Welcome back, Lore. It's good to see that you're willing to go back out into the trenches. We need all the help we can get.
*adjusts his Maple Leafs jersey*
(okay the Leafs are playing the Habs and I'm watching it right now, bear with me all right?)
Today we've got a doozy for you - you're getting a character that's a step up as far as length from the last one you did.
Godspeed.
Melusine: Rachel Gettys
The V4 Read-a-Thon
2019 Edition!
me taking another one
Gimme one.
Ahh, Toxie. Back from one service into another. We here at the Time Police are glad to have someone of your unique skillset to aid in the historical recovery efforts. I wish I could give you a preview as to what you're headed into, but ... I can't. But the brass and I have full faith in your abilities to take anything that may come.
As such, here's your assignment:
ItzToxie: Jessica Pentangeli
Good luck.
As such, here's your assignment:
ItzToxie: Jessica Pentangeli
Good luck.
Kevin Harding is the exact opposite case from Samaya, where the bulk of his gameplay is on the island itself. That seems promising.
Profile first. Seemingly regular guy, got into fights but cleaned up his act. He's a big fan of recreational football apparently, though at 6'1" and 150 pounds...well, let's hope he's very good at running. Otherwise, he just plays video games. No clue on his actual personality, but maybe that'll become clearer once we get into the game proper.
Okay, so he's really enthused about reading books, in particular the Art of War, and he's also short on funds, as shown by him handing over a crumpled ten. This already suggests a few interesting things about him. He volunteers to help sort the books in the library and shares some small talk. And scene. I would say it's similar to Samaya in that there's a really neutral voice here, but a few quirks are thrown in because of incidental actions that give him a bit more nuance. Following immediately from his purchase of the Art of War, Kevin is walking and reading it when he enters the gym and decides to just sit down on the bleachers while two people wrestle. He's amused to see some random nerd playing tennis in the gym and that's it for pregame.
Okay good, Kevin is panicky, upset, and unsure about his next move. We can work with this. He's ready to get to know people...and Brent throws a stick of dynamite. So much for that. Charging into the next thread, he stops to catch his breath and observe a couple of students from a safe distance, feeling paranoid that they'll kill him. He's not wrong, since one of them immediately murders the other, and he ducks in hiding until the murderer leaves.
Once assured that he's safe, Kevin creeps on over to the cabin, where he's privy to another murder. Deciding that he's going to get the drop on the assassins, he smashes out a window with his assigned weapon: a shovel, and immediately regrets it, deciding that he'll just take the front door instead. Brandishing his deadly implement at...you know, I don't honestly know what's happening in this cabin. There are folks creeping around outside, a confrontation inside, and nobody's using any clear markers to signify where anyone is in relation to anyone else. So for the sake of my sanity, I'll just say that Kevin threatens to brain an unconscious kid in return for a gun and things go downhill from there. You can get a feeling of Kevin's desperation, since he just wants to improve his condition on the island and he's willing to go to extremes to do it. When someone else steals the gun and he realizes that he's in a losing position, he goes so far as trying to bluff in order to get ahead, not that it helps much. He just leaves no richer than when he started.
Feeling decidedly humiliated and exhausted, Kevin stops to catch his breath and contemplates to himself that he has no choice but to play. But does he? When someone comes to check if he's okay, he doesn't actually follow through on his instinctual urge to attack her, though he does ask her to leave. Kevin is examining the game on a case by case basis, not just lashing out at everyone in the hopes of getting a kill. From a meta perspective, that gives him extra points in my book. Besides, everyone just vanishes like ninjas so it's out of his hands anyway.
Unfortunately, at this point in the story, he just seems to run out of steam, so you won't mind if I summarize these last few threads. He stops at a church, tries to talk to some people, a random kill happens, and he leaves. Next thread is really dramatic and such, but it doesn't matter because he's just watching from a distance and not contributing anything except internal monologue about how scared he is. And the instant he encounters ANOTHER group in another thread, they pull a gun on him and he leaves again.
Finally we get to his deathpost, and for all the crazy that emanates from this scene, the long and short of it is that he bursts through a door and takes a javelin to the chest. He gets a brief moment to lament his lot in life and then he plops down. No preamble, no buildup, just dead.
Final Analysis: Kevin had the makings of a real kid, but real as he was, he didn't actually end up doing anything. Sometimes interesting on the character side, but overall a bit of a background character who never changed up the game in an appreciable way.
One more!
