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Title: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 20, 2011, 08:21:04 AM
Huh. So looks like it's my turn to do this whole Q&A thing.

For those who aren't aware, I'm a Librarian, which makes me Ruro's lowly underling one of the members in charge of PSL. For all of you who've never ventured into the Library's dark depths scenic corridors before, it's a pleasure to meet you.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ahaha.png): G'morning! Or evening. I dunno...Rou-kun, this timezone thing you told me about is confusing...

Huh? Sango, what're you doing out here? Head back to the library right now. Uncle Rou's in the middle of some important Library work.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Oh! You mean like that time when Ruro-tan had everyone dress up as Rurouni Kenshin characters to celebrate the new anime-

NO NOT LIKE THAT. I THOUGHT WE SWORE THAT WOULD NEVER LEAVE THE LIBRARY.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): P-Phwee! Sorry! Not good with secrets!

...Well. Since she's come all the way out here, I may as well introduce those of you who aren't aware. This is Sango, one of my original characters. I've grown pretty fond of her over the years, and I like to think of her as my signature character or something along those lines.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): Yup, that's me! I'm also on mallet duty whenever Rou-kun's writing. If he so much as thinks about going to sleep, whammo! Ruro-tan gave me that job, for the record.

...Sango. Too much info.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): Oh...um. Sorry! ...Again.

Aaaaanyway. Get firin' with those questions. Be warned that any information that if revealed would break my contract as a Librarian is immediately off the table. No measurements, no dirty secrets, nothing. Ruro would destroy me ;_;
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Conqueror on April 20, 2011, 08:31:15 AM
What compels you to slave away at your stories?
Why do you write, and how do you choose which ideas to follow through with?
How do you deal with writer's block?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 20, 2011, 09:16:45 AM
What compels you to slave away at your stories?
The threat of sweet oblivion if I should fail to deliver.

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Why do you write, and how do you choose which ideas to follow through with?
Seriously? I write simply because writing is fun. I like telling stories, building worlds and such. I like making characters, defining them, letting them grow.
Which stories to go through with? The ones that involve the most swimsuits To an extent it's just which stories I start on. After I get started I feel obliged to keep going, unless I'm juggling around several stories at once in which case some will inevitably fall to the wayside (sorry FoFF ;_;)

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How do you deal with writer's block?

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): My job! If Rou-kun's writing speed goes under thirty words a minute - mallet time!

Sango, why have you betrayed me like this?! I thought we were friends!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_smile.png): Ruro-tan pays really well for me to watch over you, y'know?

In all seriousness though, I don't really have a way around writer's block. I sort of push at it for a while, and if nothing's coming I'll try again tomorrow. Some days inspiration flows freely; others nothing comes to mind. That to an extent is how writing goes, and you learn to live with it.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Yukarin on April 20, 2011, 10:17:21 AM
Wait, where's the dolphin?

Does Sango have a last name?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Mimachiro on April 20, 2011, 10:31:36 AM
What do I do if that dolphin starts singing?

How many things can you cut?

What compels you to write?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Solais on April 20, 2011, 10:57:26 AM
Can your dolphin kick ass, take names, defeat aliens through time and and alternate dimensions and complete Hanging Waters without falling out of the water tubes even once?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 20, 2011, 11:02:53 AM
Wait, where's the dolphin?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_smile2.png): Hey there!

Ah, should've mentioned this. Sango's a dolphin youkai.

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Does Sango have a last name?
Tororetsu, which may or may not have been the end result of me picking various kanji in order to get a name involving purity. (Her power is basically manipulation of water purity, and I'm always one for theme naming. :V)

What do I do if that dolphin starts singing?
Depends what the song is about. If she's saying farewell and thanking you for the fish, you may want to start panicking.

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How many things can you cut?
ALL OF THEM. Except a few. BUT NEVER MIND THOSE.

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What compels you to write?
Ideas, more than anything. If something interesting comes to mind I have a desire to put it to paper.
To an extent, I like seeing that people have enjoyed my writing too. Seeing people say they enjoy it generally gives me an extra bit of motivation.

Can your dolphin kick ass, take names, defeat aliens through time and and alternate dimensions and complete Hanging Waters without falling out of the water tubes even once?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ahaha.png): Sure! I can totally kick ass, take names, and-
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Eh? Time travel? Aliens? Hanging waters? Alternate dimensions?!
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): What kinda crazy challenge is thaaaat?!
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Tengukami on April 20, 2011, 11:05:16 AM
Quote from: Trainspotting
It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low, the scum of the fucking earth, the most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English, I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. We can't even find a decent culture to be colonized by.

Thoughts?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 20, 2011, 11:10:53 AM
'It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low, the scum of the fucking earth, the most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English, I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. We can't even find a decent culture to be colonized by.'
Thoughts?
We USED to be kinda awesome, when we were fighting off the English with sheer manliness and holding out to protect the nation. Then the Union of the Crowns happened, and the only notable battle you're taught about after that is Culloden. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden) Since then we've pretty much been stuck doing whatever Westminster tells us to do, and it's not economically viable for us to stand as our own country, either.
So...yeah. We kinda suck. :<
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Tengukami on April 20, 2011, 11:26:10 AM
On a related note, what's the best part of being Scottish, in your opinion?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 20, 2011, 11:54:44 AM
On a related note, what's the best part of being Scottish, in your opinion?
Confusing people with my accent. This will sound strange, but despite being a full-blooded Scot I for some reason sound thoroughly American. I had some speech and language impediments at a young age, and apparently it's a common result.
This comes up in discussion with the first 5 minutes of me meeting someone, almost inevitably. I have practiced my response for 'so where are you from?' more or less to a tee.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Esifex on April 20, 2011, 12:21:06 PM
Where do you get your commissions from for your DRK splash-pictures? (See what I did there?)

Why is or isn't Purvis your favorite?

Why are you my favorite?

What's it like living with a dolphin while working with/for a tuna?

You vs. the Tuna Saber - who wins?

You, armed with the Tuna Saber - who loses?

You have a bowl of strawberries! Next to it, you also have a bowl of...
A) Powdered Sugar
B) Chocolate
C) Honey
D) Granulated Sugar
E) More Strawberries
F) All of the Above
G) No you don't, Ruro took 'em while you were trying to answer this
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 20, 2011, 12:35:37 PM
Where do you get your commissions from for your DRK splash-pictures? (See what I did there?)
I linked this in the topic, but I'll say again that I got those pictures from Shoxxe (http://shoxxe.deviantart.com/) on Deviantart. Been a pretty faithful customer to the guy, and I figured that now and again I'd ask him for something DRK related.

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Why is or isn't Purvis your favorite?
Ever since our entire Paranoia group was crushed to a bloody mess in the Tomb of Horrors, I knew he was the one.

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Why are you my favorite?
Baby, I could be here all night answering this question.  8)

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What's it like living with a dolphin while working with/for a tuna?
Every so often the tuna rubs in that she can breathe underwater while I can't. It hurts. :[

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You vs. the Tuna Saber - who wins?
TUNA ARE EASY TO CUT. >:D

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You, armed with the Tuna Saber - who loses?
Wait, what? This thing is so flimsy, and moist, and not-good-at-stabbing! There must be an improvement made! Sango!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Y-Yes, Rou-kun?

Quickly, to the lab! We must beat the tuna at her own game! We must invent...the DOLFOIL!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_noooooooo.png): Wait, whaaaaaaaaaa-?!

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You have a bowl of strawberries! Next to it, you also have a bowl of...
A) Powdered Sugar
B) Chocolate
C) Honey
D) Granulated Sugar
E) More Strawberries
F) All of the Above
G) No you don't, Ruro took 'em while you were trying to answer this
E) and G). This is my payoff to Ruro to ensure she does not reveal...sensitive information. >_>
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Pesco on April 20, 2011, 01:24:51 PM
##Eat Sango

You owe me a visit to SA after a particular game of taking it easy.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Yukarin on April 20, 2011, 01:28:39 PM
I did not understand. Water Purity? Elaborate.

When did you create Sango and why're you so fond of her?

Oh, and she really did not look like a dolphin.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Zengar Zombolt on April 20, 2011, 02:33:05 PM
WHAT IS CURRENT DOLPHIN DOING HERE WHERE IS MY ROU-TAN
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 20, 2011, 03:27:52 PM
What is your favourite flavour of ice cream?

What is your favourite pastime?

Are you the one who keeps trying to get into my strawberry harvest?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Tengukami on April 20, 2011, 03:30:34 PM
What's up with you and Pesco? He seems to have this inexplicable power over you.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Iced Fairy on April 20, 2011, 07:07:34 PM
Do you believe in the me that believes in you?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: HakureiSM on April 20, 2011, 08:16:43 PM
You are young, you're free. Why don't you sleep with me?

