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Welcome! / *shouts into the void*
March 15, 2018, 07:06:36 pm
Wow. It has been quite some time since I last visited here. CP hasn't aged a day.

While working on some homework today, my brain passively searched for anything that I could use to procrastinate. Like the prodigal son finally returning home, the memories of this place and the people within surfaced to the front. So, here I am. I could say that I will stick around and lurk, but I won't. I could say that I'll start actively posting, but I won't do that either. The purpose of this post is not to welcome myself back into Blizzard's warm, heavily muscled arms. I have no social media outside of twitter, and I like to keep it that way. Unfortunately, that has meant that I've fallen out of contact with many of you that I used to speak with daily. I like to imagine that this isn't me just yearning for the "good ol' days" and that some of you would actually like to resume contact.

What I propose is this: simply message me with your e-mail, or leave yours as a reply. We can then discuss the best way to reach each other from there (likely Discord or e-mail). I'll periodically come back and check for the next few days and see if anyone has responded. To those of you who don't know me, I welcome you to this site and I hope you find your stay entertaining and educational. There are some truly fantastic people working around here. Thanks for taking the time to read this, whoever you may be. I wish you all nothing but the brightest of futures and the most interesting of lives.

Edit: I have realized that there is, of course, a CP Discord server. I joined and look forward to reconnecting with many of you. That being said, feel free to drop a reply if you still wish.
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OOC: The drawing is fine and so is your post. Don't be so self-deprecating :P
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Set at the base of Kore's Claw, a ring of three large, jagged, snowcapped mountains in the Grandeon mountain range, the Gorefist tribe of Orcs lived as peacefully as Orcs can for generations. The village, Nor'Org'Tok, has grown steadily over the years from growing families, slaves taken from other tribes, as well as tribes who had long ago abandoned their ancestral homes to join with the powerful Gorefist tribe. At the center of the village, lies the chief's longhouse where the village elders discuss the recent disaster.
Karogg sat rubbing his temples. For the past few hours, he had been subjected to what he thought was akin to torture. However, as one of the elders, he was obligated to be present at this meeting. Six days earlier, a massive earthquake ripped through the plains and tore a rift in the sacred Grandeon Mountains. Since then, the village had been in uproar. Many had seen this as a sign that the Gods were angry with the Gorefist tribe and more than a few took it as a sign of the apocalypse.

"Kore is displeased with us! We must go to war now, it is the only way to regain his favor!"

"And just who do you expect us to fight, Murg? The nearest tribe is more than two weeks march away. It's almost harvest season!"

"Shut up, Magg, you've always preferred to play gardener than fight, just like the Verdant Hands!"

"Don't you compare me to those elf lovers, unless you're prepared to back up your words, Kurok!"

"SILENCE!"

At Chieftain Marogg's request, every orc in the longhouse immediately stopped talking and sat down. Karogg was grateful. This was the first moment of silence in more than an hour. He did not care for these political games that just devolved into name calling and threats. He had always been more of an orc of action. He suddenly realize his brother had been talking and snapped out of his reverie.

"...furthermore, we cannot simply leave the village when harvest season is so close. Karogg, you've been very quiet. What are your thoughts?"

Karogg swelled with pride internally. His brother often asked his advice, after all, he was only a few seasons older, but it was rare that he did it in front of the other villagers. Karogg stood and looked at all of the elders gathered. The list included Chieftain Marogg, Murg the village priest, Magg the head of the fields, Kurok the Slayer, who had killed a dire bear with nothing but his claw, and many others. He scowled to show his fangs before speaking, a gesture of his dominance to the other orcs.

"I think it is rather simple. We don't know what caused this rift or what is on the other side of it. I think we should send a group in to scout it out before making any other rash decisions."

Karogg retook his seat and took the thoughtful murmurs of the other elders as a sign that his plan was a good one. Marogg stood and just as Karogg had done, displayed his fangs before speaking.

