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[Serenity]

[ABANDONED BLOG] The Three Sages

[SickSlickMan]

Alright, well, seeing as how these three have set up what appears to be the "future" of Slender blogging, I'm going to give this page an update so people just tuning in know what's going on.

Jay's dead, Robert has "crossed over" to be the "Guardian" or whatever, and Shaun is now acting as a "Guide" or something.

The three new sages are Zero, Maduin, and...I forget the girl's name.

In addition, M from the Tutorial has been labeled the "Hermit" and Strahm from Seeking Truth has been labeled the "Mystic". There's also a "Warrior" and a "Hero" category that both still need to be filled.

Oh, and something about a knife that is now the object the Hero needs in order to defeat Slender Man.

Any questions?

[5_pak]

I don't like these for one thing: trying too hard.

They obviously don't want to tell a good story. They want people to start using their terminology and set up a new paradigm in the "community." It's a forced meme in Slenderblog form and that destroys any joy that could be had of the art.

If story isn't central, I don't care.

[MetalGearSamus]

[123]

@5_pak- I'll reiterate here what I said in the topic about 'too many' Slenderblogs; I regret my decision to involve Testing in the whole Core Theory, terminology thing. You are right, the story has been drained of energy in favor of speaking in special 'code' and refering to each other as if we're some fairy tale characters. It could have worked, but the hive/community's attempt to absord every other blog that exists has gotten annoying.

Me, personally, I'm going for the story. I've got some plans to try and distance Testing from all this, and hopefully, tell a more interesting and memorable story than before. Still, it saddens me that there are those who aren't going to read my story because I've turned them off by deciding to involve my story in all this.

[5_pak]

[Das Omega]

I mentioned this briefly in another thread, but I've been talking with some friends about making an actual story based on this (a story, not a roleplay, which is what it's been turned into); when I first mentioned it, the idea didn't seem like it was going to take off, but it seems we might make something now. Some of the things we've realized needed be done is to minimize the terminology use, and (like 123's doing) try to stay distant enough from the other blogs to remain independent. Hopefully that'll give us enough freedom to tell a story.


And the girl whose name SlenderSlickMan couldn't remember is Amelia.

[Guestguy2187]

So.....is it just me, or are the Blog titles getting pretentious?

[Das Omega]

They've always been pretentious. Try to make up a non-pretentious blog name. Go ahead, I dare you.

[Guestguy2187]

Hmm...got me beat there.

At least the Vlogs have somewhat normal titles. XD

[Montagg]

[Atomyk]

I too am thinking there is getting to be a bit too much "This is how it is, it's being laid out for you, simple and precise".

Ambiguity is being lost and it's not a good thing for the Slenderblogs.

[Das Omega]

[Guest]

From an in-universe standpoint, you'll see that they have a reason to swallow all the other blogs. Because, you see, they think that disagreement in the mythos only makes the creature stronger. It adds this "anything can happen because no one knows the truth" aspect.

They did leave Jack from Scared alone, though. He kept insisting that he was fighting a different Slender Man, and the Sages' blogs were BS.

One last thing. I don't quite see how the terminology is overriding the story. The characters are discovering things (story) and giving them names as they go along. Seems like an okay balance to me.

[Serenity]

I'm enjoying the story. I don't interact with the characters much and I just like watching it unfold. They've set up a cool network with the blogs, I like it, but I also like others that are not in this network. It's its own little world.

Can I be Serenity (Female Rambo?) Haha.