Baklava

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Aw, man! Sorry to hear that, Golem. I was looking forward to meeting Luca. If you change your mind anywhere down the line, feel free to shoot me a PM.

Axel, I'll get to your CS in the morning. Same for Lug's post. Sorry, other matters just came up.

Corp: "Given time and an idea of what needs to be done, Magus can enhance an object with some Twili magic; effects can range from enhancing somethings defenses, giving a magic edge to weapons and of course, enchanting something so that the shadows they cast are highly resistant to the light. Depending on the enchantment, the process can take days."

Now... while I am willing to be flexible as far as Magus' enchantments are concerned, I think a Bag of Holding would be... well, yeah. Doesn't seem to fall into any of those categories. Besides, if Magus was capable of easily ripping open dimensions, I don't think he would have accidentally reduced himself to a puddle of shadow in the light world. To allow him to create something like that would pretty much grant him the ability to do a shiz ton of other stuff. Like create a giant deadly hoola hoop that acts like a warped version of the Veil from Harry Potter... basically anything that goes into it is just gone. It's a really big and confusing concept I'd rather not go into. Not now anyway... And I would also prefer he not go around easily recreating ancient relics of mystery like Pegasus Boots... nom sayin?

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Baklava said
"Everyone begin rushing to see whose character gets to sit on top of the windmill dramatically in 3... 2... "

Kal-El... You are aware that Veitaru is already on the windmill, right? It's like... the third post in the IC.

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I've got it in the works, Lug. Haha I had a feeling you'd point it out. I ran out of time to do the second part and I'm not really following any specific order of who to respond to first, so yeah.

And Corpy Corp-- yeah, Gaston would be a pretty good comparison.

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It's fine! Really, I'm not upset about it at all. ;; I didn't really specify whether or not to allow it freely, so I'm just clearing it up now for future reference. Haha, I mean-- you guys were close though. He is a major butt-- but not the criminal sort of butt. I just don't want anyone to get the impression that Hyrule Kingdom is totally corrupted. That's a story for another RP~

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The explosion of light caught Felicia’s attention as well. Her eyes grew wide as she watched the shaft of light expand and disappear. “Probably just some Festival stunt,” she heard Kamo grumble beside her, unamused, “Those are some really lame effects, too.”

Not everyone seemed to be as undeterred as Kamo, however. Those who were nearest the light could be heard shouting in fright while those who were a safer distance away applauded the ‘performance’, oblivious to what was really going on. The event also seemed to fuel the crazy bobblehead salesman’s idiosyncrasy. He pranced over to where members of the crowd were still prattling ceaselessly about what just happened. Then, just as soon as the trouble had come, it deteriorated and everyone was either back about their normal business or dancing around with the loon, eager to continue with the festivities.

Felicia spotted Linda amidst the crowd, running towards her stall.“Hey, Ms. Felicia,” she stammered breathlessly, “S-sorry I’m late.” Her hair looked a mess and she couldn’t help but notice the lipstick she’d been wearing earlier was entirely gone.

“You okay?” Felicia asked worriedly.

“Oh-- yeah. Yeah, of course, “ Linda glanced down the street. Her mind obviously wasn’t there in the present.

“Are you—“

“Good to work? Yeah! Of course! Don’t worry about it! I’ll take over.” She seemed eager to take Felicia's seat behind the counter. Felicia nearly tripped as she tried to move out of the way for the young girl to get by. Kamo’s shoulders instantly slumped as he pulled some of his dark brown dark over his eyes—ears turning a vibrant red once again.

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Sir Orca Halbert stood before the steaming footprints, clenching his fist and gritting his teeth. The spear-men awaited further orders, nervously glancing at each other. “Notify the—“ Halbert paused as Jira came dancing between him and his men. With a frustrated growl, Halbert shot daggers at the man with his eyes until he'd finally moved out of the way. “Notify the rest of the guards. I want everyone on the look out for a Chilfos in a cloak.”

Lowering his voice so the crowd couldn't hear, he hissed, “It’s dangerous and I don’t want it still roaming about when the King gets here.” The guards nodded before quickly splitting up and running off to carry out their orders, relieved to be away from the fuming Sir Halbert.

Sir Halbert let out a suppressed sigh. Before leaving, he paused in front of Kaiver once again, “Don't let me catch you anywhere near that Chilfos, Greison. Mark my words, there are worse fates than being stuck as a town guard in Castle Town!" With that, he stomped away-- seeming a bit more agitated than usual. It was true that Halbert loathed failure-- especially his own-- and was never very happy when a criminal made a clean break, but it seemed to be something a bit more than that. Perhaps wolfos riding strangers, finger-freezing Chilfos and overexuberant dance instructors weren't all that was plaguing the festival today....

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Np, Axel. I really actually love that you're all for tying characters together, just so you know! I don't want to discourage you from it! I guess I'm just a teense bit more particular with /some/ of my NPCs. I think in the future I'll just star the ones I'm more particular about. I used to use colored text to indicate important NPCs, but Mahz hasn't added that feature yet. :(

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Ehh, that could be true, I guess-- for a few of his more weirdly loyal and dimwitted fans... He isn't exactly a Hyrulian Justin Beiber though. He's popular, but I doubt the masses as a whole would react that way.

The point I'm mainly trying to make is that he isn't corrupt in a criminal sense-- he's very much a lawful man-- and in the future I would only ask that prior relationships with my NPCs be run by me first. That would kind of include the creation and characterization of any posses my NPCs may or may not have. I'm pretty flexible and I'll do my best to give you as much to go off of as possible so you won't have to be asking me about every little thing, but yeah. To me, it's kinda akin to puppeting my characters without permission or warning.

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That's pretty much right, Ops.

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For future reference to all,

Please be careful when making assumptions about NPCs I create. Namely when you would like your character to have had a lot of past interaction with them. Just shoot me a PM and run it by me first, please.

Like, Sir Halbert is most definitely full of himself, but he isn't a scheming criminal trying to extort the system due to his high status. To say he was would be to accuse the King of being a fool for favoring such a man. Halbert has had many noble accomplishments and saved many lives. The people see him as a sort of hero. He is a man of and for the people although he has been known to speak condescendingly to his fellow military men as well as anyone who doesn't admit he's totally awesome and a sculpture of manly perfection.... In the end though, he tends to not really care whether or not you like him, because he totally loves himself enough to cover the gap.

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I definitely don't have a problem with people coming up with NPCs. If you're going to make them a CS, however, that's kind of where a certain unwritten rule I came up with comes into play-- that the NPC will start hearing the whispers in the night.

Here's the trick of it, though-- none of your characters are really obligated to do as the voice says at this point. And when your character is created is sort of when the whispers begin for them in a sense. So if we were on day 10 in the IC and you threw in your new character, one of four things would happen:

-Your character didn't start hearing the voice until just the night/a few nights before
-The voice had come to them just like everyone else but they had ignored it and not gone to the festival.
-They had been hearing the voice for some time only it was telling them something different compared to what everyone else was originally told (to go to the festival)
-They have yet to hear the voice at all but eventually will

(We would kind of work something out via PM most likely.)

You can make and control an NPC for however long you like, but if it seems to me that you're playing him/her more than your actual character or they've become a pretty substantial part of the group, I'll probably ask that either the NPC fades out soon or you make a CS for them. This isn't so much of an invitation to go careening down a ton of player-made side-quests as it is an invitation to make side characters and small situation/occurrences that will add some believable zing to the overall story/quest.