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iLord Vader
Captain

PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:18 pm


First of all, you are here to Roleplay. In a roleplay, certain aspects of real-life come along, inevitably. Such as reactions to another's action, whether it be typical or ridiculous. Such as the lack of omniscience; no one knows what is exactly going to transpire in the events. The person who knows the most is me, and I still develop storylines as RPers advance, because they are a part of the story, and they develop into something unique, and apart from my personal work alone. In a roleplay, there will be different characters, some tall some short, some fat some lean. Some will be rude, when others are kind. Some will be more powerful than others. Some will be cooler than others; everyone who remembers Serge Force from Part 1 knows that he was one of the uncoolest RPCs to enter.
Now, to explain one's RPC. The main reason why Serge Force's RPC was not cool, was because he wasn't trying, and didn't truly feel like RPing. For example, during Part 1, I received a profile entry modified by a user who wanted to join. The user was clearly a newb, but his identity as a pure idiot even beyond NOOBISHNESS became clear when I read his profile entry. It was, basically, an old man who was infected with one of the viruses depicted in the Roleplay, and had slimy skin that could reflect radiation and absorb attacks. The profile appearance picture was what gave it away, but I can assure you that this man was not serious, and was only goofing around. I would not take this, and I denied his request. He ranted on about how stupid my Roleplay was, but it was all jibberish coming out of the mouth of an idiot.
We have covered personal RPCs. Now, in terms of interacting, we must keep an open mind. Here is an example I want to show you; think of it as a type of equation:

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JackSparrow Wrote: "RPC John Adams approached Washington, making sure to make little noise. He raised his gun: "Don't move, Washington."

ChiliFries Wrote: "RPC Washington raised his hands, his knife hidden up his sleeve. "I won't flinch. Who are you?"

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Now that you have read that, I want you to post if this sequence was fair or not. Sure, people can never fully leave things open for the other RPC to respond; peoples' posts would be three words long, and the RP would hardly progress. Sometimes you have to assume what the enemy would do in the situation, like Sparrow, who assumed that Washington's body wasn't generating an electrical field that killed anything within a two-mile radius.
Here is another example, and tell me what you think, in the same post as before.

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JackSparrow Wrote: RPC John Adams made no noise, and pressed the gun barrell against Washington's neck, making sure to take and cast aside Washington's hidden knife. "Don't move, Washington."

ChiliFries Wrote: "RPC Washington elbowed Adams and grabbed his knife, and ran off."

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Now here, we see that Sparrow may have erred. You should know when you should stop assuming what the other RPC would do, and let the other Roleplay their RPC into an action fitting the situation according to their standards. ChiliFries didn't freak out, but went along, taking measures to restore their RPC to their previous state; obviously, the taking away of the knife left Washington unfairly defenseless.
If needs be, ask the user if you can do a certain action, or what their RPC would do in a so-and-so situation. Cooperation is key, or disaster will rise.


Now then, if you still have a problem with something or someone, repsectfully and kindly question them. The defender musn't become defensive immediately, but be open to apparent criticism and possible mistakes.
If that does not work out, or you do not want to consult the offender, you are to come to me or Vice-Captain Camping carl.. You are to tell the Captain the situation in good grammer, and give them locations of the posts with which the situation occured by. Failure to do this will result in your upsettion, possible leave of the Roleplay, and possible influence upon the defender to leave the Roleplay. I do not want that. Bad influence will rise more in situations where you do not respect and treat kindly the defender.

Now that you have read this, post your opinions here. Remember that I am the Captain of this guild, and will ban you if you do not treat me, the Vice-Captain, and the other members with rightful respect and kindness.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:26 pm


Yes I agree with this post, like I've been trying to get across with Lord Jake Scullington was to leave my characters room for a post. For example he said something along the lines of "Jake lowered himself behind the soldier ready to drive his spier legs into him." But in the previous post I had stated "The soldiers then left the crash site in a tactical movement, watching every possible angle they could." And I was like "Dude, my guys would have seen you lower into the group of them." So I was trying to get people to do stuff like this:

"Mr. X walked into the room and sat down."
"The infiltration spy then lowered him self slowly from the ceiling, hoping to get the drop on Mr. X."

