Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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*Lowers my arms and stares at you, almost as if staring through you*

@Inimical

*A loud whir resonates throughout the dimension*
It appears that the spell is complete.
*A large robot approaches the planet with magical resistance to the deleterious aura, which the nanobots assimilate into*

Myriad Reality

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*Claps my hands, sending out the lightning in your direction in a horizontal arc, consuming the nanobots and striking you as well*

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*Strikes the tip of the blades with lightning to dull them*

@Inimical

*The part that it hits deteriorates, but I dissipate into nanobots and reform a few meters away*

Myriad Reality

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Right, but I meant the RP that Drake was referring to. If it were this one, I wouldn't be here.

I've played in enough balls to the walls RPs like that to have a very strong hatred for them.

@ZAVAZggg

Ah, I see what you mean now—that clears it up. Fortunately, RPG has a lot of content, some of which I like more than others. But there's something for everyone.

Myriad Reality

Well I meant it's more like those RPs in the sense that the players don't know how to write. They just throw out one action event after the other with no moments for pause or development.

@ZAVAZggg

I would disagree with that notion. I've seen various members of MR write extremely well—it just happens to be the case that this isn't a book. There's also a lot of time for character development without action sequences going, but focused on dialogue rather than thought and description, kind of like a movie.

Myriad Reality

That sounds like Fandom and Discord RPs to me.

@ZAVAZggg

MR is very similar to Discord RPs, with a bit more depth. But we like pagination, so we're here.

Myriad Reality

It was a rather bad time for rping i guess

It was way to common that people end up joining an rp, see an interesting one and just vanish without saying a word causing a lot of rps to die
Annoying as that was it was also normal that
The gm posts a bit of plot, they just respond to the given info and add nothing, it was basically reacting in character to the gm's story

So when i came with my attempt to use one of the styles i started with, which had a focus on all parties adding to the story and being active
They started calling me lazy and more (but if you ask me, being unable to add to the story and jusy follow everything on a whim like that is lazy haha)

Its a pretry huge step down from how i started
The gm thinks of a arc inside a bigger world, set the start up, plays a minor role and tries to guide the story into the right direction
While at the same time each and every other player had their own agenda, plot wish and ended up adding way more chaos (sudden monster attack or the way we were supposed to enter as given by the gm, well one player came with the idea that a fuel tank got hit and the entire tunnel was exploding, having to run back and find a new way in)
It was always a challenge to get your own plot back in while working on the main story focus
But it was fun, everyone together made such a great story
Having everyone working together on one big story to be called lazy and bad GM...

@Drake Baku

Fortunately, here there's no actual GM, so the direction it takes is based on all of us respecting each others' ideas.

Myriad Reality

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No monologue/ thinking
That will be taking some getting used too haha
Ok i shall edit it again and keep this in mind

@Drake Baku

Yeah, it's pretty different, but it works for us =). Thanks for taking care of that!

You know its a nice surprise finding an rp like this on this forum and not noticing any, to put it nicely, "unfriendly" remarks

I remember few years ago how i planned something similar taking the rp style from the one i started with more then 16 years ago.
Got no interests and only insults

So yeah a different style, a more old school like system like this having started up and active for a long time really is a nice surprise ^^
And having no monologue is as far as i know unique for a forum system so it is very interesting and adds a bit of realistic challenge as well
Nice^^

(Edit: i am on my phone so please excuse any typos i may have missed as that i have no spelling check's either on this thing)

@Drake Baku

I hate to hear that they were unkind about it; some people have hard preferences and push back against stuff they're not used to. We started up on a non-RP site years ago, so this style really lent itself best to where we were. And because we really like that it focuses on interaction instead of description, we kept it.

Myriad Reality

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*Blasts the insides exposed by the split*

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*Staggers back and leaps back fully once I realize I can't keep up with them*

@Inimical

*They break into a swarm of nanobots and reform a distance away as part of them rush toward you*

Myriad Reality

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*Blasts you with high-intensity, short range white lightning*

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*Suppresses the ground beneath me to minimize the blast's effect*

@Inimical

*My body splits open where you shoot the lightning*

Myriad Reality

@ZAVAZggg

Ah, nice.