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Fri, 02/14/2014 - 06:46
#151
Dmatter's picture
Dmatter
((@colray and darkwatck,

((@colray and darkwatck, you'll have to wait until I finish school today for a reply, sorry. :/ also, new page.))

Fri, 02/14/2014 - 15:37
#152
Liminori's picture
Liminori
BAAAGH

Having decided to hide herself, Hasame did not see the snarbolax chase the hunter, and the other two dissapear. However, the only person left was... the man with the eye on his left hand. Hasame did not run- As she could tell by the look of shame and sadness that he meant no harm, And meant better.

For a while, Hasame quietly followed the man. Eventually, he put a lolipop into his mouth, Leaving his wrapper on the ground. When he came up to the tracks of the beast, He seemed to have made the conclusion it didn't matter. Hasame sighed with obvious disagreement toned into it, And then put her hand over her mouth, (What the hell was I thinking!?) Hiding behind the nearby tree, hoping he would not investigate.

Fri, 02/14/2014 - 17:00
#153
Dmatter's picture
Dmatter
The small party reached the

The small party reached the elevator. Why is there an elevator here of all places? And the design isn't even close to the regular one... suddenly, Rezure turned around and stared at Gale. "Before we get too far I should say this. It will make, er, make sense. The Owlite race is long since dead. The Spookat's came and with them they killed themselves too destroy the Owlites I believe. Thus both race's have been dead since before my birth which is rather odd considering how old I am in the Knight's year's."

Gale didn't know how to react. How could the owlite's be extinct? I mean, I'm still here, and I AM the same age. How could that make any- Oh. Oh yeah. Gale had remembered the specifics of what happened before all this happened. That was an immortality potion wasn't it? Okay, so that part makes sense, I guess. But how could the Kats defeat us? We were Superior in EVERYTHING. There was NO WAY they could have beaten us in at least 100 yea- Oh, I guess that makes sense too. But- No... OH, but maybe- No... Gale tried find an argument that they weren't extinct, but he couldn't, and he just fell into deeper and deeper sadness. The only positives were that he was still alive, and that the Kats were dead. He'll have to keep living for his species, there was no way around it.

Luke asked him a question, "I'm sorry, this might be a little tough for you at the moment, but I have a question. How come you weren't wiped out? Did it have something to do with what you've mentioned about waking in your own grave?" Looking at him, Gale said "Err... it there's an teeny-tiny chance that the immortality potion that I tested for Prof. Clay... worked." Gale still wasn't sure how he felt about the situation.

((I am not very good at writing sadness. Ugh. :l ))

Fri, 02/14/2014 - 17:46
#154
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Darkwatck
Immortial you Say?

Reaching behind her, Rezure started hunting for something in a pack just under her empty Flame Unit Tank. Her furry ear flopping about as she listened to the sound of the Spookat's meow and bellow about the intruder's to their home. Every few seconds holding up a crystal of different size's, one yellow as the sun, one blue as the moon, one red as blood. Before she was about to start giving off the foulest curse's she knew Rezure held before them a shard of Dark Matter.

"Um. Have you ever seen anything like this in your Professor's work station?" She asked letting the Crystal float in the air due to the energies of the level. "This is called Dark Matter and is a rather powerful agent when it comes to extended energy as well as collection of energy. This stuff can draw in positive energy and render it to negative. Thus the Grimelkin as best I can tell."

She turned to the elevator, letting them look at the crystal fr a bit longer. Flipping her mask down she ripped open the serves elevator's panel and started working with the wire's with trained hands. "If not the next best thing would be Lumite or Moon Crystal's."

Fri, 02/14/2014 - 18:02
#155
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
@Dmatter

((I think I can help with that. Try incorporating what sadness feels like, and make us care why it happens.))

Fri, 02/14/2014 - 18:38
#156
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Colray
Derppity derp

He examined the dark matter. It looked familiar, some knights brought it back with them after clockwork runs. Depositing them into specific chutes, receiving a little crown compensation. He wondered a bit, would owlites be the type to use alchemy to create potions and such? Probably. He glanced at Rezure fiddling with the elevator, Luke wasn't very good with mechanics, so he just left it to the Gremlin. He was bored, so he decided to pose a question. "Hey, I've heard of a city called Almire. And that something happened to it, may I ask what?"

