Shoryu Magami

Do you prefer playing older or younger characters?

I don't have any sort of difficulty getting into the heads of characters far younger than me or far older than me (I'm fairly old by the standards of role-players, from what I can tell), so realistically speaking I don't have a preference in terms of ease of use or being able to handle the character. My main character is within my own age region, starting out in his late twenties (so younger than me, but keep in mind the story spans more than a single year so he does get older than he initially is, and there's flashback arcs too). Overall though, I've got a wide range of characters, within pretty much any age region at all. I really don't feel that I pick the age of a character to contradict or counterbalance those of other characters in a story, but rather I just go with whatever suits what I need from them.

With that said, if I've got any sort of actual preference for a character type - in terms of enjoyment, rather than ease of use - I'd say it's characters with wisdom and strong emotional maturity, so I lean towards characters who're either a bit older than the norm (15-25 seems to be the norm) or are 'wise beyond their years'. Of course, this is just because I relate to those types more, subsequently tending to prefer characters within the late twenties to early thirties region as a general rule, but I'm fine with playing some naïve youngster or playing a character far older than I am, but only if I find a story that offers me an engaging way to use that role and I come up with a character that I personally find interesting. It really depends on the character themselves.

So yeah, I have a preference in terms of enjoyment and personally relating, but not in terms of ability to get in their head.

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@Aewin@Pudding@Melo@Ailyn Evensen@Snagglepuss89@tsukune@Shadow007@Eidolen@MayLien@Heap241
@banjoanjo@CrazyShadowy

Woke up recently, but I'm repeating part of what I said in the Discord channel.

I'll be going into damage control shortly, though I'm basically still waking up and trying to get my morale/bearings. Considering how much time and work I put into this role-play project (arguably more than a lot of people put into a paying job), I've been hit by more than just a slight depression about technology deciding to screw me over yet again, especially given the whole reason I initially joined RPGuild was to recover from the depression caused by the last time this happened.

As I implied in the Discord before I went to bed, I discovered (sort of moments before making the first OOC post) that my physical data on the desktop (unless it's been corrupted and I just can't tell) is safe, because the only files that got corrupted were something that's backed up. The stuff that is compromised could still be detrimental to my life's work though, so I need to focus on it. When I started this role-play it was a completely new project with no planning done apart from the couple of days before posting the interest check (and its connections to my main project), so I've basically been working on it every waking moment for a couple months now. I don't want to see that be for nothing, but I can't let my life's work get ruined either and I've frankly been sabotaging it for this project. I'm not planning to stop giving this my devotion, but I need time to make the situation more manageable so I don't have to destroy one to save the other.

My PC will also be virtually unusable outside of a few programs until I solve the issues, because for all intents and purposes there's a major virus on it now despite my protection programs. I'll try to solve it quickly. Ideally, I'd be moving over to a new PC as soon as possible, but depending on how bad the situation is that might not be an option at all.

With that said, I'm gonna try to maintain some level of communication with everyone apart from just them finding out my status through Ailyn. Main reason for this is to try and make sure the role-play doesn't end up dying, but it's basically impossible for me to work on it as extensively as I've been doing while I'm in this situation.

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@Shadow007@Heap241@Snagglepuss89@MayLien

Cheers for what support was offered.

I realistically can't tell you guys how much was lost, especially since I can't see properly from sleep deprivation, but basically all the work I've done on my main project since joining this site's fundamentally on the line. I basically need to rely on my memory to retrace my steps with pretty much everything I've done for the last few months, which pretty much means no one can really help with it at all.

Anything that's actually safe's compromised unless I recover the connected data, so it's all gonna be a very messy jigsaw puzzle to put together in my head. This is why if I lose 'some' of the data I've more or less lost 'all' of it. I can't afford to be juggling 16+ hours a day working on this role-play alongside PC sorting (that's pretty much what I've been doing, as a minimum) while I recover this, so the hiatus is unavoidable at this point.

As for the PC, MayLien, that's no problem, but just keep in mind the issues I mentioned that could come up from connected PCs.

I'm only on the site right now because I'll be using the PM system here as a sort of last resort for storing notes, because frankly nothing on my PC itself can be trusted anymore. I'm planning on sleeping shortly, simply because I'm not getting anywhere this tired, but I'll be going into full gear once I wake up.

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@Aewin@Pudding@Melo@Ailyn Evensen@Snagglepuss89@tsukune@Shadow007@Eidolen@MayLien@Heap241
@banjoanjo@CrazyShadowy

As I vaguely stated on Discord, my PC's had another one of its major breakdowns (like, the serious types -- the sort that actually put my main project on its hiatus that resulted in me joining this site to take a break in the first place), which means virtually all my data not related to this role-play (remember, I said I've only been storing data to this role-play over the PM system here, so my PC couldn't ruin this role-play) has either been lost or is in a state that it's unusable until I recover other data that's been lost.

I'll have to up my damage control schedule to pretty much 100% of my time when not asleep, which means you guys won't hear from me at all for a while. I don't know how long, but I'll attempt to keep you guys up to date through Ailyn (ask her if you need to know my status). For obvious reasons, anyone who posts up an application for this role-play while I'm on my hiatus isn't going to be denied acceptance even if we go past the February 5 deadline before I can return (it's unlikely I'll have recovered by then).

All I can really do at this point is hope everyone's still with me by the time I return, because, honestly, the situation is really bad. I can't multitask it with this site as it currently stands.

Men vs. Women Race to 1000

Six hundred and sixty-four.

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@Shadow007

IC development would determine if it happens or not, but yeah, think about whether Itzal would ask Paula. When the time comes for our next collaboration, you'll find out if Paula would offer on her own. I can say that she'd most likely ask about the escort though, since she was told about it.

Men vs. Women Race to 1000

Six hundred and sixty-two.

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@Shadow007

I don't think it makes sense for Paula to use the escort, given how she's potentially gotta make her way there at a different time to the escort, and it's for the guests anyway. Nothing ever indicated that she was using the escort; however, if Itzal decides that he'd like to travel with her instead of take the escort then that's something which would need to be established through IC development.

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@Indra@Ellion

I was planning to make this post tomorrow, but I figured I might as well do it now. Both of you sort of just dropped communication without completely stating your status (Ellion sort of did, but when I asked for confirmation in this thread there wasn't any, while with Indra/Masaki it's mostly character discussion going slow). Anyway, I'm just letting you both know that the role-play will closing and no longer accepting new applications on February 5, and this is gonna be the final poke I give either of you about it. I just don't want anyone saying I didn't tell people.

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@Heap241

Cheers for giving an exact time, but yeah, this was mostly for the escort people specifically.

This means Tatiana and Lotus'll post at a similar time.