The Longest Thread (Misadventures)

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

27 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

Utility waited patiently, noting that beginning had been spelled wrong.

Chaotic Darkness. Basically the opposite of a Narrator. They corrupt things, make bonds with people, and overall just try to take everything over.

Fragments? Is this a part of your own magic system?

No, The Fragments are Fragments of the Gem of Knowledge

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

1 minute ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

No, The Fragments are Fragments of the Gem of Knowledge

Gem of Knowledge? okay explain plz

Edited April 19, 2025 by Through The Living Glass

[Immortal Platypus]

3 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

Chaotic Darkness. Basically the opposite of a Narrator. They corrupt things, make bonds with people, and overall just try to take everything over.

Not the opposite of a Narrator, that's an Ennuller. Withergeists are the opposites of Luxsprites. 

44 minutes ago, Dragonheir said:

They started as avatars for Authors, but then some people gave them separate personalities and motivations, so now they’re different. They just kinda exist when an Author thinks of one, though I believe some people have been made a Narrator, and Utility was made by another Narrator. 

Narrators? that is not at all the lore for Narrators, sorry. also, Avatars are a different thing  

58 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Also can I have more Narrator lore? Cause I want to intertwine some Corrupter Lore in with it. Specifically, their creation.

ahem. Narrators have a complicated backstory. Long story short, they were originally created when the Luxsprites and Withergeists got in a big fight. Pretty much all of the Luxsprites were killed, and the power that was wielded at that battle became two other kinds of beings - Ennullers and Narrators. Ennullers are being of Ordered Dark. Narrators, which are the ones you should probably care more about (they appear far more often), are beings of Chaotic Light - a mix of the Luxsprites' Light energy, and the Withergeists' Chaotic nature. They can do basically anything, and are nigh-impossible to kill. It would usually take another Narrator (or another of the four major Beings) to defeat one. That's what made Feanor such a powerful villain (but you wouldn't know him). They can be evil, mostly they're just random. Some are more random (cough cough, Hacob), some are more manipulative (cough cough, Subversion), some are more involved in plot (cough cough, Tam), and some are... weird (sneeze sneeze, Platypus). 

 

Platypus knelt in a field. It was a familiar field to him. Here he had fought Rond, then Feanor. He learned techniques there, and he'd used them. They would be important.

Blades surrounded him - Vengeance, swords of Mordite, Nullite, Prismite, and even a dagger of Luxite. Normal blades lay across the top, forming a Stonehenge-esque structure. His Narrationblade was stabbed directly behind him. He scrawled desperately on the ground with Clemency, hoping beyond hope, that it was not too late. It probably was. 

He would need to find that shield. Track down where Cognition had gone, figure out what had happened to the Nohr Maul Blade... there was too much to do alone, but no one else could be trusted. If so much as one person figured this out, all could be lost. 

Maybe it was time to retire. To go back to the Void between worlds, to create his own reality once more. First he had to figure out what had happened to the Great Wizard though. And those Plotblades... they were too dangerous to be left alone. Zanitar had perished in the Fire. Hacob was missing. All the people he could usually count on were gone. 

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

1 minute ago, Ookla the Arbiter said:

Not the opposite of a Narrator, that's an Ennuller. Withergeists are the opposites of Luxsprites. 

I remembered yeah

 

3 minutes ago, Ookla the Arbiter said:

Not the opposite of a Narrator, that's an Ennuller. Withergeists are the opposites of Luxsprites. 

