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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:22 am


Everything here is NOT final; I'm mainly trying to get the barebones of the backstory/metaplot down before expanding upon it and making it sound all deep and s**t. :C

scrap of an ancient scroll creation story
    Once upon a time, when nothing existed, there was only the infinite and the infinite was named chaos. From chaos spawned things we can only dream of now, for they long passed since we ever set foot in creation. In those ancient times, anything was possible and everything took full advantage of that. <---- I have no idea where I'm going with this.

    The spirits then, children of chaos, immaculate and purposeless, were merely ideas, and they vanished as quickly as they were concieved.

    When the world began, it began as Paradise. Then, spirits and the first tribes of humans lived in harmony, working together to allow creation to thrive.


from a book of fairy tales story of paradise's destruction
    blahblahblah shortened tale of Pandora and her unleashing of grief upon the world




ritual text about the spirit world
    "The Spirit World" is a collective term for a realm which lies parallel to ours, where all the spirits of the world have fled.



haruka's diary about the Anima, and the plans of Chaos and Creation
    Today I tried to get Chaos to notice me, but he was too busy trying to get into Creation's pants........












P.S. WE NEED LEY-LINES

Ley-lines are threads of power, from which the fabric of uh creation is woven. Ley-lines connect everything and keep order. The Anima are not bound to the ley-lines, and are created outside of them in order to re-organize them and um stuff.

Creation = ley lines
Chaos = the 'tangles' in the ley-lines, where they cross and get muddled and confused.


Also -- mod-friend says that 'chaos' sounds too much like Fa'e (
Pandemonium, Discord, Holy Mess (hey, that's what the thesaurus said), Hodgepodge, Calamity (Calamity + Creation = OTP?)







BASICALLY: Once upon a time, only spirits lived in the grand chasm that was Chaos -- but they were nameless, powerless, only flights of fancy. When, through Creation, the world was born, they were given names, power, and purpose. The spirits lived with humans and they both worked together to preserve their paradise. Humans, here, were enlightened.

However, humans -- first made from mud, given life by Creation and minds and wills by Chaos -- eventually succumbed to their.. own.. humanity. Um, maybe we could incorporate the Pandora myth (as it was present in the first Anima plot) and say Pandora then unleashed evil upon the world, as only humans could know it.

With the box opened came cycles of death, and life, and decay. They began to exploit the planet. With their own decay, the humans grew stupid, dumb, and blind; they could no longer see or sense the spirits. Spiritually, sealing themselves off from the influences of both Chaos and Creation, humans were dead. The world they lived in would become a waste land. They no longer believed in their own gods, nor could agree on who their gods were, and were divided more and more by language barriers, wars, seas and deserts.

And so the spirits, no longer sustained by the Creation as they once were, fled to another realm, one where the humans could not reach them. The ones bound to their natural prisons, the spirits of rivers, and rain, and all the things that did not exist or grow or live in the Spirit World, went to sleep for a while. The ghosts of humans and the spirits of Paradise alike became lost, left to wander the world as they were unable to reach the Spirit World.

All spirits thought to let the humans, surely a failed race, die out and try again.

But the humans prevailed, and evolved, and grew; and even a few of their number, more enlightened than the rest, could enter the spirit world. The spirits grew restless and bored in their static world; the Spirit World never changed, was merely an echo of the Paradise they once lived in.

And so Chaos and Creation met together and decided that they would wait no longer. (The only thing they could agree on. Because they're so gay. For each other.) Slowly the seal between the Spirit World and the planet weakened.




[strikeThe Anima are spirits of natural things. Emotions, natural things, forces of nature, ect.

The idea is that the world was once Paradise but humans corrupted it, so the Anima are being released from the spirit realm into the physical one to do some redecorating.

There are two recognized forces trying to influence the Anima: Chaos and Creation (which goes with the Kami idea that they possess two souls, one gentle (nigi-mitama) and the other agressive (ara-mitama) Depending on which soul was in control, the kami would behave differently.)

So depending on which force is influencing them, their powers work differently (either create or destroy); chaos believes things have to be purged/destroyed in order for Paradise to come back, and creation thinks things should be purified/recreated... <---- I need to expand/clarify this part.


The Anima are basically ruled by their nature (their "type" -- Melancholy, Rain, ect.) They are either creation or they are chaos and it makes no difference to them, because they're 'little' gods and not ruled by human perspectives.

There are three types of Anima: the emotional kind (like Melancholy), the natural kind (like Rain), and summoned kind (directly from the Spirit World instead of being manifested, like the noppera-bo Face Stealer.)

I was thinking that the emotional Anima actually have to be bonded with someone to exist -- in order to manifest, they have to feed off of someone's life force. In return, the person's own spiritual energy becomes stronger (someone who had no sixth sense before slowly develops it now.)

The natural Anima merely manifest out of whatever they were before -- like if they were the guardian of a river, they'd manifest out of the river's waters. They're not bound to anyone, and are able to move outside of their 'territory', but do have to return from time to time to recharge.

The summoned kind is what happens when other kind of spirits other than the Kami-based ones reach a lantern and are able to be manifested into the physical world. Unlike the other Anima, which are instantaneously created and must develop (or re-develop) their own conciousness, the summoned Anima are already-existing spirits (such as baku, kitsune spirits, ect) 're-imagined', so to speak. ...Does this make any sense? :C
PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:23 am


reference

    In the ancient animistic religions, kami were understood as simply the divine forces of nature. Worshippers in ancient Japan revered creations of nature which exhibited a particular beauty and power such as waterfalls, mountains, boulders, animals, trees, grasses and even rice paddies. They strongly believed the spirits or resident kami deserved respect.

    Although the ancient designations are still adhered to, in modern Shinto many priests also consider kami to be anthropomorphic spirits, with nobility and authority. These include such mythological figures as Amaterasu, the sun goddess of the Shinto pantheon. Although these kami can be considered deities, they are not considered omnipotent or omniscient. In the myths of Amaterasu, for example, she could not see the events of the human world. She also had to use divination rituals to see the future.

    The kami traditionally possessed two souls, one gentle (nigi-mitama) and the other aggressive (ara-mitama). This human but powerful form of kami was also divided into amutsu-kami ("the heavenly deities") and kunitsu-kami ("the gods of the earthly realm"). A deity would behave differently according to which soul was in control at a given time. In many ways, this was representative of nature's sudden changes and would explain why there were kami for every meteorological event: snowfall, rain, typhoons, floods, lightning and volcanoes.

    The ancestors of a particular family can also be worshipped as kami. In this sense, these kami were worshipped not because of their godly powers, but because of a distinct quality or value. These kami were regional and many shrines (hokora) were built in honour of these kami. In many cases, people who once lived can thus be deified as gods; an example of this is Tenjin, who was Sugawara no Michizane (845-903) in life.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noppera-bō
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_World_(Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversoul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskaras
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entelechy

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0166.html

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STAGE ONE -- lantern
The lanterns are created by Murakami Haruka to call to a lost soul; the lanterns actually attract many of them at once, and are not meant to call for any in particular.

For the emotion kind, the one that bonds to the person holding the lantern is the one that 'resonates' most with it (for example, Melancholy would bond and manifest to someone who's melancholic, but not necessarily to someone who's hyper, or whatever.)

For the natural kind, they can only manifest as a butterfly if the person holding the lantern has some kind of spiritual connection to the river or rock or rain or whatever. They can only manifest as an Anima once the butterfly ('called' out of slumber by the lantern) returns to its home/resting place/whatever, so it can manifest out of whatever element it is.

The summoned kind are freak accidents, and only happen when the summoned spirit's will to manifest is stronger than those of the lost spirits.

STAGE TWO -- butterfly
After gathering enough spiritual strength, the strongest and most willfull of the spirits attracted to the lantern manifests into a butterfly. The lantern itself slowly flickers, and when it dies, the butterfly will manifest into an Anima.

STAGE THREE -- Anima
Bahlahnoiehi THE ANIMA IS BORNNNNN ::thunder strikes::
PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:36 am


Murakami Haruka -- probably one of the few enlightened people who can actually access the Spirit World. Perhaps he frequently wandered into it as a child, or something.

His sister -- wandered into the Spirit World along with him, never returned?

