Alaiac

My take on the thought issue is fairly straight-forward. Internal dialogues should be saved for a narrative format. 'In-person' role-play is not a narrative format. It is an interactive form of storytelling. Simply put, become your character. Do the people around you in real life know what you are thinking, word for word? No. No, they do not. They may be able to discern it from body language, tone, etc, but for your actual thoughts, unless communicated in some observable form, no one has any way of knowing exactly what they are. It may be my theatre background, but I personally feel that knowing another character's inner dialogue helps to break immersion in the scene, as it is breaking the fourth wall and communicating directly with the audience, and not the other characters. My two cents.

"Florescent."

Time. Time can be an interesting concept. For some, it does naught but mark the passage of minutes, hours, days, etc. For others, every second, every fraction of a second is potential incarnate. I sit on the bank of a stream just outside Gridania for a while, watching the sudden influx of adventurers rushing about, trying to make the best use of their time possible. Me? I am content to experience time itself, to luxuriate in the inevitability of its passage, in its implaccable progress heedless of anything but itself. It is a bit daunting, trying to live in between the seconds during which we are rushing to and fro, always mindful of where we are, where we are going and where we have been. It is a bit of a shame, really, that more of us don't see when we are, and only focus and when we need to be. It is a strange concept, and one which I still struggle to understand. A voice calls my name and I sigh, my reverie broken. Ah, the remainder of the group has arrived. For now, nameless faces that fulfil a role. That is how I think of them for now at least. There will be time for names later, and if there is not time, then the name is the least of our worries. Duty calls and we nameless faces must take heed. For that is how we are defined, at least to the greater populace. We are those who answer the call, place ourselves in harm's way. and sully our bodies and our souls for a bit of coin or a trinket. I sigh again, knowing that despite my feelings on the matter, the rush awaits. It beckons me, enticing me to push just that little bit further, to take ever greater risks, to find those moments between life and death when even time seems to stop and takes notice of our existence. This is why I call myself 'adventurer.' Glory, money, material wealth are all inconseqential to the brief moments in which I am truly living. My name is called again. It is Sword. The tall Elezen indicates a path through the forest and I fall in with the rest of the group. Bandage, Sword, Spear, Staff and myself. We have been asked to clear out some creatures in the Black Shroud that have been plaguing the citizenry. Their superstitions about this nebulous 'woodsin' are amusing, but I keep my comments to myself. While I do not believe in this 'woodsin,' I do believe in angry mobs. I humor them, of course. Their superstitions have not brought harm to myself thus far, and I manage to avoid rousing the mob's anger. Regardless, there is work to be done. Sword steps off and begins to make his way toward our destination. I can do naught but follow, for somewhere on our path ahead the rush awaits me, I am certain of it.

I noticed it has been a while since the last post in this thread. Is the community still using an IRC channel or has that fallen by the wayside? If so, is there a definitive answer on which channel is the most active? Thanks. ~Al edited for typo correction.

It is a long, involved and quite painful story to recall involving Endinka, Rauros, two Tarutaru, a Quadav, a bucket of bastore bream, and more Selbina butter than I had ever seen before or have seen since. Suffice to say, it is not fit for the retelling... Or the remembrance thereof. ~Alaiac, who rolled 30 on bardic knowledge for this information.

I already know that I will be purchasing both, and the delay kind of bites. That said, as soon as I saw the info I put my pre-order in on Amazon. ^^

Wow, I had forgotten some of these and how great they were. I guess I'll have to dig out my old copy of photoshop and stop slacking off.

Nope. You will never escape that one, Endi.