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Okay, good to see things starting again.

Ha, sorry to keep you waiting, mate  you must have  been getting pretty bored/impatient at us after nearly 10 days of nothin to build on


On the plot discussion:

How about maybe Malcolm and Letty get together? If we're going to continue the TGL-theme from this point on (which might rule out Sigurbelle even if there might be a subplot possible revolving the wider Aperture and TriOptimum, since it would then diverge from the original TGL universe) it could be possible that te pair have a small personality development and/or stumbled on another Lander while there on the ground.

Unless Souperion have other ideas or prefer the team get to Area 5/Mutena City in one team 


On Area 5 descriptics.

I got the idea of the mountain range from these corridor visuals




flatlands, volcanoes, pillars, and craters , ok , not as much as slopes and cliffs, so imagine the area being a lot more rugged and steep than the flatlands here

So the crystal mines/areas below the mountain range  might full well be there, just not visible on the surface 

I see we have a period of inactivity lately (again)...

So, everyone going through busy times, writers' block, waiting for UserK to show up, or just waiting for me to finish Post 65?

Of it's the 4th option it will be a while since my GF is doing her exams and won't be available until next week... and certain parts require her input.

But if there's anything else any of you are needing before the next post let me know and i'll fill you guys in.

Welcome back buddy , also LOL @ Daffy Duck

As for the stody ideas:
> if the flashbacks explains farther the personality/traits of Miria and the struggles she had gone through before the whole TGL thing, or if it brings the whole story a bit more context, then why not.
Although it should be a bit more sporadic/less frequent depending on which side of the story development you want to focus on. As in, if you just want to do the TGL side of the story, then these flashbacks should be rare, but if you want to develop more about Miria the character, then the flashbacks may play important roles.

But that's just me.

wait... phonebooth?

LOL well Killian needed a way to contact Shores... so a phonebooth came up as the most obvious candidate for that 

if you have better suggestion let me know


oh yeah, might not be able to post the full Post 65 today, but i will try at least post up enough details about Killian's call to Colonel Shores (which is really only about 3 lines ), so at least you both have something to link up with in the meantime 


If needed, here's the current approximate state of the Airport:
> The runways' back in operational order, although the departures and arrivals are still backlogged
> debris clearup are mostly complete by this stage, though the wreckage of USF Compile is still there under heavy guard
> Airport still suffering extensive damage, the reconstruction is still ongoing though there are not as much passenger congestion as to the flight congestion

[Area 4]

Should we say Killian pulled off the distress cal around 17:30?

Sure, it would be around 17:30~17:40 when he made the call. Part 2 of Post 65 will start at the end of Killian's call and him walking out of the phonebooth

That would give group 1 (Seb, Malcolm, Letty) time to get transport (Via Horaculous, methinks) with Sigurbelle and head that way. If you guys want, I'll take care of the reassignment post for group 1.

To avoid super-sonic travels, the group will need about 2, 3 hours to get to Area 5, so the festival would have just ended when they arrive (and Horaculous going all "wait, i missed the festival?! D: " )

And sure

And since this could end up being a little important, how long should Rico be out of commision? a few hours? An episode? If applicable, should he come with the group and recieve medical attention from Sigurbelle (poor girl, she is really a medic right now  ) during the journey?

I'll leave that up to you He could be told to sit in the medical bay while the others head to Area 5 (which would see him out of action until well into Area 3 Mission), or true to his personality, he will insist in coming since he doesn't trust Sebariel and Malcolm going with Letty (which would then depend on who gets the Blue Lander when they get there)

Since I never quite picked it up, which area are Rey and Amet in again?

It would depend on whether we're using the "Odd Areas and 0 on Frontside and Even Areas on Backside" system of Naju Geography, in that case, Amet/Rey would be in what would be described as Area 4 .

Aaand another piece of food for thought: should Callisto find the peoples at the Festival or should we have a different, less personable problem pop up for the occasion?

