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rp_tutorialswastintime and posted in rp_tutorialsWhen Animals Attack by Institute
These nights are getting longer
Seems like I've always been awake
There is danger in the houses
A nemesis in shape
She took my metal bones
Placed them where I could feel again
You know how bad things get
When animals attack, you need fire
When animals attack, you need fire
Nine lives for the madmen
Trouble for the sane
What is good for your survival
May not be good for your health
She took my mental bones
She took my soul and everything
You know how bad things get
When animals attack, you need fire
When animals attack, you need fire
When animals attack and
When there's no way out
When there's no way out
When there's no way
The more I need the less I know
How I will try to need less
Try to need less
She cooked my mental bones
She took my soul and everything
You know how sad things get
When animals attack, you need fire
When animals attack, you need fire
When animals attack
When animals attack
When there is no way out
When there is no way out
When there is no way out
When there is no way
Today is the day for backroom posts!
Mar. 13th, 2012 11:19 amOk, first item of discussion: Where the hell did Ro-Man go?
You may have noticed during all the chaos of the Allpocalypse that the cells in the security office failed. Baby herself is still MIA, but the cells have come back and are in working order.
But, a particular permanent resident of the cells seems to be missing. You would think by now Ro-Man would have staged a take-over of the bar by now. Well, maybe he just wandered off, or he got killed by one of the invading monsters, or maybe a patron killed him or offered him employment in the previous reality. Future!Amascut did take a break from steering the black hole toward Milliways to search for him and other patrons after all. She is probably partially responsible for turning the rooms upstairs upside-down. Sorry, clean up crew.
So, Ro-Man not making it to the current continuity. Is this a thing now?
Second item:
Amascut just had a temper tantrum out back. Could someone dead or not alive or EXTREMELY healthy or EXTREMELY full of germs and ick but somehow still alive carry her to the infirmary to recover? Please? Anyone else might fall over and die, sorry.
You may have noticed during all the chaos of the Allpocalypse that the cells in the security office failed. Baby herself is still MIA, but the cells have come back and are in working order.
But, a particular permanent resident of the cells seems to be missing. You would think by now Ro-Man would have staged a take-over of the bar by now. Well, maybe he just wandered off, or he got killed by one of the invading monsters, or maybe a patron killed him or offered him employment in the previous reality. Future!Amascut did take a break from steering the black hole toward Milliways to search for him and other patrons after all. She is probably partially responsible for turning the rooms upstairs upside-down. Sorry, clean up crew.
So, Ro-Man not making it to the current continuity. Is this a thing now?
Second item:
Amascut just had a temper tantrum out back. Could someone dead or not alive or EXTREMELY healthy or EXTREMELY full of germs and ick but somehow still alive carry her to the infirmary to recover? Please? Anyone else might fall over and die, sorry.
Firemaker's curse Pt. 3
Jan. 13th, 2012 05:20 pmOk, so The Firemaker's Curse is a quest that has almost no combat requirements and no prerequisite quests. The only combat requirement is level 74 Constitution. My guess is that since the maximum damage Char can inflict is based on a percentage of your own hitpoints (if other players' observations can be trusted), then that requirement is there just so Char won't seem like a total wimp when she hits you.
Ok, so it is Constitution. You can't raise your constitution level without fighting and killing things. Not easily anyhow. There is Soul Wars. In fact, a friend of mine was doing exactly that. Max hitpoints but no other combat stats. A punching bag that can't hit back, basically. So it isn't like people with no combat experience at all can get the prereqs for the quest. Even at Soul wars, you are watching people kill each other unless you and a group of friends regularly hold private tea parties there. Even so, people weren't going into this quest expecting combat, but surprise! You have to defeat Char at the end of the quest.
Char, however, has been made very easy to defeat. She is tall, she is leggy, she is lithe, she is an agile dancer. YET SHE IS SO SLOW. She is that video game boss that walks toward you menacingly and slowly, and is impossible to beat until you figure out the trick to defeating her. Also if you are stupid enough to let her get near you, she'll punch you real hard and stomp the shit out of you. Yeah, that boss.
Ugh.
So, she has fire related powers and oddly, weaknesses. WTF. So first the powers she actually uses in the fight...
Okay Char, what the fuck, lumbering slowly toward your opponent is not a fire related power.
But she does occasionally throw out a spark. Red sparks snuff out fires they pass over. Blue, orange, and green sparks are actually a detriment to her if they get caught in one of the players fires. More on this later. The sparks will veer toward the player and explode on contact, causing minor amount of dammage. Her only real fire related offense is only used when she is at less than half health. WALLS OF FIRE! WITH GAPS SO THAT YOU CAN USE TO ESCAPE THE BURNING AAAAURRGH FUCK. So many tropes. So many gorram tropes.
So, onto her fire related weaknesses. Earlier in the quest, the player is given a can of pitch to light fires. The special thing about these fires, though, is that they act as pathing blockers for the player because pitch fires are just that awesome. So, the weirdness about the fires is related to the pitch fires the player can light during the boss fight since Char is such a slow lumbering brute that can't even toss fireballs at you. Or maybe won't. The more fires the player lights, the weaker Char's attacks will be and the stronger the player's attacks are. The weapon used does not matter. One could light 10 fires and whack away 1010 of Char's hit points with a rubber chicken. But, the optimum weapons are darts and throwing knives, since their overall attack speeds are the highest in the game and they can be thrown from far away. Additionally, those sparks that come out of Char can occasionally get caught in one of the player's fires. The yellow ones increase the damage the player can deal for 10 seconds, the green ones will randomly restore the player's hitpoints, and the blue ones will slow Char down even further if one of the players attacks land in 10 seconds.
ALL is not lost for poor Char, though. The red sparks extinguish the player's flames, Char can stamp out fires, and fires eventually go out on their own. Plus, she got that Rage mode I was talking about in my last post. It makes her invulnerable for a time and increases the damage that she can do.
