Imagine Continent is made up of three Regions: Makinoshan, the region with the League and Academies; Mirage, the Region containing the continent's Ranger Union; and Elemental, the Region of wild Pokémon and no humans. All three Regions are very special in their own way. Imagine Continent is known as a cold continent, especially since Mirage Region is always in a winter state, save for a few three months (the other Regions have all seasons however). Imagine is also called the most beautiful. Somehow, the human settlements have not harmed the environment, and some scientist say it's left almost no artificial footprint at all. Here, on Imagine, nature and civilization are entwined in one. Legends and reality are tied as well. What will you discover?
The Hangout! A fun, friendly place where absolutely anything can happen! Here our motto is, "Anything can happen!" and we try to make this feel like the perfect destination. We do not host a Pokémon League (although Imagine does have one: it's just not utilized here, but you will meet the Gym Leaders and Champion League). Here we try to make you feel at home and make everyone your friend, inviting you to many contest and role plays!
[Ex] New skin!
We have a new skin, everyone. =3 It's the Spring Flora skin. I hope you like it and enjoy the new season (although it could be autumn where some others are. These timezones are really aggravating).
[Ex] This table took forever...
But Ex managed to code it~. I'm pretty proud of this because I made it all myself... with a base code, of course. But, otherwise, all Ex. Oh, yes. It's still under construction and I'll be making a bunch of sprites for this table like the League and Important Characters (the lower cell with the Kate images) and the Staff Members (the upper cell with the Kate images). Yus, sorry Torrie, I'll be needing a bunch of transparencies. Links are important stuff like the Character's Corner, Information Stand, etcetc. Events are pretty self-explanatory and the weather will look pretty. Except for Mirage Region. No matter what happens, it's always snowy~. News cells is... what you're reading right now. oVo and Credits will be including a bunch of credits. :33
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Re: A Minor Route « Reply #75 on Jun 14, 2009, 2:00am »
The serrated knife slid through the air, barely missing Lyss as she spun around, brushing against the (apparently sentient) starlight blade before the mistress found her balance and took a quick step backward, taking a defensive stance for the moment. "We prefer quick fights to fair ones," the girl replied, never once taking her eyes off Lyss as the witch wrapped a bandage around her bleeding hand. For the moment, Lyss's magical shield would prevent a direct attack, but the mistress already felt the return of her power, and with a faint smile she raised the hand not wielding a knife, causing an obsidian flame to cover it. At the same time, her shadow seemed to take a life of its own, stretching out beneath her, apparently seeking to grasp onto Lyss's. Oddly, the shape of the shadow didn't match that of the girl - though it was approximately the same height, the shadow was thinner, and seemed to be wearing a dress.
Meanwhile, Makako decided that while she was trapped, she might as well annoy the witch-girl. "But instead of sealing of the two most powerful beings in the room, you sealed off me. I'm kinda touched, witch-girl, that you think so highly of me." Her tone was completely serious, but if Lyss had turned to look at the ghost, she would have seen still-crimson eyes glittering with fiendish humour. Kinonant nodded slightly at this - Makako was hardly the major threat, even if she was the one attacking, and now that the mistress had entered the fray, Lyss would now have him breathing down her neck, ready to kill in his mistress's name, to do anything to protect her.
...I wonder if Riku and Ano know about this. Probably. Teena will have told them, I bet, and if not, I wouldn't put it past Riku to spy on me... As he thought that, the legendary looked suspiciously at the shadows cast by the neon lighting, as though expecting his (comrade? friend? What exactly was Riku to him, anyway?) to suddenly jump out and start laughing at him for acting like a lovestruck teenage human. Though honestly, he really felt like talking to his makeshift family for once, even though he knew it would just invite teasing. Ano or Teena would know what to do about this witch-girl, he was sure.
Maybe once all this was over he'd go seek them out.
take, just one more dare pretend you don't care 'til twilight falls wait, is someone else here? and i can't stop my tears i've never been so scared
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Re: A Minor Route « Reply #76 on Jun 15, 2009, 5:45am »
((sorry! actually, no, never mind.))
Lyss mumbled something unintelligible that may or may not have included the words "ghosts", "being smart" and "figures". Deciding that the slip-up of having imprisoned Makako (people stabbing or attempting to stab things was usually off-putting, especially when you're the thing that said people are trying to stab) may as well be used as if she had intended things to happen that way, Lyss replied easily.
