The Avalon Chronicles

Game Master lynora

Victory: I use nanotech.... But it's still bulky...

...

Other than size, what's the difference?

The component parts are minuscule, invisible to the naked eye and extremely sofisticared

But I still use them to make things like giant fists the size of my torso

Is anyone waiting on me for input anywhere? Does anyone want to interact with any of my guys?
Gonna take stock real quick, but feel free to ask me to pull anyone in who's not in a scene.
(×)=Not available for reassign in

Archena- Doing sculptures
Hermes- Research or following Arthur like the ninja butler he is
Jasper- Dinner (×)
Kevin- Science?
Lewis- Somewhere with Tara
Lim-Mor- Sleeping
Mr. Strider- All around you
Rakki- Dinner (×)
Sara- Owls in the garden (might stumble into Al and Ryleh because she likes Mr. Kitty.)
Shiro- Paperwork or counciling
Tybalt- Fishing with the slight irony that his champion of Mercy item is being used as a fishing pole. Maybe it draws in the gravely injured or elderly fish?

Posting to all my games:

Life is in a bit of an upheaval at the moment, as I am in the process of moving, and starting a new chapter in my life.

So if I miss some time posting, you'll know why.

Posting to all my games:

Life is in a bit of an upheaval at the moment, as I am in the process of moving, and starting a new chapter in my life.

So if I miss some time posting, you'll know why.

God bless and good luck in the meantime.

I am also packing to move at the end of the month, so my posting will be a touch spotty until early/mid-june-ish I imagine.

God bless and good luck in the meantime. :)

I actually have no idea where any of my characters are other than Arthur and maybe grim.
Hmm I could have Dave port in next to tybalt but then there's raelle right over there....
Hmm I could teleport in, see raelle, panic and then immediately teleport out.

Now then, where to put Lucas, I would have him go check in on his sister but her player is putting her on standby
Hmm

I posted grim sitting down next to someone in the cafeteria but then Lang greeted me in (I think?) the hallway...

Raelle /is/ on the opposite side of the lake though.

But I dunno if we should push him into that yet, even.

Isn't one of Lyn's favorite sayings about this game 'something, something, lots of drama and heart ache leads to better stories?' lol

It's why I'm considering it.

Isn't one of Lyn's favorite sayings about this game 'something, something, lots of drama and heart ache leads to better stories?' lol

At its heart, this game is basically an exercise in creative writing. And the rules of writing are very clear on this subject. You make characters that are as compelling as you can manage and convince everyone else to care about what happens to them...and then make sure that most of what happens to them is absolutely awful. Because nobody wants to read a story where the hero(es) don't have to struggle against something. Themselves, circumstances, other people, life just generally not being fair....there's always something. That's the whole point of stories.

I can kinda go on about this all day. I've been obsessed with stories my whole life, with intense hyper focus of course. ^.^

TL;DR : ADD MOAR DRAMA!!! ;D

Good luck with moving, MG and FCD. May all your boxes arrive where they are supposed to with a minimum of breakage in transit. :)

Blerg. Allergies are driving me crazy. The sneezes and wheezes and coughs and runny nose and watery eyes....I'd like spring so much better if it didn't beat me up every year.... :(

Blerg. Allergies are driving me crazy. The sneezes and wheezes and coughs and runny nose and watery eyes....I'd like spring so much better if it didn't beat me up every year.... :(

Sounds likes it's once again time to remind you the perks of vampirisim: Vampires don't have allergies :)

lynora wrote:

Blerg. Allergies are driving me crazy. The sneezes and wheezes and coughs and runny nose and watery eyes....I'd like spring so much better if it didn't beat me up every year.... :(

Sounds likes it's once again time to remind you the perks of vampirisim: Vampires don't have allergies :)

Well, I'm already on board with that whole nocturnal lifestyle....:P

Monkeygod wrote:

Isn't one of Lyn's favorite sayings about this game 'something, something, lots of drama and heart ache leads to better stories?' lol

At its heart, this game is basically an exercise in creative writing. And the rules of writing are very clear on this subject. You make characters that are as compelling as you can manage and convince everyone else to care about what happens to them...and then make sure that most of what happens to them is absolutely awful. Because nobody wants to read a story where the hero(es) don't have to struggle against something. Themselves, circumstances, other people, life just generally not being fair....there's always something. That's the whole point of stories.

I can kinda go on about this all day. I've been obsessed with stories my whole life, with intense hyper focus of course. ^.^

TL;DR : ADD MOAR DRAMA!!! ;D

And less perfection in chara-- oh wait, she wrote that.

I couldn't Favorite your post enough, Lynora. Not about to make new accounts just to add to that + either, sorry. Thought is there though!

Well written. Using mah words. And the +.

I actually have no idea where any of my characters are other than Arthur and maybe grim.

Hmm I could have Dave port in next to tybalt but then there's raelle right over there....
Hmm I could teleport in, see raelle, panic and then immediately teleport out.

Now then, where to put Lucas, I would have him go check in on his sister but her player is putting her on standby
Hmm

I posted grim sitting down next to someone in the cafeteria but then Lang greeted me in (I think?) the hallway...

Forgot to respond to this earlier. You posted with Grim in the wrong cafeteria. He couldn't have been there. So Lang gave him an out by posting as if he were in the correct wing of the school. That's where he actually is. :)

ah sorry
thought she was younger than that derp :/

Fight me, Taron.
Nero, quit. He had the icon first. We should just pick a different one.
But I like our icon...
But if we both use it, people will get confused. We need a different one.
Screw that. It fits us better.
Well, not that much. We aren't all halves in the face like that.
aaagh, fiends below Gian, shut up. We're not changing it.
*sigh*

Just embrace the unity of sharing the icon and making people double check our names just in case ;)

...I like how you think...