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REWRITES

Cerethereal: Anima will be AWESOME
MessengerofPuck: YES. OMG. <333 Holy s**t this is gonna be AWESOME.
MessengerofPuck: WE WILL MAKE IT EPIC.
Cerethereal: Ok we need a new main NPC and... what should we name the mule (rofl I forgot the pw to it sad )
MessengerofPuck: One sec, I'll see if I can come up with anything good. As for the mule name... uh, I wanna say "BATMAN RETURNS, BITCHES", but I don't think that would work.
Cerethereal: HAHA
Cerethereal: I'll make a to-do list too, lemme use the bathroom first
MessengerofPuck: NO. YOU ARE FORBIDDEN. >C
MessengerofPuck: Okay so. New NPC. Do we want the main NPC to be a protaginist, or an antagonist?
Cerethereal: Maybe ambiguous? I can see him/her just... setting things into motion, not necessarily on one side or another, though I GUESS that'd depend on his/her history
MessengerofPuck: Well, let's sort out what their main goal is. What's their interest in the Anima? How do they benefit from what they do?
MessengerofPuck: Are we still gonna have them connected to the Spirit world, I suppose is an important question
MessengerofPuck: ?
Cerethereal: I think it's important that they are. At least have a strong sixth sense -- enough to plainly see and be able to communicate with the spirits. Obviously s/he can't travel to the Spirit World on his/her own (at least not without strong effort), because that's what Zama is for, to relay back and forth more easily, but... hmm
Cerethereal: I LOST MY TRACK OF THOUGHT :C JAS, lemme read back through what we had on the Anima storyline
MessengerofPuck: xD All righty
Cerethereal: ...YAY AND I DON'T HAVE TO DO THE WHOLE CREATION/CHAOS YAOI THING EITHER
Cerethereal: ...err, creation/pandemonium
MessengerofPuck: ... OH THANK ******** GOD
Cerethereal: Okay let me think
Cerethereal: I had an idea about a slightly different direction we could go -- I'm mostly concerned about... Well, a lot of people have like 59048 RP kids, so what would make ours special and really make people want to invest time in it? That sort of thing
MessengerofPuck: *nods* So, what's your idea?
Cerethereal: Okay, do you remember the old myth about the mirror that shattered and shards of it landed in people's eyes/hearts/etc?
Cerethereal: We already have that the Anima 'bond' to people and drain them. It may be that the Spirit World... shattered.. okay this is confusing sad I was thinking that the Anima could result from shards buried in people, and that the shards were from the Spirit World -- which is a mishmash of many cultural 'unseen' ideas -- but the Anima themselves -- or at least some of them -- would be.. like... pieces of the Spirit World, embodied? So a forest-themed Anima could be a shard from the part of the Spirit World that was the Forest That Ate Hearts, and in the journal, the guardian could.. write about the forest itself, like what it is, what lived in it, its culture, basically develop it (so it sort of becomes more of a world-developing project) and the Anima becomes the guardian spirit protecting that shard of the Spirit World. All that's actually left of the Spirit World is the heart of it where most of the major Spirit NPCs are located, and our main NPC is in charge of 'awakening' the shards lodged in people, so that the awakened spirits will eventually be persuaded to return to the Spirit World and help reform it -- but together the OoC guardians of the Anima can choose HOW it's rebuilt, which piece of the lands go where, what the new Spirit World will look like and what will be in it. Spirits from the Spirit World, like our Face Eater, can um come out and eat the shards in people before they are awakened, replacing the Anima-that-would-have-resulted with... themselves. MAYBE. THIS SOUNDED BETTER IN MY HEAD. Maybe we should just stick with spirits.
MessengerofPuck: This actually sounds pretty damn awesome, actually. What might also be interesting is to have a sort of... I dunno. What I'm thinking is when the shard of an Anima is awakened, it takes something from the person with it. Like, if it were an emotional Anima, whatever emotion it represents, it might take away from its guardian. Or there might be something about the sort of person that the guardian is that affects the world, so the guardian has a serious effect and contribution on the shard as well.
Cerethereal: OH. I LIKE THAT IDEA A LOT.
MessengerofPuck: It really requires for the character to be invested in the Anima, which could help translate into the OOC player having that same investment. It's an idea, at least. x3
Cerethereal: What sort of land would an emotional Anima represent though? Like, melancholy = ? Or would 'influence' then translate into what the Anima takes away from the guardian, and the type of Spirit World shard it is can be then determined by the OoC guardian based on its looks?
MessengerofPuck: An emotional Anima might not have a land so much as a landscape that represents their emotional state. It opens a lot of artistic license to the person that's running it; so like, melancholy might have a sort of flat, grey landscape without color or sound or any other such thing, where if an outsider were to enter it, it would express that emotion in every manner possible.
Cerethereal: OH. OH. That makes a lot of sense.
MessengerofPuck: The Spirit World doesn't have to stick by physical laws, either, so it could be even more open-ended than something like that.
Cerethereal: I'd been wanting to do landscape drawings too, so along with the Anima, I could draw a physical representation of the land -- as the Anima grows, their land 'shard' can become more awakened and lively maybe.
MessengerofPuck: Oh, that could be AWESOME! o_o That would definitely make the shop unique, no questions about it.
Cerethereal: I was thinking maybe the Anima -- as an act of friendship or deep, deep bonding maybe -- can also.. 'glue' their shards together -- like an Anima with a volcano landscape can bond their shard with one with a plains landscape, to form one MEGASHARD that has both lands and plains (well, since ultimately the Spirit World has to be all glued back together again anyway)
MessengerofPuck: .... That would be so ******** awesome.
Cerethereal: I am not sure how Anima would reproduce though, if they would at all :C
MessengerofPuck: By breaking their shard into another piece?
MessengerofPuck: It could diminish or destroy their own landscape, particularly if they accidently shatter their shard altogether, but it could lead to another Anima.
Cerethereal: OH, that then becomes lodged into someone else... that'd be cool biggrin
MessengerofPuck: One thing, though. I don't know the story of the shop, but doesn't the Shattered have to do with a mirror, too?
Cerethereal: ...I will have to check
MessengerofPuck: Or do I just not know what I'm talking about? XD
MessengerofPuck: We can change it to something else very easily. In Disgraces, I actually used shards to an extent, but they were of a stained glass window that formed a huge, everchanging mural; we could adapt that to this.
Cerethereal: Hunh. Yeah, it has to do with shattered pieces of a world, but they remain external and don't bury themselves in anyone
MessengerofPuck: (That was never revealed IC, so it's not a big deal.)
MessengerofPuck: I'm just worried about teh direct symbolism of the mirror
Cerethereal: OH then yes, I like the mural/stained glass idea MUCH better.
MessengerofPuck: A fun thing we could do with that is to actually build the mural as we go, a small version of each shard and connecting them into a picture.
Cerethereal: YEAH
Cerethereal: Should we still use the lanterns, then? That seemed a staple of the original Anima :C
MessengerofPuck: They seem a bit superfluous right now, honestly... unless we can find a way to tie them in, it might be better to leave that as a part of the original shop, and take this in a new direction.
Cerethereal: ::nodnod:: What should our NPC use to awaken the shards, then? Maybe that can be something Zama can help with.
MessengerofPuck: Uh.... I dunno. :< That's a good question, actually.
Cerethereal: SHE CAN CHATTER AT THEM UNTIL THEY WAKE UP
MessengerofPuck: ... See, the scary thing is? I had a very similar picture in mind. Except it involved dolphin noises. Which was weird.
Cerethereal: HAHA
MessengerofPuck: It could be like that one VGcats! 8D
MessengerofPuck: ... Just maybe without the ear-bleeding.
Cerethereal: WITH THE EARS BLEE--
MessengerofPuck: xD!
Cerethereal: Ok, no ear-bleeding :C
Cerethereal: Hmmm
Cerethereal: OKAY LET'S GO BACK TO THE MULE
Cerethereal: what we should name it, cos I want to redo the guild to house our new ideas
Cerethereal: ...AnimaRedux is already taken
MessengerofPuck: ... wut
MessengerofPuck: D:
Cerethereal: MY WORLD IS ENDING
MessengerofPuck: T_____T
MessengerofPuck: ... OH COME ON
MessengerofPuck: The guy who has it has never used his account
Cerethereal: WHAT.'
Cerethereal: clearly the universe is taunting us
MessengerofPuck: He logged in once on 7/5/2006, and never ever posted
Cerethereal: MY HEART IS BREAKING
MessengerofPuck: :< What a whore.
Cerethereal: Oh yeah, our No Face is going to be Hawaiian now, ok
MessengerofPuck: YES <333
MessengerofPuck: Try -AnimaRedux-?
Cerethereal: "User Name wasn't valid. Your username contains invalid characters. Valid characters are letters, numbers and dashes; your username can't start or end with a dash. Spaces are not allowed. (e.g. MyUsername instead of _=My Username =_"
Cerethereal: Anima-Redux, then?
MessengerofPuck: .... Yes. ******** new rules.
Cerethereal: Ok! We are now Anima-Redux biggrin
Cerethereal: what should our avatar look like
MessengerofPuck: NOT WEEABOO
Cerethereal: I'll keep one fairy on her to symbolize Zama
Cerethereal: ::goes to buy something other than a kimono::
MessengerofPuck: What do you think; should we go for a traditional style for the shop NPC, or a modern style?
Cerethereal: ?? Traditional/modern?
MessengerofPuck: Well, like... Chai's NPC was VERY traditional. Kimono, reserved personality, knowledgable and all that.
MessengerofPuck: Zamabu might be considered more modern. Kind of Japanese schoolgirl, outgoing, up-to-date, maybe a little flighty.
Cerethereal: OH YEAH
Cerethereal: Maybe... hybrid? I do want the NPC to be knowledgable, but it IS supposed to be OLD-SPIRIT-WORLD-TRADITIONS (the Shards/Anima) MEETS THE NEW (the guardians) and I.. I like modern clothing/styles :C
MessengerofPuck: Sort of a bridge. surprised
Cerethereal: Yeah! biggrin It might be funny to have our NPC go "WHAT THE s**t WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS STUPID THING" and trying to strangle his/her cell-phone while Zama's memorized the manual and can operate it perfectly or suchlike. XD
MessengerofPuck: xD! I like! So, basically, I see them as sort of an old-world that's trying to fit into the new world. Someone from the Spirit World who wasn't there at the time it broke into shards, and is trying to find some way to fit into and use the mortal world to repair the damage.
Cerethereal: ::nodnod::
MessengerofPuck: .... I'm really picturing a guy for the role, for some reason.
Cerethereal: Yeah, I play a lot of girls so a guy might be fun.
Cerethereal: (plus um people tend to fangirl over guys sad JUST SAYIN')
MessengerofPuck: x3 Hey, if people are trying to OTP with the shop NPC, that just means they've got more reason to hang around
Cerethereal: So should I change the avatar to a dude or keep it as a girl
MessengerofPuck: Dude.
MessengerofPuck: LET THERE BE TE... uh, actually, I'm shutting up. 1 am is melting my brain.
Cerethereal: ...STICALS??
MessengerofPuck: ... mebbe.
Cerethereal: (it's almost 4 am here, so I have no idea)
Cerethereal: we haf dude!
MessengerofPuck: lol awesum
Cerethereal: ...man
Cerethereal: They shrunk the Create-a-character thing so tinily
Cerethereal: I can't tell what color/style the eyes are sad
MessengerofPuck: D:
Cerethereal: NO KIMONO THOUGH. PROMISE.
MessengerofPuck: ;o; <333
Cerethereal: now for hair
Cerethereal: I like the rainy hair for guys, so I bought that -- we can redo the avatar once we've decided what NPC!Dude will look like, I think
MessengerofPuck: Sounds good to me x3
Cerethereal: I am excited biggrin
MessengerofPuck: Me too, seriously XD This is gonna be awesome
Cerethereal: Okay, so what kind of Anima should I draw as an example? No Face will be the first official one, but she's abnormal in type and not really suited to show off the landscapes :C
MessengerofPuck: What about Kumo's?
Cerethereal: OH, that's true
Cerethereal: Ok biggrin And I can redo Chai's Dew and Bones for a flatsale
MessengerofPuck: Awesome! x3
Cerethereal: HAHA should I invite you in the guild
Cerethereal: Cos it says you're not part of it :C
MessengerofPuck: .... Oh yeah. XD I quit it when I got sick of waiting. Cuz I'm bad. >>
Cerethereal: : biggrin eletes Ren's pet trade forms:: 8D
MessengerofPuck: OOPS 8D
MessengerofPuck: Man, did she ever get that pet?
Cerethereal: No. XD
MessengerofPuck: Good
Cerethereal: I haf sent you an invite
MessengerofPuck: omgyay <3
Cerethereal: wait
Cerethereal: HOW ARE THE OLD ANIMA BEING TREATED
Cerethereal: Kumo has plots riding on Arlyn as he is, he's supposed to play a part in Bhel's plots, and she was excited about the disapperance/reappearance thing :C
MessengerofPuck: Well, how hard would it be to say that when the Spirit World broke, the Anima currently existing were either destroyed from the shock of the connection disappearing or acted as "portals" for these shards somehow, so that the plane connected to them absorbed them into the shard and entered their Guardian?
Cerethereal: ...Not too hard :O Ok!
MessengerofPuck: Awesome. x3
Cerethereal: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/sirenzpets/Anima/melancholy_child_lrg.jpg AAAAAAAAAAAAGHIrehoighoifhs ::COVETS::
MessengerofPuck: ;o;!
MessengerofPuck: Goin' to bed now. *snoogs* Night!
MessengerofPuck signed off at 4:59:10 AM.
MessengerofPuck signed on at 5:18:02 PM.
MessengerofPuck: I cannot ******** believe Subeta. e_e
MessengerofPuck: Did you read their announcement on 4chan?
Cerethereal: Nuh-uh o_o ::goes to see::
MessengerofPuck: Quote- "Their efforts -- while guised in strength and nobility -- are hardly that. They hide behind the face of Anonymity, because they know that they cannot be reached. Yet we stand strong and proud, not backing down, not hiding. This is true strength. This is true nobility."
Cerethereal: tl;dr
MessengerofPuck: Just that one bit is all that's worth reading, because it's what's gonna piss the /b/tards off.
Cerethereal: 9__9 LOL SUBETA IS SOOO POWERFUL, OVERCOMING THE B-TARDS
MessengerofPuck: I FOR ONE AM PROUD TO BE A PART OF THIS PROUD SITE THAT... uh... what are they doing that's so noble, again? Feeding the fire?
Cerethereal: lol longcat
Cerethereal: LOL HAXINGS
Cerethereal: Did you hear about the staff member that stole another member's pet called 4chan just for an anti-btard statement? :C
MessengerofPuck: Wut?
MessengerofPuck: I reiterate my opinon: Subeta has the STUPIDEST STAFF EVER.
Cerethereal: A member of Subeta made a pet a long time ago called 4chan, spent a lot of money training him and stuff -- she logged in one day to find him gone and... in the account of a staff member. Still with the minions and items she gave him. But with a new lookup all LOL 4CHAN SUX :C
MessengerofPuck: .... WHAT THE ********: OH YEAH AND ON A REALLY RANDOM NOTE
Cerethereal: http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewforum.php?f=88917 I re-set up some of these threads
MessengerofPuck: Niiiice x3
Cerethereal: HAY ARRI
MessengerofPuck: OMG IT'S YOU
Cerethereal: IT IS
Cerethereal: quick where that b***h owes me money
MessengerofPuck: She said not to tell you nothin' if you asked for her. :<
Cerethereal: MAN >L That h0r
MessengerofPuck: And to distract you. LOOK! http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=141
MessengerofPuck: ... I'm such a dork to be laughing over that strip all over again.
Cerethereal: HAHA WHAT
Cerethereal: I CHOOSE TO EXPEL URINE FROM MY SACK OF PEE
Cerethereal: that just makes me crack up every time .-.
MessengerofPuck: He just looks so... enthusiastic about it
Cerethereal: SO I WAS THINKING ABOUT OUR MAIN NPC
MessengerofPuck: YES DO TELL 8D
Cerethereal: I was thinking maybe he could be a golem-creature of sorts? I mean, he'd look human, and maybe he'd've been put through the foster care system or adopted or something -- so he's capable of growing like a human can (cos I figure the Spirit people are much better at creating people than actual people are, since the first humans were supposedly made of mud and so are golems) and he is made from the mud of a.. lost... shard of the Spirit World P: And certain ley lines are woven into his mud-skin as 'strings' so whoever controls his leylines controls his puppet strings so in that way it is a little ambiguous as to who's controlling him. And, since Zama is an 'expert' on humans, she helps him try and fit in and all that.
MessengerofPuck: Ohhh... that could be pretty awesome, actually! ._. Seriously
Cerethereal: Why the ._. face? You are completely free to go "NUUUUH I was thinking something else" cos this is our project now and I'm not really set on anything.
MessengerofPuck: That was me going "hocrap where the ******** did she come UP with that?" XD
MessengerofPuck: The idea's got a lot of potential that can be explored, it's definitely a step away from what people usually do, and I think it coudl be damn awesome. I say go for it.
Cerethereal: YAY ok biggrin
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MessengerofPuck (3:24:17 AM): ... weren't we gonna have Ship!Anima like, "halfway"? Like, it wasn't fully integrated with the shard, was why the shardscape was brought to Gaia?
MessengerofPuck (3:24:39 AM): And like, sleeping body, active mind, control of the ship
MessengerofPuck (3:24:46 AM): The body was entangled with the ship
MessengerofPuck (3:24:50 AM): Sort of combined