"No need to be touched, Makako. I was aiming for Kinonant, only I missed," she said, somehow having sensed Kinonant's nod or something, and sounding serious but actually exchanging vague pleasantries. Vague. Very vague.
"Two most powerful beings in the room? I assume that doesn't include me." And now she was serious, although her voice was light. Taking a brief moment to ponder at the irony of it, she continued, "But then..." Leaving her sentence hanging in the air, she wondered. If they did somehow measure the levels of energy radiating off all six beings in the room, where would she rank?
The priestess-magician took a short moment to commune with the steely blue blade.
~Draken! What the hell are you doing? #Tsk. I can't teleport anyone anywhere without the blood price. ~I paid that price. #If you say so. ~Make sure you watch them for any signs... You'll be teleporting them in a moment's notice or less. #Tell the basics to someone else, yourself, preferably. ~Whatever, the blood payment should be enough to take her far out. #The price is sufficient for only a simple Transverse. ~I can't spare any more. #Take the blood pills. You've lost... a large amount already, what with your blood condition. ~I know. Can't do much about it though. #And check your windpipe. Something's up, even I can tell it. You're breathing too fast. ~... #You have noticed this, right, Wanderer? ~... #Don't kill yourself for lack of air. ~I'll put that down on my "To Do" list under 1) Stay alive, 2) Don't die of blood loss, 3) Don't die of anything else, and 4) Pick up more haemophilia stuff (assuming life is still existent). #Very nice comeback. That actually gets a seven on the scale. ~Which one? #Ten to a hundred. ~Haha very funny.
Reflecting that Firefly seemed to have faded into the background for now (maybe overwhelming a Guardee with more than one sentient being conferring with said Guardee through thought-communion was not considered the best way to approach Guardianship), Lyss, pride and all, admitted that Makako was right in the sense that she wasn't the most dangerous/powerful/likely-to-acutally-kill-her person in the room. Through either overestimating Makako and/or underestimating herself, a valuable resource had been lost. Then again, maybe the ghosts were just too good for Lyss to stand a fighting chance.
"So, when I've almost beat someone, someone else will come step in? You're not going to use the classic strategy of overwhelming me with sheer numbers?" Lyss said eventually, seemingly unbothered to be offering the ghosts advice on how to kill her. "Or are you trying to wear me down one by one? Do you get a bigger kick out of doing things that way?"
Basically, by working on the mindset of "saving assets doesn't work if you're dead", Lyss had inevitably led the battle to this point. Now they'd be watching everything she did. Heck, she could probably toss a paper aeroplane at them and they'd be scrutinising it for a delayed time-bomb or something. Then again, maybe she could use that to her advantage...
Eyeing the mistress' shadow warily, she found herself recalling a similar (nonexistent) move from some Japanimation she'd watched a few years back. Something about some twelve year old ninja kid in a radioactivity-hazard-shade-of-orange jumpsuit.
"I was under the distinct impression that you didn't like getting your hands dirty." A faint frown etching into her face as she pondered the new threat posed by the creeping shadow, she looked up again. And something clicked in her mind. Something that her blood run cold... And she knew that she definitely, absolutely was not going to get together the stomach to look at Zetsu, to look in his eyes, something she'd been avoiding already. It made something inside her twist, so she didn't want to think about it at all.
"Are you sure we can't settle this without a fight?" Lyss eventually asked. There was a trace of ... something... in her voice. Did the starlight queen have misgivings?
Maybe the shadow queen knew it, and maybe she didn't, but there was a lot riding on the ebony side's answer.
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And if I can make just one life better Bring a smile to your face when you're under the weather Then I'm feeling like I've finally found my home I'll plant the seeds and watch them grow And I'm gonna fly... fly... fly.. fly... Higher than I ever, ever could.
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Re: A Minor Route « Reply #77 on Aug 29, 2009, 8:40pm »
"This way, we all get a turn...it's rare we all get to fight like this." The mistress shrugged, playing absently with the flames around her hand as she watched her shadow reaching out to grasp that of her opponent, surging forward like a wave. She could not afford to be delicate here, to take her time as she usually would, because time was of the essence. Retrieving Makako from another dimension, while possible, would be incredibly troublesome. They would have to remove her from that trap as quickly as possible, and that would definitely involve harming the witch-girl. Killing perhaps was not the best option, all things considered, but a little maiming should be alright.
