Jorick

Legend of Renalta 2: Reborn

Maxim said
Hmm...eh I suppose you are right. Switching my vote back to Imperium. I suppose I have to hope the RNG is kind and doesn't drop Rhinefield or Renalta on us. Because those two dropping would also be bad imo.

Rheinfeld is safe. Brovo hasn't updated the list, but Alphakoka switched his vote to Rheinfeld after the Underdark mission was removed, so it has 4 votes right now.

It's the Imperium, Free Holds, or Renalta that will be abandoned by random draw. I'd like it to be the Free Holds that gets dropped, but who knows, we'll see how it goes.

I wonder who on RPG has the most PMs in their /convos

Azarthes said
How close am I to becoming worse than him? What do I need to do?

Less humor, more shitty puns.

Also racial slurs.

Genesis [Spam Game]

>swim left

Empowered - A Tale of Strength and Weakness in Spamopolis

Lucian said
You're a cruel, cruel man, Jorick.

Alphakoka said
Several things, Jorick:1. I lament the fact you grouped me with Zed.2. Oh wow you sure bring the worst of Spam there. So many people I want to see dead.3. Nice story4. I'm wondering if story me's vibrate things is that limited.5. What the hell is story me thinking for that second power? :/6. More importantly, which would take priority, my extracting or Smiral's neutralizing powet?7. Nice story.

1. Good.
2. Also good.
3. I know.
4. Maybe. You saw how Gold couldn't figure out anything great with his wind powers, then Idle gave him tons of ideas. There's all sorts of potential for seemingly shitty powers to be great. It isn't strong enough to shake down a building through sheer force though.
5. "I wish I could take that guy's power" when seeing some random Empowered guy doing cool shit with his not shitty first power. It's all about the phrasing. Story-Jorick's thought of "I wish I could trade powers with someone" gave him the power trading thing where consent is needed instead, for example.
6. Seeing as Smiral's neutralizing thing is an always on area effect, the moment your guy stepped into it that area he wouldn't be able to use his power stealing ability.
7. You already said that, you little shit.

Dervish said
That was an unexpectedly violent chapter. You are a magnificent bastard at unflinchingly writing about people you know being awful, awful caricatures. It's fantastic. :D

At least this time around, I'm cheering for myself for being a good guy (subject to change, I'm sure) and not just because I'm a brutal, murderous Peacemaker with awesome fighting skills.

Holding off on the on-screen violence for the first couple chapters was hard. Had to make it up to myself with this one.

And thanks, I'm glad it's appreciated. I'm mildly surprised that nobody has raged at me yet for making a super rapist character.

idlehands said
And I agree, one of the reasons I like Jorick's writing is because he spares no one.

Not even myself.

Speaking of Orange Julius

idlehands said
E:Also, I like how you don't care if Jorick approves.

Doivid said
hahaha yea, he doesn't care.

Yup. David knows he doesn't need my okay to post Skype shenanigans I was involved in, because I'll always approve.

Make another forum for those who like to have sexxy time.

This idea has been proposed in the past, and it was shot down by mods and admins and normal users alike.

The main reason for this is that if there were any kind of mature section of the site that would almost certainly get Adsense removed, and when the ads are removed that means Mahz has to pay for server upkeep out of pocket or the site goes down due to lack of funds (which happened at the end of last year). The alternative would be to turn to more sleazy ads for porn sites and such, which would be rather bad for a site that has lots of minors.

The presence of minors is another reason why this is a bad idea. There are tons of them around, and we all know that no matter how you try to bar access from them, they'll get through the blockades to get at the smut. Having minors reading smut on this website could make for some bad times, such as angry parents suing Mahz or criminal charges being filed against him for allowing it to happen. That whole legal mess is a large part of why smut is not allowed on the site and is a ban-worthy offense.

And to round it out with a third reason, making a designated smut zone would be encouraging that activity on the site. It would draw more people looking for 18+ roleplaying to the site, which would inevitably bleed out into other parts of the forum and cause issues. There are already tons of forums out there for people who want to go write RP sex with other people, forums that exist solely for that purpose in fact, so there's really no reason to encourage it here.

Oh, also, the reason why Mahz and the moderation staff turns a blind eye to things in 1x1 that are clearly angled at mature things but don't quite cross the line (like interest checks for smutty RP that will be held in PMs, or 1x1 RPs that move toward sex but then move to PMs until it's over) is because that is the happy medium that exists for this site. So long as nothing that Google's bots can see, meaning the stuff outside of PMs, contains objectionable content then the site keeps ads. So long as people just toe the line in public and take their smut to PMs, they don't get banned for violating the rules and endangering the ads. It's a good balance where the mods don't have to watch over 1x1 24/7 and people who want to RP smutty things can still do so. Also, Mahz has said before that a large part of his reason for allowing the smut-leaning interest checks is because there will always be people looking for RP sex on a roleplaying website, and if they couldn't make the interest checks then they'd be sending out tons of blind PMs and that could make for bad times, ie the minors and smut thing mentioned above.

tl;dr it's a bad idea

Legend of Renalta 2: Reborn

Raen Elvarasi said
But...E1 and E2 are mutants...You trying to say something about Elbetrt and Elrithos? >.>

Yes.

Empowered - A Tale of Strength and Weakness in Spamopolis

idlehands said
That was great and I really hate yours and Nexerus' characters. A lot. I want to suggest so many things to be done with them.

Good.

Maybe some horrible things will end up happening to them and it'll be nice for everyone.

Or maybe they'll come out on top and reign as the supreme douchebags of Spamopolis forever.

Speaking of Orange Julius

Doivid said
I seem to remember a traumatizing public experience between you and jorick.

Wasn't that Skype though? Different rules apply there. :D

Empowered - A Tale of Strength and Weakness in Spamopolis

Chapter 3 - Opening Salvos is now up.

I have two things of note to say.

First, this chapter is kind of chunky and long because I wanted to get a bunch of power descriptions out of the way instead of pussyfooting around with them. Deal with it.

Second, there will almost certainly be no new characters added after this chapter. If you have not been shown or named yet, you're probably never going to appear. Deal with it.