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cerethereal (11:57:48 PM): *working on Mitsu pic* I want to be drawing Zama now >(
Nessudesu (11:57:57 PM) has left the room.
MessengerofPuck (11:58:02 PM): Zamaaaa
cerethereal (11:58:45 PM): rofl she and Zion make such a kickass duo, with her feeding him lines... "NO. SAY 'WUDDUP, DUDES'. That is their language."
cerethereal (11:58:58 PM): ".....*most monotonous, sleep-inducing voice ever* Wuddup, dudes."
MessengerofPuck (11:59:15 PM): ....... *dies*
hikarinomegami (12:00:34 AM) has left the room.
Take Her Anyway (12:00:53 AM): wut
Take Her Anyway (12:00:55 AM): Zama and Zion?
MessengerofPuck (12:01:21 AM): Anima B)
MessengerofPuck (12:01:40 AM): They're the new NPCs
cerethereal (12:01:40 AM): ...was it Sion or Zion
MessengerofPuck (12:01:42 AM): Sion
cerethereal (12:01:43 AM): I think it was Sion :<
MessengerofPuck (12:01:47 AM): It's in the Guild
cerethereal (12:01:56 AM): ::thinking it was odd that they had such similar-sounding names::
MessengerofPuck (12:02:03 AM): We really need to update some of this stuff
Take Her Anyway (12:02:04 AM): XDDD
cerethereal (12:02:09 AM): DUDE I don't even know the names of my own NPCs I fail so hard
Take Her Anyway (12:02:18 AM): (Yain was the best NPC)
cerethereal (12:02:28 AM): oh yeah I'm totally bringing Aster and Yain into this
MessengerofPuck (12:02:28 AM): We need to work on the ship anima too >3>
Take Her Anyway (12:02:31 AM): WUT
cerethereal (12:02:33 AM): WE DO.
cerethereal (12:02:42 AM): ps let me know if you want to drag any of your OCs as NPCs too
Take Her Anyway (12:02:42 AM): THEN LESLIE IS GOING TO HARASS THE SHOP YOU REALIZE
Take Her Anyway (12:02:43 AM): all the time :/
cerethereal (12:02:46 AM): I WILL DRAW ART FOR EVERYBODY
MessengerofPuck (12:02:48 AM): OKAY THIS IS NOW OFFICIALLY ANIMA CHAT
Take Her Anyway (12:03:01 AM): 8D and I am in it? Win.
cerethereal (12:03:10 AM): YES >8D As our.. uh.. cheerleader.
Take Her Anyway (12:03:17 AM): Leslie will kill those who hit on Yain. :/
Take Her Anyway (12:03:21 AM): In cold blood.
Take Her Anyway (12:03:26 AM): prewarning
cerethereal (12:03:39 AM): You realize that will be 88% of our lurkers, given his track record at Somonen, right.
Take Her Anyway (12:03:42 AM): Yes.
cerethereal (12:03:51 AM): Ok. Just making sure you wouldn't think it was too much work.
cerethereal (12:04:04 AM): SO about the ship
MessengerofPuck (12:04:15 AM): SHIPPPP
MessengerofPuck (12:04:24 AM): *trying to find what we decided already*
Take Her Anyway (12:04:24 AM): >>
cerethereal (12:04:37 AM): I know it will have a little pond/possibly a waterfall thing (flowing water = electricity generator!) and a bunch of plants/little thicket thing for Zama and her flying anteater mail delivery army
MessengerofPuck (12:04:56 AM): Zama: RADICAL DUDE o/ I am pleased.
cerethereal (12:05:07 AM): ROFL
MessengerofPuck (12:05:08 AM): And we are NOT using Creation and Pendemonium.
cerethereal (12:05:13 AM): OH HELL NO.
MessengerofPuck (12:05:18 AM): (thank god)
cerethereal (12:05:43 AM): I think Pandemonium is an awesome name, and Demon an awesome nickname, so we might use Pandemonium as a name for something... that's not a clearly-for-buttsexing useless god NPC
MessengerofPuck (12:05:58 AM): Please oh god
cerethereal (12:06:01 AM): ...oh yeah did you guys hear about the Chai drama btw <<
MessengerofPuck (12:06:06 AM): No tell!
Take Her Anyway (12:06:06 AM): (Drama?)
cerethereal (12:06:07 AM): *gossipy mood*
Take Her Anyway (12:06:11 AM): (Iamnothere. Talk as though I am.)
MessengerofPuck (12:06:19 AM): (Maybe we can use Demon for the Spirit World thing)
cerethereal (12:06:25 AM): She went to Anime North and made a bunch of Bleach prints
MessengerofPuck (12:06:32 AM): (Not necessarily make him RESPONSIBLE, but definitely privvy to details)
cerethereal (12:06:43 AM): To sell.. sold a lot.. made a lot of money.. etc
cerethereal (12:06:44 AM): come to find out
cerethereal (12:06:49 AM): the prints were traced!
MessengerofPuck (12:06:54 AM): ..........
MessengerofPuck (12:07:01 AM): Wut
cerethereal (12:07:10 AM): .....though I shouldn't say 'traced' so much as uh 'she colored panels from the manga and passed that off as her completely original work'
MessengerofPuck (12:07:24 AM): ... That's bullshit.
Take Her Anyway (12:07:28 AM): ... what.
cerethereal (12:08:07 AM): I actually have always suspected her of tracing, tbh, (inkling started when she did the Seraphii banners -- I *know* I've seen those buildings before) but as my friend I never really wanted to call her out on it
MessengerofPuck (12:08:17 AM): So. Like.
MessengerofPuck (12:08:20 AM): That pic of Noe.
MessengerofPuck (12:08:22 AM): Probably traced?
cerethereal (12:08:22 AM): And obviously she doesn't trace EVERYTHING
MessengerofPuck (12:08:27 AM): :< I should hope not
MessengerofPuck (12:08:28 AM): God
cerethereal (12:08:33 AM): nahhh. I think it's more like
cerethereal (12:08:38 AM): All her pictures with actual good anatomy
cerethereal (12:08:41 AM): probably traced.
Take Her Anyway (12:08:44 AM): ... >> I hope that one headshot I got from her wasn't ;;
Take Her Anyway (12:08:50 AM): I doubt it, but. That would kinda suck.
cerethereal (12:09:04 AM): No, I think headshots and all the Anima weren't traced, if only cos they're definitely.. her style
MessengerofPuck (12:09:07 AM): So Daemonologie is obviously freehand 8D
cerethereal (12:09:24 AM): But I know when she was doing a bunch of "LOL I am hiding on a mule to see how much my art is REALLY worth and disguising my style!!!"
cerethereal (12:09:32 AM): she was accused of tracing over hentai art??
MessengerofPuck (12:09:36 AM): wtf
cerethereal (12:09:36 AM): obviously adding clothes but.. lol
Take Her Anyway (12:09:49 AM): So. What... legally is going on?
cerethereal (12:10:17 AM): Well, she was officially called out -- pretty much shut down her DA for now. I've heard talk of "I WANT MY MONEY BACK" being thrown around, and some people threatening to tell her parents (LMAO) but
cerethereal (12:10:29 AM): The "OMG GORACHI TRACES???" was discovered... on 4chan of all places
MessengerofPuck (12:10:34 AM): ....xD
cerethereal (12:10:55 AM): SO YEAH
a distilled void (12:11:04 AM): daaamnnnnXD
MessengerofPuck (12:11:30 AM): PSCere
MessengerofPuck (12:11:30 AM): http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=6173319
Take Her Anyway (12:11:31 AM): ... XD wow.
MessengerofPuck (12:11:38 AM): Is there ANYTHING in that thread we still need?
Take Her Anyway (12:11:54 AM): I forgot I was in the secret guild 8D
MessengerofPuck (12:11:59 AM): You are? surprised
Take Her Anyway (12:12:03 AM): ... ER I MEAN
Take Her Anyway (12:12:05 AM): CERE TOTALLY
Take Her Anyway (12:12:07 AM): DID NOT LET ME IN
Take Her Anyway (12:12:09 AM): THE SECRET GUILD
MessengerofPuck (12:12:09 AM): *BANS*
Take Her Anyway (12:12:12 AM): damnnit
MessengerofPuck (12:12:16 AM): Lawl XD
cerethereal (12:12:17 AM): HAHA
cerethereal (12:12:25 AM): I thought you didn't have access to the secret plots/plans section?
cerethereal (12:12:28 AM): Or is that not mod-only
cerethereal (12:12:29 AM): oh well
Take Her Anyway (12:12:31 AM): 8D;;
cerethereal (12:12:50 AM): ....OH GOOD
cerethereal (12:12:55 AM): we're getting rid of all the pandora stuff
MessengerofPuck (12:12:59 AM): Yes :<
cerethereal (12:13:02 AM): I started reading my own notes and going "WTF IS THIS CRAP *CRIES*"
cerethereal (12:13:09 AM): "I THOUGHT IT WAS COOLER THAN THAT"
MessengerofPuck (12:13:12 AM): The only bit I've seen worthwhile is the definition of different Anima
cerethereal (12:13:14 AM): actually I should post our chat transcript
MessengerofPuck (12:13:20 AM): However much you have surprised
MessengerofPuck (12:13:26 AM): Most of our stuff is in the to-do list
MessengerofPuck (12:13:36 AM): But I got nothing on Sion or the ship
cerethereal (12:14:28 AM): *posted*
cerethereal (12:14:37 AM): It's not pretty though, sry :<
MessengerofPuck (12:14:40 AM): No worries
cerethereal (12:14:52 AM): ....uhhh I guess I should edit out the pw to our mule
Take Her Anyway (12:15:07 AM): (password? >D)
MessengerofPuck (12:15:10 AM): ... .lol yah
Take Her Anyway (12:15:21 AM): (Ohohoho)
cerethereal (12:15:33 AM): FIX'D
cerethereal (12:17:32 AM): Sion.. I could write something up -- I think I know what I basically want him to look like, and personality-wise he's the foil to Zama -- unexcited/excitable, pretty quiet, understands very little about technology
