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  1. Skirts
    18th Jul 2009 16:24
    15 years, 4 months & 11 days ago
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Skirts
15 years, 4 months & 11 days ago
18th Jul 2009 16:24

This is something I've been working on, I'm looking for ratings,criticism, comments and the like.
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Ever since my grandmother died Death has been one of my closest friends. My family lived in New Mercury-there had never been a Old Mercury or a Mercury-just a New Mercury. Grandmother lived in Satellite, oddly named because Satellite was the center and the top, never on the fringe. People who lived in Satellite were accomplishers, they did important things that moved them out of the New Mercury and the Skirts. Grandma used to be a famous scientist until she got to old and shaky to hold beakers, but she stayed in Satellite like most of them. It was a place of tall mirrored buildings and carriages with cloaked beasts to pull them along.
We walked from our house in New Mercury and we had just arrived in well-to-do Satellite when I saw her. She stood out from the well dressed Satellitians even more then my semi shabby family did. Her clothing was bright and so was her red hair, but when I stopped to stare at her passing us she stopped to. I quickly caught up to my older sister but she kept following me; bouncing along near my side not caring how weird she was acting till she spoke up.
???Hi I???m Death,???Death flipped her hair and looked at me as though asking for my name. I was eleven-a mini tween really- and wasn???t supposed to talk to strangers but since my parents were right there and she was only my age I figured it was alright to answer her.
???I???m Jarex,??? I said slowly and trying to not add weight to my words as people said I often did. I thought for a moment, was this girl from the Skirts? The Skirts people did have the oddest names, it still didn???t explain why she was so keen on following me though.
???Sorry about your granny.??? She chirped happily not sounded in the slightest bit sorry. Frowning, not because she wasn???t sorry or knew about my grandmother before I had told her but because I was sure she had either given me a fake name or was here to kill me. I trudged sullenly ahead; Death was still following and she was skipping and watching her red checkered skirt flop around in the breeze.
???I thought Death was supposed to be a tall grim guy dressed in black, no offense,??? I said with a bit of a tremble in my voice, I could only hope she really was a strange girl from the skirts and not the grim reaper come to strike me down. Out of all the things I expected her to do she did none of them. She just laughed . Death was really quite cheerful I realized as we walked up the steps to the funeral parlor. Death practically skipped up in a state of complete effervescence. People didn???t even seem to notice her, they were all either used to death or too wrapped up in their own matters to care.
I shuddered as we found grandmother to say goodbye, the people in here were ghastly. The alive ones looked worse then they dead; they were all grey and too sad looking like a broken street light, Death was all over, peeking in every corner and coffin ignoring all the strange looks she got for it. She didn???t mind the dead people, they were smiling, painted over with plastic so they didn???t smell, and wearing their best clothes like a group of brightly painted dolls.
My sister looked at me and pushed me out back out of the room to go wait on the steps. She must have thought grandmother scared me when she was dead and lying like that Really I was just watching Death. Somehow Death realized I was gone in only a few short moments and came out to sit with me on the steps next to me.
???It???s not as bad as it looks. It???s different but it???s just as much fun as this,??? She said.
???Being dead???? I replied. She nodded happily while I thought it over; Death really wasn???t anyone to be afraid of. So why should I bother to be afraid? I was musing, Death was playing with a spindly legged creature that looked a bit like a dirty grey clothespin with legs. When I stared at it too long it hopped away and my family took its place. They didn???t seem to notice the strangeness of Death and took her as common place. A playmate I had found to pass the time. Death jumped up and introduced herself quick as a blink but I scarcely payed attention. Times like this would happen and I would slip into a ocean of swirling, swishing, gray haze through which all words have to make their way past the grey and then I snap out of it, waking up to find the world the way it was beforehand. I took a breath and found myself being dragged along by Death near the middle of New Mercury.
???:Where are we going???? I asked in utter bewilderment. While staring at the now familiar landscape.
???Skirts,??? she replying simply.
???Oh.??? I was scared but didn???t say anything. My parents had always warned me away from mixing with people from the Skirts lest I pick up shiftless habits You weren???t supposed to care about whether you lived in the Skirts or not but most people didn???t want to live in them anyway. It made you look disreputable or malicious or just plain lazy.
Death began to navigate her way through the crooked, dark , alleys of the Skirts and I kept straight behind her; as closely as water to water. The houses in the Skirts were many stories high with strange windows and extravagant curly-q decorations. We stopped in front of a megalith of a house; a scintillating world of color smack dab in the middle of the narrow alley. Death stared up at it with a gleeful look of admiration. I looked too but the strangeness of it all made me wish I could flee instead of stare.
It was so very different from the clean cut geometric shapes and light colors of New Mercury that it made me feel as though I had stepped into a venerable yet menacing past.
Shivering, though it was not very cold, I spoke up trying to withhold any signs of fear in my voice.
???What are we doing???? I said.
???Going to see Jack,??? She proudly announced. Death grabbed my arm and scurried into a crack of a side alley that I hadn???t noticed before.
???So this is what a mouse must feel like, ???I murmured to myself. Death jerked me sharply left and we stopped in front of a tiny shed built off one side of the brick house. I felt rather let down really, after how excited Death had been I had expected something more. She glanced at me and upon seeing the disappointment on my face skipped over to the shack while smartly avoiding a stack of bricks, and knocked on the door. Tap, tap, tap , tap- tap, tap.

