Refer to:
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,10444.0.html The Land Woven In Illusions
Where... are my wings?
In the darkness, there was Pain.
In the darkness, there was Terror.
In the darkness, there was Unity.
In the darkness, there was Hope.
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"Will you show me all this world has to offer, Gensokyan?"
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The Plot:God did not create the universe on His own. His divine influence was passed on through His children to shape nature.
He took his essence and carved it in half to create Aether and Epoch who created stars and dimensions for His creations to exist in.
God crowned daughter Aether in Crystal and Chaos, and named her Aluyran, Katelin. He then crowned son Epoch with the passion of Fire and the unrelenting power of Electricity and named him Ryuirnak, Azeri. God, now aided by his children, forged and empowered his brother, who was present within nothingness - from Dark Matter, the Void, and Chaos.
He formed the World with His breath and commanded His brother to cradle it. The Lord of Chaos would take the burden of His Brother?s creation and nurture it, for it was His divine order.
He then combined the raw power of the unyielding cosmos and the corporeal strength of Ice into a eternally ethereal body, and named her Kirwavia, God's third child. She whose essence is that of life's knowledge and ascension. God spun the webs of fate, and merged it with the corporeal strength of Darkness and Light, made into a perfect unity, crowning his last child, whose fire burnt brighter than any star. God named his last son, Xoiniaun, Vuen. They were His soldiers, unto which the order of the Universe as it was known was upheld.
Azer'Wrath gazed upon His creations, content to let life bloom forward now that the seed had been planted. And He fell into a deep slumber.
But even in the depths of sleep, did god know of humanity's work.
In time, the humans ventured into uncharted territory - parts of creation that were never meant for them.
And He, grow weary.
God would never forgive them. No, they would all die. Perish in their own creation, so he stopped the flow of advancements, forever holding them in a state being able to make anti-matter, but unable to use it. What he didn't know was that with the anti-matter that was produced, void of all elements, it would be the bane of his very intention. It would release, the Chaos. There would be no peace. There would be no sanctuary. Only recreation awaited the human race. Frozen in time and space, dreaming of his desires of peace to all. A perfect unity between the Gods and Mortals, imagination and creativity, science and magic. He could never hate. And he could never love. There was only Life and Chaos within every Element.
God slept. Nevermore, and forevermore.
His four children wept, at his misdoing. The firstborn was blessed with the power of God himself had. Crystal, the very source of Life. And she had been cursed with the contradictory bane and boon of it all. Chaos. She herself, ventured into the caverns of the unknown, to seek out the dark, ancient powers within herself, hoping to eventually stop the flow and awakening of Chaos that the human race had unleashed upon itself. The firstborn will forever be unable to use any other elements besides the two she had been granted. But they were more then enough. The secondborn was blessed with the passion and will of every being. Fire, and the spirits, the essence of the flowing stem of evolution. Lightning. He was the keeper of every other Element that would ever exist, but Fire and Lightning were his core. The thirdborn had mastery over the cosmos and astral planes, further out then even what mankind would ever in their lifetime, discover. Along with the coldness and sins of their past, she had Ice and Spacetime. Manipulating the time and space of the fabric of reality, she was the guardian of the universe. The lastborn, judgemental, arrogant as the firstborn, and impulsive. He was made of Justice, Light, Charisma, Honor and all things holy. And yet, he was the embodiment of Darkness itself. Not Chaos, but Darkness. Evil, and everything unholy.
They sought out and ventured the world, each with different intentions but the same goals : To stop Chaos. The firstborn fought the Chaos that was locked within herself. The secondborn made Gensokyo and made Imagination, the Dragon God, along with the hidden elementals in Makai that would safeguard it. The thirdborn set destinies into motion, crafting out the embodiments and giving the Lesser Gods powers that could match the Children themselves. The lastborn made Destiny.
Fate and Destiny will guide every embodiment to save the world. And yet, they could still twist it to damn it all. It was a risk that must be taken. And the Children of God trusted their decision.
Here, begins the story of the Chosen Ones, to save or damn the Earth. The Universe, and and everything that will and shall exist.