But the player can wait for her to cool down or just lure her into a pool of water to cool her down immediately.
Dammit Char.
Well, she might have been playing a game with the player, like she was before the final boss battle. Guess which one of your party members I have possessed before another member of your party is murdered! MWAHAHAHA.
A nightmare mode for the final boss battle can be easily be imagined. Char could actually move around with the agility she is suppossed to have. She could set her own fires to strengthen herself while stomping the player's fires out. Or maybe not, since both her fires and the players would be pathing blockers. She could toss out actual fireballs and not just sparks. She could summon up the "pets" that appeared in the fourth roomo of the cave.
Come on, Char, come on. You are supposed to be a bad ass. You had sexy times with the god of power. At least that's what Zaros' alighnment seem to be at the moment.
Oh well, it gives me some ideas about what Amascut can do, especially in regards to to the upcoming plot in the Half-Lifeverse. I won't do the THIS IS MY TRUE FORM thing, but she can at least send something against the manhacks that are sure to be buzzing about. Glienorian magic will cause them to shake themselves to pieces anyhow, but what the hell.
The Firemaker's Curse at Runescape.com and at Wikia.com
Ok, so it is Constitution. You can't raise your constitution level without fighting and killing things. Not easily anyhow. There is Soul Wars. In fact, a friend of mine was doing exactly that. Max hitpoints but no other combat stats. A punching bag that can't hit back, basically. So it isn't like people with no combat experience at all can get the prereqs for the quest. Even at Soul wars, you are watching people kill each other unless you and a group of friends regularly hold private tea parties there. Even so, people weren't going into this quest expecting combat, but surprise! You have to defeat Char at the end of the quest.
Char, however, has been made very easy to defeat. She is tall, she is leggy, she is lithe, she is an agile dancer. YET SHE IS SO SLOW. She is that video game boss that walks toward you menacingly and slowly, and is impossible to beat until you figure out the trick to defeating her. Also if you are stupid enough to let her get near you, she'll punch you real hard and stomp the shit out of you. Yeah, that boss.
Ugh.
So, she has fire related powers and oddly, weaknesses. WTF. So first the powers she actually uses in the fight...
Okay Char, what the fuck, lumbering slowly toward your opponent is not a fire related power.
But she does occasionally throw out a spark. Red sparks snuff out fires they pass over. Blue, orange, and green sparks are actually a detriment to her if they get caught in one of the players fires. More on this later. The sparks will veer toward the player and explode on contact, causing minor amount of dammage. Her only real fire related offense is only used when she is at less than half health. WALLS OF FIRE! WITH GAPS SO THAT YOU CAN USE TO ESCAPE THE BURNING AAAAURRGH FUCK. So many tropes. So many gorram tropes.
So, onto her fire related weaknesses. Earlier in the quest, the player is given a can of pitch to light fires. The special thing about these fires, though, is that they act as pathing blockers for the player because pitch fires are just that awesome. So, the weirdness about the fires is related to the pitch fires the player can light during the boss fight since Char is such a slow lumbering brute that can't even toss fireballs at you. Or maybe won't. The more fires the player lights, the weaker Char's attacks will be and the stronger the player's attacks are. The weapon used does not matter. One could light 10 fires and whack away 1010 of Char's hit points with a rubber chicken. But, the optimum weapons are darts and throwing knives, since their overall attack speeds are the highest in the game and they can be thrown from far away. Additionally, those sparks that come out of Char can occasionally get caught in one of the player's fires. The yellow ones increase the damage the player can deal for 10 seconds, the green ones will randomly restore the player's hitpoints, and the blue ones will slow Char down even further if one of the players attacks land in 10 seconds.
ALL is not lost for poor Char, though. The red sparks extinguish the player's flames, Char can stamp out fires, and fires eventually go out on their own. Plus, she got that Rage mode I was talking about in my last post. It makes her invulnerable for a time and increases the damage that she can do.
But the player can wait for her to cool down or just lure her into a pool of water to cool her down immediately.
Dammit Char.
Well, she might have been playing a game with the player, like she was before the final boss battle. Guess which one of your party members I have possessed before another member of your party is murdered! MWAHAHAHA.
A nightmare mode for the final boss battle can be easily be imagined. Char could actually move around with the agility she is suppossed to have. She could set her own fires to strengthen herself while stomping the player's fires out. Or maybe not, since both her fires and the players would be pathing blockers. She could toss out actual fireballs and not just sparks. She could summon up the "pets" that appeared in the fourth roomo of the cave.
Come on, Char, come on. You are supposed to be a bad ass. You had sexy times with the god of power. At least that's what Zaros' alighnment seem to be at the moment.
Oh well, it gives me some ideas about what Amascut can do, especially in regards to to the upcoming plot in the Half-Lifeverse. I won't do the THIS IS MY TRUE FORM thing, but she can at least send something against the manhacks that are sure to be buzzing about. Glienorian magic will cause them to shake themselves to pieces anyhow, but what the hell.
The Firemaker's Curse at Runescape.com and at Wikia.com
Firemaker's curse Pt. 2
Jan. 12th, 2012 09:22 pmOkay, now that the quest has come out I should make another post.
Surprise! Char was the antagonist of the quest. I was wrong about the color of her hair though. It looks rather yellow flamey rather than red flamey. I suppose that means Amascut isn't wearing an Auspah body. There is the matter of Amascut/Sumona looking a bit blonde when using the NPC Contact spell, though. And Auspah don't necessarilly have to be blonde. Char is just one example of the species, and a pretty extraordinary and fucked up example at that. But there is still the unnatural skintone-hair color combo. It is just blond instead of red.
Yep, the player consensus on the Auspah are that they are a species, not a tribe of humans, despite how human the Auspah may look. So I will just roll with that.
