Insufferablemystic 2011/05/23(Mon)09:45 No. 37058 ID: 856690
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Right, the image is of a Buraskag, is all in dorfskin... wait, no sorry. It was done for me by my sister, for a book, it shows very well what a Buraskag is supposed to look like.

Also a few more Quest ideas.

Pix Quest.
You are a Felyne called Pix, you wanna be a hunter. Stuff happens.
Setting; Altered monster hunter.

Blue Quest
You are an Amnesic blue haired man, you have only one eye which has a golden iris, a body covered in scars(old and new) and you are incredibly bishonen. Slight narcissism aswell.

Quest includes: Monstrous beings, familiars, alchemists of the nasty kind, Dragons, People who won't bloody well die. A mysterious past.

Heavily combat orientated Quest.

One more idea, doing a separate post for it. After that I stop posting ideas

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The final idea
Shishi-Bako (Beast Chest)
Daiki Tzuzhima, a three tailed Kitsune, has stolen you, the Shishi-Bako. Previously you were moldering away bored out of your wood in confinement.

The abilities Daiki can access in the beginning are as follows.
The Chest can change sizes.

Shutai (Abomination) ; Black tentacles, with red suckers come forth from Shishi-bako, the tentacles attack and also try to drag the target into the chest, if dragged into the chest, it is over for the victim.

Fantomu (Phantom); An invisible, undetectable hunter comes forth from the chest, it will not stop until it kills or is destroyed. Is vaguely man shaped.

Buredo o Norotta (Cursed blade) ; A sinister red sword, the size of a man's torso rises from the open chest. A evil yellow eye like a serpent's is on the hilt, the blade hovers in the air, with it's point directed at the ground. If a person comes close to the blade, they will begin to get cut. The deepness of the cuts depend on how long the person stays in the presence of the blade. Stay too long and the person is likely to be cut into pieces.

Daiki is being hunted, the reason Daiki took the chest was for the Lulz.

In fact that is usualy the only reason Daiki has for doing things. He does however have a strong sense of duty (though he pays little heed to honour). He will do what must be done, and he'll do it with a smile. Daiki dislikes giving up and hates the arrogant. He has a fondness for strawberries... a very LARGE fondness for strawberries. What Daiki believes his duty is, isn't necessarily what others think it is...

Appearance: Daiki is a silver furred fox (a little smaller than a human) wearing robes and black wooden geta. His eyes are red. He has quite a dazzling smile (read; unnerving). He is in possession of thumbs, so his paws are quite humanoid. He has three tails, each being quite bushy. His robe is more like a yukata than anything else.

That would be all the ideas, please vote.

Ok, what are the relative sizes of these?
-x1 Crystal Saturated with your essence
-x20 small purple crystal shards (properties unknown/magic absorbent)
-x10 Purple crystal shards (properties unknown/magic absorbent)
-x2 Purple crystal lumps (properties unknown/magic absorbent)

AFAIK it is crystal with essence > lump > shard > small shard. Is this correct? Or is the lump smaller than a small shard?

Making a familiar should wait until later. But when we do get to it here are some ideas:
1. Getting Nirdhar to assist us is a possibility, but do we want it for OUR familiar or HIS? I am thinking it should be our familiar cause we already have part of ourselves in it. Plus a crystal psi familiar for a disembodied light being seems awesomely fitting. He could gain his own familiar later on in a traditional magical method (something biological).
2. DO NOT just pour energy into it. This would cause it to explode (something we have some experience with now), it has to be a controlled influx of energy, with the focus being on structure and form rather then power. We can experiment with one of the smallest pieces (a small shard?). Try adding energy to it, then try siphoning the energy back out of it. See if you can measure how much energy is inside it, if you can't empty it of energy and add energy at a measured rate to estimate it. Experiment with that 1 small shard and 1 regular sized shard by slowly adding energy until it begins to crack, then quickly draw the energy out to prevent it exploding. DO NOT perform this experiment in town... do it later outside town.
3. We could try to increase our "size" by duplicating our memories and personality and pour those duplications into the crystals we are working with.
4. We should experiment in using the light and lightening magic to "tie" some of the smallest shards/lumps together so that they are held together by a magical force. Focus on having the energy on their outside, wrapping around them rather inside them. This will allow us to tie several of the smaller crystals to it (act as limbs). At worse we will lose some small crystals and not the large one with our essence. Try to use the electricity primarily to hold them together (magnetism!)
5. We should examine the brains of sentients. And whatever passes for one in our skeletal companion. Perhaps imitating it to some degree in the crystal (via both electric flows and light flows via refraction) would help stabilize it.
6. Slightly modifying the crystals internals to form runes out of light (shoot light inside, change refraction patterns to make it loop in a pattern).
7. Find a jewelry maker, draw the knowledge of crystal working from them. Pass it to Nirdhar, have him carve runes (which we will learn later) unto outside of crystals, as well as cut some smaller shards into small hand bones shaped shards. (aka, the skeleton of a hand) which would allow fine manual dexterity.
8. Use some Leaugr eyes crystals to form floating eyes for it (again, using the floating nearby connection we form).
9. Each crystal that makes it should be imprinted with us before the total copy. It might take many days to do so as I imagine this will be draining (making one a day or every other day) but that is fine. Take your time and do it right.
10. It should be able to autonomously spread to new crystals, joining them into its whole. It might grow from being a mere familiar to being a body to house us.
11. keep an imprint of its core on each of its "parts", so that it could reform from them if the main crystal/s are destroyed.
12. You should find an alchemist and learn about growing crystals from mineral baths. As well as the composition of those crystals. You should be able to grow more of them with the right knowledge.

