Dinh AaronMk

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I was going to write my next post, and I started. But then my Cat decided to get in the way and I did laundry.

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Fast? Slow? What is just right? What sort of pacing do you like for RPs and why? Please feel free to post your answers in this thread!

Given I'm someone who writes more for NRP than anything then it'd be odd to say that I like it "slow". Most of the time my contemporaries act like they simply want to be the biggest the soonest. I prefer a sort of style where the individual actions of characters within the nation/faction can be played out and shown how they effect the greater scope of the nation/faction in their own way. On this basis, I like it when I can do something of at least a day-by-day basis, generally ascribing each page as a week.

This helps in "modern day" RPs where travel between countries is roughly a day and by your next available post you can have an envoy on the other side of the world to carry on a story arch. I'll admit it's not a healthy system for RPs set in earlier periods where flight isn't possible. But I still like to move at a pace where I can explore the possible dozens of arcs/sub arcs as a way to dictate how the larger nation/faction acts as a result.

Fallout: The Long Haul (ALWAYS OPEN TO NEW PLAYERS)

I wasn't aware of Controlled Exposure. Then again I don't like Point Lookout enough that last time I decided I would give it another roll I was just interested in leaving.

Fallout: The Long Haul (ALWAYS OPEN TO NEW PLAYERS)

Darcs said
Controlled exposure to radiation over time is a surefire way to ghoulify yourself!

At the same time the game has shown instances where a person may turn into a ghoul with an instant blast of radiation. And even a sane one. But given no attempt at sciencing ghouls has been done (and the game's plot insists on keeping them an enigma for the most part) it's a pretty much a solid roll of the dice combined with the careful balance of the subject's mind on the knife's edge between sanity and feral.

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Darcs said
Dinh, your verbose posts are actually killing me. Are you secretly Somber?

Are you saying I should start making it rain boats?

And now, I'm not Somber. I still need to catch up on Project Horizons as well, I'm not even on the final part of that story. I got so much to catch up on.

Though, I will divulge the behind the scenes in that Sweet Gin is at least physically based on Blackjack. I had some humanized artwork of her I did. So when I joined the original RP I made her for I tossed one of those up in appearance and went, "Good enough".

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Even on their own will I can't take it on good conscious.

A Sci-Fi RP On a Wild, Untamed World!

The world is the ocean of existence on which we sail.

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AtomicItalian said
Sweet Gin has literally thousands of words in her backstory,

This made me laugh.

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WilsonTurner said
So, what, people are just animals that need reins put on them?Dinh's sig says that one can't break a man as they do a dog or a horse, but apparently one can control a man just as easily as a dog or a horse.

Actually know, I just force you to blow a man's brains out at close range and give the impression I relish in such opportunities. Then you fear me as a monster. Then you're broken and loyal.

I am then The Jackal.

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ArcanicNeon said
Actually i'm going to meet chris avellone and go to his panel!

I'm going to pretend that you probably didn't miss the joke.