cerethereal (12:17:59 AM): or Proper People Interaction (not that he's antisocial or very abrasive -- he's easy to get along with, I think, just not very memorable as a person and not exactly a great conversationalist)
MessengerofPuck (12:18:15 AM): I like that! x3 Makes for a different character from the norm
cerethereal (12:18:38 AM): The ship, however. D:
MessengerofPuck (12:18:46 AM): That's gonna be the tough one to design
MessengerofPuck (12:19:06 AM): Should we figure the personality, and build from there? Or keep a flat personality?
cerethereal (12:19:36 AM): ...Does it have its own Anima, like GLaDOS, except less evil (but perhaps the same amount of singing)? I thought we originally decided that its Anima was 'sleeping' and thus not really existant, but
cerethereal (12:19:40 AM): I don't know if we want to keep it
cerethereal (12:19:52 AM): ...that way, I mean
MessengerofPuck (12:20:01 AM): I like the concept, but I'm trying to think of how we'd enact it
cerethereal (12:20:11 AM): *nods*
a distilled void (12:20:27 AM): hehehhe GLaDOS
Take Her Anyway (12:20:31 AM): KOCHI
Take Her Anyway (12:20:32 AM): we are hiding
Take Her Anyway (12:20:34 AM): jesus
a distilled void (12:20:38 AM): osry
Take Her Anyway (12:20:42 AM): (Come in here.)
a distilled void (12:20:46 AM): (ksweet)
a distilled void (12:20:51 AM): (can they not see us)
Take Her Anyway (12:20:57 AM): (Yeah. It's safe here.)
MessengerofPuck (12:21:03 AM): .... omg
MessengerofPuck (12:21:04 AM): Cere
a distilled void (12:21:07 AM): (sooo would they see if I did this *touches*)
MessengerofPuck (12:21:08 AM): Zama DOES get a ringtone
MessengerofPuck (12:21:09 AM): right?
MessengerofPuck (12:21:11 AM): Because
MessengerofPuck (12:21:13 AM): That's too awesome
Take Her Anyway (12:21:14 AM): (STOP IT KOCHI.)
Take Her Anyway (12:21:20 AM): (Don't betray our position!)
a distilled void (12:21:22 AM): (THEY CANT HEAR YOU >D)
a distilled void (12:21:33 AM): (*touchtouchtouchtouchtouch*)
cerethereal (12:21:43 AM): YES SHE DOES
cerethereal (12:21:48 AM): can it be the mortal kombat theme
cerethereal (12:21:54 AM): (...that's my ringtone <<; )
Take Her Anyway (12:21:58 AM): (s**t.)
Take Her Anyway (12:22:02 AM): (CERE FOUND US.)
Take Her Anyway (12:22:05 AM): ((Kochi.))
MessengerofPuck (12:22:09 AM): YES IT CAN
MessengerofPuck (12:22:11 AM): At first
MessengerofPuck (12:22:15 AM): She'll have to download otehrs >>
cerethereal (12:22:20 AM): (AAAGH VOICES IN MY HEAD??? WRONG FREQUENCY s**t)
a distilled void (12:22:22 AM): (AHHHH)
Take Her Anyway (12:22:26 AM): (( Kochi in here!))
a distilled void (12:22:31 AM): ((oshit kkkkkk))
a distilled void (12:22:37 AM): ((this is a lot of brackets))
cerethereal (12:22:41 AM): Lmao XD OH ZAMA <3
Take Her Anyway (12:22:43 AM): (( Stronger defenses. ))
a distilled void (12:22:50 AM): ((but but but i want to sing still alive now))
Take Her Anyway (12:22:56 AM): (( No. Quiet. ))
cerethereal (12:23:03 AM): ...I have the sudden urge to start singign
a distilled void (12:23:05 AM): ((abusive.))
MessengerofPuck (12:23:07 AM): Sing what
MessengerofPuck (12:23:09 AM): ?
a distilled void (12:23:15 AM): ((i'm going to feed brain waves into cere's brain))
cerethereal (12:23:16 AM): THIS WAS A TRIUMPH
MessengerofPuck (12:23:24 AM): I'M MAKING A NOTE HERE: HUGE SUCCESS
cerethereal (12:23:32 AM): IT'S HARD TO OVERSTATE MY SATISFACTION.
MessengerofPuck (12:23:35 AM): That's Zama's second ringtone
cerethereal (12:23:44 AM): And she sings it with Ship!Anima
MessengerofPuck (12:23:49 AM): XDD
MessengerofPuck (12:24:26 AM): ... weren't we gonna have Ship!Anima like, "halfway"? Like, it wasn't fully integrated with the shard, was why the shardscape was brought to Gaia?
cerethereal (12:24:47 AM): OH. Yeah. So maybe it doesn't 'exist' outside of its... landscape. So it doesn't really have a human-form.
MessengerofPuck (12:24:48 AM): And like, sleeping body, active mind, control of the ship
MessengerofPuck (12:24:50 AM): Nono
cerethereal (12:24:52 AM): human-shape-form
MessengerofPuck (12:24:55 AM): The body was entangled with the ship
MessengerofPuck (12:24:59 AM): Sort of combined
cerethereal (12:25:01 AM): ....OH
MessengerofPuck (12:25:01 AM): I think
Take Her Anyway (12:25:02 AM): 8D it could be on the prow!
Take Her Anyway (12:25:07 AM): like one of those mermaid things...
cerethereal (12:25:08 AM): WHO IS THAT???
MessengerofPuck (12:25:10 AM): But bugs
MessengerofPuck (12:25:11 AM): BUGS
Take Her Anyway (12:25:11 AM): (( s**t> Abort!))
MessengerofPuck (12:25:13 AM): THIS IS A FLYING SHIP
MessengerofPuck (12:25:14 AM): THE BUGS
ATTENTION (12:25:14 AM):You are about to be rate limited. Please wait a few seconds before sending, to avoid being rate limited.ATTENTION (12:25:20 AM):You are no longer rate limited, and you may now send messages.cerethereal (12:25:21 AM): THE BUGS???!?!
Take Her Anyway (12:25:27 AM): (( ;; oh gawd. Cover blown. ))
MessengerofPuck (12:25:29 AM): Zama: *has to clean the bugs off of the Animabody!prow*
a distilled void (12:25:32 AM): ((FAILURE))
a distilled void (12:25:36 AM): ((FAILURE OH GOD YOU SUCK))
MessengerofPuck (12:25:37 AM): TAHT WOULD BE GROOOOOOSS
cerethereal (12:25:37 AM): rofl XD
a distilled void (12:25:48 AM): ((HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US betrayed))
MessengerofPuck (12:25:57 AM): Body would be better kept inside for someone to discover and try to rescue
Take Her Anyway (12:26:00 AM): (( they have ADD. Don't worry about it. ))
MessengerofPuck (12:26:02 AM): And promptly kill everyone on board
a distilled void (12:26:07 AM): ((betrayed. you get to leave the forcefield but I cant sing >( ))
Take Her Anyway (12:26:27 AM): [Tch. I'm sick of hiding with Kochi. Safe in here. =_=]
MessengerofPuck (12:26:28 AM): ((Zama: O-M-G I heard something may I join you in the closet please?))
cerethereal (12:26:34 AM): YES.
cerethereal (12:26:38 AM): Okay, about the building itself
MessengerofPuck (12:26:44 AM): *nods*
cerethereal (12:26:45 AM): ...whatever kind of building is on the ship
a distilled void (12:26:55 AM): ((so alone))
MessengerofPuck (12:27:11 AM): ((PS: http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/4919/tek0610314c8037ec3.png))
MessengerofPuck (12:27:13 AM): ((WARNING
cerethereal (12:27:16 AM): I think Sion has some kind of apartment actually on Gaia (was he originally meant to pose as a university student?) but otherwise the building-on-the-ship is supposed to be the HQ...
MessengerofPuck (12:27:21 AM): ((DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE FAIRY))
a distilled void (12:27:26 AM): ((OMG PURPLE HAIR))
MessengerofPuck (12:27:28 AM): ((MAY CAUSE BLINDNESS)
a distilled void (12:27:32 AM): ((WE CAN HAVE PURPLE HAIR TOGETHER TEEHEE))
MessengerofPuck (12:27:46 AM): Yeah, the ship is HQ. I don't know how much we built outside that prospect
Take Her Anyway (12:27:56 AM): [ I only kiss, kiss, kiss when the sun don't shine~ ]
cerethereal (12:27:58 AM): So... *thinking* Because I know in more recent breedables, I like how... uh.. how do I explain this
MessengerofPuck (12:27:59 AM): ((Zama: Teehee that is so ke-ute! ))
cerethereal (12:28:21 AM): Like you know in that awesome breedables Astra was involved in, with the computer gone crazy in the private facilities
Take Her Anyway (12:28:27 AM): YEAH I KNOW
Take Her Anyway (12:28:29 AM): ... s**t.
MessengerofPuck (12:28:31 AM): I don't know that one
MessengerofPuck (12:28:33 AM): STAY SAE
cerethereal (12:28:36 AM): ....and even in IODM I guess, even though I loathe to mention it
Take Her Anyway (12:28:38 AM): ... >> but.
MessengerofPuck (12:28:43 AM): What about them?
a distilled void (12:28:45 AM): HEY BUT I THOUGHT YOU DISSAPPEARED O<
Take Her Anyway (12:28:50 AM): ;; HI KOCHI
cerethereal (12:28:53 AM): Everyone had their own room/apartment/I don't know, but it was connected and gave everyone a common space
Take Her Anyway (12:28:55 AM): (I went into the bushes)
MessengerofPuck (12:28:57 AM): ((Zama: ... wh-where did everyone go?))
MessengerofPuck (12:29:05 AM): Did you want that on teh ship?
a distilled void (12:29:12 AM): btw wtf are we talking about
a distilled void (12:29:15 AM): link plz
Take Her Anyway (12:29:16 AM): Anima-Redux
Take Her Anyway (12:29:19 AM): new shop they need to devise
a distilled void (12:29:23 AM): o
MessengerofPuck (12:29:30 AM): New project. Might not be an official shop.