You know... the above seems more like the beginning of a new RACE of crystal people rather then a mere familiar... Even cooler! We can do both. Initially breeding will be done asexually, simply separate a few crystals from the main "body" and wipe them of most memories and personality, keeping knowledge and magic skills. Let them grow. When there are more of them they can have two or more crystal beings each contribute some crystals, with their own knowledge and chosen raw personality traits (very rough, something to grow out of, think instincts) to merge into a new whole.

>>346858
Those, are some scary teeth. Reminds me a bit of a Damaraland Mole Rat with horns.

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>>346953
Damaraland Mole Rat with horns,that is also the width and height of two men! Is that a vote for Buraskag Quest?

>>346951
Lump requires two hands to hold. Shards fit into palm and crystal with essence is fist sized.

1: Good questions
2: You have avoided a horrible end by applying logic yay! Also interesting experiment.
3: No comment
4: You would have to try very, very hard to keep the power from overloading the gems, not that there isn't a way to do what you are suggesting, it's just you don't know that kind of magic engineering. As you are now it would require a level of concentration that would kill you. Some other method is needed.
5: *Chuckles*
6: Runes do exist in Kigan, This is beyond your abilities at the moment, you know no runes or how to make them[Logged]
7: Hmmm...
8: Magic and alchemy are in many ways intuitive, except when they aren't.
9: Simpler stuff, though magic is only sometimes predictable.
10: If you were able to do all that, then possibly yes (that or explode, or become a *oops said too much!*)
11: There are more efficient methods, but that would work.
12: Alchemy is like science, crazy, crazy science.

In general bear in mind that magic in Kigan doesn't pervert the laws of physics, it makes them operate! It also ignores them on occasion. So in other words there are rules and structure to the magic of Kigan... except when there isn't.

Also that last idea, be very careful, there is good reasons for the Great Restriction. Every thing has a price. Bringing a race into being is almost as big a choice as wiping out a race... {we aren't talking equivalent exchange here!}

Kyarin's spirit Muscles etc... Insufferablemystic 2011/05/25(Wed)16:15 No. 37156 ID: 856690
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Man that was indistinct, click on the previous picture for a clearer look!

I figure this is a good juncture to explain those evil spirits I've been mentioning.

They are the Chlans Fiarn, The fallenborn.
The first of them created by the Sidhe in their hubris and pride, they are beings of nightmare, madness, jealously, pride and all other evil. They can be divided into three categories.

1st:
The first and most common have no proper form instead taking the form from people negativity, these are lesser Chlan being fairly primal and wishing only to feed on people's evil in order to become more complete.

2nd:
The second are the ones of the first that have stabilized they take the form of the worst nightmare they encountered they still feed off any negative emotion. They can still change shape to a certain extent they are sentient and much more powerful than the first group it is not known if they can undergo a third transform into a more powerful being.
The first and second group are the offshoots of the third group.

3rd:
The Third are the most awful they are the ones that were formed by the sidhe, the are the Lords/Old ones, races and mobs.

The lords are singular existences of terrible power.

The races are distinct races made by the Sidhe.

The mob is made up of various failures and such that the Sidhe made. Waste of Waste, Flaws of the Flawed.

Chlan can mean: Cursed, flawed, corrupted, damned, evil, perverted, twisted, doomed, fallen, madness.

Other forms of Chlan as a word are;
Chlanic (A Chlanic sword): can be used interchangeably with Chlan.

A unredeemed wraith (No head, grotesque mask, Chestless) is a Chlan Fiarn.

All Chlan have sickly yellow irises... this can be masked...

Currently if you encountered a Lord, you'd go insane and that would only be the beginning, thankfully all Chlan other than the first type should be sealed away.

Ok, first things first, sorry for the lackage of updates recently, I've been consumed by Diablo 2(which I have never played before) and I've rediscovered some joys that can be had with warcraft 3.

Should update wednesday (Lots of stuff to do with the market!)
Also I'll start another Quest too!

>>347101
>diablo 2
Awesome game :P. Had lots of fun with it back in the day.
>updates & new quest
Cool.

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Right! did as I promised! To be honest I was dreading the more 'human' humanoids in CoW!

Now a bit of Explanation of the picture. The yellow one is a mage! hence the floating. The black one is a Black Coneman. Black Conemen were created by the first Cone-Mages, To be protecters of the conemen and labourers. To treat Black Conemen with disrespect is to be exiled.

Most conepeople do not survive long on their own, generally they live together in large colonies built into the ground or underground.
Sometimes a small group will get it into their head to go adventuring.

Here is a bit about magi in the world of Kigan etc...
Mages/magi is a catchall term for magic users.
A wizard is just a term for a male magic user
Same for witch.

A sorcerer(ess) is a magi that uses Heartflame Only, usually their own body's source.
A Cleric is a healer, Necromancer is the term for cleric gone bad(Cancer everywhere! Draining life!), it is very insulting to a cleric to be called one.
A Shaman is a spirit wrangler
A Summoner or Conjurer is somebody who summons things. Conjurer is an insulting term.
An Archmage is a very power mage, just a bit weaker than a Shydhu Lord (The guys who made the Chlans Fiarn).

A Warlock(e) is a mage that uses battle magic.
An Enchanter/Enchantress is a magi that alters things.
An Oracle/Seer is a magi that sees... things
Magician is the same as saying magi.

A Druid is a magi who is tuned into the great tree's pollen.

Witch = female magic user

Also a full colony of conepeople is a force to be reckoned with. Pity they usually just panic and scatter!

Oh yeah, Discussion thread![spoiler]Oops, didn't notice until now[/spoiler]
How does magical weapons work? We've got a "Stormblessed" shortsword, do we need to strike an enemy and lightning, wind and rain starts shooting out like crazy, or a certain amount of energy is needed so it can activate?

Right about the Stormblessed sword.

