Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)

...wait did someone say Gundam models? GUNDAMU THIS NEW GUNDAM ISN'T JUST FOR SHOW THIS IS NO ZAKU, BOY, NO ZAKU CAPTAIN QUATTRO, HE IS A CH*clang* ...um. Sorry about that, I've been getting into Gundam stuff on TVTropes recently, and I kinda geeked out when I saw a mention in one of the posts... More on the subject of actual content, I'm liking this so far. Makes me think of BZPStuck, except more characters and less over-the-top (which isn't necessarily a bad thing!).

Funny thing you mention owners- I don't wanna reveal too much due to, erm, reasons, but suffice it to say that according to what I currently have in the way of plot, the dragon's gonna be accessing the totem on its own terms. ...that said, I'll have to figure out a way to get around having room to reappear on the other side. *continues evil plotting* ...or there's that. Actually, considering I'm putting in some Tyrants anyways and Tanuuk's the sort of place Kanohi Dragons would thrive in, that would probably work a lot better. *changes plans accordingly* Eh, I'm not really that good of a judge for giant mecha sizes, but I'm planning the one in this story to be somewhere between one and two times the size of an Exo-Toa. As for exposure, I imagine that sometime after the story takes place, Izumal would send a few Agents over to make sure this particular mecha design (and its developers) get neutralized before they become a big enough threat. Thought about that beforehand, actually. At first I dismissed it due to thinking that a Kanohi explicitly designed for shooting plasma would have more strength than a plain old Mask of Plasma, but now that I think of it, Hewkii's Garai let him have fairly precise gravity control when he was fighting that giant venom eel, so it looks like I'll be reconsidering, then. thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou So yeah, thanks for the answers and suggestions! It's been a tremendous help in streamlining my plotting thus far.

Thanks, man! I get the feeling these are gonna be a lot of fun playing around with in later stories.

Heh. I actually just got into the Gundam franchise not too long ago. What a coincidence. Alright, time to make Mobile Suit Makuta a thing! (and possibly reintroduce the Dark One as well)

Hi, peoples! I'm planning on making my first foray into EM fiction with the Attack on BZ-Koro contest we've got going now, and I've been using the .pdf guide for reference, but there's still a couple things I've got questions about. (For the record, I'm thinking of setting this particular bit of fiction the greater part of a century before CC takes place.) 1. Considering that the Tyrant Duke with the Tribal totem was stated to have a love of Rahi hunting, is it possible that he (or a lesser Tyrant, for that matter) would bother to head over to Tribal to go hunting for some more exotic species than what creatures have managed to stay alive on Tanuuk? Like, say, a rampaging Kanohi Dragon that randomly popped up overnight the other day? 1a. Is it possible for a Kanohi Dragon to use a Totem? I need to get it to Central somehow, and for some reason I can't quite determine, I'm kinda iffy about just saying it appearified in Central as opposed to a different planet. *shrug* 2. Is it at all possible that a super-secret team of inventors and scientists from Industrial, Shattered, and Central would make an even more secret weapons testing facility in BZ-Koro and end up creating a Gundam-esque giant mecha potentially strong enough to take on an Agent? (Also for the record, yes, I am indeed trying to make this story as insane as possible. ) 3. Having noticed a distinct lack of Kanohi that allow one to shoot energy blasts, I'm thinking of giving one of my Agents a Mask of Plasma Bolts- essentially, the wearer can shoot balls or streams of non-elemental Plasma power (sorta like a Rahkshi, I imagine). Is that okay? 4. Only tangentially related, but I can't find the list of Tyrant powers and appearances from that contest a while back. Is there a topic or post or something that I missed, or did it just not get reposted/compiled yet?

This fic has simultaneously restored my interest in the Comedies subforum and assuaged much of my dissatisfaction with how the Varian short story contest turned out. Yay! BTW, judging by the ending, I assume there's more chapters to come?

Just finished a playthrough last night. (You're next, Surkahi. ) By the way, is there anywhere I can find the music for the Cyclone Serpent battle and the water maze in the Labyrinth of the Unknown? Those two stood out as the best tracks in the entire game, to me. ^^

Makes me think of the Piraka, actually. Or has someone drawn that conclusion before?

Heh. Funnily enough, I was actually planning to make me some anthropomorphic MoCs in the near future. I'll be entering almost certainly.

