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I'm not gonna post any images yet but know that I'm not just some inactive nerd with an inactive blog. Something is happening. I know that empty promises are abound in the gaming community especially nowadays with open betas and such so I'm not going to post ideas frequently. I have, however, actually made games so it's not like one of these "I want to make a game... SOME DAY." The idea came to me... quite a while ago actually. Before the Great Dataclysm actually. Imagine... a tactical roguelike. Mystery Dungeon meets Fire Emblem. The clash of Hapori Tohu and Hapori Dume. Inhabitants, Denizens, Sages, Guardians, and Titans in a battle against the collapsing structure of a virtual world. I'm not interested in recruiting anybody yet but keep an eye out. I'll have some screenshots posted soon... I'm in the midst of a pretty major game and running a zine, so this BZP thing is sort of just a side-pet project. I will, however, be recruiting 3d artists, voice actors, programmers, etc.

i cant believe i got a premier membership but never even log onto bzp anyhow stuffs been good. by good i mean really bad. i had one too many brass monkeys which compelled me to hit up the Webs Foremost for Bionicle Content being exploited at work. mental problems are bad as ever. will never afford plastic surgery. all but stopped drawing and programming. on the good end though im moving in with my girlfriend........soon?? i hope!! i love her more than bionicles have any of you guys read oyasumi punpun. i just finished it and it was good

(plays a montage of me riding a horse alone in the desert with a cowboy hat whilst 80's rock ballads play) keep your comment this is how i roll (rides off onto the horizon)

check it out i should do some bonkles pixel art

FANTASTIC stuff. excellent flow you've got going on here and the bright colors work together impressively. I've always loved Gadunka and Nocturn for having such cool color schemes.

needed more godzilla hedorah bryan cranston monsters fighting needed less mutos (cloverfield meets greninja?) white hollywood action heroes it was alright and a decent set up for hopefully more and better movies (please do a hedorah movie. please do a ghidora and a mothra one, and cross it over with pacific rim. but hedorah is top priority). phenominal 'zilla design, i wish they spent more time actually showing him i didn't get any of the wild terror or the sheer enormity of the beasts that the originals did with their subpar special effects...i'd say there was too much time spent on set-up but not in a good way (godzilla 1954's setup being a good example). like im not naysaying this one for the sake of being a Good Zilla Fan but cmon guys as far as american kaiju films go, cloverfield is still my favorite.

i should talk in detail about my dumb bionicle headcanons later more about metru nui as a hegemon which enforces its imperialist heirarchies and gender roles on all "lesser" states inhabited by matoran (e.g. implied rule of the turaga, rigid male:female ratio by element determined by general traits). and how like, theres this tribal junk going on but with dume acting as a sort of "THEY LIVE" DYSTOPIAN AUTOCRAT (SURRENDER OR RUN ET AL) its more of an oligarchy at best and a totalitarian state at worst. whew. in other news my gf dyed her hair so now she looks like char from mobile suit gundam and im more than ok with that. we'll be an eva/gundam crossover where i am misato and shes Counterattacking me by looking like a cutie pie char. also i dressed sort of like goth nancy drew today and discovered schnapps & coke (i typically hate sweet drinks but... this is some cherry coke tasting junk) l8r sk8rs

So... I got a premier membership all like "oh heck yes I'll be able to make a BLOG and POLLS and ALL SORTS OF COOL JUNK" but then i realized I've got nothing to blog about, or poll about. So I guess this will become more interesting later but until then here's my 3x3. Gotta start scrobbling my music again. Post yours if you got one. Too much AJJ and Kanye because sometimes I just put a discography on =n=;;

Eurobricks has always seemed to have a collective dislike for constraction figures which are one of my favorite aspects of Lego. I've never felt too attached to it anyway but in the later days of Bionicle I'd spend some time there when BZP apparently wasn't enough. Also I don't know how relevant creative works other than MOC's are anymore but Bionicle/HF-based works like fan fiction, art, and RPG are practically nonexistent at EB. Gotta get my fix of trashy fics about Toa OC's on made-up islands SOMEWHERE.

I distinctly remember a few quotes about the Turaga/Toa Metru hiding them but continuity between story factoids has never been Bionicle's strongest point. I've always thought it was kind of silly that the masks were hidden as a test of strength when the island was in dire need and it would have been better for everyone's safety if the Turaga just, you know, gave them to the Toa. I've never seen the Rahi theft explanation but that's my headcanon from now on--Makuta wanted to eliminate the Toa's chances of defeating them so he hid the masks of power as a precaution.

i don't need "rest in peace" when i have a huge tv showing me doing parkour in the afterlife. makes all the other graves look lame

what happens when kirby swallows the qur'an and is granted its considerable power. my 81 chapter fanfic explores this issue -- and more

"Luckiest" i dunno but Takanuva certainly had a lot more cool adventures aimed solely at him than anyone else. ^^^^^^^^^^

It's nice to think that antidermis and protodermis are two sides of a coin considering how close their names are. Far too obvious to be a coincidence. Here's an idea though: The antidermis doesn't just sit around in the Matoran's body. It actively transforms them into something they're not destined to be. The EP is just reverting them onto the right track. If you fired an EP zamor at a Toa destined to become Nuva, what happens to the proto? I imagine it sort of just vanishes as part of the transformation. Even though EP is smart it's surely not benevolent enough to leave a Matoran alone and destroy the antidermis within. It's just speculation on my part but I feel like EP would transform the sum total of Matoran+antidermis into Matoran sans antidermis.

