Prince of Seraphs said
He'll shoot Deku nuts in your eyes, be careful. Don't kill the Scrub.EDIT: Oh Dervish, the Ikanan Oathkeeper was Dampe the gravekeeper not Dante.

D'oh, I knew that.

I'll edit.

I'm still here, I'm just fashionably late to the reunion party.

I'll post as soon as I can... Sorry for the wait.

Hey Captain, you mind if Alex drops in on you... literally.

I don't see why not.

Sassy McSassafrass said Everyone knew the Stone Tower was built upon a tear between the realm of the living and the dead. It was built to contain and control that tear. The doors of the tower were sealed to prevent it being flooded with the dead returned to life. That was the popular legend but it was also said that the Tower was what created the tear in the first place.

Gosh, Alex has been hearing a lot of very strange things. I don't know what all this tear between realms business is but perhaps I can elucidate this a little bit for our purposes because the game is vague on what went down. In this canon, no one actually knows when or why the Stone Tower was built, but it's widely known that the Ikana most certainly didn't build it. Following a very costly war with the Garo Ninja that involved a siege of this mysterious stone tower, the kingdom of Ikana fell into ruin after being completely ravaged by the war, but not before the last of the Ikana sealed the doors to the tower to contain all the restless vengeful souls that remained within.

30 years ago, the Skull Kid comes along and breaks the seal on the tower, which causes the lingering spirits within the tower (like the Garo Robes and the Stal Knights) to begin plaguing Ikana again. Dampe the Oathkeeper climbs the stone tower and defeats twinmold, resealing the temple and laying the spirits to rest once again. Present day, some dark magic weakened the seal, which led to war with this undead legion.

Does that all make sense? The Stone Tower doesn't contain a portal to the realm of the undead, it just houses lingering vengeful spirits that perished during that bloody war between the Ikana and the Garo. S'all gravy though.

Horray for history lessons!

Also, damn Chandy, I was not expecting a specific reply so fast. You are rather on the ball. I'll be working on a post tonight, and hopefully up in a similar time frame.

Those are basically just rumours and myths. I do not claim that there is any truth in them. Besides she has an "uncle" that came from Ikana who is a compulsory liar so she's got to have heard a hundred different versions of the Stone Tower myth. This is the one she liked the best.

As you say it is unknown how the Stone Tower came to be so folk will have made up a hundred different versions of it for telling around the camp fire.

Which party shall Rissie crash? She's boring when she's all alone ^.^

Now that I'm in the full throes of some #summerlovin and done with the pressures of school and clerkship I am going to be much more "on the ball" in the near future to make up for my very FM-esque (FMinate?) "off-the-ball" performance in the past weeks. Full speed ahead, y'all.

I'd be happy to have Griga bump into Rissie if you'd like, Kiddo.

Ohoho, that would be just perfect.

Post is up! Hopefully my taking some liberties in relations between Teruk and the NPCs as well as their personalities weren't too off base.

I really, really hope to have a post up sometime in the next couple days. It's been tough to find the time for it, since I'm working two jobs now. Yay for money, though.

A Canyon Title Deed? The plot thickens. It's so thick it could be FM's skull.

Who is this mysterious man? What is that strange book? Why is Oliver everyone's favorite character? all this and more, coming soon!

I think we're all good and ready for our first round of plot relevant posts. FM, explain to the people how plot relevant posts work.

I'm finally working on my post! Sorry for the wait...

Plot relevant posts... hmmm...

Yeah... well. They're posts. That have information that is relevant to the plot. So you should probably pay attention to them and stuff. Like. More attention than usual.

I will have another post on the go tomorrow, I hope!

I thought this video was the bee's knees. Cool beyond words.

Sorry about the poor speed of my posting, I was recently informed that I'm basically being forcefully relocated to the other side of town, so I've been spending a lot of time trying to balance work and packing. I'll try get another response up tonight.