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 |  Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC  Wed 18 Mar 2015, 12:55 am | |
| Are you thinking,of joining imp? Because you should. | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Wed 18 Mar 2015, 12:10 pm | |
| - GreatSocrates wrote:
- Master of ImpZ wrote:
- Thats an anime actually. Toriko. Monster hunter gourmet.
Are you freaking joking? They'd make an anime out of everything. I kid you not lol, its kinda funny actually, not at all serious from what I saw. Aaaaaannd I have been thinking of joining, dunno. I just don't have a ton of time, I work 12 hour shifts so during the workdays I only have enough time to work and sleep pretty much. | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Wed 18 Mar 2015, 12:38 pm | |
| Huginnese cuisine isn't so bad, if you steer clear of the millet and berries. Their crickets are good. Their carrion is better.
I should probably not spend as large a fraction of the day thinking about this RP my charrie(s) as I do. That said, daydreaming time merely serves a soothing function. It's creative time that I should be allocating elsewhere.
edit:
I'm optimistic that Rhaokin's family will love her regardless of how many machine guns she has.
Also, mapwise, fleshshaper colonies are superfluous now since Chorus colonies are the same thing, but better positioned to not deplete the entire local biomass. Maybe it's an experiment, though. Idk if anyone wants the crescent isle themselves. | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Wed 18 Mar 2015, 7:03 pm | |
| Personally I'm more of a Tannari kind of guy food-wise, but I can see the appeal of Huginese food. My only beef is that it's got all the seeds in it. They're hard to chew if you don't have a beak. | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Wed 18 Mar 2015, 8:56 pm | |
| It's not the seeds you need to worry about... though most whole seeds and stuff wouldn't really be appropriate for people-sized birds, because they're just so small. | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Wed 18 Mar 2015, 9:56 pm | |
| Is there anything else of particular warrant that needs adding to the drive? | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Thu 19 Mar 2015, 12:57 am | |
| I'm more than satisfied with the current level of lore. Y'all are some amazing world builders! Guess it comes with being roleplayers, lol :P What I waaanna do is try and draw all of your amazing characters but I dunno if I'll have time to do that, lol. Maybe later there'll be some scenes worth drawing. We'll see!
I'll be sure to always provide y'all with ample information regarding regions that your quests take you into, and if there's something you'd like clarified at any point in the adventure then post here and I'll answer with exposition! On that note, anyone who wants to add new cities/nations/regions, do it now or forever hold your peace, as I'm putting the finishing touches on the map :D
We can either start Sunday night after I get off the bus, or Friday night before I leave! Any preferences? | |
| | | | Ømnivalence
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Thu 19 Mar 2015, 1:03 am | |
| Friday sounds good to me. | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Thu 19 Mar 2015, 9:21 am | |
| Depending how active we are in the roleplay, that's two or so days without direction. If we're slow, it wouldn't really be a problem. We could just sink a couple relationship posts in together, otherwise, we'll just be chattering away in a room.
In that case, we could say More Grain the Rock decided to hold off the actual meeting until everyone arrived and went out for donuts? Came back late? | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Thu 19 Mar 2015, 1:44 pm | |
| Psssh you guys gotta survive an attack on your camp first. :P The story kicks in right before the group makes it to Mogey Rain's hideout. Y'all'd been tracked from some time by Lutin the shade, and that led to some pretty high bounties on your head. I won't tell you exactly what you're fighting until the IC kicks in, but I just thought that'd be a cool way to kick it off - an excuse to have charries start working together and develop relationships and all. Is that cool with everyone? o: | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Thu 19 Mar 2015, 5:38 pm | |
| I would prefer Sunday personally because I have a lot of work that I need to do, but I can work with Friday. I mean either way, Lutin isn't exactly going to be socializing and I haven't made Prince Midas yet. | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Thu 19 Mar 2015, 6:36 pm | |
| Just as long as one of the royalty in the group gets indignant at my alien for not knowing who they are. Teehee. "Wh-what do you mean you've never heard of me?!" The sheet is in the works.