Things you need to know~
Chaos:The first requirement of Life. Chaos is the Mana, Mind, Spirit, Will, Hope, Belief, and Imagination of every living being. Called by the mortals as "Anti-Matter", for it is the opposite of Life, Matter. By experimenting with Anti-Matter, the humans unleashed the more "darker" side of Chaos. You see, Chaos was never evil. It was good, a kind element, with a benevolent God. A faction of Chaos overtook the rest of it's astral plane, banishing the God of Chaos into the abyss further down bellow then one would consider Hell Itself. Chaos is considered as the Destroyer Element, and the Element of Hope. It's very existence is a Paradox needed for Life to exist.
Infection/InfestationIf a mortal, or anything that does not have immunity to Chaos, comes in contact with it, it will begin to rot. It will turn black, with large Pustules appearing on their body, leaking a green substance. If on a living creature, it will begin to melt and break apart, leaving only a black, tentacled ooze and the green substance. In certain cases, the torso of the main body will implode on itself, dropping a green skull. If it touches other infected matter, a Chaos Spawn will begin to form. If
buildings/plants are infected, they will begin to burn, with only black and purple flames, deteriorating incredibly slowly. They will leak more and more black ooze into the ground. The
Ground is corrupted almost instantly once Chaos sets foot on it. Turning pitch-black, it's almost as if staring into the abyss itself. It constantly powers Chaos and any living being that stands on it will begin to hear otherworldly voices. Excessive exposure of infected ground will result in lost of sanity.
CorruptionThe process where a Chaos Spawn acts as a parasite, attaching itself to it's host. It can choose to absorb or just be a parasite on it's host. If acting like a parasite, the host would become a slave to Chaos, like the daughters of Corruption or someone like Sakuya Izayoi from the earlier fight. If it absorbs the host, Chaos will have eternal free reign over the body, with all it's past powers and memories, it's voice and personality, along with newfound powers from Chaos. There is no one left of save if a Chaotic Spawn absorbs it's host. Full corruption this way will result in green skulls growing on it's body over time. The final method for corruption is to have a memory of the person Chaos wants to replicate. This is how it made the [REDACTED]
Do note that Corruption on Gensokyans can be reversed by defeating them and forcefully extracting the Chaos Spawn. Gensokyans can only be fully absorbed after they have slain an embodiment or someone with as much power as them.Corruption on normal humans will be almost irreversible, as the Chaos Spawn will absorb it's host the moment it has gained complete dominance over it. Requires one of the Children Of God to reverse this process on humans.Energy/LifeThe second and final requirement for living and creation. The "status" of Life, Personality, and each and every being's existence is called Energy, or Life. Every other component which Chaos has not filled is this. Called "Matter", it was the first creation God had made. But what God made with just Energy/Life, were shells of what could be the greatest creation of all. And to fill the shells, Chaos was made. The source of all Energy/Life, comes from the Prime element of Crystal. Crystal is named the Creator's Element, and the Unity Element. God believed that with Crystal, the world can be united under a single banner. Peace.
Other ElementsThe leftover elements, Fire, Lightning, Water, Earth, Metal, Air, Gold, and everything else, were made into different kinds of sections of a being's mind. Fire would be it's unbreakable will to live and strive forward. Lightning would be the drive of evolution and speed, strength. Water would be the cleanser of the unholy, the calming element. So on and so forth. Each Element had a God, and all of them lived in a universe different then the one Mortals lived in. The Elemental Plane.
"The Corrupt Element"/Abysmal/This is the element leftover by the creation of Chaos. It was tossed into the same abyss where the old Chaos God is still imprisoned in. Now free and self-aware, it drives the Chaos further into it's insanity, and it's wanting to corrupt the universe and the God's themselves. The Children do not know of this Element, and think that Chaos is the only one driving everything into oblivion.
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Requirements to Corrupt the Universe:- Eliminate Gensokyo. Kill Imagination, the Dragon God. - Effectively makes all sentient life unable to dream and imagine. Or process thoughts.
- Banish Reimu Hakurei and Yakumo Yukari into the Abyss. - Cripples the only two Gensokyans able to save the World even if the first step is complete.
- Kill the Embodiments. - Self-explainatory.
- Control every other Element. - Dominion over the powers of Creation
Requirements to destroy Corruption/Abysmal Element:- The Embodiments.
- Gensokyans. All of them.
