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Post by Modesty on Jul 23, 2007 5:40:25 GMT -5
azzy and Az, thanks for the input. Both very valid points.
I suppose I could ask Az to at least give us an idea on what the next pages will detail. That may help in our process of deciding an agent.
Because as of now, we know the locations of most of the cast, except for our current faculty. Silf, Terran and Afanen who are "out and about" and could be virtually anywhere.
Angelo and Jaes are either settling Jaes into Angelo's pad or still in the medical lab. (Which could be Lab 5 for all we know). Kai and Tyde are either with Angelo in the lab as well or going back to their own dorms.
Sylphi, Miria, Joy and Lucius are wandering around campus at night trying to find Marron.
Marron and random Fae are at Lab 5. Now to avoid plot inconsistancies, one person can not be in two places at once. Under the assumption of course everyone is on the same timeline. (no time travel!)
i.e. Let's say it's about 11:30 pm when the girls set out. 11:30 p.m. Marron is at Lab 5 11:30 P.m. Silf and Terran are leaving the Golem scene and returning to campus. 11:30 p.m. Tyde and the gang are finishing up at the lab.
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Post by Modesty on Jul 24, 2007 9:29:31 GMT -5
Still continuing with this agent discussion since it seems there is a consensus to use one. (I will add it to the spoiler thread.) So far, suggestions on who to use as an agent, we have the following: Tyde Jaes Afanen Terran New character There was also mention that the agent have a sort of split personality, i.e. possessed by Tai/one of Tai's minions. It was established that demons have this sort of influence. We could pass the possession around between the cast, but that might be confusing. But I think it'll work (Angelo would diagnos it as a Jeckyl/Hyde Syndrome or something. XD It would need THE BIG needle for treatment. XD) It would give anyone a chance to be...slightly evil. ^^ I am going now to elaborate on Marron's ability (for this story). She has unique healing powers and exorcism powers. Attempts to "posess" her will not work to the demon's benefit. It would in fact destroy evil spirits within the demon and diminish their power. (Demon being race not evil spirits.) This would be beneficial to Tai if he could convince DD to posess Marron. DD would lose his evil edge and become less of a threat. Just my suggestion to answer the question "Why pick Marron". So as suggestion for the first agent, it would make sense if they knew something about Marron and could reveal some of my above explanation. Miria was her partner and also part demon. Afanen is one of her teachers. Lucius is married to her. Angelo has slept with her She's pregnant with Tyde's baby. She gets drugs from Slyphi... (Sorry...I'm feeling a bit silly. XD)
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Post by Azaeziel on Jul 24, 2007 11:35:00 GMT -5
Wow, she's married to Lucius but pregnant with Tyde's baby? She gets her drugs from Slyphi and has slept with Slyphi's BF Angelo (which I'm sure would inturupt her drug supply if Slyphi found out...) and has a part demon partner? Wow, talk about "All our Children" level story-ing. All she needs to do now is go into a coma, dream about the ghost of her dead mother (Who it is revealed later isn't really dead either) and then wake up with amnesia and fall in love with her worst enemy... heheh... (I don't get what Afanen has to do with this as her teacher, unless he knows who the 'real' father of her child is and is using that information to blackmail her into giving him access to her fathers Top Secret military-government research and information which he is then selling to Angelo who uses the information to create a super drug which Slyphi then gives to Marron which is what causes her to go into the coma in the first place... Ummm... i just got lost in my own recounting and storyline. Sorry, ignore everything here posted...
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Post by azalea on Jul 24, 2007 14:31:53 GMT -5
XD Tyde's baby? *collapses on the floor into a puddle of laughter*
Silf would have a hay day tormenting them both!
Tyde's a combatant and likes to know the qualities of his enemies. He knows a lot about anatomy and inherent powers when it comes to different races. But it sounds like Marron's powers are unique to her so he probably wouldn't know of them.
If Marron's gone to counseling sessions with Ms.Silf, then there might be records or Ms.Silf might know of something. *shrug* Wouldn't it be interesting if Ms.Silf was talking to an old Elite military chum and it happened to be Tai or someone who now works for him...It would take a lot for Ms.Silf to slip up and break confidentiality though. And her mind is scary enough to probably work the same as an anti-possession/mind control field
<_< Did I just eliminate or volunteer both my characters as candidate? I really have no clue.
