We're just about to turn in our second piece. I've had it written for a while, and after editing it every other day, I figured I should just go ahead and print it out and stop stressing. Divine Clash is also up in OTC. It's another story about the Queens, and details an event mentioned in Despair of the Divine and Alignment. I wanted my classmates to give me some feedback on how I write battles, plus this focuses on Queens that are new to all but two of them, so it seemed a good choice. I
The Time of the Mask Makers, The Fourth Swing, is now live! This chapter serves mainly as transition from the backstory that was the first three chapters towards how things are in the 2015 animations. Also, after a few passing mentions in previous chapters, Makuta actually visits the Temple of Time in this chapter, and something peculiar happens... Next week: the climax!
I’ve loved JRPGs for a while now, but Fire Emblem was something I never really considered playing. At first, I think it was because I didn’t hear about it all that often, but once I did hear about it, I quickly learned that one of its defining features is that if a character dies in battle, they do not come back. As someone who essentially takes a Leeroy Jenkins approach in most games, I knew that I would never be able to clear a game that featured permadeath. But, a week or two ago I was inf
Okay, so some of you probably know that I love The World Ends With You, I've mentioned it a few times before. It was an amazing DS game, and in August 2012 they released a remake for iOS devices (TWEWY Solo Remix) that carried with it a new piece of artwork heavily implying a sequel. Since then, while nothing really came of that implication, Square Enix was still doing a decent amount of stuff to keep TWEWY in our minds, so I remained hopeful. Well, Solo Remix has now been removed from the App
Asterisk Holder: Chairman Profiteur Origin: Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light Was It In Bravely Default?: Yes Overview: It’s all about the money. And you’d better have plenty of it if you’re planning on using a Merchant! They have some very useful abilities, but they all take up money rather than MP—and some of them have some hefty charges. Still, just being a Merchant means you get more money at the end of battle, so that might help keep you out of poverty. For buying BP, it just mi
Asterisk Holder: The Jackal Origin: Final Fantasy Was It In Bravely Default?: Yes Overview: An agile melee fighter, the Thief is best known for, well…stealing stuff. They’re not particularly strong and not particularly sturdy, but if your Thief stays light on their feet, they can slip around enemy attacks and relieve them of precious items. This is a must for any hoarder! Personal Thoughts: Eh, I’m about 50/50 on Thief. Stealing is nice, but even if you’re doing it as a Thief, I feel
Asterisk Holder: Holly White Origin: Final Fantasy Was It In Bravely Default?: Yes Overview: The oldest, most sacred, and most essential of all Jobs, the White Mage bears the responsibility of keeping the party alive. They possess a wide range of healing and usually buff magic, and will occasionally learn a handful of damaging spells, including the Aero series. However, White Mages are not an offensive class, and often enough their healing duties will require their full attention anyway
Asterisk Holder: Unknown Origin: Bravely Second Was It In Bravely Default?: No Overview: We have been told that the Guardian is a heavy damage dealing Job that uses spiritual energy, and will supposedly use the powers of others. It has been seen using a “Soul Smash” attack. Personal Thoughts: This looks like an interesting Job—bashing things in with glowing fists has a certain appeal to it! I’m curious about this “using the power of others” thing, though. Will this be something sim
...Also: The Time of the Mask Makers, The Third Swing, is live. It involves brotherly love, so it's...sort of relevant? Completely irrelevant: I picked up Fire Emblem Awakening and my gosh it sucked me in way faster than I was expecting.
