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.
Carmine at the Beach
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(*Arrives with Marnie and the Solgaleo*) Here now. I have my Solgaleo with me. Let me know if anything happens. If Solgaleo ends up getting too tired (which I doubt), we can also use my Lunala if Lunala wants to help.
You have a Lunala too?
Yeah. Anyway, I think this will be successful.
"Paldea has a lot of different Pokemon from those in Kitakami." - Carmine
cat :3
If you want to RP, we've got a thread for in-person meetups. Just so that this thread doesn't derail
Though the scene won't really be that exciting, I'd opt for having it implied
Har har har
OOC: I'd be open to doing an RP of the birthday party. But if we do it, wouldn't the Avatar Meetup Thread
be a better place to RP the party?
That said, it sounds like a hard thing to RP in full — I don't know how we'd RP a whole birthday party in the TVT forums. So I understand if you just want the party's events to be implied instead of acted out; unless you have a plan.
Hmm, a "Solgaleo," now? What's that? Sounds like a sort of lion.
Edited by m-95 on Mar 9th 2023 at 11:31:05 AM
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cat :3
The plan was maybe to RP one or two games, and then have the rest of the party be implied. Sound good? It's gonna be a while anyways
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Carmine at the Beach
It's a Legendary Pokemon that I caught when I was traveling with Marnie to the Alola region. For some reason like Lunala it's able to open up wormholes between dimensions.
How would the in-person meetup RP work again? I don't think I have done that before.
cat :3
You RP on this thread, that's about it
Carmine at the Beach
Okay, got it. Thanks for the help.
Okay, so we're gonna get started with testing this now. Good luck, everyone!
"Paldea has a lot of different Pokemon from those in Kitakami." - Carmine
Mortefi
I would love to help out too, but I am a literal ocean away in Castelia City.
"Mortefi, researcher at Department of Safety, Huaxu Academy. For inquiries about Tacetite weapons, you may visit my lab."
cat :3
Could offer you a flight over, if you wanted to. I think me and my team can manage, though
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Mortefi
I’ll be alright. I have things to do here, anyway. Being the Hero of Ideals is not an easy job, after all.
"Mortefi, researcher at Department of Safety, Huaxu Academy. For inquiries about Tacetite weapons, you may visit my lab."
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Well, shout out to my sister Kiramotchi [1] who's birthday today though she makes me nervous with her crazy painting skills.
Regardless, she's very good at it. Painting usually isn't my thing.
She really knows how to bring colors to life!
Har har har
Speaking of bringing colours to life: I just got a report about the San Nicasio vaults. Apparently they found a beautifully-made manuscript from the 13th century, supposedly filled with weird annotations that the Sgt. thinks I'll find interesting. I'll actually be able to see it myself soon!
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Mortefi
On the topic of Ultra Space, Subway Boss Ingo recently went missing for almost two months. And when he came back, he recounted a story in which he had lost his memory, and was sent to what is essentially Sinnoh hundreds of years in the past. I looked into it, and I suspect that Ingo had fallen through an Ultra Wormhole. Is something like that possible?
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Carmine at the Beach
From what I'm aware of regarding theoretical physics, I think it's quite possible.
Man, I wonder what Alola was like several centuries in the past. Probably was more brutal than Sinnoh was in that time period.
"Paldea has a lot of different Pokemon from those in Kitakami." - Carmine
Mortefi
From what Rosa told me about Ingo’s story, Ancient Sinnoh (aka Hisui) was pretty brutal itself. I wasn’t there for the full explanation, and Rosa has a tendency to exaggerate and/or leave out details, but I think it’s at least partially true.
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Carmine at the Beach
Probably in Alola a few centuries ago there was probably a lot of tribal warfare with warships, complex battle strategies and sharp spears. I don't want to think too much about the gory details, I've watched a lot of movies that had those kind of similar battles.
Yeah, war is quite dark and scary no matter the time period.
Good thing we live in the present where there are very few wars or conflicts.
Sadly, very few does not mean nonexistent, Lana.
