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 Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:26 pm
wooooooo! i'm a ghoooooost! XD nah, jk, its just me! sailor sunburst! posting with my now officially updated mule. i am ready for the ball! and btw sub, have a great time in arizona!
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:59 pm
Poof. Edited, sub. And when you actually want to do your contest, you want it to be in a nice layout and completely error free/grammatically correct. I can pull up my example from the tektek contest from last year, if any of you guys want to see how we want you to set it up.
I've never been to Texas, but I'm only a few states away from Cali XD Never been there before, though. I hope it's sunny down there, though. I know more northern it isn't so nice at this point...hoping for it to change, though.
Oh and Shu, would you mind if I went through the descriptions and edit it a bit? As I said, there were a few spots with misplaced commas, run on sentences, or tense change. I wouldn't be doing any revising and changing the basic idea, I'd just be doing some grammatical work. [/grammar nazi]
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:42 pm
Bluuuuurg. Muuuuuleeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Haha!! Look at me! I'm a rebellious teenager who's actually a few hundred years old!! Haha! Look! I have a tattoo that I got even though my loving older brother didn't want me too! Look, I also have a puppy! Awww who's a good puppy. You are, you are! Oh, and look! My jeans are all torn up to give me that "I don't give a damn attitude" and I'm wearing a black shirt with a tie Juan forced me to wear! I have my ears pierced, too. And Juan does not approve of any of the previous statements about myself! MAHAHAHAHAHAH!
P.S.
I'm a total badass
*slides sunglasses on*
Ooooooooh yeeeaaaaaaaaaah. cool
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:11 pm
Whoa, watch out for the badass, Luke coming through!
Yes you guys im back, which means im free, until the 23rd when i have a mock exam and then im free again. Don't worry im up to date, i just haven't had the chance to post til now.
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rawr im a dinosaur
ja ne!
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:16 pm
hey guys, i got some really important news to tell you all! my mom wants me and her to move to north carolina where we'll be closer to her family. i'm not moving now, it wont be for several months, but it'll be during that august-september time frame, so theres a... 40-50% chance i wont be able to make it to the ball... i'll send a pm to angelishia later today and tell her, but there shouldnt be any reason to worry. i just wanted to let you guys know
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:02 am
............................ LUUUUUUUUUUUUUKE!! *pounces on him with 'proper' clothes*
We have an issue here. For one, August 15th does not work for me. At all. I won't be available the whole day. Then, Dusky might not be able to make it for the first few days of the Ball. I've told Lady Angel about this, and she recommended we put forward the day for our plot to finish, but since Dusky won't be around... o____________o
Heheh, glad you like the edits, Dusky! =D And thanks again for the list. We can never do without you. ;D
And thanks for the forewarning, sailor. But this raises a problem. You need to find someone who can take over the mule during the course of the ball. If the ball date doesn't change, I need to take over Dusky's mule as well, and I don't think I can handle 3 mules at the same time. @.@ You'll need to find someone who can replace you.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:55 pm
hmm... thanks for the suggestion. i'll ask my friend here on gaia "earth gods lyric" if she can help out. she'll be a newbie, but could you guys help fill her in?
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:05 pm
Shu: There is a 100% chance I will not be here at all the first day or half of the second day. I'm getting picked up from summer camp on the second day, so I will not be there. I don't know how we're going to get it to work if neither Juan nor Luke are interacting on the first day, since we need to let the ballgoers see their relationship. Unless we say there has been extensive fighting due to the stress of the ball? >.< Gah, I don't know. There's also the contests to do, and I won't be able to prep for those at all the week before the ball because, as I said, I'll be gone the entire week with no electronics or wifi. I feel so bad for putting this on you, but I'll try to get the contests set up before I leave so I can get it up ASAP on the 2nd day. Then there's the king/queen of the room contest, but that shouldn't be a big deal. We can get it set up before I leave and we usually don't have the king/queen contests the first day anyway. I'll be around and faithful half of the second day and beyond that, though...I feel so bad for not being able to come, but there's no possible way around it.
Sailor: If you trust earth, then ask her to be a kind of understudy, I guess. If she agrees, tell her to join the guild and post in this thread. We can fill her in as time goes by so she won't have to absorb a shitload of information the day before the ball happens. And if we happen not to need her and she still wants to help, I'm sure she can help us with something. Are you hosting a contest, though, or are you helping someone else? Because if you are, we have to make sure we can trust her with the prizes or figure out a way to get the prizes to the contestants without having them on your account. Actually, if you aren't going to be there it may be better to not have an entire contest by yourself. I'd feel better if someone who's been in the room for a while was choosing winners for contests we represent.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:09 pm
*fights Juan off with the powers of teenage rebellion*
You know...if he would wear cloths that weren't so uptight looking, we could be twins...or if I wore a pin stripe, button up shirt and a fancy tie... HAHAHA like that would ever happen.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:38 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:22 am
Oh yes, we're pretty spiffy mrgreen
Do you remember what contest you were going to do, cakes? You can start working on that, if you want. The first thing you want to do is to come up with a theme/reason for the contest. Like, last year I had the people participating in the tektek contest try to dress up the ghouls and monsters that surround the mansion (although, I can't remember why...). So for this year, the person doing the art contest (whoever they are) could say that Juan wanted to capture this beautiful memory forever, so he wanted them to hold a contest to have the ballgoers draw the people of the room/the mansion/whatever.