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Post by Azaeziel on Jul 24, 2007 14:44:53 GMT -5
It sounds like Mrs. Silf would be a difficult one to possess, but Tyde, being a physical combatant sounding kinda guy might be suseptable. Even if Tyde knew about a certain kind of creature's powers, would he still be able to recognize that they were being used on him? The kids still are in school, so they probably don't have a vast amount of 'street experience' if you know what I mean. Also, an idea, if Mrs. Silf's 'scary enough mind' was explored a little, to show just how hard it would be to possess her or something similar, readers would expect her to be the one possessed. (You know what I mean, show the obvious, 'oh, it can't be her' thing.) Then, when it turns out to not be able to possess her or whatever, readers would be surprised that she wasn't possessed, cause they would all be thinking in thier minds, "Oh, it's gonna be her." (Did any of that make sense to you?) Anyway, just a few thoughts from my fevered mind.
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Post by azalea on Jul 24, 2007 19:52:52 GMT -5
Tyde's a ranking Semi-professional combat magic user, mostly water-based combat but he does do mixed magics combat so he does have some experience with different elements/abilities plus until he came to School he traveled the world with Nari , and was home -schooled. So he is rather worldly if that accounts for anything.
XD It'd be interesting to see Tyde 'snap' He's just too tolerant to really get angry enough (or at all)
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Post by Modesty on Jul 25, 2007 6:31:22 GMT -5
I'm really getting into this agent thing now. ^_^ And I love Az's complication of my goofy story. XD Did I also mention that she has twins and Daixx is the other father? XD XD XD It would actually probably be a surprising and unexpected plot twist to have Ms. Silf get possessed. So far, Silf has been built up as a character that is seemingly trustworthy to the audience. She saves the group. Angelo explains she's a councellor. She investigates the murder. And she has said she is suspicious of school activity. Suddenly switching her to agent would be unexpected and need some support to validate it. Perhaps later on in the game. Tyde on the other hand, in the comic has been portrayed as someone rather silly, but has shown moments of intelligence about anatomy and pulled some saving moves. Still, trivia alone does not make him strong minded per se. Tyde could be used as agent later on if you want. Because if he is within earshot while the plan is sort of "revealed" he has partial knowledge of said ability. That can be used against him. So as my top suggestions for the first agent: Afanen - she knows Marron as her teacher, she's currently in the lab, her character thus far is unknown to the audience except as someone who also knows Jaes. (Plus she's fun to draw.) Miria - she "fought" with Marron during the games so she could have some idea of some of Marron's ability but not all of them, she is heading towards the lab, her character has not shown any particular mental strength as so far she has only done what she was told to do. It might be interesting during the revelation of the plot point, the possessing spirit leaves the first agent host and enters one of our characters who was "spying" to prevent the news from leaking. i.e. Tyde. XD Another thought, I think there are some characters that should not be candidates for agents. We could get a lot of versus action between the cast that way but also for the sake of keeping the story easy to follow. My suggestions as unpossessable(word?) characters would be: Lucius (he just suppose to be a minor character anyway. Plus it would add complications to the story that are unneccessary ) Silf (like Lucius it might add some unnecessary story complications OR become a huge plot twist at the end. I would reserve her for later at least.) Angelo (much like Silf he's become a trustworthy character and would add complication or be a plot twist. Plus I really don't want him to be evil. ^^) Marron (she would destroy the agent!) Joy (I would be hesitant turning Joy into an agent as we need some of the smarter students around to pick up on the weirdness.) Any other thoughts? For first agent should we make an agreement of some kind?
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Post by Azaeziel on Jul 25, 2007 11:12:02 GMT -5
First agent should be Sgt. Terran. The Golem was a ruse (as Mrs. Silf already said) to give Tai's possessing spirit-thing a chance to get into the campus somehow, and during the fighting it got into Sgt. Terran without being noticed because Mrs. Silf was focused on the Golem, not her partner. Then it can move to the next target while Sgt. Terran is searching the campus looking for clues to the murder, and the Sgt. wouldn't even know that it had happened.
How's that sound?
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Post by Modesty on Jul 25, 2007 11:53:41 GMT -5
Forgot about her! XD
That is a good way to get Terran possessed.
I suppose the spirit could have divined the information from a previous host's mind. Perhaps while Silf was fighting. It went in and out then entered a weaker mind. (Terran is pretty weak-minded.)