The shield makes me think of the old Kopaka sets. That alone is enough to make me want to get him. The gold and torso armor design are just extras. ^^

This would be incentive to restart MLWTB if I could actually get Tempo to notice me. T_T

Has "soon" arrived yet?

Toa... Karkat? Is that a member? Or is someone a little too obsessed with Homestuck at the moment?

Believe it or not, I actually never saw the original video, unless you count the MNOLG cinematic. Looking at these pictures, the scenes where Mata Nui's stone topples over and the Matoran stones cluster on top of it strike me as incredibly well-executed foreshadowing for the 2008 reveal.

These days I've mostly been just a lurker on the site, but sweet mother of Karzahni in a gravy boat that is one awesome Toa design. NEED BUILDING INSTRUCTIONS. NOW.(although the proportions do seem a bit wonky- namely, the shoulders look too wide and the lower legs too short. Still, minor gripes for a glorious MoC!)

Good thing revival is allowed for Library topics, I guess. Holy Artakha, I'm in a comedy? Without even having to do any work? This is made of SO MUCH WIN I don't even know what to do with all of it.Right, I suppose re-introductions are necessary? Endless Sea, formerly Alaki Nuva, at thine service. Glad to see this comedy's going again, 'cause now I have that much more incentive to actually post on BZP. Woohoo!(Interestingly, the way I envision my virtual persona, his powers include, among other things, MASSIVE MENTAL BARRIERS like the Order of Mata Nui has, but, like, SO much stronger, so any method of mind control besides hacking would pretty much not have worked. Coincidence? I THINK NOT except yeah it totally was )

Wait, hold on, did I make it in on time?

Member Name: Endless Sea ~turmoil~Theme: VisionsWord Count: 552Name: MasksShe found Korlu huddled behind a boulder near the still-smoldering campfire, knees clutched to his chest, limbs thin and limp under discolored white armor, eyes and heartlight flickering with dim gold light. The face behind his Mask of Clairvoyance was tensed and quivering, the jaw hanging slack, the eyelids drooping.He reminded Ihara of rumors she had heard about the first of her kind- about the terrible burden Helryx had been forced to shoulder when she forsook the Code, and what countless millennia of service to the Great Spirit had done to her body. The Toa of Lightning had often wondered what her kind would look like in such a withered state; looking at the present state of her comrade, she felt she had found out.[/font]Dropping to one knee beside Korlu, she whispered, “Brother? Can you hear me?”[/font]The Toa of Ice said nothing, but his head bobbed forward slightly.[/font]Ihara closed her eyes, exhaled softly. “Korlu, do you remember what happened at the campfire this evening?”[/font]Korlu didn’t respond.[/font]“Korlu, you… We were talking about the Visorak tower that showed up in the south, remember? And you were in the middle of one of those visions your mask gives you, saying something about Kahgarak and Lohrak, and then you just fell over and had a seizure-”[/font]“The visions help us,” Korlu croaked.[/font]Ihara blinked. “What?”[/font]“The visions help us,” he repeated.[/font]Ihara stared at him. “…No, brother, they- they don’t. The visions hurt. They hurt you.” She reached for his hand. “They hurt allof us-“[/font]Faster than she had believed possible, Korlu lashed out and grabbed her arm. “No. The visions help.”[/font]Ihara gasped something that sounded halfway between a cough and a sob. Korlu let go, his fingers lingering on her arm for a moment before clutching at his knees again.[/font]The Toa of Lightning didn't try anything after that at first, simply sitting down next to her comrade, not letting him escape her gaze. Korlu did nothing, his eyes firmly focused on the ground.[/font]After a few minutes, Ihara reached over to Korlu again. "Brother?"[/font]Korlu tilted his head slightly in her direction. When a moment passed and he didn’t look away, Ihara, taking a deep breath, pulled off her Pakari.Immediately, she felt like her lungs had been completely emptied, and with the waves of nausea and dizziness that quickly followed, she doubled over with her eyes closed and teeth gritted, clutching at her stomach. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d gone without a Kanohi, and her body was reacting far worse than she’d expected.Suddenly, she felt the mask in her hand being pulled towards her face, and she forced her head up to see Korlu kneeling over her, eyes wide behind his mask as he tried to reattach her Pakari.“No,” she gasped, and the Toa of Ice’s grip suddenly grew far weaker, although his hand remained on her Kanohi. “Y-you take… My mask… I’ll wear yours…” She attempted a reassuring smile. “One of us has t-to wear it… Right…?”Korlu looked at her, looking much as he had when Ihara had found him, eyes half-closed, mouth half-open. Even when he reached around the back of his head and slowly peeled the Mask of Clairvoyance from his face, his eyes never left hers. END[/font]