"Your plan is good, brother. We will send a small team of our best warriors into the rift. Karogg, you will lead this group and you will decide who goes with you."
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Video Games / Re: South Park: The Stick of Truth
March 10, 2014, 03:48:55 pm
Quote from: R.A.V.S.O on March 10, 2014, 03:13:14 pm
I'd love to play it, but it'll have to wait, hopefully I'll have a chance to get it when steam gets a discount

You know...until you get the money to pay for it, there are other ways to play it. That's what I generally do.
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Video Games / Re: South Park: The Stick of Truth
March 10, 2014, 10:57:38 am
Yeah, I got it friday night and I've already beaten it twice. However, I have not gotten all of the collectibles on either playthrough. Just be careful because there are, in fact, missable collectibles.
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Video Games / South Park: The Stick of Truth
March 10, 2014, 01:44:51 am
TLDR: If you're a fan of South Park, this game is a must play. If not, you may find this game too offensive or vulgar to enjoy.

I honestly don't know where to begin with this game. I'm a HUGE fan of South Park, and I have been eagerly awaiting this game since it was announced a few years ago. After completing it, I can honestly say that I am satisfied. I'll preempt this by saying that my ONE complaint with the game, was it's length. My first playthrough, on normal difficulty, has a total play time of 10 hours 22 seconds. This is quite short for an rpg. Now, the game wasn't all that difficult, and by endgame I was comboing skills and abilities to clear the entire field in two turns or less, provided there were at least 3 enemies. Bosses gave me a little trouble. The combat itself was very reminiscent of Paper Mario. The story was incredible! The cutscenes literally feel like you're watching the show. It had me laughing out loud or shaking my head in amazement many times. The things they got away with in this game include but are not limited to(SPOILER ALERT) :
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 Nazi zombie fetuses, crawling inside of a gay man's rectum to deactivate a nuke, anal probing by aliens, and fighting underwear stealing gnomes on your parent's bed while they have wild sex, but hey, that's South Park.
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Welcome! / Re: No internet
March 10, 2014, 01:31:53 am
Holy...finally back y'all. Between school and lack of good internet, I've been forced to stay away. Now I'm on spring break so I'll try to be more active. Rose, I apologize for being so long in making a post to the RP and I promise it is at the top of my "to-do" list. Glad to be back  8)
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Chat / Re: Post a picture of yourself
February 10, 2014, 05:41:06 pm
Quote from: WhiteRose on February 03, 2014, 05:00:36 pm
My new baby cousin is super cute. :D

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The baby may be cute, but you're quite pretty yourself!   :D

Quote from: Ryex on February 03, 2014, 06:09:34 pm
super cute little cousin: ShowHide



She's adorable!

Quote from: Kett Shee on February 10, 2014, 02:09:42 am
Shameless annoying selfie time!

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Oi! Ye need to feckin shave!
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Chat / Re: What scenes in media make you cry like a baby?
February 08, 2014, 10:29:41 am
Quote from: WhiteRose on February 06, 2014, 02:24:12 pm
I thought of another one. The last scene in WALL-E when he gets squished and then EVE rebuilds him but it looks like he lost all of his memories and smashes his treasures. That was so sad. :'(


Wait whaaaat? I don't remember that D:

Also, to stay on topic:

The end of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII when
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Zack fends off the entire Shinra military force, then gives Cloud the buster sword right before he dies. Even though I knew it was going to happen, seeing Zack, who I had come to see as the epitome of a hero, lying in a pool of his own blood..."You'll be my...living legacy..."  :'(
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Quote from: WhiteRose on February 05, 2014, 09:00:40 pm
Quote from: Taboo on February 01, 2014, 09:35:14 pm
We could go with option 2 and do what we have done in the past. Group chats with someone transcribing the conversation into a post. Though this was time consuming, I thoroughly enjoyed it. As far as character goes...