What kind of games do you play?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Dead Princess Sakana on April 20, 2011, 08:26:53 PM
You are extremely good at parodies (see the Shakespeare WWC, the rewrite of the Soviet Union History Tetris song, and other stuff), but you do them rather rarely. Any specific reasons for that?

Where do you see yourself in ten years?

School swimsuits: White or Blue?

Have you been closer to Sango than I have? 
1600% zoom baby~
:3
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Yukarin on April 20, 2011, 08:44:26 PM
OMG THE TUNA AND THE DOLPHIN COLLIDE
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Mimachiro on April 20, 2011, 09:37:40 PM
What happens when fish collide?

Is Youmu your home-girl?

If you got into an eating contest with Yuyuko and Yoshika, who would win?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 20, 2011, 10:58:59 PM
##Eat Sango

You owe me a visit to SA after a particular game of taking it easy.
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_noooooooo.png): Phweeeeeee~! R-Rou-kun! The scary rabbit is gonna eat meeeeee!

You don't wanna do that, pal. Tastes terrible. She'll give you horrible indigestion.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ahaha.png): Right! I taste really really ba-

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): Wait, what are you trying to say?!

And for the record, I've left the country once in my life for an afternoon. A trip halfway across the world is not likely to do my psyche any favours. -_-

I did not understand. Water Purity? Elaborate.
There's really not much to the concept. If water gets dirty, Sango can make it clean again. She's also got a vial that lets her shift a given pool between saltwater and freshwater, but she never really has a use for it.

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When did you create Sango and why're you so fond of her?
To be honest? Sango was invented more or less by accident.
It started off here (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,1681.msg67323.html#msg67323), when I basically decided it'd be a cute concept to write about Satori swimming with dolphins. As is typical with my writing I went about a dozen steps too far in, and realised I was going to have to give the dolphin a personality too. After some thought, some helpful suggestions (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,1681.msg71526.html#msg71526) and some rummaging-around-for-kanji-to-use, I had made Sango. Thus I got to finish my little story.
Except I then went about a dozen steps too far AGAIN, and found myself wanting to continue it further. The result in full was my first 'big' story, Third Eye in Pure Waters. (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,1882.msg71749.html#msg71749)

Why does Sango hold special meaning to me? Well, she's the first character that I created myself, which is a big thing. It also helps that a lot of her issues in TEiPW were to an extent reflections of my own at the time - the question of 'why do something if no-one will notice it?' Having her get through that helped me with it as well, I think.

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Oh, and she really did not look like a dolphin.
Easier to tell in a full picture. She's kinda got a full fin coming out of her back. :P

WHAT IS CURRENT DOLPHIN DOING HERE WHERE IS MY ROU-TAN
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): Uwahh...just hearing that name makes me think of that suplex. I saw the world curving...

Unfortunately I think I've already got enough obligations to take care of right now to think of getting back to Cyborg Quest. Maybe when uni is over with and summer starts I'll be able to find the time, but until then Rou-tan's in storage.

What is your favourite flavour of ice cream?
Chocolaaaaaaaaate.
Unless this is a trick question where if I don't say strawberry you fire me, in which case strawberry.

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What is your favourite pastime?
Quote from: Haku
What kind of games do you play?
Hm. Actually a bit of a tough question. I've only got a few hobbies I'm really into at the moment, but they're all kinda close.
In particular, with games I've got two real genres I'm into - fighting games and...I'm not sure how to define games like Phoenix Wright - Action-VN? - but those too. Strange combo, but such is the way. The fighting games are more for the community and MAD HYPE we sometimes get.
I play chess a bit. It's not something I state blatantly, but I enjoy the game, and I'd like to think I'm pretty good at it.
Recently, on top of this, I'm getting into tabletop roleplaying. The reason I took so long to get this batch of answers out was that I was away being a crazy fighter-who-thinks-he's-a-wizard-and-a-cleric in 3.5. [The best part about the character is that when he rolls for skills he shouldn't be good at, he succeeds.]
Writing, though, is probably edging out. The other games typically involve fitting in roles, living out positions. In writing, you don't just choose the role you play, you choose the world you play it in. My main issue with writing, frankly, is that I can't keep having original ideas and thoughts constantly, and there'll be plenty of times where I sit for fifteen minutes straight trying to work out how to word a scene and getting nothing.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): Which means mallet~!

Yes, Sango. The throbbing at the back of my head was enough to remind me of that.

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Are you the one who keeps trying to get into my strawberry harvest?
If I answered "Yes, so I could keep giving your own strawberries back to you and not have to scrounge up more to pay my blackmail reputation protection fees", would you reward me for ingenuity?

What's up with you and Pesco? He seems to have this inexplicable power over you.
I'm not sure what the thing with Pesco is, frankly. Hell, when I started off around here, I hated the guy with a passion. His general cockiness and attitude in Mafia just made my blood boil, and he deliberately toyed with me in games to get tells out of me. I took it personally, but in a way we sort of ended up having a bond based on that.
And...to an extent I guess I was a little tsundere. The way he could sometimes make crazy reads for crazy reasons and be right impressed me. On top of that, I ended up talking to him a lot outside of Mafia, which admittedly is more than I can say about most of the other players. :<
I'm not gonna go into it for his sake, but I've seen there's a little more to Pesco than he lets on in public. At times he's still a jerk, but he's still my bro before any of that.

Do you believe in the me that believes in you?
Not until you die tragically and give me a reason to undergo a GLORIOUS REBIRTH

You are young, you're free. Why don't you sleep with me?
Because I don't want rabies. :<

You are extremely good at parodies (see the Shakespeare WWC, the rewrite of the Soviet Union History Tetris song, and other stuff), but you do them rather rarely. Any specific reasons for that?
Generally I don't like parody, for the basic reason that it gives me less room to work. I have to comply to certain points on top of the fact it's Touhou, and to an extent it doesn't feel like I'm writing something new so much as it feels like I'm rewriting something that's already been done.

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Where do you see yourself in ten years?
Frankly, I have no freaking clue where I'll be in 2021. I have a few ideas of where I'd WANT to be - either a full fledged novelist (which frankly I don't feel I have the skill for at the moment) or a proper game developer (which will be a challenge thanks to *~*THE ECONOMY*~*). I've never really had a solid path I've wanted to take in life, a job I felt I REALLY wanted, or anything like that.

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School swimsuits: White or Blue?
Blue. Not that white's bad, obviously - just a little less interesting to me.

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Have you been closer to Sango than I have? 
1600% zoom baby~
:3
I've been inside Sango's head. I've worked out her responses to discussion as if I was her. I have done more than become close with Sango. I have become ONE with her.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): T-That's not a euphemism, for the record. I know some of you folks out there would like to take it as such, but he's done nothing to me yet!
Besides, I could do waaaay better.


Wait, WHAT? Sangoooooo!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ahaha.png): Phweeheehee~

What happens when fish collide?
Headaches. Occasionally, finaches or scaleaches. It depends on where the collision happens, basically.

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Is Youmu your home-girl?
Bitch, you be tryin' to bounce wit' mah half ghost? I'ma cutchu up like Yuyuko-sama's dinner for giving me that shit.
Cuz y'know what? I can slice your shit no problem. Dere's nuthin' I can't chop. Well, next to nothin'.

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If you got into an eating contest with Yuyuko and Yoshika, who would win?
Yoshika would win by thinking outside the box and eating the other contestants. :<
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on April 20, 2011, 11:07:55 PM
You're AgelessObsesson on Youtube, right? What video editor do you use for your YTP stuff?

What's your obsession with swimsuits?

As someone with AS myself, do you think having it has had a significant effect on your life?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Sect on April 20, 2011, 11:20:20 PM
Have you ever considered a future in marine studies, or something similar?

What are the books that you think influenced you the most?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 20, 2011, 11:59:11 PM
You're AgelessObsesson on Youtube, right? What video editor do you use for your YTP stuff?
Used to have Vegas, but then the computer I was using got fritzed. I'm now on a crappy laptop that can't so much as run Fraps correctly, so there's no real hope for me anymore. :<

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What's your obsession with swimsuits?
I've always found swimsuits and water in general fascinating, basically. I'm not sure how it started, but I've liked the idea since I was a kid. Really, there's no deep meaning to it - just a quirk I've always had.

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As someone with AS myself, do you think having it has had a significant effect on your life?
Well, I can definitely say it screwed up the first 10 or so years of my education at the very least. Not 'getting' all these social ticks made me sort of an outcast at primary school, and by the time I got the hang of it in secondary school it was too late to really join one of the little circles.
I'm not exactly good with independent living either. Let's put it this way - I've only started seriously trying to cook my own dinner this week, and I'm 19. -_-
Uni, though, has been a great improvement for me. It's a fresh start, and I've been getting involved in clubs, and there's a group of guys who I'm really friendly with right now. Generally it feels like I'm starting to catch up for real now, and I'm enjoying it.

