Welcome to Team Super Alpha Mega Beta Zeta Epsilon Double Whammy With A Twist of Lemon: Najash's Awesome Squad Plus Those Other Guys. Also known as...
The story so far:
Troll Red Pen: recap adventure.
M'kay.
Act One:
It all began when Marnix and Najash got into an argument about music and decided to hate each other's guts.
Later, Najash invited her moirail Tolero to play Sgrub with her. The two of them connected as server and client, and Najash immediately began ruining Tolero's room. She deployed the game machinery and opened the cruxtruder by whacking it with Tolero's recuperacoon. Tolero was a little freaked out by the Kernelsprite when it emerged, so Najash, trying to be helpful, threw the recuperacoon at it. She missed and took out a wall, waking Tolero's hibernating lusus Ursa. Tolero ran off to fight Ursa.
Najash, bored out of her skull now that Tolero was no longer playing the game, messed around in her room for a while, writing Karkat blackrom slashfic and lamenting the existence of her brother Apysur. She finally contacted her friend Tronno and asked him if he wanted to play. Tronno was excited about the game and agreed to be her server. Tolero also began talking to Tronno, welcoming him to the team. Tronno then invited his moirail Vladis to play, berating him for sleeping all the time.
Meanwhile, Tronno's friend Aliesh found an interesting crystal and decided to bring it to Tronno, mainly as an excuse to visit the troll she was extremely flush for. When she messaged Tronno to tell him she was coming, he mentioned the game and how he had been talking to a "polite" girl named Tolero. Seething with jealousy, Aliesh trolled Tolero and told her to stay away from Tronno. Tolero had no idea what was going on.
Elsewhere on Alternia, Marnix's hive was being bombarded by meteors. Having heard from other people on Trollslum that the game was the only way to survive, and knowing that Najash was currently in a session, Marnix trolled her asking to join the team. Remembering their earlier argument and not understanding the connection between Sgrub and the end of the world, Najash instantly shot him down.
Najash stole her brother's copy of Trollian and called a team meeting to discuss giving their session a cool name. While they were debating, Marnix joined the discussion from five hours in the future to complain about how the name they had picked was stupid. He refused to tell them what the name was for fear of causing a paradox, inadvertently inspiring the team to name themselves Team Paradox... somewhat paradoxically. Najash turned on her berserker rage music and banhammered Marnix, then screamed at everyone and was generally a pain until Tolero reminded her to turn it off again.
Near the end of the conversation Aliesh finally arrived at Tronno's hive, and he went to let her inside. Aliesh was happy to assist Tronno in playing Sgrub.
Najash asked Tolero to invite Marnix to play, because she wanted to use the game to beat him into the dust and prove her superiority, but didn't want Marnix to know that she wanted him to play. During the conversation it was hinted at that Najash was extremely caliginous for Marnix, whereas Tolero was slightly flush. Both denied this. Tolero then contacted Marnix and asked him to join their team. After agreeing to be his server, she realized that she only had two hours and fifty-eight minutes left on her timer, and told Marnix to hold his horses while she figured out what she was supposed to be doing. Almost immediately afterward she was wracked by guilt.
After hearing a crash and seeing a bright flash of light just outside her hive, Najash went to the window and saw meteors falling from the sky, and a smoldering crater where her nearest neighbor, Gamzee Makara, used to live. Unaware of his departure to the Land of Tents and Mirth, she told Tolero he had died, and the two of them held a small, sarcastic funeral.
Vladis began placing the game machines around Tronno's hive. He put the cruxtruder in Tronno's room but for some reason put everything else on the roof. Tronno climbed up to look at it and was momentarily distracted by the view, while Vladis and Aliesh stayed behind and very carefully opened the cruxtruder.
Marnix installed the game and stared at the screen in a manner suggesting that he and Najash were made for each other. He wasted no time in setting up Vladis's machines, boasting that he was a far more efficient server than Najash. Vladis was not impressed. Marnix opened the cruxtruder by bashing it with Vladis's recuperacoon, getting sopor slime everywhere. Vladis was doubly not impressed.
