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There's a lot of focus on Elements in Beast Signer. There are six elements: FIRE, WATER, AIR, EARTH, DARK and LIGHT.
FIRE is strong against AIR which is strong against EARTH which is strong against WATER which is strong against FIRE.
DARK is strong against LIGHT which is strong against DARK.

Each Beast has one or two elements, eg "FIRE/WATER", "WATER/DARK".
There's a Primary Element and a Secondary Element; WATER/DARK is different to DARK/WATER.

There are 36 'families' of Beasts based on these elements ([link]).

Each 'family' has a growth chart, like this: [link]
That's the pure FIRE elemental family.
Another example is this, the EARTH/WATER family: [link]

Each family has several stages of evolution.

- The EGG is the first. Beasts start off as this when newly merged (merging will be explained later), and have to survive a number of battles as an egg before they level up and hatch.

- STAGE 1 is the 'baby' form, which the egg ALWAYS hatches into.

- There are 3 STAGE 2 forms for each STAGE 1 form. The one that your stage 1 form would evolve into is based on how that beast fights. A beast that's been focusing on using physical attacks will evolve into the POWER FORM. A beast that's been focusing on magic attacks will evolve into the MAGIC FORM. If it's been balancing between the two, it becomes the BALANCE FORM.
On those growth charts, the RED LINES indicate physical power growth. The BLUE LINES indicate magical power growth. The GREEN LINES indicate balance or other growth.

- Each of the three STAGE 2 forms can evolve into either a power form or magic form... But if the beast is poorly trained and hasn't won enough battles itself (it's levelled up by taking part in battles but not actually DOING anything, for example), it becomes the WEAK FORM (at the bottom of the stage 3 column on those growth charts). This form is not powerful at all.

- If you follow the growth of POWER-POWER or BALANCE-POWER, then your STAGE 3 beast can evolve into a more powerful STAGE 4 POWER FORM (as indicated by the coloured lines).
And if you follow the path of MAGIC-MAGIC or BALANCE-MAGIC, then your STAGE 3 can become a STAGE 4 MAGIC FORM.
If, however, you 'change your mind', and have your STAGE 1 beast become a power form, then make that power form evolve into a magic form, then you're stuck at that stage of evolution and can't evolve into a stage 4 beast at all.
The WEAK FORM, if it does enough in battle, can rarely evolve into the STAGE 4 OTHER FORM.

- If your STAGE 4 POWER or MAGIC form beasts are superbly competent in battle and trained well, they'll become a STAGE 5 form at a high level, which is the highest form of evolution.
The STAGE 4 OTHER FORM cannot evolve.

And that explains the evolution.

As you can see, there are 17 beasts of each elemental combination. That's a lot of Beasts for me to design! (I've made about 150 so far though...)

Not only does each beast have a combination of elements; they also have a combination of "types", or "skill schools". These "types" determine the techniques that beasts can use in battle.

There are 30 different types, each one with a set of moves unique to that type. Beasts can have either 1, 2 or 3 types, and they can only use the techniques for those types. (For example, a beast with types "AVIAN / GEO / INSECT" can use Avian Skills, Geo Magic, and Insect Skills, but nothing else.)
Beasts can only use skills that they've learned, but they can use ALL skills they've learned of the types that they are.
New skills are learned by merging or by levelling up or evolution.

The types of the beast also determine its appearance. It makes sense that a beast that can use Insect Skills would resemble an insect or have insect qualities.

That image there shows all of the available "types" that beasts can be. I'll explain them all here, going in rows starting from the top left:
*pseudolonewolf http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/16971818/ http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/16971818/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:19:19 PST Firequill in Canada! I got back like a week ago (wait, no... 10 days ago), but haven't written a journal until now.

I'm sure you're all so HEAVENLY curious about what we got up to and how it was for us both, but... how much am I willing to say publically? o_O
Probably not much!

We got along well though, and it was a very satisfying and pleasurable trip, but now I miss her and want to be with her again... D:
And we don't know how long it'll be before we meet in person again... SIGH.


Anyway, uh, I'm back to working on Beast Signer now that I'm at home again.
For those of you that don't know, Beast Signer is a game I'm working on that's sort of like a cross between MARDEK and Pokemon. It uses MARDEK-style graphics (since it's made with a similar engine in Flash), but rather than having a team of human adventurers, you catch (or 'sign' ) and train monsters, or 'Beasts', and battle with those.
It differs from Pokemon in that the Beasts have a multitude of different evolutions, and three can take part in battle at one time (well, three vs three), as well as the Signers (the human 'trainers' ), who can attack with their swords, and, uh... It's set inside a virtual world in a post-apocalyptic future! Yes! o_O

Rather than being released as a full game, or in chapters, it'll instead be added to my site with a few areas at the start, and then I'll add content to it weekly. It'll be sort of like a single-player ORPG with the evolving world and everything.

