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Post by Aphelyon on May 30, 2019 15:12:03 GMT -5
(oh yeah, that reminds me. If anyone wants like. An arranged marriage or potential arranged marriage with Brynnjar that's a okay with me. He's probably gay so that'll be fun.)Brynnjar followed Agnar at a slower pace, creeping around the bookshelves cautiously, though he heard and saw no sign of aggression from the dog and thus relaxed enough to at least remove his hand from the hilt of his blade. He listened for the sound of Agnar's panting, finally rounding a corner and coming face to face with the wolf-dog, as well as another young man. He paused for a moment, noting the others' tall stature, but other than that of slight curiosity, his expression remained neutral and unintimidated. This demeanor was of course made easier by both his exhaustion and the fact that despite his size, the other boy looked quite meek.
"Agnar," Brynn spoke curtly, his tone laced with scolding affection. The dog trotted over to his side, tail wagging as he happily carried the bone that Rhykaer had given him. The prince's lips twitched with what might have almost been a smile of amusement, before he turned his attention to the other prince. "Aye, though he can be a bit of a... free spirit. Must 'ave smelled the meat on ya." Brynnjar spoke somewhat slowly, with an accent characteristic of the northern countries, and though his tone was formal his dialect and annunciation was markedly not. He eyed the other somewhat warily, trying to narrow down his potential identities. Brynnjar was not as familiar with the nobles of the other kingdoms as he probably should be, and he knew that. By the style of this man's clothing he would guess Vawhil, or perhaps Edgewynne itself, though for the life of him he could not guess at the names of nobles from either nation. Thus, with a slightly incline of the upper body vaguely reminiscent of a bow, he introduced himself.
"Bry- Prince Brynnjar, Mistmane. Of Dreisten." He gritted his teeth slightly, unaccustomed to using his title or surname after his several years of relative anonymity. "I do not believe we have met before."
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Post by desdemona on May 30, 2019 19:05:55 GMT -5
i did the countryyyy ]]
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2019 11:52:12 GMT -5
Rhykaer Lovell "The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to." - Carl Sandburg ✠ ✠ ✠ ✠ ✠
Rhykaer gave half a smile to the noble, “Or my dogs. I just came back from tending to them a few minutes ago.” He had given thought to hunting this morning, but when his prized male turned up sick, he decided against it. No one else had caught whatever ailed the poor dog so he had simply separated him out from the others. As much as he loved his dogs, he simply didn’t know enough to keep them from suffering. Seeing his male lethargic and warm had not been the best start of his day. Rhy feared that he would have to put the dog down. It was times like these that he wished he was back home; Wyndla always knew the right treatment for his dogs.
The first year boy watched the dog with interest. At least this one looked happy and healthy, if not a little dirty from what seemed a long trek from the mountains of Dreisten. Rhykaer returned the customary greeting. He felt a twinge of pride at his ability to pinpoint the noble for place of birth and name. It had indeed been many, many years and he looked quite different from when they had met as children. Rhy wasn’t surprised that the older prince didn’t remember the event, “Prince Rhykaer Lovell of Vawhil. We met once as children. You’ve changed a little since then.”
It was a weak attempt at humor, but the atmosphere had quickly become stuffy with tightness of the princes lips and curt introduction. Brynnjar’s jaw moved back and forth as ground his teeth together. Almost as if he was unaccustomed to introducing himself as a royal. Interesting. But Rhy left it alone and instead turned the conversation back to the dog, “Is he part wolf?”
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Post by desdemona on May 31, 2019 16:59:25 GMT -5
kais with keagan will be secret so it wont stop anyone from flirting with eother of them and starting stuff ]]
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Post by desdemona on May 31, 2019 16:59:56 GMT -5
also sweetclover hasnt been on cause shes getting married tomorrow! ]]
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Post by Aphelyon on May 31, 2019 17:06:08 GMT -5
Brynnjar nodded slightly. "Ah, yes, that is most likely it." He thought he could sense worry in the other prince's tone at the mention of his dogs, a slight hesitation, and briefly wondered if something was wrong. He was distracted by the admission that they had met before, however, and narrowed his eyes in thought. "Aye, I remember the name. Not so much the event," he admitted, letting a small, sheepish smile show. "It has been long, though, and I have met many people.... Hmph, I do not disagree that I have probably changed." Brynnjar sighed, perhaps a bit more heavily, and wearily, than intended. Realizing this, he covered his exhaustion with a more genuine smile at Rhykaer's question.
