Is not JL

Not defying anything here. We can hope. Guest Star Profile. use it

Forerunner Dreadnought/Keyship

An introduction of some of the characters. Not all, though. Chapter 1 - because the last one was called a prologue "Well?" Azaxx asked. For a moment, his voice echoed through the massive chamber of the modmins meeting hall, before silence once again reigned. The ambient blue light washed over the parabola shaped table, at the vertex of which sat RedStarRocket. "Tell us the steps you took to cover this up." There was an obvious strict edge to the moderators tone. He was annoyed. "Well-" Dog began, but immediately Church raised his hand. "And please don't say that everything was fine, that our top agent GSD was working on it, blah blah blah, because he obviously isn't, considering he's sitting right there" the moderator stressed, and inwardly Dog tightened up. GSD waved with a smile. "Originally, we planned on saying that it was a test. We decided that it wouldn't be helpful to tame the members. So instead we said.....that Twam was........helping GSD in hunting down the sniper. " All the moderators either gave a sigh, or simply slipped their face into their palms. "What else? "....Uhhhh......Gryffin designed the adverts?" Dog tried, even as he shuffled backwards. His presentation was over, and the moderators quietly accepted the fact that there would no doubt be unease within the site's population. Question was, what now. Bnus stepped up. He had the information the moderators needed. "Some of the members have stepped up to try and look for more information, but Boss's research shows that no events in relation to this sniper is being made. Some events have been cancelled, though, in fear." Azaxx nodded, silently stroking the small mudkip that lay on his desk. This was news that didn't surprise him. "Who are these members you speak of?" * * * Keen eyes scanned the darkening horizon of 343iCF, first viewing things normally, before the vision switched. Edward, perched high up on the head of a Jackal carved into the corner of a building, looked around. The days were dark. Ever since the banning of Drizzy_Dan, things had been different. Edward himself had seen many, many things throughout his travels of the internetverse, but never once had he seen a person with moderator powers get banned from their host site. 343iCF was no longer safe. Something was hunting the members, though he didn't know why, and Edward decided right then and there, he would get to the end of this. So far, though, he had no leads. All he could assume was who wasn't the sniper, since he himself had seen who had been inside the ballroom of the celebration of staff promotions, but even then, eliminating the people who had been inside the ballroom was just an assumption. People didn't need to be beside the gun to shoot the person anymore. Times had changed since the golden age of piracy. Suddenly, across the dark blue and white radiance of the eagle sense that Edward inherently had, a magnificent amber shone out from the streets below. Although he'd known to simply accept it, now that there was a threat, he knew he couldn't ignore anybody whose allegiance he didn't know, especially one whose aura shone so bright. He let himself fall. * * * HaloGeek was in a hurry. Running across the night street, he stopped at an alleyway, looking down to make sure the coast was clear before continuing on his way. Today, he was agitated. The fact that he didn't actually have legs didn't really help at all, and it was probably by some miracle that he could even walk forwards - but he was running. The exact reason as to why he was agitated was simple - earlier in the day, he'd received a letter in is inbox, from somebody who was, somehow, registered as anonymous. Quite simply, it was a request for the soviet spirit of winter to work for the anonymous person, in exchange for a multitude of awards, and other incentives included in the bribery. Fortunately for 343iCF and unFortunately for the person who had sent the private message, HaloGeek himself didn't wish to work for somebody as sneaky as a guy who somehow appeared as anonymous - and he decided to go and report it. Unfortunately, all the running had began to heat him up, and by now he was dripping with....well, water. He didn't sweat. He was a snowman. While he could have gone and froze himself back up to top condition, he didn't want to accidentally freeze everything. He was agitated, and while he did know a pretty girl he wasn't sure if that might help him control his powers in such a state. Shaking the cliché out of him, the snowman somehow managed to catch a taxi, waving his snow about in a flurry as he got in. "General Discussion, please," he requested the driver. * * * Banned..... Drizzy looked around. This place was getting weirder and weirder by the second. Air was thin to breathe one second and amazingly nourishing the next. The winds were blowing ferociously for one moment, only to have no effect on the once-moderator, but the smallest breeze would send Drizzy flying a few meters. It was too bad his moderator status had been lifted. Even banned, with his ring he could have reached his destination much quicker, and all these hazards wouldn't affect him. As it stood, though, this was starting to become one of the hardest endeavours he'd undertaken - and he didn't know if it would have any pay-off either. All he knew was that 343iCF was in danger, considering he had just been sniped (Even somebody like Twam would have needed to go through a formal process in order to remove Drizzy from 343iCF). Still, Drizzy did hope that he'd get some company down here. Even within the raging blizzards and burning deserts that he had traversed in what was possibly a year or a second, he had a theory that if the Sniper got anyone else, then they would fall near Drizzy as well. After all, the Banned repel each other, due to their inherent anger, dislike and conflicts. But those who held on to their bonds when they were cut-off from everyone else, attracts. Some could even leave - Drizzy himself had heard of somebody who had once been banned, only to have shown himself on a sister forum. If another were to fall to the sniper, there was a chance they'd be attracted to Drizzy (Through force, not emotion, for those who might go 'awwwww!' later with a little hearty heart beside them) and land within the world of the Banned near him. *THUD!