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i'd give so much just to find even a few people who wanted to write the stuff i wanted to write too

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[ic] vampires, spell battles, and disney anime boys, oh my! written Sept 2, 2024 15:42:17 GMT
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First created as an act of desperate ingenuity during the height of the vampires' bloody war, hunters are some of the most dangerous creatures in the world, as befitting of a race whose origins lie in killing creatures far more powerful than they. Although they are just as bereft of innate magic as their original vampiric prey is, they are also immune to almost all forms of magic save their own, a gift that has permitted them to pursue quarry far mightier than themselves - and see themselves labeled as a threat to any and all nonhumans who think to threaten the fragile peace of those the hunters have sworn to protect.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, for such a dangerous life, the hunters have largely resisted most attempts of formal organization and instruction as many of the other races have come to favor in the modern day, instead opting to place their allegiance in a single Hunters' Association, which manages the information networks needed to coordinate hunters on their respective missions. Although many of the higher roles in the Hunters' Association are taken by those whose families have long since been hunters in turn, passing their gift down from parent to child, there are still some who can sense the call of the hunt strongly enough to be granted a taste of the unending chalice the Association so closely guards, so that they too might join their brothers and sisters in the hunt for those who seek to reignite a war whose bloody cost the world cannot hope to pay once again...


I know, I know, it's been a good long while since y'all have had an update - between life getting a little bit busy and me just struggling to actually finish all the lore write-ups (me? making lore info not look and read like a bunch of overwhelming word vomit? nearly impossible-) and also maybe struggling a little with the anxiety over the lack of interaction and the persistent drive-bys, I've just not had anything to actually report until this weekend!

And what an update today is! (I say, as if I'm not a whole day later than I was hoping originally-)

I'm gonna just finish up a few quick things and officially open up the site for open beta - meaning that we'll be functional and fully open to the public (and advertising), so we can test the waters before we do a full large-scale Official Launch (tm) with everything that would entail (read: a fully custom skin, extended lore webpage guidebook, a proactive system for integrating additional series, and any other major projects that would significantly hold the site in development hell when it's already such a niche passion project-)

So in short! Keep your eyes out, big things are going to be coming soon!


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do you like your irl name written Aug 23, 2024 11:55:06 GMT via mobile
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not particularly but like. it's my name. what am i gonna do, change it? please. i'd just forget to answer to the new one.
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publish a casual rumination ⭐️ fandom version written Aug 21, 2024 16:45:20 GMT via mobile
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"oh no," everyone in loveless says, "what a tragedy that this other school burned down" as if there's not a man who has literally burned down 3 other schools roaming around being his awful self-

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Aug 16, 2024 2:08:35 GMT said:
So this was inspired by a post in another thread, and I must preface this with the fact that I've never RPed on a Fate site, but I've wondered for a long time how you make a Fate Grail War work on an RP site, and the friends I've had who did RP Fate pretty universally told me "you don't", which. Foreboding.

But as someone who has, once upon a time, RPed Soul Eater, another combat-heavy series with a heavy focus on pairs where one person uses the other to fight, I feel like I can pretty confidently say... that I have absolutely no confidence in pretty much any RP that requires pair ups for characters to work. Sure, you'll have friends who join up together and have their pre-plotted master/servant or meister/weapon or what have you pairs, and that's fine and dandy; you'll eve get your strangers-joined-together-in-friendship who fill the missing role for each other, and that's great; but sooooo many characters will be partnerless, in a setting that you really can't afford to be if you want to partake, and I can't imagine there's any real way to circumvent that, beyond each "character" really just being both halves of a pair in one (such as playing the master and servant on the same account, written by the same person). But that also takes out some of the appeal for RPing in those settings, right? Like, the master/servant dynamic, or meister/weapon dynamic, or whatever other dynamic is hypothetically the strongest relationship either half will have to another person, because of the forced proximity and (at least partial) mutual goals.

Pair-up RPs sound so appealing to me on paper because it's a 'guarantee' you'll have at least one person with whom your character gets awesome setting-supported plots with, but, like. Actually thinking about how to make them so is just headache inducing. Have there been places in the past that have made this work? Are there potential ways to approach such an RP that we haven't really seen that might be promising for future RPs? Someone tell me there's hope -


honestly, i've had it sort of work twice, and for entirely different reasons.


the first is probably the truer to the intent of "partner concepts" in that it was a loveless site, which is probably sort of similar to soul eater in that the entire lore concept revolves around fighter/sacrifice pairs where fighters actually fight in spell battles via speaking purple prose metaphors into magical attacks while the sacrifice takes all the damage/effects from said magical attacks.

