I couldn't type up a post yesterday night because I was sorting out my art portfolio and my english AP this morning, sorry! I'll type up a post when I get home /o/

*gets ready for those lovely early morning timed essays in a few minutes*

Postingggg~ Time for something relaxing in the meantime! GL Kathi!

Hey, quick note and preview stuffs, sorry in advance for the serious tone etc:

I'm not going to post an Estelle post today because I was kind of hoping for something to react with from a Lute post to add to Estelle, since her fighting alone with no other interaction felt boring to me, but I digress. It's not a big thing, however, I do have something I really need to comment on that I'd like to be taken to heart. Kathi, Kei, I know you guys have been busy lately, but I need to see major effort made by you guys to have your characters interact with all of the others. I know you guys have started to but I'm honestly struggling, in Aria's case, to think of characters she's interacted with in a meangingful way so far bar Xan, Lute and Lucien. It's been quite a while since you joined Tales now, and I'd like to see Aria interacting with others. I know you've been swamped with exams lately but I need more. Same with Lute interacting with others too please, Kei. I know there's a lot of characters but for the time you guys have been in there doesn't seem to have been much progress in having those characters interact with the others, despite whatever limitations they might have had in scenes so far. I just remember back to the start of the rp where Tae managed to pretty skillfully have Selan interact with and start building relationships with the majority of the cast on the train within a week, and whilst I don't expect something that quick, I do need there to have been more, and I'm honestly kind of surprised why it hasn't happened here.

Now here's the rub (and where things get a tad annoying for me considering the above) as well as preview of what will be happening with my scene set up tomorrow:

My post tomorrow will split up every single character and isolate them.

For the next five days I want to try something different and keep all of the characters seperate, and have no interactions between any of them. It'll focus on character foreshadowing, backstories, and be a pretty good introspective opportunity to learn what makes the characters tick. It should make for a good time for imaginative and inspired writing I think, giving everyone a chance to let loose and serve as a nice change from the interaction we normally do. But once the threads of these seperate scenes start to converge and re-entwine together and we have the characters rejoin each other, I really, really, really, really, really, REALLY need to start seeing more character interaction between them and everyone else. Seriously. You guys really need to take every opportunity you get to have your characters interacting with others.

I'm having a pretty bad day and I might be slightly loopy from lack of sleep so my [exaggerated] memory of Selan really making the rounds around the train like she was greeting guests at a party is seriously making me laugh.. ^^;

Quick explanation, just a combination of PMSing and lack of sleep did not help my embarrassing attempt at scheduling a doctor's appointment over the phone. I couldn't answer the lady's question about my health insurance because I just don't know anything that isn't on the little card I have, so she more or less hung up on me and I feel like an idiot and a failure of an adult??

Anyway, just thought I'd chime in and say that I'm glad Pach brought it up, I really would love to see the aforementioned characters interacting with more of the cast. I've discussed it with Pach before, and we agreed that some characters just naturally gravitate towards each other and everyone doesn't have to be best friends with everyone, but I think all of the main characters should have a really basic opinion on each of the others, maybe something that can be boiled down to a sentence or two (see the Relationships sections on the Wiki). I feel like I'm visualizing blanks for Aria, Xan, and Lute for at least half of the cast.

I'm not sure how to feel about the plan for the next five days (just because I'm curious about the set-up for that), but I think it should be fun, and I would love to see what everyone else writes for those scenes.

Edit: eeeeeee Rex your Trixie post :D Thanks for giving me something good for my Kapi post later tonight!

I just wanna say I also agree with Pacman and Tae haha. Though I've gotten a fair amount of solid interaction with Xan from Amy and Trixie due to the shenanigans with Heather last chapter, neither of my two have a real opinion on Aria or Lute at all at this point. Trixie has been split up from them most of the time they've been in the RP so far though, and Amy's not one to go out of her way to interact, so I can't really speak for myself, though like Tae I am having trouble thinking about what other characters really think about them (aside from the latter talking to himself like a loon haha!). I don't want to beat a horse though, so I'll keep my word there. ^^;

At any rate, uhhh... more happy relaxy stuff! Yay relaxy! Sucks about the health insurance thing too though, Tae. I can't imagine how confusing it is, since I'm reaping off military benefits on insurance for basically everything that's not my car lol.



