Shadows Over Reno

[Misadventure]

Why not give the challenge to the players: "Over the next two weeks, arrange, backstory, or RP through things such that you have X Y and Z as shared topics/goals/problems. Then come to me."

[Olsson]

Just in reply to anyone who might've mentioned the scene that I had to cancel on Alexander, entierly my fault, I ended up having to do an study all nighter the day before so I was sound asleep when I had scheduled it.

So apologies about that.

[Lithium]

For me, I don't really know anyone yet I am still getting my feet wet and trying to figure out Werewolf politics, packs, etc so I've not looked at the event code at all. I'm also at a new job so most time I get home and don't have a lot of time since I have to be up at an ungodly hour until training is over which isn't for another three weeks and I go on my 2nd shift production schedule (Which will have it's own problems, working 3:30 PM till Midnight EST 5 days a week eats up a lot of prime RP time).

So far I am for the most part enjoying the game. I've only run into a couple people who are snarky just to be snarky assmunches.

I dislike how many people use wiki's to replace writing though. One line and no line descriptions are horrible to me but that's another thread.

[Killer Klown]

@Lithium
Yeah, I'm noticing that too. I mean, I've seen it elsewhere - people with miniscule descriptions but ungodly elaborate wikis - but it just seems to be more prevalent on Reno. I'm sort of staging a silent protest in not putting anything of worth on my wiki. (That's a lie. I'm just lazy)

[mietze]

I will confess that the last year I MUSH I almost never looked at anyone ever. If I got spammed with it in every scene I didn't need to, plus RfK's awful room spamming code every time someone looked at someone else cured me of the habit. And the other place I played on most often had standard clothing descs and screenscrolling personal bits full of flowing hair in the breeze and jovial orbs were discouraged.

So if someone had a crappy desc, it did not affect my desire/willingness to play with them, if they posed well.

[Jennkryst]

@Auspice said in Shadows Over Reno:

I swear the timezone thing is a no-win scenario sometimes.

[...] 5:30p PST / 8:30p EST seems to be the sweet spot, but you've gotta be able to jump right into the action in 1 or 2 rounds.

Never-win for meeeee.

I have the stupidest fucking work schedule, and I don't get home until 2200-2300 EST. Which means I never get in any plots. The one +event on Reno I signed up for was scheduled incorrectly, so while I was initially going to only be an hour late, turns out it was actually 4 hours late. And the scene was over by the time I got home. Fun stuff.

[surreality]

Reno's event clock was dodgy on Reno1 -- I am not sure if it still is or not. That happened sorta a lot. While I know that's no consolation at all, it's been something that caught a lot of folks over time, and you're not alone in it.

[Coin]

@Jennkryst said in Shadows Over Reno:

@Auspice said in Shadows Over Reno:

I swear the timezone thing is a no-win scenario sometimes.

[...] 5:30p PST / 8:30p EST seems to be the sweet spot, but you've gotta be able to jump right into the action in 1 or 2 rounds.

Never-win for meeeee.

I have the stupidest fucking work schedule, and I don't get home until 2200-2300 EST. Which means I never get in any plots. The one +event on Reno I signed up for was scheduled incorrectly, so while I was initially going to only be an hour late, turns out it was actually 4 hours late. And the scene was over by the time I got home. Fun stuff.

HAH.

I'm two hours ahead of EST right now. When people are starting their plots at 8:30 PM I'm already looking at my bed like it's beautiful.

[Lithium]

@mietze said in Shadows Over Reno:

I will confess that the last year I MUSH I almost never looked at anyone ever. If I got spammed with it in every scene I didn't need to, plus RfK's awful room spamming code every time someone looked at someone else cured me of the habit. And the other place I played on most often had standard clothing descs and screenscrolling personal bits full of flowing hair in the breeze and jovial orbs were discouraged.

So if someone had a crappy desc, it did not affect my desire/willingness to play with them, if they posed well.

I've yet to see a one line desc person pose well consistently. Usually it's a constant 1-2 line pose as well so that's what I've come to expect of 1 line descriptions.

[Arkandel]

@Lithium Nah, I really think that's too much of a generalization. Given how rarely people use 'look' these days for example I don't pay a lot of attention to my @descs, and the only reason I don't have minimum ones is because I've built a library of them over the years I change and reuse. But I've never been accused of not posing in detail.

[Lithium]

@Arkandel It's not a generalization, it's my experience. It's what I've seen. I'm not saying that there might not be some good RP'er who use one line or no line descs, just that it's what /I/ have experienced and what I've come to expect because of it.

Just because you may have had other experiences, doesn't invalidate my own.

[Coin]

@Lithium said in Shadows Over Reno:

@Arkandel It's not a generalization, it's my experience. It's what I've seen. I'm not saying that there might not be some good RP'er who use one line or no line descs, just that it's what /I/ have experienced and what I've come to expect because of it.

Just because you may have had other experiences, doesn't invalidate my own.

No, but it does make both anecdotal at best.

I have had many characters whose descs are just a single line.

My character on Fallen World is just a link to a picture, and Owen on Reno 1.0 was just "You see something special." because I was feeling cheeky.

But I guess the jury's out on whether I pose well consistently? XD

[lordbelh]

@Lithium I've used one line descs. Though I'll admit usually they're 2 or 3. Rarely more than that, though.

In play you'll find me writing paragraphs if I have paragraphs of things to say, or just a couple of lines when I don't.

I just don't see the point of spending effort on a desc people'll look at once, when there are wikis they'll stalk and if there's something distinctive I want to draw attention to then I'll probably add it in a post anyway.

[Coin]

I am pretty much in the exact same boat as @lordbelh.

[Arkandel]

What's even more, I don't even remember the last time I looked at another character. It's always check the wiki and/or just wait to see what gets posed.

[Miss Demeanor]

@Coin said in Shadows Over Reno:

But I guess the jury's out on whether I pose well consistently? XD

When you're engaged and interested, you pose beautifully. When you're bored, it becomes very obvious very quickly.

[Coin]

@Miss-Demeanor said in Shadows Over Reno:

@Coin said in Shadows Over Reno:

But I guess the jury's out on whether I pose well consistently? XD

When you're engaged and interested, you pose beautifully. When you're bored, it becomes very obvious very quickly.

At least it's obvious! XD

[Arkandel]

@Miss-Demeanor said in Shadows Over Reno:

@Coin said in Shadows Over Reno:

But I guess the jury's out on whether I pose well consistently? XD

When you're engaged and interested, you pose beautifully. When you're bored, it becomes very obvious very quickly.

I hope it becomes obvious by my apologetic but swift departure once I'm bored.

[Miss Demeanor]

@Coin Its always a good sign of when to wrap up the scene, true!

@Arkandel See above. XD

[cirim13]

On the whole description thing - I tend to write one because usually the PB's I find are close-but-not-quite matches to my mental images, but not exact matches. Yeah, I usually have a mental image in my head and search endlessly for someone who matches it.

So it'll be small things, like the picture will have short hair, but the character's is long, or the character has multiple piercings but the picture doesn't. And since I know I do that, I do tend to write my own descriptions (though I hate doing it) and try to read other people's descs to see if there are inconsistencies I need to pay attention to between PB and the actual character.