the principle writers for the second season, Allee and Hurst wrote this account of Sally's capture by Robotnik's forces. Sonic rescues what he thinks is Sally but what is instead a robot double. Back in Knothole, Tails begins to doubt Sally's behavior because of small details, such as how she reads a bedtime story. After first dismissing Tails' fears, Sonic also comes to realizes he's been dealing with a "Stepford Sally." Hooked on Sonics Writer: Randy Rogel In an attempt to impress Sally, Antoine tries to capture Robotnik by himself. He attempts to lure Robotnik into the open with the offer of a power ring, but Antoine is himself captured and Sonic has to rescue him. Ultra Sonic Writer: David Villaire While on a raid in Robotropolis, Sonic finds his Uncle Chuck as a robot worker in a crystal mine. Uncle Chuck recovers his mind and will long enough to help destroy a giant crystal which would have damaged the ecosystem of the entire planet. As Uncle Chuck loses control of his will, Sonic vows to return for him. Sonic's Nightmare Writer: Frank Santopadre The freedom fighters are captured and held on a deserted island refinery. Sonic must not only rescue them but he also has to deal with a recurring nightmare where he unable to prevent Sally's being roboticized. Warp Sonic Writer: Matt Uitz The freedom fighters discover an underground civilization called Lower Mobius and one of its citizens, Griff. Lower Mobius draws energy from a power crystal, but it is weakening. Feigning friendship, Griff visits Knothole and steals the power stone which is the source of the power rings. After fighting off some mechanical rats, the power stone is retrieved. Griff apologizes for his theft and is given a portion of the stone to aid Lower Mobius. Harmonic Sonic Writer: David Villaire After Robotnik launches a robot-manned orbiting space station to locate Knothole, the Knothole freedom fighters use a rocket booster to reach and destroy it. Sonic and the Secret Scrolls Writer: Janis Diamond The freedom fighters journey to Mauga (sp?) to recover some legendary scrolls, but Robotnik is tailing them. Robotnik's ship is hurled off a plateau by a violent wind, and the Knothole gang mistakenly believe he is finished. Will they make the same mistake at the end of the second season? Sub-Sonic Writer: Barbara Slade Sonic discovers a stream of water that makes plants grow at a fantastic rate. In their search for the source, the Knothole gang discover a subterranean creature whose habitat has been disturbed by Robotnik's drilling operations. Heads or Tails Writer: Len Janson On a raid of Robotropolis, Sonic runs into Muttski, his now- roboticized pet dog and vows to return him to normal someday. The freedom fighters also have to contend with a squadron of Buzzbombers carrying an orange defoliant [Agent Orange? Hmmmm...] intent on destroying the Great Forest and exposing Knothole. Artwork in this ep is decidedly off-model. Sonic Past Cool Writers: Kayte Kuch & Sheryl Scarborough Tails finds a baby terrapod and the freedom fighters escort the terrapod herd to Boulder Bay, where they will be safe from Robotnik. Sonic Racer Writer: Len Janson While on a mission to disable Robotnik's power generators, Sonic is tempted into participating in a contest against a super-fast robot designed to capture him. While he engages the bot, Bunnie, Sally and Antoine go after their target: Robotnik's back-up generator. 2. Second Season: 1994-95 Game Guy Sonic rescues someone from capture by Robotnik; he turns out to be Ari, a freedom fighter from another group. Ari directs Sonic to a place which turns out to be a trap. Sonic manages to escape (after Robotnik toys with him), but Ari--whose comrades were roboticized and who was himself deceived by Robotnik--is sucked into the Void. Before falling into the Void, Ari says something about a list of other freedom fighters. Sonic Conversion To my way of thinking, THE breakthrough episode for the series! The Knothole gang test a deroboticizing process on Bunnie, whose partially-roboticized body is returned to normal. Sonic then goes after Uncle Chuck and is able to convince him to undergo the process. However, the process turns out to be only temporary as, in a poignant scene, Bunnie reverts to a half-robot. When Uncle Chuck reverts to robotic form, he captures Tails and Antoine for delivery to Robotnik; Sonic confronts him and manages to break the hold on Uncle Chuck's mind. Uncle Chuck returns to Robotropolis to work as a spy for the Knothole gang. No Brainer Sonic's thought processes are temporarily scrambled while on a mission in Robotropolis. Taking advantage of the situation, Snively convinces Sonic that they are friends. The disruption wears off just as the Knothole gang face imminent capture. Blast to the Past (two parts) Dulcy takes Sonic and Sally to a floating island where they use the Time Stones to return to Mobotropolis on the eve of the planet's conquest by Dr. Robotnik (then known as Julian, affiliated with the War Ministry and supposedly in charge of its dismantling). They also encounter themselves as 5-year-olds and learn that it was Sonic's Uncle Chuck who had perfected the roboticizer process in the first place, though Julian/Robotnik stole the process. Sally and Sonic work to keep their child selves from being roboticized, to prevent the Great Forest from being destroyed, and to make sure that Sally's nanny, Rosie, would not get captured. Fed Up With Antoine/Ghost Busted (back to back episodes) Feeling unappreciated, Antoine allows himself to be made "king" by a group of renegades, unaware that with the office comes the "honor" of being an entree./While out camping, Sonic's ghost story panics Tails, and Antoine once more demonstrates his ineptitude. Dulcy Dulcy begins having overpowering urges to fly to Dragonsnest, a nesting site for female dragons. She, Sonic and Sally, arrive just as Robotnik has captured another female dragon; they then discover the dragon's egg inside Dragonsnest. Taking the egg back to Knothole, they rescue the female dragon who returns in time to hatch the egg. The Void Sonic discovers an opening to the Void while out in the "Great Unknown" [another name for the Forbidden Zone?]. Sally and Bunnie are put under a spell and pulled into the Void by a sorcerer named Naugus, who had been imprisoned there years before by Robotnik and who needs Sonic's speed to escape. Sonic learns what has happened from Nicole and allows himself to be pulled into the Void. Attempting to rescue Sally and Bunnie, he is tricked into rescuing what he thinks is Sally's father but is really Naugus. Sonic returns to the Void and finds not only Sally and Bunnie but the King and Ari as well. He brings them all out, but Naugus and the King have spent so much time in the Void that their bodies cannot handle living on Mobius. Naugus breaks off his tormenting of Robotnik, and Sally's father gives her the list of other resistance groups. Sally goes through the emotional rollercoaster ride of her life. The Odd Couple/Ro-Becca (back to back episodes) After a crash landing by Dulcy leaves Sonic homeless he moves in with Antoine, who predictably gets bent out of shape by Sonic's lifestyle./Rotor cobbles together a robot which develops the hots for Antoine. Cry of the Wolf The Knothole freedom fighters search for and discover the Wolf Pack, the remnants of an ancient race who are now one of the other resistance groups. After several unsuccessful attempts to destroy a test pod from the Doomsday Project, Sonic draws it into a lightning storm and destroys it. Drood Henge Sonic and Tails discover an archaeological dig by Robotnik; they learn from Nicole that the object of the search is the Deep Power Stones, and that Robotnik has recovered one of the two. Tails comes up with a plan to retrieve the second stone before Robotnik can get to it. Spyhog On the eve of final preparations of the Doomsday project, Robotnik begins to suspect that there is a spy in his midst. Uncle Chuck's cover is blown, but he escapes capture and goes back underground with a different cover. Doomsday In the season finale, a combined force of the five freedom fighter groups tries to destroy the Doomsday project. Robotnik, however, seems to have too many safeguards built in. As a last resort, Sonic and Sally use the Deep Power Stones. The Doomsday project is destroyed; Robotnik's fate is uncertain but Snively is ready to step into his shoes in a burst of megalomania and overacting. Cliffhanger: who or what does Snively have to help him? We'll never know: ABC chose not to run StH for a third season (see FAQ #9). VOICE CREDITS: SONIC: Jaleel White SALLY: Kath Soucie NICOLE: Kath Soucie (uncredited) TAILS: Bradley Pierce BUNNIE: Christine Cavanaugh ANTOINE: Rob Paulsen ROTOR: Mark Ballou (1st season) Cam Brainard (2d season) DULCY: Cree Summer Franks UNCLE CHUCK: William Windom ROBOTNIK: Jim Cummings SNIVELY: Charlie Adler ADDITIONAL VOICES: (First season): David Doyle Gaille Heindenmann Dana Hill Danny Mann Jason Marsden Charlie Schlatter Frank Welker (Second season): Shari Belafonte: Lupee (?) Michael Bell: Naugus (?) Crystal Cooke Tim Curry: Sally's father; Keeper of the Time Stones Dave Fennoy Dorian Harewood John Kassir Katie Leigh Nancy Linari Victor Love Tahj Mowry Hal Rayle Alaina Reed Hall Lindsay Ridgeway April Winchell Want to contact DiC? Write or phone: DiC 303 North Glenoaks Blvd. Burbank, CA 91502 (818) 955-5400 (818) 955-5696 (FAX) From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 25 10:10:37 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05800 for sonic-ll; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:17:24 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05794 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:17:16 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA10606; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:17:11 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA02370; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:17:11 -0400 Message-Id: <9508251317.AA02370@edmund> Subject: Sonic FaQ File 1/5 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:17:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net ___------__ |\__-- /\ _- |/ __ _ //\ / \ /__ | o| 0|__ --_ \\____-- __ \ ___ - (@@ __/ / /_ -_____--- --_ // \ \\ - //|\__/ \\ ___- \_-\_____/ \-\ // \\--\| ____// ||_ /___//_\ /___\ ascii Sonic by Han J. Lee |====================== THE SONIC FAQ FILE =====================| August 25, 1995 edition Compiled by: Daniel J. Drazen Contributors: Chris Baird, Ron Bauerle, Brad Clark, James Firmiss, Maureen Furniss, John W. Johnston, Craig Moore, Michiyo Nakajima, Paula O'Keefe, Eric E. Pearson, Jeff Pegnato, David Pistone, Alessandro Sanasi, Erich Schulman, Fred Sloniker, Andy White, Shawn Wolski Address all comments, corrections, contributions and flames to: drazen@andrews.edu ***************************************************************** WHAT'S NEW?: [Note: There WILL be spoilers. You have been warned. DJD] Game Gear Adaptation #1 [Oct 1995] Triple Trouble issue "Tttriple Tttrouble!!!" Story: Mike Gallagher/Art: Dave Manak Robotnik miscalculates when trying to exploit a Chaos Emerald as a power source, and the stone splits into two fragments. One half lands in the Great Forest where a new set of action zones is created. The other half lands on Knuckles' floating island where it starts burrowing into a mountain. Knuckles investigates but is hit on the head by a rock and loses consciousness. As for Sonic, he enters the new zones to retrieve the shard, but as soon as he does so he's knocked out by Knack the Weasel. As for Knuckles, he comes to in a cave surrounded by a group of Ancient Walkers--cave-dwellers wearing masks. After some exposition about how if the half emerald should come in contact with the Floating Island's emerald it'll blow the place apart, Knuckles is returned to the surface in time to trash Knack, who happens to have Sonic in the trunk of his vehicle. Sonic & Knuckles start to resume their old grudge match when Robotnik contacts Knack in order to keep the plot moving. Sonic & Knuckles reunite the Emerald which disappears; they then part company after exchanging insincerities and mutual distrust. As for the emerald, it reappears in the possession of the Ancient Walkers. "Submersible Rehearsal" Story: Gallagher/Art: Art Mawhinney Tails' joy as Rotor finishes work on The Sea Fox is punctured when he learns that Sally has instructed Rotor not to put any oil in the sub (fuel or lubricating? It doesn't say). Tails then learns that Robotnik has an octobot terrorizing sea creatures; this information comes from an oil-soaked gull. Draining the oil from the gull to power the Sea Fox, Tails defeats the octobot and destroys the underwater robot factory. This is all prelude to the Tails miniseries--a full-page ad shows Spaziante cover designs, but we all remember what happened to the cover designs for the Princess Sally miniseries, don't we? "First Contact" Story & Art: Ken Penders Back on the floating island, Knuckles interrupts a tussle with Vector to investigate what he thinks is a Robotnik invasion attempt. But it turns out he's being taunted (as in "Fire Drill" in Sonic & Knuckles #1) by someone whose name turns out to be Archimedes. He leads Knuckles to the Chaos Chamber where he tells Knuckles that "only when you can find me will we know that you are capable of seeing the answer within the question." The solution promised in the upcoming Knuckles Chaotix issue. **************************************************************** I. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS II. SOURCE DESCRIPTIONS A. SONIC THE HEDGEHOG EPISODE GUIDE B. SONIC COMICS DESCRIPTIONS C. OTHER SOURCES I. