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Back in Five

Out most of tomorrow and Saturday. Don't worry about Technic Coliseum--Wraith offered to run the ring and water the plants and whatnot. I'll recruit new fighters when I get back.   Earlier this week I posted a short story called Abyssal Obsession. How do I explain this...well, a while back on a website that I don't think I'm allowed to mention on BZPower, the whole "romance isn't canon" topic came up, and one of the points mentioned was Vhisola's obsession with Nokama. Since my brain is now

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Ruby Madness Day 5: We Will Be ForEver Grande

It didn’t take too much effort to get to Ever Grande City. What was a little harder was getting through Victory Road. Omega pressed deeper and deeper into the dark cave, fending off wild Pokémon and powerful Trainers, primarily with Groudon. When at long last he emerged on the other side, he was surprised to see Wally there to greet him. The young Trainer impressed Omega with his newfound resolve, so Omega threw everything he had at the boy. After Wally’s Mega Gallade fell, he congratulated Omeg

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A New Chapter, and Maybe Some New Titles

First things first, the fifth part of Beyond Ruin is up! Land, Sky, and Knowledge all make appearances, dealing with a new threat that has arisen due to the forces of magic reacting to the beliefs of the people. I mentioned this concept before and wanted to test out how it might apply to folklore.   I’ve been thinking more about it, and I think this sort of mechanic could have a big thematic impact. I feel like I might be getting a better idea of what this novel will be about! (If I ever fini

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Pahrak's PokéRecords: Dragon

-Dialga ("Vahi") -Garchomp ("Chomper", "Takea") -Giratina ("Vezon") -Zekrom -Kyurem (White)   Dragon. The type everyone wants to use and no one wants to fight. Well less so now that we have Fairy type. I definitely like having a Dragon on my team, but since you usually need to go out of your way to acquire one (or they don't show up until late in the game when you already have a team together), most of the Dragons I've used are mascots, who have had spots reserved for them. The only real exc

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What a Nice Surprise, Bring Your Alibis

I’m hosting Mafia XXXIX: Hotel of Okoto!   Come play if you want.   It’ll be fun.   Seriously, you can keep voting even if you die.*   Try it out.   *Offer open to certain roles only, restrictions apply, results may vary

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FFFC-Focused Entry

Surprisingly, Bond of Heresy won! Victory dance time!   *Victory dance removed for bad dancing*   I'd like to thank the judges for this great honor! It really means a lot to me that you consider my work worthy of recognition!   Moving on to the current FFFC...I have a more difficult time thinking of what to do with OTC contests. "Anything but Bionicle" is so broad that I tend to get lost. However, I did manage to whip up A Recluse's Dilemma, and I have a good feeling about it! It's actually

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Thirteen Years

As of today, I’ve been on BZPower for 13 years. Being 24 years old, that means I’ve been on this site for over half of my entire life, so I guess that’s kinda cool. Let’s see how productive this past year was for me:   -Wrote An End Escaped, which I rather like -Hosted Slizer Mafia 2: Okotans’ Revenge, which I think went well -Hosted Slizer Dome US, which did not go so well -Finished Shooting Star Sonia 2, ending up with a 100k word story that I wrote in roughly a year while holding myself to

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It's The Tokyo Game Show!

But first, obligatory Bioni-Lords update: Kako 29 was posted earlier this week, currently typing Kako 30 and will probably get it up either today or Monday, and I've started writing Kako 31.   Also, I must call to your attention that this November, Square Enix is holding a The World Ends With You concert in Shibuya. Since I cannot put how awesome this is into words, that is all I have to say.   Okay, Tokyo Game Show news! (If there's anything else relevant to my interests revealed later today o

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Pokemon Bohrok Challenge

This is a wierd idea I thought of the other night. For this “challenge,” you must decide on a set team of six Pokemon to use through the game with types corresponding to the Bohrok, with the Bohrok names being used as the Pokemon’s nicknames.   Tahnok: Fire Pahrak: Rock Nuhvok: Ground Kohrak: Ice Lehvak: Poison Gahlok: Water   The Pokemon can have secondary types, but their secondary types cannot be the primary type of another Bohrok Pokemon. Secondary types can overlap. You may catch other Poke

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List of Updates

There are some random things I wanted to mention in this week's entry, but I really don't know how to transition between them all. So I'm just going with a list.   -We've got news on the next Pokemon movie: lookes like it'll actually feature two Genesect, one of which is shiny! -Recently Nippon Ichi announced Disgaea Dimension 2, a direct sequel to the original Disgaea game. What we know so far: there's a monster mount system and a new character who is apparently Laharl's little sister. Sound

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50 Reasons to Love The World Ends With You, Part 3

21. Every Thread and Pin is assigned one of 13 brands (or left unbranded), which seems like nothing more than an organizational thing, right? Wrong! Each area has its own brand chart detailing which brands are popular and which brands are not. If you have a Pin from one of the three most popular brands, they get a power boost, but if they're way down at rank 13, they get power reductions. Still, the brands aren't set in stone--wearing Threads and Pins from a specific brand and fighting battl

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Mini-Entry

Vegeta! What does the Scouter say about the number of views this blog has? "IT'S OVER 9000!!" WHAT 9000?! There's no way that can be right!!   ...Ahem. I'd like to thank all of you who've viewed my blog thus far, even if you just stumbled in, realized it was lame, and walked right back out.   This is sort of a forecast entry. Since I'm running low on topics and you guys probably don't want to hear me rant about my characters like I did in my last entry, I've decided that this Saturday will

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Ah, Yes, the Queens...

