by David » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:31 am
A journal of my thoughts on the races and species that inhabit the place known as "MSF"
(Just a quick disclaimer: The views and opinions on the characters and races mentioned here are from David's point of view, just a warning in case he writes anything "offensive". This thing is also very old and out of date so why are you even reading this one? Go to journal 2.0 for the latest opinions.)
The following text is taken from a notebook that David has been writing in about various types of people who inhabit MSF based on what he has learnt from other people and research, it will probably get updated every so often depending on what happens or who he talks to. The journal itself is a rather plain looking A4 notebook, the cover is purple and has "Unless your name is David and you are human then bugger off! This journal is not for public viewing!" written on it, god forbid someone finds the damn book because that writing alone means it has blackmail material.
Introduction
As I seem to be stuck here in this strange yet, friendly land, I have taken it upon myself to write down my research on the people present here and talk about their race or species indepth depending on what research I can gather on them into this journal. Should anyone like me be in the position of arriving here without a clue in the world what they are looking at and who is talking to them then they need only refer to this, that's assuming someone finds it!
If you happen to find this and are one of the people I mention in this journal and you take offence to what I wrote about you then I just have this to say.
Oh god don't kill me! It's just an opinion man!
Angels
As I was "lucky" enough to encounter one of these people first, even before I came to this place and was back home in England I encountered one so it seems fitting I write about these guys first.
When I was young and I still had family, I was taught by my parents this motto "If you see an angel, you're either dead or about to die." Thanks alot for the nightmares, mum and dad!
Anyway, they look alot like the angels were percieved back home, humanoids with wings on their backs but no halos, nonetheless they seem to have different coloured wings, eyes and hair depending on what kind of angel they are.
I assume that they have their own individual personalities but I can't rule out the fact that they could also be working for an higher power, a Seraphim as an example, good lord, now they are scary! Why on earth did these guys have to be so damn interested in me?! 6 wings! WHY!? Um, moving on, they have a large amount of supernatural power including the (rather painful I might add) ability to see ones soul. Unusually, they lack metabolism so it basically means food or drink is of no use to them but rather an option, they can't get drunk though so score one for the human race!
Quite why these so called "Holy" beings are interested in me is a mystery.
I shall now describe the angels I have met and managed to somehow not get killed by or have heard of from either people or based from research.
Update! I think I have found out where these people come from or at least, inhabit. A place known as "Yu-Shan" which I am told is the name for "heaven" in their language, how about that? It actually exists, not sure why I am so surprised by this since I learnt that there was an hell before that so it would be logical to assume there would be an heaven too. Annoyingly, trying to say "Yu-Shan" physically means you just say "Heaven" instead, what's the point in that?
Helel
Seems to have a rather unfortunate name because "Helel" in from my research is also another word for "Lucifer" rather fitting since he apparently took part in some kind of rebellion but I have been told by the angel itself that a more accurate name would be "Lukiferos" which was the first incarnation of Helel, probably best to not mention to him I read up on that rebellion part.
Helel also has silver hair, gray wings and those bloody red eyes of his, I swear every bloody time Helel looks at me with them I feel like he is looking right into my soul, so damn intimidating...
Helel also has the rather annoying ability of switching gender at will which is why I am not refering to Helel as he or she, the personality seems to stay the same though even if the chest area doesn't (thats how I know whether I am talking to the male or female version, I certainly hope Helel never finds this journal now I just revealed that...).
This angel classes itself a "dirty" angel which is the reason for the gray wings, probably because of that rebellion it took part in but I don't question it, a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I first encountered Helel under my comedy cover name "Manpuncher" where I immediately learned that angels have the the annoying ability to remove alcohol from your system, so damn annoying!
When I revealed to everyone my name and past, Helel actually helped me out, supplying me with "Holy" ammo for my gun, telling me just exactly what kind of angel brought me here (though he doesn't know why, not his field apparently), reading my soul and is currently setting up some prayer thing so I can drag some angel of fate to see me, that soul thing again, I have no idea how it works so I'll leave it to Helel. I still owe him a favour for that ammo and I will probably have to do something else once he does that prayer thing.
Despite all this, I'm a bit curious as to why Helel is helping me out here, pity? No idea right now. I wonder if Helel can sense my fear? I have no doubt that if Helel wanted to, he/she could just kill me right now but hasn't done so as of yet, doesn't stop me being scared of Helel though.
Update: I think I may have found why Helel can't decide on a gender, because there are multiple versions apparently, I have apparently met Omega, the easily irritated female form and I think maybe Alpha, the male form who kept on ridding me of my alcohol. It seems to make sense since Helel told me that angels can have multiple souls, sounds annoying if you ask me and perhaps a case of multiple personality syndrome gone too far. At least that explains how each version knows who I am rather than them being entirely seperate people.
Just a small correction here, apparently the male Helel was Beta, not Alpha. Alpha is stuck in Yu-Shan doing whatever they do up there. Better mention that Beta is also dead, probably thanks to my stupid ass for mentioning "Helel" in front of that angel.
Update 2: Don't say "Nokel" in front of Helel, I had no idea angel wing feathers could be so sharp and so damn explosive... ow.
Update 3: Omega Helel defines "PMS" I don't care if angels actually can't have it but she sure acts like sure does! Every damn time I talk to her something bad happens and she nearly saw what I wrote about her in this very journal! However it seems my handwriting is too crap for her to read, awesome, that's why I called her insane because I know she'll never read this! Ahahahahahahahaha! In fact I'm going to go ahead and state that all angels are insane, what? They aren't going to read this so I'm OK with writing this information... though I am currently laying low for a couple of days as I am currently writing these words by a beach I just found, good job I took Jean's car... What? I got her it so I should be able to use it! Stop judging me! Hell! I'm drunk again, I need to stop arguing with my nonexistant readers.
