Pocky-Yoshi
[14] Master
Once upon a time.......
......The end.............
Savvy?
......The end.............
Savvy?
The writer's block
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Slavezer0s
[09] Warrior
once upon a time there was a vampire named edward....then blade called him a fag and proceeded to slice and dice his flaming body into shreds....the end
Marginal
Chikara Sashimi
Vampiric Ecology
In a fictional world, some consideration should be made for how powerful you make a being in that world, and what the ramifications of such a being's existence truly are.
For example, early vampire lore featured a much different vampire from what followed. The stories stemmed from bloated corpses. Since people didn't know about the processes that cause a rotting corpse to bloat, some thought that the bloating was a result of the corpse trying to come back to life by rising at night and feeding on the blood of the living. Some drank blood, some spread disease, but they weren't especially powerful or smart, and could be killed by destroying the body. These weren't constrained by many rules. One English folk tale features such a creature picking apart the lead work in a window to get at a girl.
These were manageable and didn't need much balancing.
Then you get Dracula. A powerful vampire with multiple abilities, who is much harder to kill, and can rapidly generate further progeny if he feels like it. These kinds of vampires are constrained with a collection of rules. They die in sunlight, they have to be killed with a wooden stake through the heart, then decapitated and burned, they must be invited before they can enter a person's home etc. This model has remained relatively consistent with minor tweaks over the years.
Then came Anne Rice and the concept of the emo lovelorn not necessarily evil vampire. They were still constrained by rules, and had self governing bodies etc to further restrict unoward activity or reproduction. But it made the vampire the romantic interest in such stores.
Enter Twilight. Now you have vampires with even more advantages, and no real weaknesses. There's a marginal constraint of a ruling body somewhere, and a vague fear that an angry mob could cause them problems, but neither is a realistic constraint on such a population. There's no reason that the population of such vampires wouldn't have exploded to the degree that vampires would be running the world. This is a good example of balance fail.
In conclusion, if you want to make an interesting monster, take the monster's environment and what impact such a beast would have on the ecology into consideration before you go off and make a jackass vampire who's greatest weakness is that they sparkle in the sunlight and can only play baseball in rain storms. Aww..
In a fictional world, some consideration should be made for how powerful you make a being in that world, and what the ramifications of such a being's existence truly are.
For example, early vampire lore featured a much different vampire from what followed. The stories stemmed from bloated corpses. Since people didn't know about the processes that cause a rotting corpse to bloat, some thought that the bloating was a result of the corpse trying to come back to life by rising at night and feeding on the blood of the living. Some drank blood, some spread disease, but they weren't especially powerful or smart, and could be killed by destroying the body. These weren't constrained by many rules. One English folk tale features such a creature picking apart the lead work in a window to get at a girl.
These were manageable and didn't need much balancing.
Then you get Dracula. A powerful vampire with multiple abilities, who is much harder to kill, and can rapidly generate further progeny if he feels like it. These kinds of vampires are constrained with a collection of rules. They die in sunlight, they have to be killed with a wooden stake through the heart, then decapitated and burned, they must be invited before they can enter a person's home etc. This model has remained relatively consistent with minor tweaks over the years.
Then came Anne Rice and the concept of the emo lovelorn not necessarily evil vampire. They were still constrained by rules, and had self governing bodies etc to further restrict unoward activity or reproduction. But it made the vampire the romantic interest in such stores.
Enter Twilight. Now you have vampires with even more advantages, and no real weaknesses. There's a marginal constraint of a ruling body somewhere, and a vague fear that an angry mob could cause them problems, but neither is a realistic constraint on such a population. There's no reason that the population of such vampires wouldn't have exploded to the degree that vampires would be running the world. This is a good example of balance fail.
In conclusion, if you want to make an interesting monster, take the monster's environment and what impact such a beast would have on the ecology into consideration before you go off and make a jackass vampire who's greatest weakness is that they sparkle in the sunlight and can only play baseball in rain storms. Aww..
InfestedLoli
[09] Warrior
Rain Strife who was Cloud Strifes brother was one day near Midgar in a city that was small called Strifetown were Cloud Strife was born in and Rain Strife too. Rain Strife was littler then Cloud Strife so he couldnt join Barret and Tifa so he stayed home and stayed. Rain Strife was pracktising so he could one day do it like Cloud Strife and that is the time when it happened when comets came down to Strifetown and killd people in Strifetown and Rain Strifes parents who were Cloud Strifes parents too.
The comets came and killd people in Strifetown and Midgar and every where else and people said really loud "Help us some body soon" and Rain Strife heard it so he went. Rain Strife traveled fast to where loud sounds come from to help them out there. They said all together "Help Rain Strife we are hurting" and Rain Strife said back "I will help you if your hurting" and Rain Strife blew out fire and pickd up some comet off people and bandaided them to health. Then Rain Strife yelled out loud real loud "Sephiroth stop or i make you stop!" and traveled faster to were Sephiroth is.
