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 Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:03 am
Blue text is comments and OOC chatter, black/default is the actual log.
Bio:
Full Name: Michael Azrael
Race/Sex/age: Human (outsider)/Male/21(?)
Occupation: Studied mythology and their origins for a few years.
Title: Strange Human from Outside
Special traits/abilities: Currantly the charm "burned" itself into his right arm, making him able to use danmaku and learn it at a rather speedy pace.
Location: In a makeshift house/shack somewhere near the Hakurei shrine, far enough so it's not seen easily.
In possession of: His currant clothes, an "amulet" with the words "increase" and "strength", and a dulled, small katana-like weapon he found.
Appearance: Starting from the top, a brown hat with two brown leaves/feathers, short, straight brown hair that's a bit long in front. A blue neckerchief around his neck, blue sleeveless shirt, with a large blue coat, lighter blue triangle pattern on the end of the sleeves and bottom of the coat. Has a brown bag with a strap over his shoulder. Baggy, dark blue pants. Wears either brown sandals or shoes. Often carrys some kind of sword, usually a black or dark brown sheath and hilt, with a silver blade.
Spell Cards:"Cold Muramasa of the East", "Tender Masamune of the East".
Full Spell card list:
"10,000 Cold Nights, Muramasa",
"Tender Hands, Masamune",
Revised first card: "Muramasa and Masamune, Leaf in a River"
"Mjollner, the Northern Thunder",
"Arthur's Cleaving Excaliber",
"Aegis of the Roman Conquerer",
"Amenonuhoko, Heavenly Spear that formed the world",
"The Dwarve's Cursed Tyrfing"
No descriptions as of yet, I've yet to figure out how to balance several of these, let alone what they do.
Italics mean it's a fighting game skill card.
Day one: This starts my Journal of my adventures in "Gensokyo". I'm writing this in a makeshift hut by a shrine owned by Reimu Hakurei, hopefully she won't mind it being in a close vicinity to her shrine, but I think I made it far enough far enough so it's unable to be seen. I'll carve the small cave-like formation I found in the hill, as it seems uninhabited.
But I'm rambling, I should chronicle what happened first, so I'll start with what I remember when I first came to this strange land.
My earliest memory is walking through a town in Japan, which I went to so I could research local legends. This lead me to a shrine tucked in a sleepy town, which was quite quaint. I then recall a strange woman leaning against a wall on the outside of the shrine, in an unusual dress, who when I approached, woke up from a nap, and stared at me with a strange interest. I backed away a bit, in fear I was intruding, but she cocked her head and started fanning herself, and shifting a fancy, pink umbrella she had open above her. She didn't look much older then 24, but her eyes looked at me like she had seen millenniums.
What happened next was strange, to say the least, because she slowly got up, and walked over. I tried my best to act respectful, seeing as I'm no older then 18, and she was obviously older then me. When she had come up within five feet of me, she stopped, all the while fanning herself slowly, her head slightly tilted with the most unusual expression on her face.
After ten minutes of this, I was starting to get stiff, and was about to open my mouth, when she suddenly said something unusual at the time.
"You seem interesting, human."
After that, I only remember a sudden falling sensation, with faint laughter, then a thud as I slammed against some ground.
After I stirred, I quickly jumped up, and found myself within a few yards of a strange woman with red hair,wearing a short, red and yellow dress, over what looked like the corpse of an animal. What kind I don't know, I just know it was town open from it's neck down to the lower end of it's belly, and it was very large, about the size of a bear. Some of it's insides where pulled out, some hanging limply out of it's torn belly. The girl turned around, somewhat unfazed, and just blinked, seemingly in the middle of consuming said creature's insides, with red streaks across her face, and all across the front of her dress.
The silence was deafening. We stared for a full minute before she suddenly gave a frightened look like I had walked in on her naked, shrieked, then hurled something large and red at me, which exploded upon impact of the ground.
At this point, I was bewildered beyond reasoning, and started running, which is where I practically blacked out entirely in terror, loud blasts going on repeatedly behind me, right behind me as the woman yelled something I didn't take the time to listen to.
All I remember after that is looking behind me after awhile only to notice I wasn't being chased, which is when I slowed to a slow walk, panting. I continued awhile, till I ended up at a staircase, which looked like one to a shrine. I ran up the stairs, and fell to my knees near the entrance.
