Lady_Cyrsei
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See my problem is that I'm a reserved person IRL and generally sit back and let others around me interact rather than put myself out there, but generally just sparking up conversations in pugs, or rp'ing here on the forums you can meet some really great people. Actually one role player Hollowpoint Heroism I found because I was trolling Virtue Verse and really liked his page on Shadowstormm and sent him a pm here on the boards commending his writing style, we got to talking and rp'd here on one of my old Open RP threads we then eventually decided to meet up in game. Pretty much any friendship can be formed as long as your willing even reluctantly to say Hi. I dont really have a large group of extended friends for my toons but I do have a very tight nit group of friends I hang out with booth IC and OOC from our old Virtue Vent Server. Heck Nurse White and Rose Maiden have known Flea so long Liz's little sister Pearl calls Flea "Uncle Flea" but I'm sure with all the times Eat_Me and I have taken breaks from CoX I'm sure all my friends who have remained in game have given excuses for our disappearance like "Look Wolves!"
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Maybe I take more of the etcha-sketch approach I'd rather play a toon I really enjoy even if it means putting them and myself through hell of grief or anger of loss for a few IC months than to lose the character entirely because the people I was rp'ing with went uber afk or turned out to be a ****** (this has happened to me numerous times) so I send the person a note if I am able explaining what my character believes to have happened I go through the rp of loss (yes sometimes its an entire group of characters) and I move on. Its what you gotta do, this is why you cant rely to heavily on relationships your toons have with another, sure some people eat a bullet if their wife or husband leave them or dies but alot more people move on with their life its just up to you how long their grieving period takes and how much they know about the incident or suffer because of it.
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I've only ever seen you in the Rookery so when we met up for the old timers meetings I automatically called you FeyFey
Mornin every body! I have this stuck in my head today. -
Oh another weakness, I get Brute lock on my characters (thank god I normally play Brutes, Tanks and Scrappers) so I keep chugging away at making the wape train move that I only very very rarely stop to RP. My character is there and sentient but the player is all business so I only rp outside of missions. Its not that I dont want to rp and its not that my character wouldn't say something or have some little expression to throw in its just I dont have the ability to split my focus like that.
One strength however, I have a very complex realistic turn for character creation and give all my toons some sort of hidden background quirk or agenda. -
If she's never coming back I'd do a "lost at sea" like the original Mr. Bradey so if she ever does show up again your guy can be like "I thought you where dead? your plane went down in Peru!" or something >.>
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:has slept the night away in the rookery, since her rl self has been up since stupid 3am:
Sooooo tired!
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Quote:Ascendant and Rose made up, Rose now has a nervous condition due to all the hazing. To be fair to Flea Lizzy DID torture the information out of him. Nurse White scared another empath and Nurse White Got lost. Oh and we all beat up on rikti and random drivers where trying for vehicular manslaughter on poor Jack! Oh and Ascendant got a Skiff or a Scudd missile or something similar...Originally Posted by PirateSeaHawk
Dumple,
Sorry to hear that; I hope the bat has left the building. :-)
Ascendant and Rose are are having relationship issues, Nurse White was being her usual self, Flea is in trouble for blabbing on something he shouldn't have, Sea Hawk and Ascendant had a quiet confab, playing Poker with Ascendant will either get you very rich or disgusted as he has no poker face to speak of.
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Just dont be creepy....oh and wear your cool gas mask cause I am sure that wont creep them out....do it.
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Quote:Ditto on all fronts here as well man, know your pain on these points.Originally Posted by Hollowpoint_Hero
Strengths
+ Visually active mind. I hate to come across as a self-absorbed twit, but I have a knack for imagery. Little inflections, actions and gestures are some examples. I can see the actions in my mind and then take them and put them into text with fairly vivid clarity.
+ Depth. I really like to flesh out a character. When I imagine a character, I create their family, friends, pets and other little miniscule details. I like to think that every hero that I create had a past, and that past was instrumental in shaping who they are now.
+ Thorough. I make a habit of researching anything I'm RPing about instead of winging it. If I have a character who hurls plasma? I read into how Plasma acts, functions and is created and manipulated. I like to have a basic knowledge of 'how stuff works'
+ Adaptable. Insofar as working with other people's styles, I'm usually pretty open to stories, complexities and character quirks.
Weaknesses
+Altitis. Yes, folks, that overactive imagination has its downside. I can create new character concepts on a whim. However, this leads to my attention being split and a total lack of focus on the ONE character.
+Fringe Dweller. In large RP conversations, I tend to fall silent and listen more than participate. Cliques make me twitchy, as I feel as I'm shoe-horning my way into the conversation a lot of the time.
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<-- is a zombie I woke up at freakin 3am "we are not amused!"
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Quote:Wow you basically wrote out my own strengths and weaknesses with more verbosity minus my dialogue issues.Originally Posted by Eisenzahn
My strengths:
- Experience RPing online: I would not be surprised to discover that I've got more online roleplaying experience than anyone else currently playing CoH. My dad worked for IBM back in the 70s and 80s, and I got involved in a play-by-post D&D campaign on his rig with some other company kids when I was just a wee tyke, a hobby I've kept up consistently all the way through adulthood. Plenty of players around here have more total gaming experience than me, but online play is its own class of beast, and I have studied it extensively.
