Floating Castle - Collaborative RP Discussion

[Qara-Xuan Zenith]

The thing is, I also thought that other quest before they actually moved on... I mean, which friends would Hector be protecting if they already went up to the next floor ?

From my impression of the newest round of quests, it looks like the only player-characters going onto the third floor were Ben and Kurt?

[Pixelmage]

Ok ok ok ... Let me figure out a way.

*types*


Podium Secured.
Turn end.

Hector leaves the temple for whatever reason. Meets Pan. Quest happens.
Darren arrives to deliver the package. Finds Marcus. They notice something, leave to intercept before getting trapped / spotted. Quest happens.

Both quests after the podium, happening roughly simultaneously in different places.

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That's how I envisioned it at first, anyway. I guess there's room to move things around, though.

*confusing set up is confusing* >_<

[Guyshane]

Okay, this is confusing. But all of these quests are happening before Storm and Drive flees the 2nd floor yes?

[Pixelmage]

Yup. For the moment we're still at the temple.

[Adell]

Okay, this is confusing. But all of these quests are happening before Storm and Drive flees the 2nd floor yes?

Yes. I see it as them happening after tamar has succeeded in his quest but before he has returned?

[Blurred_9L]

Well... I think we're at the same point we were before then Maybe it's good neither pair has started to write yet?

[Pixelmage]

I should probably have thought this through beforehand. @.@

[Blurred_9L]

I should probably have thought this through beforehand. @.@

I think we can work it out Just that it was a bit unexpected I guess

[eli_gone_crazy]

*slowpoke* wait, what happened?

[Qara-Xuan Zenith]

<_< I think it's just a question of where Adell/Isla and Shane/Blur are during their respective quests, since both are situated approximately around where S&D is hanging, apparently.

[Krika]

Sooo...posted my side-story thing. I hope it's not bad, I mean I think it's good but that doesn't really say much.

[agoraoptera]

Sooo...posted my side-story thing. I hope it's not bad, I mean I think it's good but that doesn't really say much.

Umm... I don't.. *tilts* It doesn't seem at all like a FC kinda thing, you know? Seems more like a stand-alone-ish-thing, or the start of a novel. ._. I don't know .-.

[eli_gone_crazy]

Sooo...posted my side-story thing. I hope it's not bad, I mean I think it's good but that doesn't really say much.

Umm... I don't.. *tilts* It doesn't seem at all like a FC kinda thing, you know? Seems more like a stand-alone-ish-thing, or the start of a novel. ._. I don't know .-.

Well, I'm willing to accept it as a canon of what's OFF the castle, or maybe on a very high floor.

[Krika]

Sooo...posted my side-story thing. I hope it's not bad, I mean I think it's good but that doesn't really say much.

Umm... I don't.. *tilts* It doesn't seem at all like a FC kinda thing, you know? Seems more like a stand-alone-ish-thing, or the start of a novel. ._. I don't know .-.

It is meant to be a story that takes place in the FC-verse, but in an entirely different location than the Floating Castle.

[Pixelmage]

Umm... I don't.. *tilts* It doesn't seem at all like a FC kinda thing, you know? Seems more like a stand-alone-ish-thing, or the start of a novel. ._. I don't know .-.

Well, I'm willing to accept it as a canon of what's OFF the castle, or maybe on a very high floor.

According to Krika it's set in a magic academy somewhere outside the Castle, I believe. Who knows, maybe Fern will get pulled into the Castle and ASSIMILATED in the future... :3

[Scarab]

Okay one: great side stories, guys.
Two: Has anybody thought of you know, carving a FAKE amulet that basically looks the same? I'm pretty sure we have wood carvers SOMEWHERE...[/

[agoraoptera]

Okay one: great side stories, guys.

Two: Has anybody thought of you know, carving a FAKE amulet that basically looks the same? I'm pretty sure we have wood carvers SOMEWHERE...

We are honest, honest people

[Scarab]

Okay one: great side stories, guys.
Two: Has anybody thought of you know, carving a FAKE amulet that basically looks the same? I'm pretty sure we have wood carvers SOMEWHERE...

