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the_manta
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umkay... I've seen a lot of people doing things like this (namely Jezz).

I have decided to make a thread to hold my ideas, stories, and notes to self... Right now, I have nothing finished, but I've got a few Ideas in store.

unless someone wants me to post my WoM character sheet. I may or may not do that. so, stay tuned.

1st order of business:
memo: Idea for horror story; man discovers reason for mysterious power outages in his neighborhood.

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Pois0nArr0w
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I think I'm gonna have to make a new thread for my art, but later, when I have enough art to get people to frequent the thread... Good luck with yours, though! I wanna see teh char. sheet plz?

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ummkay, then... gud luck with teh art thread poisun!

I didn't think it was too great, but, hey, Cenere and Strop like it, so, what the hey.

I also did a drawing⦠itâs relatively terrible.

Traits
Name: Manta
Species: Fish-Man
Age: 17
Gender: male

Outstanding Physical Traits:
*He has blue-tinted, scaly skin on the back, arms & legs, but not the front torso region.

*There are gills on the neck and a large dorsal fin lies on top of his head, protruding out from his hair, and there are two more fins spanning from the forearm to the upper arm.

*He has webbed hands & feet and he has 5 normal fingers, but 3 clawed toes in front of his feet, and another one on the inner part of each foot.

*On his face is a pair of deep green eyes and smallish nose, complete with an emotionless mouth.

Height: 5â11â

Weight: 170 Lbs

Build: Well-Built, but not freakishly muscular; athletic.

Clothing: A pair of white swim trunks with a black spot on the left leg (original, no?) and bandages around the palm of his right hand (also original, no?). he never really changes⦠water keeps his clothes generally clean.

Accessories:

* A bright red clam shell, given to him by his father. It allows him block out the noise pollution of useless opinions

*A bo staff

*A small, portable hose, that fires with extreme force. He uses it on people when he wants to be left alone.

Characteristics

Personality: He is extremely laid-back and, at times, lazy. He is in a good mood most of the time, but it rarely shows. He tends to be very sarcastic when asked or told something pointless, or for that matter, something useful. If he feels the current subject is important and that he knows a lot about it, he can be extremely intellectual and will contribute what he can.

Other than that, there are few things that can get him active.

Likes: water, Marine Life, Tacos, Lolcats, Fighting, and, when not observing, eating, or performing the aforementioned items, sleeping.

Dislikes: pointless information, Necromancy (He strongly believes that the dead are dead for a reason, and should stay that way), Spam, Flames, being awoken from sleep, and angry, conceited people.

Background:
Abilities: Manta is amphibious; he can thrive in water and on land. On top of that, he is quite adept at the art of Kickboxing, despite his âSave-it-for-laterâ attitude. The Fish-Man is very devoted to his training.

Backstory: the Fish-Men are an extremely small tribe of
people who live underwater in a great lake outside the walls of AG. There are only about 20 of them. Each one is named after a species of aquatic creature, or has a name similar to that of an aquatic creature. There are some more slick and attractive names, such as Moray, Octorus, and Sting. Some less⦠appealing names include Cuttlefish, Hag-eel, and Angler. Tradition says they will be named after the first Animal you see when they are born.

Manta is generally well-respected in his tiny village, with no enemies. His father died when he was an infant, during the troll wars. So, he helps support his single mother while finding time to not do anything.

In his culture, Manta means âhe who is destined to make an attempt at greatness and maybe fail, but hopefully succeed. Hopefully succeedâ Thus, the way of moderation contest will theoretically fulfill that destiny.

Sorry itâs so corny⦠I tried to put in as few mary-sues as I could... but, honestly, I only have a vague understanding of what those are.

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eep! forgot to write it in notepad before I posted it.

the weird symbols are all either commas, quotation marks, or the three little dots in a row... <like that.

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He sounds similar-looking to a zora from legend of zelda. Cool, though. Nice layout. ou put more into yours than I did.

