Issue 8 of the Twilight Times
Page 3 - The Ansem Reports
Page 4 - Unlocking the Keyhole
Page 5 - The Door to Light
Page 6 - The Coliseum
Page 7 - The Keyblade Master
Page 8 - Dive to the Heart
Page 9 - The Round Room
Page 10 - Mark of Mastery Exam
Page 11 - Naminé's Sketchbook
Page 12 - The Grid
Page 13 - Flick Rush
Cover image provided by ShadowsTwilight, TheFifteenthMember, Chainoffire, Neumannz, Troisnyxétienne. Put together by ANX219.
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For the uninitiated, Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ is a mobile version of the PC browser game, Kingdom Hearts χ, which chronicles events during the mysterious Keyblade War. While the Japanese Unchained χ made its debut on the 3rd of September 2015, an English release has finally made its way to North America on the 7th of April 2016! If you live in the region, you can download the app on Android and iOS from their respective app stores and try out the game now! The game is also set to come out in other territories, but there has been no word on their release dates so far. In other Unchained χ news, the game had a big update to version 1.2.0 on the 30th of March, which focused on making changes to the UI and other aspects that fans wanted improving. This was in response to a questionnaire conducted towards the end of February, where Square Enix had asked Unchained χ players what they thought of the game. Clearly, Square listened to their opinions and took steps to make Unchained χ a better experience!
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On their website, Square Enix has announced some unfortunate news for fans of the Kingdom Hearts PC browser title; the game's servers are planned to terminate this September. It is sad news to hear that players will soon no longer be able to play Kingdom Hearts χ, but that doesn't mean the end of χ! The mobile version, Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ, is now available in both Japanese and English and a new cinematic movie, Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover, is set to release as part of the upcoming title, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue. What do you think of the game's closure? Tell us in the comments section!
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Spoilers to follow: Despite its announced closure, Kingdom Hearts χ has been continually adding content over the past months, including a particularly significant story update that introduces a brand new character to the franchise! Meet the female Keyblade wielder, "Skuld", who appears to have connections with Ephemera. What are your thoughts on Kingdom Hearts' latest character? | |
For the uninitiated, Disney Infinity 3.0 is a toys-to-life game that mixes and matches content from across Disney's numerous properties. From Disney's classic films to Marvel and Star Wars, the Disney Infinity series has it all and on the 15th of March, the Kingdom Hearts series became the latest property to become officially included in Disney's sandbox game through a new Ultimate Unlock Keyblade. The weapon is unlocked by purchasing every figure that has been released so far on the game. Using certain combos, the Keyblade can perform several familiar techniques from the series, such as Fire, Blizzard, Ars Arcanum, Ragnarok, and Stun Impact. Would you like to see more of Kingdom Hearts in Disney Infinity 3.0? Be sure to post your thoughts in the comments section! | |
From the 11th of June, a new Chirithy plushy will be sold in Japan for 5,670 yen (or 49.91 dollars). It was already announced last December that Square Enix would make a plushy out of the supporting character from Kingdom Hearts χ, but only recently has it been made available for pre-order. Previously, Square Enix has already released a number of plushy toys, including the Shadow, Dusk, Flood and Meow Wow. It seems that Sora's enemies are no longer being turned into adorable pillows to hug to sleep, since Chirithy has now broken the pattern of plush hostilities. Are you interested in the latest offering of Kingdom Hearts merchandise? |
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Our most popular post of the past quarter is... | ||
We have had a slow stream of new users joining the wiki over this quarter. Be sure to head over to the user creation log to check everyone out and give them a warm Keyhole welcome! All our new users are welcome to our wiki family, and here just a few of our wiki gnomes that we'd like to shine the spotlight on.
We would like to extend a very warm welcome to these users and the others who joined during this past quarter. We are always looking for new editors to come and help us out on the wiki. If you are thinking of signing up, we would highly recommend it! | ||
Each quarter, the Keyhole hosts a tea party for all users to get together and discuss wiki related issues. Below are important policies we have decided upon in our latest tea party forums.