* And the theory proved true. In the distance, perched atop a pillar of rock, was the body of a purple dragon. With a surge of renewed energy, Drizzy ran forwards and with a flying kick, shattered the rock into powder. As Spyro himself fell, Drizzy launched himself forwards to catch up. Though the dragon was heavy, it was nothing for the superhuman strengths of Drizzy_Dan. While he wasn't a moderator anymore, some of the residual energy still lingered within him. With a small puff of air, Drizzy lifted up Spyro, and began to drag the unconscious dragon towards a small area of shade from the sun, hoping against hope that the weather, landscape and everything didn't take a turn for the worst. * * * 343iCF, minutes prior to Spyro's ban..... HaloGeek looked around. As much as he could do with his powers of snow and ice, it wasn't a good matchup against a Sniper who could gun through a community moderators shield, and not just that, but also end up banning the moderator himself? He wasn't happy, and with a shiver (not from the cold, of course) he sensed keen eyes watching him. The feeling worsened and filled with dread when HaloGeek watched the taxi he was in stop from a red-light in front of him. "I'm sorry," the snowman said in a heavily accented voice as he dug his hand into his body and pulled out a buried wallet, "But you can let me off here. Keep the change." He pulled out the money in a hurry, he gave not enough for there to be even be change, then opened the door and got out. Running across the street, he found that by the time he reached the next intersection, he'd already been dripping wet. "Oh, man!" He wheezed, "Ihh...Ahm.....so out of shape!" Sighing in acceptance that snowmen weren't built to run fast, he quickly waved for a taxi again. The window slid down. "Butt!" The exact same driver whom HaloGeek hadn't paid in full exclaimed, before biting his thumb at HaloGeek, who responded by baring his fangs. "You're paying extra," the driver said, not at all fearful as he rolled up his window and opened the door. Unfortunately for the driver and unFortunately for HaloGeek, the roof of the taxi immediately caved in as Edward Kenway smashed into the top, before pushing and sliding off the side of the car, leaving cracks of fractals on all the windows. Twin swords emerged, crossing themselves at HaloGeek's neck. "Don't think I won't slice you, snowman," Edward said with thinly veiled aggression from under his hood. Immediately, HaloGeek pulled out his own weapon, pressing his Staff of Ice against the weapons. Immediately, frost began to form on the swords. "And don't think I won't kill you, Edward. Why are you doing this?" "Your allegiance has changed. Why have you done this?" "My allegiance has not changed. Your eagle sense is wrong for once, you fool." "It never is. Whose to say you aren't the sniper who took down Drizzy? I didn't see you at the party." And on that note, a shot rang out in the distance. * * * Banned..... Spyro blinked. For a moment, everything was a blur, but slowly the world began to get clearer and clearer. That didn't help define it though. Spyro couldn't understand it at all, apart from just a single familiar face above him. If not for that point of recognization, then he'd probably have thrown up right then and there. As it stood, Spyro still didn't think it would be cool to dragon-puke over an ex-moderator. "Drizzy!" He exclaimed, "You're unbanned?" Drizzy_Dan shook his head. "The opposite." Slowly, realization dawned upon Spyro. "Oh." Pulling himself up, Drizzy looked around. They were inside a forest, under the shade of a group of trees. Spyro himself continued to lay on the ground. For some reason, his head hurt like crazy. "What now?" he asked the moderator, who frowned for a moment, before turning back around. "There's a way to fix all the issues back up there," Drizzy began, "But it's something that exists only here. The solution to our problems is something so powerful that it was banned in the time before time, before the 343iCF as we know it." "Sounds......overpowered," Spyro said quietly. "But what is it?" Drizzy looked around. This was knowledge that only moderators knew. and even then it was kept in hushed towns. The art department, communications group, all the other staff members didn't know anything. Drizzy himself was infringing upon a heavy rule of the moderators at the moment, having told Spyro even a bit of information about this tool. Oh well. He'd done it already. Might as well go all the way in. "It's a tool. A weapon. Something that is majestical in every sense of the word." He paused. "Go on?" Spyro said, leaning forwards. "We don't know where it came from, just that an era ago, it was thrown down here and trapped. Legend says that this weapon even has a mind of its own." "Uh huh?" Spyro muttered, leaning farther forwards. "All I know of is that it's called the staff of infinite powers." ... Now it was Spyro's turn to frown. "Is that a pun?"