I'll begin with the bad news, using it's full power would involve Nirdhar being struck by lightning, lots of it. Every use has a directly porportionate feedback, this stablises the weapon's magic.

Now on the plus-side. The magic is living, basically Nirdhar can become more tuned into his blade's power. Drawing that power at first will be exausting and electrifing.

Also because it is a living magic weapon(the Storm blessing is part of the blade's existance now, rather than an enchantment laid upon it). You can potentially grow it's power, as well as gaining aspects of the storm other than lightning

For the moment the power of the sword is a weak crackle of electricity when it cuts something, this is not passive, not yet at any rate.

One way to increase the power of the sword is for nirdar to learn swordfighting(he currently knows none, doesn't even hold it properly) and fight with it lots. However the same is true of his light claw, that'll be more powerful the more he uses it.

Helaing magic comes in a few schools

There is Destruction based healing(destroying cancers, nasty viruses etc...){easy}
There is Strengthing based healing(where you boost the subject's regen){Not too hard}
There is Creation based healing(where you make something from scratch){VERY HARD}

Then there is the School of piled lives. It is a bit of a mystery.
The fourth method takes the disease and transfers it to the healer. This means death, even for taking non-terminal illness/wounds.

Healers of the School of piled lives have the lives of many people, the strength of many and so can sacrifice some of their “lives” to heal people.
They only have a limited number though...

Next up is The Three Kingdoms! And I don't mean the ones that Lubu was in!

You will have to pass through one of these lands to get southwards. after them you need to cross the Titan's Belt mountains, going through the Titian Kingdoms amoung others...

Tagan of Songs and Joy!
The Kithan are a Nighom race, they all wear masks to cover their absurdly beatiful visages, some have theories that they were made by a mage who wanted entertainment slaves. They are basically a race of Thespians, on each street is many people singing. You know how in musicals suddenly everyone breaks out dancing and singing and stuff. THEY DO THAT! Their whole society revolves around art. They are ruled by a grand drama group, which is decided by all the groups in the land competing for popularity!

The also hate the guts of the Titanian Kingdoms, who they view as stuck up, the Titanian Kingdoms hate the Kitan because the Kithan and bizarre lunatics who wear masks.


Canrtin
Goblins in Kigan are very varied however, the Goblin Kings and Queens are different(transform via magic), they are (think labyrinth Jareth) They build madddd fortresses which are like mazes and they are a sneaky and cowardly as goblins should be. Goblins are only a race with bad rep. Currently Canrtin has no HighKing so the various Kings and Queens are scrabbling to sieze power. To top this off There is bands of Kobolds from the Mir'Kigan (underground) coming up and causing all sorts of havoc. A warning, Kobolds in Kigan are smallish, but cutebolds they are not!

Murhra's Realm; Terresta
Murhra is a Liche, he is a Liche whose phylactery is an entire nation. Effect Very powerful Mage whose people can act as a channel for his will and gain various attributes of the undead without the weaknesses. Nobody likes him because of this, cause apart from being creepy he is a complete wild card, being a young enough nation. That being said Terresta was wiped out once, some descendants survived and Murhra came back for another go. He is extremely protective of his subjects. Being a Liche isn't a taboo it is just going to make people very afraid.

Currently his realm is suffering from repeated outbreaks of wraiths...

Tailless Ones InsufferableMystic 2011/06/09(Thu)05:36 No. 37627 ID: 856690
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Bit of an infodump on the Tailless Slugs.

Tailless slugs are like most races underground in Elcon are miners, Most of the Forgehomes are affiliated with supplying Mr.Honey's Factory, but even these sell to others. There is a few things that the slugs eat. Dirt, rock and then there is the rage(red) and wise(blue) crystals. The Slugs who eat the crystals are changed, the rage becoming warriors and miners unparalleled, however their capability in piloting the Ruminate is usually decrease, also they are vulnerable to black rages. The ones who eat the blue have their mind open often becoming mages or leaders, and are much more skilled at piloting the Ruminate. Often the Forgehomes are focused only on one kind of crystal, prizing either rage or wise over the other. Naturally a few conflicts arise.

Now The Ruminate, these are massive(for tailless slugs) suits which some of the slugs pilot, they give them hands, feet and awesome drills. There is always at least one Ruminate. But for the Slugs the Ruminate are sacred, for it it the first Ruminate, that granted sentience to the Tailless slugs, who before were mindless drones. They are on the whole quite a pleasant lot... If a bit obsessed with Rage and Wise crystals. Other races love them, as apart from HARDgold(Used in the construction of Ruminate), they have little interest in other materials, though they do like modding drills. Like any good mining race, they appreciate a good pick.

>>347337
mmm... fencing IS a sport, right?
Actually lets get him a regular sport and then focus on finding him a swordsmaster teacher. I think we should try to get training for both of us before taking on whatever killed mother. Nirdhar needs to become a gish, a master swordsman who knows some magic that synergizes well with swordsmanship. We need to become master mages, knowing as much magic as possible. Don't even think of fighting the bad guy before we can take him on.

>Tagan of Songs and Joy!
This place sounds like it would most definitely provide great culture boost for nirdhar, helping his soul grow faster.
>Canrtin
Goblins are cool... plus they have multiple would be rulers who rule by magic... might be able to trade magic there for us.
>Murhra's Realm; Terresta
Currently beset by wraiths? we need to ask around to see if wraiths are a type of Chlan. If so then we are a guardian spirit against the Chlan. I am a bit weary of a necromancer but if he is so protective of his subjects... if we could solve his wraith problem he might teach us magic and upgrade Kyarin (I doubt he can resurrect her... but he can probably enhance her if she is interested).

>>346956
A unredeemed wraith (No head, grotesque mask, Chestless) is a Chlan Fiarn.