We are honest, honest people

We're also bordering on being dumb (says the girl who's character slept through the first stage of the riots) (Except Eliziya. Eliziya'. Tamar probably thinks that she has a good explanation for EEEEVERYTHING, but then he's hideously biased )

Also, speaking of the amulet, I ran up this very quick suggestion of what they might look like. Jack and I came up with it on our quest a while back.



That rune is the Elder rune Odal or Otholan, which represents the o sound and represents inherited property and possessions, ancestral homes and ancestral familiarity. It links to feeling safe and secure in the place you call home, and have done for a long time.

Importantly though, it's turned upside down on the amulets Asha creates which, as anyone who studies this kind of thing shall know (Hello, Dilly!) means a reversal of the actual meaning of the rune. So in this case, the already awkward meaning becomes something far more malicious and potentially deadly. So... there you go, guys, that's what Jack and I reckon the amulet all the anti factionists are wearing looks like.

To quote wikipedia: The Odal rune has been used by the Neo-Nazi Wiking-Jugend in Germany, and in South Africa by the Anglo-Afrikaner Bond, the nationalist, and heavily subjugated, Boer minority organization Boeremag, and the Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging

[agoraoptera]

Maybe a little slimmer? But I like the idea

And Eliziya... let's just say she's not the most.. clear-headed on the team XD

EDIT: The rune looks like a fish falling into water.

[Scarab]

Maybe a little slimmer? But I like the idea

And Eliziya... let's just say she's not the most.. clear-headed on the team XD

Yeah, I figure that Asha probably didn't have time to make them too detailed, what with needing to get HUNDREDS of them out there in short notice. They probably get less well carved as they go...

No, I actually think that role falls to either Julius, or Tamar You better hope it's Julius, because Tamar is liable to get people killed anyway.

[agoraoptera]

Yeah, I figure that Asha probably didn't have time to make them too detailed, what with needing to get HUNDREDS of them out there in short notice. They probably get less well carved as they go...

No, I actually think that role falls to either Julius, or Tamar You better hope it's Julius, because Tamar is liable to get people killed anyway.

Julius is far too clear-headed. Mmmaybe Tamar, but I hesitate to agree

I'd think that if it's crudely carved, it'll be less rounded and more straight blocks

[JackAlsworth]

Oooooh, nice drawing.

[Scarab]

EDIT: The rune looks like a fish falling into water.

Be thankful to me, I am providing you with potentially humourous comments for your characters to say (I vote that at least one person in every story from now on comments that the rune looks like a fish so that Asha can be silently indignant about it.)

Julius is far too clear-headed. Mmmaybe Tamar, but I hesitate to agree
I'd think that if it's crudely carved, it'll be less rounded and more straight blocks

...Yeah, yeah I'd be hesitating to agree there too. Lets just say that in a real bind, where there is literally no other option, he CAN step up to the plate and at the very least attempt it. (Look it's not his fault his primary skill is fire based, okay? That kind of encourages one into thinking you HAVE to use fire as a solution to your problems in SOME way otherwise it's going to go to waste. )

And yeah good point... unless maybe they are cut straight from roundish branches, or already have the wooden things prepared by other people? Asha MUST have a team helping her to create these.

Unless you can purchase the blank rune tablets in bulk... that would actually make a kind of sense in a world like this where a LOT of people use magic to create their own runes. SOMEONE would have to sell blank tablets for the purpose of customisation by a professional, right?

[Pixelmage]

Asha does talismans as her normal skillset. She would have a surplus of blank ones, and possibly a way of getting more.

It's not like she couldn't get wood chips from the lumberjacks. And besides, while this specific format of spell wasn't foreseen, Luca and Asha were already working towards that kind of goal for a while, so it's perfectly reasonable that she built a stockpile of blank ones over the time she spent in the castle. I don't think we need to complicate things with a supply chain. @.@

[Scarab]

Asha does talismans as her normal skillset. She would have a surplus of blank ones, and possibly a way of getting more.

It's not like she couldn't get wood chips from the lumberjacks. And besides, while this specific format of spell wasn't foreseen, Luca and Asha were already working towards that kind of goal for a while, so it's perfectly reasonable that she built a stockpile of blank ones over the time she spent in the castle. I don't think we need to complicate things with a supply chain. @.@

Oh, good. I figured it was something like that.

One wonders how exact the carvings even have to be to work. Would breaking them 'break' the effect', as in Supernatural?