[OOC] Myriad Reality

[Magnanimity]

There are definitely justifiable ways for some characters to end up in a situation where they would meet your character on Mars, I’d say. It’s just a matter of whether they’re tied in to other current goings-on or not.

I wouldn’t worry about trying to pick up on lore immediately and readily. As you can see, we have many many pages and move at a pretty rapid pace due to speed posting. There would be a lot to read, and many of us use multiple accounts with changing avatars and profile info to match whatever character is featured on that profile at the time. So picking up the character who might have been on my current account at any point in the past, for example, is an incredibly tall ask. We’ll help you out in understanding anything you might need if it comes up.

As you wrote your character to be new to the multiverse and traversing it as it stands, it might actually be easier for someone to come to you.

[Magnanimity]

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Yeah, sounds good to me. If you want to go the tavern route, he could find some mysterious door on the planet that he wanders through to find himself in that inter-dimensional world. Sounds like that might be the easiest, unless your heart is set on doing something on Mars.

@Legend Begins

This also works. 8P

[Shadrack Nor]

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Yeah, sounds good to me. If you want to go the tavern route, he could find some mysterious door on the planet that he wanders through to find himself in that inter-dimensional world. Sounds like that might be the easiest, unless your heart is set on doing something on Mars.

@Legend Begins

Yup... He basically would have just arrived on Mars... but maybe a few months time skip in and we could make him find himself on the jungle at the edge of New Eden, where a door without a structure nor a wall, like literally just a door in the middle of the foliage, is plopped into existence and he would go like 'huh? what in the heck? as if things were not crazy enough already, what have these people built a nonsensical door here for? is it art?..." and as he proceeds to open the tavern is revealed...

heh...

[Shadrack Nor]

Also, i would love to rp a bit on this Mars thing i just made... i mean not really clinging to it, but would be cool to explore it a bit in the near future... just a thought...

[Shadrack Nor]

There are definitely justifiable ways for some characters to end up in a situation where they would meet your character on Mars, I’d say. It’s just a matter of whether they’re tied in to other current goings-on or not.

I wouldn’t worry about trying to pick up on lore immediately and readily. As you can see, we have many many pages and move at a pretty rapid pace due to speed posting. There would be a lot to read, and many of us use multiple accounts with changing avatars and profile info to match whatever character is featured on that profile at the time. So picking up the character who might have been on my current account at any point in the past, for example, is an incredibly tall ask. We’ll help you out in understanding anything you might need if it comes up.

As you wrote your character to be new to the multiverse and traversing it as it stands, it might actually be easier for someone to come to you.

@Magnanimity

*looks at pages -- uh, oh --- 232K --- YYYUP* Falls over from chair in realization of the size of dis book!

HEHE :P :P :P

PS: yup i know... i'm both intimidated and awestruck by this epic csized story, which is why i wanted to join...

[Legend Begins]

Also, i would love to rp a bit on this Mars thing i just made... i mean not really clinging to it, but would be cool to explore it a bit in the near future... just a thought...

@Shadrack Nor

I'm cool with doing stuff on Mars. I've got travelers I can send there.

There are definitely justifiable ways for some characters to end up in a situation where they would meet your character on Mars, I’d say. It’s just a matter of whether they’re tied in to other current goings-on or not.

I wouldn’t worry about trying to pick up on lore immediately and readily. As you can see, we have many many pages and move at a pretty rapid pace due to speed posting. There would be a lot to read, and many of us use multiple accounts with changing avatars and profile info to match whatever character is featured on that profile at the time. So picking up the character who might have been on my current account at any point in the past, for example, is an incredibly tall ask. We’ll help you out in understanding anything you might need if it comes up.

As you wrote your character to be new to the multiverse and traversing it as it stands, it might actually be easier for someone to come to you.

@Magnanimity

You got peeps to airdrop onto planet 4?

[Shadrack Nor]

There are definitely justifiable ways for some characters to end up in a situation where they would meet your character on Mars, I’d say. It’s just a matter of whether they’re tied in to other current goings-on or not.

