Hmm...
How about anhedonia?

Umm...I made a thing...
(Was thinking about how much people enjoyed it when I told the tale of U'tuln'ta, the Spear-finger)

I'll see about explaining it better later on.

I've purposefully prevented myself from making more Esch characters, but....uh...

....my imagination tends to run off, and I've already mapped out a decent chunk of Dante's life.

Along with his son's.

Which would be interesting if we ever did a real timeskip and shit happened. Ohhhh boy.

Why would anyone want to bring a child into this setting? D:

Better do it far from Thyati'ra. Just saying. :P

So uh. "Timeskip" as in, like...fifteen years from now. Zeke would be /seventeen/ by then, so he's not really a child.

Unless you want to go by the definition of "child" being just plain underage. But then again, in this setting, you can't really be underage for long, can you.

I meant why he would ever have a kid in the first place when the best hope for his child is literally "sheeple slave to Zaccheus in the safety of Thyati'ra". :P

Unplanned I take it?

Unplanned and didn't happen in Thyatria anyhow.

Pro tip: Do NOT allow Lev near children.

Unless you really don't like said children.

Are we not all children of the wayward flock in the end? :P

My previous statement still stands in this context.

Umm...
*Was just thinking of a chemical/magical male assassin whose concoctions go awry due to the chaotic mix of magic and science...

As to explain my thing - I am trying to simulate something like the Dead Poet's Society or the Midnight Society (Are You Afraid of the Dark)

I don't know if you meant for this or not, but that wouldn't really work here since "magic" straight-up overwrites reality and doesn't care about "science" however that would even be defined. To the "magic" in Esch, throwing a rock at someone's head is as much "science" as firing an ICBM to the other side of the world.

On the contrary, the two often complement each other, the most basic being sheathing a weapon in psychic or theurgic shielding preventing an opponent from just magicking it into nonexistence with a wave of their hand and forcing them to actually deal with it as a threat.

...was sort of meaning mixing something like "magic residue" with...lithium...
Or some way for him to accidentally turn an enemy demon into a chicken.

Yeah... even lowercase-d demons (fallen angels) are creatures of spiritual essentia, each possessing powerful theurgy. No one is transmuting them without smashing through their defenses and humiliating them like God did to Satan.

I had a DnD character that accidentally bound herself to an entity (whatever the entities binders use are called. Can't remember). Was rather fun since she was trying to reconcile herself with the disgruntled voice inside her head. I don't think she would have lived long in this setting, though. Even my original Eschaton character would probably be dead by now, possibly killed by some religious fanatic for being an angelic corruption, or eaten by original Na'lsa, possibly for the same reason.

Yes, your thing did remind me of Are You Afraid of the Dark. Couple immediate thoughts on that. One, no way in heck would I be going anywhere near an old foam chair, from a dump, that's been sitting in a damp wood. No chance. And two, 100 years really isn't all that old for a dead tree.

Okay, I'm back and with time to actively participate again. :D

Anyone wanna catch me up on what I've missed? Over Skype would be best, but here is fine as well.

I can catch you up, Ari. Tomorrow or sometime after.

In truth, I may just come up with characters...
Like a doll possessed by a demon, giving it animate form.

Do not ask me what just happened. I have no answers.

But I am excited.

And terrified.

So...do we loot the body?

Too soon!

Wow...
Kadia would be shocked...but will likely be the first to loot the body...

This was not planned!

I don't know what we're going to do!

We're all going to die!

*Insert mad demi-god character here to save everyone*

Maybe Zaccheus will show up and explain how it was all a test. :|

Exceptno.

Uh. I. Ummmm.

...That is an interesting...plot twist at 5 am/2am. I don't fully understand Dio's motives behind it.

Well, there's my feeble post. Having a hard time writing anything these days and it's exceedingly frustrating.

*pats shoulder* I like it - you can read Tarja's character well.

Agreed, it was fine.

And Galla gave a perfect explanation of why that happened. It essentially illustrates the difference between the two of them and the interpretation of their dogma. Thomas was a control freak clinging to meaning in his life by slavish enforcement of defunct or irrelevant laws; Diogenes' only concern is the destruction of Hellspawn and the continued safety of humanity.

All the antics up to this point were distractions to the mission and signs that Thomas was unfit to lead, this was merely the culmination of that. He was weakened to the point where Diogenes could kill him; Diogenes gave him the opportunity to prove himself, and he failed. Thus, what happened.

Now we need Salone to come up with a genius plan to preserve the status quo here and let us finish the mission together. Perhaps indicating that without the priest, we'll be nearly helpless against what lurks ahead? Maybe Na'lsa even knows who's down here...

Will post as soon as I get home. Trying to finish up a deal on a truck and then I'm out of the office.

There's a man dead, and you're concerned about truck deals!?

Looking forward to it. :P

Sounds good. Shall I poke you on Skype when it's "sometime later"?

Generally if it's any time before 4 in the morning, go ahead.

Before four in the morning? That's when I /usually/ sleep. o3o
(So basically as long as your Skype status is green?)

Also, in your signature at the end of the second stanza in your makeshift Christmas song is it supposed to say "...killing to town!" instead of "...killing the town!"? o3o (Sorry, I just can't help but notice tiny details that stick out. >_<)