cerethereal (12:29:32 AM): One thing I'm not so hot on with Fa'e HQ is that -- wtf is FA'e HQ actually FOR (besides hiding Airi?!?!) and why does everyone go there?!? no I mean seriously
cerethereal (12:29:41 AM): how do people know
MessengerofPuck (12:29:42 AM): Yeah, I know what you mean
a distilled void (12:29:46 AM): good point
cerethereal (12:29:54 AM): So I'm not entirely sure what we can do about it with our shop
a distilled void (12:30:14 AM): i figure its like.. a meeting.. place... and for fa'e to sleep.. so no hobo fa'e...
Take Her Anyway (12:30:16 AM): Well, I always thought Fa'e HQ was somewhere a Fa'e could go if they wanted to find others or were just in unsafe situations?
MessengerofPuck (12:30:19 AM): Make a demand that keeps up a min. activity, forcing them to visit the ship every month or so
MessengerofPuck (12:30:22 AM): Like...
cerethereal (12:30:29 AM): Because it's not so simple as "EVERYONE GETS THEIR OWN ROOM IN THE BUILDING" because um well
Take Her Anyway (12:30:34 AM): Maybe there's some POOL OF LIFE FORCE 8DDD
Take Her Anyway (12:30:37 AM): or s**t like that
Take Her Anyway (12:30:39 AM): that needs visiting
cerethereal (12:30:42 AM): ...that's what their shard is for
MessengerofPuck (12:30:44 AM): yeah, something like what Sae said
MessengerofPuck (12:30:55 AM): Let's say that naturally
Take Her Anyway (12:30:55 AM): but maybe the shard needs something to 'charge' it?
MessengerofPuck (12:31:01 AM): The shard will not stay in physical form
MessengerofPuck (12:31:10 AM): It will naturally try to gravitate back to the Spirit World
MessengerofPuck (12:31:17 AM): Which is impossible to do on its own
MessengerofPuck (12:31:19 AM): But it will still try
MessengerofPuck (12:31:25 AM): So by coming to the ship
MessengerofPuck (12:31:48 AM): We can a.) both establish a purpose, b.) give people an excuse to run into each other, and c.) enforce a reasonable IC activity requirement
Take Her Anyway (12:31:52 AM): Or maybe the shard is connected some how to the ship? Oh gawd magnetic.
Take Her Anyway (12:31:59 AM): It would be awesome. Anima stuck to the sides.
MessengerofPuck (12:32:03 AM): .... oh god XD
cerethereal (12:32:06 AM): ROFL
MessengerofPuck (12:32:16 AM): Zama: Noooo not more people to bug-clean ;o;
Take Her Anyway (12:32:30 AM): Or maybe the ship anima is a whore and clingy
Take Her Anyway (12:32:33 AM): and drags people back
cerethereal (12:32:36 AM): Well, I was thinking at some point -- how does one even get to their own shard? Does it not exist before the Anima manifests? Presumably it's floating up there... in the sky... like the ship is doing, but
Take Her Anyway (12:32:36 AM): for... ship...
Take Her Anyway (12:32:37 AM): molesting.
Take Her Anyway (12:32:46 AM): Wow, It would suck to be molested by a ship.
MessengerofPuck (12:32:51 AM): It exists in the Spirit World, doesn't it?
MessengerofPuck (12:32:59 AM): It's not connected
MessengerofPuck (12:33:09 AM): It's the entire thing with the stained glass mural thing
MessengerofPuck (12:33:15 AM): But it's still in a separate universe
MessengerofPuck (12:33:24 AM): Which is why there was a chance of spiritual creatures attacking
cerethereal (12:34:00 AM): The building on the ship could possibly act as a base -- if there was a door in the ship, one door per shard, that opened out into every discovered shard... not being the ONLY way to get there, but an easy way for peeps to get to
cerethereal (12:34:07 AM): each other
MessengerofPuck (12:34:11 AM): surprised That could be a good idea
cerethereal (12:34:25 AM): coupled with "Anima need to come to get recharged"...
MessengerofPuck (12:34:25 AM): Here's a question; through someone else's shard, can they reach that person's physical position?
MessengerofPuck (12:35:00 AM): Or is it strictly a spiritual connection?
cerethereal (12:35:07 AM): ???
MessengerofPuck (12:35:11 AM): Well, like.
MessengerofPuck (12:35:16 AM): There's a "physical" manifestation - the Anima - and a "spiritual" manifestation - the shardscape.
cerethereal (12:35:27 AM): OH DUDE THAT'S AWESOME
MessengerofPuck (12:35:28 AM): These are connected, crossing physical to spiritual to physical or something
cerethereal (12:35:35 AM): *DID NOT MAKE THAT CONNECTION BEFORE, AS SHE IS AN IDIOT*
cerethereal (12:35:37 AM): continue.
MessengerofPuck (12:35:42 AM): So theorhetically
MessengerofPuck (12:35:56 AM): If one can go physical-physical from the ship
MessengerofPuck (12:36:13 AM): There may be some way to go physical-physical from a shard to a given Anima
cerethereal (12:36:32 AM): ...oh, huh
MessengerofPuck (12:36:33 AM): It's a random thought, anwyay XD
cerethereal (12:36:39 AM): That's true...
MessengerofPuck (12:36:55 AM): The doors should be lockable by Anima, for sure
MessengerofPuck (12:37:04 AM): To prevent people from invading without being wanted
cerethereal (12:37:22 AM): *nods*
cerethereal (12:37:33 AM): One of the things I wanted to try to accomplish with the shop was possibly give people actual places to RP Like a sort of REALLY SNAZZED-UP virtual real estate kind of thing
MessengerofPuck (12:37:56 AM): *nods* And the scapes'll make that amazing <33
cerethereal (12:38:41 AM): So people could build houses and raise their breedables kids on them, maybe? And then, like, for example, if you wanted to manifest part of Dusty's CAMELOT as a shard to be discovered/claimed, that could be possible as well......
cerethereal (12:38:42 AM): maybe.
cerethereal (12:38:53 AM): ...and yes, CAMELOT is all in caps. I don't know why.
a distilled void (12:39:02 AM): thats sorta really awesome
MessengerofPuck (12:39:06 AM): Because it is CAMELOT
cerethereal (12:39:18 AM): where we eat ham and jam and SPAM A LOT
MessengerofPuck (12:39:23 AM): xDD
cerethereal (12:39:35 AM): Does that make sense? I think you understand our setting better than I do, actually XD
MessengerofPuck (12:40:16 AM): It makes plenty of sense to me XD But to clarify; the shards are pieces of the spirit world, not real bits? Or are they real bits being substituted for the spirit world?
MessengerofPuck (12:40:34 AM): Or either?
cerethereal (12:41:26 AM): Spirit world? Though that's very loose, I think... Once worlds become shattered and destroyed, its their.. spiritual plane that forms shards... and that's what the Spirit World claims for its own?
cerethereal (12:41:50 AM): Because being as diminished as it is, it may just be grabbing for ANY kind of shard that's available, not just shards that were originally part of it
MessengerofPuck (12:43:04 AM): Ah, that makes sense. I'd lost part of our original plan with the shattered worlds, but I rmember now XD
cerethereal (12:43:08 AM): ...because I think we can agree that when someone gets "sharded", there's no actual physical.. BROKEN-WORLD! splinter in them.... I think :<
MessengerofPuck (12:43:23 AM): Yeah, I think so as well XD
cerethereal (12:43:29 AM): (unfortunately that would make it too much like Edelsteine anyway)
cerethereal (12:43:53 AM): OK SO ARRI
MessengerofPuck (12:44:08 AM): YES SO CERE
cerethereal (12:44:35 AM) has left the room.
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cerethereal (12:45:45 AM) has been invited.
cerethereal (12:45:49 AM) has entered the room.
cerethereal (12:45:54 AM): GODDAMN.
MessengerofPuck (12:45:58 AM): T_____T
cerethereal (12:46:02 AM): uhhh someone save the log for me, pls T^T
a distilled void (12:46:11 AM): i have never
MessengerofPuck (12:46:12 AM): Done
a distilled void (12:46:13 AM): seen that emoticon
a distilled void (12:46:17 AM): T^T
a distilled void (12:46:20 AM): omg thats adorable
cerethereal (12:46:25 AM): ...really?
MessengerofPuck (12:46:27 AM): Will stick in the plot thread, actually
a distilled void (12:46:27 AM): yes
cerethereal (12:46:28 AM): it looks like a bird to me
cerethereal (12:46:34 AM): now that you point it out
cerethereal (12:46:46 AM): OK AS I WAS GOING TO ASK
cerethereal (12:47:06 AM): Shardscapes: exist on the spiritual plane, right? And the Anima are what exist on the physical plane -- on Gaia or whatev
MessengerofPuck (12:47:30 AM): Yep
cerethereal (12:47:30 AM): As a physical manifestation of the shardscapes and whatever the sharded person happened to give up to allow them to manifest
MessengerofPuck (12:47:37 AM): That sounds about right
cerethereal (12:47:43 AM): Ok, so how does one get to the shardscapes again :<
