Yeah! For your first step into the realm of RPing, that was quite fantastic! Covered in banana-pancake-awesome sauce!

But, yeah, I'm not really sure about suddenly turning into a werewolf and then walking straight to Anvil, even if its in the dead of the night with few people around. Then going to the docks where there ARE people, and seeing him, then bolting for their lives.

Well, now that he's turned into a man and pretending to also run away, I guess the guards would just call it a fake alarm or some prank or whatever.

But there are two sightings. One at the gate, and one at the docks.

Logically, there'd be an investigation. And since I'm a GM, I may actually do it. Because you, now, its not everyday you get hysterical crowds reporting a werewolf INSIDE the city, after all and just ignore it as a product of drunkeness!

THAT, or you could just edit the part where he turned into a werewolf and do things normally.

Fwaiyaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I edited so he fled inside the city, but was seen by a few drunken men(hopefully for him it'll be dismissed as a rumor...)

The lady was the only sober person who saw him as a werewolf, but one witness isn't enough for the guards to get too deep into the investigation, is it

My intro was a bit long, and it's only for the intro. The rest of the RP will be just that. Lets try to avoid a fanfictiony thing and add more interaction between us.

Hmmm.

Well.

Since you edited it that way, I guess I'll let you off the hook this time. Still don't understand why he suddenly got urges to go balls-out with being a lycanthrope though, but yeah. You're off the hook.


There's still gonna be an investigation though, just a minor one, make sure everything's alright, y'know, stuff like that.

Heeheeheeheehee...

I'm afraid I can only keep one character. Adding another supernatural would be overkill and rather unrealistic. So . . .it's between Lycus or Drakothemir. Its up to you guys.

Is there no one else? Is there no one else!?

Acadian?(Yeah, I saw you stalking the thread but never posted.) Colonel Mustard? Lycanthropic Legend?

ANYONE! I might just start Rping by myself here.

Keep Drakothemir DE. He seems like a pretty cool character.

Im sorry I didn't respond earlier. I was in school.

EDIT: Oh, and if anyone wants to go bother Westley in the inn, feel free to

This Role-Playing stuff is pretty fun

I wanna do the next one, lol

I'm still in. Waiting.

KoB, you handled that quite.... Well, ignoring a Guard/Cop and beating a quick getaway is never a good idea, yeah? Be assured that you'll have a visit, MUCH sooner than you think! I might even haul you off cause Milon doesn't like being snubbed like that! Haw-haw-haw-haw-haw!

In fact, I'll probably do it right now!

Who knows what I'll do?! Be on yer toes!

And DE, I'm still picturing Kraven giving Westley a werewolf-man talk 101. The image of it is quite amusing, haw-haw! But yeah, three supernaturals WOULD be overkill, so yup.

Elizabeth, you wanna join? You're welcome anytime! Just fill out the character form and read what we've planned!

I'll catch the next one, but will definitely be paying close attention on how it's done :]

What next one? We JUST started.

The next...roleplay...?

This isn't up to me, but it's would be best if you jumped into the roleplay now, while we're still pretty much introducing everyone instead of lat in the RP when things start to get going.

No, that's not what I-

Nevermind. I'll draft up a character sheet. XD

Might as well get my feet wet in good company!

Full Name: Unknown, neither Altmer name nor Nord given name.

Nicknames/Aliases: Kayla

Sex: Yes, please! (or female)

Religion: Worshipper of Meridia

Race: Altmer

Age: Roughly about 33 years old

Day of Birth: Unknown

Birthsign: Unknown, but possibly The Lady

Birthplace: Unknown, thought to be Summerset Isles

Occupation: Adventurer


Major Skills: Skilled in one-handed combat, Alchemy, and can pack a mean punch to the mouth. Prefers destruction magick over any other type, especially fire. Is also skilled in lockpicking.
Minor Skills: Uses a weak light spell in darker rooms, dungeons, and caves. Also casts a light spell to light up any corners. Can shoot decently with an arrow, but can't do trick shots.
Gear: Dawnbreaker, a daedric weapon gifted to Meridia's champion, a silver bow, any arrows she can find. She wears light leather armor.