I plan to have the festival proceed without any trouble, since we're going to use TGL stuff, i thought it would be a good time when i can use THIS

[FireWithinMidnight]

Alright, since we're going for the Landers Festivals route, I've noticed that we're going to need a new character for that part of the plot (for the duration of the Festival, at least)

SO as usual, the appropriately named FireWithinMidnight agreed to use one of her characters for that purpose  (her character is actually a fancharacter of Tales of Symphonia universe, but it has been readjusted and readopted to fit into the TGL universe/RP)

Name: Aaron Sibelius

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Height: 6?1?/186 cm

Personality: Nice, well-mannered, down-to-earth and a bit daft to the point he might shirk from his duties despite how loyal he is to his own occupation due to a distraction or another, he can come across as apathetic to life as he treats everyone and everything with the same enthusiasm (which can appear to be fake or excessively childish for some) ?except for who holds his undying loyalty (the Landers).
His fundamental rule is: he treats others the way they treat him. The most apparent result of this rule is his approach to conversations: he won?t interrupt people but he cannot stand being interrupted. If interrupted, he?ll wait some time before resuming his discussion as if the interruption never took place to begin with.
He has the annoying tendency to appear and disappear seemingly at will, taking people by surprise. He also develops a visible twitch whenever someone talks about fate and similar or blames his/her situation on destiny and similar.

Physical Appearance: http://i41.tinypic.com/2z5sqas.jpg [ original dA link]

This character will only be used for about 5 posts (probably sporadic reappearances whenever Landers show up), so you won't have to worry about having too many characters


oh yeah, do let me know how the current layout of Post 65 is looking like - just wanted to bring all 4 different plotlines into sync each other so they can all progress in simultaneous harmony instead of having one part that's hours ahead  of the rest.

[this is intended for UserK]

this is intended for UserK but you both might also find this useful.

Basically, since it's been a while UserK's around, so I expect him to have a lot of new  questions regarding the new posts.

I've made a new timeline image (hand-made this time) hopefully will help UserK in understanding the recent posts. So no new time-paradoxes anywhere hopefully :V

New Timeline by Post Number / New Timeline by Time

Let me know if this is legible for you lot

[Edit 6th May]

Post 65 (2 Parts) - Work In Progress
== This post attempts to bring every plotlines back in sync with each other.
== This post introduces the Lander Shrines for the first time.

Edit 6th May - added a small draft paragraph to allow Souperion/Spudacus to link up.

Part 1
(This is continuation of Akrn/Killian/Samuel's side of the story after Post 61)
Area 5 - Naju Security Force (NSF) Outpost
Time: 17:05

Other Plotlines as of this time:

Callisto -	Inside Area 7 [Post 64]
Erajiv -	On his way to Area 3
Sebariel/Malcolm -	Still en route to Naju Central [10 minutes past Post 63]
Amet/Rey -	Approx. time when Amet loses patience with Rey [Post 53]

             **The Guardians will find that the communication systems inside Area 5's outpost has been busted as result of SHODAN/Terraforming Disaster [Post 07], Killian, being the only "healthy" guardian, has been sent to the nearest City to try contact Naju Central from there**




< End part >

Part 2
(This is continuation of the above part)
Area 5 - Mutena City
Time: 17:40

Other Plotlines as of this time:

Callisto -	Inside Area 7, attempting to open Corridor 17 [Post 64]
Erajiv -	On his way to Area 3
Sebariel/Malcolm -	Just arrived back at Naju Central
Amet/Rey -	Approx. time when Amet finishes hunting for food and start making his way back to Rey's Camp [Post 56 Part 1]

             Killian spent the last couple of minutes reporting in the recent happenings to Colonel Shores. Including the Rogue Guardian Callisto and the amount of medical attention that Akrn and Samuel need at this delicate time. Killian even had to raise his tone (rare for a Guardian, especially when dealing with Military Officials of higher rank than Akrn and Tetharil) to press the urgency of the situation to Shores just to request Akrn's personal engineer - Sigurbelle Kiirla - to be sent here ASAP.

Killian, still talking on the phone -
             -- Wait, why can't she come here? .... So they're still not back yet?! .... right... right... ok, yeah I get it. We'll hang on out here for a little longer while your bureaucracy handle all the 'travel rearrangements'. Ok, Guardian Killian out. *hangs up, storms out of the phonebooth* Goddamn it. *holds head*


             **Killian, while walking around for supplies to bring back, finds a large group of religiously-clad civilians heading to a particular location - curious, Killian finds out through Aaron that the festival celebrating Landers are about to take place and he urges Killian to join in**


## End Post ##

== It's now 18:00 on this side of the plot.

