The Hive

[Slivers]

Slivers are a type of magical creature that thrive to survive. Their are many types of this creature and they work together as a Hive. The truth of their origins are rather unknown. While their strengths are in there numbers their weaknesses are one on one. Slivers possess the magical attributes of supporting themselves. In other words, if one sliver possess a unique ability, then all Slivers possess this ability. The only exception to this is the two alpha slivers which possess abilities that allow them to rule over the others and other slivers cannot have these abilities. For example: Your character ends up encounter a group of slivers, one of those slivers is a Winged Sliver. Winged Slivers have the ability of flight thus that whole group of slivers possesses the ability to fly.

Now several lists shall be provided of the various types of slivers. Each list represents a certain color of magic that each sliver belongs to. In other words, their abilities revolve around that color of magic and nothing else.

White

Armor Sliver - slivers are capable of increasing their defenses by the means of magical forces.
Essence Sliver - when a successful blow is dealt by a sliver, that sliver drains it's target of their health and adds it to their own
Plated Sliver - slivers skins harden to become somewhat armorlike raising their defense*
Pulmonic Sliver - slivers possess the ability to fly and are revived after death when called upon
Quilled Sliver - slivers grow quills that can serve as projectile weapons
Sidwinder Sliver - slivers attack in a unique way that weaken's it's prey
Talon Sliver - slivers' talons grow longer allowing them to attack from a further distance away
Ward Sliver - slivers gain protection from a type of magic or weaponry*
Watcher Sliver - slivers become more aware of their prey's actions allowing them to be prepared for their attacks

Blue

Mistform Sliver - slivers can alter their characterists slightly to resemble a different creature
Mnemonic Sliver - slivers can sacrafice themselves in order to use magic spells or certain skills
Psionic Sliver - slivers can deliver mental psionic blasts that are near sucidial to themselves
Screeching Sliver - slivers produce a loud screech that causes their prey to halt their actions
Shadow Sliver - slivers become somewhat etheral not allowing them to attack the physical, but the spiritual or mental portions of a being
Shifting Sliver - slivers alter in such a way that only other slivers can produce successful combat results
Synapse Sliver - as slivers deal damage, they are capable of increasing their arsenal of spells and techniques that their prey is using*
Telekinetic Sliver - slivers possess the ability to read the surface thoughts of their prey (such as their next course of action)
Winged Sliver - slivers grow wings and gain the ability of flight

Black***

Basal Sliver - slivers can sacrafice themselves to transfer energy to other slivers
Clot Sliver - slivers can regenerate themselves
Crypt Sliver - slivers can regenerate other slivers though are exposed to attackers
Mindlash Sliver - slivers can attack the mind causing their prey to forget a spell or a technique temporarily
Mindwhip Sliver - slivers can attack the mind more harshly causing their prey to forget a spell or technique for a longer period of time than the Mindlash Sliver's ability
Plague Sliver - slivers become plauged with desease and weakened
Spectral Sliver - slivers can access the spiritual plane to boost their attack strength and defenses
Toxin Sliver - slivers inject a venom when they attack that eventually kills it's prey
Vampiric Sliver - when slivers slay organic prey, they feed and become stronger*

Red

Barbed Sliver - slivers become covered in small barbs making them offesnively stronger
Blade Sliver - slivers' talons become sharper thus increasing the strength of their attack*
Bonesplitter Sliver - slivers' talons become thicker and stronger increasing their strength even more*
Fury Sliver - slivers when attacking go into a frenzy type state that allows them to attack twice as fast
Heart Sliver - slivers can take actions faster than normal do to another heart created
Hunter Sliver - slivers grow a pseudo head that provokes their prey into attacking the false head
Magma Sliver - slivers can magically become covered in molten rock and increase their overall offensive strength greatly
Sedge Sliver - When the area is swamplike or is an area filled with death and darkness, slivers' strengths and defenses increase by melding with it and gain the ability to regenerate each other*
Two-Headed Sliver - slivers grow another real head that makes their attacks harder to defend against unless their are multiple beings defending against them