Uh alright, I take it back, all angels are insane EXCEPT for Helel though that's temporary, it could change at any time given how I always, ALWAYS seem to have bad luck around her recently.
I suppose if someone were to take this journal to someone who can read David's handwriting then they would get the true story but to do that, you'd need to get the journal first :p. Yes, I am tempting fate here.
Update 4: A recent conversation with Helel revealed that the Alpha soul is stuck in some girl called Sora, a human at that. I'm guessing that it's incredibly easy to keep a human within your reach, particularly since humans can be crippled in oh so many ways. Why Yu Shan has done this is still unknown but it was done by those damn angels of fate, hope I never meet one of those again.
Aeris
Not really talked to her much and because she has white wings and silver eyes and hair, I don't really want to, mainly because thats the same colours that the angel who brought me here had. Nonetheless, I know Aeris isn't the one since they look different physically but she still kinda scares me, her innocent attitude seems far too innocent to me, if she knew that I had a fear of heights her solution would probably involve grabbing me, flying up into the sky and then letting go of me whilst happily saying "There ya go, you're no longer afraid Davey boy!".
She is Helel's twin (At least Aeris can decide on a gender) and a daughter to Xia who I will move onto right now!
Xia
If I thought Helel was intimidating then Xia might as well give me a heart attack right now, she seems to have the ability to control the wind which sounds a little stupid but I dare you to try say that in front of her and I think she would be more than happy to show what she can do with it, doesn't help she carries around a pretty big sword either and I get feeling she doesn't like me all that much so I tend to keep away from her, just in case she ever feels like randomly killing someone.
Angel(s) of fate
From what Helel told me about these guys, they can read your soul and tell you what kind of future you have, what your destiny is, all that crap. Personally I'm going to treat whatever they say as an rough guide, Xia has also mentioned that their words are often not trustworthy. So much for "pure" beings then, I'm just hoping that they will say "Hmm... oops, looks like we screwed up and we don't need you for anything at all, you can go now."
Update: Oh man, that was not fun at all. I finally had my fate read by one of these guys a couple of days ago at the time of writing.
I might be wrong but I think angels of this type have four wings, why they need four wings is a mystery and I didn't ask, I was more focused on more important things.
So I summon this guy using the prayer strip given to me by Helel and use it where Helel told me to use it, in the nearby forest, on some kind of array, bled a little on the strip for it to work and bam! Insta-fate reader.
First unusual thing I noticed was he kneeled and bowed before me in that array thing, odd. He then asked what my name was which was even stranger, you would've thought the blood would've given them an ID.
I felt like having some fun and told him my name was "John Doe", he didn't find it funny but I did, either way after I told him my name or rather my first name (I ain't handing my last name to just anyone, not even you, the reader.) and amazingly he was able to tell which David it was, I can tell because he pulled out what looked like a piece of string only I could tell by the way my spine felt odd it was linked to me some how, he then said something about my past which is the point I realised "Oh bugger, this is the real deal isn't it?" and I began to doubt what Xia said about them.
But the worse part for me was when he revealed to me what the angels and that seraphim wanted.
1. The angels including the one that found and brought me to this place wish to purify me and make me one of them yet they mean no harm.
2. The seraphim is likely to be the one that singled me out in the first place, desiring to see my "full form" which probably won't happen till point 1. happens.
3. "The Holy Seven" are searching for me and are apparently who I should go seek out, why this is he didn't tell me and he didn't reveal who or what they are.
The worst part of all this is point 1. which I have been told is inevitable, I can delay it but in the end it's going to happen, arse.
Two further points of interest, he mentioned I must remember my ability to change, whatever that means and when I mentioned Helel by accident, he looked... "irritated"? I've a feeling it has something to do with that rebellion he took part in but what significance it has, I have no idea.
Helel told me to forget about thinking of doing 3. but rather focus on the first two points instead. I wonder how long I have left as a human and if there is anything I can do to buy more time?
I mentioned that "ability" thing to Helel and well, it was odd, Helel tells me it refers to my first point but what it exactly meant when I asked, Helel just couldn't seem to find the words, literally. Whatever it is, someone doesn't want me knowing.
At least when the guy wasn't looking, I gave him the finger, take that, fate!
Oh and just so you know, they are commonly referred to here as "Sidereals", personally I'd like to call them something else, something along the lines of (multiple swear words here have been censored for your benefit.) Bet they've never heard of those words before.
Seraphim
One of the higher ranks among angels and also the most terrifying, these guys have 6 wings and are said to be close to whatever omnipresent deity they work for. Having one of these visit you in your dreams and express how they look forward to meeting you was not particularly the best nights sleep I had.
Well, if they want me so bad then why don't they just come for me? If they are looking for a fight then my newly enchanted SPAS 12 here will have to have a word with them...
Update: Having seen one of these in person (One of Kira's forms resembling her good side) I can confirm that they are just as terrifying up close as they are in your mind, especially when they have no idea what personal space means. That was the worst day yet and I'd like to think that's the last time I ever see a seraphim again, EVER! Though MoS said it best "David... You seem to have the worst luck ever." Urgh...
David has stabbed the paper with the pen here as some kind of way to vent out his frustration, there are also several stains covering the text from where he has been spilling alcoholic drinks onto the paper.
"The Holy Seven"
According to what Helel told me, they are the 7 rulers of Heaven, archangels to be exact and they're looking for me. Sorry guys but you're gonna have to keep on looking because there is no way I'm coming to you, not voluntarily anyway.