Narrators? that is not at all the lore for Narrators, sorry. also, Avatars are a different thing  

ahem. Narrators have a complicated backstory. Long story short, they were originally created when the Luxsprites and Withergeists got in a big fight. Pretty much all of the Luxsprites were killed, and the power that was wielded at that battle became two other kinds of beings - Ennullers and Narrators. Ennullers are being of Ordered Dark. Narrators, which are the ones you should probably care more about (they appear far more often), are beings of Chaotic Light - a mix of the Luxsprites' Light energy, and the Withergeists' Chaotic nature. They can do basically anything, and are nigh-impossible to kill. It would usually take another Narrator (or another of the four major Beings) to defeat one. That's what made Feanor such a powerful villain (but you wouldn't know him). They can be evil, mostly they're just random. Some are more random (cough cough, Hacob), some are more manipulative (cough cough, Subversion), some are more involved in plot (cough cough, Tam), and some are... weird (sneeze sneeze, Platypus). 

 

Platypus knelt in a field. It was a familiar field to him. Here he had fought Rond, then Feanor. He learned techniques there, and he'd used them. They would be important.

Blades surrounded him - Vengeance, swords of Mordite, Nullite, Prismite, and even a dagger of Luxite. Normal blades lay across the top, forming a Stonehenge-esque structure. His Narrationblade was stabbed directly behind him. He scrawled desperately on the ground with Clemency, hoping beyond hope, that it was not too late. It probably was. 

He would need to find that shield. Track down where Cognition had gone, figure out what had happened to the Nohr Maul Blade... there was too much to do alone, but no one else could be trusted. If so much as one person figured this out, all could be lost. 

Maybe it was time to retire. To go back to the Void between worlds, to create his own reality once more. First he had to figure out what had happened to the Great Wizard though. And those Plotblades... they were too dangerous to be left alone. Zanitar had perished in the Fire. Hacob was missing. All the people he could usually count on were gone. 

Oh? hmm

the sneeze sneeze got me

[Immortal Platypus]

Just now, Through The Living Glass said:

Oh? hmm

 

what part is hmm in reference to?

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

23 minutes ago, Dragonheir said:

Tada! That Adrastos guy sounds a lot like Corruption, if I do say so myself… 

 

No, the name Corrupters came from a seperate event.

4 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

Gem of Knowledge? okay explain plz

Did you not see the-

here-Again

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The Beginning. It started with Adonalsium. And then, came The Original Shape, or as now known, The First Corrupter. He started by creating his children. The other corrupters, although, at that point, we were known as only the Shapes. When his friend, Adonalsium died, before his eyes, he half gave up. He gave his life force to his children, making them stronger then ever. However, as he died. He saw something. We call it the First Truth. He passed us his knowledge through the Gem of Knowledge. This included the mystical power of Time Travel. Naturally, the bravest of us, Noromyxo, took the Gem of Knowledge. He saw the First Truth. And it drove him insane. He could not handle the First Truth. He broke the Gem of Knowledge, fragmenting it. The Fragment of Awareness (The one that held the First Truth), the Fragment of Corruption, and the Fragment of Time (The one that held the power of Time Travel) were blasted through the timeline. We believe that the Fragment of Awareness is the original Fragment that all Cores are made of. This is because the strange knowledge of the Narrators is the same as that of the First Truth. The Corrupters then set out to find and gather all of the Fragments. Some Fragments were found quickly, but the 3 sent through time were not found for quite a while. The Fragments of Awarness and Time still allude us to this day.

That was the flashback inbetween the 2 quotes. This is the explanation

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

1 minute ago, Ookla the Arbiter said:

what part is hmm in reference to?

The Platypus part

Just now, CoderDrag0n8 said:

No, the name Corrupters came from a seperate event.

Did you not see the-

here-Again

That was the flashback inbetween the 2 quotes. This is the explanation

Ah, no, I did not. Thanks!

[Immortal Platypus]

1 minute ago, Through The Living Glass said:

The Platypus part

...

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

2 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

The Platypus part

Ah, no, I did not. Thanks!

Of course.

