ASCII Art - Story Characters - The Mouse King From: aps-1022@khijol.yggdrasil.com "Hello to everyone! I would like to thank everyone that sent me lotsa cooool neat ascii-art and especially Ric (thanks ric!) I now have an impressive classified bank of ascii-art pictures. The reason i actually stock those bank of ascii-art is that not only am i a really POOR designer for those art, but i am also a writer of child stories and poetry that i send to some newsgroup for childrens and other newsgroup where those little story are REALLY making a difference. It brings smiles in the heart of many peoples! I though i would share with you all the first illustrated story i sent to the different newsgroup, just to show a bit why i was asking for people to send me ascii art. Again, thanks! What follow is the exact illustrated story i sent a few days ago!:) Chevalier" [The story begins...] ,,, (o o) ---------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo---------------------------------------- The Mouse-King - Quest for a wedding :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o _---| _ _ _ _ _ o ---| o ]-I-I-I-[ _ _ _ _ _ _ _---| | _---| \ ` ' / "A lonnng long time ago, ]-I-I-I-I-[ ---| | ---| |. | in a very old castle, a \ ` '_/ | / \ | | /^\| king was dealing with a big [*] __| ^ / ^ \ ^ | |*|| problem. His daughter, the |__ ,| / \ / `\ / \ | ===| most wonderful, sweet, ___| ___ ,|__ / /=_=_=_=\ \ |, _| bright, gentle, coura- I_I__I_I__I_I (====(_________)___|_|____|____ geous and beautiful mouse \-\--|-|--/-/ | I [ ]__I I_I__|____I_I_| of the Kingdom -- was now |[] '| | [] |`__ . [ \-\--|-|--/-/ in age of beeing married, |. | |' |___|_____I___|___I___|---------| and the King wanted to / \| [] .|_|-|_|-|-|_|-|_|-|_|-| [] [] | find the most perfect <===> | .|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| | / \ and worthy husband for ] []|` [] ||.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.|.||- <===> her. He wanted to marry ] []| ` | |/////////\\\\\\\\\\.||__. | |[] [ her to someone special <===> ' ||||| | | | ||||.|| [] <===> to someone strong and \T/ | |-- ||||| | O | O | ||||.|| . |' \T/ powerful. In fact, he | . _||||| | | | ||||.|| | | | decided he would marry ../|' v . | .|||||/____|____\|||| /|. . | . ./ her to the *MOST* power- |//\............/...........\........../../\\\ ful beeing on Earth." "At this time, my little one, you have to understand that a princess couldnt choose herself who she wanted to marry. This would cause many princess to have a very sad life, and thankfully today, we can marry who we want! :) So the princess mouse was very sad, for she knew that she had to marry the one her father would decide, and she loved secretly a prince-mouse that lived on another kingdom. " . . | . / "-- Surly, said the king to himself one \ ... ... | ... / night he couldnt sleep because he was ...\...........|..... /...... thinking about all that, surly the ......\... * *../............ SUN is the MOST *powerful* beeing .......... ______________*_____......... on all Earth! I shall meet him ....... (____________________>... tomorrow and ask him to marry my - - - - - - - (o o) - - - - - - - - daughter. " ....* \ *..... ......... ,____~ .......... "The day after, he took a big ...../.* .*...... breakfast and then, he clim the / ......* *..... \ tallest tower of his castle (the one / ........... ..........\ that sratches the heavens with its / ... . ..... |........... \ weather-vane) and met the Sun from / .. ... | ... ... \ the tallest window: " . . | . . \ | " --Oh Sun, Sun! You that are | the most *powerful* beeing of all Earth! Would you marry my daughter, who is the most wonderful, sweet, bright, gentle, courageous and beautiful mouse of the Kingdom? --I would be glad to do so, responded the Sun, but alas! I am not the most powerfull beeing on Earth... look, look in the sky! Do you see the clouds? When they comes in front of me, they block my rays and stop my warmth... they surly are more powerful than me!" "The King was very persistant, and decided to keep his hopes high. The day after, after eating a strong breakfast, he climb the highest mountain on the Kingdom, and met with the clouds:" "--Oh Coulds, Clouds! You