Trollslum Discussion 3: This is incredibly delirous biznasty!

[Bard The 5th LW]

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2010/325/e/8/e8b29311bb1df3c830019fa8e08c8eb4-d33befl.png


http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scraps2/lalonde_x_bro.gif


http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scraps2/sassacrexcal.gif

Fun Fact: Andrew Hussie himself drew the last two.

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To answer some questions that were apparently asked and release a statement or two.

Most characters are in the dark as to the true nature of Sgrub. Aldurin knows only that it requires two players and that Alternia is going to suffer soon.

Also, Lusii will die and be prototyped. HOWEVER, your lusus doesn't strictly have to be prototyped pre-medium. If you can't think of a way to kill it yet, you may prototype something different and have the lusus die later. I may make a special case for some players, like POS, or someone else if you can think up a good enough excuse.

Also, some players haven't really posted much in the RP thread or in the Discussion thread. I'm demanding a role-call. I'm not worried about most of you at all, but I'd at least like a 'here' for consistencies sake.

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Also, nice arts Loyal!

Anyways, discuss.

[Dracorion]

I'm totally not here. Like at all.

I mean, I haven't posted in forever ago! So yeah.

[Menarker]

I'm here but waiting for Arhra or for anyone else to get involved with my character.

[Flarecobra]

You know I'm here.

Here are Loyal's pics, just so people won't have to go back to the other thread to look. :P

http://www.deviantart.com/download/186867431/trollslum___piron_glauca_by_loyal2nes-d3397tz.png
Piron


http://www.deviantart.com/download/186564552/trollslum___gorrma_caprii_by_loyal2nes-d332q4o.png
Gorrma

[Bard The 5th LW]

Actually, next time I make a thread, remind me to include those mentioned pics.

[Arcanum]

I'm still here... sort of. I'll actually be here and back in the game on Tuesday/Wednesday. On the plus side I drew a sketch of my lusus when I stumbled upon some free time, and I plan on making a picture update for when my lusus dies.

[Menarker]

Would love to have Loyal make a picture for my character, if he's inclined to.

[Geminex]

I'd just like to reinforce what bard said before:
Describe your characters' appearance, people!

Homestuck is visual in nature. We can't recreate that. But we can at least try to add visual elements. Either by sketches, or by vivid description of our characters!

And you're all perfectly capable of doing the latter.
So spend half an hour! Show our mind's eye exactly what your character should look like. It'll make the RP better for everyone!

Besides, you might regret it if you don't.
No, I won't do anything. That'd be stupid. But the less of a description your character has, the less incentive an artist will have to sketch them. Like yours, Menarker. You want Sharl drawn, but you really only describe his horns in any detail. Loyal really doesn't have any way of knowing what he looks like, no description to get inspired by.

So really, if you want your character drawn, or want to prove that you're a good role-player, or want the Drone to not come after your character...
Well, you know what to do.

[Dracorion]

Fuck you, you already have a picture of my character.

[Loyal]

Actually, next time I make a thread, remind me to include those mentioned pics.You forgot to include links to character CS'es in this thread as well.

And yeah, what Gem said. Be as descriptive as possible! Some descriptions are terribly vague, and about a third of you don't even have shirt-symbols. And a couple of you who do have symbols aren't entirely clear about it, double check that. I'd be happy to draw stuff since it's far more likely to get done than my personal projects, but yeah.

Yes, the symbols are SEEREUSS BIZNESS. You do not get to be a special snowflake about not having one if you want a drawing(Except Bard, whose symbol is, in fact, a snowflake.) Symbol exclusion is nearly as great a crime to Homestuckkind as troll-names that aren't six letters long! ò_O

As for you, Drac, I have no idea how I would hypothetically render your symbol anyway. You are safe from nothing!

[Dracorion]

It's a sunburst and fuck you.

[Loyal]

It shall be rendered in a very low-resolution and limited-color manner. Matter of fact you get a Jadeshirt. (http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002694)

If I ever get around to drawing you anyway.

[Menarker]

Hmmm. More details on Sharl? Ok, some of the details including the horns and shirt symbol is here (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpost.php?p=1085783&postcount=63).

Now to add to it...

Fairly tall with a tiny bit of mass to his otherwise slim frame. Has slightly long black smooth clean hair with an arching curved lock on front of his forehead and 3 straight locks dangling beside both ears.
Ears are small but slightly curved as if built to capture sound.
His average sized eyes are positioned somewhat at a downward angle kinda like \ / (but not this steep), often in a shifty sideway mischevious expression or perverted grin. Color of eye is standard orange.
Slightly long neck, somewhat narrow chin, but not exactly pointed.
Hands are fairly large with slenderish strong fingers, great for grabbing loot!
Teeth are perfectly alligned, the inner teeths being visably sharper than his front teeth.
As for clothing... You got the symbol. Short sleeved shirt that goes half ways with buttons, but he keeps it unbuttoned anyhow. Wears convertible pants with appropriate color scheme.
As for the horn, make it single layer kinda like the picture of Piron above. Not stacked layers like Gorma's "multi-layer cake horns".

If you have any questions about any particular details, let me know! Keep in mind, his looks should not produce the opposite effect of charisma, since that is his major trait as a merchant character. I know trying to make a person/troll look charismatic by art alone is tricky. But I'm sure you can probably avoid going the opposite direction entirely by not making him look retarded or so. ^,^

How about drawing him both with and without him wearing a bucket on his head? Sillier expression with it on, such as him thinking he got the last laugh on a customer. ^^


Many thanks in advance! I really look forward with antipication what you will create. ^^

[Geminex]

Okay, excellent!

Though note that Loyal hasn't actually agreed to draw your character yet. The description's great (this is what you should be doing, people! Hell, it's what I should be doing), but just posting it doesn't mean that Loyal is gonna be drawing Sharl soon, unless he's said "yes, I will be drawing sharl soon".

