Post by Midori on Dec 23, 2014 23:40:22 GMT
All right. Let's start out by introducing this thread as a closed thread. Closed, you hear? Let's give it one more try in red truth. This thread is closed. I don't want to hear any complaints going 'But Saki, you don't RP enough with me!' That's right, I don't RP very much at all to be honest. And you know what that resulted in? Midori is only maybe Level 14 at the moment while everyone else is Level 70 or something. A bit of a continuity paradox since this was an RP forum instead of an MMO. Frankly it's something that people have grown to become used to, even since continuity was brought by that guy who somehow leveled to Level 25 or so by hitting two or three boars. It was a bit of a legend that was told back in Londinium which has lasted quite some time. No one really knows whether such a story was true or if someone had embellished such a ridiculous story that people were hunting boars for months looking for the legendary boars that would cause immediate level ups. Pretty sure it's a hoax. The same person was the one who came up with the Wall of Text Master title. Who honestly reads all those posts in order to tell if the content was completely legit anyway? Not me. Not at all. I just go 'It's Saber again' and just shelf it after tossing the whole thing into a word count tool.
Oh yes. You've probably figured by now that this thread is by all means devoid of any serious narrative. After all, I'm not even bringing my pretty post template into the thread like I otherwise would have. But that was because this was supposed to be a very long Saber-esque solo post. If I kept hovering over my pretty animations every so often, then there was no way I would be able to level up very much. I'd likely be distracted for a couple seconds every minute hovering over the icons. Some of you would too. You know who you are. Frankly, it's just easier to write like this and I seriously doubt most people on the site will ever come across this thread. Hey, if you are one of the exceptions and you're reading this thread right now, I must tell you that it probably won't have very much humor in it. I'm just aiming for 7500 words at the maximum, so humor is definitely going to be lost in exchange for efficiency. If you want some thread where I do try to upkeep my post quality, though, I should recommend the Snowdonia Winter Ball for you. You'll be able to see some quickly-made post I wrote in that thread which everyone insists is extremely funny and super good but honestly I posted because I had to. You saw how active that thread became, so because I didn't really have much characterization in my posts there, no one decided to offer Midori a dance and she barely received much attention other than a one-liner like "___ saw Midori and thought she was a weird person." Sad goldfish.
Man, how does Saber keep up this level of concentration when writing posts? How did I used to RP so well back in my high school days and manage to get the equivalent of 1000 AP over 3 years? I'm quite sure it took me just over a year for me to get that S-Class position at 540 AP. Granted the first 40 AP was free but wow, that meant my posting speed was once the same level as what you'd expect from someone like Neun or Nisha nowadays. You guys should consider voting for Past Murasaki next time the 2015 end of the year voting takes place. It was a bit ridiculous and I didn't even resort to turning my writing style into some clearly-improvised prose like this post excuse for a post. Yeah, I really hope most people don't bother to read this post. I think the novelty of this writing style is only effective when you see it every so often. But then you have people following my character and I have no idea whether they would then subscribe to my thread and creep all over my post. Well, maybe not my posts. People will probably go for Charuen's. Wait, speaking of her, let's send out a couple friend requests. Done. Come to think of it, she's already Level 20 now. Hiro's right. I have to step it up a bit. It wouldn't do to have a Mentor Training thread when one's already outleveled one's mentor within a month. It would be super uncool. But I have a good amount of time since Harmy's busy replying to basically half the active members on the site. I definitely need to make more of these posts more often though. All right, what do I do now?
So then, why is Midori a Heretic? You can probably figure out why. By turning her into a Heretic, I can give the excuse that she's way lower leveled than Hiro because of the mysterious class change application reducing one's main class level down to about Level 10. This gives a bit of timeline for an excuse because I've been way too busy to actually keep up regular RPs. Pretty sure my activity will wane once again by the time winter break is over, so I'm not sure whether something like this is even worth it in the long run. But who knows. Maybe it's just me having too much free time during breaks and the fact that no one's talking on Skype (well yeah, some people just talked in the group chat either talking about playing League, but they always talk about playing League and I really don't care enough to pay attention to that conversation). Good thing those people are even less likely to read this post. Otherwise if you are one of said offenders and you decide to confront me about the topic... then I regret nothing. I just spent at least 50 words talking about what you've been doing. More AP for me.
Why is Midori in the Miasma Realms now that she's a Heretic? Why not, I suppose. Part of the reason is that this is the first thread that's been put up in the Miasma Realms. Apparently people are too scared off by the threat of Corruption that no one decided to even post here. Really, it's not such a bad place. Sure, it's dark and a little creepy, but I would've figured edgy endgame-esque areas like this would have been all the rage among roleplayers. Maybe that was also an MMO thing. Seems people didn't like high-level areas because they didn't want to risk the idea that their character may possibly die. It was probably a little uncool to write about your character dying. Maybe I should write something like that in the future. The latest Log Horizon episodes made it a lot clearer on what happens when an Adventurer dies. I think it could be a bit of a decent experience to delve into Midori's deepest fears and show her conquering them and rising up again. Nah. Probably some of those deepest fears and shared with me as well, since I seem to have stumbled into a situation where my character is quite similar to my real-life personality and yet my narrative is confusing out of character and too light-hearted to really set any mood. Come to think of it, maybe this isn't such a good idea if I don't want people to read this thread. Maybe I should've started the thread in Londinium. There's way too many threads there that this post will probably be buried between a good number of random posts by other newbies.
