Maglar

Hell everyone!!

@PlackBe Well, and welcome

HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIDE~

@Kiki is Anxious Hey Yo! Welcome Fren'!

Back from a very long absence

Heya friend, I generally like RPing the same types of stories as you so we'll probably see each other around. Have fun!

Crystallis

@Shadow Dragon

Jabberwocky's hideout

Ruby hugged Jabber back, accepted the food and ate graciously, "Not yet Dadda," she said between bites, "it's all clicks and strange noises. I need to talk to the fairy again, but I'm not sure how," she chewed, "she said something about my 'biogenic energy' giving her enough strength to talk to me, but I don't know what that is or how to make it work."

Crystallis

The Cave of Kensu's Island

@shadowsaint007

Gerty

Before the Apocalypse Gerty worked as a librarian. She didn't know much about the world of tech that had developed, she was a bookworm, more interested in old literature and the fables of heroes. She would spend her afternoons researching the myths and legends of the ancient world, seeing how they fit into Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces characterizations, it was a hobby. When the world came to an end Gerty was bringing dinner to her mother who was working in the laboratories. Her mother had been researching how to particulate the human imagination. Imaginarium it was called, and it was the new and exciting trend in home entertainment; her mother had taken to working late and spending nights at the labs, they had no idea what was about to happen. The blizzards came first and the adults shut themselves into the facility, at the time there were 28 scientists and little Gerty; they didn't have time to run out of food. The ground moved underneath them, the entire surface of the planet began to change under Harbinger's power. While the Laboratory froze and the scientists began to die from the exposure, Magma began to seep through the cracks in the floors. It was an impossible and unnatural perversion of nature's forces. Gerty's mother pushed her into the safest part of the lab, the temperature controlled room that held the Imaginarium. There Gerty was safe, for a time. The room shook and the lights went out and the world was filled with screams and crashes, Gerty was terrified. The Imaginarium containers broke open and Gerty was swept away into the world of her own dreams and hallucinations, which in the circumstances became nightmares of monsters and demons. Then Harbinger released the Atomic Payloads and began to rearrange the molecular structure of the life forms of the planet... Gerty died in one form, and was reborn in another. Gerty... became Urgrapth

Urgrapth nestled into her web, secure, safe. Her babies surrounded her, tinkling and moving throughout the web, doing the insectoid things that spider creatures would do. Urgrapth waited, expecting her children to bring back the intruder. The smoke should have made it fall, and her children should have brought it quick, but there had been too much time. Urgrapth waited... impatiently.

At a nod, she sent five more of her children to help fetch, two more than before, if the others were hurt then more would be needed. Her babies, they should not be hurt, they need to be safe. Urgrapth nervously began to pace around her web. She grabbed one of the villagers, a young one that smelled like flowers, and prepared it for food. If she had to go to fight the visitor herself she'll need food, but she will wait for her children to report back first.

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SETTING:

Kensu sat at the mouth of the sealed cave smoking his pipe and lost, deep in thought. He knew that somewhere in the caves, hidden behind walls and in secret caverns rarely seen by any eyes, is a sword mounted into stone. It has no scabbard, no lace, but it did have the power to harness the dramatic and fearful power of the Storm. The mysteries of his religion taught that the Oracles were made to speak to the swords and feel their call, and hopefully this pink haired girl would be drawn to the weapon soon.

Kensu wasn't certain, but he feared that the disappearance of the villagers had something to do with this mountain. A week or so before he had peeled open some strange, metal door and inside was this pulsating black mass. Hesitantly he watched the mass pulsate faster and faster, then little spindly creatures began to leak from the sides of the mass. Disgusted, Kensu backed away and shut the door. Normally the animals and creatures of the island were of the nature to leave people alone, but maybe, maybe this one was different. The people of his island, his people were all gone, but there were no signs of violence; and the cave was not shut, but Pip was with the girl.

So much had changed, so much, and so fast. Kensu smoked his pipe and watched the cave, it took much of his will power not to show his terror.

SYNOPSIS

There are 5 more spider monsters coming after you, Urgrapth has prepared a snack in case she needs to fight you herself. Kensu is worried he's responsible for waking up the spider monster, and you feel the call of the sword:

Crystallis

Jabberwocky's Hideout

@Shadow Dragon
-Also, you all should read this section because it pertains to the larger story.

Jabber's Cavern

>.......initiating system boot
>..............
>.......Harbinger activated
>..............
>....... Awaken the Oracles
>..............



