The Internet: Where people with no balls can resort to trolling people anonymously so they don't get their asses kicked.
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A friend of mine once told me that 'it's only ego if you can't back it up'. Too many people like to confuse confidence for arrogance -- there's a big difference.
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8 yrs ago
Not to get all psychological, but some people are actually just 'wired' to take things people say literally. I'm like that to an extent, but I've learned that people here are usually just shitposting.
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8 yrs ago
Happy Anniversary, Ailyn. Six years ago, you gave me a kindred soul, and brought light into a life which for all intents and purposes had been mostly nothing but darkness.
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8 yrs ago
Valentine's Day's bittersweet when you've endured a long-distance relationship for over five years. Here's to celebrating the strength of a meaningful bond, instead of taking a shallow and easy path.
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Bio
"Let us partake in a gathering -- the entertainment is a game of life and death..."
This bio will get reconstructed once I've left the site for good. I'll be collecting my data in the background for now, and sorting some loose ends. I'll be on and off to do it, so don't think I'm back if you see me around. Once I've dealt with everything, I'll log out properly and remove my 'ghost' status, and that'll be the last this site sees of me. This community is in serious need of growing up, and I'm not the least bit surprised that role-plays die here so frequently.
The 'Grim Reaper's Gambit' role-play is likely to reboot elsewhere eventually. The role-play will have some modifications, so contact me if you're curious since the original project won't accurately explain everything. There's no determined date for it to happen yet, since I've got other priorities and I'm not investing a lot of time in it until enough of the people interested have free time to properly commit (lack of dedication on the part of some players practically destroyed the previous version; it's very apparent it would've died even if I hadn't decided to leave). There's a group that're quite interested, but most of them are busy.
Anyway, come back later for an update later -- or don't; it's your life.
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Contact Details
Tell me who you are or I possibly won't accept the request, since I assume most requests are bots. Yes, people who I rarely/never spoke to - or who never met me - while I was still here are welcome. No, those who disrespected me (and aren't sorry) while I was here or are trolls/immature in general aren't welcome. Also, keep in mind that not all of these are currently being used actively, so friend request replies might be delayed on some of them.
Playstation Network (PSN): Shoryu_Magami (I'm fairly easy to contact through here, though I'm not really gaming much due to my main project's workload.)
Discord: Shoryu Magami#4323 (Unlike Skype, I primarily text chat on this instead of voice chat. It's currently one of the easiest ways to find me. It causes my PC a lot of problems though.)
@Snagglepuss89 and @aewin, I've never seen a collab post before but that was really well done! Everything flowed nicely and it was really entertaining. :)
Yeah, pretty much. Hopefully my 'GM post' was enjoyable and introduced something good for them to work with next.
A few other people who haven't posted here are working on character sheets in the background, but what I said in the last update still applies and we're still recruiting. It'll be a while, but we should be able to make things work -- just takes a lot more effort and quality to make a non-fandom role-play garner interest than it does with something based off existing material.
`So he is from Asia then...?` Leonard contemplated as Rein mentioned he was from Singapore, smirking a bit in response to the clear joking tone that the guy was using to explain where he hailed from. While it did not prevent him from paying close attention to the young man as he had been, he liked that the fellow had a sense of humour. He nodded slightly in response, wondering if this was Rein's preferred greeting over a hand shake. Leonard actually tended to greet people with a casual hand wave instead of shaking hands, but he knew some people expected more formality.
In all honesty, Leonard was not educated enough to have been capable of pointing out Singapore on a map if he was asked to, or even the 'Malay Peninsula'; in fact, he had never even heard of the latter until just now, though he guessed that the guy was referring to Malaysia -- a place he had only heard of vaguely, and subsequently also would be incapable of pointing out. All he knew about some smaller Asian countries was that people there apparently had bad living conditions or something -- he could sort of relate to that, but had no idea if Singapore was one of those places. Nevertheless, he had at least gotten the answer as to where Rein was from. It was still a bit jarring hearing someone from Asia speak without the accent he was used to hearing Asians use if they were not native to English, and it was also weird hearing him seemingly mix accents around. He sort of wondered if all people in Singapore sounded like that, or if it was a result of Rein travelling around -- he travelled here, after all.
