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@DJAtomika@McHaggis
Indeed, I understand you don't want this thing to die Atomika but that doesn't mean you should harass people. I said plain and clear that the posting frequency is once a week but if we want to do more than that it is okay. Like honesty can you please chill just a little bit?

I think that was simply supposed to be a rolecall rather than pestering, mostly because the OOC's been pretty quiet the past little while. o.o

In other news, if you guys haven't looked at my sheet yet, enjoy his comments about your characters. ;D

I think that was simply supposed to be a rolecall rather than pestering, mostly because the OOC's been pretty quiet the past little while. o.o

^ this

Hell, it's been quiet in here, so let's get some conversation going!

What do you guys have planned over the summer? I've been on a job hunt and have been out of school for a while so I don't really get time off like I used to, but I was hoping to plan a week-long trip out to Vancouver by hoping on the train, and I want to get out camping in the mountains again this year since I only managed to go once last year (and only once paintballing, which is unheard of for me). Also, I highly recommend never moving, ever. It is such a pain in the ass, and I'm currently purging my apartment of a lot of stuff I don't ever use and trying to pack up stuff I do use with what few boxes I actually have.

Also, I was thinking it would be fun to do some OOC activities/ thought exercises related to our characters of what they would do in hypothetical situations. Might be a way to realize something about your character that you never knew, and it'll give other players an idea of what your character's like in ways they didn't already see in the character sheets or IC.

What do you guys have planned over the summer?

In Asia there is no summer. D:

I'm up for it. As long as our other players are still here, which is what I keep trying to find out but Hex is complaining so I'll stop.

This summer is one of free-loading and slacking~ Done with high school as of April and I have until September when I start at Glasgow Uni to read my set text list and keep pissing around on Skype with friends. I've been daytripping around my home country too just for fun, probably going to keep doing that!

Sooooo... basically nothing planned, yeah.

Also I think the thought exercises might be quite good if everyone's up for it ^^

And that's the way to do it! Although, I do recommend you and your friends try going on a trip together. Some of my favorite post-high school memories are the group camp trips and that time we all went white water rafting. :D Either way, you're getting out and it sounds like a good time.

I'll try to come up with an exercise soon, maybe an epiphany will occur when I take el doge out for a run in a bit. :D

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In Asia there is no summer. D:

I'm up for it. As long as our other players are still here, which is what I keep trying to find out but Hex is complaining so I'll stop.

Ah! Where abouts in Asia are you? I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess Singapore, and then cry when I lose all my game show earnings on bad answers.

Well, it's easy to see where Hex is getting the idea you're pestering people, you have been pretty vocal at trying to get people to respond instead of just letting things run their course. The way I look at it, either people will drop out or be slow to reply, but as long as there's a solid core of a few players, there's nothing to worry about for the game surviving.

Plus, this kind of game is pretty easy to introduce new characters. It's when you're all the crew of a starship that's a problem.

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess Singapore

DING DING DING Give the man a prize!

Damn it!!! I had a post all written out, then the server did something weird and lost it all...... -_-

Aw noooo D;

Try and hit back on your net browser. Might be able to recover it.

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DING DING DING Give the man a prize!

OH SWEET.

Wut do I get

Damn it!!! I had a post all written out, then the server did something weird and lost it all...... -_-

This is why I always copy what I'm about to post before I hit send. Sorry to hear about that!

@Dervish An Internet.

Indeed, I've been doing this for far longer than I'd like to admit and you learn one thing in that time and that is that people in Roleplays come and go like the tides; coming and drifting out back to sea. In a perfect world everybody stays in the things they started and all the roleplays get completed to their inevitable end. But that doesn't happen and people lose interest or life happens or whatever and they must part ways. Trying to force that to change is like trying to tell Putin to stop being an evil Bond villain trying to take over the world, it just doesn't work. You just gotta let it happen sometimes you gotta shake the house up a little bit and see who's left inside. We have like five people who obviously don't wana give up on this yet and that can keep this thing going for awhile yet and yes if it is deemed needed as Dervish pointed out it is not really hard to let people in. Frankly I should've just not waited for Nevermind and we probably wouldn't of ran into this problem in the first place but that is what I get for trying to be nice. Curse you cruel cruel world.