Anyhow, here be Char after she "levels up" to fight. In her enraged form her skin goes toward the purplish and her hair toward whitish. Also less sparkly (not shown), more glowy.
Hello Durga/Kali! I count three arms to a side. In her powered down state, she ony has one arm per side. She also is about human size shen she is powered down, but about twice that powered up. That's some DragonBall Z type shit right there. She looks rather TzHaarish in her first powered up form. She is still dark skinned in her powered down form during the quest, but from the picture I am seeing of her after the quest, she is light skinned. Gah, Jagex, you need a script supervisor. First Amascut and now Char? *&^$^$^%#^$%&^%
She is scantily clad for a RuneScape NPC except for maybe the inhabitants of the Karamajan jungles and the regions south of the Feldip Hills. It fits her background as an exotic dancer, a fire poi performer, and possible concubine to the god Zaros. A god taking a mortal (at the time) concubine? Well, at least Amascut wasn't the only one (non-canonical head canon).
Anyhow, a bit more of Char's backstory is revealed. It seems Zaros had some misgivings about what Seren was doing and sent Char along with Zamorak and his allies to investigate. They were ambushed by elves and Zamorack took the oppurtunity to poison Char. Presumably Zamorak and company where able to dispatch the elves without Char's help and Char crawled off to die in a cave. Somehow she was able to set up all the puzzles in the cave before dieing a horrible death. *Sigh* Oh Char...
Well, this must have happened right before Zamorak betrayed Zaros. Char was pretty comfortable with her newfound power and was already having doubts about Zamorak and the gang. Zamorak probably wanted her out of the way rather than at Zaros' side when betrayal time came. That said, he might have already had Armadyl's staff hidden away somewhere. It was curious that Armadyl's Avanasie forces make no appearance in Char's backstory. That might be the reason.
Umm, tomorrow I'll post about Char's powers and fighting skills. It is a somewhat interesting topic.
Surprise! Char was the antagonist of the quest. I was wrong about the color of her hair though. It looks rather yellow flamey rather than red flamey. I suppose that means Amascut isn't wearing an Auspah body. There is the matter of Amascut/Sumona looking a bit blonde when using the NPC Contact spell, though. And Auspah don't necessarilly have to be blonde. Char is just one example of the species, and a pretty extraordinary and fucked up example at that. But there is still the unnatural skintone-hair color combo. It is just blond instead of red.
Yep, the player consensus on the Auspah are that they are a species, not a tribe of humans, despite how human the Auspah may look. So I will just roll with that.
Anyhow, here be Char after she "levels up" to fight. In her enraged form her skin goes toward the purplish and her hair toward whitish. Also less sparkly (not shown), more glowy.
Hello Durga/Kali! I count three arms to a side. In her powered down state, she ony has one arm per side. She also is about human size shen she is powered down, but about twice that powered up. That's some DragonBall Z type shit right there. She looks rather TzHaarish in her first powered up form. She is still dark skinned in her powered down form during the quest, but from the picture I am seeing of her after the quest, she is light skinned. Gah, Jagex, you need a script supervisor. First Amascut and now Char? *&^$^$^%#^$%&^%
She is scantily clad for a RuneScape NPC except for maybe the inhabitants of the Karamajan jungles and the regions south of the Feldip Hills. It fits her background as an exotic dancer, a fire poi performer, and possible concubine to the god Zaros. A god taking a mortal (at the time) concubine? Well, at least Amascut wasn't the only one (non-canonical head canon).
Anyhow, a bit more of Char's backstory is revealed. It seems Zaros had some misgivings about what Seren was doing and sent Char along with Zamorak and his allies to investigate. They were ambushed by elves and Zamorack took the oppurtunity to poison Char. Presumably Zamorak and company where able to dispatch the elves without Char's help and Char crawled off to die in a cave. Somehow she was able to set up all the puzzles in the cave before dieing a horrible death. *Sigh* Oh Char...
Well, this must have happened right before Zamorak betrayed Zaros. Char was pretty comfortable with her newfound power and was already having doubts about Zamorak and the gang. Zamorak probably wanted her out of the way rather than at Zaros' side when betrayal time came. That said, he might have already had Armadyl's staff hidden away somewhere. It was curious that Armadyl's Avanasie forces make no appearance in Char's backstory. That might be the reason.
Umm, tomorrow I'll post about Char's powers and fighting skills. It is a somewhat interesting topic.
Firemaker's curse Pt.1
Jan. 6th, 2012 08:01 pmOh dear.
So, the new folklore attached to the new quest, The Firemaker's Curse, has been released into the wild.
This may necessitate some thinking and revising on my part. Especially since so far, Amascut's complexion (at least in her human guise) is very similar to that of Char, one of the characters introduced in the new Lore, and the complexion of most of her race (the Auspah, perhaps?).
That, and the fact that Char's racial abilities seem to be something akin to firebending and that so far, Amascut has shows a strong preference toward fire magic makes me wonder.
The thing is that Char becomes some sort of firefiend by the end, which may be a racial ability of the ?Auspah. From the sounds of the lore, though, it is something unprecedented. It also might be a case of freaky shit going on. After all, Perjour, who was acting as the narrator for much of the lore, was having his thoughts and fears magically written into two separate books, except for a brief period where Char takes over as narrator. In an odd bit of meta, the lore is actually supposed to be an excerpt from one of those books.
It also contains loads of dialogue from Zamorak and Thammaron. This is good, since the only other source of Zamorak dialogue so far has been the God Letters and perhaps Arrav's lore. It is also revealed that Enakhra was in the habit of building temples, so her temple in the Kharidian Desert to Zamorak is not the only one she has built. No dialogue from her, though.
Since Viggora was with the party and since he is most likely an ordinary human with a short lifespan, I place this very near (~15 years) the date of Zamorak's betrayal of Zaros. We already see Zamorak and his allies successfully hiding information from Zaros, even though Perjour was sent to accompany the party as Zaros' eyes and ears. The supposed purpose was to collect Char after her transformation and claim her for Zaros' army.
