@Jotunn Draugr Speaking of working together, do you want to do a collab for the fight?

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If I wanted to just write a solo story, I wouldn't be here. I'd be writing a book. Surely, the entire purpose behind group roleplay is that people work together.

I think you misunderstand I mean, collab posts are when more than one person write a single post that covers a lot of ground. The way I see it is exactly the same as back to back posting among a small group, and when I have seen it done it leaves people behind, and then they drop out. Obviously if we aren't writing posts that interact with others then you might as well be writing a story yourself

Playing post by post and allowing other people to join in and out of situations as they choose is the how I think it should be played. And I massively disagree with language like "shoehorn", nobody could join in with you guys right now of they wanted to? Number of stories completed isn't the goal in my opinion, all of us writing something together is the objective.

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@ColouredCyan Kinda caught me off guard with the whole 'being a card carrying member of STRIKE' right out of the gate. Gotta warn somebody before you go and change a scene. One of the rules actually...

4.) Get permission before using another player's character in your posts if it involves changing the scene or making actions.

..when I mentioned kinda leaving you an opening, I'd meant the plant person in the woods people claimed seeing on the news was likely you. I was under the impression Venus fell to Earth rather recently. Making the creature on the news a separate character is fine in a city of 15,000 superhumans, but I was gonna continue building up STRIKE as well as their superteam that'll be tasked with taking down Liberty Son/Darkstar. Now it's like your alien has higher clearance than my boy who's been with STRIKE for a little while now.

~KL~

I wrote a bio in which I mentioned that she arrived 3 years ago and she initially looked monstrous and inhuman, what you described was not my character. If you wanted to write in my character like that you should have read my CS more carefully.

Also, see the bottom of the fourth paragraph.

If they were doing necessary training comms would be off and you still have to wait, but it was still faster than using the electronic systems.

If you aren't interested in fighting the Sea Monster with Roland, you didn't hear what Imbricata ordered (she's an ass and does so without authority) into the comms. Both you and Stern have been notified that my character exists and that she's going to the beach and both methods give you and Stern the choice whether to respond at all and if you choose to, you still have room to respond how you see fit. I haven't moved your character, or my character, from the War-Room area.

Its pretty odd to be lectured about doing things with your character in the same post you're trying to persuade me to change my character, especially when I went to good lengths to leave my post open.

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@Jotunn Draugr Speaking of working together, do you want to do a collab for the fight?

And here in lies my collab argument, I want in this fight, I've even expressed interest and if you collab it all tonight with Jotunn, what I can I do?

I'm about to go to bed and have no more time to write tonight. Goodnight.

@ColouredCyan I was sort of a bit confused with your interest as you state at the start of your post that it is morning, even though the fight is taking place at 10:50PM. You're welcome to join in on the fight, or even show up at the end of it if we do finish it tonight, which I doubt we will as Jotunn has just gone off, but this was all really just meant to be a short fight so that Roland could meet new character and kick off his monarchy assassination plotline to be honest.

I wrote a bio in which I mentioned that she arrived 3 years ago and she initially looked monstrous and inhuman, what you described was not my character. If you wanted to write in my character like that you should have read my CS more carefully.

Also, see the bottom of the fourth paragraph.

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If you aren't interested in fighting the Sea Monster with Roland, you didn't hear what Imbricata ordered (she's an ass and does so without authority) into the comms. Both you and Stern have been notified that my character exists and that she's going to the beach and both methods give you and Stern the choice whether to respond at all and if you choose to, you still have room to respond how you see fit. I haven't moved your character, or my character, from the War-Room area.

Its pretty odd to be lectured about doing things with your character in the same post you're trying to persuade me to change my character, especially when I went to good lengths to leave it open.

Nobody was trying to persuade you into changing your character. The eyewitness reports are clearly just rumors seeing as how nearly every person described the creature in a different way. Nowhere in your CS was there a mention of STRIKE, just 'military had been dispatched' and nowhere did it say you had joined any such group. Add a part in your CS bio about what she's been doing since coming to Earth, because it still caught me off guard and needs to be explained in the Bio or the Notes sections. I didn't note the 3 year timeline since you arrived, but my CS mentioned STRIKE only having their New Athens HQ for 2 years. It's also not known by most of the STRIKE agents that there's a giant working for them or not. In the Storylines section of my CS "Rumors of a giant man in the ranks are finally put to rest when Gigas is tasked with being among the superhumans to take down Liberty Son / Darkstar."