MessengerofPuck (12:47:46 AM): The lantern catches the shard or calls it to it
MessengerofPuck (12:47:55 AM): Using Haruka-what'sherface's experiments
cerethereal (12:48:03 AM): OH I thought that was Zama and her dolphin-like chattering
MessengerofPuck (12:48:07 AM): And then ties it down into a physical manifestion
cerethereal (12:48:20 AM): ...also Haruka was a guy 8D;;
MessengerofPuck (12:48:21 AM): Zama: shall i sing for u
cerethereal (12:48:25 AM): YES PLS
MessengerofPuck (12:48:38 AM): Zama: 8D EEEEEE EE E EEE *CLICK* EEEEEEEEEEe
cerethereal (12:48:46 AM): ...OH GOD MY EARS ARE BLEEDING
a distilled void (12:48:47 AM): ecco the dolphin
a distilled void (12:48:47 AM): nooo
MessengerofPuck (12:49:02 AM): xD But yeah. They picked up his experiments based on some of the old Anima
MessengerofPuck (12:49:48 AM): And from there, they utilized the same technique for the shards
cerethereal (12:50:38 AM): OH so it was like an Anima without a shardscape, the ones summoned with the lanterns, cos it was not embedded in a person to make a shardscape out of... or something
MessengerofPuck (12:51:05 AM): I'm not sure? surprised
cerethereal (12:51:08 AM): .....Unless the lanterns are still our first stage??!?
MessengerofPuck (12:51:14 AM): Unless you want something different
MessengerofPuck (12:51:20 AM): It's just the same technique we need
cerethereal (12:51:35 AM): TRUE
cerethereal (12:51:37 AM): Lanterns work
cerethereal (12:51:40 AM): they can... VIBRATE
MessengerofPuck (12:51:46 AM): WAIT WAIT
cerethereal (12:51:47 AM): on some unhearable frequency
MessengerofPuck (12:51:49 AM): NOT JUST VIBRATE
MessengerofPuck (12:51:58 AM): Zama lovingly imbues each one with a different ringtone 8D
MessengerofPuck (12:52:01 AM): *SHOT*
cerethereal (12:52:02 AM): ....YES.
cerethereal (12:52:09 AM): That is why you cannot break the lantern.
cerethereal (12:52:13 AM): if you do, your ears explode.
MessengerofPuck (12:52:16 AM): WAit ******** lanterns
MessengerofPuck (12:52:20 AM): Zama would want to upgrade tehm
MessengerofPuck (12:52:24 AM): TO BE MODERN AND HIP
cerethereal (12:52:31 AM): :O TO LIGHTBULBS?
MessengerofPuck (12:52:34 AM): .... Sion might need to tell her to stfu
MessengerofPuck (12:52:37 AM): XDD
cerethereal (12:52:43 AM): rofl XD NO WHAT WOULD SHE UPGRADE THEM TO
MessengerofPuck (12:52:57 AM): TELEVISIONS
MessengerofPuck (12:53:03 AM): no
cerethereal (12:53:03 AM): ................
MessengerofPuck (12:53:04 AM): wit
MessengerofPuck (12:53:07 AM): THERE MUST BE SOMETHING
MessengerofPuck (12:53:16 AM): .... we will think on this later
cerethereal (12:53:19 AM): THOSE LITTLE STATIC ORBS
cerethereal (12:53:29 AM): you touch them and they shoot lightning out at the glass towards your fingers!
MessengerofPuck (12:53:29 AM): LOL
cerethereal (12:53:32 AM): no that's lame too though
cerethereal (12:53:42 AM): Sion: We have tradition to think about, you know...
MessengerofPuck (12:54:07 AM): Zama: No wai! We've got to totally deck-out! Pimp the ride!
MessengerofPuck (12:54:25 AM): ......... I think I need to find a new voice for Zama
MessengerofPuck (12:54:29 AM): I may have to shoot myself if I keep this one
cerethereal (12:54:56 AM): maybe restrict her access to MTV
MessengerofPuck (12:55:10 AM): That would be good :<
cerethereal (12:55:16 AM): <3 oh Zama
cerethereal (12:55:29 AM): So how would people get lanterns :<
MessengerofPuck (12:56:09 AM): That's a good question. Guardians were going to be an influence in how the spirit shards turned out, weren't they?
cerethereal (12:56:11 AM): Or would the lanterns just be given FREEEEELY TO DECORATE EVERY HOUSE THAT WANTS ONE and people like. steal the ones that happen to resonate with them.
MessengerofPuck (12:56:43 AM): ... Didn't we decide that Face-Eaters was gonna be stolen? XD
MessengerofPuck (12:56:47 AM): Or something?
cerethereal (12:56:52 AM): OH YEAH
MessengerofPuck (12:56:53 AM): Or was that old plot
cerethereal (12:56:56 AM): THAT'S WHAT THEY GET
MessengerofPuck (12:56:57 AM): That might have been old plot
cerethereal (12:57:03 AM): FOR STEALING A LANTERN. FACE EATER.
MessengerofPuck (12:57:06 AM): XDDD
cerethereal (12:57:07 AM): yeah that was when Danny was alive XD
MessengerofPuck (12:57:12 AM): Lol
MessengerofPuck (12:57:21 AM): Need new Guardian still, huh
MessengerofPuck (12:57:26 AM): ... We could use Bard >>
MessengerofPuck (12:57:34 AM): But he isn't fun enough, nevermind
MessengerofPuck (12:57:42 AM): I need to work his character some more
cerethereal (12:58:02 AM): But yah, cos the Guardians have to 'give up' something in order to lend the Anima enough energy to manifest
MessengerofPuck (12:58:09 AM): That's right
MessengerofPuck (12:58:26 AM): ... Would Face-Eater's guardian have to give up their face
cerethereal (12:58:55 AM): ROFL no I think we said something like "actual spirits from spirit worlds devour the shards in people and lay in wait. somehow. waiting."
MessengerofPuck (12:59:06 AM): OH YEAH
cerethereal (12:59:12 AM): ...kind of like infecting the Anima like a virus so it turns out to be them instead of the actual Anima .-.
MessengerofPuck (12:59:13 AM): Something like that
cerethereal (12:59:17 AM): MAN this involves a lot of thinking, Arri
cerethereal (12:59:19 AM): I just don't know
MessengerofPuck (12:59:27 AM): It'll be worth it once we have it laid out
cerethereal (12:59:29 AM): if I am up to so much thinking >(
MessengerofPuck (12:59:33 AM): We might need to simplify a few things
cerethereal (12:59:35 AM): HOORAY
cerethereal (12:59:37 AM): Ok
MessengerofPuck (12:59:38 AM): XD
Take Her Anyway (12:59:39 AM): >>
cerethereal (12:59:43 AM): That is something I am HORRIBLE at, btw
MessengerofPuck (12:59:49 AM): Me too :C
cerethereal (12:59:49 AM): I am always wanting to make things super-complicated
MessengerofPuck (1:00:03 AM): I'm always stuck trying to figure how to explain things to people in a sentence.
cerethereal (1:00:04 AM): "AND THEN, TO MAKE THE ANIMA AWAKEN, THEY MUST DANCE NAKED BENEATH THE RED MOONLIGHT"
cerethereal (1:00:18 AM): "AFTER HAVING SUBSISTED OF A DIET OF ONLY ORANGE SKITTLES..."
MessengerofPuck (1:00:27 AM): ........... ashfas;is
MessengerofPuck (1:00:28 AM): Actually
MessengerofPuck (1:00:31 AM): A ritual could be fun XD
cerethereal (1:01:29 AM): And something they would have to contact Sion/Zama about, possibly?
MessengerofPuck (1:01:45 AM): All right
MessengerofPuck (1:01:51 AM): Let's clear the table and lay things out
MessengerofPuck (1:01:59 AM): Step 1.) World breaks.
cerethereal (1:02:05 AM): ::THROWS BOARD UP IN THE AIR, SCATTERING CHESS PIECES EVERYWHERE::
MessengerofPuck (1:02:17 AM): Step 2.) Shard of the world is in a Guardian-to-be (?)
Take Her Anyway (1:02:21 AM): 3. ???
Take Her Anyway (1:02:24 AM): 4. Profit
MessengerofPuck (1:02:26 AM): SHUT UP SAEDE
Take Her Anyway (1:02:28 AM): (Yes, I was waiting for that)
MessengerofPuck (1:02:29 AM): xD
MessengerofPuck (1:02:40 AM): Step 3.) Lantern is used in some manner to draw out the shard/summon the Guardian?
cerethereal (1:02:55 AM): Ok. yeah. World breaks, spirit plane splinters and flies everywhere and pierces people/things willy-nilly
MessengerofPuck (1:03:06 AM): Step 4.) Lantern works as a focus and manifests the Anima and spirit shard simultaneously
Take Her Anyway (1:03:06 AM): Can one fling itself into someone's eye?
MessengerofPuck (1:03:20 AM): Yes.
MessengerofPuck (1:03:47 AM): Shards that fling into people = emotional, places = natural, and then there are "true" reborn Anima?
MessengerofPuck (1:03:49 AM): Is that right?
cerethereal (1:04:01 AM): *nods*
MessengerofPuck (1:04:22 AM): Where does the shard for the reborn Anima come from?
Take Her Anyway (1:04:28 AM): ... Dude. If they can fling themselves into people's eyes.
Take Her Anyway (1:04:29 AM): Do want.
MessengerofPuck (1:04:37 AM): They aren't physical XDD
Take Her Anyway (1:04:43 AM): Oh. Damn.
cerethereal (1:05:13 AM): ...what's an example of a "true" reborn Anima *BRAINDEAD*
MessengerofPuck (1:05:26 AM): Face-Eater
MessengerofPuck (1:05:29 AM): Summoned spirits
MessengerofPuck (1:05:35 AM): Based off of monsters or kami or whatever
cerethereal (1:05:37 AM): OH. OH RIGHT
MessengerofPuck (1:05:46 AM): There are three types of Anima: the emotional kind (like Melancholy), the natural kind (like Rain), and summoned kind (directly from the Spirit World instead of being manifested, like the noppera-bo Face Stealer.)

