Roose Hurro

Favorite RP quotes...

On another site I resided on "long ago," we had a thread in which people quoted their fave RP lines. Well, due to the Guild being all fresh and rebooted, we perhaps don't have much yet here in the way of quotable quotes (or perhaps we do?), so, quote from here or from wherever else you may have RPed previously. To start off, I'll throw in a quote of my own work someone else quoted on that "long ago" site:

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A bare second passed after the Nekojin let out his satisfied sigh, before a snort could be heard, coming from above. From high up in a tree. This snort sounded a bare second before scrabbling could be heard... claws desperately grasping for purchase on slippery mossed branch, perhaps. And shortly after, a brief expletive, fortunately in an alien tongue... a furred and scaled body, unfortunately on its way down, very fast, in a rustle of leaves. Impact with the ground, a very distinct THUD!... dust, leaf-litter, and incomprehensible swear words, poofed into the air...

... and the sound of feminine laughter, also falling from above, through leaves, and out of the tree.

Deen hadn't suffered any harm, really, but he didn't feel at all happy at having been so... abruptly woken from his nap. After flailing around for a bit, in a fit of disorientation, he finally just relaxed, and flopped with a huff and a sigh, eyes directed towards the overhead laughter... though this laughter had subsided into fits of giggles...

... "I'd like to see you make such a fall graceful, Sweetness...."

A very female voice called down...

... "If you had been born a cat, My Love, you would have landed on your feet."

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Heh... I quote this particular passage mainly because my use of the word "thud" became a running gag.

Typecasting in RPs

The only way in which I "typecast" myself is in my use of exclusively non-human characters. Otherwise, I play anything from "innocent" toddler to "romantic" tailchaser. I like to come up with different personalities for every individual character.

Characters growing in power without getting OP?

vancexentan said
One person can only do so much with one arm.

Indeed...

Input Requested: The Compendium of Modern Zoanthropes

Unless, of course, zoanthropes are all able to change at will... I've seen that done.

Input Requested: The Compendium of Modern Zoanthropes

Question: Do all zoanthropes change during the full moon? I get the whole "wolves bay at the moon" connection, but a werewolverine wouldn't have that "connection" with lunar cycles. Let alone, say, a wererat.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our annoyances.

Miss Gallagher said
I think some characters that are hard to destroy can bring a lot to a plot. However, it has to be known upfront and explained in depth to anyone playing. I have a character in my Resident Evil 1 x 1s that are that way. I've never had a partner complain. Then again, they are usually playing Wesker and I have to have someone who can go toe-to-toe with him.

We didn't have anyone in our group able to go "toe-to-toe" with immortal enemies (who could control the fabric of reality). Even our demon possessed girl didn't stand a chance, not to mention one of my two characters was injured, and we'd barely been in the RP timeline for an hour or two, perhaps. Not good for story longevity.

Ramen Gallery

VKAllen said
I was expecting a gallery of delicious ramen noodles ;-; I was wrong. Lol.

Same here... CK, you made me drool, even though I just had lunch. Thank you. Now, produce the "promised" ramen, or I will continue to drool all over your thread!

The Pixar Theory + New Information (Possible roleplay in the future)

Kaga said
Even I enjoy that sort of thing - as on multiple occasions I'll be writing a roleplay post and see an opportunity to reference an older roleplay, and so I go for it. I'll do it even if not a single person in the current roleplay was in the old one or knows it exists, because I personally find it amusing, and it would be even amusing if someone actually did spot the reference.Is this me attempting to string together all my RP's into one, extended canon? No, it's just me having fun - and justifying all my RP's existing in the same universe would be near-impossible even if it was my intention.

I do this myself. However, I do do it as an "extended canon" for my characters. Their history. Though sometimes I'll create a "roleplay" that never existed, just to set them up for a new RP. Both are fun to do, for me.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our annoyances.

Derpestein said
Your case, Roose...GM tried to make it challenging and ended up with it being way too difficult.

Considering the setting and situation our characters were in, godmodding in that fashion went way beyond "overkill" and into "I'm gonna kill you all whether you like it or not" territory.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our annoyances.

Darkraven said
Believe it or not, that's what got me to leave an RP that I'd been with for a year or two, Derpestein. Guess what it's about? It's because some jackass decided that he can't accept a bolt of flame that goes straight. He said it needed to fall within 10-20 metres. What's worse is that that's not the only thing he argued about. He didn't want it to have a blast-back effect, and he didn't want it to kill his character within seconds. Guess who won? He did, because he's closer to the GM than I am.

Ouch...

For me, I was involved in this really excellent RP from way back (on one of the first sites I started RPing on) all about the survivors of a ship crash, a group of volunteer soldiers sent to this "Fortress" world only to have their ship "hit" something... well, to make a long story short, the GM godmodded his own thread, and killed it. Made the enemy undefeatable, able to "regenerate" from any damage, even their destroyed weapons regenerating with them. Never gave our group a chance to rest, either, let alone survive, so everyone quit. It was either that, or have all our characters killed, as they would have in any such "real life" situation of that hopeless nature.

One situation in which sticking to "realism" in a fantasy/sci-fi setting would logically lead to death of all player characters, but also a situation in which the players really had no choice, I'd say. So yes, "realism" can and does kill RPs. Whether for one player or all.