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

[narf poit chez BOOM]

grades? *pokes Krsqk. lightly.*

[Krsqk]

*twitches nervously, fearing Narf is an angry parent*

*mechanically reaches for telephone*

"Hola. No, el senor no hay aqui. Lo siento, no hablo ingles. Good bye." *click*

*returns to cowering position in secret compartment in locked closet and fields parents' phone calls*

*RIIIIIIIING*

"Hello? No, I'm sorry. He's not at home today except to agents of the Lower Slobovian government on official business." *click*

"Hello? No thanks, I'm happy with my current long distance provider." *click*

*checks caller ID* "Good evening, Mrs. Alderman, I am pleased to offer you the latest in home entertainment technology." *click*

"Domino's Pizza, how may I help you?" *click*

"Umm, could you send me a copy of Space Empires: Starfury? I misplaced my CD." *click*

*click*

*click*

*click*

...

At Last! Parent-Teacher Meetings are finally over! Endless days and nights of explaining the virtues of self-motivated home study and doing one's homework and conducting one's self in a civilized fashion in the classroom to adults who spend so much time away from their children they have an uncontrollable impulse to bury them in money/toys/food and defend them at all costs against that teacher who just doesn't understand their child. Never mind that the teacher is with their child about five times more than they are.

I finally have nothing to grade, and my wife is pulling my arm to get me out of the house. I'll try to post before I leave.

Let's have a posting marathon! I have plenty of monsters to kill, all named after children and parents of mine!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Oops.

[ November 07, 2003, 21:28: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Narf is sick. posting marathon? lucky if i can post.

congrats on surviving PTM.

[Krsqk]

*looks for that blessed potion of extra healing, but is unable to locate it*

Sorry to hear about your illness, and best wishes for your speedy recovery.

Oh, and I've posted some rot.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

[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. ]

i may have played one FF game a bit that a friend brought over. so i wouldn't know.

and i've posted rot to...and never remembered to look it over later.

thanks for the wishes. maybe i'll use them to have fishes.

Dr. Suess mood i guess.

[ November 08, 2003, 05:49: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[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?

...

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.