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Myriad Reality

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Target refuses to comply, open fire!

*Doing so, a hail of crimson lasers is unleashed upon you from multiple directions*

@Caldizar

*Each beam blows a hole through my body with ease, which is as quickly filled with the same chromatic light, restoring my flesh*

Myriad Reality

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*The soldiers flick their safeties off one after the other*

We won't ask you again! Get on your knees or you will be shot!

@Caldizar

*Immediately sprints toward the soldiers*

Myriad Reality

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*Their gazes snap to you, and they take aim*

Stay where you are, and get on your knees! NOW!!

@Caldizar

Hey, are you all okay?? Any radiation poisoning?

Myriad Reality

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*My fragments by this point have slithered off in numerous directions, changing their shapes as they do so to mimic the local flora, fauna, and animal life of the planet. The fallout, meanwhile, will only linger overhead for a few hours at most. Or at least until scrubbing teams are sent up to cleanse the lower and upper atmosphere of radioactive particulate. Meanwhile on the ground, teams of heavily armed soldiers have already started to comb the area in which you crashed*

@Caldizar

*Starts toward the soldiers*
Hey! Are you all okay??

Myriad Reality

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To be fair, it's both to varying degrees, but not wholly one or the other. The thing is, I so rarely see the inner thoughts or emotions of other characters here despite the post being from their POV. Which means you can still have introspection without breaking the format of the RP. Plus, show don't tell. Sure an inner monologue is kind of telling, but it's also kind of showing since it's the characters thoughts from their POV. Like how it'd be in a webcomic or anime almost.

It's why I also end up forgetting the details of so many characters, despite my best attempts not to, because they do not leave a mark beyond what interactions were had. I suppose what I'm getting at is they don't always feel entirely like real 3-dimensional beings since I only get to see their views and perspectives when interacting with them. And I don't say this to be rude, mind, it's just something I've come to notice over the years of on and off posting in this.

@ZAVAZggg

Maybe just a different perspective based on my history, but to it seems that all of those problems would be solved with the standard style rather than exacerbated by it.

Myriad Reality

can you please send my a PM so i can read it again please??

@Axel Amijiki

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Fair, but not having inner monologue's or thoughts removes like 90% of all character development one could have. Plus, it's not that hard to switch from inner thoughts back to the action at hand, depending on the scene anyway.

@ZAVAZggg

I'd argue that part of the point is development through interactions with others, but you do you.

Myriad Reality

Hmm. Maybe something like :Text: could work to differentiate, since it's not too intrusive but also noticeable?

@ZAVAZggg

I would caution that using a lot of those techniques could easily lead to not having a ton of player interaction.

Do I have to fill out a character sheet??

@Axel Amijiki

For your first char, yeah. Did you read the rules or have any questions?

Myriad Reality

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*The missile finally make contact as my fragments continue to fall, some of the having reached the ground in places already, and detonate to bath you in a sea of radioactive fire*

@Caldizar

*The radioactivity burns away at my flesh, and I hit the ground with the sound of crunching bones; as quickly as I go down, I stand back up surrounded by colors and start running toward anybody else affected by the blast*

Myriad Reality

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*Takes the hit with a bellow, my body fracturing into thousands of individual pieces due to the force of the impact. Despite this, you hear an all too familiar voice ring out in your head mere seconds later*

Oh dear, it looks like the insect made a mistake!

*Chuckles*

Then again, how could you have fathomed my true plan? I never mentioned needing to land on a planet wholesale, after all...

*It is now that you see it. The height at which my body was fragmented and splintered was not enough to ensure the leftovers would burn because of the insane amounts of friction, and now they are - several thousand of them - continuing their journey to the surface below. The very same place from which you can see hundreds of thermonuclear warheads rapidly approaching*

You were a brief amusement worm, and because of that I'll make their deaths painless and quick. They shall fall believing they are becoming one with their god, because in an ironic sort of way, they are.

*A cruel and mocking laughter fills your head as the warheads draw close and closer still! And then...*

Checkmate. Goodbye, worm.

@Caldizar

Come on!
*The boot structures activate an embedded set of lasers, which propel me toward the planet at breakneck speeds*

Myriad Reality

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*Rumbles and roars, not in anger you quickly realize, but laughter, surprise, and just the tinniest hint of true frustration*

I swear I will never understand why you insects simply can't accept your place in the grand scheme of things!

*The batteries below steadily increase their fire, and if you turn your head a certain way, you can see the telltale glow of missile launches blooming across the planet's surface*

I will survive the onslaught worm, but tell me...

*My tendrils extend to grasp your hand, attempting to shred and tear it apart*

CAN YOU?!

@Caldizar

Believe it or not—
*You shred the hand without any difficulty*
That's what I'm best at!
*Large mechanical boots form over my feet and I let the artillery shred my back, but my flesh seems to form out of the colorful flickers at a faster rate the more I take damage, which propels me into you with a forceful kick*