Have you ever considered a future in marine studies, or something similar?
Honestly, as much as marine study and such interests me, I don't think I'd be able to hold down a job there. For one I'm bad with biology, and I'm also terrible with animals. As in I am actually slightly frightened by my own cat. :<
Also, I can't actually swim. -_-

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What are the books that you think influenced you the most?
Not sure if it counts, but in English class in secondary I read Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and even after the usual bash-your-head-in-with-all-this-symbolism that English class consists of it's still probably my favourite play of all time. It'sthe one play I'd recommend to anyone and everyone.
What else? Well, shamefully for a librarian, I'm far too picky with my literature. My last big rush of books was detective fiction, but there wasn't anything there that really rung with me.
The one book I remember actually gripping me and never letting go was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I was 11 or something when the second book came out, and I basically snatched it off my sister the moment she finished and stayed up well past midnight reading it. I fell in love with that world of magic, of fantasy, but when things got darker I don't think I kept up. It grew faster than I wanted it to, or something along those lines.

I think Harry Potter was the first story that got me interested in actual writing. It was a fantastical world hidden right beneath our eyes, at the same time innocent yet stunning. I think at some level I wanted to make my own world like that, and things just went from there.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: E-Nazrin on April 21, 2011, 12:18:27 AM
So, which Harry Potter character would Sango hook up with? What about Touhou?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Moerin on April 21, 2011, 12:35:40 AM
How does it feel to come from the inferior side of the country, Weegie?

What's your favourite type of swimsuit other than the school swimsuit thing?

How would you feel if any of your work actually got published?  And no cop-outs like "but it's not good enough to get published" or anything! (That's thoroughly untrue, for one thing. >.>)

Jings, Rou-laddie... I hear yer no speakin' wi' the accent!  Am I gonnae have tae go over tae that shithole called Glasgae an' chib ye or summit? >.<
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: HakureiSM on April 21, 2011, 01:34:02 AM
In the end, does it really matter?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Fetch()tirade on April 21, 2011, 01:56:08 AM
In the end, does it really matter?
YOU TRIED SO HARD
AND GOT SO FAR

Anyways:

Has Touhou changed you somehow?
What is your favorite nut?
Do you like spicy foods?
Where's the beef?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Iced Fairy on April 21, 2011, 02:16:24 AM
Not until you die tragically and give me a reason to undergo a GLORIOUS REBIRTH

...  I think I'll stick with the Master Antartica persona.

Anyway, does it make your Scottish blood burn when I tell you you're writing like a Brit?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Moerin on April 21, 2011, 02:21:56 AM
Better start typing, this could take a while. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6jrr5Hmt2Y) :P
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Esifex on April 21, 2011, 02:52:43 AM
Better start typing, this could take a while. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6jrr5Hmt2Y) :P

Goddammit Theorin :getdown:


How much does music influence your writing? Your daily life?

Are there any songs that can easily and without fail completely and totally change your mood around, regardless of what's been going on earlier in the day?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 21, 2011, 02:53:29 AM
If I answered "Yes, so I could keep giving your own strawberries back to you and not have to scrounge up more to pay my blackmail reputation protection fees", would you reward me for ingenuity?
Yes, for a given definition of "reward". >:D

You have a cat? What does she look like?

What is the last good book you've read?

Do you put much effort into studying your writing craft? (By this I mean do you read guides to writing well, etc.)
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: HakureiSM on April 21, 2011, 03:35:47 AM
Would you run forever if you could?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Mimachiro on April 21, 2011, 06:55:38 AM
What would you do if you could fly?

What would you do if you could fly to distant planets?

What do you think the world will be like a hundred years from now?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Mr_Bob on April 21, 2011, 07:55:18 AM
What do you think about the feasibility of torpedo mounted dolphins?
How bad is your eyesight?
Do you have a car?
How do you feel about different styles of fighting games? The faster the better? The more realistic the better? More sparklie attacks and quarter-circles than you can throw a callus at?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 21, 2011, 09:08:29 AM
So, which Harry Potter character would Sango hook up with? What about Touhou?
!? OK, this question I was outright not expecting. You caught me off guard here, Mus, and I don't really have an answer. As a stand-in for a real answer, Cedric Diggory
Touhou? Hm. In the Sango stories I've written she's ended up particularly close to the Chireiden group
and may or may not have given Orin mouth-to-mouth at one point
. Koishi is probably her most frequent visitor, though, and the dolphin's pretty interested in her carefree antics. She's probably the best friend Sango has at this point (unless the random fish of the lake count).
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): W-Wait, what are you doing pairing me up with Koishi-chan?! Don't I get a say in this!?

How does it feel to come from the inferior side of the country, Weegie?
It feels like a lousy Edinburger's jealous. >:<

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What's your favourite type of swimsuit other than the school swimsuit thing?
Frilly one-pieces. >_>

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How would you feel if any of your work actually got published?  And no cop-outs like "but it's not good enough to get published" or anything! (That's thoroughly untrue, for one thing. >.>)
I suppose it'd depend on how successful the book actually was. If it had a decent readership, got good reviews and such, I'd feel goddamn fantastic. Otherwise I'd find myself wondering what the point was in all that work if in the end it wasn't even liked.

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Jings, Rou-laddie... I hear yer no speakin' wi' the accent!  Am I gonnae have tae go over tae that shithole called Glasgae an' chib ye or summit? >.<
Uh...nae? Please nae.

In the end, does it really matter?
Nothing really matters, anyone can see... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI)

Has Touhou changed you somehow?
Hm. The games, not so much. I enjoy them, but they're not ground-breaking. The community, on the other hand, is probably the first group I really felt like I fit into, and after my shitty time at school that meant a lot to me.

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What is your favorite nut?
Donut.

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Do you like spicy foods?
Nope, got a cat tongue. I can't even drink hot chocolate. XP

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Where's the beef?
In the fridge along with the bread. NOW PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER HONEY AND MAKE ME A SANDWICH

Anyway, does it make your Scottish blood burn when I tell you you're writing like a Brit?
Not really. In terms of how Scottish people are expected to talk (see Theorin above) I get sort of frustrated about my country. We all sound so damn illiterate according to the internet. :<

How much does music influence your writing? Your daily life?
Searching for songs to play while I write is the most likely thing to distract me from actually writing. D:

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Are there any songs that can easily and without fail completely and totally change your mood around, regardless of what's been going on earlier in the day?
If there are, I haven't found them yet.

You have a cat? What does she look like?
Black, with a white patch on her belly. We called her Minstrel, but given she was scratching at my leg from day 1 we've never really seen eye-to-eye.

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What is the last good book you've read?
Probably back to the Agatha Christie books again here. Of the half-a-dozen or so books I've read from her, the best is without a doubt The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. It was the book that basically turned detective fiction on its head and incited rage in the readers because of the ending - but I saw it coming, and personally thought the twist was outright amazing. Saying any more would ruin it, so all I can say is go read it.

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Do you put much effort into studying your writing craft? (By this I mean do you read guides to writing well, etc.)
Admittedly I could do more in this department. I am not sure exactly what I'm doing WRONG, per se. I've looked online a few times, but all I've found are guides to improve your vocabulary and imagination.

Would you run forever if you could?
Depends. What am I running from?

What would you do if you could fly?
Ooh, I like this question. The concept of flying's always been enticing to me secretly. Airplanes scare me, but having my own wings would be freaking amazing.

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What would you do if you could fly to distant planets?
Not much, frankly. There's no life within light years of us, so other than rock and a distinct lack of atmosphere there's not much to see. ;_;

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What do you think the world will be like a hundred years from now?
Perhaps not the best question to ask me, because I'm the sort who's not sure the world'll still be around in a hundred years. :|

What do you think about the feasibility of torpedo mounted dolphins?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): Whaaa?! B-But that'd blow up the dolphin too! No, not, never, nein, NO WAY, ixnay on the orpedotay!

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How bad is your eyesight?
My eyesight's fine, actually. Never needed glasses.

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Do you have a car?
Nope, and I'd never trust myself with a one-ton killing machine either. :<

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How do you feel about different styles of fighting games? The faster the better? The more realistic the better? More sparklie attacks and quarter-circles than you can throw a callus at?
First thing I need - balance. If one character's blatantly overpowered or has an infinite that trivialises the game, count me out.
Second - strategy, spacing. I play characters with good pokes more than anything, maybe rushdown characters when I feel like a change. If the only decent strategy is mashmashmash, I'm turned off.
I'm actually not a fanatic for visuals. I still play a little bit of 3rd Strike, and that game's well over 10 years old now. :V

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Alright, Mock The Week answers.

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What colour does a Smurf turn when we choke it?
Purple. I have tested this scientifically.

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Translate the following words into German - "Two World Wars and one World Cup, doo-dah, doo-dah."
Bitte t?te mich.

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How many Pepperami Big Boys could you feed to Victoria Beckham through a tube before she became visible to the human eye?
As many as you like, assuming she throws them up at the same rate you feed them to her.

