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There was, a long time ago, a beautiful land, parallel to our own world. It was a perfect world, where the sky was a clear blue all day long, where the breeze whispered through the leaves of the forest, where the grasses swayed gently in the meadows. Streams gurgled along as they flowed, and the ocean waves washed over the shoreline.

However, all things fade, and so did this world. As we began to delve into technology, began to mine for the natural resources, began to pollute the air and land and water, both worlds began to die. As the chemicals penetrated the sky, as oil seeped through the waters, as landfills started to build, our world began to suffer. Their world, a reflection of ours, suffered equally. The sky grew murky, the wind carried a rotting scent, the forests began to disappear, and the grasses began to yellow and die. The streams turned mud-brown, and the ocean waves left debris and dead fish on the beaches.

The beings of the parallel world knew of our world, but they knew not that our world, our people, were the cause of the pollution. As their world rotted before their eyes, they fled into ours. They came into this world, appearing within our pictures and photographs, putting themselves into our stories. Those things that they now lived in, the stories, pictures, and photos, became their new home. From there, they could not see us, could not see our actual world, and so they lived.

However, we forget stories, throw away drawings, discard pictures, and as we do so, they will die. If a picture is torn up and thrown away, the being that could be living in it will be killed. If a story is put away, forgotten, and never read or told again, the being that could be living within it will die as well. So it is up to us, those whom care about the Sepias, those whom lived in that wasted, parallel world, to save as many as we can...

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First Post: Story
Second Post: Table of Contents
Third Post: Updates
Fourth Post: Rules
Fifth Post: Events
Sixth Post: Sepias
Seventh Post: Flatsales
Eighth Post: Auctions
Ninth Post: Chronicles
Tenth Post: Owners
Eleventh Post: FAQ
Twelfth Post: Links
Thirteenth Post: [Reserved]
Fourteenth Post: [Reserved]
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5/14/05: Gwar. Kanjii sucks, and she's going on hiatus, which means that the shop's on hiatus too. ><; I'm sorry, but life's been sucking and I haven't been motivated. Owners will get all the stages of their pets if I decide to close the shop, or they will get a refund. If I don't close the shop, well, then your pets will grow anyway. Chronicle updating = not required. Sorry guys. I suck. T__T;
4/16/05: Okay, growings and such are going to be PUT ON HOLD AGAIN BECAUSE KANJII'S A ******** RETARD. Actually, it's because her parents have gone away to China for vacation and so she has to take care of a bunch of stuff because now she's the WOMAN OF THE HOUSE which means she has to take care of her little brother's homework and s**t. WHICH MEANS LOTS OF WORK IN REAL LIFE AND NO TIME FOR GAIA. D; SUE ME.
4/06/05: Sayne and Iriath have come out x3;
4/5/05: Okay. Hui, Jani, Raith, Bane, Aleah, and Dawn have grown. Hammer'll be growing soon. x_<; Also, welcome Hitai and Corl, Xyn's and Zefster's newest Sepia.
4/3/05: Right, flatsale started today and...ended today. o_O; I know it was really sudden gonk I swear the next flatsale will have AT LEAST a three-day before announcement! x_<; -cringe-
4/02/05: Owners, please start updating chronicles! Hiatus has finally ended, and everything's done! I haven't really touched the RP post or Research and some others, but everything else is. Growings shall ensue soon! x3; Next flatsale previews up, prices have been increased to 1.5k, and another deity auction [Midnight] is being planned.

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general

Play nice. That means no spamming, flaming, etc.
Thievery is bad. Please don't steal anything, including concepts and art.
Read everything. Just to save us the headache, please read everything on the first page before asking questions.
Don't post in Chronicles. Unless you have permission from the Chronicle owner.
Don't try to buy a Sepia that already has an owner. That's just...rude.
Don't bother me about flatsales/auctions/etc. Check the Events post to see if there are any planned.

