Gowi

Knights in Training

Are you still interested?

(If your just busy don't answer that)

@Rhythmloid

Definitely busy; some things I had to take care of and life is rather hectic as a byproduct.

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I'd also like to point out that I think we've all had our own different experiences on RPG and perhaps other sites and can attest to the fact that there are good and bad apples in every bunch.

HaleyTheRandom

Yes. Just because the median average is the way it is doesn’t mean there aren’t expectations. Back in 2004, I moderated an Arena-style role-playing message board and participated as a principal participant as well. There were many people who were good people of various “skill levels” and I can tell you that objectively that the bad did not define the good. People grossly misunderstand when I criticize a concept or idea that I am criticizing everyone; which is frankly, not the case.

I'd have to disagree, while arena has its problems, mainly from the fact that it has a very small user base. The community on there are no worse then just RP communities in general.

Dynamo Frokane

You are welcome to disagree, but it will not change my perspective nor will it suddenly make fifteen years of my experiences irrelevant or wrong. In regards to RPG, frankly I just don’t like the majority of people I’ve seen that frequent Arena since even before Guildfall— and I will fight you that any attitudes or toxic behavior have been non-existent. I will also disagree that it is no worse than “RP communities in general” and that is not just upon subjective feelings towards individuals or content but objectively in experience.

But I've seen more bias and elitism in Off-Topic, Chatroom and Casual Rps then in Arena. I started out in RPG purely as an arena player, and everyone there was always very mature and sociable.

Dynamo Frokane

That is definitely not true from what I have seen in Casual (off-topic and chatroom are non-issues and irrelevant since they share community regulars from all sections) which has been one of the least “elitist” of forums on RPG. I mean no offense or disrespect to you Dynamo, but looking at it as someone from Arena I believe you could be looking at it with a significant amount of favorable bias. For over four years I have written on RPG and specifically avoided Arena for a variety of reasons, nothing changed post-Guildfall in that regard.

I realise just by disagreeing with you I'm putting my own reputation on the line, but I dont think that antagonism label is justified.

Dynamo Frokane

It is justified; I do not come to conclusions haphazardly or without reason.

But that's just my random sixteen year old opinion.

HaleyTheRandom

Why do I suddenly feel ancient.

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Unless I'm insane, there used to be a way to rescind likes. I remember, distinctively, of doing it before.

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Evidently, my power is out. Hopefully this won't be a thing for my entire day.

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I've actually engaged in plenty of battle-orientated free-form role-plays that were both heavily collaborated and extremely competitive, and we maintained perfectly good sportsmanship during all of it.

Shoryu Magami

Same. They just were never in an Arena-type subforum.

Fantasy Seven [Seven Deadly Sins RP]

The mindset of my character is not to interact at this moment as I don’t think she would at this point in time. If that is a problem, I apologize, but setting up the tone and scene I find far more important than forcing interaction when it would not be in character to do so. As for mentioning— I can add tags, but I do think as a rule reading every post no matter who you are will remove the necessity of it.

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The Arena section in every site I've been to, not just RPG's personal one, have always been awful by my perspective and definition. I haven’t really read the debate myself between you and BrokenPromise so I cannot give you an opinion on that individual exchange. I just try to keep away from Arena as a rule— and this has made me tagged as an “elitist” (when I am anything but) by some users on the site— because it is often very hostile and antagonistic generally but I imagine given its competitive and dick-waving standards that comes with the territory.

Fantasy Seven [Seven Deadly Sins RP]

@GowiThat's right And take your time.

Also, sorry if my post seemed half-assed, guys. I'm honestly so exhausted from the lack of sleep and I've been feeling uninspired recently.

@HowlsOfWinter

+1

Also, time taken.

Fantasy Seven [Seven Deadly Sins RP]

@HowlsOfWinter

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K I E A M I E R A

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How long had it been?

For another individual traveling within the frozen wastes of the Flurry Forest it had felt like a lifetime. Since the green-haired woman had awoken in the shadows of the cold and desolate forest-covered hills some time ago and much like her memories her sense of time seemed hard to assess. She could’ve been traveling in the seemingly endless stream of icy rocks and frozen trees anywhere between days and months. Perhaps the inability to be certain about anything was her punishment for whatever actions she had done that resulted in her exile? That, at least, was how she came to presume she ended up as she did— a fact reinforced that she had little comprehension of her past outside of flashes and murmurs; unsurprisingly, she often wondered what those flashes and murmurs actually meant.

Unlike the other occupant of the forest, the green-haired woman didn’t feel issue to the frozen cold or death-like solitude— either due to her own personal vitality or the living forest’s own will she found herself rarely living in ill comfort and found a sort of eerie peace in the whole stretch of frozen wastes. That is, outside from the discovery of old caverns that littered underneath the frozen soil and unstable tundra that she had found herself in. Littered with old ruins and even older natural passageways underneath the forest itself, the environment that she had been wading through was interestingly alien and bait for her wanton curiosity. Such curiosity that had caused her to explore the underground caverns with eagerness to the point that she had not seen the cold skies of the forest for some time now. It was a curiosity that also led herself forward and towards the path of the other visitor to the forest, though neither of them would know it.

As she moved forward through the current passageway in the caverns with bow in hand a sorrowful cry echoed in the nearly silent cave.

I am not alone?

Out of subconscious habit, the green-haired woman disappeared from full view before moving forward again— even with the darkness of the cave, there had a need instilled in her to not be seen at all which cumulated in vanishing through her uncanny ability to do so. ‘Curious but Cautious’ as the saying went. But who’s saying? Was it her own or something she had picked up from another? A thought for another time, perhaps.

As she moved forward she came to the source of the sorrowful cry that had been uttered only moments earlier; a woman much like her of desperate condition and even more desperate emotions. She had to wonder who she was and what she was doing here in the Flurry Forest— was she lost like she was as well? The green-haired woman pressed her back against the cold stone of the cave as she carefully walked slowly to hide her approach, a look of confusion embracing her expression as she looked at the tattered and fatigued appearance of the female stranger.

There were many questions, but for some reason her instincts told her to not reveal herself.

For now, she would observe.

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Mornin'