Update: Helel mentioned that it wouldn't be the archangels doing the searching, oh no. "The Gunzosha" would be the ones doing the dirty work, who are they? The freaking Special forces of Yu-Shan! Just perfect, hiding from these guys is going to be pretty hard since I expect they will use every trick in the book to find me... but that's assuming they come for me in the first place, maybe this could all be one big mistake, right?
Nokel
No idea who this guy is yet but that's what I intend to find out despite Omega Helel telling me to not get involved, wait, I'm already involved with Jean so I should be just fine.
I think he is an angel of some kind but whether or not it's one I want to meet I'm not sure, I'll have to ask some people around here though not Helel, she nearly ripped my head off for even mentioning Nokel, must be that time of the month or something, I don't know.
This will not be a fun experience since I tried asking Allen who Nokel was and he wouldn't say anything, he even hid from me and when you know that Allen is in fact a "Death", you know something is up.
Update: You know the saying "Some things are best left unknown."? Maybe I should've followed that advice.
Nokel is described as an evil version of Helel, wears alot of black things and just to make things more darker, has black wings. I can tell alone from this guy having black wings that he is someone I definitely do not want to annoy or take an interest in me.
Allen described him as one mean sonofa... ahem, person who helped MoS "Wake up" by removing a seal of some kind. I'm more worried about the fact that he is said too be stronger and faster than Helel with the ability to hide himself which explains why he can just waltz into Yu-Shan without getting spotted.
Admittedly, I am curious as to how he conceals himself because well, I could do with something like that but to find out would mean talking to this guy and I get the feeling that would not be a good idea. If I see Nokel in person then I'm going to run the hell away from him as fast as I can, assuming I hide my soul and change into my animal form somewhere then he's got no chance of finding me... I think.
Update 2: Some more information handily given to me by MoS, it seems that Helel has a good reason for hating Nokel in that Nokel was bound to Helel for some reason during the rebellion, why angels were rebelling against Heaven I have no idea buuut I'm betting one of the points is they wanted to be able to metabolise alcohol so they could get drunk, I know I would! David once again going for the prioties in his life there.
Er... Anyway, Nokel works with some things called "Deathlords", angels with no soul whatsoever who get their kicks by killing things, lovely. The deathlords are said to responsible for the death of Helel Beta, Nokel on the other hand has been said to corrupt fragments of Helel, I know MoS said there was one known as Psi, probably best to stay away from this Psi version but that may be difficult since I have no idea if Psi looks any different, plus I'd look a dumbass going upto Helel and asking "Hey! Which version are you? I hope it's not Psi because then I'd have to run from you!".
One last thing about Nokel, he apparently wants to destroy Heaven itself, I asked MoS why he would bother and he replied it's probably because they bound him to Helel, perhaps that is why he is with the Alpha Helel now? No idea and to be honest if I get involved then someone will actually expect me to do something, no thanks, I'll just hide.
Aires Drake or Tiberius... whatever, probably related to what form he is in.
I figured I'd stick him here because I'm lazy, he isn't an angel but he refers to himself as an celestial being, completely destroying my previous definition of celestial that I was going to stick in here.
Despite being unfortunate enough to see him in his dragon form, I managed to get over my fear and talk to him and you know, he ain't as bad as his image suggested. I suppose you could accuse me of judging a book by its cover but you had to be there man!
I think he is friends with Helel, I didn't get a real confirmation on that one but he did tell me that celestial refers to fighting gods and demons in space, interesting. he seems very open to talking about his past and has even offered to go in more depth should I bring this journal with me even though I told him it wasn't really that good of one.
He seems to have two forms or two that I have seen, human and the dragon form and I guess depending in which form he is in affects how he attacks, not that I would want to witness something like that first hand though I got pretty close when I drank some alcohol in front of him, not a good idea.
Seems to have a large interest in guns and even branches off into heavy artillery, he gave me a large rifle and I forgot to pick it up, oops. Hope he doesn't mind.
So yeah, he's cool to hang out with but I'll make sure I do my drinking in private from now on.
Demons
This section will be a bit brief since what I would classify as demons are actually some other race but I think it's fitting I mention the one I have met after angels.
Kara
A nice looking lady if you ignore the horns, the wings, the tail and the fangs...
Don't get me wrong, she does look attractive for an archdemon who works in hell but why she seemed so surprised when I met her for the first time and ran away screaming from her is mindboggling, do they not have mirrors in hell or something? Did she not think that "Hmm, maybe a human isn't used to seeing something intimidating looking like me." Ah forget it, at least she has promised to not kill me which is always nice coming from a demon lady, she even said I wasn't going to hell when I finally die, nice to know.
Kara describes herself as the nice demon of this place and since she hasn't incinerated me to ashes or whatever they do then I guess she is telling the truth, is bizarrely friends with Helel which is odd considering that light is usually against dark, best not to ask really.
She also has a wife (yes you read that right, have a problem with single sex marriage do you?), some woman called Neige who is apparently human, I'm not one to judge given my current relationship but how exactly does a demon date a human anyway? Did Neige carve a pentagram into the singles section of a newspaper or something? Whatever, once again its best not to ask.
At least she likes Guinness, I wonder if demons can get drunk? I'll have to ask her sometime.
Update: I managed to have a talk with Kara the other day and here is some stuff I learnt. She was once human 10 years ago before Hell apparently offered her a job in Hell, I guess when she accepted then that's when she became what she is now, an archdemon though I wonder, how the in the Hell (hehehe) did she get such a strange job offer in the first place? Carving a pentagram in the job section of a newspaper? Wait, I already made that joke. Uh anyway, she is currently the Cheif Operations Officer or COO for short, for Hell, tasked with the duty of making sure things are as they should be, monitering who enters and bizarrlely, leaves hell after their appropiate punishment has been dealt. She apparently said the reason that people can leave Hell is because her Hell is really overseen by an merciful God of sorts, people who have done their time go to Heaven can stay, get reincarnated, whatever. Sounds odd if you ask me but I'm not about to complain, I've a feeling I'm going to end up visiting them somehow.
