Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log
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omfg.
So.
When I went to google, to search for logs of my very first character on my very first game, I just gotta say that the google image suggestions were…
…pretty choice.
BUT I FOUND ONE.
Teraille sifts through pages briefly before adding. “An example of /uncommon/ knowledge would be this: ‘In the seventh year of his time as Lord Holder, Jarin decided that all crafters were fools outsider of their area of specialty, and decreed that their advice be ignored except as it pertained to the specific area of their schooling.’ Do you see the difference?”
Tereza nods, “Yes.”
Teraille nods. “Good. Any questions thus far?” She glances around the room.
Tereza shakes her head, “No none.”
(Harper’s Tale, 1997)I think it speaks for itself.
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Aw, but it’s cathartic to look at how far you’ve come.
Except for the rare occasion when you find a total gem of a post and you question if you’ve grown at all. T-then the anxiety returns. But luckily then you can just keep reading and cackling.
The entire log!? This is bold. Were the smiles and smirks poses, or were they coded reactions? Either way, golden.
You were merely mastering the true power of bringing brevity to storytime.
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oh god this is awful, the oldest log i still have involves me playing a french PC with a
written
accent
i hate you, @Solstice
“Tsk. Don’t be silly,” she scolds him lightly, setting down the two glasses and uncorking the bottle with a loud “Pop!” Ignoring the stream of froth running down the bottle over her hands, she pours the two glasses. “I shall not hear of you not having some.” The woman replaces the flutes with the bottle, handing him one and taking a sip of the sweetly wonderful liquid from her own glass. “Zere is /nozing/ in the world like aged Dom Perignon…”
(X-Men Movieverse MUCK, 2001)sadly i don’t have my earlier stuff from the 90s
she/her | playlist
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@Roz said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
PC with a
written
accentmine too! and they gave me a gold dragon for this nonsense
You say “No. I was never taught t’mend or anything.” If she had been taught, she wouldn’t be stabbing herself every other stitch and there might be some semblance of order to the crooked line edging its way down her fabric. “An’I don’t ‘member askin’ /you/ t’help me any.”
Wednesday, January 13, 1999, 5:30 PM on SouCon -
While the original Ekkar’s face goes blank, it’s quickly replaced by a wriggling “specter” of blind fury that shouts a number of quite audible curses that become fainter as the form gradually vanishes but not without mindlessly shouting “Wait till you see what I’m capable of!” as it recedes into the background.
(Dragon’s Fang MUD, October 26,1999)My descriptions were AMAZING. For a bit of context, this was a, iirc, Tel’aran’rhiod-based scene. Something that @Roadspike misses and wishes he could do more of.
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Wow, Pastebin. Just. Wow.
So I guess I lied and I found a few old logs from my first ever hardcore permadeath RP PC.
Including my first ever permadeath. Augh.
Fuck me, I’m actually crying over this shit all over again.
So, in the interest of ‘baby pictures of arrpeez,’ this is my first roleplayed death.
Audrey’s Death is the whole thing, for the masochists out there, assuming the link works. The first 7/8 is a shitty fight (I was always so bad at Haven-fighting, it’s fucking hilarious, @Kestrel has BEEN THERE WATCHING HOW BAD I AM BEFORE and this one is even worse) and the last eighth is just… melodrama gold, IMO.
Enjoy, or laugh, or cry, or mock, or whatever makes you feel good. I’m happy because I finally HAVE A THING TO SHARE IN A THREAD THAT’S NOT A GIF!
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I don’t have any of my really bad stuff since I appear to have lost every log before 2009 in my own files, and I was a decade into this thing by this point, but this is from my oldest one and it’s pretty bad just for the meta alone. I like to think I’m more graceful these days.
Bell pads past Drusus and Sasha. She almost pipes a hello to them. Almost. But, something about the way they’re interacting makes her keep flopping by. Leaving them to themselves. A little smile coming to her face. Aw. Boys are cute.
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@Tat said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
That’s it. That’s the entire pose. My primary early RP sin was being super boring.
I see your boring and raise:
Cally glances up as Abagail hovers nearby and orders some tea.
Yes, I was a serial tea-sipper, unable to properly socialize in group scenes or whenever there wasn’t some kind of action involved.
And the less said of some of my early plots, the better. Cringe.
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Unfortunately, I’ll have to rely on @Solstice for any actual (edit: EARLY, I have many terrible) terrible poses from me, as, unless they’re buried very deep, I lost my Redwall logs a long, long time ago.
I did find what I think was the very first Shard scene on Arx, in which she literally talks to no one, utters three words in total (to an NPC server), and then leaves. A promising start.