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role-playing

No extreme god-modding, chat-speak, cybering, etc. General rules that everyone should know. Try to be literate, please.
Please use [[ OOC ]] when talking in OOC. It'll make reading things a lot easier.
Keep your Sepia in character. I understand that personalities do change, but don't make it so that one minute your Sepia is all bright and happy, and the next minute he/she's painting their room black and hates everyone.
Owners must update Chronicles at least once a week. I will be posting certain events/quests in Chronicles, so you must be checking and updating them. If you don't update them, then your Sepia will not grow and I will give them to a foster parent until you come back and reclaim ownership.
If you are unable to update your Chronicle, say so. PM me or post in the thread, I'll see either way. If you warn me ahead of time, your Sepia will remain under your care and not a foster parent's.
You can write your own background story unless I say you can't. However, if you want me to write the story instead just PM me and I'll gladly do so. Please write to the best of your abilities and don't make your character a Mary-Sue/Gary-Stu. ><;
You can create your Sepia's power unless I've said otherwise/already made one. But don't make it so powerful that it could be considered god-modding, ex: Able to kill people by looking at them. Also, you must create a manna-drain effect [negative side effects of using their power], unless I made the power and have put in the cert that there is no manna-drain effect.

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foster parents

If you do not update your Sepia's Chronicle, and have not told me a reason why, I will put your Sepia under the care of a foster parent. Until you come back to re-claim ownership, the Sepia will remain under the foster parent's care.
Same owner rules apply to foster parents. This means that foster parents also still have to update Chronicles once a week, keep their Sepia in character, etc.
Do not ask to be a foster parent unless I say so in a post/PM. Usually I will choose the foster parent. If I ask you to be one and you don't want to, that's fine, just say so.
Don't be bitchy/whiny if the Sepia's original owner comes back to reclaim ownership. They paid the gold. As a foster parent, you should know and expect the original owner to come back.
Don't be bitchy/whiny if you find out your Sepia's been put under a foster parent's care. You were the one who didn't update your Chronicle without telling me the reason.
If the original owner never comes back, this still doesn't make you the official parent. Who knows? They may come back eventually. If you really want to be an 'official' parent, buy one yourself.

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Flatsales
It's over already o_O;

Auctions
Deity: Midnight auction sometime?

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[Picceh coming soon]
Hiding: Your Sepia is still lurking around in their picture/story. At this point in time, they cannot see or communicate with you, and you can't communicate with them. However, if you tear the picture or story apart, they will die, so I suggest taking very good care of them as they're very delicate during this stage.

[Picceh coming soon]
Child: At this stage, your Sepia has just emerged from their Hiding stage and will be quite bewildered with our world. Their world was rather primitive in the ways of technology, so they will not know what to do if put in front of a TV, except maybe hide from the scary moving pictures that talk. They DO know how to talk.

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Teen: Normal teen stuff. They get worse tempers, yell at lot more, rebel, etc. However, they gain more manna and are able to use their powers more/for a longer period of time. At this stage, they may grow spines and/or furry ears. The ears currently have no use, but the spines are apparently meant to be used for parasitic purposes. [Check the Sepia/Research post]

[Picceh coming soon]
Adult: Not much known about this stage yet, as no one's become an adult yet.

[More stages? Who knows.]

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Flatsaled Sepias cost 1,500g. Pure gold only.
Check the Events post to see when the next FS is. Flatsale and Auction dates are always put in the Events post.
First-come, first-serve. I know, sorry, it relies on fast connection, but that's the way things'll be. Whoever posts first gets the Sepia.
One Sepia per flatsale. One, and no more. You can get more in other flatsales/auctions.
You may buy for a friend. However, you can't buy another one for yourself. One per flatsale.
Know what you're getting yourself into. Sepia Chronicles must be updated! Don't buy one if you don't have the time to update their chronicle.
Check THIS post for the Sepias to be flatsaled. Their numbers will also be posted next to them for identification.
Don't complain. About not getting the Sepia, about the cost, about the Sepia you got, about other new owners, anything.
The only thing you have to do to ensure that you get the Sepia is to post its number. When posting which Sepia you want, post the number of the Sepia [number found next to cert].
After I announce the winners, send the trade. Send the trade to me, Kanjii, for 1,500g.
You should be getting the cert and Chronicle link shortly after/before you send the trade. Unless I say that the PMing of certs and Chronicle links will be delayed.

