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themcnoisy

@JohnnyShoulder I haven't earned a Trophy for months genuinely. The last one I got was playing Tomb Raider online with Rog and Kal and I don't want anymore until we finish that! Dreams has helped me get over that addiction.

@Gremio108 Wow mate great work. When you publish I will buy a copy for sure and buy another one for the local library to get your stuff out there!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy That's quite the imagination. I can't imagine a Hyena and an Elf getting it on lol.

It's a great way to build up a back story and is the first time I have even heard of this method. I struggle to build characters and the few stories I have written always end up about a particular incident or brief Windows into a person's life scraping on the details.

Could we make a Science fiction one about a team about to embark on a mission to a foreign planet?

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RogerRoger

@Gremio108 Hey, it got me unstuck. Whatever works!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy And there's the genius; you take an evil character and, through the unexpected, find the emotion within. Although now I'm left wondering what flavour soup.

@themcnoisy Buddy, we really need to finish Temple of Osiris...

"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."

PSN: GDS_2421
Making It So Since 1987

themcnoisy

@RogerRoger Agreed. Let's grab Kal and have a 2 hour go later in the Week.

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HallowMoonshadow

Well as I said @themcnoisy she is a human otherwise just with hyena ears and a tail.

Though I'm a touch confused... Are you suggesting we actually write a story?


A vegetable soup with noodles @RogerRoger if you must know

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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"

RogerRoger

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Detail is certainly your thing! The intricate level to which you've thought everything through, and can obviously picture it in your mind, is impressive. I'm guessing that helps with roleplay characters as you're trying to create something with which others can engage. You can't just say "the pirate captain looked ornate and flamboyant" because three different people will have three different visions of what that means. You prefaced your piece with a visual reference I'm not familiar with but I'm pretty confident that, based on what you've written, I could sketch out something that'd look dead-on. Because of that, I'd call it very effective!

"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."

PSN: GDS_2421
Making It So Since 1987

HallowMoonshadow

Awww thanks @RogerRoger 😊

Considering most of our posts are usually 3 lines or so it certainly makes it a memorable ocassion whenever I introduce another character.

Plus as you said there's the engaging, interacting element with roleplaying & I feel it's rather unfair if I say "Melody whips out her pistol and shoots Hunter" as a post if they don't know about it in the first place.


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Here's the best I could find at the moment for a visual reference

I haven't read much of the source material, it's quite confusing and uses a lot of links, pics, gifs, videos, chat logs along with regular text to convey the story.

Also there's 7000 pages to it so... It's quite daunting and the MSPaint artwork is a bit... eh for the most part πŸ˜…

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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"

RogerRoger

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy The image in my head was close enough! Thanks!

That's always the trick; guiding people's imaginations enough, but without overloading things. It's a balancing act for sure, but roleplay definitely needs a slightly heavier hand than your average novel.

I once read a fan fiction novel where the detail got so insane, a new character was described as having "eyes approximately two-and-a-half inches apart, and approximately three inches below the bottom of their fringe" and at that point, I skipped ahead (six looooong paragraphs) to the dialogue.

Sometimes you just gotta trust your readers!

"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."

PSN: GDS_2421
Making It So Since 1987

themcnoisy

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy great work. I've only just had the chance to read it fully just now. Amazing. I'm serious about asking you to help on a Sci fi bunch of characters, I am in the process of making a proper game. It may not be the best thing ever but I could build the characters in dreams and create some short videos. I'm unsure if you have seen my videos but I would love to have some fleshed out characters to have a go at!

It would be a pity to not make use of such a talent in that capacity. Your builds are exactly what I am looking for ie) It was a flintlock pistol, most of the gun being ebony, with an assortment of clockwork like aesthetics round the trigger and barrel made from mythril... this gun only being able to shoot once before it needed to be reloaded from the looks of things, and brand new judging from it's pristine condition.

I could build that for sure!

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HallowMoonshadow

Oh jeez I wasn't expecting that @themcnoisy 😁

I am back at work next week (And have to go in tomorrow about the new curriculum) so if you're needing it soon as possible I'd have to pass.

If there's no immeadiate timeframe though I could work on something like that... I can't promise it'll be as good though!

And I haven't seen your videos no, I'll have to give them a look sometime


Oh boy... That sounds a touch obnoxious with that much detail @RogerRoger ! πŸ˜…

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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"

Th3solution

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Wow, I like the arsenal Ox is hauling around. What’s the release date of the video game? πŸ˜‰
I can imagine a pretty sweet move set for combat where Ox can elbow people in the chest and sever their jugular with a well-placed headbutt.

