Dion

Late Nights and Early Mornings

@Tass Welcome Tass. Your name closely resembles the word for bag in my country.

I just thought you should know that.

Odin's 1x1 Walhalla (18+).

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Ósnjallr maðr,
hyggsk munu ey lifa,
ef hann við víg varask,
en elli gefr,
honum engi frið,
þótt honum geirar gefi.

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Welcome to Valhöll, Einherjar. This is my domain - Odin, the Aldafadr - and where I bid you welcome. As it is known, Odin is a traveler, shape-shifter, a crafty man, wise though ever searching for more wisdom. This reflects through my writing - I am capable, but I know I can improve. Hence, I always seek to roleplay with partners that can match or even go above my own writing capabilities. After all failure is the best lesson. I am constantly reading other roleplays - both to analyze IC posts for ideas on prose, character building, and good IC coding, as well as to analyze OOC content on how to organize an RP, make it appealing and aesthetically pleasing. Note that this does not mean I am perfect at it - I am but a humble student on the art of roleplaying, so if you feel improvements can be made where ever, I am open to your ideas. I might not agree, but I will certainly listen and offer my own views.

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Óðinn, Wōden, the Aldafadr, Wōdan, the High One, Wōtan, Wōđanaz.

Odin is a 21 year old male from the Netherlands (GMT+1) who writes on Roleplayerguild as a past-time activity. He enjoys the interaction of characters - writing something and seeing how the other character reacts to it. He has been a part of Roleplayerguild for approximately five years, and has roleplayed since approximately 7 years. Despite this he views himself as an amateur - capable or not, ultimately there will be others that do things differently and possibly better. So.. he is never done learning. Despite how he carries himself, he can be friendly if he chooses to be. He has a massive God complex - who else would take on names such as 'Buddha' and 'Odin' other than him?

For all his wisdom, Odin only knows a little bit about a great many things, and knows a great many things about little subjects. However, what he does know, he knows it well. As he is a student of Safety and Security Management studies, he is quite proficient in subjects such as criminology, intelligence, spatial design in the eye of security, and cognitive adaptations for the purpose of crime prevention. He is not against sharing his opinions, but knows that unwise men best shut their mouth among wiser. This follows the sayings of the High One, Odin himself;

Ósnotr maðr,
er með aldir kømr,
þat er bazt at hann þegi,
engi þat veit,
at hann ekki kann,
name hann mæli til mart,
veita maðr,
hinn er vætki veit,
þótt hann mæli til mart.

However, despite this, he is primarily occupied with historical roleplays. His tastes are eclectic and whimsical, and he will typically 'roleplay anything.' But somehow he always drifts back to historical roleplays.

What is important to him in a roleplay is grey characters - Odin believes highly in a narrativist view of everything. Everything is relative and this is represented in all characters - according to Odin, every writer must show some semblance of narrativist understanding. Every character has their own truths that are separate from objective truths - two sides of a war will know different things to be 'true' even if they are not true in the objective truth that we as omniscient GM's have.

Something else that is important is a willingness to accept that fiction is separate reality, meaning to say, do not project the RP onto yourself and become one of those creepy people. Having strange things you want to write is one thing, wanting them to be reality for you is another.

Sincerely yours,

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At the moment I am primarily interested in doing historical roleplays - whether it is set in our own world or a different alternate universe is irrelevant to me right now, I simply want to write something historical. Think Game of Thrones meets costume drama. I thoroughly enjoy gritty and realistic settings, though am not opposed to mild fantasy elements. Before I let you guys in on my preferred settings and so forth, I will write out some pointers first. Please read them. I have gone through 50% of the forum population already, and I know people don't read these but for your own sake do read them. If you do not read them, I will aggressively ignore you, drop you without telling you, or simply vanish. You have been warned.

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ₒ “Interested. PM me!” I made this thread so people can read and PM me. If I wanted to PM you, I'd read your thread and PM you.
ₒ “Do whatever you want!” We're roleplaying together, it's collaborative writing. We work together - we set a goal and work towards it. If I'm asking you 'what should I write?' chances are I'm probably already not sure where we're headed IC, and is a bad sign. Telling me to do whatever I want isn't helping.
ₒ “Are you posting soon? Hello? HELLO? Yes I know it's been two hours, but you're online so you can post!” I have better shit to do than reply every two seconds. If I don't feel like posting I won't post - I expect the same from you. Not everyone has 5 hours to kill and no hobbies. If you think I'm rude for saying this, just don't apply - we won't work out. I post in my own time, and if you make writing a post feel like a chore and not a hobby, I'm just not gonna do it.
ₒ “Hi, I'm interested. Do you wanna RP?” No, I made a thread because I felt like it, I don't actually wanna RP. Yes I wanna RP, I made this thread to RP, so if your opening line is 'do you wanna RP' reconsider PMing me.
ₒ “Hi, I'm interested. [END PM.]” OK, great. I have no idea what you're interested in. My life? My faith? You just wanna tell me you think I'm interesting? Please come with some indication of what you want.
ₒ “I wanna play a sub!” Yeah, but you're going to have to convince me. I don't mind submissive characters, but on RPG, 'sub' is often synonymous to 'please let your character determine my characters' every move,' and I don't feel like running an RP on my own.