Tolero finally returned to playing the game, only to discover that her favorite toy, Eminence Rey, had been damaged when Najash was messing around in her room. She berated Najash about it while mending the doll, only to have it yanked out of her hands when Najash decided Eminence needed to have an epic battle with the Kernelsprite. She accidently prototyped it, but got back on good terms with Tolero because the sprite was no longer so unnerving.
While Aliesh examined the cruxite dowel she'd retrieved from the cruxtruder, Vladis saw a lightning strike outside of his hive and went to investigate. His lusus, Presbyte, had been crushed by a falling tree. In a touching series of last goodbyes, Vladis promised to devour its head, as was the family tradition. He retrieved the head and returned to his hive to explain to Tronno what to do with his machines, referring to several incomplete walkthroughs he'd found online. His own Kernelsprite seemed oddly attracted to Presbyte's head.
Meanwhile, a huge meteor was bearing down on Marnix's hive. After hearing an explosion, he went outside to see the remains of his massive lusus lying in an impact crater. After panicking, Marnix realized that it was only his guardian's exoskeleton, and that the real Skorpidad was safe and sound below ground.
Still on his roof, Tronno noticed meteors headed for his hive as well.
Tolero also saw a meteor on a collision course with her hive. Najash noticed the connection between the meteor and Tolero's timer, and advised her to continue playing the game in hopes that winning would stop it. Meanwhile, she went to wake Ursa and get her out of harm's way. Ursa had fallen asleep on top of the alchemiter, and when Najash shook the machine in an attempt to wake her, she accidentally activated it and sent a laser beam through Ursa's head. To hide the evidence she prototyped the Reysprite with Tolero's dead lusus.
Years in the future, but not many... An exile with a mechanical arm, leg, and eye travels across the sands of Alternia, the symbol for the South Wind in Mahjong on his shroud and the tattered remains of Tolero's belt clutched in his hand. He comes across a Sgrub station buried in the sand.
Back in the present, Tronno noticed something strange at the base of his hive. Jumping down several stories to get a closer look, he discovered that it was the dead body of his lusus Bardoro.
Meanwhile, out at sea, Najash's lusus Snakemom and her brother Apysur were injured in a meteor strike. Looking out her window, Najash saw meteors raining down and decided to go looking for them.
Aliesh, who had just finished carving a totem with the prepunched card, brought it upstairs and found Tronno in tears over the loss of his lusus. He was too upset to bring the totem back to his roof, so Aliesh used her hydrokinesis to transport them both, unaware of Tronno's hydrophobia. Vladis tried to help by bringing Bardoro's body, but he fell asleep at his computer and dropped it onto Tronno's kernelsprite, first-tier prototyping it.
Najash at last found her lusus and brother. Apysur was bleeding badly, but when she tried to approach him Snakemom attacked her. In desperation, Najash strangled her lusus in order to save her brother.
As he was returning to his hive, Marnix looked up to see a gargantuan meteor descending. He tried to get ahold of the rest of the team, but due to their various crises, no one was responding. In his panic he fell out of his chair, accidentally sending a recuperacoon through Vladis's wall.
Vladis at last began eating Presbyte's head, but when he offered some to his kernelsprite he accidentally prototyped it.
Najash and Apysur returned to their hive to see that Tronno had placed the cruxtruder in a pool of water in front of the front door. They were trapped outside until the water caused the machine to short-curcuit and explode, starting Najash's countdown and demolishing part of the wall. Najash deposited Apysur in her recuperacoon and proceeded to change out of her bloody clothes.
Aliesh, concerned about Tronno's skittish behavior, contacted Vladis to ask what he was so afraid of. Vladis dodged the question, having promised not to tell anyone about Tronno's fear of water.
At last Tolero responded to Marnix and began setting up the game machines in his hive. She opened his cruxtruder by carefully deleting part of the floor above it and causing his couch to fall on it. She then went back to her own game, creating lots of cruxite dowels while her timer ticked down to two minutes. After some experimentation with the machines, she finally created her entry item, an unfinished book. Reasoning that she had to complete the book in order to solve the puzzle and stop the meteor, Tolero bit her thumb and wrote the last word in her own blood, entering the Medium mere seconds before her meteor struck.
