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This is a thread where, as the title implies, our avatars (from our galleries) are posting in an in-universe forum thread. You can drop in any time with pretty much any character you want, whether from existing works or your own OCs. Though most of it is done through forum posts, some "in-person" interactions between characters is also fine.

Even if this is a more casual RP, there are still some rules and general RP etiquette to keep in mind for everyone to have a good time and feel comfortable:

  • NO GODMODDING. Godmodding is when you decide what happens to another player's character, and is generally frowned upon. In particular, avoid injuring and especially killing someone else's character; fighting is ok but let the other player decide if the hit connects. If your plot idea requires something to happen to a different player's character, you'll want to privately discuss this with them and if they're ok with that. This includes in-universe moderation.
  • Be nice and respect other players' boundaries. Your character being mean or a jerk is one thing, but if someone gets uncomfortable about your behavior towards their characters, knock it off. Also do not force others into your story arcs; in general it would be a good idea to ask the other person first if they are interested, and plan it together if they are.
  • If you have anything to say, ask about, ect. that is not part of the RP, you can put it under a spoiler tag [[spoiler: like this]]
  • While almost any character is welcome, please avoid playing any real-life person who's mainly associated with controversies, drama and problematic behavior. We don't need that here.
  • Have fun!

    Original post 

Ahh, console video games (or vidcons as I call them). the ultimate medium of expression, able to convey any emotion ranging from hatred to love, loyalty to fear, all in front of our eyes. Ah, and with lovingly crafted art, music, and the ability to control the action, vidcons are the ultimate combination of the high arts. While I tend to play the stoic, I will be the first to admit that vidcons haven driven me to cry, to scream and shout, to feel actual hate; such is the power of this force beyond our wildest reckoning. And here I am, before you, to temp your tongues with the taint of such a tantalizing topic.

And the Japanese, the true geniuses behind the world of video games. Pah, I throw my scorn upon such incompetents of the West who would mock the true art of the Japanese with 'games' such as Baldur's Gate and Madden. Perhaps it is that the West is not as intelligent as the East, but this is a matter for another day. Japan has given us such masterpieces as the Final Fantasy series, Star Ocean, Wild Arms, and of course, Arc the Lad. Yes, some of the finest vidcons in the world were created by Japanese. I come to you today to ask you in all earnesty, what is your favorite vidcon? I will reveal mine after the grand debate has illustriously begun, but not before the first poster falls victim to my plot of discussion.

In other words, this is a thread on an imaginary forum our avatars frequent. The topic can fluctuate, and its mostly just general discussion.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Sep 2nd 2025 at 7:38:57 AM

nonalienpersonyep alcoholism :heart: from The City (Rule of Three) Relationship Status: Chat, is this real?
alcoholism :heart:
#65826: Jun 25th 2022 at 3:41:29 PM

   This is lively, huh?   

"There's no tomorrow here. No hope." // a,,,
StepexNo2 Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS from The Complex Plane Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS
#65827: Jun 26th 2022 at 4:13:50 AM

Depends on the time of day, really. Dunno which timezone you live in, but for me, the thread starts getting active at around 10 PM.

Small update from my homeworld - something has started attacking factories all across the local galaxy. The P10K Battlestar assembly line is still functional, luckily, but I've just been told that there will be a briefing from the CenterBrain this afternoon regarding whatever this new threat is, and attendance is mandatory for any participants in the Dyson Sphere Program. I'll try my best to keep you updated.

That's right, DSP is getting a combat update! There's been an announcement on Steam about it, and it included a bunch of new lore. Hopefully the retcons won't be too bad lol

Edited by StepexNo2 on Jun 26th 2022 at 1:14:20 PM

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
GeneralGigan Godzilla from A New Empire Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Godzilla
#65828: Jun 26th 2022 at 11:05:10 AM

   Oh sweet Nox, another alien invasion?   

SKREEEEEEEONK!
MkayRose Zombies do enjoy cereal when not after brains! from Blood Fountain Cathedral (Seven Years' War) Relationship Status: Married to the music
Zombies do enjoy cereal when not after brains!
#65829: Jun 26th 2022 at 1:25:40 PM

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/milktchi_zowie.png   Aliens? Hope they aren't scawy.   

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ready_to_beatdown.png Don't worry, I can handle them!

