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enablemeplz) wrote2022-06-11 09:08 pm
enablemeplz) wrote2022-06-11 09:08 pm
June EMP Meme
FOR GAME ADS: ➤ Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / fetish you want for your game under the correct game header. This meme is primarily going to be focused on DWRP games but IJ and LJ games are allowed. ➤ PLEASE NOTE A RULE CHANGE HERE. ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding (no font size > size 4 or 3 "big" tags, no oversized banners (they must be 250px in height or less), no blinking text, no obnoxious table html that doesn't collapse easily, no sparklies, no large pictures). Use all the colors you like, but please remember 3 "big" tags is the limit and that's only for headers or title text rather than for all the text in an ad. FOR GAME QUESTIONS: ➤ RPers interested in a game can create a header for the game and ask questions about that game that aren't easy to find on faqs, such as the actual pace vs. what's listed/what kind of plots are run/if the game leans more towards plotty or slice of life/if a game leans more towards network or logs, etc. Both anon questions and anon answers are welcome in this section just like in the rest of the meme. ➤ This thread is not for speaking about wank or drama in a game. There are anoncomms that exist for that. This thread is specifically for general questions about a game that rpers want to get perspective on from players already in the game. Answers can be slightly negative (such as saying app response is slow or that the plots are repetitive or similar things) but this should at least be worded politely. Unnecessary vitriol, any mention of personal drama or wank, or mod teams/individual mods/players being singled out, will be either frozen or screened (based on what seems right based on the content). FOR CHARACTER ADS: ➤ Put up an ad about the characters you are offering. For PSL ads, there is a separate subthread but for character ads for games, post directly to the meme post. Others will comment to you with the games/casts they want you to join. ➤ There is a "Find a Castmate" section, where you can talk about a cast you play in at a game, and try to lure people to join it. Not all games post to the meme or have a "wanted" section, so players that want to tempt people to their cast on their own can use this section for it. Please format this the same as the PSL section, where you post your character's canons in your subject. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find a Castmate" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. When listing who's currently in a cast, please do this in sentence form (with commas) rather than in list form. ➤ There is a "Find Crosscanon" section, where you can talk about a character you play and and desired crosscanon for that character. Please make sure this is not too generalized a search, because just wanting general crosscanon can be accomplished with the other sections of the meme. This is for specific characters or character types you're looking for. In the subject, please list the "Looking for [canon you're looking for]" rather than your character's canon. If looking for a character type, list the character type in as few words as possible. Do not make the subject huge or I'll screen your comment. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find Crosscanon" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. This section is only for game crosscanon as in the psl section people can list their preferences. ➤ Examples of crosscanon you can search for: You play The Flash from DC Comics and your dream CR is fellow speedster Quicksilver from Marvel. Or you might play a witch and want cr with other witches in general. Or maybe you play a good character messed up by evil parents and want to play against a villain character you know has evil parents, because you know it'd lead to some interesting negative CR. ➤ ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding, with the same rules as the Game Ads Section above. ➤ If you're recommending a game to someone, try to match your suggestion to their needs. It's okay if part of your game rec is copy-pasted (such as what the game's about), but at least some part of the rec must be personalized to their ad. Try not to recommend the same game to every single ad, either. Ad spam that isn't individualized in some way will also be frozen or screened. 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TALES OF THE ABYSS @ COME SAIL AWAY
[fandom]: Tales of the Abyss
[game's current cast]: Jade Curtiss
[who I play]: The shady guy in question!!
[wanted]: Anise, Guy, Tear, Natalia...! Any of Jade's fellow party members would be wonderful! Luke would be especially great, as Jade's taken from a canonpoint only a few weeks after the endgame events on Eldrant, so seeing him again would sure be grounds for a whole variety of extremely strong and gross Feelings!
Still, folks outside the main cast would be great too! Any of the God-Generals (Asch or Dist especially oh god), Peony
(if we really want to stress out Jade something awful, which ofc I do lmao), Ion, perhaps even Van...?![game info]: Come Sail Away is a panfandom jamjar horror game set on a modern-day cruise liner! Where unwitting passengers can enjoy a well-earned luxury vacation experience, maintained by a crew of ghostly staff and the lovely faceless cruise director! Sure, the captain might be some eldritch being who draws energy and entertainment from the suffering of all souls trapped on board, but. Don't worry about that! Besides, there's a wide variety of off-ship excursions to go on; some of them can allegedly even be quite pleasant! ...And some of them define a "strenuous camping trip on a tropical island" as a forced battle royale to the death. Endless possibilities!
