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How's My Driving: Player (And Game) Edition!
Happy St. Patrick's Day to those who celebrate! Remember: don't drink and how's my drive.
This is a combined player and game HMD, which means your mods are going to be begging for feedback. We're feeling a little disconnect and want to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves as much as possible. Specifically we're looking for feedback on the Haunted Holo plot, and what we can do in the future to make such large-scale plots more accessible.
It's also an HMD for our characters! Please comment here with the names of the characters you play and others will reply with their feedback- and it's obviously a given that this feedback will be helpful, constructive and respectful. Also, as amazing as getting ILU comments is, it's nice to hear why and what we're doing right just as much as criticism needs to be constructive. Participation is also entirely optional, and if you have any issues just let a mod know and we'll help out as much as we can.
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This is a combined player and game HMD, which means your mods are going to be begging for feedback. We're feeling a little disconnect and want to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves as much as possible. Specifically we're looking for feedback on the Haunted Holo plot, and what we can do in the future to make such large-scale plots more accessible.
It's also an HMD for our characters! Please comment here with the names of the characters you play and others will reply with their feedback- and it's obviously a given that this feedback will be helpful, constructive and respectful. Also, as amazing as getting ILU comments is, it's nice to hear why and what we're doing right just as much as criticism needs to be constructive. Participation is also entirely optional, and if you have any issues just let a mod know and we'll help out as much as we can.
Anonymous commenting is enabled and IP logging is off for your convenience should you require it!
Me as well as characters, feedback more than welcome
Re: Me as well as characters, feedback more than welcome
Okay less with the placeholder: I think I may be slightly addicted to the positive feedback loop that comes from chatting and tagging. It's this whole ping-zing thing that makes writiing easier and also makes me challenge myself. And yes, looking forward to tags and f5-ing the inbox like a derranged marmoset. I'm a junkie. I need another hit of Sofo.
That said - and this is utterly ridiculous coming from me - but try and ease off on fixating on the negative, or the could-have-been stuff that happens in a perfect world. I know I'm guilty as fuck about doing this too but it just gets SO EXHAUSTING. Figure out compromises with yourself, with a situation, with other people, and try to find that silver lining. And yes I'm talking to myself here too.
...cranky, falling-apart old ladies, us XD
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a.) I think you're one of the best writers here. I've read more of Cain's stuff than anything yet, but the narratives of all three are totally different and equally interesting to read.
b.) I can't speak for anyone else, but I think looking forward to a tag is a very very good sign, and I can say that I love seeing each and every Mick tag you give me. Maybe Gwen's just really easy to write when she's around him for some reason, and that reason prooobbably has something to do with you, rather than me.
And yes, I need to make Illyria and Bagoas happen.
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b) I've been trying to put into words some kind of feedback for you in the past few days, but you put it so much better than I could've come up with. I look forward to your tags, be they from Gwen or Illyria. You make Mick easier to write (and he can be a handful sometimes, despite being the most outgoing pup I have (aside from a long neglected post-series A:tS Lorne >_>)). I love Illyria's philosophical asshattery with Cain (and I do mean that in the best of ways - I always loved how she questioned EVERY LITTLE THING in canon. Bah silly humans and their insignificant ways), and I'm looking forward to seeing how she responds to Bagoas - who knows all about proper respect and giving the prostration in accordance to her social status.
On the less gushing end, I have to echo what Keri said about Illyria's posts being a bit difficult to tag. It's not something that can't be worked around, and it's nothing major. I actually have a suggestion. It is only a suggestion, and it's up to you to decide what to make of it.
Illyria could start to seek out a few of the lowly humans for the purpose of figuring them out. Call it a social experiment. You have all these different characters from different worlds, with different backgrounds and different kneejerk reactions. She could poke at them, see what kinds of responses she gets.
Purely for scientific purposes, of course. What makes that so special as to share space with one of the most ancient, horrific powers of all the dimensions?
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And rock on <3
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I went through a similar phase with Cain during his first, oh, six or so months here. He was PTSD-riddled (and that sounds somehow wrong, like I'm belittling the condition, but I can't find a better word for it), and anxious and a raging insomniac who also couldn't really face (or trust) any kind of foodstuff Taxon had to offer. Add to that his reclusive streak, and you had a recipe for reluctant CR. I knew from the get go it would be a long term thing, getting him to a point where he could move forward. It's still ongoing, but he's slowly getting better and starting to seek people out, outside his very close-knit circle of trust. To borrow a phrase I used for Kat and her Party: Cain's damaged goods. He'll probably always be damaged goods, but he's not broken anymore. It's been over a year now, but it's been one helluva ride.
My point being, I've been there. Let it take however long it needs to, because first and foremost you have to rp Illyria in a way that feels IC to you. Once you get to the stage where I am with Cain today, however different Illyria's arc is, it'll all have been worth it.
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Re: Me as well as characters, feedback more than welcome
you and me and that time in the rain with the snowflakes and the kittens
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- Bagoas. I love how different he is from most of Taxon. We need to throw Long at him again now that he's actually past immediate intros, and this WILL happen, I just.... have been made of fail. As you know.
- Wyatt, Wyatt. It is good to be playing them again, even in a state of Horrors. We really need a good long talk about them, figure out Thiinngs. But I will board this train for the station to anywhere cuz you are my seatmate. Or something.
- Mick-- we've yet to get any serious interaction going O_o which is a shame, I really like Mick from everything I have seen with him. Clearly we need to rectify this.
Criticisms~ make sure not to spread yourself too thin, bb
says the woman having trouble keeping up with TWO muses. I just don't want to see any of the delightful darlings being neglected.The other thing is, hrm. It is PROBABLY HIGHLY HYPOCRITICAL of me to say this given the shit we each both just put our chars through (lol) and I know that I think it's easier for us with both Paul and Wyatt to write them as characters going through periods of ridiculous angst (they don't really know how to be happy do they) but. I. I lost track of what I was saying. Maybe something along the lines of we are both guilty of too much angst sometimes? IDK SOFIE HELP
and puppies and floating hearts and cotton candy
Is that something along the lines of what you were trying to say?
Also also, I second the needing a good long talk about Cain and Smecker. STUFF. Let's chat.