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flatsale going on now!

#1 Sold to WWSabith
#2 Sold to Seeno Evil
#3 Sold to Shouko
#4 Sold to Zefster

NOTE ON #1 AND #2! :: Looking at #1s story, it seems that the two are connected and know each other, and by the looks of it, they're not exactly 'friends'. So, writing background stories for either of these two may involve the other if the owners want it to, but if it does involve the other please be sure to talk to the other owner about it first! Thank you. whee

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Auctions start at 2k. Always.
No cap. Bidding can go as high as the bidder want.
Increments of 100g. Your bid must always be at least 100g more than the previous bid.
Start time and end time will be posted in both the Events post and the auction thread itself. Check either of the two.
Items accepted at mid-SIN. All items are accepted. Yes, even the crappy ones.
Know what you are getting yourself into. Auctioned Sepias STILL have Chronicles that must be updated once a week, and if you don't update the chronicle then your Sepia will be given to a foster parent until you reclaim ownership.
You [usually] cannot write your own background story for the Auctioned Sepias. Usually they are deities and will have a background story written for them. If they don't, then they usually at least have a vague description of their background story.

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deity: midnight auction

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Midnight is one of the older gods out of Dawn, Noon, and Dusk - he's the same age as Noon. Although Noon and Dawn are siblings, he has no family relation with Dusk, but he did admit once that he did have a slight bit of a crush on the other god.

He and Noon have been rivals since they've remembered, though the actual reason as to why they hate each other was either lost long ago in Sepia or simply one of the memories erased from Midnight's mind. He, like Dawn, was reborn in our world, and he recalls a few memories as well. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to give us much information on the two other deities.

Power: Is unaffected by Dawn's powers; Can make a room he's in completely dark, even blocks out sunlight; Can make shadows solid and control them for an extremely short amount of time

Manna-Drain Effect: Immunity to Dawn's powers has no effect. Blocking out light makes him dizzy and unfocused. Controlling shadows and making them solid: Midnight becomes extremely sick, illness lasts for a day or two but leaves him weakened for a week afterwards.

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<center>User Image</center>Chronicles are records of a Sepia's life here, in this world. I will make the thread for you, but you decide who gets to post in the thread other than you. Every now and then, I may post in the Chronicle thread.

Chronicles are required, and you must update them at least once a week. If you do not update once a week, I will PM you with a reminder to update. If you still don't update, I will give your Sepia to a foster parent until you come back to reclaim ownership.

Chronicles are also used for quests and other events. If I give you a quest, then you can be as wild with your response as you want as long as you follow any guidelines that I've given you.

If you're going on vacation or hiatus or something and you can't update your Sepia's Chronicle, please PM me. Then, your Sepia will not be given temporarily to a foster parent, but they will not grow until you come back. Most likely, if you don't update or respond to my PM, I will check your sig or journal or recent posts to see if you've put anything about going on break, and I'll excuse you.

[Chronicles]

Knife
Janika/Spaz
Raith
Hui
Bane
Aleah/Dahring
Sabith
Cristafori
Meryl?
Hashi/Hammer
Dawn
Zefster
Iriath
Sayne
Xyn

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Owner - Name - Gender - Stage - Chronicle



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Generation One

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From 'Ryou'

This is a note that was found on Valentine's Day. Apparently, somehow, when the Sepias grow older, at some point in time they'll have to kill their human owners in order to live. However, the human in question must be their owner, and two Sepias cannot live off the same human.

Whether this is a prank or true, we don't know, but we're certainly hoping it's a prank.

