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@shylarahwhich mark? The one Tsitua showed to get through the circle?

Yeah that basically covers it loli liked the thread, but too many players was causing it to be difficult to keep track of where I wanted to go. Additionally I wasn't very emotionally stable so that's a thing.

Honestly I was gonna go somewhere with that and scrapped the idea lol. I'm still kinda putting this timeline together.
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@TheMinorFall Yes, and the mark that Ket has as well, as I think it's similar.

Honestly, the ideal rp for me when it comes to a forum-style rp is...probably not two, though two is okay. But like three or four dedicated posters. More than that and it gets messy and there's often a lot of delays. Fewer and you run out of ideas faster than I like, in many cases. Of course, if you have a /lot/ of dedicated posters things will move reasonably well, but I have always found the ones with three or four to be the most reliable.

*hugs* Emotional stability, unlike sanity, is generally a good thing to have. Unfortunately it's just as hard to keep. =/ I'm kind of a mess right now myself, actually. Plus with current events and people who won't shut up about politics -- either for or against whatever is happening -- I need an escape more than ever.

Haa, I do know the feeling of dangling but abandoned plot hooks. But hey, it'll be there if you think of something to hang on it later~!
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Only those who trained directly with Ket have that mark - meaning that the only living members with it are Marcus and Tsitua. But there are other ways to get back to the ship. I only used one of them to show the significance of who he is.

I put something up. Orion isn't in that one because I'm bringing him in. We're gonna take this thread to another level I think. Sorry for going so long without a post. Life happens as you well know lol.
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@TheMinorFall I do. *snugs* Hope everything's alright, and I'm glad to see you 'round again.

I was sure there are, that spell was probably specifically designed. *shrugs* I wondered about the significance -- and Amune may ask as well. *sits on happily*
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@TheMinorFall Oh. QUESTION! Is your username related to the song by Leonard Cohen?
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@shylarah

"The minor fall, and the major lift.
The baffled king composing, hallelujah..." lol about time someone noticed. Like five years after I implemented it xD
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@TheMinorFall I actually noticed very shortly after I encountered you, but I only asked now because of the death of Leonard Cohen the other day and I was singing the song and finally decided to sate my curiosity. ^.^;; I /love/ that song, though I think I've only heard the popular version. They have different lyrics, apparently.
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Yeah I play the official version of the song, both singing and on guitar. I even wrote my own verse but I don't remember it
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@TheMinorFall Official? So...Cohen's version? Cool~
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@shylarah *heavy sigh* I want to post, but I have no drive to write right now
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@TheMinorFall Aww, I'm sorry to hear that. Lack of inspiration/motivation is the worst. Let me reread some things, and I'll see if I can't light a spark, shall I? *snugs* I hope you at least had a good Thanksgiving.
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Hm, let's see. Well, she may have been insane during it, but there was a time when Amune was suicidal, or very close to it. She has scars on her left wrist, actually, though they're faint and often hidden by a watch or bracelet. Part of it was because the pain of the cuts helped her focus and stay grounded, when she kept losing herself. Part of it was that she wanted to escape the chaos in her head.

I dunno if you'd want to bring Jareth and Vincent back in. I know there was mention of a briefing two hours from arrival, but I don't know if that included them -- or Amune, for that matter. Orion and Cain should both be returning, I think you said.

I could write a little more from Amune. She could ask some questions to distract herself from what she doesn't want to think about. Or we can wait, if you'd prefer just to see if a couple days makes a difference.
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@shylarah I've been looking at prompts and pictures to try and rekindle my motivation so hopefully I can get something down. I need to stop and plan forward a little so this doesn't happen so often. I'm sorry lol I'm a bad rp partner
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@TheMinorFall Eh, you're really clever and creative, so it balances out. And a lot of the time I go forward with only a vague idea of what I might like to happen. *glomps*

I'm just really antsy because everyone's busy what with the holidays and all. They all have a lot to do, while I have nothing and I've been twitchy to start with, lately. ^.^

