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4 yrs ago
Current In my absence I have developed close relations with aliens!
4 yrs ago
I update my status every time I decide to log back in here after several years and check out just what shiny things I have still layin' around!
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7 yrs ago
Something drew me back here today. (Sept 28, 2019 )
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8 yrs ago
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9 yrs ago
Returning from a 7 month hiatus.

Bio

This user occasionally disappears and seems to return only after several months or years have passed... just to disappear again.

History of Characters


Please note that this is really for my own purpose of nostalgia, to see my progress in character development and to cringe at my own creations. Feel free to cringe with me if you like.

Sadly I've deleted some of my character profiles due to withdrawing from rps and forgetting to record them. So I had more characters than what's shown here. These characters are sorted by date.











If you've noticed how all my character's names start with a 'K', then you certainly are an observant one. This is because 'K' is my favourite letter and also corresponds with my favourite number.

Most Recent Posts

@Dark Light

Funnily enough, even though my previous post from today was over a week ago, I had a dream involving your little imp character this morning. At a whim I decided to check and lo and behold you had your reply using the imp character just 10 hours ago.

@Terry Bogard

I am interested to see how your character/s will play out.

If you would like to read more about my character Knutik (Pronounced NUT-ICK) so you can have something to go off of, here's a link to his profile so you don't have to sift through all of the pages:
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3856147

After reading through your Terry Bogard profile I am excited to see how possible interactions with Knutik go, there is a lot of interesting potential here for interaction and what a cool character! Not to mention with those cool senses of his, Knutik may have a hard time hiding as he usually does around this wolf of a man.

Important note though, I'm not active here every day and neither is Dark Light. One of the third individuals who hopped in a while back seems to have also gone missing @Assallya, but perhaps at some point she'll be back. It's been ages since this place bustled enough for me to stick around as a live roleplay. So at the very least that gives you plenty of time to keep caught up with your other roleplays, so don't worry about missing anything or having to multitask here.

That being said I am indeed still active.
@Dark Light

Knutik's own attention would no longer hold to the imp itself as the horn was presented to him. His eyes only saw treasure, the sheen upon its material as the light gloamed over it. From out the flat surface of the ceiling, a shadowed limb stretched out, elongated claws reached for the horn.

With a careful clasp of the tiny object, just 1/5th the size of his fingers, he pulled it back into the ceiling where he withdrew it to the shadows, and it disappeared just like that. The imp could only guess where it had gone.

To Knutik's own surprise, his thirst for treasure seemed appeased enough by this tiny trinket to let alone the female patrons @Assallya jewelery. However his eyes cast down to the larger man that had been seated this whole time beneath their little quiet transaction. The imp was now lost from his focus and left to his peripheral as he grew curious of this viking-ish, biker-looking individual.

He didn't appear from where he saw at the least to bear any kind of trinket he cared for, but as it was revealed already, Knutik for the time seems to be quelled for now in his lust for "shinies". For how long though, is not known; could be days, could be an hour, could be minutes.

His head tilt to the man minding his own drink. He appeared to be just another regular human patron. Knutik never questioned as to why humans from his own world seemed to fill the Tavern from time to time, he presumes many worlds, dimensions and even other time-streams in various universes existed out there where humans lived. Perhaps in another universe even, someone else here has thought the same thing and Knutik himself just comes from another strange world where these mammalian creatures live.

Nevertheless, the shadow's own capacity for thinking never expanded too far in breadth, being so singularly focused he would often just accept things without a second thought. Perhaps he just... didn't care.

He wondered though how this particular individual wound up here. Elves, dwarves and other human-look beings are quite different he can tell, but this man, at least at a glance, seemed to be from a modernish era.

How did this man wind up here at the tavern? To be honest... how do most of them? Shy from asking so directly, he simply remained at his position and observed the man beneath him for a short time.
@Dark Light

Knutik has interpreted confusion before, and he's not new at all to making what others have appointed as 'ridiculous' requests in The Nameless Tavern, but the longer the imp delayed any action, the ever burning his itching desire for all that glinting metal grew within.