Besides, why make requests at all? We all want our characters drawn. That's pretty much a given. There's no need to ask them to, really. Loyal or Mauve will draw your character when they get around to it, or feel like it, or get inspired by a particularly vivid description. Making a request is really less like going "Ooh, draw me!" and more like "Ooh, draw me first!", and that's both, putting pressure on the artists and unfair to the rest of the players who're waiting patiently, y'know? If you describe them properly, your character will get drawn soon enough. That's pretty much a guarantee. Till then, parience. ^^

Also, has Sharl had a conversation with LERAJE yet? I'm thinking that could turn out interesting.

Edit:
Though for all those of you who've made their own sketches and sprites, that's fine. You've got the best possible visual description of your troll already. Though if you want to expand on what you've got, that's still encouraged!

Though enough of that. I feel like some sort of imperial drone, only instead of genetic material, I'm collecting character descriptions.

[Arhra]

Oh Menarker, I was expecting to get interrupted by you entering the game before I arrive at your hive, so don't wait on me. I was assuming it would be QUITE A HIKE to get out there.

Still trying to work out what to do next.

[Geminex]

Ooh, I have a suggestion.
Scalis and Zeb are gonna Kismesis. Could you help us to facilitate that?

Namely by transferring a very interesting book from Scalis' hive to Zeb's?

[Dracorion]

I still don't think Gem grasps the concept that Zeb's hate is going to be "PUT A BULLET IN YOUR FACE" and not "YOU'RE DUMB NOW LET'S FUCK."

[Bard The 5th LW]

You forgot to include links to character CS'es in this thread as well.

I keep them in my signature to avoid that silliness.

Fairly tall with a tiny bit of mass to his otherwise slim frame. Has slightly long black smooth clean hair with an arching curved lock on front of his forehead and 3 straight locks dangling beside both ears.
Ears are small but slightly curved as if built to capture sound.
His average sized eyes are positioned somewhat at a downward angle kinda like \ / (but not this steep), often in a shifty sideway mischevious expression or perverted grin. Color of eye is standard orange.
Slightly long neck, somewhat narrow chin, but not exactly pointed.
Hands are fairly large with slenderish strong fingers, great for grabbing loot!
Teeth are perfectly alligned, the inner teeths being visably sharper than his front teeth.
As for clothing... You got the symbol. Short sleeved shirt that goes half ways with buttons, but he keeps it unbuttoned anyhow. Wears convertible pants with appropriate color scheme.
As for the horn, make it single layer kinda like the picture of Piron above. Not stacked layers like Gorma's "multi-layer cake horns".

Wondrous. Be sure to edit this into your CS. Which can be found via link in sig.

[Dracorion]

It's about fucking time you realized the link in your sig was pointing to typewithme.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Stfu.

[Geminex]

It's about fucking time you realized the link in your sig was pointing to typewithme.

Stfu.

I apologize for my minion's incompetence, clearly I should have been more careful in selecting my easily manipulable puppet-DM.
OH YOU TWO.

Also, about that role-call. Who's still with us?

[The SSB Intern]

I am here, and in fact, am dicking around contemplating WORKING ON one of those fancy art posts.

[Menarker]

Edited my character sheet to add the additional content recently made.

Anyhow, going to be a bit busy with school, but I'll do what I can since Arhra said not to wait up.

EDIT:

Also, Lusii will die and be prototyped. HOWEVER, your lusus doesn't strictly have to be prototyped pre-medium. If you can't think of a way to kill it yet, you may prototype something different and have the lusus die later. I may make a special case for some players, like POS, or someone else if you can think up a good enough excuse.

Bard, I would appreciate if I could have something like this. I just realized that two other players have monkey based lucus characters. I'm not fond of my Lusii in particular so I don't want to end up being the third person with an ape lucus prototype, so I would like to prototype the bunny that Sharl found (and was going to show off as a merchandise to Iropha).

(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(")

And the funny thing is? Sharl's blood is brown... like chocolate. The prototype being a bunny. Easter Bunny sort of thing. >_> Of course, I was also thinking of Monty Python Holy Grail's "Vorpal Bunny"... Thus the imagined result was something like...

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/041101.jpg

[Bard The 5th LW]

Bard, I would appreciate if I could have something like this. I just realized that two other players have monkey based lucus characters. I'm not fond of my Lusii in particular so I don't want to end up being the third person with an ape lucus prototype, so I would like to prototype the bunny that Sharl found (and was going to show off as a merchandise to Iropha).

I had the same concern. You have clearance to go ahead.

[mauve]

Also, about that role-call. Who's still with us? I am!

Gorrma is so damn fun to write for, you have no idea.

[POS Industries]

I, too, am still here.

[Dracorion]

10/16 confirmed.

Earl, Token, Amsterdam, Nin, Overcast and Wizardcat have yet to confirm.

A couple of people didn't explicitly say "I'm here" but they did post something other than "I'm dropping out", so I'm counting them as confirmed.

[Token]

I'm here... OR AM I?

[Dracorion]

1/6 people confirmed gone.

Alas Token, we are sad to see you go.

[Aldurin]

I swear, it's like you're at a restaurant with your friends and you go to the bathroom and then come back to realise that your friends went to another restaurant and forgot to text you.

I'll include an update on Aldurin's looks in the next few days.

Speaking of looks, how drastically can we change our appearance during the inevitable random alchemizing spree?

[Flarecobra]

The trolls don't care about apperance. Except Kanaya. Course, since she had her wardobifer randomizer...

[Bard The 5th LW]

You can change your clothing. Although, the sea trolls and Kanaya are the only ones among trolls who seem to have a sense of vanity, so I can't imagine many of them doing it.

[Menarker]

Maybe it's not vanity that is inspiring him. I can assure you Sharl isn't being vain when he occasionally decides to wear his bucket hat. :3

[Loyal]

Seatrolls don't have a fashion sense so much as they have a sense of BLING.

