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Alright, well, I'll be looking forward to your post.
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Apologies for the delays -- a few problems both on and off of this site have prevented me from working on it. I'm about to get something to eat, so during that time I'll see if I can visualize all of this properly, as that's generally the biggest roadblock holding up my post.

I've been hoping to start up some work on my project again finally once my fiancΓ© wakes up, and possibly write with her, but I'll try to fit my response in today as well.

Edit: Just finished a rather lengthy bit of work I needed to do on this site, so I'll see if I have time to post.
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I've posted. The quality might be a little lower than usual due to my fatigue being worse than normal, but it's done nevertheless.

On the subject of your dice rolls, I've sort of worked out in my head - to some extent - how I'll react to the success rates for now, at least until I can confirm whether or not you're factoring in my enhanced speed with a modifier of some sort.

As a minor side note -- I've neglected to give much descriptive information involving the actual initial clashes between us prior to your thrust because you already wrote that collision effectively and I think repeating it on my end would make the role-play look sort of choppy.

First Edit: While I've noticed you started reading my post, I've just taken the liberty of editing every post on my end so far that involved my spells in operation in order to establish their current active times -- I believe this will make things easier for both of us, so take a look when you get the chance.

Second Edit: Another thought that's been on my mind for a while now involves the D&D-based character sheet that you've been using for Maddox (I also noticed you've given one of the NPCs a sheet too -- I applaud the devotion, since this level of thoroughness resembles my own), since you're clearly using it as the premise for all your dice rolling. While I don't want dice rolls or stats to have control over my characters actions or how I go about posting, if you'd prefer us to have a sheet established for Abel to make your dice rolls easier then I'm not entirely opposed to the idea -- I would insist on having influence over the content of this sheet, of course (while adhering to your desire for us to be 'Level 1', naturally). I don't know anything about these sheets however, so I'll need information.
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I do in fact take into accoutn various modifiers. For example, if either of us were fighting on unstable ground that might be a positive or negative modifier for my rolls depending on the situation. Or let's say your character was considered "large" which is typically between 8 - 16 feet as opposed to medium which both our characters currently occupy. A large creature would allow for a positive modifier to my dice rolls to hit whether ranged or melee. Your enhanced speed for example does provide a -1 modifier for my to hit rolls at this point. The interesting thing about Dungeon and Dragons regardless of the edition you play is that it allows the DM to apply modifiers for a plethora of situations. Is it storming out? Negative modifier for wind and wet hands. Is the NPC you are trying to persuade exceptionally ugly and use to being treated like a dog, negative modifier for gather information checks because your character has high charisma (aka good looking) and they don't like that. Did you use a fireball spell? Well, now you just caught the oil that covered the floor on fire everyone make reflex saves or take x amount of damage but you have a -2 to reflex saves because the floor is slippery with oil. Things of that nature.

As for you making a character sheet - that is really not necessary unless you'd actually enjoy a little bit of light reading, some page flipping, and a good hour of entertainment (at least it is entertaining to me.) Essentially, I'm considering your character's pertinent stats very much like Maddox's. While essentially you where light armor which would be a -1 to ac where I have medium armor, you have a steel shield where I have a wooden which essentially cancels out any change. But those modifiers make a difference.

And let me be honest. Using dice in this manner is still vague for me. While I am not trying to cheat or sway the odds in my favor - I am still working things out to accomodate those who don't use them. So you'll have to bare with me through all the confusion is all.

So I'll riterate, if you really want to do a character sheet I can guide you. But I won't require it.

With that being said, I am working on my post as we speak and it should be up in the immediate future.
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Given that there's a bit to read, I'm putting my thoughts regarding all of these dice rolls so far (I'm not criticizing them - mind you - but rather offering my own opinions for how they can be improved) into a hider, so read it at your own discretion.


That all out of the way, I'd only want to work on a sheet for Abel if doing so would make understanding the dice rolls easier for one or both of us. This isn't inherently because I don't think I'd find seeing the process of how you do all of this interesting -- I simply don't have enough time on my hands to do it if it won't actually serve a practical use for us.
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Well, I've made my post. For better or for worse, I don't think it's my worst work. As for the aforementioned stream of consciousness I've put a little more detailed effort in explaining the modifiers and such including your flank attack and your speed which acted as positive modifiers on your account. Subsequently, as I've mentioned it is still a work in progress but a sheet on your part would not necessarily help me in this aspect as many opponents wouldn't be savvy with using dice much like you are not so I need to learn to adapt accordingly.

