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I have been writing as a hobby for longer than you have been alive. I have been a regular member and roleplayer of no less than fourteen different online forums during that time (including the old RPG), five six eight of which no longer exist.

I was previously a regular on the Homestuck forums, but I became so sick of thread turnover there that I asked around and eventually found the Guild. Since joining, I have exclusively only participated in Advanced RPs. Before Mahz gave NRPs their own subforum, I used to be an NRP regular in the Advanced Subforum. I am a Guildfall survivor, and know/regularly write with a few others.

If you ask anybody who has written with me in previous RPs, they should tell you that I have a generally open schedule, I post regularly and in a timely fashion, and I never drop an RP once I join unless the thread dies. Some of them may tell you that I have extensive expertise within the realms of Biology, Psychology, and Physics, which I will make no effort to validate since there is no way I can provide hard proof of aforementioned alleged expertise to anybody over the internet (though I am happy to try and answer any questions you send my way).

My favorite fandom is the Myst franchise, which seemingly nobody other than me has ever heard of.

I was a Contest Moderator for the Writing Contests Subforum for just a little bit over two years. I wrote the Moderation Policy for that subforum and I ran a contest called the Twelve Labours; you can still go there and see all of them and the entries people wrote for them in the Contests Section and the Victory Archives.

I have been quadruple secret banned from the guild discord. That is not a joke.

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Thanks! I'll try not to need it. Here, have some virtual cookies!


Noted.

Roster updated.

In other news: @mdk, the deadline is approaching. It would be a shame for me to waive all the currently accumulated errors just for things to start falling apart along different seams.
A brief announcement - after thinking it over, I am currently removing all errors from my alterations list save those committed more than once. It makes more sense to punish persistent errors than isolated ones, and this should hopefully prolong your characters' longevity somewhat.

Be warned, I am counting errors made between posters and individual posts. So some accumulation is still to be expected.

A new post will be up early tomorrow.
I have not heard from @RomanAria as to the status of their reviews yet. I imagine they are busy. So,

If I do not receive their reviews by this Friday, I will post the results and my own reviews then.

Ding. Right on the mark.

@Bright_Ops, you still are not tagged - but very bad things are happening. You might want to post soonish.

Some news: You are all making far more mistakes than I had anticipated. '-'

I currently have six pages worth of notes detailing the nuances of those mistakes.

An example:
...Agitated, as Penny had promised her death yet not ==how this was going to happen==...

A particularly sophisticated error of tense, grammar, and possession. It is almost impressive really. Poses serious technical issues in implementation, but I am thinking of replacing every instance of the word 'it' with 'this.'
Notes

I am spending approximately 1000% more time checking and inserting errors than I am writing the posts, and if I were to include all of them what we currently have would be an unintelligible mush. So new policy, at least for the moment, is for me to only use the most egregious errors. In particular, errors made more than once. This will be effective as of right now.

Edit: I also now find myself in the surreal circumstance of realizing I forgot to insert a particular error or else missed proofreading a valid word that needs to be corrected to a mistake.

Edit the Second: In further regards to the current accumulation of errors, I am contemplating setting aside all errors currently accumulated other than those made more than once. This may be a merciless sudden-death bonus round, but I can be occasionally generous. What do you all think?
@Cruallassar

As Kael pulled on th bras-lever seated to th wall th door popped open - jusd as th car-door lock, a knob of carved pewter, slams down du to Luca' panicked handling of th control at th second door on th right-hand side of th limousin a way down.

@WiseDragonGirl@mdk

Andrea reache Luca' sid immediately saw whad th softly ticking boy wa, to h panicked handling of th control, locked id - apparently every other door to th limousine, sav for th rear righd-hand door which th younger man with th bow had jusd opened. Turning hi attention back to th crossbow wielding knighd, Andrea saw th figure level th compound crossbow fire th bold. To Andrea' peripheral vision, h saw th window for th forward righd-hand car-door sliding down as Luca wildly jostled a bras switch.

@PlatinumSkink

Th fad bolt th armored figure had fired wa on a course whad took id directly through th broken windshield into th limousine' interior had id nod been for Penny' well-placed redirection orb. Th bold sail cleanly into th field jerked upward, sailing oud of th field a good thirty degrees off-targed sailing over th limousin entirely.
Unfortunately, th bold was evidently heavy - less than halfway over th car id losd mosd of id momentum after reaching th apex for id arc, began to descend. As th limousine had no rear-window - with th back wall taken up by th television screen - nobody saw whad happened when th bold hid th trunk. Everyone certainly hears id though - a keening wail began to reverberate through th car, like a melodramatic sigh. Shortly after id was followed by th slow, crunching, grinding, seething sound of metal slowly being ground down or compacted...

@Holmishire

"This is 144, whad is your emergency?" A polit voice came through Ariett' phone after th firsd ring. Sh could distinctly hear a tell-tal ticking nois from th other end of th lin.
The next post is going to be up in around ten hours or so. Anybody else who wants to post or post some more before then - that window is closing.
Dear gods. I think I'm glad that motivation prevented me joining this round because two sentences in I was miserable. I could read it. I could understand it. But it wasn't any fun, and I rp expressly for fun. Replication of errors is one thing, putting them in at every possible opportunity another. So @Terminal, I'm out. I will be ceding my life/lives (depending on how the ownership of the one given me by Aria works) to others, but I'm going to wait to do that for the moment. I'm trying to decide if I should give them to those with only a few, or wait to see who survives the first few rounds.

I'm open to being persuaded. And I would appreciate being pinged when each adventure comes to a close, just so I can check in if I forgot to. I'll be cheering you all on, guys! SMUSH THE TERMITE (not really but hey, it fits).


The only and brief persuasion I will attempt - consider, from a character perspective, modes of thought and behavior that occur when metacontextually the universe makes no sense. If errors keep racking up at the current rate, eventually poster uncertainty is going to have to bleed across to their characters.

That is all.
Just to clarify again (I answered this previously), the doors were unlocked.

Emphasis on were with Luca's fumbling.
......aaaaaaaand shit, I messed up. I read that part where Donny barked orders "while he was moving," and in my head, that said he got out already. Now I'm... uh, well, do I want to edit my post with watchful Terminal right there looking?


You have permission to edit to conserve continuity.
I admit that I'm sorta still wondering about whether my character's ethereal sight is telling him anything unusual about his amulet...


The amulet itself has no magical power remaining, the others posters are going to be responsible for reporting whether you see anything in them, and I wanted to save a more detailed description/aura reading for once Kael can get a good look at the people outside.
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