The Gods-Azer'Wrath, The Elemental God, Creator of All.
-???, Supreme Lord of Chaos, The True Paradox.
The Children Of God-Katelin Elntila SoulReaver, Firstborn. Blessed with Crystal, cursed with Chaos.
-Azeri Zenxsoul, Secondborn. Blessed with Fire and Lightning.
-Xera SoulReaver, Thirdborn. Blessed with Ice and Cosmic Energy.
-Vuen Evayungyr, Last/Fourthborn. Blessed with Light, cursed with Darkness.
Welcome to the Elements of Gensokyo
Common Question: Why Gensokyo?
Gensokyo was the first land to ever be made in Japan. It originated and continues to exist due to the imagination of every living being in the universe. From imagination, Gensokyo threatens Chaos, as imagination itself was made from Chaos. In a way, it is Chaos, yet it is not. It is a paradox. And no Paradox can ever be allowed to exist with another...
Another Common Question: Why Gensokyans?
Take a guess. This will be revealed later in the RP. Have you ever thought what Danmaku really is?
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Currently,
The Chosen ones have learnt of their power. They have fought the first few leakages of Chaos that somehow managed to enter the Border. Successfully meeting their partners and rescuing Reimu. Yukari sent them into the outside world. Imagination, the Dragon God, has retreated back into Heaven, in his Dragon Palace, after having exhausted all of his energy trying to destroy the Chaos infecting the Border. Iku Nagae, the last to flee, was taken down as the Border finally began to decay.
Following their arrival in the outside, mysterious emails were sent to them telling them of people who would be targeted to die. Kenshou was one of them, one of Mima's students with the ability to make whatever he imagines real. The Chosen Ones fought the Daughters of Corruption, Gensokyans who had succumbed and been infected by the Chaos, aiming to take Kenshou's life. The day after, another email came in stating that Hirenko, Renko and Maribel will fall next. It was revealed that Renko and Maribel were decoys just to eliminate Himiko.
Beating back the corrupted Gensokyans from ESoD, one of the chosen ones, specifically Vante, gained information on what their Gensokyan partners actually are for.
Rinnosuke has been revealed to be one of the two main enemies leading the attack on Gensokyo. Corrupted by a seemingly infinite amount of chaotic power, Rinnosuke unleashes his minions on the only threat he knows now: Azeri Zenxsoul. The embodiments slowly progress towards their final goal...
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Border's Decay Rate: 3%/Day
Onslaught of Chaos on Gensokyo: Human Village has been somewhat cleared of Chaos. Corruption remains. Pathway to Heaven and Iku Nagae are now comfirmed to be Corrupted/Infested. All of Heaven's inhabitants are either corrupted or reduced to piles of whimpering shells. Keine, Ran Yakumo and Komachi Onozuka are missing. Hakugyokuro is currently under supreme lock down measures.
Byakuren, Meiling, A prototype copy of Remilia and the Daughters Of Corruption are fighting alongside Rinnosuke. The embodiment's corrupt halves are also with the former. Rumia, Mima and Hirenko are in the outside world. Kenshou has sacrificed himself to eliminate all Chaos from the outside world.
(Will edit)
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The Chosen Ones:Youkai_Jesus: Half of The Firstborn of God,
Nanaya Longinus - With,
Byakuren Hijiri(Note that she will be selectable in Act Two)
Squawkers: Mind of The Thirdborn of God,
Newan Kudo - With,
NazrinGuyYouMetOnline: Mind Of The Secondborn Of God,
Aesera Laoresk - With,
Kanako YasakaSonae: Power Of The Secondborn Of God,
Ranna - With,
Fujiwara No MokouOrphea.Russ: Body Of The Fourthborn Of God,
Rhiseza Torias - With,
Youmu KonpakuCrow Cakes: Power Of The Fourthborn Of God,
Vante Alunan - With,
Mystia LoreleiSampson: Mind Of The Fourthborn Of God,
Gale Halebeck - With,
Orin Kaenbyou - Currently MIA. GYMO is using Sampson.
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Sustained Cryogenic Imprisonment: LadyLambdaDelta, Dorakyura, Yukarin, Himiko, Marokuu, Hanzo, GuardianTempest(YEAH).