Green

Brood Sliver - when slivers deal damage, another sliver is created*
Fungus Sliver - when slivers take damage and survive, their bodies "grow" causing their strength and defense to increase*
Gemhide Sliver - slivers are capable of producing various types of energy for other slivers to use
Horned Sliver - slivers grow horns that are capable of piercing armor
Might Sliver - slivers' strength and defenses increase by increasing their own size*
Muscle Sliver - slivers' muscle sizes increase causing an increase in their strength and defense*
Quick Sliver - slivers can move faster than normal
Root Sliver - slivers cannot be stopped from entering an area by the means of magic
Spinneret Sliver - slivers gain the ability to use a weblike substain to capture flying prey

Artificial

Metallic Sliver - a weak artifical sliver with no special abilities
Venser's Sliver - an artificial sliver of moderate strength with no special abilities

Multicolored

Acidic Sliver - Black/Red - slivers turn themselves into an acidic bomb
Crystalline Sliver - White/Blue - slivers become crystalline and prevents them from being targets
Dementia Sliver - Blue/Black - slivers can cause their prey to forget a spell or technique, but will be vunerable to attacks
Firewake Sliver - Red/Green - slivers can sacrafice themselves to add a fire element to other slivers and boost their attacks and defenses
Ghostflame Sliver - Black/Red - slivers become ghostlike and are not affected by that which affects certain types of colors
Harmonic Sliver - Green/White - slivers give out a burst of magic as they entered destroying any enchantment or artifact*
Hibernation Sliver - Blue/Black - slivers can sacrafice their own health to flee an area and go into hibernation
Opaline Sliver - White/Blue - if slivers become a target of a spell then they can use that spell or related spells*
Sliver Overlord** - White/Blue/Black/Red/Green - Can directly summon a sliver and controls any sliver permently
Sliver Queen** - White/Blue/Black/Red/Green - creates a sliver
Spined Sliver - Red/Green - when a sliver is fighting against multiple beings their strength and defense increases proportional to that amount
Victual Sliver - Green/White - slives can sacrafice themselves to heal another sliver

* - indicates that the ability is stackable if there is more than one of the same sliver.
** - indicates Slivers that there is only one known of existing
*** - Using brown to represent black, because glow is just to bothersome to use.

[Akai Honmura]

I can tell that SOMEONE here plays Magic. As if this just doesn't reek of the game... Good lord... Anyone who's played the game would notice THAT.

[Verdan]

slivers said:

Slivers are a type of magical creature that thrive to survive. Their are many types of this creature and they work together as a Hive. The truth of their origins are rather unknown. While their strengths are in there numbers their weaknesses are one on one. Slivers possess the magical attributes of supporting themselves. In other words, if one sliver possess a unique ability, then all Slivers possess this ability. The only exception to this is the two alpha slivers which possess abilities that allow them to rule over the others and other slivers cannot have these abilities. For example: Your character ends up encounter a group of slivers, one of those slivers is a Winged Sliver. Winged Slivers have the ability of flight thus that whole group of slivers possesses the ability to fly.

Now several lists shall be provided of the various types of slivers. Each list represents a certain color of magic that each sliver belongs to. In other words, their abilities revolve around that color of magic and nothing else. The colors also represent where these slivers would most likely be found.

White - Plains or where white mana is produced

Armor Sliver - Can pump up its toughness by a little mutliple times for a limited amount of time by paying a mana cost
Essence Sliver - Regains health for the amount of damage it inflicts
Plated Sliver - All slivers' toughness increases by a small amount*
Pulmonic Sliver - Flies and whenever it is killed, it ressurects outside of the current area
Quilled Sliver - Deals a small amount of damage to an attacking or defending opponent by taking no other actions
Sidwinder Sliver - Whenever a warrior without a certain ability blocks, their power and toughness is temporarily lowered
Talon Sliver - When it attacks it deals damage before it is dealt damage from defending opponent
Ward Sliver - When it enters an area, it gains protection from a choice color of magic*
Watcher Sliver - All Slivers' toughness increases by a moderate amount

