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3 mos ago
Current @Grey Dust: Of course not. Then it's ice water.
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6 mos ago
When you know you should get ready for bed, but then a cat sits on your lap.
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2 yrs ago
It's interesting being the indecisive introverted leader of your group of very indecisive introverted friends.
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3 yrs ago
It's fun to think that play-by-post roleplays are basically just one giant rough draft.
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3 yrs ago
A quick thank you to Mahz and his minions for making this site into what it is! I've yet to encounter a RP site so aesthetically & OCD pleasing. You guys are the best!
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*Facepalm.* Right. I had been looking at it with a solid black background while altering the lightening to enhance the color while tweaking it. And the text, I probably didn't turn off my blue-light filter all the way. The text looked less thick-purple-outline and more not quite blue, not quite purple.

Sorry, Rin. I deserve the Night Terrors tonight for blaming you. xD

I know it doesn't matter much, since it's just a fun header, but my OCD was angry. So here. This was more how it was, though I did add some black outlining/glow to the text. Because black is such a pretty, happy color!

Quite alright! I don't mind taking point. I think you've said that it's been a while since you last roleplayed, correct? I know it can take some time getting back into the swing of creating story and writing for characters, especially after long writing dry spells. I'll start on my post as soon as I'm able!

Oh, good! I'm glad it worked! *Goes to see.* ... Are you sure you're okay with that? The lettering color and lightening solidity looked very different on my laptop than what it does on my tablet or phone. Which makes me wonder what in the world is wrong with my laptop NOW?

... CALRIN! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY LAPTOP?

There's nothing wrong with liking flashbacks, mind! They just have to be done tactfully for me to like them. When I encounter them in books, most of the time I just get frustrated about jumping between past and present, rather than reading events in order.

Want me to take point and put up the first post once it's written, then you can follow my lead? Or did you have something in mind where you'd rather I follow your lead?

Huh. I see that. I played around with it in my last post, and it shows up fine...

Ah! I see what happened. There's a weird glitch on the site or something. For some stupid reason, the code function snips part of the link off. It shouldn't BE a clickable link.

The link in your character post is missing "https://" before the i.imgur. So it should be https:// i.imgur.com/9EcqkIx.png, but without the space. I had to add that or it erased it again.
A... flashback to explain how they met up? What do you mean? Isn't that where we're starting? Or do you mean in how they know each other? I don't really care for flash-backs, personally, and we have it established how they know each other. I mean, it'd probably get mentioned that they kind of grew up together, but I don't think that would need it's own full, detailed scene? Or were you hoping to write something with young Vik and Rin?

Awesome! If you're happy with that, here's the code for it:

[center][img]i.imgur.com/9EcqkIx.png[/img][/center]

I like the photo you chose, too, that's for sure!

Welcome!
HA! Well, at least YOU have the sense to try to NOT antagonize your characters who have questionable morals. Me? I wanna poke em' with a stick and see what happens.

Just bear in mind that if we start with them actually bumping into each other in town, it'll be a while before Nyx gets involved with them. I don't mind that in the least, just know that that means some of my posts will be a lot longer, because she's still going to have scenes to set her up, even if she's on her own.

Do you want to go with focusing on Rin and Vik meeting up for the start of this, then?

"Whatever you want to have." He's... YOUR CHARACTER, you crazy! So no overly-stylized text. Blue-purple. Alright, try this on for size:



Sorry, it's big, so I don't know how it's going to size down once I post this. I tried shrinking it, but it blurred the name pretty bad.

I remembered that you'd sent a photo for him once, so found that in PM. If it isn't the right photo that you have in mind for him now, please send me the correct one! I just used that one so I could put something together for you to tell me what you'd want tweaked about it. On that, please don't hesitate to ask me to change anything about this! I saved the art file, so it'll be super easy to swap out photos, alter colors, or whatever you want!

((Edited to change out the photo.))
"Freaky" is a compliment, as far as I'm concerned! Right up there with "weird," "creepy," and "strange." 🦇⚰️☠️

No worries! I wouldn't have expected you to remember any of that after all this time. I mean, I tend to let quite a while lapse between messages/posts... Anyway, no bother at all!

Completely happenstance, with the names. xD

Hmm. I'm thinking we're going to go with door number three, then? 😆

Rin: It was my idea!
Me: *Glares.* Was not.
Rin: *Leans in close with a threatening grin.* Do you really want to challenge me on that?
Me: *Is tempted to say yes just to find out what would happen.* Er...
Rin: *Smirking.* As you wish, then, little human.
Me: I didn't say anything coherent!
Rin: *Poofs into smoke, just to whisper menacingly in my ear from behind,* It was all the answer I needed.
Me: ... Arista, if I go missing, you know who to blame.

Hmm. Well, Vik travels wherever he's needed to weed out traitors and rebels, right? What if Vik was in town to take care of a pesky pack--nothing large or strong enough to be their own "official" group, but enough to be a nuisance--and Rin happened to be in the area? Could they sort of sense each other nearby, do you think, with how much time they'd have spent around each other?

