@Serum Ah, sorry~! I must have misunderstood~ >///w///<

Does this exclude third-person novel-style writing as well? Because while that is where I'm most comfortable[...]

This made me think you wanted to write in third-person to be more in your element, which is why I made that suggestion~... Um in a more straightforward answer to your question, yes that's perfectly fine and is what I prefer, so I'm glad~! ^.^

Okay, yeah, I can see where the confusion arose, that's really my fault. What I had meant was that I prefer to write in a novel-style, but first person. Like the way I'm posting right now, really. Full stops, regular sentence formatting, but using the first person.
Regardless, I think I can handle your writing style. Like I said before, it's nothing I haven't done. Just let me know if there's anything I need to change or improve! You're the boss here, after all, eh?

@Serum Boss~? ^.^ Heehee, I don't really see it that way~ We're all equal here~! :3 All suggestions are appreciated, and I may even try to 'evolve' my style so everyone used to the classic novel style can feel more at home~!

Well technically you are the GM, so you get final say on anything. But I'm happy to have such a benevolent leader. May the RPeople's Republic last for many years.
Also @Princess Sakura is evolving! Bum buh bum buh bum buh bum baaaum...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik2nL81QHHA

@Serum Kyaaa, Cherrim is one of my favourite Pokémon~! ^.^
Also, um... Are our charas in separate parts of the world~? For me it's sunset, but for Yamamoto-san it's around noon~? Sowwy if I seem incompetent~...

@Serum Kyaaa, Cherrim is one of my favourite Pokémon~! ^.^

I took a guess, and I was right.

Also forgive me, I was the incompetent one. I saw the part about the sky being blue and mixing with peach, but for some reason I neither saw the part about it being sunset, not did I register that as a sunset. I apologize again.
This does work out better though; I'd wanted sunset but I had thought it was midday for you so I did around noon.

I am a mess.

I'm gonna go change that as soon as I finish cleaning up my own dishes, haha.

@Serum Oh, no worries~! I smiled the whole time reading that~ :3 Looks like we're off to a strong start~... XP

Okay, phew. Actually, thanks for letting me know that. I always like to know when something I've said of written causes an emotion in people, happy or sad, jubilant or frightened, or wistful. Or, y'know, if I said something funny. It's the reason I write: it lets you touch other people's lives from miles and miles away, maybe without ever even talking to them.

Anyway. Monologue aside, I think my post now better fits yours in terms of consistency and definitely is more along the lines of the somber feel I was going for.

Okay, phew. Actually, thanks for letting me know that. I always like to know when something I've said of written causes an emotion in people, happy or sad, jubilant or frightened, or wistful. Or, y'know, if I said something funny. It's the reason I write: it lets you touch other people's lives from miles and miles away, maybe without ever even talking to them.

*sniffles, dabbing at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief* Th-that's... so beautiful~...! Q///w///Q I shall ensure your words are someday engraved upon a plaque, as a reminder to the people of Bunnyville exactly why we are here~!
Ah, in regards to the residents, it seems most people are currently absent, so for the duration of this evening it seems to be just us~ ^.^ In that case, even though I foolishly left myself essentially comatose in a field with no motivation to go anywhere else or do anything and therefore felt stuck, I shall try my best to work with you and keep the IC active~! *poses valiantly with her hands on her hips and a fiery look in her eyes* THE POWER OF YOUTH~!!! >:3

I BELIEVE IN US. I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF YOUTH.

Might Guy would be proud.

Anyway, yeah. I would've loved to have started off with some interaction, but I couldn't really think of any reason for Ichiyo to be anywhere but at his job to begin with. Especially out in the middle of the field. He's not the type. I also wanted to introduce the café in case it becomes a suitable meeting spot for any number of characters at some point.
I give myself a 3/5 on foresight. Thought too far ahead.

No-no-no, I should have started there too, as I knew from your CS that of course it only makes sense for you to be there so I should have, as the GM, provided a more suitable starting point~! Your foresight was perfect - it was simply I who was too far behind~ (Even from the very beginning, and of my OWN rp~! Oh, the shame~... T///w///T )

Also~...

I BELIEVE IN US. I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF YOUTH.

Might Guy would be proud.

