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Redesigned RP Guild UI

PS: By the way. If anyone feels like it, just change and improve it to your own tastes. If you can post the result back here, it would be even better, so we can improve the guild's look and feel little by little.

Redesigned RP Guild UI

Let me preface that, normally, I don't post in this kind of thread so, I may or may not reply in a timely manner to anything coming from this.

With that said, I took a look at this thread with some compiled suggestions for the future of the Guild (which will likely never get implemented if we are being realistic). Which reminded me that I was working on a stylesheet for guild the other day (the kind you can load on a browser extension like Stylish and change the site's CSS style). It kinda shows that, if someone wanted to, the Guild's design wouldn't be unsalvageable.

Bear in mind that this is in a very, very alpha stage and only really works on main posting threads. The guild's HTML is a mess with a lot of hardcoded values that really didn't need to be there, but simply changing the site to a more modern color palette like Nord and removing some of abundant the sharp angles, can make it so much easier on the eyes.

If anyone else wants to take a look at how it's the CSS is down bellow, just load it on your favorite stylesheet editing extension and navigate to an RP thread, and yo should see how even a few simple changes can make the site more user friendly in terms of looks (and customizable to the user's taste at that).

body {
background-color: #2E3440;
color: #D8DEE9;
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 1.5;
text-align: justify;
}

.forum-tabs>li.active>a, .forum-tabs>li.active>a:focus, .forum-tabs>li.active>a:hover, .nav-tabs>li.active>a, .nav-tabs>li.active>a:focus, .nav-tabs>li.active>a:hover, .topic-tabs>li.active>a, .topic-tabs>li.active>a:focus, .topic-tabs>li.active>a:hover {
border: 0;
}

.topic-tabs>li.active>a, .topic-tabs>li.active>a:focus, .topic-tabs>li.active>a:hover, .topic-tabs>li>a, .topic-tabs>li>a:focus, .topic-tabs>li>a:hover {
padding-bottom: 20px;
}

.nav-tabs>li>a {
margin-right: 5px;
line-height: 1.5;
border-radius: 10px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
}

.nav-tabs>li.active>a, .nav-tabs>li.active>a:focus, .nav-tabs>li.active>a:hover {
background-color: #3B4252;
color: #D8DEE9;
font-weight: 500;
}

.bb-h1 {
font-family: sans-serif;
margin-top: 0;
}

.bb-h2 {
font-family: sans-serif;
margin-top: 0;
}

.bb-h3 {
font-family: sans-serif;
margin-top: 0;
}

.panel {
border: 0 !important;
background-color: #2E3440;
}

.panel-heading {
border-radius: 15px 15px 0 0 !important;
background-color: #3B4252 !important;
border: 0 !important;
margin-top: 5px !important;
}

.panel-body {
background-color: #3B4252 !important;
padding: 0;
}

.panel-footer {
border-radius: 0 0 15px 15px !important;
background-color: #3B4252 !important;
border: 0 !important;
margin-bottom: 10px !important;
}

.well {
background-color: #2E3440 !important;
border: 0;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 0;
}

Grimoiric Heart

We can also just assume Eins is just lonely and wants people to visit her longer.

@TheWendil

Eins: "That's totally not true. I'm neither a loner nor traumatized in any way shape or form."

Grimoiric Heart

This was the worst, simply the worst. After waiting for a week for some of the students to come to visit her at the library, Eins was utterly disappointed that no one of the newbies came even to ask about her offer —or visit her at all.

Now, on top of that, she was rudely shaken awake by the sound of chaos coming from the cafeteria. As one of the primary supporting magical girls around, she rarely went on night missions and patrols, so Eins could still enjoy a proper sleep schedule However, tonight she was quite literally thrown out of her bed by the impacts of Tesni's strikes, only to find that the school —or at least the dining hall— had turned into Hell on Earth.

In times of crisis, the first response was crucial, and it seems like Eins had already failed on that. She couldn't shake the guilt from that, but at least she could try and do her best to hold the fort while most of the other teachers were out.

Catching the identity of the assailant, and her mode of attack wasn't a hard task. All Eins had to do was run into one of the magical girls who were fleeing the cafeteria in pain. A cursory look at her grimoire —as well as the girl's report— was enough for Eins to understand the situation.

"This is terrible, horrific. How can someone do such a thing to anyone else?" Altering, tuning, revising... The words might vary but ultimately were all the same. Changing a Grimoire was a delicate process, these weren't just pages on a book, they were pretty much an expression of the souls of the magical girls they were bonded with. Forcing such a change on them was... cruel. She saw what could happen to someone with a corrupted grimoire before, she wasn't gonna let that happen to anyone again, even if Eins had to risk her life for it.

