08-10-2016, 08:04 PM
. . . . .Oh god, I've become that guy.
Okay. Okay. Let me think here. Let me go through Andy's questions first. I just woke up, so I glossed over that part.
Okay, so then let's address WS.
Back to Andy.
This feels like an intervention.
Fine. While it's probably a bit too late to do anything about it...all the npcs are going to leave after this rp...or at least Shad's will. Cass will return to Etruria, Alice, having her cover blown, will return to Ostia, and Taika will flee to Bern or join the Eight Republics or something. Lyanna was never appearing outside of Tania anyway.
Okay. Okay. Let me think here. Let me go through Andy's questions first. I just woke up, so I glossed over that part.
Quote:If you've got those guys, why do you need the rest of us?I'm a very reactionary rper. I think that's why you don't really see me starting an rp or leading the story. I think I had some slack for that in the past, where most of my posts had quoting or reacting to others. Maybe Radiance Lost did this to me, but I was so used to having so many pcs and a lot of activity, so now that it isn't as active, I feel compelled to introduce npc after npc. I had npc heavy rps, but it made sense in the setting. In RL, Tyber was on a patrol with some others, but I killed two off instantly. In Dark on Night, Daren Hyperion had a ton, but that thread was meant to help escort the Ainor royalty, so it made sense for a lot of men. So without others to lead the stories, I'd be doing nothing. I think that's one of the reasons I never got into Sky or RoE was because if I didn't join a rp, I didn't rp.
Quote:Where's the struggle?Yeah. It does kinda undermind it. Can't really argue that. I think it got a bit worse as it went on. The first time Alice tried to do something like that, I left it open ended so it could backfire. That happened again here, but then Taika just about freed Cecily.
Quote:Where's the fun for everyone but you?Hmm. I wasn't aware that it was doing that. For that, I'm sorry.
Okay, so then let's address WS.
Quote:Many of them hold a position of some kind, to varying degrees of importance. Hand-waving them into the RP without at least checking it out with me beforehand is rather... dodgy.Let see. I think probably the worse of that would probably be Urai Zann being the Marquess of Aquelia, as I said he was behind the surrender of the Etrurian king and secretly working for Lycia all along. He's actually shown up in the rp, but no one said anything about it. He was in And a Toast to our Victors back when Cecily was still nobility. No one said anything, so I stayed with it. Then there was Alice's brother being an Ostian general, but that was mentioned in Manhunt and again no one said anything. I guess I took that as carte blanche. Everything else that had some sort of rank was in the distant past, if I recall.
Back to Andy.
Quote:Lennox has an ancient, ancestral named weapon, which is half a tier of power below the Legendary Weapons, and which has the power to burn those that are unworthy of it to death. Which he got from day one. Why would anyone have to rely on teamwork when we can just throw Len at them with Dyrnwyn pointed forward?That had to be okayed by WS. With the caveat that it had story potential for it constantly being pursued by Lycian relic hunters. And I think it's mentioned in his profile as an untested theory, but it doesn't affect women. Plus, even though the rp died before we got there...Ambrose would have been found to be worthy of it.
Quote:Now, when Shad and sometimes Lennox are by themselves, they're fine. They have to rely on their own skills, think for themselves, etc. With your plot power squad, he doesn't, he just has to follow the leader. Like the rest of us. And to answer your first response post, Marcus isn't in the RP, and Wolfram's in Bern, unless I missed something in the eight months I've been gone.He kinda falls into that most of the time anyway. Also, Marcus is in Bern and Wolfram went off on his own.
Quote:Like I said, we're not writing Hyperion Family Fanfiction here. The Hyperions have their own part to play, make no mistake, but you cannot make them the stars of the show by effortlessly achieving everything we need to do for us. We're not writing a guitar solo here, we're stringing together an orchestra.Lets see. Alice actually accidently made things a bit harder, prior to her killing people. Cass and Alice were used as a way to get Yuri to free the group the rp before, but I don't really think there was a clear way to get Yuri to do that. Taika...yeah. I can't exactly argue that one. Carla did literally nothing. Lyanna's one post appearance was just to fix Shad up. Hmm..yeah. I can see that.
Quote:But, instead of letting the rest of us act to free her while most of the fighters are snoozing and the rest are getting hit with a coffee crash, you have let an NPC run distraction (and kill two paper machete enemies -in passing-(which is a whole other can of bullshit)) while the dashing woman-magnet Shad cuts her free (and I believe it was mentioned that her guards are still awake), and somehow retrieves her confiscated/possibly dropped equipment from underneath the pile of twenty dudes that fell asleep on them.I was actually implying that the people she kicked/killed were the guards. The same guards that I believe 2G said had Paige's gear.
Quote:Two Lycian soldiers disarmed Paige of her rapier and light brand before binding her hands behind her back. They took her outside, but before Raul joined them…Maybe it was meant to be two different soldiers, but I interpreted it as the two guys guarding her had her gear.
Fine. While it's probably a bit too late to do anything about it...all the npcs are going to leave after this rp...or at least Shad's will. Cass will return to Etruria, Alice, having her cover blown, will return to Ostia, and Taika will flee to Bern or join the Eight Republics or something. Lyanna was never appearing outside of Tania anyway.