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Thaum: Bugtanical Gardens

“Aww…” Estelle whined as the leech monster they had subdued earlier fled back into the forest where it came from, leaving Trixie behind to dust herself off and marvel at the preposterously sized creature they had defeated, the so dubbed Millipiderlen. Don didn’t know how to even respond to the Little Missy, collapsing instead to the ground by her side, wishing to the Gods that this was already done with, but was instead sadly reminded of how much longer there really was. The spider skittered along the ground towards Don, bending its head down to rub and nuzzle the Bro, causing him to shriek in horror once again.

"Umm... I think we probably got enough points to place... Hopefully...?” Lisette murmured, as she watched some of the contestants return with their own absurdly sized creatures. Estelle meanwhile watched the people and their bugs with narrowing eyes, her pupils flicking between them and their own dual prizes. A twinkle in her eyes signalled the terrifying dawn of a new idea within her mind.

“We’ve still got time. I’m sure there are bigger bugs out there we could catch-”

“No!” Don wailed. “No, no more bugs! This thing’s big enough!”

“Or… Hehehe…”

Estelle dashed off back towards the forest, heading towards the black zone despite the protestations of her friends behind. Some chose to follow her back in, although Don and the others too tired simply stayed behind, with Don wishing he could be a snail and curl up inside a shell to be away from the spider.

And thus… an hour later…

“Well,” Estelle smirked, placing both of her hands on her hips and lifting her head up in a proud, triumphant sneer. It was almost time for the judging to begin. “I don’t know if we’ve got the biggest, but I’m sure we’ve got something that could win somewhere here!" A sly chuckle escaped her lips as she thought of how much competition she managed to remove by simply stealing all the bugs she saw as she went. "I think we should be able to take first, all the way down to 20!”

Behind her was a preposterous amount of large bugs, every single one having been knocked out by Estelle and her friends and dragged back to the starting area with the help of Don’s eight legged bro. She had to admit she had a nice day here in the end. This was good training.

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Tae said Kapi and Isaac trotted along behind the others. Kapi seemed to forget that Isaac had hitched a ride and toppled over to lie down, only to cause both of the small animals to tumble over each other instead.

Gdi Tae

Caught up on the posts, and all of them have been spectacular. Thank you all so much! I'm going to start writing a post now, and after that I think we're pretty much good re: The Gardens scene, Fox. :) Looking forward to what you've got cooked up next!

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Hey everyone! I have to go out quickly to sort out some car stuff so I haven't caught up on the IC yet, but it looks a lot, lot better. My sincerest thanks to you all <3

I forgot to link this the other day, but this is what the bug catching scene has reminded me of |D <3 One Piece.



If that doesn't start at the spot it's meant to, then it's supposed to be 9:19-16:00 ^_^ (Of course, watching the whole film is recommended too... |D)

Hope you all have a good day! Love you, guys!

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You're not screwing up, Kei. It's just a few teething problems, which at the start of joining a year + in progress rp is perfectly natural. :) Don't be discouraged okay, I'm just trying to help ease you and Lute in nicely. ^^

And like Rex said, this rp does involve daily posting but it is also closed to new players. XD

I hope everyone has a fantastic day! Good luck with killer spiders, Tae! Good luck with school, essays, tests, exams and work everyone!

Guess who's late to work again |D

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Well, I don't think I'd personally have a problem with it? So long as it's infrequent and we don't get attacked and swamped by a barrage of people drowning out the regular conversation, I don't think I'd mind. But that said, I'd like to wait for the input of my other players first in case they do mind, since this is their ooc as much as it is mine, and having random comments from people might bother someone.

On average, how many RPs are you in at once?

I'm only in one atm; one I'm GMing is daily posting, and that's enough for me.

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Thaum: Bugtanical Gardens

Estelle had dived to the side to avoid the wayward flying belch of bubbling green saliva in the nick of time, the ground being left with a sizeable steaming hole. As soon as she rolled out of her dive and back onto her feet, she immediately spun around with concern locked onto her eyes towards Lisette, hoping and praying she had managed to avoid the attack as well. And indeed she had, managing to somehow, impossibly enough latch onto the giant insect’s tail and be shaken back and forth like a ragdoll, until a precise magical strike from the nature archer’s fingertips caused the beast to howl out in pain.