Actually, we should discuss things we'd like to have happen at some point. Because yay planning.
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@shylarahWell, I'd like to get some of my people on the ground with Amuné. Maybe they need her to find Kabuto. Also I'd like to develop the relationship between her and Tsitua. I want him to be a father figure to her, both for her sake and his own. This story isn't about the demon, it's about getting closure both for Tsitua and for Amuné. She may not be Zeela's reincarnation, but she could take on that role. I want Tsitua to save her from something bad and under fire circumstances, since he couldn't before. That's the vague idea anyway.
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@TheMinorFall <3 yay, rps about relationships. Definitely saving her would be good. I dunno if using her as bait would be a good idea -- or in character for Tsitua. Seems a bit callous, especially if she reminds him so much of his daughter. And she could use a parent-type that really understands her, and that she's close to. I mean, she loves her adopted parents, but after what her birth father did...there's always that slight hesitation. And who knows, maybe it'll help with them too.

And now I kinda want the owner guy to show up and tell his story to Tsitua. Pretty sure he's not from Earth originally, and maybe he's not as powerful in terms of most things as angels and demons and the like. His is more a quiet power, connecting. I can discuss him at length with you, to make sure he's okay. But the lady he loves is a phoenix, and she /can't/ die. So when she ended up hurt in a permanent fashion -- even death doesn't help -- in one of the fights between...probably angels and demons, or demons and something else, since angels don't exactly fight, you said? Anyhow, he got totally fed up and tried to leave the rest of the universe on its own.

I kinda see a phoenix, since they're outside the standard cycle of life and death, as having ties to past and present. Or at least this one did; she's a Seer too, and she's still got that ability, but she can't actively do anything about what she sees. However, owner guy can -- though she doesn't always let him see much, just what he needs to. there's a line rattling around my head, something along the lines of knowing what's coming and not being able to do anything hurts, but it's worse when you have to watch someone you care about hurt because /they/ know, and can do nothing. Or something. It was pretty earlier and now it's not and needs work. *sigh*

For the most part owner guy (he needs a name, fudge) stays out of things. He's not allowed to fix things, merely make it so those involved have a chance, if they do what's needed to take it. So he stepped in to get Amune away from the Ring, and back to sanity, so that she can be a player now. Since you've already said that apparently she's important /somehow/. ^.^; *took it and ran with that* I need to figure out what prompts him showing up, though. Hm....

What to save Amune from, though...it could be a fight type thing, or an ambush...but considering that Tsitua got Zeela back and couldn't save her /mind/, I think it should be something closer to that. I think...I think maybe something close to her trauma, her prior experiences with insanity and paranoia and lack of self-worth and so on. Certainly I'd like him (and possibly Jareth, but I don't think too many others) to find out about what happened, and how messed up she really is. Tsitua knows about the Ring, and the following insanity. He doesn't know much about the recovery period -- or how long it took.

Ketsuana can keep her magic from completely unraveling when he's close enough to turn up, so she can't completely lose it that way with him around, but with a mental component to it I think it's entirely possible that she'd tie herself into knots all on her own. If Tsitua can reach her while that's going on, or if she's slid back far enough into the depressed and pessimistic outlook and he manages to get her out of that (though I'm not sure how possible that is, depression doesn't magically go away), that would be a big deal. Same if Ket isn't around and she loses her grip on her magic/sense of reality. So yeah, could be fun~

And I'm getting all rambly. ^.^;; Hee, plotting is the best~
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@shylarahno, rambles are good! So my notes..

Paragraph one: I didn't mean to infer the use of her as bait. More of something along the lines of needing her power to find something-- perhaps the Owner.

Paragraph two and three: this vague background is plenty. Details can be fleshed out later or in another discussion. What I like here is the ties binding the Owner and his lover to the Great Conflict. They're just players that have chosen to step away, but ultimately their part is not to fight. Rather their part is to aid those fighting. Ket would know them, at least from a past meeting. I'm thinking that early in the owner's life he was involved in a battle that was going south. Perhaps on his home world. Then, just before the decisive maneuver of the enemy, this guy -Ket- shows up from nowhere and begins killing demons left and right like they're nothing. Maybe the owner didn't see what happened, but he never forgot about that warrior who saved him from a death blow from a demon. Anyway the rest of that is good.