I cannot tell you how happy I am you got the reference~! XP

EDIT: Ooh, that "I" in italics amidst ordinary text looks a bit more like a forward slash than I had anticipated~... Oh well~! :3

Huzzah! I pass the test. Or a test, at least. I suspect there will be many more.
Which means I'm gonna need to catch up on some anime.
Also I wouldn't be too worried about leaving yourself in an open field; there are plenty of other people who could come on at any point, and they absolutely could've started in an open field as well. It just so happens that I'm all you've got. ;)

Anyway, I made sure to leave my post ambiguous in case you didn't want to go the same route I did. But at least it looks like maybe we'll get some stuff rolling, hm?

@Serum Well actually, I was originally going to make another sort of mini-reference/easter egg for Lucky Star in the IC~ :3 IRL I own a stringed pouch of the Lucky Star commercial kitty (as I call it - I don't know if you've seen the show, but the kitty I'm talking about - whose body comprises solely of a head and tail sometimes used as a hand to cover its mouth during its oddly squeaky but adorable yawns - never actually appeared during any of the episodes, only just before and after the commercial breaks)~ This was going to be the pouch my chara keeps her seemingly enigmatic handheld gaming console in (just as I used to IRL, before I upgraded to the 'new'est model which doesn't fit)~... But of course I love bunnies the mostest, so went with that~! :3

EDIT: About your latest IC post (to which I should really be responding immediately instead of discussing here), I just imagined the bumping-into-a-stranger scenario as being shot from a low angle close to the pavement and focusing on Yamamoto-san so that all you can see of the stranger (who I think can safely be assumed to be me) is the shoes, lower half of calves and hem of the dress, but then cuts to an angle looking from over Yamamoto-san's shoulder at the stranger to see it's in fact a random old man or something~ XD WHY is my mind so accursedly whimsical~?!

Ah well, I probably wouldn't have gotten that one anyway. I don't watch Lucky Star. Should I? Is it any good? Okay, obviously it's good, you watch it. Why is it good? I mean, I've heard of it, but I rarely watch anything without a recommendation.

About your latest IC post (to which I should really be responding immediately instead of discussing here), I just imagined the bumping-into-a-stranger scenario as being shot from a low angle close to the pavement and focusing on Yamamoto-san so that all you can see of the stranger (who I think can safely be assumed to be me) is the shoes, lower half of calves and hem of the dress, but then cuts to an angle looking from over Yamamoto-san's shoulder at the stranger to see it's in fact a random old man or something~ XD WHY is my mind so accursedly whimsical~?!

Yeah, that's about how I panned out in my head. Ambiguous so it could be you, but open enough that it could be an old guy if we need it to be.
...now with you mentioning the hem of the dress, I'm just imagining a slow pan up to this figure wearing a dress, then, as we reach the head, we find out it was an old guy all along. He's strange, wearing a dress, but don't judge him. He's had a long life and you don't know the half of it, sonny. Who are you to be running around, tackling the geriatric anyway? You kids these days are always so full of yourselves, thinking that only conventional dress style is okay and that it's unnatural for an old guy to wear a dress and I'm rambling. Whoops.

Edit: Should I refer to you as Sakura-hime or [Surname]-hime? You said you have the title of princess, but I don't know whether that's common knowledge or if I'd have to be told or what? What's the protocol here?

@Serum Well, I loved it, but really there is NO plot~ Basically, it revolves around the Daily Lives of High School Boys... ah no wait, they're girls~!!! Sorry, I just recently finished watching something else named... never mind~ ^-^" Anyway, the four main characters just chat and be funny/moe together, with countless references to other anime and video games etc. scattered throughout~! Ooh, also, the MAIN-main character Konata Izumi is an otaku herself, while her best friend Kagami "Kagamin" Hiiragi isn't, and pretty much (lightheartedly, in that famous tsundere way) insults Konata's lifestyle choices at every opportunity~ Konata is an awesome character and really makes you feel proud to be an otaku (if you are - if you aren't it's still just fun to see how passionate she is about her interests and the lengths she goes to, ESPECIALLY at the Comiket convention~!), and how amusingly silly the show can be, like when at one point the setting is suddenly made to be much more realistic and in 3D while the characters remain 2D but this isn't explained or even pointed out by anyone, or when Konata invites her friends and even her more-of-a-friend-really teacher to play an MMORPG and Tsukasa Hiiragi, Kagami's younger fraternal twin who is a little ditzy, doesn't even know that she needs to press the enter key in order to use the microphone so remains silent for ages but the whole time you see her making uncertain, anxious faces on the webcam~ >///w///< As for the fourth character, Miyuki Takara, well~... She doesn't appear or do anything as much as the others, and seems to just be there to occasionally provide random trivia, act clumsily cute and show off her big- ...g-glasses~ Yep, I was wholeheartedly referring to her glasses~ AND NOTHING ELSE~ Because I am a lady~

