Etcetera

Myriad Reality

Wow! This seems really cool!
Would you mind if I could join?

@Bloopie

We're always open to newcomers! Have you read the rules?

Myriad Reality

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*Is slammed into the ground despite blocking it with my hands*
You're gonna hurt your friends with a weapon that big.

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*The special properties of the lightning wither the blade away as the hammer lands directly, due to me blocking Data's blow*

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No.

@Inimical

So be it.
*A complex labyrinth of magical mirrors appear; the hand of the robot opens and shoots a beam the size of its palm, which the mirrors redirect and focus into a beam the size of your body, trained on you*

Myriad Reality

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Your arsenal never ends, does it?

@Inimical

This was the aim from the start.
*Punches you with a planet-sized fist*

Myriad Reality

Made another animation.

@ZAVAZggg

I like this one. You might enjoy the short game "Marble Marcher," which is a similar concept in real-time.

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.