[Bard The 5th LW]

No one has Kanaya's fabulous sense of style. But Seatrolls do seem to be more excessive about appearance than most.

Just look at Eridan's hair!

[Loyal]

I repeat: BLING.

[Overcast]

Still here, but blissfully unaware this thread existed.

Until now, my poor fragile mind is ruined. Will explain in unnecessary detail everything you could ever want about Leraje in the morning after watch when they aren't allowed to bother me for an hour. Until then, late.r

[Token]

we are sad to see you go.

Bullshit.

[Intern Nin]

Still in the game.

[Dracorion]

14/16 people confirmed.

Unfortunately Amsterdam and Wizardcat are still MIA.

[Flarecobra]

I see Wiz on Steam often, I'll ask there.

EDIT: He said no, he's dropping out, and sends his apologies.

[Aldurin]

so now 1 MIA and 1 KIA

[Bard The 5th LW]

Well at least it happened before he became relevant. If Amsterdam is still here then I'll leave the last space open.

I doubt Amsterdam is still around though, so more than likely, I'm just going to leave it the way it is. The two teams are still equal, I'll probably edit Tennar and Srynxa out of the list soon enough.

[Aldurin]

But how will we do the Sgrub logo now that we're two blocks short of a perfect square, and two blocks too many for the Hivebent logo?

[Arcanum]

A square with the the top two corners missing?

that way if you squint your eyes it kind of looks like a house. There could even be slanted lines forming a roof, which would also act as a pointer for the server players.

I http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j122/arcanum_DF/SGRUB.png real fast for ya.

edit -- and by real fast I mean really fast. Like 30 seconds. So yes I am aware that it would be a horrible logo by itself without any extra work done to it.

Also, I'm finally done with that god forsaken project, and am working on a post. Expect it sometime tomorrow after I have a good night of sleep.

[Overcast]

As promised, here is the rundown of Leraje appearancewise.

Physical Appearance: Average in height with a small frame, Leraje doesn't sport very noticeable muscle mass, but is reasonably strong regardless. His hair is black and a bit shaggy and straight, and he is not unknown for fwipping it here and there. His eyes are pitch black and large, with no point of reference it makes them difficult to follow but enhance his disconcerting ogle. His teeth are all sharp, but one in particular has a tendency to poke out of his mouth when he is trying to close it, typically enhancing a smirk or disconcerting ogle. His horns are small and go straight back on his head, nothing particularly special.
Clothing: Leraje tends to change his style from wiggling day to wiggling day so that he can call it metamorphosis rather than style, and thus not be considered too weird by those he would call his peers. His current style includes a light grey hoody that zips all the way up the hood to close him completely off from the world and hangs just past his waist, it is typically worn with the hood up, as it is difficult for him to get it back over his horns sometimes. He uses it to supplement his typical style of t-shirt and jeans, both black and the t-shirt displaying his particular symbol (http://eastanyhow.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/symbol1.jpg?w=500). He also wears a pair of black leather boots and a pair of half framed black glasses.
Weaponry: Currently Leraje has no particularly special weapons, only showing off his two strife Specibi Chainkind and Shacklekind. He wields his chain in multiple fashions depending on how he plans to use it, wrapped around both hands to catch people in a grapple, around one hand to augment a punch, freely to swing it like a whip for bludgeoning or wrapping. He is also known to dual weild chains, restricting him to augmenting his punch or just bludgeoning and wrapping, and his shackles which he wears across his wrists and ankles to be used similar to how he uses his chain when wrapped around both hands.

Questions are welcome for those doing arting. As I am known to be at times unclear.

[Arcanum]

Oh on the subject of artsy people being artsy, if anyone wants to draw Reztek in hero mode rocking out on his Grubtar that would be fantastic.

This isn't so much a request as it is a suggestion to anyone who has run out of things to draw and has a hankering to draw more, because odds are if nobody else does it, I'll end up doing it eventually some time later in the distant future maybe.

[Menarker]

Was there anyone who wanted to join but couldn't, that could take Wizardcat's place now? I could have sworn I recall reading somewhere that Loyal wanted to join or something?

[Loyal]

Was there anyone who wanted to join but couldn't, that could take Wizardcat's place now? I could have sworn I recall reading somewhere that Loyal wanted to join or something?I had created a troll with the intent of joining before the last slot got ninja'd out. But I wouldn't want to make things uneven -- Amsterdam has not logged on in nearly two weeks, so they're almost certainly gone as well.

Besides, Burgun is nearly twice the age of everyone else in the RP. Awkward!

[Dracorion]

Also, pedophile if he ever got into a quadrant with anyone.

Still, that only means we'd just have to get another character.

I still say someone should sneak up behind Fifth, coldcock him, and we'll tie him up to a chair.

[Loyal]

Also, pedophile if he ever got into a quadrant with anyone.

Still, that only means we'd just have to get another character.

I still say someone should sneak up behind Fifth, coldcock him, and we'll tie him up to a chair.Thankfully, part of her bio/backstory involves her flushed and caliginous quadrants being filled already.

Otherwise I imagine she'd be quite dead by now. Given the high mortality rate of trolls (what with the entire society being in a constant state of open warfare against itself), I figure the Drone probably comes a-collectin' between 9-10 sweeps into a troll's lifetime.

[Bard The 5th LW]

If Loyal wants to join then I have no objections. He's been pretty involved for a non-player, so I'd be perfectly willing to make the exception and just open another slot for however long.

If that slot doesn't get filled, I'll just fill it myself no problem.

[Loyal]

Righto.
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Name: BURGUN TREIEN

Gender: Female

Age: 11 Sweeps

Appearance: http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8940/burgunminimal.png

Lusus: A rather territorial KANGAROO with a lot of power and surprising agility. She's getting rather old, though.