basically, the reason we got it functional was a combination of exploiting two gigantic system loopholes (that blank fighters/sacrifices can take on the "true name" of an existing unit, which meant partners could be "replaced" if people went inactive or you were open to going other directions, and that fighters and all zeros can canonically still fight without a sacrifice or cross-pair, which meant not having a sacrifice didn't lock you out of the concept) and getting lucky on two fronts with the community vibes (that our group largely did not care to actually in combat and that our group from 10+ years ago was a lot more open to rolling the dice on outsiders than a lot of the current rpc is now myself somewhat included there).


the second was my old soulmate concept marvel/dc site (if you remember, man, hi, how's it been-) and that worked out as a combination of deliberately breaking the partner dyanmics (tl;dr you got a lil tattoo mark on your skin for every single significant relationship you formed with someone + the marks would just change color based on how exactly you regarded them), having those actual canon relationships to fall back on even if they weren't in play (which also makes it easier to request too since i personally have found it a ton easier to get interested nibbles pitching "hey come be the steve to my bucky" compared to "hey come make the somewhat-normal childhood bestie to my existing sad brainwashed assassin who's unwillingly in this cult, it'll be really tragic"), and the fact it was a semi-private community (so we had a solid core of members who weren't really going anywhere) and one that was very down for the vibes of an episodic tv show vs a larger movie series (think the vibes of like the teen titans cartoon vs the mcu).

(usually i would say "well no duh, any kind of more private site is going to skew things in the favor of it working, having a smaller established community who are all somewhat integrated already + are specifically sticking around for the concept and community are going to make almost any kind of otherwise impossible concept work" but in all honesty, i don't think the core friend group would've been big enough to make as meaningful of an impact to significantly outpace the others tbeh-)

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[ic] vampires, spell battles, and disney anime boys, oh my! written Aug 15, 2024 2:42:17 GMT
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Once responsible for shaping the very world around them, mages are now a dying breed, the very lucky few to still bear the gift of being able to manipulate the magic inherent in the world after such abilities had become lost to humanity in the wake of their hubris and arrogance. Distinguished by their heightened magical ability both in power and in scope, they stand head and shoulders above their peers, even among the magical races, simply for their ability to manipulate magics greater than that innate to themselves - at the cost of generating Blot, a corruptive byproduct that can easily consume a mage with the negative emotion that sealed their fate so very long ago.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given that the distinguishing characteristic of a mage is that they are capable of wielding magics far beyond their natural abilities, a mage can come from any species, so long as they have born a single ancestor who could also wield the gift of magic. It is for this reason, among many others, that the halls of Night Raven College have long welcomed mages of any origin, to educate those who would shape the future - and prevent them from becoming consumed with the stain of Blot, as so many great mages were before them...


We're officially in alpha release now, so people can start making accounts + working on apps while I'm finishing up species lore (hopefully a project I can get done this weekend), so if you're interested in poking around at things before our official beta release (aka when I'm still tinkering on things but the site is functional enough for a wider release), you can join our discord here!


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Aug 11, 2024 20:20:06 GMT said:
I struggle with coding so I just...cheat and do graphics that 'look' like coding. xD


meanwhile, i'm the exact opposite where almost all my actual fancy graphics ended up being made almost entirely by coding shenanigans-

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[ic] vampires, spell battles, and disney anime boys, oh my! written Aug 10, 2024 15:48:37 GMT
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Born from the sundered bond between mages and their animal companions, familiars are one of the few races that are still capable of manipulating the magic inherent in the world (as opposed to using their own wellspring), their status proclaimed by the animal features many still bear so many generations after the severing. Bereft of the bonds that had once defined their very existence, they have since evolved to compensate for that loss by falling into one of two archetypes: the Fighter, capable of calling forth the magic of the world around them with the spoken word and crafting it with powerful metaphors, and the Sacrifice, capable of effortlessly absorbing the corruptive byproduct of long-term magical use as well as the punishments inflicted by warring Fighters.

For those lucky enough to bear the script of a "true name" upon their body, the paired Fighter and Sacrifice are said to be destined for greatness, gifted as they are to be reunited with the other half of their soul - but even the Blank familiars who lack a True Name may still find some measure of peace, blessed as they are with the freedom to choose their partner from among the named. (And if there are whispers, rumors of familiars without a name or designation, who fight as Zero, well, that's a secret best kept within the walls of Seven Voices Academy, among those who bear the title and the burden of the Septimal Moon...)


Got it, message received, do not just dump species lore directly into the previews, oof- I'll probably rework the vampire one to be more in line with what I just did for the familiars, lmao

I'm still chipping away at the lore write-ups and such, but a lot of the actual site setup is complete, so! Uh. If people want to hang around in the Discord to wait for when the alpha release is (aka account registration + app form access while I finish up the rest of the essentials), the server invite link can be found here!

And now, to melt into an anxious puddle because ho boy do I continue to be nervous about my dumb lil pet passion project crashing and burning-


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