Think we should post our trolls profiles here too?
OKAY THEN
Your name is ALIESH MANARE. You have a variety of INTERESTS. You enjoy ADVENTURE and EXPLORING EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY YOU CAN FIND. Others think of you as a bit of a TOMBOY, but you have a few FEMININE TRAITS as well. You value your PERSONAL APPEARANCE above all else, though your HAIR isn't high on your priorities. In fact it isn't even ON SAID LIST. It doesn't help that when you were MUCH YOUNGER, you threw your RECOUPERACOON off a cliff FOR THE HELL OF IT. So your LUSUS punished you by making you sleep on the FLOOR until you get yourself a NEW ONE. THAT TOO isn't high on your priorities. One day, you hope to find the ULTIMATE TREASUE on Alternia: JAVEY DONE'S LOCKER.
Due to the bizzarre nature of TROLL MIND POWERS, you have been gifted with HYDROMANCY. You find this particularly USESLESS so you just shoot things with pistols instead.
You are a good friend of cantankerousGeode, who you affectionately call Tronny. You MAY or MAY NOT hold REDISH FEELINGS for him. That is NOT PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE.
You also MAY POSSIBLY be a bit TERRITORIAL when it comes to TROLL RELATIONSHIPS.
Your trolltag is activeBeauty and you tend to space off...in the middle of sentences...all the time
Misc. Stuffs
Trolltag: activeBeauty
Gender: Girl
Text color: #ff914c
Typing Quirk: Randomly inserts elipsies in her sentences
Shirt symbol: Infinity symbol
Strife Specibus: Pistolkind
Lusus: Anteater with two tounges
God I can't stay mad at Noir.
He's just.
He's like when a tiny puppy murders a squirrel and brings the corpse into your house as a present to you and it's wagging its tail and is SO PROUD of itself.
Then it goes into your house, tears your couch apart, and shits on all of your carpets.
Yeah, it'd be good to have that all in one place so it's easy to find. And on that note...
> Be the troll whose freakish horns can be seen from space.
Your name is NAJASH GUIVRE.
You like listening to MUSIC, and sometimes you write and record your own. You've created several secret SONGS that will send you into a BERSERKER RAGE, which naturally you listen to as much as possible because of how cool they sound! Your strife specibus is set to GARROTEKIND, which is handily compatible with any kind of ROPE, WIRE, THREAD, etcetera, but mostly you just use your PREHENSILE HAIR.
You're not really sure why none of your friends ever want to come over.
Your trolltag is copperheadRhythm and you ssspeak with an unnerving rasssp. (And sssometimesss when you're in the proper mood / iambic pentameter happensss too.)
Misc. info:
Font color: 00ab00
Lusus: Snakemom
Strife Portfolio: Garrotekind (prehensile hair, headphone chord)
Fetch Modus: iModus (items are stored in playlists and are retrieved either in order or at random with the shuffle function)
Title: Guard of Gravity
Land: Land of Rust and Vertigo
Exile: Circles Doloire (CD)
Web Browser/Denizen: Mictlancihuatl
Sprite made by Red Pen, but you all knew that. Gog, I'm so LAZY. *cries*
You’re name is TOLERO NAFADE.
You have a variety of INTERESTS, one of which is WRITING, but you have never actually gotten to the end of a storyline. You have many characters in your arsenal of imaginary go-to guys, and if any of them are insulted in anyway, you generally proceed to go into a BLIND RAGE, which in actuality is usually just a VERY LARGE AND ANNOYING HISSY FIT. You are infamous for SPACING OUT during important conversations because you are thinking about something related to a story you are writing at the time.
You have a tendency to be SLIGHTLY TWO-FACED. When you are with PEOPLE YOU KNOW WELL, you come off as A BIT BOSSY and MEDDLESOME. You act this way because you care them, though. You swear this up and down. However, when you are with PEOPLE YOU DO NOT KNOW, then you are OVERLY POLITE AND SOMEWHAT SHY, and it usually TAKES A LOT TO GAIN YOUR COMPLETE TRUST. When it comes to PEOPLE YOU DO NOT LIKE or around PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE YOU, you come off as ANNOYINGLY QUIET and EXTREMELY APOLOGETIC, because you are a NATURAL PEOPLE PLEASER. This is probably why BLACK ROMANCE MAKES YOU EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE. Right now the person you are the most open with is your Morail, Najash.
