Posts made by Goldfish

Short and sweet.

I like writing vignettes or one-shots or solo pieces with or about my character.

I love games that let me share those.

I lost this thread somehow.

Echoes in the Mist!
portland.echoes.wiki:2019

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Message: 1/19                      Posted        Author
Live Open! - March 1st             Thu Feb 21    Moonshrimp
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Okay, everybody.

At exactly 8pm CST on March 1st, we will be leaving soft RP and going live.

This means a few things:

* XP spends will be open, but for a time all spends must go through Staff via a +request.
* XP may be gained through means other than your weekly allowance. Which means you may gain beats through aspirations, PrPs, breaking points, 
and all those funky fun things.
* Game plots will kick off in short order, so you'll be wanting to watch +events for happyfuntimes.
* ICA will really and for true mean ICC.
* You will have until 3/14/19 to make any minor respec changes to your sheet that reflects stuff that didn't work for you during soft open.

Please be patient as we here on staff side wrangle with what will likely be a huge influx of jobs. It may take more time than normal to see a response.

The wiki will still be a work-in-progress, but most major information should be there and we're hoping to have character pages ready for you. 
In addition, some more specialized things coming down the pike may not be fully in place yet.

We're super excited, hope you are too, and thank you for playing here at Echoes in the Mists!
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So we're still happening.

Added opening announcement!

@Kestrel Oh, no way. HorrorMu's cyclical nature has given me the nerve to play characters that do things that are mean, off-putting, mildly sexist/racist, vain, and just plain annoying. I wouldn't do that in a long game only because I can't sustain it very well (I'm too nice or something?) but those moments when I am typing up something totally obnoxious and it gets the response I wanted. Mmm. Best feeling you can get for free.

@Coin DEVLIN????

That blew my wig back first thing in the morning. Devlin, man.

The Gathering and the internet's coverage of it is like Xmas to me. I'm not a fan but I love Juggalos. So passionate.

Plans for Confidant to be an undercover FBI agent investigating the "gang" but gets sucked into the culture anyway

I'm in a creative crisis. I'm feeling bankrupt and spread thin and my anxiety is on the rise. I share because I know I need to take a day or two and clear my head but it's like...everything is on a deadline and I keep kicking the can down the road. After I finish this CG or after this batch of jobs or after I lock down X, Y and Z.

Meanwhile, all my creative endeavors feel like shit. ALL. This is fucked up.

Mental fatigue is a thing too. So, y'all take care of yourselves

@Auspice Thank you! If nothing else, it'll help my understanding.

@Ghost Funny how you listed all the things I love about Matt Murdock and all the things I hope to bring into play.

My first real exposure to the character was the film and...I stand by the statement that the director's cut is better. Note that I didn't say good...

I fell in love with the Netflix version. And I just learned about digital comics through my local library so, I'll have move frames of reference.

@Auspice All of that.

Rising doubt and anxiety had straight up murdered one or two relationships in this hobby for me. Once the monster convinces you that you are trash and that is why X or Y is happening, it's all downhill. And Goldfish says and does stupid shit. I take full responsibility but I know now that it's not me being crazy, it's anxiety hacking my GPS and telling me all the wrong directions.

@Auspice And a request for a sheet is what I did. Then I read what I could Google and I have a broad idea of what's going on. I even shared a fan made sheet and pointed out what I liked and what I'm aiming for. Which is 3 parts Netflix Daredevil...not sure about the other part(s) yet. I can't find the sheet suggested to me. (Breakout)

So, while I'm here...I've never RPed a canon character before. I freeze up when I play new OCs. I keep having the same nightmare of being paged that I am Doing It Wrong.

Hell, I get that page every time I try playing nWoD/CoD Vampire.

Any tips?

@Sparks Events. The only way I know?

So yeah, I had an Event Apocalypse.

A correction to my previous post: I can't make events at all. Not at the Global, World or Character level. I crash every time. So spawn windows are out for me too.

rc4 crashes when I attempt to make a global event. Which has shut down autologging.

WOO! Matt Murdock lives. Now...to dig into the material. Whew...

Last year, I decided to broaden my RP horizons and play different place with different systems other than WOD.

I like what I see as I scan the wiki but I need to know ONE THING.

Can I play Matt Murdock? I wanna be Daredevil, damn it. Can that happen? Please?

They wept a river of tears too, from my knowledge. I don't know what kinda magic @Botulism has, but it's always gut shots when people die or get maimed.

But...they don't stop playing. So, it's sad but you still have your beloved baby and all is well.

Something I started doing when I am feeling like world's worst RPer with the worst ideas ever and WHY am I even doing this is this: If the game as reccs, or a similar system and you get some? Keep them. If a friend is super awesome to you. Log it. Keep the things that in that moment, remind you why you fight with the drama, internal and external.

And then, when it sucks. Find your files of love and reread them. It feels kinda self-indulgent, to me, at first. Like I'm lounging in all the nice things but their ain't but a handful. I lost a lot in a HDD crash of '17 so it's a slow rebuild. A reviewed a few the other night and I came away feeling a lot better, esp since I still talk to those people. The reminder that you aren't total trash is good for you.

You have friends and they seem to keep talking to you and RPing and bouncing ideas and whatever. They like you. You like them. And a disagreement or ruffled feathers won't break a bond worth keeping.

From one anxiety sufferer to another, I wish you peace, @Cupcake.

@surreality I can cosign this.

I don't think it's a surprise to say that each recycled archetype's player brought something different and interesting to their version of the Archetype, not to mention that the story shapes the archetype as well.

I play The Confidant and I've been around since Season 1. He's been everything from and EMT to a Sheriff and Psychologist to a Model turned Film Student. The Carnival has him as probably a Knife Thrower, in addition to the Blind Norse god Hodr. All the stories have taken place in a different time period too. Again, my 2018 EMT is very different than my 1900s Sheriff's Deputy.

I like to think that I've maintained a thread of similarities through each story that is unique to me as a player. For instance, I choose a male to play a Confidant, which I see as a nurturing role. Men aren't commonly cast as nurturers so that by itself has been fun, especially in the historical settings when men were men and here's the Confidant, listening to your problems and giving you that hug you totes need.

I figure if The Confidant can be pried from my hands, someone else is going to have a totally different approach to him.

@Sparks I found a free app that lets you exclude certain apps from Dark Mode. https://www.lightsoff-app.com/

Works like a dream and so does the client now that I've cleared old bits and fixed the font and whatnot. S'all good. Bless you.

@Sparks Yeah, I knew I'd have to just deal with Dark Mode.

But after some shuffling, deleting and such...it's functional. Now I have to make the text readable but it's working! Yay!