(09-21-2015, 09:18 AM)Ignacius Wrote: Not in /s, it's been implied by the format that you're saying something.
Then again, I almost always emote, so that people have some flavor to the dialogue.
Aww, that's a bit limiting! Just because you're doing it in /say doesn't mean you can't put an emote stuff in there too!
Basically I always write my in-character posts like I'm writing something. I'll use /em if the way I would like to write my post happens to begin with Shopu's name, for whatever reason- like, if for the flow of the sentence, it would be better for the subject to go before the dialogue, or if she is actually performing an action before she says something...
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/em bent down and picked up the small box. "Oh, what, you mean this?"
(another person emotes in response)
/s "It's my collection of shiny rocks!" she said, opening it. They were shiny and beautiful and whatnot.as opposed to, say,
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/em bent down and picked up the small box. "Oh, what, you mean this?"
(another person emotes in response)
/em opened it. "It's my collection of shiny rocks!" They were shiny and beautiful and whatnot.For this particular instance I want to convey that she's opening it as she's speaking, so it's just more elegant to do it the emote-in-say way. How would you even do that in /em... "/em opened it and as she opened it she said,"
It's just the way that's most fun for me. I'm very particular about things like the order things get expressed in, word flow, word choice... so sometimes it takes me a little bit to formulate my response. Length depends on setting, too. And putting *'s around actions just reminds me of my embarrassing forum RP days when I was a tween. I love using emotes (as in, the animations; is that what you meant, Ignacius? oops) and facial expressions a lot too, which on Shopu is unfortunate because she's so small people rarely notice. And I leave the chat messages for those turned off because they, well, mess up my flow.
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