this is a thread to attract SE4 forumers to the first Dungeon Oddessy roleplay thread

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Krsqk:
[ooc: post in Progresso ]

How does an arrangement of anti-positrons avoid significant entropy during immersion in dihydrogenated monoxide with a high proportion of mixed organics and inorganics designed for consumption by homo sapients?

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sorry, couldn't resist.

Originally posted by Krsqk:

[ooc: Done, but not great. It seems like a FF scene before a major battle where every character feels obligated to say something before they go fight. ]

Characters in the FF series also have a habit of doing that after combat - and during combat - and at random plot points - just about any time they feel like it, really.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Characters in the FF series also have a habit of doing that after combat - and during combat - and at random plot points - just about any time they feel like it, really.

sounds like DBZ, but people say FF is good...

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
sounds like DBZ, but people say FF is good...

I'm exaggerating considerably; conversation only happens at prepared locations (otherwise, the program wouldn't have a script to follow) and mostly only during plot points. Conversation in the middle of combat is pretty rare, and is usually a simple matter of discussion of the interface very early on, a tutorial, essentially. Occasionally there is some conversation that has no impact on the plot, but mostly conversation is wherever they feel like it because the games in the FF series are long games - VII was a three CD set while VIII was a four CD set, as was IX. There is a lot of plot to go through, and it is scattered around the game globe.

Also, there is much more conversation in DBZ than there is in the FF series, and it helps that you are controlling the characters (for the most part) in the FF series, rather than just watching stuff happen on a TV screen.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

well, that's good.

since one person so far has expressed interest in an occasional character appearance...do we need any ground rules for OCA's? the RP is, i think, very free form and with, so far, only one person who might drop in, plus the general level of maturity on these forums, i don't think we need to worry about random poster's spoiling it. that is, if we get any.

[Jack Simth]

I think the main issue with more posters is just one of identifying those who will only post occasionally rather than in a turn sequence so we don't wait on their turn for a month. Other than that little tidbit that people might not think of, the general level of politeness on these forums should take care of things.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

yes, and it sounds like we need to make it more interesting. we just defeated a couple hundred bandits. admittadly, the gaurds and the manor walls helped, but...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

so, three questions face us.

do we continue, in the face of an audience smaller than the probable one for the theatrical realease of 'twenty minutes of a wall'?

if we do continue, how do we make it more interesting? my suggestion: make shield spells take more of a hit from arrows or give arrows a chance to penatrate. either one would have made the Last fight more difficult. cheap light spells would also have helped.

whaddya looking at me for? i can never remember number three.

bear with us, our minute audience. we're RP newbie's. and we're creating an entire new world. there's bound to be some problems.

oh, yes. i posted. a bit out of practice.

[ November 18, 2003, 03:14: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]