Trollian Handle: brutalTrifecta [BT]

Blood Color: Dark-red. Hex# 470505

Hive: Communal Hive. All the prior residents have since moved out or died, and KANGAROO-mom keeps chasing away the newcomers and carpenter drones that would otherwise do renovations. As a result, most of the place has fallen into disuse save for what Burgun has claimed as living space. Thankfully she's at the ground floor, and so in the event of a collapse of the remaining structure she won't be falling to her doom.

Strife Specibus: Bootkind. Her boots have (surprisingly sturdy) retractable knives that pop out the heel and toe.

Fetch Modus: Wallet, 3 slots. She finds most other Modi to be too complicated and she ends up breaking them.

Title: Pugilist of Flame

Dreamself: Prospit, assuming Amsterdam doesn't return.

Interests: Loves fighting. Unless she's actually fighting for her life, however, she prefers to avoid killing simply because dead things can't come back for a rematch. Has a fondness for things that are simple, yet effective.

Additional Notes: She's prideful about her blood color; don't bring it up as a negative if you value your teeth. Being a low-blood, she has psychic powers. Hers in particular comes in the form of tactile kinetic energy manipulation, which mostly gets used to make her attacks more explosive.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Seems to be pretty much in order. The age is a bit of a concern though. Has she been actively fighting them off or has she been laying low?

And we have several prime-ape lusii. Gorilla, orang-utan, and I think a chimpanzee. I'm not going to force you to change it however, just a recommendation.

Aside from those I don't see too many problems. Then again, I'm a bit sleepy. I'll go ahead and move your CS into the list over Tennar. If Amsterdam is still about, hurray. If not, the newcomer is headed to Derse.

[Loyal]

The age is a bit of a concern though. Burgun started as a desire to write a character whose adolescent trials were over; Her quadrants and pails were filled, and if not for the interference of something like SGrub she'd likely be off-planet and serving the Troll military in half a sweep's time.

I will admit there is a slight issue in why an eleven-sweep troll about to leave the planet would be associating with a bunch of kids half her age. Hrm... any volunteer suggestions?

Has she been actively fighting them off or has she been laying low?"Them"?

And we have several prime-ape lusii. Gorilla, orang-utan, and I think a chimpanzee. I'm not going to force you to change it however, just a recommendation. I'll consider it. I mostly picked it because, while gorillas aren't actually bipedal, it was the closest animal to one I could think of that could conceivably serve as a brawler. And I'm not quite pretentious enough to suggest something humanoid.

[Menarker]

That said, while we do have three ape type lusii running around, one of them is not going to be prototyped. (Mine) So the end result would still be three apes. Still a bit many though...

So a Brawler type, eh?

How about a Kangaroo? I remember there being a video game with a boxing kangaroo and maybe a few movies. ^^ Heck, it's even the national symbol of Australia. And some funny Youtube videos too. ^^

[Flarecobra]

How about a bear?

[Loyal]

...Actually a Kangaroo would work better, with the kicking. I don't know why I didn't think of that to begin with. So yes, Kangaroo-lusus.

[edit] Kangaroosus.

[Overcast]

I imagine that Leraje would love to talk with Burgun on the matter of successful quadratic romance. Having a control amongst all the crazy folks he is desperately trying to ship might be nice. It also gives him another "combat buddy" since some people he is friends with seem to be the kind that when they see each other he will have a no holds barred brawl with. Then hang out for some sort of sugary snack afterward, for the carbohydrates.

[Dracorion]

I was gonna say bearkangorilla.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Burgun started as a desire to write a character whose adolescent trials were over; Her quadrants and pails were filled, and if not for the interference of something like SGrub she'd likely be off-planet and serving the Troll military in half a sweep's time.

I will admit there is a slight issue in why an eleven-sweep troll about to leave the planet would be associating with a bunch of kids half her age. Hrm... any volunteer suggestions?

Okay I get it now. She's approaching recruitment into the military, but not there yet. I'm 0k with that.

"Them"?

Whoever recruits trolls into the military. I just have a feeling it would be by force if they didn't want to fight. Irrelevant now.

Kangaroosus will work perfectly.

[Loyal]

First post is taking longer than I anticipated. Kangaroosii are difficult to draw.

[Aldurin]

Must . . . resist urge . . . to . . . ask for . . . book. Although you probably intend for someone like Scalis to decipher it if it ever does get used.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I'm just wondering how long it'll take for you guys to get past the cover.

[Arcanum]

Woo back in the game! Anyway I'll probably be on Pirate Pad tonight if anyone wants to make some troll logs. Also if all goes according to plan my next update should include some pictures.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Oh wow that's a pretty incredible post Loyal. Really like the Hivestem Drawing.

[Aldurin]

"And the drone walking on the street was named Bob, but nobody cared because he was lame compared to his brother who had survived a laser cannon blast and was destined to go on a great adventure.

Later Bob was killed by a meteor."

[Token]

:33> I'm purrplexed as to why you all left the chat. Did something purrturb you?

[Flarecobra]

We did NOT want to see that.

[Token]

<3<

[Loyal]

Didn't need to see it, sure as hell didn't need you writing it.

[Token]

I'm glad I could entertain you.

Anyway, working on an actual post whee.

[Dracorion]

I regret nothing.

[Loyal]

Damn you, Arcanum, for pointing out that "FIGHT CLUB" was incorrectly titled.

Thank you, Overcast, for coming up with an appropriate substitute title.

[Dracorion]

Dammit, I fucking knew it.

[Token]

It's not really surprising. :|

[Dracorion]

Well, I certainly didn't expect them to be lilly-livered overreacting little bitches.

[Token]

So, I take it we've actually been kicked out. Fantastic.

[Overcast]

You aren't helping your cause fellas.

[Dracorion]

Meh.

[Token]

You aren't helping your cause fellas.

By being annoyed by the fact that you all jumped ship, and didn't have the decency to tell us anything?

[Arcanum]

You brought it upon yourselves really. I didn't read what was written, nor do I plan to, but from what I understand it was extremely disrespectful to both the GMs and all the other players. Did you really expect there to be no repercussions?