Moving on, Kara came to this place because she felt a bit bored, she got married to Neige here but she actually met her in Russia of all places whilst searching for a dead friend of hers, wait, wouldn't she already... nah, best not to ask. Still she did comment on the fact that while Neige is human, she is an "interesting being" in her own words, wonder what she meant by that? Maybe if she found Neige in Ukrane then I could've blamed Neige's so called oddity on the Chernoboyl incident though that's just silly, all radiation does is make you sterile and get cancer or get radiation sickness, not something to be desired I can tell you.
I asked her why she didn't see angels or other holy beings as enemies and she basically said something that can be summarised with her own words "I'm an open minded demon in a culture of open minded demons." thank god for that otherwise I'd be a dead man or a "Succubus", some kind of demonness that looks pretty... uh, let's move on!
After the talk, Kara did "something" to me, I'm not sure what it was but she assured me it was harmless. She basically cut herself to draw blood which some how floated into the air and formed some kind of seal, it was the seal that was placed upon me though it's not visible, I'm guessing it marked my soul since I felt a slight burning inside. The only thing I can think of is that she has placed her seal of approval on me, guess that's a good thing since I don't want to get Hell coming after me too.
As a side note she gave me three potions, all of which change the person who drinks it into a succubus, one bottle consumed means it's temporary, lasting for 24 hours, two bottles consumed means you stay a succubus in body only and three bottles makes you into a fully fledged one with your soul and personality altered to match the form. Personally, I'm not really interested in downing all three and becoming a succubus so I put these bottles in a safe place though I suppose it could be useful to hide if I drank one bottle, at least the effect would be temporary. Depends on the situation.
Oh and she kindly pointed out that demons can get drunk! Take that, Angels!
The Eternals or Aeternalae, its not like they are going to read this anyway
Once again, I have another race of beings to be frightened of, the eternals. Demon women who seem to think that their idea of helping someone is to change their gender to female (if not already) and alter their mind towards their "cause" via some kind of mind therapy where they enter the persons sleep and heal their mental scars. Once that's been done then that person can also go around creating more eternals until whatever planet they invaded is now completely eternal inhabitated.
They seem to be quite an close group, the newly made eternals refering to the ones who "touched" them as "Arividias" I think the word was, I wonder what would happen if I said "Arividaci" to one?
However, Just thinking about getting cornered by some of these femme fatales makes me shudder, I'm sure they are nice people and I have met one but... man, it makes me want to stock up on caffiene pills and never sleep again lest some eternal passing by decides she wants to "help me". Doesn't help that they have some kind of biological weapon known as the "Ovalisks". I know little about them but I have read that their effects can be devastating.
Update: Kira was kind enough to shed some light on her race, firstly, their Arivida's are like mothers to them and apparently don't warp their minds when doing the "touch", wait a minute, how on earth can you change someone's mind whilst simultaneously healing their mental scars without doing some kind of mindtrickery?! Argh!
Moving on, the eternals used to go around "touching" just about everyone they saw until they apparently became more "easy going" as Kira said, only doing it to those who ask for it, Kira being one of these people.
Oh well, at least they are kind enough to not go around changing you into them though I have been told they do the odd temporary change to someone every now and then.
Interestingly, they have a religon they follow though Kira couldn't tell what it was about since she wasn't all that interested in it. I certainly hope I'm not part of this religon, whatever it involves.
Finally, the name "Eternal" isn't just a name, it has a literal meaning. They live forever, never aging with the ability to change their own form at will (something Kira is quite fond of doing).
Update 2: I met had a brief chat with Sophia on the beliefs of the eternals the other day though she pointed out they are not so much as beliefs as they are a version of their philosphy so take what you read with a grain of salt if you wish.
The universal belief is that the universe as we know is split into three realms, the first realm being the physical realm which is basically what I am in now, the second is the realm of "dreams" which probably explains how they can enter the minds of people, finally the third realm is said to be "chaotic", a realm where reality is shaped by your own will, sounds like in this realm they are like some kind of deity but she couldn't tell me if I was right or not, she hasn't really heard much of it either and doesn't plan on going there any time soon. Other realms are said to be possible but right now, they probably can't agree on it.
As for the religon side of things, it is quite varied, some choose to worship goddesses (figures), the "Maiden Source" and some even worship the third realm as it is said to be the realm of infinity incarnate. The "Maiden Source" one is rather like how it sounds, a source of feminity said to restore their souls though she pointed out if I want to know more about that one I should go talk to someone called "Kerina", Sophia herself doesn't really believe in any of the deities mentioned here.
One last thing that I found strange, should an eternal have their physical body destroyed then they will end up in the third realm for 1000 years before they can return, why they have to wait a whole century I have no idea, Sophia couldn't shed any light on the matter and pointed out she didn't want to find out herself, I guess even immortals have to be scared of something.
I still don't get why they think changing anyone who can be changed into one of them is a good idea, they must be really bored or something, I don't know. I guess I would have to talk to some really high level Eternal to get an answer for that question but I get the feeling if I did find the answer, I wouldn't be living as an male human anymore, some things are best left unanswered.
Kira
This is the eternal I mentioned earlier though I never actually knew she was one till I heard a rumour she was one. She seems nice enough and gives me Everclear so I guess she can't be that bad though I'll probably avoid drinking too much and passing out in front of her from now on, just in case she takes advantage of my drunken state, even if she said that the "touch" has to be agreed by both parties. Who on earth would agree to that anyway? Probably not someone from earth anyway...
