@Ryuhza: Would it help Joseph's morale if Nyorla said something along the lines of: "What the Grim Reaper is like is not important. The important part is, the Grim Reaper says none of you are scheduled to die in this star system any time soon."
@Will De Regio: I honestly can't remember whether it's your turn with Cynthia and Diantha or my turn with Arilay, Shale and company. I found an orphaned scrap of dialogue in my notes (I suspect I wrote it during a bout of insomnia)...
Aynara spat out his arm. "All right, that's enough fang-drugs for you."
...but I'm not sure if I actually want to use it. I'm also not sure what you think about this group and Haydn and Wilhelmine spending a chunk of time offscreen and skipping ahead to after Shale drops of Simon at jail and just before the group bump into Haydn and Wilhelmine. I say "just before" because Arilay will want to think of a way to name-drop the Balamar Empire and see what Cynthia and Diantha have to say, in order to know ahead of time whether Cynthia and Diantha will side with or against Haydn and Wilhelmine.
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Sep 2nd 2019 at 5:11:08 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
I think he's bound to get tripped up on the idea of having a fated death however you spin it, and his morale in the current situation is full of too many holes to adequately plug. That's just Joseph's tendency when he's only responsible for himself.
That said, he'll move forward, even with his doubts about the Web of Friendship or their plan. He's just unlikely to ever be gung-ho on the matter ahead.
Edit: Posted. It always turns out longer than I think. I'll try to shoot for the Forest group tomorrow. After that, I've got to sort out my classes before they get away from me.
Edited by Ryuhza on Sep 2nd 2019 at 8:44:40 AM
this place needs me hereI belatedly added this to Seenarnha's dialogue in this post
: "The gems are still broken, according to Mequoql's assessment, and I'm here to, among other things, find out if it's something I can fix. Even if the gems weren't broken..."
Hey, Miss, I'm gonna add something to my upcoming post, and hopefully it'll help with the writer's block.
Edit: Done. Hope it's kind of helpful!
Edited by Masterofchaos on Sep 3rd 2019 at 3:22:10 PM
I don't mind having the Bamarian duo staying in off-screen-land.
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Eh, no, that's not helpful at all. I almost had a post ready (see folder below), but now I'm baffled, wondering why the gem is glowing, and not finding a spot to insert noticing it into the flow.
The other bandit not under Mael's control, the one who had panicked himself into a faint earlier, reawoke. His screen activated. "Gaah! I'm still in here?! Where's Mulligan? What have you done to him?"
The parleying bandit said, "Clancy! Calm down and look at me! You're not gonna get anywhere by panicking. Understand?"
"Easy for you to say, Tom, you didn't wake up to the sight of vampire fangs in your boyfriend's neck like I did!"
"Enough!" Arnaya interrupted. "Clancy, my enemy mind-controlled Mulligan — who's right in here — and a few more of your fellow bandits. Remember Black Morgan ordering a retreat? That's because my twin used Amos to warn him about that enemy. If you want to help snap Mulligan out of it and stop the guy who did this to him, the easiest way is to follow my orders. Tom already started parley." With that, she continued parley negotiations with the two bandits not under mind control.
Meanwhile, in response to the flurry of questions Maequoql said "The side effects are why we concluded your gems are defective in the first place, properly made gems from our galaxy don't have side effects." Nyorla cleared her throat and Maequoql concluded, "But I don't have time to go on at length about this."
When Amy was visible again, she happily went over to Nyorla. "Hi, I'm Amy! Wanna be friends?"
Nyorla shrugged, "Sure, but I don't have much time right now," as she dismounted. Zip pricked up his ears and extended his nose to Amy, sniffing her. Nyorla introduced, "This is Zip, he wants to be friends too." Zip extended his head further as he curled up his upper lip, sniffing more intently at Amy's neck and shoulders. Nyorla translated, "He thinks you smell interesting..." Zip briefly pointed an ear at Arnaya as he recongized her scent mark. "...more specifically, he can smell that you've been hugging Arnaya." As Nyorla walked over to a pod with a mind-controlled bandit inside, she silently asked, "Arnaya, why did you scent mark Amy?"