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ============================= Q1: How did Tails come to have two tails? Q2: Is "Tails" his real name? Q3: Is Tails related to Sally? He calls her "Aunt Sally" quite often. Q4: I can't figure out what kinds of animals some of the characters are supposed to be. Q5: "Sally Acorn?" Q6: How old are the characters supposed to be? Q7: What happened with the Princess Sally miniseries? Q8: Does anyone have a theory about Sonic's speed? Q9: Why didn't ABC renew Sonic for a third season? ================================================================ Q1: How did Tails come to have two tails? A: The writers of Sonic comics solicited reader responses to this question; the replies were printed in issue #2 ("All The Mail's About Tails!"). Theories range from transplantation to mutation. The latest entry is in the Sonicgram of #22. They state that Tails just happened to be born that way--with no other comment (thus illustrating the difference between an Explanation and an Answer). At this point, there is no "official" explanation as to how Tails got that way, so you're pretty much free to believe what you like. Personally, I prefer the theory that it is a mutation, induced by Robotnik's pollution of Mobius. This would accord with the fact that Tails had not been born when Robotnik took over (cf. Q6). Q2: Is "Tails" his real name? A: No, his real name is "Miles Prower" (you have to say it sorta fast to get the joke). That was his name when he was introduced on the front screen of the Sonic 2 video game. Tails was given as his nickname, and it stuck. Q3: Is Tails related to Sally? He calls her "Aunt Sally" quite often. A:This argument has been put forward by the "Sally is a fox" camp (see below). However, if that were true, then he'd also be related to Bunnie, as he's been known to address her as "Aunt Bunnie." For that matter, it seems that everyone in the Knothole gang refers to Sir Charles Hedgehog as "Uncle Chuck," though he's technically only uncle to Sonic. While it was not explicitly stated in either the comics or in the cartoons, it has to be kept in mind that all of the freedom fighters' families were disrupted by Robotnik's takeover of Mobius. It's safe to assume that they all have had relatives who have ended up being roboticized. As a result, they have become not so much a paramilitary resistance group as a loose-knit family. Sonic, for instance, clearly relates to Tails as if the latter was his little brother, the difference in species notwithstanding. Q4: I can't figure out what kinds of animals some of the characters are supposed to be. A: Admittedly, it's trickier to spot some species in the series than others. Herewith is the list: Sonic and Sir Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .hedgehogs Bunnie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rabbit Tails. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .fox Rotor. . . . . . . . . . . . . .walrus (sea lion, cf. Teitelbaum) Antoine D'Coolette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .fox Sally Acorn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ground squirrel/chipmunk Sally's father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .fox The identification of Sally as a ground squirrel is based on extended discussion of the topic on Internet {alt.fan.furry and rec.arts.animation). She was also declared to be a ground squirrel in the comics, most recently in the Sonicgram of Sonic #19. As for the designation "ground squirrel/chipmunk", which has been questioned by at least one correspondent, I entered it this way on the assumption that the two terms were synonymous. I have consulted a dictionary, which states that the term "ground squirrel" applies to several kinds of rodents, including the chipmunk genus _Tamias_. Given the present ambiguity, the designation will remain as is. Despite this, controversy continues. Identifying Sally's species has been particularly vexing to some fans, especially those who reason that since Sally's father is clearly a fox, then she must be one herself. It is possible that Sally takes after her mother in this regard more than her father. Cross-species mating is a definite possibility, and an example is implied in the "flashforward" at the end of "Sally's Crusade" [Sonic: In Your Face #1]. At this point, the identification of Sally's nanny, Rosie, remains ambiguous. Given her buck teeth, she could be either a beaver or a woodchuck. Since she is always shown wearing a long cloak, I've been unable to spot the character beaver tail. Final identification is still pending. Q5: "Sally Acorn"? A: This is how she was identified as far back as the beginning of the comics [Sonic Miniseries, #0, Mar 1993]. Technically, royalty do not have surnames or family names in the accepted sense; rather, the title of the personage tends to serve the purpose. Her middle name, Alicia, is apparently seldom used (cf. "Blast to the Past," part 1). If you wanted to be grandiose about it, Sally's formal title would be: Sally Alicia, Princess of the House of Acorn. But in any event it's unlikely that Sally's formal title will come back into use so long as Robotnik is in charge. Q6: How old are the characters supposed to be? A: According to the TV series ["Blast to the Past: part 1"] Sonic and Sally were both 5 years old when Sally's father was overthrown and Robotnik took over. Two other age clues were given in the "Drood Henge" episode: that Tails was 10 years old, and that Sally wouldn't "come of age" for another two years. At one point, Sally's age is explicitly given as being 16, though the comics reportedly put both Sally and Sonic at age 15. Subtracting 5 from 16 leaves the number of years Robotnik has been in charge: 11. Thus, it would appear that Tails was born after the fall of the House of Acorn. Still, the simplest way out of this dilemma would be to put the age of majority on Mobius at 17 instead of 18; that would eliminate the extra year differential without altering the stated ages of Sonic and Sally (in the comics) or of Tails (in "Drood Henge"). Q7: What happened with the Princess Sally miniseries? A: Archie Comics was supposed to roll out a three-part miniseries starring Sally as the main character, but its introduction was delayed--a situation acknowledged in the SonicGram of #21. The story actually began with "Deadliest of the Species" in Sonic #20. The cover art for the miniseries, however, differed in subsequent advertisements: one cover for the first issue prominently featured Geoffrey St. John, while another did not. The third issue cover either does or doesn't feature Sally doing battle with a clone of herself, depending upon where you see it. Two different versions of the cover for #2 appeared in Sonic #22. The fact that the Sally creative team PLUS Archie Comics PLUS Sega reportedly came together to discuss "improving" the series (as reported in Sonic #21 -- hence the delay) would seem to indicate that someone had come down with a case of "creative differences." In any event, the "improved" Sally miniseries began shipping the week of Feb 13, after a slight delay. Q8: Does anyone have a theory about Sonic's speed? A: How, in other words, is Sonic able to run so fast? Apparently the same way you get to Carnegie Hall in the old joke: practice. I'm serious; here is the only print explanation I've come across so far: "Years ago, when things were right on Mobius, there lived a hedgehog named Sonic.... Sonic was only interested in running as fast as he could. Every day he practiced." [Michael Teitelbaum, _Sonic the Hedgehog_. Mahwah, NJ: Troll, 1993, pp.7- 8]. And that's the extent of Teitelbaum's explanation. Thanks a heap, Mike! Chris Baird may be onto something, and it looks like he wants to force the issue by asking Archie Comics about "The rumor going around the Internet that [Sonic] got his speed from falling into a vat of power rings when he was a baby." Q9: Why didn't ABC renew Sonic for a third season? A: There are now three answers to this question -- one appears to be definitive, but the other two are more fun. Believe what you like: 1) ABC got clobbered in the SatAM ratings of the November sweeps because the show was up against the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers on Fox. Despite the fact that ABC shifted Sonic to an earlier time slot (doing so without warning just before the first airing of the "Doomsday" episode), Fox jazzed with its schedule so that MMPR was once more up against Sonic. This 1-2 punch was enough to do it. Source for this item: someone from within the offices of Archie Comics, as posted to alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog. 2) DiC allegedly screwed the pooch by releasing StH animation cels onto the market without clearing it with Sega. Upon learning of this, Sega took umbrage that its property was being sold without its consent or agreement to a cut of the action (can you say "anal retentive"?). Words were exchanged and the show was effectively cancelled. 3) ABC's kidvid programming has lately been adhering to a policy of "two seasons and out" for shows. Though it's possible that some ideas only last two seasons because they're kinda bankrupt to begin with. ================================================================= From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 25 10:27:47 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05829 for sonic-ll; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:18:49 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05823 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:18:44 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA10640; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:18:40 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA02472; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:18:40 -0400 Message-Id: <9508251318.AA02472@edmund> Subject: Sonic FAQ File 3/5 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:18:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net B. SONIC COMICS DESCRIPTIONS [CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME] Now, direct from the Great White North, Brad Clark summarizes the original four-part Sonic miniseries: Issue 0 "Don't Cry For Me, Mobius" Story: Michael Gallagher, Art: Scott Shaw! Sonic is chased by Dr. Robotnik. After the chase, which Robotnik loses, Sonic returns to Knothole where most of the main characters are introduced for the first time. (Note: Rotor is referred to as "Boomer.") Antoine then announces that there is a leak in Knothole (Knothole is located underground in this issue) that is caused by Robotnik. Sonic defeats Robotnik with a power ring. "The Royal Family of Mobius" Gallagher/Shaw! Takes place before Robotnik was in power and has Sonic and Uncle Chuck running a chilidog take-out stand. Robotnik destroys the stand and captures Muttski and Uncle Chuck. Sonic meets Sally (with yellow hair and red fur) who introduces him to the rest of the freedom fighters in Knothole. Issue 1 "Run, Sally, Run" Gallagher/Shaw! Sally [this time with pink fur and black hair] goes to see Robotnik about the return of her father. Robotnik captures Sally and almost throws her into the "Robo-machine." Sonic rescues Sally only to discover that Sally had wanted to get caught in order to gather information on the roboticizer, using some special boots designed by Boomer/Rotor. Issue 2 "A Crowning Achievement" Gallagher/Shaw! Sally decides to wear the "Crown of the Acorn Kings" which belonged to her father, but the crown is missing. They discover a robotic freedom fighter who tells them that Robotnik has stolen the crown and has scattered its jewels (the four Chaos Emeralds) throughout the land. Sonic retrieves the emeralds and Boomer/Rotor repairs the crown. Issue 3 "Sonic Flashback" Gallagher & Shaw! Sonic and Robotnik recall when they were kids. Uncle Chuck invents the power rings. Sonic and Robotnik have an argument, and it escalates until Robotnik is constructing mechanical monsters out of Uncle Chuck's appliances. Sonic then wakes up -- it was all just a daydream -- and resumes being chased by Robotnik. "Why Ask Spy" Sonic is made to look like a robot to trick Robotnik and to destroy one of his factories. In the process, Sonic discovers Uncle Chuck and Muttski who have both been roboticized. Sonic destroys the factory. And a tip of the ol' freedom fighters' fedora to JOHN W. JOHNSTON for supplying summaries for issues 1-15 plus 17: #1 [Aug 1993] "Meet Me At The Corner of Hedgehog and Vine!" Story: M. Gallagher; art: D. Manak One of Robotnik's SWATbots develops a mechanical plant called "Krudzu" and modifies a Burrobot to plant its seeds in the Great Forest. Antoine, depressed because Sally only pays attention to Sonic, decides to get her a bouquet of flowers. He gets caught by the Krudzu, Sonic saves him, and they discover that the Krudzu is not waterproof. "You Bet My Life!" Gallagher & Manak Boomer/Rotor discovers that Robotnik is making a big presentation in the Casino Night Zone. Sonic crashes the party, only to be subdued by Robotnik's newest baddie: Orbinaut. He is put in a giant pinball machine and sent through a very rough ride. When he escapes from the pinball machine, Sonic blows up the casino and puts Robotnik into orbit. [Notes: Apparently the casino was rebuilt for "The Man From H.E.D.G.E.H.O.G." (#16); the pinball (Spinball?) plot was used to better effect later on in the "Game Guy" episode of the TV series; Rotor was still being called "Boomer" at this time. DJD] #2 [Sep 1993] "Triple Trouble" Gallagher/Manak Robotnik sends his newest badnik, Coconuts, after Sonic and Tails. When they send Coconuts' parts back COD, Robotnik sends two more badniks, Scratch and Grounder, after Sonic. [No, this has no relation to the Game Gear game. It does, however, set up the characters from the syndicated TV series. DJD] "Vertigo A Go Go!" Gallagher/Manak Sonic is out collecting rings when he warps into an extremely warped zone where he meets two friends, Al and Cal. "All The Mail's About Tails" Gallagher (rewrite)/Manak Sonic and Tails read letters from fans who express their opinions about how Tails got his two tails. One theory was: one of Tails' ancestors was owned by Charles Dickens (A Tails of Two Cities). Another theory was that Tails was a mutant (and couldn't get a job with the X-Men). Another theory says he was a loss leader at a carnival freak show. Another theory says he was one of Dr. Frankenstein's creations. Another theory says that Tails has Antoine's tail (and hair). And another theory involved something dealing with evolution. #3 [Oct 1993] "The Bomb Bugs Me" Gallagher/Manak Sonic informs Sally and Boomer/Rotor that Robotnik has "the bomb." To trick Robotnik, they project a picket line on a wall outside his office. Boomer/Rotor disguises himself as Robotnik to trick Crabmeat into giving "the bomb" to the freedom fighters, but this plan backfires when Robotnik shows up dressed in a Boomer suit. "Rabbit Deployment" Gallagher/Manak Sonic and Boomer/Rotor travel to the Southern Section of Mobius (Sonic pulling Boomer who wears inline skates). They come across two SWATbots who have thrown a captured rabbit into a portable roboticizer. They are delayed in rescuing her because they are "tied up." They finally shut down the roboticizer and take it and the half rabbit-half robot with them. When she recovers, she gives her name as Bunnie Rabbot and demonstrates her abilities. Meanwhile the forest above Knothole is being trashed by a giant burrobot. When Sonic gets zapped, Bunnie picks up the burrobot and throws it 50 meters. Sonic then traps the burrobot by burying it. [This represents the first attempt to explain the origins of Bunnie. Since then, both fanfic and professional efforts -- Teitelbaum's second book: Robotnik's Revenge -- have covered the same ground. The situation is complicated by the fact that Bunnie appears as one of the children in Blast to the Past, and so wouldn't be a stranger to the Knothole Gang. In fact, BttP, part 2 featured a tease of Bunnie about to be roboticized as a child. Note also that Knothole is still an underground base at this time. DJD] #4 [Nov 1993] "The Lizard of Odd!" Gallagher/Manak Due to a roboticizer mishap caused by Buzzbomber, Robotnik turns a small salamander into his most powerful badnik [No, it's not Newt Gingrich! DJD]: Universalamander. When Sonic tries to attack him, Universalamander eats Sonic. Sonic escapes by making "Lizard Lips" belch. To defeat him, Sonic transforms into Super Sonic, gets an important component from the confiscated roboticizer [see above, "Rabbit Deployment"], and cuts Universalamander down to size. "Tails' Little Tale" Gallagher/Manak While Sonic rests after defeating Universalamander, Tails embarks on his first solo adventure. Unaware of Tails, Robotnik is in the middle of a company picnic. [You're right, it DOES sound lame! DJD] Tails get plucked by Buzzbomber and Orbinaut, but defeats both of them. Tails gets overconfident and is captured by two SWATbots making shadow-puppets. When they try to roboticize him, Sonic saves Tails. #5 [Dec 1993] "Olympic Trials and Errors" Story: Angelo Decasare [debut]; Art: Manak Robotnik challenges the freedom fighters to compete in Olympic games. If they win even one event, Robotnik "promises" to restore Mobius; if they lose, they'll be turned into robots. Before the competition, a SWATbot switches Sonic's sneakers with energy-draining shoes. When Sonic drops on the track, the other freedom fighters (except for Tails) take his place. While Tails is looking for materials to make a Sonic sculpture, he finds Sonic's real sneakers and returns them to him. [The synopsis ends here; presumably, Sonic wins, Robotnik renegs, and it's back to usiness as usual. The linkage between Tails and sculpture was repeated in "That's The Spirit" (#20). DJD] "Chomp on This, Chump!" Decesare/Manak While Sonic and Tails help Sally deal with a batch of extra- thick pancake batter, Boomer/Rotor decides to buy a mail-order ant farm. What Boomer/Rotor doesn't know is that the farm he receives came from Robotnik. Instead of ants, Boomer/Rotor receives a Termite-nator, a termite which eats wood and paper and which grows as it eats. Remembering Sally's pancake batter recipe, Sonic whips up a batch and fills a hollow log with it. Boomer/Rotor returns the ant farm to sender. [What is it with Rotor and ant farms? He also had one in "Ivo Robotnik, Freedom Fighter" (#23). DJD] #6 [Jan 1994] "The Spin Doctor" Gallagher/Manak When the freedom fighters attack Robotnik's factory, they find that Robotnik has relocated to deep within Mount Mobius, an active volcano. Sonic enters the Veg-O-Matic Fortress where he is attacked by Rexxon and Scorpius. After defeating them, he runs into two allies, Hip and Hop, who warn him about the Ferrons. After Sonic trashes the Ferrons, he comes across a cell full of animals awaiting roboticization. Just as Sonic believes he is on Robotnik's trail, he is shot out of the volcano, only to be rescued by Tails. "Sonic's Christmas Carol" Decesare/Manak [The cast enacts You-Know-What by You-Know-Who -- if you DON'T, better take a refresher course in English Lit. Significant in that they finally get the issue of Rotor's name straightened out. DJD] #7 [Feb 1994] "Uncle Chuck's Treasure" Decesare/Manak When Rotor accidentally sends Tails through the roof (literally), they find an old treasure map belonging to Uncle Chuck. They believe the "treasure" may be an invention that will help them defeat Robotnik. According to the map, the treasure was buried in Mobius National Park; unfortunately, the park had since been destroyed by being turned into a toxic waste dump. When the freedom fighters find the spot, Robotnik attacks. Sonic fights back using the toxic wastes, but Robotnik snatches the treasure from them as soon as they dig it up. Robotnik discovers that the "treasure" is really Sonic's bronzed baby booties (try saying THAT 3 times fast ;-) ). "Sorceress in Distress" Decesare/Manak Sally dresses as a sorceress for the annual Fright Night party, but needs a staff to complete the outfit. She finds one in the Forest and (due to a string of coincidences) believes it to be real. Robotnik sees the "sorceress" and, unaware that it's Sally, drags her back to Robotropolis; object: matrimony! Sonic follows them. Robotnik wants to see a demonstration of the sorceress's "magic" and Sally obliges, with a little help from Sonic. #8 [Mar 1994] "Bot's All, Folks!" Gallagher/Manak When Crabmeat is caught reading Sonic the Hedgehog comics, Robotnik is inspired to build super-powered robots to attack Sonic. Sonic meets, and defeats, "Botman," "Wolvurkel" (a factory second sent by mistake), "Spawnmower," "Magbot--Freedom Fighter Fighter," "Captain Marbot" and "Mighty 'Bot." [Furries might have a hard time slogging through this story! "Wolvurkel" is apparently an amusing *homage* to Jaleel White, the voice of Sonic in both the SatAM and daily syndie series. DJD] "A Little Music Goes A Long Way" Gallagher/Manak Sonic finds an old guitar, and the rest of the freedom fighters decide to form a band. Robotnik hears the music and decides to put a stop to it with a shrink ray. While the Freedom Fighters rummage through the Mobius Music Hall, Robotnik and Snively shrink them. Robotnik uses a Pest Buster vacuum to suck up the shrunken Sonic, but before they can put him inside a mobile roboticizer the shrink ray wears off and the freedom fighters return to normal size. Before Robotnik's reinforcements can arrive, the freedom fighters use music to chase him out of the hall. #9 [Apr 1994] "Pseudo-Sonic!" Gallagher/Manak After a thorough analysis of Sonic's profile, Robotnik builds his ultimate eil robot, "Pseudo-Sonic." Meanwhile, Sonic is out picking flowers for Sally. Unfortunately, he comes in contact with some poison sumac and blows up like a balloon. The Pseudo-Sonic discovers Knothole and is about to reveal its location. Tails, dragging his tails on the ground, builds up a static electricity charge and shorts out Pseudo-Sonic. Sonic tries to get back to Knothole but is apprehended by Robotnik. Bunnie slam-dunks Robotnik and helps cure Sonic's rash. "What's the Point?" Decesare/Manak While looking for a birthday present for Sally, Sonic comes upon a Mobian needl bird with a broken wing. Sonic wants to give it as a present, but Sally reminds him of other animals the freedom fighters have brought back. Meanwhile the needle bird, dubbed Thorny, has eaten Sally's birthday cake. Sally goes off to replace the cake while Sonic goes to return Thorny to the Great Forest. Sally is caught by a mechanical tree; Sonic almost suffers the same fate, but is rescued by Thorny. Sonic then rescues Sally while Thorny goes after Robotnik (who, needless to say, was behind the mechanical trees). #10 [May 1994] "Revenge of the Nerbs!" Decesare/Manak While attempting to steal power from Robotropolis, the freedom fighters are caught in a force field. Before the "Robotropolis Good Neighbor Society" can apprehend them, the freedom fighters escape thropugh a hole in the ground dug for them by a Nerb, part of an underground-dewlling race. The king of the Nerbs maintains that contact with surface-dwellers is bad news, but their air vents and water supply are being threatened by construction activity aboveground. On their way to the surface, they move from a Nerb tunnel to a Mobian sewer pipe. They come up to find Robotnik doing some excavating to build an underground installation; they also find three Nerb prisoners. Sonic frees the Nerbs and directs Tails to escort them back underground; Sonic then opens a line to the Mobius River, flooding Robotnik's construction site. The freedom fighters are proclaimed Honorary Nerbs. "'Twan With The Wind" Story: Angelo Decesare/Art: Art Mawhinney [debut] The freedom fighters use Antoine's hot air balloon to scout out a suitable location for their picnic. Two Buzzbombers attack the balloon. Robotnik learns of the picnic and decides to crash it. While everyone else is having fun at the picnic, Antoine mopes about his balloon. But when Robotnik attacks, it's up to Antoine to patch up the balloon and come to the rescue. #11 [Jun 1994] "The Good, The Bad, And The Hedgehog" Story: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders [debut]/Art: Manak The freedom fighters witness Robotnik dumping toxic waste into a river. Sonic tries taking a "short cut" via the Cosmic Interstate to get there, but winds up on an alternate Mobius where Robotnik is a benevolent person and Sonic is a leather-clad punk. After a round-the-world chase, Sonic captures the Antisonic (c.f., "When Hedgehogs Collide," #24) and the AntiRobotnik devises a way to undo the toxic spill cause by Robotnik. "Beat The Clock" Kanterovich & Penders/Manak Wanting to get to the top slot of Robotnik's Top Ten Badnik List, Coconuts traps the freedom fighters. "Food For Thought, or, You Are What You Eat" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney After scarfing a ton of chili dogs as a midnight snack, Sonic dreams that everyone has turned into junk food: Sonic is a chili dog, Sally is an ice cream cone, Tails is an order of fries (regular), and they all confront Chef Ivo Robo-Burger. The fries get caught by Robo-Burger so chili dog goes to rescue him. But he slips on a banana peel and right before Tails gets deep-fried, Sonic wakes up. #12 [Jul 1994] "A Timely Arrival" Gallagher/Mawhinney Robotnik builds a time machine to get rid of Sonic by transporting him to the past. Sonic enters the trap and lands in prehistoric Mobius. There he meets Sonugh the Boghog, and the caveman Ivo Robughnik. Sonic also meets other prehistoric freedom fighters, but they're all afraid of the surface because it offers no cover [Sounds like they're still dealing with an underground Mobius. DJD]. Sonic finishes transplanting some hedges near the entrance when he is pulled back to his own time by the freedom fighters, who have confiscated the time machine. "Bold-Headed Eagle" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney While avoiding Robotnik in the Mobius Mountains, Sonic comes across an old eagle, Cyril. He tells Sonic how his flock was roboticized and how he has lived in hiding. Sonic convinces him to risk flying, and he discovers that his flock still exists. Cyril returns the favor by rescuing Sonic when Robotnik attacks. "The Lynx Is A Jinx" Decesare/Mawhinney While on a rescue mission, Sonic comes across a lynx named Larry, a.k.a. Super Jinx. He proves this when the branch of a tree that he's sitting on gives way and injures some freedom fighters on the way down. The freedom fighters head back to Knothole to nurse their wounds and Sonic tries to find a hiding place for Larry. When Sonic and Larry learn that the freedom fighters have been captured, Larry is sent out to be captured by the SWATbots who, in turn, suffer various misfortunes. #13 [Aug 1994] "This Island Hedgehog" Kanterovich & Penders/Manak Sonic and Tails discover a floating island, but their plane is shot down by a rocket as they approach. After landing and enduring some hazards, they meet Knuckles the Echidna. Thinking that they have come to steal the island's Chaos Emerald, he gives them a ten-minute head start before giving chase. Meanwhile, Robotnik, who planted the suggestion in Knuckles' mind, is stealing the Emerald himself. Knuckles discovers the theft and Sonic recovers the Emerald. "Space In Your Face" Decesare/Mawhinney Robotnik plans to launch a space-based weapon, RoboStorm. This device will not only turn living beings into robots, it will also jam all regular television broadcasts and replace them with infomercials. The freedom fighters learn of this and enter the ship. Robotnik appears, however, before they can do any damage to the systems, so they blast off with Robotnik in pursuit. They crash-land on the moon Muckery. Using the local materials (i.e., mush), they get the better of Robotnik. #14 [Sep 1994] "Tails' Taste of Power" Decesare/Mawhinney Tails eats a piece of fruit he finds growing in Rotor's greenhouse. This fruit, from the Mobian Tree of Wisdom, makes Tails into a super-genius. Sally and Bunnie are attacked by a giant Shredbot. Tails avoids the bot's blades in such a way that the bot self-destructs. He goes off to face Robotnik, just as the effects of the fruit begin to wear off. Sonic bluffs Robotnik with a medal which Tails gave himself earlier. "Do It Yourself Sonic" Kanterovich & Penders/Manak Readers are invited to fill in the word balloons and color the panels on a page to create their own comic (apparently involving Robotnik interrupting Sonic and Tails on a fishing trip). Winners announced in issue #23. