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 Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:56 am
I've missed so much school due to illness, but I'm back now and healthier than ever. Who would've thought an organ we don't really even use anymore would cause so much trouble. Stupid appendix.
I decided to start my classes over because I forgot everything during my recovery. It's best this way, I think. A fresh start will help me a lot in moving forward.
I can't wait to get out and see everyone and go to class.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:05 pm
Abrid  #74 Render Shot (2) - The Render Shot does 4 points of damage in a hit. Doesn't seem like much for being a restricted level 2 Castor Shell...Except, it cannot be blocked.  #49 Thunder Blast (2) - The Thunder Blast fires off a large thunderball (about one foot in diametre) that has enough charge to disable small electrical appliances, standard techno equips for 1 turn ad to jolt an Empyrean, stuning him or her for 2 rounds if unblocked, and 1 round if blocked. It does 4 points of damage, and can only be partialled blocked. If it is successfully blocked, it still does 2 points of damage from referral.  #80 Possession Radius (3) - The Possession Radius puts all those in the 4 foot squared radius in which it is fired under the one who fired the Shell's control for 2 turns. During this time, the one who fired the shot can use any of the possessed's skills or items for his or her own benefit, or against the possessed for damage. Aquired: At All Hallow's Eve Fieldtrip. Reason: Rolled a 74, 49 and a 80 in the Free-for-all Dice Roll Task. Well, now you've got 3 Castor Shells, but how to use them? You'll need to pick up a Castor Gun equip and get yourself more shells!
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:06 pm
Lelaus  Aquired: At All Hallow's Eve Fieldtrip. Reason: Sucessfully Identified Deumus. You are one of five students to successfully Identify the monster described in the Padmir Story. It was in fact a Deumus. As a reward, this Certed Technoring is yours. You can use it to bond a familiar, pet or monster that is your own. In order to do so, bring the creature you want bonded with the Certed technoring to either myself or Prof Kortus in the Teacher's Lounge and we will contain the creature in this ring for you. Then all you need to do is tap the ring as you would any old Technoequip, and you can contain and release the pet at will.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:07 pm
Orrys
Goggles
Equips to: Head Equip. (Can also be worn as a basic item)
Aquired: In Paintball Wars.
Reason: For being voted the 3rd Star by the players as the most entertaining student to watch.
Aside from being a ...er, great fashion statement, these Goggles help the Empyrean see clearly underwater, during high speeds, or through foul weather by keeping the eyes protected and shielded from water, weather or dirt. Goggles can be upgraded with certain Talismans to enable the wearer to see specific things, such as auras, energy levels, wards, even reveal things hidden by invisibility or magic!
Orrys
Castor Gun (shells not included)
Equips to: Item Equip.
Aquired: In Paintball Wars.
Reason: For being on the Winning Team.
The Castor Gun is only useful with Castor Shells. These magically treated shells serve all manner of purposes, everything from lighting flares to blowing a hole in the sound barrier. The number of Shells allowed to be held by an Empyrean s based on the Empyrean's Stage. Stage Zero - 3 shells, Stage One - 5 shells, Stage Two - 7 shells, Stage Three - 10 shells. When Shells are used up in battle, duels or travel, they cannot be replaced until the fight is over. Certain types of shells are restricted to certain Stages or locations. See Abrid's page for the list of Shells.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:09 pm
What's This? A delivery of shiny Present Boxes?
Happy Holidays!
The gifts have opened! Inside you will find: 
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:24 pm
::1 - Making Friends:: Biwa slipped from the hallways where the haunted houses were set up, shivering and making her way towards a quieter, less scary part of the District. She'd been left deeply shaken and affected by Team Cholera's house, and it had left her jumpy, vulnerable. She needed somewhere quiet, somewhere familiar.
The Gardens provided an easy option, but she wasn't so sure she would be comfortable out in the mostly-open like that. And so she went to the second place on her mental list - the Library. Entering, she looked around to see who was there - if anybody.