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In case you missed it, here's the latest news from KHWiki:
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Here are some of the wiki's newest users:
We'd like to welcome these users, and all other users who joined in the past months, and hope they'll keep on improving the wiki! | ||
Here are the wiki's new policies:
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This quarter, we'll be revamping the Command Board pages. First of all, we're going to collect all the information in this forum. We also have to decide how exactly we want the pages to look. We've got Ultimania scans for all the information, but if you're not good with Japanese, you can also get the information from the game itself. If you're interested, please join the discussion on the forum page. |
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by TheFifteenthMember Let me begin by popping some fireworks in case you haven't already had enough confetti in the background. Our 10th anniversary was the 1st of this April! That calls for some serious "HUZZAH!", so the KHWiki and the Keyhole have done a lot of jubilating in the past month. As proof of our "HUZZAH!"ing, this page will give you a rundown of all the stuff we've done to celebrate!
But first of all, allow me to introduce you to two images which quickly became the faces of our 10th anniversary campaign: On the left, the image was wonderfully drawn by Troisnyxétienne and was the icon for the KHWiki in most cases, but not all. On the right, we have the logo carefully crafted by Chainoffire that came to represent the Keyhole. These images were often used in our posts so keep an eye out for them!
We kicked off our anniversary with impossible-to-miss announcements so that all of our editors and readers knew of our milestone. Elsewhere, the KHWiki updated their Trinity Archives to report that monumental event.
Both of our main pages received special treatment by being redesigned to mimic the style of home pages we used to have in the past. This "Time Travel to the Past" idea was originally thought of by KeybladeSpyMaster prior to his departure from the wiki, which was months in advance to the actual event.
Every user who was around for the celebrations in April is entitled to a limited edition userbox, which was created by TheSilentHero. The Keyhole and KHWiki each have their own version of the userbox, sporting their respective 10th anniversary logos. If you'd like to add the userbox to your userpage, click the following links: KHWiki and Keyhole.
The main event of the 10th anniversary celebrations was a special edition issue of the Twilight Times magazine, the very pages you are reading now! The bulk of this issue is all themed on the wiki and its 10th anniversary so take a look around and read up on a very special publication of our magazine. Some ideas were originally planned as standalone events but were eventually incorporated into this magazine issue:
We invited all users -present and retired- to take a trip to our IRC channels at #khwiki-social and #wikia-kingdomhearts. Unfortunately, I do not have information on the latter. On the former channel, there was a pleasant turnover of people and I thank everyone who decided to pop over and chat. In addition to some of the IRC regulars, including Braviaggron, Pea14733, TheSilentHero and Grim-Ripper, many other active editors came along, such as Erry, Aixon, Draaek, Chainoffire, RoxasNobody, RoxasXIIILK and Byzantinefire. There were also a couple of retired users, Namefound and UnknownChaser, who heard about the party and joined in. (There may have been more users that were there at times that I wasn't on. Apologies if that's you and I didn't list you here.) To mark the start of the party, we updated the channel's topic to announce the beginning of the 10th anniversary, then we chatted for the rest of the day!
