The Sergo Saga sprung up one day during a conversation I had with one of my MSN buds. We both felt that Secret of Mana would have sold more copies if the back of the box had mentioned that there was a purple-pantsed pirate (who used to be the scourge of the 8 seas, but the seas have grown too stormy) in the game. Then, an even wilder idea presented itself. What if Sergo had his own game???

After that, we sat there thinking about it, occasionally tossing out an idea over the magic of instant messaging. I offered to type up the "copy" for this imaginary game, but it soon blossomed into a story. as you can tell from the start of the story, it clearly was intended to be a one shot deal, just the little blurb on the back of a box. but then people started speaking... and Sergo left his stairmaster on the sandship... and he has to avenge his brother Zergo... soon there were koopas doing opera, nameless apprentices being chopped up and served with eggs, and geshtar is still riding his hoverbike in the house, despite his untimely death. So there you have it. That's how the Sergo Saga came to be. Surprised? I thought not.

 

 

You may have noticed that the Sergo Saga has an ever-growing cast of characters. I usually throw in one or two in each part, mainly because I'm accustomed to juggling lots of characters in one story. it helps if you're stuck in one section with one set of characters, you can always go to another group and focus on them for a while. Missy, Bobo and 7-Up are on eternal standby. They're my change of direction if I ever come across a writer's canyon / wall / impenetrable fortress.

So.. the cast of characters, huh? Yes, finally, it's here. I've realized I've put this on hold for far too long. While I hit myself for being so stupid with my "top ten reasons why I hate Tripod," click here, because you know you wanna.

 

As you may now be aware, I am notorious for my "lifting" of concepts. I am happy to say that most of the Sergo Saga is from my own twisted mind, aside from the characters themselves. And the places. Wait, what am I saying? This whole thing is "lifted".

However, there are several things that I've stolen that don't really come from anything related to sergo and the others. Here's a few:

 

1. "Arrr, matey.. these seas are rough, says I."

This was a line from the simpsons that i mangled. It originally was said by Blackbeard the Pirate and was "This chair be high, says I." I kept hearing it over and over in my head as i tried to think up "pirate talk" for sergo. So I took the line and fitted it to sergo's situation.

 

2. "(?? "Pan-Doran"?? Holy frijoles..)"

The phrase "holy frijoles" was taken from an old Weird Al song, the parody of Rico Suave by Gerardo, "Taco Grande". The whole line was, "Holy frijoles! You better get me a bowl of guacamole!" How do I know this? Hell knows.

 

3. "Tales of a Sea-Faring Boyt Boy"

This was stolen, but i don't know where from. And I don't know what it was originally. I don't usually use the word "sea-faring." That's how i know this was stolen.

 

4. "running through the streets of threed, still blindly swiping his ukulele at nothing, ghaleon shouts, "How do you like THAT, bowser?"

This concept of this "running gag" was taken from that french stand-up comic movie thing we watched in grade 9. Remember the sword he threw? I wanted there to be something like that in the story, even though the implement of destruction in this case is much more terrifying.

 

5. "Relax. That soldier couldn't find stink on a monkey in the state he's in.."

This is also stolen from the unknown. If ANYONE hears this phrase in a tv show or movie, tell me where. I'd really like to solve this mystery.

 

6. "Phanna appears and conks it over the head with a big honkin' pot."

The 'big honkin'' comes from an old wheaties commercial, where hockey player brendan shanahan was heard to say the phrase "big honkin' bowl." I'm sure "big honkin'" is used often these days, but that's where i got it from.

 

7. " "PANTS???!!!" sergo shouts, grabbing magus by the grape juice-stained collar and shaking him. "

If you don't get this, then me explaining it to you won't help. Perhaps what I really should be doing is finishing the typing out of 20/20. Just to let you know, I actually think this line is a mistake. But mistakes that are taken from something that nobody else has seen can't really be called a mistake, because nobody will care either way.

 

8. " "well, stomp on frogs and shove a crowbar up my nose...." he says in surprise."

Although this does kinda sound like a Sweetfarore-ism, it's actually from Garfield. That cat rocked even MORE than a room of stone rocking chairs.

 

9. "A vague memory of the man he was replacing surfaced in his mind. He looked kinda knobby."

This is self explanatory. While not exactly stolen from anywhere, unless you count a really weird conversation I was a participant of once, I just wanted to throw it in. I'm actually having trouble finding lifted concepts.

 

10. ""Whut?" Saha asks, shaking his head."

Ah, finally. This is stolen (well, the concept of the comedically deaf old man was stolen, as well as the "whut?") from Terry Pratchett's discworld series of books, in a few of his books there's a group of old men called "the silver horde" who are, well, barbarians in wheelchairs and stuff. One of them, Mad Hamish, can't hear very well and is always misinterpreting things and saying things that make no sense, just like saha does later on with cinnamon and vacuums.

 

11. "Ghaleon finally opens his eyes. He finds himself in the midst of giving a lamppost the thrashing of its life.."

Wow. I just said that i was having trouble finding stuff and here are two almost back to back. This is KINDA stolen from Robin Hood: Men in Tights, where the blind dude is viciously attacking a pillar thinking it's a soldier.

 

 

The first part of the Saga had a scene where Lucky and Sergo got shot out of a cannon. Originally they smacked into Flammie's side and fell into the sea, only to be rescued by Tessie/Nessie/Whatever. I couldn't figure out how to get them to mandala from there so I started again.

As you could probably tell by the rapid change through the several hyrules, I had several crappy ideas for each place. Since i had Clock town fresh in my mind, i chose that one.

The original Hyrule, the one with the Pond of happiness and all that stuff, that was at first intended to be the setting for the remainder of the story. the seacowlion lived behind Zora's waterfall, Saha lived in his little ditch near the eastern palace, and that's about it. Oh, and there was the cave in Lake Hylia with the GOOD BEE, who still hasn't made his first appearance but will no doubt grace the pages of the Saga with his icy trails. Him and the Gandhi guy. I can't get enough of him. He used to spook me out because it looked like his head was independent from his body. I think it's worth getting the ROM just to check this guy out.

Anyway, what was I saying?

Oh, yeah. Well, when I realized that the SNES Hyrule was crappy, I chucked Sergo and the gang to the N64 Hyrule, which proved to be a mistake. When you think about it, they're nearly identical... save for the gerudo valley and the goron city. But gerudos are boring if you can't hear cool guitar music and gorons are just constipated potatoes.

So what did i do? I chucked them into Clock Town. Termina Field. Snowhead. Zora Cape. Ikana Canyon. LOTS of places to work with. So far they've only seen Clock Town, but they can't stay there forever. perhaps soon they'll go on a little trip to Ikana to go dance with the ReDeads. Or there's always the "pirate's fortress," even though they're gerudos.

 

Ok, loose ends. There's one that you're probably all curious about. But it will be fixed near the end of the story. What is it? The kitty litter. I haven't forgotten it. I'm just setting up a huge joke. And possibly a major plot twist. you'll just have to stay tuned.

What else... well, there's the omitted scene of Mog's adventure in the clock town grocery store (I mean the Cracker, Mushroom and Lamp store) but i really didn't think it was that funny. Just Mog by himself isn't all that funny. he needs link or magus or someone.