Elanin was hunched over a book opened on the table before her, reading the text carefully. She'd come to the library to try and catch up on some of her studies. After attending the botany class, she realized how far behind she was in her learning.
Biwa vaguely recognized the girl from Botany, and looked at her for a moment. Then she skittered off, grabbed a book full of images of paintings, and then came back over. She had to seem like she had a purpose for sitting there, aside from needing company.
"... Aah... excuse me... but can I sit here?" She gestured with her closed fan to a seat across and diagonal from Elanin. Not too close, but close enough.
Elanin looked up and nodded to the other girl. "Of course." She smiled broadly. "You were in Botany, right? My name's Elanin."
Biwa smiled faintly, shyly, and sat down in the seat, setting her book before her. "Mmhmm. I'm Biwa." Her voice sounded relieved, and she was. Kind companionship was just what the girl needed at that point, and she was grateful to have it.
"You're Phlegmatic, yeah?" Elanin asked, putting her arms on her book and leaning on them. "I don't think I've met any before."
Biwa nodded, forgetting to open her book and look interested in it. She did open her fan, though, out of habit. It hid only her chin, but was poised to be able to hide her face if need be.
"Yes, I am. You're Choleric, right? Why.. aren't you in the haunted house room? Your team's was really good..."
"I wasn't on the team," Elanin answered, looking a little sad. "I was ill and am only just now back at the dorms. I missed a lot, but I'm hoping to catch up."
"Oh..." Biwa tilted her head, eyes turning immediately sympathetic. "Ill? What with...?" Then she squeaked, fan rising an inch or two. "Th-that is... if I can ask that..."
"My appendix was acting up and it made me sick, so the doctors had to take it out. I was recovering for it and missed all the fun," Elanin pouted, then shrugged. "I'm all better now, though, so no more missing out on stuff. How come you aren't with your fellow Phlegmatics at their room?"
"Oh... that sounds horrible. Did it hurt?" She frowned, sympathy flooding her emotions. Sympathy, followed by embarrassment. She ducked her head.
"... The other rooms scared me too much... and... and in Cholera's, I felt what they were supposedly feeling, and..." She shivered, shook her head.
"The Cholerics did a good job, yeah. It was definately scary, but really fun," the dark-skinned girl said, nodding. "The operation didn't hurt. They made me go to sleep before it."
Biwa nodded, shifting in her seat. "That's good.
"But it's not just that Cholera was scary," she said, softly. "The actors seemed like they really hurt. And so I... I hurt with them. I feel really strange now."
"They were pretty good actors, definately. I wonder where the others found them at," Elanin mused, then looked at Biwa. "You're not comfortable with this, right? We can change the subject."
"... Thank you," she murmured, softly. She glanced up over the edge of her fan. "And thank you... for keeping me company. It's better than being alone."
"I never really like being alone, either. It's always better to have someone else around so you can talk to them whenever you want to."
Biwa smiled, fan falling a little. "Yeah..." She liked Elanin, she decided. She was easy to talk to, and not too hyper, like Abacus had been.
"So what else do you like to do besides reading?" Elanin asked, tapping the book Biwa had before her. "I really didn't think anyone else would come in here today, that they'd all be at the haunted houses."
"Oh, it's..." She opened the book. "It's for the paintings. I like to paint... and play music. And sing. I'm not that good at studying." Biwa flushed, looking away.
"I'd rather be doing other things than studying, but I'm behind in classwork." Elanin settled back in her chair, playing with the pages of her book idly. "I don't think I'd be very good at any of those things. I like trying to work with machines. Hopefully I'll be come a technomagus one day. Or, at the very least, be able to work with my hands to build useful items."
"That's very interesting," she said, smiling. She hid a little behind her fan a little to hide it. "I don't know what I'll do... I suppose... art... or music... I'm not good at much else." She blushed a little more.
"I bet you're good at lots of things.. you just don't know it yet," Elanin told the other girl, grinning. "I'm not good at any of those things."
"Have you tried?" She tilted her head. "Maybe... you... you could model, probably." She blinked, considered. "You have a beautiful spirit."