Through the KHWiki and Keyhole's social media handles, we managed to spread the word about our anniversary. Take a look at some of our tweets:
And a shout-out to Churro from KH13 who tweeted about us, saying: The KH community is growing up in front of me. *tears of joy* *happy dad* On Facebook, Chainoffire posted "We did it guys." with the anniversary image on the Keyhole group and KHWiki group. The Keyhole made a tumblr post (see below) and the KHWiki duplicated it onto their Facebook page. And that's all of what we did! Did you enjoy our 10th anniversary celebrations? Tell us in the comments section! | |
by Xion4ever, TheFifteenthMember, and Chainoffire Bear in mind that is by no means complete and does not mention every single event that has happened over the last ten years. Let us tell you a story… Long ago- ten years, to be exact- there was a user by the name of "Riku5464". Although he is inactive now, this user would be known throughout the ages as the founder of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki. Although Riku5464 was not active for too long, his beginning edits and ideas laid the framework for the newborn database. Although there were not many editors or articles in the beginning months of the Wiki’s existence, eventually a group of users from the Final Fantasy Wiki jumped across the pond and began actively editing the site. The website started off very slowly with only a small group of editors actively working the site, establishing rules, articles- doing all kinds of things. These editors worked hard and the site’s popularity grew, increasing both the encyclopedia’s content and userbase. These users started editing, each contributing to the Wikia in their own way. And so the Wiki grew, with each year bringing more users and information. The encyclopedia thrived. However, it also had its own share of problems. Despite all the challenges and problems they faced, the encyclopedia continued to expand on all accounts. Being a Wikia, users come and go; policies change according to the current consensus; and new features are introduced and accepted or refused. The Wikia had been used to change- it is a part of life- but there was one change that was the “straw that broke the camel’s back.”1 And so we went through this process known as “the split”, and not long after, “the merge.” Here’s some of the forums you guys can read if you want to get some ideas about the split and merge: 1, 2, 3, 4. As a result, the wiki forked. The majority moved to a new independent website, known as the KHWiki, while those who chose to stay at Wikia rechristened themselves as the Keyhole. As we faced our darkest era, the community crumbled down to discord and disunity with arguments or personal attacks becoming commonplace. Then, a user by the name of Galexan gave hope to the Keyhole, in the form of a Roleplay. Many users worked tirelessly to make it happen. But, to no avail. After the Roleplay was cancelled, many users left, leaving The Keyhole almost deserted. But a few users stayed behind to clean the mess. Eventually, many of the old users began to leave and a handful of fresh users began to populate both wikis. Having not lived through the unfortunate events of the past, these users sought to revive the place and reunite the two communities through "MegaProject: Arise", a program that encouraged the two wikis to work together for many community events, including the podcast, Let's Play, magazine and End of Year events. Through these efforts, the community once again became one and both wikis became a more lively, friendlier place to work. A small group of editors believed that their work was not yet over so Operation: Keychain was launched, an even more ambitious scheme that aimed to not only increase the unity between the KHWiki and Keyhole further, but also establish a chain of Kingdom Hearts-related wikis and boost the internet's interest in the franchise in general. Henceforth, the idea for the Kingdom Hearts Wikiverse was born. Timeline
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by a number of our wiki's very own fools, jerks and morons! You've probably had enough of guides telling you what you should be doing. Let's be honest, the better question can sometimes be "what should you not be doing"? Ten years, this wiki has lived and you can bet that in those ten years, we've had plenty of accidents, mess-ups and squabbles (with us nearly going to war on one Earth-shattering occasion). BUT, on the bright side, history exists so that we can learn from our mistakes so without further ado, our editors shall recount their own misadventures and advise you on how to avoid repeating their errors! (Contains strong language. You have been warned.)
[03:16] <FM|COM> im getting 3d, its coming tommorow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by TheFifteenthMember Welcome to our special edition Intro To... column! For today, we'll take a look at the Kingdom Hearts Wikiverse, a fledgling idea that will hopefully form a structure for the KHWiki and Keyhole for many years to come! Note that the information here is only true as of the date of this issue's publication and may change in the future.
Let's get straight in. The Kingdom Hearts Wikiverse (KHWikiverse or KHWV in short) is best described as a group of wikis that collectively aims to be the ultimate Kingdom Hearts resource by offering information on every aspect of the franchise. The word "collectively" is important because each wiki has its own scope and purpose within the wider wikiverse and in order to get all the KH knowledge together, you'd have to combine all the wikis' content. While this means that readers may have to occasionally hop across wikis to reach a particular type of information, it is hoped that our separate wikis will be able to benefit by focussing on fulfilling a single aim instead of trying to cater to many audiences, which are each looking for different information presented in a different way. A university campus is divided into various different faculties or departments, each with its own defined scope and purpose. However, no matter what department they belong to, a student would identify themselves first as a student of that university rather than a student of their department. Similarly, the Kingdom Hearts Wikiverse is a single organisation, whose community hopes to be as unified as possible. Even if a KHWV editor spends most of their time at one wiki, they should consider themselves to be first and foremost, an editor of the Kingdom Hearts Wikiverse before being an editor of their wiki. So far, the KHWV has three encyclopaedic wikis:
In addition, there are two other wikis that are a part of the KHWV:
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In this article, several editors reflect on their time at the wiki so far. Each user will answer the following questions: Why did you join the wiki? Why did you join the wiki?