Role Playing
16 years, 5 months & 7 days ago
21st Jun 2008 20:53

I belong to various roleplaying sites that would love new members, maramail me for a link, catagorys include:
Xiaolin Showdown
Yugioh
Howls Moving Castle
Avatar the Last Airbender
Original fiction

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rp plots: These are for my use, if you wish to use one mm me and ask permission.


In a time that I will not say and a place that can not be mentioned is a city called The City. It is large and most of the people in in are content if not happy. Living quarters are decided on effort and results. The most brilliant minds live in the Satellite, the ones hoping to get into the Satellite live in New Mercury(A nice enough area of The City) and those who have no ambition at all live in the Skirts.
Jarex (14) and his sister Almalthea (16) live in New Mercury with their parents who both work in The Labs. A large company dedicated to inventing new things and recreating olds ones for the use of the people. It is owned by a man called Maximilian Grayson who also happens to own most of the Skirts and New Mercury.

However when Jarex and Almalthea meet a girl who calls herself Death everything changes. And now they find themselves in Letum House. A strange house in the skirts where the people are unlike people they've ever met.

Death: A cheerful teenage girl , who is death. Her weakness? If you lock her up in cold iron people stop dying.

Jack*Rippner*: A young man with white hair and red eyes that is on first glance mistaken for a demon. You can recognize him by his boots. But he takes great care to avoid officials as his last name isn't his real one.

Love: A wistfully happy girl of about 21 who tends to act emotionally and without consulting her brain first.
Lust: Love's twin brother, he's handsome and tends to think instinctively. Love and Lust keep each other in check.

Lady Luck: More often called Lady (or Lalu by Jack) she loves games, especially games of chance. While she delights in games and long flowing clothing she can also be very serious.


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The world of fairy and the world of humans has been kept largely separate for thousands of years. However that is about to change. A fay has torn a hole between the worlds and brought humans in to help in their political plan.
That particular fay is the leader of their kingdom and particularly ambitious. They're hoping to use the intruders as a distraction to conquer the realms, both human and fairy.

The worlds only hope is to find out who they are and stop them, human and fay alike. Can they overcome their differences to save their worlds?
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Heaven has a problem, a big one. There are a handful of kids who are destined to save the world with their powers, the problem? None of them can use their powers and dark forces are gathering, dark forces that will kill the children if they get a chance.
This is coupled with the fact they can't find any of their guardian angels that they need to guard the kids and teach them how to use their powers!
The solution? They didn't want to do it, but they brought out a group of immortals that they really don't trust. Theives and murders they consider the lot, but they're all they have now.

Rules:
You can be a immortal of any kind
You cannot refuse your guardian immortal unless you already have one
try to keep the Guardian/powered kids at a good ratio
You can be a non guardian immortal but you should have restrictions.
Any sort of Intro is allowed.


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Dittoville is a very difficult place to Live. Formed around a old mental institution it houses the clones and offsspring of the most insane and twisted minds in history. So what happens when normal people move in?
Or normal looking at least. You honestly can't be sure what anyone is here.

Possibility for clone characters
Jack The Ripper
The Mad Gasser of Matoon
Joan of Arc
Whatever floats your boat.

Other non clones can be whatever as long they they outwardly look human.
Clones don't need to share the same name.



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Finding real estate is hard enough without finding a place that will sell to a mad scientist, but luckily one has set up shop in a large home just outside a small town somewhere in the American Midwest. They bring with them a whole host of strange sentient life forms.
Weird attracts weird though and soon after crypto's, demons and other bizarre things begin to flock to the mansion in search of a place to live.

What ever shall the town do?
Will they start a mob or accept it?

We need a scientist, creations, whatever flocks to the house, and townspeople.
No creations can be all powerful, in fact they would be more likely to be flawed. use your imagination. They can be mythical things made imaginary or something new.