"I couldn't be still enough to mondel," Elanin laughed, sitting forward a bit more. She grinned. "Thank you for the compliment, though. No one's ever said that before."
"But you don't have to be still." Her face had gone from its usual dusky rose hue to a dark red, but she kept talking. "Movement is as beautiful as form...
"And i-it's true. When I paint... it's to preserve a moment in time of the soul of a thing... a person..."
"Maybe you should paint me sometime, then. Though, I couldn't sit very still for you, but I'd try." She nodded a bit, thinking. "Maybe I can show you some of the inventions I've been working on. They're not very good.. and I can't seem to make them work right yet, but I wouldn't mind showing them to you."
"I... I'd like that. Both things." Biwa felt a warm sense of acceptance growing in her. Abacus had kept her on edge... Arwen and Astaroth were just so far above her. But she felt more herself around Elanin, without as much need to hide.
"What sort of paintings are you studying?" Elanin asked, changing the subject a bit, tapping on the book before Biwa.
Biwa blinked, then looked down. And colored again. "... Ah... I just... grabbed this book randomly. I didn't want to seem weird, asking to sit down without a book."
"I wouldn't have thought it was weird if you wanted to sit and talk," Elanin said, smiling. "How else are you suppose to make new friends, right?"
"Mm..." She squirmed a little. "S-still..." Biwa didn't have the self-confidence to just appraoch somebody new. This had been hard enough.
"Oh, well. I guess it doesn't matter now," Elanin said, nodding. "We're hitting it off pretty well and we can be friends now. How we met probably doesn't matter."
Biwa nodded, relaxing a little again. "Yeah..." She smiled, letting her fan fall. "I don't... have many friends yet. I know a few people, but I wouldn't say we're... friends? More acquaintances."
"I don't have any friends," Elanin said, shrugging. "Well.. other than you now, but I didn't get much of a chance to know many people, I guess."
"Did you get sick early? Around when you first arrived?" Biwa tilted her head. "I'm... I'm fairly new. I've only been to two classes so far."
"A couple of weeks after arriving, yeah," Elanin said, nodding. "I went to a few classes, but decided to start my lessons over."
"Is it hard? Getting back into things? Not the catching up... but... but getting used to going to class?" She shifted so that she was kneeling in her chair - it was more comfortable to sit like that.
"A little, but I'd rather jump back in than sit around in my room." She shrugged a bit, stretching slightly. "I feel better getting out and doing things, anyway."
Biwa nodded. That made sense. "Were you... a part of the Mandrake harvest?" She didn't think that would be conducive to good recovery.
"No, I wasn't. I got sick before then," Elanin said, shrugging one shoulder. "What did you all do at the harvest? Was it fun?"
"Um. It... it was weird. Mandrakes look like little people, and they thrash and scream." She shivered at the memory. "And then... and then we were attacked. We were Outside, and these monsters attacked us. Nobody was hurt, but..."
"It must've been exciting... and scary. Did you attack the monsters right back? Did anyone get to keep their mandrake?" Elanin asked, eyes wide with wonder.
"We ran. There were Threes with us, and they defended us. But we ran... we took what we'd collected, because the city needed it, and we ran." She hugged herself, reliving some of the terrifying event. "Those things wanted to kill us. Why would they want that? We weren't doing anything to them..."
"Sometimes creatures just are mean spirited for no other reason than to be that way," Elanin offered, not sure if that would satisfy the other girl's question.
"But... but why would anything be mean-spirited just for the sake of it?" She frowned. "Nothing's spirit is that dark..."
"Maybe they weren't loved enough as children."
Biwa stared a little, then nodded, taking it completely seriously. "Maybe that's it. They didn't have a place like here to live... it must be hard, living Outside all your life. Dangerous. Scary."
"That's probably why they're always trying to get in the city," El chuckled, realizing Biwa didn't know she was joking. "Perhaps they're just lonely."
"I don't think they were trying to get into the city, though..." she mused. "I think they were jealous. I..." Then she blinked. "Wh-why are you laughing...?"