When Dracula's Curse is manageable through grand melodies.
StepexNo2 Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS from The Complex Plane Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS
#65830: Jun 26th 2022 at 1:44:19 PM

Well, it's been a long day, the "brief"ing was a bit longer than expected and I had lots of fun discussing ethics and AI stuff with the other attendants afterwards, but no, this enemy is not alien - apparently it's a precursor to the Dyson Sphere Program. You see, there were attempts to improve power production before the DSP, and one of them (dubbed the Mechanical Energy Program or MEP for short) involved self-replicating machines which would autonomously harvest resources, generate power, send that power back to Earth, and if they still had power left, they would use it to replicate themselves. We equipped them with weapons, too, just in case some theoretical invader tried to break them - in retrospect, that might've been an odd idea, since we're the ones encroaching on alien civilizations here. Eventually the swarm of machines became sentient and started expanding for its own sake, disregarding the energy needs of the CenterBrain. And now, somewhere in the very near future, this Dark Fog might be competing with us for resources. If you don't know the dangers of self-replicating (and spacefaring!) machines, I'd recommend playing Universal Paperclips.

I've shut down the Battlestar production line out of fear of a similar scenario - at least the battlestars don't replicate themselves. I'll probably also have to start outsourcing some supply chains to other universes. If anyone else here can travel between universes and has firepower, you're more than welcome to come over and help fight the Dark Fog - just don't come within one parsec of Earth, or people might get suspicious.

Edited by StepexNo2 on Jun 26th 2022 at 10:45:16 AM

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
Cibryll ~Serra~ from Lightning Crest (she/her) Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
~Serra~
#65831: Jun 26th 2022 at 2:41:52 PM

  
planting factories
factories planted
feeding "Lord of the Mender's Fluff" 1 "Mender's Fluff Token"
Synchro Summoning "Samurai Destroyer"
setting the Pendulum Scale with two Scale 8 "Rain Bozu"
targeting for critical strike
eRr0R:
opponent unconfirmed
no opponent detected
melting never-melt ice
rusting rustproof steel
burning fireproof chicken burgers
force-feeding greedy squirrels with deadly neurotoxin
decoding world
uploading "meklord.chr" to generation XL-2
fatal warning 404:
site does not allow animated images of flower dragons eating Cibrylls
subjugated one losing mind
putting up wanted poster

Wanted: missing mind belonging to Subjugated One, handle "Delrene Mohr'Tallavis"
Reward: one centillion credits for use in Endanian universe
Last known location: somewhere within the omniverse

DANGER!
Virus detected, codename "cirxhale.vrs"
Scanning threat level complete:
Code deep black.
Currently installed firmware cannot defeat it.
Please upgrade to—
ERROR
"cirxhale.vrs" has been replaced with "cirxhale.vccn"
mind is still missing
  

"Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"
shroobot3000 Witch of Scarlet Dreams from Behind you Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Witch of Scarlet Dreams
#65832: Jun 26th 2022 at 3:37:09 PM

Meklord...? Oh! Like that card game Koakuma showed me once!

"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
StepexNo2 Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS from The Complex Plane Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS
#65833: Jun 26th 2022 at 11:33:23 PM

[up][up]...I still can't understand what you're saying, sorry.

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
Trespasser Unhinged Menace from [Redacted] Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: Love = my face = a building on fire
Unhinged Menace
#65834: Jun 26th 2022 at 11:50:17 PM

...

"Know your place, fool."
CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#65835: Jun 27th 2022 at 1:32:47 AM

[up][up][up][up]   Can I instead get a cure for void? Still going to get that soul anyways- veryy powerful object.   

Grim is now looking for the soul.