Family: Birth parents thought to be dead, adoptive parents also dead. Married a Nord mage in Skyrim. Name not mentioned here >.>
Appearance: Tall, golden-skinned Altmer with auburn hair to her shoulders. Brown eyes, and thin. Scars on her arms from inadequate healing. Often covered in grit as a side-effect of her job.
Personality: Deeply protective of her husband. Feels a sense of duty to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Stays out of political issues, and prefers to live her life the way she wants. Oftentimes doesn't understand when someone is joking with her. Insulting her directly to her face angers her very quickly.

History: Kayla hasn't revealed much of her past with anyone, and what she has is a lie. She keeps enough truth in her lies to not arouse suspicion. Raised in Skyrim, her adoptive Nord parents found the little elven infant nearly blue from the cold, and decided to keep her, despite the protests rooted in deep prejudice by her adopted uncle. He trained his 6 children to torment her, who in turn roused the rest of the kids in town to torment her as well, including her adopted siblings. When her adopted family passed away, Kayla shed her old name and made up a new one.

Rather than using her magick to discern what types of enchantments or attributes weapons and potions have, she prefers to smell and taste potions and make a small cut with weapons on herself to discern the enchantments. She received only a short education at the College of Winterhold before going back into adventuring.

She obtained Dawnbreaker by becoming Meridia's champion, who then gifted the sword to Kayla. Although she has an extreme aversion to undead, she is deathly afraid of vampires. Her greatest fear is being turned into one. Because of this, she keeps a number of cure disease potions on her person, as well as her usual health and stamina potions.

Because of her upbringing, she speaks with a thick Nordic accent, confusing most people. She has often gotten into fights, with others believing she is making fun of them.

Dawnbreaker, an Ebony bow, and the Saviour's Hide? That's too OP, really. You could keep the Ebony bow, I guess, but Daedric Artifacts are too OP. Could you edit it?

So I take it that the posting order is going out of the window, then? OK then, I'll go post.

And ooh, another victim character! It'll be interesting to see Kayla in the RP, though I'll have to agree with Uleni on the Dawnbreaker+Saviour's Hide+ebony bow combo being a bit much. Downgrade those a bit, though, and she should be good to go.

Oh yes, another female for Drakothemir to rape talk to. I would have him go chat with Buffy . . .but she's in the Mages Guild. He's going nowhere near that place.

Its so nice to see Drakothemir being that kind of a super gentleman, eh? Pulses the heart with a fluffy feeling, lemme tell ya!

Mate...not funny. I mean, seriously, not funny.

Wasn't meant to be funny, anyways. You know, Molag Bal and all . . .

Eh, don't read lore much, do you?

I see, read that comment in the wrong light then.

Though I do read lore. Friggin' tons of the stuff. Just thought that that was meant to be a joke in the same sort of vein as my (admittedly hella weak) victim character one.

Edited.

Sooo since we are not really following the posting order yet but just introducing our characters, would it be alright for me to just put in Elaninde's arrival in Anvil.

Sure, go ahead.

Is there any way I could keep Dawnbreaker? I don't even find her armor overpowered, considering it's like leather, just with some resist disease effects. I can part with the Ebony bow, for a silver one. Ebony is silly for one who isn't skilled in archery anyways. I'll part with the Savior's Hide as well for some leather armor. I actually feel all weak, even WITH the artifacts.

I'll post tomorrow if peeps don't mind!

Do we wait for a prompt to introduce ourselves? Because I'm excited, lol

I edited my last post. I didn't like the way it was turning out towards the end before.

Gameplay lore doesn't come into play when we RP. The effects still come into play, oh yes, but 45 damage, 70% chameleon, all gameplay technicalities like that are thrown into the wind.

What I'm trying to say is that even one Daedric artifact is powerful beyond mortal comprehension. They transcend normal enchantment because they're a part of the Prince's essence itself.

Maybe now you could see that I consider Daedric artifacts to be OP cuz of that.

But since its your first RP, I guess you could keep a weakened version of Dawnbreaker, but everything else you have to part with.

I would agree with Uleni. The lore world is much bigger,wider, and much more detailed than the game world. If we Rped in a Grand Theft Auto: Liberty CIty setting, we wouldn't RP the game world statistics. We would do so in a New York type setting. Add realism to the post. All the chamelon effects, the percentage and stuff is void when it comes to lore. You don't see that stuff in books.

We also tend to avoid having Daedric Artififacts in the RP. Sure, they have their strong effects in the games, but in lore itself? They are literatly part of the Daedric Realm and the Daedra Princes. Very powerful indeed. And let I remind you that Daedric Artficats never stay with a user for long.

