Crimson Raven
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STATUS: 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. 6 yrs ago
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'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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I say the words that I wish someone would tell me in vain hope that they might be returned to me.
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Existence continues.
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So much I want to do, so little time...
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“I’ve met some pricks in my time. But you, sir...” He said to the offending cactus.
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“NO ADMITTANCE.
NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL.
YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE.
GO AWAY.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL.
YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE.
GO AWAY.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
NOTICE
Thank you for Noticing This Notice.
Your Noting it has been Noted.
And it has been Reported to the proper Authority.
Hello lurker/ My old friend/ I've come to talk to you again/ Because a shadow softly creeping/ Lurking in the chat while I was sleeping/ And the roleplay that was forming in my brain/ Still remains with the sound of lurking.
In dead roleplays I walked alone/ Narrow pathways of casual zone...
Need mor ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
(Made in collaboration with @hatakekuro)
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
--Douglass Adams
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.
Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth.
And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.
Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth.
And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
~~As You Like It, Shakespear
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
~~ Macbeth, Shakespear
“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.”
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
“What do you know?”
“Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.”
“What do you want, then?”
“What I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.”
"Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty. They sat atop the world’s highest cliff, overlooking the land and seeing nothing.
'Can beauty be taken from a man?' the first asked the second.
'It was taken from me,' the second replied. 'For I cannot remember it.' This man was blinded in a childhood accident. 'I pray to the God Beyond each night to restore my sight, so that I can find beauty again.'
'Is beauty something one must see then?' the first asked.
'Of course. That is it’s nature. How can you appreciate a work of art without seeing it?'
'I can hear a work of music,' the first said.
'Very well, you can hear some kinds of beauty - but you cannot know full beauty without sight. You can know only a small portion of beauty.'
'A sculpture,' the first said. 'Can I not feel its curves and slopes, the touch of the chisel that transformed common rock into uncommon wonder?'
'I suppose,' said the second, 'that you can know the beauty of a sculpture.'
'And what of the beauty of food? Is it not a work of art when a chef crafts a masterpiece to delight the tastes?'
'I suppose,' said the second, 'that you can know the beauty of a chef’s art.'
'And what of the beauty of a woman,' the first said. 'Can I not know her beauty in the softness of her caress, the kindness of her voice, the keenness of her mind as she reads philosophy to me? Can I not know this beauty? Can I not know most kinds of beauty, even without seeing it?'
'Very well,' said the second. 'But what if your ears were removed, your hearing taken away? Your tongue taken out, your mouth forced shut, your sense of smell destroyed? What if your skin were burned so that you could no longer feel? What if all that remained to you was pain? You could not know beauty then. It can be taken from a man.'"
The messenger stopped, cocking his head to Shallan.
"What?" she asked.
"What think you? Can beauty be taken from a man? If he could not touch, taste, smell, hear, see, what if all he knew was pain? Has that man had beauty taken away from him?"
"I…" What did this have to do with anything? "Does the pain change day by day?"
"Let us say it does," the messenger said.
"Then beauty, to that person, would be the times when the pain lessens. Why are you telling me this story?"
The messenger smiled. "To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way. Tell me, what is the most beautiful thing you can imagine?"
...
“In this,” Wit said, “as in all things, our actions give us away. If an artist creates a work of powerful beauty – using new and innovative techniques – she will be lauded as a master, and will launch a new movement in aesthetics. Yet what if another, working independently with that exact level of skill, were to make the same accomplishments the very next month? Would she find similar acclaim? No. She’d be called derivative.
“So it’s not beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not the invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talent we think a man can have?” He plucked a final string. “Seems to me that it must be nothing more than novelty.”
"A blind man awaited the era of endings," Wit said, "contemplating the beauty of nature."
Silence
"That man is me," Wit noted. "I'm not physically blind, just spiritually. And that other statement was actually very clever, if you think about it."
"What is it to be witty, then?”
“To say clever things.”
“And what is cleverness?”
“I…” Why was he having this conversation? “I guess it’s the ability to say and do the right things at the right time.”
The King’s Wit cocked his head, then smiled.
“Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.
“Conversely, if you gain a reputation for being too good, too skilled . . . beware. The better art will be in their heads, and if you give them an ounce less than they imagined, suddenly you have failed. Suddenly you are useless. A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.”
Wit shook his head, standing up and dusting off his coat. “Give me an audience who have come to be entertained, but who expect nothing special. To them, I will be a god. That is the best truth I know.”
~~ Stromlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson
"You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life. If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!"