You’re strife specibus is SMALLBLADEKIND, which includes a POCKET KNIFE, A RAZOR BLADE, and a PAIR OF SCISSORS. Your preferred weapon of choice is the SERADED KITCHEN KNIFE, because it’s easy to hold and use for you.
You are currently on Team Paradox, who consists of blacksheepDaydreamer (you), copperheadRhythm, cantankerousGeode and activeBeauty, breviloquentBuilder, and mediokreKarapase.
You’re trolltag is blacksheepDaydreamer, and you have a tendency to use-the-hyphen-key-as-opposed-to-the-space-bar.
TLDR:
NAME: Tolero Nafade
BLOOD : Dark Blue
TEXT COLOR: #001a4b (Dark Blue)
TYPING QUIRK: Hyphen-instead-of-the-space-bar.
CAPATCHALOUGE MODUS: Journal (write in it and it appears)
STRIFE SPECIBUS: Smallblade kind
LAND : LAND OF PACE AND PINWHEELS (LoPaP)
TITLE: Child of Time
GUARDIAN: Ursa the Beoat.
You're a PRETTY COOL GUY you suppose. Perhaps the coolest ever. In fact, you're pretty sure you are. Some people may call you a NARCISIST or an ATTENTION WHORE, but you know they're just jealous.
But for the most part you are pretty chill. Sitting comfortably high on the hemospectrum, purple but slightly too blue to be aquatic, you don't give it much thought, unless of course you're dealing with someone who does care in which case you will use it to maniplulate the krap out of them. That is one of your specialties. You are manipulative, greedy and a liar. Still, somehow you manage to bring it together in a somewhat charismatic fashion, which allows you to still have some friends despite your introverted personality.
In your free time you maintain a variety of interests. In addition to TROLLING (or DEBATING as the case may be) anyone and everyone you can get the attention of, you have dabbled a bit in EXTREME ROLEPLAY. The rest of your free time is whittled away on a PLETHORA OF USELESS TIMEWASTERS, such as playing solitare or mucking about with puzzels. Your strife specibus is currently set to ARMORKIND, being equiped with bladed gauntlets crafted from the karapase of your lusus.
As a few points of interest, your Fetch Modi is LEGOBIN, which is just about the most frustrating thing ever, as it allows you to access any item, until the time comes when you actually need it for something. The symbol adorning your sick threads is of Pluto, which is a throwback to Scorpio, which is represented again via your Lusus. But you don't know this because these things don't exist on Alternia.
Your trolltag is [kolor=#6633'si''si']mediokreKarapase and the letter 'si' is dead to you. Furthurmore, you use the letter k whenever you kan, for it is the best letter. The best.[/kolor]
In conclusion:
Font color: 6633CC
Lusus: SkorpiDad
Strife Portfolio: Armorkind (large bladed bracer/gauntlet)
Fetch Modus: LegoBin (Items are extracted at random, with the likley-hood of you getting an item in reverse correspondance to how much you want it.)
Title: Harbinger of Dust
Land: Land of Sand and Rails
Assorted Piktures!
((AppatheticZombie is the best for this picture.))
Extra note cause I want to be cool like Beep: I've seen Marnix's sleeves drawn a number of ways by a number of very awesome people. Heck, I myself have retconned it a number of times. But I've finally settled on the final, canonical status of his sleeves. You can all sleep easy now. It is a long sleeve shirt over a t-shirt, but the sleeves are rolled up to his elbows.
Last edited by mediokreKarapase; 10-07-2010 at 07:32 PM.
