A Soulbonder's Wow In Detail: Celebrian's Liveblog

Sis

There's next to no videos of Sis...this is because she's actually more minor than I thought she was, only appearing once or twice in the game. But once or twice is enough. She's super badass, and I couldn't help but smile upon the sight of her in the vid I watched.

The vid I watched of her was a boss fight...she's apparently a boss...but Youtube wonked out on me so I couldn't finish it. I will finish it later. Most of the fighting was done by a team of dudes in black suits and masks, and I think she was standing in the center. I want to know more about her now, I really do.

I am going to try to make it through the video again later. The issue is, I have to be very careful with Wows over these next few days, as there is a party going on over the next two days and I am unable to take recruits until the 5, unless it is an emergency. "Emergency" means the Wow won't stay away and peaks during the party. "Emergency" means interrupting the party to recruit some girl who is going to be very confused as to what she's been plucked into. So I'd much rather it happen after the party, so I have to be careful when it comes to boosting Wows over the next two days.

I'm just glad I didn't offend you. Glad I worded them right for once.

Day 2, 12:18 PM

Oh, Sis, you stubborn, stubborn, stubborn girl.

That's what's up with this chick's Wow right now. Stubborn, stubborn, stubborn. I've said that characters who don't show their faces and characters who can't talk require more power.

What happens with her is, her Wow'll go up a little bit if I look at her, then it will halt until I look at her again. It doesn't like to boost via thought like a good Wow should. I haven't yet seen if music will affect it yet. I'm going to run that test right now. Please stand by....

Airplanes makes it shake a little, causing it to give off jolts that pulse through my veins and make me feel a little dizzily euphoric, but won't push it up.

Hide And Seek has one of the oddest effects on a Wow I've ever seen I think. Seriously. I have no clue...is there even WORDS for a feeling like this? It's floaty, sure, as usual with a Wow, but also it's...something else. Sort of melancholy, but a serene sort of melancholy. Will it be like this with all Wows, or just hers? It feels like it'd only be her that'd give me this feeling. Yeah, it is just her, I can tell. If I try this same song with Scarlet the result'll be entirely different, I can tell. It's just one of those things I feel without any intuition, like how you just know that pain is bad and comfort is good. A reflex, an inborn behavior.

It hasn't gone up yet, but I feel like if I open my mouth or move it'll spoil the sensation. The song is over, and the sensation is beginning to dissipate. The Wow raised about a notch or two and still won't move. I wish there was more damn information on this chick! A non-talker is hard enough, but when that non-talker is so minor, for Pete's sake! There isn't even much in her damn dossier! It's almost infuriating!

And that look in her eyes when she was with Albatross and when you spared her. That look...

Thou saidst: "Emergency" means interrupting the party to recruit some girl who is going to be very confused as to what she's been plucked into.

Does this mean that thou art abducting other people's souls? This was the first explanation that I could think of for why they would be confused.

Or is it meaning that she is consenting but disoriented by her new world? If it is this, does her confusion affect thee in any way?

Is the transferal permanent? Does she have the continued ability to perceive or interact with her own world?

Is there a transferal that is not disorienting for one of thy spirits? If so, hast thou or she any proposed explanation?

This is a fascinating procedure, I am sure, and I would be fascinated by any of thy answers to my questions.

I myself have had a paranormal experience of similar nature. I have created in my mind and stories a race of ghouls/dwarfs/diggers. Once I had a dream in which I was in a female digger's cave, where we played a board game and engaged in consentual mutual masturbation. A few weeks later I saw a novel whose cover image showed a scene remarkably similar to that in my dream (grey humanoid midget-sized creature sitting with another male in a cave). I was so struck by the similarity that I bought the book (used at library sale). I still have the book, yet I do not know anything about the plot, having not read the book's back, but focussing only on the cover.

All this happened several years ago, but once since then I have had another dream of a female digger (one of my characters: DR. and Queen Corva Gloriosa) being a vigilante slave-freer, exposing her nipples to a guard, and arranging a sexual liaison between him and another of my Characters (her roommate, Funambulant Serenity).