Also, interesting idea about Kyarin.

>>/quest/312350
>The Bride is a Leoni, in a glorious green dress, the Groom is a... It is a Gnoll!
Interesting...
1. What is a Leoni?
2. Can they actually cross breed with gnolls?

>>347566
A leoni is a Nighom(human) of the Cityland of Leonard. Typically they have smooth skin(though often freckled) They are pale skinned and they most often have brown hair and blue eyes.
All beings that are not animals or monsters can interbreed. Why? Magic, well it is more that magic enables. Every thing was born of the Heartflame so it works.

Hence why you get the tainted, who are a crossbreed of three or more races, the power this often brings means tainted are feared.

Half-breeds don't have it quite as bad, as long as they breed with either thier mother's or father's race.

Now genetics is mad in Kigan, traits are not dermined by dna or what have you. I'll take the example of the gnoll and the leoni.

Since the mother is bearing the child, it will be more like a leoni, it'll have less fur and a more humanoid head. If a gnoll was the mother, the appearance would bend that way.

However you must remember the core rule of magic in Kigan.

Magic acts in place of physics and such, but at any time, can completely disregard the rules it seems to be following. Incedently this is part of how magic works in Kigan, you get the magic to do something other than the rules.

"In general bear in mind that magic in Kigan doesn't pervert the laws of physics, it makes them operate! It also ignores them on occasion. So in other words there are rules and structure to the magic of Kigan... except when there isn't."

Also a seehi mother and a leoni father will mean if the child is a female, that child will also lay eggs. If the mother is a leoni, the father a seehi, the child will carry like a human does.

Also there is a whole load of things that can alter a childs formitive grow. Children born on the sea are typically always weaker magically speaking, those born on land are stronger.

Those born in high places are more tuned to the pollen. This constantly falls from the world tree Yaibggael (Yab-g-gale) who's leaves cover all but the lost ocean of Yuikna and whose root go deep into the Heartflames. The more pollen, the easier it is to do magic stuff.
The deeper underground a person is when born the more in tune they are with Heartflame: Wild raw magic from the centre of Kigan core, using this causes cancer of the spirit and one can easily get drunk on this power of creation.

There is various other things, Like what kind of earth is beneath, wether the parent has been possessed before, What time of the year is it?

It is crazy, crazy stuff, a number of people in kigan have written down their observances(Notably Albiz Gnarg, who has made a truely insane number of books on the subject).

Basically A child will look like it's parents is the rule magic obeys, except of course when it doesn't

inb4 piled soul necromancer who can drink the lives of others to sustain his mortal coil. (e.g., you kill him, he dies, your like, "fook yeah", and an hour later he opens his eye to make sure noone is around, and just walks away...)
actualy, that would be a fun quest, being a piled soul necromancer... a vampire.

JeEpeRs, crEePerS, WheReD You gET tHoSe PeepErS...

>>347648
now you are catching on, though a nercomancer like you suggested would be feared by regular nercomaners.

Also Generally speaking the best way of killing a piled lives healer is cutting the head off, and even then, some of them can have sufficiant lives to regenerate.

Now I'll explain vampires in Kigan.
Vampirism in Kigan is a curse that is either put on you or that you get from a vampire feeding, but not killing, on the same individual for three crescent moons.

Now the power of a vampire is detirmined by three things, age, blood diet and... how long ago they fed.

Kigan vampire also have no blood of thier own, needing the blood of others in thier veins to be living beings.

All vampires are afflicted with a terrible thirst, a throat that burns like fire. A vampire can go a week without blood before this desire begins to erode thier sanity. Elder vampires can go for longer. A vampire can exist without blood, but the curse makes them more powerful then. Creating a nightmarish monster of the night.

Vampires also gain power from thier blood diet, they become more like the thing that they harvest blood from, and drinking a body dry instantly causes transformation, older vampires have more control over this.

Now a few powers and weaknesses of Vampires.
Vampires are strongest at night, and letharic at day.
Sunlight turns young vampires to dust and makes elder ones feel unbelievable pain.
A vampire can turn into a kind of smoky darkness, that can move through cracks.
They can turn into a group of blood drinking bats.
They have dominance over various night creatures.
Magical blood is extremely addictive for them.
Sharp Wooden weapons cause pain to them if used on them, if stuck in the heart, they turn to ash.
A vampire with the head removed will not turn to ash, any death will be final.
A vampire can regenerate as long as they have thier head.
Garlic wards them away(this doesn't work on elder vampires)
A vampire cannot enter your house unless invited, as a consequence most are affable if they are not being driven mad by thrist.

Vampires are strong and fast and hear better than a lot of races, they sense and smell blood always, unless the blood is masked, in which case they freak out if you stand before them with masked blood. They are frightened of Vampires with no blood in them.

An elder Vampire can have children, the child will be a stronger vampire, always. young vampires are infertile.

Most people do not like vampires.
Vampires unlike werewolves have not made thier curse into a blessing and become a race.

A vampire finds the taste of a tainted's blood particulary nice, though it will over time cause them to appear like a tainted(thus giving tainted a worse rep, as being blood drinkers and vampire bait).

A homunculus' blood is EXTREMLY DISTASTEFUL to vampires.

Tell us about Werewolves.

Werewolves...

right.
In Kigan, wolves that have not lost their minds or been lowered to a packmind, are very powerful, on a similar level to Kitir, Devourers and middle aged dragons.

Werewolves were at the begining people who were cursed to go mad and turn into beasts... How ever so the story goes, The Great World Wolf, Fionnwyr, He who lies willingly in chains, was not content for things to stay this way.

He gave some of his blood, that of the first wolf to change the curse, to make it a blessing.