Making your character a card carrying member of STRIKE was changing your character from what it was presented as in the CS, the news report in my last post was just a vague news report. You can call the creature Treefoot or whatever and go that route with your character going after it, but anything involving STRIKE needs to be run by me. To be clear, nobody's lecturing you about using my character or trying to make you change your character. Showing up in the scene I'd set up as a member of STRIKE and talking about getting a vehicle for Gigas was you changing your character as well as the scene and was completely out of left field without a mention anywhere. If you only run it by one person in the RP, it needs to be the GM. You even gave your character a smart phone! An alien having joined a government organization and possessing intelligence enough to work a smart phone are important details and should be noted somewhere!

~KL~

@ColouredCyan I was sort of a bit confused with your interest as you state at the start of your post that it is morning, even though the fight is taking place at 10:50PM. You're welcome to join in on the fight, or even show up at the end of it if we do finish it tonight, which I doubt we will as Jotunn has just gone off, but this was all really just meant to be a short fight so that Roland could meet new character and kick off his monarchy assassination plotline to be honest.

Her post is presumably on the same day as mine, which is the day after your post. So if she wants in on that fight her first post will have to be altered a bit or she'll have to use a flashback.

~KL~

@Jotunn Draugr Speaking of working together, do you want to do a collab for the fight?

Actually, I'm getting a bit tight on time right now. It might be better if you go ahead or find someone else to help. I'll be leaving the country this Friday.

Sorry. Assuming the RP is still alive when I come back, I'd love to do a proper collab with you then.

I made my first post. I kept it as just an introduction of Eileen and what she's sort of up to on the side. I also kept it open enough just in case any changes need to be made in any of the previous posts concerning characters involved with STRIKE.

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Actually, I'm getting a bit tight on time right now. It might be better if you go ahead or find someone else to help. I'll be leaving the country this Friday.

Sorry. Assuming the RP is still alive when I come back, I'd love to do a proper collab with you then.

No worries! That probably works better considering @ColouredCyan's concerns.

@ColouredCyan I was sort of a bit confused with your interest as you state at the start of your post that it is morning, even though the fight is taking place at 10:50PM. You're welcome to join in on the fight, or even show up at the end of it if we do finish it tonight, which I doubt we will as Jotunn has just gone off, but this was all really just meant to be a short fight so that Roland could meet new character and kick off his monarchy assassination plotline to be honest.

I didn't spot the time, my bad. Nevermind then.

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Nobody was trying to persuade you into changing your character. The eyewitness reports are clearly just rumors seeing as how nearly every person described the creature in a different way. Nowhere in your CS was there a mention of STRIKE, just 'military had been dispatched' and nowhere did it say you had joined any such group. Add a part in your CS bio about what she's been doing since coming to Earth, because it still caught me off guard and needs to be explained in the Bio or the Notes sections. I didn't note the 3 year timeline since you arrived, but my CS mentioned STRIKE only having their New Athens HQ for 2 years. It's also not known by most of the STRIKE agents that there's a giant working for them or not. In the Storylines section of my CS "Rumors of a giant man in the ranks are finally put to rest when Gigas is tasked with being among the superhumans to take down Liberty Son / Darkstar."

Making your character a card carrying member of STRIKE was changing your character from what it was presented as in the CS, the news report in my last post was just a vague news report. You can call the creature Treefoot or whatever and go that route with your character going after it, but anything involving STRIKE needs to be run by me. To be clear, nobody's lecturing you about using my character or trying to make you change your character. Showing up in the scene I'd set up as a member of STRIKE and talking about getting a vehicle for Gigas was you changing your character as well as the scene and was completely out of left field without a mention anywhere. If you only run it by one person in the RP, it needs to be the GM. You even gave your character a smart phone! An alien having joined a government organization and possessing intelligence enough to work a smart phone are important details and should be noted somewhere!

~KL~

I don't really understand, hasn't STRIKE been establish so that we join it? Your doing some pretty excessive gatekeeping. I'm sorry I missed tiny details about STRIKE that aren't in the first OOC post where you usually find details about the setting.
She doesn't have to have been working for Strike in New Athens, didn't even mention where she landed.
Imbricata doesn't know Marlowe has any powers, wasn't even aware I'd mention she did.
When I worked at Gillette as a scientist I had access to specific laboratories where I was supposed to be working, but not ones I hadn't any reason to be in. I couldn't access the soap/blade prototyping factory or the packaging departments despite being in the same building because it would be dangerous. Its been exactly the same at the other companies I've worked out as a scientist so I'm not sure why you keep stressing card carrying, most corporations have ID cards for protecting company secrets and keeping employees safely out of area's they shouldn't be. But I mean fuck me for trying to insert some of my personal experience as a scientist in the RP.
Changed from what? I'm sorry for trying to get you involved with other people in the RP instead of fighting robots alone. Again, you always had the choice of not joining her.
Its my first bloody post, am I supposed to just post about bugger all and just wait for people to interact with me?
Everyone has smartphones, this is not a big deal
Do I need to tell you she can tie her own shoe laces too?