Fri, 02/14/2014 - 19:32
#157
Dmatter's picture
Dmatter
Rezure seemed to want to ask

Rezure seemed to want to ask something "Um. Have you ever seen anything like this in your Professor's work station?" she placed a dark crystal on the air, where it floated "This is called Dark Matter and is a rather powerful agent when it comes to extended energy as well as collection of energy. This stuff can draw in positive energy and render it to negative. Thus the Grimelkin as best I can tell."

Looking at the crystal, Gale shook his head, "No, I don't really remember such a crystal in our labs. We usually used elements like earth, water, air, fire, that kind of stuff." He looked closer at the crystal. "Though... I do remember one of a green hue in his lab. Anyway, shouldn't we get moving?" Gale realized there were tears in his eyes still. He blinked them away, but he couldn't help but think of his friends and family. He'll never see them again, and they had lived their lives thinking he was gone forever, when in reality he was just asleep in the same halls... Gale felt a lump in his throat forming.

((Oh, and I probably should mention, he CAN be killed, he just won't die naturally.))

Fri, 02/14/2014 - 20:16
#158
Darkwatck's picture
Darkwatck

Grabbing ahold of two wires in her hand she smiled and made a devilish laugh. "Valestone's, its a alright mineral for crafting things. Atune with nature energy they are mostly used now adays to power generator's alined to that type of stone. I guess back then they could be growned up and used for potion working."

Rezure leaned back as the Elevator fired up. She was just rewiring it to override the lock on the elevator's so they could go down. The Console lit up as she worked, CMD's where scrolling as she shocked her self with a good volt of energy. Leaning out she smiled as the smell of burning fur wofted into the air. "All abord." She said then slid onto the platform.

"Anyway, my head hurts now. But yes, the mineral's found in my home are much the same make. Thou Luminite and Crimsonite are better at stable energy, Valestone will give you a massive energy boost right from the start but burn out rather quickly. If injested it might give you a powerful start, but it will make you rather tired if not kill you after words."

Standing up the Gremlin closed the panel and started typing on the buttons before her. "As for you're question Knight. Its a dark tale that requires us to look back at the King of Ash's himself. The City use to be a rather, to quote a recording we found from your for-runners down into out depths. 'Now only death and smoke hang in the air, even from these great heights. And the fires; the unnatural fires that seem to burn eternal, the fires that turn even the most pious men into horrible nightmares, I know that these fires shall soon take me as well.' To ask me it seems rather fitting for when it needs repairs they send in the Incinerator's. Even then the shambling bodies of the Almirian's still give us looks."

"See their was once a man by the name of Lord Vanaduke King of the kingdom of Almire, see the Almirian Library for him." She pushed the lauch button sending their party down. "Almire was a small kingdom back on the world it was torn from, small but powerful for its military was strong and their people equiliy so. Yet for all the lush fields and trees it had, the other two kingdoms saw this small one as a threat for if given time it would expand and grow to something they could not control. So the two bigger kingdoms, out of fear and I would assume spite, made a treaty and invated Almire. "

Sitting on the grown the Gremlin knew it would be quite a tail. "Anyway, his home falling to ruins the King of Almire ran, having gone mad from the pressure of his homeland being destoryed and pressed because he had few men to protect his home at the time. Becoming a crazed Hermit in the mountains, which currently stand some where away from the keep of the Kingdom, he hunted for something to save his people. But what he found instead was a nightmare. In a cave he found what was a old blackened shrine, don't know who was on it, before it he took a knee and started chanting over and over about his home, loved ones, citys, people. Like a zealot he chanted, then of the two kings who took his home and the wrongs they did. It was then something, responded..."

"Burning into his mind Vanaduke was changed, metal fused to flesh, hands turned to claws. His face turned to that of a skull, thou different people could still tell it was him. From his back came the fur of a beast growing to hide his bare back. Yet, flames still came off of him as he waited for his straight to return. With him on his return came the demons of the mountain lord who gave him is power and in the same day they took back almire. In time they destroyed the two kingdoms who attacked his home. Now it could be said that he sold his soul but we won't get into that one."

The Gremlin shifted in her seat as she took off her mask and held it in her hands. Her expression shifted, almost as if in tear's for the next part. Avoiding the faces of the two. "When he came home to his family and those he was to protect, he killed them. Leaving behind ash and fire where ever he went, not because he wanted but because he had no choice. It seemed no matter where he went death and destruction followed, his own touch enough to turn the once living into the dammed. And so, the King of Ash's sits in his home, guarding it so no other can take the crown."

