NuttsnBolts

NCQ — Season I: Favors for Favors

I can't keep up, even in the holidays. Plus, even at the rate I was at before I was the last person to post. This isn't an easy choice for me to make, but it's one I have to.

@Cassowarysaur

Pace has been something that has been discussed both here and in the chat/pad. At the moment I know I can keep up and it seems to be that my posts have appeared every 2 days. Did you want to perhaps wait until after the intro sequence to see if once the world opens up, it becomes more manageable? Many of the others haven't posted much either with M and Natsu still on their first posts I believe.

I should ask, what's your posting cycle, availability and such? Id hate to see what happen to me several rps ago happen to you because I was also boxed out of an rp by speed posting.

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

@Shorticus

Romance =/= sex, period. Romance is the psychological-emotional bond the characters share with each other; sex is simply to satisfy personal lust.

Regarding child characters...

@tsukune

So at the moment in an RP I'm in we have a running joke that it's basically a harem, due to the number of female character we initially started off with (it has balanced out though), but at no point can I see two character hitting it off. We have one character with a child support character, one with a young teen sibling support character and our oldest Player character is in her late 50's. It comes across as a balanced, well thought out world where characters appear with different dynamics and the children actually help emphasise the traits of the older main character. However I will admit that this dynamic doesn't work for every roleplay.

I dunno... when it comes to sex in an RP, I have to agree with @Shorticus. I've read a few Smuts to see if it was something I'd get into, and honestly it just felt weird enough reading it, let alone writing about it! There's ways to do romance that doesn't lead to sex and I think the best way to describe it is with a picture, that I wont link, where it has two comparison images of 1950 and 2015 titled "first date" with the older date having a silhouette of a man with flowers and kissing the girl, and the 2015 comparison was a girl on her knees sucking him off.

Why do I bring that up?

I actually think many people can't do romance without sex. A breakdown in communication over the years and publicity through media, internet, hyperactive teens, and ease in available porn sites has confused people into thinking that romance is created through sex, rather sex is created through romance. I know that sounds a bit philosophical but proof can be seen in how popular a book like 50 shades of grey was, a story about a girl's sexual desires.

NCQ — Season I: Favors for Favors

Added Madison to my CS sheet. Took a bit to think of how to rework her into the story.
(Also, some edits to the lore were done from the last RP in order to achieve the character I wanted)

NCQ — Season I: Favors for Favors

We need to set the right mood for the moment. ;)

NCQ — Season I: Favors for Favors

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NCQ — Season I: Favors for Favors

T A H L I A S T Y L E S

Mess Hall - New Anchorage

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Tahlia walked with the others, through the snow, the wind and the cold. She listening intently to some of the questions that were raised by her fellow fighters but chose to remain quiet for the time being. Until a mission was given to her she had no reason to question the authority of a man, such a Graham. A man that seemed to have a vision, a plan, and knew exactly what he expected of each 'soldier'... but the mention of 'Honour' was something she found as an odd choice of words from individual known as Joshua Ray. To look for honour meant that you were on the same path to become a hero. It means that that you are hoping to be idolised, admired, and expected to perform in such a way as to appease everyone. A path that Tahlia had no interest in.

Under Red Star's command Tahlia was instructed not to make contact with any outsiders that wished to know more about her and her division, in turn the Corporation would not publish her post mission debriefings in any public archives. The publicity flared up when her team managed to force a retreat on a small army of NC fighters that was looking to raid Broken Hill for it's mineral resources. Mountains of steel ore held away in storage for the higher ups to use in their NC production lines, and every known reporter was hunting for Tahlia like vultures around a carcass. From Ruby Rhod to Jimmy Olsen, Penny Maverick to Brick Tamland, they all wanted to break the news first about Tahlia's tactics and skills. The only problem was that her success on that mission had nothing to do with skill, it was pure luck.

Tahlia had managed to fool her enemy with a bluff. The enemy believed she had a small force of fifteen to twenty plus NCs, they thought she had grouped ambushes behind ridges, inside buildings, hidden under the earth. The truth to this was much more interesting. Tahlia only had command of five support NCs and a bucket load of dummy radio transmitters. It was a bluff of the most dangerous and risky kind, pushing her team and workers back at base to the very edge of insanity and exhaustion. In order to make her foe believe her force was greater than what it truly was she ordered her support NCs to return to base one by one during their fight where instead of being reloaded with Ammo, the NC's weaponry was swapped out with pre-loaded gear; all while a man that got the daily nickname of Van Gough, repainted the markings on the NC giving them a new look and call sign. It was extremely harsh on her team. She lost one man due to the phantom pain he endured by constantly entering a new load out. In the end the foe never believed once for a moment that the NC they were fighting earlier was the same NC coming back to re-battle them; that the scanned force of NCs hidden behind ridges unloading an entire payload was actually a one man team; that Tahlia's job was not to engage the enemy but instead to fire between the forces and prevent the foe from getting too close to discover her dirty little trick.

