BrokenPromise

Player Criticisms; everyone's responsibility or just GMs?

Posting a "critique" in the OOC is definitely a surefire way to cause drama, if not make someone abandon the RP entirely. I witnessed someone telling someone to "use the enter key," and 3 other players plus the GM parroted this advice back to them. Needless to say, they left the RP they were in. Shortly afterwards, I noticed other players started to become self conscious of their writing to the point where they left, or found fault with the GM's lofty writing expectations. Nobody wants to endure public humiliation.

My boss's motto about employees is that you never want to let them know you are dissatisfied with them. And I think a GM should behave the same way with his fellow players. I'm very fortunate in that the RP I run is filled with writers who meet or exceed my criteria. Telling people how to improve their writing is not something I feel comfortable with doing. It would be one thing if I was on friendly terms with them. But some of these people I don't know especially well, and I'd hate to drive them away on account of them parroting other posts too much.

If a player or players have a problem with a particular user's writing, they should talk to the GM about it. And if the GM feels it is necessary, they can address it. Sometimes I know I should do something, but don't because I think I'm alone in the decision.

And ditto to what Pugbutter and Odin said. there are far too many assholes and people with sensitive feelings to allow everyone to openly critique. This is something that, when it needs to be addressed, should be done via PM by a GM.

Lunacy of Love: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

Anyway, it's back up.

It seems like most of the information stayed.

Discord and The Guild/RPing

I'd like to start by saying that I don't believe Discord is a huge problem for RPs. GMs can decide for themselves if they want to use discord or not.

But I am not a huge fan of discord. I like the slower pace of forum OOC posting, as it's much easier to keep up with. While I'm at work, I can miss several important conversations on discord. That never seems to happen when everything is kept on the forum. That, and it's just an extra place where I have to check for questions that were directed at me. And since I like reading forum posts, the fact that the OOC banter has almost entirely vanished is a negative to having an RP discord.

I just find it kind of distracting. It's really a matter of preference, and I don't think you're going to have much luck debating people on it. You're comparing apples to oranges.

Lunacy of Love: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

The maintenance is going well, and they hope to be back up tomorrow.

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Fortunately their side got down and not this site for example.

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Lunacy of Love: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

@skarsgard just looked at their twitter. The whole service is down for the moment. They say it might not be a quick fix.

Danganronpa: Tower of Carnage (Finished!)

Davis shot Shaun a piercing gaze. “Shaun.” He began with a low growl. “I... would say that's a pretty agreeable analysis. I would go for head trauma myself. But yes,The stalagmite is cracked, so Mondatta must have cracked somewhere too. Without peaking inside his armor, we'll never know for sure. But I suspect if we were to follow that crack, we'd see a chunk of it was missing. Namely where the monk's head came into contact with it.” Davis nodded to himself. “And with that I do believe all the pieces are in place.” Davis shoved his hand inside his vest. “We can now reveal the killer!” With a swift motion, Davis drove the edge of his hand along his shirt seam, blowing all the buttons off of his vest and dress shirt as it went down. A draft suddenly picked up in the court room. It made the curtains flutter, and Davis's opened shirt/vest fluttered in the wind like a cape. His tie remained around his neck, but it still danced in the wind. Even with all that movement, no one could avert their eyes from his fully exposed chest. There was a large diamond shaped tuft of hair on it that tapered off around the rest of his torso. He was no body builder, but he did keep himself in decent shape. “Behold my innocence!” he bellowed.

“AHHHHHH!” Bliss turned away from Davis, only to see Caora. “AHHHHHHH, you too!?” Bliss looked around sheepishly. “Why are you guys undressing!”

“For conquest!” Davis drew his sword once more and turned to face Caora. “Ah, the girly boy has finally realized it! For as small as he is, he's letting his desperation and ambition fuel his conquest!” Davis waved his sword at everyone. “You should all follow suit!”

“NO!” Bliss hugged herself. “It's indecent even to ask that! What does that even achieve?”

“Well.” Davis looked at his sword. “You see there was a fight so-”

“No there wasn't!” Calvin interrupted. “I don't care how Mondatta entered the scene. Look at the pictures. If there was a struggle, he would leave footprints in that area around the stalagmite that was filed. But there's nothing there! You don't spot someone filing a stalagmite near an unconscious woman and ask them to stop. Or do you think Mondatta politely called them over?”

Davis grinned. “Heh, I guess I was getting ahead of myself.” Perfection rubbed the bridge of his nose. “I believe these footprints are a red haring though.”

Calvin tightened his grip on the podium “I thought the knife was a red haring?”

“I guess our killer didn't want to be caught.” Davis shrugged. “So we have two sets of footprints. One of which belongs to Krista, the other of which belongs to an unknown individual.”

Calvin folded his arms. “And you think they are fake?”

“They could be it's a possibility. But I know you won't listen to me.” Davis extended his hand towards Alice. “Why don't we let the infinite recon explain? Surely you'll all value the opinion of someone who's talent is literally scouting?”

Danganronpa: Tower of Carnage (Finished!)

Of course the very next person to talk after Calvin would be that inbred trap. Davis volted over his podium and landed in the circle, sorrounded by the other infinites.

“Hey!” Monokuma fret his brow. “You can't do that!”

“It's not in the rules.”

Monokuma barfed up his E-handbook and started to scroll. “Honeysuckles... I'm going to fix that. Just you watch!”

Perfection walked towards the other end of the circle. He appeared to be moving towards Caora. The spartan still had his sword with him, resting inside his scabbard. One of his hands were resting on the hilt, much like a wandering ronin might. His discheveled facial hair completed the look. But davis was not headed towards Caora. As soon as he approached his Podium, he walked clockwise over to Bliss.