Where he comes from, people long ago used to worship him and all he symbolized as an aspect of survival. He was the omnipresent fear that helped drive their very instincts. He was the terror that frightened them of spiders, made them scared of deadly snakes, and terrified them of wildfires and all that threatened them and their lives.

In their worship of him they always brought tribute. Gems and jewelry, gleaming metal and coins. When arrived the industrial era, and then came the age of technology, their instincts grew unnecessary in the safe borders of their cities, within the secure walls of their homes and ever more in the immaterial of the internet.

Knutik watched them grow bold on their own without him, watched them ignore their common sense, fold into their reckless behaviors and challenge every bit of what made him a meaningful part to their lives. Everything he stood for was all but moot in both the safety they had built and their sheer stupidity.

He wondered if somewhere he'd done something wrong along the way... Whatever it was, the gifts hadn't come for centuries, and nobody knew his name anymore. In an ironic twist, he no longer represented the necessary fears of survival... but just plain fear. The only time of year he ever feels recognized anymore is the day they call "Halloween", and they left him with a void he didn't know they filled.

Those gifts always burn in his memory, made a part of who he was. Without tribute and treasure, the ache and need for them persists in him like a fire.

The emerald blaze of his eyes squinted at the imp, tiny slits of a verdant fire.

"If you shall not retrieve them for me, I shall get them myself.". His speech was always so mannerly, so formal and bearing the light of one with nobility and prestige. He's carried it over long from the medieval era of his world when he first learned the developing language of mankind from the many knights that lived. Evolving still to the current speech of modern day man, he's long dropped the "art thous" and "thy", but perhaps a part of him holds onto what remnants there are... in nostalgia maybe.

"But first... that's quite the interesting looking trinket you have there...." Without gesture the imp would be able to sense what precisely the shadowy being meant.

@Dark Light

I must say I'm pretty happy to see this roleplay thread still around after so many years, even though it's slowed down significantly from other amazing realms and stories people are currently running. Of which I have no problem with, everything has it's time in the spotlight and TNT may swing back around some day, who knows.

I was 18 struggling with myself when I made Knutik in this thread. I am now 27 doing fantastically in life. After nearly a decade I still remember fondly some of the events in this place and Knutik to this day is still a beloved character of mine.

I hope to breathe a little more life back into here again but just want to thank you for the amazing personalities you've brought in and how you kept it going for so long Dark Light. I'll continue to be around in the shadows like the haunting spirit I play.
@Terry Bogard

I have Ridley from Metroid as a character around here somewhere still. Canon characters are fine.
@Dark Light

Knutik's infernal green eyes would reveal themselves, blinking slowly in their squinted demeanor. He'd never interacted with other beings of shadow much, so preoccupied with the going ons of too many interesting people, and tending to his own.... hobbies.

The intentions of the imp came through loud and clear, but he's not used to being seen as normal common folk. A fearful face, a trembling figure, this he's adapted to and it made his responses so simple and easy. Stay and glare, or flit away into the darkness. The complexities of communication struck him with too much sensory information, more than what he was usually accustomed too, far too complicated.

In this he had preference to remain a very straight forward entity, but the imp interacting by this means, somehow it made it feel easier for him in interpretation. Yet... his reflex to shy away held firm. He seemed to recoil slightly, as if he could be pressed against the ceiling anymore than he already was as one of the many shadows cast upon it.

For but a moment, he had forgotten about the shiny trinkets he intended to collect, his interest piqued now by this unfamiliar being somewhat in his own likeness.

His voice wasn't much of a voice in this state, but more like a wind.

"Anything?" Knutik barely whispered in the imps mind, that nobody else would hear him.

"Are you asking me to request something from a particular desire?" he's seen enough people come and go, how they all ask for... almost the same things. A drink, a snack... these options were far from Knutik's taste. That is to say... he doesn't quite taste anything.

The gratification of his wants, venting anger, hoarding shiny objects to satiate his desire to grow his collection, other people's feelings and fears, even music... those things he might describe have a taste. But was any of it something he could ask for? Like the normal tavern patrons?