Maybe Rin was his way to see if he pinpoint the Phantom, since he has a unique skillset with being capable of toggling between the physical and metaphysical world. A human who can thwart supernaturals would be someone that would've gained his attention pretty quick, especially since she'd earned her own epithet. Or it could be vice-versa with Vik hunting for the Phantom, if you wanted, though that would be a smaller detail.

A larger detail, would be how far ahead would you want to start? Vik and Rin meeting each other in town? Or skip ahead to more action, and start with them chasing down the last of the group they'd been after?

Put it up there however you want or need to! I'm not picky. I just like making my profiles look pretty, and have managed to pick up a couple things over the years to help with that--I don't expect the same from my partners! If you wanted, though, I wouldn't mind putting something together for his header for you. Just let me know what kind of text and simple design elements you want!

Edit:
If you care, I changed up the song in the first post. Thought it might be fitting, but if you find something else, feel free to send it my way! It's always fun to have a soundtrack.😆
Yep, yep! I like having a sort of “book blurb” for characters to follow, just so we have something to go off of and build on.

It might be thrown in the PMs randomly. Sorry, I hadn’t had the brain power at the time to write them out again in my last post here!

I’d had three different ideas for how Nyx could maybe meet Viktor, but that was before I decided to make Rin, or knew the details for Vik (heh… three characters, three three-letter names/nicknames). So I’ll add what I remember of that, in case any of the elements in it strike your fancy, but it would likely be something that would have to be integrated differently:



Well, that’s what I’ve got right now! Let me know if you like any of the elements from those, and if you have any other thoughts for a starting point! I’d like to hash out the long-term goal, too—nothing too detailed, just, again, to have some sort of Point B to work on getting our characters to. If you don’t mind, of course! For now, though, we may as well get things started. If we need to, we can adjust things as we go, and just pretend it was always like that. 😆

Edit:
Since we have a bit of a better understanding of some things, would you have any objections to me changing the title of this to "Rogues and Rulers?" (The question is, who are the rogues, and who are the rulers? 😉)

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I FORGOT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION! So sorry about that!

The text headers are actually photos that I put together. I made a Word Art image, then tacked it together with the photo using Gimp (a free photo editing program, in case you've not heard of it). So, they're just photo inserts using the IMG BBC. So, in the "Raw" text, Rin's image is on there as:
[center][img]i.imgur.com/lf6zNa5.png[/img][/center]
Hmm. Your tattoo link didn't take!

Alright! Now... we never did decide how (or where) we wanted to start, or how Nyx gets involved with our boys, did we? And, with how Vic is with humans, I feel like he'd need a really good reason to not kill Nyx, depending on how we end up having them meet.

We don't have to have the whole thing planned out--it's no fun having it super planned!--I just like having a general starting point to release our characters at.

I think I suggested a couple things via PM, but did you have any ideas/suggestions?
“You’re lost?” The words slipped out in Nikita’s surprise. This was practically their forest in all but deed; how could he not know where he was? Her eyes narrowed at his next question, his cautious tone bellying the context; he wasn’t asking her for directions.
“It’s supposed to be near the center of the woods.” She dared a glance down to her feet, checking her position relative to her traps before she put a slightly safer distance between herself and Illion. The last thing she needed was to trigger one of them herself.
She glanced up to the trees, searching for the sun behind the clouds. Finding what she thought was it’s lowering ball of blurred light, her jaw clenched, and she shifted uneasily; it was later than she’d thought. Penelope would be leaving Nico soon. And with the cloud cover, night would come sooner than normal. She needed to get back before darkness left her blind.
But, despite her feelings toward elves, some part of her felt guilty thinking about leaving him when he was lost. It seemed a poor way to repay his lack of hostility, and his open curiosity almost reminded her of her brother, of how lighthearted he used to be before his sickness fully struck him down.
Perhaps she could kill three birds with one stone; give him directions, avoid being put on a hit list for knowing too much about the elven city, and bring this conversation to an end so she could get home without a parting curse.
She pointed through the trees, not quite in the direction Illion had emerged from. “Best guess is it’s that way, if the sun’s where I think it is. It’s hard to tell from here. It’d be a ways, though. Nowhere I could get to before dark.” Not that the night bothered elves, as the stories went.
She tensed slightly with his last question. If he really didn’t know, offending him with the demonizing tales seemed a bad idea. But, again, lying was a risk all its own.
She ran a few possible answers through her head—more half-truths, as well as full truths. In the end, the majority of it came down to one simple truth:
“To already be dead,” she muttered truthfully as the first few stray drops of rain started pattering against the leaves.
She scowled, her gaze flicking upward for half a second. Oh, perfect, Now she’d have to fight her sled through the melting earth, on top of hoping she could get reasonably close to town before nightfall.
I'm OUTRAGEOUSLY late, but yes, please do! And remember, you can edit posts on here, so if you post him and decide you want to edit something about him, you have that ability! The time stamp on the upper left-hand corner of the post will just adjust to inform that there was an edit, and when.
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