Sorry for the lack of posts lately

Job hunting is a bitch

...The guy won't stop. I think he's starting to stalk ME now to get to Paul

Advice, anyone? Calling the police is out of the question as they would laugh at the description (especially after Paul's last escapade...)

Why do you delay?

your time wasting is wearing on my patience. you know wHat to find, yoU idiots. why do you delay?

wasting eveRybodies time. ouR time is precious and cannot be sucked dry by Your shenANigans! Do stop your FoolIsh eNDeavors!

THis is quitE important. the GoAl is in sighT, and you kEep letting it draw closer.

also, your password was easy to guess. i11u50r14? really? i am disappointed.

your benefactor,

findthegate

p.s. you should study more

Small Problem...

Dear lord, how do I put this...

Paul got the wrong guy. The guy WAS targeting Paul, don't get me wrong. It's why Paul isn't in jail. But... he only chose Paul that day

How do I know this?

Paul was followed again today. Dear lord...

Paul and Tall Guy - Round 2!

Paul came over roughed up, but smiling

He kicked the guy's ass this time. Good for him!

Something is bothering me though

He did this in the park ten minutes away

Five minutes before he came I saw a tall, bald man in a suit across the street. Only a glimpse though, so I didn't see his face

If Paul beat up his stalker... Then who the fuck did I see?

Illusorian Beastiary: Crystal Bird

Well, here is number 3 on the list, the Crystal Bird (With a spiffy redesign to boot!)

Crystal Bird
Ht: 0'01"     (0.03 m)
Wt: 0.002 Lbs (0.0009 kg)
Tl: N/A
Ws: 0'02"     (0.06 m)

Type: Wind/Ice/Phoenix
Class: Bird/Miscellaneous/Spiritual

Classification: Crystalline Bird
Gender Ratio: 50% Male
Location: Northern Forests


Notable Features:
-Produces Oz naturally
-One of the few organisms able to handle large amounts of unfiltered Oz
-Very aggressive
-Attacks in groups
-Tends to have a few morphed leaders
-Highly territorial
-Able to cool the air around its feathers
-Weak, but quite swift and capable of teamwork

Life Span: N/A ; Doesn't die of old age
Mating Season: Early November to Late December
Courting Ritual: Males fight over females. Some males will have multiple mates. Occasionally females will fight over males instead, although this happens rarely

Brood: 5-9 Eggs
Gestation: 10-15 Days

Behaviour: Violent and territorial. However, they will usually let one go through unscathed provided they stick to trails.

Diet: Crystal Fruit ; Small bugs ; Arthropod-type Cryscon and Fiends ; Flamaworms



My favourite Cryscon and the second species I came up with (All the way back in Grade 5), the Crystal Bird is THE flagship Cryscon. It has received an overhaul for this occasion (the old version was... Let's just say that no art skill was needed. Only a ruler), and I'd say it was long overdue

Despite being among the weakest of Cryscon, not only are they capable of massive damage when in a group, they are able to morph into a Tier 1 Cryscon (Tier 1 Cryscon are creatures with enough power to rewrite reality itself - It is the only one of four that isn't a deity class). However, the restrictions to get the powerhouse are fairly nuts, requiring that you first pay 2000 Oz (a fifth of your starting amount!) and discarding a legendary oz crystal card to morph it into a Golden Crystal Bird which burns your Oz at 200 a round (a round being yours and your opponents turn together) just to keep it on the field. You then need to morph this into The Legendary Phoenix of Oz...

