Or /coc/ thread if that's what you look for in the catalog.
Wiki:
http://the-conservatory.wikia.com/wiki/The_/co/nservatory_Wiki
Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b_kW_QkFSAeCjGVP51kVG6J10gR8YLStcNpzPh-ARC0/edit
Last weekend's thread:
https://desustorage.org/co/thread/77293760/
Old archives are still busy being imported to the new archive and plus4chan has been wiped.
So if anyone can remember any /coc/ related stuff from the plus4chan archives they think should be on the wiki, now would be a good time to mention it while there are still at least caches of those pages.
Last weekend's thread:
-More about Golden Girl and her supporting cast
-New information and discussion about the Dark Hearts
-Everyone still thinks Six Feet Thunder's design is cool, which led us into...
-The Motion plot line and where characters tie into it
-Collateral Damage Man and other super OP supers
-More Halloween pics (better late than wait another year)
-The Bloom and what they do to people
-The correct tag names for /coc/ related content on the /co/ booru, this will probably come up again this thread.
>>77451827
It's telling that this is really the only thread that brings up +/co/ being dead.
>>77451913
I don't have a place to post porn requests anymore. Kind of a big deal to some of us.
>>77451962
I know it's a big deal to me.
I need pictures of tits.
>>77451827
I am very saddened by the sudden disappearance of +4
you know, if he does decide to make a new one, we really should make a commitment to help him out with content and traffic
>>77451913
Right now it seems like the only option available to the guy who owns the site is to remake it since the previous guy didn't follow through.
Poor communication is a terrible thing.
>>77451997
Yeah, the Dimension H and Handy Jay's threads were the two threads on /pco/ I was following.
>>77451827
well, Thats the end of that then.
>>77452058
I posted on various board of plus4chan regularly, not much more I could really do.
>>77452058
I tried. I really did.
Of the maybe six threads on the third rendition of plus4chan's /coc/ board, I made three of them.
No one ever seemed to want to use the board, not even after a really active weekend thread.
I really dug into the /coc/ archive there when putting most of the info onto the wiki.
A lot of the times I seem to be obscenely lucky with adding things to the wiki.
Another example is Rage Racer's info, I found the original thread on 4chanarchive right before that site vanished from the internet.
Or, more recently, with Golden Girl since her creation threads are probably lost to the 4 month void in the archives.
>>77451997
huuuuuuuuu
sauce?
>>77452058
It really doesn't help that more people are interested in going to 8ch whenever anything happens, most probably not even knowing plus4chan exists.
Like, when /sug/ was booted out, I'm surprised they didn't go there, but also not really.
>>77452660
With plusfour gone that particular imageboard is about the only one where you can find /ss/ now.
>>77452758
but isn't that other chan also offline? I heard the feds got a hold on it or some shit.
>>77452867
No, it's still open currently.
I'd probably use that, except it got all of the worst 4chan users when gamergate got booted. Even /co/ got better for awhile. That's pretty much faded away though.
All I want is a place where I can post porn of any given cartoon or comic character.
>>77453051
are you talking about the 8 or another I haven't heard?
>>77452644
I write a porn comic called Dimension H, and I have Plus4chan to thank for instilling me with the confidence to create it.
Basically it's like a porny-er Heavy Metal, and Plus4chan put me in touch with my partner-in-crime, F-ing, and with my audience.
I really hope Plus4chan comes back. It's a great place to spitball ideas. And 8ch gives me the creeps.
Until /pco/ is back up, you can follow me here:
http://dimensionhcomics.tumblr.com/
http://dimensionhcomics.soup.io/
>>77453100
Yes, 8.
>>77453051
>All I want is a place where I can post porn of any given cartoon or comic character.
Hey, at least we have /aco/ to post all the things we could have posted on /pco/, but can't now that it's dead, right? Finally a board for /co/ by /co/.
Oh wait.
>>77453317
weird, I can't access to it since last night
>>77452150
I think I only recognize 5 or 6 of them.
A lot of them have disappeared over the years.
A moment for our fallen brethren.
>>77453656
That was a long moment.
So, anyone have anything they'd like to suggest adding to the wiki?
Any long forgotten projects?
Any long archived characters?
>>77451827
What the shit?!!?