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In a strange kingdom, not unlike our own but with it's own strange differences, there lives a ailing king. When he was young and sound of mind he was a good king but now most of his decisions are made by his adviser who really wants to put his own daughter on the throne.(Feel free to switch genders)
In part of his plan he's shut up the kings most trusted guards in the underground of the kingdom.Where the foulest denizens dwell.
The guards are called the Angels, and very recognizable. It's mostly the wings but their sense of honor and morals are easy to spot in the underground as well. They're searching for the kings banished heir, so they can take over instead of the advisers offspring. Will the Angels Suceed?
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Tough Guide To Fantasyland by Diane Wynne Jones based.
You are from another world and on a pilgrimage in Fantasyland, a world of magic. You have a few members in your party and your party is destined to defeat the Dark Lord. The 'evil" ruler of Fantasyland.
People in the group will be assigned your position in the group by me. (Unless you actually have a copy of this book) That no one else will know you're a lost heir or whatnot. You can list everything in your intro except for that. (I'll mm you)
I'll be the crazy seeming wizard who does little magic but doles out cryptic advice that makes sense days later.

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What would happen if one day you woke up with angel wings?
That's exactly what happened to Jason Orglethrope. While on the crowded bus on the way to school he gives a old woman his seat, he wakes up the next day with tiny angel wings, but they're growing. They give him the courage to stand up the the bullies that make up the majority of his school. And when he helps a girl fetch her backpack out of the dumpster she goes on to attempt find someones scattered notes. She'll wake up realizing she can make force fields but not before she can pass it on.

Rules
You can be the people up there but you don't have to
Bullies can be 'saved'
it more or less works like this
old lady gave Jason a gift that only woke up when he helped someone else. it spreads to whoever gets helped and they get their own gift as long as they help someone else. Clear?


When a group of teenagers insult a witch on their way to the midnight showing of the newest and proclaimed scariest horror movie they shake it off as a joke. But when they get out of the movie, scared out of their wits and ready to go all watch comedys at one of their houses where the parents are out...something happens. And suddenly they're in a nightmare. Serial killers, slashers, vampires, zombies, werewolves,bad fairies and all sorts of horrors.
However the witch has gifted then with movie peoples luck, and they know they shouldn't go into the basement alone, or start making out randomly. So they just might live, or not.

Rules
I'd like around 5or 8 people at least 2 of whom die
A good number of scary things
You can pick what kind of scary
Monsters and killers can be"killed' and then come back in movie fashion
You can really kill then off if you get bored of them or want to leave
violence to a miniumum to comply with mara rules.

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There is a island in the center of the seven seas, that contains a magical labyrinth. It's the ultimate test for most people, but somehow a group of people get caught in it accidentally all by walking through the wrong door.
Now they have to escape the labyrinth to escape the island. The labyrinth is full of dangers and is more or less one big Greek myth. All they have to guide them is a woman trapped in a mirror.
And what they don't know, but the island does, is that they are the reincarnations of people from famous Greek legends.

MM me if you want to be the mirror lady. Since she's can doing much but talk and advise they get first pick of scenery. If she describes something it is, because she can't get out of the mirror to touch and move.


Rules:
you can't be a Greek god, they don't die and thus can't be reincarnated. Try Jason, Achilles, Adromedea ect
You can however randomly insert one in and then take them back out like in legends. For example Hera gives some sort of cryptic advise and them leaves.
They may be reincarnation but they don't know that, and so they only show similar character traits.
Name:
Age:
Looks:
Personality in One Word:
Preincarnation:


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The fair was crowded and lit up the night, games, exotic animals at one side, a freakshow and circus at the other. In the back of the freakshow taking ticket stubs is a old man sitting on top a pile of ancient books: Dracula, The Invisible Man, Robinson Crusoe, Moby Di,ck, Frankenstein and many others. The old man is holding a box full of ticket stubs, and one other thing. A paper bag full of little green worms that glow and grow with a kind of magic.
A kid stumbles and before his mother can catch him makes the old man fall and spill the worms ontop of the scattered books, they burrow in and in a few minutes something happens. A deeper magic then the worms posses pulls the characters up and out of the books.
As it is in life the good bands together and the evil bands together, but as it is in literature characters are often misunderstood as one thing or another.

But when one character really bonds together the evil seeming ones what will happen?
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You can pick any character from any book you want as long as the book in question is in the public domain.
For example you can pick Alice from Alice and Wonderland but she can't be based off the movie version. (Unless you really don't think there is a difference)
Odd fact, while Peter Pan is in the public domain some places it isn't in it's birthplace, because Barrie donated the limited copyright to a hospital
Books in the public domain include those listed above plus things like Little Red Riding Hood, The Wizard of Oz, Dorian Grey, Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde,The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jane Eyre, The Little Mermaid, Sherlock Holmes, lots more books, you might as well look it up to see if your book is public domain yet.
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A carnival comes to town, it has no papers and seems rather foreboding with its large purple and black tent and various closed booths. it advertises a wax museum and "freaky sideshows" and some people can't stay away.
So you go to the Dark Carnival, you sit down to watch the show and something happens to you, suddenly you're glued to your seat. Because what no one knows about the carnival is that it's run by a powerful magician. Once this magician was kind and peaceful and he ran a childrens show in another circus, but one day a teenager ruined one of his tricks and he was fired. So he did what he never wanted to do, he turned to the very back of his magic book where the black arts were kept.
Now he has his own carnival where he is the ringmaster and when someone in the crowd strikes his interest he takes them and turns them into a act.