Update: I mentioned this earlier in the jorunal but Kira for some bizarre reason splits into two people, a Light side and a dark side, both are seraphim. When asked why she did this she told me she had to to keep the dark side of her in check, what's that supposed to mean? Either way, the light Kira is painfully innocent to the point where I reckon saying "I hate flowers." in front of her would make her burst into tears, at least she doesn't attack you.
Her dark side doesn't really do anything by just stand there moodily, I tried asking her a few questions and I just got a grunt or a shrug in response, charming. Her life goal it seems is to make the light Kira cry as much as possible which is a bit... rubbish, I wanted to see an epic fight between good and evil but all I get instead is the dark Kira bullying the light Kira, maybe I should be thankful that they don't fight? I don't know.
Another thing that happened recently is Kira made me a gun, an XM8 to be exact with an underslung 2 round grenade launcher, it was surprising to say the least since I gathered that eternals probably didn't need to make guns and swords but Kira told me it's her hobby, a hobby that I can confirm she is damn good at, she even gave me a ring which allows me to summon the gun and hide it at will by simply thinking it so should it make any future stealth operations easier and finally, she gave me two sights for it, a modern red dot sight and a telescopic sight for sniping, this XM8 is practically perfect though I do have one problem, ammo. Oh well, can't win them all. Er... oops, that went a bit off topic, sorry Kira! Oh wait, she can't read this, damn it I'm drunk again.
Flora
Poor Flora, I finally had a chance to speak to this eternal the other day and what she told me was a little... depressing.
Let's start with the beginning, arriving here originally as an anthropology student called Fidel Dolan, he was supposed to be heading to a caribbean archipelago but the plane he was on dropped him off here instead, was the pilot drunk or something? This place looks nothing like the Caribbean!
Uh, anyway, he came across everyones favourite eteranal, Kira, and accepted one of her cookies, having had one of Kira's cookies shoved in my mouth against my will I can say that the side effects are quite "something" to say the least.
Poor Fidel became a catgirl because of this, awakening a dormant personality that we know as "Flora" since then Flora has been the dominant personality with Fidel being the recessive, intellectual one though it would be more accurate to say that they merged in Flora's terms.
Flora obviously wasn't enjoying life here very well and she mentioned that she had suicidial thoughts, a way out of all this was to become an eternal by Tabitha's hand, someone who had apparently been supporting what was left of Fidel in Flora's head.
Flora also has an unusual compulsion, this compulsion is a little hard for me to describe so I shall quote her words on what this compulsion is "It's a long story I can tell you if you ask, but Uraj's sister... did something to me, when I was a still-human Flora. If I see anything that's not cute, I feel compelled to make it cuter. Right now I wanna reach across your notes, grab you, turn you into a little kittygirl, braid your hair and put flowers in it, and play with you forever and ever and ever." that certainly kept me on my toes for the rest of the talk, wondering if Flora would give in and pounce on me and do what she just described but she didn't, thank god.
She doesn't know much about the eternal's religon either but she has reccomended I go see someone called "Sophia Anieri" the "Ani" part of the last name is apparently an eternal trait, Flora's last name for example is "Anitabi" because her "Arivida" was Tabitha so it means part of Tabitha's first name is added onto the end of "Ani", another example is Flora's "Anina" which is basically their fancy term for daughter, is called "Jane Aniflora", I think you can see how it works.
There is still one thing I don't get though, what is the purpose of making someone into an eternal? Linked to that religon perhaps? I won't know till I talk to Sophia, she sounds like some kind "elder" or something.
Flora said I could insult her here but I have nothing really bad to say about her so I'll just laugh at the fact that "Flora" is a brand name for butter where I come from, that'll have to do.
Master of Shadows and his sons or Apocalypse and his four horsemen if you want
This guy is important enough to have an section all to himself and his created offspring.
Master of Shadows or MoS I shall now use since I am lazy, is said to be the void itself, he is the creator of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (one of which i will talk about) and has two further sons, Frey and Geo.
To say this guy is a bit evil is an understatement, he snacks on the souls of the living and is said to be apocalypse itself, he has to be kept under some kind of "sleep" so he doesn't "wake up" and decide "Reality? I think I'll just go destroy it!" though I know little about that particular subject.
If there is one guy I really don't want to get interested in me its MoS, I don't think he knows about my prison incident but he might already do so anyway thanks to his annoying mind reading ability, honestly the things that I think of that he could've seen...
Update: Damn! I get back from my little vacation and end up talking to MoS who quite bluntly states that yes, I am of interest to him and he does know about my past, brilliant. He hasn't said what is interesting about me in particular but he wants to come along to my fate reading, so long as he stays out of sight and I don't screw anything up then his presence will go unnoticed unless things go wrong.
Update 2: Because he seemed a bit upset that I didn't ask about his past, I asked him about it the other day and well, see for yourself what I found out.
There are actually three "fragments" of MoS, two of which are known as "Shade" and "Shard" though MoS has said he doesn't mind me calling them all Shade, he agrees with me that suits him well. The one fragment I talked to was born to human parents yet his soul being what it is, he was carried over by demons of some kind in the hope that he could be unbound, that whole "awakening" thing you hear so much about these days.
The first seal was broken by Jayme which seperated him into light and dark forms, the light form must've been crap so he ate him mentioning that he tasted quite good apparently, no comment on that one.
The second seal was broken fairly recently at the time of writng this by everyones favourite jerk, Nokel, using a sword made with soulsteel to kill someone called "Lugh" the results of this I think caused the 3 fragments to appear but I'm not too sure on that one, regardless I think there is another seal left which worryingly might have something to do with me, he did mention I might be his "ticket" to heaven, hate to disappoint but I'm not going anywhere near that place if I can help it. He also mentioned something else about me being his "charge". Wonder what that's meant to mean? A replacement power source or something?