Passengers aboard have potential to affect the overarching setting or events depending on a combination of OOC dice rolls and IC actions. Power nerfs are minimal, and death is impermanent! Which is probably a good thing, because you're likely to be dying rather a lot going forward! Yes Jade has already died once now, yes you'd better believe he has a lot of opinions about it smh-- Events have been varied, as the horror isn't necessarily a constant; one month half the ship might be killing each other while the other half has to watch it, and the next month everybody ends up going on a camping trip For Real This Time, complete with marshmallow roasting and inordinately short shorts?? There sure is a constant sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop, though...!
Monthly AC consists of either one open post/toplevel and a 10-comment thread elsewhere, or three threads with three different characters at 5 comments apiece. Apps and reserves are currently open for the foreseeable future, and the current TDM can be found here if you'd like to dip in your toes!
Re: TALES OF THE ABYSS @ COME SAIL AWAY
How do the dice rolls work? That is, what are they used for, exactly, etc.? Are they mainly for the events, to determine if a character lives or dies, or how they die, and that sort of thing? I really want to be in control of those types of decisions for my characters, so that would be a big consideration regarding joining.
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I'll also be candid in the fact that while you can opt out of throwing your character directly into the thick of particularly nasty excursions, the chances are still pretty high you'll likely need to ICly acknowledge the fact that the event's happening all the same--the broadcasted Battle Royale bit above is an example in that sense too, and it seems to me that there will be times going forward where the ship undergoes events that may end up very difficult to not ICly engage on some level.
As for the dice rolls, you've got it about right! They mainly seem to crop up during events to determine the fates and general luck of characters over the course of events, and as stated in the rules all dice rolls are generally final. To give some examples of how this RNG aspect has worked in events so far: This event post details the arrival of an NPC who eventually attempts to sink the entire ship, and after players sign up with their character if they want to attempt the engage the NPC, dice rolls were applied to decide whether diplomacy or violence is used, as well as whether the method ends up prevailing. (The results of the rolls were hashed on the mod plurk, but on this occasion diplomacy was rolled and prevailed!) If all dice rolls had failed, though, the NPC would have sunk the ship and killed every single character aboard without exception. Then there's this event post for the Battle Royale, where RNG determined who would end up living or dying among the characters signed up by players; iirc there were coin tosses for the results of the first two days, and then d20 rolls to determine who would emerge the royale victor on the final day (Natsuno Yuuki ended up rolling a 20). Players could freely plot out exactly how their characters would ultimately die in this case, however, so long as the result aligned with the mod-determined roll!
So, yeah! If any of these aspects would be a deal breaker for you it's totally understandable--sorry for getting a bit long-winded here aha, I wanted to be as frank as possible so you could make a pretty informed judgment call on whether the game would really be a fit for you! And whether you decide to give it a proper whirl or not, I appreciate you popping in with some questions all the same! It's always so nice to hear about people still getting into Abyss so recently too, it's a wonderful game...! (At the risk of being real biased lol--) And Luke is a great character pick for rp, too. I'd def love to see more of him around DWRP in general, whether it's in this game or anywhere else! c:
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Abyss is definitely amazing! I'll have to think a while how I might play Luke anywhere, as I'd like to pull him from post-canon and I need to decide how he might have changed while being missing/dead/thought dead. My guess is I probably won't join this game, but if I decide to make a Luke account I'd be happy to just do PSL with you regardless, if you'd like!
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There's definitely a lot of ways to interpret how Luke's post-game year of being presumed dead might have affected him for a fact, real neat aspect to explore...! If you ever do make a Luke journal I'd be happy to help you voicetest sometime in a psl or something for sure :) Feel free to drop a line anytime!
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I’m glad to see TotA characters around from time to time lol.
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I'm so glad to see TotA characters around and about every now and then too! Always a delight to spot a castmate out there in the DWRP wilds to be sure ♥
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Tbh I’d love to take a look and see what the game is like in more depth!! It sounds interesting, and honestly from what I’m seeing there’s a lack of healers in a lot of spaces 🥲 i was thinking of apping her elsewhere for that reason but knowing there’s a castmate available here is definitely changing my mind lol …
i might shoot you a dm later in the day about it!
And if you ever wanna thread elsewhere like bakerstreet or something, please let me know!