...Which is just as weak as a normal Crystal Bird. This requires a last step: You need to activate the Legendary Tome of Oz, which lets you activate the Crown of Oz (Removes all Oz requirements needed to attack with this creature), the Deliverance of Oz (The only attack modified by the Claw of Oz), the Claw of Oz (Gives infinite attack power to the Deliverance of Oz), and the Fortress of Oz (Gives the Phoenix infinite health). So while the creature itself is untouchable, these cards are completely unprotected, so you need to use a lot of items to keep your opponent from using an item or effect to destroy them (every Tier 1 card has some sort of glaring flaw - One glaring flaw is sheer strength - When a creature is destroyed, you lose Oz equal to the Maximum HP on the card. To attack, you pay Oz equal to half the attacks power, rounded up to the nearest 10. So if you use a 500 power attack on a creature with 50 health, your opponent loses 50 Oz and you lose 250! As such, a balance of weak and strong creatures is needed)

Anyways, the Crystal Bird is the flagship Cryscon, and my absolute favourite. I hope it ends up as one of the favourites of fans when the game is fully made and released

Next time I do a bestiary, I will feature my second favourite Cryscon, the Crysilk (said like Cri, not Cry)

EDIT: Holy crap that is faded. I'll replace the picture once I have a version with darker lines

I said the next post should be a Bestiary, but this is urgent

Paul left about an hour after the post earlier

...And came back in after 30 minutes,looking beaten and bruised

After a while, I coaxed the story out of him. Turns out the stalker was waiting for him

Now, there is something you should know about Paul:

He is hot headed and takes his problems head on

He apparently confronted the guy and when he wouldn't answer, he started to attack the guy, only to get the crap beaten out of him

Paul again. HELL that guy was tough! And I know what you're going to say, "A tall bald man in a business suit beat you up and wouldn't speak!? Hah! Slenderman! I knew it!". You'd be wrong. And a jackass. A big, wrong jackass. After all, the guy had a face. Blue eyes, a crooked nose, and a perverted little smile that I wanted to wipe off his face so badly.

Weird thing is, when he was beating me, it did look like his face... How do I put it... Blurred. Like if it was an illusion.

Of a man!

You took the keyboard from me to make THAT lame pun!?

Yes

...I hate you sometimes. Anyways, the guy was fast, strong, and next time he'll get a face full of my knife! This baby has a silver hilt and an iron blade. Let's see him shrug THAT off!

$20 says he kicks the crap out of you again

$20 says if you don't shut up soon I'll kick the crap out of you.

Shutting up now

Now, where was I? Oh yes, talking about how I'll kill the guy next time.

See what I mean? Hot headed

If you're curious, some of that dialogue was transcribed as we argued. I wanted you guys to know what Paul is like. Sadly, he took out the part about strangling me with my own intestines if I didn't stop transcribing :( Oh well

Next time, I'll show you a new creature

Until then,

Akinil

Paul is over and he wants to make a post

He says he needs it here, and can't make his own blog

So here he is, the man, the ass, Paul!

Thank you for that intro, Eric. Really nice.

I will use bold for any posts I make when borrowing Eric's account. Now... Where do I start? How about I start with the man who keeps stalking me? That seems like a fucking good idea!

Every god damn day I see a tall man in a suit just watching me. He steps behind a tree or building whenever I spot him. At first I thought it was nothing. But the freak has been doing it every god damn day! The bald fucker won't even DARE to show his face!

And I swear to god that I will track down and kill the first fucker who says Slenderman!

...SlendermanSlendermanSlenderman

Well, if I don't post again in the next week, assume Paul murdered me. Don't try to avenge my death readers, because the death will be worth it

Next post should be another Bestiary. This one will be one of my favourites!

Until then,

Akinil

Ok, that's creepy...

My game is called Cryscon

I, on a whim, went and tried to see if www.cryscon.com is available

It isn't

The site leads to a line that says, "We are watching"

Yeah, that isn't creepy in the slightest

Ok Paul, enough already!

He's trying to creep me out again

Today I saw, for a brief second, a blank face peering in through the window. No eyes, no mouth, nothing

Bloody hell Paul! If you keep this up, I am going to have to beat the crap out of you!

Somehow!

Illusorian Beastiary: Slekupan

I wanted to introduce a different deity first, but may as well get to this one. Oddly, I had some troubles putting it up. I already sent it in before to get a spot at an art school, but this time it was being stubborn

Also, the symbol in the corner is a little bit off. The circle should be dead centre, if I recall. Anyways, on to the entry!