RANDOM USELESS TRIVIA ABOUT TEAM PARADOX I THOUGHT OF IN SEVEN SECONDS:
- There's a perfect split between genders on this team
- Two purple-bloods, one blue-blood, two green-bloods, and one red-blood
- There has been little to no mention of auspistice, most likely because there hasn't been a chance to form one yet. Or because it's the most confusing of the troll relationships. WHO KNOWS.
...mostly i'm just procrastinating from making a wiki page for Ali :V
Last edited by Metaflare; 09-23-2010 at 12:40 AM.
Reason: YOU SAW NOTHING
God I can't stay mad at Noir.
He's just.
He's like when a tiny puppy murders a squirrel and brings the corpse into your house as a present to you and it's wagging its tail and is SO PROUD of itself.
Then it goes into your house, tears your couch apart, and shits on all of your carpets.
Your name is VLADIS DESEDI. You’ve just crawled out of your recuperacoon, freshly covered in slime. You probably won’t get around to changing your clothes though because you are INCREDIBLY LAZY. This leads to most of your room being covered in the green goo.
You have an interest in BUILDING THINGS, which combined with your dreams of FLYING has led you to take interest in MODEL AIRPLANES. You never really get around to finishing any of your projects though, which is fine since you often end up falling and breaking them anyway, seeing as your LACES never stay tied. You’ve contemplated getting Velcro shoes, but you’ll probably never get around to it, being SO LAZY and all.
If it weren't for your LUSUS you'd probably never get out of bed, but its tendency to try to eat your head keeps you on your toes. You don’t usually talk to others, although your friend and MOIRAIL Tronno is an exception. He tries to keep you active, and wants to get you into ROCK CLIMBING. He’s given you a GRAPPLING HOOK as a gift, which has come in useful when it comes to grabbing things from afar when you are too LAZY to walk over to them.
Your trolltag is BreviloquentBuilder and your manner of speech is brief.
More info:
Trolltag: BreviloquentBuilder
Gender: Male
Text colour: #009938
Typing quirk: as many text shortcuts as possible (ttly, gr8, nevr), no punctuation or capitalization
Shirt symbol: lower case Zeta
Strife Specibus: Grapplekind (grappling hooks)
Modus: Dream (dreams of needed object and it appears in his sleep)
Lusus: A praying mantis/grasshopper hybrid named Presbyteromantis Orditera (Presbyte for short)
Pics:
Last edited by Tribor; 09-23-2010 at 09:51 AM.
Reason: Presbyte's full name
RANDOM USELESS TRIVIA ABOUT TEAM PARADOX I THOUGHT OF IN SEVEN SECONDS:
- There's a perfect split between genders on this team
- One purple-blood, two blue-bloods, two green-bloods, and one red-blood
- There has been little to no mention of auspistice, most likely because there hasn't been a chance to form one yet. Or because it's the most confusing of the troll relationships. WHO KNOWS.
...mostly i'm just procrastinating from making a wiki page for Ali :V
Your name is TRONNO CONTAR. You are an unusually UPBEAT and POSITIVE THINKING troll who lives on top of a MOUNTAIN bordering the main troll continent's EASTERN SEA. There are no other HIVES around you for over 100 MILES so you don't interact with other TROLLS very often. You have a variety of INTERESTS, the most prevalent being your love of GEOLOGY, namely GEODES and ROCK CRYSTALS. You love anything to do with ROCKS such as STUDYING THEM, CLIMBING THEM, DIGGING THEM UP, and on occasion EATING THEM. You insist that the excess minerals and calcium only serve to ameliorate your digestive tract and make you STRONGER. Some could say this love of yours borders on FETISHISM but you think that is just silly.Your other prominent interests include EXTREME SPORTS, and NAVIGATING MAZES. Your rare affinity for rocks and non-carbon based life forms gives you an innate ability to READ THE WIND/EARTH and know how to find your way in any landscape. When asked how this works, you say the rocks SPEAK TO YOU.
Though you are a high ranking PURPLE blood, your gills are underdeveloped and you cannot live underwater for extended periods of time. This, combined with grub-hood trauma, has caused you to have a PHOBIA of large bodies of water. You chose to build your hive so close to the EASTERN SEA because you thought that being in the presence of such a scary sight every day would eventually lead you to OVERCOME YOUR FEAR. This has not yet happened.
