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Post by Mynt on Oct 1, 2012 20:27:59 GMT -6
Yes. Her name is Quaddy. She's de bestest. She's also my cheerleader, pep talk, therapist, and sounding board all crammed in one coffee making package. Now if only you delivered frappucinos. Hmm.
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Post by Quaddy on Oct 1, 2012 22:12:18 GMT -6
Oh Lord, don't give Starbucks any ideas. They'll come up with something like that...seriously. I'm not kidding.
I'm a font of wisdom, aren't I?
You people are going to make me so big-headed.
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Oct 2, 2012 16:39:51 GMT -6
O__O I read a bunch of political stuff, skip that, then...cowboys?
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Oct 2, 2012 16:41:18 GMT -6
But anyway you deserve a big head Quaddy, that just means it you want to keep deserving it...don't get one lol. That seems to be how it works at least. Of course I'm only 21 what the frell do I know? I know this. *Dial tone*
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Post by Quaddy on Oct 2, 2012 19:52:42 GMT -6
I'll try to keep myself humble. Society conspires enough to do that as it is. Remember those history/political science majors I keep mentioning? Those mean I'm useless to society. Hell, non math and science majors can't even get state funded scholarship money anymore. (Thank you, Governor Voldemort!) I'm only a big deal on the internet.
(And in certain Renaissance reenactment communities...)
How goeth the writing, everyone? Anyone planning on doing NaNo this year?
I figure we can just make this the come one, come all forum now that we've pretty much developed the plot for this thing...
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Post by Quaddy on Oct 2, 2012 19:53:18 GMT -6
Also, my birthday is in 3 days. Woo 25!
YEAH!
Libras unite! (And see both sides of the situation.)
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Post by Mynt on Oct 2, 2012 20:35:52 GMT -6
I'm planning to do NaNo. School hasn't crushed my spirit yet, although I have been feeling drained and uncreative lately. I have all these thoughts and then I try to do things and I blank.
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Post by Quaddy on Oct 2, 2012 22:44:45 GMT -6
I am amassing stars super quickly. Apparently, I am now a hero. WOO!
No capes, though.
Ahhh, a slump. I get those. Actually, I'm in one myself. I am bursting with ideas and I keep planning them, but I don't actually write them down. My weakness (if it can be called one at all) is that I write best with other people. When I have collaboration and I can rely on someone else to take over when I run out of juice. So as campfires seem to have stalled lately, I'm just twiddling my thumbs and waiting for my vacation in two days.
Thank the gods for vacations.
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Post by Mynt on Oct 3, 2012 1:13:01 GMT -6
Oh yes, campfires. I love campfires. You get to a point where you can't write anymore and then someone else takes over. xD
'Cept I'm kind of holding things up...
Sorry! T_T
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Post by Matt on Oct 3, 2012 6:28:11 GMT -6
Me too. But not after today. You may or may not realise what I'm responding to in the next.... two hours.
Anyway, yes to NaNo. Maybe we should make a seperate thread for that one? Somehow this has become the general forum eh?
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Post by Quaddy on Oct 3, 2012 11:08:30 GMT -6
We probably should...We're definitely not talking about Terracotta anymore.
I will ask a Terracotta-related question! Bring it back around to where we should be.
Emperor dude. I was thinking (and had it approved some time back by beast) that the Emperor only released the spell to help his people. Not an evil dude by any means. Just desperate to save the lives of his people (and especially his family, who'd contracted the disease spreading through the land). When it comes time to release the spell, I was thinking that instead of "no, I will not let myself die", it would be more along the lines of "no, it isn't up to me. my people are happy and healthy and I can't do that to them" because Elysia is tricking/using him in the same way that she is using Aeon. Once we are able to convince him to release the spell, he is willing to do it. And that is where Sera and Hel come in, to anchor the spell in the world of the living and to bridge the gap between realms.
What does the audience think?
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Post by Matt on Oct 3, 2012 11:29:19 GMT -6
Sure? Or the guy could be trapped in a bottle a la Pullman because having cast the spell he was sort of donating himself to it or something of the ilk?
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Oct 3, 2012 16:57:10 GMT -6
Lol guys there is a general board. It's called General Board.
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Oct 3, 2012 17:00:55 GMT -6
Also, I've missed a lot since my computer has been borked the last couple of weeks, the last one in particular. I need to scour all that stuff you guys were talking about on the other page lol.
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Post by Quaddy on Oct 3, 2012 20:42:07 GMT -6
This is where we need beast to come and add in his two cents.