Leonard's initial thoughts upon seeing Rein for the first time were to assume he was from Asia -- it was only logical in the same way that the first thing you would think if you saw a French man would be to guess they were from France. He did know that Asian people immigrated a lot though (in all fairness, most ethnicities did), so he could have come from anywhere realistically until an answer was given. The accent - or lack thereof a specific one - had completely thrown off the conceptions Leonard could have about Rein's place of origin though, which resulted in his initial curiosity about where this guy was from. If Rein had sounded like what Leonard was used to hearing from Asians speaking English, he would not have even given any of this a second thought. That was not what happened though, so the whole thing got him curious, and now that he had an answer the way the fellow was talking actually seemed weirder -- Singapore must have been an odd place.
`Ah, I'm doin' it again, aren't I...?` Leonard thought to himself suddenly, moments before Rein continued talking to him.
Without even really thinking about it, Leonard had gone into what he sometimes jokingly called 'detective mode' -- staring at a complete stranger and analysing every tiny detail about them, both out of curiosity and also out of caution. Had Rein not started talking to him again at this point, Leonard probably would have apologized or something by saying it was a 'bad habit' or whatnot. This really would not have been a lie -- Leonard had admittedly picked up the habit of going into 'detective mode' a lot, to the point of sometimes spacing out and losing track of anything except what he was focused on. This was partially due to his dad drilling it into his head to find the truth through the details, so he had almost been raised to be a detective to some extent, though he was far from savvy about how detectives did things 'by the book'. The habit sometimes caused him to have people call him out for it during conversations, since it made him a bit socially awkward when you considered how street-smart he was. Not that Leonard thought he was inherently doing something wrong - his staring having been out of inquisition, not hostility - but at this point he could tell Rein was getting uncomfortable now that he was less focused on thinking over the details.
At this point, Leonard eased up on the staring a bit -- his glance became a lot less focused. He was still on his guard, but unless this guy's appearance was as misleading as Leonard's was then he doubted Rein would be able to cause him a problem if he tried anything. He did not seem hostile though, so Leonard was fairly relaxed -- all the staring before would not have seemed inherently aggressive anyway. Also, Leonard was very good at appearing casual even when he was ready for an attack, given his lifestyle. The fact that Rein was seemingly unarmed put him at a disadvantage technically, so Leonard had far less reason to be on edge then back home where anyone might pull a handgun out on you at any moment. Not that Leonard thought an unarmed person was incapable of being dangerous, since he was dangerous unarmed, but when compared to armed gangs a single unarmed person was a lot less to be concerned about generally speaking.
"Heh, honestly I'm not that great at it either..." he replied, admittedly having picked up only a small bit of the language from the manual he was given, "I can order food an' ask for directions somewhat, but not without checkin' my book first -- tawkin' fluently or somethin' ain't happenin'..."
Nevertheless, Leonard had a bit of time available to him. The information provided in his letter about the escort had explained that it would be provided at the appointed location at five o'clock PM. Leonard's phone was currently in his pocket and both his hands were full, but he assumed that there was still several hours until he needed to head back to the airport -- that was assuming he took the offer, given how he sort of thought a fancy escort could be a bit awkward for him, but he figured it was better than getting lost due to potential issues coming up from asking directions. He had charged his phone before leaving the hotel, but it could run out again during the journey. There was a map explaining how to get to the location on the other hand, so he had not exactly decided yet -- he really needed to sooner than later.
"I've got a li'l bit'a time on my hands, so if ya think I can help out then I'm cool with it." he continued shortly afterwards, taking only a moment to think that over and not particularly giving Rein a chance to say anything in response prior. There would not inherently have been enough of a pause for him to accidentally interrupt Rein unless the guy literally did not even take a moment to think the initial answer over.
