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WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481101: Feb 18th 2016 at 12:46:35 AM

don't dodge the question

Remember that one time Minako just ate a poisonous sandwich off the floor like a drunk David Hasselhoff after everyone screamed in her face it was poisonous because she didn't know it was poisonous?

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481102: Feb 18th 2016 at 12:49:16 AM

still trying to find my old RP shit from when I was twelve

I think it's just been autodeleted from age though

I remember there was something about Sonic and Shadow and Knuckles with sniper rifles?

man I dunno

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481103: Feb 18th 2016 at 12:51:25 AM

yeah i remember that

that was funny

WackyPancake from My computer. Since: May, 2011
#481104: Feb 18th 2016 at 12:52:09 AM

lol you really didn't like daisy

personally the only time when i disliked her was that whole clusterfuck with pent

"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."
Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481105: Feb 18th 2016 at 12:54:30 AM

i remember pentstuff but i dont wanna bring it up here

SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#481107: Feb 18th 2016 at 12:55:09 AM

Yeah, literally.

The only legit historical figure I think I ever played was John Pym.

... Until later post-Griffin when I decided to play John Andre. Briefly.

1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this post
WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481108: Feb 18th 2016 at 12:56:06 AM

I really really didn't

like I knew she was kinda trying to act like her character

and her character was

not good

i know the term "mary sue" these days is overused by anyone that thinks "this female character" has too many talents but Daisy Sue was pretty much textbook that

everyone was expected to like her, the rules of both the RP and the setting had to constantly be broken and bent to accommodate her, she worse than contributed nothing — chunks of the party had to stay behind not doing fun things to make sure she didn't try to hug a gun or something and get her ass killed (another thing that contributed to the collapse of Deluge), and most of her dialogue was announcing a thing that just happened in third person with an emoji on the end

it was baaaaaaad

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481110: Feb 18th 2016 at 12:57:41 AM

I already told the Czer story in full, go back and read it. I'll hand you the link if you've lost it.

Just for fun I'm gonna try and list every single factor that contributed to Deluge falling in around my ears, however major or minor.

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481111: Feb 18th 2016 at 12:58:29 AM

you do realize "daisy SUE" was named daisy sue because she was a mary sue

that's the real reason

i read up on my waapt lore im dead fuckin' serious

[up] here we    FUCKING    go

edited 18th Feb '16 12:59:10 AM by Trip

WackyPancake from My computer. Since: May, 2011
#481112: Feb 18th 2016 at 12:59:55 AM

i also remember when somehow for some reason we managed to accidentally have cloud get raped and it caused such a clusterfuck we had to press the reset button

edited 18th Feb '16 1:00:17 AM by WackyPancake

"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."
WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481113: Feb 18th 2016 at 1:05:00 AM

Good old Shmotor.

You know, that wasn't even the first time he tried that, it was just the first time he succeeded. At one point about four hundred pages back while Cloud was unconscious he had the Courier straddle him for some "intimate healing" and it only got called off when I pointed out Zack would be kinda not cool with some complete stranger riding his little brother figure while he was in a vegetative state.

edited 18th Feb '16 1:05:24 AM by WonderSquid

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#481114: Feb 18th 2016 at 1:06:38 AM

So yeah anyone wanting to see something interesting(or not interesting.) come to BW.

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WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481115: Feb 18th 2016 at 1:16:08 AM

rabbithole intensifies

actually I think there might have even been a third molestation instance with one of his characters on Cloud

four if you're counting all the times in the Genderflipped thread he'd have Luna or whatever her name was grope my proxy character

eugh I feel gross I'm gonna go back to lamenting my broken dreams nwo

edited 18th Feb '16 1:16:20 AM by WonderSquid

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481116: Feb 18th 2016 at 1:28:31 AM

Deluge, AKA Murphy's Law the RP:

  • I lost my notes. All of them. All those carefully handwritten guidelines I had sunk months into, gone. They later turned up waaaaay after the fact but by then the damage of playing by memory trying not to forget anything was done.
  • Adannor being a really, really bad sport and ragequitting mid-plot.
  • Daisy Sue constantly requiring a chaperone/actively hindering progress at times
  • Multiple players with ass powers, both new and old
  • Link vanishing mid plot with no announcement, and an added chase scene with tachikomas mid plot with no announcement
  • I designed Deluge for a group of ten characters, tops, and instead had to handle the largest group of players and characters ever brought to bear in the history of the RP, with 36 active players and over forty characters in the fray at one point.
  • Dark Destruction dropping mid plot
  • Several people using non-human characters after I pretty much begged for this not to happen
  • Joesolo and the "ripping the door off the hinges in broad daylight during martial law" incident
  • As a result of the large group size, I had to cut two thirds of the plot's content altogether, most of which was the Silent Hill stuff I had my heart set on for years, and at one point this bit where Sarah shot up a ballroom with a shotgun and it was gonna be really cool. In the end she just wound up as "David's Wife"
  • The fact that almost everything I actually wanted to do couldn't be done killed nearly all (but not all, yet) the enthusiasm I had for the plot, so tempers with anyone that asked me anything were incredibly short
  • The playerbase at the time was mostly "shoot first, ask questions later" types. Deluge was a heist-based plot crossed with what I guess is (was) Tranquil Meadows. This went about as well as anyone would expect.
  • This was also in the middle of Random questioning my every move with Cloud and anything I did in general, making me extremely nervous about doing anything
  • Cloud himself wound up being an issue because he was the one with the information that players could coax out of him. Except no one wanted to because a whopping three, later two when Pyro dropped, participants were actually around for any of Cloud's arc and cared about its resolution. No one talked to him, the entire arc that I had spent literal years on at that point had to be scrapped almost entirely, and because vital information was never relayed IC I had to constantly walltext exposition in the discussion thread
  • For the same reason there was a lot of "tell, don't show" in the RP which was not fun to read.
  • Speaking of Random again, he hadn't quite figured out what distinguishing video game mechanics from story was yet, so he'd just have his characters spam healing items any time anyone got so much as a cough
  • I spent so long biting player heads off none of the players trusted me to GM, which resulted in more botched sessions, which resulted in more head-biting, et cetera
  • Good god did I mention cut content? Cut content. There was a whole subplot about Cloud's virus being sold to terrorists but being leaked early by Stabler that was barely touched on.
  • Addy showing up halfway through to make snide remarks about the whole thing in the discussion thread anyway
  • Pentigan alternated acting on assumptions and making sure any leads we had were never acted upon and just having his characters commentate on what was going on without actually participating
  • Stonedog dropped, Pyro dropped, Summoner dropped as well? Not sure
  • Nobody really went for the whole "change the city for strategic manoeuvres" thing
  • Distrust of the GM also culminated in distrust of all the GM NPCs, so combat was a stabby, shooty, disorganised mess
  • Another few character swaps mid plot meant I had to drop the whole "everyone has also been cloned and their clones are in the city too" subplot as well since it no longer made sense and would have had zero impact since none of the characters in question were even around anymore
  • The Doctor was an originally planned part of it before Norm even joined the thread so I kinda had to improvise around that. That meant that in a way I "kept" his part of the plot with the clones, meaning Norm had stuff to do while that was going on and everyone else just kind of got to watch him have fun.
  • I think about the only problem we didn't have with Deluge was that nobody tried to do any weird sex shit, and even then apparently that would have been an issue too if Addy hadn't left and taken Kashi with him since she punched with the power of orgasms.

edited 18th Feb '16 1:37:33 AM by WonderSquid

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481117: Feb 18th 2016 at 1:37:37 AM

this is all starting to give me flash backs of mgsv: the phantom content

WackyPancake from My computer. Since: May, 2011
#481118: Feb 18th 2016 at 1:47:12 AM

>tfw when you realize you are part of the "old guard" of this thread

"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."
SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
Problem Child
#481119: Feb 18th 2016 at 2:10:14 AM

Ah man.

Deluge.

It had problems.

I had fun, but yeah as you said, that was one of the problems.

What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?
WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481120: Feb 18th 2016 at 2:11:44 AM

all of it was problems

i'm glad you had fun because that was basically the least fun i've ever had

Still, it was a learning experience. Hawthorne was okay. Golden Bird... wasn't awful.

SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
Problem Child
#481121: Feb 18th 2016 at 2:14:35 AM

I sometimes feel uncomfortable by just how well received my plot was, because I literally had no experience and no detailed plans and just went with my gut 90% of the time and somehow fluked out something that wasn't a catastrophe. In a fair and just world, my plot would have shattered and burned.

What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?
WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481122: Feb 18th 2016 at 2:16:44 AM

I have compiled a more detailed list of everything that went horribly wrong with my plot on my tumblr so I will know what to avoid in the future.

With my experience and your not being a fucking moron I will make this shit work somehow

SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#481124: Feb 18th 2016 at 6:51:53 AM

historical figure of the day: louis xiv

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#481125: Feb 18th 2016 at 6:52:30 AM

I am the state.

1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this post

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