Portraits For a Price - OOC Thread

[Seraphine Felstar]

 

Questions, comments, and concerns may be posted here where they will promptly be ignor- *coughs* I mean, answered.

 

Hope everyone has fun getting to introduce/progress their character :approve:

[Axl]

[/oldladyvoice]I am concerned that the cyberspace is converting our grand children to satanism! I am VERY SCARED and VERY CONFUSED right now![oldladyvoice]

[Kashemia]

Hmm, I haven't really gotten in to forum rp here yet... Maybe I should give it a try...

My problem is that I sleep while most people post, so when I DO try forum roleplaying with americans, I usually fall behind and are never really able to get into it, because too much happens while I'm not there.

[Menoe Valkyria]

Nice introduction Crystal! I like the idea of drawing portraits while getting to know others.

[Seraphine Felstar]

If it makes you feel better Kashemia even though I'm American I'm usually on at European times. Having a one year old means I sleep from 6am EST to 11am EST and if I'm really lucky I get a hour or two nap in the afternoon

[Kashemia]

Hehe, okay, I'll try posting there then!

And it sounds like you have a tough schedule <.<

[Seraphine Felstar]

Yeah, being a mom, student, girlfriend and end gamer isn't easy

 

Sorry for the lack of posts but yesterday something odd happened

 

My boyfriend and I were on our way to the grocery store when we realized a gang war is occurring right outside our front door. Apparently the leader of a big gang here was shot at a stop light here by a rival gang on the 15th and there have been a lot of shootings in this area because of it. On the half a mile trip from here to the grocery store we saw bodies, ambulances, and gang members openly flashing their colors. The grocery store had 5 police cars out front, and tons of them inside the store patrolling in bullet proof vests while fully armed. Needless to say it was the fastest shopping trip we had ever done and we ended up spending a ton of money so we wouldn't have to go outside anytime soon. Anyway, there were fights going on outside all night so it was a bit distracting for me having been raised in a upper class neighborhood in California

 

I'm on my way to go respond now and thanks for joining in!

[Tadir]

Wow, uh, I'm glad you guys were okay. More time to write!

[Kashemia]

Oh my god, it was good nothing happened to you or your boyfriend. That sounds pretty horrible, it must have been a strange experience

Denmark is, I think, the safest country in the world, at least one of them. We have one of the lowest crime rates, our biggest predator is a badger, we have no mountain or rivers. In fact, the most dangerous you can encounter here, is a wasp <.<

So I would probably have been pretty freaked out if it was me.

 

Sorry for being off topic.

[Seraphine Felstar]

Thanks and I'm glad we were okay too . Kinda odd that it's breaking out in a average neighborhood in daylight but apparently the gangs have been restless for a while. I am still really freaked out and we're going to be shopping somewhere else from now on and going outside as little as possible till it blows over. One of the shootings took place outside the hospital where I take my daughter, so we'll be changing doctors.

 

Sorry for being off topic.

 

I guess the point of the threads is to get to know each other IC and OOC so I don't mind casual chat as long as it doesn't totally derail the topic.

 

Anyway, I left space for Kashemia to respond but if anyone else wants to order a drink and can do it without appearing too rude then go ahead. However, my character will probably wait for Kashemia before proceeding to fill all the orders. Feel free to take a seat and talk among yourselves

[sassaroth]

Sorry to bother you Crystal, but you refer to a link to a character sheet? Is that something we make on our own, or something built into the forum. Can you direct me to the right direction?

[Kashemia]

Just to answer your question. If you go to the "Archive" section, there's a lot of character sheets that has been filled out there, so I think that's what she means

I don't have one yet, since I want to play with character creation before I get set on how exactly Seraj looks, so I just wrote a few details in my post.

[sassaroth]

Ah, thank you very much. I made sassy here, but I had yet to go there. I think i will.

[Hayden]

I've decided to enter Azreiel, my ALT character. I've done little to bring her into light yet and haven't much written up on her. What role she will play come launch is unsure but she'll be around somewhere. :approve:

[Seraphine Felstar]

(Jim Bob wears his trusty cowboy hat everywhere he goes. He feels it really compliments his purple flip flops. He has a nasty snarl on his face all the time, but that's just to compensate for his clown like multi-colored hair. He has thick rimmed spectacles and brief case stuffed to bursting with legal documents for his most important clients.)

 

Yeah and Sass you can always just put at the top of the thread a brief description of your character like I did above. Just use the ( ) at the beginning and end of the statement to note a out of character comment, if you didn't already know that.

 

Thanks for joining to the both of you :approve:

[Seraphine Felstar]

Just checking with everyone to see if the pace of the thread is to everyone's liking. I've been trying to get everyone settled with drinks and allowing you guys to RP with each other so I can get to the portrait part of the thread since there is actually a point to that as you will all see. Hope everyone is having fun and we can get a couple more people in to join us

[Renaise]

Good for me, I'm pretty slow at the moment anyway

[Kashemia]

It's fine with me too There's starting to be a lot of people involved, and it's been a while since I did forum rp, so have to get used to it, but the pace is fine, it seems like everyone is good at letting each other post in between

[Zyanya]

Thanks for giving a lurker some fab reading material during her spare time. I hope to join in eventually but for now I'm quite happy to stay lurking! :cat:

[sassaroth]

hands eulanna some binoculars and a ski mask

 

This will help

[sassaroth]

I thought the old lady was sitting by herself...

 

if she was at the table I doubt Sass would have commented.... nevermind he would.

[Kashemia]

How do people keep up with forum rp at all? It's not about the pacing, it's fine in this thread, there's just so many people! How do people know what posts to react to?

[Kima wolf]

I'd typically reply to things which are going on in my character's vicinity if he'd notice it or not, or if someone says something when my character is around, then i'd make a comment on it, if it was in my character's personality, or if someone walked up to my character or where he was and said a general comment like "hi everyone" i'd reply to them. Again it depends on how your character would react to what's going on around them.

[Kashemia]

Yeah... I think I'll wait for Azreiel, since she was the one Seraj was last talking too... The chat just seem to shift really fast

 

The funny thing is, I started out with forum rp many years ago, but I haven't really done it since I started roleplaying in MMOs, I feel completely out of touch

[Tyriont]

Yeah, I'm waiting to give Az a chance to respond since that would seem to follow the natural conversation flow. It's been a while since I engaged in forum RP myself, but it's all good. We're all figuring it out as we go for the most part