That's how I feel you should end a post, leave it open ended and give the other RP'er(S) room to reply. And one more thing, if you guys have any problems with ANY RP'er, as long as it's a good reason. You can also let me know and I can take care of it, I am Co-captain and I have authority in this guild and I can also ban. Thanks for reading this also!
~Leroy

Camping carl
Vice Captain


Akoena
Crew

Golden Sex Symbol

PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:32 pm


I would have to agree with everything that was just said and I feel that I would be good (even though some of us do it already) if we tell the others that we are leaving. I mean if you leave and don't come back you can't assume that they will wait for you, so I think it would be easier for everyone to do a ending post so that other RPers wont be stuck or if you come back and they left you, you wouldn't be mad about anything. and I would make everyone happy. ^o^
PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:49 pm


Yes, good thinking Akoena.
Even if you are leaving for a half-hour, tell your fellow RPers, especially those who are interacting with you. Failure to do this results in confusion, and the abrupt stop of action between two or more RPCs while pages and pages of other users Roleplaying passes by. If you are RPing with someone, and you have to leave for any amount of time, try your best to tell them how long you might be leaving, and either give them control of your RPC's actions and some words, or just tell them to acknowledge and keep in mind that your RPC is just silently tagging along. Here are example for both:

BillyCoenXxx Wrote: "RPC Joe Shmoe agreed with Bill Brown, and took the last bite of the egg and bacon bagel." [Emo_Dragon, I might be off for about three hours. Just make Joe Shmoe tag along.]

Emo_Dragon Wrote: "RPC Bill Brown took a sip of his juice box, and looked at the setting sun." [Okay BillyCoenXxx, I will do that.]

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BillyCoen Wrote: "RPC Joe Shmoe agreed with Bill Brown, and took the last bite of the egg and bacon bagel." [Emo-Dragon, I might be off for about three hours. You can control Joe Shmoe, just don't kill him.]

Emo_Dragon Wrote: "RPC Bill Brown took a sip of his juice box, and looked at the setting sun." [Okay BillyCoenXxx, I will do that.]
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If you leave you RPC with another RPC, under his direct control or just tagalong, make sure you point our preferences, such as "don't make Joe Shmoe drink milk; you'll see why." This is for the urpose of mantaining the secret of Joe Shmoe being lactose-intolerant, which might want to be revealed at a time later than the present. The one under control, direct or tagalong mention, must respect the preferences of the other user in regard to their RPC, as long as it doesn't impede themselves. In this case, cooperation is the key.

iLord Vader
Captain


iLord Vader
Captain

PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:06 pm


I am leaving for eleven hours. Unfortunately, I am not going to unlock the Roleplay until after that time has elapsed. Unless I randomly come online under those eleven hours and see responses to this topic that are fitting, I will not unlock the RP now.
I'm truly sorry for those like Akoena, Camping carl, LonelyCheeto, and other ones that I know for a fact agree with and follow the idea presented here, but they all must understand the situation and my role. If Camping carl is online before me under eleven hours and sees fitting responses that show that eveyone understands and that the matter has been settled, he can go ahead and unlock it.
Sorry for the inconvenience, members.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:28 pm


Ok, I agree entirely and believe that a few things must be ensured.

1) Read a person's post to its fullest extent, reread it if its long, or certain parts, to make sure that you have understood the context, that way we don't have something like what happened between Carl and Skullington at the crash site.

2) Read posts that have nothing to do with your character. I'm being hypocritical here because I normally skip over the Clark guy and the posts by Akoena, (sorry), but it just doesn't seem relevant, but by doing so, i could miss information of key value, like maybe they picked up bulletproof armor and so we have a fit about why they didn't die when I shot them.