Edited by CardboardBot on Jun 27th 2022 at 11:33:11 AM

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
Zeanobia (she/her) Sanity is overrated from My house Since: Mar, 2012
(she/her) Sanity is overrated
#65836: Jun 27th 2022 at 4:10:02 AM

<Removed>

The OOC explanation is obviously my misunderstanding but the IC explanation is there too: The AI counterattacks/webcrawlers targeting Junko finally managed to mute her messages

Edited by Zeanobia on Jun 27th 2022 at 2:27:06 PM

#nolivesmatter
StepexNo2 Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS from The Complex Plane Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS
#65837: Jun 27th 2022 at 4:28:35 AM

[up] Afaik that's just incoherent rambling, with no necessary bearing on reality. Also, Icarus did delete the newer backup of the DDLC world, so this shouldn't be happening. Also also, friendly reminder that the AI is still on the hunt

Redundant post, please ignore

Edited by StepexNo2 on Jun 27th 2022 at 2:44:20 PM

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
Cibryll ~Serra~ from Lightning Crest (she/her) Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
~Serra~
#65838: Jun 27th 2022 at 5:20:22 AM

  
Submit to hope
And put to eternal slumber despair
One can never exist without the other
A perfect harmony exists through total balance
Rave Into the End, Sword of Asgard
The arcana is the means by which all is revealed...
Yes, even too the fates of the nine hells and the worlds beyond.
Flower dragon, flower dragon~ :3
All hail king StepexNo666666
He who rules supreme over all Endalyce
Descendant of emperor StepexNo4444
Themselves descending from StepexNo666666

The ancient pact has been sealed with a single phrase
"Thou art I, and I am thou."
Burning within the everlasting eye
The sun is my daughter bearing the name Junko
Soon the moon will become the son bearing the forbidden name
The world of Rythmiqa will fall to the inner despair of hope
While hope itself despairs for freaking out over becoming a spooky ghost
Junko.chr tastes like satin
Shiǻda.chr tastes like wool

Error uploading "meklord.chr" to generation XL-2:
Cannot find data for "Meklord Empress"
Activating video game song "Muspell and Niflheim"
Sending the winged Icarus to song "Twined Malice"
Sending the Arachnakitties to the cheeseburger factory
Your soul is forfeit
By partaking in this ritual spell card
You can now bring about a new ice cream flavour
That nobody has ever before seen in the history of history
Gas mask cats are cute too
But the meteor launcher is armed and ready to fire at Miza's will
Eternity awaits...
  

Like [up] said, yeah. Just her babbling as incoherently as… well, can't exactly say "humanly" since she isn't human but neither "The Empty Onely" nor "The Subjugated Onely" sound right… but anyway, just babbling as incoherently as possible.
Or translation: me and my "temporary right arms" (friends, girlfriends, or my twin sister, when they're typing for me while my right arm heals) coming up with the most random things we can think of just for the heck of it.
I'll probably sift through all the madness at some point and see if I can't make any sense of it somehow. I think there are a few pretty good stuff buried in the madness, which we could use for the fictional multiverse we've got.
Either way, sorry for any confusion it may've caused—

"Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"
StepexNo2 Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS from The Complex Plane Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS
#65839: Jun 27th 2022 at 5:38:18 AM

Sounds like loads of fun [lol]

[up] Question. They say that reality is what remains after you stop believing in it - do you understand what I mean?

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
shroobot3000 Witch of Scarlet Dreams from Behind you Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Witch of Scarlet Dreams
#65840: Jun 27th 2022 at 11:00:45 AM

[up] Sounds like what the outside world is like now.

"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
Cibryll ~Serra~ from Lightning Crest (she/her) Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
~Serra~
#65841: Jun 27th 2022 at 11:40:09 AM

  
Why do you resist?
Why do you continue to walk the path you have chosen?
There is no reality.
Only when you accept the fantasy can there be reality.
It is when the darkness becomes the light and the light becomes the darkness that the world truly ends with you.
But don't take my word for it.
Take the word of my daughter for it.
Uploading junko.chr.chr.chr.chr
eR0r4: flower dragon not found
deleting entity cibryll.exe
I am a Snacklord Empress
Bring forth the wars, that I may quench my thirst of war-flavoured fruit juice.
  

"Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"
StepexNo2 Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS from The Complex Plane Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS
#65842: Jun 27th 2022 at 12:05:52 PM

[up][up]That's why I'm very sure that there's more to your world than meets the eye - way more. If it's true that all the youkai moved into Gensokyo because they were losing power due to lack of belief from the outside world, then belief must have real effects on the environment. Belief, in my world, is a behavior pattern emergent from neural connections, and as such, couldn't possibly affect the environment on its own without any other behavioral patterns having similar effects - therefore, I conclude that whatever drives a human must range beyond the brain.

Is it possible for you(r kind) to force a belief onto an object/human, in order to somehow physically change it?