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What is the name of the force that pulls things towards the centre of the Earth?
a) Gravity
b) Magic
Hah! Nice try, exam! Final Fantasy has taught me that Gravity IS magic! b)!

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Katie Price is apparently worth 8 and a half million pounds, and has a thriving TV career. Explain.
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....in 1996 she was offered a job at Page Three, a topless female glamour model pictorial in British tabloid newspaper The Sun...
Question answered.

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If George Michael leaves at 8 o'clock for a 5-mile drive, when does he crash?
8:01. Put the damn thing in reverse and hit the back wall of the garage.

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There are six lines of equal length. How long will Kerry Katona be in the bathroom?
Long enough for us to forget her, hopefully. What does she actually do again? Advertise supermarkets?

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If a train is going at 70 miles an hour, how surprised would you be?
I like trains. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKB4h9gvmm0&t=0m09s)

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What is Amnesia?
A dark descent.

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If Sally buys 3 oranges and 2 apples, how far south of Scotland is she?
So far south that she goes all the way around and hits the north pole.

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Discuss the idea that Willy Wonka was a paedophile.
This I'm not sure about. Looking at the scene where Violet turns into a giant blueberry, he's probably into expansion.

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Draw a diagram of the male genitalia. Please use the tracing paper provided.
Strange...why is there so much blank space on the sheet...?

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What are most Canadians reknowned for saying? Eh?
According to South Park, the answer is actually 'fuck'. :V

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English. Is standards declining?
If I can qualify as a decent writer? Hell yes.

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Hitler, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan. Shag, marry or kill?
Eh, I can still pass if I skip this question. Probably.

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There's a party where Jane invites 20 guests, and her partner Helen invites 40 guests. How angry is God?
"All I wanted to do was provide basic civil rights and legal recognition to Brian and Greg, two people who love each other and have been together for 15 years. But I was wrong. Oh, so wrong!" (http://www.theonion.com/articles/town-of-davenport-iowa-descends-into-hell-followin,19446/)

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Do I pass?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Sect on April 21, 2011, 12:27:02 PM
You mentioned that you've been cooking for yourself recently. What kinds of meals and recipes have you been working with?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 21, 2011, 01:11:00 PM
You mentioned that you've been cooking for yourself recently. What kinds of meals and recipes have you been working with?
We're talking the 'I barely know how to make mashed potatoes and work a grill' level of cookery. It doesn't help that I've been a crazy finicky eater since I was a kid, the sort who gagged food he didn't like. >_>
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Whatthe on April 21, 2011, 03:37:44 PM
Final Fantasy has taught me that Gravity IS magic! b)!
MLPFiM has taught me that friendship is magic. If gravity = magic, and friendship = magic, does friendship = gravity?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Janitor Morgan on April 21, 2011, 04:19:14 PM
MLPFiM has taught me that friendship is magic. If gravity = magic, and friendship = magic, does friendship = gravity?

Likewise, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World states that courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality. Does this mean that courage = gravity?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Moerin on April 21, 2011, 04:30:01 PM
Do I pass?
Oh wow, you actually answered them all... Here, have a Sango Snack~

MLPFiM has taught me that friendship is magic. If gravity = magic, and friendship = magic, does friendship = gravity?
Likewise, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World states that courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality. Does this mean that courage = gravity?
So... Does this mean that friendship and courage are sufficiently advanced technology?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Pesco on April 21, 2011, 05:03:27 PM
How's dem swimming lessons?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 21, 2011, 05:04:33 PM
Oh wow, you actually answered them all... Here, have a Sango Snack~
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ahaha.png): Yaaaaaay~

MLPFiM has taught me that friendship is magic. If gravity = magic, and friendship = magic, does friendship = gravity?
Likewise, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World states that courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality. Does this mean that courage = gravity?
So, Friendship = Courage = Gravity? This explains several things:
- Why having friends makes you stronger
- Why you find yourself drawn to certain people - it's not instinct, it's genuine force
- Courage is not bravery so much as an attraction to danger.

Now, if this is too much for you, feel free to sit down. I understand that this is...

*glasses*

heavy stuff.

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/YEAAAAAAH.jpg): YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH

How's dem swimming lessons?
Like a brick. :|
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Yukarin on April 21, 2011, 05:20:27 PM
Sango looks badass with the glasses, keep it on. Unless she's crying. Her cute overpowers the badass.

Can I see a full picture of Sango?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 21, 2011, 07:06:20 PM
What is/are the character/s you'd most like to write about, but simply haven't gotten around to it yet?

Why am I your favourite?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 21, 2011, 07:51:45 PM
Sango looks badass with the glasses, keep it on. Unless she's crying. Her cute overpowers the badass.
but but i threw these together in MS paint in 5 minutes
surely i can DO BETTER THAN THIS-
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png): YOURS IS THE PHWEE THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!

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Can I see a full picture of Sango?
This is more or less the only coloured picture of Sango that exists right now. (http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2739/hni0023j.jpg) Nwbi drew this at the end of TEiPW, and it was pretty damn awesome. (Her eyes are meant to be blue, though, but that's a really minor point.)
He also did this awesome concept sheet (http://i33.tinypic.com/2vxg7rl.jpg) around the time I started with PLotSS. The chibi face in the corner is where most of Sango's current emoticons came from. (Thanks again to Sakana for putting these together for me~)

What is/are the character/s you'd most like to write about, but simply haven't gotten around to it yet?
Couple that come to mind here. Marisa I think has a lot of material to work with in terms of being the hardest working character in canon and still being just inferior to the no-effort-all-talent Reimu. Reisen is sort of an understated character - I don't think she even played a sizable part in SSiB, which was specifically about the Lunarians.

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Why am I your favourite?
Ever since you robbed me of my work at night to store in the library, I knew you were the one.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 21, 2011, 07:57:42 PM
What's the best way to get to Scotland: Catapult, rocket, or an enormous slingshot?

Why are competition swimsuits so much better than frilly one-pieces?

What kind of music do you listen to when you write?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 21, 2011, 08:04:04 PM
What's the best way to get to Scotland: Catapult, rocket, or an enormous slingshot?
Swim across the oceans with help from friendly wildlife, duh.

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Why are competition swimsuits so much better than frilly one-pieces?
Because if I say they aren't you'll hurt me? D:

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What kind of music do you listen to when you write?
It depends on what I'm writing at the time. I try to listen to something that's particular fitting for the given situation. For example, during the climax of the casino scene in DRK, I was listening to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmURfcWEj8Q&feature=related) pretty much nonstop.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Mimachiro on April 21, 2011, 09:30:33 PM
Can I take Sango out on a date? I promise to be a proper gentleman (because I'll be turned into shark bait if I don't, right?)

What's the craziest thing you've ever done?

What's the craziest thing you've ever read?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Yakitori on April 21, 2011, 10:09:49 PM
Random question: What do you think of Suwako Moriya?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 21, 2011, 10:33:48 PM
Can I take Sango out on a date? I promise to be a proper gentleman (because I'll be turned into shark bait if I don't, right?)
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Depends. Where exactly would you take me? And don't try to be smart and say the aquarium. Everyone says that.

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What's the craziest thing you've ever done?
Once as a kid I was on a holiday at an uncle's, and he had some land on which he rode quad bikes. On one of these days he let me and my sisters ride on them, but he insisted 'don't try to turn at full speed'.
I proceeded to try to turn at full speed, flipping the quadbike and crashing quite majestically. The best part was that I walked away from this crash completely unhurt, a fact I'm probably still paying karma back for to this day.

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What's the craziest thing you've ever read?
EARTH HAS 4 CORNER

SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY

TIME CUBE

IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.

4 CORNER DAYS,  CUBES 4 QUAD EARTH- No 1 Day God. (http://www.timecube.com)

Random question: What do you think of Suwako Moriya?
Not sure who this is aimed at. If you mean me personally, I think she's a bit of a trickster, but even if she wields curse gods she hasn't done anything inherently evil. She's a good-spirited god, if perhaps too willing to give Sanae orders rather than let her think for herself.
As for Sango...
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Oh, I think she visited the lake once! Bouncing around like a little kid. Her hat was sorta scary...I swear the thing was looking at me by itself.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Iced Fairy on April 21, 2011, 11:25:36 PM
To Sango: Why do you keep logging into IRC when Rou isn't watching and saying nothing?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on April 21, 2011, 11:35:19 PM
What's your opinion on the military use of dolphins by the Allied navy in order to combat the threat of COMMUNISM?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 21, 2011, 11:37:51 PM
To Sango: Why do you keep logging into IRC when Rou isn't watching and saying nothing?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): Huh? I've got no clue what you're talking about! I never do that! Not at all!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): (Rou-kuuuuuuuun...I think they're catching on to Seanet...)
(Don't say a word. Stick with the plan.)
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): (Phwee...)