“Caora wants to talk to an adult. Let us kids solve the case.” Bliss only nodded in response before turning to face Caora. While the infinite nanny wasn't the most useful person in the court, it felt like a waste of resources to task her with entertaining the trap. But maybe he wouldn't distract the others so much now.

Bliss talking to Caora

Bliss started to speak in a higher pitched tone. One that a mother might use when playing with a young child. “The case is a little hard to keep up with, isn't it?” She giggled. “I actually think he believe Krista is innocent. I noticed Davis likes most of the girls.” She nodded. “That's why he said that he never thought it was Krista, but that most of the evidence pointed to her. I think he actually believes someone was trying to set her up.” The nanny folded her arms, but kept her smile up. “I also think they were going to topple over the rock thing with the hole in it. It was to make it week so that it could fall over. Maybe the wedge was simply filed into dust?” Bliss shrugged her shoulders. “The thingamerbob? I think they hid it from us Caora. They probably hid it somewhere they knew we wouldn't look.” Bliss placed her hands on her hips. “And I'm also curious as to why Mondatta and Krista weren't together. That's why I asked them.” Bliss nodded again. “Oh, and I'm afraid the last time I saw Krista or Mondatta was when I went to bed. Even when I got back up to get something to eat, I didn't encounter them.”

Davis walked into the center of the courtroom. He turned to Alice, who was demanding silence from everyone, apologizing, and then started talking about the possibility of Mondatta's suit crushing him. Cute. “We won't get very far addressing things that we don't understand. We don't know how the suit works, nor were we able to find any evidence it was tampered with. Best to stick with what we can see and understand.” Then Cyrus started being, well, whatever sort of demon Cyrus had become. At the mention of the word “defacing,” Davis's head twitched and his teeth graded. The Spartan turned to look at the unholy politician. “Haha, yea! Well it's a shame flirting you up won't work, because I feel like kissing you right now.” Davis grinned.

“Wait, really?” Aleecia “looked” at Dr. Killgood. “Is that true?”

“Yup!” Monokuma nodded. “To deface something is to mar or ruin the surface of something. Junko would have been totally screwed in this killing game!”

“So...” Calvin folded his arms. “I guess the killer did need to keep Krista alive if he planned on dropping the stalagmite on her.”

“Ding ding ding!” Davis threw out his arms in mock surprise. “So Krista's testimony seems to make perfect sense so far. She walked in on the killer, the killer knocked her out. Presumably tackled into the wall that has blood on it. She could have been knocked out with a tool of some kind, but we didn't find one.” Davis pointed at the ground. “And then the killer laid her out here to drop the stalagmite on her. He must have put her up against the wall later to make the thought of her knocking herself out more plausible.” Davis lifted up the tool handle. “And let's not forget the file. Krista may not have used it, but it was used on Mondatta's armor, albeit a bit ineffectively.”

But Calvin wasn't listening to Davis. He was instead more interested in what Lucas was saying. “Hey ass hole! Are you trying to say I did it?”

Davis groaned. “Relax, we're not quite ready to start pointing the finger at anyone yet... but we're close.”

Calvin sighed. “Yea.”

At this point, Davis heard Damiyon ask who reached the cave first. “I'm not something as sophisticated as a poet I realize, but I doubt the killer would have been filing the stalagmite if he had already killed Mondatta.” Davis folded his arms. “Mondatta must have arrived while Krista was knocked out, and intervened. There was a struggle, as evident by the marks on his armor.” He scoffed before continuing. “I do not accept the possibility that Mondatta was going to kill Krista, by the way. Not only do I think Krista would have been able to spot his silhouette rather easily, but he was tasked with protecting her. He would be the number one suspect if something happened. This is also the monk that did so much for our group, and was even willing to sacrifice himself during the first night of carnage.” Davis sighed. “So now we just have to figure out how he actually died.”

“About time!” Ice yelled. He was ignored.

“And what's this?” Davis slid across the floor over to Mary's position. “A hairline crack? Well I do think we have all the pieces we need now!” Davis leaned on Mary's podium. “And if you ever want to shut me up, putting one's lips over mine has proven to be quite effective.” Davis was smart enough to get out of smacking distance before going on more. “But since we're solving this murderer, I don't recommend doing it until we're in the clear.” After giving the streamer a wink Davis looked back at his fellow infinites. “So, how did Mondatta die?”

A question for my beloved guild colleagues

I don't skip reading posts, but I will say that posts that are largely inner monologs I tend to skim. Unless I'm the GM or I otherwise have something to gain from reading such things. I think people monologue out of habit because it's a pretty easy way to avoid "PLAYER X IS IGNORING ME REEEEEEEEEEEEE." but paragraphs dedicated to inner thoughts can usually be ignored anyway, as they don't really influence anything going on in the RP. That, or the thoughts are so painfully obvious that they don't really need to be narrated. and in collabs when all parties involved are narrating. UGH!

Another thing that sends me into skim mode is when one decides to personally narrate an event that was already covered in detail by other players. If you want to react in response to Janet throwing a pencil at mark's head, you probably don't have to narrate the entire paragraph long episode again. I mean, your character's only contribution is saying "Hey! pencils are for writing, not throwing!" And you don't have to be very smart to know who your character is talking to. Well, maybe you do. Depends if the other players read the pencil toss post or not. But this is why I at least skim every post in an RP.

I speak as a player here. If you're a GM, reading everything is a must for obvious reasons.

Lunacy of Love: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

Oh, and just to let you guys now, we're moving 10 days about a week in time after my second post.

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Iquenos: In Nomine Domini

@Inkarnate I can just flirt with bishis and go through training montages. Pretty sure I could do that for the entire RP and make it interesting. you don't gotta worry about me, boss.