CHARACTER/GAME PERSONALS - SEPTEMBER 2014

[mansionstaff]

YOU KNOW HOW THIS WORKS. Want to make some CR or Plotting happen? Here's where you plan it out.

► HANDY CHARACTER PLOTTING FORM
<b>Player:</b> <b>Character(s):</b> not a bad idea to also briefly list what they might be like or where they frequent for new/unfamiliar players! <b>Seeking:</b> Log / Meet New People / Interaction / People to Bother / AIM logs / Tegaki logs, ect. <b>Goals & Directions:</b> optional but recommended

► GOALS & DIRECTIONS: Hey, some of us have been here a really long time and might not know what direction to take our characters in anymore, or maybe you've been here only a few days and don't know where to start. There's no better time to start than now, so don't be afraid to express what things you'd like to do with your characters, regardless if it's something that might happen in the near future or a long ways away. Fall in love? Fall out of love? Graduate? Experience what it's like to be the opposite gender? An animal? In the body of someone else? Save the world? Try to destroy it? The more other players are aware of what you want to do, the better your chances are of making your wishes into reality!

► THIRD PARTY SUGGESTIONS: Suggest new CR or character ideas, even if it has nothing to do with your own characters. Just put a "THIRD PARTY SUGGESTION" in the title of your comment when you browse the Character Plotting threads, and who knows? Maybe you just suggested a great interaction or idea no one has ever thought of before. And don't forget to spread the love around with as many people as you can so everyone gets a suggestion or two!

► You know the usual rules: play nice, you don't have to say yes to every offer, be polite and all that jazz.

► Previous personals posts.

► The CALENDAR has been updated!

Let us know if you have any questions or concerns!

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GAME PLOTTING

[mansionstaff]

We've had a busy summer and summer vacation is over, but fret not for adventures at Smash are only just beginning!

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED - ISLE OF ANCIENTS: Now a permanent fixture of Smash Academy, the floating island is always open for exploration if you need a change from some slice-of-life. There's monsters to fight, ruins to explore, and untamed wilderness to claim. Perhaps there might be some valuable treasure or items to discover and take home! Please refer to all the previous event write-ups for any details [01], [02], [03], [04].

CLASSES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 8TH: But if slice-of-life is your thing we got you covered too! School time means school uniforms, classes, homework, cafeteria shenanigans, after-class clubs, frats/sororities (seriously where is Smasha Delta Gamma...) proms, dances and dates, oh my! Make sure to check your class schedules if you're a student, and work on your class logs if you're a teacher. Or, you know, keep doing your thing if you're neither.

There's also a lot of birthdays this month! Just saying!

OPEN DRAW LOG?

[forgetbeam]

Tossed the idea around on plurk between a few people earlier tonight, but I'll put it here too...

Basically, I've been itching to do a draw log lately and since I can't decide between several scenarios, it was suggested that there's a general catch-all one? Kind of like a dorm log, but with pictures? DOES THIS APPEAL TO ANYBODY HERE. And if so, how would you prefer it set up? I know having a million images can kind of bog down slower computers, so does it work better with image-free top-level comments, or keeping a limit on size for non-linked images, or...??

This would be incredibly experimental. I JUST WANNA DOODLE WITH YOU ALL.

Re: OPEN DRAW LOG?

[icequeen_aran]

I THINK what makes things like tegaki work so well is that the images are small and easy to load. Also if the log gets big eventually the threads will collapse and not all the images will load up-front anyway.

480x160 I think is what tegaki currently runs at, so maybe something like 500x200 for the comments, no bigger.

Is my opinion.

[forgetbeam]

Haha yeah, the issue is just until the threads do collapse. I do like the idea of a standard size, though. They make for fun paneling. I just hate the way tegaki likes to connect all my lines at random. :'|

I will definitely keep this in mind.

[icequeen_aran]

There's also mixing text and imaging. Best of both worlds.

[forgetbeam]

Fond memories of mixed logs...

That does lend a lot of freedom with things you just can't nail down ACTION SCENES ROBOTS BACKGROUNDS. Alright, I think I am getting a good idea of how to do this now.

passionbrows

[forgetbeam]

Player: Shocky
Character(s): KIYOTAKA, the loud and socially awkward ex-disciplinarian. HAYATO, the egotistical but goodhearted cheerleader/gym teacher.
Seeking: E V E R Y T H I N G. But new CR is always great.