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Oh hey, you want a pose from my very first character on a MU* after MUDs? When I was playing Kitty Pryde? When I didn’t quite understand to pose in present tense, not past? Ok.
Standing up as well, Kitty moves to behind the desk, catching Jean into a hug. “Thank you. I better go pack and tell Piotr I am leaving. I won’t tell him too much, of course.” She walked out of the room calmly, though she didn’t feel that way at all. With an absentminded phase through Jean’s door, she felt a flutter of apprehension. Better go read what’s on that drive.
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I cannot post my oldest logs…
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My oldest log is an actual journal where I transcribed an entire IRC window’s worth of RP one night.
I was 15. It was bad. Poses ended with smilie or winkie faces. I can’t even post the character names because I’m pretty sure the guy who ran the channel still googles himself constantly. I also swear they wrote Elf Only Inn about him.
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@DrQuinn i want a picture of this, so bad. i got five bucks if we can make this happen.
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I refuse to even look, because I need to fall asleep tonight.
I do remember that I couldn’t figure out the : command for a while so I only used say, but sometimes I wanted to include actions so I’d start by saying something and then do action and then end by saying something, so the quotation marks at least sort of made sense.
This was after I got off raw telnet, where I would disconnect and reconnect every time I made a typo.
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@kalakh said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
Unfortunately, I’ll have to rely on @Solstice for any actual (edit: EARLY, I have many terrible) terrible poses from me, as, unless they’re buried very deep, I lost my Redwall logs a long, long time ago.
Oh boy, I know what I’m doing tomorrow!
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@eye8urcake said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
Audrey’s Death is the whole thing, for the masochists out there, assuming the link works. The first 7/8 is a shitty fight (I was always so bad at Haven-fighting, it’s fucking hilarious, @Kestrel has BEEN THERE WATCHING HOW BAD I AM BEFORE and this one is even worse) and the last eighth is just… melodrama gold, IMO.
The link doesn’t work. I demand justice!
Or I would, except I totally forgot about the combat scene we were in together that just wouldn’t end, and now I’m appeased because lol at the memory.
@Solstice said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
The entire log!? This is bold. Were the smiles and smirks poses, or were they coded reactions? Either way, golden.
Those are (almost) all canned emotes. You type ‘smile’, ‘grin’ or ‘cry’ and it spits out a preset sentence for you. They’re like roleplay emojis.
I did eventually learn to emote, but that was very obviously a mistake:
You have emoted: Lilah is unarmed, where Caes has his sabre and mining pick in close reach, but that doesn’t stop her. Her gaze fixes on his intently for a beat of silent stillness, too, before her hand snakes out towards his throat abruptly with the force of a striking viper, attempting to grab the scruff of his leather tunic. Her form has strength despite its wiry physique, and she uses it to its fullest with surgical expertise, angling each muscle so that it aligns with the greatest push. Sidestepping around him, she attempts to bend his back over the altar and lean over him, her face a hair’s width from his.
Here, @eye8urcake; I hope this makes you feel better about your combat RP. I think that by then you at least knew enough cool words that you didn’t think stringing as many of them together as possible would impress anyone else.
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@Kestrel P sure all I do until the awesomely melodramatic actually SECOND death of the PC (she died at the Envy party like three days earlier to take another PC’s vampirism via a ‘whoever pukes first loses’ wine-drinking contest and was a Temple vampire, lulz) is twitch and shit, because I was too fucking tired from all the endgame nonsense to even function at that point.
Apparently Microsoft buying Pastebin made all my shit ‘offensive’ and it can’t be public’d so if you’re actually interested, here. Die, Die, Die My Audrey
ETA: Honestly, I lovehate that those logs turned up. There’s some phenomenal RP by other people in these that really hit me in the metaphorical nostalgia balls. @WhiteRaven, @Selira, Emda, Snowscoran, Petal, Kirshbia, Salvation (hiss, but still), pof Buffy 3.0, pof Caitlin 2.0 (references for @Kestrel or Haven). I honestly can’t even name them all.
Then I come back three days later as a ghost to be just as fucking ridiculous… Morse code by slamming doors, anyone? How about flowers twisted into letters by unseen beings?
My hobby isn’t necessarily RP, it’s forcing myself to RP so I can see everybody else that’s good at RP’s cool RPS.
ETA: OMG HERE, I FOUND AN IRE (AETOLIA) LOG OF ME BEING A CHILD UNDEAD BEFORE I REALIZED HOW MUCH PEOPLE HATE THEM OR, EVEN WORSE, ‘LIKE’ THEM… Cala Meets Zun.
The rest of this shit gets the torch.
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I spent ten minutes of my life finding an x-men verse LiveJournal, saw that I attached an Avril Lavigne song to a log, and noped tf out.
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