[OOC] Wink Murder: Who Killed Mr. Jig?

[cerozer0]

Lady in Red

• She's a short but pretty woman, with a curvy body and a rather elegant way of walking.
• Noticably Hispanic. Has a very thick Spanish accent and speaks pretty basic English. Often breaks into Spanish phrases when words evade her.
• Overly polite, maybe a bit too quiet at times. Stares often.
• Wearing: A matching red dress and hat. Large black heels, and expensive-looking golden bands on her wrists.

Shrugs

[freedomliveson]

@Jig

My bad. Hopefully the IC post will make up for it...or not xD

[Jig]

Backtracking slightly: or, maybe I hadn't seen that you've posted in the IC and established the stuff anyway. Soo, there's that.

♫ You see, I learned something today. Just because you're wrong doesn't mean you can't stand up and admit that - and doesn't mean you can't learn something from it either. ♫

@Jig

@Jig

My bad. Hopefully the IC post will make up for it...or not xD

@freedomliveson

Completely. I think we keep ninja-ing each other.

[DJAtomika]

- Shifty eyes
- Carrying a brown messenger bag
- Watch on left wrist
- Loafers
- Mainland Chinese accent
- Doesn't seem all that familiar with English

[Jig]

It looks like the gentlemen have landed. ^^

If one of the ladies could notice the weather, which is not raining but looking rather gloomy indeed, that would be great.

[cerozer0]

@Jig I might not be able to post till Saturday since my prom is tonight and in heading down the shore after, but if I have any free time I'll try and work something out <3

[Jig]

@Jig I might not be able to post till Saturday since my prom is tonight and in heading down the shore after, but if I have any free time I'll try and work something out <3

@Liriia

No worries, duck.

In other news, this guy;

• Essex accent, just not quite as strong as that.
• Strong 'young professional' vibes
• Affected, precise mannerisms
• Smart messenger bag
• Dressed fashionably; not ostentatiously, but on-trend in the least creative way possible

[Mixtape Ghost N]

This RP is a race to find out who fucked up the hardest!

[Jig]

This RP is a race to find out who fucked up the hardest!

@Mr Allen J

Inspired by the above, here are some thoughts about how to approach actually playing this game.

While it seems like I'm trying to ban all metagaming by keeping a lot of typically public info private, I'm actually not. You can and should use all the information at your disposal as the player; the only thing is, there isn't much information to have! So, if you've read something in the IC, even if your character wasn't witness, you should feel free to nudge your character to go and check out whatever it was. It's completely meta-gaming, and it's completely fine. The killer and I are going to be leaving you some clues, and, if you have a hunch about something, follow it up! There may even be OoC clues, too. I know there's already at least one...

In a similar vein, while establishing anything about another character can be seen as godmoding, I'm going to say that establishing something non-contradictory about their personal belongings is completely legit. In the particular scenario I have in my head, one character, let's call him Billy-Bob, leaves the room, but Billy-Bob's player does not establish what happened to his suitcase. Jilly-Jean's player should feel free to establish that Billy-Bob left his suitcase behind, and, you know, search it. While this would be considered godmoding in a lot of RP's, I'm going to call this legit behaviour in this. Un/subtly prying into each other's private lives is going to be key in this, so I'm going to call it legit to go through other people's stuff. Obviously, this should be done carefully, so as not to contradict anything established. You should also PM me if you do this, in order to ask what Billy-Bob might find - I know, because I have your sheets, and it's a good idea to have a second pair of eyes double-check you aren't contradicting canon. While I can't think of another case in which I would support a plot-advancing godmode, if anybody can think of a similar example and would like to ask if it's legit, just suck it up and keep your ideas to yourself ask me. :)

I hope that's all clear, and if anybody gets gently godmoded, I hope they won't feel too terribly violated.

[Jig]

Please don't fail to notice that the weather just took a distinct turn for the shitty outside.
Currently it looks like McHaggis, Allen, Freedom and DJ are on the platform, while I, Kirah and Liriia are in the waiting room. Mr. Jig is not yet in play.

I highly, by the way, recommend the usage of collaboration posts in this, since it's going to be such a tight space and the game overall is going to be mostly fuelled by character interactions. If you've rather back-and-forth conversations with shorter posts, that's also fine, but I happen to have a personal preference for collaborations. :P

Canon Lockdown:

Everybody has posted. Everything you have sent me is set in stone. The dye is cast. The metaphors are used. Let's have at it.

Progression:

When you're done with a section, or not sure what to do, let me know. That's my cue to hit you with the plot-stick of love^TM. Obviously it's a bit awkward now because there's not a lot to go on, but I wanted to offer you the chance of talking to one another before we run into the whole murder and blackmail bit.

[McHaggis]

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[Jig]

Well, there are three gentlemen on the platform right next to you, and it has just started raining... I wonder if any of them would be chivalrous enough to offer you an umbrella?

Hahahahaha, I've seen their character sheets

Edit:

Just to warn those of you that don't know, in addition to being a complete nutcase, I'm also functionally an idiot. I had completely forgotten that the train station has a whacking great shelter sticking right out of it which will completely protect you all from the rain. Not from the wind, though, which I have decided should now be harsh enough to make up for lost precipitation.

Also, the shelter leaks. Like a bitch.

tl;dr - the weather's bad and the shelter can't help you.

I also completely forgot that the lady in red was also outside.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Well, there are three gentlemen on the platform right next to you, and it has just started raining... I wonder if any of them would be chivalrous enough to offer you an umbrella?

Hahahahaha, I've seen their character sheets

Edit:

Just to warn those of you that don't know, in addition to being a complete nutcase, I'm also functionally an idiot. I had completely forgotten that the train station has a whacking great shelter sticking right out of it which will completely protect you all from the rain. Not from the wind, though, which I have decided should now be harsh enough to make up for lost precipitation.

Also, the shelter leaks. Like a bitch.

tl;dr - the weather's bad and the shelter can't help you.

I also completely forgot that the lady in red was also outside.

@Jig

I'm open to any and all collabs.

[McHaggis]

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[Jig]

@Jig – Soooo, basically like all train station shelters in Scotland. Rightyo.

@McHaggis

Euston Station 4 lyf

[cerozer0]

Getting my wifi back today so if anyone would like to collab I'm open~

[Mixtape Ghost N]

I really hate to be the guy that's first to drop out, but... recently, I made some life choices and I decided to slowly phase out of Roleplaying. Which means I should leave this RP before I dig in and become a big part of it or something. I do love this RP, but it's for the best. I'll finish the collab with McHaggis.

[Jig]

Sorry to hear that dude.

To everybody else, Jig's unbelievably brilliant partner is still in town, so I'll have incredibly limited time until Sunday evening, at which point normal service will resume.

[Kirah]

Jig is not dead. Jig will return. Please hold until Jig is available. Thank you.

[Jig]

I have indeed returned, but, on this occasion, I don't bring glad tidings, I'm afraid.

I'm moving to Amsterdam next month, and don't have anywhere yet to live, which is, at the moment, somewhat pressing. Since we've only just begun and we've already had somebody drop out, I think I'm going to just knock this on the head now.

I'm really sorry to do this to you, especially since I was probably quite picky and difficult during the character creation process.

On the plus side: Mr. Jig will almost certainly return. Running games like this is great fun and, while RL has decided to butt in where it's not wanted for now, I expect Mr. Jig will be resurrected at some point in the future. There is still hope for you little murderers!

Apologies,
-J