Oh, god, it's true.
>>77454430
Do these girls have a page? Always thought they were neat.
>>77454930
Yes, they were added back in July.
This is their off season though.
I'd expect to see them again around New Years.
What are some of the big conspiracies in the /co/verse?
>>77456279
Wasn't there a crazed hobo version of /Co/nrad?
>>77456279/pol/ is always right
>>77456279
Conspiracies he says, like the vast collaborative scheme between the reptiles and the inverted vampires to fill the space around the earth with artificial suns in order to eliminate the night.
Would this be a bad time to talk about Erin?
>>77456592
Yes, but that's more incoherent mumbling with maybe a dash of cosmic insight.
>>77456881
I don't think it would be.
I don't want to be like those corporations that decide to censor their cartoons that are still in production in the wake of a horrible event.
>>77456881
I know I preferred here when she wasn't a lesbian.
>>77451827
That's a shame. Hadn't gone there for a while, but I'll miss the place.
>>77457709
Either CosCruanon is going to hate that or he'll just ignore it and everyone else will hate him.
>>77457709
>>77457897
The only people who seem to think she is a lesbian are the ones who want to bitch about it. No one else even brings up the idea to begin with.
>>77457709
She never was a lesbian.
That was just some anon trying to force it and it never caught on.
I don't see why you keep bringing it back up.
>>77457897
CosCru anon ships Erin and Steve.
>>77451827
It is currently dead, but it's gonna come back.
>>77458015
>>77458015
>She never was a lesbian.
Not even a little? She's pretty cozy with Emily in some of those drawings.
>>77458370
Bi-sexual and lesbian aren't the same thing.
As far as I am aware, in all that I can remember, it was stated in some past thread that she might've tried fooling around with another girl once, felt nothing from it, and that was it.
She doesn't show much sexual interest in anyone, or much interest in anything in general.
>>77451827
>plus4chan
No... noooo.
>>77458370
I wrote her as being flirty, because I think she generally enjoys teasing people and provoking them in some way. I never thought it reflected on her actual preferences or that she's particularly serious about anything she does.
>>77458666
Yes, Satan.
Everything is gone.
>>77451827
>Paheal purged loli
>ah well it's still on plus4chan
>now plus4chan's dead
>some of the stuff on plus4chan is now nowhere to be found anywhere
>>77458370
Girls used to be allowed to do skin to skin contact as good and best friends. Now that everyone is a lesbian girls have had their traditional friendship actions ruined.
Some people still like when girls could hug each other and not be carpet munching tuna hunters.
>>77458909
just fap to your imagination, Diddler
>>77458909
Should have saved it on your computer. Oh wait.
http://www.plus4chan.org/index.html
go vote if you haven't already
>>77458909
looking for anything in specific? I might have saved it.
>>77460148
there was an imageset (saved as one png, with pictures going down vertically if i recall corectly) of Mabel stripping that I could not for the life of me find anywhere else
help a brother out
>>77452013
So whose tits do we need out this time?
>>77461853
I wanna see Magi finish CosCru's Morgana design to be honest. CosCru has nice faces but Magi does better girl bodies.
>>77462664
Who is Morgana ?
>>77463397
Morgan le Fay.
CosCru anon has stated that Arthurian legends will be playing a role in the second story arc he has planned.
I don't get why everyone always focuses in on that idea when discussing it though since there's still the whole first story arc to go through before getting there.
>>77463587
Well, can you link me to reference for that character, I'll take a whack at it when I recover from motion sickness for FO4.
>>77463784
I'm pretty sure the concept pic here is the only time he's posted a drawing of her.
>>77458370
It's been said before that she has canonically attempted some amount of lesbian interaction once, and found it not to her liking. Of all the /coc/ girls, she is one of the most confirmed hetero.
The way the Courier's Guild operates in parcel delivery, do they only deliver to locations or do they go directly to the individuals?
Because I think a story about a group of demons using the guild to find someone in hiding might be neat.
They pay the guild to deliver something to the person they're looking for.
The guild has to find this person to make the delivery.
The demons paying the guild track the person dispatched.
The person dispatched has to defend the recipient from the demons out to kill them at least until they've made the delivery.
The recipient won't let them make the delivery since then the courier would have no reason to protect them.