== The Festival will not start for another hour

== Killian Rhodallister really hates the Administration.

[Area 7 interior]

Post 64 (Quick post)

This is continuation of Callisto's side of the story after Post 61

Area 7 interior
Time: 17:20

             It's been an hour since the chase began deep inside Area 7, and Callisto was determined to catch up to the signal source even if it took him another hour to do so. He was convinced that he has locked onto the Guardians he was just fighting earlier outside [Post 61] and that he had the second chance to finish them off right here right now.

             Couple more hundreds of metres farther into the Area Callisto realised that he is not gaining up to the signal source - though this was expected in the mazy set up that was Area 7 - maybe, he though, he will stumble upon a short-cut that will lead him up to the Guardian and blast him into the hell of Naju core, just like how it was done on him many years ago.

             Then, out of nowhere, a Bouncing Medusa bounced out into his direct path, caused the pair to crash into each other and tumbled on the floor. Enraged, Callisto grabbed it by the "tentacle" and flung it away from him, yelling, warning and waving his sabres around at other nearby monsters to not get in his way or he will slice them up like sushi.

             Another few minutes of the chase went by - Callisto then found himself in a metallic chamber that did not match the environment of Area 7 he was just  in - this one appeared to be rather spacious, cubical, and well sheltered. At the middle of the floor stood the seal that blocked the passage to the deeper, Below-Surface worlds. The wall decors had been reclaimed by nature, but a faded "r" followed by "17? could just about be seen behind layers of soil that had accumulated during the years.

             Callisto remembered earlier in the day when Erajiv, the monster that saved him from the perils of Below-Surface Worlds [Post 55] was hellbent on releasing all Corridors on Naju, Callisto thought that - if he was to "help" him by releasing this Corridor, maybe Erajiv will recognise him more than just a mere "tool" and will allow him to do whatever he wished from that point on.

             Callisto bent down and tried to open the seal by hand, but couldn't even budge it. Annoyed, he got up and shot at the seal a couple times - but his weaponry didn't even leave any visible markings on the seal. Increasing frustrated, Callisto attempted each and every other weaponry he has on the seal, even moved around the room to find any hidden switches - he just cannot get the seal to open.

             Returning to his senses, he realised that the signal he was just chasing was now nearing the outer rim of his internal radar - it threatened to drift out of its range altogether if he didn't get a move on.

             With that, Callisto gave the Corridor seal one last glance before turning around heading off, resuming the cat-and-mouse* chasing of the signal.


## End Post ##

== It's now 18:00 [+/− 15 minutes] on this side of the plot.


== * - BA DUM TSHH

== Callisto has still not realised that he has been duped by the mousey.

== This post also established that the native enemies of TGL are NOT hostile to Callisto, which is expected after Callisto spending years down there, the native monsters probably accepted Callisto as one of his own by now.

[is]

Should we have the Guardian group in area 5 call for help? If so, I was thinking that we could use Horaculous to get Sigurbelle to them

Oh, that is the idea that I wanted to imply at the end of Post 61.

and probably with an escort for safety reasons (maybe Malcolm, maybe just NSF troops.) I was figuring that there would be a break before the next deployment for medical attention, re-arming, and rest

I was thinking/hoping  that the group would be sent to Area 5 first to aid the Guardians before they're eventually sent to Area 3 (which I originally planned to occuer at Day 4, instead of Day 3), but given that Sebariel just got the order to move to area 3 before they even realised what happened at Area 5... i guess you both can decide who will head to Area 3 and 5 amongst yourselves?

Also, I think that it would be cool if we had the area 5 Guardian stumble upon some Najuan ruin/landers. I don't know how to have that contribute to the story but hey, it's a start for bringing the TGL feel home 

open discussion:

> IF living Landers are to have a speaking role in the RP, how intelligent will they be? Fully speaking and fluent, or speaks in some Najuan Gibberish that are still intelligible to the characters who have been here for a while (Sebariel and the Guardians) but ignorant to newcomers (Malcolm)

> Will the Guardians know about their existance? If there are going to be shrines, I thought that it made some sense that living Landers are extinct on the Frontside/populated areas , and the colonists made the shrines in memory of them. But there maybe still plentiful of them in the less populated areas like the entire Backside (allows Amet and Rey to bump into some of them in their journey to Sky Stabber) or the still not-so-populated Area 3 (maybe Erajiv found out about them there and went there in a bid to eliminate them).

