This week's mailbag topic:

SM.net Halloween Funfest

This week we have random letters, and letters about the SM.net's Nondenominational Holiday Fun Fest (Halloween). And we also have SimonBob as the co-responder. After asking countless times, and sending in mean disheartening e-mails to the Mailbag itself :(, he is finally responding to letters. Thank goodness that's over with. On with our semi-sane replies.

About the Halloween Funfest, I really want to enter, but I can't think of anything! I can't do poems real good, songs are not my thing, and i have no flash or animation maker thingies. Guess I have to make images, but guess what?! I HAVE NO EARTHBOUND IMAGES! I really wish to enter, and I'll try to enter, but i don't have anything ready or any Earthbound images.



Well if you don't have any EB images...make some! Preferably Halloween related or something. But if you have access to a scanner and can take a picture of something you did (like carving something neat into a pumpkin), that could work too. So go that route. Most flukes are icky anyway.

- EBounding



Poems, heck. Do a fanfic. And I'm not just saying that 'cuz I'm fanfic guy, really. As for getting EB images, have you checked in the Flukes section yet? Go do that.

- SimonBob

one of the walkthroughs said that the "ego orb" carries the parabolic. i have actually found it in the cave where you fight electro specter, by fighting the bronze exploding orb dudes



Yeah sort of I guess. I've never gotten it, but you get it from the Uncontrollable Sphere in the Lumine Hall. I find that the HEAVY BAZOOKA fares much better than the Parabolic. Excuse the stupid topic for this letter. It just reminded me of something stupid my Engineering professor said the other day.

- EBounding



That's right! Congratulations, you're smarter than both that walkthrough and the folks at Nintendo Power. Heheheh. :D

- SimonBob

Can I have an authentic, real, irreplacable, unforged, priceless, genuine autographed bitmap from the great Ness, star of earthbound? I already have the rest of the crew's john hancocks; all I need is the red-hatted liberator's. My starting bid is $7.36, or $7.3 if you are only using 2 sig figs.

Yours Truly,
Steve Casey



No, but you can have an authentic, real, irreplacable, unforged, priceless, genuine autographed png of the OFFICAL *CUSTOM* SM.net Bookmark.

- EBounding



Ness' price is 20 bucks, cold hard cash, up front. Only problem is that you have to find him, and the last I heard, he was looking for the parabolic.. no, wait, that was the guy in the last letter... uh, let us get back to you.

- SimonBob

I just noticed that Ness has two sisters in Earthbound Zero, but only one in Earthbound, and she's got a different name too! Are the two games supposed to be connected? If so, where did this extra sister end up?



It is a MYSTERY to how exactly the games are connected. But I'm sure his extra sister joined the army...or became a waitress. Something like that.

- EBounding



The two sisters in EB0 had a little "accident" involving a Daft Punk CD, a Corvair, and a trash compacter. When the doors to the scorpion's lair opened, there was only one sister standing there.

- SimonBob

I was playing EarthBound the other day and I finally realized what the "Insignificant Item" (pardon any typos here) was! It's a lightbulb! That's right! What could be more insignificant than a burnt-out light bulb? Speaking of which, how come Poo is the only one to get the lightbulb?! Why not Jeff? I mean Jeff IS a genius after all........... I'd also like to note that Ness' jump stinks in Super Smash bros! It's pathetic! And his ending just doesn't blend with the others! Oh well, thanks again, guys!



How many Poo's does it take to screw in a lightbulb? [insert dorky response to an already stupid question here]

- EBounding



A lightbulb would be very significant! You could smash it on your enemy's head!

- SimonBob

I would like to ask were you guys meat. Wear you friends who loved EB or were you just some guys that found each other online. I would also like to thank you for a great site I have visted this site a few times and it has goten alot better.
Your Fellow EB lover
Jeremy=}



Most of us met through the IRC channel and stuff. Erm...GLAD YOU LIKE THE SITE!

- EBounding



Well, I read your letter, then saw the name.. "Jeremy." And that got me onto a real Pearl Jam phase. If you've ever seen the video for that song, you know what Jeremy does at the end. When I remembered that, I got creeped out, and now I'm scared of you. You can still send me fanfics, though.

- SimonBob

halloween funfest huh......Cool Dudes!!!!!!!..........(i farted)Nintendo should check out this fan page cause its so big!!!!!You guys rock!!!



Besides the flatulence, thank you for everything!

- EBounding



Yep, that's us! We do, in fact, rock! Why, I'm listening to Pink Floyd right now. Good stuff.

- SimonBob

hey great site! i just got into earthbound yesterday and i absolutley love it. the way i came upon it was rather interesting since i was on irc and someone asked what was the best snes game? well someone replyed with "don't say earthbound, or ff3!". so i figured i'd try out this earthbound game. i wish there were more rpg's like this. it's by far the funniest most orignal i've ever played.



Neat.

- EBounding



And your question is..? Actually, that goes for a lot of this week's letters, I just didn't think of anything to say for this one in particular.

- SimonBob

After a long while of not visiting here, I looked at the Halloween Funfest entries (among other great pieces of content), and I enjoyed it very much. Then I felt like I was on a morphene high. I should come here more often...



I don't think that it's the funfest entries giving you that high. Try taking that needle out of your arm.

- EBounding



I don't get "high" off this site so much as I get "mellow." Must be my staff position or something.

- SimonBob

Hi I a fun of EB and I want to know is there going to be a Earth Bound for the new Game Boy system.

Kevin Wind



Thank you Kevin Wind! At this point Nintendo has no plans on making Earth Bound for the Game Boy Advance! But stay tuned in to NINTENDO POWER for all the latest and OFFICAL gaming developments in the Nintendo World! PLAY IT LOUD! (BUY OUR PRODUCTS).

That's all I know that Nintendo would say about this.

- EBounding



Ummm... yes. Wait, no. Uh.. what was the question again? Did I order a grilled cheese?

...Seriously, I don't know. It's all up to Nintendo, and they're all nuts. :/

- SimonBob