Thoughts?
I figure this would piss of Boss Imp and he'd wait until they tried this again before setting a trap.
>>77463936
Alright, I'll be streaming as magi34 on picarta until sometimes early Sunday morning. Its gonna be NSFW tho, come hangout if you are interested.
>>77467899
Well that's cool. I'm preoccupied watching... terrible mood whiplash anime on toonami tonight though.
I'm not the guy who was wanting to see your take on Morgana though, I just posted the pic and the info since I have it.
>>77466082
I think it depends on the delivery contract. If the sender wants it to go to an address, they drop it off at the address and have anyone who lives there sign off. If it's supposed to go to someone specific, they'll deliver to that person even if they have to dig up their corpse and put a pen in the body's hand to sign.
>>77469173
Hmmm...
They make the corpse sign for it, put the package on the body, then walk away.
Then the recipient comes back to life or becomes undead.
>>77463936
>just noticed that morgana and the autumn seasonal girl have the same horn-like head decoration
The plot thickens?
>>77469173
I don't think they'd go quite that far. I expect they require a certain amount of proof that the recipient is in a condition to receive a delivery. Unless you actually have something to give to a dead body for some more sinister purpose.
>>77470257
Coincidental I think.
But we could build on it seeing how it's all so malleable and the seasons girls are supposed to have been around since the local deities departed.
I think those deities shouldn't be based from any real old religions since it limits what we can and can't do with them too much.
Just say they were local valley gods or something who bailed once Christianity took hold.
>>77470709
What if they were delivering a tombstone to an unmarked grave?
>>77470747
Or just re-purpose a few folk tales, like they got a promotion.
So now local ghosts and folklore are the new mythology.
Herne the Hunter is promoted from some hunting ghost in one forest, to the God of ALL forests and hunts.
>>77468705
Well, thanks for the reference man.
>>77462664
Maan, I don't know if I am a good candidate for something like this haha.
>>77470866
How does one go about becoming a god in the /co/verse?
What does being a god entail in the /co/verse?
The /Co/smic Ones have been discussed, but they are always a step above anything worldly and have at least one foot (or whatever) in the meta.
I can't imagine being a god in the /co/verse as anything other than a formality that comes with maybe a couple perks you rarely ever get to use.
It's probably just paperwork or middle management, or maybe you just fuck off to a magic sky castle to do whatever.
Some of our supers have divine blessings or are chosen champions of some divinity, but we've never explored where gods tie into all of this.
Are we following Discworld rules? Because that just means anyone who manages to get a large enough following would be able to create a new god via their collective belief, which is something the /fa/ aliens did with their Solar Titan using their psychic powers.
Also in Discworld, displaced gods can take up newly opened positions instead of new gods coming into creation to fill them since belief is finite in that setting and there's only so much to go around.
I imagine that volcano goddess we've seen in some Sakthi doodles would take advantage of a situation like that.
>>77470257
What if she were the host of the Autumn spirit at one time?
You know how there's a divide in Containment history between their past ultrahigh-casualties missions and their current stable competent missions? How likely is it that the defining factor between them is the Dark Heart's funding?
>>77471110
I see it being that new gods are being "made," but only because I see Britain in the /coc/verse having this real aspect of Oldness to it. Not quite middle ages, but there's this real aspect of a clock being turned back on the culture, with history and mythology being the bases of the new Pagan religion. Like the God of the sea, and wars fought on it, is "Nelson".
>>77471423
I don't see it as being turned back that much.
You can't get rid of the church of England that easily.
But there are probably magical hot spots across the island that have been flaring up lately for some unknown reason.
>>77471192
Could be! That an increased experience paying off.
>>77471115
That's also what I was getting at.
anyone else see this? http://boards.plus4chan.org/co/
>>77470257
>>77471115
Wouldn't an Angloboo like Autumn be pretty mad about that?
Sort of like a Christian finding out the angel he's been talking to is really Judas?
>>77471728
I hope he comes through. I mean I've delivered requests and stuff there before but I could have been more active.
>>77472113
Angloboo, like a true anglophile, would disregard any French fanfiction of Arthurian legend which kicks out a lot of Morgana and Lancelot shenanigans.