My next semester is starting up soon. Originally I had intended to have a rough draft of my novel Divine Strength done by now, but that definitely did not happen. At least the realization helped me kick myself into making some more progress.   Part of that has involved me repeatedly posting about it on Tumblr, and answering some questions people have had about it on that website. I’ve shared a rough map of the story’s setting (it is by no means art, just there for reference), posted the names

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Updates Are Up

I actually managed to do it! Right of Law Section VI is up now!   Krika visits Ga-Koro and finds his people in good health, but that might not be the case for long. Things are getting a bit tense at Bitil's outpost as well, though things aren't all serious, with the introduction of some new Rahkshi I think everyone will appreciate.   I also updated SSS3 today, so I met my goal of getting both updated by the end of this week. Going forward...who knows. But since both stories are heading into

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Asterisk Guide: Performer

Asterisk Holder: Praline à la Mode     Origin: Final Fantasy V (called “Dancer”)   Was It In Bravely Default?: Yes   Overview: The Performer Job is purely supportive. They don’t have any decent methods of attacking nor the stats to make use of other Jobs’ abilities, and their defenses can make keeping them alive difficult to boot. Still, you definitely want to book them a gig, because they can give solid party-wide buffs and provide ever-handy BP boosts. Taking care of them gets easier once th

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New Bravely Second Job!

For my Bravely Second post on the topic--*shot*   ...Actually, that's relevant because the new Job uses guns! The new Job is "Tomahawk", a gun-specialist that apparently will have a lot of support abilities and attacks that can hit all enemies. Sounds neat!   They also announced the Asterisk-holder for this Job: "Amy Matchlock", who comes from a small tribe and can talk to spirits. She also has a really cool spear-axe-gun-bow...thing.   Aside from that, it's been confirmed that Agnes will pro

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Changing Your Final Line

When I beat Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix a while ago, I made a big deal about Aqua’s final line: “There is always hope.” Now, one can get nitpicky and say that isn’t really the final line of the game, there’s still that thing with Sora and Riku after the credits and then you could count the Secret Movie and the Secret Episode, but for all intents and purposes let’s just treat “There is always hope” as the final line of Birth by Sleep since it’s not in a secret thing and serves more as

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Let's Try This Again

With all the blogging going on last week, my posts advertising new stories might've gotten buried, so I'm going to shamelessly promote them one more time.   First, in the Epics forum, is A Mind in Darkness. The blog post with a little more info on it can be found here.   Second, in the Short Stories forum, is The Blade of Valor. Blog post here explaining that this is a test run for a concept--I'm really curious to know how people feel about this idea, so please let me know.   And while I'm at it

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Library #0579

Legend: : Stories entered into the Fortnightly Flash Fiction contest when that was a thing. For a collection comprised solely of FFFC stories, click here. : Stories about the Queens. This idea began in an FFFC entry and has since expanded greatly, to the point where I am currently attempting to write an actual novel based around it. For a collection of the Queen stories and relevant blog posts, click here. : Poetry. : Stories about Generation 1. : Stories about Generation 2. : Storie

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A Working Understanding of the Keyblade

Because I woke up today and decided "you know what forget homework I'm going to write a nearly 4,000 word essay about a fictional weapon."   ...It seemed like a good idea at the time.   Anyway, like the title says, it's me rambling about the Keyblade and how I assume it to work, plus a few mini-theories sprinkled throughout. It does contain a lot of spoilers, and some of the jargon and situations referenced aren't fully elaborated on so it might not make complete sense if you're unfamiliar with

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Another Really Short Story

I did another Reference Roulette an ended up with the Rahkshi page. I knew I wanted to do something with Melding Rahkshi, but I wasn't sure what, then I reminded myself the point isn't to write something good so I just wrote up what came to mind tried a few more times and came up with The Principle of the Thing. I'm in the habit of making blog posts whenever I do a new story, though.

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Light and Darkness in Kingdom Hearts

(Unmarked spoilers ahead, I’ll try to keep them…light.)   I read Mr. Thornberry’s blog entry and it got me thinking about Kingdom Hearts well more than usual.   The representation of light and darkness in Kingdom Hearts is…mixed, I guess. If you just take a cursory glance at the series, it’s the good guys keeping light safe from villains wielding the forces of darkness, and that’s not wrong. Heck, that’s literally the mission statement of the old Keyblade order as we find out in BBS. (Granted th

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The Time of the Mask Makers Artwork!

As I said previously, Karios has been working on some art for the story that started my Okoto 579 series, and it's now ready!   The work has been linked in the first post of the review topic for The Time of the Mask Makers! Included are a few versions of a cover for the story and artwork of Makuta and Ekimu as they appeared during their days growing up in the Region of Earth. It's some great stuff, so please take a look at it!

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More Like E2.8

Rather than wait until E3 Square Enix gave us for Kingdom Hearts II.8 today!  The section for Dream Drop Distance is pretty straight forward. It certainly looks lovely, but I do find myself wishing there would be new content in this rather than a simple facelift.   The 0.2 section lets us see Aqua in action in the KH3 engine, and it looks pretty darn awesome! Looks like the Command Style has been altered for the new mechanics (maybe this is how Keyblade Transformations will function in III?),

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Death to the Coronet

Remember when I said For Coronet and Cancellation [slizer Mafia 3] was going to be the end of the Slizer Mafia series? Yeah...I did mean that, but with it going the way it did it still feels super open-ended, and it's been bugging me.   The way I see it, this story isn't over until the villain it centers around is dead. Call them whatever you want--the Skull Slizer, the Judge Coronet, or just the Coronet Slizer--but it's high time for their demise.   Hence, Slizer Mafia: The Final Refrain.   I

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