I adjusted my coat, and tried to catch my breath before I knocked. I was soon met by a strange woman wearing a blue shirt, and wearing a strange looking hat. She was holding a strange stick with writing on it, and gave me an indignant look.
"What do you want?" She asked me, I quickly explained a bit, and I heard someone inside the shrine say something, which is when the woman with the stick backed up and allowed me to enter the shrine.
The people inside where a strange bunch, I sat over in a corner, away from the rest who where having a lively discussion. I soon learned that among them was: A judge of hell, a guide of souls, a vampire, an ice fairy, and a dragon-god. My head was still spinning from my earlier encounter, so it took me awhile to compute this. Once this registered though, I found myself with an even bigger headache then I had before, and almost collapsed.
I managed to keep myself from having a breakdown, and watched to bizarre group have some kind of argument, which resulted in the judge and the guide leaving, and then the vampire left in some kind of huff. A "dog tengu" arrived shortly, and started hanging around. After awhile, the shrine's owner, "Reimu" had arrived, and welcomed me before going over to see the dragon-god, who was apparently just hanging around the garden. I had regained some of my sanity at this point, and started listening to the conversation, in hopes of figuring out some information on where I was.
This resulted in an unfortunate discovery, that "Gensokyo", the place I'm in, is in danger of being destroyed by some strange being, a "half-youkai", with a strong hatred for Gensokyo.
I drifted away from the conversation, instead focusing on my clothes, they seemed to be fine, my pants weren't ripped, my shirt was fine, and my coat seemed to be fine too, which all surprised me, considering my violent first encounter.
After this, I noticed the shrine maiden, or "miko" as the dog-tengu called her, and the dragon-god went outside the shrine, presumably to talk about something important. The tengu wanted to go, but was blocked, but later tried to follow anyway.
I then sat back and just rested, mulling over what happened, tossing it around trying to grasp it all. Another miko, older then the first, came from behind a door, looked at me, then walked over to the table. After some introducing myself, I asked if I could stay overnight at the shrine, just until morning. She told me to make a donation, to "increase my luck", which puzzled me, but I obliged. I put a couple coins into the box in front, then walked back inside the shrine. The older miko looked at me, before going and getting a pot of tea and some cups, which she poured said tea into, and handed one to me. After an awkward silence, she looked at me, and asked me a question that must have been out of the blue.
"Do you want to buy a charm?" she said with a clear voice. I looked at her, a little puzzled, before asking what kind of charms these where. After a small explanation, of which could be summed up as "whatever you want them to be", I handed her the 250 yen, an addition of 100 of the original price, since it was supposedly a special charm, and she handed me a piece of red and white paper, with the Japanese symbols for "increase" and "power".
I looked at it for awhile, before tucking it into a pocket in my shirt, making sure it was somewhere it couldn't fall out.
I later found I couldn't stay at the shrine, so I decided to try and fine a place to make a shelter, which led to me finding a small hill near the shrine, large enough to carve a small indentation out of. I gathered some wood, and made a small tent-like structure near the indentation, and covered it in some large leaves. After I had done this in a fashion where it would hold up, instead of collapsing, I decided to examine the surrounding area. When walking around, I tripped over some small bump, which I assumed was a tree stump. after looking at it though, I found it was not a tree stump, but a something like a hilt. I dug it out to find a small, sheathed blade, which to my disappointment was dulled. After this, I returned to my little shack, and dug the little indentation out into a small hole, of which I could climb into and still have room to move. I then found another stick, and stuck it into the roof, like a miniature beam, and managed to sit my coat down in a fashion I could lay on.
After being pleased with my clumsily built shelter, I then pulled the this very journal out and began writing, after which, I plan to retire for the night, and possibly find some more information on this strange little charm. I plan in the morning to investigate it further, since even though it says "increase strength" on it, I don't feel any different, although when I started to pray, it seemed to glow ever so faintly. I suspect it may have some relation to spiritual power, but I'll find that out in the morning, for now, I'm completely bushed, although I could go for something to eat... Ah, I'll figure it out in the morning.
~End of page 1~
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:54 pm
Day 2
Uneventful, I studied the charm and kept working on the little shack I made.
