@Zekai
Looks interesting, although there is one thing that I want to know. Why did the wars break out? I nea, wars don't break out just because people is bored of the peace. Normally the aggressors have a goal, like wanting more land, revenge, being forced to by other factors like food or money. That's just naming a few, so tell me, what is the real reason for the wars?
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02/11/2014, 06:53 PM #6292
@Katrix
Well, The first one happened due to a group being tired of peace and wanted power. The second one is where a certain magic came out and caused people to turn evil and caused riots to occur all over starting the second war.
(I wanted to keep something's hidden to surprise people with)
@Everyone
If not enough people want to do this then it won't happen. It's fine with me either way.
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Well, The first one happened due to a group being tired of peace and wanted power. The second one is where a certain magic came out and caused people to turn evil and caused riots to occur all over starting the second war.
(I wanted to keep something's hidden to surprise people with)
@Everyone
If not enough people want to do this then it won't happen. It's fine with me either way.
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02/11/2014, 06:59 PM #6293
@Wriggle
Understandable. :p
@Cucoo
Then plan for your character to meet specific people in TSU. Instead of telling us how much we neglect you, do something about it. Be proactive.
To be honest, the only time I plan for people is when I'm setting up plot points, so unless you have anything to do with a particular arc, you'll be excluded from it until you appear.
To be honest, I don't expect anyone in TSU to cater to me, and neither should you.
That's where this entire thing started. You were upset with us because TRXD because he forgot about your character. You then told us how we don't accommodate for you. Tell me, who in the RP has been accommodated for a particular outcome? The reason things have played out in that RP is because of spontaneity.
In the very end, nobody has accommodated for anyone because there still has yet to be a straightforward Arc, so you really shouldn't worry about it so much. This is the arc where people find their niche, their friends and their enemies. There is no goal in the arc except to get to know people. In the end, the arc is time based, not plot based. If you don;'t put your character out there, you will not meet anyone. If you need a reason for Kiara to explore, say that she's trying to familiarize herself with the grounds, that she's shopping for food, or something else along those lines. You'll eventually meet someone, and when you do, Kiara will be more noticeable.
Last edited by S121; 02/11/2014, 07:02 PM. Understandable. :p
@Cucoo
Then plan for your character to meet specific people in TSU. Instead of telling us how much we neglect you, do something about it. Be proactive.
To be honest, the only time I plan for people is when I'm setting up plot points, so unless you have anything to do with a particular arc, you'll be excluded from it until you appear.
To be honest, I don't expect anyone in TSU to cater to me, and neither should you.
That's where this entire thing started. You were upset with us because TRXD because he forgot about your character. You then told us how we don't accommodate for you. Tell me, who in the RP has been accommodated for a particular outcome? The reason things have played out in that RP is because of spontaneity.
In the very end, nobody has accommodated for anyone because there still has yet to be a straightforward Arc, so you really shouldn't worry about it so much. This is the arc where people find their niche, their friends and their enemies. There is no goal in the arc except to get to know people. In the end, the arc is time based, not plot based. If you don;'t put your character out there, you will not meet anyone. If you need a reason for Kiara to explore, say that she's trying to familiarize herself with the grounds, that she's shopping for food, or something else along those lines. You'll eventually meet someone, and when you do, Kiara will be more noticeable.
Originally posted by S121
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02/11/2014, 07:01 PM #6294
Hrm? Dufuq happened?
Anyways, hi people, I'm here and stuff, so.............. Anybody need me?
Anyways, hi people, I'm here and stuff, so.............. Anybody need me?
02/11/2014, 07:05 PM #6296
@Cucoo
Did you even read the second part that I wrote? Unlike you, I tackled the problem the completely opposite way. I began before the RP even started, 2000 tears to be exact (well kind of). I didn't write the end first, I wrote a part that MIGHT be revealed near the end, but I did not start with it. As for you character in TSU. Let me tell you how I would look at things.
Do you know what this tells me? This tells me that she have no foundation whatsoever. You don't know her past. This is a big one. Why did she decide to become a nurse? Maybe someone got hurt in her childhood and she wanted to help, maybe she had some sort of person that she was looking up to that always helped people. Once you have a foundation you can begin to develop around that foundation. I can tell you this, I've been there. Having a character with no foundation, in fact I am still there sometimes. Do anyone remember Skari in TSU. She is what I call a failure. I don't have any foundation for her, which makes her extremely hard to RP. This is why I am trying to find some sort of foundation for her. If I can't find that, then she is junk.
You talk a lot about arrows, but tell me, how was the arrow fired. Was it fired from a high place or a low place, was it fired with lot's of force or was it fired weakly? If you donæt know those thing, then you don't know how the arrow will travel right?
In fact I feel that we had a very similar discussion a long time ago. It went something like this. "How am I supposed to act and RP when I don't know what's around me. How am I supposed to go and pick up a crate when I don't know if it's 5 or 8 meters in front of me, if I don't know if I have to go around something else first?". Remember how it ended? It ended up with you trying to ignore that and guess what? Everything went just fine. Of course there can be times when you wished that you had numbers for everything in the RP. I am sure that the amount of blood around Sinuda and Trista is different in each perspective, but sometimes you just have to ignore that.
Did you even read the second part that I wrote? Unlike you, I tackled the problem the completely opposite way. I began before the RP even started, 2000 tears to be exact (well kind of). I didn't write the end first, I wrote a part that MIGHT be revealed near the end, but I did not start with it. As for you character in TSU. Let me tell you how I would look at things.
Originally posted by Cucoo5
I still don't know anything interesting.
The only thing I have is "nurse apprentice learning how to apply water magic to medicine."
