Dark Jack

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

"Beauty" is definitely more generous than it deserves, but thank you. There's a bunch of details that bother me now, looking at it: the cots not being aligned properly in their rows, the 11 and P coordinates being completely superfluous... It's a first attempt for the starting area, and it probably serves its purpose. Next one will be better.

Does anyone want to sign up for being the next to post?

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

How about something like this:

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

Eastern Yharnam, Hunter's clinic, back room

Rummaging through the back room of the clinic, Arcturus mostly found what was immediately obvious was there: tables with various medical- and chemical-looking apparatus like beakers, forceps, tongs, scalpels, scales, mortars and pestles and the like. There were also five rolls of bandages and a bucket with another two bandages, though those were stained with blood and worse and likely not suitable for application anymore. There were the weapons in barrels that Arcturus had used to arm himself after waking, but that appeared to be all the barrels held.
The room had no more cabinets to speak of and none of the tables had drawers, which might lead one to believe that most of the supplies had been kept in the reception. Nowhere in the back room were their contracts, nor any other important documents, to be found; it seemed that they were either kept in the reception, too, or the staff of the clinic had brought such documents with them when they evacuated.

While looking around, however, Arcturus would have likely taken a look at the three blackboards along the wall, two of which just bore illegible scribbles, cryptic numbers and formulas that none of them had any way of knowing what meant. The last blackboard, however, appeared to have recently been erased and something new written in a more easily readable script:
“All Paleblood → Hunters NO EXCEPTIONS
TAKE NOTES!
AVOID DANGER – keep safe, no dead
Results → 1st Hunter
TELL NO ONE”

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

You know, lately I've been considering whether I should try to draw maps of the environments the characters occupy, possibly with a local coordinate system for easy designation of a particular location, just to make it completely clear where what is and such...
What do you think? It'll probably be fairly simple 2D maps, since later on I predict they'll be moving around a lot more. I will be a bit extra work for me, but it might make it easier for everyone to know what is happening and what areas look like.

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

No trouble, you're not terribly late as far as the presented ideal posting interval for the RP is concerned (at least one new post a week), I just wanted an update both for my peace of mind and for the sake of reassuring everyone that things are still progressing.

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

How is the post coming along? Any kind of ETA?

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

It differs from case to case, so you're pretty much free to decide for yourself how much it affects Arcturus. He can remember as much or as little as you want him to.

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

Eastern Yharnam, Hunter's clinic, back room

The cabinet, while of fair quality and, unlike some of the other cabinets in the clinic, entirely made of wood, was neither overly large nor made with sturdiness in mind. Being about the same size as Nigel himself, it might have come as a surprise to him how light it proved to be and how easily it moved; it had some heft to it, certainly, but it almost seemed as though its contents were either very light or missing, in addition to which Nigel might realize that he had gotten quite a bit stronger than he was before.
Nevertheless the cabinet slid aside with a loud screech of wood against wood, the little feet of the furniture leaving faint scratch-marks in the floorboards as it went and the momentum of the moving furniture actually causing the farthest of the double doors to briefly swing outward, opening just an inch – not enough to get a good look inside – before closing again.

The Messengers seemed to react to this, each in their own way; the one that had been trying to get Ludolf's attention turned to Nigel and seemed to stop trying to convey whatever meaning it had been trying to convey and just seemed to observe him idly. The ones that had been clawing at the doors of the cabinet fell over when the piece of furniture suddenly moved, and suddenly vanished into the floor, only for them – or two other Messengers identical with those two – to emerge out of the floor in front of the new location of the cabinet to continue grabbing powerlessly at the doors. The last one, which had been seemingly trying to reach underneath the cabinet, straightened its posture – sat up? Stood up? – and turned to Nigel, clapping its hands excitedly.
Across the room, first a very curious-looking Torquil and then a cautious Victor started approaching to get a better look at what Nigel was doing.

The wall behind the cabinet was, after all, just another section of wooden boards, in no identifiable way distinct from the rest of the walls of the room. There was not even any visible difference in color as is often the case with surfaces that have been covered for a long time. Below, where the cabinet had scraped against the floor as it moved, had been uncovered some miscellaneous dust bunnies, a comb, and what seemed like some old, dried-up small bloodstains.
More interesting was the final object uncovered by moving the cabinet: a plain-looking brass key, the type and size of which would typically be used for doors.
“How did you... never mind,” Victor started out incredulously, staring at the key in disbelief, before sighing as if deciding he did not care. He pointed at the key. “I'm guessing that explains why the front door wasn't locked. Good work. Now we can lock it when we leave.”

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

Yeah I get that, and I can (and could) see what you were going for. In order for it to make sense, though, I think bracing and pushing should probably be mentioned as separate, subsequent actions. I've both seen and used that way of expressing it. So he would brace against the cabinet before pushing it.

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

Essentially the last paragraph, but I suppose specifically

From his squatting position, Nigel stood up slightly and braced himself against the cabinet.

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Again, from the context I assumed that it meant that he was trying to push the cabinet, but "bracing" can mean a lot of different things... none of which on their own suggest an effort to move something. On the contrary, actually.

Verb

brace (third-person singular simple present braces, present participle bracing, simple past and past participle braced)

(transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.

To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.

(nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.

To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.

To confront with questions, demands or requests.

To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.

To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.

To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

Wiktionary

In short, if read literally it sounds as though Nigel is trying to prevent the cabinet from moving.