Update 3: Oh my god! I just don't know anymore. Ok, let me try and explain it to you, the reader.
So here's the deal, I get back from my little "vacation" and bump into Shade, the young MoS, he seemed pretty down for a creature of darkness, want to know why he was so emo? He apparently went INSANE with rage on Helel for some reason and as such, she hasn't really been speaking to him which made him feel really bad, the best part? He has feelings for Helel Omega, that's right, he's looking for some angel love or at least was, Zeiss somehow tricked her into getting involved with him, I don't really give a *fudge*.
I myself was looking to get the enchantment on the SPAS 12 upgraded so it might actually do something against some crazed angel, should it ever come to that of course but anyway, in exchange for improving it I was tasked with being a "negotiater" of sorts, somehow I was expected to convince Helel that Shade isn't all that bad at all I mean so what? He's an creature of darkness and you're a being of pure light, doesn't mean you can't be friends, right ? WHAT THE *fudge* WAS I THINKING?! I was the dumbass who suggested it in the first place!
Well at least I did manage to do what was asked though the method was as the Germans would say "Schrecklich", doesn't matter so long as Helel and MoS are chums again or whatever those two do.
But that's not all! Oh no, MoS managed to screw up his home dimension or something because when I went there recently everything was different, I'd rather not go into it personally but I'm going to never, ever go blindly into a portal again. Urgh... Me and Jean MARRIED?! I'm 24 and she is 15 dammit! I don't care what some crazy alternate reality says.
In conclusion, you supernatural beings are NUTS! I'm going to drink till I pass out again like I always do, take that Hosaki! It looks like David is losing his mind somewhat over the current events, the way the handwriting here looks like ancient heiroglyphics kind of reflects this or he was quite drunk, probably the latter.
Update 4: Things are getting pretty messed up, the fragment Shade was involved with a fight between another fragment and was almost killed by Helel, Shade eventually escaped somehow and I think I was the last person to talk to him or rather "her" at the time, Shade seems to want to destroy his other fragment badly and has said I could help him out in some way thanks to the guns I have, but there is something else for me to worry about.
A few days ago I began to wonder if I really was just some normal guy, I mean, I could see astral beings for one thing and another thing pointed out to me by MoS is humans are not supposed to be able to see angels at all. Despite all this, I've found I am still human, I know because I can get drunk and Faith can read my mind but this isn't the bad part, it seems Mos split into another fragment for some reason, something to do with Helel I think, one of his fragments however, got "tainted" by Nokel who also managed to do it to Helel Omega, the one I've been speaking to most of the time, the best part? Reyn and MoS reckon she was already tainted well before this happened.
So here is the problem, I'm not sure if I can trust MoS on this information but if it's true, I am soooooo screwed! Helel Omega knows an awful lot about me but the main two points are my soul concealing ability and my Alsatian form, to put it simply, I can't hide from them, assuming Nokel does take interest in me then it is likely that Helel will be the one doing the searching, I don't really know yet to be honest.
As I said earlier, I'm not sure if this information is true given the source and if it is true then does Nokel know who I am and if so, does he want to meet me? Until I can say for sure I'm going to walk around fully armed since I bet Yu-Shan will be making it's move soon, assuming once again that this info is right. I hope bloody not.
Anyway, I'll have to rely on the stealth tactics I learnt back then and pray that they don't look for me by searching for life essence. This is going to get pretty interesting...
Death or Allen
This is one of the four horsemen I have been "lucky" enough to meet, he is awfully happy about his line of work and is so affectionate towards others, hugging practically everyone he meets, he didn't really fit my idea of an grim reaper at all. He is certainly entertaining to talk to though I'm a bit unhappy by the fact he proudly said to me that he is my death, just great. At least he told me that he won't eat my soul since I'm important... wait, that was what MoS said. Other than that, nothing wrong with him and he healed my injuries once, that was cool.
Update: Hmmm, this is strange, Allen just told me that he is in fact, NOT my Death and has no idea when I will die which worries me slightly, I'm not a fan of dying but the idea of having no death suggests... Ugh, I'm not gonna go there.
Frey
I know little about this guy but he seems OK, unusually he is human, you would've though that MoS would have made his sons into fire breathing demons of some kind, nope, a human. I don't think there is much more to say really but he seems cool, I'd buy him a pint in the pub.
Geo
Geo is Frey's brother and a rather unfortunate one at that, it seems should anyone attempt to change Frey in any way then Geo gets affected instead leaving Frey normal, odd.
Geo does have his uses though, he can enchant things as was proved when he made the SPAS 12 Jean made for me into an unholy SPAS 12 and all it cost was a few drops of blood, nifty. I have been told by others that if Geo starts any sentence with "This reminds of that one time..." then you are to knock him out, pronto! lest you suffer an agonisingly long story.
Catpeople
There are a ton of these people here at MSF, they seem to range from fully anthropomorphised felines to the cat/human hybrid the latter of which is more common. Yes, just like everything else mentioned so far they creep me out slightly, nice to look at yes but I know cats. Sure they may hug you and make funny noises that sound cute but really I think they are just playing with their soon-to-be-victims so thats why I keep my distance.
Phoebe
This one of those anthro catpeople I was talking about, she is a ruin exploring ninja from a rather low tech kingdom, I never really knew that ninjas could also branch out into archaeology but then again the Indiana Jones films would be rubbish if you just watched him do a 2 hour lecture on dinosaur fossils.
She seems the peace loving type despite her occupation and doesn't seem to mind my presence though I was a bit of an jerk to her once, ah it's all in the past now and she hasn't used her ninja skills to behead me with her katana so she must've forgotten about it.