He looked to the far end of the establishment, at the back wall where the lady here previously @Assallya had retreated to a table and sat down. "She... is covered in treasure." a pitch of ecstatic zeal slipped into the wind of his 'voice' at the word treasure. Could it be that he really could ask for.... "anything" as the imp had implied? Knutik tested this.

"I would like her trinkets, as many as could be acquired." So used to simply taking things, sneakily or by force, he's never once tried to ask somebody else to do the deed for him. He wondered if the imp would even be willing to oblige. Amusingly this entire shadowy transaction was being done just over the head of the unaware tattooed bulk of muscle right beneath the dark specter.
@Assallya was not un-witnessed by a different set of piercing eyes, squinting from a place unseen. The darkest corners he laid hidden and still, where he'd serpentine only from casted shadows and blended in just as well. In public eyes he hasn't been for many long years, try as he will to conceal his presence but it would seem he's out of practice.

He did not miss that glance or gaze, she spotted him careless for a moment, a flicker in sight. He never learns from his mistakes. It's always the patrons he deems most unfit, so unaware of their surroundings or too intoxicated to see, that prove him yet still just how weary and lax he can be.

His realm had grown somber, the quiet too long, such time dragged on there that he had returned to his second home. This tavern brought memories, he's been here for a while, so many things he has seen... oh how he misses the scarecrow invasion. He'd been quiet these long years, glimpsing from the darkness, waiting for something to happen.

Yet this lady he stared at and watched unfettered, every glint and every gleam of the gold she was wearing, drew him in terribly. She was covered almost entirely with all the treasure he'd love to have. Many patrons he's seen here and there, but none so far had nearly taken all but his complete restraint to lash out and steal yet another addition for his hoard.

Or in this case, many.

The distraction of such trinkets may even have been the cause for his carelessness, but he weaved like fluid darkness across the wall to the ceiling above, too far lured by such trinkets to barely notice the rugged man giving her a difference gaze @Dark Light.

If there's one thing he knows about remaining hidden, it's that people rarely ever look up. It's natural for those who evolved forward-facing eyes to keep their gazes along the horizon, so the highest places always made the best hiding spots. Up here however he was closer to the lights upon the ceiling and his shadows could stand out.

Fortunately for him she had made her way to the back of the tavern, where a wall lay close behind her and the lights weren't so bright. He couldn't help his own adrenaline, high risk, but such high reward, he was prepared to snake his way over when he was interrupted for a brief moment @Dark Light.
A shadow on the wall flickered slightly in the darkest corner of the tavern.

From years ago and years more on, this entity has come and gone. Eyeing, watching, witnessing and seeing still the events and many conversations playing out within these walls. Since incidents ages past, he's near gotten himself into trouble here many of times. Showing himself had grown to become a problematic event, causation for uncomfortable circumstances. Shadow wielders here, monster slayers there. This tavern has had many a unique visitor that would see him destroyed, claimed, controlled or worse to those around him, empowered for their own ends.

While he's lied unseen these many years, his presence has never truly gone. You could say he haunts this tavern now and has been for a long time, and for the spirit he is it has become almost a second realm to him.

Always slipping just out of view Knutik wisps across the far corner, melded into the shadows unseen as he has been these many years. Nobody could know he was there, or has been here the whole time. His gaze only brief looked upon those conversing within the tavern, before he disappeared once more.

Hello! I have not been here in 6 years and I have a question or two.

I am still Knutik in this roleplay, the wispy black spirit of fear: roleplayerguild.com/posts/3856147
And I was wondering if I was allowed to do some edits to my character profile and give it a few small fixes and updates?

I will not be drastically changing the character at all, just small details about him [Mostly grammar and phrasing] as well as updates since he has been gone for a long time and has discovered and learned a few things in the past 6 years of his absence.

@reverentsatyr

The shade reeled back at the sight of the satyr as he hasn't seen anything like it before, his shadows bristling slightly in a disconcerting demeanor. There hasn't been any violence or anger incited about the Tavern to influence his own violent and aggressive tendencies for a long time, so he was back to his old shy and reserved self again. Knutik melted away into the shadows disappearing into the earth beneath him like a funnel of darkness until it was as if he was never there, retreating out of sight away from the goat man.
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