Elyon Seraphim
Lord Deity of Harmony

Change of pace is always good.... ^_^

Luckily for you, I finished Ralzy's face sets, but it looks different compared to the rest. I'll PM you the link because I'm so secretive like that.

I'll get started on Ely's faces since I have nothing better to do. Later, I'll change Dimitri's sprites JUUUST A LIITTTLE BIIIT so the hair doesn't makes him look like he's a bijillion times older than he looks.

I would never forget how this all began. I was pretty much one of the first members in the old group~

Ah, it's been a long time, hasn't it?

I wouldn't call it a 'vacation'... More like, personal training. Extreme personal training. In art. But I guess you CAN call it a vacation, I needed a change of pace..... But to put it all together, you can totally blame life for expecting so much from me. >_>

Returning to work? I'm up for it. But I might be busy from 1/12 to 1/14. Drop a birthday message as well during the week~

Problems, Elyon. After defeating Shira Dimitri, I began walking downward before the credits finished, then Dimitri resumed his lines before fighting him, and the battle started all over again!

Glad to hear it. Curiosity kills the cat, you know, but I guess in this case, it killed Elyon!

Guess I'll TRY to assemble a plot again. =/

When you have time, I was serious when I said I wanted to consider changing the characters around. In fact, it would be more accurate to say, I want to completely rewrite the characters from a gameplay perspective and give them more fitting attacks.

I just looked over a conversation I had with Vivi earlier, he mentioned he wanted more characters. Could we still do that? Also, you can leave the battle moves to me. All you have to worry about is the effects.

Lol, yeah. I did some looking. This VX is pretty bad outside of some flashy effects. Still, if there's anything I can do outside of storyline, give me a holler.

Get well soon, Elyon! We can't make this work if you're ill! Take all the time you need, then come back fully refreshed. See ya!

Happy New Year, And I Hope You Had A Good Holiday.

Just give me the weapons you want a description to! I can take that hassle off your hands.

Also anything that requires a Word Processor, I'm in!

I KNOW!

Give me a list of every ability you want the characters to learn, and I'll decide which are too broken! Also, you should create a demo that exists to allow us to test the damage of these attacks, to make sure they're good. It doesn't have to be anything bigger than a single room, against an opponent who doesn't attack, like Borghen, but can take a few hits for awhile.

For example, some attacks are too strong (Spark Waltz, Oversword) while some are pathetically weak (Lightspeed Slash, Perfect Aim) OF COURSE I CAN'T SPELL THE NAMES OF THE ATTACKS!!!

Also, we need demos to know how much EXP is needed to level up. Give multiple enemies different amounts of EXP. Generally, we're aiming for under two hours to reach level 100. Also, we should try to avoid money issues, if possible. Although, you can throw in a lolz or two with a constant item in all the shops that costs 3 million gold. And yes, you HAVE to accumulate that cash to buy it. I would assume the secret dungeon provides thousands of gold in one battle? Also, are Charots gone? Just checking!

AND SOULBINDS!

How do we obtain them? Are they related to the story at all? Do we actually bind our souls to them? Do I still get an Odin-like summon with Zantetsuken awesomeness? (He hopes...)

I'M JUST SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG! Does leveling cover all of our stats!? Like HP and RP? Or maybe defeating certain battles does that... Nah, that's stupid. But maybe if we use runes and abilities more, they level up, become flashier and generally become more powerful? If you can do that, we can fix the excessive amount of runes. Say you have Nova learn Fire. Level it up, and it powers up to become Fira, and finally becoming Firaga, each upgrade making the spell flashier, but for the same cost! I'M BRAINSTORMING!!!!! I would like that, though. Try it.

Do we have any characters besides the five we have planned!? What about Jill or Krystal? Maybe you have some other characters in mind!? Maybe we can have changeable parties! And thus the scenes can be different depending on who is in the party! Can we have scenes with just the villains, or are characters required to be on-scene, which would be lame...

LET'S NOT FORGET JOKE WEAPONS!

Ralz doesn't have a Keyblade, he has a giant skeleton key! Also, Elyon has a banana. Seriously.

WAIT!!!!

Will most battles be over in about a minute, tops? That'd be great... Also, I hope there's no sudden increases in difficulty. We should be allowed to accidentally wander into end-game zones so early on. Is the difficulty option at the beginning still on?

AND LET'S NOT FORGET ACCESSORIES! IF YOU NEED IDEAS, I CAN PROVIDE!

I've also done more exploring into the VX, and I can help with certain other things. I can't provide sprites or texture, I'm mostly used for Word Documents, which I excel at!

Also, what are you music choices besides Isumi's contributions? I'd love to know!

So.... how's the demo coming along?

Is it going to be different from this first demo? What happened to those Alpha games, they had the ATB I think...?

Or... need any help with text boxes or locales? Should we just name things randomly, even if they aren't real words? Are the Elyon and Ralz portraits done? Were you able to confirm if we can change leader from Elyon to Ralz or Alther?

How expansive is this demo? Can we visit caves or just the plain ol' overworld with one town? I fought Borghen in the demo, and is the music actually looping!? It never stopped to replay again! I also defeated the annoying anti-heroes.

How about Overlimits? Are they coming along? You got multiple ones, like ones that just hit once for big damage, or ones that boost stats? (Which were in the demo, but I mean ones you start off with.) Does your character have a weapon in battle even without one being equipped?

