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| 1 | In The Forest, A Dancing Light reference thread | 9 | 25 February 2012 21:20 |
| 2 | Doll Reference | 53 | 19 February 2012 02:43 |
| 3 | yaoi | 2 | 10 February 2012 15:37 |
| 4 | A Fairy on Scarlet Lake Q/A and Info | 7 | 20 December 2011 08:37 |
| 5 | Commenting on Old/archived stories | 3 | 7 December 2011 18:28 |
| 6 | A Wizard Is You Sidethread | 35 | 16 October 2011 09:57 |
| 7 | Resonant with Vivid Tones: Backstory and General Question Asking | 17 | 17 September 2011 08:00 |
| 8 | Question about MiG | 9 | 28 August 2011 15:10 |
| 9 | An idea and a really stupid question. | 9 | 8 August 2011 04:53 |
| 10 | Eastern Love Story Discussion or whatever. | 1 | 1 August 2011 04:27 |
| 11 | Remix Suggestions/Recommendations | 5 | 23 June 2011 20:07 |
| 12 | Love Your Writers (those that can be saved) | 6 | 22 June 2011 18:46 |
| 13 | A Wizard is You: Discussion Thread | 11 | 10 June 2011 22:27 |
| 14 | Underground LA Status Updates & Miscellaneous | 56 | 3 June 2011 05:02 |
| 15 | Write-ins: Always welcome or when prompted? | 9 | 26 April 2011 23:27 |
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This is a reference guide for all the original characters in In the Forest, A Dancing Light. Pardon me if this is a bit rough, but this was done on the fly.
Yukikaki Kojima - Main character. A kind but over-worrying sort of person. He's a scholar in training whose main task is assisting Akyuu. Among his friends he's the mediator, mainly between Ginji and Kamui or Takami as their personalities are prone to clash. He is friends with Kamui, though he envied him in the past. Has taken up magic as a self-defense hobby.
Shorter and slimmer than the average young man, and has black hair/eyes. Fond of wearing blue like his family. Something of a baby face compared to his friends.
Mr. Kojima - Yuki's father, a wise, patient man who is able to take things in perfect stride. He is prone to moments of silliness. While curious about Wriggle, he gives Yuki his space. His main task is to uncover scrolls and transcribe them. He does this out of duty to his profession, and in the hopes he'll uncover a legend.
Black hair/eyes; slim man who is generally garbed in blue scholar's clothing.
Mrs. Kojima - A scholar much like her family, but she has of late focused more on interviewing new arrivals in Gensokyo as to get an different perspective. She also does some general assistance of both her husband and Akyuu. She is very overprotective of Yuki and likes to inquire about his life.
She's a normal if slightly slim woman with black hair/eyes, fond of wearing light blue clothing.
Kamui (Real name to be revealed later) - Musician at the Inn, who comes from a family that runs a small shop. He ran away from home and ended up talking his way into his current profession. He is something of a womanizer, but isn't insincere about it. His romancing of a few non-humans has attracted attention from a few parties, mainly to see if he'll succeed or not. Loves to antagonize Ginji over various things, such as his feelings for the two genius girls (Rika and Rikako)
Brown haired/eyed young man who is fond of clothing combinations of red/orange/yellow for performances. Ordinarily, he wears generic colors.
Ginji Miyamoto -Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
PC-98 character reference post (1) Feel free to request other characters.
Kurumi Kazami: Yuuka's "oldest" adopted daughter, an rather innocent shapely girl fond of flirting along side her friend Elis. Has fallen for Kamui and become very fond of Mystia.
Elis: A demon from Makai that is rather innocent compare to most others of her type. Has a small sly streak compared to Kurumi. Has fallen for Kamui and is growing fond of Mystia, whom she can talk to about being slim figured.
Rika: Hyper, affectionate girl who lives for making tanks. Her current project was originally made for revenge on Reimu but was so caught up she forgot about the grudge. Was very quick to like Ginji and befriend Rikako.
Rikako Asakura: When working on science, she's the very picture of a scientific woman, but outside her element she shows a demure, rather cute side to her. Gets along well with Ginji due to their similar natures and Rika despite the differing natures. Spent some time in Yumemi's world working with her.
Orange: Leader of a distant village and has a stern but sisterly personality.
Meira: Guardswoman for the village, generally no-nonsense. Traumatized by Reimu's assault upon trying to pry Reimu off of her. Insists on guarding the side the shrine is on for unknown reasons. Reimu was taken out of her "shrine got wrecked" rage by Meira's appearance... and then got really mad due to a mix of rejection and threats. Knows Shinobu from her bodyguard days.
