Dreams of the Second Age

There will be occasions for you to use that monstrous maul in battle, don't worry.
 
The initial post of the prelude is up for you to look at. Feel free to interact with one another or with Olivia before you experience your time jump to the modern age.
 
So I spied a cadre of dragon blooded soldiers. Mind if I ask how many/essence/breeding/aspect? Also do we get to keep them is a big question that trumps the others.
 
Well, actually, I was planning on killing them off in the intervening time to help demonstrate that fifteen hundred years had passed instead of just 150. It was also me covering my rump in case someone choose to take an Ally or Followers background.
 
Temporal stasis can't save them now? I think the same point could be made just by looking outside and seeing that where once was a city is now bat country. My ally dot is an important god in yu shan as I had a feeling DBs might be conveniently killed off but guess that means I should direct this at the party.


Since we have multiple characters with Arsenal at 3, does anyone want to drop it and nab followers/retainers to kick start our future dragon blood breeding program? I think another player could cover you for weapons/armor/etc. artifacts and we have the supplies to fund an army already...but don't have one quite yet.
 
If someone wants to add a handful of DB retainers, its not too late. They would be in stasis already, having gone to Rathess before you. And it won't be a problem for you to have a few DBs. The time jump won't be what kills the extras, but instead a failure in the equipment. It wasn't built to last so long without maintenance.
 
@Sherwood For future reference, if there isn't quotation marks around it to denote speech, Tyrant is thinking it. I'll go put quotation marks around his mental narrative this time so you don't have to delete or change anything. Just please note that when looking at future posts. Most of that post is just his first person thoughts.
 
Ah. I missed that. Sorry. I'm used to using italics to denote my characters thinking. I'll keep watch on the posts to make sure I don't mess that up again.


 
I edited my post. Hope you like it. ( :P )
 
Both versions were acceptable. Thank you for keeping an eye out in advance. Also, I'm just checking but we are going to wait for everyone to post in the prologue at least once, yes?


As for sheet related incidents, aside from heart's blood and a few minor adjustments to the sheet it's finished. On the henchmen subject, are we treating it as is from LoC? Since getting it as high as I can without BP gets 3 young DBs...and not close to the sizeable group we have going to make the journey with us.


Edit: Henchmen not retainers.
 
I will post the time jump probably later tonight once I get home from work. I actually get some hours today; I've been on call for so long I hardly remember what its like to work.
 
If at all possible, could we have a uniform style of writing in third person, with colored spoken text? It's a bit jarring when it constantly change like that.
 
I'm going to refuse the colored text out of personal dislike for it. As for the perspective being jarring, I'm usually sticking to either one or the other with very minimal transition if I change the person in post. Are you referring to my posts throwing you off or that you just prefer all third person all the time? I'm not going to be doing first person as much when we get out of the chamber and I have more to respond to/act on. You can expect more third person then. That said I'm not saying I'll entirely refrain from first person for the rest of the rp. It doesn't really throw anything off when nothing is actually going on yet...
 
Third person helps distinguish between characters. If everyone is just referring to themselves as "I" all the time, it becomes hard to tell who is who without constantly checking and rechecking the character sheets, and makes it seem like we're all playing one amorphous blob of a character with no good way to tell them apart.


The colored text is there to help differentiate spoken and unspoken text as a way to speed the reading process. With all respect (And I genuinely meant that) whenever someone's post exceeds more than two paragraphs, the bulk of the post is all internal and only relevant to the character themselves. When it gets to that point I prefer to just skim the post for something that my character would actually be aware of and can actually respond to. Colored text makes it easier to find.
 
Fist Tyrant


Or we could just bold the names at the top of the post if it's really that confusing. Would this work as a compromise to solve the issue? Although personally I feel it isn't hard to distinguish when looking at usernames and attach characters to people. By spending five minutes looking at the character sign up it's rather clear who is who in regards to "I" use. Because a uniform writing style feels like all one person more than the use of I by everyone.


As for the colored text this sounds like pushing personal preferences on others. Skimming to find quotation marks is not difficult if you only want to find something to respond to. If you are too rushed to read it may be best to wait and come back later to do so when you have the time.
 
In a book, when the writer uses first person, it's never an issue because you rarely go from character to character, you are a passive observer in the world seeing the story play out through the lens of the character. In a PbP game however, using first person is jarring because you are rapidly bouncing between different perspectives, which disrupts focus and the ability to retain what was said. It also disrupts others' ability to get in to the mindset of their own character, because first person statements force you to see it from the perspective of the other person's character, rather than your own. Third person is used to avoid all of these issues.


As for colored text, it's less a matter of being rushed, and more a matter of not wanting to have to read five paragraphs just to find the one sentence that my character is capable of responding to. I know some people like to write huge walls of text to develop their characters and I wont begrudge them that, but I consider it a courtesy if the parts that are actually relevant to other players are highlighted in some way, usually with colored text for spoken dialog.


Granted, this does't really apply to GMs setting the scene or if you just have a paragraph or two for your own post, but my freeform RP days have taught me that once a post exceeds three paragraphs, most of it can be skipped because it's not something my character would be aware of, and I have no way of responding to it.
 
Somebody please have the Socialize dots to worry about how we're going to be perceived, as cowards who hid from the biggest fight of two centuries. I just can't justify it, for Tulos.
 
Solistrae has socialize. You just need to apply more hand warmers to her until her blood heats up enough to snap back to awareness. Also, you know we could ask the eclipse caste with socialize 5 in the group.


 
At the moment I realized there may never be another chance to tease others with intercoms, I knew what I had to do. I am leaving the floor open to anyone else who wants to participate in open mic night. Feel free to use the we didn't order a pizza routine if you so desire. Up until Sherwood forces the door ending our intercom fun.
 
Shouldn't be possible without the key, right? Well I'd hope so but plot might not advance if they don't have it unless we open the door ourselves. That or whatever killed the power took out the locks along with the security.


 
...Is Tulos intending to break down the door with his hammer or is he setting up for an ambush? I can't really tell.
 
The Overview thread has images for the three Exalts in the lobby.
 

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