I would say, ignore, treat as an NPC until the player gets back.
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I can see you've made your decision. I'll back off.
There's a difference between normal forum pacing and "party of 10".
Most large roleplays don't have all the players together all the time. Because the pacing becomes horrible. Normally, large roleplays only join everybody up for special events. This is one of them, which means the pacing problems are still there, but a necessary evil.
My complaint is "I'm trying to help with that problem by not posting as much, and I'm being asked to stop."
How that involves me not wanting to read... I'm not quite sure where you got that. Not wanting to write, sure I could understand that. If you'll notice, my post, short as it was, references the majority of the posts that came above me in the posting order. I read ALL of them.
Most large roleplays don't have all the players together all the time. Because the pacing becomes horrible. Normally, large roleplays only join everybody up for special events. This is one of them, which means the pacing problems are still there, but a necessary evil.
My complaint is "I'm trying to help with that problem by not posting as much, and I'm being asked to stop."
How that involves me not wanting to read... I'm not quite sure where you got that. Not wanting to write, sure I could understand that. If you'll notice, my post, short as it was, references the majority of the posts that came above me in the posting order. I read ALL of them.
If you'll remember, Veitaru never heard that:
"Lethe would find the dramatic power of her tirade somewhat hindered by the fact that it was directed at a little girl nearly crying going "OW OW OW OW!""
As for the rest of your points, I prefer to go with showing not telling(you'll notice that in the post I referenced" but witchy-blue fire that reminded her of the catacombs and shadow temple and and and generally, things associated with Veitaru's deepest fears," is the only thing thing that tells people things they wouldn't see personally, and it was a decently long post), but I didn't feel like putting the effort into a long post showing the gradual lead up of falling asleep, especially seeing it would mess with our already poor pacing. There's just so much going on that we really don't need more. If this were a story, right now it'd be a very bad one because the author felt the need to bog everything down with super long ill-placed character development for his oversized cast. Sure, it's a roleplay, meant to be read one post at a time as it's written, which helps. But I still feel so much "Aaauggh... so slow..." that I didn't want to throw more molasses onto the barbed wire.
"Lethe would find the dramatic power of her tirade somewhat hindered by the fact that it was directed at a little girl nearly crying going "OW OW OW OW!""
As for the rest of your points, I prefer to go with showing not telling(you'll notice that in the post I referenced" but witchy-blue fire that reminded her of the catacombs and shadow temple and and and generally, things associated with Veitaru's deepest fears," is the only thing thing that tells people things they wouldn't see personally, and it was a decently long post), but I didn't feel like putting the effort into a long post showing the gradual lead up of falling asleep, especially seeing it would mess with our already poor pacing. There's just so much going on that we really don't need more. If this were a story, right now it'd be a very bad one because the author felt the need to bog everything down with super long ill-placed character development for his oversized cast. Sure, it's a roleplay, meant to be read one post at a time as it's written, which helps. But I still feel so much "Aaauggh... so slow..." that I didn't want to throw more molasses onto the barbed wire.
"Mmm.." Solace's response was a bare minimum. She stared at Isidora for a few moments. Likely sizing her up whether she was worth talking too.
After apparently making a judgment one way or another, Solace sat down on a bunk and leaned gingerly against the wall, most of her pressure at the shoulders. Her tough demeanor faded for a moment as she let the cool stone soothe her head wound, and her eyes closed just a little too long for a blink. As they opened again, Solace refocused on Isidora. "Alright. What did you want out of this conversation?"
After apparently making a judgment one way or another, Solace sat down on a bunk and leaned gingerly against the wall, most of her pressure at the shoulders. Her tough demeanor faded for a moment as she let the cool stone soothe her head wound, and her eyes closed just a little too long for a blink. As they opened again, Solace refocused on Isidora. "Alright. What did you want out of this conversation?"
That's basically what your message boils down to for Veitaru.
To Veitaru, Ganondorf, the Hero of Time, all those big names Lethe dropped just don't mean anything more than distant boogeymen and children's tales (which she thinks she has outgrown). To her it's just "blah blah, bad news blah, bad news blah, will you help, blah."
In short, Lethe dropped a bunch of interesting specifics... if and only if you care who those figures of legend are.
As for asking her questions now, she asked before and got "Shut up and go find people" in most emphatic terms, so she doesn't want to ask Lethe again, not realizing she might get an answer now that everybody's here.
To Veitaru, Ganondorf, the Hero of Time, all those big names Lethe dropped just don't mean anything more than distant boogeymen and children's tales (which she thinks she has outgrown). To her it's just "blah blah, bad news blah, bad news blah, will you help, blah."
In short, Lethe dropped a bunch of interesting specifics... if and only if you care who those figures of legend are.
As for asking her questions now, she asked before and got "Shut up and go find people" in most emphatic terms, so she doesn't want to ask Lethe again, not realizing she might get an answer now that everybody's here.
Given Veitaru's backstory, she already knows bad stuff is going down. She's asked Lethe, "Ok, I know. Now what are we supposed to DO about it?" And has yet to receive an answer.
"Snrrrkk." Was Veitaru's eloquent response when the smith nodded his head to her. Given that they had waited ever so long for the fairy, and then the fairy had gone on to once again tell them nothing new, well, nothing new to her at least, Veitaru had eventually stopped paying attention. And she felt plenty apathetic about what came afterwards. To her, it was just long internal monologues, stupid questions, married couple number two holding a duet for longer than everything else put together, long discussions about whether or not one should come, monologues about Ganondorf, rebuttals. There was a long series of stuff going on that Veitaru didn't care about, all in all, and considering the Veitaru made it a point never to sleep for too long at a time, catnapping was a thing for her. Even if right now her head was resting against a grave.
"and get clearance from everybody first."
Do you think there's a remote chance this will ever happen?
Do you think there's a remote chance this will ever happen?
Flobble.
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