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TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
#6302: Jul 3rd 2021 at 7:43:04 AM

[up] As I read it:

  • "Maryland" is the place in which the character's father practices law, and plays on "Mary".
  • "Queen" implies a haughty attitude, and, well, is the title of the aforementioned Mary
  • "Scold" refers to a person who constantly finds fault (and is generally applied to women), and plays on "Scot"

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#6303: Jul 5th 2021 at 1:18:14 AM

What would be a good name for a killing machine of a warrior who also at least gives one act of mercy beforehand?

Context: The main character (Captain Dale Lee)is an American fighter pilot in WWI and is one of the most feared pilot in the entire Allied Powers, with over 30 confirmed kill.

When he sees enemies, he fires warning shot and gives several minutes to either retreat or surrender. If the enemy stays around the vicinity after the warning, he then swoops and goes for the kill. Most don't get away.

The one I got so far are "Half-Mercy Lee" and "Two-Strike Pilot"

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TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#6304: Jul 5th 2021 at 4:25:18 AM

[up] "Thunderbolt Lee"

"The Lightning strikes first, then comes the thunder, depending on how close the storm is to your position."

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#6305: Jul 5th 2021 at 4:26:42 AM

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Like, godDAMN. That's so epic it just gave me chills.

Thank you so much, now I HAVE to use that one, both the nickname and the sentence!

Edited by dRoy on Jul 5th 2021 at 8:30:46 PM

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Winterbird from Travelling throught the space-time continuum Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
#6306: Jul 6th 2021 at 1:05:56 PM

Any good ideas for a secret organization that investigates the paranormal? I thought about naming it the Illuminati Order and having them be the original thing, but I'm not fully convinced.

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#6307: Jul 6th 2021 at 7:55:16 PM

[up] "Reality Check"

Alternative: "Red Tape"

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#6309: Jul 6th 2021 at 7:58:53 PM

Paranormal Investigations and Trials Associationtongue

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jul 6th 2021 at 7:59:14 AM

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#6310: Jul 6th 2021 at 8:40:41 PM

Special Circumstances Investigation Group

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TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#6311: Jul 6th 2021 at 8:42:55 PM

"Smoke and Mirrors" = SAM for short.

Winterbird from Travelling throught the space-time continuum Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
#6312: Jul 7th 2021 at 3:37:38 AM

Ohh, so many suggestions. Now I don't know which to pick...grin

Nukeli Since: Aug, 2018
#6313: Jul 7th 2021 at 11:05:57 AM

Title ideas for The Legend of Korra fanfic arcs?

  • The first in the shortfic series about the new (earth kingdom) Avatar, who doesn't know he is one yet and lives in a remote village. He and another teen boy fight and fall down a ravine, where the only way out is to walk to the other end where the mountain stops. Because they don't stay put, the protagonist's father doesn't find them. They're stalked by bandits whose attack causes the protagonist (earthbender) to accidentally bend fire at them, revealing that he's the avatar. Once they're saved he's supposed to go to Southern Water Tribe for training, but insists on helping the army catch the bandits while his earthbending training continues.

  • In the second one the avatar goes to southern water tribe, which after the events of TLOK is in a could war with the northern tribe. He secretly participates in a sailboat race between the tribes (it's like those dick-measuring contests between Usa and Ussr), and learns that spies and saboteurs are involved. He and two water tribe boys need to solve the situation discreetly to avert catastrophe/open accusations/anybody getting caught or confessing because otherwise the war could turn hot.

  • There's going to be at least three more arcs (one for each element and another for avatar state) but i haven't figured them out yet.

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PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#6314: Jul 7th 2021 at 2:23:54 PM

What’s a good name for an ancient artifact that lets you link to and summon someone from another world far away, but only when the two worlds’ suns and planets are aligned, which only happens every 65,000 years or so?

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Jul 7th 2021 at 5:24:00 AM

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#6315: Jul 7th 2021 at 2:49:09 PM

Mmm...tell me more. What does the artifact look like? Are there deities in your universe? Is the artifact from a specific culture?

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PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#6316: Jul 7th 2021 at 4:06:33 PM

The artifact is from a Science Fantasy setting with no deities and the “other” world is Earth. It maybe looks like sort of a globe?

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#6317: Jul 7th 2021 at 4:18:19 PM

Maybe call it something like "The Galactic Clock".

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ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
#6318: Jul 8th 2021 at 12:31:54 AM

Hmm... Maybe something like "the Synchrovoculum"? (Meaning something like "aligned calling/summoning", I think.) Note that this may be awful Latin (or Latin and Greek ^^; ), so there may be a better form of the word!

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#6319: Jul 8th 2021 at 5:31:57 AM

[up]x6 ...Shouldn't the Earth Kingdom Avatar go first to Fire Nation to learn Firebending, since order is Water->Earth->Fire->Air-Water and so on?

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Nukeli Since: Aug, 2018
#6320: Jul 8th 2021 at 6:39:54 AM

[up] That's the order of the avatar cycle. As far as i'm aware it doesn't matter that much which element you start fromnote . The main thing about it was that the element most opposite to your personality was the hardest to master.

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Edited by Nukeli on Jul 8th 2021 at 4:40:16 PM

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#6321: Jul 8th 2021 at 8:04:41 AM

Well, from what I've looked up, it's both traditional and recommended that Avatar learns the elements in the order of cycle starting from their native bending. For example, while Korra was able to bend water, earth and fire as a kid, Katara recommended that Korra would master waterbending before learning others.note 

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#6322: Jul 8th 2021 at 9:25:47 AM

#6314 - "Conjunction-Powered Summoning Tool"?

Edited by Willbyr on Jul 8th 2021 at 9:26:54 AM

TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#6323: Jul 8th 2021 at 9:30:18 AM

For the Artifact:

Suggestion: The "Gacha".

Edited by TitanJump on Jul 8th 2021 at 6:30:38 PM

PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#6324: Jul 8th 2021 at 1:30:56 PM

Nice names, everyone! Especially Ars’s. I settled on “Wittgenstein” for now, but I might make it a clock instead of a globe (based on WarJay’s)—still not entirely sure.

[down] Ahh. I kept the idea because of my work’s theming around time as well as space.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Jul 8th 2021 at 7:28:34 AM

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#6325: Jul 8th 2021 at 1:48:53 PM

I thought of a clock mostly because I thought it'd be cool if the artifact basically counted down until it could be used.

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