>>77471728
The poll or the update that says he might be able to restore it?
>>77453325
There are complications with /aco/. Some of the projects are strictly against the rules there.
I think I'm going to start a tumblr. I've had one for a while but I've never actually done anything with it. Just so I can post shit doodles of coscru in between hours of coding and testing.
Also nice >>77470981
Here, have some ladybug butts
>>77472160
>>77472245
what are you guys going on about? the website is back up entirely for me.
>>77472113
It's hard to be mad too long atYOUR OWN MOTHERDUN DUN DUUNNN
>>77472537
Yeah it seems like the poll worked and its been restored?
Man that minority of people saying it should be left dead were dicks.
>>77472537
>>77474633
I still only see the page with the poll.
>>77474801
http://boards.plus4chan.org/co/
I just got into it from google
>>77474817
Oh good.
>>77474817
Nope, still just redirects me to the page with the poll.
>>77472537
this
shit works, yo
>>77475307
Maybe you need to refresh something
If you go to the main website and still get the page with the poll do this -
Hold ctrl
Hit F5
Let go of ctrl
You're in
>>77475612
I already did that, but I'll do it again.
Nope, I still just see the poll.
>>77475669
It's a DNS issue then, you'll just have to try again later. That one just takes a while to propagate through the intertubes, but it's there.
>>77475669
Try clearing your cookies and browser history.
>>77475689
Or he can change his DNS server.
>>77472417
Care to link it when you do?
>>77470055
>>77470709
I do like the idea of people trying to take advantage of the Guild's determination to deliver shit. I'm sure in most cases that ends with the cheater's shrunken head in a drawer of Boss Imp's desk.
>>77476123
Once I start posting on it yeah.
>>77476474
He might make them sing a song as a way to promote his business.
Demon commercials are probably horrifyingly catchy.
It's back up! http://boards.plus4chan.org/coc/
>>77476656
Everything is still redirecting me to the index, which is no longer the poll.
>>77476679
Dunno what to tell you man, its working for me.
I'm seeing the /coc/ board on plus4chan, someones posted the drawing of Briana dressed up as Sophitia to the BQ thread with the text
>>For Halloween.
Which wasn't there before.
>>77477118
I posted that days ago before the site went down.
Do the Justice /co/mrades have an orbital attachment to keep an eye out for alien invasions, space debris, and other things like that?
They're stationed on a space platform in a bunch of the versions, so a detachment like that would make sense.
Manny Quinn doesn't need air so he'd be able to do work like that, Nicky is ill-suited to it, and I don't know if Jet Pack Viking has a space suit.
So who would be in such a attachment?
>>77478040
If he has a jet pack, he's gotta have a space suit lying around somewhere. That would just be a crime if he couldn't do jet pack viking shit in space.
>>77472113
>>77472223
How do her parents feel about her abandoning her native culture in order to become so pathetically in love with another?
>>77478170
They don't care.
They're immigrants. They came to the country to get away from their own. She was either born there or moved there at such a young age that it makes no difference.
And I don't think the season spirits would be able to bond with anyone who wasn't at least born somewhere around the area on top of being born on the right day.
I think her dad is involved with cider production, or there's something like that in the place they live.
>>77478118
What kind of shit are we talking about here?
Punching giant space rocks?
Punching alien spaceships?
Punch-... pushing space missile away from Earth?
Picking up space trash?
>>77478170
>>77478313
Didn't the last thread say her parents were from Hong Kong?
Could be a fun little twist on the tired old cliche of Chinese immigrants starting take aways or laundromats.
>>77470866
Reminds me of Robin of Sherwood.
>>77479080
I guess Hong Kong is as good a place as any other if we just have to have them be Asian.
I still say that it's in very poor form to just say she's Asian and then try to force it on the story.
If she's Asian and that's all there is to it then the only impact it has is on her appearance.
I cannot see any positive developments coming from trying to force Asian culture on her; it will come off, at worst, as looking like someone is trying to make a statement or, at best, as forcing a fetish.
If it's just a quick "so, how did you inherit this if you're Asian and the old gods who put it in place were British?" thing and that leads them to learning that the only thing that matters is if you were born on the correct day and went to the correct place at the correct time before anyone else who meets the criteria did then you get the power, then it'd be fine since it'd have some sort of relevance.
