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Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log
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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.
(Battlestar Genesis, February 2009)I want something else to get me through this
Semi-charmed kinda life, baby, baby
I want something else, I'm not listening when you say good-byeShe/Her or They/Them
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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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I played in AoL RP chat rooms. They no longer exist for which I forever thankful. I played a character that was probably a self insert based on Legend of Dragoon that was obviously the Thunder Dragoon and Divine Dragoon. At the same time. Because of course. Also claimed the Dragon Buster swords.
OC character do not steal.
My god I was so cringe.
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@helvetica said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
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.
In looking through logs to try to find @Kalakh things to cringe about, I forgot to factor in that I am also in these logs because they are my logs.
Mission failed successfully!
Not only did I find a log of me RPing and metaposing with myself in a scene full of people not acknowledging me (oh god save me), but I was stealing quotes left and right from whatever video game I was playing at the time.
I seemed to have been playing Zone of the Enders at the time, because I was quoting the character of ‘Viola’ in that game repeatedly, and my ‘@doing’ (For all intents and purposes, the ‘Quote’ field for Redwall MUCK characters) was the character’s penultimate quote:
“Will you answer one stupid question? … was I strong?”
Just… that. As my advertisement for who my character was. Pain.
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I don’t save many of my logs, so I thought this would be a fool’s errand. What I do remember is that teenage Jumpy wanted to be liked, so she figured that smiling would be a great way to be likeable. But not just any smile, these were grins. There were grins and nods and grins and says and so much grinning that I can’t imagine anyone thinking I was anything short of creepy as hell.
Anyway, I went looking for logs and I found something better, myself GMing in an AOL chat room for some of my friends. I gave it a quick scroll-through and summarily died of laughter when I saw this line describing a hallway in a castle.
A 6-foot by 6-foot square of odd glowing darkness sending bad energy vibes and brain pain seems to be what the guards are guarding. There’s a locked door further down the hall.
I’m sorry, what?
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@Jumpscare I def have ‘brain pain’ in my hallway.
