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Ikiru
Feb 23, 2006 5:04:41 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 23, 2006 5:04:41 GMT -5
"We of the Watchers avoid contact with the world and especially its sentient denizens. But unfortunately this means that we cannot publish our findings to anyone who is listening, nor does it allow us to view or experiment with everything. So...." He hesitates.
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Ikiru
Feb 23, 2006 20:35:39 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Feb 23, 2006 20:35:39 GMT -5
"So you want to grant me special cross dimensional privileges? I swear I wont mind."
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Ikiru
Feb 23, 2006 20:44:16 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 23, 2006 20:44:16 GMT -5
"Well... Not special privileges per se. You see, we feel that the Crashing Heavens unit would be an optimal group to explore for us and be able to publish our findings. We watched the Dark Tournament intently, and you showed yourself to be a heterogenuous group who would benefit all equally. So we are willing to allow you limited contact with and assistance of your former teammates in exchange for them helping us with research, experimentation and archaeological work."
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Ikiru
Feb 25, 2006 1:51:26 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Feb 25, 2006 1:51:26 GMT -5
"Excellent, I must admit I was planning on leaking them info as best I could anyway. Those gguys just get stuck a little too often."
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Ikiru
Feb 25, 2006 1:59:02 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 25, 2006 1:59:02 GMT -5
"I was hoping that would be amenable to you. We really do wish to see this research available to everyone but without disrupting the world. I hope we can trust you to see that through."
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Ikiru
Feb 25, 2006 5:16:27 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Feb 25, 2006 5:16:27 GMT -5
ok, so can i get to my work on discovering the one hit anti kata blow?
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Ikiru
Feb 25, 2006 5:56:50 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 25, 2006 5:56:50 GMT -5
Sure. Where will you begin: the field, history, or the records?
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Ikiru
Mar 9, 2006 5:15:37 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 9, 2006 5:15:37 GMT -5
records, look for cultures who specialized in mvoes that wouuld ccause grievous damage to the body.
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Ikiru
Mar 9, 2006 5:24:41 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 9, 2006 5:24:41 GMT -5
Well, the Twanchen culture had a brief experimentation in a variety of such things. As time went on, in Twanchen a variety of arts were bred out of existence as schools became more and more solidified. In particular, a master named Shenxen Wu tried to compete with both his friend Jintao's Many Minds Enbutsu and the Hypnosis and Endless Kata Schools by creating an art that specifically denied form and was designed to break art with form. It's like a combination of Jeet Kune Do, groundfighting, and the single strike-style you were looking for.
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Ikiru
Mar 9, 2006 18:55:26 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 9, 2006 18:55:26 GMT -5
i think you misunderstood. i meant like a culture that develops a technique that is basically only useable once iin their life because they were legendary, but it just pouurs out every ounce of physical, spiritual, and technological energy into one massive strike.
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Ikiru
Mar 9, 2006 20:28:10 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 9, 2006 20:28:10 GMT -5
Ah. Death Blows. The Wormwood Spirit Monks had Death Blows that were fairly crippling, though not that crippling. Most cultures refuse to spend their whole lives in one strike and honor the few who do so as martyrs: Deynar, for example, of the Nebruyin.
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Ikiru
Mar 9, 2006 20:46:45 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 9, 2006 20:46:45 GMT -5
see if theres any culture who saw martyrdom as a enormously holy act and actuallly strove to do it
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Ikiru
Mar 9, 2006 21:32:32 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 9, 2006 21:32:32 GMT -5
A whole number; hell, most societies I can think of view the NECESSARY sacrifices of the few to save the many. Spells that were unleashed by the sacrifices of great individuals, such as Tellah's Meteo, are cherished. But that is a far cry from actually spending your whole life preparing for such an end. A few individuals in societies are made into proverbial sacrificial lambs: Yajime Hagake, for example, was sacrificed because of his Ultimate Bushido inborn powers to guard a gate to the Netherrealms.
However, Ikiru does find a peripheral mention of an ancient Muslim cult who thought that the best way to ascend to onehood with Allah would be to use lifelong devotion to the dervish, purity (sexual and otherwise), and so on to cultivate an incredible store of energy, sealed away until one single moment where a great evil would occur. One of these heroes even sacrificed himself to bring the Golden Knight to some degree of awareness so she could help the Councils against the All-Monster! No mention is made of their fate.