"Honour?..." she scoffed quietly at Joshua's remark, knowing that if she was to tell a reporter about her so called victory that day, it would have meant the end of Broken Hill. "You must be a kangaroo loose in the top paddock if you want to become some sorta 'secret police force superhero' or sumthing fucked up like that." Tahlia made an effort to include finger quotes around 'secret police force superhero' just to emphasise how stupid the phrase was. "If that's what you wanna become then you can rack off now before you get us all killed with your self inflated egos."

Tahlia turned towards Graham, noting his position of power, "Sir. Permission to be excused for my outburst. Haven't had a decent sleep in a long time and some of these... children," she glared at Alex with her tired eyes, "have been treating the tram like nursery pen."

She reached into her pocket to pull out a cigarette, slipping it into her mouth before lighting the tip. "Oh, and I have no questions for you, sir," she spoke in a muffled voice.

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

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How they interpret my leave is on them and even so, I always give a good reason but the majority just can't take it and they become bitter to highly potentially interested players whom also leave because of their newfound attitude. Apparently, it's a universal theme on roleplaying forums so I'm just talking in terms of my last experience on a different forum.

With what happened to you, was it just that everyone flaked out on you? What happened? I doubt you did something wrong otherwise you wouldn't've gone out of your way to format many group roleplays to see which one is a hit or miss so don't blame it on yourself; commitment issues apply as much in roleplaying as they do in the real world!

@Penryn

Two come to mind, but in both I had established a world, collected players and characters who fitted pretty well and started up the roleplay. After a couple of post people just stopped, with one person stating that they didn't know what they wanted to do with their character.

It's at that point where I would ask people to be creative. Build the world a little bit and explore their characters, but it seems like some people don't understand how to use their own creativity outside of character sheet building. Create an enemy, have a conflict with another player, hear about a secret in the world... just anything is better than nothing.

If I could sum it up it's motivation. Some people just simply don't know what motivates a character, what makes them tick, what they want to achieve. The more characters I have created (been in a lot of RPs) the more I realise that it's a key factor to their growth.

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

Group roleplays seems to be more understanding of this scenario but in one-on-one's? Oh boy.

"If you're not longer interested in the roleplay, please let me know! Don't flake out and disappear without a word. It's rude to leave me hanging. I won't hold it against you."

>Person lets partner know they are withdrawing for their roleplay.
>Partner passive aggressively rants about it on status updates or threads like these.

'k.

@Penryn

I think it's more a desire to not hurt the other persons feelings by saying "you've and I have created a very crap story. I want out"

In saying that, group ones can be just as bad. I've made a few RPs where they just didn't play out right and things have happened so I've closed them off. Its harsh as a gm when no one replies too cause you wonder if you've made a big mistake somewhere.

Going to make my first Youtube video! help me?

"Best" of anything will always end up with fights in the comments, so be prepared for that. Stating it's your personal opinion like what @ClocktowerEchos mentioned, is a good way to address this.

Also, a way to engage your comments is to ask the audience about their favorite characters and why. You could then do a follow up video where you tally up some of the more popular and list off their recommendations and reasons. For this don't list an order as that can cause issues with "Light was mentioned more... doesn't mean he's better than Alphonse", but just the simple act of doing so will not only bring your audience closer to you, but gives you more content.

In no order from me...
- Karma Akabane - assassination classroom
Basically cause his psychotic nature adds an element of fear and interest that no other characters have.
- mako - kill la kill
she's adorbs
- mio - nichijou
Who doesn't love a cute girl who secretly draws smut
- Adler Mayer - Rokka: Braves of the six Flowers
A man that simply thinks he is the worlds strongest man, and yet you both doubt him and believe him
- Jason - Tokyo ghoul
If you look into the history of where Jason's character is designed from, you'll see how strongly important he is to the story itself.

Artifacts of a Lost Civilisation - ( Kitsune & NuttsnBolts )

@Kitsune how was your Easter? Do you need to hit the gym after all the chocolate eating?