Given how late in the Second Age this occurred, I can safely say that Amascut had already been binded and depowered by her priests. Nex is probably already fighting for Zaros. I somehow doubt that Char becomes Nex later on, but who knows. The quest itself hasn't been released, so it may reveal more. What is known is that a malevolent spirit is involved, and it might be Char.
I have to wonder where the ?Auspah come from. Brown skin=Tropical latitudes? Perhaps the Kharid? They could have ventured north with the Mehkmet tribe. Why did Amascut decide (or why was she forced) to look like an ?Auspah?
So, the new folklore attached to the new quest, The Firemaker's Curse, has been released into the wild.
This may necessitate some thinking and revising on my part. Especially since so far, Amascut's complexion (at least in her human guise) is very similar to that of Char, one of the characters introduced in the new Lore, and the complexion of most of her race (the Auspah, perhaps?).
"The dancer’s the last of her race, if Zaros is to be believed. You’d like her story: full of brigands, massacre and tragedy," said Zamorak, gesturing towards the stage. A dancer, brown-skinned and with hair that undulated like a blanket of fire, cartwheeled.
That, and the fact that Char's racial abilities seem to be something akin to firebending and that so far, Amascut has shows a strong preference toward fire magic makes me wonder.
The thing is that Char becomes some sort of firefiend by the end, which may be a racial ability of the ?Auspah. From the sounds of the lore, though, it is something unprecedented. It also might be a case of freaky shit going on. After all, Perjour, who was acting as the narrator for much of the lore, was having his thoughts and fears magically written into two separate books, except for a brief period where Char takes over as narrator. In an odd bit of meta, the lore is actually supposed to be an excerpt from one of those books.
It also contains loads of dialogue from Zamorak and Thammaron. This is good, since the only other source of Zamorak dialogue so far has been the God Letters and perhaps Arrav's lore. It is also revealed that Enakhra was in the habit of building temples, so her temple in the Kharidian Desert to Zamorak is not the only one she has built. No dialogue from her, though.
Since Viggora was with the party and since he is most likely an ordinary human with a short lifespan, I place this very near (~15 years) the date of Zamorak's betrayal of Zaros. We already see Zamorak and his allies successfully hiding information from Zaros, even though Perjour was sent to accompany the party as Zaros' eyes and ears. The supposed purpose was to collect Char after her transformation and claim her for Zaros' army.
Given how late in the Second Age this occurred, I can safely say that Amascut had already been binded and depowered by her priests. Nex is probably already fighting for Zaros. I somehow doubt that Char becomes Nex later on, but who knows. The quest itself hasn't been released, so it may reveal more. What is known is that a malevolent spirit is involved, and it might be Char.
I have to wonder where the ?Auspah come from. Brown skin=Tropical latitudes? Perhaps the Kharid? They could have ventured north with the Mehkmet tribe. Why did Amascut decide (or why was she forced) to look like an ?Auspah?
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Dec. 29th, 2011 01:27 amFallen Goddess Amascut
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rp_tutorialsOOC LOL FONTS
Nov. 27th, 2011 09:06 pmIt is doubtful anyone else has a font installed that can interpret this character. But whatever. HEEHEE. 'tis the hieroglyph for Bast.
Maybe a Milliways mun is nerdy enough to see it fnord.
possible trollian tags?
Oct. 3rd, 2011 10:35 pmcontumaciousFelidae
mnemonicPhagocyte
CF: >.< I AM NOT A FUCKING CAT I AM NOT A FUCKING CAT I AM NOT A FUCKING CAT!
MP: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS THING?
mnemonicPhagocyte
CF: >.< I AM NOT A FUCKING CAT I AM NOT A FUCKING CAT I AM NOT A FUCKING CAT!
MP: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS THING?
bartending shift
Aug. 1st, 2011 11:02 pmAre you near the backdoor? Maybe you heard the screaming of a woman falling from some great height and then a
Half a moment later, the redhead who has been introducing herself as Sarah walks in through the back door, hair a bit mussed up and reading a note. "The Abyssal Services Department is sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. Please accept these complim..." The note gets crumpled and shoved into a pocket.
When she walks up to Bar, a meal pops up for her. It looks like a greenish octopus thing and a mug of... 'rum'? "Is this Karambwan?" she asks Bar. "It looks a a bit undercooked..."
Thus spoke the napkin: The Abyssal Services Department is sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. Please accept this complimentary meal.
"I knew it! You are in league with them! They've been sending me here to keep me distracted!"
No, dear. It's your turn to tend the bar, goodnight!
P.S. Try the rum! I have more of it in stock. The pirates from your world must be braindead to sell it so cheaply.
"Wait... you ... Arg!" She chugs the mug and begrudgingly moves behind the counter. As she starts flipping through the big book of drinks, she momentarily feels dizzy.
Dizzy... her, dizzy... off cheap 'rum'
After franticly hunting though Bar's inventory, she puts an odd selection of drinks on the specials board.
THUD!
Half a moment later, the redhead who has been introducing herself as Sarah walks in through the back door, hair a bit mussed up and reading a note. "The Abyssal Services Department is sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. Please accept these complim..." The note gets crumpled and shoved into a pocket.
When she walks up to Bar, a meal pops up for her. It looks like a greenish octopus thing and a mug of... 'rum'? "Is this Karambwan?" she asks Bar. "It looks a a bit undercooked..."
Thus spoke the napkin: The Abyssal Services Department is sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. Please accept this complimentary meal.
"I knew it! You are in league with them! They've been sending me here to keep me distracted!"
No, dear. It's your turn to tend the bar, goodnight!
P.S. Try the rum! I have more of it in stock. The pirates from your world must be braindead to sell it so cheaply.
"Wait... you ... Arg!" She chugs the mug and begrudgingly moves behind the counter. As she starts flipping through the big book of drinks, she momentarily feels dizzy.