"Yes, he is. 'is ma is a prize pedigree sled dog. Her bloodline is one of the best in country. She got out, and when she came back her litter was born half-wolf. Ruined, they said." He snorted, patting his dog on the head affectionately. "I disagree."
(oh I forgot to mention, Agnar's eyes are also two different colors lol.
Also, sorry my responses are kind of.... halfhearted. I've been physically and emotionally exhausted, plus I'm currently SEETHING from some absolute BS going on in my LARP community so I don't have a lot of emotional capacity to do much besides WRATH lmao)
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Post by desdemona on May 31, 2019 18:53:13 GMT -5
god im curious about whats happening in the LARP community ]]
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Post by Aphelyon on May 31, 2019 20:21:38 GMT -5
(spoiler warning.... long-winded rant on Why Goblin Is Mad Right Now. Don't gotta read or respond but venting to anyone who will listen is making me feel slightly better lmao.)
just having some issues with my current home chapter. Basically there's a certain type of character, which I play, which have special abilities and are therefore supposed to be slightly more targeted by, like, zombies and stuff and also slightly more distrusted by people who don't have said abilities. And lately the national network has asked chapters to go a little harder on us [which is cool with me] because despite the book saying it's supposed to be more difficult for us it usually isn't. And this chapter, which has always tried to push the players towards being opposed to us (psions) despite characters not wanting to be anti-psion, has taken that to mean 'make the game nigh unplayable for psions.' Because there actually are like, mechanical detriments that chapters have to utilize if there ends up being too high a percentage of us present at a game, which is perfectly fine with me. I chose to play a psion because I wanted some of that hardship to overcome. But rather than just upping the difficulty slightly they've made it so, like, we almost can't play these characters without dying or almost dying every, like, 5 minutes. Undead that target us specifically with by my voice calls [large area effects that are usually difficult to counter], not just intermittently but constantly. Then sending out a certain kind of enemy that the number of psions DID NOT meet the requirement for, which specifically weeds out [with By My Voice calls] psions and then not only attacks but specifically kills them. Then later the same game, during a big fight they started doing BMV calls that mind controlled psions and then, at the end, a call [which is not a real call as per the book... at least the other targeting calls were real calls that exist in the book] that mind controlled non-psions and forced them to try to kill psions (and most non-psions don't have access to the counter-skill to calls like that). Oh, also, usually the anti-psion calls are made by enemies, that you can kill and get rid of... but this last one was made by marshals that were out of character, and therefore there was no way to stop them from happening. You just had to weather them or else leave until they were done, ie, until they graciously allowed psions to return to the plot by ceasing to force everyone else to try to kill them.
Then, their reasoning for there being so many anti-psion enemies coming into town? "Oooh there's just so many psions in 40 Watt." Ya know... all heckin 6 of us. They're basically constantly using enemies and effects that target 6 or maaaybe 7 characters, including forcing almost the entire town (so, like, 30-40 people present at the time, most of whom cannot counter the BMV) to gang up on and try to murder 3 or 4 people, with the like 5 or 6 people who could resist being the only ones to defend them. While they were also fending of high-level zombies that were also targeting psions. Oh, and besides the actual enemies, for months we've had passive effects like, "if you get upset you have to make a uncounterable BMV call that drains 5 health from everyone around you" or "if you use one of your abilities on someone else you have to get a random effect [not mechanical, just weird stuff like 'you suddenly crave a food you usually hate' that's not really detrimental but also like.... why]." People (not just psions but most players) were, unsurprisingly, absolutely pissed after that last BMV call (the kill all psions one) was made and sent in negative feedback.... so in the marshal meeting this last Tuesday the storytelling director of the chapter came in and was basically like, "yeah we can make up calls in the field whenever we want." But then when we asked the owner about why a particular skill was used different here than in other chapters, their answer was "because we go by the book more literally than other chapters and pride ourselves in that." Oh, and they also said, on the subject of disliking the disproportionate targeting of psions, "if you don't like being targeted we can arrange for your character to lose their psionics :)"... which as an LGBTQ+ person, well.... hits me in ways I don't appreciate in my apocalyptic dystopia fantasy world, especially as inclusive as it's supposed to be.
In summary..... they targeted a small group of players because "there's just so many of them (6-8 out of 60-70 players total at any given game)," consistently try to kill our characters with no discernible plot reason, subject us to weird and often negative effects with no obvious (or even non-obvious) explanation, make up calls to ostracize us from major events in game, and then when criticized say, "we can make up whatever we want" while also patting themselves on the back for being so by the book. We also complained that, as mentioned, there is no discernible plot reason for the anti-psion stuff, and she's like "oh there's a plot but you just never see it." Even though, after speaking to a large number of people on the subject, including people heavily privy to plot information, there has been not so much as a hint that there's actually a plot. But whatever, she said she'll make an effort to make it more obvious. And finally, if you don't like being murdered by inescapable plot for being a psion just stop being a psion.