Lady Kotohime: Eccentric noblewoman who likes to play police officer, also known to have a quirky sense of humor. Her decision to comfort and get romantically involved with Takami (whom usually made her laugh in the past) confuses some while others praise her saintly nature.Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
General primer on Magic elements
Basic elements: Most people have affinity towards one or two, and a negative affinity towards the opposite.
Fire: Manipulation of Heat and Flame. Opposes water, and is related to Sun magic. Phoenixes and similar beings excel with this element.
Earth: Manipulation of earth. Limited use in Gensokyo due to how nearly everything flies. Opposes Wind, related to Metal Magic. No known species excel at it though it's associated to the Oni. I doubt however throwing a rock counts as magic.
Water: Manipulation of Moisture and water. Related to Moon magic. Opposes Fire magic. The Kappa's element. Also the element most connected to healing magic other than Light.
Wind: Manipulation of wind in various forms. Related to Wood magic oddly. Opposes earth; element associated with the Tengu, with Aya Shameimaru being a notable expert on it.
Hybrid elements: Mainly elements that result from others mixing, if someone as an affinity with one element, they can usually cast it easily, though there's no mixes of conflicting elements.
Lighting (lighting/wind)
Ice (Water/Wind)Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
Shiro- a white Kedama that sometimes works with Aya. They met as a result of Aya looking into how bunches of Kedamas gather around Hina's area. While she was there, she noticed Shiro trying to use her camera. She then decided to have him work as an assistant time to time.
I've finally made one of these spreadsheet things. Enjoy.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Asol9fbKDJgadG5PLUE2UDFGM01RVVB1RlN0X1FwOUE&hl=en_US
Sorry but, fulfilling wishes for our fairies add anything to their stats or is it just for flavor?
A little bit of both. For example, a few of the fairies are said to have rusty skills in certain things. That in turn means that if you put them where they can be used with those skills, instead of taking, say, a week, to get anything out of them with it, it would instead only take a day or so, and you might get a bit more than you would have expected. Also, it improves morale and makes them happy.
Ok, I'm reposting a more complete name/bio list here. Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated.
01. Agateia Girasole: Was born in the Underground. Can find certain types of stones and underground life with ease.
02. Akira: Used to hang out with the fairies Takashi and Kiyoko before she was captured and experimented on by a Human who had found a way to keep her bodily remains whole and intact, even seperate from the rest of her body, or her state of being. Her escape was due to luck more than anything else. She distrusts Humans as a consequence, and utterly loathes the cold, as it remids of her time spend in those frozen containers. She sometimes wonders what became of Mr. West though.
03. Alexandria: She dreams of conquest, and upon learning of Tabuki sought out a territory so that she could battle with her forces, fight honorably, and if defeated join Tabuki's army so that she could become a General in Tabuki's army. She also dreams of starting a harem for herself.
04. Amber Rose: She got stuck in magical amber, and did not die. She does not know how long she was stuck in there, only that it had been quite some time indeed. An Oni found the Amber in the Underground, and sold it to a jeweler. The jeweler planned on selling what he called the "Amber Rose" for quite a bit of money, and was quite displeased when the amber was broken and the fairy inside made her escape.
05. Anne: While many fairies can and do hurt other beings due to ignorance or carelessness, Anne is very different in that she knows that her malicious actions can and do bring pain, suffering, and death unto others. Anne likes killing things, and goes out of her way to kill and torture. Anne carries an anger that she had to flee the surface after she killed a human adult about 40 years ago. Since that time, many of the 'unexplained' human infant deaths in Gensokyo have dropped drastically.
06. Arras Abatie: (No Bio As Of Yet)
07. Balais Windsweeper: (No Bio As Of Yet)Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
So this is something I've been planning to do for a while, now.
FoSL is a story with a lot of background and almost all of its future planned to some degree or another. I also wanted to try to make a "routeless" story while still permitting romance. Given that we're about hitting the place where that can become a thing, I figured it would be a good time to put up a thread for questions, context, and information.
It's worth noting I'm the sort who's okay with tipping his hand in advance, if asked. As such, for readers who prefer to avoid that, it's worth noting that this thread should be considered spoiler-prone. Assuming the code is the same as across the site proper, I will use spoiler tags for that sort of thing. Just wanted to give fair warning.
