Talk:Collaborative Writing Project: TAO: Rize of the Ying-yang

Fix the Bios
Can someone fix the bios? Thanks. --ScorpionTail (talk) 17:06, September 13, 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, quite confusing when he have no character background to go off. Rainbow Shifter 17:52, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your input guys, but these were the bios given by the creators of the characters. We put them up exactly as is to preserve the spirit of the master's creations.

Kate 18:29, September 13, 2013 (UTC)


 * But those are the characters from the Red Bat project. Rainbow Shifter 18:32, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Hey Rainbow Shifter,

I'm afraid I'm a bit confused. Which characters are from the Red Bat project?

Kate 18:54, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

The original synopses given for the witch and the buddhist maiden were the Vanarchist and the Girl respectively (Anonymius (talk) 19:19, September 13, 2013 (UTC))

Oh I see, thanks for the clarification, it must have been fixed by another staff member- sorry for the confusion!

Kate 20:20, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Clearing Up Confusion
Is there a way we can clear up confusion without violating any rules? --ScorpionTail (talk) 21:34, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Girls or Samurai?
Which category is this?

TheReturnOfTheKing - O_o I'm watching… 21:45, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Girls. Think you can contribute to this story? --ScorpionTail (talk) 21:46, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Definitely, but I was looking forward to the Samurai tale.

TheReturnOfTheKing - O_o I'm watching… 16:52, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

Inconsistency
Every since Zero Gravity made his contribution, everything began getting complicated. Seeing as he wasn't allowed to post like that, can the staff do something about this? --ScorpionTail (talk) 22:30, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Contribution in past plot
Zero+Chemistry+

Your contribution, the last post before the chapter "An Arrival" started, was added after the story had already moved on. The rules say that new contributions are to be added after the most recent post, otherwise the later contributions might make no sense. Stefan (Shikai - &#34;Rust &#38; Shatter&#34;) (talk) 22:59, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Someone needs to delete that post. --ScorpionTail (talk) 23:00, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Shaping Up Nicely
This story is shaping up surprisingly well. If we keep this up, it just might surpass Red Bat. --ScorpionTail (talk) 06:00, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

Agreed, and if it's going this well, can you imagine how awesome the Samurai story will be?

TheReturnOfTheKing - O_o I'm watching… 16:56, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

It'll be a gem. :D And I have just the right plot and scenarios for it, too. :D --ScorpionTail (talk) 16:58, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

don't these elements go more towards the Greek concept; I heard that the Yin-Yang aligns with fire, wood, water, earth, and metal, it's pretty much what puts them in the Onmyodo thing.
That's incorrect. The Japanese five elements are the same as in the west, with 'void' or 'sky' being the equivalent of 'aether'. (Anonymius (talk) 10:39, September 14, 2013 (UTC))

That is exactly right, Anonymius. --ScorpionTail (talk) 10:40, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

Mitrægaëyia
It seemed like some of the contributors were unaware that the main characters had just been transported to a magical world, so I decided to make it more clear and give the world a name. How do you like the name Mitrægaëyia? Doesn't it just seem awesome? Don't you hear that name ring with exotic, magical wonder?

TheReturnOfTheKing - O_o I'm watching… 16:55, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

It sounds awesome, King. It really does. --ScorpionTail (talk) 16:57, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

Erika/Julia
Alright I'm confused. Earlier someone named the witch girl 'Julia'. Then another character looking for her Tao deck named Erika came up at a completely different spot and joins the group later. And then some bozo goes up makes them the same person, what's up with that?--Zeromaro (talk) 22:50, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

We were hoping that the original author would end up changing Julia to Erika, as the name stuck after awhile. --ScorpionTail (talk) 22:52, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

But isn't 'Erika' a villain who made a deal with some kind of demon god at a completely different place or is someone gonna change her name too?--Zeromaro (talk) 22:54, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

No. One of the contributors had made the witch Erika after he posted in between posts, and the name stuck after some time passed. Seeing as more people were using Erika more than Julia, we were hoping that Julia would be changed to Erika. --ScorpionTail (talk) 22:56, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

