Question 13

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Ah, I reckon m'lady has an affinity for our humble gathering of friends. Most pleasing I must say. As for the temptation, I fear I shall not be able to assist you.

 

You're better at it than Shiny Sparkle.

 

You know what they say about the Reckoners RP: You either head for the hills at the first instance of insanity, or you stay long enough to see your first rainbow pancake storm.  

 

That's….something, I suppose.  

[FireSlayer she/her]

Give in to temptation. Classes are a ploy by The Man to keep you from having any fun.

 

(I'm not very good at keeping people on the straight and narrow, am I? ) 

 

*very good impression of Ten's "Weeeeelllll"* I don't have to do the extra credit discussion posts that would be due tonight...and I don't have to start mac 'n cheese till 6:30...my test is done...storm it, I'll at least start reading. xD

 

You know what they say about the Reckoners RP: You either head for the hills at the first instance of insanity, or you stay long enough to see your first rainbow pancake storm.

 

I did both. Technically. Before I was a member I think I started reading Portland--if that's the thread with Doctor Funtimes abducting the poor scared dude--and backed away. But then I joined the Shard and, well, BRING ON THE PANCAKES. =D

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

*very good impression of Ten's "Weeeeelllll"* I don't have to do the extra credit discussion posts that would be due tonight...and I don't have to start mac 'n cheese till 6:30...my test is done...storm it, I'll at least start reading. xD

 

 

I did both. Technically. Before I was a member I think I started reading Portland--if that's the thread with Doctor Funtimes abducting the poor scared dude--and backed away. But then I joined the Shard and, well, BRING ON THE PANCAKES. =D

 

 

Yep, that's Portland. It, um, doesn't get any less strange.  

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

 

Yep, that's Portland. It, um, doesn't get any less strange.

 

The strangest part to me is that Lightwards mentioned that he resurrected a Ground Sloth in the MoNA, but he didn't immediately name the creature his First Liutenant (it hasn't been seen since, in fact.)

 

Ground Sloths are undoubtedly the coolest mammals ever, and a ninja ground sloth (as in a ground sloth that has apparently managed to avoid the notice of every single perspective character in the museum so far) is even better. 

 

Here's a reference picture of this 20-foot-tall superherbivore:

 

I guess you could say that I really like sloths.

Edited July 18, 2015 by Mckeedee123

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

The strangest part to me is that Lightwards mentioned that he resurrected a Ground Sloth in the MoNA, but he didn't immediately name the creature his First Liutenant (it hasn't been seen since, in fact.)

 

Ground Sloths are undoubtedly the coolest mammals ever, and a ninja ground sloth (as in a ground sloth that has apparently managed to avoid the notice of every single perspective character in the museum so far) is even better. 

 

Here's a reference picture of this 20-foot-tall superherbivore:

 

I guess you could say that I really like sloths.

 

To put it in the words of ze frank, the narrator of the hilarious True Facts YouTube videos: "A sloth can move at up to three feet per minute—an impressive three feet per minute faster than a dead sloth." I don't know if the 20-foot monstrosity that was the Ground Sloth was any quicker than that, but if not, then I think you have your reason.  

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

To put it in the words of ze frank, the narrator of the hilarious True Facts YouTube videos: "A sloth can move at up to three feet per minute—an impressive three feet per minute faster than a dead sloth." I don't know if the 20-foot monstrosity that was the Ground Sloth was any quicker than that, but if not, then I think you have your reason.

 

I would've done it either way. 

Edited July 18, 2015 by Mckeedee123

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

100 chasmfiends marched out of the shadows. They split in two and held up trumpets. The song they played was a curious tune. It appeared to be an ode to the magnificence of a person. A person gone for 3 weeks, who had returned for an hour.

Winter stepped out of the shadows and took a bow.

"Hello."

 

But…but how can chasmfiends play trumpets if they don't have lips….

 

Oh, who cares.  

 

Good to see you, Winter! How's the vacation going? 

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

Really awesome! I'm in the middle of two sessions of camp!

 

Hey! Long time no see! We were just talking about Red on page 88!

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I actually expected Question 23. Are you guys slowing down?

 

I'm afraid so. Once summer ends and everyone is back from their various trips, we'll be back on top of our game.  

 

Really awesome! I'm in the middle of two sessions of camp!

 

Nice! What kind of camp is it? 

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Summer camp.

