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Ryuhza Brother from San Diego County, California Since: Feb, 2012 Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
DarkbloodCarnagefang They/Them from New Jersey Since: May, 2012
They/Them
#36052: Jun 5th 2018 at 10:26:39 AM

[up] Personally, I could be better.

EDIT: Good picture [tup]

edited 5th Jun '18 10:27:29 AM by DarkbloodCarnagefang

Note to self: Pick less edgy username next time.
Masterofchaos Since: Dec, 2010
#36053: Jun 5th 2018 at 12:43:31 PM

I'm good. Just wating for lemeur or lady to respond. Also...nice gaycon!

It's gay and icon mashed together.

edited 5th Jun '18 12:43:51 PM by Masterofchaos

Miss_Desperado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YD2i1FzUYA from somewhere getting rained on by Puget Sound Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#36054: Jun 5th 2018 at 1:27:44 PM

I'm recovering from a (hopefully) one-time event of sleep deprivation. Really weird things happen to my brain when I'm sleep-deprived.

In other news, Brain Sewage has renewed interest in Space Liner. I'm waiting for Ladytanuki to post before I move Syrni Sandra and the gang into position to meet Tigris.

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
apocalemur Behold, the Beast. from My house (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Look at all the lonely people
Behold, the Beast.
#36055: Jun 5th 2018 at 2:46:17 PM

I'm still trying to figure out what would be the most in-character way for Zarokh to respond to Lily's explanation of how museums work.

I guess it's fitting that this happen to me in the Writer's Block forum.

edited 5th Jun '18 2:47:17 PM by apocalemur

Masterofchaos Since: Dec, 2010
#36056: Jun 5th 2018 at 5:19:57 PM

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How about have him be like "ok, but I still feel like it's disepecting the dead"?

After this, yeah I'm gonna send the Not Chaos Hunters to Ryuzha's characters. Lady hasn't responded to my PM and hasn't been active since the 30th.

nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#36057: Jun 5th 2018 at 7:12:07 PM

[up]She's gone missing for fairly long stretches before without dropping out. I'd wait longer.

Ryuhza Brother from San Diego County, California Since: Feb, 2012 Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
Brother
#36058: Jun 5th 2018 at 7:23:21 PM

I'm also kind of fancying the idea of introducing my other two characters before returning to the first set. I think it might make for more interesting reading.

They'll turn your world around
ladytanuki Friendly Neighborhood Lich from SF, CA, US Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Friendly Neighborhood Lich
#36059: Jun 5th 2018 at 9:39:40 PM

Once again I must apologize for my absence. Truth be told, I probably need to pull out a couple of characters just to be able to deal with the rest of the things going on in my life. Like my "actual" writing, which I've really been abandoning. Like my fiance, who I haven't been spending as much time with. If I am perfectly honest, with the things that have come up recently, I really shouldn't be in the CDTs at all.

However, at the same time, I really enjoy them, so perhaps I just need to cut back on how many characters I have. And I've decided to eliminate all the blondes. Lucina, Cormack, Amaranth, and Felicio. Sometime soon I'll be writing a goodbye post for them, but after that I simply won't have the time to write them. Similarly, I will not be introducing characters at the Ghost Town like I said I would.

I know that this negatively impacts Will and Master of Chaos, as with Cormack out of the picture, they'll have to either search for the legendary musket without him, or join a different adventure. Unfortunately, given the circumstance, I basically have to narrow my posting down to two adventures, and currently the most interesting ones to me are the ones Nui is (about to be) in and the one Nyceme and Sindar are in. That's just... how it is.

That having been said, I'll get to posting soon.

