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Behind the Burning Hills: a Very Cheeki Post-Apocalypse RP IntChk

Alright, I am interested as well. Are there zombies, some form of mutant, or just people that are surviving?

@The Spectre

Zombies: not really.

Mutants: definitely. They will be "loosely inspired by" the real-deal mutants which live in the Zone of Alienation, and which crawled out of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In other words they won't be totally realistic, but I will attempt to make them feel realistic. So even though 99% of mutants are sterile in the real world, for example, my mutants will have become actual species, but ones which are still as horrible and grotesque as those which dwell in our world.

People that are just surviving: in abundance, and for all their own unique reasons. Some are fugitives escaping the law, others are entrepreneurs who see opportunity and beauty amidst the death and suffering of the Zone, and others still are clock-punchers "just doing their jobs" (like the soldiers trying to maintain quarantine under government orders).

Behind the Burning Hills: a Very Cheeki Post-Apocalypse RP IntChk

^ @PentagonWhite@DepressedSoviet@Hostile ^

Behind the Burning Hills: a Very Cheeki Post-Apocalypse RP IntChk

@Emuxe Welcome aboard.

Mates, I'd like your opinions on how large this RP should be. I can play NPCs as needed, and I'm giving the players the freedom to do the same, within reason; but we can all be in the same crumbling village near the Circle, or alternatively we can try to run several smaller stories in multiple locations across the Zone. As I'm playing a DMPC and I have at least two friends joining, we have reached the minimum 6 players I would have wanted before starting, but we maybe ought to get a little ambitious with the census. So what do you think?

Loving and Dreading the Black Shroud [shylarah & pugbutter] [Historical/Gothic]

@shylarah Take as much time as you need. I want you to be in a good state of mind when you're roleplaying, but I also know how life gets in the way sometimes. Hope you're doing well.

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

In the RP community I perused before this one, that was called "teleposing." I was accused of doing it, and I didn't realize it was so annoying until someone did it to me, but it has both benign and malignant faces.

The beauty of the "teleposed" insult is that if you call it out and attempt to confront it, they accuse you of metagaming, since you're getting fussy over an internalized thought within the character, not an external action or dialogue which can be construed by your avatar. But in theory there's a line to be drawn between, "My character does not like his character, or the position they're in together," and, "I'm frustrated with something this player just did so I'm gonna take it out on him by having my character think his sucks. Gee, don't you feel shitty now?" This line is blurred easily among people in whom the broader IC/OOC boundary, too, is blurred; the people who roleplay as prettier, more talented versions of themselves, Mary Sues and the like, who will take offense to critique of their characters because in essence you're critiquing them personally. Then the people who take writing seriously enough to care about what they produce, but not seriously enough to receive and accept criticism, whether from the player or the character, because they know what they're doing with their own intellectual property, and outside opinions will be wrong no matter what, and they're the serious deep artist who knows more about writing than you do.

But then, sometimes a cigar is a cigar, and sometimes it's just an IC conflict which needs to evolve organically.

So even though it felt shitty to glare through what were obvious OOC grudges materializing as IC contempt, which I view as blatant metagaming, it's a tricky situation to actually resolve. I for one know that I was just roleplaying an asshole character who kept his insulting thoughts to himself, not a mouthpiece for contempt toward the other roleplaying party.

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

And here's my bitch for the day: when an IntChk or even an established OOC thread looks fucking awesome, but the players who have applied for it don't understand how tone and atmosphere work, so their characters don't match it at all. So basically it's not the RP itself which sucks but the characters who belong...somewhere else; who would be good in a different RP, with a different mood to it.

Generally I'm talking super-serious grimdark tragic past both-my-parents-died-when-I-was-three stuff in a campy tongue-in-cheek setting, and vice-versa. More specifically I'm talking about an RP I was gonna join until I read the character sheets. Because sometimes you see trouble before it arrives and just have to duck out of its trajectory. It's like worcestershire on ice cream or Hershey's syrup on a perfect, medium-rare filet mignon; it's good on other shit but it doesn't belong here.

TL;DR Wasted potential makes me sad.

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

I'd be simultaneously flattered and disgusted if someone outright stole a segment from my character sheets. Didn't know anyone around here had that sort of audacity, tbh.

Thanks for clarifying, and sorry that it happened to you.

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

TFW people plagiarize the various shit you do on here

and are too lazy to even make it seem like it wasn't stolen content

@HalfOfLancelot

Is using the same character sheet format really "plagiarism," though?

Unless you mean actual plagiarism but I didn't see it in the brief and admittedly lazy scan I did of your post history.

Music Appreciation Thread

@VampireOracle"Epic" trailer-style music doesn't do much for me nowadays. Having listened to quite a bit of it on my own and just about every time I'm at the theatre, it feels a bit overblown and rote. You start to pick up on the formula and it sounds generic after a time.

@Aristo

You da real MVP. Anytime someone uses Adrian von Ziegler, Two Steps from Hell, or Imagine Dragons as the theme song to his character or thread, that's my cue to look elsewhere for interesting shit to happen and interesting people to talk to. It's the quintessential "I will attempt to be a badass and fail by even the most derivative definitions of the word" red flag. Every time.

Admiring the Black Metal love here, too. Though it's a little too far gone on the "noise" spectrum for me. I need Black Metal with more melody, and a certain standard of production quality (which doesn't say much in this genre, but still). 6.5/10

Loving and Dreading the Black Shroud [shylarah & pugbutter] [Historical/Gothic]

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