Of course the cooks are bitter.. They have to feed me!

And the dragons.

And good lord, will the be annoyed when Havel and his crew show up. 13 more dragons.

Lyn,

Know you're not feeling well due to allergies n junk, but I wanted to give you a gentle reminder that you have a PM from me.

Nothing that needs your reply right away, just wanted to make sure you know its there.

I was unaware of the side rooms
Huh
That'd be useful for Dave considering what I believe the public opinion of Dave is (mildly hostile I'd guess considering his accidental mind control)

If it matters, Mel still like ya Dave

So does Lang

##@%$&^#!!!

Five times my reply is eaten. Five times!

I'm tired.

Ooh, sorry Vick. :(
I've had that happen (always with the long posts too because that gets maximum inconvenience) and it totally sucks.

Got a post for Jiminy from Ghalen, in case it got missed.

Got a post for Jiminy from Ghalen, in case it got missed.

Ack! Yes, totally missed it! You caught me just in time too before I logged off to go do the dreaded errands. ^.^

##@%$&^#!!!

Five times my reply is eaten. Five times!

I'm tired.

Recommend you use a simple text editor. If you wanna go fancy, there's one that's called Atom, very handy and potentially has the proper 'package' that helps with Forum coding.

Then you don't 'save' your work on a wonky website that's prone to ...unscheduled crashing, etc.

Hmm do I have Dave show up in the side room he doesn't realize is occupied or tybalt decisions defosion
Maybe I'll flip a coin later

The prismatic gang is almost done, as far as writing out descriptions of thier basicstory goes. Stats will come soon after.

Debating if I should post thier histories here or let people figure it out.

Also debating if I should offer them up for grabs, since thier NPC's if anyone wants one of them.

Hermes isn't in the SIM room scene, as I never posed him in. I feel that retconning him in wouldn't work since Sam got triggered by the mention of robots. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

Hermes isn't in the SIM room scene, as I never posed him in. I feel that retconning him in wouldn't work since Sam got triggered by the mention of robots. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

Your biped humanoid robot thing isn't the trigger-- plus some of his best buddies were armor suit* looking folk, so feel free.

* -- Even if you aren't looking all armor suited.

Is anyone waiting on me for input anywhere? Does anyone want to interact with any of my guys?

Gonna take stock real quick, but feel free to ask me to pull anyone in who's not in a scene.
(×)=Not available for reassign in

Archena- Doing sculptures
Hermes- Research or following Arthur like the ninja butler he is
Jasper- Dinner (×)
Kevin- Science?
Lewis- Somewhere with Tara
Lim-Mor- Sleeping
Mr. Strider- All around you
Rakki- Dinner (×)
Sara- Owls in the garden (might stumble into Al and Ryleh because she likes Mr. Kitty.)
Shiro- Paperwork or counciling
Tybalt- Fishing with the slight irony that his champion of Mercy item is being used as a fishing pole. Maybe it draws in the gravely injured or elderly fish?

Keyword being or. I never picked one, but if he fits into the scene without breaking things I'll pose in now. :P

Either or

Anything like that french ninja restaurant?

Done. And not particulary. He has no passion. He's more like the butler in Mr. Deeds.

Vickory didn't throw him, she holding him against the wall. I'll wait to respond to hermes until Sam posts his response though.

Vickory is trying to shift his focus, to make him angry and wanting to fight. As far as she is concerned, coddling him won't solve anything. As she put it, he needs a kick in the butt, and that is what she is doing. Sometimes the only thing that can reach someone is something shocking, angering, or terrifying.

She is attempting all three, the shock of her roughness, the anger of her accusations, and the fear of what happens not to himself but things he wants to protect, all to shift his focus away from his fear of danger (cause fear for friends or others is somehow different from fear for oneself or fear of a thing) towards something else, to drive him to a state of mind to take action.

Tossing or holding don't really change the response.

Hermes is just being logical. When something is wrong you don't throw people against a wall. He's doing literally the text book response. Because he memorized the textbook.

Yep, only the textbook is wrong in this case. Mostly.

I mentioned it because you said "threw" which wasn't what I was envisioning.

Hoo boy. So many feelings here.

I gotta say, I've had someone try something pretty similar to what Vick just did to me during a PTSD flashback and...opposite of helpful. Longest freaking panic attack ever. :/

Characters are free to do as they like because fiction, but please, please, please do not ever do that to someone in real life. You can't 'shock' someone out of a panic attack because their fight or flight response has already gone totally haywire. You want to stay calm and speak softly, try to get the person to notice details about their current surroundings. This can help the person separate memory/fears from reality so they can calm down.

Thus endeth the public service announcement

But it always works when you slap hysterical people. It was on TV.

Calm down I can take care of this

I've been wondering something. Is Fei's name pronounced like Fi in Fight, Fae like fairies, or Fee like late fee? Or another way I didn't think of?

I've been pronouncing it "Fae" every time I read it. Could be wrong, but it's pretty much stuck in my head now.

See, I go back and forth between Fae and Fie. I would take either if you said it aloud. I don't usually read it Fee, but I wanted to cover the bases.

For Lang's last name I always read it Fae.

Oh! Speaking of Lang's last name, I also forgot I was going to start using this alt after the ceremony.