Rules
We need a ringmaster
you can be a carnival goer who gets turned into a exhibit/act/ sideshow or someone who was already there.
Please no chatspeak that makes it hard to understand you.

Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality in a few words:
Bit Of A Back Story:
What they are or what they turn into(you don't have to put a description if you still look human but can do something strange, like read minds):
Other:

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On a cross country trip to New York City a bunch of California kids stop at the Ramada New Yorker room 3327 to spend the night. After things get a bit too...raucous they knock a large hole in the wall revealing a stash of notes and a large machine. They accidentally set the thing off and it's pointed at them!
What they learn afterwards is that the machine was built by Nicholas Tesla before he died and has imbued them each with the powers of one of his machines. Will the kids get back home alright? Will the goverment find them and steal them away just like the plans for Teslas deathray? Will they master their new powers?


Once upon a time there were two siblings, a girl and her older brother. Their parents had died and they lived alone at the top of their parents old store selling what they could. The sister was left scarred and ugly by the pox that killed their parents and she cried about it day and night.
Her soft hearted and foolish brother sent her to a witch in hopes she could be beautiful again by magic, and she could, but there was a price.
The witch turned the girls brother in a magical marionette and the shop into a nearly empty doll shop. Now the shop magically roams from city to city, ensnaring girls and draining them of their beauty eventually turning them into dolls. Although it seems like the brother is the one draining the beauty he's not the one pulling the strings.

When the shop comes to town can the people that it has it's eyes on resist it's charm? For they are lured in by the brother who's limited magic can make then beautiful, until they're sapped of their life and beauty and made dolls that is.
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Have you ever wondered where dreams come from? No, I'll say this right off the bat, they aren't just subconscious stew. Every night while one is asleep a Something comes into ones room and grabs all the little whisps of happiness that float around and put them in your head.
No one knows what these somethings look like, because no ones ever been awake to see them. But one night a thunderstorm wakes several people up as they are being given a dream and the Somethings have no choice but to drag them down into their own world. But another force is at work here, those people were woken up at that exact moment to do one things. To carry out a not so ancient prophecy that one day a group of humans will bestow something upon them, human emotions.
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Little Shop of Horrors, no prior knowledge of the play or movie necessary)
In a little flower shop on Skid row a botanist named Seymour has a mysterious plant named Audrey Two. And unbeknown to him a member of a High schools botany club(who was on vacation in the area) took a clipping weeks before his disappearance.
The student goes back to their local bot\any club and they hope to use it to win a upcoming contest. However no matter what they did it didn't grow. Eventually someone cut themselves and the plant laps it up and grows. (Not quite that literally)
How far will they go to keep the plant happy and alive? Especially when it reveals that it can make their dreams come true.

Rules
The plant gets to god mode a bit, it's supposed to be a incentive because it can't walk around (So if you're the plant you can't follow people around in the school) and it really does get really powerful after a point.I also don't think many people want to rp as a giant flytrap with a taste for human flesh but thats just me. If more then one person wants to be Audrey three(Or whatever it's named, the club can change the name) then the person most familiar with Little Shop of Horrors gets to be it.
For a image of the plant google image Audrey two.

You can be a student, or teacher, or anything that fits in seamlessly. In the beginning only the botany club knows about the plant.

Name:
Age(or if student year they are in)
Are you squeamish?:
Usual Appearance:
Other

