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Topic: What is Real?
Subject: Pain
You can make the pain go away with a variety of methods, sure, but it doesn't make the damage less real. You can close your eyes so you don't see the train coming, but that won't make it not real, either. Reality is not shaped by our senses, it is only perceived by them.
Posted on 2009-01-14 at 06:34:51.
Edited on 2009-01-14 at 06:35:09 by Rystefn K'ryll
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Topic: The Fall of Our Great Kingdom: Vampiric Tale
Subject: Attack
The Fallen moved first, a sudden dive that could only be interpreted as an attack. The Lycans responded in the only way they could, and launched themselves at their attacker, who was clearly overmatched and incapable of fighting off both at once. It was a foolish move, and unless the rest of the small group swiftly leapt to her defense, it would likely be her last. If they did, the lot of them would carry on as they were, insisting that they had been attacked and were only defending one of their own from the monsters.
Slowly, calmy, the enchantress walked to the fight, laying her palm upon the head of the wolf, subtly working her magics as she moved. "I thank you for your assistance, friend Lycan. I had my doubts that such a creature could be trusted, and you have done well to intervene on the behalf of poor travellers such as ourselves." As the wolf began to back away, Lamiel took hold of Erina's arm, pressing her fingers into the bite, regretting the necessity of it all. "And you, foul creature... betrayer of my trust, you shall come to repent of your wicked ways before the end." As her black eyes met those of the Fallen, different words sounded within Erina's mind, "They will kill you if they suspect. This will feel more real than it is."
Aloud, her voice echoed through the trees, as words of power flowed from her lips, and a wall of wind arose around them. "You will walk to your penance, and hope the magister shows mercy upon you for this transgression..." Lamiel's arm swept down, and in a flash of light, struck the wings from the Fallen Angel's shoulders. Through the pain, Lamiel's voice whispered in her mind again, "You must keep the vampires in check, or it will be war, and death will come to this place."
Posted on 2009-01-14 at 04:49:18.
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Topic: Favorite Super Hero Movie
Subject: Watchmen
I'm trying so hard to not get my hopes up about that one... It wouldn't be the first great thing Hollywood destroyed as soon as they got their grubby mitts on the rights. Starship Troopers, anyone?
Posted on 2009-01-14 at 01:58:51.
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Topic: Favorite Super Hero Movie
Subject: Not easy
I hate to throw around recent movies too much, because it makes it seem like you have no sense of perspective, but superhero movies have only recently managed to actually, you know... not suck.
Going to have to say Dark Knight, the only sequel in history to be better than the first. That said - Spirit makes a good showing is you're into camp... or beautiful backsides... or Sam Jackson in Nazi uniforms... or anything of the genre "awesome," really.
Posted on 2009-01-14 at 01:56:53.
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Topic: The Fall of Our Great Kingdom: Vampiric Tale
Subject: The Lycans
The tiger and the wolf stepped into the open, obviously nervous and probably hostile. At least they hadn't attacked right away. That was a good sign, and maybe the fact that Jessica was metting them first would help. "Good day to you. I am Lamiel, and this is Jessica. If this is your wood, we mean no trespass, and seek only to pass through peacefully."
Posted on 2009-01-14 at 01:47:41.
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Topic: The Fall of Our Great Kingdom: Vampiric Tale
Subject: Lamiel
"In the hope that we will beg you for your aid and stroke your ego? If what I said was wrong, then such a thought would never have crossed your mind. Your wounded ego means less than nothing to me, and if you are so willing to turn your back, then so be it. I, for one, have no need for a boy playing at hero."
Turning to Jessica, the enchantress whispered, "there may not be a need for bloodshed here. Let us not force it if there is another way. Violence begets violence, and hate begets only more hate."
Posted on 2009-01-14 at 01:07:53.
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Topic: Twilight- Any Fans?
Subject: Hey now...
I resent the implications of that statement...
I neither hate Twilight, nor am a grown-up.
Posted on 2009-01-14 at 00:03:44.
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Topic: Twilight- Any Fans?
Subject: Queen
Don't even get me started on that movie... I'm not a big Anne Rice fan by any stretch, but I've read the books, and there's no way in the universe Lestat would ever be a part of a goth-rock band. None. Zero. Lestat would be doing glam rock. Hair metal. Stuff like that. His music would have been about partying, drinking and drugs, that sort of thing. He would be in a band like Kiss, not Type O Negative.
Also, if you opne any book Anne Rice ever wrote to any random page, it probably mentions mentions Lestat's blond hair somewhere on that page. You'd think they would have at least given the dude a dye job like they did with Tom Cruise.
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 23:23:00.
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Topic: The Fall of Our Great Kingdom: Vampiric Tale
Subject: Lamiel
"If you can smell them, then they very likely can also smell you." Lamiel had wandered out of the woods again and back to the group. "I would consider arefully before embarking on this course of action."
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 22:13:40.
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Topic: Twilight- Any Fans?
