Oh dear...I have a lot of stories that are almost impossible to describe how bad they really were without getting so long, no one sane would read it...

And oddly enough, I have an example where everyone was a good writer but damn we just made a fucking train wreck of a story...it was kind of everyone's fault in a way. It was a slice of life plot-line, basically a super natural creature inherited a huge mansion of sorts and decided to invited a bunch of them to move in with her and split the rent, so she could make friends and keep her home. Sounds fairly straightforward...however that somehow turned into a more disturbing version of twilight? With possibly more hateable and stupid characters?

It's almost turned infamous joke of me and my roommate, who I tortured and read it too over the phone, because he asked. :D

In short, this story became a girl (Grace). That had a werewolf and vampire that constantly was with her, the werewolf tried to protect her and treat her right and the vampire attempted to kill her several times and use her for his own gain. Do you even have to ask who she choose? This vampire was also her, way older, uncle...<.<

And when the villains appeared, having one very stupid main goal (that really didn't make much sense) and one with the power to control dragons. So the only not awful person in the RP, the werewolf, who is raising a dragon child. Almost every time he's faced with the villain, what does he do? Bring the dragon with him...which literally always goes wrong. And there's just so many more stupid things that happened, it would last forever with everything I could bring up... I'd say all of it was intentional in some way...but I don't think any of it was. -.-

Ironically, had the exact same people in other RP's that went perfectly fine. I guess even good role-players can just straight up, lose the plot and their minds and write a love story, that could possibly be worse than Twilight.

I'll start in sharing two quick particular experiences. Both with my roommate and his cousin, bless their souls, but they had a plethora of fail moments. So here's two of them with some simple context.

First, the roleplay was just the three of us. Each of us controlled three demi-gods that were shaping a new world. Backstory isn't important. The purpose was a battle/action roleplay where we would fight one another. Both of them we're itching to fight as soon as possible. So very early on, I described one of my gods wandering in a completely barren and dry desert oasis in scorching heat of daylight to scope out the area. My roommate really wanted to fight me, his three gods had the general powers of Light, Earth and Water. Do I even need to tell you which one sent given the topic at hand?

He sent his water god and challenged me to a fight to the death. Apparently, he missed the whole 'completely dry and barren' part (and the desert part). Which his exasperated screams over the phone, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT A WATERY OASIS?" made it all the more hilarious. It was a miracle that that demi-god made it out alive. A moment I'll never let go. Wasn't even the last lopsided battle in that RP. (Pro-Tip, don't write you expose your only obvious weak point to launch a powerful attack, if your opponent is in easily range of it. Also, don't join a battle RP and expect no death.)

So the second one is also quite early into the story and happens to be his cousin's fault this time, we had a six person party. A simple D&D style quest adventure, everyone had just entered the small town that was about to get attacked by a group of bandits. So the group gathered in the middle of the town where they started causing trouble. So, the cousin's character who was a warlock decided to start the battle by threatening and instilling fear into them. He changed his ordinary human appearance, into something more demonic looking. One bandit cried out that he was a monster. He loudly called back in a unnatural voice. "I'm not a monster, I'm a devil!" He proceeded to laugh manically. Ah, teenagers and their writing. Good times...

The problem with this, is one of the other character's entire backstory is based on demons slaughtering his people. He also was a barbarian and mercenary paid to kill demons, and a stranger whom he hasn't met yet started calling out in the middle of the town. "Mwhahaha, I'm a devil." casting fire spells. So, it lead with a bastard sword impaling that character. His cousin was not pleased with this action. But basically everyone else laughed their asses off. Maybe not the best way to introduce yourself. Edge writing, on top of being embarrassing to read often leads to embarrassing results. Sometimes, a quick and instant death...