The Wolf Blessing changes a person, they grow claws and the inside of thier mouth is like that of a wolf's. They also gain unparalleled smell and strength, thier regenration is very strong.

There is also the were itself. Those who are first generation werewolves(recieved the blessing from someone) can only change into the wulfen form, that form halfway between their original body and that of a wolf. Second Generation(Those who have werewolves as both parents) are born not of their parents' races but of the wolfblood in thier veins. These individuals can transform into a wolfform as well as the wulfen.

When in the were, skin and hair colour remain the same. For example a Loirk(red elf) would have red skin and black hair as a wolf.

As being part wolf, werewolves can claim kinship with the wolves, As do the Gnolls.

The only weaknesses werewolves have is that silver ignores their regeneration and that they have to transform during a full moon.

There is one other thing.
The Old Rage, this is a throwback to the days when it was a curse, the old rage makes a werewolf nigh unstoppable aswell as completely berserk. It is not known exactly what triggers it but anger is a theme, most werewolves are extremely cool and collected as a consequence.

Now to explain the curse that werewolves came from.

The curse of the Werebeast. Werebeasts are foul chlan, once not chlan, they are addictted to the hunt and live only to hunt people. They are always in packs and beleive only in the strong, swelling thier ranks with those who are corrupted with tales of thier dark hunt and thier power.

Werebeasts have no exact form, each one being a hideous mish-mash of creatures, but always the sickly yellow eyes of a chlan.

There is one creature you will never see as part of a werebeast. No werebeast will ever have parts of a wolf, for the blood of wolves was seperated from that curse.

In other news, Update coming later today, also you as Spectrum really don't want to meet a vampire.

Now that I finaly became interested in this quest it was cool to read all these informations...

Now to think of a nice training regimen :D

Right, so here is the breakdown, A very very unpleasant thing happened and I was away for a few days, Oh dear has been updated and will continue.

Chorus of Whispers will be Updated, however, it is a fairly meaty amount of material you guys have given me to work on, I'll try to deliever as soon as possible but i'll be breaking it into chunks.

Also thanks to everyone who has particpated in my quests so far, thanks to those who only read it too!

>>348009
Take your time with the update. There is no need to rush it :P We can wait a long time if it will turn out to be totally worth it (and it probably will)

Ok, Dusk is terrifying!

"The power of christ compels you, bitch" ? ;P

Dusk is Scary InsufferableMystic 2011/06/19(Sun)18:31 No. 38280 ID: 856690
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Welp update tomorrow! I'll leave you with this lovely picture of Dusk's mug

Isn't she so pretty? *cough* no way *cough*
Do continue to make plans, this is afterall your first boss fight(Ooze didn't count considering you cn't really defeat it). Sweet Dreams!
>>348074
That would be the general idea. Chlan being nightmare and evil generally made into form.

>>348078
You wish!
The holiness of Spectrum's light is not a lot! You are just fortunate in that Dusk hasn't taken form yet.
(I was trying to make minispectrums but it didn't work so well)

>>348080
Implying those tiny us-es around here weren't AWESOME.

That was just a reference. If something like that was enough to beat a Chlan mini-boss I would think that this quest is too easy.

And it seems that this voice has become too tired because of the fight and now has to retreat to the sweet embrace of Morpheus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqa84ibwnks

Achievement: HEART! (15P) - Beat a chlan with the power of Heart.

>>348111
Perfect!

Well, anyway I'll explain what happened, cause some of you seemed to figure it out, basically you became a being of darkness by consuming too much light too fast, however a number of your voices weren't keen on the idea of becoming an abombination and fought back.

then you tried to hit it with holy light(of which you had little at that time) It countered with voice and then after that you used heart to beat it.

During this Reatel was fighting against the Dusk, and it was not going that well, it kept blasting him away. He would have defeated it without you doing it first, but most of what you have gained so far would have been purged off.

So next up you need to decide what to do next, Nirdhar is likely to be very tired and may have nightmares.

After that, supplies and clothes for Nirdhar
Then you depart for one of the three kingdoms.
I remind you, if you go to Tagan first, you'll have to go through it twice.

Also, glad you are enjoying it Arxel, I was considering drawing the Dusk fight out longer but decided against it.

Dusk wasn't acqually a thing I had planned, you really made her by talking about light absorption, and then I had to have you fight her.

Wait, you are saying that Dusk is my fault, for suggesting the whole "see if we can absorb light thing". Man, I feel like an ass right now...

>>348134
AH, don't feel bad, it was interesting and you handled it in one of the best possible ways! Besides think there was another person who wanted to see HOW much light you could absorb and if you could become a kind of black ball thing.

Incidently you may not have much luck finding Reatel, also in reply to those on the thread, dusk has so much more power than you because it is not a new homunculus, it was a chlan from your heart and also one of the main reasons Reatel got so messed up was he had to protect Nirdhar(TASTY VESSEL FOR CHLAN) and Kyarin(CHLAN CAN TURN UNDEAD INTO WRAITHS).

On top of that he was reluctant to kill you.
Now on why did he leave so abruptly?

Well there is many things going on in Kigan as well as that Chlan calls to Chlan.

Also Dusk had mastery over voice, though nothing else, she kinda dumped all her stats into that, so you kinda messed her up when you found a way around that.

Also, do you all understand now why people are so afraid of homunculi?

Ok, New rule, WHEN TRYING NEW THINGS DO IT IN MODERATION!

>>348137
Is good rule.

Were you all find with having the Dusk sprung on ya? Or was it a bit too... mean?

Well it made sense, I guess, but it seems like we should have been able to react faster to her forming in the first place. Maybe a chance to prevent her from taking over our body would have been a good idea. Or at least give us a chance to warn Nirdhar and Kyarin.