What's your opinion on the military use of dolphins by the Allied navy in order to combat the threat of COMMUNISM?
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png): An excellent tactical decision! No red menace can hope to stand against our united might! TOGETHER, THE DOLPHIN ARMY IS INVINCIBLE!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): Just no torpedoes. Please.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Janitor Morgan on April 21, 2011, 11:41:13 PM
What would you say is the best gift one person can give to another?
Why don't you play KoL anymore? D:

For Sango:
What's the worst case of pollution you've seen?
What is your opinion of Sakana?
Do you like hugs?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Kasu on April 21, 2011, 11:52:44 PM
Sorry if this has already been answered at any point in time before, but why did you decide to create Jozu?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Whatthe on April 22, 2011, 12:20:19 AM
Who can watch this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3S4z4FWmVc) for longer, you or Sango?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Gpop on April 22, 2011, 01:25:54 AM
Roukan, I must apologize to you and Sango, for I have not been able to even catch a glimpse of any of your new chapters for your Dolphin Rider fic x.x I am a bad Koishi fanboy :( Damn you school

BUT NOW, IT IS ALL OVER, I CAN CONTINUE TO READ ONCE AGAIN! I WILL DO IT FOR KOISHI, SANGO, AND YOU! HOORAH!

Also, what is Sango's favourite food?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: HakureiSM on April 22, 2011, 02:54:51 AM
Not running from anything. Just running. Would you? Forever

Also what if every edible animal on the planet had disappeared
except for dolphins
?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Yukarin on April 22, 2011, 02:57:32 AM
Who can watch this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3S4z4FWmVc) for longer, you or Sango?

And can you understand it too, Sango?

I admit, Sango is CUTE AS HELL I WANNA HUG HER
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Tengukami on April 22, 2011, 04:37:00 AM
I think your PSL's funniest comedy writer. Who are your favorite humorists?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Stuffman on April 22, 2011, 07:33:19 AM
Seeing this thread reminded me that you requested a picture of Sango last August. This is the longest turnaround on a request I have ever fulfilled.

http://i51.tinypic.com/24ynwht.jpg

Do you like it?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Helepolis on April 22, 2011, 07:51:06 AM
Roukan,

I assume you are into Buddhism as you seem to be a Shou fanboy. So are you actually religious or you don't believe in that stuff (no need to go in-depth here :V)

Speaking of Shou, what happened to your DotS fanaticism. Shou is in-game and she is fucking strong! Or do you detest DotS?

And for a serious question: If you would want to visit Holland, would you visit my mansion house apartment?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: HakureiSM on April 22, 2011, 08:02:27 AM
Ever been to the tropics? :V

Intend on coming to the tropics at any given moment of your life?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 22, 2011, 08:57:39 AM
What would you say is the best gift one person can give to another?
A hug. Warms the body AND the heart all at the same time.

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Why don't you play KoL anymore? D:
Sorry, man. I just don't feel the disco funk right now. [also, forgetfulness.]

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For Sango:
What's the worst case of pollution you've seen?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): Someone dropped a ship into the lake once. A whole goddamn ship. If that's not the worst case of waste disposal in recorded history, I dunno what is.

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What is your opinion of Sakana?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ahaha.png): Great with ketchup!

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Do you like hugs?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): Of course!
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): As long as it's not from an octopus. Or a jellyfish. Those hugs are bad. Trust me, I've been there.

Sorry if this has already been answered at any point in time before, but why did you decide to create Jozu?
I'd been juggling around the idea of a shark youkai for some time, almost to act as an antithesis to Sango. I hadn't quite decided on how to deal with her personality, but then the thought of 'OH NO I'M SO SORRY FOR TRYING TO EAT YOU' came into my head...things sorta clicked from there.

Who can watch this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3S4z4FWmVc) for longer, you or Sango?
Huh? I don't really get it. It's just a bunch of cli-
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): PHWEEEEEEEE!?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_noooooooo.png): M-My mother was a wonderful woman! YOU TAKE THAT BACK! I didn't even know they were ALLOWED to say this word on television! And you say this show's for kids?!

Roukan, I must apologize to you and Sango, for I have not been able to even catch a glimpse of any of your new chapters for your Dolphin Rider fic x.x I am a bad Koishi fanboy :( Damn you school

BUT NOW, IT IS ALL OVER, I CAN CONTINUE TO READ ONCE AGAIN! I WILL DO IT FOR KOISHI, SANGO, AND YOU! HOORAH!
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png):  8)

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Also, what is Sango's favourite food?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): Ooh...tough question. Fish are tasty, but I'm too friendly with all the fish in the lake to wanna eat them.
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_happy.png): On a related note, kelp actually doesn't taste so bad after the first week or so.

Not running from anything. Just running. Would you? Forever
But it's hard to write while running. :<

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Also what if every edible animal on the planet had disappeared
except for dolphins
?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Wait. Humans are edible too, right? Which means that the world would be ours! And-and kelp is a plant, not an animal, so we'd even have something to eat!
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png): You do have a plan for bringing around this scenario, yes? Out with it, quickly!

And can you understand it too, Sango?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_noooooooo.png): Y-Yes. Sadly. Y-You're too young for that word...you'll understand when you're older.

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I admit, Sango is CUTE AS HELL I WANNA HUG HER
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): A-Am I gonna get taken home?!

I think your PSL's funniest comedy writer. Who are your favorite humorists?
In terms of writing, I always had a penchant for the outright strange way that Douglas Adams told jokes. It was typically a strange combination of nonsense and actual humour - not logical enough to really exist, but it made enough sense for you to parse the joke and find it funny. One of these days, I need to try and get a hold of Bureaucracy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)) and LP it.
In actual performance I don't keep up with much, but of what I've seen Jon Stewart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNOku6QP4UM&feature=related) is frankly amazing.

Seeing this thread reminded me that you requested a picture of Sango last August. This is the longest turnaround on a request I have ever fulfilled.

http://i51.tinypic.com/24ynwht.jpg

Do you like it?
Oooooh. :O
This was a pretty awesome discovery to wake up to. Thanks.
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Y'know in retrospect, baggy shirts really DO make my bust kinda obvious. I was wondering why that fish kept trying to sneak into my shirt earlier...

Roukan,

I assume you are into Buddhism as you seem to be a Shou fanboy. So are you actually religious or you don't believe in that stuff (no need to go in-depth here :V)
Honestly, what I know about Buddhism mostly comes from having studied it at school as a side-subject. Conveniently, the summer after this one year of Buddhism, UFO came out. :V
In terms of actual beliefs, I'm probably sitting on atheism. Not really seeing any reason to believe there's a higher purpose, intent on enjoying this life rather than waiting for the next one.

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Speaking of Shou, what happened to your DotS fanaticism. Shou is in-game and she is fucking strong! Or do you detest DotS?
I am bad at DotS. And when I am bad at games I tend to descend into furious rages that end with families slaughtered and houses torn from their foundations. I can't foot that bill again. :<

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And for a serious question: If you would want to visit Holland, would you visit my mansion house apartment?
Sure! Visiting MotK people is something I've always wanted to do. It's just kinda crap that the whole 'leaving the country' thing is such a big jump for me. :x

Ever been to the tropics? :V
Unless France counts, no.

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Intend on coming to the tropics at any given moment of your life?
Hm. I'll say that I've always wanted to go diving somewhere tropical, but I suppose that's a bit of a pipe dream given the whole 'can't swim' thing. D:
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Dead Princess Sakana on April 22, 2011, 09:21:16 AM
One of these days, I need to try and get a hold of Bureaucracy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)) and LP it.
Applying to be co-commenter there. Because you can't LP something about bureaucracy without having a German on board now, can you? :3

When you get to visit a place on vacation, what are the things you visit usually?

Your opinions on classic music?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Mimachiro on April 22, 2011, 10:23:04 AM
Hm, I was going to take her to a nice restaurant of her choosing. Not too expensive, but not too cheap. Maybe go see a movie, then take a nice moonlit walk on the beach. So, do I get to take her on a date now?

Have you ever dated anyone?

What did you do together?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Kasu on April 22, 2011, 12:58:40 PM
School crew or Laboratory crew?

Will Sango and Jozu ever meet in a fic outside of DRK?

Whats it like being one of only two water-youkai in Gensokyo outside of the Kappa?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Nietz on April 22, 2011, 02:08:52 PM
Scottish independence: do you see it happening in the near-to-medium future?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Gpop on April 22, 2011, 02:27:23 PM
How is Koishi? :3
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 22, 2011, 03:12:52 PM
When you get to visit a place on vacation, what are the things you visit usually?
Haven't been on a holiday in ages, but in all honesty the first answer is 'the arcades'. Failing that, I might just stroll around and see what I find.

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Your opinions on classic music?
Think gaming soundtracks have been a useful out for classical music that should be appreciated more. Still as relevant as they always were, and still packing that extra oomph, though we're probably beyond the era of half-hour symphonies and concertos.