These reams strike me as repressed sexual thoughts and creative thoughts combining, to say nothing of a huge coincidennce mixing in, but thy thoughts on my experience would be interesting. Am I bonded in thy opinion to Dr. Corva Gloriosa? She seems to me, given her intellectualism, to be the sort of person who would enjoy boardgames. I have already established in my thoughts that diggers have boardgames (king's lot, stone forms, stone dance, etc.). What does this bonding mean about my personality?

Dr. Corva Gloriosa is not even my favourite character whom I have created; I Am, The Western Lord, Corpse Skinned Woman, The Prophet's Son, Theophilia, The Former Hyacinth Lady, and The Perpetual Bounty Female Emperor are all much more interesting characters for me.

edited 4th Jul '10 4:05:42 PM by terrkerr

Thou saidst: "Emergency" means interrupting the party to recruit some girl who is going to be very confused as to what she's been plucked into.

Does this mean that thou art abducting other people's souls? This was the first explanation that I could think of for why they would be confused.

No, it means that in the middle of a party is not the best time to drag a newbie in, as they may be rather confused and overwhelmed by such a surrounding. I like recruits to be calm, in a spot where the newbie won't be dragged around by excited partygoers.

I'm curious. How come every time you update it's at a certian moment of the day? I mean, can you only get your wow's at certian times, or are they best at those times from trial and error? Or, do oyu get many at random, and post the one of most importance?

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No, those are just the times I get online xD Wows have no timeframes and are unpredictable as heck (and often annoying and inconvenient at times), and they go up throughout the course of days.

Day 3, 10:09 AM

Sis is being stubborn again. Last night her Wow went up throughout the day and kept going up, and I was sure she'd be all peaked and ready by today, but then it fell stagnant again and now refuses to move. I'll try using Hide And Seek to boost it again. Hold on, please....

NOT WORKING NOT WORKING! MAYDAY! MAYDAY! It's not doing anything but sitting there yet vibrating ever-so-slightly, as if it's thrashing around trying to get out of its rut but won't. If only she wasn't so goddamn minor and Youtube had more than two fucking videos of her it'd be easier, but no-o-o. Stupid game and its putting badasses in minor spots. Stupid Wow on a minor-ass character in a game I haven't played. Minor characters are easy...if I've played the game, or if it's a Final Fantasy. But I haven't, and it isn't. I don't have it. I don't even got the system I don't think. So I have to do this the best I can on my own, with one-and-a-half (that one video is only one minute long) videos to guide me and two paragraphs on a Wiki. Meanwhile, Elza is beginning to compete, as is Scarlet. If this Wow doesn't go up soon it may have to move over to either an FF character or a less minor APer.

Status: Failed

I regret to inform you all that Sis's Wow has dropped below the Wow line. It's always unfortunate when a Wow doesn't work out like this. I am going to try for her again some other time. Sometimes it works when you do that, and hopefully it'll work for her. Someday.

Stay tuned for any future Wows I may cop.

Morrigan

Morrigan from Dragon Age is someone I've expected for a long time. I definitely expected her around the time I got Leliana, and I definitely expected her before ANY of the Wardens. My Dragon Age boom in the spring came and went with no Morrigan, but she's finally creeping up again.

If there's anything I'm really, really good at, it's melting the hearts of the colder, more callous characters. I have gotten to Kendra Daniels from Dead Space, BloodRayne, Mileena, Kira, and Frost from Mortal Kombat, and I can even get Jane Turner from Valkyria Chronicles to crack a smile if I work hard enough. I've reformed this villain and that villain, have gotten the girls from Outlaw Sports to behave, have gotten assassins to think maybe that whole taking life thing isn't a very good idea, have rendered youkai and hanyou and demons harmless. Morrigan shall be a SINCH to get into the black little heart of and I know it. Morrigan's not a villain, just a very callous and uncaring woman. I know how to deal with those. I know how to find their Sweet Spots.

