Aemoten pushed past Olan and the guards, yes, by drawing against the wall and then stepping in front of them. And well, the attack is vertical-diagonal ... which should make it much harder for the yth to draw enough to the right, seeing how the sword's tip would have been slightly right of it to begin with (and it would be effectively incapable of drawing farther to the right than its arm's length allows). Basically imagine the sword being at some 25-degree angle at the lowest point from being completely vertical, and since the yth is left of Aemoten, not right in front of him, the sword would end up nearing the yth not directly, but from the left side and aimed across the centre. (Oeh... Trying to describe where not-one-dimensional things are in three-dimensional space as they move in time.) Does it change anything?
Edit: How great is an yth's armspan compared to its body, exactly? It isn't greater than their body length, or is it? It might be that I have been imagining them having somewhat relatively shorter armspans than they do have - at most 3 feet with this not-yet-full-size yth, not that much and barely the length of, for instance Aemoten's sword's blade and under the length of it's tip's trajectory - and therefore pictured it more locked in place in comparison to other things going on amongst other things...
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Ehh... How to most precisely describe what he is doing? He is definitely swinging the sword, and not stabbing; I pictured the yth being in front of and to the left of him,and the first strike being with the blade vertical-diagonal (base more to Aemoten's right than tip) by the time it would reach the Yth from the front - possibly slightly adjusted if the yth is actively trying to dodge, which it shouldn't be able to successfully do unless it got both of its stuck hands free during the half-second between pacifying Olan's halberd and Aemoten stepping forth. The next moves would admittedly depend a bit more on how alive the yth is after the first strike...
And yep, avatars were enabled at some point last night ... although when I noticed it then it only allowed you to upload one, and didn't actually bother to display it on the forums. I couldn't find my old avatar, either - so here is a new badly-drawn digital 10-minute sketch of a firebird! Drawing with only a mouse available is entertaining, and that tool I used for the fire blurs a bit too much for the fire to look like fire ... I could probably either fix it or draw a proper one which is not just meant to replace the rule of unicorns with something familiar to other people, but seeing how I never got to swapping out the one I had been using just because people commented on my lack of an avatar in a chatbox and so I quickly came up with one during a five-minute silence... Attila went facedesk and said it was quite not what he meant when he said that I should get myself one.
(For some reason that eye-picture as always made me inclined to stop and stare back at it for a second. Not precisely sure why.)
(Pity you don't wish to reveal what you have been writing ... would have been interesting to compare to your usual writing, at the very least (I could distinguish at least your WoTM entries with ease ... writers' "handwriting" is a thing). And no, I admittedly do not know what the point of pseudonyms is aside of lessening the chance of random people you don't know deciding to track you down. (People being too ashamed of what they write to let it be associated with them?) ...Granted, one of the reasons I originally took the alias of Shienvien *was* to disassociate the expectations strangers - strangers being the key-word here - who were familiar with my usual writings from myself, but... But in the end, people very quickly got to expecting things from Shienvien, too. [Given how you have been in a few roleplays where I have very decidedly and intentionally been writing in a strange or nigh-unreadable manner - Arechiarnaw especially might or might not come across as a familiar name - I cannot quite claim you have been left untouched by my own various experimentations. And in all honesty, I stopped caring that people know that I occasionally write odd things a very long time ago.])
*pokes at Merc* Post?
And yep, avatars were enabled at some point last night ... although when I noticed it then it only allowed you to upload one, and didn't actually bother to display it on the forums. I couldn't find my old avatar, either - so here is a new badly-drawn digital 10-minute sketch of a firebird! Drawing with only a mouse available is entertaining, and that tool I used for the fire blurs a bit too much for the fire to look like fire ... I could probably either fix it or draw a proper one which is not just meant to replace the rule of unicorns with something familiar to other people, but seeing how I never got to swapping out the one I had been using just because people commented on my lack of an avatar in a chatbox and so I quickly came up with one during a five-minute silence... Attila went facedesk and said it was quite not what he meant when he said that I should get myself one.
(For some reason that eye-picture as always made me inclined to stop and stare back at it for a second. Not precisely sure why.)
(Pity you don't wish to reveal what you have been writing ... would have been interesting to compare to your usual writing, at the very least (I could distinguish at least your WoTM entries with ease ... writers' "handwriting" is a thing). And no, I admittedly do not know what the point of pseudonyms is aside of lessening the chance of random people you don't know deciding to track you down. (People being too ashamed of what they write to let it be associated with them?) ...Granted, one of the reasons I originally took the alias of Shienvien *was* to disassociate the expectations strangers - strangers being the key-word here - who were familiar with my usual writings from myself, but... But in the end, people very quickly got to expecting things from Shienvien, too. [Given how you have been in a few roleplays where I have very decidedly and intentionally been writing in a strange or nigh-unreadable manner - Arechiarnaw especially might or might not come across as a familiar name - I cannot quite claim you have been left untouched by my own various experimentations. And in all honesty, I stopped caring that people know that I occasionally write odd things a very long time ago.])