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What would you do if people were disappearing all around you? Not literally of course, but every time you wake up it seem more and more people are missing. And oddly enough they all see to be children, already more then half the young children. No one knows where they are, the police are completely stumped, all they know is that the same person has taken all of them, because in every childs place is a little doll made of brush.
Now even the teenagers are frighten, except for a few, because they know how to not get caught. They seem them out of the corners of their eyes, or if they don't blink.
Can they get the stolen children?
Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen, we daren't go a hunting for fear of little men.
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A group of people are sent out on a quest to seek out the legendary amulet of Yendor. One attracts bad luck(male)while traveling, one good(female), others join along the way but what is going on really?
As they travel through the magical and medieval towns searching for the amulet they discover that they are not all they appear.
Rules
Standard fantasy quest fare. We need a good luck girl and bad luck boy. There is however a stimulus. Because people hate having preassigned character traits both of those characters come with secret weapons of sorts. They are to be kept to themselves until they feel the need to reveal them.
Most species can learn at least some sort of magic though it is something you need a gift for, it's not all that common but common enough. Like being lefthanded.
Species:
Human
Elf
Dark Elves of Hel: A subgroup of elves known for being chaotic, and while not quite evil can be dangerous.
Dwarves:
Ghosties and Ghoulies and Three legged beasties.
Actually anything you can imagine.
Goblins
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In a future world, where science and technology have progressed at a unbelievable rate a normal human being is hard to find. One can change anything about themselves, to something as simple as cosmetic surgery, becoming extremely pretty, or something as off the edge as splicing your DNA or making yourself a living ghoul.
People are surprisingly happy and ever demanding the latest surge , the government seemingly fair. Yet something is odd, why do so many people over 26 have trouble remembering events from 9 years ago? Why do the history books seem wrong? And why is it so hard to catch the 7 subway?
And then one day you get a ping(like a email or page.) from someone who called them self Jack in Irons, and it's a very simple message. "How would you like to be considered a freak?" Followed by a ip address, where to find the computer he posted on. You're meant to follow it, will you?
If you do you find yourself in a dank disused subway tunnel, with a crowd of other people, listening to a man behind a black curtain, who claims to tell you the truth.
He tells you that if you are 26 now nine years ago was the end. Mankind was on the brink of disaster, war disease and starvation where rampant on earth. This however is not earth. In a desperate bargain the majority of the countries on earth struck a deal with a group of aliens. Where they live now is a alien constructed hover continent above Earth, with the alien technology to keep them quiet and comfortable. However down below the aliens are experimenting, on people like him. Doing things too cruel to be practiced on their own species, so they decided to make the perfect human instead. Now he asks you to join him in a attempt to smuggle the humans down below up. Now people in masks hand out a red pill or a blue pill. If you take the blue you forget, if you take the red you agree to help. What will you decide?
Rules
Read the entire plot.
A few people may start out as already having taken the red pill or having been rescued but the majority shouldn't since it's a fairly new operation.
All surges are allowed but no surgery can make you gifted.
You may be a alien.
The title and message is in reference to the fact that the surged humans will be considered freaks by the ones below.
Please join.
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A hundred years ago, on the eve of the San Fransisco earthquake there was a group of curators for a small museum, each endowed with extra ordinary powers for a human. They run a small sort of museum dedicated to the freakier things on earth, magic and monsters. And now, by sheer accident, they've conjured up a disaster that will shake the world apart. A demon. The only way to stop it is to seal it inside a human host, and seal the host away, a mirror is chosen for the job, but there is no human host. Until, a man from the back of their ranks volunteers. They promise to get him out once they seal him in the mirror, but they never manage. Those that don't die in the earthquake aren't able to find the mirror afterward.
Until now. Their descendants are haunted by their ghosts now in the modern era. They won't rest until they free their friend and destroy the demon for good.
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The clock struck midnight. A girl(or boy) crept into their bed and turned out the lights. From the closet, there is cackling, things begin to roll out from under their bed, and a pair of glowing red eyes appear in their window. Just as all the horrors draw in closer, a miracle happens, a angel breaks through the window, dragging with it the red eyed man. They begin to fight, with fists and fire and magic and things never seen before. More angels and their friends come, pretty faced and glowing with inner light. And then the beasties crawl out from their hiding places and they are horrific, brutal even. Slaughtering the forces of good in their home territory, the shadows and dark of the night. When the forces of good retreat, the ghouls turn to the human. The red eyed humanoid talks.
Are you frightened?" The things that go bump in the night belong to a group called Legion, formed to combat the UnOrder, a group of the pretty faces you just saw. As his comrades dispose of bodies he explains. How you got caught in the crossfires of a fight you should not have seen. How they are not the bad guys, how this is not the final arena. And why they are things that go bump in the night.

Rules
Basically there are three ish groups, humans, Legion, and UnOrder.
If you're human you should be in thst room, the one who was trying to sleep, or maybe it was a sleepover, dosen't really matter.
UnOrder is the group with the angels ect. They aren't all angels, but they are all beautiful or things you associate with good things. They are what was good and corrupted, they want to have the human race as a sort of slave group that worships them.

Legion, as the name may suggest, is comprised of all the creatures that go bump in the night. The vampire you used to imagine lived in your closet? The ghoul, the hairy beast, the medusa or person who would take off their face in your nightmares? All Legion. All ugly or just reeking of evil. (anyone joining Legion as a pretty face has to literally repulse people anyway) Legion was formed to combat the UnOrder, out of the things and humanoids who were gruesome, but good hearted.
Pretty boy/girl vampires and werewolves not allowed in the Legion(think Orlock). UnOrder does have some of them.
Which side do you join? or do you just go back to sleep?