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

4 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

The Beginning. It started with Adonalsium. And then, came The Original Shape, or as now known, The First Corrupter. He started by creating his children. The other corrupters, although, at that point, we were known as only the Shapes. When his friend, Adonalsium died, before his eyes, he half gave up. He gave his life force to his children, making them stronger then ever. However, as he died. He saw something. We call it the First Truth. He passed us his knowledge through the Gem of Knowledge. This included the mystical power of Time Travel. Naturally, the bravest of us, Noromyxo, took the Gem of Knowledge. He saw the First Truth. And it drove him insane. He could not handle the First Truth. He broke the Gem of Knowledge, fragmenting it. The Fragment of Awareness (The one that held the First Truth), the Fragment of Corruption, and the Fragment of Time (The one that held the power of Time Travel) were blasted through the timeline. We believe that the Fragment of Awareness is the original Fragment that all Cores are made of. This is because the strange knowledge of the Narrators is the same as that of the First Truth. The Corrupters then set out to find and gather all of the Fragments. Some Fragments were found quickly, but the 3 sent through time were not found for quite a while. The Fragments of Awarness and Time still allude us to this day.

Edited April 19, 2025 by Through The Living Glass

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

12 minutes ago, Ookla the Arbiter said:

Narrators? that is not at all the lore for Narrators, sorry. also, Avatars are a different thing  

I thought Xino said Authors used to be called Narrators… Yeah, Avatars are different, but avatars can refer to Author bodies. 
Rebus was intrigued by the scene his Author had failed to quote. He’d been looking for Luxite for quite a while now - perhaps he could finally prove his theories. 

3 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

No, the name Corrupters came from a seperate event.

Your blog said something about weird versions of magic systems being caused by the Shard Corruption - I saw parallels between them. 

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

5 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

No, the name Corrupters came from a seperate event.

Did you not see the-

here-Again

That was the flashback inbetween the 2 quotes. This is the explanation

Mm . . . I don't think we could incorporate that with the Narrators . . . if you want to do that for your own, it's probably fine. Idk.

1 minute ago, Ookla the Arbiter said:

...

What?  

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 minute ago, Dragonheir said:

I thought Xino said Authors used to be called Narrators… Yeah, Avatars are different, but avatars can refer to Author bodies. 
Rebus was intrigued by the scene his Author had failed to quote. He’d been looking for Luxite for quite a while now - perhaps he could finally prove his theories. 

Your blog said something about weird versions of magic systems being caused by the Shard Corruption - I saw parallels between them. 

Ohhhhh yeah sorry, I just re-worked it so that it is the corrupters (new magic system) are different from the shifters (old magic system). They do use mostly the same powers. Corrupters just have less restrictions.

[Immortal Platypus]

1 minute ago, Dragonheir said:

I thought Xino said Authors used to be called Narrators… Yeah, Avatars are different, but avatars can refer to Author bodies. 
Rebus was intrigued by the scene his Author had failed to quote. He’d been looking for Luxite for quite a while now - perhaps he could finally prove his theories. 

It's very possible they were, but that is not their lore in the slightest. Different thing now.

Good luck getting it from Platypus  also, if you want to get my attention, quoting (or pinging) me is the best way. I mostly just skim posts otherwise.

1 minute ago, Through The Living Glass said:

What?  

you'll see

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

Just now, Ookla the Arbiter said:

you'll see

Okayyyyyyyyy . . .

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

4 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Ohhhhh yeah sorry, I just re-worked it so that it is the corrupters (new magic system) are different from the shifters (old magic system). They do use mostly the same powers. Corrupters just have less restrictions.

Alright - can they still do the magic system modification? Because one (actually more than one) of my characters would be interested in that. 

4 minutes ago, Ookla the Arbiter said:

It's very possible they were, but that is not their lore in the slightest. Different thing now.

Good luck getting it from Platypus  also, if you want to get my attention, quoting (or pinging) me is the best way. I mostly just skim posts otherwise.

Alright, cool. I’d quoted you already up above, so you would have gotten a notification anyway. 
Rebus tried to teleport there, and realized that he couldn’t. It was a place he’d never been, and never seen, from far before his time. His technology had simply never gotten there, so to teleport there would be impossible. He Narrated himself there. “Hello, Platypus.” 

