Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
Current vote BUMP
The Eternal Struggles of a Minor Death (RDQ)
- Thread starter Sendicard
- Start date
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Nightingale
Lord Tickle-Toes
- Location
- Beyond the Sea
[X] PoM
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
Aeternam is joking.
OOC is enemy action.
Probs possessed.
Aeternam and butcher appear to be flirting.
I just arrived from a long road-trip across Australia's deserty bits, which gained an extra day spent law-wrangling, a night of terrified illegal camping, and no end of stress because one cuntstable* mistakenly decided that we were going to a protest he had been extralegally been set to discourage, and slapped us with a bullshit defect notice.
I'm a bit wrecked.
*That is indeed how it is properly spelled in this case.
PoM's vote looks okay, at its core, to my frazzled mind, but I might see if I can tighten it up later. The bit about Butcher being in close seems to be a vestige that does nothing useful and only gets in the way.
Otherwise, I think he has correctly identified that both the hit-and -run and the forgotten-breaks-walls strategies are busts.
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
Butcher going in close is more of a relative term, compared to us, who are to stay behind him and look as blatantly unthreatening as possible save to clean up after Butcher. We want to look weak enough that Butcher is immediately the issue, but not so weak they think we'll be easy prey.
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
fair enough. If ever they come into conflict, I'd prioritise the "Butcher sets them up, we knock 'em down" thing over that impression, though.
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
I assure you, it's perfectly above board conversation for two dead people hiding in trees, about to break into a castle and kill a bunch of vampires together. :lol
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
Alright, mates, let me make this clear.
All I've been asking for the past month+, is a simple three questions.
1. Where are you coming in from. Roof, scouting a route to below, a wall, the front door, the back window?
2. Subtle or not. Loud or quiet. Are you starting off kicking the door down and submerging the whole place in boomstick, or are you going in, sneaking around corners, finding the red dots and "Sever"ing their hearts while holding them in the "nice and quiet" hold.
3. Do you have any special plans for Butcher, or can the more experienced, stronger, Death be trusted to do his own thing?
Like, if this keeps going I'm going to be a bastard and choose "whichever answers amuse me." And you'll all be very annoyed when you summon a rubber duck army.
Ok, maybe not, but don't tempt me! I'm watching you.
All I've been asking for the past month+, is a simple three questions.
1. Where are you coming in from. Roof, scouting a route to below, a wall, the front door, the back window?
2. Subtle or not. Loud or quiet. Are you starting off kicking the door down and submerging the whole place in boomstick, or are you going in, sneaking around corners, finding the red dots and "Sever"ing their hearts while holding them in the "nice and quiet" hold.
3. Do you have any special plans for Butcher, or can the more experienced, stronger, Death be trusted to do his own thing?
Like, if this keeps going I'm going to be a bastard and choose "whichever answers amuse me." And you'll all be very annoyed when you summon a rubber duck army.
Ok, maybe not, but don't tempt me! I'm watching you.
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
1. The side that Forgotten sheers off (which, by nature of the vote, is the side with the least signatures in it) :: Or the front door.
2. Loud. Very, very loud. The plan literally sheers off a face of a castle for entry :: Still loud through the front door.
3. Just that he's the front man so we can be the cleanup crew.
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
You think? I was about two days away from acting like this was wicked early in the quest, where I still gave an accidental optimum choice, and just going with it, but like, docking you a fucking point or something on something.
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CLOSING THE VOTE:
[X] If Forgotten is able to control how wide he can strip a patch of land, have him sheer off an entire side of the castle (preferably with few or no vampires wandering it) so we can go for total shock and awe through the opening. A few rooms might crumble, having lost their supporting walls, but the damage will easily be contained to a few rooms by the nature of a castle's design.
-[X] If he doesn't think he can reliably control the width of his fuck-everything attack, just blow up the front door.
--[X] Try to have Butcher handle things from closer up, kneecapping them so we can finish them off, and generally being the threatening-looking one while we just kill the cripples left in his wake or Sever stuff that gets too close.
--[X] If things start to get dangerous for Butcher or he needs to back out, make him back up so we can use less discerning explosive powers to keep them at bay until things are under control again.
Is CLOSED.
Nightingale
Lord Tickle-Toes
- Location
- Beyond the Sea
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
Correct, I have not forgotten about this.