"Little girl... little girl, wake up!" the little girl's eyes fluttered open and she smiled at the pretty, sweet voice of the fairy. "Well hello pretty girl," Asra's voice smiled as she talked, "My name is Asra, what's your name?"

"Wooby," said the little girl in the pod.

"Oh dear girl, how old are you?" Asra asked, the little one looked maybe 3, maybe 4 years old. The little girl responded by giggling and reaching for the holographic fairy that wasn't there. "This is not good, this, this wasn't supposed to happen. Oh you dear, sweet little girl! You cannot wield the swords, you cannot call to Harbinger and save all the world. You poor little thing..." then Asra blinked out of existence and the little girl was left all alone, or so she thought...

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Ruby doesn't remember when she was born. She doesn't remember light or the sun, her first memory is the fire. It was a fire that burned her eyes and took her sight, and it was the fire that taught her pain. She had thought about it often, her first memory of when the beautiful man, her Dadda, pulled her out of the fire. As he picked her up she saw his icy white skin and that was the last thing her eyes registered before her optic nerve burnt away and she never was able to see again. Her Dadda held her and comforted her, and he was with her as she healed.

Ruby didn't remember the fairy from when she awoke, but when she met her the second time the experience was strangely familiar. She was coming of age and her body was growing. A surge of power shivered through her and suddenly she heard the tiny fairy. She was not alone when the holographic entity spoke this time...

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"Ruby!!" Asra's voice sang, "My how you've grown!"

"Who... who are you?" Ruby asked out loud, her Dadda was sitting close by and turned to listen.

"I am Asra, and I only have enough power to talk for a moment, there's not much time, we must hurry, the Harbinger has awakened," the fairy said.

"You are Asra, Harbinger has awakened," Ruby repeated out loud.

"Yes dear Ruby," Asra pleaded, "but you are still so young, no older than 12 or 13. It is your biogenic energy that gave me the power to speak to you again. I was there when you were born, do you remember?"

"You were there when I was born?" Ruby asked, "in the fire?"

"No...no.. I.. I don't know about the fire, is that what happened to your eyes?" Asra sounded sad.

"What do you want?" Ruby asked.

"The Harbinger, it is a great weapon flying high, high in the sky, it is an island up in the stars. To communicate with Harbinger you must find the swords that are lost all over the world." Asra said.

"Harbinger is a weapon, and I can find swords to communicate with it." Ruby repeated for her Dadda's sake.

"There are also others who are like you, those were are to be born from stasis. You all can feel the swords, and through your feelings you must find them. Then you must use them to contact Harbinger and bring it back into the atmosphere to deactivate it. There is an evil Artificial Intelligence that has re-activated Harbinger and will use it to destroy all the world for good, as it has done in the past...." Asra's voice blinked out with an electronic blip.

"Others like me?" Ruby asked, "do you mean the ones that the Wizards call, the Oracles? ...Asra? ...Asra?" The musical fairy voice was gone. Ruby turned to her Dadda, "She said that I can feel the swords, and that there are others like me, I think she is talking about the Oracles worshiped by the Wizards. She said that using the swords I can communicate with Harbinger, and Harbinger is a weapon." Her Dadda told her she was a good girl and Ruby's heart swelled with affection.

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That was 7 years ago, and now Ruby was grown. She lives in her cave where her Dadda had raised her. She had found mecha there, remnants from the old world. She was able to get the mecha to respond to verbal controls and was able to build a map of the world using something the computer called a "Satellite." She could not see it, but her Dadda could, and making her Dadda happy was the most important thing in the world to her. Her Dadda protected her, he had given her the fire.

Ruby felt the warm slush build in her hands. Her Dadda had taught her to channel the fire like he did, but she couldn't do it quite like him because she couldn't see, so her fire was thick and tactile, but it didn't burn her, it burnt others, and that meant she could never by burnt by the fire again!

It was her who was able to find the Crystallis sword for Draygon, Dadda's boss, and it was her who had begun to use the crystal her Dadda stole off the sword to talk to Harbinger. So far, she has not been able to decipher any of the strange words and language coming from the weapon in the sky, but she would. She would make her Dadda proud.