"At least, I came here on time. Hold on a little, I'll help you right away." Eins wasn't happy with the idea of applying her tuning in such a harsh way, but if she didn't do anything to patch the damaged girls up, they could very well be beyond help by the time she got to them. With certain reluctance, she pulled a pen from her coat and scribbled something on the girl's rapidly-corrupting grimoire, stopping the spread for the time being. However, that also forced the victims she helped out of their magical girl state. It was only a stopgap —and one Eins hated— but it was necessary all the same. If she could avoid the spread of the corruption, she was certain that she could save them later.

"But first, we must stop this," Eins said as she left many of her nutcracker soldiers taking care of the girls she helped so far and rushed to the ground zero of this invasion — Merrywell's dining hall.

"I don't know who you are, or why you are doing this. But you have to stop it now! What you are doing isn't right. If you insist on it, I'll not hold anything back!" Eins demanded of Roma as she barreled into the half-demolished cafeteria. True to her words, she was holding what looked like a feathery, almost Valkyrian-looking —albeit still Christmas-themed— lance in a hand and the other was pointing right at Roma's feet, atop Tesni's staff. With a command from their creator, her nutcracker soldiers shot a volley of warning shots at the invader, hoping to stop her right in her tracks.

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Tower of Fable

Erika Reinhardt

"The good son always comes back home. Isn't it like that?" Erika answered Katie's question in a roundabout way before taking another sip of her milkshake. "You should listen to your new girl friend. That stuff you were having earlier is bad for you," she added while checking Riku up. Even though Erika had to agree with Katie, that just taking one of the casino's outfits was literally asking for trouble, she couldn't help but think that Riku looked good in it.

"Do I need a reason to come visit my cousin? Especially after you just disappeared out of nowhere one day? Actually, I wasn't even the only one. But it seems that Dumb Tiger lost her way somewhere in the Tower," Erika said casually after being interrogated about her motives. "That said, I couldn't exactly anticipate that things would turn out like this. Who would've thought you were on an outing with 'that' kind of people?" She said, not even bothering to mention whose of Katie's companions she was referring to, lest they attract even more unwelcome company.

"I wouldn't worry about that if I were you. It's just like Miss Grumpy here said. This place is all about luck, you'll eventually find your friends once again." Erika followed up on Katie's explanation before drawing a deck of cards from her coat and fanning them before Riku's eyes. "Believe in the heart of the cards and all that. And, if you don't find them, I guess I wouldn't bother adopting a cute bunny like you~"

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"Well well, this place is full of tricks, isn't it?" Farris said when she noticed that the Marianne she was holding was not a creation of the Tower anymore, but rather the genuine, lecherous article. "And here I thought it was the other way around. At least that's what Rama likes to brag to everyone and their mother, literally," she replied to Marianne's quip about Rama.

"What the!? Grrr!" Farris' voice came out as a literal growl as she noticed the form that had been foisted upon her not only placing her into such an unbecoming outfit but also revealing the baser attributes she inherited from her mother. "I should have expected you to be fine with this kind of humiliation, but what do you mean by work? You know what kind of thing that means over here, don't you?" the wolf said even as she was dragged by the collar towards Thomas and the rest.

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Grimoiric Heart

@BrokenPromise

I'm sorry, I can't accept a character based on Fionn that doesn't have to suck their thumb to use her wisdom powers.

At any rate, she seems ok. You know what you have to do.

Grimoiric Heart

@TheWendil Okay, so I have some questions.

I pretty much have everything but the actual magical girl part figured out, hence where the questions come in.

So I was thinking about doing was an alter tale based on the Fenian Cycle. Yes, Cuhullin is a total chad, but I really like the stories about the more "human" Fianna clan members led by Fionn mac Cumhaill, or Finn McCool as he is commonly called in English.

My issue is that there is no single story that these dudes appear in. They're in several poems written in a body of literature called the Fenian Cycle, which is a collection of early irish writing that spans from the 9th to 14th century. So my question is for a grimoire would it be acceptable to use a collection of stories like the Fenian Cycle that more or less follows the exploits of the Fianna, or would I have to pick a single poem/story to draw inspiration from?

@BrokenPromise

The later option is fine. That's pretty much what many grimoires based on old mythology should be anyway, since those stories always tend to be composite to some extent.

In a way, it even opens the possibility of more than one grimoire drawing from the same rough source, like Camelot and Merlin both originating from the Matter of Britain. Most mythological cycles can be used in this way, and actually make more sense if so, so the idea of a character with an anthology like grimoire is fine in these cases.