Day 3
I tried to find some way to sharpen the sword I found, which didn't work too well. I continued studying the charm in attempts to figure out how to work it. No results so far, although I think it might have something to do with the combat of several youkai I've seen lately. They'd usually fly up and send thousands of colorful balls of light at each other until one gives up and surrenders, or gets blasted to the ground.
I began thinking the charm might be able to let me gain a ability similar to the ones I saw, I'll try attempting to unlock how this display of lights.
Day 4
Uneventful, no changes in my attempts.
I was however, forced to eat a unfortunate fairy by a Rabbit and a "celestial", which gave me a horrible stomachache.
Day 5
I decided to visit the shrine, thinking it might help my attempts at this art of combat called "danmaku".
This proved fruitful, I learned that focusing on the charm drew out some of my weak "spiritual" powers and allowed me to fire small blasts, I soon learned attaching the charm to my arm helped me fire them with just one arm, instead of both. The fairy I ate from before was there, and at first I used her as target practice. After several of her deaths, I felt bad for constantly abusing her, and stopped. I apologized too, and she didn't seem too mad about it, surprisingly. She didn't seem to have a name, so I decided to call her Faren. She kinda liked it, and seems to like hanging around, as long as I don't try and blast her.
Before this, though, I met a strange "flower youkai" named Yuuka, who seemed rather tame and subdued when she met me. After introducing herself, she ambled along and went to some kind of "flower festival".
After awhile, I moved on from short blasts, to larger blasts, to small orbs, to medium orbs. After much repetition, I decided to make a large blast, in attempt to increase my output, and possibly make more bullets at once. This succeeded, although it shot me across the shrine's lawn into a tree. After much groaning and peeling myself off the tree, I then tried to shoot several energy orbs, which succeeded. I fired ten, then eleven, then 15, then finally got up to 25 before I started feeling queasy. I rested a bit, then resumed. This continued until I finally decided I couldn't fire any more shots. I walked over to the entrance of the shrine, and took a rest.
I woke up late in the day, with a nice feeling of refreshment. I decided to resume practice at my "hovel" and ambled over.
Nothing else interesting happened, although I did make more progress...
[day 6-14 seem to be skipped.]
Day 15
After around ten or so days of practice, I've gotten to the point where I can defend myself against some of the lesser youkai. I wandered away from my dwelling, which is why I haven't filled in on days. Although they mostly consisted of running from youkai in the early portion of my trip, before arriving in the human village. I spent several days learning about my new surroundings. I learned that many "danmaku" fighters often have "spell-cards", which causes large intricate patterns to fly. Anytime a danmaku fight is initiated I heard some people watch the spectacle like fireworks.
I quickly ended up meeting someone named Keine, who was the teacher for the human village. She seemed slightly confused by my ability to use danmaku. I spent around 4 to 5 days in the village with her, and she gave me explanations and "lectures" on the various points of danmaku. She also helped me train to a point where she said I could "defend myself against most hostile youkai".
She also helped me practice and helped me make my first two spell cards, "Cold Muramasa of the East", and "Tender Masamune of the East". These where the product of a kind of "training" she explained to me. She told me to form the shape of a maple leaf out of danmaku, small at first, then rush forward and slice it with a sword made of "bullet energy". After a couple tries I could do it fairly well, but she noticed that after slicing it, it would fly in random directions without any particular path. After some explanation, she helped me to make the split "leaf" fly into smaller leaves in tight patterns. She made me drill these many times, until I could concentrate the by product in one spot, as well as send them in all directions. After awhile of practice, she helped me "forge" the two cards, and drilled me on exact use.
At the end of the week or so of practice, I left the human village and started heading back towards my "hut" by the Hakurei shrine. I faced several of the youkai from last time, and probably new ones too, but they where easier then before, and I passed through the battles much easier.
After arriving back, I plopped back down in my "hut" and drifted off to sleep.
Day 35
Spell Card Data:
1) Card name:"10,000 Cold Nights, Muramasa"
Card Description: Forms a dark purple energy katana, then creates 2 leaf patterns one smaller then the other, then swings sword twice, making a "split" of the leaf, first swing for smaller leaf pattern, second for the largest pattern. After hit, bullets fly in random directions, completely un-concentrated. Useful for hitting multiple or fast moving targets.