Yes, what he said. I know that KoB has two Daedric rings, and we can only allow one. The Ring of Hircine you could keep, I guess, but the other you must part with. Being invisible with the Ring of Khajiiti is too overpowered.

We gotta keep this RP balanced, boys and girls. We already have three supernaturals amongst us, and any powerful items|characters|etc added further would only make this RP like a text based MMO, not a real RP

Two supernaturals. I believe DE scrapped Drakothemir.

I edited my post a bit ago. I scrapped the ring of Khajiit.

Truly? What with Drakothemir being his first post un the Playground, I thought he was going along with two characters. A bit confusing really. And KoB, I saw the post. Thanks.

Eh, I should edit Drakothemir's part out and replace them with Lycus.

Edit: Lycanthropic Legend. That's your cue to go in and chat with the big man!

Phoenix, I noticed that Ylenno asked a question that I didn't include in my post. Its good taking control of things to hasten the course of events, but you really got to ask people for permission first befor controlling their characters in your post. If you continue to do things like that, it'll become a rather one-sided affair and that'll break the concept of RPing in the first place.

Just an advice.

Uleni and Mustard, I’m struggling with that also. In Buffy’s latest post, we responded to a Ylenno sighting and I think did fine. Liz and I coordinated the encounter between Buffy and Kayla and I was almost ready to post when Mustard entered the scene. Rather than scrapping my post, coordinating with Mustard then starting over, I did a bit of, what I hoped was fairly neutral stuff with Tarrick to work with Mustard’s post. I hope I didn’t ‘overreach’ regarding Tarrick but I was afraid of getting into a loop of three people standing in the street asking or answering one question per post. Or getting frozen into a loop where input changes my response faster than I can craft it. I’m struggling a bit with growing pains here.

I think the problem here is one of it not quite being clear what you need to do in the RP. I appreciate that these opening posts are long ones as we need to introduce the characters and give an idea of where they are, what they're like and what they're doing, but really, once it hits the character interaction and converation, generally it's perfectly fine if the posts are only two or three lines long. Coordinating with other players via PM about how your characters are going to interact is fine, but the spontaneity of RPs where each person controls different characters is what makes them fun and it's not really necessary (and it resulted in Tarrick being shoved out of the conversation, which was slightly annoying as I kind of wanted to do a bit of dialogue and so forth with those two. It made him looonely ). To be honest, planning out in detail how a conversation is going to go is probably not the best idea and if you're doing that, you're overthinking things. To put it one way, if this RP is a theatre and the players are the actors, then this isn't a piece of scripted drama you're performing in; this is improv night!

You might find it useful to take a look at some of the sort of character interactiony stuff that I'm trying to get at in the old Shards of Broken Emperors RP (and the version I translated into Ghetto-speak for your convenience). It's both easier and generally more enjoyable for everyone to handle character interaction only from the POV of your characters, and if there is a bit of accidental conversation-ninjaing going on the edit button can always be used.

The ghetto version.... of the RP.....

Colonel Mustard, let it be said, in front of every member of Chorrol, that I love you with a fanaticism rivaled by demagogues.

KWAFAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Thanks for the advice and help! I know writing fanfic, I tend to linger and let things develop. In fact I was nervous about maybe moving too slow here and probably overcompensated for that. I'm happy to see that lingering and moving in small steps actually seems to be preferred here. My apologies to Tarrick and I'll certainly avoid that type of mistake moving forward. I'm glad to hear that shorter and more frequent posts may help, since the same thought occurred to me.

I appreciate the patience and, with good advice like this, I'm sure I'll quickly adjust to this new arena.

I'm hyperventilating! Oh god!!!!

Okay, I edited Buffy's last post by simply dropping about the last half. I think that will serve us all much better and allow more options for the characters involved. Sorry for the growing pains.

I'm dying to post but I can't until Uleni decides to let Westley go free, or send him to prison.

I can wait though I have patience.

I had mine all worked out and you had submitted the edited version. Now I edited mine!

:]

Oh, thank you, Liz. I hope we're sorted now.

Anyway, I hope Mustard can now adjust as elegantly as you did.

Don't worry, King. I'm working on my post right now.

Sorry for the double post, but yeah. I'm just waiting for Phoenix to post before I post mine. Just letting you guys know.

NYAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAAGH!

Trust me.

We're ALL waiting for PhoenixGamer