Subject: I disagree completely
Bolt is for everyone. Spirit is for almost everyone (don't let the ads fool you, it's not another Sin City, people). Twilight is aimed at the 14-year old girl demographic and hits it pretty well square on... mostly by playing to every screwed-up notion we, as a society, put into the heads of teenage girls.
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 22:09:17.
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Topic: The Site
Subject: Sure
Why not?
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 04:54:57.
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Topic: The Site
Subject: Agreed
...but I wouldn't put it past him. He's been saving it up for quite some time, I'm sure, same as the rest of us, and it's only matter of time before some Innmate or another shows up at your door for some overdue violence followed by a light lunch, a zombie flick, a few drinks, and an all-night game.
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 04:20:33.
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Topic: The Fall of Our Great Kingdom: Vampiric Tale
Subject: Good of the nation
"Of course you would say that. Maybe you even believe it yourself. Self-deception is the easiest brand of lie." So saying, the angel disappeared into the trees. Why had she stuck her neck out so for the sake of a Fallen, a creature of evil, almost by definition? Even at personal risk, she had done so. Was it becuase the Fallen had shown such interest and comraderie in her before? Because she perhaps saw grains of good within her? Perhaps it was. The plain truth was that self-deception was indeed the easiest brand of lie, and understanding one's own motivations was a rare state, and difficult to achieve. Anyone who thought they had found it easily had likely never found it at all.
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 04:17:49.
Edited on 2009-01-13 at 04:18:36 by Rystefn K'ryll
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Topic: The Site
Subject: You did it wrong.
You're supposed to tell him it's from Grugg, that way if he thumps anyone in retaliation, it's Grugg, not you.
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 03:57:24.
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Topic: The Fall of Our Great Kingdom: Vampiric Tale
Subject: Lamiel
"And we're at the Might makes Right stage of today's blustering tirade..." Her black eyes focused on the vampire seemingly unaware that the words he was trying to refute were his own. "If you wonder why otehrs chafe so under your rule, and lash out so violently in reprisal, you would do well to consider your actions so far today. Your hypocrisy and monomania are not unique. The traits are, in fact, so common among your kind, that no other response to your could even be imagined by a rational mind. Even when you think you are trying to help, you think only to aid yourself and pursue your own ends. Grow up and learn that there is more to the world than your own wants and desires."
Turning her back, she cast one more parting line over her shoulder as she strode away into the trees. "And put her down if you wish to live long enough to seduce and murder anyone else in this world, for I doubt the next will be so forgiving."
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 03:56:20.
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Topic: The Fall of Our Great Kingdom: Vampiric Tale
Subject: Lamiel
The sorceress shook her head in resignation. It was pretty much always this way with vampires... no drama to petty or small to drop everything and cause a scene. It seemed that as a species, they knew of only two ways to deal with the endless stretch of time - either escalating every small issue into a world-shattering affair, or succumbing to soul-crushing enui. She knew that anything she said was likely to make things worse, but she couldn't resist a small dig at the petulant male's sudden change of philosophy. "Come, now, Sir Mask... Let it all out. Surely talking makes it better and some secrets are best left known..."
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 03:26:50.
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Topic: What is Real?
Subject: Real
If they're posies and not a hammer, then I'm wrong, and you don't get hurt. Simple. If someone from another society/time perceives the hammer as not a dangerous object, and I hit them with it, either they are wrong, and suffer grievous injury, or they are right, and it is not dangerous to them for some real reason that was not influenced by their perception, but by reality.
If you percieve reality to be that "what comes up must come down," then you are wrong. It's not a different reality, you're just wrong. You can raise a bunch of kids into a culture to believe pretty much anything you tell them, but if you told them that hammers can't hurt them, they're wrong.
Once again, reality is that which is unaffected by your perception and belifs about it.
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 00:57:21.
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Topic: Vampires VS Lycanthropes
Subject: Oh...
...and before I forget. Slow zombies are better.
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 00:45:40.
Edited on 2009-01-13 at 00:48:11 by Rystefn K'ryll
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Topic: Vampires VS Lycanthropes
Subject: Now, now...
It's not at all like arguing about which type of zombie is better. It's like arguing about which kind came first. I'm pretty sure that would be the shambling, slow-moving, essentially mindless, slave-labor for unpleasant dark magician zombies.
I don't know what it is about this place that makes so many people of the opinion that all disagreement must, by necessity, be an unpleasant altercation, at best, and that the only way to keep it from becoming "ugly" is to shut up and walk away... Frankly, it annoys me to no end. You know whatthey call a group of people who always agree with each other, and never voice contrary opinions? A cult.
Personally, I happen to know that this site is frequented by rather a lot of intelligent and creative people, and I enjoy discussing points of disagreement with these sorts of people. If I'm wrong, I want someone to tell me I'm wrong, and I demonstrate that same courtesy to everyone else. If there's a disagreement over who is wrong, I see nothing wrong with talking about it until either the correct side becomes clear, or the people involved get tired of it and walk away.
