Writring II

[The Bearer of Bad News]

Im using a different account right now, because I don't feel like losing my in progress post. I's sure you understand.


So heres the thing. I teach grade school. I won't say where, because I like keeping you schmoes guessing, but personally I mostly deal with 8-9 year olds. crazy little bastards. my dream is to move up the grades to hopefully teach in high school or college, where the people who actually want to learn will do so and the people who don't generally wont make a fuss if they bother to show up at all. grade schoolers are fussy, and I don't like them. but its still pretty gratifying if any of them manages to actually learn anything.

the pay still bites ass. its enough to survive in a little apartment on my own and MAYBE treat myself to something nice once in a while, but generally all of my non-housing money goes to food. maybe I should consider eating less.

but yeah, I teach English mostly, which is...difficult. Surprisingly people have a hard time grasping their native language. Even older people can have this issue which I find deplorable, and its my job to do what I can to prevent that. I also do some social studies when I need to, which if you recall is something of a combination of history, geography, and how to play nice with others. It...does not go well. At all.

But enough about me, lets talk about me! I'm kidding.

I'm going to invite zarak729 to you know what, I don't even know. I keep getting this shit wrong. So let's just call it a "Joker" round and talk about whatever you damn well please.

[zarak729]

First time up here and such a difficult topic right of the bat. Dammit, fine I'll just talk about . . . . . . . . . . me then.

Well I'm a 19 year old guy who lives in . . . oops, almost gave it away. Nope I'm not gonna tell anyone that yet, not cause I'm ashamed of where I live or anything, just to keep some mystery. Right, I am fresh out of college and on my way to university next year, hopefully. Till then I'm taking Psychology classes for extra marks since I didn't do so well in the other subjects. No job, part time or otherwise, though I wouldn't mind one. Have two younger bros, both giant pains but that's family. 

What else... Well I like to think I'm different from everyone else though most of the times I end up doing the same things as them. I have a very round about personality, it depends on my mental state at the moment so I come across as kind, calm, harmless, quiet, basically a good guy if you get to know him. I hate getting bored, I HATE IT ALOT, when I get bored I kinda become either an ass or a negative Nelly. I rarely approach the people I become friends with though, mostly its the other way around. Friends I don't have that many of either, only a small bunch who I'm comfortable with and I trust. 

Plans for the future are to become a psychologist, get a fun job related to psychology, not those boring therapy sessions, I hate those. Something which involves me working with serial killers and other disturbed people of the like, something exciting and interesting is what I'm saying. Hopefully I'll be here ninja'ing with the rest of you when my time comes.

I hope that's enough info about me and now I guess Ima nominate my buddy Tora Tsume to talk about the reasons why a man should have a fluffy beard.

[Tora Tsume]

Oh wow! 
I must say it's a great honor to have been nominated out of all the worthy and not so worthy bearded men out there in the world. It's a great honor to represent you all and I hope I can tell you all about the benefits and reasons a man should have a fuffy beard. I will keep it really mathematical, provide correct theories and even try to present a hypothesis. Try to keep up.

It's a known fact that women like beards. You've all heard about cat ladies, those are those weird women who have like 32 cats named Nancy and Nancy 2 and such. These women spend their days patting those cats and rubbing against them and head bumbping them and all that! Well, now lets move on to the more stable women in society! Those are the women who do not own 32 cats. 
Now, lets observe and notice something. Statistically speaking, the creazier the woman, the more likely she is to end up alone with 32 cats. Further, if we think about Barny's graph about the hot and crazy scale, we will notice that the hotter the woman the crazier she can become, which we as men will tollerate. 
So! Combining the information on both graphs and putting them to scale will provide us with the correct result that the hotter the woman the more likely she is to have 32 cats! However, we know this does not occur, because cat ladies are LONELY - which is why they get cats to pat! How is that possible? Simple! The hot woman needs someone to tolarate her craziness so she wouldn't adopt a cat. Yet, it's impossible for a man to keep up with a crazy woman for too long, which would leave her single. So, how does one keep himself with a hot as hell girlfriend while keeping her crazy at bay? A BEARD!

How so? Simple. A beard may immitate a cat. The woman can pat it, feed it, wake up next to it and cuddle it. Thus, I've proven purely mathematically how beards benefit the population of earth and create a balance in the world.