As for the initial flank attack, you'll have to imagine a scene out of the movie Troy where Achilles brings the shield down over his head to smash Hector's spear into the ground shattering the shaft. It is a possible defensive manuever. If you haven't seen it, I'm a loss but I was not attempting to act beyond the means of the character. However, I appreciate you bearing with me while I adapt to and consider these matters.
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Your post's good. I'm not entirely sure if my own one's up to my usual level of work though -- I've been multitasking quite a lot and expect to be doing so more over the next days coming, but if anything I probably just could've used a more varied vocabulary to avoid repetition. After taking a look at my post again once I've rested - assuming something seems a bit lacking to me - I might replace a few of the words I chose; however, nothing in the content will change.

As mentioned in my notes during the IC post, I appreciate you elaborating more with your dice roll information -- I'm admittedly not completely lacking understanding about the nature of how these mechanics work (just not savvy about D&D), but knowing exactly how many realistic strategic factors are accounted for with the rolls helps me decide my response to them and adapt myself. The truth is in the details.

On the subject of your reaction to my initial flank attack -- I've admittedly not seen the movie (I don't think I have at any rate), and I did have a little trouble working out what you were doing exactly (hence that particular post taking me a while to reply to), but I believe you when you say it's a real move.

I'm looking forward to the reply, and hopefully my post will be enjoyable enough. My birthday is tomorrow (November 17), and I'll be out for part of the evening, but I'll still be around at my usual pace besides that time period.
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I've seen the new post. It's interesting. Might have thoughts, might not -- it's hard to say.

Just letting you know that a few issues have made me decide I'll need to go a bit inactive for a bit. This has nothing to do with your post, so don't worry. More personal problems have come up on my end and a few unsavoury people in this site are once again making me reconsider whether or not investing my time here is actually worthwhile. As soon as I confirm I'm sticking around, I'll work out if I need to ask anything before putting up my post. As is stands I'm too stressed out and too tired to think it over.
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As mentioned in PM, I don't have any concerns or issues with your reply. I've been unable to respond for other reasons.

I've found myself unable to get the proper morale to write my post yet, so I decided to post a bit of the information about Abel's background characters in order to help motivate myself. Feel free to read them at your own discretion, since I've kept the information very simple and avoided revealing too much (same with Abel, basically). I'm going to post them into his profile in the respective tab as well.



Edit: I suppose I'll let you decide for yourself if my bad state of mind recently has compromised the quality of my reply, but I've nevertheless managed to post one up for you. I still don't know if I'll be able to do so consistently, especially since I'm still not getting any work done on my project and I think this site is a big reason for that.
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I feel like I should read things here.
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Why's that? The fact that you've gotten an [ @Mention ], or are you just interested in the thread?

Edit: Also, this isn't a 'Ranked' match, just so you know. I don't do ranking battles.
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I was already informed. Also interest in the thread.
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Yeah, I forgot that @ELGainsborough told you about it -- I'm pretty out of it lately. Good to know it got your interest though.
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I forgot to tag you on the IC post. But it is up. It is short. But it is there. I've been hardstruck for inspiration lately. On any accord. I hope your situation has improved. But take your time in response.
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My situation's improved in terms of my willingness to put up with unsavoury individuals here (though I will subsequently not be hesitating to tell people off if they piss me off anymore, since having to repress myself is part of the problem), but it hasn't improved in terms of this site slowing down the progress of my workload. I've just recently fixed my sleep pattern, so now all I need to do is manage my activity here better. I should be able to keep active on this role-play and the other one I joined, but I'll take your advice and not rush my posts.

Hopefully your own inspiration will improve soon. I'm honestly not really the type who ever deals with writer's block - so I never know how to help people when inspiration is running low - since each time my work is going slow it's due to having too many notes to sort before I can write rather than there being a problem with the motivation itself.

I'll take a look at the post now, and edit in thoughts here if any exist.

Edit: No significant questions with any of the dice rolls since they were explained, outside of whether or not Abel's 'magic armour' is being factored into the rolls, but the damage wasn't critical anyway. Good post even if you're having inspiration troubles, and it's interesting to learn they've both fought undead and demons.
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The undead thing is a given. They typically exist in every fantasy setting. This place is no different. Quite frankly, once I get more detailed with the City of the Dead, Shae Mordai, the undead are embraced and controlled as servants to society. Further more, tribe of the Whispering Daemons I am speaking of, not exactly demons. At least, not directly. The members of the tribe from the Madwood to the northeast of where we are currently fighting are of human decent, potentially elfish as well but are daemon possessed perhaps with a few central daemons that haunt the wood that may be encountered in their true forms but that far I have not gotten in consideration.
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Interesting. I enjoy all of the bits of lore you add into this setting, since I prefer to have a lot of details in my own projects as well. To be completely honest, I've been deliberately not reading a lot of the glossary information about this world that you've put into the opening post - despite actually wanting to - in order to immerse myself more in the idea that this character is a stranger to the region, but I might decide to get over the madness of my method eventually and read it all anyway. I've only had vague looks at the information so far. You're right with the logic that they're usually there, so it was more uncertainty about whether or not the Crimson Knights actually fought them.

