Is there any descriptions on what the gates look like?

This won't be complete overnight, but I wanted to share what I've got so far for this and give people a chance to contribute/give opinions. Right now the site's banner represents the Nexus. Soon I want to have banners for every individual IC sub-forum, with scenes that evoke the feel of each verse.

For example:

Pale Moors
Vasty Deep
The Underverse
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I wanted to give folks the chance to contribute any pictures they've found for the banners as well. Pretty much everything on <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.wallpaperup.com">http://www.wallpaperup.com</a><!-- m --> is amazing and I'll probably be looking through the 'jungle' tags soon (I already have dozens from 'forest' saved for the Tangled Green, but none of them quite match what I had in mind). I have stuff for Camelot and Coruscant already, in addition to the ones above. Also some others for other Verses which I'll use if I can't find better. But here's what I'm going for:

Quote:The Tangled Green: Dense forest/jungle. The taller the trees, the better. The idea is that most of the time, the sky is largely obscured by the branches overhead.
The Vasty Deep: Big-ass ocean. Perhaps it could be a view of the sea from a beach or a resort-type area, to represent Costa Del Sol, the island where you arrive there. There's a lot of other good ideas in the thread, though some I can't use (like Sabaody archipelago, because it's drawn and I'd rather keep the banners realistic-style)
The Endless Dunes: Big valley, desert, wasteland. I was looking to see if I could find any with the view of a far-off town (the town with no name) but the towns all look too modern or have characters in front of them.
The Pale Moors: Dark, misty moors. Maybe something with a view of Dracula's Castle, or Darkshire (which is supposed to look like your typical creepy little Silent Hill town, not explicitly fucked-looking but not somewhere you wanna go. Or like a little Romanian town)
The Ashen Plains: Basically? Like Mordor. Or Blackrock Mountain. You get the idea.
The Frozen Fields: A snowy mountain range. It has one big, central mountain. Could also do a view of the outskirts with the glaciers and snow fields.
The Dataverse: Kinda like Tron. It's all totally mutable, being data, so it could be a lot of things.
The Spirit Realm: Like the Fade from Dragon Age. Again, totally mutable, but in the magical sense rather than the digital.
The Void: Like the Nexus, but with the colours reversed. Totally monochromatic but mostly black/grey. It also has white leylines but that'll be difficult unless you want to photoshop them in yourself (see the full description in the Void topic)
The Oververse: Clouds. Heaven, basically. Though the main city is rather unique, see the full description for that. Something from Skyward Sword might possibly work.
The Underverse: Hell, basically. Outland from WoW is a pretty great, really evocative portrayal of this.

I've seen a few instances of stuff like this now:

Raze Wrote:Guess I can highjack this thread as well. I wasn't paying attention and thought we had to post for the Weekly gains, after the Sunday of that week. (IE: After the 15th, post for the week previous) But I was wrong. I hadn't read it fully=/

Joker Wrote:I guess I fooled myself into thinking Attack was Strength and Technique was going to be the focus of ranged abilities.

The floor of Valhalla shifted and changed, showing images from the verses below. Some of them were close up, showing faces, others were from far off. Omni sat on his throne with a perpetual grin on his face.

A voice to the throne’s right said: “Looks like this ‘Magus’ character might be coming to see you.”

The incandescent silhouette gave out a protracted sigh, warbled by whatever sorcery gave him existence. Distortion aside, he sounded like a young boy or girl. “I can only hope. It’s been ages since the last one made it here. I’m not going to put my hopes in any one of them, though. There’s lots of potential there. Always is. But most of them lounge it.” One would be hard-pressed to guess whether the edge to his voice originated from malice or mere theatrics. Perhaps simple boredom.

“What about these ones here in the Tangled Green?”

“It’s amusing watching them fight goblins.”

“And these ones in the Dunes?”

Omni barked a laugh. “Now that is interesting. Already turning on each other. Look at ‘em.” He poked the image of Ganondorf and Eighteen, giggling to himself. “I’m not even sure why, and I’m omniscient.”

“You think that Ganondorf will go anywhere?”

“Who knows!” The being threw his palms open. “If he did, it’d certainly make an interesting change to the current situation. The way things are going … oh, hey, are you trying to get me to spill the beans!?”

The voice giggled. “You caught me, Omni.”

“I always will! Now let’s see … Coruscant, Coruscant. Let’s see where this jubilee takes us …”

This is where I will post images, and what I saw when I first looked at them, albeit in a smaller box alongside the original image.

I hope others will share their twisted imagery as well!


I will start with this (what I see in Protoman's sig):

Followed by an explanation of sorts:

Sooo fucking awesome. Saw it tonight with a pretty lady.

Haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Go watch it, seriously. Might even be better than Hot Fuzz/Shaun of the Dead. Go to the theater. Do it naough!!

Heyyy, it seems like I didn't get my 150 OM from the weekly update? Is there a record or something I can check to be sure? Thanks guys!

Um, yeah. So, if you'd like a beautiful signature by me, post!

Character Image:
Name You'd Like On The Sig:
Sub-text:
Colors/Style (give me an idea of what you want):

Name: Vincent Valentine
Source: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
Spent OM: 28200
Consumed OM: 4600 (Base [1000], Uplink Terminal [1000], Recall Station [1000], Medical Centre [1500], Mobile Dataverse Device [100])

Proficiencies: (5600); Ranged Proficiency (1000), Physical Strength (1000), Area Attack Proficiency (600), Area Shield Proficiency (400), Buff Proficiency (400), Debuff Proficiency (1000 OM), Homing Proficiency (600), Remote Control Proficiency (600)

Powers: (7400/8000); Master Acrobat (400), Burst Movement (800), Suppression (1000), Stealth (1200), Super Speed (1000), Flight (1800), Hive Mind (400), Disassemble (800)

Moves: (4200); Cerberus [Standard Fire Pattern, Moira, Persistence, Hubris] (1200), Chimera (600), Fira (300), Blizzara (300), Thundara (300), Protect (300), Shell (300), Cloak Decoy (300), Claws (300), Sled Fang (300)

Super Moves: (1400); Overflow – Tier I Offensive Super Move (600), Death Penalty – Tier II Offensive Super Move (800)

Transformations: (2500); Chaos Cloak – Tier I Power-Up (1000), Omega Flux – Tier II Power-Up (1500)

Assists: (1500); Nanaki (1500)

Items: Mobile Dataverse Device, Communicator (Saga Reward), 'Dante's Abyss 8' DVD Collection (Flavor Item), 'Grand Championship Belt' (Flavor Item), 'Nanaki/Red XIII' Transforming Action Figure (Flavor Item)

Bases: '7th Heaven', Tier 6 Coruscant, Dataverse Uplink Terminal, Recall Station, Medical Centre

Unlocks: (1000); Permanent Stat Upgrade (TEC +1) (1000)

Base stats:
ATK: 3 (5) [7]
DEF: 1 (3) [4]
SPD: 4 (5) [6]
TEC: 3 (3) [4]

It's awesome and it's cheap and I'm playing it!! You should get it and we'll rob banks and shit together.

Do it!