Well, I don't believe that Atheists etc don't have faith. Faith to me doesn't have to be in a deity. I do not believe in gods simply because I feel they are made up and there is no proof for them. I also believe that deities were made up to fill in missing blanks of answers that I feel can be left open until they can be answered by science and reality. Also, religions have been used to run and design governments in times where people felt the need to lie to people was essential for order. So, where then do I have faith? I have faith in myself and my integrity and also in others. Knowing that we all do some faulty things, I have faith that people will 'be themselves'. I think if more people believed in themselves and stopped reaching out to things to make things happen, more would happen. If people accepted responsibility for their actions instead of blaming some fictitious entity for their bad deeds and some other one for their good acts, I think people would feel better about themselves and do more right deeds and there'd be no excuses accepted that were unreasonable. Faith in yourself to be yourself with your flaws and merits means you can work on the negatives and make yourself a better person. Of course, it also means you can work on yourself to become a worse person too. However, at least in the end, the person is being true to him/herself and there are no things that are imaginary to make up to place blame on. So, faith in myself to be me...faith in my friends to be them..faith in acquaintances to be them...faith in my family to be them, etc. Those closest to me I obviously put more trust in as far as expecting more 'positive' things to happen by my association with them. Those who I do trust instead to well, have more of a potential to screw me over, those stay at an arm's length away. Researching people for people tells a lot about them and about yourself and the type of person you want to be. I can have some amount of faith in a person that has done positive things to me that it may happen again so it's cool. I can have some amount of faith that if someone messed me up in some way, it could happen again so well, I will not trust them so much in the future. So, I disagree that faith is a dying thing but it is redirected in Atheists and Agnostics to instead mean that they have faith that people will be as people are, not expecting more or less, and also taking the world for what it is. Accepting the world and yourself and others, flaws and merits is important to learning how to fix the negatives and enjoy the positives. It's a new kind of faith that takes me much farther than any religion ever has. As for people betraying their countries...that has always happened. Also, family feuds have always transpired because no one can help you like family but also no one can screw you over so bad as a family member can. That is just the reality of the scenario. These things are nothing new. Look at history and see all the coups, murders of leaders, oustings of nobility, etc. Some stories are rather quite legendary. Despotic leaders go back thousands of years. Faith and loyalty to me are two different things. Faith is believing in something. Loyalty would be following something. If I have faith that something is a despotic tyrant...well I am certainly not going to be so loyal to it. If I know and have faith my sister is out to kill my grandmother, I'm not going to be so loyal to her. There is a definitely a separation here. In the religious sense of the word 'faith' it means you believe in something without needing necessary proof. However, in the modern world, 'faith' can also mean that you put trust and faith in something to be true because that's what it seems most likely to be. In either case though, there are countless people throughout the ages that have had 'faith' in religion and done some of the most heinous crimes with using faith as an excuse. So, in a way, the reinvention of the word makes sense in modern times or else we end up looking and studying deities that aren't grounded in fact while people continuously miss out on who -we- really are. I think we actually can grow stronger if more people would study -us- instead of reaching to blame or exalt something else. Some religious people also see things this way so it's not Atheists alone or Agnostics that recognize it. Deists were also very strong in this thought and it is why the U.S. Constitution is meant to divide church and state.
(Twilight Town) Repliku followed after Namine and Roxas and frowned slightly. Roxas was acting more peculiar. "I take it Riku did something to you that you aren't so fond of...and well, maybe as a Nobody you don't want to go back to Sora...is that why you are dodging them? I know Riku and he wouldn't want to hurt anyone if he didn't have to. And Sora...he's even more docile usually unless his friends are in danger. So what's your problem with them really? They may be able to help and you don't 'have' to choose to go back to Sora now." Repliku knew the idea of speaking out probably wasn't the best but at the same time, he didn't really care. It wasn't like Roxas liked him much any way so he had nothing to lose or gain from another fight with the surly blonde haired fellow. (TWTNW) Xigbar followed along after The Superior and then turned as his vision caught something forming. If he had a heart, it would be to his dismay that he'd recognize the Cheshire Cat. "Actually in this case it's better to go from up to down for us because there's one way out of the castle for crap like that so your strategy sucketh, dude." TWTNW Scene: Axel and others looking out to see the Heartless below could make out basic Heartless Neoshadows and Shadows possibly brought in from the city around and thorns and vines growing up about the lower levels of the Castle. Also there were two giant Behemoths standing guard on the main floor at the entrance to stomp all over anyone that might be 'dumb' enough to walk in along the light bridge to the Castle. For Xemnas and Xigbar and the Cheshire Cat, you two would notice that outside the meeting room, there were thorns and vines guarding the doors and some minor Heartless that were pesky and well, those could be easily enough dispatched. It could be presumed that Maleficent must move the thorny vines of her free will or she had to dark portal into the meeting room because otherwise they would be in the way of her entry to the room as well as they were now in your way. At Twilight Town: For Roxas, Namine and Repliku: The weather is sunny and it's such a nice day. Nothing seems too amiss yet as you continue on your way out of the mansion to outside. For Destiny Islands: Kairi, Riku, awol Sombre and Sora: It's going towards 3:PM and still sunny and nice out, though perhaps a storm looks to be making its way slowly towards you as thick clouds look rather telling.