Update: She isn't a catperson anymore but rather a skunkgirl of some kind, just thought you'd like to know that.
Musashi or Musa
Never met him personally but I have heard a lot about him, particularly his "taste" in men. Perhaps it's for the best I keep away from this guy.
Kitsune
It seems some legends and myths are not always false, at least not here. Typically the Kitsune are regarded in japanese text as magical beings whose age and strength grows stronger with their age and the word Kistune also means fox, just so you know.
I've only met one of these Kitsune and to say the least, I was a bit skeptical and as usual, frightened but they seem OK, so long as they're all like Hosaki anyway.
Update: It seems there are two kinds of Kitsune, "Myobu" and "Nogitsune" which are basically fancy ways of saying "light" and "dark" Kitsunes.
Hosaki is a myobu which explains why she was an celestial and also mentioned she is a follower of Inari, some guy in the Japanese religon of Shinto but when I did research on it I thought it was a little... stupid. OK, I know everyone has to have a belief in something but why the bloody hell would some amazing astral being worship some bloke who hands out rice? Yes thats right, Inari is a deity of bloody RICE! Since when do foxes eat rice? Good lord what is wrong with you Kitsune?! Ok small correction here, they don't actually serve the Inari guy but instead worship the "Mother Kistune" hmm, wonder how many tails she has?
Oh man, better not let them read that or else I'm screwed...
Disturbingly, I was told by Homura that I could become a Kitsune myself, it involves cutting himself with his sword so that his blood is on the edge and then basically slashing me with it, the Kitsune blood basically overwriting my body and spirit so I become one of them, Bloody hell... I am NOT going anywhere near one of these guys if they have an open wound of some kind, this is almost as bad as those dammed angels!
Update 2: I found a book on Kitsune mythology hoping it might give me a little more insight into these beings but Homura looked at it and said it's full of crap, good job I didn't pay for the book. He did say one thing though, there are considerably less male Kitsune than females something like a twelve to one ration I think it was, I bet they must be desperate...
Hosaki
Apparently Hosaki was an Celestial, Celestials being one of the really top ranks of angel but for some reason love "corrupted" her, I guess angels arn't allowed to like people for some reason. She mentioned that she has many forms, a 7 tailed Kitsune being one of them and she confirmed that you CAN get cursed by touching the tail but only if she wills it so, yeah I think I'll just stay out of her personal space. She is certainly an interesting person that I wouldn't mind talking to again but I'm afraid of her slightly, after all she was a Celestial and lets not forget that whole curse thing either.
Update: Turns out that she has an older brother called Homura, I don't know much about this guy except that he is also an Kitsune, when I met him it wasn't on good terms and I'm pretty lucky I didn't get dismembered by him. He mentioned someone or thing called "Imouto", probably relates to mythology again.
Oh it turns out that Imouto means little sister in Japanese, phew! I got worked up all over nothing.
Another update: As if she couldn't get any more intimidating, the other day she mentioned that not only does she have some Archdemon form, a "Nogitsune" or something but that she tore some poor human guy's heart out and ate it. To be fair the guy she killed did harm Felix, a rather close friend of hers but it doesn't help that she says "Don't be afraid of me, David." afterwards. Bloody hell, do you not listen to your own words, Hosaki?!
At least she said that I can't get on her bad side, not sure why I can't but I don't want to anyway, my heart is fine where it is right now.
Update 3: Things have gotten interesting. She has given me the ability to hide my soul along with some animal form to further camouflage myself which basically means any angel that comes looking for me is going to be very confused, I tested it with "Omega" Helel and she couldn't see it at all, I just have to think it and thats it, no soul energy to be found. I have no idea how to do the animal thing yet but it will most likely be important since Helel pointed out that angels can track you using "life essence" I think she said.
At least if Helel ever feels in a bad mood and is looking to take away my alcohol then I can hide from him or her, that will be hilarious.
Moving onwards onto more serious matters, Hosaki has been acting strangely but the oddest thing of it all is she isn't angry at me, no matter what. For that reason alone, her brother sent me off to their apartment to talk to Hosaki and calm her down, if that didn't work then I was to use the LPX on her which just for the record, doesn't bloody work on myobu!
Not like I had the chance to use it anyway since when I found Hosaki in some kind of underground spring below her apartment, she grabbed the gun with one of her weird looking wing things and tossed it away! So much for self defence, I damn near crapped myself thinking I would have to escape the apartment to get away from one hell of a pissed off Hosaki.
Strangely enough, I didn't have to perform a hasty escape but instead, talked to Hosaki about their past location and a bit about her brother's past, poor guy got really screwed over, no wonder he hates humans.
One thing I found odd is she mentioned the eye colours of the Kitsune, Green means you're a good one whereas red, yellow and orange mean you are condemned to a "void" of some kind, the hell? Aren't these guys immortal anyway? Never mind, it's just she mentioned that Homura had red eyes but earlier that day... nah, better not say, I don't want to break my promise.
Bizarrely, I calmed her down just by talking to her, do I have some kind of "thing" with the supernatural or something because I would really like to know, it keeps me up at night... well, actually Jean does- Whoa, I ain't writing that here!
Update 4: Well, I finally figured out how to do that animal form with the help of Hosaki, turns out my spiritual animal is a German Shepherd or Alsatian if you will.
GSD's are great big bloody dogs, normally used as guard dogs or with the police where I came from and while they can be loyal and obediant pets (I'm not going to be someones pet!) they can also rip your throat out in seconds with the amazing strength and agility they posess.