3) Don't make your posts to the point where there is little interaction allowed. Try to make it where something can be changed or moved if a person must leave. I tend to have a random schedual for Rping because I don't know when others will be on and my computer is in my room, while I am downstairs on my 360. For instance, Carl, a lot of the time your men all work to the point where there is zero tolerance for change, no offense of course, but when you have them together it's always; "They would have noticed, or they were all together," ect.

Sorry if i seem to just be annoying but I do see some of those key issues. I myself need to work on some as well.

LonelyCheeto


The_unborn_killer

PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:32 pm


OK I agree with everything that was said. I personaly will try and better myself in leaven a little side note if I leave. I can't always do this due to my slow computer and my abrupt times to leave. For anyone who rps with me and reads this, If I dont respon in ten minutes pm me. I will respon to you as soon as I reenter my computer. For the few out breaks that have happen I belelve what load had said should and must be done. Thank you for your time.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:39 pm


Lord_Jake_Skullington
You know what? Screw this roleplay. Everytime I try to get near someone, they shoot me, or do something else. And what the heck? Does Clark need to say the f word in every sentence? I mean, really! I don't care about this roleplay anymore. I quit!

Okay, before I read the OP, I just have to respond to this. First of all, your RPC is a flesh-eating monster (who's tried to kill my character in the past). Of course my character is going to shoot at you. I never auto-hit you or anything. And yeah, they escaped the trash dump, but I gave the indication that you were still following right behind them. So you still had every opportunity to jump in and get involved with the current situation. If you had read everything all the way through, you probably would have noticed that. Does Clark need to use the f word in every sentence? Yes. Clark's character is foul-mouthed. He was the exact same way in the first RP, and I'm just trying to stay true to his character. If it offends you, there is a word filter. Now I can't help but notice that everyone's pissyness seems to be revolving around my character - getting pissed off when they try interact with him (probably because they want to interact with Naiya) and he escapes or shoots at them. Well, I'm not gonna dumb my character down to accommodate you, sorry. If you come in with malevolent intentions (i.e. guns blazing, trying to kill or capture Clark and Naiya), my character is going to shoot at you, or try to run away. And there have been crowds of people all swarming our characters at once on three separate occasions. I came back to the RP once, and had to make a response to four different RPC's who were all trying to get at our characters at the same time. That makes it a little hard for me to RP effectively. Chill out, please? And I realize that people are after Naiya in the story, but I haven't been able to get in any real development in with Clark or Naiya, 'cause every time I turn around, there's swarms of people up their a**. So then I just gotta *BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!* And then me and Akonea are free to RP, and those guys are nowhere to be seen. So, I *RUN! RUN! RUN!* so I can keep RPing. So what do you want me to do? Clark also isn't one to just trust someone and accept what they say as the truth. For instance, Oricai - whatever his name is. He's a freaky monster who wants to take Naiya to a lab to help her out. But would you just trust some grotesque monster (who's obviously a lab experiment himself) and just accept his words as truth? And if you really want to capture them or something, for a plan you have with plot development, you could always PM one of us and let us know what you have in mind. I'm not psychic, and I'm not just going to have my character lay down and let himself be captured. And there are different Time Zones, and everyone's schedule is different. When I get on, I wanna RP, regardless if you're signed on to play your character or not. My suggestion is... chill out for a second, and try to interact with some other characters for a little while. Instead of just, "Oh, gotta find Naiya" *walks two feet* -very next post- "Okay, found Naiya! Surrender!" ((Now I gotta sign off. Can you guys just sit and not do anything until I sign on for an hour and then leave again?)) You know, Naiya isn't the only character in the RP. I don't plan on hogging her the entire time either, so chill.


Thee Stranger



iLord Vader
Captain

PostPosted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:35 am


Good; everyone who has posted seems to have understood the message I am getting through. Because of that, I'm going to unlock the Roleplay. Lord Jake Skullington, I want you to read this before RPing though.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:37 am


i understand. long read stressed

Hunter Lysa

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