Sprites ZODIAC

[FIPS]

Hello everyone, here is FIPS.

This time I tried to design a brand new suggestion.

This will write the history of the rise and fall of 25 weapons and a fictional organization.

In order to design this series,

I refer to a large number of historical documents and myths.

And some related games.

I visited a lot of respectable Spriter.

I sincerely thank those who helped me design this suggestion.

Without them, it would be difficult for me to design this suggestion.

I hope to design every weapon to perfection.

In short, anyway, I hope everyone will like it.


SPECIAL THANKS
@Zoomo —— Main Spriter!
@Vikri — He helped and participated in the weapon design of suggestion.
@TMRC —— Part of the weapon design came from him and got his permission.
The development team of calamity mod —— One of the weapons is from Calamity, I took it and made this suggestion better

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[FIPS]

Notice
The suggested story will not clearly write the source of this fictitious organization, but we can understand the history of the rise and fall of this organization through the source stories of various weapons
The ancient Chinese chronicle "Spring and Autumn Annals" has a style.
The writing of everything is very short, but you can find many interesting things from the details of the text,
and feel the author's evaluation from these details.

This is an anti-traditional suggestion.
It only includes 25 brand new weapons and a background story.
I spent a lot of energy on the fine carving of each weapon.
This plan has been revised repeatedly from 2016 to now.

This is the theme song of this series. It comes from the Demo version of the game "RefleX".
I remixed this music and used it.
Part of the idea of Suggestion also comes from this game.
This suggestion is not to use this music for commercial purposes.

 

[FIPS]

XI-PISCES-ω
Hypnos
This is the final work of the so-called "Casting Association", right?
Because of their own reasons, they fell into permanent sleep in exhaustion.
But they can't sleep.
When the snow fell on the ground, everything became blank again.
The birds and beasts here fell asleep.
But they can't sleep.

DAMAGE：0

Effect
Hypnosis —— The dream catcher is launched, and all NPCs that are hit fall into a "Hypnosis" state.At this time the defense is zero.
Phantom Pain —— Use a weapon at will to attack the NPC trapped in "Hypnosis". This NPC will enter the "Phantom Pain" state, reducing its health by 2 times its attack power every second.And can no longer enter Hypnosis state when falling into phantom pain.
Dream Butterfly ——Emit current, the damage of Hypnos at this time is the total value of your defense.

Design source
This weapon was originally designed from FIPS.
He consulted TMRC and modified it into the prototype of its current state. After that, Hypnos was modified by Gouvod many times.
The version we currently see is a modification from Zoomo.

The color design of the weapon comes from the art style "steam wave", giving people a hallucinogenic effect.
Steam waves also have related music styles, which can correspond to each other.

The net part comes from the "Dream Catcher" tool of the Indians
Legend has it that dream catchers can filter dreams and bring them into a beautiful dreamland.

His name comes from the ancient Greek mythological god, Sleeping God, Hypnos.
He can give people permanent sleep when they die.
This is why its code name is the last Greek letter and the last ZODIAC.

"Dream Butterfly" comes from the Chinese fable "Zhuang Zhou Mengdie". According to legend, he dreamed that he became a butterfly flying, but when he woke up he thought he was a butterfly instead of Zhuang Zhou.Expression of the human perception of Will and Representation.Understand the difference between "this" and "that".

Phantom Pain——Medical words.When the amputee patient can still feel the presence of that limb and the pain for this is phantom pain.




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[FIPS]

XII-ARIES-α
Genesis
"In the past, everyone in the association developed this."
Everything is good.

Effect

Genesis startup status

wingman
wingman —— At the beginning of Genesis, it will bloom with shrinking wingman on both sides, and the wingmen will guard the overlord like a warrior.
You can adjust the wingman’s AI, you can order him to keep hovering around the host, or follow the enemy and attack, or use it as a shield.
You have two wingman.When the wingman is destroyed, you need a longer time to recover it.

burst —— The wingman itself has health. When the health returns to zero, it will explode and cause massive damage to the enemy.
You can also manually start "burst".
After this effect is activated, the player temporarily enters an invincible state.

Alpha ray —— Genesis can absorb all the energy of the two wingman. After the energy storage is completed, a huge laser can be launched. This laser can absorb the projectile. The more absorbed, the higher the attack range and damage, and the longer the laser duration.

Design source
The effect of this weapon comes from the 1997 arcade and Playstation platform game "G-Darius".

It was the first design of FIPS, which was drawn by TMRC. After that,FIPS put it into the Calamity mod.
In Calamity mod, it’s called "Genisis", which is caused by FIPS’s earliest writing error.
FIPS then took the sprite away, and finally explained the earliest weapon design in this article.