Kiyotaka is kind of conflicted about the start of the new year, since he totally hates school now. He's really bitter and jaded about authority figures in general, so I would REALLY LOVE A MENTOR FIGURE to restore his faith just a little bit. He also has a Magikarp now, so that's a. Thing.
Would also really like to get him into belated SKY ISLAND INVESTIGATING since he is still very dubious about high schools full of dark mysteries.

Hayato is still new and is going to try to settle in good and proper now that all this subspace nonsense has died down a little. Gonna get a class log up for him sometime this month, but besides that, he should just meet people. Since Kiyotan should have a mentor figure, it would also be fun to play the other side of that and have Hayato be a mentor for some kid or another too. Who knows.

Re: OPEN DRAW LOG?

[voltecpower]

Do want. Make me draw. I'm not drawing enough for someone with my profession.

[blueburnshotter]

YOU CAN DO IT

I'M HERE TO ENCOURAGE AND INSPIRE YOU

ghost in the machine

[voltecpower]

Player: HB
Character(s): Pulseman, that quiet, shy little half-C-Life who hides in cyberspace most of the time and rarely comes out because people are loud
Seeking: Logs? New friends? Doing stuff? Hey you wanna do something with this guy, come tell me.
Goals & Directions: After the portal gets closed, Pulse is gonna want to check out every inch of that island, just so he'll know the territory like he already knows the school. But then, he'll also be going to class again once the new semester starts, so he'll be slightly more visible around the campus too. Aside from that I have nothing major planned for him right now, except for maybe strengthening a few relations with friends, especially since so many of his friends graduated/moved away/died and such. :P

[voltecpower]

I wanna be your rock and when I talk it lights a fire in you... wait

[blueburnshotter]

That song has been in my head all day AND I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED WATCHING THAT SHOW

THANKS

[tempus_fixit]

Pulse and Lucca need to do stuff, either in cyberspace or in actual space. Lucca isn't without some prodigal knowledge of computers, since she was able to effectively use a database from the future, and of course she can scorch the hell out of whatever's on the island right along with him!

[trustycrowbar]

Player: Eek
Character(s): GORDON FREEMAN, theoretical physicist turned one-man-army turned physics teacher.
LUCCA ASHTEAR, teenage girl roboticist and hyperactive fire mage.

Seeking:

Lucca always need more CR! Friends, enemies, crushes, I want it all! I would like to put up an autoshop log sometime this month to show off her AWESOME FLYING TIME MACHINE, so that's something to look forward to.

Gordon will be continuing to investigate the mysteries behind the school, as well as teaching classes. Also he has a Rotom and has for a while, but he doesn't really know how to train it; someone help the poor guy out, before Gordon tries to leave the lab and it blows up something in protest.

[awakeningwill]

I desperately want to do this.

[for_truth]

Player: Jess
Character(s): for_truth, the idiot baby Pokemon trainer and provolone_ranger, the guy from Mario.
Seeking: Yes. Give me all of it.
Goals & Directions: Hilda's kind of all over the place, but she's always super eager to make new friends and hang out with old ones. She's probably going to be in a few clubs and enrolled in a lot of classes so study buddies would be RADICAL. Maybe some Pokemon battles in the future?
I'd like for her to get her snoop on in the ruins, too, but because she's not exactly a genius she can definitely be support for brainiacs. Supposedly a big magical luck dragon chose her to be the hero of Truth (tm), so I think it'd be neat to do some stuff where she pursues TRUTH and JUSTICE and other anime garbage.

Mario is your history teacher, so I'm gonna get a log up sometime this month for that. Maybe an edu-tainment computer game will be the subject, like the Oregon Trail or something. here lies mayro, peperony and chease He needs to get around some more so I think he'll be exploring the island some. Maybe some sports logs in the future? who wants to play golf. how about tennis

Another thing I really want to do: MARIO PARTY. Or something like it. A group of people get together to explore some ruins on the island and find themselves on a giant game board where all the spaces are walled off with wizard magic until you roll dice and participate in stupid mini-games for chocolate coins. Maybe there's an implication that only the winner will get to survive or something to force everyone to take part, but at the end everything is hunky-dory and the only prize is something lame. I DUNNO, this is something I'd like to flesh out.

[punchtheflute]

Player: Hi! I'm Jim.