Name: Karogg Gorefist
Race: Orc
Age: Whatever age for an Orc that would parallel a 40 year old human
Trope: Barbarian
Description: A rather normal looking Orc, all things considered. Much taller than the average human and much more heavily built. Karogg has greenish-brown skin covered with the scars of his many battles. He wears his grey hair in a tight knot on the back of his head. He wears a myriad of skins and trophies from various kills, though he leaves his chest bare. He wields two rather ornate (as ornate as tribal orcs can be) claws that are the signature weapon of the Gorefist tribe.
Personality: As the second eldest son of the chieftain, Karogg quickly developed a sense of competition growing up. He always strove to outdo his brother. His life has been full of battles and this has led to him holding a very skewed way of looking at the world. He values honor and will not kill someone needlessly...unless he's raging.


I finished drawing your character. I wasn't quite sure where to go with the claw besides that it's ornate, so I might have gone a tiny bit over the top with all of the stabbity bits. Feel free to reject the drawing if it's not what you envision your character to look like. Haha.

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Whoa! That looks perfect! I love the look of grim determination.  8)
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Welcome! / No internet
February 02, 2014, 02:40:01 pm
I'm about to head back to my dorms and as far as I know, we still have no internet. We may get it this week, we may not. I'm going to try to check in everyday from my phone. Just letting you all know just in case you don't hear from me for a bit.
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Chat / Re: The "Post your Desktop" Thread
February 02, 2014, 10:48:41 am
Quote from: WhiteRose on February 01, 2014, 11:58:38 pm
Quote from: Taboo on February 01, 2014, 11:16:24 pm
Full pleb-tier clean desktop. No themes. No cool stuff. Just Windows 7. Unfortunately a large portion of my files were erased due to tomfoolery and I haven't had the time to reinstall my themes and stuff so...

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That actually looks really nice; minimalistic and classy. I like your choice of background.


Thank you :D I usually try to keep from cluttering up my desktop with dozens of shortcuts.
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Barbarian RP? Barbarian RP.
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Well, we have four people now. The video showed a group of 4, so I would say we have at least enough to get it going. If it follows normal mmo tropes, I don't mind healing for the group.
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Chat / Re: The "Post your Desktop" Thread
February 01, 2014, 11:16:24 pm
Full pleb-tier clean desktop. No themes. No cool stuff. Just Windows 7. Unfortunately a large portion of my files were erased due to tomfoolery and I haven't had the time to reinstall my themes and stuff so...

Warning! May be quite large.: ShowHide
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Express your Creativity / Re: Small voice acting clip LOL
February 01, 2014, 11:09:40 pm
Quote from: Colonel Blinx on February 01, 2014, 10:26:04 pm
Do it.

It's fun.

And while I haven't done too much of it, I'm constantly talking to myself (no judge pls) and coming up with brand-new voices which I will one day use in various projects I have planned.

EDIT:
Here's the test; https://www.dropbox.com/s/bvhhi9ord22gbz3/zexiontest.mp3

Tug...that was awesome. You definitely have a unique voice and I can actually see you doing VA work. Good job!
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Chat / Re: Post a picture of yourself
February 01, 2014, 10:44:13 pm
Quote from: KK20 on February 01, 2014, 10:41:57 pm
Has anyone said you look like Jack Black?


Too many times.
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Chat / Re: Post a picture of yourself
February 01, 2014, 10:30:44 pm
Shameless selfie

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Express your Creativity / Re: Small voice acting clip LOL
February 01, 2014, 10:16:02 pm
@Zexion: Let me find something to read and I'll do it tomorrow, don't want to wake up my parents.
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We could go with option 2 and do what we have done in the past. Group chats with someone transcribing the conversation into a post. Though this was time consuming, I thoroughly enjoyed it. As far as character goes...