It's a stretch but it could work. Ideally, the first host agent (the one the Fae is taking Marron to) should be: a) Someone in the vicinity of/easy access of Lab 5 b ) Someone who is somehow familiar with Marron's ability.
So now we have the possiblity of: Afanen Miria Terran or other suggestions if you can think of a way to make it make sense with the storyline.
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Post by Modesty on Jul 27, 2007 4:15:14 GMT -5
Just to remind here, who Tai is.
Tai Alpha - former owner of the IMA. Disappeared around the same time Daixx disappeared from OTI. (plot point revealed by Angelo and Joy in chapter one about the book.)
Motive: Same as Daixx currently. Find the elite students to use as personal army against the ones who banished him to the island with the schools. (Or something. I'm making sh!t up as I go here.)
Method: Unlike Daixx who is working to quickly weed out elites, Tai is trying to infiltrate Daixx's system so to speak through possessing students. (An IMA type of thing. Daixx's powers are supposedly sealed thus he uses OTI.) In the end, Tai will wait for his brother to do all the "hard work" for him and take it all in the end with one swift blow.
Tai is interested in finding students with Spirit/Mind altering abilities that will weaken Daixx's nerve to continue as head of the schools. That was Dai's brilliant move to return to the island first and steal both schools. Thus preventing his brother from setting foot on the island.
Students he might be interested in beside Marron could be people in the cast with mind powers and healing powers. Anyone with great knowledge of the schools would be interesting to him. While he can not possess smarter students, he can weed information from them by using a "dumber" student they empathsize with. (I'm thinking of an interchange wtih Joy and Jaes here.)
I realize I wrote a lot and speculated a lot. I tried to think of ways to involve everyone in the cast within the situation, asking : Why would he be interested in character X?
Joy - Knows a lot about the schools history, picks up on suspicious activity quickly, has some leadership qualities Slyphi - has minor healing powers, a spunky personality, could be easily swayed by power (since she wants to best her siblings), has connections with Joy.
Jaes - James has suggested he is of weaker mind and easily possessed. He's also mentioned possible relations with Joy. He's a character that most of the cast will either sypathsize with or suspect.
Kai - has pretty undefined mind powers. While he can't read minds, he can use his in unusual ways. He is also under the close eye of Angelo who is sort of researching Kai's abilities.
Tyde - has anti-healing abilities, but interested in medical OTI style healing. Absorbs information like a sponge. (a sponge...wow. Why do I find that hilarious?) Most of the cast seems to empathsize with him or find his personality easy to get along with. He is usally expected to be silly, so he's never very suspicious.
Miria - has demonic heritage and powerful elemental abilities. She has not shown any particular strong will. As mentioned before she has only done as she was told. She's also fairly trustworthy. She probably does not have abilities to possess people herself but she probably can detect another demon.
Silf - knows information about most of the cast as she is a guidance councellor of sorts. She was also an experiment project of OTI. She is also able to pick up on suspicious activity quickly AND has faculty powers to deal with most of them.
Marron - I've elaborated on her already.
Angelo - Dr. Encyclopedia. Has healing capabilities and knowledge about the history of both schools. He also gullibly will trust and try to help anyone he can. He does not pick up on suspicious activity as quickly as Joy or Silf, but he keeps close mental notes on stocks. He is not able to be possessed, but he is able to be duped...rather easily.
However, this is my take on the situation and characters mostly bs-ing on my part. Other suggestions, alterations or improvements are totally welcomed and in fact encouraged.
I wrote too much. XD
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Post by James StarRunner on Jul 27, 2007 7:38:48 GMT -5
Heh heh... That may be a lot of writing, but it seems accurate to me. Or at least to my characters.
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Post by bluebug on Jul 27, 2007 17:20:09 GMT -5
So if I understand correctly, Tai is using a spirit that can possess others in order to spy on the schools. Tai is also using the Fae character with the pipe whistle to take Marron to the person who is currently possessed (likely Terran). The only reason why the Fae is doing this is because the possessor spirit cannot possess Marron. Once the Fae and the spirit get a hold of Marron they will somehow try and "program" her to attack Daixx.
I would say the possessor spirit is Tai himself, but that would be a bit risky for a big bad to try. He would likely send a minion.