How do you plan to implement Nega-Chaosthroph? Take the normal colors of the maps and reduce their life? Make more shades of grey?

I'm asking a lot because I've gone around studying the VX thing. Lots of events to make, huh? You know, you can entirely solve the chest item problem with just a text box saying "you found whatever!"

Do you think we should better distribute abilities among the characters? And maybe get rid of some of those broken attacks in the demo? Ralz's COCOA RAGE was kinda too powerful. Then we get to the runes. Why bother casting lower-tier spells when you have the infinitely better versions? And for that matter, do we really need five tiers for each spell? It seems a touch excessive. Really, the main elemental spells need only three tiers, the cure spells need four, and the ultimate spells need like... 1. Life spells can max a 2, like you have. The inclusion of status-healing spells is nice, but hopefully more than Meigumi learns it.

What am I saying? I'm completely ignoring the good things I say in First Fantasy! What about that map? Can we have that? Although, I don't think your areas should be so expansive and maze-like. Spend too much time walking around, and you forget what you're supposed to be doing!

Then I saw the status screen in First Fantasy. I like the three bars that show the progress of your HP, MP and EXP. Can we have those? I personally think we're fine with our menu system, but that ring menu was cool, too. Although the controls were backwards.

AND CAN YOU HAVE DASH!? THE WALK SPEED IS TOO SLOW!

What about monster encounters? Are they random? Are they visible on the map? (Personally, I'd like the latter.) I like our battle results screen showing a bar that fills as you gain EXP, it motivates you more to level up. Although, we don't need our characters to say something when the battle ends. I really hope there's no prompt to "take all dropped items" as that should be automatic.

OH, and speaking of items, do you have a New tab? Where all the recently obtained items go? How many copies of items can we carry? Hopefully 99 and not 20 like Star Ocean... >_>

We can't have a JOURNAL!? But how can we inform the player of the rich history behind Chaosthroph? The main plot just gets the basic idea across. Those who look deeply enough to find Chaosthroph and Orderos to be very fascinating places. Before I snapped, I planned that Chaosthroph was a generally warm location, while Orderos was very cold. Opposite ends of the spectrum, after all. Well... if we can't have a Journal of all things... maybe a ReadMe? Our objectives should at least be clear, then, and not ridiculous, like... Take the key to the un-talked-about old man who lives past the swamp, then get him to give you his parcel, which you must take back to the village across the swamp you just went through.

Conversations between characters shouldn't last long. Short-sweet-and to the point is the way to go, with a little humor tacked on for good effect. Their objectives should also be simple, and to be reasonable, spelled out. I was playing First Fantasy for like a half-hour before I realized the wells were access to the sewers, >_<

Happy new years to you to!

Errrm, it's not RPG Maker, it's MUGEN, a fighting game maker, (In case you wer confused )
(I'll edit your movelist as neccessary if that's OK.)

I'm tearing myself to shreds...

ELYON, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

I can't stand this ridiculous plot, anymore! I've tried and I've tried, for over two hours now! I've sat in front on this blank word processor, writing nothing, because I can't make this work. Chaosthroph and Orderos are just plain dumb. HOW CAN THERE BE OUTER SPACE ELEMENTS TO A GAME THAT TAKES PLACE IN MEDIEVAL TIMES?

Neither planet has the technology to actually visit the other world. And don't even mention that piece of crap "Ancient War" I brought up before. Gods above, what a retarded idea! Not only is it vague and uninspired, it also accomplished the exact opposite of what I had planned! It ruined the story, not made it better! It made everything more confusing, because we already have enough problems with time and such!

Here are the ideas I did like, though:
Shira
Nega-Chaosthroph

Yeah, not much. Even the Nega-Chaosthroph is starting to bug me. I mentioned before that us, the party, are sent to Orderos when Chaosthroph gets teleported.

...WTF!? How does that make any sense! How did the people of Orderos know where we were, how did they get us back to Orderos, and why didn't Dimitri just finish the job!? And I believe I had this scene planned after the defeat of the Government, and there's another idea that started out nice and got stupid as it went.

BUT THAT'S NOT EVEN GETTING INTO THE FACT NOTHING EXCEPT THE PLANETS ARE NAMED! None of the towns have names, none of the continents are named! Nothing is named! Nothing is established! IT'S ALL BLACKBOARD BS!

Elyon, you're the procrastinator here, not me! I've done not by my very best to keep this story afloat! And now I can't take it, anymore! And really, this isn't my story! It's yours! Look at your signature, Elyon. Open up that tab. This game is your dream, right? So why don't you take the helm of the story? I can refine it to make the story look clean, AND I REALLY HOPE YOU'LL LET ME PROOFREAD THE GAME BEFORE RELEASE!

Elyon's story about his dead parents isn't bad, but why is their existences connected to Shira? Who is Shira for that matter? Where did it come from? What does it want? Is Elyon connected to it as well? And then there's Dimitri. Who is he? Where did he come from? What was he like before he acquired Shira's power? Was he even alive before he acquired Shira's power? Did Shira just go around possessing dead people to use their bodies or something?

I'M SO CONFUSED!

And really, Elyon, do you even possess the skills to even create nega-Chaosthroph, or is that not possible, either? Why not just shoot down every hope and dream I ever had for this game?

Hey, Elyon?

Yeah, I kinda burned out (Blitz, burn out, long break, rinse and repeat, that's how I roll.) So, anyway, yes I'm alive.