don't make me #thursdayniterant about your joke of a blog

AKT I/ /THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST The battle had already broken out in full force as Kalii soared over the violent waves. She watched Matoran in their Booster Suits grapple with the Reisen as the perturbingly massive beast glided through the water. The Le-Matoran she had spotted earlier caught her wandering eye as she surveyed the turbulent seas. Kalii had long admired the Booster Unit's penchant for Matoran diversity, but it was oddballs like Sephra that always caught her interest. Kalii stopped letting her mind drift as she focused on the task at hand. The beast on the horizon only seemed to grow bigger and bigger with every moment that passed. Taking initiative and soaring out to deliver the first blow would allot the Booster Unit more time and energy to battle the Reisen hordes, but would ultimately be foolhardy. Kalii knew she needed a plan if she wished to topple the tremendous monster. As a gray-masked Matoran struggled to stay afloat against the blows of a particularly vicious-looking Reisen, Kalii fired a bolt of electricity at it. The Matoran gave her a reverent nod as he finished off the monster, stunned and charred and looking like nothing but a black ball of teeth and blubber. Time to face the music, Kalii thought, arcing through the air with her Kadin. The monster appeared more and more like a column of flesh stretching up to the stormclouds every second. She might not have a plan, but if she allowed it to draw any closer to Fälsch shores the consequences could be unimaginable. As she soared toward the thing she almost marveled at its grace. A mountain of blubber and eyes, moving so still and unperturbed through the storm and the turmoil. The monster remained unfazed by the blue-clad Toa soaring towards it. This thing is not Reisen, Kalii thought, staring into its soulless and foul profusion of eyes. It is something different. Something far more...ominous. A sign of something terrible coming. It was only when Kalii was upon it that it opened its great maw. If its unsettling face bore any semblance to a Matoran's--eyes up there, mouth down there--it would almost look as if it were grinning. The rows and rows of teeth spun independently, beckoning Kalii to a painful demise. It'll take more than some teeth and an ugly face to topple me! Kalii thought, absorbing the abundance of electical charge from the stormclouds above. This is what I'm made of! Stopping flight mid-air, Kalii allowed the power surging through her to travel in a single beam straight through the mouth and into the belly of the beast. With a heave and a deafening rumble, the monster closed its mouth and squinted most of its terrible eyes. The storm almost seemed to clear for a moment. The sea stood still, waiting to see what this monster would do. Its mouth opened again. The sound of tearing metal rent the air as a horrid roar escaped the huge thing's throat. Kalii covered her ears, struggling to concentrate enough to work her mask. With that same uncanny grace that the monster had used in its swimming, countless arms rose from the water, disturbing the waters unsettlingly little. This place is not yours. The words seared in Kalii's head like a brand. They were not Matoran words, but a thought shared between Reisen and Toa, burning with millenia's worth of flame. Kalii couldn't ponder the omen further--she couldn't even defend herself from the tendrils and their bony fingers. Delicately, not unlike hands preparing for a massage, they reached upwards and under Kalii's mask. "No." Kalii felt the color drain from her body. She felt powerless as gravity took hold of her and the remaining electricity poured out from her body. Everything looked dark and blurry. The hands delivered her almost lovingly, through the air, into the horrible maw. This place... is not... yours? Kalii could not fight the waves of unconsciousness. She was met with a dreamless sleep. At least, for a moment. The first thing Kalii noticed was the smell. How could she have missed it before? It dwarfed the smell of the sea and the rain. The air was rank with the smell of decaying metal. The second thing she noticed was the light. She was surrounded by shadow, laying powerless on rotting layers of flesh. But above her shone this beautiful light, like the moon in a starless sky. Finally, she discerned the shape and the sound. Among the teeth and the stillness, the silhouette of a Booster Suit stood splayed in the beast's lips. "Toa Kalii!" wailed the Matoran. "Please wake up!" The voice brought Kalii back to her senses. Her mask had been forcibly removed. She'd been nearly swallowed by the mutant Reisen, but a Matoran had come to her aid. Not just any member of the Booster Unit, however. Silhouetted against the relative brightness of the storm, Sephra stood, holding open the jaws of the monster with everything in her. It was then that Kalii noticed the pain and the weakness shredding their way through her body. "Save yourself," she hissed through clenched teeth. "Not today, Toa Kalii." The horrible sound of rending metal echoed again, Sephra's booster suit seeming to give way. "Not to say haste wouldn't... be advisable." Kalii, unaccustomed to her body without the power of a Kanohi, staggered to her feet and charged forward. With a roar of her own, she gathered all the static she could into her body. Kalii flung herself at Sephra, wailing and releasing the electric buildup within her. The two soared from the monster's mouth toward the sea below. The Reisen flailed and spat behind them. Kalii held onto Sephra's booster suit for dear life, hoping the damage dealt to the suit wouldn't reduce it's buoyancy. The Great Spirit was smiling upon them, Kalii decided when they landed in the sea with a mighty crash. Not only did they float upon the surface shaken but unharmed, the blue Kadin bobbed in the water next to them. As the waves settled, Kalii perched herself on Sephra's shoulders and dove into the sea. She rose to the surface, putting the mask firmly in place. Still dazed from all that had just transpired, Kalii could only nod. "Thanks." Sephra seemed to be equally shocked by all of this. "Sure." Kalii turned around and gritted her teeth. Expecting to see the beast rearing up for round two, she saw instead that uncanny and graceful movement. The Reisen were floating away en masse, led by the revolting pillar of eyes and teeth. "This place is not yours," she whispered. -------------------- [ REVIEW ]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! :--) The story will (hopefully) update once weekly. I wouldn't say Hero Factory is a direct influence (though I love the new line). It's more based on the Mecha genre (there's some pretty opaque Gundam, Gunbuster, Gurren Lagann, Getter Robo, and Pacific Rim influence), which I'd guess is where inspiration for Hero Factory's recent line is. The Booster Suits are, in my mind's eye, similar to an aquatic Boxor or Exo-Toa.