I recently came off Hiatus for AP, and am doing a co-quest with Nightingale. I also have a fanfiction project of which I REALLY need to update, though the co-quest comes first.
I would say this is more on unannounced Hiatus, but it's really not. It's more like inspiration induced writers block. Of which I am working on other projects really hard to try and brutally murder.
I would say I have mostly succeeded. I will try and have an update soon. Thank you for reminding me you care.
(College classes are not making this easier XD)
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Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
Inspiration causes writers' block?
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
Yes, actually.Inspiration causes writers' block?
For example, if I needed to write a fight scene between normal, every-day people. I can guarantee you the end result would be something out of a fantasy novel.
I would have to rewrite it, because I have intense amounts of inspiration for a more awesome scene.
And then I would have to rewrite it again.
And the final product? It just won't be good enough, it'll be half-hearted. Everyone will know. And that's if I can will myself to actually do it.
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That is not the exact case here, obviously, but it is a similar issue. I can't just post a half-hearted piece that I forced out of my bowels onto the page.
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Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
I am okay with this. Cool is good, as long as it isn't dumb
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
Speaking of dumb.
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I agree, honestly, it wasn't the most applicable example. Especially given this is RDQ. if the fight is supposed to look normal, there is a problem.
The issue stands though.
As I said, it is mostly under wraps. If you don't have an update in like, two weeks, start throwing shit at me.
A Choice-Be sure to read fully
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
It was in this small realm of possibility that you have clarity, you know this, your inner realm is... peaceful. From the dark lake, to the mountains, to the girl in front of you, a sentiment of evil.
"Cecellia?" You ask, unsure of why you are here, unsure of why... any of this is happening.
"It is too late for names, you know this as well as I do." Her voice is, strangely mature, "Like all things, before you is a choice. It is-Fizzle
Overwriting Control
Rewriting
Narrator on==True
Print('
______________________________________________________________________
Heh, jokes aside, guys, this has gotten away from me hardcore.
What with college and some other things, I haven't had all that much time. Finals just ended for me, though, so I have a little bit to try and bite my way back into functionality, back into a working order. And yeah, I have a lot to do, but at the forefront of my actual priorities (right behind paid priorities, hehehehe, doing Whisper tomorrow morning, you know who you are.)
I have around thirty days to get my life on straight for the next semester so instead of crashing I actually rise and hopefully manage above like a B+/A- average. (Screams)
With you know, a reasonable amount of sanity loss instead of legitimately losing my shit.
---
Rambling done. I now have the time to try and get back into TESMID(RDQ)
This was my first real project, and I was afraid, and unaware, and so very ignorant at the start of this. The world since the beginning of this has opened for me, and I have so much more power. So much to put forward, so much to do. So much fleshed too, hehe.
I made so many fucking mistakes I can't fix, rules of logic that _need to be changed but cannot._
And all that crazy shit? All those mistakes? They lead to this, these pauses, this level of semi disinterest, the stress on every fucking vote.
But during the last 5 months of college, I have thought of a few thousand ways to fix it. Ways to do it so much better, from the beginning. Hours upon hours spent on the bus, just thinking, saying to myself. "Wow I fucked up with that." "This would have been so much better." "Why did I even think that was a good idea?" "How I wish shadowrun was easier-" no wait, that last one was a side thought for something else.
You have to understand, I love TESMID(RDQ). And I watched it die around me, I cried for this so long ago, I mourned its loss. And that's why it's been so hard to get back into this version. I am working over my own broken roads without the ability to fix them, while staring at the perfect fix right there.
So I offer you all the choice, and it is real simple.
Do I spend this chance trying to revive TESMID(RDQ). Trying to work over the roads, the travel we've done again, and again, and again. Tripping over the cracks, more tears, more misery, more pretending, more hoping Aeternam can make it through and that Forgotten isn't just a jerk and that Fragment won't kill us and that Rose has our back and that Butcher won't tell and that Cecellia really IS our friend.
[]Continue TESMID(RDQ)
If this vote wins, I will try to have the current post up by the 20th.
Or do I use this chance to start something new from the wreckage, a new system, a new narrative, a change to how Rookies are handled, a change to how Deaths even work(just a few tweaks.)
[]Reboot TESMID(RDQ)
I only ask instead of _just_ rebooting for one reason.