ₒ “Hey, I'm ___ and here's a little bit about me.” I don't really care about what you ate for dinner, or what your dog is called, but some basic information would be nice.
ₒ “I'm interested in [RP IDEA 1], [RP IDEA 2] and additionally I thought of [YOUR OWN IDEA]. I have some character concepts thought up, so if you are interested, I can explain.” Ah yes, I want to know what you are interested in (and maybe even why) and I do really enjoy when people put some additional thought in.
ₒ “I do ___ so I have a lenient posting schedule.” I don't really need to know why your schedule is x or y, but feel free to tell me. You can post once a day? Great. You can post once a week? Also fine. Once a month? Cool. Just tell me, and keep in contact while you write.
ₒ “I want to focus on story/smut/balance.” It's good to know. I'm 100% OK with all options as long as you don't change up on me midway through. Just tell me.
ₒ “Here's an image for my character.” I like images - real, artwork, anime. I don't care as long as it's good quality and fits the theme. Please use them, OOC, IC, whatever. Just remember they supplement the words you write, and don't replace them.
ₒ “I like your pairing but I'd rather play ___, who is different because ___.” The pairings are just guidelines for interesting scenario's. See them more as prompts. If you have a character idea, propose it to me and I'll see what I can play opposite it. It comes down to giving and taking.

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ₒ Pre-history

ₒ Caveman x Cavegirl... yeah, cavegirl. That's what they're called.

ₒ Viking Age

ₒ Norseman x Norse woman
ₒ Norseman x Captured slave
ₒ Varangian guard x Byzantine royalty
ₒ Varangian guard x Byzantine woman
ₒ Ex-Byzantine guard x Rus' woman

ₒ Medieval

ₒ Nobleman x Noblewoman
ₒ Conqueror x Noblewoman
ₒ Noblewoman x Handmaiden
ₒ King x Queen
ₒ Hireling x Anyone

ₒ World War II

ₒ Medieval fantasy
ₒ Superpowers

ₒ Chance Encounters (one offs, short RP's)
ₒ People of different backgrounds (one offs, short RP's)
ₒ Artificial Intelligence (robots, androids)

ₒ Exploratory Missions
ₒ Colony-ship and Colony-creation
ₒ Sentient AI (sentient robots, androids)

Those marked with bold are currently enjoying my attention and will be preferred. Roles in italic are mine - if neither is italicized, I'll play either. Do note: this list is not all inclusive and if you have ideas that fall outside of these settings, you can still pitch them to me.

Medieval Fantasy? (Preferably 1x1, but I suppose that's negotiable)

@Avali if you're looking specifically for 1x1, try here; roleplayerguild.com/forums/16-1x1-int…

I'm new and dumb and this is hard.

@Avali Forums are easy. You click threads and post a reply.

Couldn't be easier.

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Hey ✋

@Ten Bears ask your superiors about risk management and mitigation and then reconsider whether it's smart to tell everyone you're part of the IDF counter terrorism force.

You're not very smart, but then you don't need to be smart to handle a rifle.

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

@Grim If they weren't being sarcastic back. (Which that sentence didn't indicate with any context clues for it. Do I have to bring up other forum users and their absolutely pointless/baseless feuds with me to show where I'm coming from?)

No, I can't take someone's "could have ignored me" statement, as anything but ironic as hell, when I'm being called a hypocrite. -.-

(Also, if you're actually starting something with me too. Don't...)

@SleepingSilence

Yeah, don't, he'll just say you can't say the word coulda, pat himself on the back, and walk away 'victor.'

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

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@Odin Yeah, not even dissecting that waste of my time because you didn't even spellcheck your own post, if you 'care'. Coulda isn't a word. You proved my own point...

@SleepingSilence

muh text speech homeboy plsssssss

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

Please, point out flaws with these paragraphs

OK.

@Odin If it helps, I was going to point out people bitching about others personal grievances, is some of the most petty goddamn shit I've ever seen. Then I was going to post a gag clip, (spiderman 3 how it should of ended, with the line "You don't understand, I'm sick, that makes it okay to break the law.") to point out the semi-irony of calling out someone else's calling out. While playfully defending being sick for my moodiness. But deleted it figuring, if someone really wanted to, they would be bound to bitch at me and prove my banner meme will never die...

@SleepingSilence

Very interesting, little relevance. Very nice, I have nothing with Spiderman so I have honestly no idea what the hell you are talking about here and your entire point is lost on me because you prefer to make a very niche reference to something I might not understand. This would be fine except ... well I'll come back to it.