Question asked, is how should the beard maintenance go. This is the hypothesis I promised. I concluded that since hot women should probably love cats, they would like them fluffy. Hence, if the beard is a fluffy beard, one can expect his crazy girlfriend to be less crazy, hotter and more satisfied with the relationship. I'm still gathering data by trying to find a hot girl who'd date me. I'll keep you posted on that.

P.S.
The study I showed does not include crazy cat ladies who have those weird hairless cats who then like shaven men. Weirdos...

Now, I shall nominate...acids to tell us all about...How pissed he gets when I tag him to do stuff and force him on things. =]

[Solus]

Very well done, I especially enjoyed them beards talk *strokes beard* You people been paid, you rich motherfuckers ^^

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If you want it moved to a different account, PM me ^^

[acids]

While not necessarily coerced to do tasks by Noob, he is a cool guy. Perhaps my favourite genin hailing from Kirigakure, I like that he pushes me to post and nags me to read his content. All of it is good, and outside of RP, he seems like a cool guy. Crazy, but not too crazy.. like myself.

At times, though, he can be a bit too much. <sheds tears> He frequently abuses me through name calling and again harasses me to no end to post. I can be at work and here my iphone's notifications going off like crazy cuz this guy messages me so much. I try to logout and hide from him haha, and whenever he sees me in the cbox, he always requests me to read how cool his posts are. Glad that I have a good ninja in Kirigakure, though.

Oh, and the only thing he really hasn't force me on is his [explicit]---but I'm still waiting.

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now, i invite Promeleon to talk about his sources of muse and inspiration. honestly, if he does this, i feel that this would be a good read to those struggling with ideas etc. the way he writes encourages me and i am glad that he and y are both GMs, as they both push me to be even better at RP.

if possible, id like for whatever ryo gained here to fall into the coffers of Kirigakure no Sato on the behalf of Tsume Tora requesting me to post here

[Promeleon]

Well, I don't know if I can live up to your expectations with that description; but I'll try my best.

My muse comes from emotion. Not my emotion; but the challenge of writing the emotion out through a character who is capable of living through extremes of that emotion. When I read manga such as Naruto and One Piece, and even when I used to watch Pokemon; I feel that all we see are the exciting and exhausting parts. We never get to see those characters just being themselves for any time at all, unless it's five minutes of it in order to further the plot. Sometimes having an exceptional character do things a normal person would do, or have normal worries is something I like to think about. When I write; I try and visualize it, and that helps me continue writing, as the more detail I can think of for the writing, the better the image of the scene is in my mind.

It sounds ridiculous; but if I need to envision a scene, I actually stand up and act out how it's going to happen. Thankfully I live alone. I get satisfaction from writing the character as expressively and as detailed as possible, which can get tiring, but when it comes to posting, coming up with the image in your head makes it so much easier to describe in great detail. Keeping up the motivation usually just comes from wanting to see how a story plays out with multiple participants. It's one thing to write a story on your own, but when you are able to get involved with others and collectively build a story and a world, it makes the process of roleplay and the characters we create come to life. Every character I have created has fulfilled an idea I have thought of and wish to see come into play.

Jäger for example, is based off of Jinbei from One Piece, but in image alone, as the personality was thought up to see how it felt to roleplay a character who had suffered tremendous personal injustices, but has come out as a character who tries his best to remain positive and on the righteous side of the spectrum. I thought of the character as a friendly giant who was willing to lay down his life to protect the Amekage, and even though it switched up, he will still lay down his life to protect those who deems worthy. This character allows me to explore emotions such as a great personal failing, but also to experience the joy that a character like Jäger experiences when he achieves success.

Then there was Archimedes, a character I made on this site quite a while ago, but never really managed to come up with good plot for, so I sadly had to cut him loose to make way for a character who I envisioned creating a fantastically dark plot with. Diomed is a sociopath with a taste for power, and will do whatever he feels is necessary in order to maintain his status as the top dog. As a character, he is two faced and conniving, using people and knowing that they are using him for their own personal gain. This character enables me to explore the world through someone who thinks of no one but themselves, and how a ruthless approach to interaction with people can be played. Diomeds possibility to become Kazekage excites me so I can try something new with a village I don't think we've seen here before.