[Token]

You brought it upon yourselves really. I didn't read what was written, nor do I plan to, but from what I understand it was extremely disrespectful to both the GMs and all the other players. Did you really expect there to be no repercussions?

What was posted was a three line joke about Nepeta going off of Geminex's joke about tentacle cats, and the chat's constant jokes about tentacle sex. It was no worse than things that have been posted before, by pretty much everyone.

[Token]

At no point did I say anything disrespectful to either GM, other than the usual hate-flirt jokes we all make, and have made throughout the entire RP.

[Dracorion]

So basically...

How?

[Token]

Seriously, the only disrespect that was shown was Dracorion and I being effectively kickied out without anyone taking the time to A) talk to us, B) warn us, or C) not treat us like shit.

[Geminex]

Okay, stop.
Hammertime.

Or something.

Yes, what was posted was stupid. You DO NOT SEXUALISE NEPETA. EVER.

But I very much doubt that this somehow crossed some line. The new chat is fine, the old one was getting clogged up anyway. But as co-DM, I would very much question any decision to kick 2 1 perfectly good players and a weird literary anomaly that communicates entirely via dick jokes out over something like this. I mean, it was a joke. An attempt in a long line of attempts to see who could outdo the others. And we've all been doing it. So yeah, no. I think kicking them out, or even putting them out of the loop for more than a day would excessive. As much as it pains me -PAINS ME- to say this, I'm on their side. To a degree. Cause dammit, token, if writing were a superpower, I'd be telling you to stop using your power for evil. Nepeta is cute. Adorable. SHE SHALL REMAIN THAT WAY. As long as that is respected, sure.

And arcanum, really? You didn't read the post, but you pass judgement anyway? Yeah, no. Just... no. Also, our top priority here should be to prevent any sort of drama (and this goes for all of you, this should not be treated as SERIOUS BUSINESS unless someone actually, explicitely gets kicked out). And that post? Drama-licious.

Anyway, as it is, token and drac WENT THERE and as a punishment they don't get to go into our clubhouse for a while HA HA LOOK AT THEM OUT THERE let's talk behind their backs and make fun of them when they come back etc...
Unless bard says differently, that's all that this is, and that's all it should be treated as. No speculation, no "THEY DESERVED IT". Just a joke in a long line of jokes.
And I hope to god Bard comes back to clear this up soon enough.

[Token]

Okay, stop.
Hammertime.

Or something.

Yes, what was posted was stupid. You DO NOT SEXUALISE NEPETA. EVER.

But I very much doubt that this somehow crossed some line. The new chat is fine, the old one was getting clogged up anyway. But as co-DM, I would very much question any decision to kick 2 perfectly good players out over something like this. I mean, it was a joke. An attempt in a long line of attempts to see who could outdo the others. And we've all been doing it. So yeah, no. I think kicking them out, or even putting them out of the loop for more than a day would excessive. As much as it pains me -PAINS ME- to say this, I'm on their side. To a degree. Cause dammit, token, if writing were a superpower, I'd be telling you to stop using your power for evil. Nepeta is cute. Adorable. SHE SHALL REMAIN THAT WAY. As long as that is respected, sure.

And arcanum, really? You didn't read the post, but you pass judgement anyway? Yeah, no. Just... no. Also, our top priority here should be to prevent any sort of drama (and this goes for all of you, this should not be treated as SERIOUS BUSINESS unless someone actually, explicitely gets kicked out). And that post? Drama-licious.

Anyway, as it is, token and drac WENT THERE and as a punishment they don't get to go into our clubhouse for a while HA HA LOOK AT THEM OUT THERE let's talk behind their backs and make fun of them when they come back etc...
Unless bard says differently, that's all that this is.
And I hope to god he comes back to clear this up soon enough.

Except that Drac didn't even contribute to the Nepeta jokes, so I find that hard to believe.

[Dracorion]

Fair enough.

I apologize for not taking this slower. This conversation was very clearly going straight into DRAMA Island.

EDIT: Well I contributed insofar as I came up with tentacle cats. And I supported you.

[Arcanum]

And arcanum, really? You didn't read the post, but you pass judgement anyway? Yeah, no. Just... no. Also, our top priority here should be to prevent any sort of drama (and this goes for all of you, this should not be treated as SERIOUS BUSINESS unless someone actually, explicitely gets kicked out). And that post? Drama-licious.

Key words in my post: From what I understand. If I'm wrong, please correct me, but from what I heard from the others I do not want to read the shit that they wrote. Not only that, the way Bard phrased it, this seemed more like a temp-ban from piratepad than explicitly kicking them out (though I agree he should have said something to them). And since you can't actually ban people from an individual pad, he went and made a new one. I trust Bard's judgment as main DM, and reinforced with what the others said on the subject, I believe my opinion has a solid foundation.

[Geminex]

Okay, everyone stop posting in this thread, now. Discussion is put on hold until bard comes and clears stuff up. This goes for everyone. This is not a big thing, please do not treat it as such. Do not be judgemental, do not say THEY DESERVED IT or WE DIDN'T DESERVE IT, because, as of now, there is no IT.

There is merely Token grossing us out in a way that'll probably seem hilarious once we get over the mental image, and bard demonstratively creating a new chat as a way of expressing how horrible drac and token are. Demonstratively is the key word here. I doubt he really meant it.

Until he says there was more to it, that is all there is. There is nothing to get pissed about. If it turns out I'm wrong, and he actually did this in seriousness, we can always catch up on the drama, but failing that, this is not a big thing. There's better things to get excited about. Go find some of those.

Edit: And Arcanum, that may be. But your initial post was pretty goddamn judgemental, when you really had no right to be. None of us does, except for the only person who knows what's going on. Namely, bard.
...
Do we have a bard-signal? Something we can shine on the clouds to request his presence? Because I don't want to go to bed and let this fester.