I wouldn’t worry about trying to pick up on lore immediately and readily. As you can see, we have many many pages and move at a pretty rapid pace due to speed posting. There would be a lot to read, and many of us use multiple accounts with changing avatars and profile info to match whatever character is featured on that profile at the time. So picking up the character who might have been on my current account at any point in the past, for example, is an incredibly tall ask. We’ll help you out in understanding anything you might need if it comes up.

As you wrote your character to be new to the multiverse and traversing it as it stands, it might actually be easier for someone to come to you.

@Magnanimity

Also yes, having someone come to him definitely works for me, gives me a good chance to 'splore this Mars thing and terran dominion thing i got going for his dramatic creation...

[Shadrack Nor]

SO just as a side note, with no narration just the first person 5 senses thing may take some time to adjust to and for the intro post, i may have thought of him just drinking a cocktail in a bar on New Eden, in case anyone is sent to him, just kindof the spirit of 'as if things couldn't get any more fucked up' depression moment even for soldier boy, but if he stumbles over that door, i'll have to come up with some other strategy heh...

Edit: yup i totally just blurbed the name of the city already... new athens *face palm* it is New eden... LOLOLO

[Legend Begins]

SO just as a side note, with no narration just the first person 5 senses thing may take some time to adjust to and for the intro post, i may have thought of him just drinking a cocktail in a bar on New Eden, in case anyone is sent to him, just kindof the spirit of 'as if things couldn't get any more fucked up' depression moment even for soldier boy, but if he stumbles over that door, i'll have to come up with some other strategy heh...

Edit: yup i totally just blurbed the name of the city already... new athens *face palm* it is New eden... LOLOLO

@Shadrack Nor

You can do whatever on the front of opening activities. It takes some getting used to, but we enjoy the style. Do you have a time/timezone you usually post from?

[Shadrack Nor]

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You can do whatever on the front of opening activities. It takes some getting used to, but we enjoy the style. Do you have a time/timezone you usually post from?

@Legend Begins

Cool!

Yup, i hail from the UK... so that is... uuuh... nearly 6AM for me right now.

Any discord for this game i can also join?

Also, i really just post whenever, i do try to keep up with the flow of games in general, but yeh, usually for me it goes around the day/nights of UK (Depending whether i got my insomnia or i have good nights rests... :P - and y'know... life being an unapologetic b***h as it is with everyone i presume...)

[Legend Begins]

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Cool!

Yup, i hail from the UK... so that is... uuuh... nearly 6AM for me right now.

Any discord for this game i can also join?

Also, i really just post whenever, i do try to keep up with the flow of games in general, but yeh, usually for me it goes around the day/nights of UK (Depending whether i got my insomnia or i have good nights rests... :P - and y'know... life being an unapologetic b***h as it is with everyone i presume...)

@Shadrack Nor

Gotcha! I work with several folks from the UK, so I'm overfamiliar with the time difference =)

In terms of Discord, nothing general-purpose. Maybe if more new folks show up who would be interested.

The rest of us are U.S. time, but our lot has weird sleep schedules, so it may line up great.

[Shadrack Nor]

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Gotcha! I work with several folks from the UK, so I'm overfamiliar with the time difference =)

In terms of Discord, nothing general-purpose. Maybe if more new folks show up who would be interested.

The rest of us are U.S. time, but our lot has weird sleep schedules, so it may line up great.

@Legend Begins

EPIC!

So coin flip moment, how we deciding? Someone comes to Planet Mars, 56th century, Terran dominion, City New Eden, Athens region, Mount Olympus basin? Or Soldier boy finds ominous door in middle of city edge jungle and decides to heck with it and open it to meet someone there?

For me will prolly be easier if someone plops near me, mainly b'cause i have a minimal mind map ready for a starting scene and it'll be less confusing, just for initial scene, and then we can go from there wherever the adventure flows!

[Legend Begins]

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EPIC!