That's highly specific. Which one? (Sport camp, Theatre camp, Art Camp, something else entirely camp?)

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

A bit of everything.

 

Sounds fun. Won any competitions? Is it a camp that does competitions? Played any pranks? 

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

Does it look anything like this?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

One of the other groups set off a fart bomb. Their res advisor made them watch sad endings of pixar movies.

And I'm on a mobile so I can't watch that video.

 

That has to be against the Geneva Convention.  

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

One of the other groups set off a fart bomb. Their res advisor made them watch sad endings of pixar movies.

 

Huh. I'm going through my mental list of Pixar movies... can't think of any tragic endings. 

 

Monster's Inc, maybe.

Toy Story 3?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

What's that?

 

"A series of treaties on the treatment of civilians, prisoners of war (POWs), and soldiers who are otherwise rendered…incapable of fighting." Most people know it for defining what was and wasn't torture, to ensure POWs were treated decently. 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

That's good. Too bad Epics don't follow those rules. By the way, do you guys know what happened in the Miami International Airport?

Edit: post-calamity

 

I don't know if there's a WoB on that one or not. Why? Did you hear one? 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

No. I was just bored so I made up a charm and transform Epic named Cake. Guess what she can transform stuff into?

 

This? 

 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Haha. She can transform anything into any type of cake and can basically make boys do whatever she wants. She can also heal. Her Rending occured while she was in the airport. After that, nobody left. And no girls live there any more except her.

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Also, Comatose, awesome last post for the first day in Corvallis.

 

Eep.  

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Originally I didn't plan to have the Queens know about his existence. But I can work with it. They could have crossed paths before maybe, Malevolence has a tendency to gravitate towards powerful epics just to stir up trouble. He has no ambitions but self amusement.

 

I might write a Malevolence or Gunsmoke post soon. Malevolence's next move would be to seek out one of the Queens for a conversation. Gunsmoke plans to make a play for Corvallis.

 

Anyone have any other big plans for day two in Corvallis? I presume Iconolast will be busy.

 

@Comatose

@blackhoof

@blaze1616

I'm back!  Sorry for the absence.  I'm going to try to work my way through the back-log, but if you asked me something and would like a more prompt answer, your best bet would be to ask again here, I think.  

 

I saw Edge's question about Shiny Sparkle before I left.  I think it would be fun if she came to Corvallis, and would be interested to see how a Shiny Sparkle/Princess GOOD plotline might work out.  That being said, I'm sure she could make an amusing and interesting addition to Portland or Astoria as well.  

Both of these are related, so if either of you have anything you want to do with Hypno, let me know. 

 

Welcome back, Winter!

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Actually, not really back. Just a bit. I have some plans for Chase, but they're pretty vague (she gets scared and ditches) and work around everyone else. I'm thinking she runs away and trys to lose herself in the population of the Dalles. But fails? I'm not sure. Anyway, that's much later. A Chase post will probably be up by tomorrow.

 

Cool. Hope the second session of summer camp is just as fun as the first.  

[Kobold King he/him]

Wonder what Kobold will think when he gets online and learns we made Vondra the Pope.

 

Maybe this is my heatstroke talking, but I can't say I mind. I'm surprised, but this one of the tamer things I've come home to find you lot chatting about.

 

 

Though I'm a touch annoyed you had the discussion of What Happened in Fantasy!Oregon without me. I want to say we've talked about this before, but because we can never discuss these alternate universes enough...

 

 

Lightwards, I think, would still be a necromancer in the enchanted kingdom of Oregon. However, he'd be a different breed of necromancer; once a professor at one of the kingdom's highest centers of magical learning, he began dabbling in dark arts with the intention of curing human mortality. He succeeded... at a cost. He gained the ability to resurrect the dead, including himself, but the sorcery took a terrible toll on his mind. His sanity slipped. Every skeleton he animated drove him further into paranoia. Every death he resurrected himself from drove him deeper into delusion. Eventually he massacred the students of his university, and fled into the countryside to begin his dark quest. He has now deceived a runaway princess into aiding him, and resides in a floating fortress she enchanted for him. Even now he strives to create a new empire... an Empire of Light, he calls it.

 

Aldo the Enigmatic was a court mystic, who bamboozed nobles and princes into believing he possessed magical power. More recently, he stumbled upon ancient texts that taught him real magic, and has begun roaming the kingdom meeting other sorcerers. He travels with a snarky pixie named Cricket, so named because she's six inches tall and has the legs of a cricket.

