Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5424581-20160316234646/@comment-29458028-20160317085504

Time for a random Sololiquy, the thoughts of the Unseen CyberArchangel. I will answer most of thos questions ... although you all probably know my answers anyway.

For me, personally, I always have a thing for action packed RPs. Things like Political RPs/Strategy RPs tend to bore me. I enjoy writing about combat in all its bloody vainglory, such as the chainkilling of weak enemies in the most visceral manners, and almost turn based hand to hand between two exponents. I tend to enjoy it when there is a form of Martial arts, rather than the blind, clumsy attacks present in the Elder Scrolls Games in general.

Still, I will be a sucker for a good story. Free RPs, no matter how much potential murder is within it, tends to bore me after a while. I wouldn't go for something totally story based, but I do enjoy screwy plots ... so long as they do not say, directly mess with your character's abilities and appearance. It amuses me, when say the Princess whom you have all protected suddenly becomes a villain, or if say the McGuffin character dies and is revealed to be irrelevant and useless to the quest.

As for Environs, that's always based on settings. Could be anywhere from a desert island to a concrete jungle ... if it fits the story.

As for what I'd like to see from other RPers, this is a very hard question. Of course, I'd like if they can write me a good fight scene, but we all know everyone's good at certain things, and bad in others. No qualms about reading a good romance scene or even vivid scenery description. Personally I am not very romantic in RPs, and mostly all about description, description and more description. Of course, for what kind of characters I like to see, well, beautiful people. I have this thing for aesthetic appeal, even if it is all in words, because I am an imaginative person. I normally have a vision of how a character can look, simply via their description.

I personally will not RP an ugly character. Yes, you can call me a vain twit, surface scratcher or probably even assume I self hate because I am ugly RL (no, I am neither vain, shallow or ugly, but I have no obligation to prove it, your assumption being yours.). This is because such will offend my aesthetic sense.

As a writer of stories, I always use the past tense. I will still tolerate others using different tenses, and I notice in RP, because you describe a current action, it may be inappropriate to use the past tense except when doing narrative/flashback sections.

As for my feelings about lore and canon, this question is self answering. Just look at TNK's lore, or even that of ANY RP I have participated in. I have always loved creativity and deviance. I love to explore. Restrictions to ensure lore friendliness tends to just bore me and annoy me. So long as it isn't immersion breaking, even if it is lorebreaking I don't care much. If you can explain it till it fits, I have no problems.

Content wise, as I mentioned earlier, I always enjoy hand to hand combat. I'm not a lover of grand speeches, but I guess I can tolerate them, and still bother to read them. As for sexual content, I have never been for it or against it, I go with the flow. It is, however, still banned, if I am not wrong, so there is no need for discussions regarding it.

As someone who can at best reply inconsistently, because I have IRL issues, I guess it's sometimes not the person's fault. It only really gets annoying if said person holds up an entire group. This is why I have chosen not to write in many RPs - due to my horrible timezone. As for quitting, please try to do it before a character becomes important ... or it seriously sucks. (I quit AoI because of conscription, it suckked for me really)

As someone who did a lot of planning in TNK, I'm fine if you plan out character interactions. That's how I get most of my character romances started, because some things just don't play out if it's not planned. Although it is always good to be vigilant for sudden changes.

I hate the very controlling GMs, but sometimes people need to have some semblance of control. Either you get a boring dictatorship or another TNK chapter 24 onwards. Both are ... terrible situations to be avoided at all cost. A good reason why HDS is my favourite GM, because he's quite liberal, so long as you do not do stupid things or extreme things.