2nd Edition- MysticMara
16 years, 5 months & 8 days ago
20th Jun 2008 19:54


THIS IS NOT A CLUB. NOT A CLUB. NO CLUB JOINING REQUIRED. PLEASE READ ACURATELY AND REPOST/SEND PEOPLE HERE

First up, About this blog. It is the new, follow up to the origional blog- MysticMara (Not a club) I ask that EVERYONE who has
that old blog, and sees this, REPLACE it with this one. This blog is the updated, more organized, and broader blog of the two.

Please rid of all first editions. ~Thanks

Now, to stat, What is Mystic Mara? It is a group, not a club, of marapets players about 6 months and up, who remember
how mara used to be. We remember the good mara. Before all of this. Before the glitches, and newbie attacks, and even
before this layout. We remember what mara used to be like, and we want it back! We love mara, but hate the way things are
going! Anyone can be apart of MysticMara, ONLY if you to are against ALL of this, and work to make things better (covered later).

WAIT! (FYI) The REAL definition of a NEWBIE: A newbie no longer means a new player. A newbie is now a horrible person, just
to be honest. A Newbie is someone who has a new sence to pet sites, or any online place. They are ANYONE [regardless of
acount age, pets, or real age] that cannot show respect and descency. It is someone who does not follow rules, does not read
first posts, gives stupid offers, being a know-it-all, is careless, cant punctuate AT ALL, cant read, ignores people, reports every
topic, is a crybaby, ect. If you a little kid....then too bad so sad. Now I know everyone makes mistakes. But the careless, report
happy, give me, royal, spoiled pain in the -you know what- people are Newbies. I HATE THEM. My 7 year old brother is smarter, a better speller, and HE uses punctuation and slight manners!

What has caused this newbie trouble? Overlooking, Overhelping, and Ignorance. First Rule, freebies. DO NOT give new
members free stuff. EXPECIALLY the rare, expencive, or more important things. NEVER give away things like that. Do not give them mp, items, pets, anything. DO NOT feed into begging. This was mistake number one. Make them earn it for themselves.

As they say, feed a stray it comes for more. Also: Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for life.
Second Rule, Giveaways. DO NOT EVER EVER EVER give away really good pets. It you must, have some requirements. You do not want newer members to think that we get our pets by begging, cheating, or doing nothing. Since they dont have to earn them, they are more careless. They start thinking they are all high and mighty. Now, I know your trying to help, but to be honest it wont work. Im not saying stop. I do believe some people still own brains, and use them. Im just saying THINK. Be a little more cautious. I do give-a-way pets occasionally, even LE's, and have applied to some. But Think about who your giving it to. Most of the time the pet winds up with someone who gives it away, pounds it, changes the great cossied le to a blue gonk (etc), and/or gets banned. Slow up on the give-a-ways. WORK. Teach people to fish, dont just get them begging.
Third Rule, Treatment. When a new member or Newbie does something wrong. DO NOT under any circumstance for any reason EVER be mean, rude, or unhelpful. Tell them (super politely) what they are doing wrong AND how to fix it. Dont just come out, "You cant spell! Try to learn to type a little better, so we can understan you. And fix your text!". Studies prove people better respond to positivity (soften the blow! VERY IMPORTANT). Instead, "Yeah, I agree! Nice avie by the way. But, hey, It is a little hard to understand you. Your text is a little too small to read what you are typing. Could you please clear it up? People wont get as mad if you do. You wont get ignored as easily either! Thanks. See you around.". See? Help them. If you do nothing, they wont learn. Then they throw fits. Then you get mad at newbies (you helped create them) and quit.

Here is something that is a super pet peeve of mine. People need to grow up and put a little brain power (I know it may hurt) into names. Players, your usernames are what you are going to be recognised by. Giberish is NOT COOL. Actually, It shows lack of knowlege. And NEVER put your real names in them. Think, do you REALLY want to be known as something like: Joesbutter5543251dog? And dont simply add numbers to a name someone else thought of. That just means your lazy (unless like me you did not try to). My name SilverMoon32 stand for my favorite color (Silver), my favorite time which is night and what I love to look at (Moon) and the age my father was when he died which added together is my favorite number 5 (32). See? I at least had a reason. Think.

EVEN MORE IMPORTANT FOR PETS. When is a 100 statted Angel Chibs worth a green fasoro just created and has nothing? When the fassie has a good name, while the chibs has a name like: PrinceSuesie or jgsajfgasj5236. (Newbs, that was an over exageration). But, you get the point right? No bad names. A bad name is: 1. Anything stupid, or with more than one word (in most cases). 2. Anything with numbers, underscores or other marks. 3. That uses letters as decoration. Examples (In order): SparklePrincesspower is BAD. JonnyJonhead523 is BAD, Crystalize097098 is BAD. XxXMysteryxXx is BAD, WwLaughHeadOffwW is BAD. Good Names have one, rarely two words. (preferable capitalized, FIRST LETTER ONLY. If two words, BOTH MUST BE CAPITOLIZED AND WITHOUT SEPERATION). FinalHour is a good name. Infinity is a good name. Heck, even Three is a good name at this point. For no reson should you EVER make a bad named pet. And NEVER EVER make a bad named pet have a great costume or be LE. THINK! And I repeat: Giberish (random lettering and symbols) is horrible and NOT cool.