 

A recent addition to the Empire of Light, Steven is a low-born peasant man who stumbled across a pair of magic glasses made of pink crystal, which have mystically bonded with him and allow him to see into the past. While this ability should make him the most powerful man in the kingdom, as he could find the weaknesses of powerful sorcerers or learn the battle plans of any rival lord, he instead uses his ability in pitiful attempts to impress damsels and tavern wenches, and has been pressured into working for the Emperor of Light.

 

Samantha, daughter of Trattner, is a young village girl and daughter of a local baker. She's of low birth, but has somehow survived to the age of seventeen without being struck down by a sorcerer or great lord for her defiant attitude. Fantasytimes recently chose to kidnap her for that very same defiance, which has caused the young girl nothing but trouble.

 

Revolution Sunburst is a peasant of a far-off, isolated community, one that resides far from the sorcerer-run kingdoms and claims to have nymph blood in the heritage of its members. She has little experience with nobles or dark wizards, but is confident--perhaps overly confident--in her ability to survive them with her morality and pacifism intact. The nymph blood is strong in her, and she seems more energetic when she's been in direct sunlight.

 

 

Meanwhile, in the city-state of The Dalles, men have withstood the turmoil in the rest of the kingdom by forming a militant religious order called only the Guard. Led by Commander Pope Vondra, the Guard keeps sorcerers on a fine leash as it uses their abilities to defend the town.

 

Of the many magic-users coerced into service by the Guard, one of the most powerful is the man once known as Hawk. He once fought for a fierce barbarian tribe, laying waste to many towns and villages. Eventually, however, he was banished from the tribe for an incident that may or may not have involved sleeping with the barbarian king's daughter. This forced him to flee into the wilderness, where he encountered a powerful water nymph. The nymph, fed up with his attempts to 'woo' her, eventually granted him the magical arts of flight and damage reflections in order to get him out of her hair, and Hawk proceeded to terrorize the country before being captured by the Guard.

 

While sorcerers are usually stripped of their liberties by the Guard, one is actually the right hand man of Pope Vondra. The Bishop Daniel knows but a single spell, simple but versatile--the ability to conjure weapons and tools out of thin air. The knights of The Dalles are well-armed with swords, battleaxes, and every other melee weapon under the sun. Their farmers and blacksmiths are also well-stocked, and the city wants for nothing--though the Bishop's strict decrees, both religious and practical in nature, have annoyed many to no small extent. A certain pair of "young witches," one with power of gravity and friction and the other adorned with myriad tattoos, are prone to convoluted pranks to knock the Bishop down a peg.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Maybe this is my heatstroke talking, but I can't say I mind. I'm surprised, but this one of the tamer things I've come home to find you lot chatting about.

Though I'm a touch annoyed you had the discussion of What Happened in Fantasy!Oregon without me. I want to say we've talked about this before, but because we can never discuss these alternate universes enough...

Lightwards, I think, would still be a necromancer in the enchanted kingdom of Oregon. However, he'd be a different breed of necromancer; once a professor at one of the kingdom's highest centers of magical learning, he began dabbling in dark arts with the intention of curing human mortality. He succeeded... at a cost. He gained the ability to resurrect the dead, including himself, but the sorcery took a terrible toll on his mind. His sanity slipped. Every skeleton he animated drove him further into paranoia. Every death he resurrected himself from drove him deeper into delusion. Eventually he massacred the students of his university, and fled into the countryside to begin his dark quest. He has now deceived a runaway princess into aiding him, and resides in a floating fortress she enchanted for him. Even now he strives to create a new empire... an Empire of Light, he calls it.

Aldo the Enigmatic was a court mystic, who bamboozed nobles and princes into believing he possessed magical power. More recently, he stumbled upon ancient texts that taught him real magic, and has begun roaming the kingdom meeting other sorcerers. He travels with a snarky pixie named Cricket, so named because she's six inches tall and has the legs of a cricket.

A recent addition to the Empire of Light, Steven is a low-born peasant man who stumbled across a pair of magic glasses made of pink crystal, which have mystically bonded with him and allow him to see into the past. While this ability should make him the most powerful man in the kingdom, as he could find the weaknesses of powerful sorcerers or learn the battle plans of any rival lord, he instead uses his ability in pitiful attempts to impress damsels and tavern wenches, and has been pressured into working for the Emperor of Light.