Otherwise, it just comes off as something for anons to pick fights over later and get stuck in a conversation that keeps looping back around, saying the same things over and over again without any real attempt at plot advancement.
>>77479628
If this is really getting hardcore, dark, mist in the woods and fog on the downs pagan, with unbreakable ties to the ancient land of Britain...I think making them all white erases this aspect (even if it raises another).
Hell, why do they even have to be girls at this point? This all seems all far too old to bind to a genre from 1970s Japan.
>>77479825
I do not see what whiteness has to do with anything I just said or why you would bring up whiteness in response to my post.
And they're all girls because the idea was "magical girls" and dammit, if we can't at least stick to the core parts of the idea, then what is the point?
You could easily rationalize the girl part by remembering that all gods are/were terrible perverts.
>>77479628
I preferred when she was just a romantic about Old England.
Also, if we're going back in to Pagan Britain, what about the fact that one of the girls was Norwegian and the other was German?
>>77481187
I didn't care much for turning them into the Europe diversity group, but don't care enough to argue it.
One thing I keep noticing is the misconception that Britain in the /co/verse is some kind of time displaced cliche ridden magical pagan zone.
It's not.
There's talking dinosaurs and talking animals, yeah, but it's being way over exaggerated I think.
>>77472421
It's a fine butt indeed.
So what drinks do these guys order when they're having a guys night out?
>>77486044
From left to right: gin and tonic, Scotch, beer.
>>77486245
I can't tell if that middle choice is a joke or a pun.
Is there something I'm missing? There's still *a* /pco/ and as far as I can tell you can still get images off of it. I abandoned western porn a long time ago, so I guess I'm out of the loop.
>>77486719
Plus4chan was down, hard down, now it's back up... some of it anyway.
>>77486769
Ah. I guess you guys should get while the getting's good, /a/ has had more than its fair share of that.
I see we're on page 10.
Are we just giving the thread reaper high-fives today?
>>77489168
Probably just a lull. We just need something to activate some activity.
>>77489678
>We just need something to activate some activity.
BIG. MEATY.BUGS.
Bugs you say?
>>77489678
There have been at least a couple interesting developments in the works this thread.
Main thing that has my interest is CosCru anon saying he's going to make a tumblr to post his drawings to.
I still think when he makes the comic proper he should have it hosted on the comiccooperative though.
I'd say the same to MC with his /co/ntainment comic and Imagined Shadow with his Motion comic.
>>77490052
>Imagined Shadow with his Motion comic.
If it's the same artist I think it is, that should be her.
>>77486312
I wonder what Springtime thinks about the fact a hefty portion of her research grants are coming from a bunch of magic users.
>>77491560
Maybe, I kind of remember that being stated now.
The same artist who draws the Dark Hearts, and a lot of the Erin pics, and a lot of the demon kings pics, and that pic of the skull trio used as the OP the other week, and dozens and dozens of other pics.
One that has been here long enough that I have enough pics saved by them to be able to clearly see just how much they've improved over the years.
>>77491622
This has been loudly wondered many times in the past.
>>77491844
She takes it as a challenge.
Those magic users are so sure she'll never match magic with SCIENCE that they'll throw as much money as she could ever ask for just so she won't have an excuse when she fails.
That's what she thinks anyway.
She thinks they're the smugest assholes who ever shat out magic golden egg laying geese and aims to one up them even if the funding to do so comes from them.
Could Riggs and Strummer defeat Beezleboss in a rock-off challenge?
>>77493196
They might also need to recruit Von Beethoven.
I don't think I saved any pics of him.
>>77481617
>some kind of time displaced cliche ridden magical pagan zone.
I think it's because it makes it a little more unique in the setting. Otherwise it's just another modern international country, only with a Monty Python sketch about a suave dinosaur thrown in.
>>77451827
What is the story of what happened to plus?
>>77495240
You could read through the thread, or even go to the site itself, shit-eyes.
>>77494527
But what's assumed is more of a generalization of an entire country rather than select locations within it.
>>77451827
Damn it... Are you sure it's all wiped out? Incogs stuff and the anthro threads were full of new and great stuff and the Gwen and fapfic stuff in the last version were great. Is it really ALL gone?