So now here's the real frigging kicker. Today they released a video [well, really just audio] of an NPC [voiced by the storytelling director] saying basically, "oh we have a solution for the psion problem.... but you're not gonna like it because it involves either every psion in town having to sacrifice something, or one psion having to make the uLtImAtE sAcRiFiCe." So to summarize that.... we get targeted for months with no real reason why, and when we complain that there's no real reason, they're like okay, we'll put an end to this plot.... but it involves you being specifically targeted MORE. And the thing is.... there are multiple other ways that they could end this plot without having to target psions to resolve it. For example, our last overarching plot involved going to war with a large group of mercenaries that were primarily psionic, and in this world after a person dies they come back as a zombie so.... well, you kill a lot of psions, you get a lot of psionic zombies. Alternatively, there are a couple other psionic plots that have been introduced but never recurring or mentioned again. But no.... the psionic zed are because there's just sOoOoOo MaNy PsIoNs In ToWn instead of all the other perfectly logical and cop-out explanations they could go for for a quick end that doesn't continue a small group of players that is actively complaining about being targeted because they're a small group. Instead we get one that's targeting and STILL feels like a cop-out. Actually feels like MORE of a cop-out because there's been no lead up [because they just made it up most likely] and has little to no basis in established lore. And as someone who has been jealously hoarding lore knowledge for the last 3 years and plays a main character who is specifically dedicated to hoarding knowledge like a goblin this bothers the heck out of me. But it's not like this chapter's lore ever made a ton of sense in the context of the rest of the network anyways, so who's surprised? Me? Of course. So surprised. I certainly haven't been analyzing and picking it apart trying to find any way for it to make sense, any way, please god, for the sake of my perfectionism let me keep a sense of continuity, since before the chapter even opened.
Anyways.... not sure I'll be attending this next game, but whether I go or not I'm gonna wait until afterwards to see if the plot's as bad as I think it's gonna be. I... will allow myself to be pleasantly surprised if they, somehow, pleasantly surprise me, but based on past trends and my crushing sense of existential pessimism I don't really have any hope or expectation of that outcome. So, due to that, as well as a great number of other less pressing issues this chapter has had for a long time, I'm probably gonna end up transferring back to my old chapter after this month if things don't go well. Which is fine.... my old chapter actually has an economy so my bar can actually make money, AND people there won't just let my character die because coming to help is mildly inconvenient ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Only downside is a much longer drive and I probably won't immediately be a marshal there but if I actually enjoy playing the game again, worth it.
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Post by desdemona on May 31, 2019 21:49:39 GMT -5
i mean yea definitely, if this ones screwing everything up go back to ur Cool one a long drive is worth it for fun ]]
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Post by kiwi cheesecake on Jun 1, 2019 1:11:23 GMT -5
((Sorry I've been inactive again recently, my internet is being a butt and not loading anything quickly so I've been staying off it for the past few weeks. Might be moving soon too, idk. I'll hopefully be able to go over everything tomorrow though, and maybe get some starters up for my kiddos! If anyone had one of my characters that they like wanted to rp with lemme know so I can work on them first ^^ ))
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Post by desdemona on Jun 1, 2019 18:13:37 GMT -5
hi! ill start writing up kais character when i can but im at a pride parade tomorrow i have the kingdom written up for the most part, i may add smth tonight so u dont have to look back, kai is intersex but presents male-ish, his betrothal with keagan (discussed with sweetclover) would not be official until its proven kai can provide an heir. so. drama but he would also be on the men's side of things so tries not to Undress in front of others is this all okay? no rush! hopefully you can rest a little ]]
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Post by Ziotsu on Jun 1, 2019 19:11:16 GMT -5
(mind if i join with a new country?)
(edit: while waiting for an answer inspiration struck, if you dont want me as a new country let me know but so I dont lose it, im going to put it in the joining page)
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Post by kiwi cheesecake on Jun 2, 2019 16:31:47 GMT -5
yeah that all sounds good ^^
and you're fine to make a country! I'll look it over a little later when I have more time, but you're definitely good to make it. we have lots of room on the map still haha
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Post by Ziotsu on Jun 2, 2019 16:44:42 GMT -5
(yah! It ended up being longer than I initially planned)
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Post by lazy penguin on Jun 2, 2019 16:57:23 GMT -5
(man i need to get my characters done for here. I'll try to finish and post stuff after wednesday, so if anyone wants to plan character stuff, I won't have anything really set till then!)
