Shame about the lost two and a half battles. Also, a shame that I didn't bother to reverse their order making these a bit trickier to read than they should be - And this is why modern Sandy doesn't have the page of battles with the latest being listed first, because I remembered getting annoyed by doing that 20 years before this revival.
Battle 38
Weird, weird opening where the most amusing thing about it is that for the 2018 thing I did without putting anything online, I gave Dave a husband and had completely forgotten about this thing.
...Weirder thing still is that I wrote this before I knew I was bi and am being married to a David...
Concept is solid, although by definition lacks cohesion. Shame half of it is lost.
Battle 39
OK. Floap. This was something a business class I was in actually was selling. Shaved bars of soap, repackaged around ping pong balls so they floated. And the person whose idea it was was allergic to soap (not even kidding) meaning he medically got out of all of the work involved in making the stuff.
Semi-amusing opening, and then the voice I gave to Floap is fantastic. I had a problem back then - I still have a problem today - of not giving my characters distinct enough voices, but somehow I gave a really good voice for Floap. Anime censors giving Dave swim shorts under his clothes is a cute gag. As is Dave getting distracted and playing with the floap, but the entire thing doesn't go anywhere. Still, it's a breezy battle all the same.
Battle 40
That title. Why the hell did I think Nowhere and Everywhere should be hyphenated?
Anti-Story mode trying to choose phrasing that wouldn't get misinterpreted as it being into the Narrator is amusing enough.
The Narrator's response to Anti-storymode's revealing it was evil cracked me up, so there's apparently something there. There's also something about the way anti-story mode talks and describes reality without any distinguishing parts in this that I'm enjoying reading. Also, the Narrator's no-selling the plan to bring Sandy down to its knees, but reacting in horror at the idea that Anti-Story Mode would try and take down the Network is also something I like.
For some reason this works really well.