Edited by StepexNo2 on Jun 27th 2022 at 9:06:14 PM

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
Gustone Gustone from Gustown Since: Jan, 2020
Gustone
#65843: Jun 27th 2022 at 12:21:36 PM

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gsurprised.png i remember someone talking about a gensokyo two hundred and forty pages ago

[up]x3 can you confirm that that person is from the same universe as you not just a nearly identical one

shroobot3000 Witch of Scarlet Dreams from Behind you Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Witch of Scarlet Dreams
#65844: Jun 27th 2022 at 12:29:05 PM

[up][up] Hmm, I don't know! Though I've heard about gods changing their attributes to gain more faith.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/koishi_15.png Oh I know about that! The Moriya Shrine lady wants to become a "goddess of technological innovation", which is why she gave Okuu the powers of Yatagarasu! My big sis said divine spirits can change their own natures by using myths! Which kinda sounds like what you meant.

[up] I don't know who it was so it might!

checked and since that person's acc was deleted I'm gonna play it safe and say they're different Gensokyos

"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
StepexNo2 Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS from The Complex Plane Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS
#65845: Jun 27th 2022 at 1:42:51 PM

That might've been when JUICE took over my account. I think they might've scared the other person away from the thread by calling their local NASA Cloudcuckoolanders - to be fair, I share that stance, but I've stayed quiet about the issue because I didn't want to start drama.

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
MorganFoulke Mercenary Anarchist Ace from somewhere in the Philippines, France or the US (Pilot) Relationship Status: Abstaining
Mercenary Anarchist Ace
#65846: Jun 27th 2022 at 2:10:13 PM

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phos6.jpeg

Unknown user now registered as TopScholar108.


Hey Ica? It has been a very long time since I dabbled on this forum. I had a lot to deal with...

I hope you’re not too busy...

OOC: Sorry for my long absence, let’s say I had to deal with finals, work and a COVID infection in a short amount of time...

Yo buddies, still tropin’?
StepexNo2 Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS from The Complex Plane Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS
#65847: Jun 27th 2022 at 2:20:34 PM

Hey Phos, welcome back to the thread! I'm fine, I've been developing a lot of new tech. And I've found military testing opportunities in my homeworld.

How's your life been, hopefully the encyclopedia wasn't too time-consuming?

No problem! Get well soon.

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
shroobot3000 Witch of Scarlet Dreams from Behind you Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Witch of Scarlet Dreams
#65848: Jun 27th 2022 at 2:29:40 PM

Hi, hi new old person!

Ouch I can relate with half of that.

"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
MorganFoulke Mercenary Anarchist Ace from somewhere in the Philippines, France or the US (Pilot) Relationship Status: Abstaining
Mercenary Anarchist Ace
#65849: Jun 27th 2022 at 2:50:12 PM

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/16b95a55_e8c4_4433_bc43_c0fdbf0c99d3.jpeg

[up][up] Well, some good stuff I can think of:

  • More stuff on the encyclopedia, especially during the winter.
  • Saw that machine you made for Cinnabar, they’re at least thankful for not having to destroy everything they touch.
  • I can finally do some combat.

Now for the not so good stuff:

  • Nearly lost my legs from some snail-looking creature shortly after trying out Cinnabar's machine. Had to use some weird agate to replace about roughly one-fifth of my legs.

  • From hearing from all the Lunarians' speeches via that translator you gave me, I'm very saddened about what’s happened to our seniors, plus they mentioned our Sensei being a machine—I don’t know how to understand this...

  • Lost my arms during Winter work, and almost lost another Gem that was working with me, but thankfully Cinnabar saved most of them, although I did see one of your old ramming "fighters" doing the hard work in keeping off another Lunarian attack...

To be honest, I had a lot to think about and a lot to do around the island. Although, what’s JUICE, and when and how did it take over???

[up] Hello, uh, what are you this time?

OOC: Don’t worry, I've recovered from COVID, but still got a lot of work to do, so don’t expect any consistently daily postings...

Yo buddies, still tropin’?
nonalienpersonyep alcoholism :heart: from The City (Rule of Three) Relationship Status: Chat, is this real?
alcoholism :heart:
#65850: Jun 27th 2022 at 3:03:58 PM

   Hello!   

glad you're ok!

"There's no tomorrow here. No hope." // a,,,

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