I find that I don't really lose my muse or inspiration as long as I am able to keep the big picture of why the character was created, or am able to think of an interesting plot line that I wish to explore as that character. I don't view it as 'just' training, or 'just' writing a post (with the exception of shop posts and exits apparently), but as a way to envision the character living briefly through my writing, and that helps me write a detailed and enjoyable scene. Much like many people on the site, I do this because my real life isn't quite as exciting as life on here, and seeing life through the eyes of these characters gives me a break.

Probably not as interesting as anyone expected, seems a bit like rambling to me, but I tried. I nominate xenomugen to talk about what he think genjutsu will be like to master as a character.

[xenomugen]

Well I sure wasn't ready for this but I'll give my best shot



I just I should start of by say that genjutsu, at least in my mind, is the most difficult of the three to use in a written story like this site. IT requires a lot of cooperation from others to make it work and flow the way one imagines it in their mind. With the other two, you can describe in detail what a character is doing, or how they are moving, and to person on the other side of the post has a very clear idea of what they have to react to. But with genjutsu, all you can do is describe the scene you would like to project onto them. Most people react to a punch, or something flying towards their head in similar manners. But if you tell someone that they are suddenly going to start hearing the plants singing to them, or a shroud of mist covering the battlefield, or their friends suddenly looking like their enemies, you can't always tell how one person or another will react. The other person could succumb to the illusion or choose to have their character ignore it entirely, and either answer is acceptable.



Now, what do I think mastering genjutsu will be like. I know for a fact it takes, more then anything else patience and acceptance. Mainly because of the point above. Genjutsu isn't the kind of skill you can just cast one after another. You have to have a follow-up for any, and every reaction you will get from each technique you use, and it's not a skill that can stand entirely on its own. Eventually, the target of even your strongest illusion will break free from it, and if you have no counter, they you're going to lose that fight. So mastering genjutsu, at least for me, means becoming a master of reaction, patience, and acceptance.

I nominate ..... Father 'Suke to talk about why he start roleplaying in the first place

[Father 'Suke]

Well, it seems someone is curious enough to ask and by being curious you will, like a cat, die from your curiosity. However, hopefully your satisfaction with this tale will bring you back.

I started to roleplay when I was nine years old and needless to say, I had a very active imagination even before that. It was the days of myspace, oh yes there was a 'space' to put your 'my' unlike that 'book' to put your 'face.' Anyways, I roleplayed a very hax character in those days that was a lot like gaara, controller of sands but I made him a time lord as well so yeah, I was very bad when I first started. However, I spent three years in that place but of that time I roleplayed constantly. To your curiosity as to why I started... Well that is because of a few things a year and a couple more before that.

If you have been following my responses in the contests as of late, you will have noticed I shown some of my deepest worries. From the deepest fear in “October's fear” to the heart wrenching tale in “Day five advent calender” contests that I posted in, the astute person would have been able to guess some of the reasons I rp from those alone. I have a trauma from watching both my parents die and that sparked the brain to cause fantasies, fantasies I had to put on paper or screen. It was the birth of my RP life at that moment, only took me a year after watching a suicide that I learned to put my brain on paper.

So, having started to write my RP'ing muse came about after I almost killed myself. I was a messed up kid in those days and thought it a good idea to go up to the supposed “afterlife” and visit my parents again. I failed to kill myself (good thing too, or else you all wouldn't have met me), and due to that I was put under counseling. My counselor was the one who recommended I begin writing, and further recommended Online Roleplaying to get my stories out there. To live the fantasy life a child should live and not bother with the effects of grownups. Cruel as it was, it worked for a while, granted I am now a traumatized individual from my past but I do thank forum roleplay that I found four years ago as the thing keeping me sane enough. I haven't tried to kill myself since I started forum roleplay, and not just that but I am even engaged.

So you see, I started to roleplay because of death, I continue it to stave off death, and I will only stop roleplaying when I do inevitably die. Now then, I nominate Lady Jaz to tell of her experiences as a college/working gal if she would be so bold to do so.

[Lady Jaz]

My Father is a workaholic and I believe that I had inherited that from him. Although I only had like.. one job. I was a waitress for six months working at a Mongolian Restaurant in town. Since I was only 17 at the time I wasn’t able to mix alcoholic beverages without a licenced bartender present. But I did learn how to create a few kids drinks like pink panthers, spiders and traffic lights. I have also made a few alcoholic drinks with the front house manager which was totally awesome!