> uo)o i love jade and his sense of humour lol
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Def feel free to drop a message anytime, will try to answer any and all questions to the best of my ability!! Considering the age of this canon I sure am feeling you there in how great it is to find castmates anywhere aha, and honestly I've never seen an active Tear journal around in my time rping Jade so far! I'm so happy just to see you here existing tbh, though if the game ends up seeming like a good fit to you I'd definitely love to see her joining the murderboat too...!
And either way I'd be down for a bakerstreet thread sometime for sure! My non-game rp plate's pretty full atm with camp event threads in Sail taking priority, but as soon as things slow down a bit I'd be happy to hop on a meme with you...! 😊 Esp if we wanna do a scenario slightly more lighthearted than being trapped on an eldritch cruise liner at some point lmao
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LMAO honest feelings are not her forte, and squishy ones aren't his. tbh i always thought that they were a little similar in more ways than just their hair style. maybe it's the military training? haha
and really??? how long have you been rping jade for? to be honest, i used to bounce between playing tear and natalia back in the day (but natalia was pretty much reserved for my friend who liked her and guy together haha). i was torn on who to pick for here, and kind of just chose tear on a whim lol.
i took a peek at the game and i'm not gonna lie: i'm a little intimidated by all the prose. it's been sooo long since i wrote that much (although i know not everyone there is writing novels but!!). i'm impressed. i feel like if i did join i would grow a lot? so it's definitely something i'll be looking into/considering. i also saw the TDM from this month, posted back on the 13th? are they always on the 13th of the month? i might aim to try the one in july
and for sure!! games always take priority, so no worries there. :) if we do meme it up, i'm okay with it being slow lol. idk if this is mean to say but rp is a hobby, and shouldn't be stressful. so if/when we do play, please don't worry about things too much. you don't owe me anything lol.
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But man yeah feelings in general are hard!! And gross!!! Who needs feelings anyway, not these two that's for sure...! Which yeah in these ways they really do have a lot in common when you think about it, definitely some consummate soldier mentality going on here. Military solidarity...see this is why Jade probably considers Tear one of the most sensible people in this party tbqh (though she could do to communicate a lil better sometimes, gazes at that whole thing with her trying to hide the fact the miasma's infecting her body as she operates the passage rings smh.....then again Jade also just fuckin never talks about anything either until it's like way too late so who's he to judge lmao, another similarity between them clearly!)
I first picked Jade up properly around mid-2020 I think?! And had a stint with him on memes here and there for a bit, and then fell off the face of dwrp for uuh over a year or so since rl got, well...gestures at Everything About 2021, looks away......but yeah! Took him up again around the start of this year and threw him on the murderboat to see what would happen, and here we are! Tbh it's fully possible I just missed you out and about in rpland if you've been active for awhile yourself haha, so glad we're not ships passing in the night anymore at least!! (Aaah Natalia is so great too, a++ to your immaculate taste ♥ Naturally I'd welcome both Natalia and Tear with open arms, both are great picks either way!)
Anyway yeah that being said we've got quite a range of writers across the board in Sail! I'll admit now I do like dipping into heavier prose at times myself, but I've also found that everybody in-game's very flexible and accommodating wrt writing styles and tag speed alike; honestly I've been trying to get the hang of putting out more succinct and snappier tags on occasion too, and ironically the game's been good practice for me getting better at that as well lmao, so yeah I'd say it could be a good opportunity for you to grow your own prose skills in turn if you'd like to! Honestly I've found it's a very chill sort of place for experimenting with writing styles in general, there's a little bit to dabble in for everybody
Actually we don't have a set schedule for TDMs currently I think! But going by the trend of the last four we've had so far (this newest one included) they seem to get posted approximately once a month, so I'd hazard a guess that it might be a few more weeks yet before another one goes up yeah. In the interim folks tend to tag on them pretty steadily throughout, though! There are threads still ongoing on the current TDM too, and I've got the toplevels there tracked atm, so if you end up getting an itch to dip in your toes anytime sooner I'd be happy tag you! Or yeah I can drop you a heads-up message when a new one goes up, if you'd prefer that too; either way is fine by me :)
Not mean to say at all! You're definitely right that rp is meant to be a fun time as a hobby lol, honestly it's great to have a more mellow take on it in these ways for sure. No pressures either way, if we can help it! I do look forward to being able to thread with you some way or another one of these days, whether it ends up being a TDM or meme thread first in the end...!