She leaned in slightly still sad about the story. "When looking apon his face, for the first time, he is full of emotion. Sad about what has happened to him, his people, and what he has become." With that said the Gremlin leaned back holding her mask as she sighed. It was not a very pleasing thing to talk about, even if it was not her race that she talked about.

((Damn that was long. And Paraphrased :L Cite me if you want))

Fri, 02/14/2014 - 22:16
#159
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Archemiday-Thebard

Someone was following him. He didn't know who or what, but someone was near. He thought he was being hunted. "H-Hello? Who's there?"

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 09:33
#160
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
Is it just me...

Is it just me, or is this RP still broken?

It just doesn't feel like it's working. We have too many characters, no villains of note, no consistent plot, and an ill-defined world. I'll put it to a vote.

Who wants to...
1. ...scrap this RP and restart?
2. ...try to salvage this RP and keep going?

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 09:46
#161
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Thinslayer
If we scrap and restart...

We could still do a Trapped! story, but it'll need some reworking. Here are a few possible ways to make it work.

*Each player takes the role of a pre-made character. This limits player freedom, but forces the story to work.
*Each player fills a "slot" for certain character tropes, like "hero," "villain," "love interest," "supporting character," etc. This also limits player freedom, but not as much as forcing selection of pre-made characters. Since certain types of characters don't fit certain stories, it could potentially be dangerous.
*Find an arbitrary way to limit characters and roles in the story. This requires the greatest amount of the game master's judgment, and frankly, I don't feel up to the task. Darkwatck and Feline-Grenadier are better at that.

That is, if we want a well-defined, pre-made story. If we want to develop our own story, we'll need to make the game world a good deal more well-defined, like in Return to Cradle or the prequel series Origins.

Opinions?

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 09:51
#162
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
If we try to salvage this RP and keep going...

Some of the characters were accepted because of their critical starting locations, but I failed to remember that most of them were instructed to meet up with the others. This essentially broke them. Since a redact at this point is not a good idea, those characters will need to be withdrawn altogether. Players wishing to continue in the story may have to wait until opportune moments arise.

For example, when the characters reach a Dark City depth, that's where Zyrel is allowed to show his face. Then when they reach a Decon Zone level, that's where Logan is allowed to show his face.

Things like that.

Then there's still the all-important objective to deal with. The objective need not be a villain, but I think a villain would be the easiest way to keep things going. Somehow, our villain needs to be a threat, and I haven't yet figured out how to make that happen.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 09:56
#163
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Creeperlucario
I would say... Scrap.

I say this because, when ever I make a character or change it, it never gets checked. I think it would be better to create a new one that is similar.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 10:06
#164
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
@Creeperlucario

I didn't discover your latest character until I was talking with Vin one day and clicked the link to Eve, only to find that it wasn't Eve. If you decide to edit your current app posts to put new characters in, I'd appreciate it if you notified me of those changes instead of hoping that the Drupal notification system lets me know (it won't).

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 10:24
#165
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Creeperlucario
I did mention Thin...

You said here that there where too many Female Characters. I decided to change my app and I even replied on this post that I changed my app around.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 10:37
#166
Dmatter's picture
Dmatter
My only complaint with

My only complaint with scrapping would be that I'd have to either make a new character or go through the start up again for gale. Other than that, I'd be fine either way.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 10:37
#167
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Dmatter
My only complaint with

My only complaint with scrapping would be that I'd have to either make a new character or go through the start up again for gale. Other than that, I'd be fine either way.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 12:19
#168
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Feline-Grenadier
Hm...

If that's the case, I guess I can get started on another fanfict.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 12:38
#169
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
@Feline-Grenadier

I'd like you to be co-GM from the outset. Is that okay?

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 12:51
#170
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Feline-Grenadier
...

I don't think I'm going to participate in any more RPs here, though I thought this run was doing fine. Geez, we seriously need a threaded format on these forums.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 12:51
#171
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Darkwatck
A Threat

Remember, when writing a story look at the basic order of things.