Tower of Fable

"I could ask the same thing out of you," Farris said. As she answered Marianne's question with one of her own, the dark-skinned girl's voice remained rather casual, despite her peer's not-so-veiled threats. "I suppose I can agree with that. We should find a better name for ourselves. But that's a matter for another time, right now, we have more pressing issues to attend to," she added as the structure of the tower began to collapse around them.

The fabric of reality being unraveled around her was of no concern to Farris who was born of the union of Space and Time. She didn't suffer from as much disorientation as others likely would when being suddenly shunted into a new plane of existence, even if it was another of the Tower's simulacra. In fact, when they landed in the new world, Farris found hers and Marianne's positions to be more or less swapped. Now, the dark-skinned girl held her pale peer in her arms, in a bridal carry.

Farris didn't make any effort to conceal the smirk on her lips. "Maybe, you should find someone less prone to temper tantrums. Not that I think it makes any difference to you of all people, does it?" She answered the other girl's question, pointing to the fact Marianne likely had no attachment to this "host" of her other than what the Tower forced her to.

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Meanwhile, in an inconspicuous bar, not that far away from the place the others landed. The door swung open, prompting a clanging bell to break the uncharacteristic stillness brought about by Katie's moody... mood.

A couple moments later, a girl dressed in fashionable garbs one would expect of a VIP customer sat at the counter, right beside the object of attraction of most of the present, patrons and staff alike. "Two of your best strawberry milkshakes, please. One for me, and one for the lady over here. And don't forget the cherry on top, please," Erika said to whoever was running the bar.

"So, do you come over here very often?" the blonde said to her cousin, trying to sound as serious and suave as possible, even though she was kind of having to hold back from laughing at her own joke.

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Grimoiric Heart

Having finished her business with the newbie magical girls for the time being, Eins was just about to call it a day, leave for her room, and find some way to spend the rest of the night. At least that's what she meant to do before being intercepted by one of those very same girls before she could do any of it.

"Wha--!?" Eins replied with a start, as Stripes' question snapped her back to reality. "I... hmm... If I'm not wrong, your Magical Girl name is Stripes, huh?" She asked as she tried to recollect the other girl's name.

"Hmm? It's not like I mind sharing, but I thought the costume and name already gave it away. Well, that's my bad, I guess. After all, I can't quite expect everyone to know about a mere Legend." Eins sounded almost bummed that her Grimoire wasn't recognized. Still, dusted her cape and introduced herself properly. "Well, as my friend here implies, my tale is that of the Nutcracker and the Mouse King. While I may draw some inspiration from that story's protagonist, I suppose most of my skills are more in tune with Godfather Drosselmeyer, the miracle inventor. That's why I chose Drossel as my codename, you see?" she said, with a proud smile on her face.

"Anyway, now that I answered your question. Can I help you with something? If it's about my offering, I'll be happy to help you. That said, I can't quite do it here. Tuning is a lengthy and delicate process, so it needs a proper time and place to be performed."

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Grimoiric Heart

"Su-- Sure, Mi-- I mean, Val!" Eins replied with a start, after Valeria's answer. She sounded almost like a startled deer caught in the sights of a hunter. In a way, maybe that was the case considering both magical girls' motifs. "I-- thank you for your consideration!" She added hurriedly, before turning her attention back to the eager rookie magical girls.

"Oh well, that... certainly makes it easier to explain..." Eins said to herself, following Suzuya's declaration. The silver-haired magical girl's voice carried a hint of disappointment, almost as if she were holding herself back from pouting after one of the girls got the gist of how her abilities work on her first try. "It's just like she said, in a way at least." Eins addressed Stripes' answer about what her proposal entailed, pointing to the flame-tailed magical girl.

"I trust most of you girls worked with, or at least know about Goodhope's skills. Well, mine are similar... but of a more permanent nature. In a way, I guess you can think about it as a fast-track trainign regimen, since I can't help you get any abilities you wouldn't naturally have, even if you don't know you have the potential for them," Eins continued her explanation, puffing out her chest with pride as it finally looked like she was in control of the situation. "I'll give you girls time for some consideration. Just beware of one thing... nothing in this world comes for free. I can help you learn about your grimoires' faster. But if all you desire is power, you should take care to not end up twisted by your own desires."

"At any rate, if any of you still want my help, feel free to come see me at either the Arts and Crafts room, or the Library. I'll be more than glad to help," Eins said before also taking her leave from the training grounds, as if on cue with the rest of the disbanding crowd.

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