So I mean, I've never said someone can't point out spelling errors in my (actual roleplaying posts) or give me advice/critique. But some people are too piss drunkenly stupid to not know the difference with text speech and writing.

@SleepingSilence

Correct, you probably never said that. I wasn't saying you said that so we're all good. However, your demarkation of what can be critiqued and what cannot namely, '(actual roleplaying posts)' seems rather arbitrary to me. Yes it is text speech - okay, boohoo, I'm telling you you look like an idiot when you say 'spell check your work' and then proceed to, yknow, not do that just because 'muh text speak.' You look stupid.

No one -needs- to read my bitching about writing.

@SleepingSilence

Somewhat correct. But I have to read your posts to be able to figure out whether I wanted to read it or not - that is, until a block function is implemented.

No one cares about text speech in casual chats or conversation.

@SleepingSilence

I care.

You want to point out my writing flaws that badly? Go through my own goddamn writing on my roleplays and tell me what I could do better.

@SleepingSilence

That'd probably cost me a lot more time than it'd give me personal satisfaction for proving you wrong, so I'm not going to do that - maybe when I have more time available I'll take you up on this.

And if you find an actual problem. I WILL fix it and even thank you for it. Even if the things are outright dead, just to prove a goddamn point.

@SleepingSilence

Ah but see, now we're entering another problem I already saw in your previous post - let me find it for clarity and completeness.

So many people can't even do that, and I have a feeling at least one person in these 177 pages has been critical about someone's writing ability yet, put absolutely no added effort in their own posts. Spellcheck your work. Cut out repeated words and sentences that add nothing to the post. You're suppose to be making your writing actually interesting to read...have something, anything dramatic happen in your post. (An argument, a fight scene. Whatever actually builds plot or character.) Don't just explain how a character feels, or purple prose about a landscape and exposition dump. Make your post engaging or build up to something interesting. Making long wordy posts that are slog to read doesn't make it any better than someone merely posting a few concise paragraphs.

@SleepingSilence

Right, who decides all these things? Who decides what an 'actual problem' is. You? You just said you need to write so your post is interesting. Interesting to who? Interesting to the reader, naturally. If I am the reader and see what I consider an error in your writing whether it is spelling, grammar, or just prose, am I not entirely right to say it is an error because I, as the reader, find it disturbing or uninteresting? I am the reader - therefore I am right. You are telling me you will edit your post to my whims and desires just because I find it to be an error? Very interesting.

Secondarily, I disagree with about 99% of what you propose is 'good interesting writing' or something of that sort. To quote from above post; "You're suppose to be making your writing actually interesting to read...have something, anything dramatic happen in your post..." and "Don't just explain how a character feels..."

What kind of nonsense advise is this? Life isn't an anime - 'dramatic' things don't happen around the clock. 90% of life is boring dull moments. Yes, you don't need to describe these things, I agree that that is not interesting to read. But, shit, do we have to have every post contain a fight, argument or a murder case? Is that truly what is considered interesting writing on RPG? I fear the day I post a roleplaying post that simply describes what my character is doing without including at least a swear word or fight.

Besides drama, 'explaining how a character' feels is very important. Do you want to play with a puppet that does what you want without rhyme or reason or do you want to play an actual (human) being with feelings, emotions and all of that? Your post makes it seem like you don't - after all we can't describe how a character feels. I'm sorry - I find husks very uninteresting, and I guess if this is how you RP, you will lose my interest very fast.

And here's the kicker - all of this wouldn't need to have been said if you just constructed your post a bit better and made sure not to make yourself look like the authority on what is good writing.

If you don't know the difference, learn it fast or stop bitching like you're being personally attacked for my statement.

@SleepingSilence

I don't really feel that way.

Edit: How is it hypocritical to say, everyone is flawed and plead for people to take constructive criticism and fix their roleplaying posts to make the experience better for the readers that need to read to know what's going on? Please, point out flaws with these paragraphs that I wouldn't even need to make if I wasn't responding to your own ludicrous personal whining against my general statement...

@SleepingSilence

I guess if you wanted to make the experience for me, as a reader of your post, better, you would've chosen not to include some vague reference and monologue about... what was it, Spiderman 3? Or as you put it, I couldn't enjoy what you tried to

make ... better for the readers that need to read to know what's going on

. Seems very, very contradictory with what you said here.

Just like you say I didn't need to read your text-speech post, you didn't have to reply. But you did. Why?

Coulda just ignored it.

Hey ✋

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Well, yeah. But, as long as no one finds out, I am good to go. A lot of soldiers take pictures while doing something and still upload it to the media for fun. 99% of them never get caught because no one really cares as long as it doesnt affect the private information we hold in the military.

@Ten Bears

I'm from Palestina.

See you soon.

Something like that can be very real.