I don't know why she is that other than that's what she is. I don't know her past, and I don't know her future.
I'm lost in the middle of a void with no defined bounds
Do you know what this tells me? This tells me that she have no foundation whatsoever. You don't know her past. This is a big one. Why did she decide to become a nurse? Maybe someone got hurt in her childhood and she wanted to help, maybe she had some sort of person that she was looking up to that always helped people. Once you have a foundation you can begin to develop around that foundation. I can tell you this, I've been there. Having a character with no foundation, in fact I am still there sometimes. Do anyone remember Skari in TSU. She is what I call a failure. I don't have any foundation for her, which makes her extremely hard to RP. This is why I am trying to find some sort of foundation for her. If I can't find that, then she is junk.
You talk a lot about arrows, but tell me, how was the arrow fired. Was it fired from a high place or a low place, was it fired with lot's of force or was it fired weakly? If you donæt know those thing, then you don't know how the arrow will travel right?
In fact I feel that we had a very similar discussion a long time ago. It went something like this. "How am I supposed to act and RP when I don't know what's around me. How am I supposed to go and pick up a crate when I don't know if it's 5 or 8 meters in front of me, if I don't know if I have to go around something else first?". Remember how it ended? It ended up with you trying to ignore that and guess what? Everything went just fine. Of course there can be times when you wished that you had numbers for everything in the RP. I am sure that the amount of blood around Sinuda and Trista is different in each perspective, but sometimes you just have to ignore that.
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02/11/2014, 07:17 PM #6297
It looks like sh*t's going down.
02/11/2014, 07:48 PM #6298
No shit. Creating a past or backstory to your character relies on bullshitting and lying, but if it turns out that all that shit makes a good, entertaining story, who gives a damn if it's illogical or not true? We as writers have an obligation to tell a story, not to tell the truth.
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02/11/2014, 07:50 PM #6299
@ Katrix
I have a base
It's the Kiara from EG
I just don't know how to adapt her backstory so that it fits.
In EG: She fights a war to recover the lost light of her home country: Mana. She fights an evil dark mage empress with the help of her dark mage friend and she struggles against the odds because she isn't a fighter and thus when her dark mage friend dies protecting her from the empress, she felt powerless and somehow from that sacrifice she finds the courage to defeat the empress but not before being cursed to be part human and thus unable to return to her proper home in the lake. She gets compensation from the prince of Mana and becomes his close advisor before she leaves for other journeys.
In EG, she's a royal advisor that lives as a simple medic instead.
...I don't know how to adapt that in, or if I want to adapt that in exactly as is.
But if I had an ending, which is how that backstory was developed (How to defeat evil empress? develop a water nymph that is capable of being a vessel of light, that was protecting the original vessel of light that the empress destroyed because before the evil empress was an evil empress she was a common dark mage that had lofty goals, in order to vanquish darkness.) I would be able to create something that fits this exact story.
@ S121
I'm not upset because TRXD forgot
I'm upset because everyone forgot
It's like being apart of a group of friends and then feeling like your just luggage taking up space because no one WANTS to include you because no one wants to bother with you and when you do ask for help, they just don't help and shrug ya off.
"I need an idea for Kiara's endgame."
"We don't like that so change your ways."
"But my way has its perks and is capable of doing the exact same...I just need ideas."
"No, change your ways."
"But my entire style is-"
"Change it or get out."
@ Major
ever heard of continuity?
Last edited by Cucoo5; 02/11/2014, 07:53 PM. I have a base
It's the Kiara from EG
I just don't know how to adapt her backstory so that it fits.
In EG: She fights a war to recover the lost light of her home country: Mana. She fights an evil dark mage empress with the help of her dark mage friend and she struggles against the odds because she isn't a fighter and thus when her dark mage friend dies protecting her from the empress, she felt powerless and somehow from that sacrifice she finds the courage to defeat the empress but not before being cursed to be part human and thus unable to return to her proper home in the lake. She gets compensation from the prince of Mana and becomes his close advisor before she leaves for other journeys.
In EG, she's a royal advisor that lives as a simple medic instead.
...I don't know how to adapt that in, or if I want to adapt that in exactly as is.
But if I had an ending, which is how that backstory was developed (How to defeat evil empress? develop a water nymph that is capable of being a vessel of light, that was protecting the original vessel of light that the empress destroyed because before the evil empress was an evil empress she was a common dark mage that had lofty goals, in order to vanquish darkness.) I would be able to create something that fits this exact story.
@ S121
I'm not upset because TRXD forgot
I'm upset because everyone forgot
It's like being apart of a group of friends and then feeling like your just luggage taking up space because no one WANTS to include you because no one wants to bother with you and when you do ask for help, they just don't help and shrug ya off.
"I need an idea for Kiara's endgame."
"We don't like that so change your ways."
"But my way has its perks and is capable of doing the exact same...I just need ideas."
"No, change your ways."
"But my entire style is-"
"Change it or get out."
@ Major
ever heard of continuity?
02/11/2014, 08:01 PM #6300
RP General Discussion
Why the hell are you thinking about endgame already when the RP is still on its first day? I'm getting tired of trying to pull you up, Cucco. And yes, I do know what continuity is and yes, I have heard of it. Was that supposed to be a rhetorical question?
Now, for the sake of not getting banned, I say it's better that we all put this issue aside, lest we start a flamewar.
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Why the hell are you thinking about endgame already when the RP is still on its first day? I'm getting tired of trying to pull you up, Cucco. And yes, I do know what continuity is and yes, I have heard of it. Was that supposed to be a rhetorical question?
Now, for the sake of not getting banned, I say it's better that we all put this issue aside, lest we start a flamewar.
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