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5 yrs ago
Current Remember, nobody actually enjoys roleplaying if there isn't at least five shameful fetishes uncovered by the 2nd page.
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7 yrs ago
Somebody stole my mood ring. I don't know how to feel about it.
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7 yrs ago
Let's be honest, it's far more satisfying and challenging to actually imagine what a character looks like than paste a hundred gifs of a celebrity and call it good.
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7 yrs ago
So, a team of players who are good at playing as a team in a team-based game are individually bad players. Seems kind of silly when you put it like that, no?
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7 yrs ago
My goal these days is to have an RP that can actually finish, or the very least, last a few years. I see way too many die on page one to take chances
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Lowering the site's value since January 2012.


Most Recent Posts

Stella said
I had expected and accepted that this would happen considering how long I would have to be away, and I'm fine with it. To be honest, roleplaying Paragon-type characters like Jeanna doesn't come naturally to me and I've just about lost my "feel" of the character. If/when I do return to roleplaying (if there's space of course), I'd love to recreate Karin with a new and stronger backstory.Totally do miss everyone too. And hoping to interact with the new people someday, maybe.


And whenever you do come back, you'll be welcome with open arms. :) I know I for one have missed having you around a whole heckuva lot. I'm sure we can make room when the time comes!
Hey guuuuys.

Where be IC things? I'd like to get poop flowing here.
Nothing wrong with a reboot.

As for everyone else, I've only seen one other person and things aren't exactly happy on that front.
It's too bad! I was quite enjoying that game. If you ever decide to boot it up again, give me a holler!

Maryev needs to roll again.
Apparently he died on his way back to his car with his wife from a heart attack. The timing couldn't have been more eerie.
Pepperm1nts said
I wouldn't burn it. I'd keep it, but I probably wouldn't go writing people's name in it just because I don't like them. I'd keep it around for when, and if, it ever has to be used. If another Hitler comes along, maybe. I'd write his name and then retreat back into my uneventful life as the unknown hero.


Behold the only reasonable person in this thread.

Seriously, I'm glad most people don't have something like this because the responses have been largely awful.
This is quickly turning unto a university course.

Continue!
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Getting wasted really isn't as fun as it used to be. I never even really liked getting drunk. You can do much, much more interesting things while sober.

Anyways.

I've been trying to get back into the various hobbies I started and neglected to finish, like soap stone carving, Warhammer 40K painting, learning guitar, and doodling. Been also trying to pick up some books I set down a while ago, been playing games from time to time. Want to get out paintballing and airsofting soon when the weather permits, as well as camping.

Right now, cooking dinner and about to do some motherfucking dishes that I've put off for a couple days due to work call out/ shitty time management.
Stella said
Aww, I did not know I missed the Nova reunion. I'm in the same situation as Sir Enzyme more or less, hoping I have time to get my RP hat back on during the summer.


Oh man, everyone's coming out of the wood works!

Nice to see you again, we do miss you! Although, I do think we need to write Jeanna and Tillus out of the story, since you guys have been gone for quite a while and aren't going to be able to return for some time. :/
There's more, but I can't say it's really improved... what you added just added more issues and complications and honestly feels really tried and overdone without any real justification for it. You didn't really change anything, just kind of shoe horned a couple suggestions in without really taking what we were saying to heart.

Still the same whole tragic childhood origin story where the Conclave is basically giving a 13 year old kid the equivilant of a death sentence, even though as I've said more than a couple times that quarians can't afford to casually discard their population, especially when it wasn't a huge crime. We still don't have any justification of how or why a 13 year old knows how to fly a ship, and I've seen enough character sheets to know that if a child's capable of doing something that takes years of training, you're not in for anything good. So yeah, it still has the same issues as before.

So the kid gets the boot and moseys around the galaxy and ends up on one of the most dangerous shitholes in the galaxy without any training whatsoever; quarians going to Omega isn't exactly the most common choice, but at least they had the pilgrimage training. This is like taking some American kid from an impoverished neighbourhood and him finding his way to Kandahar. Once there, he somehow joins up with the Blue Suns, who pride themselves on their professionalism and standards, and they somehow think a young kid from a pariah race is somehow a good bet for recruitment and trust him with their lives on an assault. Also, just because they lost members doesn't mean they're going to plug them with whoever just happened to be on the street. Real life private military contractors like Blackwater hire almost exclusively military vets and former special forces for a reason. The Blue Suns are the same way.

And then suddenly, the kid's a sharpshooter who has a blood lust. It's kind of an over-simplified way for someone to look at killing, don't you think? He went from being a snotty kid to a stone-cold, steady handed killer in the length of half a paragraph. This... doesn't bode well.

The second I saw that he was partnered with a batarian, I saw his twist betrayal coming from a mile away. It's so easy to use batarians as the stock "bad guy" race that I'm honestly shocked whenever I see them portrayed in a decent light on this site. And if I had a dollar for every time I saw the whole "betrayed for no apparent reason" trope, I'd be able to buy myself a nice Rolex. Seriously, why the heck would the Blue Suns go through all this time and effort to hire on this pariah kid with no military training or maturity, trust them with top of the line equipment and hardware, as well as with their lives and deployments, just to go through this elaborate effort to set of this "fake" assassination contract? Like, who is this guy that he killed? Why did he kill him? Why was he immediately betrayed and set into a jail? Really, none of it adds of, and it only seems to exist to be cheap drama.

And HOW the heck did he escape from jail after three months? People just don't waltz out of maximum security prison, and I can promise you a prison would be NOWHERE near a spaceport where a runaway convict could somehow get past security and stow away on a ship (once again, a REALLY big stretch). So now this kid, who somehow learned how to be a jail breaker during his few months with this PMC company that hired him on and betrayed him for reasons unknown, is headed to a Citadel Space homeworld on a planet that's notorious for having a fairly reclusive and xenophobic society on a planet that's 90% ocean cover that supports levo-amino acid based organisms instead of dextro-amino acid organisms like quarians, so what's he going to eat? Even non-purified turian food can make him horribly sick, so his options are exceedingly limited and starvation and dehydration is looking miiiighty likely at this point.

Oh, and somehow he can recognize a smuggling vessel that somehow managed to clear Kahje customs.. and wait, what?! He just somehow knew where to find an armoury and break into it to steal what should be VERY secured firearms? Nobody noticed? No security footage picked it up? How the heck did he manage to break into it in the first place and make it past armed guards when, as I mentioned, he should be starving (space travel can still take several weeks, by the way. FTL travel is only so fast, and Mass Effect relays only propel you to certain systems), a suit rupture will be fatal for him, so even if he's not killed on sight, he's risking a slow, painful death by taking a stupid, pointless risk.

Also, assuming he manages to procure those weapons, how the heck is he going to get back into a spaceport, which once again has high security like any airport you've ever seen while being a race that's routinely pulled aside and "questioned" because everyone thinks quarians are thieves and rats, while carrying two weapons that you can't exactly conceal and would show up on scanners the second they tried to pass through.

Oh, and he somehow stole this ship he somehow eyeballed as a smuggling ship right off the bat. Terrific.

I hate to be harsh, man, but I really don't think this is the right game for you.
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