[Premmy]

Man I was totally going to ask if I could get involved but this thread seems to be as drama-tastic as troll-mance... is it still running??

[Geminex]

Oh, it's going allright. I'm pretty sure it's getting away from us.

I just realized, I'm an auspistice. A goddamn auspistice.
But hey, this is trollslum. We should have expected this from the get-go.

Anyway, yeah, this is going, and when this blows over (and it will blow over or else the individuals responsible for it not blowing over will have their characters get hunted down and eaten by the goddamn Drone), the pace will pick up again, I hope.

Your character would certainly be a fairly welcome addition, though we'd either need another player to balance you out, or we'd need bard to make that second chracter after all.

Also, bard, I readded drac and token to the chat. This was getting out of hand.

[Loyal]

Your character would certainly be a fairly welcome addition, though we'd either need another player to balance you out, or we'd need bard to make that second chracter after all.Not quite. Amsterdam is still nowhere to be found, and hasn't been online in about three weeks. I replaced Wizardcat, Premmy can in all likelihood take Amsterdam's place on Bard's say-so.

[Premmy]

If I can join, I would kind of like My character to have some history with yours, Loyal.

[Bard The 5th LW]

You aren't really kicked out.

http://piratepad.net/NnL43kJR6j

Here it is. It was a joke.

[Dracorion]

Dammit I was just about to light up the Bardsignal.

Also, declare civil war.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I apologize for any misunderstanding. I was just getting real sick of some of the stuff so I decided to exclude you from the chat for a bit. It wasn't meant to be taken very seriously and I was going to let you in the next day.

Also: there is still one space. Premmy can sign up.

Edit: But, like, seriously. I was getting fed up with it sure, but I posted Cal/Sassacre in my own thread. I also allowed Token to post his slash fics. I'm not going to kick you guys out, but I do want this stuff to stop.

[Token]

Dude, after all the shit that was said behind our backs, I'm not finding it very funny.

And there are two spaces.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Loyal filled one space.

And I don't quite appreciate all that either. I may have taken some part in it, but this wasn't really supposed to be taken seriously. All I can say is that I apologize for any hurt feelings and I'm not going to do this shit again.

I wasn't here to sort this stuff out sooner because its Thanksgiving and I was spending time with my family.

[Geminex]

Loyal filled one space.
Token wants to vacate one.

[Token]

Yes. Loyal filled one. And now I'm leaving.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I am sorry to hear that.

I don't want him to leave, but if he wants to go then I'm not sure what I can do.

Here's what I can do:

Token please don't quit.

[Geminex]

Yeah, please don't.

[Overcast]

Not everyone is in on the joke Token. Assured you can say some of us played up the scenery, but some haven't added anything at all. And perhaps thee reason these words come up is you are actually being fairly disruptive to them.

Of course I don't know this, but I'm willing to see it. And this whole scene would be better if we could apologize for whatever we may have done wrong. All of us.

[Token]

I am fully aware that not everyone was in on it. I am also aware that those who were caused the others to think it was serious. I've read the chatlog, and if it wasn't for the bollocks that was said in there, I wouldn't have even considered leaving. It's not because of the "joke." It's because stuff was said and done that makes me reluctant to RP with a few of you.

And Overcast, you read what I wrote on the old log. Was it really disruptive enough to warrant this?

[Overcast]

It is your decision, in the end. But there are other ways to proceed rather than just going away. I was just hoping they were visible.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Okay, I currently want to know who the person in the piratepad named 'random troll' was. Here's how it went.

random troll: you don't deserve to be in the rp

Who said this? I really want to know. You can have whatever opinion you want, but I want to know who said it. No reason to be anonymous about it.

[Premmy]

Sign Up Sheet

Name: Diogen Raiyaj

Gender: Male.

Age: 7 Sweeps
Symbolhttp://www.reiki.info/REIKI/IMMAGINI/Simboli-Reiki/Choku_Rei_arancio_senza_numeri_6,5K.gif
Appearance: Diogen stands a few inches taller than most trolls his age. His Horns sit just above his eyes, jutting upwards and then angling sharply down to the ground and slightly inwards toward each other. Diogen keeps his hair in shoulder-length dreds and wears a long black vest reaching down to his kness, with White pants. He wears an almost ludicrously large golden belt buckle with his symbol engraved within it and a simple pair of sandals on his feet.


Lusus: Diogenes's Lusus name is Oro, and is a massive serpent with a Cobra's Hood and a rattle on it's tail, the snakiest snake that ever slithered through snake land, it spends it's time, sleeping, hunting, sleeping and occasionally attacking Diogenes. Oro is kind of a dick, sometimes feigning kindness,( or at least aloofness or at best just being too full to bother with Dio) and striking at the last moment.

Trollian Handle:NobleDragon

Blood Color: Bluuuueeeee

Hive: Diogen's Hive is far in the woods in the middle of a large clearing. It has very high roofs, almost like a chapel and an adjacent stable where he keeps his Horsaronii. He spends most of his time upstairs, and frequently opts to jump out his window rather than go downstairs and risk deaing with his lusus.

Strife Specibus: Swordkind.

Fetch Modus: Liar-Modus. Due to the paranoia of deception His lusus has given him, he feels a need to protect his modus via an ingenious system wherein you need to request the opposite of what you want.... sometimes it blows up in his face when the opposite of something isn't obvious.

Title: Prestidigitator of Illusion, He really hates that.

Dreamself: whichever's open.

Interests:

He is very very fond of his horsaronii, Raising and breeding the best to ride as his noble steeds. Oro is also very fond of Diogen's Horsaronii and generally takes to eating his favorite one from time to time. It is the most traumatic experience of his life. Every time it happens.
Diogen is fond of the ancient troll stories of warriors weilding swords in battle for honor and glory and fashions himself after them.
Diogen fancies himself a master combatant and often challenges people he sees as rivals to duals of honor. With the amount of asswhippings hes received from this, you'd think he would have no honor left but there you have it.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Sort of okay, but a few things.