Hm, I was going to take her to a nice restaurant of her choosing. Not too expensive, but not too cheap. Maybe go see a movie, then take a nice moonlit walk on the beach. So, do I get to take her on a date now?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): Restaurant? You mean just one? But there are so many different places and they've all got such great choice and how do you expect me to pick just one?!

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Have you ever dated anyone?

What did you do together?
FOREVER ALONE.
Yeah, never been in anything resembling a romantic relationship. Again, I was a bit late in school for that sort of thing, and the university course I'm studying right now is pretty must nothing but guys. I've just never felt the need for a relationship of that sort, honestly.

School crew or Laboratory crew?
Not quite following the question. :x

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Will Sango and Jozu ever meet in a fic outside of DRK?
I have plans for the two bumping into each other at some point. Maybe over summer.

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Whats it like being one of only two water-youkai in Gensokyo outside of the Kappa?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): Gets dull kinda fast. Fish only ever talk about one of three things - the water temperature, what they want to eat, and what they don't want to eat them. Pretty repetitive.

Scottish independence: do you see it happening in the near-to-medium future?
Frankly, no. For one, it's financially inviable. Scotland has lousy exports now that we've lost the oil in the North Sea and the shipbuilding industry. If it happened, we'd probably come apart at the seams.

How is Koishi? :3
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): Last I heard, she was trying to solve some big oil spill in the outside world. Bee Pee or something like that...I think she said she was going to politely ask the oil to go away.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Yakitori on April 22, 2011, 04:57:32 PM
Have either you or Sango attempted the super fast danjo dance? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXvdjfR81Gg&feature=related) :V
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Sect on April 22, 2011, 09:13:21 PM
Roukan: What would you do if Sango was kidnapped by magical shapeshifting dolphins from the jungle?

Sango: What would you do if Roukan was kidnapped by magical shapeshifting dolphins from the jungle?

Koishi: What would you do if you kidnapped magical shapeshifting dolphins from the jungle? Don't pretend you're not there.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 22, 2011, 09:24:40 PM
Last I heard, she was trying to solve some big oil spill in the outside world. Bee Pee or something like that...I think she said she was going to politely ask the oil to go away.
ESI! You hear that?! We have the chance to catch a Koishi close to your state! Get the harpoons and the netting!

What is your favourite drink? Favourite snack?

How have you decorated your room?

When you get a story idea, do you write towards that idea, or do you just start a fic and see how it all turns out?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Mimachiro on April 22, 2011, 10:25:28 PM
Pick a restaurant by roulette? (I'm poor in both fantasy and reality, can only afford one)

What's would be your ideal place to live?

Play any sports?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Gpop on April 22, 2011, 10:49:19 PM
ESI! You hear that?! We have the chance to catch a Koishi close to your state! Get the harpoons and the netting!

Do it and bring her to me!

So how did you two meet exactly?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: HakureiSM on April 22, 2011, 10:56:08 PM
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: E-Nazrin on April 22, 2011, 11:20:09 PM
Sango: Guys, gals, or both?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 22, 2011, 11:31:14 PM
Have either you or Sango attempted the super fast danjo dance? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXvdjfR81Gg&feature=related) :V
We attempted this together. After a fateful collision of heads, we agreed not to put ourselves through this again.
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): Awawawa...the starfish are dancing, and they're so pretty...

Roukan: What would you do if Sango was kidnapped by magical shapeshifting dolphins from the jungle?
I'd hire a crack team of mercenaries to trace them to their secret hideout, and take my Sango back by force! Survivors may or may not be taken along as new friends.

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Sango: What would you do if Roukan was kidnapped by magical shapeshifting dolphins from the jungle?
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png): They'd only have time to see a silvery blur dash past them. Then? Explosions.

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Koishi: What would you do if you kidnapped magical shapeshifting dolphins from the jungle? Don't pretend you're not there.
Teeheehee...why're you saying it as if I haven't done it already~?

What is your favourite drink? Favourite snack?
Drink would have been Irn Bru up until about 2 weeks ago when I dropped caffeine forcefully. Now I'm pretty much treating myself to a bottle of Sprite every so often.
Snacks? If there's one thing Scotland does well, we make damn good shortbread.

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How have you decorated your room?
'Decorated' implies there was any customisation on my part. There really wasn't. I don't even have any posters in here. -_-

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When you get a story idea, do you write towards that idea, or do you just start a fic and see how it all turns out?
It depends on the length. For something short I try to have everything planned out when I start. With DRK, though, I had only a vague idea where I wanted to go to begin with, and basically made stuff up as I went along. :V

Pick a restaurant by roulette? (I'm poor in both fantasy and reality, can only afford one)
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): B-But what if it takes us somewhere bad, like the lamprey stand!? I can't stand those things, so slimy and icky, and the teeth are-!

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What's would be your ideal place to live?
I'm pretty happy as I am, actually. A small apartment in the suburbs. Scotland's decent in that our weather is either dull or mild - never the extremes other countries get. We're predictable.
I like predictable. :V

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Play any sports?
I am roughly as athletic as a stone is talkative, sadly.

So how did you two meet exactly?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): OK, so I was sleeping, or at least resting, dolphins sorta half-sleep, but anyway all of a sudden there's this massive splash. I wake up, and when I look forward there's this crazy girl in a swimsuit trying to pretend she's a fish, mouth-bobbing and all. Didn't really work out for her, so I pulled her up before she drowned and showed her how it was really done. Since then she's been dropping by every so often and getting me to do a whole buncha crazy stuff. She's high-maintenance, but it'd be pretty dull without her.

Does the Pope shit in the woods?
I hope not. The burning bush would be pissed.

Sango: Guys, gals, or both?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Uwaaaaaaaaaaah?!
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): S-Someone told you about the incident with Kaenbyou-san, didn't they?! I-I had to do it, or something really bad was gonna happen! There was nothing romantic about it at all! N-Not that I wouldn't rule her out for something later, but-phweeeeeee, what am I saying?!
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_noooooooo.png): I've never even thought about this before! I don't, I can't, I won't, I, I, I...PHWEEEEEEEEEEEEE~!
/me storms out of the room, still phweeing at the top of her voice as she leaves.

Uhh...let's put her down as 'undecided' for now.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 22, 2011, 11:45:18 PM
Oh, Sango~ Do you like strawberries~?

How does an ordinary day go by for you, Rou?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Gpop on April 23, 2011, 12:41:13 AM
Koishi, could you teach me how to tame a dolphin? You seem to be quite experienced in such things. :3
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Mimachiro on April 23, 2011, 02:50:35 AM
So, if we take the icky restaurant off the wheel, then we're set?

Ever been out on the open sea?

If Yukari offered to gap you to anywhere, fantasy or reality, where would you go?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Hello Purvis on April 23, 2011, 10:41:59 AM
Man, I forgot about these.

How much you bench, bro?

You are stuck in a sinking ship with the whole library staff, who do you cannibalize first? Sango is not available due to her destined battle with the Old Man from the Old Man and the Sea.

Why am I your favorite?

You like Abridged Serieses?

As dolphins are the assholes of the sea, what sort of awful things have Sango done? In particular how many sunfish has she mauled just to watch them day?

Whacha think of the new characters in ten desires?

Who is Sango's destined foe?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Whatthe on April 23, 2011, 11:32:59 AM
I just discovered that Sango has her own language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sango_language), fighting game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sango_Fighter), and website (http://www.sango.com/).
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Yukarin on April 23, 2011, 12:13:10 PM
magical shapeshifting dolphins

TOM FUCKING WATSON KEEPING YOU SAFE  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oNjTuTz-8)

Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 23, 2011, 11:11:12 PM
Oh, Sango~ Do you like strawberries~?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): You people eat berries made out of straw? I thought that was for horses.

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How does an ordinary day go by for you, Rou?
Most days right now I've got at least something on. Uni, D&D, hanging out at a friend's place. The rest of the time I'm usually at home around here, watching fighting game stuff or doing some writing.

Koishi, could you teach me how to tame a dolphin? You seem to be quite experienced in such things. :3
It's all in the wrist, you know. Just give her a little squeeze around the neck, and-
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): Phw-*thwump*
Oh dear, I knocked her out again. I keep forgetting how good I am at this~

So, if we take the icky restaurant off the wheel, then we're set?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Uh...um...sure? Not really sure how this whole date thing works, but if it means food I'm all for it.

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Ever been out on the open sea?
Nope. Again, closest I've had was my time on a boat travelling between England and France on a holiday.

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If Yukari offered to gap you to anywhere, fantasy or reality, where would you go?
Huh, tough choice. Atlantis, maybe? One of those ancient lost civilisations.

How much you bench, bro?
I bench like a piece of glass.

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You are stuck in a sinking ship with the whole library staff, who do you cannibalize first? Sango is not available due to her destined battle with the Old Man from the Old Man and the Sea.
Tough choice. It's a tie between Chaore and Sakana - I haven't decided what tastes better between tuna and rabbit.