Character(s): Sonny Moe Snorlax
Seeking: Anything.
Goals & Directions: He's been a little quieter during this event. Haven't dragged his butt out to do much of anything. He's going to enjoy getting back to a normalish routine with classes and stuff though so that will be fun. I'm down for anything with him right now! If you need a smiley Pandaman for some reason, here he is!

Character(s): Jon Talbain
Seeking: All sorts.
Goals & Directions: CLASSES! He's going to be doing classes this year. I freakin' PROMISE you guys. Anyway, he's always available for one on one tutoring/training and I always enjoy new CR for him. He's also a veritable Pokémon encyclopedia by now, so, those of you with Pokémon who want the opinions of a guy born in 1940s England...?

Character(s): Joel
Seeking: Down for anything with this guy.
Goals & Directions: He had lots of fun shooting things during this event and lighting stuff on fire. But now he can get back to trying to relearn how to be a normal human being all over again. If you'd like to help, he's available for that.

[for_truth]

yes and very yes I would do this. I like the idea of linking images above a certain size, and maybe all top-levels get linked images or something? That might be good if you have a few different starting scenes in mind, just link em all with 1, 2, 3 and stuff

look I don't know I just thought it was a neat idea ok

[voltecpower]

Most definitely. Pulse doesn't even really know how to use a computer himself (besides diving in and out of it to go places) so he would leap at the chance to have someone techno-savvy to work with.

Forced Teacher Swap

[ihateplumbers]

Remember how about 152 years ago we played teacher roulette and instructors were shuffled around and forced to teach classes not their own?

I need this again in my life.

Max/Bowser/Jock (Arcanine)/Hagakure

[ihateplumbers]

Player: Chris
Character(s): Max/Bowser/Jock (Arcanine)/Hagakure [Note: I dropped Apples Kid, sorry.]
Seeking: Most of the things. Logs and such. Any sort of art log that is MS Paint based and revolves around a series of absurd propositions and circumstances.

Goals & Directions:
MAX: Getting ready for the new school year. Dealing with the irreparable loss of his second set of gunz. Wanting to do physical things. Trying to fill the hole in his life from Vinnie not being his underling anymore.

BOWSER: MARIO. MARIO. MARIO. EVERYTHING IS FILLED WITH RAGE AND yet a feeling of inexpressible longing and completeness, all wrapped up into one. When I get off my lazy butt, he's getting a new human body because of reasons.

JOCK: Loves Blue and loves being an Arcanine again. He wants to be your friend. He wants to eat a lot of meat. He wants to take naps with you. He wants you to feel his muscles.

HAGAKURE: Needs to have a fortune-telling log up sometime. Needs some non-Dangan... friends? Needs to do something with Hajime. Needs to get on that chicken coop.

Re: Max/Bowser/Jock (Arcanine)/Hagakure

[inspirethefire]

Roommate shenanigans, desperately needed. What can be done. What can Hagakure do

Also idk if he'd be interested in interactions with angry superpsychic dream girl but things could happen there idk.

[inspirethefire]

Player: Sarah
Character(s): Hajime the uptight cheerleader and Madotsuki the angry psychic dream child
Seeking: Interactions with old people as well as new people to meet!

Goals & Directions:
Hajime is becoming more and more despondent about his efforts at the school. His time in Kalos gave him some much needed rest (and a Whismur, that's a thing now), but he isn't feeling like his cheering efforts are helping the school much. It's time for him to bite the bullet and learn to fight, at least in self defense. He'll need the help of someone who's ready to deal with a very squeamish pacifist. Also, Pokemon training.

Madotsuki hasn't done much but wander and occasionally cause chaos around the school, so that's always an option. However, she needs to shake it up, mostly in the form of her real body getting some interaction. People can catch her making a run for the bathroom, or the vending machine. That'll bring chaos of a different sort.

[awakeningwill]

Player: Toni
Character(s): Vinnie the Venusaur, Zero the robot, Inigo the flirt
Seeking: A way to ease myself back into the game? Exploring new CR, and I always love drawlogs.
Goals & Directions: I'm still going to be somewhat sparse on activity due to work. Realistically, I probably need to drop my older threads... I'm contemplating dropping a character to lighten the load as well - in hindsight, even in my excitement, apping two dudes at a time was really biting off more than I can chew. Most likely it's going to be Inigo because as much as I love his CR and his cast, I can't give him the attention he deserves. Otherwise, I'm more or less winging it for this month.

[blueburnshotter]

MSpaint logs. Absurd situations. DOGE...