Brovo

Time to level up to Advanced RP'ing

Just go. There's nothing stopping you. If you can already do long posts and what not you are more than aptly equipped to handle advanced.

Really though, there's not much advice anyone could legitimately provide you until you go to advanced, RP there for a while, and then figure out if you need to ask any questions.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Kestrel said
The don begs to differ.

Shh, The Library is an exception to nearly every rule.

Ruby said
I've had plenty of characters do very mundane things. Especially going to the bathroom, what with the epic example of 'And then he pissed in darkness.'

Don't know if humour.



In all seriousness: Not all mundane things go away, it's usually the little mundane things that tend to go away when you're constrained for space. Because pacing is a thing that must be followed lest you spend three pages describing the discolouration in your character's urine, which services no practical purpose beyond "and something is wrong with them".

It's what makes small, clever details all the more enjoyable when you realize someone had to sit down and figure out a solution to the limited pacing they have. Basically speaking though, mundane acts fall under two categories.
A. Characterization. IE: "Alice chews her lip" anytime she's in a situation where she needs to think under pressure.
B. The consequence of something. IE: "Bob is a coward who pissed himself in the face of uncertain danger."

Sometimes it's also used for useless-but-not-destructive things like Rule of Cool as well. IE: "Sam the detective pulls out a cigar."

Jig said
In fairness, it bugs me in general fiction anyway. I think I notice it more in RPs because (outside collaborative posts), dialogues are almost impossible, so I think people compensate by almost writing in mini-monologues, as opposed to how people I know talk to one another.

That's a pacing issue inherent to PbPRP and the fact that most people have a rather poor sense of spatial contextual awareness. Specifically in relation to the "time" and "physical" sensors. (ex: Character Bobby is in a fight. If he says more than one short sentence, he's already completely abandoned outside awareness of the situation. Character Sally completes an entire, complex piano tune that takes twenty minutes over the course of a two minutes conversation. Character John paces as he talks, but leaves long lurches in his dialogue without any physical contextualization through body language that would indicate why he paused.)

Then again, I don't expect most high school students to understand what spatial contextual awareness even is, so I can't fault them for not knowing how to apply it in writing.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Jig said
That said, people are stupid and so should characters be. Characters that are perfectly accurate with grammar in speech and who never are somehow mistaken bug me.

Universal rule of fiction: Limited space to covey a hundred concepts. It's the same reason characters never use the bathroom, and any shower scenes or similar are there purely for character exposition or artistic liberalism, etc. The first thing to get summarily executed for the sake of space is the mundane, little things few would ever notice.

For instance: There are very few post apocalypse stories (though especially zombie ones) that openly ackowledge that after one year, all gasoline would be useless, and after five or less, so would most medicine. In fact, pretty much anything than good old alcohol and bandages would be done. Plastics would be fucked after twenty years or so. Kiss any non-brick or stone or steel building goodbye after 50.

Suspension of disbelief is a potent tool for this reason.

Romance writing

I think my favourite so far is the two queens of Renalta: Alex, and Kouri. They slowly grew to care for each other, they argued sometimes, but they cared. Two years in real life that period of perils, that rocky road. Kouri slowly healing her heart from a tragedy, Alex slowly doing the same. They healed each other in a way nobody else really could.

Eventually, one day, after Kouri nearly bit the bullet (literally) Alex finally moved forward and together they ended up surviving what was by all rights a suicide mission to restore Kouri's kingdom.

Now their love is a more mature one, since years have passed in the world. They are completely comfortable around one another, they know each other so well they can predict each other nearly to the minute. In the public eye they're professional, reserved even. Behind closed doors they are just... Hand in hand. Like Romeo and Juliet. One scene that keeps playing in my head is them playing a piano together, sitting side by side and resting on each other. It is that kind of love, the sweet kind. The kind that requires no affirmations and yet has them all the time just by the way they treat each other.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

SyrianHamster said
You'll never catch me fanning flames, nor will you catch me publicly dragging people's names through the dirt. Just gonna turn around and walk away. *walks off into the sunset,*

Legend of Renalta 2: Reborn

GreenGoat said
Assuming the corridors are normal corridors where horses cant fit through then. As well as a multitude of things.

Yes they can. It's magic.

Best Videogame Soundtrack

Total War or Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Both have very memorable soundtracks I hum to myself from time to time. They are ageless.

Anyone ever formally ended an RP?

Gat said
To be fair brovo the original Renalta didn't get the opportunity to reach its conclusion. It was a casualty of guildfall and the sequel is its Phoenix.

To be fair Gat it did. It just didn't get the explosive ending. It still got one, characters still died, people still got to choose and influence their character epilogues, etc. Had it been further from the end I'd have revived it, but since it was almost over anyway...

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Prince said
Oh man, you know what I hate, guys? When dense mother fuckers can't even get canon facts right. Ones stated in plain text. Available at any time.

Compounded if their character just can't seem to get certain names right. Like the name of their queen, or their homeland, or the names of people around them.

The Last Bastion: Bunker Chicago

@Everyone:


Three mission choices will be posted up tomorrow after I finally have the chance to sleep for more than three hours. Woohoo! (Also when I have the chance to finally shave so I can stop looking like a deranged hobo.)

I'll also go through the OOC at that point and approve everything with the three new missions.