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by DezoPenguin
Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:38 pm
Forum: Almost Anything Goes Board
Topic: Rant: Urban fantasy that never ends!
Replies: 0
Views: 5535

Rant: Urban fantasy that never ends!

Obviously, everybody loves a successful character, and successful series will generally continue until they cease being successful, but I've been noticing a distinct trend lately in the subgenre of books that can be called "urban fantasy"--by which I mean that just-sliding-out-of-romance s...
by DezoPenguin
Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:46 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: Fanfiction -- Lunar: Crimson Hope (34 chapters as of 10/30)
Replies: 54
Views: 71249

Re: Fanfiction -- Lunar: Crimson Hope (16 chapters as of 2/21)

This chapter introduces my favorite character in the story. I've always enjoyed the characters like Danilo Thann in Elaine Cunningham's Forgotten Realms books ( Elfshadow , etc.) and Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel , who act like a dandified fop, a butterfly of high society, and conceal ...
by DezoPenguin
Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:28 am
Forum: Almost Anything Goes Board
Topic: Change music
Replies: 6
Views: 8070

Re: Change music

Nope. There are games where I do this (I can't play anything from Expose's self-titled album without immediately thinking of Phantasy Star III due to one epic eight-hour gaming session on the day I got the CD for that precise reason), but Lunar isn't one of them. Except I have been known to mute the...
by DezoPenguin
Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:25 am
Forum: Almost Anything Goes Board
Topic: postponing my crazy cat-lady plans
Replies: 21
Views: 20410

Re: postponing my crazy cat-lady plans

So since you're getting married on Leap Day, will you be celebrating your anniversary next year on February 28th or March 1st? hey! why would anyone not have it the day before or the day after? why would someone want that complication? Incidentally, the law considers the anniversary of February 29 ...
by DezoPenguin
Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:44 pm
Forum: Almost Anything Goes Board
Topic: postponing my crazy cat-lady plans
Replies: 21
Views: 20410

Re: postponing my crazy cat-lady plans

Congratulations! And I'm jealous, darn it! I want to go back in time and have a Chinese buffet for my wedding dinner!
by DezoPenguin
Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:01 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: [Fanfic] Morhault's Fall--now complete!
Replies: 4
Views: 8538

Re: [Fanfic] Morhault's Fall

Two weeks down, and we're two-thirds of the way there. It strikes me, after reviewing the battle scene, that Vane is being stingy with its magicians. As it should be.

Chapter Two
by DezoPenguin
Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:57 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Is there supposed to be a new thread for every new member?
Replies: 7
Views: 12058

Re: Is there supposed to be a new thread for every new member?

I'm in favor of new member threads. Makes it easier to lock targeting sights...er, give them cookies, yeah, that's it! :D

Anyway, welcome to the forum; hope you enjoy the stay!
by DezoPenguin
Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:50 pm
Forum: Lunar: Eternal Blue
Topic: Who's your favorite?
Replies: 20
Views: 39627

Re: Who's your favorite?

Oh, of course. But the funny thing about Square, at least, is that they design their English names first, it seems, complete with last names, so that does sort of make them the authoritative ones, whether one likes it in English or not. I wouldn't dare to change a character's name in a book I was t...
by DezoPenguin
Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:03 am
Forum: Lunar: Eternal Blue
Topic: Who's your favorite?
Replies: 20
Views: 39627

Re: Who's your favorite?

Jessica wasn't in EB. Pfft... you just don't know the correct code. It's the same one that you use to bring Aeris (My first instinct was to spell that with a -th. Must fight instinct!) back to life. Actually, Square finally woke up and remembered that it was supposed to be a -th in its more recent ...
by DezoPenguin
Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:59 am
Forum: Almost Anything Goes Board
Topic: Someone entertain me!
Replies: 54
Views: 52041

Re: Someone entertain me!

Didn't do that one...can't say I would have wanted to have anyone slipping cash into my clothing, though I wouldn't mind cash donations...and Lynne would have killed anyone who tried to tuck anything anywhere. The only thing we had at our wedding which involved payment by the guests (well, apart fro...
by DezoPenguin
Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:21 pm
Forum: Anime, Music, TV/Movies, and Books
Topic: Good music news for us old-schoolers!
Replies: 2
Views: 6862

Good music news for us old-schoolers!

