Who are you trying to kid? In a year you'll fail some arbitrary event and Satsuko sends you back again
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In Progress How could Itz happen to me?
- Thread starter RK47
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This shit game does not deserve music like that.
Why so angry, babe?
It's ok ...
I can take it.
Just need around an hour a day on it...
I can beat this. Don't worry.
I would like to apologize for the delay of the updates - I've been very engaged in Crusader Kings 2 of late, but since my Empire of Britannia playthrough ended, I've cooled down a bit. Update will resume as per normal tomorrow.
Well well well, look who's back!
Don't you get close to Naoko or Rena you loser, just stay with that green haired freak and we'll be alright.
See you loser.
Don't you get close to Naoko or Rena you loser, just stay with that green haired freak and we'll be alright.
See you loser.
Kalin
Unwanted
RK bro, don't lose your focus! You need to dump that green-haired loli moe sci-fi freak, man up and go for the red-haired loli moe fantasy freak instead! Krush your enemy, make his little sis your waifu and serve him that precious membrane of love on a platter so that you can triumph over this crappy game! And, failing that, at the very least go full retard and bromance him, we all know he is a faggit anyway, being all "fashionable" and bragging about girls despite never actually having screwed a single one while instead challenging unsuspecting boys to ultra-gay swimming duels.
Corporate_Jew_Master
Arcane
Seriously, get bug girl and nuke the whole place from orbit.
She seems like a total bro. Maybe she will play videogames with you after the purge is complete.
Kalin
Unwanted
Rena's number?
The first thing you should do on your next loop is call her...
WHENEVER POSSIBLE!
Also, Yui just wants to rest//is scary/no memory of her past because she's a ghost who was murdered at night by Alice in the park, etc. yadda yadda yadda.
The first thing you should do on your next loop is call her...
WHENEVER POSSIBLE!
Also, Yui just wants to rest//is scary/no memory of her past because she's a ghost who was murdered at night by Alice in the park, etc. yadda yadda yadda.
Kalin
Unwanted
Aside from the painful observation that young Rena might indeed be even more horribly voiced than Suzu and Yui, I could not help but notice her charming fondness for the mythological kappa, the legendary water trickster and mischievous anus-ravaging vampire of the Far East! The following excerpts from Michael Dylan Foster's The Metamorphosis of the Kappa provide some highly interesting insights, very much relevant to Codexian interests:
Not only does the kappa have a penchant for pulling both children and adults into the water, but it often does this in order to steal the liver, a feat it achieves by reaching its arm up through the victim’s anus to snatch the desired organ. This propensity is not limited to a desire for human body parts; indeed the most comprehensive scholarly research done on kappa has concerned its habit of pulling into the water both horses and cows. Before the kappa can reach a human’s liver, however, it must also take an organ called the shirikodama (尻子玉). According to a standard Japanese dictionary, a shirikodama is "a ball once thought to be at the mouth of the anus” (Kindaichi 1989, 564). The result of having a shirikodama taken by a kappa— inevitably—is death. Physiologically, however, this organ does not exist.
One explanation for the belief then is that the bodies of drowning victims have an “open anus” as if something has been removed (ISHIKAWA 1985, 120). It has been noted, however, that this loosening of the sphincter muscles in death is not limitd to drowning victims (Ono 1994, 51), so the belief still remains rather mysterious. Other explanations of the shirikodama and liver-taking tendencies of the kappa relate that these are offerings brought to a snake-shaped dragon deity (Ando and SEINO 1993, 41); this explanation explicitly links the kappa legend to various folk religious beliefs in Japan and other parts of Asia.
Linguistically, a homonymic relationship between the word tama 玉，meaning ball or jewel, and tama 魂, meaning spirit or soul, has also been suggested (Ono 1994, 52). The character tama 霊, also meaning spirit or soul, represents another possible correlation. Thus, the jewel or ball contains the soul or spirit; its removal means death for the human and extended life and potency for the kappa.
The kappa belief, therefore, may embody deeply rooted anal and scatological associations. Anal-erotic links indeed seem evident in the stories that describe the victim of a shirikodama attack smiling somewhat ecstatically at the instant of violation. The kappa's obsession with the shiri 尻 (buttocks, hips) is made apparent in legends that describe the kappa hiding in the toilet, waiting to stroke or fondle a female victim’s shiri. Although this particular habit of the kappa is not considered a murderous one, it portrays the kappa as a mischievous and sexually threatening creature; Ono somewhat facetiously labels the kappa a “pioneer of sexual harassment”.
Orikuchi points out that, in the past, toilets were often situated above rivers; more important, however, is his suggestion that if we go back to an early legend of a kappa transforming itself into a red lacquered arrow and entering the “shy place” of a woman, we can see that the kappa's objective in hiding in the toilet is not necessarily to take the shirikodama. Indeed, stories of kappa raping women are common.