Do we need it? No. Do we want it? Yeah.

Jul M'Dama?

Gamer Award for Ricochet All Day (Misleading name much) event?

great year? yeah! Random new years holiday for me coming up but haha its local gj gl have fun!

Would help if you used the guest star sheet on page 1

last try for the night - Sgt. Johnson

The Primordial?

Mendicant Bias?

Like it better with a guy in front, not silhouetted, considering once silhoutted the context is changed. A blurred out soldier means little with Requiem as its background.

Disclaimer: This article was written during fall of 2013, for a school course. I utilized www.343industries.org as a resource, and it is for that reason that I decided to post this as well. This is a modified copy of my original project, with modified formatting to fit this forum and thread. Do video games make you violent? ABSTRACT This project looks at the question of whether playing video games can make the player violent, with an end goal of trying to answer the question with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’. The process of which I worked on this project was by looking at research and previous scientific studies done on the subject, as well as asking both people who have, and people who haven’t played video games. At the end of the project, I did not reach the goal of finding a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer, but that while there is a link between certain games and aggression, there is no definite link between video games and violence. INTRODUCTION Video games have, for years, been associated with violence. In fact, almost every time a shooting ‘tragedy’ happened, video games would always take the heat - for example, 2012‘s Connecticut shooting was blamed on Video Games by the National Rifle Association. People often would start to blame video games for causing violence, with the main correlation being ‘violent people play video games’. But is this true, that video games cause violence, or is it all just people trying to blame it on media? The question of whether video games make players violent is what I set out to answer in this essay. To start off, here is a graph (Source [4]) comparing ‘Murder’s per 100,000’ and ‘Video game spending per capita’. While this dates a year back, the statistics are no doubt very similar. These comparisons assume that national game markets are very similar if not the exact same in different countries, with european, american and asian gamers playing the same games. While an assumption, aside from possibly Japan, the video game market is quite global, so it’s a very safe assumption. Now, if there were a correlation between violence and video games, then we would expect the more money spent on video games, the more violence there would be. However, if that were the case, then the graph (Source [4]) should look a bit like this. As we can see, that obviously is not the case. With just 10 points of data on the graph, its in no way a perfect comparison, but with the United States having such a high violence count (and if we ignore the fact that of all the countries in the graph, they are the only country that doesn’t ban or heavily restrict guns is the US) the data would then suggest a slight downward shift in violence compared to video games. From this, we’ve learned that based on international data, there isn’t a correlation between video games and violence at all. In fact, countries that spend more money on video games are also some of the safest countries in the world, (probably because they are developed and stable countries, not because they have video games) apart from the US, whose rate of gun-related murders are still much higher than the rest of the world. Further evidence that supports the theory that video games don’t actually correlate to violence is shown by comparing game console releases with crime history. Using the US as an example, as many prominent game consoles have been released there, and the US has the worlds largest crime rate and video game market. As you can tell from the units sold, the past decade has had a massive spike in video game console sales compared to previous years - From less than 10 million units sold to over 100 million units sold. If there was a correlation between video games and violence, then the influence of so many sales in the past few years should have increased violence as well. However, the past decade also has the lowest crime rates since the 1970s - which is when video games started to become prominent - but sales were still less. The only correlation apparent here, if there is one, is that the more console sales, the lesser the crime. Which would then mean that video games act converse to this theory of making players violent - instead, it would make players less violent than they were! Of course, that most probably isn’t the truth; safety has simply gone up. However, if you do argue that these sales are only in consoles, and it doesn’t change how many ‘violent’ games are sold alongside, think again. This September’s GTA V, known notoriously as a ‘violent’ game where players step into the shoes of criminals, achieved a record breaking revenue of 1 billion dollars within 3 days. If you want a comparison, movies such as The Avengers and James Cameron’s Avatar managed to achieve 1 billion dollars revenue in 3 weeks. And who held the record before GTA V? Why, 2012’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, yet another ‘violent’ game. So this kind of tells us that a crime drop in recent years has occurred the same time as the video game industry soaring to new heights. Correlation between violence and video games? Seems much more inverted than proportional. However, from a scientific point of view (Source: [1 and 6]), this isn’t the found truth. In a french psychology experiment early 2012, seventy french university students participated in an experiment to test aggression. To do so, they split the students into two groups. One group of 35 students would play violent video games consisting of Condemned 2 (A psychological horror game), Call of Duty 4 (A first-person shooter game), and The Club (A third person shooter). Another group of 35 students would play non-violent video games such as SBK Superbike (A racing game), Dirt 2 (A rally racing game) and Pure (An off-road racing game). After each gaming session, the students were asked to write an ending to randomized stories. For example, in one of the stories, a driver crashes his car into the main character’s car, causing a bunch of damage, and the main character approaches the driver’s car. Students would have to fill in what happened afterwards. Then, each student