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msanis

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Apr 28, 2005 21:02
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  Interesting. This is actually not a bad idea to get our creative spirits up once again. I think this is a rather interesting addition, actually. Anyway... what exactly would you recommend as "specifications" for any story we write? Personally, I and a group of others have been working on a rather bizarre role-playing session (slowly but surely being transformed in to a story), called "Ye Tacos of Power" for quite some time. I wouldn't mind adding it to the list... but it might not be fitting for what you particularly WANT for this thing.
  
  Let me give a REALLY quick description. A demon named Apocalypse one day got kicked out of hell for being WAY too stupid, and also, because he randomely got the idea that he wanted to eat the "Tacos of Power". So he randomely ventures to a town called "Blanktch", the town of "smelly grass and repetitive actions". Upon entering said town, the pyromanical moron is soon beaten repeatedly by an insane mob of drunken wierdos. That is well... pretty much a REALLY short bit of info from the RP. Later on, he is joined by (keep in mind, we used user-names as the names for characters... mostly) Wario (Actually... he is SUPPOSED to be the Nintendo Wario), Shadowkhan (Demi-God of half-infinite power), Serena (Random Ninja girl), Krandor (wierd guy with jedi-like powers... in control of the "molebots" and a giant Barney), TheBellTolls (odd soldier of the Shopright empire), and quite a few more.
  
  The story is continuing, but has also been transformed into a more book-like form by someone I know. I personally can't say when it will be done, as the story is quite long. So far, it is about 75 pages long. To put it bluntly, the story is VERY stupid, contains some of the most random characters, enemies, and abilities, and is also prone to parody parts of various other stories/webcomics/etc.
  
No purpose, No goals, and quite pointless.
  
  [Moved by MintMan on Nov 20, 2005 17:13]
MintMan

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Apr 28, 2005 22:19
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  I think you sorta answered your own question with this post.
  
  
  An RP? Something that already exists? Made by other writers? Seventy-five pages long? Nintendo characters? C'mon! No! Just... just no.
  
  
  Any idea that has any development beyond an initial post is idiocy to make an IAS out of. You cannot control what happens, and it is pointless to get mad at people for changing "your" story or restraining what others can do, especially when what you are planning on has to be kept secret, so the other writers just have a huge forbidden zone to work around.
  
  Any use of copyrighted characters (other than Poke because of the REL and for that reason alone) I think would be promptly blasted. Fan fics are a'ight, but I think we can do better.
  
  I would just have to say, for starting a good IAS, just come up with a good beginning that is expandable and draws the user in. So many of the current ones are just "Yeah... who cares?" Nothing happens, there is nothing interesting, and sure someone could add something interesting to them, but one could just as easily make a whole new IAS that was wholly interesting rather than stretching out carp.
  
  
  Also, why are you acting like this is such a thing for RE? The Elders forum and FtRPG forum have had tons of IASs in them. All BW does is allow the 99% of non-forum members to add to them as well.
VinnyD

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Apr 28, 2005 23:40
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  Heh, I've discussed development of IAS's with Mints, Gob etc, and you need to start it kind of like a video game I think (just one observation). Look at AtP, it throws you into the action, gives the rules of the 'game', and starts the story. Of course not all video games are well written, so don't go with that on second thought. In fact just follow my AtP template. (yay arrogance)
  
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Michael

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Apr 29, 2005 4:54
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  I recently started a Black and White story which i feel was ruined by a post which i believe had many flaws such as changing the story from the third person to the first person. Is there anything I can do to get rid of the post or do i have to hope that enough people vote to kill the post.
MintMan

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Apr 29, 2005 13:18
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  Sorry, but just because you create a story, you don't get to control it utterly. You just really gotta hope that other people hate it, and since it was a wyvernofab post, I don't think that will be too hard.
wyvernofab

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Apr 29, 2005 14:28
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  meh, i try.(not to ruin, to add.)
Kupoling_Katana

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Aug 13, 2005 19:54
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  * uses Blast on msanis just for the heck of it, and FtRPG is so fun now I can't resist. *
  
  Anyway, the B&W idea kinda went down the crapperhausen. If people really cared about it, there would be more stories. And if there were more stories, there would be more people visiting the place. The only problem is those initial few won't grow because B&W will eventually have the FAILED stamp
  
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MadGoblin

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Aug 14, 2005 2:33
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  I hate when statements are angering yet true.
  
  B&W really is pretty crapped right now. It started with a pretty decent bang, slumped, fluxuated for a while, hit one pretty good peak, and now its just rolling off of that high. However, slumps don't mean anything. BnW can rot for a year and it will still maintain its effect. All it needs to do is snowball up some momentum high enough for it to keep perpetual. This can be done at any time, but waiting is not going to prevent it from occurring.
  
  What is really needed is a BD story that people recognize as a BD story. The RP Forum proved that BD stories are the way to go, with The Search being the longest and one of the most entertaining and confusing stories made at RE to date, and Pitiful Incantation and Fall o' Y being, also, pretty good plops.
  
  Additionally related to BD, if you ever search out the members of the game, a lot have writings at their sites, and most of these actually don't suck, amazing.
  
  So, once Ems gets some sort of BD/BW cross promotional thing made up, it'll be all good styles, methink.
  
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Michael

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Aug 14, 2005 6:22
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  I like that idea. Maybe if there were rewards, not necessarily just for BD, but just for being part of BW. If we could get more people writing rather than the handful that there are now BW might become a bigger thing around the site. Right now an entry once a week is becoming normal. I think at one stage nobody had touched BW for almost a fortnight. Even if the writing is not top-notch at least the stories would move.
  
