I Have My Little Pleasures

It sdems that thers a problem whth my laptop, more specifically a couple of drivdrs. I might be gone a couple of days to a couple of weeks. UM. all things relating to Schro in regards to the plot of Schro, Sal, Carrion?, and Mello are given to their muns. I guess Walter's back in the subway.(If this is acceptable.) ~Drakan

[Filtered to Asgard]

E-Eil-leen, th-thank y-you f-for y-your h-help. I enj-joyed th-the l-less-son, an-nd w-will pr-ract-tise h-har-rd b-bef-fore o-our n-nex-t l-les-son. I r-real-ly am l-lear-rning a l-lot. H-Hope-ful-ly I c-can l-look at s-some oth-ther b-books in th-the l-libr-rary if I l-lear-rn en-nough. Y-You h-had s-some s-sug-gest-tions of g-good ones, r-right M-Mitch?

Um...c-can an-nyon-ne of-fer h-help on pr-rot-tect-ting ent-tries f-from b-being h-hack-ked? I h-had as-sist-tance b-bef-fore b-but I d-don't th-think wh-at I use n-now is s-saf-fe en-nough. H-Hopef-ful-ly th-this is s-safe en-nough...I d-don't w-want tr-roub-ble f-for D-Dor-rian ag-agin, af-fter h-he d-def-fend-ded me.

Is ev-very-one al-r-right th-though? W-Wor-rking h-hard on the tr-rial I ass-sume.

[OOC: Yes, she's working on her reading and writing, and also worrying about her privacy after Mello hacked her last entry. Nevertheless, mostly in good spirits.]

( Private-Binary Coded )

"Nrbg em het osunds fo a etud fo 'teh elttl atehd'."

Trial buttheads gave me something that made SQUAT sense. It's all screwed up!

"Bring me the sounds of a 'tude of 'the little atehead."

What the hell is an "atehead?" Nothing, THAT'S what!

"Bring me the sounds of a 'tude of 'the little hated'."

More sense, but still. What the fuck?

"BRING ME THE SOUNDS OF A DUTE FO 'THE LETTL TEHAD!!!"

Fuck it all with rusty nails and squid tentacles. Sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimy.

Who: L and Mello
Where: Emptiness
When: August 14, Shortly After the L/Light encounter.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of horrors past, and a bit of mind-manipulation and controlled violence
Summary: "The Rest of the Story" could have been a second title for this thread. It's finished before it's even begun, considering that the only characters involved both belong to this player. I felt that it was somewhat important to thread, though, in order to avoid future confusion. The following is what happened with Mello and L after Mello stumbled upon the scene in the L/Light thread. Mello tells a story to the highly suggestible L, revising his reality to prevent him from doing anything rash after he realizes what actually almost happened with Light. He also gets some useful information about L's cameras, which he'll later share with Kain.

( Are You Watching Closely? )

So, on Wednesday my mother and brother are heading off to Canada for roughly two weeks, and I'll pretty much be holding down the fort here, babysitting my father, and working. So while I'm not going to totally disappear, I'm sure I probably won't be as quick to respond.

Just a friendly heads up, so that people don't wonder why I've suddenly started replying slowly. <3

Sadly, I believe I am going to have to drop Vincent. I've been thinking on it a lot and...I honestly think it'd be best. I find it hard to get in touch with his character, and it makes me uncomfortable when I play him...So..yes, sorry for everyone who may have wanted to interact with him (and I'm sorry to Maria, since she will no longer have him around).

Though, I am willing to play a 'going away' type thread with him. if Maria-Player would like to do so, they can be traveling in Emptiness and he be grabbed up by one of those portal things that returns him to his normal world, and it closes up before she can get through. This could explain why people don't just stumble on these things when out traveling.

Does that sound good? If not, we can just forgo it and just have him disappear.

Ever felt like you're the self-destructing disc Jim Phelps gets at the beginning of every episode? Like you're only here to do this one thing, and when it's done and over there's nothing left but set yourself on fire and destroy all evidence?

Everybody seems so... honoured would be the wrong word, more like waiting with baited breath for the gallows to take you.

I'm not sure if I like what will be happening here.

Doesn't matter that I was raised for this stuff, I'm having a bad feeling about this.


[OOC: this is while Jazz waits for his turn to visit the sphinx. If that broke some rules, I'll delete it.]

[Filtered to Asgard]
Just got back from the trial. I'm gonna start tryin' to crack my riddle in a few minutes, but since it's in code, there's no guarantee that I'll be able to read the actual riddle... yet. Ryuzaki had given me some tips when he figured out Metatron's cipher a while ago, so that'll help.

The deal is, representatives can't help other representatives. Only non-reps can help reps. Hah, so much for mine and Blythe's study group. It's still a good idea, just have to adjust it a bit?  

Oh, Ryuzaki, did ya still want to train? Besides figuring out the riddle, my week's lookin' pretty free.

Ugh, anyways, I'm gonna go break my brain now.
[/filtered to Asgard]

You have to be kidding me.

This trial is a joke. I've already figured mine out.

I certainly hope the other representatives don't get stumped. This isn't hard at all.

I'm gonna be pretty busy up till about Thursday or Friday - things aren't awesome over here at the moment.

As always, semi-hiatus is I won't be posting in the journals, but I will be in the threads (can't exactly skimp on the Trial, ah? ^^). Plus, I think this would be a bit helpful for the people who are on hiatus. I get kinda uneasy about being so busy when others aren't and pushing plots too far ahead. This is a chance to slow it down a tad so I'm on the same page with everyone - whether or not you're on hiatus.