Name: Karogg Gorefist
Race: Orc
Age: Whatever age for an Orc that would parallel a 40 year old human
Trope: Barbarian
Description: A rather normal looking Orc, all things considered. Much taller than the average human and much more heavily built. Karogg has greenish-brown skin covered with the scars of his many battles. He wears his grey hair in a tight knot on the back of his head. He wears a myriad of skins and trophies from various kills, though he leaves his chest bare. He wields two rather ornate (as ornate as tribal orcs can be) claws that are the signature weapon of the Gorefist tribe.
Personality: As the second eldest son of the chieftain, Karogg quickly developed a sense of competition growing up. He always strove to outdo his brother. His life has been full of battles and this has led to him holding a very skewed way of looking at the world. He values honor and will not kill someone needlessly...unless he's raging.
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Video Games / The Official Phantasy Star Online Thread!
February 01, 2014, 09:11:49 pm



Stealing Rose's idea, I have created a thread to discuss the possibility of a group of CP regulars playing Phantasy Star Online 2 together. How many of you would be willing to join and what time are you all available?



Chaos Project members on PSO2:










Chaos-Project IDPSO2 IDCharater NamePrimary Class
RyexryexanderRyexBraver
R.A.V.S.OR.A.V.S.OSesilouBraver
WhiteRoseWhiteRose16AkariForce
KK20CrisiliaIsabelRanger
DigitalSoulDigitalSoul88HirohaiForce
soulshaker3soulshaker3soulshaker3Braver
PhoenixFirePhoenixFire88YuiForce
Spoofus?SpoofusHunter



How to Get the Game:

PSO2 Tweaker Tool

There are 2 options:

The first is to download the English installer via torrent, this may or may not have decent speed for you
http://arks-layer.com/setup.php

The second option is to use the tweaker tool to down load and install the game for you, be warned the window is known to break during the process and it it a 15GB Download so if you want to be sure it's still working you will need to use a resource monitor to see the exe working and watch it's download speed but you will have no indication of progress. when it done it will open a new window to inform you it's finished.

after installing the game you will need to use the tweaker to install the English patches, there are 3.
The first 2 (the English language patch and the English large files patch can be downloaded an installed via the tweaker. there is an option in the tweaker's orb menu to install patches)
the 3ed is the story patch and must be downloaded manually. the option in the tweaker's menu will give you a link. The patch is a ~2GB file that you download from mega and then install by selecting the file when prompted by the tweaker during patch install.

before installing any patches use the "Check for PSO2 updates" option form the tweaker's orb menu to bring the game up to date. it is of note that the patches will need to be reinstalled after every game update



Signing Up:

this is actually a bit of a pain as it requires traversing a Japanese site and passing a Japanese captcha.
good thing there is a nice guide written up for this purpose
http://arks-layer.com/signup.php
if you have any trouble with the captcha this thread on the PSO2 Forums can help (it helped me, identifying those characters is hard :P)
http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203925




Learning The Game:

Here is a page with lost of helpful guides
http://bumped.org/psublog/pso2-guide-list/

for the most part the game is very strait forward, learn how to attack, guard, and dodge form the tutorial and then get good at it.

One thing that may be confusing are the difference between Quests and "quests".
what the game calls quest most other games would call missions, instance like maps for you party to traverse and complete a goal

The game also has "Client Orders" that NPCs give out which are more like the traditional "quests" of an MMO/RPG. These client order can give out massive EXP and completing the orders from the Quest counter Admin can quickly get you from lv 2 to lv 12 and beyond (as in 5 hours tops). Be on the look out from Orders form NPC and they are by far the most effective way to LV.

The game also has a mechanic called ARCS Road. It's kinda like a story line that you complete by completing Missions and quests and talking to certain people, It too can grant exp as I gather. Pay attention and it should make sense.

Also of the stuff NPC's say has been left untranslated. rest assured it not all that important and your not missing any important info on how to play, not really anyway.

If you have any specific questions that arn't covered here or in any of the guides linked to feel free to ask.