So yeah, I can change into one of these pretty much in a second, the added benefits of enhanced sight, smell and hearing another bonus to the form though to be honest, I'm only going to be using it for hiding so it's going to be rare I use this ability... then again, aren't foxes scared of dogs? Hmm... payback time, Joan.
Update 5: Once again, another supernatural being has taken a dislike to alcohol, not only did she remove it from my system like Helel used to do but she went INSANE.
I am there, miniding my own business when her brother comes in and they fight each other, granted, it was more like an overly violent argument but still a fight of sorts. Turns out Hosaki was so angry was because of, yep, you guessed it, me drinking! She hated the fact that I was "destroying my body" as it were. I can see where she is coming from but let me point out two things: 1. I barely drink now since I'm with Jean and 2. Human bodies are not that bloody weak, our cells can regenerate y'know so it's not like a bottle of vodka every now and then is going to destroy my liver.
Of course, I didn't say this in front of Hosaki because when she had finished fighting her brother, she went into her Myobu form, giving me a lecture on why I should really stop drinking and forget about the past already, pointing out that her kind usually DIE for humans but I can't see why, it really all boiled down to her caring for my wellbeing which is nice, even going so far as to mention she would give her life for mine, why? I am no one special despite what some stupid angel or MoS or any supernatural entity says.
Ugh, this is getting ridiculous, I can see why her brother keeps on mentioning how scary Hosaki can be now, I guess I'm lucky I didn't see the nogitsune form.
Homura
Hosaki's older brother, seems to really detest lower forms of life including rodents. Happens to not be too fond of humans either since where he came from, he was treated like crap by them and I'll be honest here, I'm doing little to improve his view on them.
He is a Nogitsune, the erm... "Dark" Kitsune? I think thats what it is. Like Hosaki, he can change forms though I saw his original nine tailed astral form the other day and let me tell you, there is a damn good reason I drink because this guy defines "intimidating".
Bizarrely like Hosaki, he has no idea why I am afraid of him but at least he isn't clueless to the fact he could kill me in a nanosecond but then he said an unintentionally hilarious line to me recently "You should be more afraid of my sister." yes, I should be more frightened of someone who told me I couldn't do anything to anger them, makes sense to me!
Well, strangely enough, he gave permission and access to use the item synthesizer Hosaki has been working on so I can get some more ammo for the gun he gave me, a 15 round fully automatic handgun known as the LPX which takes .50 caliber ballistic rounds, designed to explode within the target, badass!
I do wonder if it's because Hosaki said to or if it is from some kind of pity, it can't be because he finds me interesting though he did say he isn't too keen on seraphim either, I wonder if thats why my family mysteriously died on my 16th birthday? Because of that damn *female dog*!
Well, so long as I stay on his good side and make sure he doesn't read this journal then I think we can get along just fine... I hope. Maybe he can get me some of that Sake they drink, I'm curious as to how alcohol fermented from rice tastes... hey maybe that's why they are servants to that Inari guy! Free access to rice wine whenever they want it!
Uraj or Reyn, the Wraith
I know little about this guy, I know others have called him an "wraith" which probably explains why he goes around complaining about not having an organic body. Personality wise he is an absolute nutter! One minute you'll be chatting with him and the next moment he grabs you and slams you into the ground! Whats all that about? It's almost as if he is testing me for something, stupidity? I have to give him some respect for actually using firearms though, I don't mind people using swords but I can't handle one at all, I'm rubbish at it. Er, yeah. I'm also scared of this guy too. Man I am scared of everyone here, better make sure I stick this journal under my bed when I'm done with it so it doesn't get used against me. Note: He doesn't keep it there any more so anyone trying to find it there will get nothing!
Update: Uraj/Reyn is quite the ladies man, he has two wives, Hosaki and Sakura. Hosaki I already know but Sakura, well, I've only just met her but she seems alright.
Uraj/Reyn seems keen on making me into some kind of half human, half wraith person, you should've heard his sales pitch but like every other person who has offered me a new form so far, I say no because it's funny to see their face go "What? Did this guy seriously turn down immortality?!" and if those angels are planning on changing me then I'll just do the same thing again, it never gets old!
Currently, he is being moody and moping around as your general mercenary does, I don't really say much to him since it might give him an excuse to behead me, he already exploits my fear of heights by throwing me into the sky and doing... "something" that slows down my fall so I don't want to give him anymore ideas for tormenting me, though I will say he has been less aggressive towards me lately, probably because Hosaki told him to not hurt me and Homura might have said something too, I don't know, maybe it's because he smokes cigaretes?
I do know I want a meatball sandwich right now though, where have you buggered off to, Jean? Damn it! I've been writing what I said out loud again. I hope no one expects to derive any actual information from this because you would have more luck coming here and telling Jean she needs to have her venom sacs removed.
Jayme
Hmm... maybe it's best I just quote her own introduction here:
"Jayme Anikerina Oblivion Takineth! The Empress of the Siderian Dragons, The Mistress of Mirrors, The Self-Proclaimed Mistress of Transformation, Dragon General, All-Around Powerhouse, and a really nice person to boot!"
Yeah... However she did enchant my booze flask to be constantly full of Everclear no matter how much I consume so she is OK by my standards!
Though her age might have made her go a bit "funny" in the head.
I recently found out she was human once and had her life saved by a dragon, odd. I wonder what happened there? I'd talk to her about it but it's probably not a pleasent memory and right now, it's irrelevant to my current situation.
Makes me wonder about one thing though, an awful lot of people who came here were human once, I get the feeling that if I don't watch my back here then I'll probably end up becoming something else as well. I wonder if thats what the angels want to do me? Something made that angel smile at me as I was blacking out and I bet the seraphim don't normally talk to people like me... Nah, best not to think about it.
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David on Fri May 08, 2009 10:56 am, edited 13 times in total.