So I have to admit one of my big concerns is an early decision on who Kazuki will go after. I'm glad Daiyousei hit it off well on her introduction, but I don't want people choosing her just because she was the first clear option. There are a few lines already open, both affection toward and from Kazuki, as well as at least one case of reciprocal affection. More potential partners will come up as they're added or interacted with more. I can reveal some of the current information, or try to work it into the story as I've already started.
One other thing of note--fairies in FoSL are inclined to monogamy. While it's not impossible with a few situations to have a more open relationship, trying to get to them will have as much to do with the characters in question as it does changing the perceptions of Kazuki himself. No harem stuff, unless it really felt natural and "right." And I think I'd be the last to know where that could happen.
So enough talk. Have at you! Questions, comments, debate, discussions, lore, whatever!
Oh, whoops! Forgot one thing.
Summerfree is actually a decent guy. It's worth noting that, at the time, he was just as drunk as Clover was. There's some more to that story Kazuki isn't privy to--yet. But don't write 'Free off just yet. Even just from a writer's standpoint, adding another male fairy just to make him a jagoff is kind of a cheap tactic.
Lurker/Newfag here,
Read this, which made me want to voice my suggestion: http://www.touhou-project.com/gensokyo/res/4411.html
I read a lot of archived stories, and when I finish, often I'd like to be able to add a comment (saged of course, but you can't comment with archive), because really, there isn't any where else to comment about the story (other than a casual reference elsewhere). Maybe about the development, ending or lackof, or address the author. I'd think I'd even enjoy reading other people's comments slowly accumulated over the months/years. It kinda feels cold and empty when you finish a story that had you emotionally, intellectually or otherwise hooked, and everything froze the day the story finished. I know there are probably good reasons for the archive being unpostable, but still.
So you made this thread to comment about archived stories? Or just to discuss about it?
Just create a thread here or in /gensokyo/ to talk about finished stories. Sounds like the best solution. Bumping threads would just piss people off and I'm sure you're not the only one who feels like that. Some of the authors of those stories are still around and liable to see any discussion. Alternatively, you can try to talk about stories in IRC, though that may require good timing.
After my joke update, I noticed a few people suggesting that the author of Compensation Adequate and I were the same person. Just to spite those people, I invited Soluslunes (author of Compensation Adequate) to write the next joke update.
I think he did the subject matter justice.
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Things are not going well.
Yep, that about describes it. Fucking crocodiles. They exist as a convenient plot device to get rid of bodies, and they’re not even doing their goddamn job.
Well, at least the body count is only one.
Come on, you’re a goddamn wizard! You can make ONE dead dame disappear! You’ve done it with plenty of dead hookers before, if the number of taverns you’re barred from is any indication.
And she’s pretty heavy. All that tea apparently went straight to her hips. You set her down, say a few muttered words, and snap your fingers as Tenser’s Floating Disk relieves you of the burden of carrying a dead body.Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
I highly doubt this'll be used this time, but I'm putting it out there, since the last time I let people look up backstory, they did nothing but search for event after event for a good day or so.
If you have any questions about RwVT, backstory or otherwise, ask it here. I'll check up when I can, which usually is when I can check up on the story thread.
Right here: >>/eientei/17366
I have immensely enjoyed this story since I started reading it, yesterday. It's made me interested in the universe and backstory you've created for this story. This is probably going to be a bump, but I really like this story because it creates an epic sci-fi universe that explores Reisen's backstory and who she came to be. These are a lot of questions, but I only ask them because I truly like this story.
1. Considering this story has Kaguya as the absolute monarch of the Lunarian Empire, and Eirin as the Adjutant/right-hand man of Kaguya, what of other Lunarian characters like the Watatsuki sisters? Do either of them play a part in this story?
2. How many planets have been colonized by the Lunarians? I don't mean just the Lunarian Empire, but also the rebels as well. Also how far have Lunarians explored the galaxy, and how many light years do the Lunarians of all factions control?
3. How fast is the warp travel that the Lunarians use? How many light years-per-hour does it go?
4. In a lot of science fiction, there's often a limitation on FTL that allows for scenarios, like battles, to occur without the protagonists being able to escape easily. Often times it's something like a gravity well preventing FTL travel from occuring, like with Star Wars hyperdrives. So what limitations are there on warp travel? From the description in the story, it reminds me of jump points as seen in Wing Commander (http://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/Jump_point).