Come, my child of the devil. Your mother is calling you. Hear my call in Hell's grand hall, where all our dreams come true.
Miss_Desperado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YD2i1FzUYA from somewhere getting rained on by Puget Sound Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#36060: Jun 5th 2018 at 9:59:13 PM

[up] Aw, it's been fun playing with you. I understand, you have your priorities, and you can't play as much as you have been. I can make adjustments to my Space Liner plans to account for Lucina's absence, but I'll still miss her a little. Pulling Amaranth and Pewter out of the mustang herd will be easy enough, too (and frankly the mustangs will be glad to see Felicio go).

edited 6th Jun '18 8:01:20 AM by Miss_Desperado

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Slysheen Professional Recluse from My nerd cave Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Recluse
#36061: Jun 5th 2018 at 10:21:32 PM

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Frankly every time I see you in any CDT thread my first thought is usually "How the hell can she keep track of that amount of characters and story threads?"

I have two and sometimes think that's too much, and on the bell curve I'm probably on the less busy end of the human race.

I'm sure no one will blame you with a plate that full.

Stoned hippie without the stoned. Or the hippie. My AO3 Page, grab a chair and relax.
ladytanuki Friendly Neighborhood Lich from SF, CA, US Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Friendly Neighborhood Lich
#36063: Jun 6th 2018 at 12:07:15 AM

[up][up][up]Yeah, it was fun writing her too, and I was looking forward to what hilarity would ensue in the sparring. (Just finished her goodbye post btw.) Well, good news is that I'm in the middle of writing the novel she's in, and with this, hopefully I'll have more time to actually write it.

[up][up]My mind is capable of many things. But in all seriousness, this is definitely a relief. And hey, at least Nyceme and Sindar are still around.... though I bet Jamie is not happy about the latter.

[up]Nah, it's not your fault. The real asshole is Real Life.

...And I finished my goodbye posts just like that. I know a Bolt of Divine Retribution seemed kind of lame, especially with regards to Cormack, but I couldn't think of much else and Amaranth at least deserved it.

As for Nui... looks Ah, I see it's not my turn there. Same with the Chitara's Wagon group (Pyxo's turn I think).

edited 6th Jun '18 12:40:30 AM by ladytanuki

Come, my child of the devil. Your mother is calling you. Hear my call in Hell's grand hall, where all our dreams come true.
Wolf1066 Crazy Kiwi from New Zealand (Veteran) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Crazy Kiwi
#36064: Jun 6th 2018 at 2:34:21 AM

There are those who know how to make an entrance, and there are [up] those who know how to make an exit.

Sorry to see so many of your characters vanishing, but I can understand why.

Hopefully that arsehole Real Life is going to let up soon and start cutting people some slack.

nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#36065: Jun 6th 2018 at 3:31:05 AM

Personally, I tend to think it's probably better to have characters exit in a way that encourages the others present to just move on (or at best think about them), not provoke discussion as being vaporized by lightning bolts would normally do. But eh.

Wolf1066 Crazy Kiwi from New Zealand (Veteran) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Crazy Kiwi
#36066: Jun 6th 2018 at 4:00:54 AM

Not much of a post for Teri and Sophia, sorry. It's largely just to get them closer to the restaurant and tie with in Peggy, Karl and Cas heading that way.

Been a productive day - worked at both of my jobs, went and picked up a stove for my niece, and tidied up part of the house as the landlord's coming tomorrow (the kids and my boarder had already tidied up most of the place while I was at work and picking up the stove.)

WillDeRegio Since: Jan, 2015
#36067: Jun 6th 2018 at 4:10:44 AM

Hmm... On the one hand, it doesn't meet the Balamarian quota for "targeted by international interplanetary lightning spell" (needs more lightning bolts). On the other hand, it does meet the "targeted by line-of-sight lightning spell"... which should put Lily and Bonnie on edge (lack of magical fanfare means they are possibly horribly, "horribly" outclassed).

Anyway, I'm going to have fun with the [Insert Arian city here] Conventions: No cataclysm-class spells (read: no creating volcanoes, no stationary storms, no indiscriminate mass resurrections, no meteors larger than a small automobile, etc). New spells are added whenever some noodles up a catastrophe.

edited 6th Jun '18 4:11:41 AM by WillDeRegio

Miss_Desperado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YD2i1FzUYA from somewhere getting rained on by Puget Sound Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#36068: Jun 6th 2018 at 9:40:11 AM

Okay, a Bolt of Divine Retribution. I Didn't See That Coming, and neither did the horses. They ran away.