Blue - Islands or where blue mana is produced

Mistform Sliver - Able to add a creature type to it's own by paying a low mana cost
Mnemonic Sliver - Pays a mana cost and sacrafices self to allow a new spell to be used by the Hive
Psionic Sliver - Deals damage to a target and more to self by taking no other actions
Screeching Sliver - An opponent looses access to a spell or technique till it is relearned by taking no other action
Shadow Sliver - Cannot be attacked or blocked unless opponent possess the same ability
Shifting Sliver - Can only be blocked by other Slivers
Synapse Sliver - Whenever it deals combat damage, a new spell is able to be used by it or the Hive*
Telekinetic Sliver - Can render an object or individual unable to act by taking no other action
Winged Sliver - Flies

[glow=white,7,300]Black[/glow] - Swamps or where black mana is produced

Basal Sliver - Sacrafices self to give black mana for use of other slivers or allies
Clot Sliver - Regenerates self by use of mana
Crypt Sliver - Regenerates another sliver by not taking any other actions
Mindlash Sliver - By paying a low mana cost and sacraficing self, causes an opponent to forget a spell or technique for one use of that opponent's choice
Mindwhip Sliver - By paying a mana cost and scraficing self, causes an opponent to forget a spell or technique that they know by random
Plague Sliver - is deal damage proportional to the number of slivers in the area
Spectral Sliver - Can increase it's power and toughness by a little multiple times for a limited amount of time by paying a mana cost
Toxin Sliver - Whatever recieves damage from it dies
Vampiric Sliver - When an organic object dies from combat damage that was dealt by it, it's power and toughness increases permantly*

Red - Mountains or where red mana is produced

Barbed Sliver - Can pump up its power by a little mutliple times for a limited amount of time by paying a mana cost
Blade Sliver - All slivers' power increases by a small amount*
Bonesplitter Sliver - All slivers' power increases by a moderate amount*
Fury Sliver - Deals twice as much damage
Heart Sliver - When it enters an area, it can immediately attack
Hunter Sliver - Provokes a target into defending against an attack
Magma Sliver - Increases the power of a sliver proportional to the number of slivers in the area for a short amount of time by taking no other action
Sedge Sliver - When the area is swamplike, slivers's power and toughness increase by a small amount and are able to pay a black mana to regenerate*
Two-Headed Sliver - To successfully defend against it's attacks, two or more individuals are required

Green - Forests or where green mana is produced

Brood Sliver - When it deals combat damage, a weak colorless sliver is created*
Fungus Sliver - When combat damage is dealt to it, it becomes permentily stronger by a small amount*
Gemhide Sliver - Adds mana of any color by not taking any other actions
Horned Sliver - if its power is higher than it's opponent's toughness during combat, excess combat damage is dealt directly to the opponent regardless of any wards or other defenses
Might Sliver - All slivers' power and toughness increases by a moderate amount*
Muscle Sliver - All slivers' power and tougness increases by a small amount*
Quick Sliver - Can appear at any time
Root Sliver - When it enters an area, it cannot be stopped
Spinneret Sliver - Can defend against flying targets

Colorless - Anywhere

Metallic Sliver - a weak artifical sliver with no special abilities
Venser's Sliver - an artificial sliver of moderate strength with no special abilities

Multicolored - Shares properties of any color that the sliver is

Acidic Sliver - Black/Red - Sacrafices self to deal moderate damage to a target
Crystalline Sliver - White/Blue - Cannot be the target of spells or abilities
Dementia Sliver - Blue/Black - Makes an opponent forget a spell or technique for one use by not taking any other actions
Firewake Sliver - Red/Green - Sacrafices self to boost a slivers power and toughness by a moderate amount for a limited time
Ghostflame Sliver - Black/Red - All slivers are colorless
Harmonic Sliver - Green/White - When it enters an area, destroys an enchantment or artifact*
Hibernation Sliver - Blue/Black - Sacrafices a moderate portion of it's life to remove itself from the area
Opaline Sliver - White/Blue - When it becomes the target of an opponent's spell, a new spell can be used by the Hive*
Sliver Overlord** - White/Blue/Black/Red/Green - Can directly summon a sliver and controls any sliver permently
Sliver Queen** - White/Blue/Black/Red/Green - Summons a weak colorless sliver in the area by paying a mana cost
Spined Sliver - Red/Green - Whenever an opponent defends against it's attack, it's power and toughness increases by a small amount per defender
Victual Sliver - Green/White - A sliver is able to regain moderate health when another pays a mana cost and sacrafices itself

* - indicates that the ability is stackable if there is more than one of the same sliver.
** - indicates Slivers that there is only one known of existing

Huh?