Slekupan
Ht: 6'11"-12'9" (2.11-3.89 m)
Wt: 172-291 Lbs (78.02-132.00 kg)
Tl: N/A
Ws: N/A

Type: Dark/Plant/Oz
Class: Deity/Human/Spiritual


Classification: Elmena Forest Guardian Deity
Gender Ratio: 100% Male
Location: N/A ; Roaming

Notable Features:
-No sharp facial features ; Smooth skin covers where eyes and mouth should be
-Has a pattern vaguely resembling a business suit
-Frequents forests
-Only Fiend Deity
-Disrupts memories when feeling threatened

Life Span: N/A ; Immortal
Mating Season: N/A ; None
Courting Ritual: Unknown

Brood: Unknown
Gestation: Unknown

Behaviour: Silent and foreboding. Fairly aggressive when attacked, and quite curious to the point of dissecting victims and putting them back together. Oddly shows no aggression to animals or small Cryscon and Fiends unless attacked by them first

Diet: Unknown; Likely doesn't eat due to lack of mouth



Slekupan is something called a Fiend. A Fiend is a cross between a Cryscin and a Cryscon. These are words in the language I've made for the game. Crys- is a prefix meaning beast, and -cin is a suffix that means normal or ordinary while -con means magic. Cryscon and Fiends are capturable, and humans in this setting are technically Cryscon (which leads to a whole new realm of Nightmare Fuel - Luckily, humans can't be captured by other humans. Intelligence makes a capture more difficult, as does being the same species)

Anyways, Slekupan here is special. He is the only deity who is a Fiend. He is also the only child of Chaos, the brother of Order who birthed all of the other deities - directly or indirectly - sans three. Slekupan was created with one goal in mind: At the end of days, he is meant to observe the battle between Order and Chaos (Order was once a part of Chaos. However, when she split, it damaged her mind severely and made her dangerously mental - wanting all of existence - herself included - to be obliterated), and step in to finish the job once Chaos was too weak to kill Order. He would then kill Chaos as well, along with any surviving life, and live alone in the abyss for an eternity

Yes, he does bear a striking resemblance to everybody's favourite tall man, Slenderman. Heck, compare the names! Sle-ku-pan. Slen-der-man. Same number of syllables, they rhyme, and they both start with Sle-. This isn't coincidental. Slekupan is a proxy of Slenderman. In a way, he IS Illusoria's Slenderman, but with a purpose (and also a soft spot for children and small animals - He's only killed a child once, and that was due to vengeance because of what a village did to the animals in an area)

However, there is one issue. He's been known to lure children and animals alike away, never to be seen again. He'll also eviscerate enemies and, if threatened, cause amnesia so the person gets lost. No, the amnesia isn't due to him being a Slendy proxy. It's due to him being an Illusorian Deity. A lot of them have... Let's just say one is made of the souls of the damned, one is a brain with a paintbrush for a tail and a hand made of neurons, with a metal plate on its brainhead that causes insanity, one is a mass of black, fire, and electricity that writhes around and both has form and no form at all at the same time, and leave amnesia to the fact that the human brain sometimes WANTS to forget what the hell it just saw

I've been considering rewriting parts of him to make him less like our lovable man in a suit

Well, I'll try to have another entry up next week!

Sorry about the wait

Drawing a humanoid deity can suck (why the hell did I choose that pose for him? ;.;)

I'll put up a different deity tonight

Also, Paul has been acting odd lately. I'll try to get him to comment today. He's... Worrying me. Muttering about a business man or something

And suddenly, Slendermen. Hundreds of them

Calgary would be a good home for such a beast

Trees everywhere in the city (some on top of four-five story buildings - I'll try to take a picture next time)

Honestly, there isn't a spot in Calgary without at LEAST one tree

Which reminds me of something

Once I took a photo of a tree outside the university and badly shopped Slendy in

People were freaked

Not by the shop though. There was an unnaturally tall man in black in the corner of the photo

I should try posting it the time after next

Yeah, I'm making another Illusorian entry soon

See you then, and don't be afraid to comment!