1. @Dark Ness . I know, hard to believe, but she has been with me _since the very beginning._ She has stuck through all my crap, hell she's even shown up in my other works to bitch me out about the pauses XD
It is clear to me it would be like a betrayal to that loyalty, that comradeship, to not at-least ask.
She told me a while back that if we reboot, she won't be around for the next one. This is about Aeteram for her, in all her quirks, in all her stupid glory, the crazy explosions. She wants to see this through to the end, and when Aeternam dies, that's it, that's the end of the quest.
I am prepared for that. It will hurt, it won't feel like the work I've put my soul into without her, but sometimes hard decisions have to be made.
Will you stick with me, old friend? Have you changed your mind? It's fine if you haven't, and out of respect for you, and you alone, I hold this vote instead of doing as I please.
Well, you and @Skewfiend Honestly that guy has put so much fucking effort into this god forsaken quest.
I want to make it up to both of you, all that I put you through, all that you helped me learn. I want to make it better, I want to do right by those that have guided me without even meaning to.
And literally everyone else here. From the few lurkers I saw consistently that helped me through this, to @bird_poison , who became a joke he didn't even understand and led to so much motivation at the time it's not even right. I saw him again later, made the joke again, a few people got it, most didn't. It was okay.
If you've voted in this quest even a single time, rest assured I remember you. If you've told me about your day before, rest assured I have a glimps of it.
If you showed up a lot but didn't really stick around, like @Trondason or @kylina or @MrCogmor or @Kyrina or @Camellia
Rest assured I know what you did, I remember you.
And so even if we do a reboot, these memories are not gone. I want everyone to know that. And you haven't been tagged, trust me, that's because I don't want to be sappy and tag four page of people, trust me I remember you, I really do, and everyone else probably does too.
There is more data on this to be asked, but this post is already too long.
Perhaps next post, in a bit. Or if someone asks.
')
"Cecellia?" You ask, unsure of why you are here, unsure of why... any of this is happening.
"It is too late for names, you know this as well as I do." Her voice is, strangely mature, "Like all things, before you is a choice. It is-Fizzle
Overwriting Control
Rewriting
Narrator on==True
Print('
______________________________________________________________________
Heh, jokes aside, guys, this has gotten away from me hardcore.
What with college and some other things, I haven't had all that much time. Finals just ended for me, though, so I have a little bit to try and bite my way back into functionality, back into a working order. And yeah, I have a lot to do, but at the forefront of my actual priorities (right behind paid priorities, hehehehe, doing Whisper tomorrow morning, you know who you are.)
I have around thirty days to get my life on straight for the next semester so instead of crashing I actually rise and hopefully manage above like a B+/A- average. (Screams)
With you know, a reasonable amount of sanity loss instead of legitimately losing my shit.
---
Rambling done. I now have the time to try and get back into TESMID(RDQ)
This was my first real project, and I was afraid, and unaware, and so very ignorant at the start of this. The world since the beginning of this has opened for me, and I have so much more power. So much to put forward, so much to do. So much fleshed too, hehe.
I made so many fucking mistakes I can't fix, rules of logic that _need to be changed but cannot._
And all that crazy shit? All those mistakes? They lead to this, these pauses, this level of semi disinterest, the stress on every fucking vote.
But during the last 5 months of college, I have thought of a few thousand ways to fix it. Ways to do it so much better, from the beginning. Hours upon hours spent on the bus, just thinking, saying to myself. "Wow I fucked up with that." "This would have been so much better." "Why did I even think that was a good idea?" "How I wish shadowrun was easier-" no wait, that last one was a side thought for something else.
You have to understand, I love TESMID(RDQ). And I watched it die around me, I cried for this so long ago, I mourned its loss. And that's why it's been so hard to get back into this version. I am working over my own broken roads without the ability to fix them, while staring at the perfect fix right there.
So I offer you all the choice, and it is real simple.
Do I spend this chance trying to revive TESMID(RDQ). Trying to work over the roads, the travel we've done again, and again, and again. Tripping over the cracks, more tears, more misery, more pretending, more hoping Aeternam can make it through and that Forgotten isn't just a jerk and that Fragment won't kill us and that Rose has our back and that Butcher won't tell and that Cecellia really IS our friend.
[]Continue TESMID(RDQ)
If this vote wins, I will try to have the current post up by the 20th.