Man vs. Man
When set forth a human is facing a human making a dramatic moment in conflict with either emotion or their will for they put their heart and soul into something to win. This could even be said true about a enemy that is physio.
Man vs. Beast
When we are pit against nature we find out who we are since we can't even trust the world around us for nature has become our very own jailor.
Man vs. The Unknown
When faced with something we can not understand, can not see, hear, or touch it tends to bring out what we are and brings it to the surface for we try to fight off what we don't know in order to preserve ourselves.
Sat, 02/15/2014 - 14:08
#172
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Viorayne

I say scrap.
I may save Zyrel for a later fanfic app, maybe Logan, but the settings they're in here are a tad off.
Dibs on "Love Interest" if that becomes an option. :P

Also, how much customisation are we allowed with our OCs, Thin?

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 14:30
#173
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
@Edolas

The RP I've been cooking up allows moderate customization. Race, consumables, and supplemental equipment are non-negotiable, but individual appearance, armor choice, and some weapon choices are customizable.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 15:00
#174
Darkwatck's picture
Darkwatck
Either or

I suppose my Gremlin will fall into the void :L It hurts but I guess we must do what must be done en?

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 15:17
#175
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
@Darkwatck

Ah, but I only said races were non-negotiable. There may be gremlin players, but they are relegated to specific roles and contexts.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 15:32
#176
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
Current character count

Right now, I can support roughly 4 main heroes, 1 main villain, 1 support villain, and innumerable extras. We're looking at about 6-8 players in the next RP.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 15:34
#177
Hexlash's picture
Hexlash
Hoohaaa

Well, I don't really see what was too wrong about the RP. It seemed a bit slow and lacking, maybe because the beginning was a bit rough and uncoordinated, or because there might have been confusion within the players and the actual characters as to what the goal was. I wasn't exactly sure what was going on, so Really I kinda just waited for Vinny to throw up up a post so I could go off of that lol

As for the vote, I think this RP can be saved with a bit of work and collaboration, but I think the new RP idea sounds cool, so I'd totally be up for something like that!

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 15:48
#178
Creeperlucario's picture
Creeperlucario
I hate this new layout

Why are they always changing the forum layout? It's getting annoying, also, I like the new RP, sounds unique. I take the spot of main hero.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 16:21
#179
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Viorayne

I have an idea brewing for a Sub-Villain / Love Interest. Betrayal is key for her.
Yes, my 1st Female character o3o.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 16:43
#180
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
@Creeperlucario

You really don't want a main hero slot. You're getting better at writing, but as the main hero, you will be required to carry the story, all by yourself if necessary, and that's a big responsibility. I'm not convinced you can handle it to my satisfaction.

@Edolas: You would stand a greater chance of landing a key role if you played a male love interest.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 16:58
#181
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
Question.

How many here would be willing to move off-site for their RP gaming?

Namely...
ChooseYourStory.com

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 17:02
#182
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Viorayne

I could pull off a Slime love interest if needed.
But I could easily change it to male. My idea'd still work out.

EDIT: If it was absolutely essential to, yeah.
But Id be much happier if it was all kept around Treasure Vault.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 17:17
#183
Darkwatck's picture
Darkwatck
Honesty

Well, to be fair about one point I don't care what role I get stuck in. Secondly I would prefer us to stay on SK.forums. Easier to work with/don't feel like making another account on the countless ones I have.

Now that said lets try and work with what we got. And I thank you for the compliment from what you said here. That being said I can't fusure say it takes a lot of mental work it just take logic and time to understand see what the story wants/predicts. If anything I would want a story to lead me by the nose but give me some room to show who I am in the mix. Not taking over, just so everyone can feel some kind of emotional connection or can relate to as a person on a level that fits them. Thou it is hard to do, it can be done.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 19:01
#184
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Archemiday-Thebard
Classic.

This RP thread is most active when we are talking about its death. Stay classy Treasure Vault.

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 20:24
#185
Hexlash's picture
Hexlash

@Arche, XD you certainly won my internets.

Anyways, I think it would be cool to have the character selection random, you know, kinda force us into each role we get...

Sat, 02/15/2014 - 23:39
#186
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
@everyone

The new RP is up. I've reused the title "Skylark Down," as it is quite fitting.

Sun, 02/16/2014 - 11:06
#187
Liminori's picture
Liminori
ARGH

dammit, this is what happens when people like me are inactive- Something happens, and we don't get a say!

And now, I can't continue a story I had high hopes for...
RRRRGH

Sun, 02/16/2014 - 11:09
#188
Thinslayer's picture
Thinslayer
@Liminori

On the bright side, you now have an opportunity to use Flynn. ^_^

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