Crystallis

TinkerTown

Tinkertown Extended Castle

@Ponn

Jub Jub heard the shot first, then SHLWAP!! her wing was suddenly torn as if from a great claw! She screeched in pain! But she was still able to fly. Not knowing where the hurt had come from she dropped from the sky to the nearest building and crouched to hide. There was some terrible magic at work here, something she didn't know. She contemplated escaping, but the invisible claw might still get her, so she creeped quietly into the shadows and slithered away from the building to hide against the mountain. She closed her eyes and took in the scents of the night.... she could smell the lizard bears, their fear mixing with... *sniff* ...the villagers, and Minoc, the mountain wizard who protected the village, but... *sniff* ...yes there was another, sulfur, fire, metal... *sniff* ...a female, a metallic female, she smelled like something freezer burned. Yessss, she could track her now, she could find her.

Jub snaked around the buildings, the Bears could be heard roaring as the wood planks broke under their onslaught. Yess, Draygon had given Jub Jub power, Draygon had given her gifts, with his gifts Jub Jub would find the metal female and hurt her... Ahhh, Jub Jub thought, There she isss.. The harpy had through the shadows and could see the girl through an open window. She was holding some strange looking stick from which the sulfur smell was coming from. Jub's eyes glowed blue and began to glow, she could feel Draygon's gift growing with her fury. She opened her mouth and with a terrible screech shot a blue colored ray at the girl...

Synopsis

Your bullet hit Jub Jub and brought her down! She's scared, but angry too. She's tracked you to the pagoda you were in and fired at you with a beam laser she can shoot from her eyes. Also, I changed the landscape a little, please note the new image, the spire didn't seem to have enough room so please allow that there are additional buildings to move around in. Lastly, Ayaan is in the same area as you.

@gummiecandies

In this world there are powerful beasts who roam the lands, monsters and creatures created by the strange atomic powers which brought about the destruction of all civilization. Many animals, like the lizard-bears, have developed all the ferocious traits of the animals from which they are amalgamated. But some animals, like Ayaan, developed consciousness, and became protectors of the forest. Ayaan, the mighty bear, lived in the forest and understood that the animals were innocent creatures; though some could be malicious and hurtful, they rarely acted out unless they were scared or threatened. This was the case with our lizard-bears attacking Tinkertown. They had been taken from their homes and placed high in the mountains with no hope for rescue. Ayaan had to do something.

Now enters our friend Ayaan, mighty bear and Protector of the forests:

Ayaan

Ayaan used it mighty claws to pull itself up the mountain, and he found a path half way up that he could use to lead the lizard-bears down. When it got to a ledge close to the village area Ayaan could see what had developed: The lizard-bears were trying to break into one of the houses that were built into the mountain side, and there was a strange winged beast flying around the spire. Ayaan could see one of his lizard-bear friends were skewered on a mountainous spike and was dead. Suddenly a loud Bang! rocked the skies and the flying beast fluttered and fell behind one of the buildings. Ayaan didn't understand what happened, and now it was time to decide what to do next.

Synopsis

Ayaan has made it up the mountain to the village and has found a path to get down, but the lizard-bears are still scared and angry and attacking the villagers. Jub Jub is focusing on Stephanie and hasn't smelt you.

Ƈιту σƒ Ƈℓσυ∂ѕ (canceled)

Papa Bee

❝ The Little People must be Sacred to the Strong People. It is the protection of the small ones that give purpose to the big. ❞

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Bas lived as an Ethereal of Autumn change before the City in the Clouds was sealed off by the human witches. He got to see the world as it was when the Ethereals were free to bring life and change, and he was there when the little one was killed and the Ethereals began their assault on the humans. Bas got caught up in the anger and the fear and participated himself in the mass murder. He only killed one adult, male human before he realized the gravity of the mistake. He fled to the city, and when the witches sealed them all in he acquiesced peacefully.

Since then he has lived his life for the joy of the people in the city. He gives happiness whenever he can, and he protects any who seem weak or afraid. His eternal nature is conceptualized in the preparation between the Fall and the Winter, when the Harvest is to be brought in and those who are weakest to the cold, like the old and the young, are most vulnerable.

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ɴᴀᴍᴇ → Bas
ɴɪᴄᴋɴᴀᴍᴇ → Papa Bee
ᴀɢᴇ → 728 seasons
ʙɪʀᴛʜᴅᴀᴛᴇ → 24 Fall
ɢᴇɴᴅᴇʀ → Male
sᴇxᴜᴀʟ ᴏʀɪᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ → Heteronormative

. Strong . Gentle . Fatherly . Helpful . Hard Working . Patient .