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney Robotnik plans to capture Sally and Bunnie in a booby- trapped shopping mall. After they're caught, the girls accuse Robotnik of being a MCP; they then smash SWATbots and gift-wrap Robotnik. #15 [Oct 1994] "Rockin' The Bot!" Decesare/Manak While out running with lightning, Sonic spies a frog in trouble. For rescuing it, the frog gives Sonic three magic stones: a green one for super strength, a yellow one for leaping great distances, and a red one for elasticity. Since Sonic doesn't believe the frog, he gives the stones to Tails. Robotnik, in a Beetlebot, attack the freedom fighters while they're out testing an all-terrain vehicle. Robotnik throws a boulder at Sonic while he's holding the red stone; Sonic is flattened but resumes his shape. Sonic tries attacking the Beetlebot but (having forgotten which stone does what) he is holding the yellow stone -- he beats the Mobius high-jump record but accomplishes little else. Using the green stone, Sonic crafts a giant flyswatter. "What's The Big Idea?" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney While Rotor works on a top secret project, the rest of the gang recall previous experiments that have gone awry. "Animal Magnetism" Decesare/Mawhinney Robotnik plans to use a giant Magnabot to capture Bunnie and use her as bait to get the other freedom fighters. During an outdoor barbeque, Bunnie (and everything else metal) is suddenly pulled away. Sonic hitches a ride to the Magnabot by grabbing a metal garbage can lid. Sonic then tricks Robotnik into increasing the power and Snively into pointing the Magnabot toward Robotropolis. Rotor coats Bunnie's robotic parts with an anti-magnetism compound to keep it from happening again. #16 [Nov 1994] [Summary by Erich Schulman] "Sonic Under Glass" It appears that Sonic and Sally are tying the knot, having defeated Robotnik once and for all. In reality, Robotnik has lured the freedom fighters to a place called Sleepy Hollow. Once there, they were gassed, put into a sleep, and trapped inside a virtual reality glass dome. As all their fantasies have come true, nobody wants to escape. Uncle Chuck arrives and reveals to Sonic that he is embracing, not Sally, but a broom. Sonic hates to disappoint his friends, who are all so happy, but decides to get back at Robotnik. Sonic gets Robotnik's war machines to reverse course and attack the big guy, so Robotnik reluctantly kills the VR software. Sonic and Sally are reunited, and Sonic concludes that virtual reality is a nice place to visit, but.... "The Man From H.E.D.G.E.H.O.G." Robotnik comes to the conclusion that there is a spy in his midst, since so many of his missions have failed. Thinking that he has found his spy in a mole, he uses the Wheel of Misfortune to randomize his plans to destroy Mobius. On Robotnik's first spin, he lands on "undersea bank heist." Robotnik's lackey's find only an empty vault and the freedom fighters waiting for them. The same thing happens after two more spins. Robotnik finally thinks he has Sonic captured when Sonic and Sally visit Robotnik's casino [Boy, I hope this makes more sense in the comic! DJD], but Sonic narrowly escapes. Belatedly, Robotnik realizes that the Wheel itself was rigged. Sonic-Grams: Aside from now-obsolete announcements, it is stated that Sonic is 15; that Sally is a squirrel (not necessarily a ground squirrel); that Antoine was a donor so that Tails would be able to fly [Yeah, right!] (c.f. "The Mail's About Tails" (#2); that Sonic was just a little slow rescuing Bunnie from the roboticizer ("Rabbit Deployment," #3). On a more useful note, Archie Comics confesses that due to inadequate modelling information, their Sally was a different color from the SatAM version, a situation which has since been rectified. #17 [Dec 1994] "Gorilla Warfare, or, The Apes of Wrath" Kanterovich & Penders/Manak Robotnik travels to Skoal Island and finds one of his original bots: King Gong, a ten-foot tall, 800 lb. gorilla. He sends the big ape to Mobotropolis to attack Sonic. King Gong breaks up a freedom fighters' picnic, but loses interest in Sonic when he sees Sally. With Sally in his grasp, he climbs to the top of a minimall to watch the sunset. The Sonic Spin has no effect on King Gong, so it's on to Plan B: while Tails flies up to rescue Sally, Sonic and Antoine hose him down with banana oil. King Gong slips and falls on top of Robotnik. "First Star I See Tonight: Sally's Crusade, part 1" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney While reminiscing about life as a little girl before Robotnik's takeover, Sally sees something fall from the sky. It turns out to be a shiny metal orb. To be continued. #18 [Jan 1995]: "Wedding Bell Blues" Kanterovich & Penders/Manak Robotnik gets word of Sonic and Sally's impending wedding and plans an attack. "In the Still of the Night" (Sally's Crusade, part 2) Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney While trying to determine the nature of the mysterious orb (cf. "First Star....", #17), Sally is called to the bedside of her old mentor, Julayla, just before she dies. They never use the D- word, but it's an affecting story nevertheless. Sonicgram: includes statement that Sonic is 15, and a German fan disses Dave Manak's artwork Sonic: In Your Face #1 [1995] "Sally's Crusade: The Quest" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney The orb is revealed to be a casing surrounding Nicole. Sally, with the others in tow, searches for what turns out to be Julayla's last testament. The significance of this document is spelled out in a "flashforward" at the end of the story. "Mirror Zone" Story and art: Pat Spaziante [debut] An excuse to practice backwards lettering. Sonicgram: Sally's age is given as "about 15." [Note, if you're going to guess a lady's age, guess on the low side ;-) ] "Tails' Tallest Tale" Story and art: Scott Shaw! Tails substitutes for Sonic, putting in an appearance at a con. His exaggerations almost get him into trouble. The return of Shaw!. #19 [Feb 1995]: "Night of a Thousand Sonics" In order to defeat Robotnik's latest scheme, Sonic has to call in as many versions of himself from as many parallel universes as he can. Artwork by Manak for the first half, Mawhinney for the second. Sonicgram: The name of Sally's father is given as "King Acorn" (but see FAQ #5). Scott Fulop hedges on when Knuckles will make an appearance and whose side he'll be on. Again, Sally is identified as a "ground squirrel." Hint is dropped as to a Sonic motion picture in the works. #20 [Mar 1995]: "That's the Spirit" Exposure to an antimatter explosion renders Sonic invisible; Sally and the others [Tails being the exception] believe he is dead. The comedic pacing and Manak's artwork mar what otherwise might have been a very poignant story. Great line (Sonic to Robotnik--who thinks he's dealing with a ghost): "Give Mobius back to the freedom fighters, lose weight and get a hairpiece!" "Deadliest of the Species" [Prologue to the Princess Sally miniseries] While on a sabotage mission, Sally is confronted by someone claiming to be part of a rebel underground. Sonicgram: Once again lists Sally's age as 15. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 25 10:37:33 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05841 for sonic-ll; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:19:22 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA05836 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:19:17 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA10647; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:19:13 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA02480; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:19:13 -0400 Message-Id: <9508251319.AA02480@edmund> Subject: Sonic FAQ File 4/5 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:19:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net #21 [Apr 1995]: "3 Phases of E.V.E" /Spaziante Robotnik unleashes E.V.E. ["exceptionally versatile evolvoid"] to capture Sonic. As Sonic manages to outsmart E.V.E., it simply adapts to another form to compensate. Sonic lures it to Robotnik's headquarters where, assuming a self-conscious form, E.V.E. determines that it is being held back by its biological inheritance from Sonic and Robotnik [i.e., individual cells used in E.V.E.'s creation]. E.V.E. toasts Robotnik, but thanks to some quick thinking by Sonic--apparently, Sally's influence is rubbing off on him ;-) -- E.V.E. spares Sonic and travels out into space on a journey of self-actualization. Is Robotnik really history? That's the tease--stay tuned. Sonicgram: announcement of the delay in rolling out the Sally miniseries; another special issue (48pp) due out in May. Princess Sally Mini-series #1 [April 1995] Summary by Ron Bauerle "Deadliest of the Species!" written by Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders, art by Art Mawhinney & Rich Koslowski. Opens with a nice splash page summarizing the struggle so far and describes the main characters (get this: "Antoine is renouned for his military skills" - okayyyy...). Next it recaps Sally's meeting Geoffrey St. John...in StH #20. Sally & Geoffrey are attacked by SWATbots after destroying the facility and manage to beat them off [hey, Ron, let's leave their private lives out of this ;-) ] and exchange some banter in the process (I can't call it friendly but it's not really sarcastic either). They then head back to the camp where some young trainee freedom fighters are waiting for Sally. Geoffrey mistakes them for enemies and jumps a pig (Hamlin) but they're separated by Sally. This establishes some bad blood between Hamlin and Geoffrey that continues all issue. The team proceeds to its next target (an energy substation) and after battling SWATbots and ORBbots manage to destroy it. During the battle Geoffrey saves Hamlin's life but Hamlin still doesn't trust him. That night, when everyone else is asleep, Geoffrey slips away, activates a teleportal, enters some kind of building and descends to its basement where he speaks to a figure in a glass case: Sally!? Also some fan art: two pics of Sally & Bunnie (both NBD), and one of Sally as a dominatrix (!). #22 [May 1995] "The Return" Penders/Spaziante & Harvey M. The story opens with Sonic & Sally MCW (Married with Children; cf. the end of "Sally's Quest" in _In Your Face #1_). Sonic & Sally are out with the kids when, during a lightning storm, an apparition of Robotnik appears and just as suddenly disappears. Have your pencils and scorecards ready to try and follow the remainder of the plot: Robotnik is actually on a satellite talking with Robo-Robotnik from "Night of a Thousand Sonics," (#19), only in this case only the consciousness of Robo-Robotnik (hereinafter "R-R") remains resident. Robotnik convinces R-R to teleport him back to Mobius, where it turns out Snively has activated an alternative Doomesday device which would go off if Robotnik was ever defeated. Robotnik actually deactivates "Operation Wasteland" himself to keep from being ruler over nothing and to have the pleasure of saying to Sonic: "You owe me!" Robotnik and Sonic MWC are declared to be at a stalemate. What about R-R? Who knows? Muddled story saved by Spaziante artwork. "Tails Knighttime Story," Decesare/Manak & John Dagostino As Tails grumps about "get[ting] baby-sat" while Sonic has all the fun and adventures, Sally tells him a bedtime story wherein Sonic is Sir Runalot and Tails is his page who "borrows" his armour one day and who, mistaken for the aforementioned knight, ends up doing battle with Sir Knightmare of Robotannia (guess who?) until the real Sir Runalot saves his...er...tails. Sonicgram: the comics should get a FAQ File, since two letters pepper them with questions (most are answered: "Keep reading." Translation: "we're working on it!"). The cover of Princess Sally #2 in an ad on the same page differs from one which appears on p. 17 of the same issue(!), thus bolstering the "creative differences" theory in Q7. Princess Sally Miniseries #2 [May 1995] "Deadliest of the Species": Part 2 Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney (Summary by Erich Schulman): The story opens with a fight between St. John and Hamlin, and Sally gives Hamlin a scolding. To reach the third, undestroyed substation, the freedom fighters use a new (!?) technology: hang gliders. Arlo's hang glider is hit by the defenses and he is wounded in action; Penelope volunteers to stay with him. Once inside, Sally and St. John are attacked by an octopod, and everyone barely manages to escape the explosions. Upon leaving, they find that Arlo and Penelope are gone. Sally says they will return to camp without them (to which Hamlin is opposed). Did you have your doubts about St. John? That night, St. John replaces Sally with a lookalike robot and delivers the real Sally to Robotnik. Fan mail (singular; only one letter appears): Will Sonic and Sally marry? "Could be." Has Sally met Knuckles? She will in a forthcoming 48-page S&K special. Does Sally have a mother, and if so what does she look like? "Of course...her origin may yet