The initial beta version should be released soon; I'll inform you when it is.

If you're curious though and haven't seen them yet, you can see some (now sort of outdated) screenshots [HERE]


Oh, and also, a question for you people: Do you ever think about me? o_O
I'm curious about whether I'd ever be in peoples' minds, despite likely not knowing you personally or anything.
How OFTEN have you thought about me? (I hope you've been recording every single time in a notebook!)
Doesn't it make you feel nice to know that you've been thought about by people?
I think it would be interesting for you to ask the same question in your journals, to see how often people think about YOU! (If indeed they answer...)


Also, another question!
How often do you visit dA?


Anyway, hello. o_O

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]]> *pseudolonewolf http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/16331643/ http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/16331643/ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:13:14 PST Tomorrow I'm going to be flying across the world to spend a month with my dear girlfriend, *Firequill, who I've yet to even MEET... o_O
This will be our first meeting after talking for many hours a day for over a year!

It will be... an experience. An interesting experience, yes!
I really want to see her and spend that month with her, and I can't see it being anything other than amazing and satisfying and exciting, but, uh, I am really bad at doing things alone! I can't BUY things from SHOPS casually by myself, and tomorrow I have to go through four airports in two different countries, and fly on three planes, ALL ALONE... Did I mention I'm not sure what to do and am scared of flying? o_O
HM.

The trip will also take over 24 hours! Woo! o_O

I'm scared and nervous, but that's to be expected! It'll likely be EASY anyway, surprisingly so, and my desire to meet my girlfriend will overcome the negative feelings, hopefully!
Hopefully...

Anyway, I'm probably writing this to say "I WILL BE GONE FOR THE NEXT MONTH" (not that anyone CARES, I know, since it's not like you'd notice anyway on a site like this and I'm hardly active as it is... o_O), and, uh... yes! I'm probably also writing it because I'm procrastinating. Or something.

Now, uh... To last minutely sort out my money and suitcase and hand luggage and things! o_O

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]]> *pseudolonewolf http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/16134591/ http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/16134591/ Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:19:27 PST And do you know of any traits or habits you've inherited from either of them?
Which do you get along best with?
Do you LIKE your parents and talk to them regularly?

(When I ask about how they are personality-wise, I don't mean "how are they as parents?". I mean "what are their individual personalities like as people?"
Is your dad often angry? Your mother meek? HM?

I'm more curious about their personalities in relation to your own than your relationship with them...)

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]]> *pseudolonewolf http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15513741/ http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15513741/ Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:30:15 PST Is it a vague image, with traits like 'they should be nice and kind', or a really specific image, like "they should have these interests BUT DEFINITELY NOT these interests..."?
Would you be annoyed if you had a partner that didn't exactly match that ideal image, or who had so many qualities of it, lacking only a few (and perhaps possessing traits that you really DISLIKED...)?

Would it bother you if your partner had done things in the past that you didn't like the sound of? Things like... hm, would it bother you if you'd never had another partner before, or never been intimate with members of the sex you're attracted to, but they had done before? With one? With several? They'd be your first, but you'd not be theirs. Would you hold it against them? Would it eat away at you inside? o_O
How would you feel if your first kiss was with someone who already knew HOW to kiss since they'd done it many times before?

Would you feel less special?

Have you had any experiences like these before with partners...?

I'm curious about these things... I'd be interested to hear exactly WHAT your ideal partner would be like, but you needn't be so detailed; just a "yes, I do have an ideal partner" would be interesting enough or something! o_O

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]]> *pseudolonewolf http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15310772/ http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15310772/ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:55:48 PDT

Your age:
Your gender:
How often do you spend online each day, on average?:
Which websites do you visit regularly?:
What sorts of websites interest you?:
What sort of things would make you want to visit a site often? Content? Community? Etc.:
What would make you join the forum of a site? What sorts of forums do you join?:


Answers would be very appreciated!

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]]> *pseudolonewolf http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15281096/ http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15281096/ Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:23:16 PDT It was 'suspended' for like two weeks, and I was given no reason as to WHY it was suspended at all! For those two weeks, I tried to contact my webhost via email every day, sometimes several times a day, from two different email accounts (eventually, after just the one didn't seem to be working), as well as several via their 'support forum', but to no avail; they didn't even respond.

The response I got today said this:
"Hello,

I have checked your account and activated it. It was suspended due to
some reason but there was no explanation so I presume that it was by a
mistake. Please accept our apologies regarding this situation."

