BonesOfTheEarth
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Shades are holy mages.
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What are the thoughts of an RP-Combat style less oriented on exact descriptions of each motion and more general descriptions of intent? I’ll elaborate – Currently on lotc, a set of RP combat emotes might run something like this:
Player 1 | Jason sends himself quickly jerking forward, bringing his sword skyward before letting it come sailing into a downwards strike towards Harold’s head.
Player 2 | Harold jerks back, leaning away slightly as the end of the sword narrowly avoids cleaving his skull – instead leaving a cut in its place, below his cheek. He follows by regaining his stance and position, waiting for the next blow.
Roleplay is writing a story, collaboratively. It’s a personal viewpoint of mine that roleplay to the degree written above drives us away from that point. But it’s all we know. However, should you pick up a book with fighting as a part of it, a scene might play out differently, like this(Of course made to fit what would be two individuals instead of 1 author writing):
Player 1 | Jason readies himself, sword leveled to Harold. A mere moment of stillness came to pass before he was sent hurtling forward, an onslaught of swings and blows levied at Harold, each one meant to kill.
Player 2 | Harold was not prepared for the swift and ferocious attacks, sent stumbling back and narrowly avoiding the first wave of blows before meeting them with his own – sword flashing through the air to parry and strike back, and regain his lost ground.
I imagine if two people consent, changing a style of RP fighting to this would be very allowed and viable. It flows with the general idea that emote times are not consistent between one and the other, and may still be “good” roleplay and portray a fight to watchers in a less boring way then waiting 20 minutes for a single sword swing from @Heero(Hey Mr. Thesaurus). Though bringing a style of combat fitting this viewpoint into someone unaware/unsuspecting would come across as.. Wrong, given that one emote might describe a myriad of actions in a simple way; “double emoting” only when brought to the first style of RP combat exampled, and yet perfectly valid otherwise. In short, the two styles of RP proposed here would be unable to mix.
As written, I would say that there’s no majorly different chances for people to powergame in either form of description. The Merit to the latter over the former lays in what I believe is a lack of argument over small, specific actions that could instead be glossed over as unnecessary and irrelevant; and maybe not taking 5 hours to do a fight because of it.
I don’t really have a big plan with this, I was just thinking about it and wonder if anyone has any interesting thoughts on the matter ! I didn’t even begin to touch on how magic would interact with it, but I have my ideas.
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How do you make an appeal if you don't know why you were banned? A thought I've had for a long time on a lot of sudden bans
Now give me rep
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6 minutes ago, SquakHawk said:if someone is confidentially reported by a group of individuals do you tell that person what instances got them banned precisely, what screenshots of leaked chats or dms, what vcs (of which they can all presume were with certain people)?
Yes?
How else should the banned player know what they did. Guy cant even defend himself??
Grooming and being a sex pest is another case, but harassment is not something where the victim should be hidden.
In most cases its both parties that startled eachother until one of them steps out of line and gets reported by the "victims"
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What you say is something I've spoken to others about, I agree 100%. Though I find that and the alternative of giving an explanation are both pretty shitty choices, choosing to maintain silence is the lesser of the two evils. No arguments there.
My question however, is unanswered in your reply. If your ban is not indefinite but is for harassment, what is the appeal process given you do not know the context of your own ban in this example?
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PSA: You can do chat continuations on emotes TWICE, not just once. So 3 sets of chat in one emote.
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that’s enough out of you @Jenny_Bobbs
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I like the new noise when you 1 status updates. Nice little ding.
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TFW everyone want that ET
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Should I take a brief haitus? Just like, a week or so. Nothing major.
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Can you rejoin ET please
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The server's up everyone!
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<Watches someone put up a fi' rewrite that fixes the issues that were supposed to br fixed
<Watches all the non-fi' mages ***** about it and try to rewrite the magic they arent apart of
<Salt
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May god save your rep-post ratio
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Imagine stabbing someone with a rusted bloody dagger and pming them “You have aids now, PK in a few rp months please”
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Is voidal shifting the action of an emote? I argue yes, so you can’t shift and stab someone in the same emote. Only people I see argue otherwise are the users of the magic.
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My favorite LOTC Trope is the ST dropping fat logs in someone’s cornflakes, then trying to pick it out and say everything’s fine
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I am of bored
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Funny smells really, really, really bad.
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You smell.....
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Bad
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>when keyboard berserker extroadinaire @iMattyz defends u from the edgy kids of lotc
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https://gyazo.com/7f372e2934b69102f091ebc32eee53bc
It will never be filled
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Doesnt @UnBaed smell just.. Bad?
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MT should look at application ,';^)
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@The South you hurt me e-feels and remind me of ye olde gaius marius the 8
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Ghosts shouldn’t be able to be 100% invisible while they’re actively harassing people. Anyone else feel the same?
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I need to understand an ERPers point of view. Will someone ERP with me?
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