Character Development Thread--Discussion

Sorry for the lack of posting. Been sort of unfocused.

Er...what kind of cafe is this, Killer Clowns?

Is this just some Japanese-y Starbucks equivalent or is it some kind of bistro where you can order a meal? This will impact what Varnas will order.

Unrelated, for some reason I've already decided on the two characters I'm going to roll with in Frontier. One of them is a character who's never appeared in a CDT before, and one of them is a character I'm currently using in Capital with a little bit of a twist.

I've put a bit in the Frontier page regarding the desert. Feel free to add to/amend as you see fit.

I may not wind up posting at all. It's getting kind of late here.

Edit: Yup, going to wait until tomorrow.

edited 3rd Aug '15 12:37:06 AM by nrjxll

Having trouble sleeping again.

@Tehpillowstar: Meiko's Cafe was described externally here and internally here, albeit somewhat vaguely.

Yeah, I kind of made up the cafe on the spot, like as I was posting it. lol I actually left it a little vague in case anyone else wanted to come up with small details for it as well. =D And I am so excited for Frontier!

If my activity drops off over the course of the next couple days, I apologize. I'm not feeling all that well (for instance, among other things I'm constantly tired and sleeping just seems to make me more tired).

Semi-caught up on posting. Sorry that took a while.

Just a head's up; starting on the 17th, I won't be on here often, if at all. Fall classes start and I'm doing class online this semester so I have to put all of my attention onto that. That means putting sites like this one on the back burner.

So Capital is pretty much gonna be the last thread I'll respond in until the semester is done.

Sorry to hear that, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

I wish you well with your efforts, even though I can't help but mentally hope you'll find some space of time during the semester to rejoin us here.


My classes start the same day, but they're three parts math and one part computer science, so I'll be dying to write.

edited 3rd Aug '15 8:58:53 PM by Ryuhza

I just finished an eight-week, nine-credit hour semester of online humanities. Juggling all of the readings and discussion boards are hard enough, combined with the fact that you're at home with all of your favorite distractions close by. Good luck!

And on that subject, it is really getting harder to resist scratching the CDT itch I've had for the past several months, so I think I might be coming back for Frontier. Just Frontier, with one character at a time, because I'll have to work extra-hard this upcoming semester for those stupid hundredths of a point on my GPA to get back to a 3.0. Even though two of my classes are going to be taught by a professor I don't like and another is going to be taught by someone whom I've never heard anyone regard in any sort of neutral let alone positive terms, I'll have three-day weeks with 45-minute breaks between classes, and my last class of the day will be taught by my favorite professor.

Oh, and my classes start on the 25th, because three-day weeks, yeah. I take classes in a partnership system from two colleges, and this is the first time they've started in the same week.

edited 3rd Aug '15 9:17:12 PM by CrystalGlacia

If that's the case, we really ought to go ahead and get Frontier launched soon.

Hope you folks don't mind if I poke my head in here again. Summer classes are winding down and I've gotten a better handle over my distraction issues in the past year. Fall semester starts in two weeks but I'm much better equipped to handle school than I was a year and a half or even just one year ago. And Frontier sounds like it's going to be pretty dang cool.

Holy crap it's been too long. Welcome back, the place hasn't been this healthy in years!

Snowy's back.

brb, small dance of joy.

Snowy, you're alive?

Wow, this really is shaping up to be a promising thread in terms of participants.

Well, the initial outlook for Frontier's looking pretty sunny.

On a somewhat dimmer note, lately I've been thinking that I need to do some writing on my own to remind myself that my characters are, in fact, created for my stories and not for the CDTs. I don't plan on dropping out of Capital and I'm likely going to participate in Frontier anyway since I have an idea about who I'm using, but chances are I may have to leave at some point in order to get myself to focus on my stories.

Aye, despite my university's best efforts, I am not dead yet. It still has three years to keep trying though, haha. Nice to see you all again!

What a story. What a lovely day. Nice to see so many faces reemerging from the great beyond. Beyond tvtropes, anyway.

Oh yeah, I know the feeling. I try to mitigate it by never using too many characters from the same story in a single CDT. I mitigate it even better by holing up all my extra ideas and never writing them at all.

Still, that sense is probably part of why I decided on ending Joseph's CDT escapades. Although, that's never going to last.

BTW, Night, still working on a post for Trekesser. Having a hard time determining how to express his reaction to Cima's last.

Edit: Going to have to wait until tomorrow again. Sorry about this, but it's getting late.

edited 4th Aug '15 12:35:47 AM by nrjxll

I'm very hyped for Frontier, but at the same time, school's starting up again and I desperately need to bring up my GPA and pass my classes this time around.

I really want to join Frontier, but at the same time, I'm a little apprehensive. I failed a good number of my classes last semester (while I was doing Capital). I don't blame the CDTs for this—in reality participating takes up only a small fraction of my time. However, I'm very aware that I'm extremely prone to caving to distractions when I need to do homework and study. It may be better if I don't join...

But at the same time, chances are Frontier is going to be the last CDT thread I get the chance to participate in. Most likely for a very long time, but there's a chance that this is my (preemptive) good-bye for good. It's not because I have grown tired of these threads, but rather that Real Life may pull me away from the internet for very long stretches of time.

At the moment, I feel like this isn't the time to say why, not when things haven't been finalized yet and the future is still looking uncertain.

I will say that nothing terrible has happened. I'm actually quite excited for this, it's just that it's a very heavy decision to make and I've still got quite a ways to go before I can reach my goal. So don't worry, I'm all right, and will be all right.

I'll see if I can add some things for Frontier.

edited 4th Aug '15 4:47:00 AM by Tehpillowstar

And I'm honestly not sure I'll make it to Frontier — as you can see, my posting rate has been pretty slothful already — and if I do, I'm not going beyond one character.

Still, Glacia, Snowy, it's really great to see you back and doing well!

Killer Clowns, could you hold off on a post for just a moment? I'm going to edit my post to reflect the new knowledge of the Meiko Cafe.

Edit: Post edited. Standing by for your response.

edited 4th Aug '15 9:19:04 AM by Tehpillowstar

First: Thank you guys for the good luck messages. I do hope that I might be able to squeeze in some room for this site, but that just depends on how this goes. (I've never done online classes before so this is gonna be tricky for me hahaha).

Second: Welcome back, Snowy! Missed you!