Pet prices and value. There is a differance. Prices and Value have gone way up to a point that it's rediculous. Pets are no longer important to many people. Just the profite you can get with them. Pets that have costumes are under valued. Stats are raised too high, and under valued. The value and worth of pets has changed in the worst way possible. Be reasonable. What used to be an Overoffer is now No longer acceptable! And what is a pet worth? It changes for each person. THERE IS NO ACTUAL LIST OF PRICES. Dont you people realize that one, every list is completely different though some are nearly right on, and two, most depends on what people want? And there is no way (that I know of) to calculate exactly what statts are worth.

Also, just because you can get a costume from the portal, or did, does not make a differance. If that cossie is not on ss, in trades, or very comon, then its worth more and vice versa.
For another note, pet prices, costume prices, potions, popular pets, and statting values are changing constantly. The more of that species there are, and the more of the costume, the more popular. That also may mean the less in value. Time changes everything. Some things are an instant hit. Some are when only 1 of 50 maradans own it. Some are always popular (Chibs) and some never will be to most (poera, daisy, newth). You can't figure it out. You cant plan. You cant order them by worth. You cant put permanent, stable, or acurate prices on them. Also, names raise or lower. WHICH books it has read, weapons it has, (etc) affects the value. How many of WHICH stats does it have, and WHAT it has learnd, as well as WHAT ABOUT the job is has or doesnt have affects it. Gestimates are as close as we will ever get, so stop freakin playing high and mighty (points to most older players).

The forums are for chatting, and help. For having fun. The Pets Forum is not just for stupid offers and overpriced pets with bad names. It is a place to talk about the latest pet news, and what has been going on with your pets. Price Check is not (ever) for scamming people. It is for advice on items, gallerys, and even shops. It is for 'Should I use the costume or Sell it?', not just: Tell me what this costs!'. Which, by the way, LOOK AT SS AND TRADES first. IF AND ONLY IF there is nothing in either of those, or if there are LESS THAN 5 trades wich have all different stuff or say nothing, then ask. Dont be lazy. Use the forums correctly! Don't post a topic more than once. (And when you make a trade, think about what it costs and put how much it is worth TO YOU. Most people avoid dealing with trades of no actual wishlist. I DO! And if you must ignore me, then dont you dare complain about them underoffering or call them a newbie. If there is no price tag, then the customer can pay ANYTHING he/she wants to, and it is correct. Its not my fault if you dont care. Its not that hard to at the LEAST say: What it's worth in mp.) And spam is NOT for 50 stupid beauty pagents or what ever your calling them. 1. People dress in what they want, not what you think is best. 2. You are promoting that "hollywood looks" and such are important to other people. Some people dont know better, and you're teaching them wrong.
(On that same note, it is not our fault if your parent lets you at age 7 play on here. They have decided to subject you to anythig there may be, as well as you stealing their credit card and buying stuff. No one cares that your just a kid. No one in thier right mind should pitty you. And I am not sorry for my opinion (dont mail me: "you meany you made me cry!" Ill fall over laughing and block you.)) Chat speak is not cool. If you can't spell, you shouldn't be on Mara. You should be in school. You can read or you couln't do anything. So take one minute to read up on things. At least read the rules of mara! Speak ENGLISH on Forums. Don't be lazy! Use words. Chat Speak should only be used to express emotion. Not to avoid an ounce of Physical "Labor". I do not care if your offended. It is just the trueth you lazies, and trueth hurts. But people, dont freak out over stuff either. I am not exactly the best speller.... I guarantee there are plenty of mistakes in here, and I dont care. (and its not nessesary to use the ' as in many cases it adds those annoying slashes) Im not a very good speller. And keep in ming that where you come from affects this. Im from the parts of US where "yall" is a word and so is "aint". It is, believe it or not, part of who the person is, and part of thier culture. DO NOT PICK ON IT. (if you pick on mine my: >.< will eat you) Chat speak is overly used, and at the wrong timing.