I'd still like to discuss the Schro/Sal/Carrion/Mello thread, though, when Schro-mun is back up and running again~ Like my character said, we have all the time in the world, so no rush at all! ♥ If you wanna talk about it, we can do so here! This also goes for any other plots that I have made plans for with others. Everything's still a go.

( Private, binary coded )

It's not in the rules yet, however, it's going to be added soon.

After some thought, I wanted to 'organize' a potential thing that might occur with some characters in the future.

On Characters Learning New Abilities
1. They cannot learn them within days. It's an insult to everyone who has a similar ability. Say if you're learning how to fight with a lance and you've never done it before - you aren't going to be good at it until at least a year of practicing hard, and that's pushing it (you aren't going to be a 'master' until much, much longer). The same goes with learning magic - characters should NOT be able to learn magic well and easily if it's not their usual thing.

Also, characters who come into the game with an ability will, with some exceptions, almost always be more powerful than people who learn a trait within the CU realm. If Alice learns to shoot a gun, she's not going to be as good at it as Sal, without serious...plot reasons that slowly develop over a long period of time, but that's unlikely.

2. Learning an ability doesn't mean you can use it well and easily immediately! That's not what learning is.

3. This is being put out there because new talents and pursuits need to be kept in check so we don't have tons of characters turning into Superman or That Dude Who Can Take Care Of Everything Alone. That's boring.

While it might be fun or necessary, or inevitable due to the storyline, characters should be encouraged to learn how to use the techniques they have instead of learning everything else.

Also! While characters MIGHT learn magic or some special thing from a world that isn't theirs, if they do not come from a world with magic or, say, someone doesn't come from a world that has guns, learning how to use that thing will become that much harder and take that much longer. I want the game to remain flexible, but not insult the players who already have certain talents.

Also, characters can't learn specific versions of magic without the permission of the mod or the player it comes from if it's an OC-style magic (say Blythe's.) Characters can't randomly access the magic of Lina's world, or randomly access the magic from Blythe's world. Different magics, different settings, etc.

The CU magic centered around this specific realm focuses on the presence of Lucifer and Metatron, and to use it is to draw bits of power from them. - This is tentative, as I have to finish wording this, but it's going to be in the wiki. <3

Who: Morana and Eileen
Where: The Library in Asgard
When: During the Trial Ceremony
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Finally at ease with her past, Morana feels ready to try and do better for her team. Her first step, taking up Eileen's offer of help on teaching her to how to read, may just show how determined she is. 

Kind of.

So, in oh god, five hours, I drive (well, get driven in truth) to Heathrow.

So, yes. My hiatus starts in approximately four hours. I should have wi-fi access when I'm in Tokyo, but I'm going to be quite busy, so I won't be online much. My Mum wants photos, so if anyone's interested in those, I'll probably end up uploading them to LJ and possibly IJ.

I do plan on updating a couple of times before I get to my dorms in Osaka, but I can't promise anything.

-> 22 Tokyo
23 - 25 Nagano
26 - 28 Takayama
29 -> Osaka

If anyone needs to get in touch with me, my email is: longing.melody[at]gmail.com

♥♥

So, I'm back from Travemünde.

I'll try to be up to date with the posts around evening my time, but it may take maybe a bit longer as one of my aunts invited herself over to our flat.

I um... apparently I keep missing out on things, and information that keeps appearing in this back of this book I found in my pocket makes me wonder just where/what have I gotten myself into. Also, I'm not quite sure what the little marble that I just found along with this book is for, so it has been set aside in an open location for the owner to find (and I do hope that whatever child that lost it is able to find it in this rather large house).

If you have lost a marble, it is

Quick~! Is anyone willing to have a character of theirs replace Maria for Asgard? Since the player is busy and your mod sucks and didn't notice this earlier.

I'm so sorry. D=

[Private to Asgardians only~!]

ALRIGHT, PEOPLE.

What do we want? To win! When do we want it? As soon as possible!

SO. I was thinking. And I know it's a trial of the mind, buuuuuut who's to say we can't help out? I mean. So.

...I'm not saying we're all geniuses, but it'll probably be great if those of us who aren't representatives can try to help the ones who are. What do you guys think?
[/Private to Asgardians only]

I miss the pirate outfit.

Who: Sphinx and the trial representatives
Where: The place beyond the door of the Room of Ceremonies.
When: The starting day of the trial.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Don't know.
Summary: After the first part of the first trial begins, and everyone is brought to the ceremony, each character is led individually into the place beyond the door to meet Sphinx, who will give them their trials.

[ooc: As helpful instructions, the order (though it doesn't have to be done in order OOCly, ICly, story-wise, it will) of people will be Mitch, Light, Mello, Blythe, Flauros, L, Jazz, Frank, Wesker and Maria. This is the order that the characters will be called in and given their riddle by Sphinx.

Every character is expected to post to THIS, not to other comments in this page, to start interaction with Sphinx, so that every character has a 'thread' with Sphinx within this page. This is to speed things along so that everyone gets their riddle in a somewhat vaguely timely manner, even if other people's schedules make them faster or slower to respond.

Characters will not be able to interact with anyone other than Sphinx in this thread, as Sphinx will be the only one present aside from the character entering the room, always.

The following is what occurs whenever someone steps inside.]

( Sphinx isn't called Sphinx because she's a Sphinx! )