Beast! We're not talking politics anymore!
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Post by Aldersmaine on Oct 3, 2012 23:07:57 GMT -6
/crawls out of the woodwork with scraped knees and bloody knuckles/ ...I'm still here... I survived...
lol, anyways, I would rather the Emperor be involved with the story and the realm he created. That way it's more of a touch and go emotional connection as well as the deception of the dream goddess.
Were he just sealed up and/or dead himself then the spell would be something continuous and quite possibly unbreakable if it hadn't deteriorated yet after so many millenniums.
The realm of dreams that the people of Denundhael live in is something that needs a constant maintanance. Hell I can see the emperor being SO busy trying to keep his family and his people alive that he's become maniacally obsessed with his work. So much so that he is absolutely blind to the woes of his people, and likly has no earthly idea how long he's imprisoned them for in this ever darkening world of theirs. (is see Denundhael as a dark and dreary place that is infected with nightmares. Averagely the place looks resplendent like a dream but with waves of horror much like a silent hill game goes dark. The residents live in terror and cry out for an ending. The nightmares are no ending however, being a dream itself many of the trapped have died horrendously over and over again in them, but are of course unable to end.)
Good plan or no?
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Post by Quaddy on Oct 4, 2012 10:06:21 GMT -6
I like it. I dunno why, but I have this vision in my mind of a older woman--not quite OLD, but perhaps a couple of decades past birth giving phase--turning to a character and showing them what is really going on. That Elysia has painted this perfect picture for strangers (esp Aeon) and the Emperor, but really it's horrendous. I also see her speaking to Rei at some point, telling her they pray every day for Shade to take them, but he can never seem to reach them. He tries, he reaches until his strength gives out, but then the spell takes them back. Rei's presence, to them, is a sign that Shade is finally rescuing them.
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Post by Matt on Oct 4, 2012 15:06:09 GMT -6
Does people dying make Shade stronger?
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Oct 4, 2012 16:45:43 GMT -6
Oh wow, Elysia is so deliciously evil now lol. Well, I see her being more selfish about it. I'd actually like there to be a reason she suddenly became so obsessed with that much power ya know? Something probably had to give her a taste of it, then she was strong enough to imbue Aeon and saw what she could do with him.
Also, how do we see Aeon actually wrenching himself free from his obsession of her? Simple logic won't work.
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Post by Matt on Oct 4, 2012 17:03:44 GMT -6
Well... I hate to say it but if Kenaz technically has the power to free Rei from Shade (although he won't do that), then he would likely have the same power to free Aeon. Perhaps the difference with these two is that it can be constantly reforged (the bond) and the only way to be truly free of it is to renounce the bond too - so if Kenaz was to essentially push away Elysia influence perhaps that might give one of the other characters time to reason with him away from her mind-influence.
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Post by Quaddy on Oct 4, 2012 18:50:09 GMT -6
People dying doesn't technically make Shade stronger. The fact that these people are being kept from dying is making him weaker, because it's undermining the balance between life and death. Shade should never be more popular than he is meant to be, but nor should he be weaker. If that makes sense.
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Post by Aldersmaine on Oct 4, 2012 22:57:00 GMT -6
It does make sense Quaddy. Death is a balance that the world requires. when Death is thrown out of sync, the entire world suffers. Likly there have been many unusual wars and horrible disasters over the centuries since the spell was cast. The World's natural response to try to keep the sync from shifting too far.
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Post by Matt on Oct 5, 2012 9:53:50 GMT -6
But then if he was out of sync because the balance is then he's weaker. So... people dying and the general flow does make him stronger.
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Post by Quaddy on Oct 5, 2012 20:41:23 GMT -6
No, not necessarily. It's not the fact that people aren't dying, it's the fact that people are staying alive, unbalancing the world. If extra people died outside their time, he wouldn't be made extra strong by that. He doesn't go all Sebastian Shaw, or anything. In fact, he would be weakened as much as if people weren't allowed to die. Shade is a creature of balance--if people fuck with the balance, he is weakened. If that makes sense.
Does that make sense?
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Post by Aldersmaine on Oct 5, 2012 21:38:44 GMT -6
Too many people living when they should be dying = Unbalanced Death.
Too many people dying when they should be living = Unbalanced Death.
While the wars and other disasters have kept the balance from shifting too dramatically right off the bat the fact remains the the scales are still shifting so long as there is someone in a state of undying.
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