The who the heck is the witch who made the 'Devil's Deal' with Asura?!--Zeromaro (talk) 22:59, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

Erika. --ScorpionTail (talk) 23:00, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

How can she do that in a dark cave when Erika was with Mibu at a shrine location at the same time? This is making less and less sense!--Zeromaro (talk) 23:02, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

Ah. I have an idea. We make Erika have a clone of herself. --ScorpionTail (talk) 23:04, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

Maybe a doppelganger or a copy* of her made by the Elemental Demon Lord?
 * A version of her made by her negative emotions during the time she was imprisoned. --ChaosWyvern-i (talk) 23:42, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

That sounds awesome! :D --ScorpionTail (talk) 23:43, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, that could lead to an interresting reunion, where the "good" Erika and her "evil" counterpart must face each other as enemies. Stefan (Shikai - &#34;Rust &#38; Shatter&#34;) (talk) 01:33, September 15, 2013 (UTC)

It goes with the Taoism aspect of the story well. Also, let's have the copy's other eye be covered to represent how opposite she is compared to the true Erika. --ScorpionTail (talk) 01:35, September 15, 2013 (UTC)

That would be quite symbolic and it would probably confuse the Maiden and Mibu into thinking she did revert to evil until the"good" aspect of Erika returned/appeared, resulting in aforementioned battle by Stefan. --ChaosWyvern-i (talk) 01:42, September 15, 2013 (UTC)

Good Erika? Evil Erika? HAve you all already forgotten that the witch character is supposed to embody darkness and evil, in opposition to the maiden that embodies light and good? (82.28.146.233 11:48, September 15, 2013 (UTC))

As A Reader, This Is Incredibly Difficult To Read
I'm not a contributor, I'm only a reader, and I have to say that the story is horribly hard to follow. There are a handful of contributors who constantly insist on promoting their characters and trying to put things in place for the future so that the story HAS to conform to their design. Within the first few sections there's talk of Sword Brotherhoods or something, and elemental warriors and demon kings. I thank the contributors who don't add their own design to the story, they add their own flavor and build on the story. Guys, this isn't YOUR project, it belongs to an ever-expanding group.

If people take offense to this, I'm sorry but it must be said. The original idea for the project, as what appears to be an action-fantasy revolving around the chemistry between 3 principle characters, most especially the romantic tension between the boy and the witch and maiden and the enmity and violence between the witch and the maiden (as its described in The World) is warping because there are people who ignore the rule to Contribute to the story in a linear fashion)

Please, please, please don't turn this into sewn together cacophony of characters and violent, arbitrary plot developments. A professional manga artist is making this, please respect him and his career

Jottie22 (talk) 03:33, September 15, 2013 (UTC)Jottie22

But we are respecting him and his career. This is a collab, and as such, posts that others make are welcome. We know that this is everyone's project. --ScorpionTail (talk) 03:43, September 15, 2013 (UTC)

Apart from those that contradict previous entries, because that is basically disrespecting other contributors' work which is against the rules. Mind you I do see where this person, and other people, are coming from. It does feel that the original premise has been distorted somewhat (ahem, justlikewithredbat!) (Anonymius (talk) 12:03, September 15, 2013 (UTC))

The Story for RedBat was good, this is jsut gay
OK guys, I was here from Septemebr 9th, for RedBat, I helped set the stage for arborius' defeat, I wrote the ending (until it got deleted by Kate.Moon for being too long) and I helped User: ScorpionTail and User:Ezvil as well as User:Stefan (Shikai - "Rust & Shatter") plan TAO, but when I logged in Firday at 4pm after school to work on TAO, it was already pretty screwed up, then when I started helping, DuskNeos, jsut screwed up the story. He actually messed it up so much i got completely lost in a story where I had helped plan most of the stuff. I have read through TAO, and even though it has gotten better, the introduction is weak and to someone who ahs no idea what this is, I can imagine it being EXTREMELY confusing. I think we should work on helping the story get better and les sconfusing, also We need backstory on all the characters! -- User:Sunami king

already been working on that! (Anonymius (talk) 13:26, September 15, 2013 (UTC))