Yanagita, for example, reports:
The relationship of the kappa to the folk is one of great complexity and paradox. Clearly, the kappa is recognized as a threatening and mischievous creature with lethal tendencies, in many ways a metaphor for the violent potential of the natural world. But there is also a sense of both foolishness and honesty associated with it; these aspects hint at the dual nature of the kappa as a trickster figure with negative and destructive qualities, and also as a water/agriculture deity with positive regenerative qualities.
Thus for example, the kappa is notorious for attempting to lure horses and cows to a watery death; but the key word here is attempting. In most versions of this legend, the kappa fails; its plan backfires and it (or just its arm) is pulled by the startled horse all the way to the stable. The kappa's success rate in fondling women’s shiri in the toilet may be slightly higher, but often on its second attempt its arm is grabbed and yanked from the body. And when its mischief goes awry, when it is weakened from losing water from its sara or incapacitated (emasculated) by a yanked-off arm, the honest and benevolent side of the kappa's nature surfaces. In order to be set free or receive back its arm (the arm can often be reattached within a certain number of days), the kappa will take an oath. It will pledge, for instance, to stop harassing people in the area, or to assist with work in the fields, or to teach its captor secret bonesetting techniques and formulas for making medicine and salves.
Further reading, with some humorous centuries-old illustrations: http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/kappa.shtml
The more you know.
Not only does the kappa have a penchant for pulling both children and adults into the water, but it often does this in order to steal the liver, a feat it achieves by reaching its arm up through the victim’s anus to snatch the desired organ. This propensity is not limited to a desire for human body parts; indeed the most comprehensive scholarly research done on kappa has concerned its habit of pulling into the water both horses and cows. Before the kappa can reach a human’s liver, however, it must also take an organ called the shirikodama (尻子玉). According to a standard Japanese dictionary, a shirikodama is "a ball once thought to be at the mouth of the anus” (Kindaichi 1989, 564). The result of having a shirikodama taken by a kappa— inevitably—is death. Physiologically, however, this organ does not exist.
One explanation for the belief then is that the bodies of drowning victims have an “open anus” as if something has been removed (ISHIKAWA 1985, 120). It has been noted, however, that this loosening of the sphincter muscles in death is not limitd to drowning victims (Ono 1994, 51), so the belief still remains rather mysterious. Other explanations of the shirikodama and liver-taking tendencies of the kappa relate that these are offerings brought to a snake-shaped dragon deity (Ando and SEINO 1993, 41); this explanation explicitly links the kappa legend to various folk religious beliefs in Japan and other parts of Asia.
Linguistically, a homonymic relationship between the word tama 玉，meaning ball or jewel, and tama 魂, meaning spirit or soul, has also been suggested (Ono 1994, 52). The character tama 霊, also meaning spirit or soul, represents another possible correlation. Thus, the jewel or ball contains the soul or spirit; its removal means death for the human and extended life and potency for the kappa.
The kappa belief, therefore, may embody deeply rooted anal and scatological associations. Anal-erotic links indeed seem evident in the stories that describe the victim of a shirikodama attack smiling somewhat ecstatically at the instant of violation. The kappa's obsession with the shiri 尻 (buttocks, hips) is made apparent in legends that describe the kappa hiding in the toilet, waiting to stroke or fondle a female victim’s shiri. Although this particular habit of the kappa is not considered a murderous one, it portrays the kappa as a mischievous and sexually threatening creature; Ono somewhat facetiously labels the kappa a “pioneer of sexual harassment”.
Orikuchi points out that, in the past, toilets were often situated above rivers; more important, however, is his suggestion that if we go back to an early legend of a kappa transforming itself into a red lacquered arrow and entering the “shy place” of a woman, we can see that the kappa's objective in hiding in the toilet is not necessarily to take the shirikodama. Indeed, stories of kappa raping women are common.
Yanagita, for example, reports:
The relationship of the kappa to the folk is one of great complexity and paradox. Clearly, the kappa is recognized as a threatening and mischievous creature with lethal tendencies, in many ways a metaphor for the violent potential of the natural world. But there is also a sense of both foolishness and honesty associated with it; these aspects hint at the dual nature of the kappa as a trickster figure with negative and destructive qualities, and also as a water/agriculture deity with positive regenerative qualities.
Thus for example, the kappa is notorious for attempting to lure horses and cows to a watery death; but the key word here is attempting. In most versions of this legend, the kappa fails; its plan backfires and it (or just its arm) is pulled by the startled horse all the way to the stable. The kappa's success rate in fondling women’s shiri in the toilet may be slightly higher, but often on its second attempt its arm is grabbed and yanked from the body. And when its mischief goes awry, when it is weakened from losing water from its sara or incapacitated (emasculated) by a yanked-off arm, the honest and benevolent side of the kappa's nature surfaces. In order to be set free or receive back its arm (the arm can often be reattached within a certain number of days), the kappa will take an oath. It will pledge, for instance, to stop harassing people in the area, or to assist with work in the fields, or to teach its captor secret bonesetting techniques and formulas for making medicine and salves.
Further reading, with some humorous centuries-old illustrations: http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/kappa.shtml
The more you know.
Yeah, people said Naoko is BORING.
But these creatures are something else. They're not boring. They're just not sane.
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