Speaking of alien, Jazz, how's that art coming along? | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Thu 19 Mar 2015, 9:08 pm | |
| Hey how tall is a dwarf in this world? | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Fri 20 Mar 2015, 12:02 am | |
| Uhhh... Three to five feet! Yeah that sounds about right | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Fri 20 Mar 2015, 3:09 pm | |
| Mazdai are almost art'd.Also, since the Drive is about crystallized, I've been writing about my character. - Arj'atyn Backstory:
A blue-green lizard straggles into the monastery courtyard. Dwarfish monks emerge to offer relief.
(They were surprised she had not been taken by bandits. The image on her watch-face switched away from a live videofeed, the same one we are watching.)
The videofeed shudders and auto-refocuses on the terrain below, which is swiftly approaching.
- last datastream recorded by micro-drone camera with broadcast ID 2ad5:34fd:bd20.
(Her father's men arrive later. The monks give them the usual run-around, and they depart the next day. But she knows that they know.)
"Do you want to be under his yoke your whole life?" Her friend's cousin - a globetrotter, well-versed in martial arts - clasped her on the shoulder.
"The monks have studied magic for millennia, unfettered by the establishment. You'll have the aptitude for it, I think. Air magic, right?"
She nodded, still weighing the gravitas of the situation. The magnitude of the aid being offered. For all this, she barely knew him.
"I swear it'll be worth it."
A cyanin lizard skulks among the crags. She nervously spins a die with colored sides between her fingers, allowing it a .5 centimeter air gap.
"Be patient. Another year. They won't initiate me before then. Give me a few decades, and I'll be running this place. Why not? I'm the best in my class."
She turns to make the trek back to the monastery, hands clenched into fists, claws digging into her palms.
(She doesn’t know whether they know.)
- evidence presented in case against the Arj family for personal use of a government drone, docket number 06:--sd10432 KV(EQ).
She had labored over a dead songbird, collected from a curbside.
She had gotten it to hop, when her parents took it away. "It's a disease risk."
"What were you doing, kinfolk?" [The brother strides up and down the hall. Anxious.]
"Taking a leak. There's no privacy here."
"You shouldn't vanish like that. I fear for you."
[The junior sister tries to shrug him off.]
"Please, you must keep me in the loop." [He steps closer.]
"I will do as much as I can for you." [She steps away.]
"My optimism is high. I think it will be enough." [His gaze lingers a moment. He leaves the quadrangle.]
[She remains, discomfort writ plain on her features. She paces for a bout. She settles into a meditative posture.]
- dialog translated from Reptilian, from a dwarfish monk's phonetic transcription.
"Why won't you go to the shooting range with your sister?"
"She just wants to beat me, ma. It's petty."
"Stop whining about null pointer errors," her mother would say. "You should know the difference between a reference and its object."
She does, though. They just don't understand that she does.
She falls halfway through the sky-run. Caught in the featherfall spell, she seems to savor the magic's feel, the defiance of physical law. (Bending, not breaking.) Many eyes are now upon her. Her own are closed.
Opening her eyes, she sees the head monk approaching. (For all that he'd been present, the first time that he had noticed her.) It seems for a moment as if she might ask for another chance. Another test. To substitute for one she'd failed a long time ago.
"Your friend has already been seen off. We've called your parents here to collect you. I am sorry it did not work out."
An attendant collects her sash. The head monk watches her go, but has little time to spare. (Afternoon tea beckoned.) The pack of faceless, black-armored enforcers closes ranks around her.
- excerpt from the memoirs of a temple brother, chapter entitled 'the wayward princess'. read ~3,034 times.
(The rail ride home takes place in silence, if one can ignore the rumble and screech of the traincar.)
The hatchling toyed with a wooden top with faceted sides, emitting the odd squeak. Its left ankle was banded with the color-code '043'; its right, with 'ARJ' in block lettering, black-on-white.