Estelle grinned.

“Looks like this is my turn!” Swift footsteps dashed towards the towering bug, with a low crouch propelling enough power in the red haired swordwoman’s leg to jump as high as she could, her net reared back behind her head as tightly as she possibly could. As the Millipiderlen turned to glare at her after recovering its balance from Lisette’s attack, its maw opened wide and a vicious roar erupted from deep within. At the same time as it lunged forward to strike, its sharp mandibles aiming to crush and devour her, Estelle’s arm swung out, and the wooden net with it. Despite the staff’s fragility, the force of Estelle’s swing done the job it needed, and the Millipiderlen’s head was shot diagonally downwards from the sheer force of the blow, crashing into the ground. A gust of leaves was swept up into the air to gently waft back down to the ground.

“Go, Don! Xan!” Estelle cheered as she plummeted back to the ground, her eyes trained on both Don and Xan who were already in the process of running towards the large insect’s head. Both of their own nets swung from the center outwards, slamming the poor Millipiderlen’s head off the ground and backwards, to sail towards the ground directly underneath Dylan and the affectionate giant spider, and their awaiting net trap. Despite the Millipiderlen’s size and terrifying appearance, against the Pride it was… horribly outmatched.

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I'm going to call next post for the Garden stuffs.

EDIT: And done. Post sizes are getting a bit big I think atm, maybe it's just me? By that I mean, I think Kei and Kathi are writing too much for one character, and I think Buns' posts have been getting a bit large too. Try and trim it a bit please, guys? This is (High) Casual, not Advanced, and with this being daily posting, I don't want it to grow too hard to keep up with reading. I don't know about anyone else but I'm starting to get demotivated coming to catch up on the rp and finding so much to read. I know I write a lot, but there's a difference for GMing etc (so Fox's posts have been absolutely okay ^^) but I want to trim some of the 'fluff' a bit.

Also, Kei, please don't introduce Lute's sister in your next post. Robin's being okay atm but I'd rather see a focus on Lute interacting with others then a rush to explain his backstory, please. I only expected one character, and yet atm you have three. Robin's fine as an NPC for Selan and Amy to interact with but I don't want to see that increased. Honestly, I didn't expect Delilah to be a proper character either with her dialogue shown, only for us to be seeing Lute's end of the conversation and his reaction. I just don't want you to risk overcomplicating things, try and keep it simple to start off with, okay? ^^;

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Tae said Upon seeing the giant spider, Kapi let out a small sniff -- a sniffle, if you will -- in remembrance of his fallen spider adversary back at the ruins.

For some odd reason this moment in Tales was one of my favourites XD Kapi and his adorable fire magic 8D

And don't worry Fox, we'll be totally fine together in LoU! ^o^ *feeds you to a clicker as distraction*

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Yeah, I did the same for my rp's interest check in making it appear more fleshed out. It was basically an IC post to help demonstrate and show the kind of characterisation, atmosphere and world my rp was going for, rather then being a bit cut and dry and just showing ooc esque information. It had... personality.

I also think pictures are good so long as they're not gone overboard, as they help to inspire and get imagination going.

Text formatting is important, and the relative aim of interest checks is to keep things simple. You don't want massive walls of text that make it hard to digest and unappealing to look at from the start. As for the ooc, I'd also suggest keeping large chunks of details in hiders to help break things up and make it easier to digest, it really is easier for the player that way. Another piece of advice I have is to be mindful of how much information a player really needs at the start of an rp. I've seen a few interest checks/ooc which go way, way, waaaaaaay overboard on the amount of detail and just present an awful, awful lot of text and information that needs to be read and learned, and there's not a single bigger turn off then that. Considering the vast majority of rps die quite quickly, I'm turned off with the idea of having to learn a vast amount of detail and lore for an rp that may not last long. Personally, I prefer to incorporate and introduce relevant pieces of detail in the IC where and when it's needed (better to show then tell and have it affect the characters at the same time) rather then go overboard at the start.