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Why am I your favorite?
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Ever since our entire Paranoia group was crushed to a bloody mess in the Tomb of Horrors, I knew [you were] the one.

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You like Abridged Serieses?
Only really keeping up with YGO and DBZ, but they're pretty awesome.

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As dolphins are the assholes of the sea, what sort of awful things have Sango done? In particular how many sunfish has she mauled just to watch them day?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Watch them day? Wuzzat even mean?

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Whacha think of the new characters in ten desires?
Kyouko is Hnnnnnnnnngh. Yoshika is I'M DYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING

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Who is Sango's destined foe?
I may have invented a shark youkai solely for this purpose. >_>

I just discovered that Sango has her own language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sango_language), fighting game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sango_Fighter), and website (http://www.sango.com/).
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): Waah, my secret tableware business! NO-ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW!
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: HakureiSM on April 24, 2011, 03:03:45 AM
Ever been in a forest?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Esifex on April 24, 2011, 03:05:24 AM
Sango's theme: Horns, Strings, Choir, Drums, Guitars. Attribute percentages to each value to formulate Sango's Theme.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Hello Purvis on April 24, 2011, 11:35:24 AM
Remind me what that awesome question I was going to ask you was?

Where are the Hinas of Yesteryear?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Gpop on April 24, 2011, 05:23:58 PM
My you are quite skilled Koishi, as usual :3

Tell me, have you ever eaten Dolphin? And if so, how do they taste like and how would you recommend me eating them? :D
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Sect on April 25, 2011, 02:25:00 AM
Favorite water based movies/shows/books? The other two can answer, if they wish.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Yukarin on April 25, 2011, 04:17:50 AM
Roughly how old are you, Sango?

If you are one of the two water youkais outside of the Kappa, who's the other one?

Explain how a "phwee" sound sounds.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 25, 2011, 12:12:55 PM
Ever been in a forest?
I recall having been in a forest for one of those school trips back in primary, at some activity centre. I was too scared to perform any of the activities, sadly >_>
Closest I have near me is that I live across from a nice little park which I occasionally take a walk through.

Sango's theme: Horns, Strings, Choir, Drums, Guitars. Attribute percentages to each value to formulate Sango's Theme.
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png): Zero, zero, zero, zero, TEN THOUSAAAAAA-

Hm...25, 40, 15, 20, 0. Sango honestly doesn't seem the type for guitars.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): Phwee!?

Remind me what that awesome question I was going to ask you was?
Something involving sharks and rodeos, probably.

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Where are the Hinas of Yesteryear?
Don't worry, man. As long as Hina's still in your heart, she'll never stop twirling. Ever.

Tell me, have you ever eaten Dolphin? And if so, how do they taste like and how would you recommend me eating them? :D
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): Pleasesaynopleasesaynopleasesaynopleasesaynopleasesayno

What? That's just mean! It's be like eating Sango-chan!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): Phew...I was kinda scared for a minute there...

Also, they taste bad.

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/T_T.jpg): ...

Favorite water based movies/shows/books? The other two can answer, if they wish.
It's not exactly a wide genre, sadly. Half the reason I write the stuff I write is because no-one else is going to write it. :V
Del Sancti is basically meant to be the sort of universe I'm interested in. In before someone links another series that does the same but better |:

As for these two...

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_smile.png): Flipper.

The Little Mermaid~

...Yeah.
I haven't actually watched Flipper, strangely enough. Or most of these water-based shows, like Baywatch. Mainly because despite having water as a running theme they don't sound like particularly good shows :V

Roughly how old are you, Sango?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): H-How rude! Didn't your mother tell you not to ask a girl their age?! It's sensitive information!

Heheh...don't worry. Sango-chan is legal, if that's what you want to know~

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): Koishi-chan, why?!

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If you are one of the two water youkais outside of the Kappa, who's the other one?
Duuuunun, dunun, dunununununununun... (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,1681.msg589221.html#msg589221)

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Explain how a "phwee" sound sounds.
Pretty much like this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twz2f5MXqtU&t=1m19s) I was watching CCS when it was Cardcaptors, so I only got the whole verbal tic idea a few years later. When I saw it in the manga afterward I saw that instead of 'hoeeee' it was written as 'phweeee'. Then DRK called for Sango to get a dolphin-sounding verbal tic, and the rest is history.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Bio on April 25, 2011, 01:03:38 PM
Knowledge test go:

Highest mountain in the world.
Deepest trench in the world.
Number species of dolphin in the world.
The diameter of the earth.
Best way to cook seafood.
Mass of an average tuna.
Average hours of sunlight [insert home-town] gets.
Approximate amount of water on the earth.
Something dolhpins and humans have in common (not organs).
Fish.

/10
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 25, 2011, 01:27:15 PM
Knowledge test go:

Highest mountain in the world.
Since you specified 'highest' rather than 'tallest', Everest.

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Deepest trench in the world.
Marianas[sp?]

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Number species of dolphin in the world.
Must be over 100. Not exactly very good with my biology.

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The diameter of the earth.
Or my geography. D:

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Best way to cook seafood.
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png): Without mercy.

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Mass of an average tuna.
(Psst, Sakana! What's the answer to question 6?)

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Average hours of sunlight [insert home-town] gets.
4 a day in summer. Nothing anywhere else.
FUCK GLASGOW WEATHER.

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Approximate amount of water on the earth.
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png): Not enough.

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Something dolhpins and humans have in common (not organs).
We both understand how fun cats are to annoy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsB7MV0OaHE)

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Fish.
Yes.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Dead Princess Sakana on April 25, 2011, 01:34:43 PM
(Psst, Sakana! What's the answer to question 6?)
Laden or unladen?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 25, 2011, 01:44:05 PM
Laden or unladen?
Hey, I've got no ideaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Gpop on April 25, 2011, 04:26:20 PM
Koishi, are you sexually fustrated?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Moerin on April 25, 2011, 07:04:35 PM
4 a day in summer. Nothing anywhere else.
FUCK GLASGOW WEATHER.
Oh no, that's not the weather.  That's the inherent corruption of the city taking physical form.  That and the smog.

How sensitive is Sango's fin?

Has Sango ever heard the rumour about stray dolphins getting caught in tuna nets and ending up canned? >.>
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Edible on April 25, 2011, 08:41:29 PM
Dooooooooooooom?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 25, 2011, 09:38:21 PM
Koishi, are you mad at me for taking so long to update White Rose?

Is Sango watching Madoka with you, Rou? Is she providing emotional support?

What's your favourite time period in history?

If you could go back to any time period and place and not interact with it in any way, where/when would you go and why?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Gpop on April 25, 2011, 09:40:49 PM
Also, Koishi, how is Dr. Satori doing? :V
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 25, 2011, 09:56:46 PM
Koishi, are you sexually fustrated?
Ooh, I see you're the one asking the fun questions! Well, if you want to know, I-

*Thwack!*

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): WE WILL NOT DISCUSS THOSE MATTERS HERE! CHILDREN ARE READING THIS, YOU KNOW!

Owwie...my head...Sango-chan, stop being so rough...

How sensitive is Sango's fin?
I dunno, let's test it. Poke-
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): PHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~! T-That tickles! Stop it!

Uh...roughly that sensitive?

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Has Sango ever heard the rumour about stray dolphins getting caught in tuna nets and ending up canned? >.>
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_noooooooo.png): Hwaaaaaah?! Why are you humans such mean people?! The cute little dolphins didn't do anything wrong!

Dooooooooooooom?
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png): When the dolphin army rises, it will be imminent. Your story of innocent dolphins being trapped by your putrid tuna nets has filled me with a new burning vigor! One day, WE SHALL HAVE OUR REVENGE!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): Don't worry, Rou-kun. I'll make sure they go easy on you. You'll only have to work twelve hours a day rebuilding your own environment~

Wow, that sounds gre-wait, what?

(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png): Soon, very sooooon...operation Seanet will come to fruition~! Phweeheeheeheehee~!

Koishi, are you mad at me for taking so long to update White Rose?
There's not enough blood! You should make things bleed more. Not me, obviously. Other things~.

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Is Sango watching Madoka with you, Rou? Is she providing emotional support?
Yes, but the results were...not as intended.
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): Rou-kun, why is Mister Kyubei such a jeeeeeeeeeeeerk?!
It's okay...it's okay...it's all gonna be fine...no, you won't have to sign any contracts...

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What's your favourite time period in history?
I've always loved post-war America. The film noir period, so to speak. Hard-boiled detectives, everyone walking around with a trenchcoat and a tommy gun, the mafia keeping the city going as the prohibition drives people nuts...it's glorious, but in just a twisted enough way that it's a guilty pleasure. It's the age of womanisers, of smart-talking detectives, of car gunfights. There's a reason why L.A. Noire is pretty much the biggest game on my wish list right now.

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If you could go back to any time period and place and not interact with it in any way, where/when would you go and why?
I'd go all the way back to the start of time and watch in amazement as the universe puts itself together in the space of a second.