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New Rules - From Serebii. 8V
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Post LengthRPG Posts should be of adequate length, a minimum of 200 words, approximately seven lines. Posts that are just one or two lines in length are not acceptable. They don't help move the plot along in any way, and do nothing to help other characters either. On similar notes, scripts are not allowed, nor are lines of just dialogue. Equally, people cannot have 'posting conversations' where they hit refresh and post straight after someone else, and the two (or more) continue this so they have blocks of just them posting conversations between their characters.
For instance, posts such as:
"Sure you can" Said Tim
Are not allowed. Give your posts detail; add feeling, emotions and descriptions! Without these, an RPG might as well just be a conversation between two or more people, and it's just boring. Think of RPs as a story; without the details and your character's feelings, it would just be a conversation with nothing exiting happening. An RPG isn't just about moving a story along; it's also about your own character going on a journey, growing and developing, experiencing everything themselves in their own way. Each character will be thinking and feeling different things, so their experience is unique and different to everyone else's, which is what makes them special!
Alternatively, posts should NOT look like this, either:
Alex: Where did you find that Omanyte fossil?
Shannon: I stole it.
Alex: Oh. Well, that was stupid.
That is called script, and is not, in any way, allowed. If it's an MSN conversation or something like it makes sense, but otherwise, no, not up for debate.
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BunnyingBunnying is taking control of another person's character and making them do or say things without the permission of the original creator. This can be difficult on forums such as these, as we do not allow conversations to take place over several posts. If we did, RPGs would go on forever and never get anywhere. Which is why we allow bunnying so long as it is only for moving along the plot or scene. Forcing a character to go somewhere, or do something, or do a lot of things over one or two posts is not allowed. Anything involving another persons character must be done in that characters style, with their personality.
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A Final Word:Add more "fluffyness" to your posts, a post such as a simple remark like,
(The second person to arrive was a new sight. Unlike the rest, this one wasn't mortal. Sisturnia looked at Alurmi, studying her unique features. "You know, I've been thinking that maybe only the forces of nature can help win the Sword of Destiny. With your coming, this makes it even more promising")
To...
(Indeed, someone else has. The second recipient was a strange yet beautiful sight to behold, nothing like any other race. A being of pure crystal.
"Hmm, I recognise you, somehow..." Sisturnia wondered, studying Alurmi's crystalline features with curiosity. "I could swear that once while I was gathering supplies for a ritual, I sensed an ancient presence, one that held the very wisdom of the ages. You give off that very same presence. A crystal Elemental, eh? Incidentally, I hear Mornain had quite a skill with turning things to diamond, if that is in fact true. You know, I've pondered lately, wondering if only the ancient forces of nature can win back the Sword of Destiny. Your arrival makes that proposition more promising than ever. I know you have never done something like this before, but perhaps you can consider that there are others in your very situation.")
And hell, the reply could even be shitloads long! Add more fluffyness! You do have to write at least 200 words. With the allowance of Bunnying, you can now control ANY other character to an extent, even other Player's Characters. Just don't go too far. I've also allowed you to make up your own scenarios. Like how Sonae did earlier in the Dungeon-Crawler style Text RP. With the clock being 66:66:66, and other stuff. You can even encounter anything you want. The plot will now twist and turn the way all of you meld it to be.
"I thank you all who have came this far. Your name and tales will be whispered throughout time and space. You've been through a lot. Go if you must. Stay if you want. Just know, that from the bottom of our hearts, we thank you."
Where heroes are never forgotten.
Halls Of Memories.
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In memory of,
Tamashii_Kanjou, Savior Of the known World, Disciple of Mima. Embodiment of Creativity and Imagination - Hitomi Kenshou
"With flame so torrid that scorches fear,
The passionate will vanquish goliaths near.
The flame that abides within the knight,
Shall become the inferno of life.
A courage everlasting,
A fire withstanding,
Lights our darkest night."
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In memory of,
XinXin: Power And Spirit Of The Timeless Guardian, Alyssa Crendelheim
"When you shed doleful drops of tear,
I will shine on them until they disappear.
I will play your melodies of sorrow,
With my tune of heptad lights.
But I won't beam down on you for long,
So hold on to your mourning and be strong!
I won't sing my melodies for eternity,
So leave me as I am after this ditty."
