Darcs

The Dust

Worst case scenario we send the Bartender your way. (What that'd accomplish I know not, but it'd be awesome.)

@Monochromatic Rainbow

Oh merciful God from beyond the golden flasks of aged barley, bless this poor savage with your righteous dog hair.

Firewater shall rain from the heavens and thousands of drunken apostles will spill blood and mary over the sand, Dust will be drunk-- OH MERCY, THE WAY OF THE BAR, THE WAY OF THE DIRTY RAG, THE WAY OF THE SPIT STAINED SHOT GLASS-- OH GROG NO

DON'T SUMMON THE BARTENDER FROM HIS WINE CELLAR. THAT ASCENDED SPECIMEN OF AN IDEAL HUMAN-- OH NIETZSCHE'S DRUNKEN IDEAL.

RPGC #2 Conversation Thread

So my reviews are probably going to be the least professional here, and I, personally, have no problem with that. Professionalism is for scrubs.

I mean, if you're happy with that lifestyle and you aren't an awful person, then good for you-- I don't mean that you specifically are a scrub-- unless you are, in which case okay.

Getting back on point-- my reviews are going to be very laconic, mostly ignore grammar and punctuation, so long as I get the point, and feature a 1-10 ranking system based solely on my opinion. I value concepts, hidden themes, motifs, character development, surrealism, silly phantasmagorias and decent plot and interesting dialogue-- internal or external WAY more than any technical aspects or prose you throw at me-- so know that.

Like, if you wrote a hard sci-fi story, and I give it a -4/10 and say it's shit-- it probably isn't actually shit, I just think it's shit-- and who am I? Just some loser on the internet. Keep writing you aspiring Asimov.

tl;dr

This is all my opinion;
The Good = Anything good I found in your story
The Bad = Literally the opposite of The Good
The Ugly = I don't know, some kind of wild card? I'll probably put your score here

Everything I say here is some kind of lie, except for whatever isn't?

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@Kurai Assassin

Delta Squad

by @Kurai Assassin
The Good: Less verbose hunger games
The Bad: Less verbose hunger games
The Ugly: Jesus Christ Pheonix is the luckiest, most hardened, most boring Katniss ever. I obvs got some real Hunger Games vibes from this, as well as possibly Ender's Game and of course Battle Royale.

I think it's fine to write a story inspired by those things, but, I don't know, I wish the world and the people who occupied it were more established-- of course, you could be keeping us in the dark on purpose-- just like how the only things we know about Pheonix is that she seems pretty desensitized and she's INSANELY lucky.

Like, and I wonder if that relates to her name-- or rather, her code name-- she's got this god like, mystical luck, enough so that magical shit like guns jamming just HAPPENS for her, and she isn't even phased by this stuff. Each encounter is basically her getting lucky, and moving on. This creates an interesting dichotomy between her own autonomy and power of figuratively 'rising from the ashes' of each encounter and her lack of power in that she's basically been bred to have this stoic, drone like mentality in the service of the Delta Squad-- who we know BASICALLY nothing about, I mean, except that they're okay with having kids kill kids so they can go fight... aliens...??? we're probably left in the dark on purpose tho.

I wonder if the Greek motif of Pheonix and Delta was intentional? Either way, neat little story, could have done with more character intention and description of interactions tho.

4/10

@Psyga315

Power, Figurative and Literal

by @Psyga315
The Good: Decent message
The Bad: No actual figurative power
The Ugly: The powers and immortality felt random

3/10

A Thought About Power

The Good: “Fucking Christ Hawkins. Patch yourself up.” kek
The Bad: The ending was abrupt as fuck
The Ugly: I really like the opening narration-- I kind of wish we could have kept that insane level of over analysis with each thought and movement the character made.