Eh. Let's just submit this post while I can. This is probably a decent checkpoint. Wouldn't want to accidentally backspace out of it and lose everything completely, after all.
Oh yes. You've probably figured by now that this thread is by all means devoid of any serious narrative. After all, I'm not even bringing my pretty post template into the thread like I otherwise would have. But that was because this was supposed to be a very long Saber-esque solo post. If I kept hovering over my pretty animations every so often, then there was no way I would be able to level up very much. I'd likely be distracted for a couple seconds every minute hovering over the icons. Some of you would too. You know who you are. Frankly, it's just easier to write like this and I seriously doubt most people on the site will ever come across this thread. Hey, if you are one of the exceptions and you're reading this thread right now, I must tell you that it probably won't have very much humor in it. I'm just aiming for 7500 words at the maximum, so humor is definitely going to be lost in exchange for efficiency. If you want some thread where I do try to upkeep my post quality, though, I should recommend the Snowdonia Winter Ball for you. You'll be able to see some quickly-made post I wrote in that thread which everyone insists is extremely funny and super good but honestly I posted because I had to. You saw how active that thread became, so because I didn't really have much characterization in my posts there, no one decided to offer Midori a dance and she barely received much attention other than a one-liner like "___ saw Midori and thought she was a weird person." Sad goldfish.
Man, how does Saber keep up this level of concentration when writing posts? How did I used to RP so well back in my high school days and manage to get the equivalent of 1000 AP over 3 years? I'm quite sure it took me just over a year for me to get that S-Class position at 540 AP. Granted the first 40 AP was free but wow, that meant my posting speed was once the same level as what you'd expect from someone like Neun or Nisha nowadays. You guys should consider voting for Past Murasaki next time the 2015 end of the year voting takes place. It was a bit ridiculous and I didn't even resort to turning my writing style into some clearly-improvised prose like this post excuse for a post. Yeah, I really hope most people don't bother to read this post. I think the novelty of this writing style is only effective when you see it every so often. But then you have people following my character and I have no idea whether they would then subscribe to my thread and creep all over my post. Well, maybe not my posts. People will probably go for Charuen's. Wait, speaking of her, let's send out a couple friend requests. Done. Come to think of it, she's already Level 20 now. Hiro's right. I have to step it up a bit. It wouldn't do to have a Mentor Training thread when one's already outleveled one's mentor within a month. It would be super uncool. But I have a good amount of time since Harmy's busy replying to basically half the active members on the site. I definitely need to make more of these posts more often though. All right, what do I do now?
So then, why is Midori a Heretic? You can probably figure out why. By turning her into a Heretic, I can give the excuse that she's way lower leveled than Hiro because of the mysterious class change application reducing one's main class level down to about Level 10. This gives a bit of timeline for an excuse because I've been way too busy to actually keep up regular RPs. Pretty sure my activity will wane once again by the time winter break is over, so I'm not sure whether something like this is even worth it in the long run. But who knows. Maybe it's just me having too much free time during breaks and the fact that no one's talking on Skype (well yeah, some people just talked in the group chat either talking about playing League, but they always talk about playing League and I really don't care enough to pay attention to that conversation). Good thing those people are even less likely to read this post. Otherwise if you are one of said offenders and you decide to confront me about the topic... then I regret nothing. I just spent at least 50 words talking about what you've been doing. More AP for me.
Why is Midori in the Miasma Realms now that she's a Heretic? Why not, I suppose. Part of the reason is that this is the first thread that's been put up in the Miasma Realms. Apparently people are too scared off by the threat of Corruption that no one decided to even post here. Really, it's not such a bad place. Sure, it's dark and a little creepy, but I would've figured edgy endgame-esque areas like this would have been all the rage among roleplayers. Maybe that was also an MMO thing. Seems people didn't like high-level areas because they didn't want to risk the idea that their character may possibly die. It was probably a little uncool to write about your character dying. Maybe I should write something like that in the future. The latest Log Horizon episodes made it a lot clearer on what happens when an Adventurer dies. I think it could be a bit of a decent experience to delve into Midori's deepest fears and show her conquering them and rising up again. Nah. Probably some of those deepest fears and shared with me as well, since I seem to have stumbled into a situation where my character is quite similar to my real-life personality and yet my narrative is confusing out of character and too light-hearted to really set any mood. Come to think of it, maybe this isn't such a good idea if I don't want people to read this thread. Maybe I should've started the thread in Londinium. There's way too many threads there that this post will probably be buried between a good number of random posts by other newbies.
Eh. Let's just submit this post while I can. This is probably a decent checkpoint. Wouldn't want to accidentally backspace out of it and lose everything completely, after all.