-Hayao Miyazaki
"In culture an analogous situation leads to the emergence of enclaves shut up in ghettos, where intellectual production likewise stagnates because of inbreeding in the form of incessant repetition of the selfsame creative patterns and techniques. The internal dynamics of the ghetto may appear to be intense, but with the passage of years it becomes evident that this is only a semblance of motion, since it leads nowhere, since it neither feeds into nor is fed by the open domain of culture, since it does not generate new patterns or trends, and since finally it nurses the falsest of notions about itself, for lack of any honest evaluation of its activities from outside."
~Stanislaw Lem, author of Solaris
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@Crimson Raveni tried being reasonable.
It didn't work.
Yes, I am angry. I explained why j wasn't happy with the ability, and that it was the attack. I have made it clear, planning to several people when they joined that I will point out over powered attacks and why, and that like everything it will be a majority rules with the co-gms. It feels like Prince just deliberately chose not to understand or to make it seem like I am unreasonable.
It has nothing to do with what I am going through right now.
I am growing wearier of how I do things being questioned-that's why I have two Co-Gms and why I have a 2/3 ruling. So it is fair. But apparently 2/3 is not being fair anymore. Do I have to make it 3/3 for the decision to be reasonable?
I try and accomadate but sometimes that isn't going to happen. Even then I try and come up with a different way-but I'm not going to have a Op character just appear. It either has to be discussed with me, or there has to be some indication as to how they have come across this ability. It took me what, 7 months of roleplay time to have Sasha develop ice queen, after all.
So yes. I am angry, due to a series of events, all dealing with effectively the same elements. But that's not to be discussed here.
Hmm...this does seem like a bad case of de já vu, I seem to remember it being just like this with Nero and Ferrin. Albet, a little smaller scale. ( oh, and Time Lord and Ferrin. I was stupid back then XD)
He isn't trying OP, and to be fair, you were not presenting your argument well. Zarkun did his duties as Co-gm and picked up there. Thats alright. Thats what he is there for. I agree, but he is not making his character powerful (Lets dispence with OP. Too much bad usage there.) it's something conjured up in distress. I would agree, at first it was too much, but now, it has been changes, and makes more sence from my point of view.
Take a moment to unwind if you are angry amd stressed. Get off the internet and do something relaxing if its too much.
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I know I'm both abrasive and tactless. I try to post as best and as fairly as I can and when I do something that doesn't fit properly I am sorry and I'll do my best to fix whatever's wrong. But in order for that to happen someone has to actually tell me what is wrong. Caits ruled that what I did was OP. Okay fine I'll make the edits that need to be made. But no one told me the edits that had to be made. I wasn't at all clear if it was that particular spell that was the problem, Dawn using magic period since he's a new character, how it would effect the other RPers. It wasn't until Zarkun got involved that someone actually made it clear that the mobility and potentially destructive capability of the spell was what was causing the problems. I'm not trying to be selfish, this is supposed to be fun for everyone but I can't change anything if all I'm given by the GM is "No don't do that" when I'm doing three things then a refusal to tell me what it is I'm not supposed to be doing.
Caits I'm not interested in getting into an argument again. I know you have a life and other commitments which trump an internet RP but please try to be clear, listen the everyone and work with people or leave the rulings up the Co-GMs, at this point I don't really care.
I wouldn't say "abrasive and tactless" your ideas are wonderfully thorough, and well thought out. You present them well, and honently, I'm not sure where the probelm is. Cut Caits some slack. She has seemed to been having RL issues. (Although that is no excuse)
However, don't just go, "I don't really care" becuase thats bogus. It's obvious that you DO care, and this is semi-important to your character, so you should care, and us too.
@Crimson RavenI know, that's why I'm having him eat pieces of his Meat puppet, to regain his energy. Nidhogg does not outwardly show his magical exhaustion, but it does effect him. He's fairly drained of magical energy, probably to a total of half his total stores I think would be fair, including the thing he's been growing underneath. Though, I probably should've wrote something down about that, as the thing most people know about him eating flesh is that it enables him to heal from injuries.
Err, I think then half. Based on, he has erected two powerful domes, laced with nerotic energy, then several undead, one that seems pretty strong, changed his own form more than a few times, and the most resent stuff.
Edit: totaly off topic, but now would his power react with a full-on necromancer?
I need to put something down, because we are falling apart here. Yes, another paragraph by me, but hear me out, and approach this with an open mind. If we continue like this, not only will we degrade the quality of this RP, we will most likely cause the whole this to fall apart.
First, I am sorry for getting frustrated earlier. I shouldn't have done that, and I might have made matters worse. I will not do it again.