An idea I completely forgot to implement: To make charas' speech stand out more without relying solely on quotation marks, we format the dialogue text to be coloured~! O///w///O
What do you think~???

Trust me, I'm completely okay with big "glasses" and random trivia. Mmm, I love me some...trivia. But, like, actually. Did you know that they just discovered a warm-blooded fish? I thought that was neat.
Also I have a teacher that spends all period discussing video games and comics and stuff with the class. It's great. He plays games with some of the students out of class.
Also also, the colored text idea sounds fine to me, just maybe we keep it to one color per character, so that it's also a way to keep track of who's talking, hm?

Man, I really should watch some more anime. But I made a promise: nothing else until I finish Naruto. That was last year. Naruto is so long. And most of the other animes I've watched aren't really the, uh, cute kind.

He's strange, wearing a dress, but don't judge him. He's had a long life and you don't know the half of it, sonny. Who are you to be running around, tackling the geriatric anyway? You kids these days are always so full of yourselves, thinking that only conventional dress style is okay and that it's unnatural for an old guy to wear a dress and I'm rambling. Whoops.

Edit: Should I refer to you as Sakura-hime or [Surname]-hime? You said you have the title of princess, but I don't know whether that's common knowledge or if I'd have to be told or what? What's the protocol here?

First of all~...



Secondly, I was thinking it might be more suitable for you to initially be unaware of my social standing~ I think it might be nicer and easier for a bond to be established before this is suspected and/or discovered at some point by Yamamoto-san (rather than revealed directly by me, which I think would be quite boring)~ If and when that happens, I may even decide to feign ignorance or downright deny this when questioned, just to see what response this brings, as Yamamoto-san is already kind of amusing me with his hasty bashfulness at times~ >///w///< It's adorabubble~!

EDIT:

[...]the colored text idea sounds fine to me, just maybe we keep it to one color per character, so that it's also a way to keep track of who's talking, hm?

Um yes, I meant that - it was actually the main reason I decided each chara should have their own "main colour" while creating the CS template~ :3 I just went all rainbow-y there for fun~! ^///w///^

Oh man, I've seen that picture. I want to make a poster of that attached to my ramble.

And I like your plan. It's very Princess and the Pauper, "royalty just wants to live with the commoners".
Also usually I RP as a sort of cool, silent type, but I figured for a slice of life I'd be a little bit more like...well, me. It sure makes things easier to write, haha.

[...]usually I RP as a sort of cool, silent type, but I figured for a slice of life I'd be a little bit more like...well, me. It sure makes things easier to write, haha.

*GAAASSSPPP* Cool silent types are so keeewwwlll~! *somehow inexplicably unaware of stating the obvious* Owo Butcha know what's kewler than the cool silent type~? ...The cool silent type who OCCASIONALLY shows signs of vulnerability and cuteness, in particular only towards one person~!!! *goes into a Fuko Ibuki daydream (except not induced by a huggle or starfish)* -///o///- ♥

We are clearly on the same page here. It's just so adorable! "I'm human, but I don't want anyone to know. Except...well, I want to make a good impression on that one."
*accidentally makes a complete fool of himself*
"I AM NEVER TALKING TO PEOPLE AGAIN."
Ah, man, I love that. It's my favorite thing. And there's still time to retrofit it on him, but I think I'll keep going with hasty and bumbling.
Don't worry, "cool and quiet but with hidden depths". I'll come back to you some day.

Also that's not much of a Fuko daydream if there are no starfish involved.