SleepingSilence

Printed guns, melded metal - An experimental GM-less Cyberpunk RP

Will try to post something in the next few days.

So, brainstorming...does anyone want to set up any particular event? Or at least give ideas where you'd/we'd like to direct the story?

Give Me Your Favorite Lyric(s).

No favorite lyrics list of mine would be complete which some of these bands. (It's hard not to just post several paragraphs of a few of them.) But here's just a few good particular lines.

Oh,Sleeper
"Make my grave or animate my veins"
"If death is victory how afraid of life can we be?"
"You will bow at my feet or I'll rip out your knees and make of your face all the carnage you crave."
"You see your body as beauty, but your pulse is worth more."

Mewithoutyou
"A glass can only spill what it contains!"
"I was once the wine and you were the wineglass."

Silent Planet
"Praise me for my valor, lay me on a crimson tower -
Justify my endless terror as my "finest hour." ”

The Dear Hunter
"The flame is gone, the fire remains"

Demon Hunter
"Life is a path, Death a destination"

Ongoing Concept
"Stop being the print of someone else's painting!"

Current Mood in One Gif

>When you're finally enjoying the demented shit that you're writing.

Shuffle your music player and post the first 10 songs

1. Believe - Normandie
2. Ivy (Doomsday) - The Amity Affliction
3. Flash - Dance Gavin Dance
4. Is This Thing Cursed? - Alkaline Trio
5. Eighteen - Pales Waves
6. The American Nightmare - Nine Ice Kills
7. The Ballad Of Love And Hate - The Avett Brothers
8. Overthrown - Oh Sees
9. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - Cage The Elephant
10.The Price Of Agony - Fit For A King

I Wanna Hear Your Opinions On The Different Wrting Levels/Forums.

One of the biggest RP killers is the mentality of "eh I'll post later".

If you find yourself thinking this, do one of two things:

1. Drop the fuck out

or

2. Post anyways.

@tex

This sort have seems to have gotten way off the original topic. But I'll just add some quick two cents. Now this may seem questionable of me, since I've not GM'd here before specifically. But I have elsewhere. So some friendly advice to everyone.

If you're running a campaign, aside from world/lore specific rules, here's essentially the only rules a good GM needs.

1. The GM has the final say.

2. Stay active. If somebody hasn't posted within (insert preferred time here) and haven't explained their reasoning for their absence. The GM will take control of your character, if necessary. (Which can possibly lead to that character's demise.)

And that's it.

Yes, it's a hobby. But it's everyone else's hobby too, so they kind of need active participants. If you take a week of silence and procrastination to post anything, you're acting selfishly. You've got a life? Congratulations, so does everyone else.

I don't recommend rushing posts either, sometimes you feel sick or in a crappy mood. So explain your situation. That's not difficult at all, granted I'm sure a part of that behavior comes from introversion. But literally any signal, is preferable to nothing...

The best way to resolve any problems that may be legitimate, like a member dealing with a sudden death of a family member for an extreme example. You can use temporary character control, either the GM or possibly whomever the absent player permits to take control. (that's often that's something you can set up in the CS, preferably before it happens.) If you suspect somebody has gone inactive and it feels like a ret-con to just let them vanish from the story. Make a scene where they are killed off, or disappear from the story. (If it's not appropriate genre for death.) A GM, has absolutely no reason to let one or two individual slow/dropped without a word members from ruining the campaign at large. There's literally always a way around it.

If you're a GM that encourages people take entire months to post anything or do anything productive, it's also just as easy to include that (or any possible any other concerns) and address them immediately in your OOC.

Music Appreciation Thread 2.0

@Altered Tundra Bummer. But I didn't really get into Steve Wilson upon my first listen either, took a couple different songs. If you like Devin Townsend's poppier stuff with Ana, you may enjoy his track 'Pariah' a little more.

My only real critique is that I feel those synths in the chorus and mostly throughout the song didn't feel like they added anything to song. But instrumentally solid, as expected from Dream Theater. Lyrics were pretty simple. The flourish of strings at the end was a nice finishing touch. 7.5/10

I'd have waited longer, but nobody else comes here. :c

@Inkarnate

8/10 I enjoy my cheese. That was fun.

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Ignoring that I posted this in off-topic before. Just because it's worth listening to for the instrumentals.

RPGC #19: Beware The Metal Age - Discussion

@Frizan Is the metal age defined in any way? Like is this based upon anything? Or can somebody construct this world, its technology, setting and the behavior of these "red-eyed" constructs in basically anyway they wanted?

I Wanna Hear Your Opinions On The Different Wrting Levels/Forums.

<Snipped quote by Sierra>

Theres more skill in telling a story with fewer words and achieving the same goal. Lengh and post size is not the only factor of qaulity. Telling a story In 300 words we'll and effectively, is better than 1000 words with 400 of lore dump and another 100 of padding.

Lore dumping for hundreds of words, eh. Telling it as part of a well woven story, linking charecters and past organicly. That's qaulity.

@PrinceAlexus

I'm honestly hard pressed to tell if this is a joke...

@Sierra Because in the same instance that something may come across as overly ambitious, with flaws making themselves present because of it. I don't really think creating a simplistic post with little to no prose that just happens to be slightly more polished because it had far fewer chances to fall is particularly "Advanced" either.

I think why it is so much easier to find errors or just make up personal gripes with work that expands its scope thrice over others is self-explanatory. You can write something without fucking up, and make it beyond uninteresting as a piece of writing. If you never try anything new, you'll never have to fail at it...

While length doesn't need to be difference between Casual and Advanced. I'd argue they should be experimenting with prose, vocabulary, and stylistic choices. A novelist doesn't always follow the standard. People don't have to like it, but it shouldn't be marked as wrong unless someone can provide a better alternative. Actually, being able to do that with others writing only improves your writing as a result.

Post a random fact about yourself.

So I've mentioned a long while ago on a separate thread how few dreams/nightmares I've had in my lifetime. And how the few I have now aren't very unique. But I never specified my weird dreams. So, here's one of my youngest/vividly remembered dream/nightmare.

So, I was going inside the karate dojo I went to for lessons. (Bonus Fact: Black Belt. My older brother, also a black belt with extra strips, also taught at the dojo for a bit. :3) So when I get inside, there's nobody but my instructor, some woman (though I remember the details, not important to the story.) and this younger classmate of mine. (She was a grade younger than my class, but she had advanced abilities in one or more of her subjects. I think most people liked her fine.) So, since I recognized her and I called for her. She answers me with "I hear something..." Pauses. Then she speaks, "Buzzzzzzzzzz." Suddenly, giants bees crash through the front glass and attack me. Shoves the stringer through my arm, which knocks me to the ground and the bees go away quickly afterward. And this woman and my mom (somehow) are in a panic and rush to my side as I stand up and look at a part of the stringer still stuck in my arm. The woman comes over and pulls at it, but when she takes it out she peels off all my skin off from my whole hand/arm which make it look black, rotten and full of holes. They look horrified. I wake up.

There's literally nothing that prompted this. It's also probably coincidental that I believe I was actually stung by bees, or maybe I remember being told that my mother was deathly allergic to them after the fact like a few days later. Young me always had an imagination.

Tell them how they die

I'll just let Dragonforce tell you...