I remember when I had to serve a black Russian to a customer who drained half the glass in one gulp. I remembered asking him how he could stomach a drink as strong as that. “Honestly that drink smells disgusting! Yet you drained half of it in one mouthful! My Mom took one sip of the stuff and passed out.” I said, he laughed and said that he had a high tolerance. Another time while working, I had accidently placed a pile of plates on a customer’s table as I needed to pick up a broken glass off the floor. But the woman at the table started shouting at me about being unhygienic and had grabbed my arm.

I told her sternly to release me, or I was going to punch her. And by law a person cannot touch you while you are working as it is classed as an assault. Her husband was incredibly rude to me and had threatened to “smash me to the floor” as he put it. The woman let me go when I counted to four and I was called into my boss’s office. Believe me, he was a total asshole! Anyways, another time a child ran past the chefs cooking at the hotplate in the centre of the restaurant and had gotten himself burnt. The burn marks were bad enough to cause blistering.

I was the only one in the building who performed first aid on him before the ambulance arrived. His mother thought I was attacking him and had threatened to call the police. I yelled at her for not watching over her child. There were signs all over the restaurant that said “all children 10 years and younger must be supervised by an adult at all times” and the child’s mother clearly ignored that rule. No charges were made.

Now.. Studying is something that I actually like to do, but not as much as working. I have quite a few certificates: National Certificate in Health, Disability and Aged Support, Certificate in Smart Study, Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and National Certificate in Computing Level 3. And next month starting 27th I will be studying my three year Bachelor in nursing course. So yeah, I love to think myself intelligent and smart although at times that is surely not the case. I love what I do and is proud of where I am at the moment.

And to end this, I would like to nominate Celaena Kamyuja to tell us why she wants to become a Vet Nurse.

[Celaena Kamyuja]

My passion in the reason why I chose the career as a Specialist Veterinary Nurse is because I love animals so much. I can relate to them and if there is a problem that is not too serious, I can heal them. Kat said why I want to become a Vet Nurse, and it is simple, Animals don’t talk back whereas humans do. I cannot handle sharp mouth people, I’m too sensitive, and so I decided to be around those that cannot speak for themselves. Well that was one reason, the other is because animals are cute, sometimes harmless, but as a whole, we are a lot stronger than some animals, and I hated animal cruelty so much, I decided to help the little hair balls instead.

I work in the laboratories to help find cures to help the animals in need. Though, my favourite is teaching and research, including handling the animals, I still even do the simple like clean up after them. I take good care of their welfare and it is a great feeling when the animal is well because when I was the one that treated them, I know in the end that I did a good deed. I, without the intention, created a bond with them and vice versa.

So I became a veterinary nurse because my life's passion is to care for animals and educate people on how to care properly for theirs. My journey up to this point has been exciting, educational and heart-breaking, but ever so rewarding. I've been lucky enough to come across some incredible opportunities to achieve my goals.

And now, I nominate: Marii K. Kazeraikou
Why did you learn the Martial art Tae-Kwon-Do? Others might know the answer, but I don't and I am very interested.

[Solus]

All these people have been paid on the requested accounts.

As per request the winnings of acids shall go to the Kirigakure vault.

[Marii K. Kazeraikou]

Thank you for the nomination Natsumi. I'll answer this right away.

I have actually three reasons why I started to train Tae-Kwon-Do. My primary reason was that I wanted to get in better shape physically. Before I started my lessons, I trained basketball once a week plus biking to school almost every day. Which was not near enough to get a good grade in P.E. when I was in middle school/upper secondary school. This subject was in fact the one I had the worst grade in; I graduated with the grade 3 in tenth grade. 6 is the top grade in the Norwegian system by the way.
The first months of Tae-Kwon-Do lessons were HARD. I often had sore muscles or could not stretch my legs that far due to the tension. However, I noticed my body changing in a positive way a little more than a year later. My thighs had slimmed down, my stomach was less "blobby" while my - ahem - behind had become firmer. The fact that my general fitness had improved was a plus too. Due to this, I could proudly say that I got a 4 in P.E. after graduating high school/college. Which is fantastic since achieving decent grades is harder in high school/college.