It spun the teetotum right, sort of, successfully knocking it over. It tried spinning the teetotum left, with marginally better success.
A tutor encouraged the youngster, whose attention had wandered. The tutor took the teetotum and set it spinning. The juvenile bumped the top with a clawed finger, catastrophically disrupting its motion.
The tutor tried again, gently pinning the juvenile to the wall with their other hand. The youngster reached out a foot, trying to get at the teetotum, but couldn't quite reach. It yelped.
Abruptly, the teetotum stopped and fell over.
The tutor looked up at the father. His throat paled with satisfaction, and he marked both the crib and the memory for safekeeping.
- excerpt from the memories of Arj'adjern, recorded -/-/--, regarding his first daughter. stored in the Arj family vault prior to its destruction in '--.
She lapses into a meditative state. When she opens her eyes, she can see the demons hanging behind her father's men, entangled with smoky limbs. She can see the enforcers' eyes, and they are shut. She considers the shortlist of her family's enemies, and concludes that her home has fallen. She barrels towards the door, already imagining a hand that grasps her arm and holds it fast, a leg stretched out to cause a spill. (But the demons are drowsy, or asleep, or amused.) She forces open the emergency door, and takes a flying leap into a brief, unstable run along the railway's edge. She looks down - and it is a substantial way down, - and spots a support column, which she slides down. She runs, using the rails as cover. The enforcers are aiming their tranq guns, but the train carries them away too far, too fast. She wanders across streets with buckled pavement, through the suggestion of a commercial area, and past a bank of workers' dormitories, recognizing nothing except this: It would take an ocean to wash away all the grime of Jehd-Az-Akhr’s undercity. She does not want to stay. But it hardly matters now.
So hey, justification BBCode turns off font BBCode, which is weird and inconvenient but only in previews.
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| | | | Szemetlada
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Fri 20 Mar 2015, 4:28 pm | |
| Alright! I'll try and have the IC up by Sunday night!
Jazz I just love the way you write :'o This is flashbacks from Atyn's childhood, right? And her arrival and departure from the monastery? | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Sat 21 Mar 2015, 1:06 am | |
| Sunday sounds good to me! i'm working on drawing Illia the Sunseeker Edit:  I'm not really sure what happened at the top in an attempt to make both a stabbing and a slashing weapon, but the bottom came out alright! Wait I have an idea. Edit2:  | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Sat 21 Mar 2015, 3:01 am | |
| Okay, the "finished" map is here! https://i.imgur.com/ZczFI6v.jpgSome stuff maaaay be hard to read, so here's an earlier version before the filters and stuff :P https://i.imgur.com/0xkdbnu.jpgOooh I really like those designs, Omni! Especially the second one! Reminds me of those Chinese guard staffs, what with the star on the end. *u* Also, to tide over those what're interested, here are some mini-sheets for the four bosses mentioned in the villains' intro. I was going to draw them but then I tried to, and that put a stop to that. :P - The Yaddyjax:
Name(s): The Yaddyjax Race: Golem Pronouns: it/it/its/itself Age: Billions of years Occupation: Child of Byüligítznuk Skills, talents, and useful knowledge/abilities:Right in front, left behind,
On your back and in your mind.
Slip through crack and crawl above,
Drop on top and fit like glove.
What you know you’d never be,
Never hear or speak or see,
And what you think you’d never do:
Yaddy-jaxxy does through you!
Right in front, left behind,
On your back and in your mind.
Slip through crack and crawl above,
Drop on top and fit like glove. Greatest strength:Run like lightning, hop like frog,
Here again and gone like fog,
Creep like creeper, climb like vine,
Never feel me til you’re mine! Greatest weakness:Though I grip with talons deep,
Such a hold is hard to keep.
Fire, water, music, light,
These poor Yaddy cannot fight.