5. The power armor in use by the Lunarians, how does it compare to power armors like the MJOLNIR armor from Halo (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/MJOLNIR), power armor like that used in Warhammer 40K (http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Power_armor & http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Terminator_armor) or the FORCE power armor in Hyperion:Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
So, guys, I read whole MiG (1.0 only though). I raged really hard, wtf, plotholes, etc.
Then I learnt that Kirakishou is kind of... you know. Unavailable.
So, my question is: do we have some sort of a spoiler/guide/explanation of the whole MiG plot? I don't care about anything anymore, I just want to know WHAT the hell happened there.
And now I'm not. That's wasn't a nickname, just some randum words.
Afternoon! Well... Where I'm at anyway.
I'll start off nice and simple with an introduction. I've been lurking here for the past little while but have never posted before. I've decided that I want to change that by posting a story I've been thumbing around for the past couple of weeks. I'm pretty sure I've got a decent grasp on some of the basic rules around here, but I'm not entirely sure yet.I'll definitely see if I can find more written rules and FAQ's before I post my story.
Now on to my idea!
I read the "A Wastelander in Gensokyo" Story while it was still seeing updates. Then it just kinda... stopped. Now that kinda left a hole in my heart. Because I like Fallout, and I fondly remember my first Touhou induced seizure.
After I... Well I never really did beat New Vegas (Spent to much time looking for treasure and arguing with my brain that I forgot what I was supposed to do and started over) but after I "Beat" New Vegas I had an idea. That maybe I could write a sort of half-decent attempt at combining the two.
I failed, in my opinion and began a month of more than twenty-four re-writes until I had an epiphany; the story wasn't the problem, it was the Character.
I kept trying to use the stereotypical Courier deal, that wasn't working for me. Plus, I know next to nothing about frontier America, being a deeply patriotic Canadian.
So, I axed the whole "Let's take a New Vegas character and send him on a one way trip to hell!" and instead thought "How about I try answering what happened to Canada and Europe following the events of the seven hour war, while getting the Character to Gensokyo."Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
OP here, finally decided to get a pen-name, hearkens back to Fallout 2... It was my favorite part of that game. Plus it's a cool sounding word.
And yes, I am. Still planning every thing and pulling together a half decent first post and I still need to grow a pair of balls and check out the IRC.
May post a note thread soon, still need a title. maybe I'll hold a write-in vote or something...
Sorry I haven't been around, I have a project due on Wednesday for Business development and Kitchen management.
What Touhou remixes would you guys recommend? Someone recently suggested I listed to 'Golden City Factory's' "Paradise of amber grow" (http://vgmdb.net/album/11600), but though it was nearly impossible to find, find it I did (http://www.4shared.com/get/ssd2r4o_/_C74__Golden_City_Factory_Para.html). Any other remix suggestions that run along these lines?
I've always enjoyed what is good. A good song can be found in any genre. Granted, I prefer acoustic and classical, but the unique, hell, even the techno doesn't bother me if it's "Good." :D
I'll check out that song though. It does sound like it's something I'll enjoy.:D
If you like classical, then I recommend Wave's Symphonic Fantasia Cherry Blossom. It's awesome and I like it. There's also a nice time stop in the song Ever More/ Private Square.
Personally, I can like any music, as long as there's no lyrics. Including Tetris' theme.
Now that we're metaphorically yelled ourselves hoarse debating what exactly the problems (if any)the boards face are, let's turn our attention and apparent overabundance of free time to possible solutions. This thread is going here in /words/ in an attempt to steer discussion and possible overflow away from our conventional boards.
There is truth in much of what >>/gensokyo/5424 said. Until they started lobbing insults at what was pretty clearly a typo and identifying themselves as a hypocrite.
Moving on, in my mind much of the problem of inactivity (within the current user-base. Won't go into 'new blood', though I think it wouldn't be entirely horrible. Some of you people really make reading threads a chore)stems from readers being unwilling to step outside their preferred genre's and such. That's understandable, and in a larger community probably wouldn't make as much of a difference. When you have new stories that have potential to them completely ignored for premise alone, at least here on TH-P, problems arise. To be honest, I have no real all-encompassing, or single solution to offer. All I can suggest is to give more stories a try, offer some critical advice where it's called for and read and vote more. Maybe add a line or two of commentary, even if just to say you enjoy the topic or appreciate the effort being put into a given story, I get the feeling it reassures writers. Granted, we can't coddle every special snowflake, and it is not beneficial for us to do so, but some stories are sadly neglected. Writers who express a desire to improve, working with decent (and creative)concepts among them. I am guilty of this, and am attempting to do better.