OOC: We'll just have to see whether this'll have to be done or not. If it does, I'm letting everyone have a free choice: You can take this event in whatever direction you want. However, I will assure you that your Sepia will not 'die' in the sense that there'll be nothing in the cert and they'll have a grave and won't even have a ghost. Because that's just...like...stealing your gold. >.o;

So, you can do whatever you want. If this does have to happen, you can let your Sepia kill you, or try and get him/her to feed off someone/something else, or lock him/her up in the closet and see what happens if he/she doesn't do what this note says it has to.

However, so far, the Sepias aren't at the point where they have to suck our life out. So, we all get to live a little longer for now. -sigh-

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Discovered by Janika when she, Bane, and Knife were hiding in the closet. By running her hands over the wall and pushing in one of the bricks, she opened the entrance to this passage.

It's very mysterious indeed...The passageway is coincidentally large enough for three Sepian children to travel through, so humans have to squeeze through. However, as Kanjii and Sabith were running through the passageway, it widened up at one point into a room filled with furniture, then narrowed down into the small passageway again. Kanjii and Sabith discovered Shouko asleep under a piece of furniture, and how she got there, who knows?

Also, Zefster and Hui entered through the same entrance, but instead of going into the passageway, they were immediately inside a cave.

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Yes, Kanjii IS, in fact, watching your every move. Okay, maybe she actually isn't, but she does have cameras around the hallways and in the main rooms of the house. Just the main rooms, mind you.

However, by now, the cameras aren't exactly 'secret' and everyone knows about the control room.

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Special powers and manna? :: In this world, the Sepias have been developing powers. The first one to develop a power was Raith, with his 'god-modding surfboard'. Then came Sabith [I think...] with his ability to control fire.

No one knows why they're developing these powers, but they use up what we call 'manna'. Using too much manna has side-effects, such as completely personality changes [Raith and Sabith], being extremely sensitive to light [Janika], or having to sleep for around a day [Knife].

Deities seem to have more manna, as Dawn uses her 'power' [soothing people around her with her presence] all the time and it hasn't had any negative effect on her as of yet.

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Parasites? :: Yes, according to Ryou, the Sepias are like parasites. When they reach a certain age they'll need to latch on to their owner by stabbing the human owner with their spines and then absorb their life force, thus killing the host. Course, we still don't know exactly who Ryou is, or whether he exists, or if this whole parasite thing is a joke.

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Ryou? :: Seriously, we know almost NOTHING about this Ryou character. He does share the same name as Kanjii's demon fox, but they're definitely not the same person. For one, Kanjii's fox can't write or read.

Kanjii has asked the goddess Dawn whether she knows anything about Ryou, but she says she's never heard of him. She's talked to Midnight too, but neither does he.

He's been 'spotted' twice. Once, in the main room, he delivered Sabith with specific orders to give the Sepia to Xyn.

And, most recently, he's appeared at Raith's doorstep. Well, he actually didn't show himself but he left a sword there for Raith...

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Hynos? :: [See Bane backstory] Apparently the Hynos were one of the species inhabiting the Sepia world. None of the Sepias we have are Hynos, and only Bane has any connection with them as far as we know.

Not much is known about them, except that they were a rather primitive species of humanoids.

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Deities? :: Yes, deities. We don't know much about them, but Kanjii has a theory.

It seems that there were a lot of civilizations and species sharing the Sepia world, and so they'd all have different religions. However, their deities actually existed, and actually came down and sometimes interfered in their peoples' lives.

The theory is that deities came alive when people believed in them, worshipped and prayed to them, and they died when their people stopped worshipping them, or when they were killed.

We only know of four Sepia deities right now, the goddesses Noon and Dawn, and the gods Midnight and Dusk.

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<center>User Image</center>[Q] Can I buy a Sepia?
[A] Yes, you can. whee But you have to wait for a flatsale or auction. Check the Events Post, the Updates Post, or the Flatsales or Auctions Posts to see when one starts.

[Q] How much are the Sepias when flatsaled?
[A] 1,500g flatsaled.