OOC: Basically I'll be running unclaimed NPCs such as villains you guys will face or fillers unless someone wants to claim filler characters temporarily such as Olette, Pence, Aladdin etc. That way it keeps the story flowing and they have 'some' parts to interact with characters and fill them in. Xigbar nodded to Xemnas's orders and after the Superior had turned and departed he gave a two finger salute. "Ciao" he noted and then slipped out the door walking behind Xemnas, heading towards the meeting room. The other three or four had their orders to deal with the Heartless looming. He did not really see Maleficent as 'too much' of a problem but the witch had a good hold on the lower levels of the castle by what he could ascertain.
And no one stopped you till now. Amazing.
I'm sure me pot o' gold is at the end of that.
I got it covered! How'd you get so high already!? 0 0 0
(TWTNW) Xigbar looked at Demyx, watched his whole display and now the guy was bac on the ground after his good vent. Xigbar could only do one thing at that point. He brought his hands togethre and clapped slowly. "Oh good show, dude."
I <3 emos.
OOC: Taking Demyx is also fine. He'll wake up where the other Nobodies are.
51~ ..no 0. Why can't I play without negative effects???
Cool, and now we have a rather entire list for KH2:FM.
Harvey sipped his water and stood up. "Please go ahead and reiterate your testimony as now it is pertaining to Axel and not Larxene. You also had things to do with Axel after Castle Oblivion so please go ahead and go into that for us and what you know there. That is mainly where you will need to highlight things but a refresher of events from Castle Oblivion will do well too since now this is a different person and your occurrences with him will now be more focused upon."
Shiiii pa pa! Okay...I'm so glad this wasn't shown to me when I was growing up or I never would have wanted to wear pants.
The Dark Knight was great. Whoo hoo! Why so serious? It can't be because I have made you start over again. *waves and dances off*
This is for Synthesis Items and it lists the Heartless and Nobodies that have them. I'm so glad I copied and saved this to the Journal sticky here. That way it was easy to find so I didn't have to bother typing it up again. Hope that helps you out. Also, ensuring you are making things helps lower costs. Raising the moogles' level is important and cuts costs in half as does using the right materials. So have them making things and they get experience that as they rise in levels reduces costs of their former level items list quite a bit. Heartless * Aerial Knocker - Power Gem (8%), Bright Gem (4%) - found in the Pride Lands. * Aeroplane - Frost Stone (8%), Bright Stone (4%) - found in Timeless River. * Air Pirate - Dark Crystal (8%), Bright Crystal (4%) - found in Land of Dragons and Port Royal. * Armored Knight - Lightning Gem (4%) - Beast's Castle, Port Royal, Halloween Town, Pride Lands. * Assault Rider - Dark Stone (12%), Serenity Shard (4%) - Land of Dragons. * Bolt Tower - Lightning Shard (10%), Energy Shard (4%) * Bookmaster - Lucid Gem (10%), Energy Crystal (4%), Akashic Record (1%) - Hollow Bastion, Space Paranoids. * Bulky Vendor - Bright Shard, Orichalcum (8%) RARE: Bright Stone, Orichalcum (10%), LIMITED: Bright Gem, Orichalcum (12%), PRIME: Bright Crystal, Orichalcum (16%). LoD (Checkpoint), Beast's Castle (West Hall), Olympus Coliseum (Cave of the Dead Entrance), Agrabah (Bazaar), Halloween Town (Candy Cane Lane). Go to these areas one after another and and you can find the Bulky Vendor. It tends to move between these. * Cannon Gun - Blazing Stone (6%), Bright Stone (3%) - Port Royal, Space Paranoids. * Creeper Plant - Power Shard (8%), Bright Shard (4%) - Olympus Coliseum, Halloween Town. * Crescendo - Blazing Crystal (6%), Bright Crystal (3%) - Olympus Coliseum. * Crimson Jazz - Blazing Crystal (12%), Serenity Stone (4%) - Hollow Bastion, Beast's Castle, Olympus Coliseum, Agrabah. * Devastator - Lightning Crystal (12%), Serenity Shard (4%) - Space Paranoids. * Driller Mole - Lightning Stone (6%), Bright Stone (3%) - Olympus Coliseum. * Emerald Blues - Lightning Stone (10%), Energy Gem (4%) - Halloween Town, Agrabah, Space Paranoids. * Fat Bandit - Blazing Gem (12%), Ether (10%), Serenity Shard (4%) - Agrabah. * Fiery Globe - Blazing Gem (4%) - Agrabah. * Fortune Teller - Frost Gem (10%), Energy Gem (10%) - Agrabah. * Gargoyle Knight - Dark Gem (10%), Energy Shard (4%) - Beast's Castle. * Gargoyle Warrior - Dark Gem (10%), Energy Shard (4%) - Beast's Castle. * Graveyard - Lucid Stone (12%), Serenity Shard (4%) - Halloween Town. * Hammer Frame - Blazing Shard (10%), Energy Stone (4%) - Beast's Castle, Timeless River. * Hook Bat - Power Gem (8%), Bright Gem (4%) - Land of Dragons, Beast's Castle, Olympus Coliseum, Agrabah. * Hot Rod - Frost Stone (12%), Serenity Shard (4%) - Timeless River. * Icy Cube - Frost Gem (4%) - Agrabah. * Lance Soldier - Frost Shard (10%), Energy Stone (4%) - Beast's Castle, Olympus Coliseum, Port Royal. * Large Body - Power Shard (12%), Serenity Shard (4%) - Beast's Castle, Olympus Coliseum, Timeless River. * Living Bone - Frost Crystal (12%), Serenity Stone (4%) - Pride Lands. * Luna Bandit - Power Stone (8%), Bright Stone (4%) - Agrabah. * Magnum Loader - Lucid Gem (8%), Bright Gem (4%) - Space Paranoids. * Minute Bomb - Blazing Shard (6%), Bright Shard (3%) - Olympus Coliseum, Timeless River. * Morning Star - Power Crystal (12%), Serenity Stone (4%) - Hollow Bastion, Beast's Castle, Olympus Coliseum, Port Royal. * Neoshadow - Lucid Crystal (8%), Bright Crystal (4%) - Hollow Bastion, Land of Dragons, Beast's Castle, Olympus Coliseum, Port Royal, Agrabah, Halloween Town, Pride Lands, TWTNW. * Nightwalker - Dark Stone (10%), Energy Shard (4%) - Land of Dragons. * Rabid Dog - Lucid Shard (6%), Bright Shard (3%) - Olympus Coliseum, Port Royal. * Rapid Thruster - Lightning Shard (4%) - Land of Dragons, Timeless River, Port Royal, Agrabah, Pride Lands. * Shadow - Dark Shard (4%) - just about everywhere. * Shaman - Power Gem (10%), Energy Crystal (4%) - Pride Lands (Must kill Shaman not riding to get items). * Silver Rock - Power Stone (6%), Bright Stone (3%) - Agrabah, Halloween Town, Pride Lands. * Soldier - Dark Shard (8%), Bright Shard (4%) - just about everywhere except Land of Dragons. * Strafer - Lightning Crystal (8%), Bright Crystal (4%) - Space Paranoids. * Surveillance Robot - Lightning Gem (6%), Bright Gem (3%) - Hollow Bastion, Port Royal, Space Paranoids. * Tornado Step - Blazing Stone (8%), Bright Shard (4%) - Olympus Coliseum, Port Royal. * Toy Soldier - Lucid Stone (12%), Serenity Shard (4%) - Halloween Town. * Trick Ghost - Lucid Shard (10%), Energy Stone (4%) - Halloween Town, Olympus Coliseum. * Wight Knight - Lucid Stone (8%), Bright Stone (4%) - Halloween Town. Nobodies * Assassin - Twilight Gem (12%), Serenity Crystal (4%) - TWTNW in the Castle. * Berserker - Dense Crystal (12%), Serenity Crystal (4%) - TWTNW castle, Twilight Town. * Creeper - Dense Shard (8%), Serenity Shard (2%) - Twilight Town, TWTNW castle. * Dancer - Twilight Stone (12%), Serenity Gem (4%) - Hollow Bastion, Twilight Town, TWTNw castle. * Dragoon - Dense Shard (12%), Serenity Gem (4%) - Twilight Town, Beast's Castle, TWTNW castle. * Dusk - Twilight Shard (10%), Serenity Stone (2%) - Twilight Town, Beast's Castle, TWTNW castle, Land of Dragons. * Gambler - Twilight Shard (12%), Serenity Gem (4%) - Twilight Town, TWTNW castle, briefly in Port Royal. * Samurai - Dense Gem (12%), Serenity Crystal (4%) - Twilight Town, TWTNW castle. * Sniper - Dense