Samantha, daughter of Trattner, is a young village girl and daughter of a local baker. She's of low birth, but has somehow survived to the age of seventeen without being struck down by a sorcerer or great lord for her defiant attitude. Fantasytimes recently chose to kidnap her for that very same defiance, which has caused the young girl nothing but trouble.

Revolution Sunburst is a peasant of a far-off, isolated community, one that resides far from the sorcerer-run kingdoms and claims to have nymph blood in the heritage of its members. She has little experience with nobles or dark wizards, but is confident--perhaps overly confident--in her ability to survive them with her morality and pacifism intact. The nymph blood is strong in her, and she seems more energetic when she's been in direct sunlight.

Meanwhile, in the city-state of The Dalles, men have withstood the turmoil in the rest of the kingdom by forming a militant religious order called only the Guard. Led by Commander Pope Vondra, the Guard keeps sorcerers on a fine leash as it uses their abilities to defend the town.

Of the many magic-users coerced into service by the Guard, one of the most powerful is the man once known as Hawk. He once fought for a fierce barbarian tribe, laying waste to many towns and villages. Eventually, however, he was banished from the tribe for an incident that may or may not have involved sleeping with the barbarian king's daughter. This forced him to flee into the wilderness, where he encountered a powerful water nymph. The nymph, fed up with his attempts to 'woo' her, eventually granted him the magical arts of flight and damage reflections in order to get him out of her hair, and Hawk proceeded to terrorize the country before being captured by the Guard.

While sorcerers are usually stripped of their liberties by the Guard, one is actually the right hand man of Pope Vondra. The Bishop Daniel knows but a single spell, simple but versatile--the ability to conjure weapons and tools out of thin air. The knights of The Dalles are well-armed with swords, battleaxes, and every other melee weapon under the sun. Their farmers and blacksmiths are also well-stocked, and the city wants for nothing--though the Bishop's strict decrees, both religious and practical in nature, have annoyed many to no small extent. A certain pair of "young witches," one with power of gravity and friction and the other adorned with myriad tattoos, are prone to convoluted pranks to knock the Bishop down a peg.

Usually, when you see "So-and-so is actually the Pope!" it's framed as a bad thing.

So with the Jack/Autumn thing, would Pope Vondra promote her to the status of holy maiden or some such, or just instruct every church and convent to aid her if she needs it?

Also, I kind of want to know more about this water nymph who gave Hawk his powers.

[Kobold King he/him]

Usually, when you see "So-and-so is actually the Pope!" it's framed as a bad thing.

So with the Jack/Autumn thing, would Pope Vondra promote her to the status of holy maiden or some such, or just instruct every church and convent to aid her if she needs it?

Also, I kind of want to know more about this water nymph who gave Hawk his powers.

 

He probably wouldn't make a new title for her, but all men and women of the faith would be instructed to come to her aid if necessary.

 

 

Why don't you think it over, Twi.

 

She possessed the ability to influence the strange force that grants magical powers.

 

While she could help grant others powers, she herself possessed only water-related powers.

 

She'd be extremely old and withered as a human, but as a nymph she'd still be youthful and attractive enough for fantasy!Deathwish to hit on.

 

This is a universe where canon and fanon Epics are all magic users or enchanted creatures.

 

Who do you think the water nymph was?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

He probably wouldn't make a new title for her, but all men and women of the faith would be instructed to come to her aid if necessary.

Why don't you think it over, Twi.

She possessed the ability to influence the strange force that grants magical powers.

While she could help grant others powers, she herself possessed only water-related powers.

She'd be extremely old and withered as a human, but as a nymph she'd still be youthful and attractive enough for fantasy!Deathwish to hit on.

This is a universe where canon and fanon Epics are all magic users or enchanted creatures.

Who do you think the water nymph was?

No.

He did not.

Fantasy!Deathwish did not hit on Regalia.

He's a creep, but this a new low even for him.

[Kobold King he/him]

No.

He did not.

Fantasy!Deathwish did not hit on Regalia.

He's a creep, but this a new low even for him.

 

 

Still think alternate universes are all fun and games? They can lead to quite horrifying realizations, chief of which being that Deathwish has no standards whatsoever.

 

 

Also, am I the only one who thinks Shiny Sparkle would be the realm's most sparkly succubus?