Your chumhandle is CantankerousGeode and you "kinda type like yas ALWAYS HELLA EXCITED an CANNA CONTROL YAS VOLUME YEAAAAAAH!!" You also have a slight impediment on "th" sounds.
More info:
Text color: 3E1384 Planet: Land of Depths and Flow (inhabited by bats) Title: Knight of Space Strife Syllabus: Pickkind and Fistkind. He has a strife syllabus folder that's capable of holding 5 different WEAPONKINDs. Modus: MAZE (have to successfully trace from the starting point to the item in order to receive it. Because of Tronno's high puzzle solving ability, he likes his modus and finds it fun. It doesn't take him long to get his items.) Symbol: if you were to draw a line connecting N-S-E-W-N on a compass rose. It also looks like a sideways hourglass symbolizing his affinity for timed puzzles.
Relationships:
Your MORAIL is VLADIS DESEDI and he COMPLETES YOU in a completely NON-FLUSHED WAY. You enjoy TROLLING him and forcing him to participate in PHYSICAL EXERCISE and SPORTS against his free will and better judgment. VLADIS is one of the only trolls you communicate with on a regular basis because your MOUNTAIN-HERMIT LIFESTYLE makes you nervous about APPROACHING OTHERS, though you have no problem RESPONDING to their contact. You have FLUSHED FEELINGS towards NEPETA LEIJON, but you've never told anybody about them. Not even VLADIS. The other two trolls you regularly communicate with are NAJASH GUIVRE and ALIESH MANARE. You think they are funny in their own ways and enjoy talking to them via TROLLIAN.
Hive:
His hive is built into the cliff he lives on. The only architecture that's visible is a lighthouse structure, and a bungalow. There are 2 rooms inside, one of which is Tronno's bedroom and the other of which is where his Lucus sleeps. There are windows embedded in the cliff face. Each window represents a different internal room.
Lucus:
Lucus: a bear-sized armadillo named Bardoro who's diet consists of birds, small mammals, and insects that Tronno catches while roaming the mountains. He also fishes for himself at the bottom of the cliff-hive.
Bedroom:
Heromode
Extra note cause people get it wrong: He's wearing a sleeveless vest over a long sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up. Also, that spike of hair at the base of his neck is kinda like a mini rattail (ie. it is kinda long and sticks up). He's 5ft7in and will grow to be about 6ft5in. I love all the art I've gotten, but I just wanted to point this out.
Last edited by Beep; 10-31-2010 at 07:47 PM.
Reason: better backwards pic
God I can't stay mad at Noir.
He's just.
He's like when a tiny puppy murders a squirrel and brings the corpse into your house as a present to you and it's wagging its tail and is SO PROUD of itself.
Then it goes into your house, tears your couch apart, and shits on all of your carpets.
God I can't stay mad at Noir.
He's just.
He's like when a tiny puppy murders a squirrel and brings the corpse into your house as a present to you and it's wagging its tail and is SO PROUD of itself.
Then it goes into your house, tears your couch apart, and shits on all of your carpets.
Okay so guys our session is gonna start moving faster than a weasel on fire once Friday comes around because that's when me and beep plan on posting some hardcore awesome animations and shit
So you better buckle down because this shit is gonna be out of this world
God I can't stay mad at Noir.
He's just.
He's like when a tiny puppy murders a squirrel and brings the corpse into your house as a present to you and it's wagging its tail and is SO PROUD of itself.
Then it goes into your house, tears your couch apart, and shits on all of your carpets.
@ Tirbor: Bitchin', bro. I'm sure it's gonna be EPIC and I am totally excited for it. I would shout and jump for joy but I'm in class right now.
I need to stop scheduling classes so late.
@ TEAM PARADOX: JUST TO ASK, GUYS- I have made a SHIT TON of sketches revolving around T.P. (lol, TP. I just noticed that.), and I was wondering when I FINALLY GET THEM ALL SCANNED IN (GOG I'M LAAAAZY) would you guys cares if I posted them here?
(Also, yes Red. There's more than what I showed you.)