Or do I use this chance to start something new from the wreckage, a new system, a new narrative, a change to how Rookies are handled, a change to how Deaths even work(just a few tweaks.)
[]Reboot TESMID
I only ask instead of _just_ rebooting for one reason.
1. @Dark Ness . I know, hard to believe, but she has been with me _since the very beginning._ She has stuck through all my crap, hell she's even shown up in my other works to bitch me out about the pauses XD
It is clear to me it would be like a betrayal to that loyalty, that comradeship, to not at-least ask.
She told me a while back that if we reboot, she won't be around for the next one. This is about Aeteram for her, in all her quirks, in all her stupid glory, the crazy explosions. She wants to see this through to the end, and when Aeternam dies, that's it, that's the end of the quest.
I am prepared for that. It will hurt, it won't feel like the work I've put my soul into without her, but sometimes hard decisions have to be made.
Will you stick with me, old friend? Have you changed your mind? It's fine if you haven't, and out of respect for you, and you alone, I hold this vote instead of doing as I please.
Well, you and @Skewfiend Honestly that guy has put so much fucking effort into this god forsaken quest.
I want to make it up to both of you, all that I put you through, all that you helped me learn. I want to make it better, I want to do right by those that have guided me without even meaning to.
And literally everyone else here. From the few lurkers I saw consistently that helped me through this, to @bird_poison , who became a joke he didn't even understand and led to so much motivation at the time it's not even right. I saw him again later, made the joke again, a few people got it, most didn't. It was okay.
If you've voted in this quest even a single time, rest assured I remember you. If you've told me about your day before, rest assured I have a glimps of it.
If you showed up a lot but didn't really stick around, like @Trondason or @kylina or @MrCogmor or @Kyrina or @Camellia
Rest assured I know what you did, I remember you.
And so even if we do a reboot, these memories are not gone. I want everyone to know that. And you haven't been tagged, trust me, that's because I don't want to be sappy and tag four page of people, trust me I remember you, I really do, and everyone else probably does too.
There is more data on this to be asked, but this post is already too long.
Perhaps next post, in a bit. Or if someone asks.
')
Kelirapc
The Bright in your Night
- Location
- Kali-Forni
Hmmmmm, I say let's have a fresh start when it comes to this. I really do like this quest, but sometimes I felt a little bit lost, and that's most likely because it's an original world, but you know it better than us and can improve on what you already know. So....
[X]Reboot TESMID(RDQ)
[X]Reboot TESMID(RDQ)
This fanart made me cry
Thanks Sendicard. Its been fun. Unnerving, scary, and distressing for most parts, but I liked playing.
[X]Reboot TESMID(RDQ)
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
If Aeternam is still the main character, I am okay with a reboot. I know there were mistakes throughout this. And I can't fault you for wanting to make your writing better.
But do we have to lose what made this quest great in the process? What made me stick around for so long? Check back time and again, when I finally could devote the time and effort this deserves? (And, as you mentioned, bring it up in other works?)
I loved what this quest was. And I know it could be even better. But can't we improve without completely discarding the past? I know it isn't all up to me, but I know what I want. And that is, regardless of the choice that is made (and I can see where the wind is blowing), keeping what made the quest great in the first place.
But do we have to lose what made this quest great in the process? What made me stick around for so long? Check back time and again, when I finally could devote the time and effort this deserves? (And, as you mentioned, bring it up in other works?)
I loved what this quest was. And I know it could be even better. But can't we improve without completely discarding the past? I know it isn't all up to me, but I know what I want. And that is, regardless of the choice that is made (and I can see where the wind is blowing), keeping what made the quest great in the first place.
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chrisleech
The Finder of Things Left Behind
- Location
- Jacksonville, Florida
If we start again from the beginning, if we do it over again but completely different, if we make decisions that Aeternam never would have before, will it still be the same Aeternam several chapters in?
Sendicard
Writer of Sakura
- Location
- New Mexico, USA
- Pronouns
- YouPick
What made Aeternam so great to you? To me she's sort of a cardboard cutout. A few traits with a backstory I fucked up with quite a bit.
I mean, sure, she _is_ a character, and she _is_ mine, and that picture @Camellia posted a little while ago made me cry and I saved it to my desktop and holy fucking shit.
But...
What do you like about her so much? What could I bring out and still make a _better_ character?