Another idea would  be that, during the festivities at the Lander Shrines, the Landers make a special entrance (for what, i don't know yet, ideas welcome).  Which would make sense for Erajiv wanting to ruin them because maybe the Landers are aiding the Colonists the same way they aided the original TGL in taming Naju? 


Do excuse me for this dose of overcreativity >_>



What I have in mind for my next post (btw, we have a duplicate "61" and a 62 when it should be 62 and 63, respectively) are the following:

> Callisto continues to chase the signal, but is put off briefly by the route that lead to Corridor 17. He still has no idea he has been duped yet.

> Killian will probably head to the nearest city and contact either Sigurbelle or Colonel Shores to request assisstance for Akrn and Samuel (this is where the problem starts, the other group are already been told to head  to Area 3, and that is at least and hour prior. So it will depend on how Shores will decide after this, if Killian went for the Military route, whether to recall Sebariel from Area 3 to aid Akrn, or tell Killian to piss off  since they have an even more important mission at hand). This is also the part where Killian gets first glimpse of  the Lander's Shrines (maybe there's a festival upcoming? ) and maybe he will even meet a Lander himself and receive his first official upgrade  lucky him

saw this: http://wheresmysammich.com/images/44651.jpg

i wonder how much of the fail it would be for Malcolm with this


also, i have nothing to add to the RP D:  so Post 63 will go to someone else

[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/Rubycored/BT10-LaS-CalRico.png]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/Rubycored/BT10-LaS-CalRico.png

Hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's Callisto and Maiorico! (sans the bulky flight modules, anyway)

Well, the very first, very rough draft sketch, anyway ; so expect design to change (even total overhaul) as time passes by.

That do you guys think so far?

(also, edited my previous post incase people missed it)

http://loone-wolf.deviantart.com/art/KOI-V2-0-Revised-325939996

looks a bit like Mecha version of Fleepa


also:

http://omegalife.deviantart.com/art/The-Guardian-Legend-intro-remake-372890980

http://coralstriker.deviantart.com/art/TGL-funs-372474382

http://jacre.deviantart.com/art/Guardian-Legend-Spx-367559885

http://thewoodenboy.deviantart.com/art/The-Guardian-Legend-in-Pixel-Purity-Desktop-Wall-366697500

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=35338012

[29 May 2013]

Alright, so I finally managed to finish Post 61 and updated the post accordingly.

Now the RP can continue, sorry aboutthe wait, guys

29 May 2013 Just thought of adding this:

By the time Akrn and co arrive at the outpost, Malcolm, Sebariel and co are still 40 minutes from arriving at Naju Central, assuming a trouble-free journey. But the group can still make contact each other, should the Outpost in Area 5 be run by [or can contact] SAFE members

Also assuming no "timezones" between Front and Backside, this would be the time where Amet loses his patience with Rey (Post 53). So depending on how long UserK decided on Amet's trip back to the base, their side of the story is still that much time ahead of everyone else.

Although since the humans has been going on since 5AM (and that's only counting the time of the first post), i am sure Sebariel, Halex and maybe Malcolm are pretty tired at this stage, lol

Alright, so I am having a bit of trouble concluding post 61.

The general idea is that Killian will arrive at the Area where he and Samuel will head down and aid Akrn. Meanwhile Callisto attempting to extort info about Terry from Akrn (who will reveal nothing, obviously)

The three will then attempt to get away from Callisto (since fighting him will be outright suicide), Killian will probably use a smoke screen as well as signal jammer to distort Callisto while they get away

This is where the problem lie: using this plan, there's no way to have Callisto just leave them behind. In theory Erajiv could summon Callisto, but given his personality and that he is facing three Guardians right there he is totally going to ignore Erajiv and go for the coup.


Though if anyone has any ideas themselves and wants to take over feel free to