"Genesis" is also the name of the game console Mega Drive developed by Japanese video game manufacturer Sega in Europe and the United States.

"Genesis" is also the name of the first chapter in each version of the Bible.
In numbers.Corresponds to the Greek alphabet "α" and its setting ZODIAC.


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[FIPS]

XIX-LIBRA-ξ
Helios
This is the eternal day caused by the rising of the moon.
Jointly developed by the Association's Science and Technology Department and Magic Department.

Effect
“九隹”——This spear can be thrown out to make the enemy suffer a lot of damage and burn,
Burning areas will cause long periods of light.There is a very low probability of seckilling the boss.

Car of the sun ——This spear can also be used as a magic weapon.Summon a massive skyfire and cause area damage.

Atar —— In daylight, Helios’s damage will be higher.

Arm of the sun —— 1% of the value of the damage caused by the attack on the enemy will be used as the health restoration of all teammates.

Design source
Helios was personally designed by FIPS and Resprite twice
It refers to numerous documents, including ancient Greece, Persia, China, Egypt.
Its overall shape is derived from hieroglyphs and patterns.

Among them, the part that resembles a bird's beak comes from ancient Chinese characters-oracle bone inscriptions "隹", "暊", "燕" and so on.

The "九" in the name of a weapon's effect “九隹” comes from the ancient Chinese document "I Ching", and "九" is Yang. "六" is Yin.

Helios is also the name of the ancient Greek sun god.
According to legend, he was driving the car of the sun,
And shine the light all over the world.
The weapon effect name "Car of the sun" refers to the sun god "Helios".

Its wings come from the ancient Egyptian mythology "La" and the ancient Persian Zoroastrianism.

Of course, you can also think that it comes from YGO cards.“ The Winged Dragon of Ra”.
Among them, the weapon effect name "Atar" corresponds to Zoroastrianism.

Its tail comes from the sun god "Aten" during the Reformation of Ancient Egypt. It changes from a slender arm to a tail.

Among them, the weapon effect name "Arm of the sun" corresponds to "Aten".

Why is it designed as a phoenix pattern, because in many myths, the phoenix is mostly associated with light and flames.
And regarded as auspicious things.
A sentence from the earliest collection of poems in China "Poems":
Lo! Phoenixes on the wing, away fluttering 'nd flittering.



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[FIPS]

? ? ?
"Uninterpretable file"
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[Miros]

Holy crap this is just like in Homestuck

 

[FIPS]

Holy crap this is just like in Homestuck

In a sense, this deepens the depth of the design.May make it more playable.
But in fact, I really haven’t seen Homestuck.
I just have a good understanding of the history of video games, and to a certain extent I have studied the history, culture and mythology of various places.
For example, Terraria has largely inherited the art style of SNES's Final Fantasy series, and they are very similar.

 

[FIPS]

XV-GEMENI-ζ
Elegy of Disorder
"Lamech and Entropy."
·Lamech is a name.

Effect
VISIONNERZ
Its own black blade can penetrate countless enemies and tiles.
Launches black flames when swinging.
But when you take a screenshot, you can’t capture this kind of flame.
Because it just inputs the flame signal to the will.
All enemies that are attacked enter the "VISIONNERZ·Flame" debuff.
The whole body will burn black flames. And they can't extinguish this flame.
If it is an NPC, after the debuff is over,it will become a puppet with black flame burning all over,
helping you to attack your enemies.
Not valid for special bosses.
The user will lose health every second.

Design source
This is a work drawn by TMRC in 2015.
The design itself refers to the art design of the movie "Aliens".

"VISIONNERZ" is a combination word, which means "HALLUCINATED PEOPLE" .
The name comes from the background music of Darius gaiden. The arranger consulted Jung psychology and made the music for this game.

"VISION" is also a term for Jung psychology.

Jung’s Prophetic Visions

"ζ" is the sixth Greek letter, and its meaning comes from the Bible, representing its status as a demon.​

"The Bible - Revelation - 13:18"
This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.​

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[FIPS]

XVI-GEMENI-ε
Hymn of Silence
"Constantly use stones to stop the torrent."

Effect
VISIONNERZ

Its own white blade can penetrate countless enemies and tiles.
Launches frost when swinging.
But when you take a screenshot, you can’t capture this kind of frost.
Because it just inputs the frost signal to the will.
All enemies that are attacked enter the "VISIONNERZ·Frost" debuff.
And fell into a state of being unable to move.
Use this weapon to attack the NPC of the "VISIONNERZ·Flame" debuff to cancel the debuff
Not valid for special bosses.

