Raineh Daze said
In a roleplay? Easy enough: step one, rather than keeping it a mystery. I'm not saying it's bad writing, I'm saying it causes trouble in RP's. :/

Only if you don't know how to do it.
I think I'm fairly competent at what I do, and Iris isn't some over-powered mary sue that wouldn't be accepted. Really, she could work without Amnesia, I guess, but it would make things less interesting considering a few things I have planned for her, I think.

If you want me to spoil it, I can I guess, if you're that concerned about it. If you don't want her on your team though, then that's fine too, the three of us can go be on the other team.

Yeah, you have a point there. I don't really believe in keeping secrets from writers you are currently writing with even if they are your only readers. If it's a good surprise then you'll know it's a good one and if you need someone to be surprised by it then advertise. For instance, I've been thinking of adding in some personality/backstory twists to Trakel. If I were to use these then I'd likely edit them into the CS beforehand.

So, um, have been thinking of joining maybe...

My feelings on amnesia are basically that it is hard to handle well and it sets off serious warning signals, since it's used to "smuggle" unacceptable stuff in a lot.

The two good ways to handle it are to have no backstory and let the GM fill it in, or to have a written backstory available in the bio and jsut have the character not know it.

... With that said, um, what kind of characters haven't been taken? ^^;

It's closed at the moment, Vita.

We kinda have 17billion people here at the moment. A few have seemed to run off into the abyss but we're still overflowing.

Let's end the amnesia debate for now. The characters were accepted so the discussion doesn't really hold any importance. If you want to be in the group that is absent of amnesia we can have you trade teams. Not a big deal, especially this early on in the role play. Moving on I am at my laptop for a little bit and plan to read the posts and follow up with my own. I will edit this post if any new information needs to be shared before I do something.

Regardless of it's closed or not, would it be okay if I posted my sheet here? Just if a spot opens due to disappearance or... something of the like?

Rune_Alchemist said
Only if you don't know how to do it. I think I'm fairly competent at what I do, and Iris isn't some over-powered mary sue that wouldn't be accepted. Really, she could work without Amnesia, I guess, but it would make things less interesting considering a few things I have planned for her, I think.If you want me to spoil it, I can I guess, if you're that concerned about it. If you don't want her on your team though, then that's fine too, the three of us can go be on the other team.

Well... yes? It's a lot less concerning if the bio fills its purpose and tells you about the character, rather than telling you what the character knows.

And you appear to be on the other team, now. You and almost everyone else. :/

Posted! If you have any thoughts or you find something wrong with my post let me know please!

Raineh Daze said
Well... yes? It's a lot less concerning if the bio fills its purpose and tells you about the character, rather than telling you what the character knows.And you appear to be on the other team, now. You and almost everyone else. :/

Well, we're team-Better-Than-Yours for a reason :P
But since Traveler said to drop the discussion, We'll drop it~

I just hope I can show you that Amnesia can be good in an RP if done correctly~

You've already done it wrong. I don't have the slightest inclination to say amnesia can't make for good writing; my objection as I have repeatedly said is on the way it makes it trivial to get things into an RP that wouldn't be accepted. ._.

Um, wait, why did Theodyn switch teams? I was looking forward to playing Faith off him... >.<

Rin said
Um, wait, why did Theodyn switch teams? I was looking forward to playing Faith off him... >.<

Theodyn is Ostarion's character yeah? I'm going to say because me and him are friends and have been in several RP's in the past~

You were in the interest check, right, Amrita? Go pop up a CS and pray that a meteor lands on someone...or Konica shows some mercy upon your soul.

Ye, this playing off of three people at once thing is kinda leaving the teams lopsided... Prolly should have signed up earlier I guess.

Well, I posted. I may or may not maintain the silly writing style but I will try to keep the dialogue consistent at least. I make no promises on the tone of my narrative though.

ERode said
You were in the interest check, right, Amrita? Go pop up a CS and pray that a meteor lands on someone...or Konica shows some mercy upon your soul.

Incoming cliche healer.

There's 14 peeps right now, so it would sorta be nice if one from Team 2 could move into Team 1...

Amrita said
Incoming cliche healer.

Wooo! Another support! And not a run-of-the-mill tank support, either!

Healer? More like scapegoat for raging, every time the team gets wiped by the kingdom boss. XD

Raineh Daze said
You've already done it wrong. I don't have the slightest inclination to say amnesia can't make for good writing; my objection is on the way it makes it trivial to get things into an RP that wouldn't be accepted. ._.

Not in the game, just lurking, but my thought here, Raineh Daze, is that you can't berate your fellow players and tell them they're doing it wrong... Before they've done it wrong.

You don't want a ridiculous Mary-Sue backstory to come up (e.g. "By the gods, I just remembered that I'm actually from Krypton, so now I have superpowers, even though that doesn't fit the setting at all!"), and that's a fine thing, because it can (of course) disrupt the narrative of an RP, but if something like that happened, the GM would say "wow, that's dumb" and would tell the player to think of something else, if not kill off the character right there. What it seems like you're saying is that when these amnesiac characters DO reveal their backgrounds, they are guaranteed to be stupid, and that Konica won't do anything about it, when she/he might have done something if the stupid backstory was submitted as part of a sheet...

Frankly, if I were Konica, I'd be a little insulted. It's as if you don't think she/he can govern her own game.