And to everyone else, I believe most of you are done with testing or are very close. So if you could get the room intro in by the end of next week so we can edit them, that'd be fantastic.
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:55 am
-The Dusk Sky- Oh yes, we're pretty spiffy mrgreen Do you remember what contest you were going to do, cakes? You can start working on that, if you want. The first thing you want to do is to come up with a theme/reason for the contest. Like, last year I had the people participating in the tektek contest try to dress up the ghouls and monsters that surround the mansion (although, I can't remember why...). So for this year, the person doing the art contest (whoever they are) could say that Juan wanted to capture this beautiful memory forever, so he wanted them to hold a contest to have the ballgoers draw the people of the room/the mansion/whatever. And to everyone else, I believe most of you are done with testing or are very close. So if you could get the room intro in by the end of next week so we can edit them, that'd be fantastic. I think I might do a tektek contest
With a formal theme
And maybe a couple other themes to match
Or a trivial contest
So... Wait...
I hold the contest separately, correct?
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:06 pm
Mkay, Cakes I looked back on page 26 and it looks like you hadn't been assigned a contest. Originally I was going to do the tektek, but you can go ahead and do it. As for everyone else, please looks at this list. It'll tell you which contest you're doing, which we decided on a few months ago. Shunatsu King and Queen - Dusky? < since you're doing tektek do you wanna take up this contest? D8 and I Tektek - Dusky Art - Sub Ninja - Writing Yui - Haiku
And we weren't planning on doing a trivia contest, so just do the tektek if you'd like to. You can do more than one category for the tektek, too. Like you could have a Love themed category or a formal category. But, like I said, come up with a reason for it. For example, if you wanted to do a formal category, you could say Juan asked you to hold a contest to show Luke how a 'proper' person dresses. Something like that. And then you'll write an introduction to the contest, Like this or like this or like this.
As you can see, you can do it a few ways. You can make it humorous, like Shu's, or fitting to the person who is holding the contest, like mine (Enyo's), and they all have to fit in with the theme of the room.
Also, as you can see from the tektek contest, it's a REALLY good idea to have an organized list of entries. It's impossible to say how many people will enter, so if you have a ton it can get confuses and you can end up forgetting about some people's entries.
If any of you guys have any questions on holding a contest or need some ideas/help in writing the intro or coming up with rules or something, feel free to ask Shu or I for help, as we've both held contests before. e
Sub, I think you got your rules written down somewhere but you still need to work on it some more. Like creating the intro and elaborating on some things.
Shu, I edited some of the descriptions a bit because there were a few run on sentences and misplaced commas and stuff.James
James is a very simple person.
He is an honourable man who spends his days drinking tea and reading books, if he gets any spare time, that is. He was bestowed the sacred duty as peacemaker between Juan and Luke, which he carries out with great dedication and care. Contrary to popular belief, he does not dislike carrying out the duty. After all, fights and scrabbles are simply wrapped up in simple, good times as days go by, and he feels blessed be able to witness the beautiful progress between the two brothers who were once trapped in the voids of bad luck. He is the man Luke persuaded to get a new tattoo, and the reason Juan bothers to place a brand new vase of flowers on the mansion’s bar counter every morning. And of course, let’s not miss out on the free, lovely, real-life soap dramas James adores watching. Like how Reine is obsessed with Luke, and Juan is overly obsessed with Luke and kitties, how Luke is overly obsessed with his puppy and… you get the gist.
Even so, James is very close to Luke, and Juan. The man had looked after the little rascals and watch them grow into fine, young men, and so, the old man is very proud for all that Luke and Juan do for people. For this reason, he feels great bitterness and resentment to those who take advantage of Juan’s kindness, or how people fly into rages at Luke because simply because of his independence and pride. So, one can say that perhaps James IS like the big brother between the two they both need. He helps keep the family together and somewhat peaceful.
Oh, and one warning about James. He is not a person you would want to get provoke. He is certainly not a man to mess with when he gets angry. He treats people with respect when others treat him the same. The same goes for people who treat him rudely.