Design source
This is a work drawn by TMRC in 2015.
The design ideas are also roughly the same.
It is located in Gemini, which means that it and "Elegy of Disorder" are like Gemini.
The size of the two is also the same.
TMRC designed its colors into blue and white, which represents its hostile relationship with "Elegy of Disorder".
Most sources have already been described before, so I won’t repeat them.
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[FIPS]

XIII-PISCES-ψ
Thanatos
"An unavoidable tragedy."

Effect
Wheel of Torment —— Throw four non-stop rotating sickles at the same time while waving.
Karma —— The attacked enemy additionally reduces the value of his defensive power. When it exceeds 60, Tanathos has an armor-breaking effect.
"往生" —— Players who are attacked by Thanatos, all effects of the weapon currently in hand are invalid.
The melee weapon.range weapon becomes a normal non-autofire weapon.
Magic weapon is invalid.
Summon weapons to clear all minions and invalid.

Design source
This sprite was originally designed by FIPS.
Vikri completed the design of the current version!

Click to view his suggestion

Thanatos is the name of the god of death in ancient Greek mythology, and it is twin brother with Hypnos, the god of sleep.
So it’s also in Pisces Palace.And connected on the Greek letters.And in legend, he and Hypnos transported the dead into the underworld together.
Therefore, the weapon effect "Wheel of Torment" refers to both suggestion "torment" and "Thanatos".
"Thanatos" is also a Freudian term for psychology.It stands for "Death Intention".

"Karma" is a term used in Hinduism and Buddhism.It represents the result obtained by people’s good and evil.
You can also see the word Karma in undertale.

"往生" is also a Buddhist term. I use Chinese because I can’t find a word with the same meaning in English. It means to clear people’s previous evils and get a new life.




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[rei ★]

um what's this thread about?

 

[FIPS]

um what's this thread about?

A suggestion,some sprite.

 

[FIPS]

XIV-ARIES-β
NEWALONE
"Conflict between rules and Id."
"Even the flesh."

Effect
Voice of Aulos — Both upper and lower barrels emit blue laser at the same time.
When the player holds this weapon, they can get the element "existence".
"Existence" is the energy of this weapon. The more it gains, the higher its attack range, but the damage remains unchanged.
Id cleaning — All flesh extra take damage.(All enemies that are not mechanical.like zombie、player、NPC etc.)
Will to power — NEWALONE can release all current energy to emit rays. When it touches the rays, it will produce convection and chaos. At the same time, it will produce a huge ball of light and push it to the weaker side.The person hit by the ball of light (or the player himself) suffered a huge amount of damage.

Design source
This is the idea of FIPS, which was completed by Zoomo!
The overall palette of this weapon also comes from his suggestion-The cyber!

Its barrel design comes from the ancient Greek musical instrument, Aulos.
It is commonly used in the ritual worship of Dionysus.
Dionysus represents unrestrained joy and progressive rules.
The later German philosopher Nietzsche quoted the story of Dionysus and extended the "existentialism" philosophy.
So NEWALONE is actually a mixed expression of rules and desires.
It is calling for humanism from ancient Greece.It is also suppressing people’s desires and entering a higher degree of rationality.
So as to cause the contradiction between the body and the machine, the contradiction between desire and rules.
At the same time, "Voice of Aulos" also refers to this.

In"Id cleaning".Id is a pun.It comes from Freudian psychology.Represents the desire of the person.
You can also think of it as the "ID" of the network.
Existence & Will to power.Are all insinuating existential philosophy.
Its effect comes from the 1991 arcade game-"Metal black"
The overall plot of the game is similar to the current narrative "existentialism" philosophy.
The name NEWALONE comes from this game.

Also refer to the arcade game of 1989.called"X Multiply".

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[FIPS]

VIII-SAGITTARIUS-σ
Molotalina

"All power to the people!"

Effect
Liberation of Labour — The damage of this weapon is increased by 10 times the number of normal online players on the server.
Declaration — This weapon does not have a projectile, but it can destroy the projectile when it is swung. The attacked enemy receives an extremely strong knockback, and the player knockbacked by this weapon receives fall damage again when touching the tile while being knockbacked, ignoring all equipment.
Das Kapital — When this weapon kills the enemy, all items of the enemy are cleared and distributed to all players on the server equally.

Design source

JUST CLICK THIS

Weapon names and effect names are derived from Marxism and Communism​

 

[幽の白银]

That's so good!

 

[FIPS]

That's so good!

Thanks ya.my dude.

 

[MomoThePony]

酷毙了
I love these designs indeed.