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Post by Rehiro on May 22, 2005 19:21:14 GMT -5
This is the place where people are allowed to ask questions about other peoples characters.
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Post by deltaT on May 23, 2005 0:39:50 GMT -5
How the hell do you think of something that detailed off the top of your head?!?
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Post by Rehiro on May 23, 2005 9:27:47 GMT -5
Well in all honesty I didnt think of him off the top of my head. I spent the better half of a day experimenting with different ideas to come up with Moss. First I wrote down the different categories of demons from the questions section under the thread "demons", then I chose a few that I thought I might like and researched them, then I couldnt find anything I liked so I got mad and gave up. So I started thinking of old ideas I liked from other stories I have written and was wondering if I should just steal one. I decided that would only be a last resort and that I would really like an original character for CTV, so I started drawing until I found something I liked. I found something I liked and now I had somewhere to start. I thought about his personality first which I found came quite naturally, then I tried to pick a category of demon which did not come easily and I am still not happy with, then I had to choose a name so I called him Moss because I thought it looked cool. This is the point that I posted, I realized shortly after that his race and name did not work well with him (I was always kind of aware but it started to really bother me) but now I had something to work with so made up an origins story that explains both his race and his name. So there, im not just some kind of crazy guy that can just pop characters out of his head with no effort but I thank you for the compliment, I like complicated things so I take what you said to be a compliment . If I sound odd it is because I feel really tired right now .
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Post by mang on May 23, 2005 10:17:24 GMT -5
Well deltaT you think of a cool guy then change a bunch of stuff about him/her. I think it was easy to carate a charactor you just need to figure out what type of charactor you whant so keep thinking
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Post by deltaT on May 25, 2005 1:56:07 GMT -5
Well, you're right mang...I used a character that I made up about 30 years ago, and modified it using modern Google search methods. Also, I got rehiro to help with the background, and her personality will just be mine.
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Post by EEN on May 25, 2005 2:27:41 GMT -5
Valerian and Varian, wow those two are going to have some thing to talk about if they ever meet.
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Post by mang on May 25, 2005 20:19:12 GMT -5
well your lucky to be able to talk to people privatly on hear to make a charator with help from some one you dont know . ;D
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Post by deltaT on May 26, 2005 16:37:23 GMT -5
I didn't realize the similarity until you posted, EEN! I got Varian from my cat Blackavar...somehow his name evolved into an all purpose name for a cute cat. (He is a gorgeous cat!) Eg: Varian means any cute cat-type creature, a Var is an adorable cat, etc. You can put Var on the end of a name...our older cat went from Penny to Pennyvar. Sometimes it gets attached to people too!
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Post by EEN on May 26, 2005 20:11:11 GMT -5
Well keeping with Amy's fairy theam Valerian is a type of flower.
Delta T do you want to start a quest or something. All the RP threads are floudering at present and you've not joined anything yet so how would you feel about Varian and Valerian running about together for a bit causing some chaos?
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Post by deltaT on May 26, 2005 21:46:07 GMT -5
Sure, I'll give it a try! ;D I wasn't really sure how to join in any of the present threads. Start a thread and I will join in. But I am new at this, so I'll follow your lead.
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Post by Rehiro on May 28, 2005 1:17:08 GMT -5
Hey here is a theoretical idea.... we could have an "ask a character" thread just like what Amelius did except people could ask questions adressed to our characters and the creators of those charactors would answer the questions as there charactors.
Of course everyone would have to agree to it or maybe if there were only a few who didnt like the idea I could make sure that it was clear that there charactors were not to be questioned...... so what do you think?
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Post by EEN on May 28, 2005 3:53:38 GMT -5
It seems a great idea to me but I have no idea what anyone would like to talk to Valerian about.
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Post by Soap on May 28, 2005 8:56:42 GMT -5
How the hell do you think of something that detailed off the top of your head?!? If you write down everything you think of I find that the more excited you get the faster and the better the ideas come and you (meaning me) can't write fast enough to keep up with them. The next step, obviously, is evaluation. That's the really hard part. You need to take a two year course to get good at that
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Post by deltaT on May 28, 2005 20:06:48 GMT -5
Rats! I wasted my time in college studying electronics!
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Post by Rehiro on May 28, 2005 21:05:05 GMT -5
EEN: We would probably need to get to know the different characters more personally through RPing before anyone could come up with any good questions.
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Post by Rehiro on May 30, 2005 20:45:58 GMT -5
OK so now that everyone knows how much of a newbie I am I can ask start asking questions.
Since it appears that EEN has taken on the role of GM in "better then Kavonns: a Valerian story" and since I have recently learned that it is good manners to give a warning before entering your character into the RPG would it also be good manners to warn EEN before I make a plot altering decision? (dont worry Moss isnt going to do anything just yet)
I know that there are no actual rules but I do not wish to offend anyone.