"I'm just kidding about them. I don't know why they want to attack us or get in the city," Elanin said, grinning.
"O-oh." Biwa turned bright red, ducking behind her fan. "B-but... but you could still be right! I... you... mmm..." She squirmed, embarrassed.
"Maybe we should ask one of the other students that's good with monster studies," El suggested. "They might have better insight on monster behavior."
"Th-that's a good idea!" Biwa nodded, peeking a tiny bit over her fan. "I... but who would know about that?" She couldn't think of anybody. Maybe Arwen had read about it...?
"Well.. we could post a bulletin somewhere in the public areas for someone good at monster studies to come meet us," El said, grinning.
"That could work..." She peered at Elanin closely. "... Unless you're joking?"
"No, I'm not joking this time," El said.
"Really? Really really?" Biwa was entirely serious, staring at Elanin searchingly.
"Sure. We want to know about monsters, why not ask someone who knows more about the subject than we do, right?"
"I... okay. Okay, I believe you." She smiled, lowering the fan a little. "It'll be better than getting a book about it. It's hard to really understand from books... Hearing it said is better."
"Books wouldn't be too bad, either, but they tend to have more facts than opinions," El agreed.
Biwa nodded. "And this takes a person's touch to understand... since we can't really ask them, just think about it."
El nodded. "We could ask some of the teachers. I bet a lot of them have seen monsters in person."
"Mm... b-but... don't you think that they'd be too busy?"
"We could catch them in the teachers' lounge, maybe," El suggested.
Biwa nodded. "That... that could work." She nodded again, thinking it over. Then she caught a glimpse of the clock, and blinked. "... Ooo... Emrys is probably wondering where I am," she said, squirming.
"Who?" El asked, looking at the clock, then back at Biwa.
"Ah, for Phlegm's room. Emrys and I are the musicians. I told him I wouldn't be too long... I was planning on coming right back after seeing the other rooms."
"I see. Maybe I'll come by and say hello later," El told her, nodding.
"You should," Biwa said, then flushed. "Ah. I mean. It'd probably be a nice break - have you seen our room yet? It's not scary at all!"
"I did see it actually, but I'll go back sometime again." Elanin smiled. "You shouldn't be late to meet your friend."
Biwa looked thoughtful. "Mm... I suppose he's my friend, yes. But we do duets, and I don't want him to have to do all the work. That wouldn't be fun." She stood up, looking down at the art book and then closing it, carefully.
"We'll meet up again and talk. I'll see about making a sign to put on the bulletin to find someone who wants to talk to us about monsters."
"Okay." Biwa smiled, and bowed at the waist. "It was nice meeting you. If I didn't have to work..."
"It's okay. It was nice meeting you to," El said, inclining her head a bit in return. "We'll see each other again."
Biwa nodded and smiled, liking the idea quite a bit, before hurrying off to put the book back and get back to Team Phlegm's room. She was much calmer, much more at ease - all thanks to Elanin's company.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:14 pm
Lus Jynk
Your Username: Jynk
Your Empyrean's Name: Elanin
Empyrean's Current Stage: Zero
Status Level Request: Apprenticeship
Applying for: Architech
Credentials: I do certs and banner/divider graphics for my own shop and have done them for other shops in the past. I also designed and run my own website. I can provide samples of my work if needed.
Referrals: I don't know anyone that could be a referral other than people who own pets from the Beat Generation. kaliskanny might also refer me since I did graphic work for one of her old shops.
Reason: I love doing graphics. It's actually what I went to school for. Plus, I want to help pretty up threads around the guild and help other players/Empyrs make their journals look nice.
Other Comments: I'll do might best if hired. With my girl having to restart friendships, I'm hoping a job that gets her out and around might help introduce her to others and help her make friends.
So, We'd like t'suggest a few other positions that might interets ya.
Recorder
Secretary
Ambassador
Editor
These positions could still use some help. If any of them appeal, please drop off a new application in the ABB.
Thanks for thinkin' o' yer City.
~Lus
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