[Rith Matou]

Best...Outlanders...ever!

[Ariadne]

A little long on the list though.

[Slivers]

There is no such thing as a list that's too long. Besides, it provides me with the vast variety to choose from and also provides the information to all the members that might encounter one. And it's really easy to find them since they are listed by color and then alphabetically.

[Færys Tiranas]

Original messege:

Like I said, it reeks of M:TG! You practically copied the damn thing straight off of a card list, or something! All this "combat damage" and "colorless creatures." My LORD! Change it! At least reword the damned thing some more! It still reeks too much of Magic! Are you THAT crazy about M:TG!? Are you ignoring me? Is that mesh of pictures in your sig taken from the cards, too, by the way?

Intended Meaning, Unskewed by my Choice of Words:

Like I said, it reeks of M:TG! You practically copied the thing straight off of a card list, or something! All this "combat damage" and "colorless creatures." Please change it! At least reword the thing some more! It still contains too much Magic jargon, which can confuse peole! Are you ignoring me? Is that mesh of pictures in your sig taken from the cards, too, by the way?

[Slivers]

First off, there is no such thing as too much of anything. Only a magic freak would be complaining about too much of something from a card game. Yes, this Outlander was based on the MTG creatures. Yes, their abilities and the list of names came from the very same game. And yes, the mesh came from pics that were on some cards. I did reword the their abilities and altered them somewhat. Am I finsihed editing it, no.

Now, why was this allowed to become an Outlander, simple. The site needed a repeative critter that couldn't be easily overpowered as a swarm but individualy are literally nothing. Thus slivers provided that perfectly. Now, this was simply created out of the sheer will of wanting to better the site and rid those that cause a disturbance of the rp world. And I know that people are attempting to come up with a reasonable list or guidelines as to how magic should be catagorized and blah blah blah. MTG provides a very good guildline. As for the colors, it necessarily isn't the color of the creature but more of what it represents. Now, I could've created this one long list and have everyone searching for whatever it was that was being used against them. However, instead, I decided to break it up as such to make it an easier reference.

If you don't like it, then don't mess around or get involved with the Slivers unless you have absolutely no choice.

[Shadow]

Well said.

[Akai Honmura]

Now, I never said anything about a bad thing, except that you REALLY needed to reword it a bit better, as all the Magic jargon was confusing people, and, frankly, me as to how it would work on the site. I never said anything like, "Delete..." Oops. Black Cat is done, hold on a moment... Okay, anyways, I never said anything like, "This char is a horrible idea! Delete it!" I think it's a GOOD IDEA! And the picture question was in no way meant with hostility. I think the picture looks cool, but I haven't seen many sliver cards. I was trying to comment on the overly Magic jargoned-ness of it, and became annoyed when I was ignored! I didn't even post the second one with hostility in mind, and if there is hostility in this post, it is merely meant as a defense against similar hostility. Why everyone insists that everything I type is malicious, and meant to piss someone off, is beyond my comprehension! I understand that I do not type much differently when I am angry, as when I am just complaining, but use of curse words is normal for me, and damn is an adjective to use when annoyed, not when angry. F**king hell, that is what f**k is for! If you are offended by my casual use of curse words, I do censor the worse ones, so stop bitching! I would like to clear that up. I am rude by nature. I'm sorry, but that's just the way things are. If you take offense easily, you might want to try telling me not to talk to you. I will understand. Just quote this paragraph, if you don't think I'll remember. Which is quite likely, as my short-term fails me often. Warui.