"Paldea has a lot of different Pokemon from those in Kitakami." - Carmine
Har har har
The Corbettites are currently showing me that manuscript book I mentioned earlier. It has a really long Latin title, but the monks just call it the "Verona Homiletic Commentary." It's a manuscript of some parts of the Bible (namely Revelation and 1st-2nd Thessalonians) along with Books IV, V, & XVI-XX of the City of God.
However the book also has a bunch of annotations added in by the scribes. As in, it's mostly annotations. The book is something like 60-70% annotations and 30-40% actual book. All of the annotations are talking about then-current events — namely Barbary pirates, the Mongols, the Heterodynes, gnostic sects, et cetera. There's also talk about this thing called "the Veronese Devil" that I've never heard of before. I wonder what that is . . .
The art is amazing, too. Sometimes you'll have a whole page that's just artwork. Like this one: tvtropes.org/files/fol241veronahomiletic.JPEG Description/OOC
Edited by m-95 on Mar 9th 2023 at 2:54:22 PM
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Mortefi
Interesting. In my world, legends are something I’m quite passionate about. And, whether by chance or influenced by Team Plasma, I am now the Hero of Ideals, the caretaker of a Legendary Pokemon (although not technically the person who it’s registered to, that’s Rosa. I gave it up to her because she would get more use out of having it, being a Champion.). The opposite side of that coin, the Hero of Truth, is Hilbert, and Reshiram.
I’m probably butchering BW2 lore here, I’ve never played that game
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Technically he’s from the original Black and White, which I have played multiple times. He’s a much more minor character in the sequels.
Edited by KitkatKK2 on Mar 9th 2023 at 1:56:55 PM
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cat :3
>plays a character from a game he's never played before >refuses to elaborate >leaves
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aight. it me again. xenos apparently hasnt planned to connect to tv tropes at all? found some documents the other day, and now theres a military station around the satellite that connects me there. well, used to, i blew it up again cuz i'm just that cool
nah, actually, i have no idea what happened but someone blew a hole into the station and let the satellite drift out. i'm currently scanning for culprits, did any of you do this?
Not me
Not me either. Hell, idk how I'd get my hands on explosive charges or w/e in the first place
Edited by StepexNo2 on Mar 9th 2023 at 10:10:50 AM
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AI with access to the console
Interesting text matching the phrase within my historical archives. the Veronese Devil turns ups a Italian renaissance painter based within Venice by the same name. Perhaps that would be a good start on investigating this figure?
I look to the stars... but that's mostly because there isn't anything else interesting
Carmine at the Beach
Okay, so today's testing with Icarus went pretty well. We found some cubes that corresponded to different universes, and had different properties such as vibrance based on the properties of those universes.
It was pretty cool. I had never known about that kind of stuff before until today.
Congrats on the experiment! Mallow, Lana, and I were talking about what the Alola region was like a few centuries ago.
A lot of tribal warfare, warships and spears, I believe. I wish the games focused more on the history of Alola than Ultra Space, to be honest. There was so much potential, like with the history of Kalos.
"Paldea has a lot of different Pokemon from those in Kitakami." - Carmine
cat :3
[1] Looked up the Veronese Devil, and I found pretty much the same thing that Uirst found, some guy called Paolo Veronese.
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Ah, another great painter!
We looked up on Veronese Devil too and we found a lot amazing illustrations of them.
Superficial and Otherworldly Celestial
Hmph...
In case you were wondering why Flandre has been absent, she got addicted to this "Minecraft" game. Which she's not allowed to play for a while anymore.
>:(
[1] Ooh a party? Where?
[1]
I'd be ready for testing about now, how about you?
The first test would be sending a probe through the portal just to see where it ends up on the other side. Further tests would be testing edge cases, like the tensile strength of an iron rod that's halfway through the portal, the portal getting placed into solid matter, the portal getting closed while an object is halfway through it, etc. Lastly, Icarus would ask for the Solgaleo's diet and energy consumption, and test for specific inter-universal reactions that may take place during the transport process, which may or may not help him crack the mechanism. I'll leave that up for you to decide
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