[Immortal Platypus]

1 minute ago, Dragonheir said:

Alright - can they still do the magic system modification? Because one (actually more than one) of my characters would be interested in that. 

Alright, cool. I’d quoted you already up above, so you would have gotten a notification anyway. 
Rebus tried to teleport there, and realized that he couldn’t. It was a place he’d never been, and never seen, from far before his time. His technology had simply never gotten there, so to teleport there would be impossible. He Narrated himself there. “Hello, Platypus.” 

Reality seemed to shift around him, and the field warped into a metallic box. The metal looked eerily familiar, and one who knew how to recognize it would be able to tell what it was. Nullite.

Platypus stood up, a dark smile touching upon his face. "Rebus. What brings you here?"

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

Just now, Ookla the Arbiter said:

Reality seemed to shift around him, and the field warped into a metallic box. The metal looked eerily familiar, and one who knew how to recognize it would be able to tell what it was. Nullite.

Platypus stood up, a dark smile touching upon his face. "Rebus. What brings you here?"

Rebus seemed unperturbed - he had expected as much, and taken precautions for such a trap. “You seem to have brought me here, in more ways than one.” 

[Immortal Platypus]

Just now, Dragonheir said:

Rebus seemed unperturbed - he had expected as much, and taken precautions for such a trap. “You seem to have brought me here, in more ways than one.” 

"I did no such thing. But now that you're here..." His smile grew, then shrank as he gasped for breath. "Leave. Now."

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

4 minutes ago, Ookla the Arbiter said:

"I did no such thing. But now that you're here..." His smile grew, then shrank as he gasped for breath. "Leave. Now."

Rebus mirrored the smile, waxing as it waned. "I can do no such thing. You have placed me within a box of Nullite, and even I cannot escape such a thing without preparation." 

[Immortal Platypus]

1 minute ago, Dragonheir said:

Rebus mirrored the smile, waxing as it waned. "I can do no such thing. You have placed me within a box of Nullite, and even I cannot escape such a thing without preparation." 

His smile returned. "You should've left when you had the chance."

Vengeance appeared in his hand, water droplets falling from it. The room filled with mist.

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

2 minutes ago, Ookla the Arbiter said:

His smile returned. "You should've left when you had the chance."

Vengeance appeared in his hand, water droplets falling from it. The room filled with mist.

Rebus's smile became almost mocking. "I would disagree. I wished to speak with you on a perfectly legitimate scientific matter, and even now I am in no danger. Have I truly done anything to you to deserve 'Vengeance'?" 

[Immortal Platypus]

Just now, Dragonheir said:

Rebus's smile became almost mocking. "I would disagree. I wished to speak with you on a perfectly legitimate scientific matter, and even now I am in no danger. Have I truly done anything to you to deserve 'Vengeance'?" 

"Vengeance is not what you deserve, but it is my weapon of choice. Unless you'd prefer another?"

Blows rained down on him from behind, though he could still see Platypus in front of him.

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

Just now, Ookla the Arbiter said:

"Vengeance is not what you deserve, but it is my weapon of choice. Unless you'd prefer another?"

Blows rained down on him from behind, though he could still see Platypus in front of him.

"I would, in fact. If the only opportunity I may have to study Luxite is to face you wielding it, I shall gladly take it." 

Rebus's white longcoat stiffed with nanomachines, though the man within it or the air surrounding it could have done the same. 

[Immortal Platypus]

1 minute ago, Dragonheir said:

"I would, in fact. If the only opportunity I may have to study Luxite is to face you wielding it, I shall gladly take it." 

Rebus's white longcoat stiffed with nanomachines, though the man within it or the air surrounding it could have done the same. 

"I am afraid that is not an option. The Luxite is far to valuable."

The blows bounced of the coat, but the damage was inevitable. The beating it was taking was far too intense for it to be sustainable.