Dizzy... her, dizzy... off cheap 'rum'
After franticly hunting though Bar's inventory, she puts an odd selection of drinks on the specials board.
| Today's drink specials |
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| ½ off |
| Slayer's Respite (Excellent vintage) |
| Murder in the Forest |
| Fire Ant Torture |
| Sex in the Desert |
| ¾ off |
| Fiery Balls of Death |
| Braindeath 'Rum' |
| ½ off meal deals |
| Karambwan |
| Shark & Tomato 'Chum' Soup |
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Jun. 23rd, 2011 04:37 pm“Love is more afraid of change than destruction” -- Friedrich Nietschze
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” -- Pablo Picasso
Koooooooooooooooooyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanisqatsiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” -- Pablo Picasso
Koooooooooooooooooyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanisqatsiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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Jun. 10th, 2011 05:24 pm| The End is the Beginning is the End | The Beginning is the End is the Beginning | |
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| The sewers belch me up The heavens spit me out From ethers tragic I am born again And now I'm with you now Inside your world of wow To move in desires made of deadly pretends Till the end times begin | Send a heartbeat to The void that cries through you Relive the pictures that have come to pass For now we stand alone The world is lost and blown And we are flesh and blood disintegrate With no more to hate |
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| Is it bright where you are Have the people changed Does it make you happy you're so strange And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame You can watch the world devoured in it's pain Strange | Is it bright where you are And have the people changed Does it make you happy you're so strange And in your darkest hour, my old secrets laid We can watch the world devoured in its pain |
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| Climb my ribcage to The replays run for you Unhook my lights to peek behind the flash For I am crystal chrome I am shatter dome I am kremlin king of angels avenged To destroy the end | Delivered from the blast The last of a line of lasts The pale princess of a palace cracked And now the kingdom comes Crashing down undone And I am a master of a nothing place Of recoil and grace |
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| Is it bright where you are Have the people changed Does it make you happy you're so strange And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame You can watch the world devoured in it's pain | Is it bright where you are And have the people changed Does it make you happy you're so strange And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame We can watch the world devoured in its pain |
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| The zeppelins rain upon us The guns of love disastrous A shadow lies amongst you To defy the future cast | Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me The shadow lost beside me There's no more need to pretend Cause now I can begin again |
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| Is it bright where you are Have the people changed Does it make you happy you're so strange And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame You can watch the world devoured in it's pain Strange Strange (strange) | Is it bright where you are And have the people changed Does it make you happy you're so strange And in your darkest hour, my old secrets laid We can watch the world devoured in its hate Strange Strange Strange (strange) (strange) |
Both songs by the Smashing Pumpkins
OOC: Millicanon Stuff!
Jul. 29th, 2010 01:45 amSaid stuff
Marrentil is an herb which has the same effect on gods as catnip has on cats. Amascut, being formerly a very catlike goddess, is doubly affected. Ohgodiloveyouletmerubyouallovermyface*frothsfrommouth*
Marrentil, in Runescape canon, when burned as incense is used to incur special favor from the gods, especially in prayer. It is also used in antipoison potions.
Atlantean wine by itself can get her buzzed, and when marrentil is added can get her drunk.
Atlantean wine comes from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, better known as the canon of London Below from which Door![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iopenthings, Ingress smallestopener, Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar mr_v_and_mr_c, and the Marquis de Carabas youowemeafavor come from, and where AU Tom Riddle young_tmriddle has holed up as Lord Ostium and husband to Lady Door.
Atlantean, physically, is a golden white wine that glows as if it were being held up to the sunlight. That is to say, it is not aggressive, phosphorescent glow but more like the refractive inner glow and warmth that a diamond is said to have. It does glow in the dark, but it does rather "like sunlight on a swimming pool". More of the flowery language used to describe it here
It's effects... Well, drinking it is like "tasting the sunlight of bygone days," it is "magic," and induces a feeling of joy and memories of big blue skies presided over by the friendly bright yellow sun.
Yeah.. whatever...
Well, in millicanon, it is capable of inducing drunkenness in gods. Demeter got drunk of it, Yreal regularly drinks it, and mere mortals get the hangover from hell from it. Amascut, being a former goddess, but affected greatly by her healing factor, can get buzzed off it but only for a moment. Poor Amascut.
Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters... I will say buzz with the marrentil See here
Marrentil is an herb which has the same effect on gods as catnip has on cats. Amascut, being formerly a very catlike goddess, is doubly affected. Ohgodiloveyouletmerubyouallovermyface*frothsfrommouth*
Marrentil, in Runescape canon, when burned as incense is used to incur special favor from the gods, especially in prayer. It is also used in antipoison potions.
Atlantean wine by itself can get her buzzed, and when marrentil is added can get her drunk.
Atlantean wine comes from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, better known as the canon of London Below from which Door
iopenthings, Ingress smallestopener, Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar mr_v_and_mr_c, and the Marquis de Carabas youowemeafavor come from, and where AU Tom Riddle young_tmriddle has holed up as Lord Ostium and husband to Lady Door.Atlantean, physically, is a golden white wine that glows as if it were being held up to the sunlight. That is to say, it is not aggressive, phosphorescent glow but more like the refractive inner glow and warmth that a diamond is said to have. It does glow in the dark, but it does rather "like sunlight on a swimming pool". More of the flowery language used to describe it here
It's effects... Well, drinking it is like "tasting the sunlight of bygone days," it is "magic," and induces a feeling of joy and memories of big blue skies presided over by the friendly bright yellow sun.
Yeah.. whatever...
Well, in millicanon, it is capable of inducing drunkenness in gods. Demeter got drunk of it, Yreal regularly drinks it, and mere mortals get the hangover from hell from it. Amascut, being a former goddess, but affected greatly by her healing factor, can get buzzed off it but only for a moment. Poor Amascut.
Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters... I will say buzz with the marrentil See here
Sooo, I was googling random stuff... well, not random stuff, just a phrase that popped into my head... and it lead me to a very interesting article on Kali that just totally resonated with some ideas I had for Amascut's future-plot/past-plot
Anyway, the article mentioned the Romani patron saint, Saint Sarah, or Sara-la-kali. In one story, she was the dark skinned Egyptian (the Roma, or Gypsies, were once thought to be originally Egyptians) maid of one of the Three Marys. The Three Marys and their companions were refugees from Judea who made the trip to Gaul during the first century AD on a boat without sails, oars, or rudders and included Mary Magdalene and Martha, sisters of Lazarus, Lazarus himself (Yes, the same Lazarus that was lamented and resurrected by Jesus), Mary Salome, mother of James and John, Mary Jacobe, or Mary of Clopas, and Maximinus, one of the 72 given power over demons by Jesus, often conflated with various later saints of the name Maximin. Another story states that Sara-la-kali was the chief of the the Rom tribe living at the mouth of the Rhône. The Rom at the time had the tradition of carrying a statue of Ishtari or Astarte to the sea to receive the goddess' blessing. One day before one of these benedictions, Sara received a vision informing her of the arrival of "Saints who had been present at the death of Jesus" and that she should rescue them from their distress. Sara was there when the Three Marys and their companions arrived and rescued them on a raft constructed from a cloak of Mary Salome's which had been thrown overboard and floated onto the beach.
Another version, popularized by recent novels, especially The Da Vinci Code, claims that Sarah is the daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Interesting.
Anyhow, the 'Kali' in the name 'Sara-la-kali' is something more than coincidence. The Rom/Roma/Romani have had their origins sorta pinned down to the Indian Subcontinent were Sara/Kali/Durga worship was common and practiced in much the same way described in versions of the story of Saint Sarah as Ishtar/Astarte worship. In fact, ceremonies performed at shrines to Saint Sarah in France are very similar as well. Sara-la-kali could be interpreted as Sara the Black, in reference to her dark skin. Kali is derived from Kāla apparently, a Sanskrit word associated with black, time, and death. Kali is sometimes known as "the black one", and is seen as an aspect of/conflated with/confused with Durga who is at times depicted with a black face.
Now for a whole mess of connections to Amascut as she's depicted in canon, fanfiction, and by me in Milliway's bar. Amascut is a goddess of destruction and death in a mythology that vaguely represents Egyptian mythology. Her closest analogue in Egyptian mythology is Ammit, although Ammit doesn't take an active role in destroying the world as Amascut did in her last days as a goddess. The god/demon Ammit just destroys the souls deemed unworthy of going on to the afterlife by Anubis/Inpu (who is a very close analogue to Amascut's brother, Icthlarin. Both are jackal headed and gods of the dead and the afterlife) after weighing the heart against the feather of Ma'at. Ammit does this in some traditions by devouring the hearts and souls of the unworthy. The most popular name for Amascut in game is The Devourer, presumably because she does something similar to the dead if she can get to them before Icthlarin does. The connection between Amascut, Ammit, and the Sara/Kali/Durga entity here is only that they are all goddesses of destruction.
Amascut is depicted in places as a woman with a lioness' head. Ammit herself is sometimes depicted as having a lion's mane. Ishtar/Inanna/Astarte (goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex), mentioned above in the stories of Saint Sarah, was also depicted as a woman with a lioness' head. Now, those wanting to keep the analogies between the game's Menaphite pantheon and real world mythologies pointing at the Egyptian pantheon point to depictions of Sekhmet (A warrior goddess, Avenger of Wrongs, Lady of Slaughter, Bringer of Plagues) and Bast (also a warrior goddess, goddess of protection, ointments, and cats) and say Amascut was like Bast before she went mad, and like Sekhmet after, almost succeeding in destroying the world as Sekhmet almost did.
Funny thing about Ishtar/Inanna/Astarte, she has stories that are very similar to some of those of Demeter/Kore and Aphrodite. Ishtar once descended into the underworld and was imprisoned there, causing everything to become unfertile and all sexual activity to stop. Kore, Demeter, and the explanation for winter anyone? The difference, though, was that Ishtar forced her way into the underworld by threatening:
which the fanfic Age of Zaros has Amascut do in her attempt to destroy the Empire of the Empty God, Zaros. Incidentally, Durga of Hindu mythology creates a similarly massive army to defeat Mahishasura and his army. In Aphodite's case, Ishtar is a goddess of love and sex, but had a series of disasterous relatonships, one of which eventually turned into the story of Aphrodite and Adonis. Ishtar is also a prostitute, a route I was thinking of sending Amascut down. Now if only I could find out who operates the Milliway's brothel. X-23 only seems to be a bookkeeper and bouncer of sorts.
Before this derails further into more discussions of parallels between and mixing of the polytheistic religions (and even monotheistic religions) of the Indian subcontininent, Persia, the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea (Heck, I can even involve the Norse with this with an Asura/Ahura/Æsir connection, among others), I'll stop right here. The rise and fall of empires and the movement of people like the Roma across these particular lands makes such discussion deep, involved, and at times confusing.
Onto pseudonyms for Amascut. Well, Amascut itself is interesting. In fact, the name for the Menaphite deities seem Latinized or Hellenized, much like the way some Egyptian deities had their name Hellenized. The Runescape wiki points out that Amascut carries the meaning "to gather, hoard, enlarge" in Latin. Perhaps this is an allusion to Amascut gathering souls and devouring them? Anyway, because the Sara-la-kali story, I think Sarah would make an awesome pseudonym filled with just the type of deep and not so obvious symbolism I love using. It has an awesome connection with everything I have mentioned up above. Plus, Sarah is a pretty meek name, despite its historical significance. Tis a perfect cover.
