Kiotu

A very impressive drawing. I noticed its you and your painting set-up.

To nit pick though, I can only count four fingers on your left hand...

-K

Yeah, foreshortening kind of does that....and shrinking the image down so much probably didn't help the clarity much either. But, thank you!

-Nukaya

I don't think that emote works on BZP, GJ, but the meaning has reached me.

-K

Which forum is that?

-K

 

GD.

Makes sense.

*goes off to raise post count*

-K

Which forum is that?

-K

RM, geez, talking about me failing maths! I only threw eight or so dollars down the drain!

-K

Because a butterfly flapped its wings on a hot day in Australia.

-K

I want a different rank-image... or at least something better than a bunch of Kanohi sticking out of Energized Protodermis...

(yes, even a blur is cooler than that)

-K

Oh, also, Latin 'v's are pronounced like a 'w', and all 'c's are pronounced like 'k's.

-K

I went with something like "mortal horn that sounds the wind" to get some interesting words to use.

 

letalis, mora, cornu, ut, sanus, ventus, thnhsimothta, kerato, oti, hxos, anemos

 

Letali is a pretty name for a woman although Mora sounds more like a peasant name. Sanus sort of reminds me of Samus and I think it could work well. It depends on how many names she will have, a forename, surname and last name?

 

Letali Keratoti Sanus is a pretty nifty name.

Before you pick some of these names, I figure I might tell you what they mean.

'Letalis' is the dative/ablative plural form of 'letalus/letala/letalum', which means mortal, but not in the same sense as you wanted it to. It's actually more like 'deadly'.

'Mora' means doubt.

'Cornu' is a neuter noun meaning 'corn' (nowai) or 'the wing of an army'.

'Ut' is the conjunction that introduces purpose clauses or indirect commands, like in the sentence: 'He went to the store to buy a baseball cap'.

'Sanus, -a, -um' is 'healthy(-minded)' or 'sane'.

'Ventus' means wind, but it's masculine, like I said above.

The others are Greek, so that's not my field.

-K

Latin words aren't always based off of something. My Latin course has a woman named 'Scintilla', with an obvious derivative in English. But another is just "Horatia", the female version of the Latin form for Horace. If you need direct derivatives, just PM me or something... Otherwise, you can base it off of anything.

'Ventora' (Of the winds [f.]) is something I've made by taking the genitive of 'winds', 'ventorum', and making it into an obvious feminine form. I doubt it's a real word (unless the Romans had the same thought processes as I do ), but I think it sounds cool, and has the roots.

-K

Congratulations to Akai, Grant-Sud, RM, Yukiko and Velox.

-K

Inorite.

-K

I'm going to be starting with a Cyndaquil, but I've been switching between that and Chikorita for the last few weeks. They're both cool.

BTW, what's Zen starting with?

-K

Alex Humva says what I would have, but I also think that this is 'time-travel' to the viewers:

Light goes at approximately 300,000 km every second. The way I see this whole 'time travel' thingo is to imagine Person A and Person B, and that the latter of the two can travel faster than Light Speed. An influential fact is that humans only see about 16 images a second. Person A stands at one side of the corridor, and Person B at the other, at a point called Point C. Person B moves towards Person A, but diagonally so Person A can still see where Person B was standing to a point called Point D. Person A sees Person B at Point D earlier than he sees Person B leaving Point C, because, travelling faster than light, he has appeared in a new location faster than the light could register him moving, and he is now closer to Person A, so the light from there is insured to get to Person A faster than Point C.

Person A then observes (if he can observe an image that lasts one-sixteenth of a second ) Person B leaving, and then suddenly disappear at Point C, while he's been at Point D the whole time. There's been 'two of him' for a split second while he travelled.

In a sense, that's 'time-travel' since Person B has 'arrived before he's taken off', while in reality, this is certainly not the case.

-K

The nostalgia! It burns...

-K

Also, I think you should have something between 'weak' and 'fit'... maybe 'okay' or 'moderate'?

-K

You could have a similar set-up for each season Multi: 7 tasks, and then the rest of the second month for catching up one them.

Also, for ranks, do their required amount of points move up as time progresses, so an 'athlete' would become 'weak' if he/she didn't write for a long period of time?

-K

So, after this, does 'Season Two' of Story Fit start?

-K

This title reminded me (for some reason) of "The Erlking".

Other than that, I'm sad to see another great BZPer go. I never really met the guy, but when I look back at his RPGs, they're very impressive and I wish I could've been there to play them.

-K

I don't find anything wrong with them when reading a story, as long as they kind of sound like they would be a Matoran name. It would be weird finding a name like "Jack" in a Bionicle epic, IMO.

-K

Got another one:

-K

After a bit of thinking:

-K

I know, let's start a mini-RPG/party in Exo's blog, while he's away. Each entry can be a different location!

-K

It's really great so far, good job Nuju.

However, I have to nitpicking an say that the word you're looking for when you're at the beginning, when you're talking about fire, 'sapient', not 'sentient'. For instance, my cat is sentient, since he can feel and has basic thoughts, et cetera...

-K

 

Ah, but see, that's the thing. Not all the sentient races in this world are sapient.

That's exactly my point.

...unless you know any cats/other sentient species that cast spells.

And wait, why would cats think of fire as a friend? Cats used as the representatives for sentient species again...

But one question: how are some of the races not sapient? Would they be a race if they weren't? 'Sapient' literally means 'wise' in Latin, but our definition of a 'sapient species' is more of something with our kind of intelligence (which is quite debatable ), whatever you describe that as. Sentience is found in most (vertebrate) animal species; as long as they have the ability to feel and think, it fits the bill as sentient.

I guess you could have sentient races that aren't sapient or somewhat-sapient. But that's like calling dogs a 'race'. Although that's technically correct, I would think of a race as a people. But then again, if you're using that definition, that any species can be called a race, of course there'd be non-sapient races.

-K

It's really great so far, good job Nuju.

However, I have to nitpicking an say that the word you're looking for when you're at the beginning, when you're talking about fire, 'sapient', not 'sentient'. For instance, my cat Is sentient, since he can feel and has basic thoughts, et cetera...

-K