had to compete in a game where they had to react to visual cues faster than an opponent of the same gender. The loser would have to suffer from a noise blast that sounded like a combination of nails on chalkboards, dentist drills and ambulance sirens. The winners were allowed to determine the intensity and duration of the noise blast that their opponent would have to suffer through. The results - conducted by Ohio State University professor Brad Bushman - were conclusive, the researchers said. The students who played the violent games were more likely in writing violent endings to the stories and select more unpleasant noise blasts that were played on a longer period of time. Violent video games, Bushman and his colleagues concluded on, have a direct effect on aggression. Still, aggression and violence are two different things - while violence could be due to aggression, not all aggression could be violence. And while there has been studies that prove the theory that video games lead to aggression, there is still no direct link between video games and criminal violence. Of course, there’s the argument that only violent video games can make you violent. Puzzle games, racing games, etc. all exist and are video games as well. Interviewing some people who DON’T play video games reveal their thoughts that while certain games and genre’s (For example, one of the games used as an example many times is Candy Crush, a simple tile matching game where players try to get 3 same colored candies in a vertical or horizontal row) don’t cause violence, other games, such as shooters and hack-and-slash games, do. On the other hand, many gamers disagree. (Source: 343industries.org forums) While there is a possibility of bias, there’s also the fact that millions of players log on daily to play these games that are said to cause violence, yet these millions don’t go around committing these violent crimes daily. As one gamer says, “Playing football on my playstation didn’t mean I could play football in real life, nor did it make me want to. Similarly, playing a shooter game didn’t mean I could shoot others in real life, nor did it make me want to.” Some gamers emphasized upon the point that many of these so-called shootings where the shooter usually has a mental illness or brain disease already. 2012’s Adam Lanza was reported to be autistic, and diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome. These gamers hold the belief that it is these mentally unstable people who shouldn’t be playing video games, due to possibly not being able to differentiate from right and wrong. CONCLUSION In the end, I have found multiple points for both sides of the argument as to whether or not video games make players violent, each of the points with substantial evidence. Evidence that supports that video games don’t make players violent include the comparison between crime rates and video game sales, as well as video game spending per capita and crime rates in different countries. By comparing them, we see that there is no trend at all between rise of video game sales and rise of violence, and if anything, there is an inverse trend. Further, when I interviewed many gamers (Who have confirmed to play violent games such as Call of Duty) all of them have said that they don’t ever feel ‘violent’ due to playing video games, and pointed out that many of the people who have been shown to be violent (Especially those in controversial events such as Adam Lanza of the 2012 December Connecticut shooting, during which video games have been blamed for the cause of their violence) have also had recorded mental problems, and as such it is most probably due to their mental issues that they ended up committing their violent crimes. Evidence that supports that video games do make players violent involved a scientific investigation into the subject that I found, that had been performed early in 2012, during which scientists let students play ‘violent’ and ‘non-violent’ games, and compared the students’ reactions and actions. They found that the violent video games caused an increase in aggression in the students, compared to those who hadn’t played the violent games. However, this didn’t necessarily cause them to become ‘violent’. Throughout my research, I have continuously found that many of the articles relating to this subject conclude that there has never been conclusive evidence that video games do cause violence, which is what I conclude as well. While video games can cause aggression, there is no proof that video games themselves have a direct link to violence. BIBLIOGRAPHY Works Cited/Used [1] Amini, Tina. "25 Video Game Violence Studies, Summarized." 25 Video Game Violence Studies, Summarized. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 June 2013. <kotaku.com/5976781/25-video-game-violence-studies-summarized>. [2] Carey, Benedict. "Studying the Effects of Playing Violent Video Games - NYTimes.com." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 June 2013. <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/science/studying-the-effects-of-playing-violent-video-games.html?_r=0>. [3] English, Cameron. "The Health Benefits of Call of Duty and Mario: Video Games Make Society A Better Place." The Health Benefits of Call of Duty and Mario: Video Games Make Society A Better Place. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 June 2013. <http://www.policymic.com/articles/4416/the-health-benefits-of-call-of-duty-and-mario-video-games-make-society-a-better-place>. [4] Fisher, Max. "Ten-country comparison suggests there’s little or no link between video games and gun murders."Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 June 2013. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/17/ten-country-comparison-suggests-theres-little-or-no-link-between-video-games-and-gun-murders/>. [5] Layton, Julia. "HowStuffWorks "Do violent video games lead to real violence?"."HowStuffWorks "Electronics". N.p., n.d. Web. 6 June 2013. <http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/video-game-violence.htm>. [6] Schreier, Jason. "Do Video Games Make You Violent? An In-Depth Look At Everything We Know Today - TechSpot."TechSpot - Technology News, Reviews and Analysis. N.p., 18 Jan. 2013. Web. 6 June 2013. <http://www.techspot.com/article/629-do-video-games-make-you-violent/>. [7] Wang, Kai-Ping, and M.D.. "Video Games and Kids: Why they love them, and what parents can do to minimize the risks | AboutOurKids.org." About Our Kids | AboutOurKids.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 June 2013. <http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/video_games_kids>