be told." Or [shameless plug] you can read about it in "Bloodlines" in the fanfic section of Rotor's homepage. #23 [Jun 1995] "Ivo Robotnik, Freedom Fighter" Decesare/Manak Sonic, Sally, Rotor, Tails, Robotnik and Snively are all captured by Car-Heem, a giant alien who wants to study them. In order to save Robotnik from "disposal," Sonic convinces Car-Heem that they are interdependent species, a novelty to the autonomous Car-Heem. Thanks to a diversion by Sonic, the others escape their confinement in a craft of Robotnik's design. Although Robotnik blows Car-Heem and Sonic out of Car-Heem's spacecraft's airlock, Rotor retrieves them. In gratitude, Car-Heem returns everyone to Mobius and Rotor, inspired, releases the inhabitants of his ant farm [Heavy Message]. There's also a really bad pun which I'm not going to reveal. Do-It-Yourself Sonic Contest winners announced. "Vol-ANT-teer" Decesare/Manak Antoine ventures into Robotropolis alone to retrieve Tails' lost backpack with a power ring in it. Bunnie shadows him just in case. Surprising last panel gives the impression that Antoine isn't exactly clueless. Sonicgram: Further indication that Knuckles will put in an appearance in the next Sonic special, though no hint as to his allegiance; look for an appearance by Knack the Weasel [c.f., the Triple Trouble game] in the same issue. Sally Miniseries #3 [June 1995] "Deadliest of the Species, Part III" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney (Summary: James Firmiss) (Recap of parts 0, 1 and 2 omitted) Sally, Hamlin and Dylan are fighting their way into Robotropolis with paint guns and grenades (blinding SWATbots). Dylan believes that attacking at half strength isn't wise, yet they press on. Hamlin nearly falls from a collapsing catwalk but Sally rescues him. They eventually reach their objective, break down the doors and find...Robotnik, St. John and Sally (in the container). Hamlin believes Geoffrey to be a traitor so he jumps him. Sally breaks it up and says she and St. John are on the same side. Robotnic reveals that Sally is an auto-automaton, a perfect robot duplicate, and that there was no weakness in the defense system. His master plan is to replace key members of the freedom fighters--we see auto-automatons of Sonic and Tails being built. Robotnik also plans to roboticize the Sally delivered to him by St. John. Robotnik begins the roboticization process but the chamber blows up because a "feedback loop" has occurred. Something which is impossible unless...he were trying to roboticize a robot! The real Sally was with Dylan and Hamlin. Sally tries to 'arrest' Robotnik, but large StealthBots emerge from the walls and capture the freedom fighters. Note: you could see the outlines of the StealthBots 5 pages back. St. John pushes a button on a remote control and a vehicle burrows its way up through the floor. Out pop Penelope, Arlo and three "moles". They help free Sally, Dylan and Hamlin (more paint guns). Robotnik manages to activate a 30-second self-destruct and disappears down an escape chute. Sally and the others all head for the vehicle maintenance area and grab saucer-shaped air cars (from Hanger 18! X-P ) and get out with no time to spare. With everyone back at the base, Hamlin, Penelope, Arlo and Dylan are promoted to full-fledged freedom fighters. Sally tries to convince Geoffrey to come to Knothole but he declines in order to rejoin the Rebel Underground. He does engage Sally in some serious lip-locking before they part. If you're not confused yet, here's a run-down of the plot- twists, as Sally explains them at the end: The FIRST Sally switch occurred right at the beginning of Part 1 shortly after meeting St. John. St. John really was the leader of the "Rebel Underground" and acted as a double agent in order to gain Robotnik's trust and activate the robot double prematurely in order to find out what its plans were. It was the auto-automaton Sally that helped attack the 2d and 3d substations. It was such a good copy that it could give orders, make hard choices, and even grieve for missing comrades. But did you notice the two clues that would have tipped you off that this was an automated Sally: 1. "Auto" Sally wore a purple vest instead of a blue one. 2. "Auto" Sally referred to Geoffrey by his first name, while the real Sally always called him "Mr. St. John." The SECOND Sally switch occurred in Part II, when Robotnik (and the reader) was supposed to think that Sally was being replaced by a robot double. And what about Arlo and Penelope? They were taken away by the moles from the literal Rebel UNDERGROUND. The Rebel Underground was also supposed to be backup in case anything unexpected happened. "This is definitely one of the most complicated stories Archie's Sonic group has ever come up with. Congrats...." JF SallyGram: Horace Hawkins (14) wishes Sally a Happy Valentine's Day, and expresses the desire to be her boyfriend. LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! Scott Fulop (Editor) asks if there is interest in a MONTHLY Sally comic. If so, send a postcard with the following: Give me Princess Sally. Monthly. NOW!!! to: SallyGrams c/o Archie Comic Publishing 325 Fayette Avenue Mamaroneck, NY 10543 #24 [Jul 1995] "When Hedgehogs Collide" (in 4 parts) Script: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders Art: Dave Manak (Parts 1 and 2); Art Mawhinney & Rich Koslowski (Parts 3 and 4) Part 1 is taken up witnessing antisocial behavior on the part of Sonic, Sally, Tails, Antoine and Rotor. Part 2 is the exposition as to what's happening: Evil Sonic from "The Good, The Bad and the Hedgehog" [Sonic #11] (hereinafter referred to as "the Antisonic," as in "the Antichrist") is looking for some action, so he rounds up the "gang" consisting of the Antisally, the Antitails, the Antirotor and the Antiantoine. They take the Cosmic Interstate to Mobius, dress like their counterparts and begin doing some damage. So where have the Good Guys been all this time? Sonic, Tails and Antoine had been sent by Rotor into "negative reality" though they were unable to penetrate "the Zone of Silence" (aka, The Void) where Sally's father is being held. Sally's been out on a mission with the trainees (cf. the Sally miniseries). Everyone arrives back in time to incur the wrath of their fellow Mobians. In disguise, they come upon the gang about to terrorize some more Mobians. The first fight turns into a draw until Sally realizes that there's no way they can defeat their other selves, who would be able to anticipate their strategies. So it's "Change partners!" as play is resumed: Sonic punches out the Antisally (this frame alone is worth the price of admission!), Sally defeats the Antiantoine, Antoine stops the Antirotor, Rotor defeats the Antitails, and Tails gets the better of the Antisonic. Since the Antisonic got what he came to Mobius for (a fight), the gang agrees to return to their homeworld peacefully. I guess the ol' doppelganger plot device worked so well in Sonic #11 they decided to dust it off and run it past us again. A valiant effort marred by two Plot Holes and a Serious Omission: PH#1: If Sally could figure out that fighting themselves would get them nowhere, wouldn't the Antisally have reached the same conclusion? Then again they might have spent the entire issue second-guessing each other.... ;-) PH#2: On the homeworld of the Antisonic the SWATbots do all the work and "kindly ol' Robotnik is a grade-A wimp!" At least, according to an exposition by the Antisonic. This then leads us to... SO: Where's Bunnie? Despite a "Sonic + Bunnie" graffiti carved into the desk of the Antisonic [along with "Sonic + Sally," "Sonic + Nicole"--THAT I'd like to see!--and "Sonic + Sonic"], Bunnie's legion of fanboys will be disappointed to learn that she doesn't put in an appearance in this comic, either as Bunnie or as the Antibunnie. If indeed Robotnik is more benevolent on the Antisonic's homeworld, does that mean that Bunnie would be intact (i.e., not partially roboticized) there? Interesting question but one that Kanterovich and Penders conveniently sidestepped for the moment. SonicGram: information on two upcoming "special" issues: the 48-page Sonic & Knuckles special will include a solo Knuckles effort and a lead story involving Knuckles' floating island; and the "Silver Anniversary" issue #25 featuring Mecha Sonic from the CD game (artwork by Spaziante). There's a list of "Do-It- Yourself Sonic Contest" winners who have moved and left no forwarding address. Two fan letters to Knuckles, plus word that Tails will have his own miniseries coming out in the fall. Sonic & Knuckles 48 page special [1995] (based on summaries by James Firmiss) "Panic in the Sky!" Kanterovich & Penders/Mawhinney (Part 1), Manak (Part 2) The Mobians living on the western shore of "the Great Continent" [you'd think that Mobians would have come up with another adjective besides "Great": viz.: the Great Forest, the Great Swamp, the Great Unknown, etc. See also the "all-purpose" use of the word _hrair_, or "thousands" by rabbits in Richard Adams' _Watership Down_. But I digress....] are alarmed by the approach of a floating island. Sally and the gang realize that the island is on course for Knothole; Sonic explains to the group (for the first time!?) that he and Tails were on the island a while back and met Knuckles. Antoine flies Sonic and Tails in the turboprop, dodging antiaircraft fire from the underside of the island. After landing on the island, seeing giant mushrooms and avoiding some traps, Sonic falls into one trap and again meets Knuckles. Since this is the second time Sonic has been caught trespassing, Knuckles is about to send him over the edge of the island. Tails tries dropping a rock on Knuckles from above to avoid this from happening, but it ends up that Tails has to rescue both Sonic and Knuckles by airlifting them to safety. It appears that Robotnik is "hijacking" the island by somehow draining the energy from the Chaos Emerald which keeps the island afloat. Already having established a presence on the island, Robotnik has installed weapons on the underside and plans to use the island as a flying fortress to attack Knothole. Knuckles won't allow the island to be used this way; he smashes the Chaos Emerald. With the island losing altitude, Robotnik abandons it, expecting that it'll still smash into Knothole (though how he suddenly knows of Knothole's location is unclear). But Knuckles replaces the "real" Chaos Emerald just in time--I'd tell you how he switched it with a phony one which was the one he broke, but I don't understand it either. Knuckles turns down an invitation to join the Knothole gang; part of his stewardship of the island now involves disarming it since Robotnik is gone. "Fire Drill" Penders/Art: Jon D'Agostino Knuckles investigates an explosion on the island, suspecting that it's Sonic. Catching just a glimpse of an intruder, he follows him to places unfamiliar even to him(!). As the trail leads off the edge of the island, he still thinks it's Sonic; however, we catch a glimpse of a shadowy presence still on the island. "Lord of the Floating Island" Penders/Harvey Mercadoocasio While patroling the island on a windy day, he spots a lost joey (baby kangaroo) names Bengy. The kid asks Knuckles to bring back the sky; Knuckles explains that there's an eclipse in progress and that's what's causing the winds. They avoid a pack of (biped) dingoes as Knuckles goes into further exposition about the island-- how it's a paradise which some parties (Sonic and Robotnik) want to change. They eventually find Bengy's mom. Knuckles' exit line: "This is my island! And I live to protect and serve!" The entire story appears to exist to supply needed exposition and to nudge Knuckles closer to the Good Guy category. No SonicGrams, but announcements: Sonic #25 will have a silver ink cover and feature Mecha Sonic; dated August '95. Also slated for that month: a Sonic Triple Trouble 48-page special featuring Nack the Weasel; it will also include a Sonic v. Knuckles story, a Knuckles solo story, and a Tails solo story. Another 48-page special -- Knuckles Chaotix -- is schedules for November '95. Solo Knuckles stories will appear in Sonics #31-33 (Feb-Apr '96) and a Knuckles 3-parter will begin Jan '96. #25 [Aug 1995] "Go Ahead...Mecha My Day" (the only story in this issue) Story: Mike Gallagher Art: Pat Spaziante based on summary by James Firmiss In a bow to the CD game, the story focuses on the freedom fighters' discovery of the Collision Chaos Zone, a "zone portal." Robotnik tries to lure Sonic into the zone portal by kidnapping his #1 fan: Amy Rose, the pink hedgehog (remember her?). Based on her dialogue on page 14, I'd describe her in Foghorn Leghorn terms: "Nice kid, but about as sharp as a sack full of wet mice." Tails investigates from the air and is captured instead. To rescue both Amy and Tails, Sonic must race through the new zones and do battle with Robotnik's Mecha-Sonic. Spaziante's artwork of Sally in this issue is surprising, in that her shape has gotten...well, more shapely. I don't remember her having that much of a bustline in issue #21! Still no SonicGrams; another repeat announcement of the Triple Trouble and Chaotix specials, as well as the Knuckles and Tails miniseries. Also staff artwork. #26 [Sep 1995] "Way, Way Past Cool" Script: A. Decesare; Pencil: D. Manak; Ink: J. D'Agostino Sonic, Tails, Sally, Rotor and Antoine find themselves in a snowstorm...in the middle of summer. Of course it's a plot by Dr. Robotnik: after lowering the temperature on Mobius, he will use infrared heat sensors to locate the warm-blooded freedom fighters. Sonic and the gang take shelter (such as it is) in a cave, where they encounter a group of polar Mobians--they were trapped down south when Robotnik took over and have lived in hiding ever since. After initially attacking the Weather Annihilator with a snowball-loaded catapult, the Knothole gang is captured by Snively. The polar Mobians, however, come to their aid and Sonic destroys the Annihilator. The polar Mobians return north to their home, inspired to put up more of a resistance. This story has inspired renewed argument over species identification since one of the polar Mobians [Erma, presumably an ermine] looks something like Sally. However, Erma doesn't have the white winter coat associated with a true ermine, nor is her tail long and tipped with black, nor is her body long and slender. But, hey, we're talking design by Manak here! Wadja expect? Additional problems/flamebait: Where did the catapult come from? If Sally decided not to wear a vest because of the summer heat, how come she's still got her boots on? [Then again, I'm convinced that furries are Not Clear On The Concept when it comes to clothing]. And why is Sonic shown skittering across the surface of a river in the story's opening when the character guide to Sonic clearly states that Sonic is a non-swimmer and would ordinarily avoid water? Fan art "Fortified" Story: A. Decesare; Pencil: A. Mawhinney; Ink: R. Koslowski The Knothole gang (the cast of the above story PLUS Bunnie!) are in the mountains, trying to keep ahead of Robotnik--not easy, since Sonic has a sprained ankle. Bunnie discovers an old fort, complete with an old muzzle-loading cannon and a blacksmith's forge. Robotnik's "bus" crashes into the fort, only to confront Bunnie, suited up in improvised body armour. She takes out Robotnik's SWATbots and maneuvers the bus to crash through the fort wall and roll back down the mountain. FINALLY an appearance by Bunnie! [One has to wonder whether her (largely out-of-the-way) role in "Vol-Ant-eer" in Sonic #23 even counts as an appearance.] Mawhinney, though, seems to draw her a little on the "squashed" side. After Spaziante's rendering of Sally in Sonic #25, I wonder how *he'd* draw Bunnie. SonicGrams: In-house humor featuring Fulop, Mendez, Pepitone and Pauley [DJD: Leave it at the water cooler, guys!]. Hint that the upcoming StH Triple Trouble special issue will feature Tails in a Sea Fox submarine solo story, by way of warming up for the Happy Fun Fox miniseries in the fall. Question about why the SWATbots carrying out Operation Wasteland in Sonic #22 went after Robotnik and Snively [DJD: What part of "total destruction" don't you understand?]; a fan from Canada complains about Bunnie's seldom appearing in the comics [DJD: Hear! Hear!]; fan letter for Tails from Cleveland. Also cover art for #27 and the Triple Trouble special. #27 [Oct 1995] "A Scrambled Hedgehog" Story: Ken Penders/Art: Art Mawhinney While retrieving a message in Robotropolis, Sonic collides with a SWATbot with sufficient force to knock himself out. Coming to in Robotnik's headquarters, Sonic displays all the symptom [singular] of that favorite condition of writers everywhere: amnesia. Robotnik passes himself off as Sonic mentor and advisor. After working out on some Freedom Fighter dummies left over from the Princess Sally miniseries, and after having had a microtransmitter planted on his person, Sonic is sent to Knothole to "observe the underground terrorist group." Sonic enters a secret tunnel entrance to Knothole, but Rotor's security system detects the bug. Rotor tries everything he can to stop Sonic before he can get out of the tunnel, but Sonic spins his way out to the surface and enters Knothole, apparently under the impression that his orders are to combat rather than observe. To be continued. At least the artwork didn't go schizo, switching from Mawhinney to Manak halfway through. Anyone else get the reference to the Patrick McGoohan cult TV classic, "The Prisoner," on page 3? Sonic Art: I know he's only 6, but Mitchell Resk's drawing of Sonic makes him look like he's wearing a diaper. Triple Trouble Coming Attractions Gallagher/Manak Essentially a two-page ad for the upcoming issue. Weirdest panel is the one inviting readers to CHECK OUT PRINCESS SALLY IN A HOT PINK STRING BIKINI, just before Sally nixes the idea. And this is the same Sally who went through the first season on TV wearing nothing in the world but a pair of boots! Apparently, Gallagher is also Not Clear On The Concept when it comes to clothing and furries. Oh well, there are always the WEB site pictures.... Sonic Grams: PUH-LEEEZE lose the office humor; it's taking up valuable space that could be used by "Noted From The Net" [whatever happened to that idea?]. Recaps the contents of the Triple Trouble issue, plus indicates that #28 will include the preamble to the Tails miniseries. Someone asks about Sonic's sneakers; Robotnik gets a fan letter; and someone asks the names of Sonic & Sally's offspring from #22. Game Gear Adaptation #1 [Oct 1995] Triple Trouble issue "Tttriple Tttrouble!!!" Story: Mike Gallagher/Art: Dave Manak Robotnik miscalculates when trying to exploit a Chaos Emerald as a power source, and the stone splits into two fragments. One half lands in the Great Forest where a new set of action zones is created. The other half lands on Knuckles' floating island where it starts burrowing into a mountain. Knuckles investigates but is hit on the head by a rock and loses consciousness. As for Sonic, he enters the new zones to retrieve the shard, but as soon as he does so he's knocked out by Knack the Weasel. As for Knuckles, he comes to in a cave surrounded by a group of Ancient Walkers--cave-dwellers wearing masks. After some exposition about how if the half emerald should come in contact with the Floating Island's emerald it'll blow the place apart, Knuckles is returned to the surface in time to trash Knack, who happens to have Sonic in the trunk of his vehicle. Sonic & Knuckles start to resume their old grudge match when Robotnik contacts Knack in order to keep the plot moving. Sonic & Knuckles reunite the Emerald which disappears; they then part company after exchanging insincerities and mutual distrust. As for the emerald, it reappears in the possession of the Ancient Walkers. "Submersible Rehearsal" Story: Gallagher/Art: Art Mawhinney Tails' joy as Rotor finishes work on The Sea Fox is punctured when he learns that Sally has instructed Rotor not to put any oil in the sub (fuel or lubricating? It doesn't say). Tails then learns that Robotnik has an octobot terrorizing sea creatures; this information comes from an oil-soaked gull. Draining the oil from the gull to power the Sea Fox, Tails defeats the octobot and destroys the underwater robot factory. This is all prelude to the Tails miniseries--a full-page ad shows Spaziante cover designs, but we all remember what happened to the cover designs for the Princess Sally miniseries, don't we? "First Contact" Story & Art: Ken Penders Back on the floating island, Knuckles interrupts a tussle with Vector to investigate what he thinks is a Robotnik invasion attempt. But it turns out he's being taunted (as in "Fire Drill" in Sonic & Knuckles #1) by someone whose name turns out to be Archimedes. He leads Knuckles to the Chaos Chamber where he tells Knuckles that "only when you can find me will we know that you are capable of seeing the answer within the question." The solution promised in the upcoming Knuckles Chaotix issue. NOTES FROM THE NET: that's the heading suggested for comix- related posts to a.f.s-h by none other than Paul Castiglia of Archie Comics. Seems P.C. thinks that NftN would make a good subsection of the Sonic Grams, and said so in a recent post. The idea is that you can post to a.f.s-h, and your post (and e-mail address if you want) will be reprinted in NftN. But ONLY if you specify that it's for NftN. Apparently Archie Comics is still getting a feel for whether they should go ahead with the plan, so let's see some support for it! Hmmm, wonder if Sally's e-mail address is princess@frdmftrs.org ? COMIC PUBLISHERS: For subscriptions and back issues--US & Canada: Archie Comics 325 Fayette Avenue Mamaroneck, NY 10543 (914) 381-5155. $15.00/year US monthly $18.00/year CAN monthly For subscriptions and back issues--United Kingdom (Fleetway Editions comics): Sonic The Comic Subscription Dept. OR Back Issue Zone Aim Ltd. P.O. Box 10 Pallion Industrial Estate Sunderland, SR4 6SN UNITED KINGDOM 01144-91-5102290 L28.60 (=28 pounds, 60 pence)/year UK fortnightly L45.00/year Europe fortnightly L47.00/year Overseas surface mail fortnightly L55.00/year Overseas airmail fortnightly From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 25 18:38:21 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA13979 for sonic-ll; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:36:57 -0400 Received: from granite.mv.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA13974 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:36:54 -0400 Received: by granite.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA02290; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:36:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:36:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hurley To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: new pic Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I just scanned it from the latest sonic comic (issue #27) ftp://rat.org/pub/sonic/images/comic/bikini.jpg which means ftp to rat.org and it's in /pub/sonic/images/comic with the filename "bikini.jpg" I'm glad I got it. This is the first sonic comic i have. Is this typical? If so I think i'll be getting more. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW : http://rat.org | FTP : ftp://rat.org/pub ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 25 19:09:13 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA14175 for sonic-ll; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:56:52 -0400 Received: from nic.data.net.mx by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA14168 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:56:48 -0400 Received: from ts12.data.net.mx (ts12.data.net.mx [200.13.16.51]) by nic.data.net.mx (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA24392 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:54:26 -0600 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:54:26 -0600 Message-Id: <199508252254.QAA24392@nic.data.net.mx> X-Sender: alexmon1@mailer.data.net.mx X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: sonic@sard.mv.net From: alexmon1@data.net.mx (ALEJANDRA MONCAYO ORTEGA) Subject: Thanks a lot Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Hello! Here I`m once more to congratule to all of you.Thanks by your wonderful files they`re way cool!(as Sonic says).At least in this way I can imagine me the stories in the comics.But I don`t have enough with this I would be really happy,my dear Dan Drezen if you could send me monthly the Sonic comic book. Can we do a deal?I`ll send you a check by the amount that you need to send me the comic here to Mexico.But please think about it and send me your answer the fastest possible.And what about if someday you could send me the books also? Well that`s all. Thank you ALEX Your Mexican Freedom Fighter friend From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Fri Aug 25 22:09:20 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15437 for sonic-ll; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 21:46:50 -0400 Received: from unix.infoserve.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA15432 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 21:46:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (bradc@localhost) by unix.infoserve.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA28900; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:59:22 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 18:59:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Brad Clark Subject: Sonic stuff FS To: sonic@sard.mv.net cc: sonic@sard.mv.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Hello all, I'm posting this for a non-list subscriber, who is wanting to sell some of their Sonic Merchandise. (why?!) Since some of you can't access the newsgroup, I figures she might get a bit better response here. :) From: breezypt@atc.ameritel.net (breezypt) Newsgroups: alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog Subject: FS:Sonic Stuff Date: 25 Aug 1995 16:57:49 GMT Organization: Ameritel Lines: 8 Message-ID: <41kved$rj@news.ameritel.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: breezypt.ts2.ameritel.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Hello! I am still selling off my collection. If you are interested, e-mail me for a list! Thank you! -Emily"Robin" Pocket Dragon Lover breezypt@atc.ameritel.net Or on AOL at:PocketDrag From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sat Aug 26 20:08:19 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA24165 for sonic-ll; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 20:00:46 -0400 Received: from ddi2.digital.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id UAA24160 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 20:00:41 -0400 Received: from outdoor.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by ddi2.digital.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id TAA26362 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 19:57:19 -0500 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Some Sonic Projects From: john.mankowski@outdoor.com (JOHN MANKOWSKI) Message-ID: <8AFE473.0001003A2C.uuout@outdoor.com> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 95 18:59:00 -0500 Organization: The Outdoor Sportsman BBS - Cocoa, FL - 1 (407)635-9590 X-Mailreader: PCBoard Version 15.22 X-Mailer: PCBoard/UUOUT Version 1.20 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net First off i have an Idea for thoes who have a BBS for Sonic fans. Once i find the files needed I will start work on a project called Legend of the Blue Hedgehog. This will be an Ad-On for the Hit door game Legend of the Red Dragon. It will (I Hope) Replace the Look,Enmies,and Teachers into sonic charectors. It's a Big project i will star on and hope to have out near the end of the year. Here is the help i need. 1:For charector replacements should I have the charectors that the players play as be like Sonic and Sally or should they be other freedum Fighters. If they are others then I can have Sally replace Violet and Sonic replace the bard. (They are the charectors in the Inn that players can get info from and even flert with). 