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Post by Modesty on Jul 30, 2007 4:42:39 GMT -5
Yes...that's the line of thought. I think. Much like Daixx has Sable and Kero, Tai would have his top advisors too. ^^ Perhaps evil Kiri could be the spirit. XD XD We're also assuming Tai doesn't know WHERE on the island his brother is. Kero and Sable are the only ones. And Marron, if anyone can undo Kero's charm spell. And Marron wouldn't likely have to be programmed. She could be threatened. Lucius can be used against her. (TAKE HIM PRISONER!! XD) (Marron: >_> You expect me to care?) (Mod: ._., Kinda.) (Lucius: Heartless betch.) Or she could be convinced that Daixx is evil and doing these bad things and that Tai is a good guy trying to stop him. No need to reveal Tai's true nature yet. ;D Clear as mud? XD
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Post by Azaeziel on Jul 30, 2007 17:33:23 GMT -5
Yup... ?huh? heheh...
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Post by shiroikami on Sept 11, 2007 10:03:45 GMT -5
Umm... I wasn't really thinking before, but would this be an okay place for the second half of the script to go? (If it's not, Mod, feel free to move it elsewhere)
Page 3: Panel 1 (inside of a laboratory, shinies with flashing buttons, etc.) Voice1 (from off panel): *whine* Why is this taking so long my lord? Voice2 (also from off panel): Patience, she will awaken soon enough.
Panel 2 (Marron is lying on a metal table, her eyes flickering open) Marron: Ohhh, my head... Lucius... where...? Voice2: (quietly) You see? (aloud) I see you have awakened, my dear.
Panel 3 Marron (holding her head): What? Who? Who's there? Figure: That is of no concern to you.
Panel 4 Marron (looking angry/annoyed in Figure's direction): Come out of the shadows so I can see you properly you jerk. Figure: We are the ones giving the orders here, not you. Marron: That line is so cliche... -.-;; Figure: Yes, we know, but it was the best the writer could come up with.
Panel 5: Figure: We have brought you here for a reason, once you have fulfilled that purpose, you may be free to go, do you understand? Marron: Purpose? Figure: Yes, we require your abilities.
Panel 6 Marron: And if I choose not to assist you? Figure: Then we will find another who will. Marron: After just letting me go... Figure: No, of course not. You would, of course, have to die.*
Panel 7 Marron: Well, that's a very compelling arguement you've got there. Figure: So you will assist us as we ask? Marron: No.
Panel 8 Figure: Very well then. *snaps fingers* You will sleep until we can deal with you appropriately. (Strains of music pipe in from somewhere, and Marron returns to her enchanted sleep) *Note on "killing" Marron. It should be done in the greatest tradition of fairie tales, in which the maiden is rescued by the handsome prince (Lucius, of course). And of super-spies in which the hero (Marron) is suspended over a boiling vat of (substance of choice) and lowered ever so slowly towards it... we wouldn't want to ACTUALLY kill a main character now, would we? ^_^
Page 4 (outside) Panel 1: (Lucius and the girls are searching for Marron; the rain has mostly stopped) Lucius et al: Marron!! Where are you? (etc.)
Panel 2: Miria: I don't think she's here either. Lucius: But we've searched almost everywhere on campus! She must be somewhere!
Panel 3: Sylphi: (puts a hand on Lucius' shoulder) Maybe she went back to the dorm while we were all out here looking for her. Joy: Yes, let's go back and see if she's there. (Lucius looks rather distressed)
Panel 4 Lucius: I-I don't know... I get this feeling that she's in danger. Sylphi: Danger? What kind of danger could she be in here? Lucius: I... well... I don't know, exactly...
Panel 5: (the intrepid four notice a building through the trees) Miria: Hey, what's that over there? Joy: It looks like a building. The sign over the door says "Lab 5" Miria: Lab 5? Is it an OTI building? Sylphi: Probably. We also probably shouldn't go anywhere near it.
Panel 6 (the rain begins to pick up again) Lucius: It looks like we don't have a choice. Let's go and shelter there until the rain stops again. Joy: I agree.
Panel 7 (the group dashes through the rain to the Lab)
Panel 8 (inside) Miria: Hey, the lights are already on! Sylphi: You're right. I wonder who else is here right now. Lucius: Maybe Marron got caught in the rain and came here too! Joy (looking past everyone else): I don't think it's Marron who came here...
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