EDIT: No prob, Tae ;D

Honestly, the Selan interaction stuff was pretty fantastic and inspired in how you did it, Tae. Even though it wasn't planned, I was impressed with what you did with Selan and how varied her interactions were; it was was just really awesome and cool. :D Like interacting with poor Syed outside Moira's train compartment, and then going to have breakfast with Nero before meeting everyone else in the buffet cart and getting overwhelmed by the sheer number of people there (and everyone teasing Estelle's lovey dovey boyfriend and her puking Largo's wife's sandwiches out through the window) before then having that nice bit of interaction with Cole and the statue he made of her... it was really awesome stuff.

I also hope you feel a lot better and that your day goes okay ;A; Don't feel too bad about the Health Insurance thing. I'm actually pretty useless when it comes to important documents and all this adult la-de-da crap because honestly... who does? No one ever taught me these things. I have no idea what to do half the time with those kinds of things D: But good luck in hopefully getting a doctor's appointment sorted (and shame on whoever the person down the phone was. Seriously, shame on them). I need to book a doctor's appointment sometime too @-@

EDIT: Rex, I love your music links. Keep them coming!!

Let me throw my opinion in here as well. I think that we have a very large cast, and sometimes that makes it hard to build relationships with each others characters since it is so large and frankly at times overwhelming. I'm not going to be helping this since I am bringing in a second character in my chapter, but I do think that there are ways to make it happen. Cause frankly, from Dylan's perspective, he doesn't really know Aria or Xan at all (though hopefully he can bond with Xan a bit after this scene) and Lute is just a mystery to him. Perhaps it's because this chapter has had strangely stop and go pacing, but I feel there needs to be a quiet moment where Xan, Aria, and Lute can reach out and forge the bonds that make Dylan care.

Don't make me care. Cause I do. But make the others IC care and want to travel with them. Am I making sense? I might not cause I'm still doped on cold medicine lol. I am feeling better so that's good.

Also, sorry to hear that Tae! Lord knows I've fucked up medical appointments in the past so don't feel too bad. Being an adult is definitely hard and not fun. XD

Looking forward to the next section!

Huehue, I'm glad you like my music taste, Pacman. <3

Thought about something too. Trixie's similar to Selan in interacting with everyone too, simply because Trixie is more of the Pride's personal doorbell when it comes to anyone new showing up. XD She was like that with Nero, Tidus, and Julius too especially lmfao. I think if she were around Lute more though they'd definitely have at least a conversation or something, considering she's attracted to weird lol.

To what Danni said, I don't think it necessarily has to be some quiet moment or downtime for the interactions to brew; just more teaming up during their fights/flights would help with that alone, since Aria was off with THawk for the majority of last chapter for her to build anything with anyone that wasn't Xandra. The sound thing with Lute and Selan has been awesome so far imo, and I love the chemistry between Xan and Trixie personally. :)

And yessss, I'm looking forward to the next bits as well!

Hi guys, sorry I've been awol in the ooc! Been busy busy busy.

Viewed a house yesterday, since I'm trying to move out. I liked it, but I didn't like it, if you know what I mean? I think that sort of thing is pretty important when it comes to houses lmao. It was absolutely tiny, and was kind of tucked away off the street near a footpath which can be kind of dodgy for me on my own. It so tiny I don't know if I would have been able to fit a desk in it either upstairs or downstairs haha! The guy who owned the house walked into the kitchen and was like "hey, two's a crowd" because you literally can't fit more than one person in it without them like, grinding against one another. It was well decorated though, and got me really excited about house hunting haha!

In terms of the next 5 day plan, I think it'll be really fun as long as we don't allow post sizes to balloon as a result. Which I imagine they could do really easily. Everyone else has pretty much said what my thoughts are on interaction.

Yeah Tae I've had it before when I ring people up and can't answer all the questions properly. Once I rang a bank, and they asked me what my security answer was. I couldn't even remember the question, let alone the answer. The guy on the other end couldn't give me the question either. Pretty embarrassing all round haha! Ended up apologising to him profusely and putting the phone down.

Dannyel said Perhaps it's because this chapter has had strangely stop and go pacing, but I feel there needs to be a quiet moment where Xan, Aria, and Lute can reach out and forge the bonds that make Dylan care. Don't make me care. Cause I do. But make the others IC care and want to travel with them. Am I making sense?

