Mariana Collie

The Unnatural Campus (Full)

@MikkishtheLeprechaun Awesome yay. If it's in direct conflict, I don't mind removing the dog. But I'm happy you think it may work.

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

@Peridot I agree, I like to see immersion in writing that activates my brain with sensory information. It's important for both visualization and holding interest. However, I'm not sure it's something I'd expect or ask for in low casual or free. (Though I'd have a big smile if I saw players doing it.) Above casual maybe but only to a certain extent. Wouldn't ask players to have novelist tier skills.

That being said, there are times when it's okay to tell instead of show. When summarizing, moving time, avoiding repetition, and simply to avoid uber-description. There's moments it is appropriate to narrow in and describe in detail and others where you want to keep things moving. Sometimes these moments occur back to back with each other, even sentence to sentence. One sentence is full of evoking details, the next gets things moving and is brief. During these moments of moving along, it is possible to "tell" in an entertaining way.

The Unnatural Campus (Full)

Checking in here before adding to the list, I am new to this so appreciate any directions. I'm assuming that the rp starts as the characters arrive brought together by Maniacles en route to this island. Thus, am unsure how open the backstories are and I'm willing to edit if something is wrong. I added some backstory under origin and can clarify whatever if you want but felt keeping it simple was safe for a free rp.

Name: Nbarra "Bara" Olecie
Age: 19

Origin: She hails from a rural town in Colorado, a ranch at that. While enjoying the animals and work, she was an only child expected by overbearing and borderline physically abusive parents to continue ownership of the ranch. Instead, on a day when they had struck her one too many times she lashed out and struck her father back. The situation escalated and she ended up restrained, then jailed for assault after her parents testimony claimed she was the one who started hitting first. Their wealth sealed the deal and Bara spent half a year behind bars and another half in community service. During this time, her relationship with her parents was still rocky, resentful.

Towards the end of her term, the Maniacles company approached her at their home offering mercenary training and work. She felt intrigued and even interested in something that would allow her to leave home, but when she realized her parents were the ones behind securing that offer (STILL trying to get back at her after all this time) she threw a fit and refused. When her term of community service was up she took her long time friend-- the dog Miko, a suitcase of items, her mother's handgun and ran away from home. Climbed aboard a bus ride cross country. At a rest stop in the prairie, some official looking suits approached her. They slid in across the diner booth and demanded to know why she was running from obligations. Furthermore, they said the offer to work for them was never optional. They were simply humoring her.

Flustered she decided to surrender right there and took the job. She was already free of her parents home, so why did it matter any more? At least a job may hold a future bigger than homelessness.

Appearance:

My Hider

A short, compact frame that can never be intimidating strength wise but is fairly agile. She has brown skin, kinky hair and hazel eyes.

Dog:

My Hider

Miko is a large working mountain dog, standing a little above waist of the average person at 29 inches high. She has thick white fur and a loyal attitude. She stays by her owners side but is otherwise very lazy unless her owner is in danger or has work for her.

Skills: * An agreeable attitude, she doesn't like to cause drama and prefers to just do her job.
* If game like terms were applied, she's not much of a fighter but she has a high agility that lends to being able to run at high speeds, or sneak around quickly. She's more of a stealth build.
* Additionally, she has a healthy adrenaline that has applications from holding out stamina while running to stuffing her face with food to keep up the high energy. This can lead to embarrassing hyper moments around people or doing MORE work than was asked of her (or work that nobody asked her to do) just to not be bored.

Reason for joining: Maniacles offered work after her parents sent them her application/info for consideration (against her knowledge or will). She ran away from this obligation only to be quickly tracked down with the intent of kidnapping her if she refused. However, she actually agreed to the job the second time around because she felt it'd work out.

Other: She carries her mother's stolen handgun. When she lived at home, her parents would often make her go outside to work without being armed. This demonstrated how little regard they held for her very life once she revealed her desire to leave the ranch. Stealing the handgun felt good. Liking to keep her companion close, Miko is often laying by her side. Both of them hate to be separated, so if she leaves the dog to go to school, she'll feel anxious and Miko will probably tear something up while she's gone.

Ban the Person above you

Banned for not being a more experienced blue budgie! For shame...

"You have no friends"

@Tyler Night These pictures touch me on a deeper level

@MikkishtheLeprechaun All right I'll check it out and see if I can wrap my brain around a fitting char

Getting Your Bleep Together When You're Struggling [aka "how do writing when am a basket case"]

I want to thank you all for the input! In here I have found several helpful advices, some of which I already do (write down plans and info in text docs, organized into folders for example, using my own flaws in characters)...but that leads to a rather important discovery after reading your posts: I really shouldn't be so worried.

While disorders and memory loss are embarrassing in person, it doesn't always affect my writing or whether I'm willing to just buckle down and have a good time. I wasn't really feeling sorry for myself (way too used to it for that), but I'd say my life has kinda revolved around my problems to the point I felt they were the basis of my world...not necessarily! I've noticed that I'm far more composed on here than real life and I should take advantage of that based on the whole reason I want to do this again: it's fun and relaxing. It should help me in more ways than one to let the writing beast loose despite struggles.

You guys reminded me this isn't some sort of test to prepare for, you guys just "do it" for the most part. It's a beloved second nature, and I'd like to get to that point too. So thanks again. Maybe I wasn't really fishing just for writing advice, but also fishing for a confidence booster: last night I tried to get started but the thought of making a char or something made me nervous. Will people hate me, or will they hate what I write? Well, it's two separate things isn't it. And like I realized, it's not a test or a big deal. It's okay. The practice will help that anxiety at the very least.

I hope that others can find some useful tips about writing in this thread as well. So if anyone else has thoughts, feel free.

Ban the Person above you

Banned for not accepting the glory of BCs on this, a cursed holy forum

Ban the Person above you

Banned for conjuring images of parrot eating in my mind.

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