Ladytanuki, as long as you're retiring characters, could you scan the Space Liner page for characters you aren't using, and move them to the Inactive folder? Daird is out of the Space Liner thread and I already moved Lucina to the inactive folder, since you explicitly named her as one of the characters you're retiring, but I didn't dare touch any of your other characters scattered throughout the ship.

Who had the idea for pig people interacting with the mustangs and Parthenia's stray horse?

edited 6th Jun '18 10:36:54 AM by Miss_Desperado

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#36069: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:21:33 AM

Regarding the Hotel, how many of those characters are about to go somewhere? Cause I'll admit, it is exhausting writing up such huge posts only for half of it to get ignored.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
Yomegami Since: Jan, 2011
#36070: Jun 6th 2018 at 12:42:55 PM

The pig people were my idea. That being said, I really haven't been thinking about that plotline much, or about anything relating to Adventure lately, so I don't really feel confident starting and running anything major for the time being.

With that being said, I do have what I hope is a solid idea of the part in the Warpfields. It's just waiting for somebody to actually wander out to the Warpfields at this point. Speaking of which....

Are you still planning to do anything with the Musket plot, Tanuki? Because if not I might incorporate it into the above plans.

As for posting in general: I'm going to be fairly busy for most of today and likely for the next couple days (need to help clean the houses for arriving guests in a week or so). Couple that with the fact my focus is on things other than Adventure and it's likely to be a while before I post again. Might be able to manage something tonight, though. We'll see.

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Ryuhza Brother from San Diego County, California Since: Feb, 2012 Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
Brother
#36071: Jun 6th 2018 at 1:02:58 PM

Right, I should get to writing normal English words again. The app is taking up all my hobby time, but I've made a really good chunk of progress over the past four days, so I think I can divert back to the thread proper for a little while. Gonna work on another intro post I s'pose. Not entirely sure where to set it though. Not yet.

They'll turn your world around
Miss_Desperado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YD2i1FzUYA from somewhere getting rained on by Puget Sound Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#36072: Jun 6th 2018 at 1:15:33 PM

@Kkutwar: What do you mean, ignored? Justin, Valerie and Vindex have had telepaths spying on them this whole time, but roughly half of what Justin, Valerie and Vindex do aren't quite worth a visible reaction. Yes, they're being noticed and judgements are being made, I just left out mentioning it each and every time because repeating some minor variation on "Maequoql (did something thoughtful) as she pondered what she'd just learned" gets old.

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#36073: Jun 6th 2018 at 3:02:05 PM

No no, I just meant it is personally exhausting. If there's no point to half the stuff I'm writing, there must be an easier solution that's less time consuming.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
Miss_Desperado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YD2i1FzUYA from somewhere getting rained on by Puget Sound Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#36074: Jun 6th 2018 at 3:41:59 PM

[up]OK, I get that you're getting exhausted, but why do you feel like there's no point to half the stuff you're writing? I already explained that I'm not ignoring that half. Once my telepaths have finished ruminating on everything you've revealed about Valerie, Justin and Vindex, they'll counsel Arilay on what to do next.

Speaking of which, Murquoql's psychic radar automatically scans for anything that could conceivably be used as a weapon (including living or dead body parts) and estimates how likely it might be used as a weapon, factoring in the most immediately mind-accessible intents of the characters around her. She'll be headed to the hotel very, very soon, so for everyone who has characters in the hotel, I need some reminders: What will she notice?

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Masterofchaos Since: Dec, 2010
#36075: Jun 6th 2018 at 3:55:48 PM

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Off topic but I keep seeing your name as Miss_Despacito, lol.

On topic, I don't really know if there's any characters still at the hotel or if Val and the others are still there.

Also, Mael will be coming back but I'm not sure who to have him interact with first.

edited 6th Jun '18 3:57:23 PM by Masterofchaos


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