2) Card name:"Tender Hands, Masamune"
Card Description: Creates a dark blue energy katana Also Creates two leaf Patterns, and repeats previous card's movements. Splits for smaller leaf patterns made of danmaku, that focus towards a target, or fly in a concentrated directions. Useful to cause large amounts of damage at once.
3) Card name: "Mjollner, the Northern Thunder"
Card Description: Creates a hammer shaped danmaku in one hand, and fires 5 large orbs which form a star pattern. Throws the mjollner, which ricochets around and makes the orbs explode into smaller bullets which form smaller star patterns.
4) Card name: "Arthur's Cleaving Excaliber"
Card Description: Forms a longsword in one hand. Swings it to fire a quick laser straight forward, which sends danmaku across horizontally as it flies. Danmaku freezes in place before falling down. during this smaller danmaku is thrown from the sword to make it harder to move through the curtain.
5) Card name: "Aegis of the Roman Conquerer"
Card Description: [Not used in shooter combat] Creates a large shield to block attacks, can reflect danmaku.
6) Card name: "Amenonuhoko, Heavenly Spear that formed the world"
Card Descriptions:
Danmaku: Creates a large spear/glaive made of energy in one hand. Twirls it, sending danmaku spraying around, which freezes in a bunch of overlapping leaf patterns. While twirling, knife danmaku may fly around, cutting a leaf, which is then replaced by the spray. After around 12 twirls, swings twice, then hurls the spear forward (center of the screen in a danmaku game) which sends all the bullets forward.
Fighter: Creates an energy glaive, swings it 3 times, gradually getting larger swings. Last swing sends the opponent up, then impales them by throwing the spear. Usually deals from half to more then 3/4ths of the opponents HP bar, depending on how many hits are landed. 3rd swing and the thrown glaive are graze-able.
7) Card name: "The Dwarve's Cursed Tyrfing"
Card Description: Forms a dark energy longsword, then thrusts if forward, creating a large concentration of bullets in a straight line. Thrusts again, splitting the first line apart and sending it's danmaku flying wildly to the sides, and replaces it with another line. Swings the blade multiple times, creating gashes that spew danmaku wildly around, then swings and cuts the line in half, sending danmaku flying all over the place. The bullets created from any cut are red, while the "line" of concentrated bullets is green.
[Unfinished entry]
Day 42
I can't remember what kept me from making entries detailing before, but I do remember this, I stayed at the Hakurei shrine for a while, then decided to wander around and learn more about Gensokyo then I could from just the books I've been given. This led me around and around Gensokyo, picking up information, learning about major incidents, and especially those involved. I found that the person to solve these incidents was almost always Reimu, who might be accompanied by Marisa and maybe some other people she's met.
During this period, I experimented on flight, and got a little better at it each day, which caused the charm to continuously burn into my skin, until it seemed to be just a strip or two here and there, with a faint red underneath the effected area of skin. Early flight had me extremely clumsy, and maneuvering was very awkward. Landing often posed a problem, and I often landed in awkward positions, sometimes face first, which was mostly when visiting the shrine.
Day 43
But back on the topic of my travels, I searcher quite a few locations, including the Human village, which was quite peaceful, for being surrounded by rather violent youkai, the forest of magic, which was home to Marisa, Alice, and "Rinnosuke Korindou", who had many items from the outside world in his, er, "shop". I traveled to the youkai mountain, and was met by a tengu named Aya, who proceeded to rapidly snap photos me me from all angles, and almost made off with my hat. Afterwards, I passed a the wolf tengu I had met, Momji, playing what I think was Shogu, although I can't remember the name that well, with a kappa named Nitori, who is supposedly crazy about machines and all things mechanical. I soon found the Moriya shrine, which housed the goddesses Kanako and Suwako, how it housed two goddesses is beyond me, but they where quite pleasant, although they acted a little childish, occasionally giving the other a quick bop on the head, elbow to the side, and occasionally they'd flat out bang heads. There was also it's shrine maiden, Sanae, who was constantly making sure they didn't start a large-scale fight, and tending to the shrine in general. Of the 3, I found Sanae the easiest to be around, pleasant, and not quarreling with anyone.
After leaving the Moriya shrine, I found myself upon the misty lake, which was surrounded by fairies. One of them was Cirno, who recognized me, and just grinned while waving.