Reason number two was that I did not participate in any extracurricular activities when I was in middle school/upper secondary school. I was nearly OBSESSED with my school work and did not attend any activities. When I started in high school/college, I decided to change this. My first step was to sign up for the girls basketball team that fall. The team however got dissolved less than a year later.
I soon started to participate in championships that were in my region. This meant that I had to spend some weekend nights sleeping in a gymnasium. My bed consisted of a thin inflatable mattress while my duvet was a sleeping bag. But it was great fun. I got to travel to new cities all across my nation, compete in regional as well as national competitions plus training with a lot of people twice a week.

This leads me on to my third point: people. I barely knew anyone in my class when I started at high school/college. This was a bit of a shock to me since at least two of my friends were in my class at middle school/upper secondary school. But now, I was in a class where I only had one friend to talk to. Don't get me wrong here since I'm not exactly dependant on my friends. But being placed in a class with loads of new people at a big school is not exactly an easy transition. Particularly since not all of the people there were nice. The girls were not that bad, but some of them were giggling or laughing when I stated things such as "I never wear makeup" or "I like comics". The guys however were worse. Many of them made sexual comments I won't post here since this is a PG-13 board.
My Tae-Kwon-Do group however was a different story. We were about 30 people who were 15 to 50 years old who were in the same group. A number of them were girls or boys close to my age. I made some friends there and a couple attended the same school as me. I even met a girl who is now one of my best friends thanks to the similar interests we share. Bullying or harassment in general is often frowned upon in martial arts dojangs all over the world too. Don't get me wrong though; I know there are some places where this may not be true. This is just what I have observed.

I would like to nominate Rokudaime Mamimi for the next round. Could you please tell us why you think education is important to a persons' physical and mental health? Namely education on university/university college level.

[Rokudaime Mamimi]

Thank you Marii K. Kazeraikou i am actually very happy to get this particular subject.

now for me the value of education may vary from person to person depending on age, degree and motivation, but the truth about education is the fact that once you learn it, absolutely no on ecan take that knowledge away from you. Knowledge is a powerful thing, information, mental development, and that is shown throughout history by oppression other various forms of vague to blatant slavery. education is denied to those being ruled over and thought lesser, because a developed mind as a dangerous and inspirational one.

The physical health aspects of education, I feel, cater more towards the learning of ones disciplines. such as Tae-kwon-do to educate your body, learn your limits, push past them and stay in your peak condition. you train not only your body, but your mind, and with those principles you educate yourself in a way that is very much physically and mentally beneficial. However if we take this on to something like... the college level of education such as like myself, then there comes a slight variance to it all. Anyone can be a parrot, to repeat and regurgitate information that is given to you and then you simply repeat it back, so anyone can be the number one Polly the Parrot.

though if it is engaging and not only as you asked and given the information, you are tested in a way that forces you to not just read and repeat, but actually think on the process, look around the wrenches in the formula and use problem solving skills, that it strengths the connections in the brain. The more you work your brain the better the network of it overall. Mentally and physically. The more you exercise thought and knowledge, the tighter those bonds get in your brain, forming tighter closer networks which, theoretically, mean you remember them easier because the part of the brain that stores that information has such a diverse yet efficient network. This not only covers your mental state but is very substantial to your physical state as well.

I would like to invite @blackspire to write about value of trust and why it is never as powerful as the first time it is broken.

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Well, biologically I would say in fact that there is a certain point at which trust can be totally re-established, probably by the brain letting the memory of the specific betrayal slip away into the ether of forgotten information, or by positive reinforcement contrary to previous experience.

But a lot of betrayals do not simply vanish in that sort of experience, or so I would imagine. Besides, it's far more fun (and for most people, probably more interesting to read) to talk about it spiritually and poetically, so that's what I'll do. Besides I'm far more qualified to speak about it through metaphoric interpretation than scientifically. Forgive the over-dramatization, it's how I write.

Thankfully, at seventeen years old, I probably have had my trust broken in meaningful ways far fewer times and to lesser extents than a lot of you probably have, so anything I say will largely be interpretation or conjecture. That said, it is not as though it is completely outside my experience.

Trust is valuable for the obvious reason that, in the vast plane of space we live in, it is desirable - nigh on essential - to root our belief in people (or things), as it would be exceedingly lonely to float about by ourselves. Trust is what gives us weights to tie ourselves down to the little piece of earth we drift upon that grows the more we take in. It is to create a dome of comfort - a sanctuary - because the outside world - the rest of the void - is so large and so very uncertain. The best thing is to have those effortless connections - those things tied securely to your world that do not drift away, that you can always count on to be there when you look around.