"Ah, yeah..." Leonard quickly added, "Sorry if I was starin' earlier -- habit'a mine..."
There were probably people who would say that Leonard's tendency to be really straightforward and direct with people was off-putting, but to those who were constantly dealing with the toxicity of people who hid behind masks, his honesty - even if it was honestly to a fault - could actually be extremely refreshing. Just the ability to talk with someone who never bullshitted with people and just said exactly what he was thinking. Dishonesty - when without any sort of truly good reason - was one of the worst traits a person could have, in his eyes.
To be honest, this is the piece of music I listened to when I was reading your collab post. For some reason, it just fit perfectly to me, even during the more serious moments. Sort of pictured your post perfectly as an anime or a VN/game, down to even imagining the character portraits and the background. Anyway, here's the music.
"She's a bit late... isn't she, Boss?" asked the female barista who had served Lucia previously.
"Isn't she always?" the middle-aged man who had been called 'Boss' replied, smirking as he read his newspaper, "I swear, that girl... If she wasn't so bloody good at what she did, that would've gotten her fired ages ago..." he continued -- his attempts at mimicking the British accent being slightly better than his workers, though not by much.
"Oh crap! Oh crap! Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!" a young woman said as she was running down the street, doing her best not to run anyone over on the way as she moved like a speeding bullet, "I woke up late again!" she flailed, moving a little faster. Her speed was amazing considering she was running in heels, even if they were fairly short heels -- an inch or something. Her balance must have been phenomenal.
"I made it, Boss!" the young woman spoke, clearly addressing the middle-aged man and seemingly exhausted as she was leaning down -- buffing her lungs out, her entire upper body was slouched significantly forward and her knees bent slightly as she held the doorframe with one hand in order to keep herself balanced.
"Speak of the devil." the middle-aged man said, chuckling a bit, "Paula! You can't afford to be so late with your new job, you know!" he continued, the way he spoke almost sounding like an uncle scolding his niece, "Our little girl's going to work for 'The Methuselah of Paris', after all. Isn't it about time you started getting to places on time?"
"It's n~" Paula started trying to say, but she was still really exhausted, so she had to take another breath, "... It's not very polite to call a nice girl like me 'the devil', you know!" she said, a friendly expression on her face as she smirked up at 'Boss' and winked, sticking her tongue out at him slightly.
"All the more reason you should rethink leaving us, right?" the middle-aged man said, "He might drink your blood if you're not careful! I heard some girls just like you went missing recently!" he continued, though the tone in his voice was clearly joking to anyone who was paying attention -- he was teasing her, and no apparent behaviour coming from him implied he was serious about anything terrible like that happening lately.
"Oh, very funny!" she said with the same friendly expression on her face, "You're such a jerk, you know that? How do you stay in business?" she said, smirking.
By this point, there was something that Conrad and Lucia might have noticed about Paula, or at the very least they should have noticed it -- her British accent was noticeably better than everyone else who worked there, including the man called 'Boss'. There was the occasional moment where the fact that she was born in France became apparent, but she spoke English perfectly enough like a British girl that one could easily have believed she had at least one British parent, and her physical features looked as such as well -- she clearly stood out a bit from a regular Parisian.
Lol, I was wondering why the page loaded up slower than usual as I was coming in here, but now that I know what YouTube videos can do to the pages it all makes sense.
Anyway, I know the feeling Gowi -- I've been getting swamped on my end too (not that I'm not always) thanks to this PC being an asshat, and also with the role-play I'm hosting. It's the main reason I'm not all that active in here.
On the subject of the role-play, I'm thinking me and tsukune will do one more post (or do a collab one) before you run into us, if that works for you Pudding. I wasn't sure if you were planning on encountering us literally in your first post or not.