Again, they don't combust in that atmosphere. The flammability hazard is that if they got loose and jammed in a cooling system, whatever that system needed to cool could burn up. The plastic itself is no more flammable up there than it is on Earth.Who cares? If we wanna believe LEGO bricks are so awesome they can spontaneously combust, we're gonna believe LEGO bricks are so awesome they can spontaneously combust. ('cause they are)Also, the logical progression to the meme- yo, dawg, we heard you like building space stations, so we put a station in your station so you can build while you build.

Oh, man, and I thought Ignition was good. Dude, this is quite certainly one of the best works of storytelling I have ever read in the history of ever. Seriously.I'm a bit surprised by how quickly Tren Krom accepted his death, but that's a small criticism compared to the vast amount of AWESOME contained in that one tale. Kudos, man.

I got to this after the contest ended. I was gonna enter too, but time constraints, well, constrained me. Just as well- this single short story outdoes what is by far the majority of written work I've seen, published or not. Seriously, man, that was a masterpiece.

Not much here so far... BTW, there's no need introducing the setting, then immediately cutting to two days later. You might as well put the log entry as they beam down.

See, the issue I see with your idea isn't that it's not feasible. But I think those sort of changes would ruin what made BIONICLE great in the first place. I'd rather LEGO used what they learned from BIONICLE and make something new, than that they radically retool BIONICLE into something that no longer resembled what it once was. In fact, they tried retooling it several times, and yet it never reached the popularity it enjoyed in its prime. So they called it done and started fresh, and I feel that Hero Factory has far more potential than a revived BIONICLE ever would.Now, when did I say "radically retool"? I only mentioned a few changes in presentation. Retell the story from the beginning, smooth out a few plotholes, tell each year in a way that someone popping up in the middle of things can understand what's going on, that kind of thing. And the variety in sets bit, I think that's perfectly acceptable. It's certainly better than buying what amounts to an action figure in pieces six times each year. The Barraki looked weird, sure, but at least they had more than a few pieces' difference between them. As for Hero Factory, it's cool and easy to follow, but if it does have as much potential as you claim, it isn't using it- the past three seasons have all amounted to "New villains! STOP THEM." BIONICLE had mystery, wars, exploration, politics, gods, anti-villains, anti-heroes, moral ambiguity, Teridax, Teridax, TERIDAX. Seriously, Mr. MoMN alone makes BIONICLE far more awesome to me than Hero Factory. The closest they had to someone like him was Von Nebula, and he was kinda wasted. He sits on his throne, scheming his generic schemes, and spouts some backstory that doesn't quite mesh with his motives, and then Team Stormer goes and knocks him flat on his totally-not-a-Hydraxon-face-mask. It was really kinda sad. Unless you mean toy potential, in which case your argument is pretty much invalid, since THEY'RE THE SAME THING.That's how I see it, anyways. Explain your reasoning a bit better, and who knows, you might convince me. Don't want to offend, just refute.

Ooh, boy, massive flame bait here."Because despite all the haters and such, there's still so many fans out there who'd want to see it again. Sure, the line would have to go through some changes- make the story more accessable to new fans, certainly reboot it, don't try clone and cookie-cutter sets every year- but I think that with a bit of tweaking, and given a few years (Hero Factory's still going strong, and I'm sure there's other ideas for successors you guys have), I'm certain BIONICLE could come back stronger than ever before. Plus, the 2010 story sucked, and you guys owe us two movies. "See, all the flaws you guys are listing? They can be addressed. And for all you guys who say it had a good run, and should die in peace, well, unless you're being a jerkwad about it (in which case, go get sliced up in Destral for all I care), I'm perfectly willing to accept that, but BIONICLE has had such a big impact on my life that I personally would very much like to see it again, so let's agree to disagree. And for those who say the story ideas have been exhausted, go to the Libraries forum (both old and new) and prepare to be proven so very wrong.

LK, Takuta, Bones, Snoopy, Kumata, and back when I was a comedies frequenter, GSMN and Dominus Temporus or whatever he called himself after he switched from Togariku. Hopefully, with the new SS contest I'll get myself included in some lists as well.