I was thinking that the emotional Anima actually have to be bonded with someone to exist -- in order to manifest, they have to feed off of someone's life force. In return, the person's own spiritual energy becomes stronger (someone who had no sixth sense before slowly develops it now.)

The natural Anima merely manifest out of whatever they were before -- like if they were the guardian of a river, they'd manifest out of the river's waters. They're not bound to anyone, and are able to move outside of their 'territory', but do have to return from time to time to recharge.

The summoned kind is what happens when other kind of spirits other than the Kami-based ones reach a lantern and are able to be manifested into the physical world. Unlike the other Anima, which are instantaneously created and must develop (or re-develop) their own conciousness, the summoned Anima are already-existing spirits (such as baku, kitsune spirits, ect) 're-imagined', so to speak. ...Does this make any sense? :C


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MessengerofPuck (1:05:56 AM): IMed you your words on it XD
cerethereal (1:05:58 AM): I think some other shard -- an emotional or natural one -- but.. whatever it was initially 'reflecting' gets replaced with the summoned spirit
MessengerofPuck (1:06:23 AM): So we get to destroy the world's only remnants? 8D AWESOME
cerethereal (1:06:33 AM): OH YEAH. Cos that was when we were thinking "The lantern calls the spirit from the spirit world"
MessengerofPuck (1:06:47 AM): OKAY so.
cerethereal (1:06:48 AM): With different kinds of lanterns calling to different spirits
MessengerofPuck (1:06:58 AM): ... That's right
MessengerofPuck (1:07:01 AM): Are we still gonna do that?
cerethereal (1:07:02 AM): So whatever reached the lantern first technically got manifested first... but it's different now with the shards
MessengerofPuck (1:07:15 AM): Yeah
MessengerofPuck (1:07:18 AM): I think we should keep to the shards
MessengerofPuck (1:07:30 AM): Summoned spirits occur when a spirit overlaps with a shard and overwhelms it
MessengerofPuck (1:07:36 AM): Sort of "true" Anima
MessengerofPuck (1:07:44 AM): Whereas others are "created" Anima that are reflections of their shards
MessengerofPuck (1:07:50 AM): Does that make sense
MessengerofPuck (1:07:50 AM): ?
cerethereal (1:09:01 AM): ::nods::
MessengerofPuck (1:09:17 AM): o/! Now let's strike out the other stuff before it confuses us again, lol
cerethereal (1:09:25 AM): OKAY >8D
Take Her Anyway (1:09:30 AM): <<
cerethereal (1:09:32 AM): must cut away
cerethereal (1:09:34 AM): clear away
MessengerofPuck (1:09:35 AM): *sits on Sae*
MessengerofPuck (1:09:38 AM): REMOVE THE CANCER
cerethereal (1:09:38 AM): snip away and sever this
MessengerofPuck (1:09:39 AM): THAT WAS
MessengerofPuck (1:09:42 AM): Not-us >>
Take Her Anyway (1:09:46 AM): alsdjfajl D: ~sat on~
cerethereal (1:09:54 AM): UMBILICAL RESIDUEEEE KEEPING ME FROM KILLING YOUUUUU -- err, I mean
MessengerofPuck (1:10:02 AM): xDD
Take Her Anyway (1:10:14 AM): Gawd. I remember. I had an anima idea FOREVER ago. THat was really retarded.
MessengerofPuck (1:10:20 AM): Orly?
Take Her Anyway (1:10:28 AM): yes. When you guys were first doing it. At like 3am one night
Take Her Anyway (1:10:30 AM): I was IMing cere
Take Her Anyway (1:10:39 AM): and came up with some idea. LET ME SEE IF IT IS IN MY PB
MessengerofPuck (1:10:42 AM): xDD
Take Her Anyway (1:11:02 AM): You guys keep killing the cancer while I search~
MessengerofPuck (1:11:19 AM): *pretends to kill the cancer but is really just waiting for Cere to do all the work* >>
MessengerofPuck (1:11:34 AM): At least this is like, 1000000 times less convoluted than the gayfest.
a distilled void (1:12:42 AM): wut
MessengerofPuck (1:12:47 AM): wut?
a distilled void (1:12:51 AM): wut??
MessengerofPuck (1:12:54 AM): WHAT
MessengerofPuck (1:12:57 AM): WHAT DO YOU WANT
a distilled void (1:12:59 AM): fine
a distilled void (1:13:00 AM): >:
Take Her Anyway (1:13:01 AM): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/sae_chan/forest.jpg okay. My idea. Was an evil forest that ate hearts.
a distilled void (1:13:03 AM): T^T
MessengerofPuck (1:13:11 AM): OHM NOM
MessengerofPuck (1:13:13 AM): ... Looks cool surprised
Take Her Anyway (1:13:17 AM): His hand makes no sense. orz
cerethereal (1:13:17 AM): actually that was my idea that you took 8D
Take Her Anyway (1:13:20 AM): I KNOW
Take Her Anyway (1:13:23 AM): I WAS GOING TO SAY
cerethereal (1:13:24 AM): THANKS FOR CALLING IT RETARDED SAE >(
Take Her Anyway (1:13:26 AM): (Actually I totally forgot)
MessengerofPuck (1:13:28 AM): LOL
Take Her Anyway (1:13:37 AM): 8DD;;; I MEANT MY IDEAS FOR IT
MessengerofPuck (1:13:42 AM): backpedal faster
Take Her Anyway (1:13:45 AM): (This conversation is like two years old!)
cerethereal (1:13:49 AM): wait so are we striking out lanterns completely
cerethereal (1:14:04 AM): shoot ok let's start again
MessengerofPuck (1:14:05 AM): We need something to call the shards into manifestation
cerethereal (1:14:07 AM): 1) world shatters
MessengerofPuck (1:14:10 AM): *nod*
cerethereal (1:14:12 AM): 2) SHARD'D
MessengerofPuck (1:14:14 AM): *nod*
MessengerofPuck (1:14:39 AM): 3) Lantern/other technique calls out the shard to be manifested
MessengerofPuck (1:14:48 AM): 4) Manifests into an Anima and a shard scape
cerethereal (1:15:10 AM): 4) to manifest, the guardian has to give up something of themselves (an emotion/ memory/whatever, we'll work this out later) to give the Anima energy to manifest
MessengerofPuck (1:15:14 AM): That's right
cerethereal (1:15:15 AM): --and it's not entirely a willing choice
MessengerofPuck (1:15:34 AM): Emotion if it's embedded in the Guardian
cerethereal (1:15:45 AM): And it might depend on where in the body/place the anima shard pierces, but I think that's up to the RPers
MessengerofPuck (1:15:50 AM): But if it's natural, the lantern probably reaches out to the Guardian and takes something else
MessengerofPuck (1:15:58 AM): Lantern or whatever else we use
MessengerofPuck (1:16:11 AM): How much of the original concept was Chai's?
Take Her Anyway (1:16:22 AM): I didn't even mean retarded! I meant 'really horrific and awesome!'
cerethereal (1:16:36 AM): ...the name? Sort of? The Anima are going to look like hers in design, admittedly, cos I thought the design of the anima was awesome
cerethereal (1:16:46 AM): And I might be stealing the Dew anima she started (but never finished)
Take Her Anyway (1:16:49 AM): And did I mention I love you?
cerethereal (1:16:59 AM): and I might steal melancholy :<
MessengerofPuck (1:17:05 AM): Was the concept originally hers?
cerethereal (1:17:08 AM): I LOVE YOU TOO SAE now get your a** in the kitchen and bake me a pie
MessengerofPuck (1:17:10 AM): + lanterns?
Take Her Anyway (1:17:15 AM): ~scuttles!~
cerethereal (1:17:42 AM): actually I don't really know. The lanterns were hers, but the original concept -- by her -- was really bare, it was just "YOU HAVE A LANTERN. IT CALLS A SPIRIT. SPIRIT MANIFESTS. SPIRIT MAY BE OF RAIN/EMOTION/WHATEV/YAY"
MessengerofPuck (1:17:59 AM): Let's evolve beyond the lantern, then, just because
Take Her Anyway (1:18:29 AM): flashlights!
MessengerofPuck (1:18:31 AM): We made Sion a golem, right? How can that play in?
Take Her Anyway (1:18:34 AM): Flashlights are evolved lanterns!
MessengerofPuck (1:18:37 AM): .... XD
Take Her Anyway (1:18:45 AM): ... I AM HELPING, ARRI
Take Her Anyway (1:18:48 AM): THE ONLY WAY I KNOW HOW
MessengerofPuck (1:19:01 AM): YOU HELP GOOD
Take Her Anyway (1:19:15 AM): I always wanted a shop where-- get this.
Take Her Anyway (1:19:17 AM): Lightning bugs
Take Her Anyway (1:19:20 AM): turned into flashlights.
Take Her Anyway (1:19:40 AM): (natural evolutionary step!)
MessengerofPuck (1:19:44 AM): xDD
Take Her Anyway (1:19:51 AM): I'll go back to making a pie now
MessengerofPuck (1:19:55 AM): What kind of pie
Take Her Anyway (1:20:18 AM): ... WELL. When I talk to Cere a lot I inevitably think of my serial killer character Leslie.
Take Her Anyway (1:20:18 AM): So.
Take Her Anyway (1:20:20 AM): Human hearts.
MessengerofPuck (1:20:27 AM): http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=141
MessengerofPuck (1:20:32 AM): IT IS TRADITION DO NOT QUESTION IT
MessengerofPuck (1:21:06 AM): OKAY SO
MessengerofPuck (1:21:08 AM): Sion and Zamabu
MessengerofPuck (1:21:13 AM): Are from the Spirit World
MessengerofPuck (1:21:26 AM): The Spirit World shattered? Y/N
cerethereal (1:21:30 AM): Y
MessengerofPuck (1:21:41 AM): And they are trying to restore it with shards of other worlds?
cerethereal (1:21:50 AM): or.. dwindled... or was eaten by the abyss... something like that
cerethereal (1:22:10 AM): With shards period, I think -- I think maybe they have no way of knowing what shards are from where without manifesting them first, and they're not picky, so they're just grabbing whatever
MessengerofPuck (1:22:14 AM): Abyss: YuMMy.
cerethereal (1:22:20 AM): OH GOD
MessengerofPuck (1:22:23 AM): XD
cerethereal (1:22:26 AM): ...PS: WHO INVENTED THAT POSTING STYLE
MessengerofPuck (1:22:29 AM): YOU DID
cerethereal (1:22:29 AM): I WILL SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE.
MessengerofPuck (1:22:31 AM): YOU BTICH
cerethereal (1:22:32 AM): .....oh.
cerethereal (1:22:38 AM): um well
cerethereal (1:22:41 AM): I'm too pretty.
cerethereal (1:22:42 AM): NEXT
MessengerofPuck (1:22:46 AM): LAWL
MessengerofPuck (1:23:05 AM): Okay, so, they're grabbing shards and trying to restore the spirit world with them
MessengerofPuck (1:23:11 AM): Pandemonium.
MessengerofPuck (1:23:19 AM): I like to think he didn't destroy the Spirit World
MessengerofPuck (1:23:29 AM): But maybe he's destroying other worlds to make shards to repair it with?
MessengerofPuck (1:23:37 AM): Making him not quite a straight antagonist.
a distilled void (1:23:49 AM): pandaaamonium
a distilled void (1:23:57 AM): pandapandapandas crushjapan
MessengerofPuck (1:24:00 AM): Another part I'd like for him to play is to try and "rescue" the ship!Anima
cerethereal (1:24:11 AM): COOL.
MessengerofPuck (1:24:13 AM): Or else try and stop the Anima to save the worlds that are broken for them to be created
MessengerofPuck (1:24:19 AM): Those are my three main ideas XD
cerethereal (1:24:48 AM): they are awesome and I approve
MessengerofPuck (1:24:56 AM): Make him into a hero that happens to be against the interests of the Spirit World, and see who sympathizes.
MessengerofPuck (1:25:11 AM): So, who is in charge of the Spirit World right now, or what's left of it?
cerethereal (1:25:12 AM): ...oh yeah so why is it important for the Spirit World to be revived
MessengerofPuck (1:25:42 AM): That's a question. To Pandemonium, it's probably just one world among many. But Sion was created by the people of the Spirit World to save it, and Zamabu reports to them.
MessengerofPuck (1:25:50 AM): ... Wait
MessengerofPuck (1:25:52 AM): Gimmie asecond
MessengerofPuck (1:26:02 AM): Let's say the fate of teh Spirit World is tied to the fate of Gaia
MessengerofPuck (1:26:06 AM): So the shards from otehr worlds
MessengerofPuck (1:26:15 AM): Are like the remnants of that world's own Spirit World
MessengerofPuck (1:26:19 AM): Each world has one individually
MessengerofPuck (1:26:27 AM): And if it dies, the planet is doomed or something?
MessengerofPuck (1:26:45 AM): Though that keeps us from ever allowing the Spirit World to be an enemy :<
MessengerofPuck (1:27:33 AM): It could jsut be that the Spirit World considers itself so important to the management of the spirit realm and afterlife (separate from itself?) that it thinks all else is dependant on it
MessengerofPuck (1:28:06 AM): And potentially, a plotline could be them accepting that things will run without them and fading into oblivion, or else building themselves greater at the expense of the other worlds that are destroyed for their shards.
cerethereal (1:29:26 AM): YEAH
MessengerofPuck (1:29:48 AM): That allows people to side themselves
MessengerofPuck (1:30:17 AM): The Spirit World is clearly beneficial, but what's the sacrifice worth? Without the Spirit World, would the Anima still exist? Is it suicide to stop them? Is it wrong to let them continue?
MessengerofPuck (1:30:40 AM): Perfect moral dilemma, both for Anima and their Guardians. No clear answer exists, and all sides think they're right.
MessengerofPuck (1:30:44 AM): I love those kinds of plots. <3
cerethereal (1:31:58 AM): So, the Spirit World would be a separate entity from all other spirit worlds? It wants to be like the Central Management of all spirit worlds?
MessengerofPuck (1:32:11 AM): Something like that. And it probably has been for Gaia's worlds, at least, for a long while
MessengerofPuck (1:32:18 AM): When it comes to the shards
cerethereal (1:32:23 AM): Like a bunch of bored board members that think worlds shouldn't evolve spiritually without them voting on it XD
Take Her Anyway (1:32:45 AM): Man
Take Her Anyway (1:32:49 AM): I liked Jonathan Coultan
Take Her Anyway (1:32:50 AM): WAY BEFORE
MessengerofPuck (1:32:51 AM): The Spirit World would claim that the worlds are destroyed on their own, and that the appearence of shards merely coincides with whatever htye did to start summoning them to Gaia
Take Her Anyway (1:32:51 AM): PORTAL
Take Her Anyway (1:32:54 AM): waybefore
Take Her Anyway (1:33:03 AM): I'm just putting that out there. In italics.
MessengerofPuck (1:33:03 AM): Whereas Pandemonium would say that they are causing the worlds to be destroyed
MessengerofPuck (1:33:19 AM): And I've liked Johnathon Coulton since my dad showed me Code Monkey XD
MessengerofPuck (1:33:32 AM): But way after you liked him, Sae
Take Her Anyway (1:33:37 AM): GOOD. >o
Take Her Anyway (1:33:53 AM): DamnPortalBANDWAGONERS.
MessengerofPuck (1:33:57 AM): Lawl
a distilled void (1:33:58 AM): what
a distilled void (1:34:02 AM): did someone say portal
cerethereal (1:34:07 AM): So how did it come about... Maybe it's a little ******** of spiritual matter/spirits that were completely forgotten by their Physical Worlds -- the world kept spinning on around the sun without them (granted in a much less
cerethereal (1:34:10 AM): interesting way)
a distilled void (1:34:16 AM): i loved coulton for a loongg time XD
cerethereal (1:34:20 AM): So to keep surviving they HAD to enforce some kind of authority over... something
a distilled void (1:34:21 AM): and still love
cerethereal (1:34:28 AM): else be et by the abyss
MessengerofPuck (1:34:46 AM): Something like that. So they tied themselves to Gaia, and from there, decided they were the Guardians of Gaia's spiritual affairs or something.
cerethereal (1:34:46 AM): ...wait
MessengerofPuck (1:34:49 AM): Wait?
MessengerofPuck (1:34:50 AM): TELL
cerethereal (1:34:58 AM): NO, I REFUSE
cerethereal (1:35:03 AM): No, what you say makes sense though :O I like it!
cerethereal (1:35:07 AM): OK more about Coulton
MessengerofPuck (1:35:09 AM): Awwokay
MessengerofPuck (1:35:12 AM): Anyway
MessengerofPuck (1:35:14 AM): I need to go to bed