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Ikiru
Mar 11, 2006 17:22:40 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 11, 2006 17:22:40 GMT -5
start looking around at the oldest muslim cultures i can find.
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Ikiru
Mar 11, 2006 17:38:32 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 11, 2006 17:38:32 GMT -5
On Earth, Islam began roughly in the 5th century AD. There are parallel dimensions with Islamic worship beginning much earlier. Obviously the oldest center of Muslim practice is Mecca itself, and Saudi Arabia in general.
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Ikiru
Mar 11, 2006 23:17:58 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 11, 2006 23:17:58 GMT -5
hrmmmm, straying from my original intent, lets just leave this muslim shit behind and search mroe for a culture who took drunken boxing to an extreme, and spent their lives moving insanely and constantly changing directions, things liek that.
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Ikiru
Mar 12, 2006 4:16:34 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 12, 2006 4:16:34 GMT -5
So a chaos art? The African tribe Fred met and of whom he eventually married a member, Rmatswe, had a dancing form that included a chaos dance ascendancy technique. There's the Pandaren and some of the Twanchen arts, and the Ateng had a chaos dance plus undoubtedly a chaos cult.
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Ikiru
Mar 15, 2006 20:42:47 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 15, 2006 20:42:47 GMT -5
Does Ateng mean Tengu? if so, it would be sweet to have a style where you hop around and look completely disinterested in a fight, but respond to attacks with strangge little hopping counters that are designed to sneak tiny, veryyyyy diseased wounds onto the target.
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Ikiru
Mar 16, 2006 14:40:14 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 16, 2006 14:40:14 GMT -5
That's a Teng-Jutsu combined with a disease-inflicting sub-component. Ateng are basically alien Tengu relatives, a little less goblinoid and trickstery and a little more solemn and birdman-like, but still heavily mystical. The Ateng may have a Dance of Disease: Viktor Blackwing in particular was trying to revive the old forbidden, negative ki or bad medicine dances. Meanwhile, Tengu may have had an art that used goblinoid poison for that same end.
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Ikiru
Mar 17, 2006 17:28:41 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 17, 2006 17:28:41 GMT -5
ok lets go for the ateng bad medicine dance. head on over to the ateng homeworld
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Ikiru
Mar 17, 2006 18:43:16 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 17, 2006 18:43:16 GMT -5
The Ateng homeworld is a colossal gas planet. Until recently, a constantly expanding storm similar to the red spot on Jupiter plagued it, but Fred fulfilled O'Tengu's prophecy by helping to quell and distribute the storms. They have finally been able to build monastery cities, an odd combination of serene settings and practical carnival towns. I assume Ikiru will begin his watching at the capital?
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Ikiru
Mar 18, 2006 17:08:44 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 18, 2006 17:08:44 GMT -5
yesh, head up and see whats going on
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Ikiru
Mar 18, 2006 18:48:30 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 18, 2006 18:48:30 GMT -5
The structure is very aerial, almost like San Francisco, largely because the air is so thick that it's practically water. It spreads out and wastes space almost deliberately. There is the carnival component and the cerebral/serene component.
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Ikiru
Mar 18, 2006 23:13:14 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 18, 2006 23:13:14 GMT -5
go to the carnival, look for any sort of show fights or acrobatics inanity
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Ikiru
Mar 18, 2006 23:33:42 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 18, 2006 23:33:42 GMT -5
There are many. The Ateng's play culture has an almost formalized brawl or melee, and like many other rowdy areas they have Rumble Houses, bars that are designed to come down! But Ikiru fairly quickly sees that those who practiced such bad medicine would not use it openly, anymore than a Tien Hsueh master or a Dog Boxer would.
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Ikiru
Mar 23, 2006 22:20:46 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 23, 2006 22:20:46 GMT -5
ok, go into one of the more fighting geared tents and walk up someone who looks like they are in charge.
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Ikiru
Mar 24, 2006 0:13:04 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 24, 2006 0:13:04 GMT -5
...I've been assuming Ikiru is ghosting?
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Ikiru
Mar 28, 2006 1:12:34 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 28, 2006 1:12:34 GMT -5
oh yeah, i forgot
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Ikiru
Mar 28, 2006 11:33:15 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 28, 2006 11:33:15 GMT -5
So you'll monitor someone, then?
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Ikiru
Mar 28, 2006 23:55:07 GMT -5
Post by halfhero on Mar 28, 2006 23:55:07 GMT -5
yeah yeah watch a bartender until someone comes up asking about any underground things
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