Name: Diogenes Jiraiya

Aren't these actual names? I don't mind variations or corruptions, but I find use of real earth names to be odd.

Strife Specibus: Dual Katar

So, like, katarkind? Might just fall under knifekind or swordkind. We do already have a knifekind as well.

Otherwise, more detail is also needed in a few places, but it is just the rough draft.

[Arhra]

Woah now Prem. You capitalised the 'n' in nobleDragon. How could you?!

Anyway, finally had a thought for something of decent length to do.

[Menarker]

EDIT: BLUH BLUH HUGE DUMBASS.

I was talked out of leaving by my best friend/morail. So yeah. >_>



*This post being from public announcement and I don't know if Token meant that he's coming back here or just to NPF*

Token: It would be awesome if you could come back here. I imagine everyone here wants you to have a spot. I'm sorry for all my mistakes in the recent incident.

[Aldurin]

VR must now interrogate HE, in a very interrogatory way.

[Premmy]

Woah now Prem. You capitalised the 'n' in nobleDragon. How could you?!

Anyway, finally had a thought for something of decent length to do.
Proper Gentleman Enunciate Properly

[Overcast]

But teenagers are aware of contemporary changes in etiquette. To cap is not only uncouth, it is impossible!

[Premmy]

It is often common for young people to harken back to things from bygone eras before their time in order to establish a unique identity.
edits: Oh, and also, where's the chat n'stuff?

[The SSB Intern]

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff97/The_SSB_Intern/Vintag-1.png
New final sprites! My CS has been updated with that swankiness.

[Dracorion]

The chat is always linked in Bard's sig, Premmy.

[Menarker]

Actually, the link has not been edited. It's still showing the old one.

This one below is the new one.

http://piratepad.net/NnL43kJR6j

[Bard The 5th LW]

There, I updated the sig.

[mauve]

SSB, that post is awesome.

Although I'm surprised you chose Bing Crosby instead of a comedian like Bob Hope or Buster Keaton.

(Plus, if you have a Buster Keaton poster and you use it in alchemy... you could end up with a Buster Sword. Just sayin'. :p )

[Flarecobra]

I'm back.

And who said he hasn't? We haven't seen all the walls yet.

[Geminex]

I wasn't really ever gone except tons of stuff suddenly came up!
Sorry, guys. I will resume posting as scheduled tomorrow. That is to say, Overcast, Token and Arha will be getting PMs and Zebrek will get a kismesis.

Anyway, I'll be back, so I dunno, either celebrate or weep or whatever reaction I provoke in you.

[Dracorion]

Didn't stop you from posting elsewhere on NPF!

I call bullshit.

[Aldurin]

Didn't stop you from posting elsewhere on NPF!

I call bullshit.

Posting here actually takes noticeable effort compared to other threads.

I call ice cream.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I'm back.

And who said he hasn't? We haven't seen all the walls yet.

HURRAH!

I was holding off on striking anyone's name from the list precisely because I was worried about the possibility of them returning days later. 20/20 foresight!

This also means I have only lost 2 players rather than 4.

[The SSB Intern]

SSB, that post is awesome.

Although I'm surprised you chose Bing Crosby instead of a comedian like Bob Hope or Buster Keaton.

(Plus, if you have a Buster Keaton poster and you use it in alchemy... you could end up with a Buster Sword. Just sayin'. :p )
That'd be awesome, cept Vintag doesn't wield a sword. I could totally make it for someone else though.

[Geminex]

Didn't stop you from posting elsewhere on NPF!

I call bullshit.

All I did was call people idiots. And that was less because I had the time to and more because they really, really deserved it.

[Premmy]

Re-Did Character sheet.

[Flarecobra]

Holyshit that's a huge symbol.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Re-Did Character sheet.

Accepted. Adding you to the list. You are on Team Derse.

[Premmy]

Holyshit that's a huge symbol.

It's a huge belt.

[Menarker]

^^ Loyal, I thought of your character when I saw this for some reason. Probably the lusus thing.

http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/kangaroojackp1.gif

On a more relevant note, I should be ready to post something for my character (although he has nothing truly relevant since he's going to be one of the last players if not the last player.)

[Loyal]

http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/kangaroojackp1.gifYeah, that's gonna happen at some point in the RP now.

I'll have a post up either tomorrow (that is to say, Tuesday) or Wednesday, depending on how much schoolwork I can get done in the morning.

[Geminex]

I'm loving the art, guys!
Sadly, I don't have any. I make up for it with excessive eloquence.
SO.
EXCESSIVE.

There's probably gonna be quite a lengthy flashback coming up for me, plus another two pesterlogs. I'll have to arrange some stuff first, though...

But hey, I have a large chunk of flashback written up already. I'm back, bitches, and I am bringing the words. All the words.
All of them.

[Dracorion]

Why is your first link pointing to the Leraje - Zeb conversation?

Also, the reason it shouldn't be you to break the fourth wall is that other people would've done it so much better.

[Aldurin]

I have to agree with drac unfortunately. You did break that wall rather bluntly.

[Menarker]

Well everyone, please refer to the bottom of the Piratepad collab section to see the mostly empty chart referring to who connects to whom. (A work in progress)

Gem, since you're first in line for your respective team, is there anyone you would prefer or request to consider being your server player?

Intern Nin, I heard that you were considering Overcast/Leraje to be your server. Is that accurate? Currently, I put the chart assuming that was true, but I can easily change it if it turns out to be wrong.

Loyal, Overcast said that Leraje invited your character Burjin to be his server character. (And thus be the 3rd player in the server). Any problems with that? And if you're fine with that, do you have any thoughts on whom you would like to have be your server?



Current chart in case it gets editted.

For each respective team, Player 1 will be the client of Player 2 (who is server respectively). Then player 3 joins in as server and player 2 will be considered client to player 3. And so on and so forth. At the very end, when all 8 players of both teams are in the game, player 1 of both teams will connect to player 8 of the other team.