>>77498853
Seems like it's being restored now, though some pages are still coming back as 404s for me.
>>77496419
from what I saw, it was it is down, there is a poll to see if people want it back up, it is now up for some people. still not sure of why it was down in the first place.
>>77499627
The previous site owner didn't follow through with transferring ownership to the guy who has been running it for the past several years and hosting payments were missed as a result of it.
It's Monday and we're not ever at 200 replies.
That pretty much is the definition of a slow thread for us.
>>77499999
quints
>>77499999
Check'd
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>>77499999
Yous b cul 4 gitin 5s
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>>77499999
Good quints I looked at them
>>77500977
>>77500986
>>77501042
>>77501077
Thx for checking guys I love you
>>77453051
>All I want is a place where I can post porn of any given cartoon or comic character.
Those do seem to be going extinct.
the idea of going to the shithole that is infinichan just to see new Camp comics depresses me.
>>77501271
If this is the camp comic I think you're talking about, aren't the newest pages all on /u/?
So... slow, slow thread. I can try to pitch a topic, but those never take root in favor of just others replying once about how slow the thread is being.
HOWEVER
I find my thoughts going back to the Dark Hearts and their masks, and I recall a demon of masks being mentioned before for something Cosmic Crusaders related.
How would one even try to steal the mask of a Dark Heart?
You need a mask to control the golem, the mask just materializes above the golem currently being controlled.
To steal a golem you either need to steal a mask of the Dark Hearts or place a mask in the golem to trick it into activating without someone controlling it which would then possibly make it so the Dark Hearts can't find it anymore.
This can actually be useful for something Erin related with The Cryptic Skein story.
>>77500850
Fallout 4, personally.
>>77498026
Wasn't the entire concept at the core of magical girls being much older and darker?
Sort of, the shiny crystal palace is now a standing stone in the middle of a forest clearing.
>>77504024
The entire core concept was just "magical girls, there's 4 seasons so there's 4 of them" then everything else came later. Any deeper meaning, lore, or whatever followed that.
And following that, their place in the setting, and following that who the girls were individually, which is where it has stagnated.
And would be following that, the story that would be told with them.
>>77503810
That could be a reason why everywhere online seems quiet today.
I wonder if we'd be able to come up with a setting in cyberspace in the /co/verse.
>>77478118
There should be a moon base.
I can't think of a good reason to proliferate this thread, so we might be done early this week if no one else comes along.
Though I have been thinking about the demon planes some more, and while the kings are the most prominent demons there, there should still be others of renown.
Possibly old generals, spell breakers, hexers, some that are living legends from times before the kinds.
There should also be some notion of time.
Like they are currently in the 793rd year of the Kings' Era or something. Time of course doesn't pass in normal ways, but it does pass, even if doesn't in a forward of backward way.
There really should be more imagination put into the mythology whenever it needs to play a role.
I could make something up at random, like
Prim Nocusly, first demon to lean the secrets of the Void and tame the beasts within, allowing all demons to propagate across the planes.
Void beasts, something like a sailboat in theory only. Riding one is more like hanging from the outside of a submarine as it is dropped into a large smoke stack filled with super heated darkness.
At one point the only way to travel between planes until such a time that the first greater demons consumed enough magic to begin dabbling in the finer workings of portals.
Or maybe until one found a way to make Void beats more compatible with their reality, which in turn made them show greater intelligence and reveling how it was that they were able to move between spaces.
Things to play around with if we I or anyone else ever gets around to writing more Erin stories.
>>77506002
What if the /co/verse IS cyberspace, and everything we post happens in real time to them?
>>77511820
That's exactly what it is already, but I was thinking of an in-universe example.
Though the only characters I can see having a presence there are the Machine Cult and other characters who might have computerized parts such as Queenie (?) and her drones.
I don't really want to bump the thread, but this is the beginnings of an Erin thing I'm trying to write.
As Erin strode down the twisting halls of The Cryptic Skein one thing was becoming evidently clear: she had become completely and without question, lost. Her usual guide had excused himself form this job, something about an overdue book fine.
Many of the rooms themselves were positively alien to her human eyes, of the ones that she was able to comprehend with her narrow perception of reality, they were filled with creatures of all shapes and sizes, demons of all classes busying themselves learning.