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:44 pm


THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW


Pre-Shop Timeline

>> However long ago: The Spirit World is formed in connection with Gaia.
>> The Spirit World eventually develops to host a number of spirits, perhaps escaped or intercepted en route to the afterlife.
>> The society that builds eventually forms a Council. The Spirit World is likely highly affected by the passage of creatures from the world of the living to the world of the dead, making it a strong interest of those in the Spirit World to oversee the process. This Council works in junction with the spiritual creatures of Gaia, and takes the mantle of managing and guiding the passage between these two planes of existence.
>> At some point, there's a calamity in the Spirit World of some sort (???); to prevent its destruction, Sion and Zama are sent out to Gaia with the first "shard", and are instructed to rebuild with the shards of other worlds?
>> The Ship is created, and established as the base of operations. Sion and Zama are probably trying to find out what happened to make the Ship instead of the Anima they intended.
>> ??? comes upon a lantern/object and "borrows" it; unwittingly summons the Face-Eater into manifestation, creating the first "official" Anima. Sion and Zama can learn of this through the manifested door at the Ship, and piece together that there are "shards" available throughout the world, in some manner, that they can rebuild/strengthen the Spirit World with.
--> STARTING POINT <--


Stages

(Prior to first stage: a world is destroyed, and a shard is placed in a person/place)

>> Arrival Stage - manifested through Haruka's old research. Either a solid object or a ritual manifests the shard from the person or place it has been sunk in. In the case of "true" Anima, reborn spirits like the face-eater, the spirit overshadows the shard during this time to take their own path to rebirth; in the case of others, the spirit's type depends on the type of place or emotions of the person the shard was embedded in.

>> Anima + Shard Scape - the Anima manifests physically and spiritually from the shard, creating the physical half (the Anima) and spiritual half (the Shard Scape) jointly. A sacrifice is taken from the Guardian at this point as well, willing or no- emotional Anima take emotions with them, while natural Anima may take memories. (Question: what could summoned Anima take?)

>> Additional stages? - probably earned by RP only, we should discuss what they would be.


DEFINITIONS AND EXTRAPOLATION

Regarding Shards: Shards can be found throughout Gaia, and are likely detected by Sion or the Ship. These shards are the remnants of the Spirit Worlds of other planets, which may have been destroyed; by manifesting an Anima through the shard, the shard is tied to the Gaian Spirit World.

The problem is, the planet themselves may be destroyed when the shard is connected to the Gaian Spirit World. The Spirit Council may argue that this is coincidence, or slated to happen by the time that another planet's Spirit World becomes a shard. Pandemonium would state that this is not coincidence, and that there is a natural progression in which a planet's Spirit World may break apart and be rebuilt, and that by tampering with this, other planets and lives are at risk.

Regardless of the truth, this is not something that will be explored for some time IC. Sion and Zamabu's mission is not to find the source of the shards or the effects of manifesting them, but to rebuild the Spirit World.
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