Stone (12%), Serenity Gem (4%) - Twilight Town, TWTNW castle. * Sorcerer - Twilight Crystal (12%), Serenity Crystal (4%) - TWTNW castle. Boosting Drop Rates with Lucky Lucky To help yourself boost the drop rates that are in parentheses above, make sure Sora and his party are equipped with Lucky Lucky and some weapons that have it naturally to them. This really makes gathering items much easier for Synthesis. Each Lucky Lucky I believe increases the drop rate by 1/3rd what it is listed at. Equip the Lucky Lucky abiity on Sora, Donald and Goofy, or whoever is in your party. Use Sweet Memories which has it auto-equipped. Meteor Staff for Donald has it equipped. Genji Shield for Goofy has it equipped. Item Ring - equip this as well which is won after the Pain and Panic Cup is defeated.
Wow, you've been on 3 years and I have hardly seen you. Though I never got to know you well, take care and pester Misty in rl because we can't.
Watch the spam, guys. Nice pic xxRuin and I like yours a lot too, Kingdom Kohona even if you are in the bathroom. lol. You are both very pretty. Cherry, that was such a cute pic and you also are very pretty. So many pretty girls on this site!
Well, I've met my quota for the morning hours. Happy posting all!
19! Man, you are all so ambitious today!
(TWTNW) Xigbar soon walked back into the room where the others were. "Some things look in order, boss, but others...dude, that witch has these stupid thorns around and has occupied part of the Castle for her own stuff. She's sitting in your throne now where we hold our meetings." Of course, by 'witch' it could be guessed that he meant Maleficent. "So, whattdoya want to do about it?" Xigbar cracked his knuckles. It was clear what his desire was concerning Maleficent. "There are also some Heartless around and the lower levels are hers. It seems she hasn't made it up to our level yet to redecorate." (Twilight Town) Repliku watched as Roxas was racing towards the door, halted and then called for Namine who took a step forward to follow but then decided to acknowledge his existence. Repliku shrugged. "You don't have to worry about me. I'll go but if things can't work out, I will take off and find Sora and Riku. They might actually know more of what's going on." Repliku would let Namine go ahead to be with her newfound friend, Roxas, who apparently she had gotten a friendship with sometime after Castle Oblivion. A part of him was saddened because really he still had the memories of what she had done and how she hadn't even apologized to him. All he had wanted was a friend. Now though that his mind was at least somewhat more clear, he knew better than to really try and also the last thing he wanted to ever feel again was jealousy, so he just shook it off. Her mind was made up and Roxas was clearly her automatic choice as closest person to her. In the end, Repliku just thought to himself that at least now he had himself, so he did not really need anyone else. To be your own self was at least something and it gave him something to work with and not be so full of anger. He studied Roxas a moment. There really was no reason to hate the guy other than the fact he had attacked him. Thinking back though...Sora didn't hate Repliku for the same thing which was done out of ignorance and mind confusion. Riku didn't seem to hate him either though at first they didn't like each other. In the end, both Sora and Riku were better people and despite wanting to be so original, Repliku didn't just want to be a bad person. For the time being, it was the one thing he wouldn't mind being similar to Riku on and Sora too, so forgiveness was what he gripped onto and would try his best to let the grudges go. He smiled suddenly more happy as some issues he had were melting away and waited. "So lead on then!"