>>348139
Honestly the unexpected stuff tends to make the setting better in my opinion. Although you may want to increase the time between short updates like that if possible.

Arxel 2011/06/22(Wed)02:15 No. 38434 ID: 980ade
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Silly pony form suggestion.

The only thing that combines our HEART power and our rainbow/white body color is this ;P

>>348234
Silly suggestion is silly

And now for something completely different!
FLAKY'S PROPHECY
The Crow's eyes shine, and her voice takes on a ghostly echo.
“You have done well to stand against the Dark
Though it has left its Mark.
So where shall you go from here Spirit?
To Tagan where you'll find liars and smiling faces, could you bear it?
To Cartin where war rages and Kings and Queens plot?
Or to Terresta, beset by wraiths, can you hope to heal that rot?
What of your self, purposeless will you find your meaning?
Will you do it while Erimael is Burning?

You will find hope in the sign of the dragon, do not mistake the serpent for it or you will suffer.
The scales will tip over the mountains on the weight of tears.
The old can become new, if only you can find the heart of mystery.
The Dead Lord weeps
The storm that swept the mountains did not go unnoticed.
A thousand masks lay faceless, where did the piper go?
The crown of peace lies on the fallen

Tell me, Tell me, where did the story go, since the shadowed Robe walks the lands of painted smiles?
Why do the rats climb from beneath?
Can you see the form of the jester, can you see the jester's stained hands?
Old hatred is masked.
The child of tricks lies in a box.
Trust not what you are made to see, the wrong people are wearing the wrong masks.
What is worse than wraiths?
What is tied and what is not, I care not!


Can the Dark be killed, can it be silenced?
Will your voice be heard by the Maiden of Sorrows?
Be wary, the tears will tear.
Can you stop the starless night?

The dancing one can help, her wings will guide, her laughter destroy you.

You will know that the end is coming when it cannot be found.

So then, how far can you flee, and how long can you hide?
Only a spark is needed to light the fire

BEWARE PARUMRIR! TRUST NOT PARUMRIR!”

Wild speculation is a go!
Hint, most is to do with the three Kingdoms
Also currently the vote stands at
Tagan(2 voices)
Terresta(0 voices)
Canrtin(0 voices)

>>348234
I have spend so many hours playing this!
This is awesome!

The game itself has some major issues (unreachable stars spawning, etc) but they are eclipsed by the awesome presentation.. .and I love how it seems all cutsie but then it says things like "you will die a fiery death" and "you will fail" and "persistence is futile"

THUS IT BEGINS InsufferableMystic 2011/06/26(Sun)16:07 No. 38669 ID: 856690
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Right so Chapter One of Chorus of Whispers has ended!

So thoughts?
Comments?

Also here is another option, instead of going on to the second chapter of Chorus of Whispers...

I do the first chapter of THE BEAST CHEST
In which you(tgchan) is the Beast chest, an old artefact of great power that can bring forth monsters from within itself.

So yeah, you'd be a chest that monsters you control come out of.

Regardless of what you choose, OH dear! EX! will be getting an awesome update sometime tomorrow.

Also, MrTT, I'll be getting around to reading your quest soon, so you can look forward to me making stupid suggestions.

Your quests need more love ;_;

Note!

The BEAST CHEST
Will not be the same as the idea offered in the early posts in this thread.

>>348469
I really liked CoW, it was fun, just the right amount of grimdark TM, and the darkest hour mechanic was suitably scary and exciting.

Beast chest sounds fascinating... but I would rather have a second chapter of chorus of whispers first.

>Also, MrTT, I'll be getting around to reading your quest soon, so you can look forward to me making stupid suggestions.
I'd love to have you around.

Second chapter of CoW. But keep the Beast Chest around for next time. It sounds awesome.

>>348470
would be nice, but I don't mind as long as there is somepeople.

But really I think Chorus of whisper's start was a bit weak...

Any
So it seems to be...

That you want another Chapter of Chorus of Whispers and then maybe one of BEAST CHEST.

Also thank you guys for participating and sticking with it.

It was a bit rocking starting out but I think Tagan will be awesome.

>>348472
{Darkest hour} will return, especailly if ones are rolled!

Though there is gonna be a lot of crazy and light heartedness in Tagan.

Though I am really gonna have a lot of fun with the theme of masks.

There is some very... Interesting things going on in Tagan.

Also in general I like my whites white and my blacks black.

So dark stuff will be dark and the good stuff will be bright!

Also you avoided death once and imprisonment twice in chapter one!

So what do you lot think of Kyarin?
And sorry but I couldn't let Reatel join you, he has other things to do, you might re-encounter him later though~

Kyarin has been interesting so far. But we really need to ask her about her past.

By what god does Reatel worship? Seems like the perfect god for Spectrum. Also, Reatel should be Spectrum's rolemodel.

>>348482
Getting Kyarin to talk about her past will prove quite difficult...

Now, I believe it is time to explian the about the Aryaith and the Duath, I will only be giving you what Spectrum knows, so it may not be the whole truth.

The Aryaith are guardians of somekind, they are very powerful, a number are viewed as Gods, the Duath used to be Aryaith but were corrupted by the whispers of the the mother of the Chlan the fallen Great Werlin the Fel White Serpent Juirmuyadr. The exact story is been lost to time.

(Spectrum doesn't know much about the Serpent, it is considered a myth by many)

There is also a tale of the Allking who made the Aryaith and Shyndl, and the Elementals.
The Elementals and Shydl are said to have made all beings at the Allking's behest. The Allking is considered to be a myth by many, and the worshippers of Aryaith find worshippers of the Allking to be heretics.

Other than having a gender the Aryaith/Duath are mostly in spirit form but they can take the form of any living thing or whatever they wish to look like, they generally have a preferred form. They are very powerful. Some of the Aryaith do not consider themselves to be gods. I'll post a list with notation now.