- Detailed approach to storytelling: I have an easy time getting my head wrapped around all the fiddly little details that can contribute to helping one's characters and stories feel like they fit in with the world around them. I'm the kind of player who devours published setting lore, and retains most of the information very easily.
- Willing to be a "support" character: Not in terms of rolling a Defender or whatever... but that I don't need to be in the spotlight. I'll happily play a character whose defining purpose is to shine that spotlight on someone else's character.
- Talent for description: I've been told many times that my use of words is very evocative, and that I've got a special knack for making a character seem more grounded in their own reality than just an avatar for a person at a keyboard. Unfortunately, that seems to go hand in hand with one major weakness...
My weaknesses:
- Overly verbose: Other players get the job done in fewer words. I'm used to playing in all-text environments, and have a habit of trying to tell things that I could be showing instead. I also tend to over-explain, because I don't like to leave people room to misinterpret (deliberately or not) and twist my words.
- Overly strict standards: I'll admit it, I'm an RP snob. I've seen some amazing stuff, and I've seen some utter crap. The bulk of online RP seems at first glance to drift towards the Crap end of the scale... but looking back, I realize that a lot of it is really just OK, not spectacular but not actively offensive. I've just let some of the really amazing stuff overwhelm me, and set my expectations too high. Thus, I pass over opportunities for pretty-good-but-not-great RP all the time.
- Can't multitask: I can very rarely RP and play the game at the same time. Like, on missions and strike forces. Whichever aspect of play is occupying my attention, my focus on it is absolute. -
Thank you for hosting this once again Hawk had a lot of fun as usual!
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The event was beautiful from the Walk the torchlight vigil (gorgeous!) it was great fun to see everyone and Thank you so much for the Honorable mention in the CC. It was great to see so many patriots of all Nationalities all respecting each other and standing against violence and terror was truly inspirational. Thank you for running this event and to all who attended. I was proud to be apart of the multitude.
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So I've been considering for a while now how to amend my own RP weakness which is Dialogue. I can not come up with fluid one liners, inspiring speeches or stirring anecdotes for my characters. Grant it most of my characters are of the shy or stoic personality type but that is more of my own crutch because my own writing skill at writing dialogue is so unbelievably stilted and with a shy toon I can make up for my deficiencies with loads of poetic description.
So here is a question I put to you Virtue, What is your own RP Strength and Weakness as a Role player? -
I love beach volleyball! I tried to form a team in HS but they said that they didn't have room in the budget for uniforms
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ok so I over did it at the gym and now I cant move my arms, I think I'll have to be the English girl who says everything with lifeless arms! ow ow ow ow
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This is a toughie, but I love these sorts of imagination exercises so here are some of mine;
(H)Rose Maiden: Around her head is a dark purple nimbus, her body seems split in two like Two face, one half in the super wonder woman esq suit the gold old and a bit tarnished, the cape a bit blood splattered and torn, her stance strong her eyes a fierce piercing blue. The other half a silk dress of Dove gray hair down in soft waves about her face, small wire frame glasses hiding large blue eyes. In the stance of Mary and the Sacred heart her heart glows a deep healing green.
(H)Clinique: Small and pale, hair a brilliant red of a dark rose, wearing a pink dress made of silken vales she seems to sleep below a large oak tree with flowering vines twining and growing from her bare feet and fingers. Green eyes wide and innocent but her lips parted in a half smile. Healthy verdant Botanical eden surrounds her.
(N)Sophie Storm AKA Grim Repose: Wasted burnt and Gray like an old WWII photograph she stands at the center surrounded by white ghostly shapes which fly around her in an ever expanding bubble with faces screaming and crying their tortured lives. She stands in a tattered death shroud, a gun in one hand and the head of a zombie in the other. Her eyes glow a defiant gray, cold and menacing, while her face is formed in the crying pout of a lost and frightened child.
(V)Circyan: Wild half naked, crouched in a beastly stance long black hair knotted and full of twigs and leaves. Black merciless eyes which eye all that she surveys hungrily. Mouth and hands blood stained.
I have others but these four I have done the most RP with in order to have a sense of who they are if shown to the minds eye. -
Quote::Gives Caffeine and Vitamin B laced French Toast to Fey: This should pep you right up!Originally Posted by FeyDuex
*stumbles in* Uuuuggghhhh, Donno why, but my motor just isn't revving today.
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Virtue has drama but we have enough ballz to moderate ourselves, however ask and ye shall receive! :awaits the quarrelsome debate Ironically about to ensue over how much dramalamas are in our arpees server:
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Its been a while since I have been the one to unlock the cute sugary fluff ball that is the Rookery thread so, Happy Friday everyone, my favorite cereal and I suppose my home made French toast are on the menu for today. Good luck with making it through another Friday and lets all have a blast this weekend!
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Will be reading all of these once work slows down Keep up the excellent work people!))
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:waltzes in, is about to say hello when taken by a mad sneezing fit until she can no longer catch a breath and passes out: