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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 08-21-2007 08:14 AM
A new EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf being worked on as the predecessor to "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette" as far as the Traveler's Timeline Tales are concerned is a story where Traveler Smurf sees Empath grow up without any of his powers to become the Wild Smurf. Here's a snippet of the story being worked on:
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Traveler continued to watch as the Smurfs in this timeline traveled from one point in time to the next, with Papa Smurf trying to align the crystals of the Key of Chronos in the correct order so that he and his little Smurfs could finally return home. During those time travels, the Smurfs encountered what appeared to be even remotely connected ancestors of Gargamel chasing after them in places such as Egypt, China, Scotland, India, the Netherlands, and even Israel where he appeared in the form of Judas the son of Iscariot – a rather strange connection at best, given his role in actual history. Yet throughout all these time periods the Smurfs appeared in, Traveler realized that the alternate version of Empath was not much of a help in the situation of getting the Smurfs to return to their proper place in time, since here he lacked the intelligence his normal self possessed that would enable him to give any insight to Papa Smurf as far as aligning the crystals in the correct order. In fact, Empath as the Wild Smurf wound up being used as a Swiss clockmaker in one of his cuckoo clocks, which required the other Smurfs to come to his rescue.
Then the next thing Traveler could see in this timeline was…nothing. It was literally absolutely nothing. It was as if somebody who was writing out the script of this particular timeline had stopped at some point and left the remainder of the timeline as blank as an unused sheet of paper.
Traveler had no idea why this timeline terminated in such a fashion. Could this mean that the time-traveling the Smurfs would engage in would result of their elimination in history? he wondered. If that were the case, then this one would have seen some evidence of that demise instead of just simply a timeline that abruptly terminated into this nothingness.
Traveler tried to travel as far as he could into this nothingness he encountered, hoping to find something as even a hint of a break that this nothingness ended. But it was as if he was merely traveling while going nowhere at all. The nothingness he encountered was endless.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Shaney Smurf
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posted 08-21-2007 10:26 AM
So you are looking at the time line when the Smurfs were traveling with that crystal? I'm guessing the nothingness is when the series ended? If that's the case hopefully Traveler will find a way to fix that and return them to where they were before they left the village.
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 08-21-2007 01:14 PM
The literal nothingness Traveler ends up in in that alternate timeline of Empath is, in fact, reflecting the lack of closure to the time-traveling season of episodes of the Smurfs cartoon show. Traveler in the beginning of "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette" does say that he wished he knew whether they would make it home, because he ended up seeing that "nothing beyond a certain point". But all the same, this is just an alternate timeline of Empath and NOT his actual timeline, so Traveler did say that he was glad that actual history didn't unfold that way or else he would never have been born (Traveler being Empath's great-grandson form the future).
Of course, Traveler in "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette", who investigates an alternate timeline chosen for Smurfette along the lines of her falling in love with Papa Smurf, does see, if not firsthand, that Empath and the Smurfs who were left in the village after they had driven Papa Smurf, Smurfette, their child, and Polaris Psyche out (the Smurflings chose to leave) also ended up presumably in the same mess that all the Smurfs wound up being in in the alternate history of Empath -- being stranded in time. Only here, because Smurfette was not among the Smurfs who ended up in that predicament, her timeline ends up continuing past her choosing to leave Papa Smurf after his outright refusal to help rescue his "former" little Smurfs and his violent angry outburst that he dishes out on Sassette for saying that Papa Smurf never really loved Smurfette but took her away from Empath.
The thing about Traveler's character and his ability to see into the alternate timelines of people he comes in contact with is that it is based on the DC Comics character Waverider, who first appeared in the Armageddon 2001 story arc of 1991 to investigate the timelines of various superheroes to see which one would become the evil tyrant Monarch. Only with Traveler, he just merely investigates alternate timelines for the simple quest of knowledge. The "Smurfs being stranded in time" bit that shows up in those two alternate timelines is just something he ends up finding out about.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Shaney Smurf
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posted 08-21-2007 02:09 PM
Oh my, that stuff is REALLY deep. Awesome ideas and thoughts involved, I find it very fascinating. For me personally it just seems to deep for a Smurf story. Excellent work, though.
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 08-23-2007 04:34 PM
"Empath Goes Wild" is progressing well, though the problem I'm now having is having to write the actual first encounter of this alternate version of Empath as Wild Smurf, since I know very little of the actual story that became the 4-part cartoon episode "Smurf On The Wild Side". If anyone wants to help as far as submitting a more extensive plot description of the episode in question, please feel free to share it with me.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Shaney Smurf
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posted 08-23-2007 04:47 PM
I wish I could get my hands on that episode, but it's not available to download. If I ever manage to get it I'll put it up on Smurf YouTube account.