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Post by Ziotsu on Jun 2, 2019 17:35:56 GMT -5
(unless you want to do something with Nicolaa, i dont have anything xP im down for all the drama )
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Post by kiwi cheesecake on Jun 2, 2019 17:46:06 GMT -5
allllllllll the drama lol))
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Post by Ziotsu on Jun 2, 2019 17:51:02 GMT -5
(why do you think I made my character how I did? It either invites drama or invites just things to be normal)
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Post by kiwi cheesecake on Jun 3, 2019 0:55:49 GMT -5
Prince Franque Guildersleeve xx Common RoomFranque nervously tapped his fingers on the solid oak surface of one of the common room's tables, torn between wanting to explore the Academy grounds and not wanting to get in anyone's way. For the few days since he and his siblings had arrived at the school, he had remained indoors, not wanting to cause any trouble. Still, though, he had felt the urge to leave his room, to explore the seemingly vast expanses of land the Academy called its own. He was certain he would do much better in classes if he was familiar with his environment first.
Something still held Franque back, though. Perhaps he didn't want to stick his nose out so early, maybe he just wanted one of his siblings to lead him rather than explore on his own, or maybe he didn't really even want to be here. Huffing slightly, he dropped his head into his arms, leaning over the table. Today was going to be a rough day. At least once classes start it'll be better, he tried telling himself. You always do better with a schedule.
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Post by kiwi cheesecake on Jun 3, 2019 0:56:47 GMT -5
((there's one more starter from me before I sleep, I'll add the new countries to the map and the front page when I wake up ^^))
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Post by Ziotsu on Jun 3, 2019 7:44:25 GMT -5
Nicolaa had spent the better part of the last few hours up in her room with a priest, and by this point she was exhausted. Normally the Princess wouldn't help with the making of a mini alter in their room, but due to her background in being a cleric, the priest had selfishly asked her to help him get it put together. Of course she said yes, there was no way she could deny that request as she really had no reason to at that point. All her clothes and luggage had been put away by servants and all she was doing was sitting on her bed. What was supposed to be her just waiting turned into lots of work and messing up from both her and the priest. Now she was just walking herself to the common room, not wanting to be in that room any longer. She flopped herself on one of the chairs, trying to force herself to keep it at least somewhat lady-like, not noticing the other person who was obviously in the room with her.
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Post by Aphelyon on Jun 3, 2019 12:12:21 GMT -5
(sorry to say, but I'm gonna have to withdraw from this roleplay, at least for now. There's... a lot going on with me right now, because there always is as soon as I try to start something new, so I'm just not really gonna be able to contribute for a while.)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2019 13:54:01 GMT -5
I’m sorry to hear that Aphelyon . I hope everything works out for you! )
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Post by desdemona on Jun 3, 2019 15:20:54 GMT -5
Ziotsu speaking of drama, i know nicolaa is already engaged, but would they try to find someone more powerful now that they would be expected to be king? ]]
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Post by desdemona on Jun 3, 2019 16:36:41 GMT -5
i did kai's description! kiwi cheesecake ]]
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Post by Ziotsu on Jun 3, 2019 17:10:12 GMT -5
Ziotsu speaking of drama, i know nicolaa is already engaged, but would they try to find someone more powerful now that they would be expected to be king? ]] (not sure if I quite follow what you mean by that m8 do you mean like someone who would be more prepared to be king?)
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Post by desdemona on Jun 3, 2019 17:30:12 GMT -5
yes or someone who has more power in general since everyone is dead so like original suitor was good for fifth in line to throne, but now that shes directly in line they might want someone with more pull and experience? this would cause drama with the old suitor and with the mystery of why they want her to have a different spouse---
im not suggesting anything more than that lmao i was just reading her description ]]
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Post by Ziotsu on Jun 3, 2019 17:46:25 GMT -5
(ah, it might not have been clear but she was only engaged to him after she was put in line for the throne. She originally was not going to get married at all as she would be the high priestess. Though I can see her grandmother and the current high priest being concerned about the fact that the next rulers will both be people who do not have that much experience actually ruling a kingdom and have had all their training up to this point only focused on church duties)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2019 17:55:21 GMT -5
Rhykaer and Callisto are open to anyone wanting to do plot as well! And Rhykaer is open to RP again. )
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Post by desdemona on Jun 3, 2019 18:18:27 GMT -5
ohhhh okay! my bad!
and maybe later, i must. rest ]]
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