But that trust is not as valuable when broken for one simple reason. Once a piece is broken off - a segment of your world - it is damaged; reclaimed by the void. It hurts so very much to have that vital piece of what has become a part of yourself wrenched away that... perhaps it would be better simply to leave that space empty; leave the wound gaping, because you would rather leave it open than let something else take rest there, seal it up, only for it to wrench itself out once again. You know what that feels like, and you could never stand to have it happen again.

Of course, rather than let it float off, you could reach out and try to reclaim that piece of your world. But in most cases, it won't fit snugly back into the hole it left; it will not sit effortlessly and provide for you. It is no longer a part of your world, a comfort or reassurance, but a thing that you must reach up and strain yourself constantly just to cling onto as you refuse to let it fly away.

I hereby invite @kaius to talk about his personal favorite experiences in Team Fortress 2.

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I think i'mma pass on this one...

Yo KoKoKo, talk about the universe.

[Fui]

The Universe

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There is so much in the ever changing universe to talk about that I honestly don't know what to put. Even as I type a new species could be developing, a new star created, an old one dying, the next president of the Us being born or even my future husband splitting up from his current partner. All I can really say for sure about the universe is this, |Ayame Unbound| is sexy, Tieren is a Milf and 👺 Usiel is a fine ass boss man. :3

I invite Solus to talk about the sexiness and epic love making of homosexuals

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[Solus]

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ince I just realized I killed the most epic of contests ever here comes my attempt to revive it and let the epicness continue! o.o So, here it goes: The sexiness and epic love making of homosexuals. Where to start… Well, (sorry ladies) but no periods! Sure, your thingy will not always come out clean in gay sex, but the chances of that being blood are reduced severely. Okay, that was the easiest and the most obvious. I am practically done now, as continuing on this subject would either land me into clichés about the general personality of gay people (as if that could be generalised) or how homosexual relationships differ from heterosexual relationships (once again getting into a glaring, stereotype riddled, generalisations).

There are of course a few generalisations about homosexuals that I can comfortably talk about since there are actually things that many of them have in common. For starters studies show that many homosexuals happen to be into gay sex. Thus, within your target audience you have a larger chance of finding someone who is into the same thing as you are (in this case being gay sex). Now in the Netherlands about 3.6% of the men identify as gay and 5.5% as bisexual (yes, ladies, sorry about this but this essay will be very male orientated, for the main reason that apart from the 7.4% of women who identify themselves as bisexual, the homosexual females for some reason are not interested in sex with me.). Anyway, the point I am trying to make is that the male homosexual population is relatively small compared to the heterosexual one so the chance of encounter goes down dramatically when conventional methods of approach are being employed. For this reason there exist congregations of these individuals (mainly in bars with a rainbow flag outside) so despite the population being smaller, knowing exactly where to look would increase the chances of encountering a same sex orientated man within these venues to almost 100%! Jackpot! Finding your soulmate or buttbuddy was never easier! Well…. I think that was it.

No wait! There is of course one other thing I should mention: “Solus’s Law”. It’s kind of like Moore’s law but then with decisions and penises. Basically the law goes like this: “One makes the best decisions whilst holding a dick.” Now, being a guy invoking that law is simple; It’s basically just grab and go. However, theoretically with a homosexual relationship the amount of epic decisions should double (twice as much to hold). This makes me wonder though, what happens if I hold two at once? Will it result in twice as many good decisions or will my decisions become twice as good? I might need a test (and tested) subject for that. I will be taking volunteers. (This might inadvertently lead to contests of the "look at how many I can fit" nature sooooo... One at a time?)

Now, moving on from homosexuality, I will be requesting Madame Loki to write about why witches are better (than what? That’s up to her!)

[Madame Loki]

Why Witches are Better than You!!!

Such a wonderful forum to state the obvious. Where shall I begin. Well, let's begin by saying that Solus is correct... witches are indeed better. He is also correct in letting me pick what we are better than, and at what. Why you ask? Because we are better than everything, and better at everything. Life, you, checkers, sex... doesn't matter, we win. Let us explore this a bit more. First off, we dance naked under the light of a full moon. What's not to love about that? Letting you're body be free, as nature washes over your skins, and the heat of the bonfire cradles your body. MMMMMM, yes it is delightful. 