Of note, she found that many of the rooms shared a common figure: a book hovering over some manner of cloaks, robes, or other such garments, aided by no less than five but no more than nine floating hands made of stone parts.
In one such room she happened to peer into, Erin could hear parts of the lecture the book was reciting
"...demon, Prim Nocusly, was successful in taming a void beast beginning the era of expansion. With the ability to traverse the infinite yet simultaneously non-existent space between linear planes, demon kind began..."
It seemed to be a history course of some sort. Her time listening in was interrupted almost as soon as it began with an echoing whispering voice in her ear
"Ho there, I do not recall seeing your face before. Are you a new arrival seeking greater wisdom?"
The voice, coming from a demon resembling a localized snake-like tornado with a carved stone for a head, was not unfamiliar to Erin as she had seen them in the guild before, so she remained nonplussed.
"I was sent form the Courier's Guild to deliver this parcel. Might you direct me to the editorial offices?"
"But of course guild friend. I am Eumestus, propel yourself this way and I shall be your guide."
"Erin de Gaulle. Thank you."
>>77514226
And so they were off, Erin's guide led her up walls and onto ceilings, down pathways which seemed to loop back on themselves only to lead somewhere different, past entirely different wings of the ever changing structure, overhearing bits of the general lecture of the day on what Erin thought she heard as 17th dimensional mathematics.
Until they had arrived at a rather dimly lit corner that expanded into something resembling a vast library where they parted ways.
While there, she peered into yet another room and found many of the book headed beings in it with their pages open while one at the front spoke
"...bound to the planes they developed within, and as magic was finite and with little sources available other than their own company, several more successful demons found themselves in complete isolation. Demons of specific species can be traced back to these hyper successful individuals who then committed division of self..."
As the book spoke, visible words poured from its head and filled the pages of the other books heads in attendance, which appeared to be less grand in appearance, lacking any fancy inscriptions, jewel encrustations, and their robes were more plane with some looking worn or torn.
Deciding not to interrupt whatever this process is, Erin continued until she came across the head editorial office.
That's as far as I am right now with it.
>>77514254
If she's lost, how would she know where or what the head editorial office is?
>>77514543
The parcel is addressed to be delivered to that office.
It was easier to come up with a huge block of a text and take excerpts from it than come up with random fragments.
In brief, demonic history can be divided into four distinct eras: the age of beginnings, the age of isolation, the age of expansion, and the age of kings.
In the beginning era, demons were still little more than magic given physical form.
With the subsequent complexities of the Nexus taking hold, magic began moving in ever changing ways causing these forms to adapt so as to maintain themselves.
In doing so, many of the core aspects of early demon society began to take shape, such as the taking and bending of form.
This long process led to more complex behaviors developing such as the formation of intelligence and intent which leads us to the era of isolation.
During this era, demons were still bound to the planes they developed within, and as magic was finite and with little sources available other than their own company, several more successful demons found themselves in complete isolation.
Demons of specific species can be traced back to these hyper successful individuals who then committed division of self to repopulate their environments.
This process could repeat several times or not have occurred at all depending on the circumstances of their plane.
Demons who were able to successfully devour all sources of magic on their planes passed on their resilience to their divisions, and as the process repeated itself they became more robust with each cycle.
With differences in environment, some of these early species began to benefit more from cleverness than brute force tactics and primitive societies took hold.
The ones who came from planes were cleverness reined supreme formed the thinking class of demons, whereas the ones where brute strength prevailed form the more bestial classes.
This is not the say each plane produced only one species of demon over time, only the process in which primitive demons in isolation came to be of similar nature.
And then I realized how much bigger the big block of text became and how little of the actual story I had when I posted it.
>>77515541
The era of isolation ended when the demon, Prim Nocusly, was successful in taming a void beast beginning the era of expansion.
With the ability to traverse the infinite yet non-existent space between linear planes, demon kind began to inter mingle and form new varieties.
New sources of magic were discovered and though still finite, were vital in the emergence of the first greater demons.
The greater demons of this era were able for the first time to harness their own magical energies without risk of loss of life.
In doing so they were able to peer into the non linear planes and for the first time make contracts with beings who could provide them with a replenishable supply of magic.