In a situation like this, with so many people, and so many characters, it can be hard to keep track of everything, and getting your toes stepped on will happen. Sometimes, if it not really detimental, I suggest just rolling with it. If we keep arguing about who-done-what-shit, we are going to get nowhere, or even lose people. We need to have better communication before we post, and the part that most people, even I, forget, is that we are also making a story. Plot twists, and turn tables are expected and enjoyed. If that involes manipulating someone else's character, then ask permission first. I understand you might want to keep it a surprise, and in that case, take it up in PMs. Also, we need to remember here, that some characters are, to put it mildly, weaker than others. I ask, you guys, keep (I run the risk of being called a hypocrite here) your characters at their power, no explosions of magic, unless discussed before hand.
Basically, communicate. Communicate and read. Easier said then done, I know. But we can try our best.
@Caits
I understand that you might be going through some trouble, but I ask that, as GM, you try to stay as reasonable as possible, else you risk having this whole thing fall apart. I understand that you are not perfect, and will make mistakes, and thats okay, just moments ago I did the same thing. But I ask you to keep your judgment clear on these matters, okay?
@Prince of Seraphs
Let me have a little heart to heart here, because I have an inkling of what you are like. On top of that, I'm going to be blunt. So, rage at me afterward. Stop being so difficult. I know that you like your characters complex in magic and personality, and thats okay. My character is very similar, so I sympathize. But conform. I see that you did so with Dawn, and I applaud that, but it took nearly an entire OOC page to do so. I am asking you to relax, keep your ideas fluid and be prepared to change.
@Raijinslayer
I want to broach this lightly without blowing the OP whistle, but Nidhogg had been throwing out some heavy-duty magic. It would be reasonable to say he would be exhausted by now. Just keep that in mind.
@Everybody else, even if you are not a part of this.
Keep in mind this stuff.
I will not apologize for this wall of text. I see a problem developing, and I am doing what I think I need to do to stop it. That includes changing myself. I might come across as patronizing, and I hope that is not the case.
I need to do most of all the things I have pointed out above, so don't think that I believe myself exempt from this. I have made plenty of mistakes, myself, and I am trying to help you guys not make the same mistakes
Alright, I'm done. Proceed with the raging.
Tl;dr Jokes on you, there is not tl;dr. Don't skim this. :P
First, I am sorry for getting frustrated earlier. I shouldn't have done that, and I might have made matters worse. I will not do it again.
In a situation like this, with so many people, and so many characters, it can be hard to keep track of everything, and getting your toes stepped on will happen. Sometimes, if it not really detimental, I suggest just rolling with it. If we keep arguing about who-done-what-shit, we are going to get nowhere, or even lose people. We need to have better communication before we post, and the part that most people, even I, forget, is that we are also making a story. Plot twists, and turn tables are expected and enjoyed. If that involes manipulating someone else's character, then ask permission first. I understand you might want to keep it a surprise, and in that case, take it up in PMs. Also, we need to remember here, that some characters are, to put it mildly, weaker than others. I ask, you guys, keep (I run the risk of being called a hypocrite here) your characters at their power, no explosions of magic, unless discussed before hand.
Basically, communicate. Communicate and read. Easier said then done, I know. But we can try our best.
@Caits
I understand that you might be going through some trouble, but I ask that, as GM, you try to stay as reasonable as possible, else you risk having this whole thing fall apart. I understand that you are not perfect, and will make mistakes, and thats okay, just moments ago I did the same thing. But I ask you to keep your judgment clear on these matters, okay?
@Prince of Seraphs
Let me have a little heart to heart here, because I have an inkling of what you are like. On top of that, I'm going to be blunt. So, rage at me afterward. Stop being so difficult. I know that you like your characters complex in magic and personality, and thats okay. My character is very similar, so I sympathize. But conform. I see that you did so with Dawn, and I applaud that, but it took nearly an entire OOC page to do so. I am asking you to relax, keep your ideas fluid and be prepared to change.
@Raijinslayer
I want to broach this lightly without blowing the OP whistle, but Nidhogg had been throwing out some heavy-duty magic. It would be reasonable to say he would be exhausted by now. Just keep that in mind.
@Everybody else, even if you are not a part of this.
Keep in mind this stuff.
I will not apologize for this wall of text. I see a problem developing, and I am doing what I think I need to do to stop it. That includes changing myself. I might come across as patronizing, and I hope that is not the case.
I need to do most of all the things I have pointed out above, so don't think that I believe myself exempt from this. I have made plenty of mistakes, myself, and I am trying to help you guys not make the same mistakes
Alright, I'm done. Proceed with the raging.
Tl;dr Jokes on you, there is not tl;dr. Don't skim this. :P
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Due to the fact that the shadow section of the dome and all the little shadow zerglings are still around its probably a safe bet to say yes.
Also the fact that he has not had the chance to post since he left and asked all of us not to move until he came back.
Thats been blown to hell now.
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