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It'll be as ridiculous when it weaponizes sexual sadomasochism. Or makes him omniscient.

\*still feels like he didn't make Calypso's weapons anywhere near ridiculous enough*

Hmmmm... oh. Oooooohhhhhhhhhh...

I feel that sexual sadomasochism is the one thing we should not weaponize.

Agreed.

...Also, I take responsibility for the stream of people wanting to get in...

edited 19th Mar '14 12:28:23 PM by Aquatica1000

() + () Oh don't be such prudes

I would also like to second Troy speaking for the GM on the RP's status as being closed. I don't want to be a dick, so I'm not going to think of this as a dick move when I say that 12 players is already fucking nuts when we play at WAOA and OAAIARTHCAKNKCHARLESBARKLEY speed, I don't think we can handle more.

edited 19th Mar '14 12:43:07 PM by Taco

Sorry Taco. I know that, but then someone I know says that they want to join and...

Argh, why am I such a pushover?

You can't deny Gamagoori's girth.

MAN UP AND LEARN TO SAY NO. STOP USING SMALL FONTS. IN FACT, RESTRICT YOURSELF TO 12 POINT OR HIGHER.

And how do I make fonts bigger?

I dunno if Eddie removed it or not. It's safe enough just to, at worst, use FIVE-ASTERISK ALL CAPS. But that's only for extreme circumstances. If you would prefer to crawl in your skin and derive your power that way, the    [[evil: tag is perfect for you as well.   

edited 19th Mar '14 12:52:35 PM by Taco

Testing in three... two...

• ONE.*****

Well, that was a fail. (>_>)

edited 19th Mar '14 12:55:11 PM by Aquatica1000

It's not asterisks, he meant single-quotes.

Wait... okay, * this is an asterisk, ' this is an... apostrophe.

Well then.

There's a markup menu on the left, below the Forums header.

You mean this?

Like

•    THIS.   

You people are weird. - flies away on seahorse -

Evii says he can't post today because he has a paper.

Really? He does? I thought paper had become obsolete!

What could possibly be so old school of an assignment that he has to use paper?

Now now, we can't tease him for using paper. Not everyone can live in the future

edited 19th Mar '14 1:30:21 PM by nman

OH GOD FINALLY IT'S DONE:

The Children of Dust/Archetypes

Mythology tells us of a civilization predating all recorded history. Before numbers existed, before the dominance of man, at the very dawn of creation, there were the first humans. Incredibly beautiful and deadly clever, these first humans were possessed of a more perfect body and mind when compared to today's humans. It was said that their knowledge was surpassed only by their age, and indeed they were wise. Said to be the first true users of Dust, they used the power of nature itself to build themselves a utopia on an island continent in the middle of the vast and empty sea. With their power, they created other forms of life in the same way they'd first been created. Using Dust, they first created plants, then fish, then the beasts of the land and the birds in the sky. They called themselves "Children of Dust" in celebration and reverence of their origins, and in proud declaration of their infinite knowledge and wisdom.

However, the age the Children were born into was not a forgiving one. If they were perfect humans, then the enemy they faced could be described as nothing but perfect Grimm. Massive in size, the Grimm of prehistory's prehistory made such revered legends as Kurira and the Behe-Mammoth look like jokes. And they were every bit as powerful as that statement implies.

From the very inception of their utopian society, the Children of Dust were plagued by these incredible Grimm. They fought every day to protect this single oasis, this lone human paradise they had created. And for a time, it seemed like they would win. As smart and as strong as the Grimm were, they were smarter. Better. And most importantly, faster. The conflict with the Grimm was a catalyst for history's first arms race, and it occurred on a massive scale. Almost overnight, the Children of Dust had armed themselves to the teeth with weapons built out of their vast knowledge and mastery of Dust, and they went to war with great fury and righteous anger. It could be said that much of the Children's incredible advances into science, medicine and mathematics were all a result of this centuries-long war effort.

With as fast as they developed and achieved even greater heights, they kept the Grimm at bay for many years, locked in a neverending stalemate with a hostile word that very much wanted to kill them. However, as they were the first of their kind and had no precedent, the Children were sadly unaware of history's greatest lesson. Nothing lasts forever.

