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Bizarre how every image that someone used, I have some form of problem with. Y'all need to up ya quality game

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Bizarre how every image that someone used, I have some form of problem with. Y'all need to up ya quality game


Pfft, I liked my picture. I'm fine with a written description or a picture though lol.
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I probably could've found a suitable picture, but I have this thing where it's physically painful for me to use other people's artwork without permission.
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Pfft, I liked my picture. I'm fine with a written description or a picture though lol.


Daniel Wu shan't be used for his visage is sacred.
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Daniel Wu shan't be used for his visage is sacred.


Damn... I can actually see the point in this lol. I love Into The Badlands and his face popped into my head immediately when I was conceptualizing my character.
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Like I said, it was rough. I have been thinking and editing to try and get something better up. Back to the drawing board.
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IC will most likely start on Saturday, so you should think about finishing up your character.
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Gaaah, I really can't think of any good history for Althea. It's basically just "saw how the gangs and the megacorps were fucking things up for people and decided to fight back", but a one-sentence history doesn't a good sheet make. I've got everything else, though, so that's something.
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Gaaah, I really can't think of any good history for Althea. It's basically just "saw how the gangs and the megacorps were fucking things up for people and decided to fight back", but a one-sentence history doesn't a good sheet make. I've got everything else, though, so that's something.


That's not a bad start, actually. Most backstory can be summarized down to a sentence or two if you think about it. Start from there and then ask yourself exactly how the gangs and megacorps were fucking things up for people from Althea's perspective. Why did she decide to fight back? What experiences might she have gone through that would have given her this sense of justice? This need to help where she could easily just turn the other way and ignore it all? Once you answer those questions, you'll suddenly have a history written out--or that's the idea, anyways lol.
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That's basically creating your story outline/roadmap; establishing a sequence of events. After that, you pretty it up a bit and fill in the gaps.
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I'm not a stickler for length of a backstory. A good way to get some finer details down is by asking a few core questions.

What events turned them into who they are?
What personal stakes do they have from the events?
What drives them?
What traits did they acquire along the way?
Scars, missing arms, what story do those tell?

A thing that I noticed is that you explained away your skills in the capabilities. You could instead use the backstory to explain how they have what they have.

I'm not looking for exact details. More along the lines of justification to who they are. You can heavily imply things that you don't want to tell.

But it's looking good so far.

And JUST IN CASE, you will have a few days more after the IC goes up because weekly posts. Tho it would be good to get it in sooner rather than later.
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I ended up ditching a rather substantial backstory draft and rewriting a much shorter version. Less detail in backstory means more roleplaying opportunity.

Or something.
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Alright, the IC is up. Feel free to ask any question IC. Next phase will start the sortie against the armless wonder.
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I'll try to get my post out by monday, it's getting late over here and i've got a busy day tomorrow.
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Alright, I'm back after needing to reinstall my OS. I lost the work I had been doing to revamp the character, so gonna take a bit to recreate.


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...who is Worm? You didn't post a sheet for a character named Worm. I mean I assume it's the person you described drinking alone, but as far as I can tell that's all we've got to go on.
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Post up. I thought about posting here that I was working on one, but I figured it'd be better for me to just finish it and let it be done lol. Let me know if there are any problems with the post.
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Yeesh, long posts are long. Now I'm staring at my partial post trying to figure out how to make it longer.

Meh, I don't have any long conversations or flashbacks to get out of the way at the moment so should be fine.
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@Lotrix Molick Looks hella refined now writing-wise. A bit hard to read because there's only single enters instead of double enters.

You're good to move her to the char tab and start, just remember to add a few extra enters so it's easier on the eyes.

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@Phantomlink959 Yes, Worm is the hooded guy alone. He's an unfamiliar face to all of you. He's not in the character tab yet because nothing about him is really known at this point, besides that he's called worm and is cloaked.

Also don't worry about length.

"Judge a man not by the length of his 'post' but the quality."

Abraham Lincoln said that.
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Forgive me if I'm stepping out of line, but would it be rude of me to request that some more line breaks be added to that character sheet?

I'm struggling to read it due to the wall-ish-ness of the formatting.
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