Yeah, this is true. This chapter hasn't really had much in the way of exceptionally quiet moments, but even then I still think it's possible and that's why it's important take advantage of the opportunity when it's presented. And I mean, I have and do make those moments available and lots of times too, but they're just.... not used to the best extent that they should. It honestly makes me feel uncomfortable setting up scenes where I have characters seperated and unable to interact with others, for the benefit and sake of the story/theme/overall chapter since that's taking away time from them interacting, but it's what'd make the chapter's story turn out better, and it'd be for the worse if those setups weren't that way. And again, even then I'm sure I've made the opportunity and time for it, and just... gah. :S

But, yes. To echo Tae, Rex and Danni's comments, I don't need the characters to all be best friends with each other, but they need an opinion of each other and to interact when the opportunity is given. The characters need to care about the others. And Estelle in particular needs to care considering she's the one leading the main overarching story mission. XD

Thank you for your empathy, guys! ;A; Yeah, like Pach said, it's not like anyone specifically teaches you how to do this stuff, so it's frustrating. That lady on the phone was pretty rude, though. I get that being a receptionist can be frustrating (I was one for a couple months) but you're supposed to help people... And I sound like a kid still so she really could have been a lot more understanding =_=

And thanks a lot Pach! I still remember that overall scene pretty well, so I'm glad you remember too, and fondly at that. c:

Like Danni said, I think I've stated multiple times that yeah, the amount of characters we have is overwhelming for me personally and I totally understand that you can't realistically get to everyone in a short amount of time. But I think it's doable to an extent, especially after the amount of weeks that have passed since the new characters were introduced (not counting Lute, obviously). Dead horse, etc. etc. etc.

But I totally get what Danni's saying about making the characters care more (maybe we're on the same wavelength from medicine/sleep deprivation lolol). I think maybe for the next quiet moment we have in the IC (and for any future character introductions, like Danni's) we should take a little more time to slowly introduce the new character to the others, and vice versa. That might help a bit. When I look back on the lunch scene with Lute, it feels like it was kind of rushed. And the same sorta goes for Aria and Xan's intros, that scene was more like exposition for the mission rather than introducing two new main characters to the cast.

Edit: Oh wow, the OOC's moving fast now!

Good luck finding a house Buns! I know the feeling, we had that issue a lot when we were looking for apartments. I'm really glad we went with the apartment I'm living in now, our other choice was in a really shady part of town. :x

That Infected Mushroom song <3

Taerinn said I think maybe for the next quiet moment we have in the IC (and for any future character introductions, like Danni's) we should take a little more time to slowly introduce the new character to the others, and vice versa. That might help a bit. When I look back on the lunch scene with Lute, it feels like it was kind of rushed. And the same sorta goes for Aria and Xan's intros, that scene was more like exposition for the mission rather than introducing two new main characters to the cast.

Agree. But, whilst I can't say much for the lunch scene, with regards Ari and Xan, that's what the beachball/pool scenes were aiming for - to explore the island and start off interactions with those characters. The restaurant scene was exposition though of course. c:

Still, noted, and we'll aim for that with Danni's second.

Pachamac said
Still, noted, and we'll aim for that with Danni's second.

Oh don't worry. I have plans. And schemes. And ideas. Muwhahahahahahaha!

Okay, Neil the Cat is being a butthead. I'm sitting in my room, right? And I hear a loud "meoooooow, meooooooooow" and I think Neil's in trouble or something so I run to the back door to see why he's making so much noise...

He's just sitting in front of the door.



I thought he was hungry so I gave him some food, which he didn't even look at. And you know what he does next? He just looks at me, and goes to his napping spot! I think he called me over for no reason...

(I actually think it's very cute, he doesn't always indicate that he actually likes us. Sometimes he rubs his face on my hand though c: )

Sorry and roger that, will do my best to get Xan to interact with the others.

Tae, Neil looks adorable :3 and d'aww. I'm going to work on a post.

Edit: Posted ^^

Ah, I sort of passed out for about 5 hours, I'm taking some melatonin and going back to bed so I don't screw up my sleeping patterns. I'm setting an alarm for 11 so I can post then, I'll cover both yesterday and today's stuffs if Pach does the moving-on post before I get up. Good night guys!

Got it~

Edit: Making post. Sorry for the nth absence, by the way. Power shortage is frequent in this area and I found out that typing was a painful thing to do.

Good morning guys! I have to have a probably uncomfortable phone call with my grandma really quick (to make me feel bad about something my mom started) and then I can post.

I'm feeling extraordinarily ill, tired and exhausted today, so can't give any guarantees of getting that post up today, but will try for first thing in the morning tomorrow if I'm unable to tonight.

Hope you're all feeling better then I am

Aww, I hope you feel better soon Pach! :c

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