Writers themselves? I can't really speak for them. I know personally setting manageable deadlines for myself usually helps, but I'm also a notorious procrastinator. Genuine drive to write probably help this some, as well as when interest in taken in their stories. Either way, most of us appreciate the time and effort that goes into what you do.
Case-in-point:Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
Though some sampler threads in /th/ (The most popular board) wouldn't be a bad idea; one for a general look at other board's stories (people have the bad habit of pidgeonholing certain boards) and one for would be newcomers to try their hand in a risk-free environment. Please expand on this. I'm not entirely sure what you mean.
I wouldn't if they were sorted by genre, though. I'd end up sticking solely to whatever board had the [genre I prefer] Every reader has their own preferences. If we restructure boards by genre, then the set of readers who have narrow interests and lack the time or inclination to broaden their reading simply will not check other boards. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it is essentially what board divisions are supposed to do. In structuring the boards, we should first consider their purpose, beyond giving us a bunch of different pages to check. If we want to encourage readers to try different things (which seems like a reasonable goal), then we shouldn't give the boards any kind of defining, segregating features, either in terms of cast (as now) or genre (as proposed). It should be obvious why this isn't a practical solution.
Fortunately, there are other measures we can take for the same goal. A consolidated list of stories already exists. Two sorting functions would give new use to a list of stories: sorting by their creation date (thus finding the newest stories) and by the date of their last update (thus finding the most recently active stories at a single glance).
If we do not accept the goal of broadening reader interests, then sorting stories by genre is much more attractive. It seems reasonable that the people who would appreciate a story, but haven't checked it, are those who enjoy other stories of similar genre in another board. This only runs into problems when you have a story with significant cross-board appeal--this problem already exists, but would be far stronger if the differences between boards became more meaningful. That is, people who like the SDM crew and grimdark are more likely to check /forest/ for grimdark than thMessage too long. Click here to view the full text.
I mean two topics in /th/
One showing say outstanding example posts from a story with the synopsis of it as to show people that so and so board isn't just say NEETs, Soldiers and space sagas (/Eientei/) or YAF's fagfest (/Shrine/)
I think the current system is nice if someone's in the mood to read about certain characters, and possibly as a way for some of them to shine. It helps set up a general direction of writing. The only flaws are: The Village/Temple aren't exactly neatly included in anything and too many people post in /th/ for the sole sake of popularity when they'd have been better served in another board. That and there was a few stories that would have fit /others/ far better than /th/.
As far as the newbie thread? It's a chance for a newbie writer to try writing something to get reviewed without the trouble of making a new thread. This way s/he'd get some critism and improve before fully committing to making a thread. I'm hoping it would encourage some to actually try writing despite fears they might suck.
This thread is here to avoid clutter in the story threads. Demetrious doesn't mind the D&D wank, but the fact of the matter is that it's making the threads go way to fast. So, keep it here.
As suggested, I'm moving this to /words/. I think I'm going to try to continue posting daily word count updates for the next 2-3 story updates, at least, then either continue, scale back, or stop entirely depending on how I feel at that time.
Also, I'd just as soon story discussion stay in the story thread where everyone is sure to see it, but if there are minor or tangential questions or comments that you don't want to post over there, here will work for that as well.
On the off chance that Glasnost even remembers this thread exists or still looks at it. Is this story dead or what? Leaving without a word is kind of annoying.
As suggested in >>/others/31758 I made a thread for this.
In the past, stories were largely random and aimless, spur-of-the-moment decisions and whatnot were what drove the 'plot'. Write-ins in these days were basically the readers actively writing the story with the writer, and they were the norm, about as frequent if not moreso than 'default' options. Heck, many stories have been written solely through write-ins alone, successfully.
Nowadays, though, stories have changed to the point where most of them are plot-driven from the start - instead of 'guy wakes up in Gensokyo, wat do?' we have a story, established characters and personalities, pre-planned plot events and even endings. As such, the stories themselves are quite a bit less flexible, in a sense. Not every vote, nor even every story can accomodate write-ins anymore. Often, this is mentioned explicitly at the start of the story itself, but in some cases it's never brought up.
Now, what should the regular assumption here be? Are write-ins opt-in or opt-out; as in, are they assumed to be allowed by default, or should they only be given if the author prompts it?
There are certainly cases to be made for both viewpoints, as was done to a degree in the aforementioned thread. Discuss.