I know there is a Kali coming into the bar. I know her app was accepted or something. (Batya, when isforewarned_is gonna walk into the bar?) I know I shouldn't use that one, nor Ammit nor Sekhmet nor Ishtar nor Durga. That is just pushing Amascut's knowledge of a foreign universe which I already decided she knows nothing about too far. But Sarah and Sara is commonly used in her world, I am sure (in fact, Sarah was the name of the first herblorist and medicine maker in her world).
In a thread with Naruto, Amascut was given the psuedonym Red or Aka, perhaps short for Akane. Akane translates into 'red root', or Rubia cordifloria, the madder plant. The meanings of Akane, red, and madder have been confused/played with for comedic effect in animes before, so why not use it as a possible pseudonym? Besides, why not play to the anime trope of the dark skinned red haired woman? It fits Amascut somewhat.
Anyway, the article mentioned the Romani patron saint, Saint Sarah, or Sara-la-kali. In one story, she was the dark skinned Egyptian (the Roma, or Gypsies, were once thought to be originally Egyptians) maid of one of the Three Marys. The Three Marys and their companions were refugees from Judea who made the trip to Gaul during the first century AD on a boat without sails, oars, or rudders and included Mary Magdalene and Martha, sisters of Lazarus, Lazarus himself (Yes, the same Lazarus that was lamented and resurrected by Jesus), Mary Salome, mother of James and John, Mary Jacobe, or Mary of Clopas, and Maximinus, one of the 72 given power over demons by Jesus, often conflated with various later saints of the name Maximin. Another story states that Sara-la-kali was the chief of the the Rom tribe living at the mouth of the Rhône. The Rom at the time had the tradition of carrying a statue of Ishtari or Astarte to the sea to receive the goddess' blessing. One day before one of these benedictions, Sara received a vision informing her of the arrival of "Saints who had been present at the death of Jesus" and that she should rescue them from their distress. Sara was there when the Three Marys and their companions arrived and rescued them on a raft constructed from a cloak of Mary Salome's which had been thrown overboard and floated onto the beach.
Another version, popularized by recent novels, especially The Da Vinci Code, claims that Sarah is the daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Interesting.
Anyhow, the 'Kali' in the name 'Sara-la-kali' is something more than coincidence. The Rom/Roma/Romani have had their origins sorta pinned down to the Indian Subcontinent were Sara/Kali/Durga worship was common and practiced in much the same way described in versions of the story of Saint Sarah as Ishtar/Astarte worship. In fact, ceremonies performed at shrines to Saint Sarah in France are very similar as well. Sara-la-kali could be interpreted as Sara the Black, in reference to her dark skin. Kali is derived from Kāla apparently, a Sanskrit word associated with black, time, and death. Kali is sometimes known as "the black one", and is seen as an aspect of/conflated with/confused with Durga who is at times depicted with a black face.
Now for a whole mess of connections to Amascut as she's depicted in canon, fanfiction, and by me in Milliway's bar. Amascut is a goddess of destruction and death in a mythology that vaguely represents Egyptian mythology. Her closest analogue in Egyptian mythology is Ammit, although Ammit doesn't take an active role in destroying the world as Amascut did in her last days as a goddess. The god/demon Ammit just destroys the souls deemed unworthy of going on to the afterlife by Anubis/Inpu (who is a very close analogue to Amascut's brother, Icthlarin. Both are jackal headed and gods of the dead and the afterlife) after weighing the heart against the feather of Ma'at. Ammit does this in some traditions by devouring the hearts and souls of the unworthy. The most popular name for Amascut in game is The Devourer, presumably because she does something similar to the dead if she can get to them before Icthlarin does. The connection between Amascut, Ammit, and the Sara/Kali/Durga entity here is only that they are all goddesses of destruction.
Amascut is depicted in places as a woman with a lioness' head. Ammit herself is sometimes depicted as having a lion's mane. Ishtar/Inanna/Astarte (goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex), mentioned above in the stories of Saint Sarah, was also depicted as a woman with a lioness' head. Now, those wanting to keep the analogies between the game's Menaphite pantheon and real world mythologies pointing at the Egyptian pantheon point to depictions of Sekhmet (A warrior goddess, Avenger of Wrongs, Lady of Slaughter, Bringer of Plagues) and Bast (also a warrior goddess, goddess of protection, ointments, and cats) and say Amascut was like Bast before she went mad, and like Sekhmet after, almost succeeding in destroying the world as Sekhmet almost did.
Funny thing about Ishtar/Inanna/Astarte, she has stories that are very similar to some of those of Demeter/Kore and Aphrodite. Ishtar once descended into the underworld and was imprisoned there, causing everything to become unfertile and all sexual activity to stop. Kore, Demeter, and the explanation for winter anyone? The difference, though, was that Ishtar forced her way into the underworld by threatening:
If thou openest not the gate to let me enter,
I will break the door, I will wrench the lock,
I will smash the door-posts, I will force the doors.
I will bring up the dead to eat the living.
And the dead will outnumber the living.
which the fanfic Age of Zaros has Amascut do in her attempt to destroy the Empire of the Empty God, Zaros. Incidentally, Durga of Hindu mythology creates a similarly massive army to defeat Mahishasura and his army. In Aphodite's case, Ishtar is a goddess of love and sex, but had a series of disasterous relatonships, one of which eventually turned into the story of Aphrodite and Adonis. Ishtar is also a prostitute, a route I was thinking of sending Amascut down. Now if only I could find out who operates the Milliway's brothel. X-23 only seems to be a bookkeeper and bouncer of sorts.
Before this derails further into more discussions of parallels between and mixing of the polytheistic religions (and even monotheistic religions) of the Indian subcontininent, Persia, the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea (Heck, I can even involve the Norse with this with an Asura/Ahura/Æsir connection, among others), I'll stop right here. The rise and fall of empires and the movement of people like the Roma across these particular lands makes such discussion deep, involved, and at times confusing.