Telling a group of people having a discussion among themselves that the conversation is deserving of ridicule just because you don't think the point is important enough to put the effort in to come to the truth is the hight of rudeness. I can't speak for anyone else here, but I for one would appreciate not being belittled for finding the topic interesting. Nothing personal, Jozan. As a general rule, I rather like you, but in this case, you're the one who turned it ugly.
Posted on 2009-01-13 at 00:18:34.
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Topic: 200 Posts
Subject: :P
Quite welcome. Anytime.
Seriously, though... You've only been around a relatively short time. Keep up the active posting in games and have conversations around the site (chat does count, by the way, on both counts), and I'm sure it'll happen. Also, you should take into account thatit might be a little more difficult for you, because in order to try to avoid the appearance of favoritism, the admins can't really just hand you one right off, you know?
Posted on 2009-01-12 at 23:56:13.
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Topic: 200 Posts
Subject: Here's a hint...
Less spam, more aweome. 
Posted on 2009-01-12 at 23:46:48.
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Topic: Vampires VS Lycanthropes
Subject: Right...
Skari,
I am open to the possibility. If I wasn't, why would I explain to you that the possibility is there, and I'd like to see it if you have something that says otherwise? I'm not dismissive of the entire concept. I'm dismissive of unfounded claims.
Second - I don't need everyone I know to have seen the movie for everyone I know to not have any knowledge of a prior instance, so I stand by my statement. No one I know has any knowledge of a prior instance of sunlight killing vampires - or, at the very least, if they do have such knowledge, none have ever seen fit to share it with me. Also, let me make this clear - I do not claim there are NO references to vampires burning up in sunlight prior to the 1920s. That's knowledge no human being can ever have. Period. I claim that the earliest instance of sunlight killing a vampire I've ever heard of is the film "Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens." I therefore cunclude that this is the origin of the meme. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, feel free to share.
Vorrioch,
When I asked you for a reference, I was looking for a reference. A specific instance of a vampire being killed by sunlight prior to the 1920s. I told you already that I read the article and could find nothing of the sort therein. I then invited you to point out one if I was missing it. You then pointed out several references to books from the 1970s, which is either a staggering coincidence, or you read the post already.
You try to say that the boooks from the '70s might be a good place to start, but I'm looking for a place to start. I've started. I'm asking for a specific reference, not a reference to a reference to a reference that may or may not actually have evidence that your claim is correct. YThat's your responsibility, not mine.
I say again - Give me an actual instance of a story wherein a vampire is killed by suinlight that predates the film, "Nosferatu." Any other answer is essentially "I don't have one."
For the record, You don't need an original copy to point me to a book. I don't have an original copy of Dracula, but I can show that in it, the vampire is not harmed by sunlight. I don't have an original copy Don Quixote (which, by the way, was published 30 years before the date of the hypothetical source), but I can point you to it as a reference, can I not?
What you can post, and have been posting, are reference to references which may or may not even have the answer. You don't even know yourself if they can back up your claim, but you try to tell me to read them just in case they do. That's not how this works.
One last time: Do you have a reference to back up your claim?
Posted on 2009-01-12 at 23:45:31.
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Topic: 200 Posts
Subject: Actually...
Returner is wrong. x-number of posts = title... just that's how you get the regular titles. Custom titles are a thing to themselves.
Posted on 2009-01-12 at 23:21:03.
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Topic: What is Real?
Subject: No...
Perceptions do not make reality, and neither do hallucinations. You see, reality is that which affects you anyway. Regardless of whether you percieve it or not.
...or are you of the opinion that if you hallucinate hard enough, the hammer won't cave your face in?
Posted on 2009-01-12 at 22:54:19.
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Topic: Vampires VS Lycanthropes
Subject: Well...
If you said you had a reference to back up your claim, but didn't show it, I would assume you full of one brand of manure or another. If you told me that you didn't have any to hand (which he did say, in fact), but that there were some places where I could go look and might find something that more or less backs your assertion, I'd say that it's your own responsibility to back your assertions. Trying to shift the burden of proof onto me only tells me that you know you cannot support what you're saying.
As I've said already before - the earliest instance of sunlight destroying a vampire I've ever heard of is "Nosferatu." So far, no one has ever been able to show me an earlier, and I've encountered quite a lot of earlier instances of vampires being only mildly inconvenienced by sunlight, or not being bothered by it at all. All it takes to convince me that I am mistaken in my assessment that the idea originated with that film is one actual instance of a story in which a vampire is killed by sunlight prior to the 1920s and unconnected with the film in question. I think that's perfectly reasonable, don't you?
Now, I freely admit, I'm not terribly interested in vampires specifically. I am, however, interested in history and literature, and there's quite a lot of places where vampires enter into those interests, so while I'm nothing like an expert in the area of vampires, I like to think I have rather more than a passing familiarity. So let's not have comments of the "go read something, here's some extremely general starting points" variety, shall we? I asked a specific question about a specific point of contention. The only answers I can imagine are either "Yes, this was written in 1634 and the vampire is killed by sunlight" or something of that nature, or "no, I have no specific references."
If there's a third option, I'd love to hear it.
Posted on 2009-01-12 at 22:51:41.
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