*pokes at Merc* Post?
Why implement a fixed-purpose tab which many RPs don't even need (or at the very least need a lot less than a place where to place all that world and region info to in an organized manner - we don't have an on-site place to do that) when you could instead spend your time working on a system that lets GMs create their own selection of tabs from scratch?
Completely redoing a feature that already carries a load on it is a dozen times harder than doing things correctly to begin with; it's essentially the first law of coding.
The first law of environments? Do not force your users into using stuff they don't feel like using; everything not vital to the most basic functions *has* to be opt-out.
Completely redoing a feature that already carries a load on it is a dozen times harder than doing things correctly to begin with; it's essentially the first law of coding.
The first law of environments? Do not force your users into using stuff they don't feel like using; everything not vital to the most basic functions *has* to be opt-out.
I am not shooting it down; I am merely saying that there are things which necessarily have to be corrected before this kind of system can be implemented - since at the current state, the remainder of the site's mechanics is bound to break the table-format you suggested up.
I do not oppose new ideas, but I maintain that some additions should be witheld until they can be made work *well*, and furthermore insist that all extras should be opt-out. EVERYTHING which is not IC/OoC thread and plain text ought go be opt-out.
And never forget that fixing a bad system is a much more arduous process than thinking things through before throwing anything new out there.
I do not oppose new ideas, but I maintain that some additions should be witheld until they can be made work *well*, and furthermore insist that all extras should be opt-out. EVERYTHING which is not IC/OoC thread and plain text ought go be opt-out.
And never forget that fixing a bad system is a much more arduous process than thinking things through before throwing anything new out there.
I am aware of the limit, Captain Jordan. It is indeed fine with most of the ordinary posts, but *not* nation sheets - therefore, under the current circumstances, applying that specific system intended for *sheets specifically* suggested above won't work. I barely have any nation sheets under 80k characters.
Raineh Daze said Consistency for where you can the things....The list in the first post of the OoC? Also, I don't get how finding the sheets would be a problem if all sheets are linked ... *click*, and the sheet is in front of you. Again, if the GM can't keep up with one's RP enough to even keep one list straight, the GM can't lead the RP, either.
@Ellri: I can't imagine something like that working on a site which cannot even accommodate most of my nation sheets... Given the post character limit is as small as it is now, I have to double-triple post to fit a single nation sheet... Which would in turn create an obvious issue with fields determined for each post.
What do you mean under consistency? List is consistent all right. And if the GM can't even keep track of who is in the RP, then the RP is doomed anyway (or needs a new GM, at least).
I don't think you got me here: I am speaking of literally having *multiple pages* of inactive CSs, some of them too long to fit within the current lettermark-limit for a post. If a slow-paced advanced RP pulls off half a dozen pages of characters, active and inactive mixed, I don't want to see the mess a successful Casual makes. At least make the character sheets tab something more ambiguous, like "info". CS is too specific to be predetermined.
I don't think you got me here: I am speaking of literally having *multiple pages* of inactive CSs, some of them too long to fit within the current lettermark-limit for a post. If a slow-paced advanced RP pulls off half a dozen pages of characters, active and inactive mixed, I don't want to see the mess a successful Casual makes. At least make the character sheets tab something more ambiguous, like "info". CS is too specific to be predetermined.
I can make you tea? Hot chocolate? Anything?
Protip: If you are like I and never switch the computer off (or at least don't do so while awake and nearby), then keep one browser tab open with the PM convo / RP IC ... then you can still use the other posts for reference when updates are being pushed.
Protip: If you are like I and never switch the computer off (or at least don't do so while awake and nearby), then keep one browser tab open with the PM convo / RP IC ... then you can still use the other posts for reference when updates are being pushed.
Looks fine to me from that side... (Well, and now it also occurred to me that she is *only* wearing Aemoten's half-coat, and nothing else at all... She put that on after Aemoten threw it on her to cover her up, and then she just fled outside without any further dressing up.)
Oh yes, those avatars... The 'net is full of free-to-use stock photos of ... basically everything (Scenery? Squirrels? Cats? Flowers, even?) and Mahz decided to go for horribly drawn neon unicorns regardless. (My first knowledge of unicorns came from a fairytale wherein the hero was tasked with slaying the unicorn - it was a mean beast that attacked villages and trampled people and impaled them on its horn if it couldn't trample them. Thusly, unicorns are evil creatures for me, period. My childhood says so.)
I am still on the boat of having another project to deal with ... with the addition of there being other people involved who cannot very well proceed without me. Nevertheless, I'll try to stop distracting myself with projects enough to post. Have to take breaks in between, anyway, for the sake of still remembering how normal human grammar works by the end of it all...
(Edit: Old project? Is it something that requires secrecy?)
I am still on the boat of having another project to deal with ... with the addition of there being other people involved who cannot very well proceed without me. Nevertheless, I'll try to stop distracting myself with projects enough to post. Have to take breaks in between, anyway, for the sake of still remembering how normal human grammar works by the end of it all...
(Edit: Old project? Is it something that requires secrecy?)
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