Papa Bee is a strong, older Ethereal. He loves children and protecting the weak and the simple. He is motivated by kindness, gentleness, and goodwill. He knows that the Winter is when the weak die and the time needs to be prepared for, so he imbues the virtues of hard work and perseverance. He is also a fierce warrior, one who has learned to fight from necessity, and he always desires to be prepared to save those in need. His work involves encouraging and motivating others, as well protecting them from the evils of fear, helplessness, and self-loathing. He enjoys games and singing and always makes himself available to company.

Likes
. Children . Working with his hands . Friendliness .

Dislikes
. Selfishness . Bullies . Dishonesty .

Quirks
. Big Muscles . Always Laughing . Strokes his beard a lot .

ᴀʙɪʟɪᴛɪᴇs →
→ Incredible Strength
→ Empathy and the ability to see the Soul of a individual
→ The ability to Blacksmith and work metal
ᴡᴇᴀᴋɴᴇssᴇs →
→ He cannot stand to see a child hurt, it breaks him
→ He feels guilty for every death
→ Too much sun makes him feel weak, he was made for the transition into Winter

ᴛʀɪᴠɪᴀ →
→ He likes to smoke a pipe and considers himself quite the connoisseur of tobaccos and weeds
→ He is partly responsible for the image and myth of Santa Claus
→ He's only had one natural born child and grandchild, both of whom died of exposure long before the sealing of the City.

❝ Warriors are not what you think of as Warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The Warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children the future of humanity ❞
- Sitting Bull

Crystallis

Ayaan, the Protector of the Forests

Name: Ayaan
Full name: Ayaan, the Protector of the Forests

Physical Description: Ayaan’s height: 7.9 ft Ayaan’s weight: 1980 pounds.
Brown, smooth fur slightly covers a lively face. Glowing brown eyes deter enemies and watch over friends.
This is the face of Ayaan, a true spectacle among the rest of the friendly animals. She stands high among others, despite her timid attitude. Perhaps it's a feeling of hospitality or perhaps it's simply her looks, but nobody knows.

Class: Fantastical Beast, Amarog (basically just a giant bear)

Your Place in the World: Ayaan was your average grizzly bear before odd things started to happen. The once beautiful and flourishing trees warped and became dry and brittle, which could be easily knocked down with a simple punch. The grass became very dry so that no amount of water could easily save it. Animals started disappearing quickly, and the forests became uninhabitable and became a death ground for any living being. Thus, many unimaginable creatures began to take form in the forests. Ayaan was very determined to set things back on track. Ayaan came from ‘the very hearts of the forest’, as described by the townspeople. Ayaan always wanted the forests to be back, and when she discovered the Oracles could help, she decided to help them too.

History: * See Your Place in the World * Ayaan

Abilities: Ayaan has incredibly dull claws but razor teeth. Ayaan’s guardians (almost every good animal of the forest) follow her with a sense of loyalty and not even a single one has abandoned her. The guardians usually are very weak but can deal a lot of damage in groups.
Equipment:

RP Notes: Can one of the Oracles go through a forest and meet Ayaan? I had an idea about it the other day. I don’t know what else to put her man

Arena Chat Thread

@Doc Doctor

Hey there Doc! Here's what we have so far: I have one person who has created a character for the Spartan thread and is ready to fight next week, we have Stomflyx who has volunteered to announce Arena fighting as an event and clean up these sticky threads to make them more accessible to people who might be interested in fighting.

If other folks who have participated in the past want to help put things together that would be welcome. I need help making the Arena section something that a person new to Role Playing or new to Arena fighting would be able to understand how to get involved and how to play, and I need help building excitement about the fights.

I've also brought up the debate as to changing the Arena stats that show up on our Status to something other than wins, losses, and ties. It would be better to feel like it rewards people for playing not just winning.

The fight next week will be between myself and the other guy who's character will be posted in the character section without his stat numbers, if you could read and judge over that it would be a great test to see how the fighting system works. In a tournament fight the judges would know the stats and the fighters would not, this allows the judge to have a less subjective reason for how they might rule the results of an action. This might not work, but this is the system I've come up with so far.

I know that a bunch of you guys have done arena stuff, and you have an idea for how to set up fights and create arenas and all that, but the section hasn't been active in almost half a year, and when I reached out for assistance I got crickets, so I created an entirely new method for setting up a fight and determining how to judge them. I'm not apposed to working collaboratively with you or others if it increases the quality of the system and interest in having more fights.

Let me know your thoughts, I'm excited to see some excitement in the Arena section again