Yeah, the closest thing I ever do to collabs would be when Ailyn influences the actions of some of the female characters in my main project which she's more or less 'adopted' from me -- one of which is basically her avatar (subsequently altered by her for that reason).
Since I tend to write highly introspectively, but do so while switching - on the fly - between the characters in terms of whose mind the story is giving you perspective on, I'm comfortable with the idea of handling multiple characters and shifting perspective. The real concern I have with the idea of collabs is the way they might flow together.
I understand the primary reason people do collabs is to allow things like conversation to flow together more efficiently, but I've always been concerned that the noticeable difference in writing style between the two people doing the collabs would essentially cause the flow to look abnormal because you'd essentially have two distinctly different writing styles in a single post. This isn't a problem with my main project, since I'm the actual author and I'm mostly taking in Ailyn's ideas or dialogue and writing them into the same style as the rest of the narrative.
Will take your suggestion into account though, so long as it doesn't end up making me feel like I don't like how the character's being portrayed. The next post between me and tsukune might be a collab, but I'm also trying to gauge when @Pudding is expecting their intro post to be up because they planned on meeting up with us.
'The Glossary' has been completely reworked now. While it's entirely possible that I'll be moving/altering/adding/deleting categories at some point, I expect this to be the general format that that section of the OOC will stick with.
With regards to the 'Player Character Glossaries' area, that's where terms specifically related to them will go, but I'm actually considering whether or not it should even be there (and I'm open to discussion about it), because down the line I'm not only planning on having you guys include information about relevant NPCs connected to your character's lives who get brought up in the role-play, but I'm also planning to have an additional category called 'Secrets' added to each CS that will contain revealed information about the character that's kept in a hider called 'Spoilers'. The NPCs could go in that section, but it's hard to say. I plan to create the staple method all this is done as I work it into Leonard's CS in the near future. Input regarding all of this would be greatly appreciated.
Discussion with a few people came up occasionally regarding the possibility of a 'Relationship Chart' being added. While I have things like this for my main story project (due to the sheer size of it), I hadn't considered it for this until it got mentioned. I'm not entirely sure whether this was referring to a complete chart explaining the connections between all the player characters and NPCs, or if it was meant to be a chart each of you had where you listed your relationships with each other and NPCs as they build. I figured I'd bring it up, both for clarity to be given and also for anyone to discuss their thoughts about if these sorts of things would be useful or not. I'm open to any thoughts you all have.
Since a few people who said they wanted into this role-play bailed, and a few others have been a bit slowpoke-ish in terms of making progress with their characters (some of them with justified reasons, mind you), I've decided to finally settle on a decision I was largely up in the air on and subsequently never mentioned in the OOC when it was created. From this point onward, I'm allowing people to have a second player character if they want. This is entirely non-obligatory, but it's obviously a step being taken to allow us to move the role-play forward, since right now we're waiting on those who've expressed interest to register or for new people to show interest (either by finding this thing or by someone inviting them to join us). A couple people expressed interest in potentially doing this already.
I'd like to at the very least fill in all the blank spots currently kept as placeholders in 'The Cast', but the roster can hold more than that if we get a lot more people wanting in. Naturally, the roster has to cap at the amount of cards in the Major Arcana, or possibly a bit less than that, and those who join later will likely get less fitting cards than those who join early (this always was 'first come; first serve' after all).
To be honest, I'm surprised a Danganronpa role-play hadn't happened already given how popular that franchise seems to be. I'm running a role-play that some people have been making parallels to that series with, but it isn't based on that series or inspired by it or anything really.
It seems like you've already found at least one role-play to get involved in, so you're off to a good start.
Usually you just look for something that interests you. I'd say make friends too, since having a good group leads to better role-play experiences. It's a social activity, after all. There's a hang-out thread link in my signature if you'd like an example of where you can meet some people.
Anyway, lot of work to do, but if any questions or concerns come to mind give me a PM or something.
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