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The Potter St. Theater

Vandal quietly walked alongside Vi as she walked closer to the towering main school building. He restrained himself from “exploring” the environment by biting the second knuckle of his thumb and focusing on the building up ahead. He convinced himself that what Vi had to say was more important than climbing on the impressive-looking statue in the middle of the front courtyard of the school. He also had to ignore the swaying of the trees in the wind, because a few of the trees were very impressive and tall, more than adequate for tree-climbing. In fact, these trees looked almost sturdy enough to support someone at the end of the branch. Vandal imagined himself, reclined on one of the higher tree branches on a frigid winter day, enjoying a steamy hamburger and fries, the aroma of crisp, golden potatoes wafting towards him as he eagerly reaches for the first bite of his meal…

But, all too suddenly, he was thrown from his mental image by the feeling of liquid on his hand. He quickly released his hand from his mouth and subtly dried it with his shirt, blocking the signals of embarrassment he felt running through his brain from reaching his face. He managed to tune in just in time to hear Vi ask him a question, but when he realized that she was looking at him, he awkwardly shot his attention back towards the building. He paused for a moment, but managed to construct a reasonable response without too awkward a pause, “If what Simon told me is right, we’ll be here six days a week from sunrise to some time late in the afternoon all year, besides summer, for the next four years. ”

After another question from Vi, Vandal stopped moving next to a park-bench and commented, “If Boss doesn’t have us doing performances during our holidays, we could probably travel somewhere briefly. But remember, we will also have Sundays off of school. This city is pretty big, so we can probably get to know it better and find good places to eat or such with our free time.” He then looked ahead at the school building and commented, “I wonder if we can try the front door of the building.”

After a few moment’s pause to get Vi’s feedback, his feet began moving on their own, bringing him closer to the door. Within no time, he had reached the double metal doors with the long, wired windows, and found himself peeking in through the glass. Without a doubt, he was looking at the longest corridor he had ever seen. The door led into a long hall of metal and tile, leading on to what could possibly have been the other end of the building. Vandal tried pushing, pulling, twisting, shoving, and even unhinging the door, hoping to figure out a hidden mechanism which would undo the lock, but to no avail. “No luck, but man, that’s a really long hallway. Maybe there’s another way in…”

With this said, he backed away from the door and started looking around above the door, around the corner, and over at other doors on the other side of the courtyard. There was a much more obvious “front door” which had a large “welcome back” banner hanging over it, but what really caught Vandal’s attention was an open window on the top floor. The window was propped open barely enough to reach a thin arm through, but Vandal saw it as an opportunity. “Well, I know how to get us in,” he commented, looking over to his sister with a mischievous smile, “want to see how?”

Escape from Syrae (Irell Starling)

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The Potter St. Theater

It's still summer break in the RP, right? School hasn't started yet, but it will start in about a week or so RP time, from what I can imagine.

Also, are you going to change your post at all or should I respond now?

Escape from Syrae (Irell Starling)

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The Potter St. Theater

I appreciate the apology, but there is really nothing to be sorry about, because I haven't explained what I did to you.

Through past roleplays, I have realized that, if we want to make any real progress, we either have to 1: discuss the RP as it continues so that we can write what the other person/people are doing as we post, 2: skip around carefully so that we can spend more time on certain sections and skip over useless events which don't develop the characters, or 3: assume that the other character does something and have our character react to it. Now, if I assume that Vi does anything specifically, like she says "cars are dumb," that's powerplaying, which is a roleplayer sin.

Instead, I leave vague "unfinished points" where I assume that your character will do something without saying what she does. It would be nice for you to try to do it for Vandal as well, that way we won't have as many static or choppy conversations, and so we can accomplish more each post, because we have a rather slow post cycle right now. And, if you want to do something that I did not anticipate, just ignore what I assumed and write your character's actions, form-fitting what I posted to your character's new actions.

For example, if I wrote that Vi said something here and Vandal paused to wait for her, watching her speak, but you want Vi to zone out and stare at a stranger, clearly Vandal won't wait for her to talk again. He will ask her what she is looking at, or will try to find out for himself. Just try not to change anything significantly enough to change the following events. We don't want stuff getting too complicated here.

The Potter St. Theater

You didn't include anything from the walk over to the school! It's fine if you don't want to, but I left a few non-final points in my post so that interesting things could happen on the way to the school.

The Land Of Odesh (A fantasy Dice/Stat based rp) REBOOT

Lore, this is technically the 7th post cycle. You are deceiving us all by writing 6. >.>

The Land Of Odesh (A fantasy Dice/Stat based rp) REBOOT

Alright then, here's my post, work in progress as always:

Post #7 - Minor Alements - WiP

As a brief gust of chilled wind forced its way into the rather warm room of Zimnis, the gnome was irreversibly awoken from his slumber. No amount of numbness or relaxation over the next ten minutes helped him in any way, so the Gnome begrudgingly rose from his mattress. He could feel the slight repercussions of ale from the previous night, but, like many travelers, he was used to it. Despite his unwilling abstinence from alcohol for the boat-ride across the big pond, the gnome had retained his fierce fortitude with regard to hangovers.

As the puppet-master equipped himself with his stave and his cloak, he heard dull footsteps clamoring down the stairs to the tavern below. Zimnis pocketed the keys to his room after locking the door behind him, and followed the path which he remembered the footsteps leading down. The gnome wore a timid expression as he went, wondering if a giant or a guard had visited the tavern during the night as he himself climbed down the staircase.

To his relief, Zimnis found Grommak the non-savage orc at the bottom of the stairs. "Hiya, Grommy!" Zimnis exclaimed, his face lighting up as he eagerly waved to the gargantuan figure, calmly approaching him all the while. The Gnome paused as the orc responded, and frowned in disappointment at his friend's response. "Very well," the Gnome responded, watching the figure on his way. He looked around the bar for any sign of life, lost gold, or leftover food[perception] and collected any spare change or salvageable snacks for later.

After chuckling to himself and leaving the tavern, Zimnis looked around the town. He observed the buildings from outside, one by one, impressed with the decor. He briefly looked into the shop next to the tavern to see what was inside[perception]. He would return to the shop later if he noted any special alchemy items which he could afford.

After pulling his head back out from the shop, the gnome hobbled around town some more, specifically looking for any last-minute opportunities to gather supplies or equipment before going to join Grommak at whatever lake the orc had wandered off to.

Escape from Syrae (Irell Starling)

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The Land Of Odesh (A fantasy Dice/Stat based rp) REBOOT

Sola, 2 questions: For staying in a room instead of on the floor, do Zim and Grom get any benefit? Like, "Well-rested, gain more experience" or did you just roll the dice for Hai and Lin to see if someone stole something from them in their sleep. Also, could you describe the places our characters can go in the IC? All I know about right now is the gate and the stuff in the town, in fact, I don't even know if it is still foggy...