Also, Koishi, how is Dr. Satori doing? :V
They took away her doctorate a few weeks back. She won't talk to me about it. Something about lupus, I think...
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Dead Princess Sakana on April 25, 2011, 09:58:50 PM
Mahou Shoujo Sango?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Moerin on April 25, 2011, 10:02:51 PM
Mahou Shoujo Sango?
Why does this idea intrigue me so much~?

...No really, all three of you.  Why?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 25, 2011, 10:10:16 PM
There's not enough blood! You should make things bleed more. Not me, obviously. Other things~.
Oh god I knew I loved you for all kinds of wonderful reasons <33333

From the other side of the Atlantic, what do you think of those of us trapped in America? Anything you'd like to change, anything you'd like to see continue?

What's your favourite song that you probably shouldn't like, but do anyway?

Favourite PC-98 character?

How good are you at the Touhou games? How about fangames?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: E-Nazrin on April 25, 2011, 10:22:59 PM
We both understand how fun cats are to annoy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsB7MV0OaHE)

Okay Sango, fess up. Have you done this to Chen? How did Ran punish you?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Mimachiro on April 25, 2011, 10:29:17 PM
Yep, food and conversation, and since I'm a gentleman, no touchy-touchy. I'm the guy with the ears and the tail, see ya soon. :3

If you one day have a daughter, and she asks you if she can date, how would you respond?

Would you buy a spell card shotgun at the time of her birth just for the occasion?

Would you actually use the spell card shotgun?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Gpop on April 25, 2011, 11:12:56 PM
Actually, Ruro reminded me.

If you have read my one and only fic how do you feel about it and your role in the fic, Koishi? And how do you feel about me not updating it since...last year? :ohdear:
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Kips McKipzerson on April 26, 2011, 05:56:32 AM
Does Sango have a fishing rod?
If so, How does a fish fish a fish? Seems fishy to me.
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 26, 2011, 10:18:16 AM
Mahou Shoujo Sango?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ahaha.png): Ooooh! Do I get cool powers and a pretty outfit?!

(Seriously now I'M thinking too much about this.)

Why does this idea intrigue me so much~?

...No really, all three of you.  Why?
/me looks away, whistling innocently

From the other side of the Atlantic, what do you think of those of us trapped in America? Anything you'd like to change, anything you'd like to see continue?
You're at the same time the most and least progressive people in the world. In short some of you are awesome and some of you make me a little ill. :<

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What's your favourite song that you probably shouldn't like, but do anyway?
SEVEN AM WAKIN' UP IN THE MORNING (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0&feature=related)

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Favourite PC-98 character?
Don't really pay much attention to PC-98 frankly. Rikako? SCIENCE is always good.

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How good are you at the Touhou games? How about fangames?
I've 1cc'd every Windows game on Normal, and cleared every Extra up to SA. Nue and Marisa can diaf. >:<

Okay Sango, fess up. Have you done this to Chen? How did Ran punish you?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): I don't wanna talk about it. It hurts just REMEMBERING that day...I had no idea she could hit me that hard with that, there, that quickly...

Yep, food and conversation, and since I'm a gentleman, no touchy-touchy. I'm the guy with the ears and the tail, see ya soon. :3
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ahaha.png): Yaaaay, free food!

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If you one day have a daughter, and she asks you if she can date, how would you respond?
Depends on how old she is. Up until about 15 or so I'd say she's too young for that crap, but after that I'd let her do what she wants as long as she's not obviously getting into trouble.

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Would you buy a spell card shotgun at the time of her birth just for the occasion?
Not legal in this country. ;_;

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Would you actually use the spell card shotgun?
I would point it at her, scream MASTER SPAAAAAAAARK at the top of my voice, and then wonder why the piece of paper didn't do anything.

Actually, Ruro reminded me.

If you have read my one and only fic how do you feel about it and your role in the fic, Koishi? And how do you feel about me not updating it since...last year? :ohdear:
Ehehe, the dream girl's fluffy wings are all mine now~! So soft, and cuddly, and-
Wait, a year?! But I wanna take her hooooooooooome! ;_;


Does Sango have a fishing rod?
If so, How does a fish fish a fish? Seems fishy to me.
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): Trade secret. If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_smile.png): And Rou-kun told me not to make a mess here, soooo...
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Kips McKipzerson on April 26, 2011, 11:15:01 AM
SEVEN AM WAKIN' UP IN THE MORNING (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0&feature=related)

is your hand a dolphin? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI)
Hmmm... Could Sango beat Goku in a fight? What about Krillin?
Can a dolphin play pool?

On a serious note, What is your favorite childhood memory? Have you ever owned a pet? Pepsi or Coca-cola?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Mimachiro on April 26, 2011, 11:26:38 AM
Yay, date with the cute dolphin girl. Happy face  :D

What's the best drink, ever?

How many times have you done something while tired that you really needed to be awake for?

What's the worst thing to happen as a result of doing something while too tired to do it properly?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: Solais on April 26, 2011, 02:50:40 PM
I have searched, and I found a dolphin up to my challenge. This was the last picture of him:
(http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4163/vortexqueenrf5.gif)

What do you think?
Title: Re: Ask a Staffer Ep. 10 - Ignore the dolphin in the corner - Roukan
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on April 27, 2011, 09:18:15 AM
is your hand a dolphin? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI)
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/Simango.png): My everything is a dolphin.

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Hmmm... Could Sango beat Goku in a fight? What about Krillin?
No.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): So fast!?

Your main ability is to clean up water, Sango. We're talking people who blow up planets on a regular basis.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Oh, uh...point taken?

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Can a dolphin play pool?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_waaaah.png): Think you missed some words there, buddy. I can play 'in a' pool, sure, but playing pool doesn't make any sense.

Actually, pool's a human game as well.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): Phwee!? Why do you you humans need to give all your words half a dozen different meanings!?

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On a serious note, What is your favorite childhood memory? Have you ever owned a pet? Pepsi or Coca-cola?
- This is particularly difficult for me given my lousy childhood in social circles. Sad as it sounds, I'd say getting home to play some Street Fighter or something. When I didn't really have any friends at school, games sorta filled in the gap.
- We own a cat, Minstrel. In my case 'own' is about the nicest word I can use in that we typically go out of our way to avoid each other. We occasionally have staring contests in the hallway.
- Neither. Dropped caffeine entirely about a month ago. Living entirely off Sprite. :V

What's the best drink, ever?
Water. Every time I down a glass I know I'm drinking more than 60% of myself. I am the best drink ever, and so are you.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): Rou-kun, that came out wrong again.

Oh, wait. Damn.

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How many times have you done something while tired that you really needed to be awake for?
Until university and such forced me to kick the habit, it used to be a common occurance for me to write and update stories at 3 am in the morning. >_>

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What's the worst thing to happen as a result of doing something while too tired to do it properly?
Incident in Rising Star, if I recall. The Murasa arc. At one point, thanks to sleep dep typing, I wrote down 'shit' instead of 'ship'. I edited, made to correct the error...and proceeded to write down 'shit' again.

I have searched, and I found a dolphin up to my challenge. This was the last picture of him:
(http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4163/vortexqueenrf5.gif)

What do you think?
(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ooooooh.png): Ooh, he's actually kinda cute! Terrible taste in women, though - what is that thing?!

Anyway, that's my week more or less at an end. Thanks for the questions, and I hope this has been as entertaining as it has been informative. (Unless it wasn't informative at all, in which case that would be really bad. :ohdear:)

Say goodbye, Sango.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sangokkuri.png): Yukkuri phweeteitte ne!

...What?

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_ohoh.png): Ah, how'd you get up here?! Koishi-chan said not to bring you out in public!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sangokkuri.png): Sango/Orin is canon, phwee! So is Sango/Koishi, and Sango/Satori, and-

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_wawawa.png): PHWEEEEEEEEEEEEE~!? ROU-KUN, STOP IT!

But I don't even know what this thing is!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sangokkuri.png): ...and Sango/Okuu, and Sango/Nitori, and Sango/Mokou...

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_noooooooo.png): Koishi-chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan~! Whyyyyyyyyyyyy?!

OK, move along. Nothing to see here.

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sangokkuri.png): ...and Sango/Reimu, and Sango/Marisa, and Sango/Youmu...

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_noooooooo.png): I don't even know who those people ARE!

I SAID GET OUT

RIGHT NOW

AND DON'T LET THE TOPIC HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT AS I LOCK I-


Wait. I can't lock it! I CAN'T LOCK IT!

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sangokkuri.png): And Sango/ZUN, and Sango/Rou, and Sango/Sakana, and Sango/Sango...

(http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab98/Twilight0402/Dolphin%20Maker/Sango_noooooooo.png):PHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~!

*Meanwhile, several miles away...*

Wonder how those two are enjoying my little present. Oh, the look on Sango-chan's face will be priceless~