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???

oh, Zoras! to be honest, I had forgotten about those while I did this. although, there might have been an image of one at the back of my mind.
I seriously thought I was being completely original here.

Pois0nArr0w
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Oh, no, I just think that's what it sounds like.

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holy crap!?!?!?!Poison you need to take a break from armorgames, dude your on it way to much... anyways yea Arrow's right lol, but Arrow are you and Argen going to camp, if so I might be late, the 7 hour plane flight is getting delayed so I'm not going to be on it for a lone time(7 hours) and I'm loosing 4 hours... Right now I'm at the airport in the military vip lounge, see you tommorrow.

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Ohh, Manta, this is real good!
Glad you've got yourself a thread too.
I'm not sure it was a good idea to post your WoM sheet here..
I don't know.
I was going to post mine. I might when WoM actually starts. But I haven't finished my sheet yet :P

Carry on writing, i'll be reading, honest!

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GO manta! I hope to see more from you!

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You... you guys really like it?

*sniff* I'll be writing my new story later today, hopefully. Probably when I get back from guitar lessons and when I finish helping my mom in the garden.

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The Blackout Murder
Part 1

It was a quiet night. The television was off and the sole source of light in the room was the small table lamp. The house was in a tiny, scarcely travelled neighborhood, anyway. It wasn't often a car came by, or even a bus, and if a car did come by, they were usually hopelessly lost. It was perfect book-reading ambience.

Meet Gerard Spencer, a small-time detective from a little town in Texas. He was a younger man, only 27, and an average-looking guy, with a long nose and a small, almost disapproving mouth. Then there were his eyes; one was Brown, the other was a deep green color. He wore sunglasses when he went out. Even if the sun wasn't out. He had a deep brown color of hair, and he usually like to keep it somewhat long, but his new barber had just given him a really bad haircut. It was much shorter than he liked it, and, on top of that, unevenly cut. Gerard was pretty muscular, but he didn't flaunt it. In fact, He usually denied it when somebody told him about it.

Right now, Gerard was taking a break from his detective work. Nothing especially long: just a week or so. He was overworked more recently, and needed some rest. That was exactly what Gerard planned to do. He was at home right now, reading Moby Dick. He'd been telling himself to read it for months, but was just now able to get to it.

Without warning, the power flashed off and on. "Splendid," thought Gerard, "The third time tonight. My cable will be messed up for weeks." He passed the outage off as nothing important, but began thinking out loud to himself, "Hmmm... There are never more than 2 outages that are that short around here. Or for that matter, there are never any power outages around here. Most of the people in this neighborhood are... electronically impaired." Again, he flicked it off his shoulder like it was nothing.

As he plopped back in his chair to read the book again, a blood-curdling scream pierced the quiet. Gerard heard the sounds of doors slamming and then shoes hitting the pavement. He looked outside and saw a large crowd of people gathered around on Mr. and Mrs. Chandler's front lawn.

Gerard let out a heavy sigh. "Looks like I'm back in business," he lamented.
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That was part one... I plan on posting it in several installments until I finish. It gives me something to do.

Hope ya'll liked it.

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nice m8 cant wait for the next part.

oh and i completely forgot about teh zora's...havnt played zelda since i got hopelessly stuck on the water temple and was too lazy to start over...

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Manta, that was really good. Honest.
Even though there were a few grammar mistakes and you had an odd way of wording some sentences, I was hooked from the first few lines!
I like how you havent given us a rush of information; you set the scene, described only one character and left us hanging at the end.
Loved it :3

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Even though there were a few grammar mistakes and you had an odd way of wording some sentences, I was hooked from the first few lines!


Er... Yeah... sorry about that. The first one was deleted (somehow... *glares at little cousin*) so I was in more of a rush to make this, because I don't like doing things twice. Meh.

Glad you guys liked it! New edition tomorrow! ...Hopefully.
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They blocked out moby whale.... *sniff* GO MANTA!

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