[Verdan]

slivers said:

First off, there is no such thing as too much of anything. Only a magic freak would be complaining about too much of something from a card game. Yes, this Outlander was based on the MTG creatures. Yes, their abilities and the list of names came from the very same game. And yes, the mesh came from pics that were on some cards. I did reword the their abilities and altered them somewhat. Am I finsihed editing it, no.

Now, why was this allowed to become an Outlander, simple. The site needed a repeative critter that couldn't be easily overpowered as a swarm but individualy are literally nothing. Thus slivers provided that perfectly. Now, this was simply created out of the sheer will of wanting to better the site and rid those that cause a disturbance of the rp world. And I know that people are attempting to come up with a reasonable list or guidelines as to how magic should be catagorized and blah blah blah. MTG provides a very good guildline. As for the colors, it necessarily isn't the color of the creature but more of what it represents. Now, I could've created this one long list and have everyone searching for whatever it was that was being used against them. However, instead, I decided to break it up as such to make it an easier reference.

If you don't like it, then don't mess around or get involved with the Slivers unless you have absolutely no choice.

<3

[Færys Tiranas]

I did apologize. "Warui." It means "bad." Sort of like an American saying, "my bad." "It's my fault, I apologize, with heartfelt sentiment. I'm sorry." That is what I meant by that paragraph. Forgive my course language, and insensitivity as to how my words affect other's feelings. Please and thank you.

[Vidar]

I'm going to have to agree with Akai for this one. After all, in case you people don't know what "jargon" is, I'm going to provide a basic definition:
Noun- the language, esp. the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group

In other words, he's speaking in terms mostly only magic players would understand, in the process scrambling what it seems the creatures abilities really mean.

For example, take plated sliver, for example. It says it increases toughness, yet if you look at its name, what this means is that they have something to the effect of plated armor. After all, you wouldn't put on a breastplate and say: "Good heavens, I think my toughness has increased substantially!" You'd say: "Good, now I have more armor." Or something to that extent.

You copied them off the card but don't seem to have taken the time yet to think what their abilities actually mean.

I figured through some examples for you:

1) Talon sliver- it doesn't "deal damage" first when fighting, it just has long talons, which would give it a reach advantage over a normal sword much of the time.
2) Winged sliver- this was the one that amused me the most....I was surprised you didn't go "gives all fellow slivers the flying ability". It's kinda obvious.....they just get wings.
3) Toxin sliver- things it touches don't just die.....they're just poisoned from it's toxin......
4) Horned sliver- "What?" was then only thing I could think of that description. Since we've already established through armor sliver and plated sliver, our defenses are our toughness, so I don't understand what exactly you're hitting with this "excess" combat damage.....I would have figured they would just have a set of horns.
5)Two-headed sliver- so you're saying if you're not fighting it with multiple people, the single person fighting automatically dies or something? That right there would kinda be god-modding. I would imagine it just gives itself an additional head to fight with.

Overall, I think you should take a more literal interpretation of abilities provided based on the names more than what their in-game abilities are, as no one else follows those same abilities on this site.

[Slivers]

I did reword the their abilities and altered them somewhat. Am I finsihed editing it, no.

That's all I got to say and I really haven't had the time to put any effort into it. So just shut yer trap. My time has been hard pressed for the last several days with church, work, and school and I probably won't be getting around to finishing editing this thing for a while. Now I know you're probably upset from me interrupting whatever was going on at the Dark Citadel, either way that doesn't give ya any reason to start smashing an Outlander. In fact, the majority of the outlanders don't even have a profile and I already stated where I got all this stuff before hand. And you don't need to be repeating the same things over and over again....because that's all this site seems to be capable of doing, even myself at times. When I can't find necessarily anything better to do, I will go and edit the information, but for right now, I'm leaving it as it is and ya'll will just have to live with it.

[Vidar]

Well, I don't think I will shut my trap, as I feel that I am right and that you have no real authority to enforce any orders you give.

So in other words, you're saying you don't have time to take a few minutes to edit a single post to have it make sense for the role-play you’re currently in, yet you do have time to post all over with those same creatures in question?

Not to mention, if you acknowledge there's a problem and do nothing about it, people are bound to mention it again, no matter how much you dislike the redundancy.