Rain Strife went traveled over the lands and hills and ground and water and wanted to stop Sephiroth to make him stop hurting people in Strifetown and all other towns in Fantasyworld. Rain Strife stopped at other places and said "All people i will stop Sephiroth and help the people until I do" and the people of Fantasyworld said "Thank you Rain Strife save us like Cloud Strife did before" so he went. On the way to Sephiroths castle in the sky Rain Strife had fight and battle bad guys on the way there. Rain Strife traveled and then BOOM there was fight and Rain Strife had to fight but he didnt have members to help Rain Strife yet so Rain Strife did it himself. The bad guy was like a tree but had wings and fire came out so Rain Strife had to duck alot. Rain Strife went SLASH fast and SLASH cut tree in parts and fell a part and died fast so Rain Strife did win dance and kept traveling faster.
Rain Strife went over hill and saw town and went and he got in and saw bad things puncing people in town so Rain Strife said "STOP!" and fighted them and won them and did win dance and kept talking to see what happen. People in town said "Sephiroth came" and Rain Strife said "NO SEPHIROTH NOT THIS TIME!" and screamed to sky. Then a balck guy with gun on hands said "I help you Rain Strife in to fight Sephiorth in the sky" so Rain Strife said "Thanks you black guy you are in quest" and Rain Strife and black guy with gun hands left town to fight Sephiroth. Rain Strife and black guy talked on the way to travel there to see what happen to them. Black guy said Sephiroth comets came to his town and killed all the family in his house so black guy wanted to kill Sephiroth back. Rain Strife told black guy about Strifetown and all happened so black guy said "I help you more" because the story was sad.
Rain Strife and black guy kept going then all of a sudden BOOM again and a other fight came. Black guy said "This is my fight this time" and shot the bad guys with wepon hands and bad guys said "AHH NO SPEHIROTH WER SORRY WE DIE!" and disapeard so black guy and Rain Strife did win dance and music came when they dance then they kept going. Rain Strife and black guy kept travel on the path then they saw a big city on fire and said "Oh no" both together because it was an important city on fire and Rain Strife and black guy said "We need to help fast!" and ran there but something bad happened!
to be continued...?
The comets came and killd people in Strifetown and Midgar and every where else and people said really loud "Help us some body soon" and Rain Strife heard it so he went. Rain Strife traveled fast to where loud sounds come from to help them out there. They said all together "Help Rain Strife we are hurting" and Rain Strife said back "I will help you if your hurting" and Rain Strife blew out fire and pickd up some comet off people and bandaided them to health. Then Rain Strife yelled out loud real loud "Sephiroth stop or i make you stop!" and traveled faster to were Sephiroth is.
Rain Strife went traveled over the lands and hills and ground and water and wanted to stop Sephiroth to make him stop hurting people in Strifetown and all other towns in Fantasyworld. Rain Strife stopped at other places and said "All people i will stop Sephiroth and help the people until I do" and the people of Fantasyworld said "Thank you Rain Strife save us like Cloud Strife did before" so he went. On the way to Sephiroths castle in the sky Rain Strife had fight and battle bad guys on the way there. Rain Strife traveled and then BOOM there was fight and Rain Strife had to fight but he didnt have members to help Rain Strife yet so Rain Strife did it himself. The bad guy was like a tree but had wings and fire came out so Rain Strife had to duck alot. Rain Strife went SLASH fast and SLASH cut tree in parts and fell a part and died fast so Rain Strife did win dance and kept traveling faster.
Rain Strife went over hill and saw town and went and he got in and saw bad things puncing people in town so Rain Strife said "STOP!" and fighted them and won them and did win dance and kept talking to see what happen. People in town said "Sephiroth came" and Rain Strife said "NO SEPHIROTH NOT THIS TIME!" and screamed to sky. Then a balck guy with gun on hands said "I help you Rain Strife in to fight Sephiorth in the sky" so Rain Strife said "Thanks you black guy you are in quest" and Rain Strife and black guy with gun hands left town to fight Sephiroth. Rain Strife and black guy talked on the way to travel there to see what happen to them. Black guy said Sephiroth comets came to his town and killed all the family in his house so black guy wanted to kill Sephiroth back. Rain Strife told black guy about Strifetown and all happened so black guy said "I help you more" because the story was sad.
Rain Strife and black guy kept going then all of a sudden BOOM again and a other fight came. Black guy said "This is my fight this time" and shot the bad guys with wepon hands and bad guys said "AHH NO SPEHIROTH WER SORRY WE DIE!" and disapeard so black guy and Rain Strife did win dance and music came when they dance then they kept going. Rain Strife and black guy kept travel on the path then they saw a big city on fire and said "Oh no" both together because it was an important city on fire and Rain Strife and black guy said "We need to help fast!" and ran there but something bad happened!
to be continued...?
