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Why have you started doing these OOC quotes on the forum? In all of your 8 years online I have never seen you use OOC quotes in an OOC forum until yesterday.

Whats that all about?

And you as well! Do I need to hit you two with something? Its duckling syndrome isnt it? All it takes is for one person to use brackets and all the other RP'ers fall in line out of pure habit!

Thats it, Im using OOC quotes when taking with you guys on Skype from now on.

Kai! Its so good to see you! Flea told me you had died in a tragic motorboating accident, so I am doubly happy to see you!

I like the idea of starting fresh with old faces. There is a lot of history between the various members yet everyone gets a clean slate to launch a new chapter of their adventure from while still maintaining that old repertoire. If we prodded Flea into action then that would pretty much make up the core of people I have been RP'ing with since coming back.

It sounds like it could be a lot of fun!

You would also get 2 more people for L4D, both of us have L4D 1 & 2 and love us some zombie killing action! I think even Flea has L4D1 but I don't think he has 2.


I also spoke to Matt King last night, put forth some very blunt questions and got some great answers back so I think what I am going to do (if you will have us) is have Nurse White follow with Seri, Jack, Stormy and Flea but split off her her sister (Pearl White, who is also an old RP character IO'ed out to the max) put in an app for The Palladium Sentry so that I can meet some new people while getting to develop Pearl as a character outside the story arcs of Seri and Lizzy, with the added bonus of tormenting Flea.

I would like to thank everyone for their help and suggestions! All of the groups that people have put forth, I did research on, asked questions about and read up on their forums if they had them. They all looked like great communities filled with good people and I only wish I could have joined them all. Sadly that would be completely impractical and unfair to all involved as I am one of the worst multitaskers in the history of doing more than one thing at a time, and I could only ever learn to juggle two balls at once.

Truly, thank you everyone for being so very helpful!

Thats great! Here is to hoping the ranks swell!

I left you a message but then a little while later Cien logged into VU so snagged an invite from Puppah. I had fun chatting with people, a very fun group of peeps!


That is actually a standard application process for an RP Guild.

The application is important as it screens out those who can not be bothered to fill out an app. If someone is not willing to put any time or effort into their application it is a warning sign that they will most likely not place time and effort into the group.

The application also allows you to screen for bad writers, text speakers (I r gud n u?) and Mary Sues.

Interviews are done in character for most groups, so the interview tests the applicants improve and live RP skills and members of the Guild to get a "feel" for the player.

Back in 1996 during the AOL boom, I founded the Ring of Magi, a Rhydin Guild that at its peek had over 1000 members. Every single one of these members filed an application and was then vetted by a live interview.

In 2001 a friend of mine convinced me to join them in the Order of the Crimson Star. I became the Commander of the Order of Autumn Dusk within 3 months. The OCS also had a strict application policy and at its height had well over 5000 members, every one of them carefully chosen.

I helped run the Nemesis Council when CoH went live. One of the Largest Villain Groups in the days before we had CoV. The Nemesis Council was not only strict in its application process but interviews were grueling.

When I accidentally created the Sushi School Girl Squad, we had a very open and accepting policy, anyone could join and be a part of the group yet we still had an application process to vet costume, name and characters to ensure that the groups theme was maintained.

When LotRO went live I founded The Knights of Minas Tirith, we not only had a detailed application but they would interview not with just one or two people, but with as many of the Guild whom were online at the time whom wished to attend. They would all then attempt to intimidate the applicant and force them to stand up for what they believed in. If they did not wilt under the pressure and scrutiny, they were then brought into the guild via an initiation ceremony. As a result, even the greenest of recruits felt that they had earned their right to be in the guild and were willing to stand up and take action and be involved.

The point in all of this being that the application and interview process is an important tool for not only protecting the community that you are trying to build, but can also be an invaluable RP tool that helps players feel that they truly belong to something special, as opposed to feeling that they are just another random face in a sea of random faces, none of whom really matter.

Every Guild I have created or belong to, that was worth anything... had a solid application and interview process, and every prestige sweatshop and cyber harem I have stumbled upon had an open invite policy.

That's not to say every open Guild IS a sweatshop or harem, only that my experience has been colored to be very weary of any Guild that does not have a decent application and interview process, so to me that would actually be a mark in favor of The Palladium Sentry.


I have some history with Jadewire... well more accurately I have some history with one of their leaders by the name of Elizabeth Forsythe. That history being that I think she is an idiot and an attention [censored by self] and she thinks I am that jackhole who greifed her for a week by inviting her into teams with different characters and whom then proceeded to tell her exactly why she was an idiot until she would rage quit. (Yes I know, not very mature of me but to say that we didn't get along would be an understatement, and it was not intentional it just sort of worked out that she was always LFT at the time that I was running one.)

Now I can't really speak for the rest of Jadewire, but I somehow I don't think it would work between us.

Do you perhaps have any details on LSI? All I know about them is that they are known for doing large contests and promotions, and that's about it.

That I shall most certainly do, thank you!

Everything about Spider screams Hunter S. Thompson, yet they managed to kick it up another notch and transport the personality to somewhere akin to Mega-City One.

Spider really only comes off as a "Hero" because everyone else in the world is just so amazingly corrupt and wicked that Spider seems noble in comparison.

The writing for Transmet is just beautiful, so gritty, so dark, so dirty. You feel like you have been sharing needles every time you turn the page, and Spider is right there goading you on, holding up a cracked mirror to the society in which we so pleasantly live and challenging us to question our morality and world perspective.

The D is where RP goes to die.

...A wet and sticky death.

You just won an internet!

Then you are missing out on a lot of Desu. Desu.

That is Suiseiseki from Rozen Maiden dressed as a Sister of Battle.

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Ezekiel 25:17

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