Profile first. Seemingly regular guy, got into fights but cleaned up his act. He's a big fan of recreational football apparently, though at 6'1" and 150 pounds...well, let's hope he's very good at running. Otherwise, he just plays video games. No clue on his actual personality, but maybe that'll become clearer once we get into the game proper.
Okay, so he's really enthused about reading books, in particular the Art of War, and he's also short on funds, as shown by him handing over a crumpled ten. This already suggests a few interesting things about him. He volunteers to help sort the books in the library and shares some small talk. And scene. I would say it's similar to Samaya in that there's a really neutral voice here, but a few quirks are thrown in because of incidental actions that give him a bit more nuance. Following immediately from his purchase of the Art of War, Kevin is walking and reading it when he enters the gym and decides to just sit down on the bleachers while two people wrestle. He's amused to see some random nerd playing tennis in the gym and that's it for pregame.
Okay good, Kevin is panicky, upset, and unsure about his next move. We can work with this. He's ready to get to know people...and Brent throws a stick of dynamite. So much for that. Charging into the next thread, he stops to catch his breath and observe a couple of students from a safe distance, feeling paranoid that they'll kill him. He's not wrong, since one of them immediately murders the other, and he ducks in hiding until the murderer leaves.
Once assured that he's safe, Kevin creeps on over to the cabin, where he's privy to another murder. Deciding that he's going to get the drop on the assassins, he smashes out a window with his assigned weapon: a shovel, and immediately regrets it, deciding that he'll just take the front door instead. Brandishing his deadly implement at...you know, I don't honestly know what's happening in this cabin. There are folks creeping around outside, a confrontation inside, and nobody's using any clear markers to signify where anyone is in relation to anyone else. So for the sake of my sanity, I'll just say that Kevin threatens to brain an unconscious kid in return for a gun and things go downhill from there. You can get a feeling of Kevin's desperation, since he just wants to improve his condition on the island and he's willing to go to extremes to do it. When someone else steals the gun and he realizes that he's in a losing position, he goes so far as trying to bluff in order to get ahead, not that it helps much. He just leaves no richer than when he started.
Feeling decidedly humiliated and exhausted, Kevin stops to catch his breath and contemplates to himself that he has no choice but to play. But does he? When someone comes to check if he's okay, he doesn't actually follow through on his instinctual urge to attack her, though he does ask her to leave. Kevin is examining the game on a case by case basis, not just lashing out at everyone in the hopes of getting a kill. From a meta perspective, that gives him extra points in my book. Besides, everyone just vanishes like ninjas so it's out of his hands anyway.
Unfortunately, at this point in the story, he just seems to run out of steam, so you won't mind if I summarize these last few threads. He stops at a church, tries to talk to some people, a random kill happens, and he leaves. Next thread is really dramatic and such, but it doesn't matter because he's just watching from a distance and not contributing anything except internal monologue about how scared he is. And the instant he encounters ANOTHER group in another thread, they pull a gun on him and he leaves again.
Finally we get to his deathpost, and for all the crazy that emanates from this scene, the long and short of it is that he bursts through a door and takes a javelin to the chest. He gets a brief moment to lament his lot in life and then he plops down. No preamble, no buildup, just dead.
Final Analysis: Kevin had the makings of a real kid, but real as he was, he didn't actually end up doing anything. Sometimes interesting on the character side, but overall a bit of a background character who never changed up the game in an appreciable way.
One more!
Welcome back, Blast. Your hard work has garnered you a promotion. You're now a Detective-Sergeant. Take your new responsibilities with pride, as we're going to rely on you for harder and harder missions going forward. As far as that's concerned...
Blastinus: Nick Reid
I think you'll want to ensure that you replenish your supplies and make sure your armour is in order. In an alternate universe, Nick Reid is quite the comer, but I'm not entirely sure how his original iteration goes... he had a second chance. How went his first?
Good luck.
Blastinus: Nick Reid
I think you'll want to ensure that you replenish your supplies and make sure your armour is in order. In an alternate universe, Nick Reid is quite the comer, but I'm not entirely sure how his original iteration goes... he had a second chance. How went his first?
Good luck.
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more blood for the tooth god pls
destroy the UN08/03/2019
Micheal experienced super position wherein he was both Beryl and he was Beryl's RP site quote. He was sure he could be happy about this but he no longer knew what happiness meant.
Micheal experienced super position wherein he was both Beryl and he was Beryl's RP site quote. He was sure he could be happy about this but he no longer knew what happiness meant.