Are there any downsides to editing a wiki?
What are some of your favourite memories on the wiki?
Why did you join the wiki?
Are there any downsides to editing a wiki?
What are some of your favourite memories on the wiki?
Why did you join the wiki?
Are there any downsides to editing a wiki?
What are some of your favorite moments on the wiki?
Why did you join the wiki?
Are there any downsides to editing a wiki?
What are some of your favorite moments on the wiki?
Why did you join the wiki?
Are there any downsides to editing a wiki?
What are some of your favorite moments on the wiki?
Why did you join the wiki? Are there any downsides to editing a wiki? What are some of your favorite moments on the wiki? | |
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Interview conducted by TheFifteenthMember This article contains some strong language, so you've been warned. FM: Hello there, SilverCrono! As you know, I am the TheFifteenthMember and I'm glad to have the pleasure of interviewing you today!
FM: Now, you're an interesting case because you're actually no longer active on the wiki, correct?
FM: How long ago were you active then?
FM: To think, I may have joined the wiki in 2014! When did you first start editing the wiki?
FM: Wow! As you know, the wiki's 10th anniversary is this April. Since it was founded in 2006, you've been present for 60% of the wiki's life. How do you feel about that?
FM: I bet, but on the bright side, it makes me feel like a spring chicken! :D So tell me about your time on the wiki back in 2010-2012.
FM: What was the wiki like at the time? Is it any different to how it is now?
FM: You mentioned the IRC earlier. Did the wildness seep to over there?
FM: Ah, I've heard of this! Are you talking about LOLHEARTS Wiki? Who came up with it?
FM: Moving on, what were the reasons for you to become inactive? Is there anything you particularly miss about wiki editing?
FM: Maybe our luck will change when Kingdom Hearts III releases soon?
FM: Anyway, let's move away from the wiki and talk about you! What sorts of interests do you have, outside of Kingdom Hearts?
FM: A budding author in the making, good luck with that!
FM: I remember trying to write my own novel once, but I gave up after a month.
FM: Haha, did you finish Re:coded?
FM: *Confetti in the air* I HAVE BESTED THE CRONO!
FM: Hey, don't take it out on him!
FM: Let's finish off with a few quick questions:
FM: Oh, of course I won't *smiles evilly at the camera* So in one word, describe your experience on the wiki.
FM: LOL, for the uninitiated reading at home, could you explain what that means?
FM: Extra, extra pro: unlimited Crono points?
FM: Viewers at home, he is only joking! He's harmless really...I hope :/ Anyway, for the final question! In THIRTEEN words, describe your current feeling towards Kingdom Hearts III. Any more or any less and I'll get the cameraman back to have his revenge.
FM: Oh dear. "I'm" is technically two words. I'm afraid I have to call over the cameraman... Just kidding, I'll let it go because you've been such a good interviewee for me today!
