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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
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#26: Mar 24th 2012 at 8:36:29 AM

Well, I'm used to having a GM of all things on the other side of the planet, and it wasn't that big of a problem. It's not like I'm on all the time either. If it's really an issue, we could probably work out a more scheduled approach to see when most people are on. (That's sort of how we handled the above case.)

On a side note, my post wasn't entirely aimed at you, as SKJAM kind of did the same Anachronic Order thing with his last post. If it has to be done, it has to be done, but avoiding it when possible is preferable.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
nman Since: Mar, 2010
#27: Mar 24th 2012 at 8:43:54 AM

[up][up] and [up]: Yeah, "avoiding it when possible is preferable" is a good idea, but there are times when it's unavoidable, like when someone responds to your character the second you go to sleep, and then next time you log in something else is going on.

We could try to minimize that by simply ignoring statements that aren't crucial, but that wouldn't be as fun. We could try indicating that it was in the past, like "Bob had got up from his seat when the others were watching the movie, and was...".

Or we use a ton of hottips to just say stuff out-of-character about movement like this

. grin

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#28: Mar 24th 2012 at 8:52:40 AM

I'm fine with anything as long as we can come to an arrangement where out-of-sync characters aren't reduced to background commentary. Anyway, let's get on with the show!

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#29: Mar 24th 2012 at 8:55:30 AM

Meh, I just try to write around it. Had a whole section from a previous RP where someone (who is totally not in this RP too) wasn't around, so I just had their character follow mine and I kind of hinted at what they were doing in my posts.

Good way to do it is if you don't know if you're going to be able to post, "park" your character somewhere away from the actual story. If you can post, bring them back. If you can't...they can just stay there until you can.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Pyrite Until further notice from Right. Beneath. You. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#30: Mar 24th 2012 at 9:08:59 AM

...Uh, that might be a little difficult when you're on a completely different schedule. We can post regularly, but out-of-sync from the others. (An integrated schedule would be nice, but may not be practical.) Usually, if I know that rapid-fire dialogue is coming up, I end up having my character do something relevant to the current scenario, but which doesn't require interaction. It's hard to predict, though, and what usually happens is that the character ends up doing running commentary for the RP.

To each their own, and we'll see how this works out.

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Savato Since: Jan, 2012
#31: Mar 24th 2012 at 9:52:53 AM

@Pyrite from quite a few posts earlier
Yeah, I think, they´re going to drive Sir F***ing Knight mad by the time they reach their destination.

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#32: Mar 24th 2012 at 10:19:52 AM

Felix's player had mentioned earlier they'd be out for the weekend and to have him "follow along".

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#33: Mar 24th 2012 at 10:26:56 AM

[up][up][up] No more or less difficult than anyone else in the RP. I have my own schedule issues too, you know.

It probably doesn't help that I tend to lean hardcore on actual roleplaying. Meaning that I need in-character reasons for every time my character isn't contributing because I can't post. Side note

[up] Got it. Probably could have been handled a little better (have him smile and nod tongue), but I'm cool.

edited 24th Mar '12 10:27:56 AM by TotemicHero

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nman Since: Mar, 2010
#34: Mar 24th 2012 at 10:57:49 AM

[up][up]No worries, the only person who could potentially have any objections is Luthen, but since you're doing exactly what they asked for, I doubt it. Say, based on your last post, does your character need anything, like directions to the stables or library or something, or was it just a statement?

Oh, while I'm here, are there any characters that don't require sleep? I would assume Mak´karath does not need sleep, but I'm not sure about Roland (since he's... you know) or The Knight (due to the healing factor). I don't have any preference either way, I just don't want to assume the wrong thing.

edited 24th Mar '12 11:01:39 AM by nman

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#35: Mar 24th 2012 at 11:06:49 AM

"There's plenty of time to sleep when you're dead." Roland doesn't need to sleep, eat or breathe, but if you've got anything in mind that requires a period of inattention, let me know and we'll work something out.

[up][up]Oh, you should've said that earlier. I'll change that bit, but bear in mind that describing the scene*

requires me to make a few assumptions based on the content of other players' posts. I was trying to convey disapproval, and I guessed I picked the wrong choice of words this time. My fault.

As for schedules... You know what, I don't want to get into an argument with you on this issue (stupid thing to argue about, really), since it's not going to get us anywhere. You don't know my schedule, and I don't know yours - all I can say is that time zone discrepancies notwithstanding, I'll try to coordinate my posts so that they don't contradict anything already posted, but I can't guarantee that everything will be written in perfect order.

edited 24th Mar '12 11:32:27 AM by Pyrite

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#36: Mar 24th 2012 at 11:10:47 AM

[up][up] I think Yorth will be able to find his way around, this is just what he's going to be doing (unless interrupted) until the next event that requires actual attention.

edited 24th Mar '12 11:12:02 AM by SKJAM

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#37: Mar 24th 2012 at 11:24:22 AM

[up][up]Oh, I was just thinking anyone that's sleepless could be given the night shift when they finally get to the keep. It's just a tidbit that probably won't change anything, but it would at least help me explain some stuff.

[up]Alrighty. Right now the RP is at a point where everyone can write how their character kills the time until dawn so that we can resolve any lingering conversations, but I just wasn't sure if you wanted to have Yorth go and actually look over that stuff, or just said that he would.

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#38: Mar 24th 2012 at 12:36:02 PM

Quick question: Who's the undead man? I don't remember anyone playing as an undead.

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#40: Mar 24th 2012 at 12:53:44 PM

That's what a lich is. An arcane spellcaster who, through use of a dark- if not blatantly evil- ritual, becomes undead and usually, depending on the series, places his or her soul in an object known as a phylactery.