Derse
1st: Scalis
2nd:
3rd:
4th:
5th:
6th:
7th:
8th:

Prospit
1st: Caoway
2nd: Lerjae
3rd: Burgun
4th: Piron
5th: Glissa?
6th:
7th: Sharl?
8th:

[mauve]

I don't really care what order Gorrma ends up entering the medium, so just sign me up for wherever she's needed.

[Menarker]

Good to know Mauve. ^^ That'll add a degree of flexiblility.

If anyone else has the same feeling and don't mind where they want to be, let me know.

Anyhow Mauve, regarding character titles that we talked about before, I realized that Bard's character already has the name "Artisan" in his character's title. Might have to think a little harder for your title.

EDIT:
Alright. Loyal doesn't have a personal preference for whom will be Burgun's server player. Anyone particularly wants to claim being her server player? Although Loyal says Flare expressed interest in Burgun and Piron being acquainted. So I'll be keeping that in mind.
Any thoughts about that Flare?

[Flarecobra]

Me and Bard were talking about that before.

[POS Industries]

I volunteer to act as Scalis' server player.

[Menarker]

Alright, that's good to know.

Got some questions to ask people.

1: Does anyone from Derse specifically want or don't want to be the client player for Caoway (Intern)?
2: Does anyone from Prospit specifically want or don't want to be the client player for Scalis (Geminex)?

Gem, do you have any personal preference about who you want as your server player? POS volunteered although he also said that Arhra might want him as his server player.

Everyone else in Derse, feel free to post if you have interest in specifically being someone's client or server player. I'll try to mix-match the data and see if I can accomodate as much as possible.

Bard, do you have any personal preference for whom you want as your server? (Choices remaining being Sharl, Gorrma and Zebrek, those being my, Mauve and Drac's character respectively.) I know you got GM powers and thus you really have all the power in the world to edit really. But just asking just in case you'd rather roll with what people requested.
Bard, can I also assume that you wanted to be Piron's server character? That's what I heard and I just want to make sure.

[Arcanum]

It doesn't really matter to me when I go in or who I follow or who follows me. Throw me where I'm needed! Let the eight-sided dice roll!

[mauve]

It doesn't really matter to me when I go in or who I follow or who follows me. Throw me where I'm needed! Let the flourite octohedrons roll! Fixed that for you.

[Arhra]

Posting and the starting of trolling with somebody in the piratepad tomorrow!

[Aldurin]

You know what, I'd probably feel better having my server player be someone I appointed to great responsibility (i.e. Caoway). I have little trust of anyone else.

I don't care who I server for, either way they're not gonna die by my cursor.

[Menarker]

Alright, until further notice I'll consider you slot number 8 for the time being then so that your server will be Caoway. It's not set in stone, but chances are good.

The chart is looking more like this now...

Derse
1st: Scalis
2nd:
3rd:
4th:
5th:
6th:
7th:
8th: Aldurin

Prospit
1st: Caoway
2nd: Lerjae
3rd: Burgun
4th: Piron
5th: Glissa?
6th:
7th: Sharl?
8th:

[Geminex]

I'm curious as to why you're arranging this OOC at all. I mean, I'm pretty sure we had agreed not to do that, for one. And for another, you're really just making the RP that much less interesting when the results of your characters' action are already planned out, aren't you?

I mean, sure, it's allright to a degree! If two characters interact particularly well, sure, you can arrange events so they interact. But I think the element of uncertainty and chaos here, the many, many interactions as each troll races to find partners that aren't completely horrible, I think that far outweighs any benefits.

So come on, people! Go with the flow.

[Dracorion]

Because arranging it IC is taking too fucking long.

Also, it's not that bad. People are choosing servers and clients based on who their character would want.

[Menarker]

You're misunderstanding the purpose of the chart Gem. It's to basically record the best/likely chain of players by using the in-character interactions chosen by the players as the basis.

For some of us, doing it in character without any guidance is fine.

But for others who do have have the time or personal inclination to troll several people at once, this chart is more of a guideline to who to start with. A metagame way to decide who is the most desired server/player connector. I in particular become paralyzed if I have to decide who to try to talk with without any prior interaction with a character. Like I need to have someone directly contact me first before I do anything with them. Totally reactive and otherwise unresponsive unless there is a metagame method to give the tiniest push. That push being out of character approval between a set of players to start a particular pairing of interactions in character.

In Prospit's case, Caoway personally wants to interact more with Lerjae, so I made that connection. Overcast told me that Lerjae is going to be interacting with Burgun, so I connected those two. Then Loyal said that he was working things out with Flare to have Burgun and Piron interacting. And Flare said that Bard's character Glissa was going to be Piron's server. So I just recorded that data for reference. It's not an official set in stone thing unless everyone agrees with it.

To clarify Gem, I'm not making the chart to define who should be chatting with who. I'm making the chart for the OPPOSITE REASON. That the character interactions done in character helps defines the more or less official order of entering the medium so everyone who actually has a personal connection with someone is connected to that person. And for those who hasn't interacted with other players? It gives them a metagame method of deciding who to troll with to add a bit more development to their character. And it's not set in stone at all. It's more of a easy way to see what the chain of interactions is like.


So don't worry about it.

I am still interested in knowing in you have any preference about who you want as your server or if you're otherwise completely open.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Honestly, I'd like it to be IC as well, but its a bit better OOC. This entry fiasco will spanm quite a long ways, and it would likely be longer if we scrambled for it in the RP thread.

Yeah go ahead and set Glissa as Piron's server. I'll accept anyone as my server, but Zeb.

[Dracorion]

Fuck you, Bard.

[Bard The 5th LW]

http://images.paraorkut.com/img/pics/images/h/haters_gonna_hate_eagle-14265.jpg

[Bard The 5th LW]

New thread. Not giving you guys the link though,