FM: Lovely...lovely interviewee :/
TheFifteenthMember can be found at the KHWiki, often in the geology department. SilverCrono frequents the IRC, in case you're (strangely) interested in a chat with him. (Note: No cameramen were **severely** hurt in the making of this interview.) |
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A mysterious curse has been wrought upon the world of Kingdom Hearts! All the wicked foes that stand in the way of our favorite protagonists have been gifted with the power of invisibility! Thankfully, our quick wiki editors who are skilled in the ways of magic - as all good editors are - have managed to capture some monsters, but they need your help identifying what type of beast they have found, so their un-invisiblity spells work correctly. Help us out! Do you know who this beast is? Hover here for the answer! This issue's beast was captured by [[User:TheSilentHero|TheSilentHero]] |
I sit in a place of chitter-chatter, Although conversation often fray, Giving silence the chance to grow fatter. Tell me the place in which I stay. Hover here for the answer! Submitted by TheFifteenthMember As winter draws near, users from both wikis gather to compete for fancy rewards. Whether it is guessing facts, or creating characters, only one team can win. Hover here for the answer! Submitted by TheSilentHero What goes down, but never up? Hover here for the answer! Submitted by Chainoffire What started as a joke, turned out to be very close to reality. Was it pure luck, or did someone use Future Sight? Hover here for the answer! Submitted by TheSilentHero 'Tis an immense task For the pheonix to rebirth. It needs new clothes, sport, game, conversation And the very pages you see now. But what is the mission? Hover here for the answer! Submitted by TheFifteenthMember | ||
Rebus: Every image needs to be turned into a matching word. The notes beneath the images remove or change letters in that word. For example, if it says "-a", you have to remove an "a" from the word, and if it says "a=e", you have to replace an "a" with an "e". All images on one row together form a name. If you enjoyed solving this puzzle, why don't you try to create a rebus yourself? Send a rebus of your username to <insert wiki mail>, and they'll be posted in a future issue! Click here for a printable version! (and printable answers) Submitted by TheSilentHero |
Q) What is your favourite section(s) of the Twilight Times that you like to read?
Q) What is your favourite section(s) of the Twilight Times that you like to contribute?
Q) What is your favourite section(s) of the Twilight Times that you like to read?
Q) What is your favourite section(s) of the Twilight Times that you like to contribute?
Q) What accomplishments have you made on your time at the wiki?
Q) What retired/inactive editors inspired you to become the editor you are today?
Q) What is/was your biggest project here on the wiki?
Q) Did you imagine the wiki to be like it is now when you first started?
Q) What accomplishments have you made on your time at the wiki?
Q) What is your favourite section(s) of the Twilight Times that you like to contribute?
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Find a home for an unused image Nominate a fight in the Mirage Arena. Replace at least three [[::Category:Unsatisfying images|unsatisfying images]]. Fix a mistake on a Featured Article. Participate in an [[::Category:Unresolved discussions|unresolved discussion]]. |
Defeat Xemnas' first Data Battle of Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix without taking any non-nil damage. Activate Ghost Drive in battle with Terra-Xehanort from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. Hold at least 99,999 munny at once in any game. Defeat Riku while playing as Roxas in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days while wearing the Casual Gear. Obtain every staff for Donald in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix. |
Bring up a topic in our quarterly tea party. Vote for our next featured media. Expand on an ability stub. Add information related to Kingdom Hearts χ to the correct articles. Add heartless images to our Kingdom Hearts χ section of the List of Heartless! | |||
Results compiled by TheSilentHero In our last issue we asked you... What Final Fantasy spell do you want to see in a Kingdom Hearts game? Here's what you said! After a total of 18 votes, the most wanted Final Fantasy spell is... Ultima, with 33% of the votes! Water(a) comes in second with 22% of the votes! Tied for third place are Dark(ra/ga) and Toad with 16.5% of the votes each. Stona(ra/ga) and Flare both get one vote, which makes up 5.5% of the total votes. And finally, Dia(ra/ga) gets zero votes. Conclusion: We'd like to blast enemies away with the ultimate magic spell, and really don't care about using light to damage the undead. Thanks to everyone who voted, and please vote for the next poll, which you can find below. | |||||
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Dates compiled by TheSilentHero April 1: NinjaSheik April 7: TheSilentHero April 10: LegendAqua April 12: Troisnyxetienne May 29: Chainoffire June 1: UxieLover1994 June 26: Byzantinefire June 29: Xion4ever Also, April 1 marks the anniversary of not only our own wiki, but also Square Enix with its 13th! |
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