Clearly my character was not what you wanted her to be.

@ColouredCyan No worries, you can still come and help through a flashback as KL mentioned earlier if you still want to?

@ColouredCyan No worries, you can still come and help through a flashback as KL mentioned earlier if you still want to?

No its alright, probably should left KL finish mutilating my character before I get entwined in anything. All this jumping though hoops has left me feeling disinterested anyway.

@ColouredCyan You go from an alien plant creature from three years ago to a member of STRIKE with no notes in between of how you go from point A to point C. If she's been completely humanized it should be noted somewhere, which is why I was under the impression she crashed more recently. The end of her bio was still just the beginning of her story and you just need to elaborate on what she's been doing since she's been here. If you want her working for STRIKE, then put something in the CS about it! If she's an alien with a smart phone, who understands our language and tech, etc. there should be some explanation as to how that happened. Maybe she bonded with a scientist who's her new BFF, IDK. There's three years of her life that needs explained though.

@Stern Algorithm wanted to be tied to a government agency and I mentioned maybe using STRIKE in the iCheck. She went back and worked STRIKE into her CS and it's clear that was where she was going. I don't mind if your character is also a member of STRIKE, just let me know ahead of time that's your plan. And work it into your CS somewhere.

~KL~

@ColouredCyan You go from an alien plant creature from three years ago to a member of STRIKE with no notes in between of how you go from point A to point C. If she's been completely humanized it should be noted somewhere, which is why I was under the impression she crashed more recently. The end of her bio was still just the beginning of her story and you just need to elaborate on what she's been doing since she's been here. If you want her working for STRIKE, then put something in the CS about it! If she's an alien with a smart phone, who understands our language and tech, etc. there should be some explanation as to how that happened. Maybe she bonded with a scientist who's her new BFF, IDK. There's three years of her life that needs explained though.

@Stern Algorithm wanted to be tied to a government agency and I mentioned maybe using STRIKE in the iCheck. She went back and worked STRIKE into her CS and it's clear that was where she was going. I don't mind if your character is also a member of STRIKE, just let me know ahead of time that's your plan. And work it into your CS somewhere.

~KL~

This is a better answer than you gave originally. You could have avoided a whole lot of grief. I can fill out the three years if you desire.

Yeah just two or three sentences even telling us what she's been up to for three years. Promise I wasn't going around looking for someone to be a dick to LOL. Was pretty excited to see you RP'ing again and taking interest in another game as Parasite was one of my favorite characters from Titans.

~KL~

@ColouredCyan Gigas responded, you could wait up for him to finish or just hop in with an assist. He's got one injured civilian droid as well as one who's okay still with him heading to a safe zone. A mother and child droid are somewhere in danger [no specifics given, we're in a park setting] with two male civilian droids going to their rescue [these holo-droids have feelings lol]. A 12 ft tall and 18 ft tall Gigas are both fighting the 15 ft tall Voltron wannabe.

~KL~

Okay guys, I'll soon be out of the country for a month, and won't be able to post here. Assuming this thread is still alive when I come back, I'll be posting again in August.

Best of luck to you guys!

Thanks for the heads up! Hopefully we'll still be rockin' and rollin' a month from now LOL

~KL~

@Aro @Pirouette @Rocketrobie2 @Parfex @Lord Wraith @Hillan @Stern Algorithm @ColouredCyan @Mr_pink

Jotun mentioned being away for awhile, what about the rest of you guys?

~KL~

@The Kid Lantern Been waiting either for a post from Hillan or an invitation to the collab Ms. Mellow had mentioned awhile back.

@The Kid Lantern Been waiting either for a post from Hillan or an invitation to the collab Ms. Mellow had mentioned awhile back.

I'll tell @MsMellow to get a post started today or PM ya. School stars this year for our kid on August 1st for some dumb reason so she's doing all she can with our him before then.

We may just have to beat on Hillan though LOL

~KL~