Cloaked Mystery

Ariac

Ariac exchanged coins for a sword again as the unpleasant looking man appeared. He also exchanged a good deal of strength for speed, preparing to react if he had to.

“Father?” stammered Riker. “W-what are you…?”

Relatives, thought Ariac. Huh. This place just gets weirder and weirder.

“Stand back,” Ariac warned the newcomer. “And…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

Sorry for my apparent inactivity. The last few weeks have been really busy because of Christmas stuff.

No problem!

Yeah, I was thinking that the main characters’ goals would be to break the cycle. I think it would be really interesting because they would have a lot of options they could try.

(I’ll watch the video later when I have time!)

@keilah-h

I meant we wouldn’t get there while you were gone.

It might be important to know what Ellis’ armor covers, so here’s a drawing that shows that.

Let the attack begin!

Ellis

Ellis caught a glint out of the corner of his eye. He whipped around and saw a dark shape sailing through the air. He lunged forward, knocking Kate aside. The shape crashed into him. It was the guy with knives. One of the knives deflected off of Ellis’ armor as they rolled. Ellis threw his opponent off and drew his s…[Read more]

@savannah_grace2009

Who are “they”?

@calyhuge

Fennin can also use magic, although we haven’t seen him do it. They also have some really good warriors (Nahim, Zahlin, Ellis), Kate uses magic, although she has a limited amount at the moment. Snake is really powerful, although like I said, he’s going to have to fight a dragon.

@calyhuge

We’re sending in a dragon to deal with Snake.

Zash

“How should I know?”

@rae

I meant eight in the previous post. I just noticed it says right.

@highscribeofaetherium

Hmmm… that could work I guess. So, the characters that figure this out on their own are Vlydia, who’s a scientist, Nedan, who’s a miner, and Krenna, who’s a thief. Maybe Vlydia would be weird enough to try eating them as an experiment? But she’d have to see some evidence that they would do something. Maybe Nedan…[Read more]

@highscribeofaetherium

I mean, it they’re eating while doing something with these, I guess, but who would do that? XD

@highscribeofaetherium

One of the tricky things for this story is how do I get people to eat these? Who’s going to just try to consume one of them and hope it does something? To make it worse, at least three characters are going to figure it out independently.

@highscribeofaetherium

The most important thing that I noticed that definitely should be addressed is: how do you stop people from creating infinite Resonance Crystal factories? Couldn’t someone generate a piece of crystal, break it off, and someone else consume it, or do they degenerate INSTANTLY (which would be a bit weird)?

You need the c…[Read more]

@highscribeofaetherium

I forgot about your previous post 🤦‍♀️

No problem!

I don’t remember exactly how it worked previously but I like how the updated version works.

The previous version was fairly similar. The new one is a bit more symmetrical. It has twice as many categories of powers (material, mental, etc.) but one less effect (I got rid of d…[Read more]

@highscribeofaetherium @thearcaneaxiom

I just made some significant changes to Crystal Binding. I used to have it organized like this: three types of powers: energetic, physical, and spiritual; and four effects: combination, separation, absorption/infusion, and distortion.

There are now six types of powers, but only three effects.

The types are…[Read more]

@rae

Did you say before that she always has right eyes, no matter what shape she is using?

@rae

And is Jeptune?

@highscribeofaetherium

Wait, is the Shadow participating in this attack?

@calyhuge

Actually, I think the villains would totally lose anyway. There’s only a few of them, and a lot of the heroes are very powerful. That can still happen though.

Zash

“They’re referring to one of our targets, general,” said Zash. “The red-eyed one.”