Are you a lonely sort? Well witches are not. We have a sisterhood( brotherhood, fraternity...ewww no...no frats here, delete that.), a community of unity. We live for each-other, and smite all those who wish to do us harm. Plus, all our pets can talk, who doesn't what a talking cat, or dog, or or or... *gasp!!!* Honey Badger!!!! (Jots down new idea for Animal Companion). Yes even while writing this I am still winning effortlessly.  I digress, back to the topic at hand. We are a community, one not plagued with the likes of neighbors children, running about breaking shit, and making unneeded noise. They do not approach our territory. HA, the fools believe that we will eat them.  As if we who mold nature to our liking, would feast upon children, those filthy creatures. 

We much rather feast with dignitaries, and those of influence, and wealth. All of who are so entranced by our nature and our candor, that they freely invite us into their homes. It is so easy for a witch to gain the intrigue of such people, that others deem it magic. Ah no, tis not magic. It is the insatiable hungry for knowledge. It is that ultimate lust for new and exotic things. It is the desire to comprehend something that never asked, nor was ever intended to be understood. So we take our places at their tables, as advisers, as champions, as old friends and mistresses. This is why behind the rise and fall of every great empire, we are there, pushing history along. 

However, there is a stigma that follows witches. That we are part of that band of things that go bump in the night. FOOLISHNESS!!!! We are not part of that band of misfits. If they are towers of terror, then witches are the architects. Via curses rendered as punishments, or through foolish requests, of those seeking to gain immortally, we are their creators. We deal with and serve demons? No, we bring demons to their knees, and make them render services onto us. Forget all those other stories that are false. We do not go bump in the night. We make the night bump. That actually may put us in an even harsher light, but we'll get over it, we always do.  So burn the witch, and watch her dance in the flames. Drown the devil's whore, and watch her glide through the waves. Foolish humans, make up whatever lies you will to make you feel safe at night. We are servants of nature, as if nature would turn against us, without cause. 

We live easy, we love freely and with a deep passion. We get whatever we want. So, the question isn't why or how are we better. The question, the question is... how are we not?  

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Gather and compose yourselves loves. I now invite Aimi Kaguya to talk about his obsession with Hell Fire, and the Pyromania that no doubt accompanies it. 

[Aimi Kaguya]

Confiteor Deo Omnipoenti
Beatae Mariae semper Virgini
Beato Micheali Archangelo
Sanctis apostolis omnibus sanctis

You ask me to talk about Hellfire? To perhaps explain at a academic level what makes it so godly, both on a thematic level and on a mechanical one? You wish me to explain just what my fixation with this most glorious and heinous of flames is?

Alright, I will confess.

Kyrie Eleison.


What is it about the fire? So calm and peaceful... but inside, all power and destruction. It's hiding something, just like people do. Sometimes, you have to get close to see what's inside. Sometimes, you have to get burned to see the truth. Long ago, longer now than it may seem, we in the world lived much simpler lives. Hunters, gatherers, prey, predators. Humans fit into this cycle of eat or be eaten somewhere in the middle in the beginning. But then there was fire, and with fire came disparity. Heat and cold, life and death, and of course light and dark. Humans mastered fire first before anything else in this world - the most fearsome element that nature had at it's disposal in the age of ancients, and we made it our own.

Thus began the progression of man, all the way up to today. It all starts with fire, thus my attraction to it is primal by nature. Fire inspires, it's duality unmatched by any other elements. It's almost a living thing, it matches a lot of the boxes that require a thing to be living. It eats. It reproduces. It grows. It talks even, even if it's in words we can't understand. That's getting a bit more spiritual, and we'll get back to that in a moment. The point is, fire is fascinating to me by it's very nature.

And so you ask me why the obsession with Hellfire? Well, you might have gleamed a bit of incite into the fire part, but let's talk about Hell. Hell, among many, many other things in this world is something that I like to call a Forbidden Fruit. Let's ignore the ramifications of religious posturing and stick to solely thinking of Hell as a place, alright? If Hell were a place, we wouldn't have access to it, not normally. All the things we could find in Hell, all the horrors and punishments, all the lost knowledge and (probably) stunning architecture, all out of our reach forever.

Forbidden Fruit, and a thing which we dominated so long ago... what's not appealing about this description? If fire is a duality of calm and destructive, than Hellfire's duality is that of purification and carnage. When fire takes hold of something, it burns it down to its core. It might take a while, hours, days or even years to do so, but so long as the fire remains it will burn away anything eventually, leave it as naught but a pile of ash. Not so with Hellfire. Hellfire goes deeper, it goes beyond the flesh.