"I don't. But you're a special case." As she said that, the mistress rubbed at her wrist, seemingly pondering something. The air around her began to swirl, taking on a light purple hue; a protection of sorts, that would catch anything that tried to touch her and fling it to the roof. It tugged at the ends of her crimson hair, threatened to extinguish her obsidian flames. But now she looked at the starlight queen, her gaze impassive, as the girl spoke once more. As though she had second thoughts about this fight. This, the shadow queen decided, was anything but surprising, for it was a mortal's nature to be fickle and inconstant. But at the same time...
"Please."
Icy blue eyes slid closed for a moment. She knew what it was to plead like that, and to have pleas go unanswered. She wanted to destroy this threat to their family right then and there - but without turning around she knew that her youngest brother would be staring at her, his crystalline eyes somehow conveying hurt and hope and love at the same time. And in that moment she knew that she could not betray his trust like that. Not yet.
"...Release my sister," she said finally. "Release her, and we will go peacefully. But, witch-girl," and here her eyes fixed on Lyss's, betraying just the slightest hint of wariness; Lyss may not have been as powerful as them, but she had two powerful weapons against them, "do not doubt that we will meet again." A faint smile touched her lips. Perfect...an excuse to go and play in the region without the others following her. This was going to be...enjoyable.
take, just one more dare pretend you don't care 'til twilight falls wait, is someone else here? and i can't stop my tears i've never been so scared
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Re: A Minor Route « Reply #78 on Sept 3, 2009, 6:57am »
The girl blinked. Then she blinked again and the surprise on her face vanished, swept away like dust. For the barest moment a lost expression had revealed itself, but now her face was unreadable as a blank page. Then her eyes strayed from the mistress', and for a moment she looked in Zetsu's crystal ones. Just for a moment, because then she looked away. The plea hurt her too, though she couldn't explain why, not even to herself. Lyss hadn't expected Zetsu to intervene.
"Interesting proposition... But how do I know you'll hold to your word?" Lyss said, choosing her words carefully. "It's not very difficult for you to break it, it seems." After all the agitation and tension, it threw her that they'd concede... a mutually beneficial agreement. Well, it meant that a certain few things could be called off, to stay hidden away for now. Until next time, though something in her doubted there would be such an encounter, just as something in her called for her to finish what she had started.
It was a matter now of what was best. Best being? Best being whether or not it would be in her interests to continue. Of course, there was the matter of being wounded, something that could not be ignored for much longer. There was also that of her now slow, yet shallow breathing. And the fact that she didn't really want to fight the ghosts. The girl didn't need nor want yet more reasons to look over her shoulder at every turn. However...
This time, she had the element of surprise. Well, the ghosts had it, but she'd had some too. She'd got the orbs, but then the mistress had joined in. And now that mistress was proposing to drop it all. Lyss doubted she'd catch them with the orbs again. If they did meet again for battle, she'd need something very clever to catch them off-guard, and the wanderer didn't have a limitless supply of tricks. And of course, the more time passed, the worst her condition would get. This was almost her peak time, the best she'd be in her life, really. It was disappointing, yes, that she'd be at her strongest when she was fifteen, but that was the life she had chosen, yes, for there were ways to live others, and that was the life she would live.
And if I can make just one life better Bring a smile to your face when you're under the weather Then I'm feeling like I've finally found my home I'll plant the seeds and watch them grow And I'm gonna fly... fly... fly.. fly... Higher than I ever, ever could.
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Re: A Minor Route « Reply #79 on Sept 4, 2009, 1:58am »
The mistress held Lyss's gaze, letting no emotions show in her icy-blue eyes. She considered the words the girl had spoken, considered the best way to answer them. She felt her family watching her, felt the surprise radiating from them. Truces were not her nature, never had been, even before she had joined their ranks. It made no sense that she would break from tradition to spare the life of one mortal, a mortal whose existence threatened them and the bonds they had formed. But at the same time, the mistress knew her limits. There were things that she would never do, at the price of letting a victim go with little more than a scratch. At the risk of having to reveal the weakness she never showed.