  Anyway, why aren't you people writing? I can understand that some people just don't enjoy it but even a great deal of the people who wrote in the RP section stories haven't written anything.
LieutenantEagle

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Aug 14, 2005 11:52
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  On Aug 14, 2005 6:22, Michael said:
  
I think at one stage nobody had touched BW for almost a fortnight. Even if the writing is not top-notch at least the stories would move.
  
  Anyway, why aren't you people writing? I can understand that some people just don't enjoy it but even a great deal of the people who wrote in the RP section stories haven't written anything.
  

  A fortnight? My last vote was, I believe, a few months back!...
  
  ...At any rate, a great deal of those who rote in the RP section (IE myself) have not posted on B&W because they pre-eminently know the utter stupidity of their posts.
  

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MintMan

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Aug 14, 2005 21:11
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  Know what idea I like? Michael adding more often 'cause he is one of the only authors... well, one of the only good authors.
  
  Most of the RP forum people didn't suck at writing; it was reading they sucked at. You'd think that would be the easier thing, but we were proven wrong, weren't we? At least this time around, inconsistancies would be bah-leeted.
  
  
  Anyway, it is nice of you people to scare up ideas from old topics from back when BW came out... yeah.... originality on your part.
Michael

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Aug 15, 2005 6:32
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  Is He-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed-At-All-Costs happy now? I realise that I'm just as guilty of not posting as everybody else. I do apologise for not putting in as much as I was but life's been a bit busy lately and I haven't really been able to find the time and energy to add to some of the stories. I'm not easily motivated and I'm easily distracted so it usually takes me a while to write a decent piece.
MintMan

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Aug 15, 2005 11:03
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  I was actually just referring to RoR and WoS, but especially RoR. I forgot that you did do a bit for WoS a while ago (after a long absence), but poor ol' Rumbl-O!
  
  None of the authors are adding to it, and none are joining in on the mix! I would have to say that this is the least authored Rumbl-O-Rama in all creation... Rumbl-O-Creation, that is.
  
  
  And I hardly think your new moniker for me is quite accurate. I mean, BW is suckin' hard, and I do quite specifically recall saying to everything: "Hey... make BW not suck."
Kupoling_Katana

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Aug 15, 2005 11:26
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  Well, it is kinda stupid, and however much you want people to go there, they won't (that is, unless you only have B&W on the site, and nothing else, then people will wither HAVE to go there, or they will abandon). That, and having their pride and joy cut off from the active stories list. (see: The Blaster)
  
  * uses Strike on MintMan because of B&W *
  
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MadGoblin

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Aug 15, 2005 17:12
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  * uses Break on Kupoling_Katana to tear assunder his beliefs *
  
  First of all, you made a rather bold statement there: You called B&W "stupid". This not true. Granted, it is not popular as of now, but the statement is far from accurate. Did you read upon the origins of B&W? Do you know why it is?
  
  Long ago, in golden times, the home of Ems and I was another board, another community, and there was a story writing event that all enjoyed. Not everyone added, but a lot of people dug it, as it was grand, hilarious, and well written. It was also around this time that we partook in another side by the name of Kinak's PokeBattle. Here, daily we and several others would craft wonderful tales and adventures, altho' solo. But this was done every bleedin' day. Forswear. In fact, I can name several sites, hordes of sites, that have existed for years whose single purpose is "People go to forum to write interactively with characters and do stuff OMGWTFBBQONO".
  
  As a matter o' fact, the RP forums should how this idea was good. It really did work well until people got lazy. And, since not everyone wants to go through the trouble of creating a Master Account to forum-partake, ideas were sowed. All of this principles and factors were channeled into creating B&W. All of those things were great and popular, it was made to be great, but everyone got lazy. Truthfully, B&W picked up right where the RP forum's activity left off: in a slump.
  
  It works, it's good, it's just no one cares, and that is the problem, not B&W.
  
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LieutenantEagle

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Aug 15, 2005 17:53
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  I personally believe that B&W has to be given a separate link in the "Misc." column to the left, and a link at the top-right corner. By putting it up as "an RE thing that is not hidden in Stuff", it is liable to get attention. Heck, I might drop by more often as well, and that's a bold statement on my behalf!
  

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Michael

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Aug 15, 2005 18:12
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  That could help I suppose. Although at the moment it's just as easy to go to the main page and click the link there.
  
  Yeah, I was thinking about doing RoR last night instead but I plan on putting in some extra time into my next post for that to make it good. Last night I just didn't have time unfortunately. Hopefully I'll have time to add on Thursday afternoon.
  
  And yes, I realise that the name was a bit unfair. I was just joking around hence the icon that was used.
MintMan

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Aug 15, 2005 23:35
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  Yeah, B&W was supposed to get its grand ol' link when the top-stuff expanded, but then again, I was also supposed to have a scanner over the summer... and internet access from my home.... so... yeah.
  
  
  I just want to know whatever happened to all those fan-fic people that used to play BD. They are prolly still around, just like all the Deviant Art people that never attempt to draw monsters for BD Sweat Drop Smeg-heads.
weirdymike

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Aug 15, 2005 23:38
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  umm.. someone post on the story, daggers and stealth please. cause or else, I cant post.
  
Smoke all you want. You're going to get hit by a bus.
  
  
  [Editted by weirdymike on Aug 17, 2005 17:47]
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Michael

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Aug 18, 2005 3:49
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  This is probably going to seem like a really, really dumb question. How do you change the font when writing in BW. I was about to post on RoR but couldn't work out how to write in italics.
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