G1 is dead. It’s deader than dead, deader than a doornail, super duper mega ultra permanently dead. Yet there remain a few who disagree. Tahu has been given great news: Lego wants to reboot Bionicle in 2015! However, there’s a problem. A few characters have been trapped in the dead G1 Universe, possessed and corrupted by the negativity of fans refusing to let go of the story they used to know. As long as they remain there, Lego is unable to reincarnate anybody into the G2 Universe, so Ta
The Time of the Mask Makers, The Second Swing, is live in the Epics forum! This part shows the reason why two very important masks were created, though one of them might come as a surprise! I’m also pleased to say that I’ve managed to get ahead of schedule and type up a rough draft for nearly the entire epic, so expect to see a new chapter every Saturday in February! I’m also preparing yet another story, one that I should be able to start posting late February or early March. I can’t say t
In today's class we sang "Everything Is Awesome" and discussed the cleverness of old episodes of Spongebob before getting on to critiquing stories. One of the stories up was mine, which was the prologue and first chapter of my rough draft novel Divine Strength, and people actually seemed really into it and wanted more! (Which is what a good prologue and first chapter should probably do, I imagine.) I was thinking of doing something unrelated for story 2, but hey, if they want Queens, I shall g
On April 23rd, an elite group of members will be executing a simultaneous name change to celebrate the release of the game Bravely Second. However! Our alliance remains incomplete! I present to you, our current roster! Former Vestal of Wind and now Pope of the Crystal Orthodoxy, Agnes Oblige, portrayed by Voltex! The ordinary farmer who was touched by the Celestials, Tiz Arrior, portrayed by Blade! An amnesiac who has already garnered a new reputation, Ringabel, portrayed by Ehks! El
An even longer time ago, on the mythical island of Okoto, there were two brothers who lived in the Region of Earth. Having been taught the ways of the forge by their mother and an ancient, mystical art by their father, each sought out his own way to be useful to the village—sometimes aiding each other, sometimes clashing against one another. One fateful day, one of the brothers discovered a way to combine the forge and the mystic, and created something that would forever change the destiny of
Thanks BZP, you gave me one helpful answer so that I could break the tie of responses I got from Tumblr. Tumblr was more helpful than you what the heck that's just wrong. Anyway, I've begun work on The Time of the Mask Makers, a fanfic exploring the backstory and characters of Ekimu and Makuta. Again, it will almost certainly be rejected by future canon, but I'm going to try to keep it reasonably based in what we know from the winter wave of the story. I've actually got a lot worked out in
Hypothetically, if you were going to read a fanfic elaborating on the backstory of Ekimu and Makuta, would you rather see it take place in the Region of Earth or the Region of Water (for at least the first few chapters)? Because I may or may not be planning a short epic that will almost certainly be torn to shreds by future canon and I need to decide where they grew up. ,,, Hypothetically of course.
Well, I haven’t figured out any type of writing schedule yet, but I do at least have something to post! As I mentioned, I am taking a Fiction Writing class this semester, which will require us to write three short (ish) stories over the span of the course. For my first assignment, I decided to (edit and) present the prologue and first chapter of the rough draft of the novel I’m working on, Divine Strength. I thought it would be a good way to see how the opening works as a first introduction
I made it even simpler this time I was going to go with "Has Lego officially announced it", but then I remembered those BZP articles on stuff found through "guessing URLs" which apparently don't count? Aside from that one exception though the policy is really, truly, unbelievably, extremely simple. Feel free to use this handy image when teling people why you're closing their topics or whatever, staff, I won't even ask for anything in return
A little more information has come in on Bravely Second, mainly confirmation that Edea has been rebuilding Eternia and working with Agnes to create peace. It looks like "judging" the Asterisk Holders means meeting them, hearing their problems, and deciding who to help. We also have some more info (and better images!) of some of the new Jobs, so I'll update the Asterisk Guides later today. Also, the Pokken Tournament stream was this morning, and the game is looking great! Three new Pokemon
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
I decided to make a content block for my blog with links to my library and sub-libraries (it’s on the left under the Asterisk Guide if you’re curious), and it got me thinking about how I haven’t been writing so much lately. I have been making slow progress on Divine Strength and The Kaita Legacy, and I’ve thought of plenty of ideas, and I guess there was that no context crossover, but the last time I actually posted a work here on BZP was…let’s see…September? I want to try to get myself postin
So a new article popped up showing off Edea's new look, saying she's the leader of the Imperial Guards and will be one of the main characters of Bravely Second (though it doesn't specify if this means she'll be playable). Also there's something about judging the Asterisk Holders. Pretty neat.
Asterisk Holder: Angelo W. Panettone (left) Origin: Bravely Second Was It In Bravely Default?: No Overview: This Job focuses on debuffing, and is said to be capable of inflicting ailments and lowering enemies' stats. Specific attacks seen thus far are "Charm Cake", which charms all enemies, and "Pie Meteor", which throws pies at an enemy until their stats go down. Personal Thoughts: This is going to be one of the best games ever. Update 1/23: New Magnolia image, role revealed and
For some reason I'm pretty optimistic about Magnolia as protagonist of Bravely Second I wonder why that Wait Isn't that sorta like Yeah that might have something to do with it
My first class was cancelled, which would be good if it weren't Japanese. When I entered my second (though technically first?) class, someone came up and hugged me as I was entering the doorway, which honestly is a nice enough way to start a semester. Then I went to the nearby shopping center to kill three hours until my next class, which was almost three hours long itself. It's an interesting start 7/10 will be optimistic.