Reine
As the second child of 5, Reine was pressured as a child by her parents to become a business woman, even though she hated the thought of it. After her older brother became all that her parents wanted him to be, the burden of upholding her parents’ dreams was forced onto her. After a year of being trapped in business school, she finally snapped. She ran away from home and vowed never to come back. Reine began travelling from town to town, taking up jobs to pay for her living. It was her dream to travel around the world and she hoped she would be able to keep it up for as long as she needed.
One day, when she was walking back to her flat, Reine met a mysterious boy who refused to tell her anything about himself despite all her prodding and poking. Over the weeks curiousity got the better of her and one day decided to follow (stalk) him. She saw him returning to an excuse of a house and eventually got his secret out of him. At that moment, she realised she had finally met another person who understood how she feels. The feeling of abandonment and loneliness that still eats her up to this day was a shared emotion between the two young adults. Both of them started spending time together, often running around vandalizing property, breaking rules and challenging authority, which seemed to be Luke’s way of filling the void.
Reine hates Luke's brother, Juan for seemingly ignoring Luke, and the hatred only grew when she finally met him. Reine was also jealous of Mitsukai for a small period of time when she fussed over Luke and tried to protect him, but her jealousy evaporated when she realised Luke kept rejecting her. However, she still hates Mitsukai because she always sides with Juan and never sees the way Luke sees the world, and feels that they don’t try hard enough to understand him. Reine has a bitter disposition to adults due to her parents neglect to her dreams and feelings, and relates greatly to Luke. Eventually, she fell in love with him and after meeting him for the first time in hundreds and thousands of years (she was turned into an immortal by Luke to keep him company), she just wants Luke by her side and tries to bring things back as they used to be.
Rosetta Rae
Rosetta Rae (last name unknown) isn't your average fourteen year old girl. Rosetta doesn't exactly know how, but she found herself on the doorsteps of the manor in tears after one tragic and rainy night when she was only ten. The landowners took her in and since then Rosetta has looked after the manor when Juan and Luke are out. Four years have passed, and now Rosetta thinks of them as older brothers. She can often be found in the garden, which despite it being caught in the snow during the cold, winter days, is still kept green. Rosetta's friends are the manor inhabitants and the flowers, but she hopes that will change when all the party eager Gaians arrive. After being cooped in the mansion for so long, the young girl is absolutely eager to make friends.
Rosetta loves chatting with Gaians, but doesn't enjoy arguing or gossiping with people. When these two things usually occur, you can often hear her saying, "Beware... The flower's have ears. They know all." Rosetta hopes to make all the visitors happy and well informed. Also, Rosetta likes to keep all things in check, so there isn't any chaos. Yet she's sure that something bad will happen (it always does), so she doesn't know why she ever bothers trying.
The young girl is quite shy, but she changes her attitude when the Gaians are around. She can be a tad ditzy and clumsy. However, the girl is smart. Especially when it comes to things about nature and wildlife. She has fantastic manners, and she is always polite and kind. Rosetta doesn't care about boys or money, she usually just keeps to herself and her 'family'. Rosetta's favorite things are Italian food, chocolate, nature, books, poetry, music, and rain. Lately, she's been spending her time wondering what shall be in store for the weekend of festivities...
Vincent Ezekial Valdette
Vincent Ezekial Valdette may look young, but there's a hidden truth behind this 'young' man. This seemingly twenty-one year old man was born in 1600. He had moved to the area from his home country of Italy at the age of sixteen when his mentor, William Shakespeare had died in 1616. Back then, the manor was relatively new. Vincent found a job as an up-keeper in the manor, making sure things were clean and in check. It was here he wrote his best poetry, which can sometimes be found framed in many rooms amongst the manor. A lot of these poems were based on this death of his beloved mentor. Vincent spent most of his time cleaning, studying, reading, and, of course, writing poetry. Vincent's favorite things were girls, poetry, music, darkness, and colors. Oh how he loved reading in one of the more colorful rooms amongst the manor, it made him feel so alive. Alas, it was also here that Vincent fell in love with a woman named Shizuki and wrote many blissful poems about their budding romance. One day, however, their love was cut short when Vincent found himself cleaning the manor when he noticed a strange object. Upon touching and dusting off the object, a flash appeared and Vincent was gone. He has been missing in action ever since... Where could he have gone? Is he even still alive?
Mitsukai
Mitsukai is Luke and Juan’s guardian angel. She is immortal and has been with both of them since their parents passed away. She has average spiritual powers, being able to create large barriers and has minor healing abilities. As your classic social butterfly, she loves friends and parties, so the ball is one of her favourite times of the year. She has a mascot: an angel imp that follows her around and aids her in her duties.
