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The Battle of Sea Salt Bay

@Rhythmloidawesome! Thanks for he tip! And also, thanks for the words of support. I'm going to make a post now.

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@Rhythmloid My tomorrow. If you like, we can put up a posting schedule. I've been thinking that I need to be pushed in a militaristic manner in order to maintain discipline.

Truth be told. I'm kinda nervous about how much you like this RP. I have to make sure that every post is as good as it can be before posting. This isn't like my other RP, where it's more playful, absurd, and light hearted. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy this RP immensely. It's just that, ya know. I just don't want to disappoint you. n_n

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

Sorry about the delay; anxiety is trying it's damned hardest to gnaw away at me today.

@Hylozoist

A struggle I know all too well.

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Sorry about the wait. I screwed up my sleep cycle by playing overwatch in the middle of the night. I got better, winning some 1vs1 mystery duels, but it's made me chronically sleep deprived. I have a head ache now and I have to go to work, ugh.

Expect a post sometime tomorrow.

Words Are Oxygen [Hardcore]

You two make some very good points @Mistiel@Lalliman. What I was proposing though, could be very difficult for some people to understand. Especially those who have never suffered mental illness.

The stunted ability to learn wouldn't stem from a deficiency in logical thinking. Rather, it would arise from the difficulty of emotional expression in this world. Think of the phrase "I do not have a mouth but I must scream". This deficiency wouldn't hinder people from learning everything. People could still learn logical tasks just fine. The ability to learn to express more complex and layered ideas such as love, regret, indifference, etc. That integral part of the human experience would be difficult for these people to grasp completely.

Playing in an RP where people have trouble expressing themselves completely can be done. Only using a couple of words to try to confer deeper emotions and intentions. It would, I dare say, make for a rather interesting experience. Here's an example:

Never had he felt that way before. A flood of sensations both familiar and alien. Difficult to understand yet easy to recognise. Nobody else but her. Like a spell, a drug, concocted by the beautiful yet terrifying. There was so much he wanted to say, though it seemed, there were not enough words in the world to say it.

And how could he describe it? Like a pleasant yet painful vice-like grip on his heart? Like drowning from the inside out? Like a feeling of unbridled ecstasy? No description he could fathom could ever come close to describing the sensations he experienced. To try to describe such a thing would surely invite an early death. The sensations only meant for her. Truly, for such a thing, only one word came to mind.

"Lily" he said.

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@Rhythmloid I will shoot some ideas your way when I get them. For now, you're doing great.

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That's great! Add to your hearts content. This is your world after all. n_n

Words Are Oxygen [Hardcore]

If I may @Mistiel. I have a couple of ideas about this particular RP.

I do take issue with the while "juvenile birth defect in the hands" thing that stops people from communicating non-verbally with their hands. It's a bit of a stretch. It just seems too convenient.

How about instead, people in this world have a severely stunted ability to learn. That almost all these people could only ever know what the progenitors teach them. This, alongside a strict and dogmatic doctrine that deems information from anything but the projectors as unclean, could lead people to having the complete inability to teach others relatively complex logical concepts.

Also, you could make it that the language spoken is a completely new one that bears no resemblance to the old languages at all. Information on the old languages would be almost completely wiped out. Any information at all could be cleansed by the establishment.

People can still have their own thoughts and feelings, but as most people can attest to, the ability to properly express what is inside ones head isn't a skill everyone has. Nor is it a skill that most people have mastered. Quite the opposite actually.

Perhaps some artistic skills like singing and painting would come naturally but maybe we could make the artists expression of those mediums relatively simple in this world.

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@Rhythmloid I can work with that.

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@Rhythmloid I always thought there would be a junkyard! Good job! Where would the clubhouse be though?