Jorick

The Last Bastion: Bunker Chicago

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Retrieval Team

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Nathaniel cursed himself furiously as he slowly fell toward the earth. He was lagging behind the rest of the team after hesitating on the jump, then pulling the cord for his parachute far too early. He'd never been very comfortable with heights, but this was no time to let simple fears get the best of him. The others all chimed in on the radio with messages of their safe arrival, but Nathaniel stewed in his disgruntlement without adding to the radio chatter, muttering curses rather than letting the others know of his problems.

Finally he was nearing the roof of the mansion, so he pulled on the cords to turn his parachute. He intended to land down on the north-east corner where the others had touched down, to join up with Rhettland and sweep the building together for extra safety. However, Nathaniel found he'd misjudged the distance to the roof and went sailing right over the north-eastern corner of the building. It was at this point that he realized that this whole nonsense with the parachute couldn't have just been ineptitude on his part; there was no way he could screw up the jump, the chute, and the landing all by his own failings. It had to be another test, a trial set before him by himself, his future godly self reaching back in time to make sure his mortal form achieved everything needed for the ascension to come. Nathaniel decided that this trial must be meant to teach him humility, that there were things that mortals could not control and forces they must bow before lest they be broken.

He landed on the south-west corner of the roof and managed to keep his feet. He disentangled himself from the parachute and felt the rain for the first time. It brought a tiny smile to his lips; it was just another little piece of the test, of course. Nathaniel started looking round for a way in as he finally chimed in on the radio, following the lead of the others and letting them know of his arrival. "Hawthorne here, got delayed, just landed on the south-west corner of the mansion roof. Heading inside now." He didn't bother giving any further explanation for the deviation from the plan, as that would have just taken up precious time they didn't have. Instead he made his way over to the west side of the building to look for a way in, holding his rifle at the ready, just in case.

The Last Bastion: Bunker Chicago

Brovo said @Jorick: You also missed this round, but due to the nature of your deployment, you didn't get placed anywhere.

Oh, shit, didn't realize you were only giving us a week to post for deployment. Totally my fault there, should've figured it out by seeing that you'd left the posting schedule thing in your signature. I've been busy with work the past 4 days, but if I had figured it out I would have made a post on Friday.

I'll just go ahead and post saying Nathaniel lagged behind for some reason, maybe say he pulled his parachute too early or something.

Building a RP program

Here's a list of features I think would be useful for such a program.

Variety of chat types. You could have public group, private group, and private one on one chats and all would see use, I'm sure.

Chat moderation tools. Make it so the creator of the chat room is its owner and has control over various options (setting a password, muting/kicking/banning people, etc.), and allow them to set other people as moderators for the room as well, with varying permission levels. One of these chat options could allow them to set a delay like Magic Magnum suggested, or they could stick with the hectic mess of unlimited chat, since some people like that about real-time roleplaying.

Font customization options. People like to customize how their stuff looks, so give them different fonts, colors, sizes, and bold/italic/underlined options at a minimum.

User profiles. You should have something like what most chat programs have, where people can put whatever personal info they wanna share and an area in there for people to list their roleplaying interests and preferences. This ought to be accessible both by clicking on a user's name and by searching for them through some function of the program.

Character profiles. If it's for RP, you're gonna want to give people an area to describe their characters. The awesome ideal way to do it would be so users write up whatever character profiles that anyone can look at by going to their user profile, and when people are using the chat program they can choose one of their character profiles to use at that time; ideally this would change their displayed name to something designated in the character profile (say a 'Display Name' line under the character name line) and clicking on their display name ought to direct other users to their character profile page. Could be fine as just a section of the user profile instead of the fancy stuff with the name change and all, but I'm sure people would enjoy the extra touch added by the character profile swapping.

Friends list. If the program draws a lot of use rather than just a few people from this site, it'd be nice to allow people to have a friends list so they can see whenever people they enjoyed roleplaying with come online, plus have a way to open a chat with them with the press of a button.

Friends List, Groups and/or Visitor Messages?

Mahz said he wanted to bring back friends list and visitor messages, as you could see if you looked at the big list stickied at the top of this subforum.

He hasn't said anything about groups, though their return has been requested before.

Just watched Game of Thrones Season 1...

The Nexerus said
I've never understood why people torrent movies and TV shows. Why not just watch them streaming?

Because streaming can be problematic and torrents provide some options that streaming doesn't.

First there's the whole issue of finding a good site that's not just an ad-infested piece of shit that tries to bombard you with malware. Lots of people prefer to avoid that whole mess and hit a well known torrent site to get an upload from a reputable source, plus there's the bonus of there being comment sections available where other people can warn you away from garbage quality and virus-ridden files and such.

If you find an okay site, then there's the issue of quality generally being shit on streaming sites, especially soon after the release of episodes of shows. Anyone who's a quality snob would want to get actual 1080p video, and good fucking luck finding that up on a stream the same day as the episode aired, whereas it's available for torrenting for popular shows within an hour of the first airing.

Some people have spotty internet that makes streaming annoying as shit, since it's far more frustrating to watch a show as a stop and go thing with constant buffering. If you instead let it sit there for a couple hours with your garbage internet to load the whole video, well, you might as well have just done a torrent instead at that point.

Some people like having an actual transportable copy of shows/movies so they can watch them while traveling or in areas without internet access, or to throw them on their ipod or phone or whatnot. Similarly, some people like having a permanent copy that's not beholden to their internet connection and load times so they can watch it again later.

There you go, four solid reasons why some people prefer torrenting to streaming.

How many Spamfics is too many?

Awson said
Has anyone evenHas anyone even discussed the fact that that whole Spamfic Season from a month or two ago just seemed to end abruptly with nothing being finished?

Woah, hey, I finished Resistance.

I mean I kind of countered that by unofficially dropping Empowered (may finish it some day, may not, who knows), but I did finish Resistance.

Hey guys, what's your favorite CANDY BAR

ImANargleHunter said
Why would you call it a candy bar? It's made of chocolate.

Not all of them though. For example, what would you call a PayDay? Furthermore, why would you call something that only has a shell of chocolate, like a Milky Way or Snickers, a chocolate bar? You could call those a nougat bar and it would be far more accurate, going by percentage of composition.

Calling them candy bars makes more sense than calling them chocolate bars (or nougat bars for that matter), because chocolate and nougat and caramel and various other shit they're made of are all considered different types of candy, so it's all covered with one name.

Stoopid Things Said in Skype.

Aragorn said
Would people use it? I'm willing to make an IRC channel for Spam, but only if they'll use it.

No, we wouldn't, because Skype is superior and we already use Skype. Go back to the 90s with your IRC crap, pleb.

Role play player limit?

Brovo said
Me, personally? Never more than 20. I'd go insane with more than that and for some of my role plays I set it lower than that.

Brovo said
Legend of Renalta 2...

Brovo said
Status: 21/15 player slots, 26/20 character slots.

Anyway, I was giving advice for someone who's clearly not experienced in gathering and managing large groups of players. You've got that experience, so you being able to comfortable run a large group roleplay is not at all surprising.

Spam Sector: Orgins [working title]

Cpt Toellner said
Hank's unwavering love for himself.

Hank x Hank is my OTP