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 08-24-2007 07:38 AM
This is an updated version of the "Empath Goes Wild" image I've created for the story itself (the original version appears on this site).
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Shaney Smurf
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posted 08-24-2007 07:49 AM
Awesome picture, I've seen this on the site and thought it was cool. I like Traveler's hair. I love your pictures, hope to see a lot more of them soon. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 08-24-2007 05:24 PM
Preview the first five chapters of the story Empath Goes Wild.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 08-26-2007 04:04 PM
Papa Smurf with the time-travel device in question -- at least my interpretation of it anyway -- the Key Of Chronos. The jagged glowing things around the clock head part of the key are supposed to be the crystals that power it.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 09-26-2007 10:08 PM
Chapter 6 is now complete and posted.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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posted 09-27-2007 07:40 AM
Just thought to also share this with you folks reading this post: I finally got my hands on a copy of the comic book version of the Wild Smurf story, which, although I can't read the dialogue because it is in Dutch, at least gives me some inkling as to how to continue writing this EMPATH fanfiction story reinterpretation of the same event -- which is how I was able to at least provide another finished chapter to this story.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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posted 09-27-2007 05:54 PM
Chapter 7 is now finished. Now currently working on finishing Chapter 8, which includes a scene where Wild Smurf is in Tapper's tavern, dancing around to music and dealing with the effects of drinking sarsaparilla ale -- something that doesn't appear in the original telling of the comic book Wild Smurf story, and most likely probably not in the multi-part "Smurf On The Wild Side" episode.
Anyway, here's an image of Papa Smurf with "the Wild Smurf" in a scene from Chapter 6:
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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posted 09-28-2007 08:11 PM
Chapter 8 is now complete and posted.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 10-02-2007 07:56 PM
I just got one of those 13-disc Smurf DVD compilations from Atlantic Trading DVDs, and while that set didn't include the multi-part episode "Smurf On The Wild Side", it did include "The Smurfs That Time Forgot", which is the story that "Empath Goes Wild" and "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette" alludes to. Was rather surprised to find out that (1) the start of the whole tale begins in winter, (2) Grandpa Smurf's hidden cellar of time scrolls, and (3) only a dozen or so Smurfs ended up travelling back in time when the key activated the crystals, which probably would be understandable given the logistical headaches of trying to lead a hundred of so Smurfs back home while avoiding various kinds of dangers along the way. I haven't seen the whole episode yet, but anyway I'm still sticking with my interpretation of events, given that at that point in the EMPATH short stories there still isn't the likes of a Grandpa Smurf introduced.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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posted 10-03-2007 07:17 PM
Your Key Of Chronos is very cool Vic George 2K6!
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u wished u rocked as i
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 10-16-2007 03:25 PM
Something Shane Jensen brought up in a previous post concerning Traveler witnessing the Smurfs getting time-lost in Empath's alternate timeline got me thinking of something, which inspired me to come up with this image featuring Traveler, Empath, Papa Smurf, and Brainy. If Papa Smurf knew that he along with most of the Smurfs would end up being time-lost, even if he had all the details ahead of time, would he somehow try to avert the disaster, even if the attempt to avert it ends up failing in the long run? Such are the mysteries of the timestream...
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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posted 10-17-2007 02:37 PM
Update of the same image from previous post:
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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posted 10-21-2007 05:54 AM
Just thinking about the suggestion in my excerpt that the Smurfs during their time-travelling adventures wind up in the time of Jesus Christ's earthly ministry: that if Grandpa Smurf does become part of the Smurfs in the actual EMPATH stories timeline, and the time-travelling adventures do happen, he answers the question of where they have ended up by saying something to the effect of it being 1st Century Palestine -- to which Tapper, the resident believer in God and Christ to whatever extent he does believe through his reading of the Holy Bible, vehemently corrects Grandpa Smurf by saying, "The land is called Israel".
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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posted 08-24-2008 07:42 PM
A bit of success in tracking down the elusive "Smurf On The Wild Side" four-parter episode -- at least the first part of it, anyway -- through a bittorrent that supposedly has ALL the episodes of the cartoon show (NOTE "supposedly"). So far what I've seen of it is interesting, though I wish I could get my hands on the other three parts to this.
As for now, though, work on "Empath Goes Wild" is still halted while I figure out how to connect the beginning of the story to the end, and maybe possibly do some rewriting from what I have seen of "Smurf On The Wild Side" part 1.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 08-25-2008 11:26 AM
A new image for "Empath Goes Wild" -- the alternate timeline Empath as Wild Smurf in his first meeting with Smurfette:
In the comic book version of Wild Smurf's introductory story, he was like one look at Smurfette and all his engines were redlining! Typical cartoon behavior of any male in the line of sight of a beautiful female.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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