But the one thing I fear most
Is to be without a host! Appearance:Small and gangly, deathly thin,
Hopping bag of empty skin! Backstory:Born of lie and finger crossed,
Crooked eye and promise lost,
Out of deep and shadowed cracks,
Child Fourth was Yaddyjax. Other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrd9R0Fhoz8
- The Lumput:
Name(s): The Lumput Race: Robot Pronouns: it/it/its/itself Age: Billions of years Occupation: Child of Byüligítznuk Skills, talents, and useful knowledge/abilities:Hunt, hide, fly, dig,
Then – small,
Now – BIG!
Burrow! Smash!
Leap! Crash!
Mouth – eat,
Whip – lash!
Ground – rumble,
Mountain – tumble,
Forest – fire,
City – crumble!
Eyes – burn,
Tails – crunch,
Cowards – cower,
Heroes – lunch! Greatest strength:Size – mountain! Wrath – god!
In my mouth – crushed to sod!
Bullet – hurt, but Lumput – grin,
Only – magic – damage – skin! Greatest weakness:Size – mouse! Power – low!
Much – energy – need – grow!
Hunt – eat, or wait – shrink;
Larger I get – slower I think. Appearance:Body – shifting metal snake,
Eye – burns,
Arms – break,
Head – smash, mouth – taste,
Teeth – large – grind to paste! Backstory:Earth – shakes,
Ocean – broils,
Bone – breaks,
Blood – boils,
Blown was Trumpet –
Nothing heard,
Born the Lumput –
Child Third. Other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TU2bS9LUHs&t=31s
- The Grindle:
Name(s): The Grindle Race: Seraph Pronouns: he/him/his/himself Age: Billions of years Occupation: Child of Byüligítznuk Skills, talents, and useful knowledge/abilities:West wind whistles through the night, and
footsteps crush the earth beneath.
I flow like liquid,
and swirl around you;
my touch shivers skin,
and my breath chatters teeth.
I Hide Behind trees,
under shoes,
and under rocks –
All look,
none see,
as I Crawl under doors
or Slip through locks.
Don’t look,
don’t touch,
don’t have to:
I’ve Got you –
Come with me to the other side,
a Helle of a ride – Greatest strength:My step is silent as the fall of first snow
or water freezing in the night.
My body is tall, dark, and lean.
I never fail at hiding-game –
behind anything am I,
and none see me
when I won’t be seen.
Once in my embrace,
come with me
to a grim, grey place.
Many struggle as we quickly walk
but don’t bother,
as none escape the Veil,
or Father – Greatest weakness:Where I go, there follows Winter,
and cold.
It withers fields,
freezes seas,
wilts flowers,
and all else shiver.
In this world, I loathe the touch
of love, heat, fire,
and against the mortal sciences
I am made real;
I electrify wire.
I scramble radio, infect code,
and the virtual eye
sees my true shape.
Once in the Veil, we are of the same stuff;
if you can fight,
I cannot escape. Appearance:If the wind or snow or ice
had a body to call home,
Grindle would be body’s name:
Tall and straight as pointing hound,
long, thin arms that brush the ground.
Quick stride – six-eyed.
This is me
if one could only Grindle see. Backstory:All the things of cold and death,
brought to life
in a blistering wild;
The rivers ran in fear away
and the wind screamed
For I was born,
Grindle,
the Second Child. Other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9zr2PBwzk
- The Cobb:
Name(s): The Cobb Race: Shade Pronouns: he/him/his/himself Age: Billions of years Occupation: Child of Byüligítznuk Skills, talents, and useful knowledge/abilities:Fle-e-e, lit-tle mice, from the Call of the Eter-nal,
Sim-ple souls are we-ak-en-ing, and sim-ple bo-dies hol-low,
Hi-igh into-o the A-ether Blue or lo-ow into-o Infer-r-rnal,
Go-o where you wi-i-ill, and Co-obb will al-ways fo-o-ollow!
Fa-la ta roo, hoo-loo, ta dum,
Nowhere to hi-ide and nowhere to run,
Laugh, or weep, or stay, and fight,
Aba-ndon hope, aba-ndon light.