Sharing a very close bond with Juan, she had helped him as much as she could through the ‘dark times’. She loves Juan very, very much (as a friend!) and tries to ease his suffering much as she can. However, Luke prefers to keep her at arm’s length, to which she always feels annoyed about. What harm could come in trusting another person? However, she greatly dislikes Reine. To her, the girl comes across as a moody, brooding teenager who doesn’t understand the beauty of the world: the complete opposite of herself.
As an angel, Mitsukai enjoys learning about wildlife and studied the subject for a year. It goes without without saying that she enjoys tending to the gardens and tucking away at the cosy corner of the library reading or sleeping. She has a strong weakness for cute things (PINK!), and can be absent-minded at times.
P.S.: She has a tradition of setting off a Chinese lantern into the sky at the end of each party she goes to, as a finale for her night, so look out for it.
Luke
You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that Luke is your average rebellious young teen. He doesn’t take crap from anyone, refuses to listen to authority (especially if that authority is Juan), and gets in trouble on a daily basis. Although he refuses to admit it, one reason Luke likes getting in trouble is it gets Juan’s attention. After feeling neglected and abandoned by his brother who was always preoccupied with his work, he found that it was the only thing that gave him his attention, and after going about it for so long, habits are hard to break. Still, it isn't all about attention grabbing. (Hell, Luke lives for himself, and he dares you challenge this belief!) For the most part, Luke just loves having fun and sees no problem breaking the law to have his way. Life was too short to spend worrying, after all.
However, sometimes when he looks back and ponders about the things that have happened in those dark rainy days, Luke wished he could be the perfect brother to Juan, like how Juan is to him, but quickly changes his mind as soon as he and Juan get in yet another fight. But sometimes, when he sees Juan locking himself in his room after a fight and refuses to eat, he sees an image of Juan back in those hard days, working himself to the bone and secretly giving him all his share during meals. He sees his brother’s blood shot panda eyes and the skin wrapped around his bones and during those times he feels great regret because he’s missed his chance of being a good brother back then by giving him s**t loads of trouble. So, now that he’s given a second chance, he does not intend to let it go.
In a way, he's often envious of the close bond Mitsukai and his brother share, but tries not to let it affect him too much. After all, he's too busy out breaking rules (and laws) with Reine most of the time. At least she doesn’t go around nagging him, and is probably the only friend he has who understands him, for that he's terribly grateful for her. She helped him deal with issues he's had, and she helped him heal, and in a way, he thinks he loves her just as much as his brother loves Mitsukai.
Juan
A tough, young hot man to boot, Juan doesn't let his looks speak for itself. Sure, he stresses on the importance of manners, decency and daily ethics. Sure, he is a little overly obsessed about Luke and his antics, and okay, maybe wearing a suit on a daily basis IS a little over the top but hey, Juan is still your average laid back guy who spends his free time chilling out in the sun or rolling around the bed or painting naked women and cats.
Deep down inside, Juan believed he was given the role to fulfil the mission his parents failed to, no matter how he wished it wasn’t true: the duty to take care of Luke. Sure, he has plenty of people to help, like the ever so calming James, or the caring Mitsukai… But at the end of it, he understands that it is his job to support his brother. Take the blows for him. Take responsibility of him. No matter the pain, no matter the hardships. But being only a few years older than Luke like he is, he struggles greatly to be the perfect brother and father and mother to Luke he doesn’t know how to be. To this day, even after thousands of years, Juan still ponders the answer.
He's torn over the fight with Luke hundreds of years ago, and deeply fears that he will cause more harm to him than he already has. Juan is extremely protective (overly paranoid) of Luke (despite all the years Luke robbed of him whenever he pisses him off) since he is the only family he has left. Generous and kind, he pretty much gets along well with all people and enjoys interacting with everyone and sharing stories. Despite this, he's passively hostile towards Reine, as he views her as the poison seeds residing in his brother's soul. He adores kitties, and flies into a rage whenever Luke sets his favourite pet dog chasing his one and only beloved. behind Luke, because Luke always comes first, because family comes first. Because Luke was all he had and because his brother is his world, Luke will always be first.I didn't change much. Most of it was just grammatical and a little bit of word choice.
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:46 pm
hey, wait! didnt i put in my character intro? where is it? i know i sent it to shun or dusky? it should be there! dont even say i didnt sent my character intro, cause thats bull crap! i know i sent it! shun edited it and everything!
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:38 pm
Sailor, looking back I don't see it. Your character is Shizuki, right? I don't see one for her, and I never received on in the form of a PM. I can't speak for Shu, though.
And to everyone else, your top priority right now is to write the intro to the room. So far only one person has submitted one, and I'm working on one right now. After that's done, they'll be edited together to form one super-intro. Then you really need to work on your contests.
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