Welcome back from the battlegrounds, Kermit. It's good to see that you most retained your sanity - and look at that, you only vomited spiders out of your eyes ONCE. That's an improvement. For your next assignment, you've got something a little more quick, a little more short-lived. I hold out hope that your sanity remains intact once you return.
Kermit: Dominic Stratford
Good luck, my amphibian friend.
Kermit: Dominic Stratford
Good luck, my amphibian friend.
Sarah Atwell:
Spoiler!
I'll take another!
Daniel was a pretty short read in both pregame and V4 proper, but he was decent for what he did. His deal is that he's this thuggish guy who is actually a bit of a softy, and that comes through nicely in pregame with his befriending Lucy and unsuccessfully asking her to prom.
He doesn't actually get to do a lot in the actual game, and I've seen references to him being the unfavorite of his handler, which is too bad. He had the vibe of someone who wants to be heroic but struggles with how to do so in the environment of the island, where even trying to be a hero usually leads to violence. Unfortunately his first thread was pretty packed and he fell victim to "oh no I somehow lost track of everyone between threads syndrome", just to end up in another fairly large thread. He gets to shine in his fight scene with Maxwell, which has a bit of era-appropriate cheese but is sufficiently exciting, and he does at least die attempting to be heroic. Overall not a bad read, but a short and somewhat crowded one, especially since his posts tend to be much shorter than those of the people around him.
Give me another, cactus man.
He doesn't actually get to do a lot in the actual game, and I've seen references to him being the unfavorite of his handler, which is too bad. He had the vibe of someone who wants to be heroic but struggles with how to do so in the environment of the island, where even trying to be a hero usually leads to violence. Unfortunately his first thread was pretty packed and he fell victim to "oh no I somehow lost track of everyone between threads syndrome", just to end up in another fairly large thread. He gets to shine in his fight scene with Maxwell, which has a bit of era-appropriate cheese but is sufficiently exciting, and he does at least die attempting to be heroic. Overall not a bad read, but a short and somewhat crowded one, especially since his posts tend to be much shorter than those of the people around him.
Give me another, cactus man.
"Art enriches the community, Steve, no less than a pulsing fire hose, or a fireman beating down a blazing door. So what if we're drawing a nude man? So what if all we ever draw is a nude man, or the same nude man over and over in all sorts of provocative positions? Context, not content! Process, not subject! Don't be so gauche, Steve, it's beneath you."
Ahh, good morning, good morning to each of you. It's always more fun when I get to send an away team back in time together; it makes me see the good we're doing when so many fine people are here to help. I'm glad that all three of you are still sanity-intact after your ventures back in time; Espi, the higher-ups really appreciated your in-depth report as well. Keep that kind of effort up and you'll almost certainly be promoted. Yugi, it's nice to see you back from the war. We'll get you up to speed in no-time. Stick by Zee, she'll make sure you're steered properly once you're back there. And if not, she'll hit you with her formatting stick.
You definitely need a formatting stick when you go back. Definitely.
Speaking of formatting - if you're doing longboi reviews like Espi's tour de force or Kermit's - please try and put it behind a spoiler tag just so it's not a wall of text. Thanks!
The equipment rack is over there for replenishing your supplies, and as for your assignments? *looks down at the pile* Here you go.
Espi: Dustin Royal
Zee: Maria Graham
Yugi: Michael Moretti
Huh. Looks like I unintentionally repeated a surname from the past on one of my current characters. Oops. Go see what other fun facts you can find!
Good luck!
You definitely need a formatting stick when you go back. Definitely.
Speaking of formatting - if you're doing longboi reviews like Espi's tour de force or Kermit's - please try and put it behind a spoiler tag just so it's not a wall of text. Thanks!
The equipment rack is over there for replenishing your supplies, and as for your assignments? *looks down at the pile* Here you go.
Espi: Dustin Royal
Zee: Maria Graham
Yugi: Michael Moretti
Huh. Looks like I unintentionally repeated a surname from the past on one of my current characters. Oops. Go see what other fun facts you can find!
Good luck!
(Adopted from Dannyrulx)
Ah, Ohm! You were so close to getting to beam down with the last landing party. But that's okay, we'll still send you down. All hands on deck - you know how it is. I'm sending you something that'll ease you in a bit, I'd think, so keep your fingers crossed and maybe you'll come back with a recommendation! Funny we're talking about adoptions too, since this is in fact one!
Ohm: Luke Templeton
Good luck down there!
Ohm: Luke Templeton
Good luck down there!