Anyway summer goes as summer goes usually I complain that it is too hot, go surfing, take naps on the beach before remembering that it is till too damn hot. Summer and I have a very complicated relationship.

Don't worry Lalia I think we have established that we are not going anywhere so just take your time, we don't rush perfection here we try to create it and fail miserably in the process created twisted mutated abominations that kind of maybe look like stories at the right angle.

And thought exercises are an interesting idea. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Everybody's enjoying summer

Meanwhile in Singapore it's raining

/fatbastard AH SHOULD MOOVE TO SCOTLUND AYE

Like Scots though. Dey coo

@DJAtomikaI'll take it and fill it up with sloth videos.

Indeed, I've been doing this for far longer than I'd like to admit and you learn one thing in that time and that is that people in Roleplays come and go like the tides; coming and drifting out back to sea. In a perfect world everybody stays in the things they started and all the roleplays get completed to their inevitable end. But that doesn't happen and people lose interest or life happens or whatever and they must part ways. Trying to force that to change is like trying to tell Putin to stop being an evil Bond villain trying to take over the world, it just doesn't work. You just gotta let it happen sometimes you gotta shake the house up a little bit and see who's left inside. We have like five people who obviously don't wana give up on this yet and that can keep this thing going for awhile yet and yes if it is deemed needed as Dervish pointed out it is not really hard to let people in. Frankly I should've just not waited for Nevermind and we probably wouldn't of ran into this problem in the first place but that is what I get for trying to be nice. Curse you cruel cruel world.

Anyway summer goes as summer goes usually I complain that it is too hot, go surfing, take naps on the beach before remembering that it is till too damn hot. Summer and I have a very complicated relationship.

Don't worry Lalia I think we have established that we are not going anywhere so just take your time, we don't rush perfection here we try to create it and fail miserably in the process created twisted mutated abominations that kind of maybe look like stories at the right angle.

And thought exercises are an interesting idea. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

It's been my experience that you're always going to hemorrhage a few people in the first month before the core of players remain, kind of like sifting for gold. I also find that fairly active OOCs tend to keep a game nice and healthy even if the posting rate is slow; it at least shows the players are bonding and are invested enough to hang around. I also found out that games can't wait up for anybody unless they give a concrete time for when they'll be posting, because I've had a few experienced where I've had game grind to a halt for weeks waiting on one person. That kind of spelled the beginning of the end. D: Coincidentally, it was also a Mass Effect RP I put a loooot of time and effort into.

I've never lived anywhere close to where surfing was a thing. I think you're the first person I've met who does it! And for whatever reason, this is the first year I've noticed the heat actually getting to me and being pretty intolerable. Usually I'm totally fine with it being a broiler outside, but this year... not so much. >_> Although being up North, I'm sure what I consider hot is probably run of the mill normal for most of you guys.

@McHaggis Rain's very hit or miss where I live in central Alberta. Some years, you'll get three solid months of it followed by no rain for two months (like literally, no rain at all), and this year it's once in a while, but it's always a thunderstorm. In short, the weather here is very temperamental.

Alright! Let's do some of these thought exercises. We'll each take turns coming up with a scenario (one at a time) and everyone who wants to can join in with a response for what their character would do in any particular situation.

Let's start off with something simple: Your character is given a choice between saving someone they care about most (family member, lover, friend, your choice) and a large group of innocent bystanders. There is no way to save both, and the choice has to be made immediately. What would they do?

I'll answer after I get a few replies in; I need to get something to eat. :D

@Dervish

Oh that is a hard one to answer..... Raya would save the bystanders, because one her family is already dead, two she makes it a point to never get romantically involved with anyone and three, her friends are all short lived species and she knows they will die eventually...... she would become even colder though

Hazan would save the bystanders. He doesn't have many friends to begin with, but the friends he's made all are willing to die. They knew the risks.