Wowboosting with her is hard to do without a sex scene, so I rely on mini-cutscenes and the Dragon Age Wiki. So far the Wow has not progressed past half-Wow status and is being as stubborn as it was when it first reared its head in March. It shouldn't be too hard though. I just gotta find the connection...

Is it easier to soulbond with a person of the same gender as yourself?

edited 10th Jul '10 11:51:01 PM by GameGuruGG

Depends on the bonder. For some, no. For me, yes. Most of my soulbonds are female, and nobody knows why (though they do like to make up crazy theories >_>)

IJI

Her name's in allcaps 'cause she came as a COMPLETE shocker to me and probably to you too...you've heard me say Iji wasn't fair game before. So therefore she deserves to be "IJI" and not just "Iji."

Last night at around midnight, during the time I like to use videogame research to wind down, one of those strange little urges came to me...when it comes to videogames I've originally shied away from, it always comes due to a strange urge. Something, something told me "Go look at Iji. Go look at Iji." I'd been on the videogame girls database messing around with Konoko from Oni. And then I figured if Konoko would be fair game, what would stop Iji. So I looked at Iji, but still didn't expect anything out of it.

I looked at Iji, went "whatever," and went to go write in my logbook about how it was wasteful that I looked at Iji in the first place, when all of a sudden....BAM! Something hit me, and it was only for literally a second. But there was a lot in that second. It was as if the entire universe had compressed itself into that second. One little spark, in one little second, held the entire universe.

In that second I knew I'd been wrong, absolutely wrong. But at the same time thought maybe it'd just been a fluke, maybe a vibe from a similar game (like I get out of movies). Imagine being wrong and right at the same time, or not wrong or right at all...wrongness or rightness did not apply here. And then I thought of this guy I know online, who's an Iji fan to beat all Iji fans. And I was terrified. Fans as big as that don't always know how to react when faced with the character of their starstruck eyes, especially fans who are indifferent or disbelieving about soulbonding. And I was scared. In that one second I was wrong, I was right, and I was scared. Suddenly I had to come with ways to protect her should her fan go rabid in front of her. Suddenly she became the entire world...the entire world Ultranova the superhero must protect. She was like a priceless jewel in a museum that must be shoved behind the bulletproof case and guarded carefully in five different ways. And then the next thing I knew was that I had to run tests. It was too late to run the tests at nearly 1 AM that night, so I decided to put them off till today.

I took a break during work to run a few tests. I went on three different Wikis, looked at two different walkthroughs. This was only a test...it didn't need to spawn from anything big yet. Both times I had to shut it off because I was hit by searing pain, pain delivered as if Iji's vibes were saying "How dare you call me Deep! How dare you shut me out all this time!" I went back to work with shaking legs and feeling pained all over, and now I still feel rather pained.

Iji is a freeware game, which means I can use the game itself to run those tests. I will download the game tonight, if not tonight then definitely by the end of the week, and play it and make some observations during that.

It sounds as if thou hast been striked by a major religious experience.

I feeled similarly when reading about Christianity in my early teens.

Well it was definitely a major something experience. And I'm still being hit by painful vibes. It'll pass though and stop feeling so painful after a few hours, maybe after I play.

Are thy vibes usually so severe? If not, what do they usually feel like?

No they are not usually painful. They're usually the opposite of painful...a pleasant sensation.

Painful ones usually come from shockers like this though, or when I'm entering a new media (comics tend to feel like this every so often. And when I first started with videogames back in 06, it felt like this as well).

Like I said, it's probably painful 'cause I've shut it out for so long when it turned out to be fair game, so my soul is getting used to that shocker.

Iji's personality at the end of the game is different based on several events that happen during the course of the game—most notably, whether you kill everything in sight or you avoid killing anyone.

Furthermore, the game has been updated several times, with several gameplay elements(most notably, on the pacifist path, it was impossible to avoid killing two bosses until version 1.3) revamped.

What are the implications of this?

Recursion? Your alternate personality has alternate personalities?

^^...Maybe THAT'S why it's painful ._. Yipes.