Foriym (female) of winter, She doesn't consider herself a godess and refuses to be worshipped, she rules the Wintertaken of Nortrieln as Queen, they worship the Allking who she worships.

Ealac (female) of night/moon one of the Higher aryaith wife of Carmos. She resides in Vlaharos, the home of the Aryaith and waiting place of those who have had the first death.

Carmos (male) of sun/day one of the higher aryaith husband of Ealac. He is the keeper of Vlahros(Which just so happens to double as Kigan's second sun). The other being Ollan the golden fruit of the anchor tree.

Ysayn (female) of Healing. She wanders all of Kigan, she has made no comment on people worshipping her.

Leiak (male) of magic. He doesn't consider himself a god, and refuses to be worshipped. He studies Magic on the Isle of Shadows, few can reach him, but a city of Mages has sprung up around his tower.

Touhan (male) of death, one of the Higher aryaith Husband of Jiuln
He resides in the Vlahros entrance to the Urlubris, were those who have suffered the first death are tested again. He fears Sirru, the Shadowed Robe of Death, the true keeper of the Urlubris. Sirru lets Touhan do a lot though. Touhan being aware of his end, doesn't consider himself a god.

He knows that Sirru will come for him.
Sirru comes even for those who are immortals.

Jiuln (female) of life, one of the higher aryaith wife of Touhan. She resides in Vlaharos but also travels the land.

Ippa (female) of dreams and mischief. She is by far my favourite Aryaith. One of her titles is "She who has Risen from Darkness". She is a bit like Xom except mostly good rather than Chaotic Lol... most of the time. She leaves most of her work up to her handmaiden Valkyr, Lar the Third of the Nine.

She loves meddling with the affairs of mortals and playing tricks on the forces of evil.

Tarn (male) of Thunder/sky Husband of Mihtre. He most frequently is found in the clouds above Hierm. He is worshipped by many.

Bolf&Reallit Husband&wife of the Urlubris.
They are custodians and judges and the King and Queen, kept in check by Sirru, they have the largest number of Valkyrs working for them, Tiala, Eighth of the Nine polices the Urlubris. (IN case you hadn't gotten this by now, Sirru is REALLY SCARY!, Everyone fears him and he keeps his motives hidden and he CAN leave the Urlubris)

Darean (female) of sea.
She maintains the twin huge maelstroms that keep the crazy Magical climate of Kigan in place. She doesn't really care about much else.

Maeranan (male) of ocean. He is worshipped, but is a complete troll, brother of Darean, who keep him in check with threats of having to help maintain the twin maelstroms.

Ceirkiol (female) of Forests and plants, she fights constantly against those who would burn and cut all, she also cares for Yaibggeal the Anchor tree. She lives at it, but appears wherever there are trees. She worships the Allking and trys to foil the plans of evil. The Great Paladin King Darleon was her husband.

She waits for his return.

Mih'tre (female) of nature/spring wife of Tarn.
She is worshipped as a goddess by most farmers. and those wood elves that don't serve Ceikiol and by extension the Allking.

Bouilm (male) of Feasting, he doesn't consider himself a god, he can be found at most large feasts as that one guy who eats all the food. He frequently eats too much at Vlaharos.

Xarmah (male) of Battle, husband of Udratais.
He is worshipped by many who wish for the fight. He lives in Vlaharos, watching the einherjar fight.

Udratais (female) of beauty, wife of Xarmah.
Utterly vain and jealous, she pits her husband against those who irriate her. Xarmah takes pity on those who draw her ire. Worshipped by the ugly and beautiful alike. She also sends her son to hunt people. Her son is none too pleased at that.

Artreb (male) of Hunt son of Xarmah and Udratais. He doesn't like his mother. He spends most of his time hunting powerful Chlan. Though it is a great misfortune to come across one of his hunting parties, it isn't nearly as bad as coming across the Shydhu Lord Oriakalos' hunt.

Oriakalos and Atreb hunt each other.

Wuidrin (male) of War
Do not ever go near this guy. He is EXTREMELY sick and tired of WAR. He makes sure that the spirits on huge battlefields don't try much funny stuff. Basically he fights both armies after they have died, to make sure they end up in the Urlubris. He has a FOUL temper. Also his handmaiden Valkyr Tiertch, Second of the Nine is a complete and utter bloodkinght, mixed with a REALLY scary lady of war.

Tyranois (male) of Justice one of the higher aryaith. Nobody likes him and Sirru ignores him. He mostly does paperwork and makes sure things aren't getting too crazy. He is worshipped by many. Lives in Vlaharos.

Sceach (male) of Dawn&fire son of Stela and Carmos. Worshipped by many, he is the "driver" of Vlaharos.

Veana (female) of Twilight daughter of Stela and Carmos. Spends most of her time around lakes, being emo.

Grio (female) of Hope, mercy and grace , one of the higher aryaith , mother of most aryaith.
She keeps most of the Aryiath in check, is worshipped by many women.

Altia (female) of Luck
She is not your fiend, do not rely on her, she is not to be believed. She is volatile. Steer clear.

Now for the DUATH.
The Duath are the Chlan Aryaith, they are corrupted to the heart.

Vikkael (male) of Evil , brother of Grio, went mad when Dael betrayed him then whispered madness into his ears. Was originally the Aryaith of charity. He is insane and bound.

Dael (female) of Chaos&Despair.
She is completely insane, she once was the aryaith of love, but turned mad. It is said the Serpent drove her insane with secrets from the forbidden Book of Words.

D'Elrinn (male) of Madness, first son of Vikkael
He is like an evil Xom. Simple as that.