Two weeks of downtime, and there wasn't even a REASON. Just a "mistake". And two weeks of emails that mysteriously didn't get received or something?

-_-

I'm moving webhosts as soon as I can.

ALSO, MARDEK 2 should FINALLY be out in less than a week, I hope! I've got an offer from the sponsor I'm going with, and now we just need to finalise things...

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]]> *pseudolonewolf http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15208482/ http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15208482/ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:07:45 PDT
Do you use Instant Messaging programs at all? If so, which one do you like and use the most? Do you just use that one, or several? Why do you use that particular one, or ones? How did you find out about it? And what made you get it? A peer asking you to, or just your own interest?

What's your email address? (If you don't want to say what it actually IS, uh, EXPLAIN what it is? Like "It's the name of one of my characters" or "it's my interests" or "it's my actual name"... Actually, do that even if you do mention your actual email!)
What made you choose it? Does it MEAN anything to you? Do you LIKE your email address? If it has numbers in it, what made you choose those numbers?

How long do you spend on Instant Messenger program things? Do you have them constantly running, or do you just log on them every so often for a duration of time?
When talking on IM things, do you devote all your attention to chatting, or do you do something else on your computer with the chatting as a background thing?
How many people do you usually talk to at once?
Do you prefer to just devote your attention to one person, or do you prefer people in numbers?

How often do you have group conversations? Do you start them? Why? Do you LIKE them? Also why? Or do you get annoyed whenever you're invited to one? How often do you get invited to them?

How many contacts do you have? On each IM program, and altogether?
How many of them do you actually TALK to?
How many do you LIKE?
How many do you hate but don't want to remove them for various reasons? o_O
Do any of them make you feel giddy when they start a conversation with you?
Do any of them make you CRINGE when they start a conversation with you, and make you wish they'd go away?
How many have you never met?

How many people added you? How many did you add?
What makes you decide to add a person? What sort of people do you add? Do you add people to get to know them, or only after you've got to know them a bit somewhere else first (like on dA, for example, through comments and notes and things)?

Do you start conversations, or wait for people to talk to you?
Do you often have your Status (if applicable) set to "Away" or "Busy" or something because you just don't want certain people talking at you?

Do you just talk to just anyone on your contacts list? Or only certain people, but have others as contacts for other reasons?
Do you feel happy when new people add you and talk at you, and do you converse friendlily with them? Or do you act 'suspicious' until you find out who they are? o_O

Do you prefer IM conversation to phone conversations?
Do you prefer IM conversations to IN PERSON conversations?

Do you have a webcam? Do you use it? What for? Do you like it when other people have and use webcams, or DISLIKE it? o_O

If you have a display picture, what is it? Why?
Does it bother you when people have photos of themselves as their display pictures? Would YOU ever do that?

Do you use grammar at all on IM programs? Or do you just not care about capitalisation? Is it just TOO HARD and NOT WORTH THE EFFORT? Do you use CHATSPEAK? Do you use grammar and hate it when people use chatspeak? If you use grammar all the time, have people ever commented on that in a rather derogatory way? (I say that because I always use grammar, and people have had the nerve to insult me for doing so before, apparently... T_T)

How long are your individual messages, on average? Do you think that "lol" or "" is a valid contribution on your part that's able to carry along the conversation? Do you get annoyed if people don't respond to your messages like that? o_O
Do you say one sentence at a time, at most, or do you often end up writing long paragraphs at a time? Do you often exceed the amount of characters allowed for a single message?
Does this all depend on the person?

Do you just stop responding to people if they get really boring and you just don't want to talk to people anymore? Do you inform them that they're boring? Do you try to just be polite because they want to talk even if you don't?
Do people often stop responding to YOU in this way?

Do you get nervous about starting conversations with people because you don't want to disturb them? Or do you just casually talk to people whenever without really thinking about what they might be doing at the time?


...There are a lot of questions here! Detailed responses would be VERY appreciated, eve... ]]> *pseudolonewolf http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15105124/ http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15105124/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:10:21 PDT People who keep repeatedly trying to be your friend, even though you'd rather just run away because you just don't LIKE them for whatever reason, or don't WANT more friends?
People who just DON'T GET THE HINT when you don't act friendly back at them?

If ever that happens to you, what do you do? Do you avoid them as best you can, but humour them when they do talk to you (while longing to escape and looking for excuses to leave and just giving agitated or uninterested responses?), do you ignore them entirely, or do you just openly tell them you don't like them and want them to bugger off and leave you alone?