"Fiendlord, remember?"
"Oh, right."
Pulling the hovering pod she'd selected back to Zip, Nyorla didn't elaborate much. "Yeah, there's a Grim Reaper, but what the Grim Reaper is like is not important." She turned to face the group as her eyes flared gold and her telekinesis pulled a tether out of one of Zip's saddlebags. "The important part is, the Grim Reaper says you aren't scheduled to die in this star system any time soon. I'm not authorized to get more specific than that, though." Her eyes returned to normal brown as she finished attaching the pod to Zip's saddle horn. Nyorla asked, "Now will you quit delaying the deployment? We could have had all the mind-controlled bandits in position twice over by now if it weren't for you balking and jabbering away!" While she spoke, she got back in the saddle and turned Zip to leave. But when the airlock opened, somebody was already in the way.
WFS Hummingbird Transporter Room (Shale) -> Sick Bay Airlock
Shale was on her way back to Arilay from dropping Simon off at the Hub Town jail when she decided to find out what was taking so long to get a mind-controlled bandit down to the Ghost Town for triangulation. The airlock leading directly from Sick Bay was closed, and when it opened, Shale's face nearly collided with Zip's nose.
Shale expertly caught Zip's muzzle in her hands and directed him to take a couple of steps back. As she passed by him, she briefly rested a hand on Nyorla's bare ankle.
Nyorla began, "Everyone, this is Shale, she's..."
Already on her way out with another pod carrying a mind-controlled bandit, Shale tossed a wave of her hand over her shoulder before the airlock closed behind her.
"...not sticking around for introductions," Nyorla finished. "Like me, she showed up to see what's taking so long."
'Ghost Town (Cynthia, Diantha; Arilay, Shale, Aynara'';
Different Bandit under Mind Control)'''
Now that Aynara had had her snack, Shale had left to deposit Simon in jail. Aynara and Arilay carefully guided Cynthia and Diantha around the less easily bypassed hazards on their way to Haydn and Wilhelmine until Shale returned, this time with a hovering medical pod in tow.
"Another snack?" Aynara asked hopefully.
"No," Arilay said, downloading a summary of the pod's recent activities, "The potion still hasn't finished replacing what you took from him last time."
Aynara pouted, "Aw, did Maequoql have to set the injection rate of that potion so slow?"
"Yes," Arilay exposited for the sake of Cynthia and Diantha, "Otherwise he wouldn't be weak enough to not give us any trouble as we use him to triangulate the enemy who mind-controlled him."
Shale added through Arilay's radio, "We probably should have told you this earlier, but the entire crew of our spaceship is multitasking at the moment."
By the way, my father had to go to the hospital today. You Do Not Want To Know why, but at least the problem is more solvable than the last redacted incident. I'm going to be rather distracted.
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Sep 3rd 2019 at 5:07:58 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Ok! I'll delete it. Edit: its gone. Sorry for being unhelpful.
Also -hug-
Edited by Masterofchaos on Sep 3rd 2019 at 8:46:16 AM
You were trying to help, I appreciate the thought, and I forgive the gaffe. And thank you for the hug. This particular hospital incident may be distracting, but it's much less distressing than the last one because it didn't happen for the same reason.
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Partway done with a Hummingbird post that I'll try to have done tomorrow, along with one for David. After that, I'll really need to dedicate my weekend to schoolwork. Probably won't be able to write here again until Tuesday.
edit: Done. I guess Joe's morale was plugged a bit, if only with gum and some knee ups.
All right, now don't let me come back until Tuesday.
Edited by Ryuhza on Sep 6th 2019 at 6:43:10 AM
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Transcender of Gender
Hi everyone. I'm part of a long-term project to clean up work pages in the Roleplay/ namespace, due to wide-spread issues with content, formatting, availability, etc. The work pages for the Character Development Thread roleplays have recently come up in our thread, with two main problems- some of them are in improper namespaces (ie. CharacterDevelopmentThread.Dream II where Roleplay.Character Development Thread Dream II would be more appropriate), and all of them have a lot of extra information that doesn't relate to troping- such as a list of players, locations, guidelines, etc. which are likely going to be deleted.