De-ep i-in the sha-a-dows, Cal-ling Cobb awa-its you,
Yo-ou can-not se-e him! witho-o-ut the gift of li-i-ight,
Co-ome into-o the sack, child, it may fit one but not fit two,
Then a-all sha-all be pu-u-u-u-URGED,
From this SCO-o-ourge of MO-OR-tal,
Bli-i-i-i-i-ight!
Ha ra la hoo!, Goo-loo pa ray!,
Never and ever, tomorrow, today,
Loo, shoo, ga-REE, ga-LAY,
Cobb! Hobb! No ho-o-ow, no wa-a-a-a-ay! Greatest strength:Groo, too, hey-la-ka-hee,
Magic is no-thing to one such as me!
Na-ha ta-doo!, hoo-ha, ta-dun,
Cobb may be fought – but fight can’t be won!
Run! Gun! Run, RUN!
Cobb! Mobb! One, none! Greatest challenge:Fro-om begin-ning o-of all things,
Cobb never falters, but always he sings:
Ha!-da-da, Ra!-ta-ta, Da-duh-duh hum! Grey, hey, hoo-loo, da-rum!
Doesn’t fight, nay!
Car-ries away!
One soul in the sa-ack, no more or none!
Pa-ain I’ve le-arned, sor-row I’ve won,
No-thing hu-u-urts a bla-ack-ened heart,
But if I am we-ak to da-ance and so-ong,
Merely my love for,
The beau-uty-y-y,
O-o-of,
A-a-a-a-a-a-art! Appearance:If the lit-tle gar-den wo-orm were to don the skin of man,
And to walk a-round the gar-r-den! as only man can,
To wan-der through the wood,
In a pal-lid cloak and hood,
Then this may only be-e-e: the Cobb!
Ta! Ha! Backstory:O-out of bla-ackness rang forth a song,
Hoo! Loo, of right and of wrong,
Deep, sleep, song!
Fro-om the so-oul of time and of spa-ace,
Ra! Ta, wrong-time, right-place,
Hap-py, hap-py face!
Now and forever, for all, for none,
Dee! Kee, born in the sun:
Cobb: Child One! Other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZUH_ZGI1U8
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Sat 21 Mar 2015, 3:12 am | |
| Mata man you never cease to amaze me.
First off, that map is fantastic.
Second off those characters are so interesting. From the poems to the concepts, they're going to make for some fantastic and surreal villains.
From what I've gathered, the fourth child is all about mind control? The third child is all about brute force and strength, the second child is the personification of death and is only discranble on within the veil, and the first child, well I haven't figured them out yet. XD
The poems are super great though, I hope you can keep them up.
I haven't watched over the garden wall yet, but is the Cobb supposed to be inspired by the beast? | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Sat 21 Mar 2015, 3:35 am | |
| Thanks Omni! And yup, you nailed Cobb's inspiration xP That and the "trash man" that my sister used to dream about when she was little. Had a big sack and came to take her away! The others' inspirations shouldn't be too hard to guess neither, lol, cept Lumpy.
(Over the garden wall is fantastic and you will love it when you get around to it owo The Beast really turned me on to musical villains! Plus, since Cobb always sings, it would make for an interesting encounter with Raizerr, lol) | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Sat 21 Mar 2015, 4:30 am | |
| Huginn will neither confirm nor deny the strange lights or sounds being illegal weapons research...
Looking good Mata. | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Sat 21 Mar 2015, 1:02 pm | |
| Map looks great. So where are our characters going to start out? | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Sat 21 Mar 2015, 1:06 pm | |
| Nomdescriptia and the carnivorous hopping snails might be my favorite. :P | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Earthheart - OOC Sat 21 Mar 2015, 11:54 pm | |
| I'll mark up the map with our starting location (and other things) on the IC launch! Which I might have to delay to Monday on account of me being an idiot about writing essays. -u-;
(@Omni: Pheeeew, I was hoping someone would enjoy that XD) | |
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