2. I need some Into Ansis that can replace the start up screens. I think you can do that. I need some good sonic art with or without the title on it. 3. I need some names and ideas for Enemies and Other charectors in the game. There are 12 fighting masters in the traing arena. I plan on haveing Bunnie as the head warrior and some other charectors as other teachers. And i need some genral enmies to replace all the forest ones form the game. There are 20 enmies for all 12 levels. If you writers out there have charectors for one or the other let me know. I hope to get premission to use Bookshire as a master (Maby Level 11) and Packbell as one of the enmies in the forest. Aswell as any other charectors I can get. Thank you and write to John_Mankowski@outdoor.com From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sun Aug 27 00:08:20 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id XAA25887 for sonic-ll; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 23:42:43 -0400 Received: from nic.data.net.mx by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id XAA25882 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 23:42:40 -0400 Received: from ts29.data.net.mx (ts29.data.net.mx [200.13.16.68]) by nic.data.net.mx (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA01208 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 21:40:24 -0600 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 21:40:24 -0600 Message-Id: <199508270340.VAA01208@nic.data.net.mx> X-Sender: alexmon1@mailer.data.net.mx X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: sonic@sard.mv.net From: alexmon1@data.net.mx (ALEJANDRA MONCAYO ORTEGA) Subject: I`ll wait by Knuckles Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Hello!Today I`ve decided that I want the Knuckles`stories comic.I`ll wait weeks,months, anytime.Please If you can`t photocopy it,could you ask to the Archie company by it,and after you can send it to me.Well now I have to go.See you! Your Mexican friend ALEX Have a nice weekend. And remember.........Sonic the Hedgehog is the best! From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sun Aug 27 13:21:19 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA03744 for sonic-ll; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:02:47 -0400 Received: from unix.infoserve.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA03735 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:02:41 -0400 Received: from localhost (bradc@localhost) by unix.infoserve.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA14561; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 10:16:21 -0700 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 10:16:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Brad Clark Subject: New pics posted To: sonic@sard.mv.net cc: sonic@sard.mv.net In-Reply-To: <8AFE473.0001003A2C.uuout@outdoor.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Hello everyone, Two new pics I just posted to the FTP site. 1) son24a.jpg Sonic Tails and Antoine sort of in a flying pose from issue 24 of the comic book. 2) stjean1.jpg Picture of Geoffrey St-Jean from the Princess Sally mini-series. If anyone's got any requests let me know...I'll see what I can dig out. Laters! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x RL: Brad D. Clark Furtoonia: Orwin Raccoon/GrumpyBear x x bradc@unix.infoserve.net x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Sun Aug 27 13:40:52 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA04050 for sonic-ll; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:31:45 -0400 Received: from granite.mv.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA04045 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:31:42 -0400 Received: by granite.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA01687; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:31:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:31:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hurley To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Re: New pics posted In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net On Sun, 27 Aug 1995, Brad Clark wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Two new pics I just posted to the FTP site. > > 1) son24a.jpg Sonic Tails and Antoine sort of in a flying pose from > issue 24 of the comic book. > > 2) stjean1.jpg Picture of Geoffrey St-Jean from the Princess Sally > mini-series. > > If anyone's got any requests let me know...I'll see what I can > dig out. Just so everyone knows, it's at rat.org /pub/sonic/images/comic/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW : http://rat.org | FTP : ftp://rat.org/pub ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 28 19:38:38 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23743 for sonic-ll; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 19:21:39 -0400 Received: from serv0.cae.wisc.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id TAA23738 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 19:21:33 -0400 Received: from hp-110.cae.wisc.edu (firmiss@hp-110.cae.wisc.edu [144.92.87.146]) by serv0.cae.wisc.edu (8.6.12 CAE/8.6.10) with ESMTP id SAA27845 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 18:21:25 -0500 From: James Firmiss Received: (firmiss@localhost) by hp-110.cae.wisc.edu (8.6.10 CAE/8.6.9) id SAA06422 for sonic@sard.mv.net; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 18:21:24 -0500 Message-Id: <199508282321.SAA06422@hp-110.cae.wisc.edu> Subject: Re: Amy Rose Story To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 18:21:24 CDT In-Reply-To: <013.00223297.ZCSN36B@prodigy.com>; from "MISS LINDSAY L CIBOS" at Aug 22, 95 8:21 pm X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14] Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I found and read the HTML version of 'From Amy Rose, with Love'. Fun story :) I could comment more but the only comments I'll make are that I'm glad to see Antoine can be portrayed as something other than a complete bafoon. The illustrations were a nice touch to the HTML verions. Also.. It seemed like everyone was a bit 'underwelmed' at discovering that Antoine is a prince. I would've expected Antoine to be confused.. then estatic about the whole thing (possibly bragging about it). > To Be Or Not To Be > Chapter One > > THE NEXT DAY..... > Antoine slid out of bed slowly. Antoine opened his eyes,and saw > Sonic. Sonic had an angry look on his face. Antoine fell out of bed. > > -- Remainder of preview deleted to save space -- Hmmm... Promising beginning however I've never been able to come up with a decent plot to a Sonic story so I can't really think of any good ideas for this story. (except that Sonic would probably convince Antoine that Tails was probably tagging along behind and alone or else Sally and the others would have brought him back immediately). Sonic and Antoine could also have a bit of an argument as to weather Antoine is 'really' a prince or not (I'd expect Sonic would be the most sceptical). > thanks, > Bunnie Rabbot > (Lindsay Cibos) -- James Firmiss firmiss@cae.wisc.edu From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Mon Aug 28 21:38:42 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA25027 for sonic-ll; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:08:29 -0400 Received: from nic.data.net.mx by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA25022 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:08:25 -0400 Received: from ts11.data.net.mx (ts11.data.net.mx [200.13.16.50]) by nic.data.net.mx (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA11616 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 19:06:04 -0600 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 19:06:04 -0600 Message-Id: <199508290106.TAA11616@nic.data.net.mx> X-Sender: alexmon1@mailer.data.net.mx X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=====================_809662140==_" To: sonic@sard.mv.net From: alexmon1@data.net.mx (ALEXANDRA MONCAYO ORTEGA) Subject: sonic icons X-Attachments: C:\SONIC\KNUKICON.ICO;C:\SONIC\SONICON.ICO;C:\SONIC\TAILICON.ICO; Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net --=====================_809662140==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I=B4ve just finished some icons for the directory icons in Sonic lists.I= don=B4t know if you have a special procedure to convert icon master files into bmp= or jpg.Or can you convert them into zip. files.Well here they are... 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I've already sent some comments to L.C. by e-mail (if you didn't get them, Lindsay, e-mail me directly). I won't divulge any details on a suggested story line but would like to go public with a couple comments. > Fun story :) I could comment more but the only comments I'll make are that > I'm glad to see Antoine can be portrayed as something other than a complete > buffoon. [deleted] Also.. > It seemed like everyone was a bit 'underwelmed' at discovering that Antoine > is a prince. I would've expected Antoine to be confused.. then estatic > about the whole thing (possibly bragging about it). > Probably the weakest aspect of the story. It was introduced without any set-up or follow-through. When I had Sally realize the significance of the brooch in Chapter 2 of "Bloodlines" I tried to convey, through her actions and dialogue, how shocked she was by the turn of events. Something this important to the life of the character should have a bit more set-up. Also, as I mentioned in my post, I'd have thought Nicole would have access to archival information to establish Antoine's pedigree. Just my $.02 for the benefit of the list. ================================================================ || ___------__ || || |\__-- /\ _- || Daniel J. Drazen || | / __ _ || drazen@andrews.edu || //\ / \ /__ || || | o| 0|__ --_ || Custodian of one of the Sonic || \\____-- __ \ ___ - || the Hedgehog FAQ Files || (@@ __/ / /_ || || -_____--- --_ || ASCII Sonic by Han J. Lee ================================================================ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 29 10:45:28 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id KAA02466 for sonic-ll; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 10:32:23 -0400 Received: from seagoon.newcastle.edu.au by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id KAA02461 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 10:32:18 -0400 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by seagoon.newcastle.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id AAA21987 for sonic@sard.mv.com; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 00:32:03 +1000 Received: (from cjb@localhost) by brushtail.hna.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA24142; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 23:42:02 +1000 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 23:42:02 +1000 Message-Id: <199508291342.XAA24142@brushtail.hna.com.au> To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Sonic#28: Sonic Grams-- The Tails miniseries is a go! From: list-brush-sonic@brushtail.hna.com.au Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I hope its not going to be _the_ Duck "Bill" Platypus in the Tails miniseries. :) The cover preview for Sonic#29 looks interesting! Sally gets Roboticized, with Dulcey looking on.. Are there plans for a `Grand Unification' of the several Sonic storylines in the cartoons, comics, and games? :) -- Chris,, (Sigh, they're overlooked including any Brushtails in their "Downunda" FFs. :~( From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 29 14:10:46 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA06160 for sonic-ll; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 13:52:32 -0400 Received: from dns.mcn.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA06154 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 13:52:29 -0400 From: bjirish@mcn.net Received: from [204.212.170.194] (MCNPPP147.MCN.NET [204.212.170.176]) by dns.mcn.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA19321 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 11:56:22 -0600 X-Sender: bjirish@pop.mcn.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 11:52:26 -0600 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Windows Write compatable for Mac? Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net 'Scuse me for breaking into the story comments, but is there a word processor for Mac that can read the embeded graphics in a Win Write document? Brian From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Tue Aug 29 16:40:11 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA08992 for sonic-ll; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 16:23:56 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA08987 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 16:23:53 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id QAA01014; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 16:17:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 16:17:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: Post Sonic Subject: Archie Comics address (fwd) Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net This is a forwarded message. If you want to reply to its author=20 directly, please be sure your reply is addressed to alexmon1@DATA.NET.MX. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 14:03:58 -0600 From: alexmon1@DATA.NET.MX To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Archie Comics address Hello! Here I=B4m one more time,now to give thanks to all that people that = has been helping me.Now I=B4m this moment someone told me that there were Paul Casta= glia from Archie Comics on the Internet.Someone knows what=B4s Paul Castaglia=B4= s address? See you! Your friend=20 Alex From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 30 14:40:15 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA24083 for sonic-ll; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 14:10:21 -0400 Received: from rachael.franken.de by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id OAA24076 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 14:10:09 -0400 Received: from by rachael.franken.de with cbsmtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #14) id m0snrVz-000oLXC; Wed, 30 Aug 95 20:05 MET DST Received: from deco.franken.de by hub-n.franken.de with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #12) id m0snqd5-00007SC; Wed, 30 Aug 95 19:08 WET DST Received: by deco.franken.de (CrossPoint v3.02); 30 Aug 1995 19:01:21 +0100 Date: 30 Aug 1995 18:59:00 +0100 From: sonicgroup@deco.franken.de (Alessandro Sanasi) To: sonic@sard.mv.net Message-ID: <5sp2_XuPgzB@deco.franken.de> Subject: Help! Need Sonic cartoons on video X-Mailer: XP v3.02 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Help!! Since the beginning of 1995 I'm trying to get videotapes of the SatAM Sonic The Hedgehog cartoon, but everyone who promised to send them to me let me down. Is there anyone who has both the first and second season on tape and would be willing to send them to me? I live in Germany, but I will pay _everything_ necessary to get them. If you can help, please send e-mail to sanasi@deco.franken.de to discuss the details. I would prefer them in S-VHS and PAL, but I will take recordings in normal VHS and NTSC as well. If you don't have all episodes recorded but are willing to help, please write to me too. Desperately waiting for replies Alessandro --- You get what anyone gets. You get a lifetime. From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 30 16:09:00 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA26166 for sonic-ll; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:04:36 -0400 Received: from inetgate.prodigy.com by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id QAA26160 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:04:31 -0400 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail.prodigy.com [199.4.137.13]) by inetgate.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA44251 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:53:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:03:43 EDT From: ZCSN36B@prodigy.com (MISS LINDSAY L CIBOS) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.00579730.ZCSN36B@prodigy.com> To: Sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Sonic #28 Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I just got Sonic #28 today, but its all screwed up! The first page is that shadow scene and I don't even get to see part 1 and 2 of the first story. Also I don't get to see the Sonic Gram page, or the ending of Tails story, let alone waht his story is called! I want to write to archie comics and conplain, but I don't have their address because I didn't get the Sonic gram page! Oh well, looks like i'll just have to buy a copy from the store. any one else have this prombelm with this issue or any other issue? Lindsay From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Wed Aug 30 22:40:11 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id WAA01028 for sonic-ll; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:10:03 -0400 Received: from use.usit.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id WAA01022 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:10:00 -0400 Received: (from acme@localhost) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) id WAA15166; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:03:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:03:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) -- Team OS/2" To: Post Sonic Subject: Sonic on FurryMUCK? Message-ID: Organization: Rebel Alliance of Mobius MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Some of you know that I'm now on FurToonia (and that my character has only a minimal connection to Mobius). I tried out FurryMUCK today for the first time, and I also have an idea for an entirely Sonic-based character to develop there. Is Mobius in any way represented on FurryMUCK (like the Great Forest on FurToonia)? (This thread should be moved to private e-mail or page #mail if it gets too MU*-specific. It can stay here if the focus can remain on Sonic and the other citizens of Mobius.) Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) [Team OS/2] A net.freedom-fighter for Mobius! "Freedom Fighters are #1!" -- Sonic the Hedgehog A! JW2 WAR++ PI0>+ BR+i SL++++i SK+++ RI0>++/++^ RU+ GDF0>+ BU++ MI- MM- KK-- Do $++ E59 Ee5 TRita Ay68 M Mail: acme@use.usit.net | WWW: http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~eschulma From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 31 01:38:53 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id BAA02807 for sonic-ll; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 01:26:53 -0400 Received: from dns.mcn.net by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id BAA02801 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 01:26:50 -0400 From: bjirish@mcn.net Received: from [204.212.170.181] (MCNPPP159.MCN.NET [204.212.170.188]) by dns.mcn.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA06695 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 23:30:53 -0600 X-Sender: bjirish@pop.mcn.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 23:26:49 -0600 To: sonic@sard.mv.net Subject: Furtoonia blocked or network error Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net I'm having a major trouble with Furtoonia. I've used two different apps to open a telnet connection and I _can_ get a brief connect for less than a second (no text/data transfer either) and then the connection gets drop-kicked. According to a routetracer, one of red_panda.tbyte.com's routers, specifically the one that's "pointed" in my direction, is a little screwy or is rejecting connects from my domain. I've no idea why if it's the latter. Who can help me with this little conundrum? Brian From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 31 10:25:43 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA06346 for sonic-ll; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:44:20 -0400 Received: from peter.cs.andrews.edu by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA06341 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:44:17 -0400 Received: from edmund (edmund.cs.andrews.edu) by peter.cs.andrews.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA09083; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:44:12 -0400 From: drazen@andrews.edu (Dan Drazen) Received: by edmund (5.x) id AA03893; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:44:13 -0400 Message-Id: <9508311344.AA03893@edmund> Subject: To: Alexandra Moncayo Ortega; re: subscription To: sonic@sard.mv.net Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:44:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199508270340.VAA01208@nic.data.net.mx> from "ALEJANDRA MONCAYO ORTEGA" at Aug 26, 95 09:40:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Alexandra, My sysop tells me that my message to you may not have gotten through so I have to go public with this. I don't know why Archie won't honor Mexican subscriptions, especially since they mail to Canada. Anyway, here's how it'll work: I can subscribe to Sonic on my own (right now, I'm still buying off the newsstand) and then mail you each issue. If you want me to subscribe for you, send me your mailing address and US$20.00 ($15 for the subscription, $5 for postage/handling). You can reach me at my work address: Daniel J. Drazen James White Library Andrews University Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-1450 Of course, send cheque or money order, as the US Postal Service takes a dim view of sending cash through the mail. Funny, I thought NAFTA was supposed to make this EASIER! ================================================================ || ___------__ || || |\__-- /\ _- || Daniel J. Drazen || | / __ _ || drazen@andrews.edu || //\ / \ /__ || || | o| 0|__ --_ || Custodian of one of the Sonic || \\____-- __ \ ___ - || the Hedgehog FAQ Files || (@@ __/ / /_ || || -_____--- --_ || ASCII Sonic by Han J. Lee ================================================================ From owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Thu Aug 31 21:39:12 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA17309 for sonic-ll; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 21:15:37 -0400 Received: from rachael.franken.de by sard.mv.net (8.6.10/mv(b)/mem-941101) id VAA17303 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 21:15:26 -0400 Received: from by rachael.franken.de with cbsmtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #14) id m0soKXI-000oStC; Fri, 1 Sep 95 03:04 MET DST Received: from deco.franken.de by hub-n.franken.de with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #12) id m0soHQ3-00008CC; Thu, 31 Aug 95 23:45 WET DST Received: by deco.franken.de (CrossPoint v3.02); 31 Aug 1995 23:11:34 +0100 Date: 31 Aug 1995 23:09:00 +0100 From: sonicgroup@deco.franken.de (Alessandro Sanasi) To: sonic@sard.mv.net Message-ID: <5st9OqmegzB@deco.franken.de> Subject: Storylist - Fleetway Sonic Comic (long) X-Mailer: XP v3.02 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-sonic@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sonic@sard.mv.net Hi there fellow Sonic fans. The English Sonic comic (published by Fleetway) has reached issue #59. Therefore I thought it would be nice to send you a checklist of all the stories that have been published in this comic so far... Most of the stories are split up over several issues. If a story has subtitles, then they are listed before the issue numbers. For those who already got photocopies of some of the Sonic stories from me, here is a list of the more important events in the Fleetway storyline: - Issue #8 - #10 Sonic's origin (along with the beginning of a totally new storyline) - Issue #24 - #28 Sonic's fight against the Metal Sonic (adaption of the CD game). - Issue #33 - #36 Sonic meets Knuckles (adaption of the Sonic III game). - Issue #45, #47 - #53 Sonic & Knuckles fight Robotnik on the Floating Island, destroy the repaired Death Egg and retrieve the Master Emerald from Robotnik (adaption of the Sonic & Knuckles game). - Issue #53 - #58 Knuckles meets the Chaotix team (adaption of the Knuckles Chaotix game) - Issue #59 - ? The sequel to 'Knuckles Chaotix'. BTW, if you have any questions about the English Sonic comic from Fleetway, about the stories in general or if you just want to send some fan-mail, you can now use the following e-mail address: stc@richb.demon.co.uk Some of the letters may even be printed on their Speedlines page (much like the Sonic-Grams page in the Archie comic). Now, here is the list: --------------------- chew along dotted line ---------------------------- _STC Story Checklist (issue #1 - #59, listed in alphabetical order):_ Amy Rose In Good Hands 41 Captain Plunder & His Sky Pirates 47 - 50 Decap Attack 10 - 15 Who Killed Chuck? 34 - 36 The Replacement 40 Doctor Robotnik A Day In The Life Of Robotnik 42 Ecco The Dolphin 13 - 18 Eternal Champions 19 - 24 Larson's Revenge 37 - 40 Kid Chameleon 7 - 12 Back To Unreality 54 - 59 Knuckles Karnival Night Conspiracy 39 - 44 Knuckles Versus The Cybernik 52 Total Chaotix 53 - 58 Knuckles And Tails The Revenge Of Trogg 59 - ? Legend of the Golden Axe Citadel of Dead Souls 1 - 6 Plague of Serpents 13 - 18 Marko's Magic Football 41 - 46 MegaDroid 41 Mutant League Bring Me The Head Of Coach Brikka 31 - 36 Pirate S.T.C. 28 - 33 Shinobi The Fear Pavilion 1 - 6 The Art of War 19 - 24 Power Of The Elements 47 - 53 Sonic The Hedgehog Enter Sonic 1 Robofox 2 Mayhem In The Marble Hill Zone 3 Day Of The Badniks 4 Lost In The Labyrinth Zone 5 Attack On The Death Egg 6 Super Sonic 7 The Origin Of Sonic 8 Back To Reality 9 Megatox 10 Time Racer 11 Hidden Danger 12 Double Trouble 13 Hero Of The Year 14 The Green Eater 15 Happy Christmas, Doctor Robotnik 16 Sonic The Human 17 Casino Night 18 - 19 Hill Top Terror 20 Girl Trouble 21 - 22 Pirates Of The Mystic Cave 23 The Sonic Terminator 24 - 28 The Sentinel 29 The Pretender 31 The Unbeatable Foe 32 Enter Knuckles 33 - 34 Power Of The Chaos Emeralds 35 - 36 The Frozen Zone 40 Ice Cap Attack 41 - 42 Badniks Bridge 43 - 44 Day Of The Death Egg 45 The Big Con 46 Mystery Of The Sandopolis Zone 47 - 48 Count Down To Disaster 49 - 50 Disaster! 51 - 53 Beware Predicto! 54 The Great Escape 55 - 56 The Rampage Of Mekanik 57 - 58 The Brotherhood Of Metallix 59 - ? Sonic's World 25 - 27 No More Mr. Nice Bug 32 - 33 Enter The Cybernik 45 - 47 Face From The Past 51 - 52 The Seven Badniks 59 - ? Sparkster Last Of The Rocket Knights 53 - 58 Streets of Rage 7 - 12 Skates' Story 25 - 30 The Only Game In Town 41 - 46 Tails The Nameless Zone 16 - 17 The Land Beyond 18 - 21 The Morbidden Hunt 28 - 31 Zonerunner & The Flock 35 - 38 Hero Of Mobius 42 Zonerunner & The Big Freeze 48 - 51 Wonder Boy Demon World 2 - 9 Ghost World 22 - 27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok... dear Dan Drazen, how about adding this to your Sonic FAQ file, along with the booklist I posted earlier? Best wishes Alessandro --- You get what anyone gets. You get a lifetime.