Oh god another scare

My labcoat and one of my jackets reflected in the window in such a way that a quick glance would make it look like a tall, suited man was outside

And there was no head. There was no faceless head leering at me from the window. No, there was no head. It was all a reflection. I didn't see anything move

Jeez, maybe I should take a break from the slendyblogs...

Gah, I need to stop watching those videos

I swear I saw Slendy himself just relaxing outside my window earlier x.x

Turned out to be a street lamp x.x

Illusorian Beastiary: Grypyre

Welcome to the first edition of Illusoria Beastiary! I'll have a neat surprise for you next month, but first off, let's start with this guy:

Grypyre
Ht: 1'3"     (0.38 m)
Wt: 0.06 Lbs (0.03 kg)
Tl: 1'8"     (0.51 m)
Ws: 1'5"     (0.43 m)

Type: Dark/Wind
Class: Beast/Bird/None

Classification: Grip Bat
Gender Ration: 50% Male
Location: Mid-North Forests ; Coastel Northern Forests



Notable Features:
-Powerful claw at tip of tail
-Claw able to shatter bone
-Has surprisingly good eyesight
-Very strong family bonds

Life Span: 27-30 years
Mating Season: Late Octobor to Early March
Courting Ritual: Males woo the females with their hunting prowess. They mate for life, and will rarely find a new mate if their chosen mate dies.

Brood: 2-3 children
Gestation: 6 months

Behaviour: Very gentle and somewhat intelligent. Females very aggressive when rearing young, do not approach unless the female knows you prior to child rearing.

Diet: Small mammals, small lizards, and small Arthropod class Cryscon and Fiends.



Very interesting Cryscon, they have surprisingly sharp eyesight despite being bats. In fact, this gives them an advantage when hunting, as they can remain perfectly silent. Hunting during dusk and dawn, they only use their sonar at night when their eye sight is rendered far less effective. They will gruesomely dig their claws into their prey and shatter the bones to keep the prey from struggling.

Even though they are dark types, they have strong familial bonds and are actually quite kind and gentle creatures unless hunting. This is because a creature can be a dark type if it matches any two of the following three criteria:

1 - Aggressive or sneaky battle style
2 - Demonic or evil appearance
3 - Are actually evil

Because it meets the criteria of 1 and 2 (if YOU were a bat with a claw capable of crushing a skull and somebody attacked you, wouldn't you make them regret it?), it is considered a dark type

These creatures are often used as guides for those going through the woods. As they are nocturnal (the hunting during dawn and dusk lets them eat through the night and bond, and store some meat for whenever the young wake up the mothers in the middle of the day), they are quite useful for leading a human through the dark, using their claw to gently grip the human on the arm and pull them along a safe route

God Dammit Paul

I'm so jumpy lately after that scare. I keep seeing things and feeling like I'm being watched

I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY! You fucking freak, you made me paranoid!

...Ok, partially my fault that I keep reading Slenderblogs, but still!

I mean, god, I played Minecraft and mistook a piece of lint on the screen as Tall and Not So Handsome watching me from an area of my castle!

Speaking of Tall and Gruesome, I took another picture of the Hallowed Mountains drawing. That symbol appeared again. Simon knows how to make apps, so I'm thinking that the prick swapped my Camera Plus app with one that would embed a crappy operator symbol on the image. No idea how it is so clear after shrinking or how he made it only show up when I take a picture of the mountains, but he did it, I just know it

Now excuse me while I continue to jump at my own shadow. The next update should be the first of my Cryscon shown on this blog, along with a write up!

Classes going fine so far

I find my mind wandering off at times though, to other lands, other worlds, other realities

The latest reality was a bit... Odd, to say the least.