I flew near a mansion, which l knew must be the scarlet devil mansion, and figured I shouldn't just barge in, so I decided to visit the gate guard. This got me planted face-first into the dirt, much to my surprise, although later she lightened up and noticed I wasn't trying to barge in.
After saying goodbye, I left the gate and headed to the bamboo forest, which ended in me getting lost for awhile. The name really does imply that, so it's not much of a surprise. I saw Mokou wandering around, she just waved and continued walking, and I kept flying through the forest. I soon passed by Eintei, and saw the lunarian rabbit youkai, Reisen, sitting out. I just closed my eyes and waved, before passing on. Something gave a bit of a bad feeling about the place, telling me I probably shouldn't stop by just yet.
After this I just went to the human village, and that's where I'll leave this entry.
~end of the second page~
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:37 pm
Good lord that was long.
I think I covered about everything, but I think I came off a little gary-stu ish.
Anyway, since I triple-posted, I'll hope someone figures out I'm done "constructing".
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:05 pm
This seems interesting, really. But wouldn't it be better if you wrote it in a standard Gaia journal?
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:12 pm
Wotan Manasal This seems interesting, really. But wouldn't it be better if you wrote it in a standard Gaia journal?
I kinda did it for the lulz really, and was hoping for a critique, as the artist usually finds his own stuff crappy.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:13 pm
Interesting stuff. But I didn't quite catch who the red head, dragon god, or older miko at the Hakurei shrine was.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:17 pm
Shingami Hiroshi Interesting stuff. But I didn't quite catch who the red head, dragon god, or older miko at the Hakurei shrine was.
"Dragon God": I don't know, some character in the towns RP, don't know the details other then she/he/it is benevolent and revered by several characters.
Older miko: "Reimu's Great Grandmother", dunno how that worked.
I'm currently working out danmaku, spell cards, and skill cards.
(>=w=)>
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:24 am
Since I was Reimu in this, I'll explain.
The Dragon God is of course, the Dragon God which is implied to be the highest order in Gensokyo. One of my friends made an avi for this character.
Older Miko: Hakurei Miko, Reimu's great grandmother brought back by a judgement from Shikieiki.
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:24 am
Bumpdate.
"page two" Has been updated.
=3=
Also, going to be gone till next... Saturday?
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:44 am
Well, if your character ever finds himself near the Scarlet Devil Mansion, expect to see another OC, the "Guardian of the East Gate".
Well, Former Guardian at least, but he's been re-hired.
And yes, he's a Youkai, due to events in his past which made him that way.
Nowhere near as old as Yukari though, but somewhat older than Remilia.....Not by much though. xD
Just don't expect that to be the username, as this is the only account that I can command, and that I'm willing to command.
I'm a one account kinda guy.
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:50 am
Now that I'm back, I can keep up my attempts at making my OC unique and more rounded off.
In attempts at a character title, I drew a blank.
Spell cards? Pretty much the same.
I suppose I could go with a weapon-theme, with cards based on different weaponry.
"Blunt Hammer of the North", "Shining Blade of the East", "Silver Sword from Ancient Greece", and so on.
Might work, might not, I'll work on it.
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:08 pm
Colm Cygnat I suppose I could go with a weapon-theme, with cards based on different weaponry.
"Blunt Hammer of the North", "Shining Blade of the East", "Silver Sword from Ancient Greece", and so on. Might work, might not, I'll work on it. Nice theme. Go with that. Using mythical weapon names would make it even better.
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 5:11 pm
"Cold Muramasa of the East", "Tender Masamune of the East", "Mjollner of the North", "Arthur's Cleaving Excaliber", "Aegis of the Roman Conquerer", "Amenonuhoko, Heavenly Spear that formed the world", and "The Dwarve's Cursed Tyrfing".
That's all I got so far. the "Amenonuhoko" could be replaced with "heavenly jewelled spear" for simplicity's sake, and it's card name is a bit long. Still, that list is probably my best bet.
The Aegis will be a protective skill/spell card.
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:33 am
What?
No love for the likes of Caladbolg, Gram, Azoth, and such?
Those are mythical blades, just not as well-known by many.
Wotan's probably the only person who knows the story of Gram, aside from myself.
It used to belong to Odin himself Y'know.
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:58 am
Humans trying to be on equal terms with other touhous by learning danmaku is always hilarious to watch. lol
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