Quihn (male) of lies/misinformation/forbidden knowledge second son of Vikkael.
"Quihn, Prince of Lies"

Luarji (female) of Taint third son of Vikkael
"The Corrupter" "The Defiler"

Flalp (female) of Black magic First daughter of Vikkael
"She who seduces mages to doom"

They are all trapped in Relhs, just as most of Chlans Fiarn Lords and Shydhu Lords are sealed in the centre of the heartflame. Vikkael however is sealed in a different place.

The great wars were fought long ago. But still the evil in the hearts of beings knows no bounds, and in the darkness there are those who worship evil...

Also in all these matters Spectrum gets mentions of a “Chained One” but no information as to who that is, it is clear it isn't the Serpent.

Well that is the HUGE info dump, working on the beggining of Chapter Two of Chorus of Whispers now, I aplogise in advance if I don't have it done today.

Also sorry for the lack of picture with this infodump.

There is now an IRC channel for all me quests.

Come join in at #COWkigan
I'll still post info here etc...

[UPDATE PENDING]

>>348812
#COWkigan
Thats the chanel, but what network? Rizon? IRCHighway? etc.

Sorry about that, it is Rizon

Oh god yes, you are the best mini-boss fight ever ;D

Animootion InsufferableMystic 2011/07/11(Mon)15:26 No. 39678 ID: 856690
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I'm considering doing a bit of animootion for this boss fight, however if I do, it might be even lower quality drawing, might be uncoloured and will certainly take longer...

What say ye denizens of /tgchan/ ?


[The picture was just to see how Quickly I could draw TA, not an indicator of anything...]

>>349478
Weeeee!

[1/2] Test Animootion InsufferableMystic 2011/07/11(Mon)17:35 No. 39687 ID: 856690
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Well here we go the chests now move...

Hmm... well that would look better if TA was moving too...

[2/2] Test Animootion InsufferableMystic 2011/07/11(Mon)17:35 No. 39688 ID: 856690
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and another version, where the chest for inexplicable reasons are leaving after-images...

I think you should do whichever one you'd do more lovingly.

I was off wargaeming! hence no updates recently, so all three will resume on monday!

Yays!

InsufferableMystic 2011/07/20(Wed)19:41 No. 40356 ID: 856690
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Ok so For me there seems to be a few updates in the first CoW thread missing so here they are as much as I can find

[You can now Sing from the Heart]
You cannot however sing whenever, considering you don't really know how to, but any time the feeling takes you you can.
Somehow... it seems as if Nirdhar can hear you...

You return to the Inn to get Kyarin, feeling thoughtful...
Kyarin Speaks-You retur... What has happened? You are changed, I know it is you, but you seem so different?”
[roll; 25, terrible!]
You catch a sense of melancholy from Kyarin, she seems to be very very sad...

Your voices swirl, how will you respond, and how will you get her to come along for the training?
[Nirdhar is shining with glee and happiness]
[Nirdhar loves his Big Sister! He trusts you completely]
[You have both gained more Identity]

*Break*
[There was hugs somewhere here I thought?]
-If you want to talk about anything, you can talk to me, if you feel like it, are we not friends...-

There is a dry clacking sound, Kyarin's laugh.
-Friends! I barely know you, you barely know me... and yet... I find myself thinking of you as a friend-

{Spectrum}-I am pleased Kyarin, tell me, would you assist in training Nirdhar?-
{Kyarin}-Gladly, where shall we train?-
{Spectrum} -The forests near here, we should remain undisturbed there-

You, Nirdhar and Kyarin relocate to the woods near Nasdmoor.

Kyarin teaches Nirdhar how to hold his weapon properly, and they spar, him using his light-claw and using his sword, Kyarin her lance.

InsufferableMystic 2011/07/20(Wed)19:41 No. 40357 ID: 856690
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You don't pay much attention, as you become absorbed in thoughts about the nature of your light.
>>314886
You find that by intersecting beams and by absorbing and emitting similar colours in time with each other you can make a more powerful blast.
[New Power: Cross Beam]

>>314933
You try to do something a bit more complex... but you find you just don't have that level of control.
[Light mastery too low for variable light or Ghost-light]

>>314807
You wonder, you know that you absorb free floating energy, but what about ambient light?
You try, and find yourself feeling more whole, and more luminous.

...but how much can you absorb?
You begin to draw, more...
And more...
And more...
MORE!

InsufferableMystic 2011/07/20(Wed)19:42 No. 40358 ID: 856690
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Something...
Is wrong, you feels something swell inside of you

-I HUNGER-
-MoRe LiGhT-

You hear a voice sing

[And after that was a music file of creepy singing which I think was what broke everything in the first place]

Link here
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/135517

Well I

had this nice update going, and what did I do?

I CLOSED WITHOUT SAVING!

So no update today due to stupid.

T.T

On the note of updates InsufferableMystic 2011/07/31(Sun)13:38 No. 40959 ID: 856690
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I've been haldily distracted by shiny new(for me) games!

This has cause updates to hiccup also I was at my borther's fiancee's party yesterday, so nothing really then.

Anyway regardless I will update again...
I am doing this for fun and while I'll not leave people hanging by suddenly stopping, Updates will be scarcer towards the end of my holidays.

Also I started two adventures on Mspa forums.
Midgard 1914
And SEALSUNDER

http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?40718-SEALSUNDER
http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?40956-Midgard-1914-The-Great-War

"But IM, arren't you spreading yourself too thin?"

Yes and no, having multiple adventures/quests means I can update what I'm in the mood for and if I gain momentum I can update everything.

So yeah, fun times!
Also here is a picture of a pengu, it is an inadequate apology. Also I'm thinking of ending the Treasure armour fight in the next update of CoW, if you wish it to go on, then speak now or forever hold yer piece.