If you want to save any of that information, I would suggest doing so now, as some of those pages are likely going to be cut to move them to their proper namespaces. If you wish to contest any of this, or offer any other feedback, then you can come into our thread via the link above.
Thanks for your time, and happy roleplaying.
they/them || "Forgive me, regent of queer amphibians" - Lt.BGob
Huh. Njxll mentioned this a few pages back but I'm too lazy to search. Just got off work after all, lol.
I think he did mention we should put it in a google doc. I'm, again, too lazy to do that and I don't think anyone else said anything else regard to that so...vote time I guess.
Edit: This is why I hate writing on my phones. The typos...
Edited by Masterofchaos on Sep 7th 2019 at 6:28:19 AM
...is there a reason why we would not put it in a google doc?
Yes, actually, there is a reason. I hate Google Docs.
My Wii U does not like Google Docs. I might get past one or two pages of a document before it decides to reload the entire thing.
I really haven't tried using my laptop with Google Docs, though.
Edited by WillDeRegio on Sep 7th 2019 at 9:27:44 AM
Uh...
Blogspot?
I really wish that I had known the proper namespacing before I made the Adventure roleplay trope page. For the pages that should be moved from improper namespace to proper namespace (e.g. CharacterDevelopmentThread.Dream II —> Roleplay.Character Development Thread Dream II), I could (in theory) use a .txt document and do some rapid-fire copypasting (assuming real life doesn't interrupt) to make the new pages in the proper namespace before the old ones in the improper namespaces are cutlisted. Rewriting wicks is going to be a slower process.
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
That still leaves the problem of finding a new place to store and update thread information. We need something collaborative, free, and ideally not too hardware intensive nor nebulously objectionable.
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I think the bigger point is that the site is supposed to be for, well, troping stuff. It honestly just seems easier to keep all the actual playing material stuff somewhere else.
(What's your issue with Google Docs, BTW?)
Edited by nrjxll on Sep 9th 2019 at 3:18:44 AM
I hate how the autosave is happening constantly and there's no easy way to revert the document to a previous state if I want to scrap my progress and start over. I hate the user interface. I hate how I can't open a document independently of the web browser. I could go on, but it all boils down to the differences between google docs and Libre Office docs.
The roleplay threads aren't getting evicted off the TV Tropes forums altogether, are they?
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Sep 9th 2019 at 6:50:09 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
No, but useful thread information like location descriptions and character lists will be getting excised from the thread pages. As whizzerd said:
I don't like making my posts too short but I don't want to hold you lovely folks up for too long so let me take care of Butte and Hotel real quick. Miss, we need you for the ship!
As for the whole what to do with future CDT thread pages...I'm out of suggestions, lol.
Edited by Masterofchaos on Sep 9th 2019 at 4:39:53 AM
What if we made a wiki for the CDTs on Fandom? It'd keep a semi-similar format structurally if not syntactically.
You're also up in the Forest, Miss.
Oh and I'm still not here. I swear.
Edit: All right, now I'm here.
Edited by Ryuhza on Sep 10th 2019 at 4:35:47 AM
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'Kay, I archived all of the existing CDT pages as they appear today, just in case they get purged before we've sorted out a new place to put it all. Wasn't sure how much would be covered by the purge, so I went a little beyond what I thought was necessary.
All the 'page' links should work and be up-to-date.
Not sure if the silence on my suggestion is a resounding no or a resounding shrug, but I could try to put together a proof of concept when I've got more free time. Probably next week.
Edited by Ryuhza on Sep 10th 2019 at 7:50:38 AM
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It's in progress. I swear these days just bleed away.
Edited by Ryuhza on Sep 2nd 2019 at 4:44:49 AM
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