Every once in a while, I'm surfing along on the net and come to the conclusion that the universe genuinely loves me: http://www.vgmworld.com/catalog/index.php?table=cocoebiz_music&item_num=1589 I'm so on that. :D *pauses to hop over to VGMWorld* Okay, my pre-order is in, so the present tense is ...
by DezoPenguin
Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:15 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: Favorite Character Of SSSC or EBC
Replies: 40
Views: 71948

Re: Favorite Character Of SSSC or EBC

You should totally read Darrell's (DezoPenguin's) short fics about Leo posted up at the Shrine. At least, I assume they're posted there. I should go find out; it's been some years now since I read them. At last check, they're hiding in under the general header of "Message Board Madness" i...
by DezoPenguin
Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:44 pm
Forum: General Lunar Discussion
Topic: Lunar Dating
Replies: 68
Views: 78291

Re: Lunar Dating

You misspelled "great" as its homonym, "grate." B_G posted a picture of a cheese grater.
by DezoPenguin
Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:51 am
Forum: Almost Anything Goes Board
Topic: Someone entertain me!
Replies: 54
Views: 52041

Re: Someone entertain me!

Mind you, this was eight and a half years ago, but I threw the garter at my wedding (and had fun taking it off Lynne's leg, too. :twisted: ).
by DezoPenguin
Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:31 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: Fanfiction -- Lunar: Crimson Hope (34 chapters as of 10/30)
Replies: 54
Views: 71249

Re: Fanfiction -- Lunar: Crimson Hope (15 chapters as of 2/7)

Hopefully, High Priestess Ailera will be more reasonable than the Chief Magistrate's clerk, or else our heroes will have an interesting time trying to save the Governor from the Vile worshippers' plot...

Church and State
by DezoPenguin
Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:28 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: Happy Singles Awareness Day! XD
Replies: 5
Views: 8674

Re: Happy Singles Awareness Day! XD

That is cute. Nice work, He of the Prinny Avatar! :D
by DezoPenguin
Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:27 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: [Fanfic] Morhault's Fall--now complete!
Replies: 4
Views: 8538

[Fanfic] Morhault's Fall--now complete!

In the next few "off" weeks (since Crimson Hope updates every other week), I'll be presenting this side-story. Morhault told Edric, Elia, and Tabren the story of his fall from the Lion Knights of Ilan in Crimson Hope chapter 8, but here is the entire tale in depth. I hope the eight of you ...
by DezoPenguin
Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:26 am
Forum: Polls
Topic: Final Fantasy or Lunar?
Replies: 44
Views: 51309

Re: Final Fantasy or Lunar?

Lunar for me, though I have to agree that it isn't really a fair comparison given the fact that each FF game is essentially its own subfranchise for which everyone will have high and low points (for example, if FFVII and its assorted spinoffs were put up against Lunar, I'd have a much more difficult...
by DezoPenguin
Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:17 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: Fanfiction -- Lunar: Crimson Hope (34 chapters as of 10/30)
Replies: 54
Views: 71249

Re: Fanfiction -- Lunar: Crimson Hope (14 chapters as of 1/24)

This week, in honor of me getting my state tax refund, the heroes go and deal with various wings of the Katarina Zone federal bureaucracy! Jyrian gets audited for not paying the Epic Hero surcharge on her income tax, Elia forgets to take the Animated Character Hair Color Tax Credit and Morhault has ...
by DezoPenguin
Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:50 am
Forum: General Lunar Discussion
Topic: Still more recent Lunar sightings
Replies: 19
Views: 22749

Re: Still more recent Lunar sightings

Luna put in an appearance by reference today in my life. I was reading Atelier Marie and Elie vol. 1 and in a flashback scene the child Elie mistakes Marie for the Goddess of Healing...Lady Althena. (Lemina says she'll represent the Goddess in court for the standard contingency fee plus retainer...)