These contracts were vital for greater demons to continue their experimentations and supremacy.
It became common practice to gain power and stature by way of binding oneself to a human, gaining power at the cost of freedom.
This practice is still in use to this day, though less wide spread and only popular among lower demons who wish to remain independent of the kings.
And something in it probably runs contrary to something that's been established.
It's not really up to book standard either.
>>77515567
The era of expansion ended with the rise of the greatest of all blue devils, The Lonely King, who had discovered and bonded himself to a plane of elemental magic.
In doing so he was able to attain power far beyond that of any demon before him and caused havoc across all demon planes.
Through his greed, many of the isolated planes were suddenly and forcefully fused to make them easier to convert, while others were fragmented when he had finished with them.
After many years of war, The Crimson King, allied with The King in Yellow and using the same methods that The Lonely King had used to gain power, were able to seal him within the elemental plane of magic he had bonded himself to.
This marked a turning point in demon society as eleven more elemental planes of magic were now available to demon kind as a whole.
Through the use of these planes, demon society has evolved into its current state where demons wanting more magical power need only pledge themselves to one of the kings.
There was a part I did before all the parts I'm posting that I had posted in the threads some months ago which covers some of the specifics of her current delivery in this story. I'll re-post that in a bit.
>>77514254
What she found inside was another book head, busy writing in four books at once; the thought that this could probably be considered obscene in some way briefly crossed Erin's mind, but did nothing to discourage her from approaching its desk.
"Delivery, sign here please."
And without so much as a pause another floating stone hand came forth, signed the form, and unwrapped the parcel, which was another book. Before Erin could even turn to leave, the most important looking book head spoke:
"A moment."
And the freshly delivered book's pages were quickly flipped through as another hand began writing a letter. True to its word, it took but a moment for the book to have been unwrapped, presumably read, a response written, and the book re-wrapped with full payment for a return delivery.
As official guild business took precedence over any personal business Erin had at The Cryptic Skein, she had to comply and backtrack. Something about books flipping through other books still felt slightly perverse to her though.
Leaving The Cryptic Skein was far easier than finding any specific room within it, though coming up with an excuse to return to conduct the personal assignment she had been given without any official business to take care of might become troublesome.
For now, Erin returned to the nearby imp village where the imp scribe who wrote the book could be found.
On the plane wherein the The Cryptic Skein is found, there exists a large collection of imps of all kinds. These imps hold a belief that they have been protected by their matron goddess since long before anyone in living memory was born. In recent decades, each new generation of imps has shown more intelligence than the last, this is in no small part to the immense magic radiating out from The Cryptic Skein. They have begun to undergo a massive culture shift with their own written language and religion at the epicenter of it all.
With the completion of their civilization's first library approaching, it is at this time that a certain scribe among them has requested the services of the Courier's Guild to deliver the newly completed holy book of the imps to what they see as their benefactor, The Cryptic Skein.
>>77516605
"They sent it back."
"What? Why?"
"Lack of citations? There's a letter that came with it."
The imp quickly opens and scans the letter, then falls back into a slump.
"The head editor has refused my book on the grounds that our written word is too barbaric..."
The scribe hands the letter to Erin for her to see.
"It doesn't seem that bad, look, he sent translation suggestions."
"The suggestions omit most of the meaning and intent behind the words. Our native tongue has many... differences with the common language of the planes it seems."
Erin thought on this for a moment as the concept was not foreign to her.
"You could send a response explaining this."
"A correspondence like that has no guarantee of a quick resolution and we cannot afford to keep paying the guild for it."
"I could just deliver you to the offices so you can make your case in person."
The scribe look at Erin with a puzzled expression, like it was something that had never been considered.
"I'll even give you a special discount since you're small and it's on the same plane."
Now I'm going to bed.
One more day, maybe.
>>77519186
OK, but, and here's the big question that I ask to anyone who bumps these threads, what do you want to talk about?
>>77519859
I got nothing. I just wanted to make sure there'd be enough time for potentially interested parties to read and respond to the Erin thing.
>>77520713
I don't usually get any responses to my occasional attempts at writefagging.
I'll probably try writing more of it later today if I'm not too tired once I'm done with all the stuff I need to do.