[Q] What?! 1,500g?!
[A] Yup. Price won't be changing [for now, at least.]

[Q] Can you make me a custom?
[A] Sorry, but I can't. sweatdrop

[Q] Can I reserve a Sepia?
[A] Nope. First come, first serve.

[Q] Do I have to update the Chronicle once a week?
[A] Yes.

[Q] What if I don't want my Sepia anymore?
[A] Give it back to me, and I'll auction it off.

[Q] Don't I get a refund?
[A] Nope.

[Q] Can I buy a Sepia for a friend?
[A] Yup. Just make sure that in the 'Your Username' slot, put your friend's username instead, and just include somewhere in your post that you're buying it for your friend. xD;

[Q] Can I buy more than one Sepia during the same flatsale?
[A] Nope.

[Q] Can I buy more than one Sepia if I buy them during different flatsales?
[A] Yes.

[Q] Is there a limit on how many I can have?
[A] Nope. But, you know, don't be too greedy... sweatdrop

[Q] If I have more than one, do they all have different Chronicles?
[A] Yes.

[Q] If I have more than one, do I have to update all their Chronicles once a week?
[A] Yup.

[Q] So if I have more than one, I can't just update one of the Chronicles and update the others some other week?
[A] You must update all Chronicles once a week.

[Q] Can I trade my Sepia for someone else's Sepia, if both of us agree to the trade?
[A] Talk with me about it first. And, of course, if I do allow you to go through with the trade, the Sepias traded will most likely be slightly saddened that their previous owners wanted to exchange them for someone else...

[Q] Do I have to role-play [RP] my Sepia?
[A] No, but you do have to update your Sepia's Chronicle once a week.

[Q] Background story?
[A] [I just noticed that a few of you owners had reserved a post in the Chronicles for a background story, so I figured I'd better put this up here. o.o;] Unless you really want me to write the story, you can write the background story yourself. Just make sure that you keep the Sepia's personality like the one I've written in the tag. If you want me to write the background story, go ahead and PM me.

Also, if you write a story, please don't make your Sepia a Mary-Sue or a Gary-Stu.

However, auctioned and other Sepias obtained through means other than a flatsale usually will already have a background story written by me, so you can't write your own version of their past then. x.x;

[Q] Can we do a pet trade?
[A] PM me about it, and show me the pet first. n__n; I really love Breedables of all types, but I still have the right to refuse. If I do, don't b***h at me neutral

[Q] How can I contact you in ways other than PM?
[A] YIM. My username is kanjii@sbcglobal.net. Yes, the @sbcglobal.net part and all. n_n; Though do realize that my laptop is teh laggy and it might take a long while for me to receive your message.

[Q] When should I PM you?
[A] If you have a question that's not already answered on this first page, of if I say you can, either somewhere on the thread or here on this first page.

[Q] ...'Sepia'? WTF?
[A] sweatdrop Um. Well. It's what they called their world. So. Er. It's what they call themselves and it's what we call them.

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<center>User Image</center>Do you want to link us? Or do a link exchange? I'd be more than glad to [as long as your shop didn't rip off someone else's art without their permission and stuff like that]

Here's the code to link us:
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This is what it looks like:
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And here are links out:

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Er...Full-Time Staff

Kanjii :: Lineartist, Certist, Colorist...basically does everything. Crazy, gets hyper when on the Internet and when drawing stick figures. Uses WACOM Graphire3 Tablet and Photoshop 7.0. Draws by hand, scans into computer, yadda yadda. Likes to use the emoticon 'XD' a lot, and pair the '@' eye with other eyes. Is lazy and procrasinates a lot.

Part-Time Staff?

Xyn [WhispWarriorSabith] :: Not really a staff members, but gives ideas for some of the Sepias' personalities [Sabith] and ideas for other things. Knows who Ryou is. -shoves him into the closet and duct tapes his mouth- New: Also helped create THIS Sepia. :wheE:

Seeno :: Guess colorist. whee heart
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