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Post by deltaT on Jun 2, 2005 21:52:47 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm wondering too.... What if you want your character to interact with someones else's (say Kavonn), then do you check with Amy, Nick or both? Should we start a Valerian story support thread, or use PMs?
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Post by EEN on Jun 3, 2005 9:29:31 GMT -5
Well there is a difference between altering the plot and joining in the story.
In the case of BtK's (Better then Kavonn's) the plot is after learing about Kavonn's magic Valerian sets out to one up Kavonn and get a magic item of his own. So if you enter the scene and say "Hey I just stole this big old scyth from some little demon lets go hit Kavonn with it." well that would be rather plot altering and ruin the story.
Interacting with characters should never however be considered a problem as long as your character has a logical reason for entering the scene.
IE if Kavonn was in the middle of a hell dimention trying to fix his problem with his hat, you probably shouldn't try and pop in there and interact with him unless you have a heck of an explination. On the other hand if someone is just wandering through the woods there is no reason your character could happen through that part of the forest too and run into Kavonn allowing you to get into the scene. So no you don't need permission just common sense.
If you want to create a support thread that would be fine by me since most people are new here and probably would have similar questions. Once the RP gets running more smoothly it would make sense however to deal with with most questions by PM just so we don't have a ton of redundant support threads everywhere.
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Post by Rehiro on Jun 18, 2005 16:45:03 GMT -5
Im thinking of starting a thread called "the histories of Moss" simply because it is so long.
I wonder where EEN went, we need him for BTK, I might just be tempted to start a story of my own.
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Post by deltaT on Jun 19, 2005 0:31:49 GMT -5
Maybe you should start a thread for everyone to put down his or her character's history. There are probably lots of people who would like to present some backstory for their characters.
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Post by Rehiro on Jun 19, 2005 17:30:02 GMT -5
Yeah that could be a good idea.
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Post by Rehiro on Jun 28, 2005 15:29:35 GMT -5
Can I ask you guys a question? If a person accidentally had their mind and spirit meshed together with an all powerful demon and had his mind partially rewritten, then would it make sense for that person to lose his memory?
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Post by EEN on Jun 28, 2005 21:33:16 GMT -5
It would depend on the context of the memory loss. However rewritten implies that the original memories are already lost.
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Post by deltaT on Jun 28, 2005 22:19:41 GMT -5
Do you mean that the result is a combination of the person and the demon's personalities but with no memories of either life? Since you say partially rewritten, maybe there could be some disjointed stuff floating around in the subconscious.
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Post by Rehiro on Jun 28, 2005 23:05:43 GMT -5
Arg, this is hard to answer without giving too much away.
The original keeper of the body became dominent over the all powerfull demons spirit. The demon tried to posess the first person and the first persons spirit struck back. The two souls struggled for awhile (The person cant remember this time at all) and the first person won. The all powerfull demon was forced into the subconcious and lost all of its abbility to think as an individual unless the first person failed and in need to survive, the demon would be forced into the concious as a last resort. The first persons memories still exist but they are mingled with thoughts and memories of the demons and all of the first persons memories were already kind of blurry for other reasons. Also, this person hasnt been trying very hard to reclaim his memories.
Dont worry about putting down any ideas that I put to question here, I only put down the ideas that I dont know if they make sense, and also if you think you have figured out something really big, dont worry, this story is far more complex.
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Post by Rehiro on Jul 29, 2005 12:26:22 GMT -5
Never mind, I figured it out, and none of those things really even applys...
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Post by Shippo_no_Neko on Aug 2, 2005 17:57:07 GMT -5
i beleive that he would have scraps of memories of both peoples...
and psycho flashbacks YAAAYY!
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Post by Rehiro on Aug 2, 2005 19:22:17 GMT -5
I'll just say what his story is.
He was birthed out of a tree of life, raised by a felidae and then had his mind wiped by a powerful weopon from another dimention who wishes to posess him.
I already talked to delta T about the felidae. I know this dosent live up to any expectations but these were the ideas I kept falling back on and I finally decided to just not try anything over complicated.
The original story included a former life, a soul eating monster, tree demons, the felidae, a tree of life and the rebirth of the soul eating monster and Moss.
I also didnt put any detail into the new story right now. If I gave details of say, who the felidae was, why he wanted a tree born, how Moss got his evil staff and why the staff wants him then im sure it would be longer.
But anyways, from what you've heard, do you guys think it will work?
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Post by Shippo_no_Neko on Aug 3, 2005 12:41:38 GMT -5
yeah, not many people have backstories like that!
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Post by Rehiro on Aug 3, 2005 21:18:52 GMT -5
Thanks ;D
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