"Your trust means nothing to me, witch." Spoken without inflection, without any hint of the turmoil of emotions she was trying so desperately to sort out. That was, after all, something the mistress was very good at; hiding her true nature. "But he is my brother, and his trust means the world. I will not harm him, and therefore, I will not harm you, for as long as your life matters to him." That was a promise she would not break. The bonds of their family were stronger than the suspicion and dislike they had for the mortal girl.
Zetsu watched them without speaking, saw the lost expression in Lyss's eyes before she composed herself. If she had looked at him a moment longer, she might have seen his lips form a silent apology, that he had intervened. He knew she was proud, disliked the way he tried to protect her from his siblings. But she had not seen what he had seen.
She had not seen Makako standing above a man three times her size, skilled fingers and sharp blade making quick work of his flesh, watching for the moment when his horrified eyes dulled and the fear leaking from him faded, the moment she would leave him for her next victim.
She had not seen Kinonant, teeth bared and eyes wild, tearing some innocent creature asunder like the beast he was, the blood matting his fur and staining his fangs brown.
She hadn't seen Urami's sick puppet show, performed for a terrified audience, the bodies of the others who had strayed into her territory dancing as she flexed her fingers.
She hadn't seen the rare moments when Yuki lost her humanity, enchanting lost travelers with her frigid beauty, only to call them into a blizzard, where their frozen corpses would be buried beneath the swirling snow.
And she hadn't seen his mistress, so delicate and fragile, taking the life of girls who looked twice at her precious lover with the sweetest of smiles on her face. Girls the same age as Lyss. And in his dreams, their hair and clothes were black and they wore silver necklaces with glittering sapphires and they looked at him as they choked on almond-scented drinks.
Zetsu loved his siblings more than anything, but at the same time they truly frightened him.
((You just couldn't resist, could you? *laughs* But if she stays, I may have to break the rule about killing characters, because otherwise this will remain a stalemate forever.))
take, just one more dare pretend you don't care 'til twilight falls wait, is someone else here? and i can't stop my tears i've never been so scared
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Re: A Minor Route « Reply #80 on Sept 6, 2009, 1:31am »
(( not a good idea. not a good idea at all, Torrie. if you kill lyss... well, there will be hell to pay, if nothing else. my lyss! *grabs Lyss territorially* Lyss: ow... ))
The uncertainty, vulnerability... all strategical. But his plea.... No one should have to plea like that. Lyss had never thought someone would plea like that for her. It cut in a way that none of the other ghosts could ever hurt her.
Lyss inclined her head slightly to acknowledge the mistress' words. She hadn't expected any better.
"Then I will remember those words for as long as his trust in you is valued more highly than what you believe to be the threat of my existence," Lyss replied.
Having not forgotten the mistress' encroaching shadow, the girl brought the hovering starlight blade back to her with a slight gesture, positioning it between herself and the shadow. Though she doubted the effectiveness of the blade against the two-dimensional shadow, the glowing magic cast a new light, so her shadow fell further away from the mistress’ one.
“Next time, I choose the time and place,” she added, as a glow of magic rose around her fingers and the diminishing red shards. It was sort of a joke, and sort of serious. But it was much more serious than it was a joke. Letting the magic settle around the cerise fragments like a liquid blanket, the red mist in the shrinking diamond around Makako faded until it disappeared altogether. There was nothing to suggest that the teleport had ever been opened, apart from a slight ethereal shimmer in the air that would leave in time, and the remains of the spheres, which Lyss would pick up later. The deep crimson glow of the crystalline pieces vanished, quickly leaving the shards unremarkable, apart from their striking blood red hue and unexplainable iridescence.
The adrenalin of the battle had begun to dissolve away in her bloodstream, but Makako’s release had her alert again, her senses tense. The girl couldn’t help but feel that her body was almost waiting for an attack, waiting for something. This was where she’d find out if she’d just made the last mistake she ever would.
She hoped not.
(( and it's much more like you couldn't resist, no? ))
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And if I can make just one life better Bring a smile to your face when you're under the weather Then I'm feeling like I've finally found my home I'll plant the seeds and watch them grow And I'm gonna fly... fly... fly.. fly... Higher than I ever, ever could.
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