7.5/10

@NewSun

Artificial Light

by @NewSun
The Good: Like the entire thing
The Bad: ... Amber doesn't rust...
The Ugly: ---

9/10

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Ughhh, I'll get around to these later-- also I'll probably provide an extensive RapGeniusesque explanation into my poem

My Hider

@WiseDragonGirl

The Object of Ultimate Power

by @WiseDragonGirl
The Good:
The Bad:
The Ugly:

-/10

Conquer All

The Good:
The Bad:
The Ugly:

-/10

The Inevitable Destruction of Reality

by @elitestpotato
The Good:
The Bad:
The Ugly:

-/10

Powerless

by @PlatinumSkink
The Good:
The Bad:
The Ugly:

-/10

Rainbow Oblivion

by [ScienMalefica]
The Good:
The Bad:
The Ugly:

-/10

Enhanced

by [Ellri]
The Good:
The Bad:
The Ugly:

-/10

Oakenheim (Modern Supernatural RP)

I'll be free if anyone wants to collab tomorrow.

Oakenheim (Modern Supernatural RP)

@Piercing Lightiktfb

EDIT: @Tenish the Mighty Yeah I could see that-- He's also got some John Peters (you know, the farmer?) in him too.

It's probs an unfair comparison to make since I actually like Orion's character and he isn't actually the spawn incarnate of each and every flaw present in mankind like Steve-- but the fact that Orions sees things that no one else can just screamed, or rather, howled? Or perhaps whispered oddly sensually, like an old woman who lives in your home, but you don't know that she lives there because its a secret and she kinda has a sexy voice, but its weird because shes and old woman, and also you have no clue she lives in your home.

Anyway, I guess that whole "I hear the conversation" bit just whispered "Steve Carlsberg" to me.

Even tho really Orion is more like Old Lady Josie, or Larry Leroy-- of course that means that when Orion inevitably gets some magical pet on an adventure you'll have to have him name it after himself.

The Dust

>they're 'aliens'
>they greentext outside of le halfchan
>they aren't even inundated in earth internet customs
>they aren't sentient, psychic, earth-born, cybernetic, trans-tree/fungi hybrids
>they don't thrive off of starlight alone
>they won't even live to be 30,000

why live

Oakenheim (Modern Supernatural RP)

@Raijinslayer The Collected Works of Emily Dickinson

@Tenish the Mighty kek

"There was a conversation in the current. Orion heard it the first moment he submerged after his little fit. Each little eddy brought another whispered syllable. He blinked in the murky depths of the water, the others swam on ahead. None of them took the time to listen."

Orion

"There are glowing arrows in the sky. You can’t see them. I do. There are dotted lines and arrows and circles. The sky is a chart that explains the entire world. But you can’t see it. I know that. (...) No one listens when I talk. They hear, but… they don’t listen. Even now, maybe your attention is drifting. (...) Night Vale is a weird place. No one else sees that, I guess."

Steve

Also indie folk is dead, Tenish.

Yes, I know it's revived.

No, I'm not a zombeist.

Music Appreciation Thread

@Hexaflexagon 8.99999/10 That was fantastic! Band was on point-- singer was chill, and when he wasn't, he conveyed SO MUCH emotion. I loved it. Lyrics you can either sit back and enjoy aesthetically or actually listen to, the instrumentation breaks were DAMN fine, and had this great progression. Not only that, but the song bends expectations and breaks the norm of existing in a single genre. The downside is at times it kind of sounded like they might be a They Might Be Giants cover band. Still. I'm gonna be looking for some stuff by these guys.


"Swag on a hundred million"
Thank you, Mother Monster.

RPGC #2 voting is open!

REVIEWS ENCOURAGED

Cara's Originally Titled OoC Hangout Thread ♥ (Still)

DERPO

Oakenheim (Modern Supernatural RP)

Danny = Carlos + Tamika Flynn????
Danny's Dad = Unholy deer spawn of the Sheriff's Secret Police
August = Intern Maureen
Mary = Obviously Michelle Nguyen
Mary's Mom = The Woman From Italy
Kanoa = Probably Dana, I GUESS she'd be our Cecil??
Maxwell = Earl Harlan
Jackson = The Apache Tracker/John Peters, you know-- the farmer?
Aphosis = Literally Kevin