The last thing I can think of, is clubs. Please think (I know, by now all this thinking my make your head swell). And be appropriate. If you see a club about.... lets say dogs, and you LOVE dogs, dont make your own. It is better to join that one. If you dont like some things, or the layout, keep in mind: you may ALWAYS contribute ideas, and the layout can be changed. IF YOU can find one better, sugest it. At least they have one!
DO NOT be so picky with you clubs. If your choosing a club, please remember: One, it is 10x Better to join a club with 2 or 3 members than with 50. Please do not ignore the little guys. if it has 2 members and 3 post, did you ever stop to think, "Hmmm..... maybe the owner of the NEW CLUB that says 'In Construction' is busy and there is no one to talk to....... I do like the idea, and they seem nice...... I want to join to see if I can help them be active! At least till they are on thier feet!"
Also, please realize owning, creating, and operating a club is hard work. Some people actually want clubs. DO NOT post your 100k give-a-way per week, or your LE give-a-ways, etc. That is a cheap blow in the stomache to half the other clubs. And it is wrong. People will only stay for that. All your doing is ignoring the top of this blog! But as I said, IF IT IS ONLY OCCASIONALLY (no more than once every 2 months), then that is ok.
If you do not plan to BE ACTIVE in BOTH CHAT AND CONTESTS, dont join any clubs. I repeat, DONT JOIN. Your taking up space, making the lower posts per member count horrible, and making it difficult for the owner. This is why most clubs dont make it. One last thing: If you are not going on mara for 9 months, quitting for now, permanetly quitting, or never come on the club, TAKE YOURSELF OUT OF IT. I cant tell you how annoying and lazy of you that is. CLIcK THE LEAVE CLUB BUTTON. Seriously!]

A quick note: If you use graphics off the enternet, you may not copyright it. You can not complain when people use that same pic, as long as it isn't what you made exactly. You cant complain for people taking a graphic of yours if it did not have your name on it. If you buy a graphic or layout, you must use it and are under the conditions of the seller, otherwise do not buy. If you made something from scratch (like drew it) then copyright it! Do not steal graphics or codes. DO NOT do it! Dont steal other people's work. Also, if someone uses the same idea as you, or same "form" as you, but did the graphic/coding by themselves, its ok for them to. You can not copyright ideas.

And no one actually takes the time and "grain of sand" of brain power in order to read the rules, or Profiles. Or blogs or siggies. They aren't there just to take space! Learn to respect people! Pay attention! Be Good! This way we can have fun! I have been on many pet sites. You know how they die? Like this. Mara is dieing fast. But we love it, dont we? Save it while it is not too late! Doesn't anyone remember how it used to be? Where is the Mara we know? What is this site becoming? It may be fun now, but after another year or so.....there might be no Mara at this rate. This site used to be for fun. Why have you turned it into a job. An extention to the busybody, wild, careless, and evil world. Please! Put this in your blog saying you are a part of Mystic Mara. Put This same title at the top. But devote yourself to making Mara better for all!

Repost this blog (WITHOUT CHANGING ANYTHING) with the same title. Keep my name on it, so everyone can help me improve, add, or delete parts off this. Stop doing the things I showed as bad, and do what I showed as good. Now, I dont think Im any better. I have just seen all this too much. It used to be common sence, those unwritten rules. Now they are written, and common sence will forever be a case on "Unsolved Mysteries". Spread this to everyone you can. Help everyone you can. And STOPP QUITTING MARA! If you do, get rid of your good stuff, put a bunch of bad named pets into your account, and ask staff to delete it. You may not come back like you plan. Plus, you can only have one account, but If that one is deleted you may make a new one. (For some of you with bad username and pets, this is probably a good idea to do before you get too far in goals and other stuff. You could always make account, keep some good things, get a bunch of the bad pets in your account, and get staff to delete. AND DONT REPORT THOSE! That is helping, NOT hurting)

If you have anything you want to say, have questions/comments, have major corections (not spelling mistakes), anything I should add/delete/change, then please mail me. But read my rules first and be sure to do anything, even complain, in a respectful way. I do not care if you are offended, staff, or Ian. You will follow mara rules, and do not be rude. If something IS offensive, please tell me why. I do not mean to be, and will try to explain how it is not offensive, or I will reword it, or whatever needs to be done (but dont pick at things). Now that this has taken you 3 full days to read, I will tell you my username: SilverMoon32. Dont say this blog is yours, at least for the sake of people that can help me!

For a random piece of off-topic advice: "Make new friends, Keep the old. One is Silver, The others Gold." -Anonymous, I heard it from my mommom (what I call my grandma).

Dream Pets(trite I know)
17 years, 1 month & 1 day ago
27th Oct 2007 17:47

So far my dream pets are:
A Mordo of any color
A lati,preferably love or witch.
A ice Yuni
Yue the princess has somthing better in store.
Thank you for finishing my mission on time. Here is your reward..


Insideout Yuni Potion and 750,000MP!!
One more down.

Please come back tomorrow for your next mission!

Dear wycca You have been sent a Witch Costume from midnightsunrise!
Dear wycca You have been sent a Love Lati Potion from midnightsunrise!- I respond very poorly to spontanious acts of kindness, so that blew me out of the water.

Thank you all donaters.
I have received donations from:
Junior57:30k
Inshadowz:130k
And thnak you to Mrpeaboddis for the 19k rp.

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