Morrigan, Day 2, 6:11 PM

Morrigan's vibes react very well to Alejandro by Lady Gaga, mostly to the music in the background rather than the lyrics. Videos don't actually do much with her, and that's a sure sign that she's going to need a lot more manpower. Hopefully Iji's Wow won't cancel her out like the two newest X-girls did with Sis...Iji's art style being what it is I doubt that'll happen.

PULLING UP OF PICTURES COMMENCE

I'm shaking to death, but that's mostly from just getting over a panic attack than the vibes. I'm trying to rely on the vibes to heal me up, actually. Vibes like doing that, even though they aren't as powerful as FF's vibes.

Google, giving me the same picture over and over again doesn't usually do anything for me. TO THE PHOTOBUCKETCOPTER

Photobucket doesn't have much. You know, videos are having wonk issues but the one video that did hit me quite hard was this one where she was talking about a glass mirror she swiped from some cart as a child, and then He-Warden, he gave her a replica of that mirror. She definitely wasn't being a jerkass in that scene, and I liked that. I liked that she was showing her soft side. It made me really happy. I knew she had one, and I think she looks a lot better when she shows it.

Song's over. I'm going to try using that Ev song I said I'd use yesterday.

Stupid cosplay pictures. They're good, but I need actual character pictures right now. Screw the pictures, I'm going to see what the song does. Anxiety and Iji's painful-ass vibes are still in the way...maybe that's the issue. Oh no, Iji, please don't cancel Morrigan. I've been waiting on her since my Dragon Age boom in March...

This song is doing jack shit. This ain't even moving. Come on, Wow, move! Move! Come to me Morrigan! Come on! Come to me! I'll melt that cold heart of yours, I swear I will! You just watch me! You just wait! She-Warden's right, it's about time you had something to make you give a shit!

Vibrate vibrate vibrate, says the Wow. Shake, shake, shake. Nope, still nothing. Come on, Morrigan! I know we're different but...still!

Well, that didn't do anything, I'm afraid. More at 11...or whenever the kupo I feel like getting back on.

Iji, Day 2, 12:56 PM

Iji's vibes are nasty little mofos and her Wow is the most irritating Wow I've ever had. The thing with it is, it'll go wild like water at full boil in a pot, but not rise, or only rise a little bit and then go back to acting like an angry fireball again. Usually when a Wow goes this wild it skyrockets like whoaz, but this one doesn't do that. This one is a new kind of Wow entirely, even more new than the comic characters whose Wows never did that, not even the first two. This one is like when you strike a match under a turtle trying to get it to move. Iji's vibes are doing that with the Wow...striking a match under it trying to get it to move and then it finally moves about one notch.

Yesterday I spent my free time looking at Youtube videos. I looked at two different endings...the good ending and the bad ending. Or rather, I looked at the precursor to the bad ending. I had to, because when I played I had to make sure I got the good ending so I needed to know how I'd go about doing that. The reason I only looked at the precursor, though, was because I yelped and hit the back button and sat breathing hard for a moment or two before resigning myself to getting the good ending even if I had to restart the game 40 times...

I have not downloaded the game yet. To be honest I don't even really know how to download a game...I've never downloaded a game before in my whole life, and apparently there's multiple folders. I'll figure it out and I'll play.

This Wow is the most exhausting Wow I've had since Lara Croft's, which I copped while watching death scenes. I can't help but keep thinking a game like Iji's just should not be bondable...it simply shouldn't. It's something that just should not happen. But it is happening. The very fact that a game the nature of Iji's is bondable somehow gives me a disconcerting, disturbed feeling...

You only have to worry about multiple folders if you want the high-quality music. For the game itself, just extract the zip file into a folder and run the executable.

Idle question. Why "Wow" as your term for this sort of thing? I'm guessing it's as in "Wow, X might want to soulbond? WOW, AWESOME!!" but I'm still curious.

Personally, if it were me, I'd probably pick a more technical-sounding term, but mostly because I'm a bit of a pompous ass at times, so...yeah, enough of the needless personal anecdotes on my part.