β€œWe cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

HallowMoonshadow

Ha ha ha I wish

Thanks though @Th3solution I assume that's your approval of my writing

He's actually a bit of a softie despite the brutish appearance... It's more for intimidation then anything so I don't think he'd be able to do that without throwing up or at least dry heaving πŸ˜…

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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"

Quintumply

Creative writing is extremely fun. Before I started working here, I used to write short stories and other bits and pieces. It's a great outlet, no question.

It's something I want to get back into. I always have ideas, but rarely find time to get it all out.

Quintumply

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HallowMoonshadow

Well... You could always spend maybe five/ten minutes writing before you head to bed @Quintumply ? S'what I did before I began this roleplaying I've been doing that's lasted a year now

There's a few good tips over the pages as well... I may've been the only one to share anything yet but it's been a pretty positive reception so far

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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"

Ralizah

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy

I like to imagine "fudging poppycock" is brutally intense profanity over there in Mary Poppins Land.

Suggestions? I'd probably tighten up the writing a bit.

For example, I'd take:
"Of course taking a few seconds to look over, properly adjusting and take in what she was seeing Hunter would realise that it wasn't just metal. But armour. Thick heavy platemail littered the stocky, but muscular, frame of the 8ft leader of Hunter's Fortune."

...and revise it like so:
"After a few seconds, Hunter realized it was armour. Thick, heavy platemail hung over the stocky yet muscular frame of the eight-foot leader of Hunter's Fortune."

(Now imagine if I was similarly concise in those rambling reviews I post on here )

If I was writing it, I'd probably rein in the use of ellipses a bit, too.

With that said, concise writing isn't important in an online RP. Detail, passion, and imagination are. And you certainly seem to have those down!

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Currently Playing: Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re- Boot Camp (NS)

PSN: Ralizah

HallowMoonshadow

D'awww thanks @Ralizah 😊

I'm very well aware of my elipses problem. I can't seem to help putting them in abundence in whatever I write.

The other one I had up (Dunno if you saw before I deleted it) was just as bad with those little dots. I even mentioned beforehand that it's a minor problem of mine lol

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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"

Ralizah

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Oh, did you delete an earlier post of yours?

I'm pretty bad about opening threads and only reading the last couple of replies, so if I say something that has already been addressed, feel free to ignore it. Well, feel free to ignore it anyway. I'm no authority on the English language.

It takes guts to post snippets of your own work online. It's very exposing.

My biggest issue is that it's difficult for me to silence the inner editor as I'm writing, which is problematic, as this makes it more difficult for me to enter a state of flow and also gives me less to work with later on when I come back later on to mercilessly butcher my precious but entirely too verbose sentences.

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PSN: Ralizah

HallowMoonshadow

Just a teeeensy bit paranoid @Ralizah so I deleted it just in case anyone took it... I'm weird lol πŸ˜…

And that's fine I don't mind you saying something already said, in fact it would confirm it was a problem if I didn't already know about it!

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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"

Ralizah

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy The use of ellipses is more restrained here. Anyway, that's quite a character portrait!

I guess I'll post an excerpt from a... piece I've never quite known what to do with.

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Death is lonely.

Crushingly so.

Becoming aware of yourself, you'll realize your own inherent incompleteness. Humans are born fragmented by design, and we were both humans... once. I know it's en vogue to say that the only person you need is yourself, but that's not true. Not really. Other people are what give us meaning in this universe. They're what compel us to act, and we define ourselves in relation to them. In a universe where you're the only form with any defined shape, the concept of a shape ceases to be intelligible at all.

And, as far as I can tell, it'll stay this way forever. The flesh rots away. Metal rusts. Matter expands, contracts, comes together, breaks apart, and eventually disintegrates in the fullness of time.

But spirit stuff is eternal.

We'll persist in the frigid depths of eternity, as countless ancient fires whisper their last secrets to our stupefied ears.

We'll be here to attest to the gross absurdity of it all.

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Currently Playing: Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re- Boot Camp (NS)

PSN: Ralizah

HallowMoonshadow

Holy sh- @Ralizah ! πŸ‘

That's a great little piece! I don't really know what else to say other then I thoroughly enjoyed it

How'd you come about writing it if I may ask? Just came to you? I can't seem to do anything neat like that... more of a dialogue and description kinda writer if you didn't already guess

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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"

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