Due to last night ruining my sleep pattern again, I'm in the process of doing an all-nighter to fix it, which means I'll likely be posting within the next few hours. I'll still tag you in the IC once it's done, since I like to remain as consistent as possible with my posts.

First Edit: Post is done. I'm probably not up to my usual level in terms of vocabulary usage - thanks to how tired I am, in all honesty - but I enjoyed posting it regardless.

Second Edit: Touched up the post a little -- mostly punctuation changes.
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While I know you're not active, I figured I'd let you know that all my posts in the IC got edited, but it wasn't actually any legit changes to the narrative -- I've simply modified my writing style a bit (to be exact, I've changed the way I write thoughts) and wanted to make sure it remained consistent.

Anyway, I'm still fine to continue whenever, but there's no pressure to post or anything -- I'm running a fairly big project on this site now.
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Greetings once again,

I apologize for my long, unannounced absence. But let's face it - none of us really know when we'll hit the wall and writer's block will take over or quite frankly, simply an inability to find interest in one's hobbies. Overall, I've just been extremely busy with work and family life. I'm sure you can relate. I've always found difficulty with forum based role play since "Desert Realm" was terminated by the creators some years ago merely because the depth and care placed in the environment there has not been found elsewhere. This is merely a poor substitute when I can find the means to interact. Quite frankly, with most threads on this site maintaining a deadline with a hobby designed to help me relax in a world where I'm constantly bombarded with deadlines and an always-on-the-go lifestyle, posting requirements on a time scale are the last things I need. But I suppose I've backed myself into a corner on that front. I'd like to tell you I'll be intending on posting soon but that is a lie. I can't necessarily say when I will post, if I will post, or if I will even return on some consistent basis. I'm sure such news doesn't entirely disappoint you. But I do wish you best in whatever endeavors you carry out. In the future, I may contact you for a 1x1 or something along those lines merely because I am bored with combat at this point (for no specific reason) but I may consider a storyline or thread with a purpose but without the posting limit. My apologies for any inconvenience.

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I can relate to being busy, but not to the writer's block part -- I'm a bit weird when it comes to that, because I don't think I've ever suffered from what people usually call writer's block, with the closest thing I have to it really being times when the massive amount of data I have to sort literally prevents me from writing due to needing to go through the information. Apart from that, I'm usually able to write no matter how hectic life gets, so long as whatever I'm writing interested me in the first place (there's exceptions, but I don't tend to lose interest or gain interesting in things -- I either have it or I don't).

With that said, you're right in suspecting that I'm not particularly disappointed. I mostly joined up with this role-play because you were looking for some action and I needed an opportunity to exercise a bit and remove some of the rust from my writing abilities. With that in mind, I'll keep this thread in mind, but I don't intend on pressuring you to continue it because I'm not particularly fussed one way or another if we keep going. No need to feel like there's a deadline or obligation here, because I've got other things to do anyway. While I do believe that deadlines are needed for role-plays because it's a social hobby that requires commitment (people should just write solo if they don't want deadlines), this thread isn't all that important to me since I've already gotten what I needed out of it. If you end up contacting me in the future, we'll see what we can put together.

Regarding the 'depth and care' placed into the environment, are you referring to the maintaining of the site itself from a moderator/administrator perspective, or with the individual role-plays themselves? I agree that the site itself needs to be taken care of, but a lot of the problems with individual role-plays on this site are largely caused by lack of commitment with some of the members. I'm actually running my own role-play on this site now, which is one of the more active threads on the site from what I can tell, and the quality and detail in the project has already gotten people really admiring my GM/writing abilities apparently. With this in mind, I think you can find those who care for their projects, but you actually have to look for them harder due to this community being rather immature.

All the best.

Edit: I've now actually decided to leave the site permanently, mostly due to a combination of the community together with the fact that I'm being held back by this place. There aforementioned issue I spoke of regarding the lack of dedication and quality in this community has more or less made me decide that the place doesn't deserve the care, investment and depth I give. I'm generally dissatisfied with this site and its community, which is all the more reason not to tolerate the immaturity. I'll be sticking around only long enough to collect some data I left here.
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