So coin flip moment, how we deciding? Someone comes to Planet Mars, 56th century, Terran dominion, City New Eden, Athens region, Mount Olympus basin? Or Soldier boy finds ominous door in middle of city edge jungle and decides to heck with it and open it to meet someone there?

For me will prolly be easier if someone plops near me, mainly b'cause i have a minimal mind map ready for a starting scene and it'll be less confusing, just for initial scene, and then we can go from there wherever the adventure flows!

@Shadrack Nor

Planet Mars. You set the scene, let's see if you've got the hang of our style. We'll meet you there.

[Magnanimity]

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I'm cool with doing stuff on Mars. I've got travelers I can send there.

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You got peeps to airdrop onto planet 4?

@Legend Begins

Let me dig through my all-star roster and see what I can do.

[Shadrack Nor]

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Planet Mars. You set the scene, let's see if you've got the hang of our style. We'll meet you there.

@Legend Begins

Tryin' my best then Mars it is! YYYATZEE!

Question... am i allowed to at least narrate his thoughts? or literally just have to act him up as if i'm literally him and everything is just as much as he can see and feel and touch?

[Legend Begins]

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Tryin' my best then Mars it is! YYYATZEE!

Question... am i allowed to at least narrate his thoughts? or literally just have to act him up as if i'm literally him and everything is just as much as he can see and feel and touch?

@Shadrack Nor

There are ways to cheat it, but it all needs to be from the perspective of an outside observer.

You could use powerful rhetoric like *Wanders aimlessly around the office, drooping my shoulders into a mope when I pass my ex-colleague's cubical*

In terms of cheating, something like *Frowns when I pass my ex-colleague's cubical, clearly upset by his recent departure* shows the character's motives and feelings that aren't explicitly visible.

Try to avoid loading exposition into those, but you can leak character thoughts through actions by ascribing an intent to what they're doing. Just try to avoid outright saying what they're thinking, e.g. *Searches for a way to exit the VRMMO, slowly growing terrified by the thought of being stuck in this world* In that example, them looking for a way to exit and growing visibly more panicked is enough for the reader to infer their thoughts. I guess you could say it's a big "show, don't tell" challenge.

[Shadrack Nor]

@Legend Begins Okay then... here goes nothing... let me know how bad i just messed up in my first post 😅😶‍🌫️

[Legend Begins]

@Legend Begins Okay then... here goes nothing... let me know how bad i just messed up in my first post 😅😶‍🌫️

@Shadrack Nor

Really good for a first shot! Just a couple minor items:

We always use asterisks for actions. Just a formatting thing. On the sentences themselves,

I wink at the dame beside me, her eyes sparkling with a mixture of amusement and admiration. She knows a real man when she sees one, even if he's a little out of place in this futuristic saloon.

Sentence 1 is stellar. Absolutely perfect. Sentence 2 is more of a thought than something observable in this case. If I were you, I'd tie it back to something a third-party observer could pick up on, like *Winks at the dame beside me, her eyes sparkling with a mixture of amusement and admiration. She seems to eye my physique, although marginally perturbed by the clash between my outfit and the saloon*

Same applies to the other action. First sentence nails it, the next few are more thoughts. No qualms on the dialogue, that's effectively free ball. Nice work!

[Shadrack Nor]

@Legend BeginsYup thx for evaluation. Deffo getting into these style of RP 'boots'

Wellp corrected the best i could for now, lemme know if it's better, then do i continue roleplaying with Soldier Boy on his mission until anyone arrives and meets him? or wait for someone to interact with the scene?

Like i could definitely RP and have him do things and follow his general path and mission until outside influence change them, just looking to be sure.

[Legend Begins]

@Legend BeginsYup thx for evaluation. Deffo getting into these style of RP 'boots'

Wellp corrected the best i could for now, lemme know if it's better, then do i continue roleplaying with Soldier Boy on his mission until anyone arrives and meets him? or wait for someone to interact with the scene?

Like i could definitely RP and have him do things and follow his general path and mission until outside influence change them, just looking to be sure.

@Shadrack Nor

Woah sorry, I passed clean out.

I’ll send somebody to talk to him.