You actually dont. All you really need is the youtube url. Praise ip.board for laziness support warning: this video features Boss in it Also, watching back on it, vaulting frog as well

My best suggestion would be to PM those in the art department, and ask them.

This is actually your thread in the intro forum, so hey, welcome to the site! Personally, I don't enjoy fanfic very much, though I don't know why, considering I like serial stories, especially ones based upon things I already like. I'd probably have more incentive to read it if there was a base summary but if not I'm simply more busy with life. :3 Anyways, always nice to see a new writer come around, even if you are here just to advertise for your stuff. Who knows. Maybe you'll like it here. In any case, good luck on your writing!

Try to do this: When editing, press the 'switch' like button at the top left of the post toolbar. It should be called 'BBCode Mode'. After clicking it, you should be able to see all the bbcodes. There should be some for 'font'. Delete the BBcodes for fonts, and that should revert it all to the default font, which is fine. If that isn't the problem, then I don't actually know what the problem is. EDIT: I just realized your problem may be that you don't know how to edit on IP.Board, and quite simply, at the bottom of each of your posts (Above the next post's bar which has the posters name), on the right hand side, should be a button named 'Edit'.

I'll make a guess and say Requiem. Politics

I hate myself for wanting to read it.

Within the next 2 years.

Probably why he said it was pretty much useless.