My mind painted the image of a beautiful, misty forest nestled in the mountains. The beauty was balanced out by an air of uneasiness, however. After a brief tour through the forest my mind came to rest in a small clearing that had some obvious ruins - three old, broken pillars and a stone slab in the center that was stained with blood. The trees on the edge of this clearing had black bark, pale, almost white leaves, and gnarled roots and branches, almost like arms and legs. In the center of the clearing, on the slab, sat a familiar figure.

The deity Slekupan was meditating, his long legs covered in black, fabric like armour ended at his feet, which looked like simple black dress shoes. His long, slender arms were also draped in this same black material, ending at his white hands and unnaturally thin fingers. His chest had what looked like a business suit, but far fancier. It lacked a tie on his white undercoat, which slightly resembled a white undershirt. At the bottom of the "jacket" was the symbol for oblivion. The head showed depressions where the eyes would be, the sockets covered in skin, and where his mouth would be was instead a shallow groove broken up into a dotted line. It was only noticeable under just the right conditions. Otherwise, it would seem as if he had no features at all. On his head laid a green v shape, a crown made of his own tentacles before they turned black ages ago.

He looked up and stared right at me, and I snapped out of it. Luckily nobody noticed that I had practically fallen asleep

I really should upload his image soon. My description (and mind you, my drawing as well, but at least it does a better job than my words) don't do it justice

Changed the background

And Paul is still a fucker

He said in his comment to me to ask Simon about the mark

I called and, of course, Simon said he had no idea about that

New fucker list:

Paul
Simon

EDIT: Holy crap I made the navigation at the side look like a Christmas tree made of links o.o;

Ok, explanation time

I woke up this morning to the masked guy standing over my bed with Slenderman behind him

I screamed loudly and it took Paul removing his Slenderman costume and the masked guy (a friend named Simon) taking off his mask before I switched to rage. They ran when I grabbed my baseball bat and chased them

He even set up that findthegate account and the god damn operator symbol crap! He says he has NO idea how the copy in the email got the symbol as well, but I'm on to him now!

GOD!

PAUL YOU FUCKER!

YOU FUCKING SHIT YOU SET THIS ALL UP! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!

About the picture + Figured out that "spam"

Let's start with the picture

I checked the files on my computer

Even the picture in my email has that symbol on it. Must have been some sort of glitch

Now, for the spam...

Rough Draft of the Hallowed Mountains

The Hallowed Mountains

Yeah, not the best photo, but I won't scan a picture unless it is a complete drawing

I really need to practice my scenery >.<

EDIT: I figured out both tags AND things I can do with pictures!

Working on a drawing, but had a weird experience today

I was taking a walk when I saw some... Weird guy dressed all in black wearing a cardboard mask

Yes, a cardboard mask. He took one look at me, said something about finding a gate



I was certainly stressed during that. Nut job didn't seem all that stable

Akinil

I've been reading stories about the Slenderman lately

That guy always fascinates me. Heck, one of the creatures in my game is based on him (the Deity of Nothing (literally) to boot). I should share some information sometime

Anyways, I haven't read through every blog, obviously, but if the guy exists (I never outright deny the possibility - the universe is a strange place. Probably helps that I saw a ghost when I was little. I'll recount that tale another time), well, has anybody considered him being a faerie?

Well then, welcome to my new blog

I'll be putting up art here until the site I have been promised is up (Need to still finish up the layout for their part. It's a collaborative effort - he does the coding and I do the art work)

If you're curious, the blog title, "Illusions of a Man," hints towards the name of the world I have created for my game - Illusoria. It is a world filled with magical creatures and deities

Ah, the deities


I'll have to cover them and their messed up personalities some time. I think you'll enjoy them.

Anyways, where was I?

Oh yes, expect some art, and perhaps some tales from my game (I find posting things helps to clear my mind and see things differently) here. XD I bet nobody reads this at all. Why would they?

Akinil (Eric)