As I consider the cast listing, a new name seems to have popped up.

  Hi Paula.  Welcome aboard.

Hehe.  "We don't do currency any more."  reminded me of this:



Che Guevara: A high-contrast monochrome graphic of his face has become one of the world's most universally merchandized and objectified images, found on an endless array of items, including t-shirts, hats, posters, tattoos, and bikinis, ironically contributing to the consumer culture he despised. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...a_in_popular_culture
This message was last edited by the player at 17:37, Fri 03 July 2009.

  There is a slight snag in the ticket disclaimer master plan.

  Entry is free.  Nobody went to the effort of 'purchasing this ticket'.  Suuure, the wonders of after the fact text editing may try to fix this situation, but in your face anyways ticket printers!

  And you know how much I love 'after the fact printed official law you were subject to the whole time, honest, now lets take advantage of these laws you never knew' <.<

  Unity still totally overcharges for its citizenship, by the way.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:42, Sat 04 July 2009.

And here I thought an Arena would be expensive to build and legally risky.  I thought it safe to assume they'd try to recoup the investment and cover their butts with legal (what I thought might be mildly amusing) disclaimers.  Foolish me.  I'll just delete the post.

Sorry for the delay.  Past few days were cramped.  And YAY for the awesome new avie, Timothius!  :D

Meant to establish this a while back, but when PMing each other and wanting to keep things private, keep these things in mind:

1) I see all PMs on my various forums (Struggle for Hope, Faction, here, CoX, Care Bears, Transformers) and even on forums not mine that I co-GM (Mittens Dungeon, and a few others). So if you don't want me reading your personal, private stuff, see below!

2) You can PM on another forum and it will garuntee I won't see it. However, if you don't have another forum to PM besides mine, if you are willing to trust me, simply title the message "Not for you, Tim!" and I will simply not look at it.

I hope that helps any future convos. Not that this has happened yet, but I don't want people mad over something like me clicking on a PM not intended for me without realizing it, heh.

  3) If you're only messaging one player (I'm fairly sure it can work with multiples, but unsure how to do that without already knowing their Account names), Rmail button works fine for 'only they can see this' complete certainty.

Was unaware of this feature. Thanks!

May as well paste it here too:

Today I go to work. Tomorrow morning, I go on vacation. Just letting you all know, won't be back until the 7th, but hope to return sooner. Take care all! See you then!

I can't help but think that Emerald has challenged Cham to a ROCK OFF!  (Beelzeboss from "The Pick of Destiny")

can't think of anything for prism right now, so skipping them this round.  go ahead and post away.

  You there J'renn?  Technically we know you are as your Log In details show Jan 29'th, but figured it's My turn to point at the pose order thread this time.

Sorry!  I'm here. n.n;

  Heh, S'alright.  You had a pleasantly fast response time.

  And now your latest post has me thinking of the movie 'Robot Jox', where they settled disputes for Earth's few remaining resources with one-on-one giant robot battles.  Complete with espionage!

  "How did they know about the green laser!?" ← Actual line from movie.

It's a bad sign when Joe pokes me once a week for months straight about how his character is coming up on his first whole year of no posts.

Going to start a new chapter, everyone. Hope you enjoy when I post it.

  Well, technically they've had posts.  They've just had no posts with any character interaction since the people he was talking to all scampered off their separate ways last April ;D  The next post Dark interacts with someone in a post will bring the count up to three. Or four, if you count talking to themself the first post.

  It'll definitely be yay when you post anything.  I'll be adjusting Dark's personality for sake of convenience because 'let's try not to cause an interdimensional incident' didn't pan out when a third of the characters are Royalty or Ex-Royalty.  Blake served his 'have someone for Raichel to kick the ass of' purpose, but I do kinda regret making them sometimes <.<
This message was last edited by the player at 10:46, Wed 10 Feb 2010.

Alright. Here's my assessment of "Chapter 00: Sandbox"

It played similar to the Cell games in DBZ. You had 1 on 1 fights in an arena with everyone else standing by and watching. The only thing making that different from any other DBZ fight, of course, is the fact there was an arena. But a key element that happened here that makes me happy is no meta-gaming. The whole thing went along fine, if a bit extended. But the extension was because of a number of factors that I believe should never be dropped from RP, but one factor I might consider dropping:

1) I've formed a good habbit of not dragging OOC into IC. This includes OOC feelings about a scenario or OOC knowledge that my character doesn't know IC. SO... When Raichel tried to shoot Blake with some energy, she not only found out that he wasn't as immune to damage as she thought, but she couldn't kill Blake by blowing his head off. However, she was afraid of using lightning on him because she figured she could actually kill him and she came too close. So this made Raichel hesitant to "finish the job" (especially since as her charsheet shows, she prefers sticking with Martial Arts when she can).

2) Darkthorne wound up looking for a seat, sure, but didn't conveniently sit with one of the people he met at the gateway. This was partly due to the fact everyone decided to find seats rather than socialize, lest they miss the show (and oocly, to get things moving). However, the main reason Darkthorne wrote his char out of the chapter was he made Blake for Raichel. Which was a fight that took forever. So this was kinda something that just happened, but can be avoided in the future.

3) In a realization of how my "royal" alts would react to this scenario, I wound up having Rai, Alexis AND Timothius all show up. :\ It was a natural order of things. But wound up with a mountain of poses and as Darkthorne pointed out, they were people his char couldn't exactly interact with. That said, I'd like to once again throw the offer out there for any of my players to grab a royal alt. I don't mind controlling all the royalty of the universe, save 2, but it would be more fun for those scenarios if we had other players playing royal types. It's a different kind of fun, sure, but still...

4) I tried to make more things happen during the fight, but I should have realized it was, in fact, just an arena fight.


All that said, we need to take a break from the arena. So I'm starting a new chapter. Arena fights will be open at the fire kingdom for future fights, but it will be treated as a separate RP for purposes of moving the plot along. Now to type an opening scene... *goes to type up the new chapter*

Great!  An adventure!  Looking forward to interacting with the non royal characters!

Adviser Guy:  "Don't you have a kingdom to run?"

Mittens: "Didn't stop the LAST king from adventuring, now did it?"

Adviser Guy: "He's not king any more is he?"

Mittens: "All the more reason to adventure!  Less responsibility, YAY!"

Adviser Guy: "...and the people suffered once again..."

  Yeah, it is kinda funny how the main reason the arena bit dragged on was Raichel was, on no! reasonable!

  Dealing with the joys of dog walking and light shoveling.  If nobody has any suggestions where to open up with Darkthorne in the new thread, I'll think of something tonight.

Gah!  I'm back!  I had a HUGE windstorm KO my electricity and interwebs for the past week. x.x

WB :)

Heh, trust me, we can understand natural delays in posting ;) I just hope that everything's all right for you and yours J. Stay safe with that wind out there!

  I hope things go as well as they can for you, and that things weren't too lame without power that long.  Almost had that turn up where I was, tree top hit the house next door and took down a power line, but they fixed it fast <.< (well, the power line anyway)

 Has J'Renn's power and internets exploded again?  Hopefully they're just busy.

By way of reminder, J'Renn and Cham can jump in any time in the new thread...