Hellfire burns the soul.

Now think about that for a moment - the soul, ever lasting an pure, intangible, invisible, undefined and yet so clearly understood, burned away by Hellfire. That's like fire+ right there. The ability to kill the soul as well as the body, to erase something completely from existence in this life and the next... that is a powerful, powerful thing. Talking strictly Naruto for a moment, it's probably the closest thing to Amaterasu that we're going to get on site ever. I could argue it's even better than Amaterasu, because Amaterasu doesn't burn your soul.

Now that we've lightly touched up on the thematic, let's talk about mechanics shall we? Hellfire is available only to Venatores, and only those who forego many of the other gifts within the "clan" and dedicate 1500 TP towards getting. This right here implies a certain degree of specialty, a sort of "not everyone gets this" creed. If it were just in the Venatores, perhaps that creed would be the same but the fact that even in the witch hunter's lot it's something you have to sacrifice towards in order to get implies that it has a somewhat forbidden nature about it. A Forbidden Fruit to the Venatores perhaps? So appealing and yet so far away? Certainly is for me.

Taking one minor step into the thematic, the fact that Hellfire is only available to witch hunters is also fantastic flavoring. Who better (or worse in some cases) to wield such a powerful weapon than those so righteous as to make it their job to exterminate evil from the world? Now, back to mechanics. What exactly can you do with Hellfire? Well, aside from setting people ablaze at touch, from a distance of 10 meters or more, shooting bolts at them, making weapons out of hellfire, imbuing your weapons with hellfire, imbuing your clothing with hellfire, making armor out of hellfire, increasing your resistance to fire and alignment based damage and making a personal lake of fire under someone's feet -

Anything. Damn near anything, there is no stopping Hellfire, for it can appear anywhere and take on any form. Oh what's that? You thought Hellfire was only fire? Sit down, lemme educate you a moment about a little jutsu called Hellfire Jutsu. This lets you make any cold, acid, fire or lightning based jutsu also imbued with the power of hellfire. Now you might be thinking to yourself well that's just 3 release types and acid, that's not anything - but then I will direct you towards a little jutsu called Jutsu Exchange I believe, which lets you change the energy type of any jutsu you want to one of many which include, you guessed it, those 4.

So, with a little ingenuity, almost any jutsu that you can make can become bathed in Hellfire. You like wind release but bummed it doesn't have a damage type of it's own? Give it some other type and slap some Hellfire on there for good measure. Now you control the winds of God. Oh what's that? You think water and earth might be left out of the equation? I've already went over that they aren't. Hellfire can be stuck onto anything that creates some kind of energy, an Jutsu Exchange can give an energy type to the energy-less.

This is what I love about Hellfire. There is no escape from it's holy (or unholy depending on your view) wrath. It is fire that is not restricted to one form but can take on many. It offers protection, it offers strength. It's flexible and yet its effects are universal. Be it a lake of fire or a wave of soul burning electricity, if utilize properly there is no escape from a wielder of the flames' wrath. Hellfire is frightening to anything and everyone. The undead are not safe, the righteous are not safe, animals are not safe. It is indiscriminate and affects all the same.

Used with a bit of imaginative fortitude, there is no escape. There is no mercy, for those who use this have none. Hellfire is judgement.

Through me is the way to the city of woe.
Through me is the way to sorrow eternal.
Through me is the way to the lost below.
Justice moved my architect supernal.
I was constructed by divine power,
supreme wisdom, and love primordial.
Before me no created things were.
Save those eternal, and eternal I abide.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

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Now then, I believe Wolf of the Falls had something to say about Inuzuka and how cool they were? Come wolf, explain to my how cool dogs are, and try not to tempt me to burn them in holy fire~

[Wolf of the Falls]

Well Inuzuka is awesome for a lot of reasons, it allows you to always have someone to interact with, it gives you a mini-squad of tai masters to watch your back that you don't even really have to communicate with other than signals which can be as easy as a click of the tongue. The combo set ups are amazing and despite popular belief the Inuzuka techniques are quite flexible, for example you could perform Fang Over Fang alone or using two of your dogs without you involved entirely.

And lastly......


'nuff said

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I believe Inoryu had something to say about My Little Pony.