How about people who take an interest in your life when you'd rather they didn't? People who might 'coincidentally' show up to many places you're at in person, or places where you are online?
I'm not referring to 'stalkers' specifically, but they're an extreme case of this.

Do you feel these people intrude in your life and just wish them to go away?
Do you feel BAD because they clearly like and are interested by you, but the feeling's not mutual?
Does it irriate you that they can be so selfish and inconsiderate, being unable to see that they're not wanted and just being tenacious because THEY want you, regardless of whether YOU want THEM?

Do you have any tales to tell about this sort of thing, people? I'd be very interested to hear your stories (you needn't name names, of course, and be as vague as you like!), or your opinions on this, at least!

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Also, my website's still down and I want to switch webhosts, but I CAN'T at the moment because my CURRENT website has all my files and my database, and I CAN'T LOG INTO MY ACCOUNT to access them because of the account suspendedness... THIS IS VERY IRRITATING.
I've contacted them, but they've yet to respond...

I also contacted sponsors for MARDEK 2 like... two weeks ago, and they have also yet to respond.

Bah. T_T

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]]> *pseudolonewolf http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15090961/ http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15090961/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:59:21 PDT Guh, and it's really irritating, too!
Mainly since I have no idea what caused it and I can't log into my account with my host to ASK them things since it just gives me the following error:

" Your account has been suspended because you breached our terms and conditions. You should receive an email with information about it. Bear in mind that this could be due to one of the following:


1. If you have run background processes (IRC or flood utils)(this could be due to some hacker who entered through your PHP scripts. In such cases you are responsible to update the PHP scripts to the latest version so that you don't get hacked)

2. If you have been sending mass emails (the maximum quantity allowed per day is 1500 emails)

3. If your website has generated more than the allowed CPU usage per 180 seconds or 24h. You can keep track of your CPU usage in the Load Stats section.

4. If you have paid for the hosting account and our Sales Verification Department hasn't been able to verify your account yet. In this case you'd better contact a sales representative of ours as soon as possible in order to complete the verification procedure and activate your account immediately."


As far as *I* know, I haven't DONE anything to cause this... The site's been acting up for a while now - just not allowing me to access the forum at all half of the time - but... hm. I wonder if things were 'hacked' at all...?

EITHER WAY, I'm mentioning this here for you few people who visit it, mainly the forum.
I'll try to fix it as soon as I can, but I don't know how long that will take, so be patient!

]]> *pseudolonewolf http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15018075/ http://pseudolonewolf.deviantart.com/journal/15018075/ Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:37:54 PDT Is it mainly for selfish, "so I can look at it again later" reasons, or do you do it as a way of complimenting the artist with the intention of making them feel good and proud of their work, or something like that?
(My guess is that it's usually the former, but people would like to claim it's the latter... >_>
Of course, it's usually probably a combination of the two...)

Do you actually look at things you favourite ever again?
How often do you favourite things? And do you have to REALLY like a piece, or do you just casually favourite half the things you come across if they're remotely appealing to you?

And when you comment, why do you do that? Do you hope for a response to your comment? Would you find it disappointing and a waste of time if you wrote a comment of decent length but didn't get a reply? Would that turn you off writing comments like that on that person's work again?
Do you write comments as a kind of... exercise at putting your thoughts into words? (Does anyone DO that? o_O)
Or do you just want the artist to know how you felt about it because you want them to feel happy?

When writing comments, are you conscious and analytical, wondering what you'd think if you received a comment like the one you're writing? Do you think too much and spend ages writing a longish comment, then delay for a while, checking over it to see whether it's good enough? And do you feel vaguely 'anxious' afterwards in case your comment was inadequate, or something? Do you often just not comment because you don't think your comment COULD be adequate, or can't think what to say?
Or do you just look at a piece for a few seconds, then write whatever comes to mind and post it and forget about it, all casually?
Do you tend to write inane comments like... one-worders ("nice", "cool", etc...), or "this looks nice well done"?
Do you actually like RECEIVING such comments, or do they frustrate and disappoint you because you wanted to know WHY they thought your creation was 'cool', and you feel like it was unappreciated because they clearly put little effort into their comment?

Do you ever comment on peoples' work and journals in the hope that they'll notice and befriend you?
Or just watch you back and comment on your things too?

Do you prefer to receive comments or favourites? Or both?
Do favourites feel 'meaningless'?

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I really like comments on my MUSIC, but get... well, I get SOME, but not as much as I'd like. And people favourite it but don't say WHY they favourited it, though I'd prefer it if they did...
I'm being hypocritical there, though, because I never comment on anything... o_O
Oh, and also, really short "that's nice" comments disappoint me. Yes.

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