Paragraph four: I don't think he needs a name really. A man stepping away would surely give up the name that defined him before he decided to leave the battle field. He should definitely be suuuuuuper old though, old enough to have lived several lifetimes and seen many iterations of the Great Conflict and Ketsuoana's actions in them. Perhaps he has been watching Ket for a while now. I like your idea of him enabling Amuné to meet her destiny too. That's a good one.

Paragraph five: Okay, let's say that Kabuto gets his hands on another Seer of lesser power than Amuné, but enough to find her mind and invade it. What if he torments it and begins the corruption and this leads to what Tsitua needs to save her from. He's gonna do a thing that only he can do and that I will save for a surprise, that saves her, and this is what solidifies the bond. We can go from there with whatever we want to happen next. Perhaps a new rp will be born.

Paragraph six: Ketsuoana is both Angel and Devil. His mother was Zerulia of Light and Exoneration. His father was Deno, devil of destruction. He wouldn't interfere with things on a large scale. As you can see, so far he has only observed and influenced. Other than calming her magic that is. He is aware of the fates and usually doesn't act unless he is sure he is supposed to. It's a complicated thing. Point is, he won't always be there because the fates won't let him. This will allow mentioned events to transpire.

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Right, in order:

Ehh, Iunno if I want /having/ to seek out Owner to be a thing...or...hm. Well, I could perhaps see him having a collection of books and possibly artifacts. Maybe one of these is needed. That would be acceptable. <3

Phoenix was never a fan of the fighting, but Owner did get involved -- partly to keep things safe for her, after they met. Though I think he mellowed once meeting her too. Before that he was considerably less benevolent, and might've even been a bit malicious -- or at least a trickster. I keep thinking he's some sort of very old fey. Definitely ancient, on the order of millennia. Dunno if he's older than Ket, dunno that it matters.

I think instead of getting saved while in a fight, he was a neutral party by then. Phoenix has been sleeping/in a coma for ages now, but it's possible that Owner ended up somewhere in trouble -- ooh, maybe he tried to get involved when she said he shouldn't, and that's why he ended up needing saving?! ...Yeah, that might work. So not too long after she was injured, and when he was moving from involved to the sidelines. So he has been keeping an eye on Ket for a long time, yes. Think he might keep an eye on Seers in general. I feel like Phoenix may have a connection to a lot of them, or at least tend to notice them more.

Yee, Kabuto could easily get another Seer. Kel, the girl Amune keeps remembering, is the other Seer she mentioned, but also quite dead at this point. If reincarnation is a thing, having Kel's new self would knock Amune away from pragmatism very quickly. You've said that Amune is exceptionally powerful for a Seer, so I'll go with that. But I don't know if a Seer to Seer connection would be possible at range, save for the strongest. ...Perhaps instead, a telepath/empath of some kind? Someone with magic pertaining to the mind. This would justify both connection, and also why Amune gets freaked so easily (though really, anyone in her head get a major negative reaction, and anyone threatening her mind or even brushing past her barriers will make her bristle.)

AHAHA and that is precisely why the Phoenix doesn't get involved much either. Or rather, doesn't let Owner get involved much either. <3 Phoenix herself didn't like being involved, particularly since she didn't stay dead but others did. And because she could see how a lot of her actions would make things worse. I suspect there's a number of beings that make things worse just by being involved. Like...automatic escalation, so even if the good guys win, the collateral damage is much higher.

I do want Jareth to find out he has minor magic at some point. It's really nothing special, and probably can't be used offensively without serious creativity -- w4e'll see what he thinks of. But machinery and electronics are another matter.

And I still want Amune to lose her fingers, if only because having her under the influence of drugs and unhinging her in that way is fun. <3 It also allows people to see just how bad losing control is for her. It'll be worse in this setting than it was last time around, because I hadn't figured out all of her past at that point, not realized just how messed up she is. She keeps insisting she's fine even in my head. <3 But yeah, she'll be crazed, and almost certainly is going to try to gouge her eyes out, so there's that. I think having someone completely undo the effects is a bit cheap -- maybe if Tsitua does like he did last time, he can get most but not all, so there's still minor effects. Then you'll get to see a few other destructive coping skills. ^.^

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@TheMinorFall *shakes you to see if it jostles any inspiration loose* any luck?
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@shylarah *zombie status* it's been a hellish week .-.
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