It's kind of funny. Sufficiently advanced stupidity is like sufficiently advanced science; eventually, you find something you can't solve.
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#41: Mar 24th 2012 at 12:58:25 PM

[up]I believe Pyrite made it clear that it is not a phylactery tongue, and while the ritual was heretical, I wouldn't count it in the same "dark" category as everything else.

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#42: Mar 24th 2012 at 1:02:31 PM

Well, apparently I got so in-character I failed to recognize him as anything but human. Extreme roleplaying powerz, go! tongue

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#43: Mar 24th 2012 at 1:12:45 PM

That's why I noted the 'depending on the series' part. I was just giving a brief overview of how the term is used in fiction.

Really, I like the new direction. Assuming I read it right, he's a lich who thinks that being brought back as an undead is a pain in the rump, rather than some god-like state.

It's kind of funny. Sufficiently advanced stupidity is like sufficiently advanced science; eventually, you find something you can't solve.
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#44: Mar 24th 2012 at 11:39:33 PM

[up][up] No worries. At the moment, I haven't made any obvious hints that something's wrong, and only put in an oblique reference to his age and odd physiology, so it's easy to miss.

[up]It's even more complicated than that, since it's "The Venerable" Roland Ashcroft of the "Most Holy Order of St. Gregor" - i.e. he was a high-ranking monk / priest. Bringing him back as one of the undead has basically cut him off from divine magic and dragged him out of whichever afterlife he was in... so as you can tell, he's more than a little annoyed with his current state, especially since the Celestial Bureaucracy seems to take even longer than mortal ones. On the bright side, though, his previous status cancelled out the traditional lich vulnerabilities to holy rituals and Turn Undead.

On that note, I don't think Roland's undead status is supposed to be common knowledge at this point - I guess I didn't make it clear. (Damn, there goes my dramatic reveal.) However, I'll assume that Karin, being a magic knight, is a little more perceptive than the others in terms of the illusion.

edited 25th Mar '12 12:03:09 AM by Pyrite

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#45: Mar 25th 2012 at 12:05:47 AM

[up]Since it was used as a description and not a major point of conversation, Daltar could just change "Undead man" to "man" and "dead man's" to "man's", and you can keep your dramatic reveal.

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#46: Mar 25th 2012 at 12:14:25 AM

Oh, actually, Karin doesn't know that he's an undead person. That was just a descriptor in narration so that the reader might know who she was talking about.

Still, I changed it anyways.

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#47: Mar 25th 2012 at 12:15:00 AM

Thanks, although I'm not really picky.tongue

Anyway, today's subject of research: Engate's Keep and Dimensional Rifts, of course.

edited 25th Mar '12 12:27:57 AM by Pyrite

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#48: Mar 25th 2012 at 12:46:02 AM

And I'm back.

Updated Felix's bio, so the Vandese Islands are now east of Ryaalth rather than north-west.

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#49: Mar 25th 2012 at 7:54:25 AM

Hope music camp was fun!

I am off to see the nieces perform in "Guys and Dolls" this afternoon; their big city elementary school does a musical every year.

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#50: Mar 25th 2012 at 9:01:09 AM

[up][up][up]Whoever wants their character to do some light reading, this is the text of two different books (well, really just the sentences that will be useful) that you can just copy-and-paste when you read it:


Kingdom History: Eighth Era, Part V (This is the closest book the librarian can refer you to):

...it was at this point that Geoffry Engate took the Hammer of Thrin, the same one which had aided him in defeating the arch-basilisk, and began to strike the ground in grief at the loss of his wife, his greatest friends, and the majority of his soldiers... while the Order gave him ample funding for a team of Order engineers and many workers, it took nearly twenty years to construct the keep, far longer than expected, as it had only taken twelve years to build a similar structure in the south... with the last stone in place, Engate vowed that he would never allow another to suffer the same loss... stood watch every day for over three decades, until he finally collapsed at his post... as he felt the last of his life draining from him, he took the hammer that he had held for over half a century, raised his hand, and while unconfirmed, secondary sources claim he disappeared, or more accurately, "went away"... the Hammer of Thrin, it is said that no man wished to soil its reputation, and it was placed in a display of Engate's armor, to allow him to eternally stand watch.


On Matters Magical, Volume III

...while the difference between tears and rifts are minor, they do not function in the same way as portals, which act as doorways between points. Rather, they act as conduits between this planet and the Void, transferring dark energy... magician attempted to draw in that energy to extend his own life, which succeeded, but had the added effect of making him a nigh-invincible abomination, that proceeded to terrorize... required a dozen mages to utilize chronomancy, one of the oldest of the forbidden techniques that is sometimes called "Suicide Summoning" due to its tendency to kill the user, and using energy they had stolen from every future version of themselves, tore apart the abomination, sending the corrupted energy back and sealed the rift...

...it was declared that research would be ceased immediately, with any use of the rifts punishable by death, and the Order set to making sure none could be opened again... One assumption of the uneducated is that "sealing" a rift works like sealing a portal, much like plugging a hole in a barrel will stop the flow of water. A better description would be trying to hold water in a fishing net. Rifts cannot simply be "shut" and therefore require a constant magical source to control them, by use of a magical system... fortunately, they only form at points, known as "soft spots", all of which in the kingdom have already been shut, with neighboring countries doing likewise under the treaty...


[up]Wow, elementary? I remember I had a friend who acted in that play in high school, so that's certainly a more mature play than the "Gold Rush" stuff I did when I was ten.

edited 25th Mar '12 9:13:34 AM by nman


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