Soon the Grimm response to their increased war effort began to match and even overpower them, their forces seemingly being pushed back by a neverending wave of monstrosities from the darkest pits of Remnant. This was a time of Grimm that could never, and should never exist anywhere else. As they felt themselves being pushed back into the corner they started in, the Children decided that drastic measures needed to be taken. If they were going to win this war, they couldn't be satisfied with victory in small increments. If they were to stem the endless tide of Grimm, they needed an asset capable of destroying them en masse. If they were to win the war, it would have to be in one fell swoop.

That's when work on the Horizon Bombs began.

So named because the blast could blot out the horizon, the Horizon Bombs were the pinnacle of the Children's work with Dust. Employing a team of the Children's most brilliant minds, the goal of the project was to create a weapon which combined the effects of all known Dust types and could express them all simultaneously. To put it simply, it was a bomb with power rivaling that of creation itself, a window into the birth of Remnant and all other life and matter in the universe. However, the creation of such a weapon was never expected to be easy. It would require knowledge and technique encompassing all of nature's physical laws, and a mind capable of harnessing it. Thankfully, the Children possessed such a mind.

Noangcha Echosenth Lawshy (full name "Noangcha Echosenth Barton Luendwar Answerer Zhiaten Moirtbur Trenalength Radmorgue Torloreng Dorselkiss Eeritrust Chronoire Lawshy the Fifth") was, at the time, the foremost expert in Dust study and other physical sciences, and a pioneer in what she liked to call "Unified Dust Theory". Namely, the idea that not only was there an invisible unifying force connecting Dust with the normal physical laws, but that it could be identified and expressed in a material form that could be channeled towards the creation of the illusive "Origin Dust", the template from which all types of Dust are supposedly derived. While her research was initially greeted with minimal fanfare (and funding), the Horizon Bomb project finally gave the Children a reason to be interested in her ideas. Very interested. So she was brought in as a consultant under the project's head to work on the creation of the Horizon Bomb, an opportunity she relished after being denied her research for so long.

With her help, it wasn't long before the first of the Horizon Bombs reached completion, and were armed and ready to deploy. When she learned that the Children actually intended to use the weapons in combat as opposed to the prposed nuclear deterrent, she desperately pleaded with them to reconsider and to take more time with the technology. However , she was ignored, and what she had worked so hard to create was put to work, with devastating effect.

Detonated over 2500km away from the Children's homeland, the Horizon Bomb exceeded their wildest expectations, and killed them all in the process, along with literally billions of Grimm. With a blast radius large enough to lick the shores of their island 2500km away and a pressure wave capable of flattening mountain ranges on the other side of the world, the first and only Horizon Bomb proved to be a truly devastating weapon of war, a genocidal tool whose body count exceeded the limits of the imagination.

The sepulchre the fallen Children had once called home crumbled, and sank to the depths of the ocean to fill the gap left behind by their folly. The Grimm, of course, survived, albeit in much smaller numbers, and it would be millennia before any other human offshoots so much as built a mud hut village, let alone a working, functional society safe from the onslaught of the Grimm. As for Dr. Lawshy and her work, both remain unaccounted for, assumed to have been annihilated in the blast along with everything else, moon included. Years pass, the wreckage of the moon orbits Remnant in its passage around the sun, and the world forgets the Children, celebrating them in folklore and fables, bedtime stories for children. They become known as the Archetypes, the great engineers of the modern world. The primordial tool- builders, and masters of Dust. As for the Horizon Bomb, it's nothing more than a cautionary tale now, an aesop warning against excessive pride and foolhardiness in the face of adversity, all of its devastating effects forgotten, save one...

I sort of just wrote this stream- of- consciousness style, so it may be a bit rough. Details like the fate of the moon are also subject to change if Grim so desires. And yes, the Children are a very blatant Atlantis expy

edited 19th Mar '14 1:42:05 PM by KSPAM

I thought we agreed that we would keep it to things that were feasible in canon.

And that we would not use Horizon Bombs.

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...

Well I think I finally figured out what I could do to Ieria's claws as upgrades, she'd probably want to fashion them to be like Claudius' at some point.

The other thing is that that clashes pretty hardcore with canon. The "war" against the Grimm was fairly recent, and Humanity as it stands existed after the Grimm, who seem to be native to Remnant.

I am pretty sure that the moon still existing is canon◊. Though I'd think destroying a moon would really screw with the planet and wipe out most life.