Onto pseudonyms for Amascut. Well, Amascut itself is interesting. In fact, the name for the Menaphite deities seem Latinized or Hellenized, much like the way some Egyptian deities had their name Hellenized. The Runescape wiki points out that Amascut carries the meaning "to gather, hoard, enlarge" in Latin. Perhaps this is an allusion to Amascut gathering souls and devouring them? Anyway, because the Sara-la-kali story, I think Sarah would make an awesome pseudonym filled with just the type of deep and not so obvious symbolism I love using. It has an awesome connection with everything I have mentioned up above. Plus, Sarah is a pretty meek name, despite its historical significance. Tis a perfect cover.
I know there is a Kali coming into the bar. I know her app was accepted or something. (Batya, when is
forewarned_is gonna walk into the bar?) I know I shouldn't use that one, nor Ammit nor Sekhmet nor Ishtar nor Durga. That is just pushing Amascut's knowledge of a foreign universe which I already decided she knows nothing about too far. But Sarah and Sara is commonly used in her world, I am sure (in fact, Sarah was the name of the first herblorist and medicine maker in her world). In a thread with Naruto, Amascut was given the psuedonym Red or Aka, perhaps short for Akane. Akane translates into 'red root', or Rubia cordifloria, the madder plant. The meanings of Akane, red, and madder have been confused/played with for comedic effect in animes before, so why not use it as a possible pseudonym? Besides, why not play to the anime trope of the dark skinned red haired woman? It fits Amascut somewhat.
[OOC : Yasmin? What are you doing?]
Jun. 20th, 2010 02:38 pmSome days I wish I understood Arabic.
Some days I wish I had more icon space.
No, dammit, Yasmin, I am not gonna make more icons!
I think this is an export of Betty La Fea/Ugly Betty for Arab audiences. At least, it looks like it contains the Ugly Betty trope.
[ooc: more history]
Jun. 16th, 2010 01:39 pmHistory articles available at the wiki that may be pertinent.
The Fifth Age or the Age of Man/Modern Age - 169 years
The Fourth Age or the Age of Mortals - 2000 years
The Third Age or the God Wars - 4000 years
The Second Age, part of which was the Golden Age Of Zaros, The Age of the Mahjarrat, (possible date for Evil Chicken's birth/creation), and the Madness of Amascut. - 2000 years
The First Age Age of Creation, Arrival of the Mahjarrat - 4000 years
The Kingdom of Asgarnia
The History of Asgarnia
Kinshra or Order of the Black Knights
Order of the White Knights
Order of the Temple Knights
The Kingdom of Misthalin
Misthalin's Breadbasket Region
History of Varrock
Senntisten
Note: The Emirate of Al Kharid is independent of and in a cold war with the Menaphite nation. The people of Al Kharid consist of a blend of immigrants from Lumbridge and the native Mehkmet tribes.
Cave Canum in Morytania. Built on the ruins of Kharyll by werewolvesin early Third Age. Invaded by Lord Drakan in the Fall of Hallowvale. Abandoned in the late Third Age. Became part of The Lordship of the North Coast in the late Fourth Age. Canifis built on the site of Cave Canum in year 23 of the Fifth Age either by werewolves or by humans of the Lordship that were turned into werewolves by Drakan.
Related: Hallowglade
Myriad and beautiful were the creatures and civilizations of the early ages of the world [...] shaped lovingly o'er the millennia by the creative mind of Guthix. Of the more delicate races there is now no trace, and almost no memory, save for the Light Creatures, the last sorry remnants of that age.
The Fifth Age or the Age of Man/Modern Age - 169 years
The Fourth Age or the Age of Mortals - 2000 years
The Third Age or the God Wars - 4000 years
The Second Age, part of which was the Golden Age Of Zaros, The Age of the Mahjarrat, (possible date for Evil Chicken's birth/creation), and the Madness of Amascut. - 2000 years
The First Age Age of Creation, Arrival of the Mahjarrat - 4000 years
The Kingdom of Asgarnia
The History of Asgarnia
Kinshra or Order of the Black Knights
Order of the White Knights
Order of the Temple Knights
The Kingdom of Misthalin
Misthalin's Breadbasket Region
History of Varrock
Senntisten
Note: The Emirate of Al Kharid is independent of and in a cold war with the Menaphite nation. The people of Al Kharid consist of a blend of immigrants from Lumbridge and the native Mehkmet tribes.
Cave Canum in Morytania. Built on the ruins of Kharyll by werewolvesin early Third Age. Invaded by Lord Drakan in the Fall of Hallowvale. Abandoned in the late Third Age. Became part of The Lordship of the North Coast in the late Fourth Age. Canifis built on the site of Cave Canum in year 23 of the Fifth Age either by werewolves or by humans of the Lordship that were turned into werewolves by Drakan.
Related: Hallowglade
Myriad and beautiful were the creatures and civilizations of the early ages of the world [...] shaped lovingly o'er the millennia by the creative mind of Guthix. Of the more delicate races there is now no trace, and almost no memory, save for the Light Creatures, the last sorry remnants of that age.
(OOC: REFERENCES~~~~~~!!!)
Jun. 8th, 2010 08:31 pmso...Umm.... An unexpected gem... The wiki page on Sophanem has a very thorough history of the Menaphite lands and bit and pieces of history about the surrounding country. Awesome for backstory.
Also, Penny created a playlist of samples of Amascut's dialog
http://www.youtube.com/user/PennyDorkis#grid/user/6F601727B92525EE
Tanks!
also...
Bandit Camp (Kharidian Desert)
Ullek
Uzer
Also, Penny created a playlist of samples of Amascut's dialog
http://www.youtube.com/user/PennyDorkis#grid/user/6F601727B92525EE
Tanks!
also...
Bandit Camp (Kharidian Desert)
Ullek
Uzer