that are more ( ( ) powerfull than the Sun, who is the most ( ( powerfull beeing on all Earth! Would you ( ( ) marry my daughter, who is the most (_ ( ) wonderful, sweet, bright, gentle, ( ( ) courageous and beautiful mouse of the ^^^/^^^^/^^^^^^^^^^^ Kingdom? / /__ \__ / ? / /__ \ ( )( )________ /__ / /00 \ _ / / O_\\--mm---mm /_______) / / \/ "--I would be glad to do so, answered the Clouds... but Alas! there is someone who is more powerfull than me... look, look! Do you feel the wind? When he blows, strongly, he pushes us far away and we cant do anything about it! He certainly would be the one worthy of your daughter." "The king did not desesperate, and decided the next day, after a big strong breakfast, to meet with the Wind." . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . . * "He travelled far far away, in a land . ____ . . . where only ice, montain, coldness and wind >> . . lives and play music all the time . . /WWWI; \ . . . ____ between the stars." . * /WWWWII; \=====; . /WI; \ * . /\_ . . /WWWWWII;.. \_ . ___/WI;:. \ . _/M; \ . . . /WWWWWIIIIi;.. \__/WWWIIII:.. \____ . . /MMI: \ * . . _/WWWWWIIIi;;;:...: ;\WWWWWWIIIII;. \ /MMWII; \ . . . /WWWWWIWIiii;;;.:.. : ;\WWWWWIII;;;:: \___/MMWIIII; \ . /WWWWWIIIIiii;;::.... : ;|WWWWWWII;;::.: :;IMWIIIII;: \___ * /WWWWWWWWWIIIIIWIIii;;::;..;\WWWWWWIII;;;:::... ;IMIII;; :: \ . WWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIii;;::.;..;\WWWWWWWWIIIII;;.. :;IMIII;::: : \ WWWWWWWWWWWWWIIIIIIii;;::..;..;\WWWWWWWWIIII;::; :::::::::.....:: \ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%XXXXXXX %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%XXXXXXXXXX %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%XXXXXXXXXXXXX %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "--Oh Wind, Wind! You that are more powerfull than the clouds, who are more powerfull than the Sun, who is the most powerfull beeing on all Earth! Would you marry my daughter, who is the most wonderful, sweet, bright, gentle, courageous and beautiful mouse on the Kingdom? --I would be glad to do so... but alas! I am not that powerfull... when you will travel back to your land, you will surly see this old tower on the castle on the castle of the neighbour Kingdom... for centuries and centuries I have vainly blowed on him.. and never would he mouve! This old tower is surly more powerful than I." "The King decided to go see this tower and ask him to marry his daughter, since it was right on his way back to home:" "--Oh tower, Tower! You that are more |>>> powerful than the wind, who is more | powerful than the clouds, who are more _ _|_ _ powerful than the Sun, who is the MOST |;|_|;|_|;| powerful beeing on Earth! Would you \\. . / marry my daughter, who is the most \\: . / wonderful, sweet, bright, gentle, ||: | courageous and beautiful mouse on my ||:. | kingdom? " ||: .| ||: | \,/ ||: , | /`\ ||: | ||: . | __ _||_ | ____--`~ '--~~__ __ ----~ ~`---, ___ -~--~ ~---__ ,--~' ~~----_____-~' `~----~~ "--I would be glad to do so, but alas! I am not that powerfull... look, look! here in my undergrounds, a prince mouse has made hundred of holes in me, and never, never have i been able to stop him to do so! Surly he is more powerful than I am." "The King was very desesperate by that time... he decided to make a last attempt and walked in the labyriths of path and holes of the undergrounds of the tower to find the prince mouse. After a few times, he met him:" "--Oh Mr the prince Mouse.. You that are more powerful than the Tower, who is more powerful himself than the Wind, who is more powerful than the clouds, who is more powerful than the Sun, who is the most powerful beeing on Earth! Would you marry my daughter.. who is the most wonderful, sweet, bright, gentle courageous and beautiful mouse on my Kingdom?" ( )_( ) "And since Mr prince mouse was in love with the ( )_( ) / \. ./ \ King's daughter too, he answered "yes:)" and the \. ./ / __=.=__ \ two mouses married each other, were happy like __=.=__ \_ m " m _/ no other royal couple have ever been, and had " many, many many, many children." ,,, (o o) ---------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------------------------------