Fantasy Iridia- Occ

[Edric Blight]

Yep! Rookie golden knight, fresh meat!

Ok I like the sound of that. There's definitely big buzz around the newest selected golden knight, Mitchell. Definitely a big name this year.

Oooo I kinda like the idea of playing a chill "surfer dude bro" NPC golden knight as the CO for Mitch. Also, the fact that he hasn't been emotionally dulled down yet is interesting.

So I guess I'll play Mitch posted with the relaxed CO, Hyde, and Mitch will go off to the gate then and wander off since Hyde won't care much? I guess the end of my post will be setting up Mitch meeting Lady Shendoa for the first time then?

 

[LostPrimarch]

Yep! Rookie golden knight, fresh meat!

Ok I like the sound of that. There's definitely big buzz around the newest selected golden knight, Mitchell. Definitely a big name this year.

Oooo I kinda like the idea of playing a chill "surfer dude bro" NPC golden knight as the CO for Mitch. Also, the fact that he hasn't been emotionally dulled down yet is interesting.

So I guess I'll play Mitch posted with the relaxed CO, Hyde, and Mitch will go off to the gate then and wander off since Hyde won't care much? I guess the end of my post will be setting up Mitch meeting Lady Shendoa for the first time then?

If you choose that route yes. Hyde is her great great great grand uncle. He intends to personally escort her to the palace where the nobles are meeting up.

Also there is our slightly tipsy guardsman howard Megalodon20157

 

[Edric Blight]

If you choose that route yes. Hyde is her great great great grand uncle. He intends to personally escort her to the palace where the nobles are meeting up.

Also there is our slightly tipsy guardsman howard Megalodon20157

Alright nice. So I wanna chose the route where Mitch is stationed with Hyde, but he lets him go off to the gate, and there Mitch will meet Lady Shenoa for the first time, and that post will be a set up for you to make a response to me as the two characters come into contact for the first time.

If this all sounds good, I should be working on my post and getting it up hopefully soon. If not now, then a little bit later today/tomorrow.

 

[LostPrimarch]

Alright nice. So I wanna chose the route where Mitch is stationed with Hyde, but he lets him go off to the gate, and there Mitch will meet Lady Shenoa for the first time, and that post will be a set up for you to make a response to me as the two characters come into contact for the first time.

If this all sounds good, I should be working on my post and getting it up hopefully soon. If not now, then a little bit later today/tomorrow.

Well no he wouldn’t need to wander off if he is going to the gate. Thats already where hyde is headed to pick up his gx3 neice.

 

[Edric Blight]

Ok so then Mitch will be walking with Hyde who will be going to the gate in order to escort his great great great niece?

Apologies for my initial misunderstanding lol, it's a bit late where I am and my brain is a bit fried. That being said, I'm probably gonna get a post out tomorrow, not right now. Hopefully that's ok.

 

[LostPrimarch]

Ok so then Mitch will be walking with Hyde who will be going to the gate in order to escort his great great great niece?

Apologies for my initial misunderstanding lol, it's a bit late where I am and my brain is a bit fried. That being said, I'm probably gonna get a post out tomorrow, not right now. Hopefully that's ok.

Yeah your good I’ve got no issues take your time im going to sleep as well.

 

[niqlo]

Hello everyone! I apologize for not being as active as I'd like to be rn discussing stuff with y'all. I just got finished with exam week at Uni and all so I had to take a breather for a day or two to rest.

Reading the ideas presented by LostPrimarch regarding Lady Shenoa's meeting with Edric Blight 's character, Mitch, I'd think it'd be interesting to see Kyrie politely butt into the middle of their conversation. Seeing the Spymaster ingratiate herself to the heiress of the Shendoa family and the newblood Golden Knight under his charge would probably set all kinds of alarm bells inside the old Knight Hyde's mind.

Between that, the potential dynamics of Mitch's greenness and naivety as he meets someone in the order you probably should be wary of trusting at best, and Kyriss maybe being a little bit suspicious of Kyrie (I just realized they have very similar names lmao) given how Hyde might've told her to be cautious around the Spymaster, is where I'd think I'd like to start my first post off on. I'm open to any suggestions you guys might have tho!

 

[Edric Blight]

Yeah your good I’ve got no issues take your time im going to sleep as well.

Thanks for being so understanding. I'm a bit busy today but I promise I'll work on a post and getting it up tonight.

 

[Edric Blight]

Hello everyone! I apologize for not being as active as I'd like to be rn discussing stuff with y'all. I just got finished with exam week at Uni and all so I had to take a breather for a day or two to rest.

Reading the ideas presented by LostPrimarch regarding Lady Shenoa's meeting with Edric Blight 's character, Mitch, I'd think it'd be interesting to see Kyrie politely butt into the middle of their conversation. Seeing the Spymaster ingratiate herself to the heiress of the Shendoa family and the newblood Golden Knight under his charge would probably set all kinds of alarm bells inside the old Knight Hyde's mind.

Between that, the potential dynamics of Mitch's greenness and naivety as he meets someone in the order you probably should be wary of trusting at best, and Kyriss maybe being a little bit suspicious of Kyrie (I just realized they have very similar names lmao) given how Hyde might've told her to be cautious around the Spymaster, is where I'd think I'd like to start my first post off on. I'm open to any suggestions you guys might have tho!

Don't worry! All good, I understand!

I'm totally down for having Kyrie coming in during their conversation to kinda see what the buzz is around the new golden knight among other things.

I'll try my best to set you up so you can have a way to kind of butt in to Mitch's meeting with the noble family.

 

[niqlo]

Don't worry! All good, I understand!

I'm totally down for having Kyrie coming in during their conversation to kinda see what the buzz is around the new golden knight among other things.

I'll try my best to set you up so you can have a way to kind of butt in to Mitch's meeting with the noble family.

Nice, can't wait to see what you have in store!

 

[LostPrimarch]

Nice, can't wait to see what you have in store!

I also support this though Hyde would likely have a different view of the spymaster thats less worrisome. He is kinda a middle ground between the ancients and kinda holds a similar position to her but his is in mage corps management position than a spy network. The two would likely often have teams working together.

 

[Edric Blight]

Nice, can't wait to see what you have in store!

I'll try my best. I am an amateur writer/roleplayer. Don't worry, I speak fluent English and all that, so it won't be hard to read. But in terms of length and creativity, it might not be as grand as you're expecting lol.

I hope whatever I do come up with will work out though and be up to "standards."

 

[Skyrte]

There we go, a bloodied Cenehar and disguised Solana stand in queue to enter the Capital City. So anyone who is unsure of how to enter could have their character be in line too, strike up conversation with Cenehar, that sort of thing
I'm thinking of having both of them be late to whatever gathering we have planned in later phases, they after all should find a healer, maybe take a shower first, visit the dry cleaners, that sort of thing

Also I'm pretty sure any other Golden Knight could see right through Solana's disguise. Most ordinary people wouldn't be able to tell the difference, but I feel like mages and particularly perceptive people would be able to tell something fishys going on

 

[Edric Blight]

Alright I just got my first post up. I'm hoping it's alright. It took a little while but I think it came out ok? Anyways let me know what you think. Was everything fine? Did I do anything wrong? Did I set up the eventual interaction between Lady Shendoa, Hyde, and Mitchell alright? I threw it together with keeping a few of the things in mind we discussed last night, hoping I didn't miss anything or do anything to out of wack. Apologies as I know it might be a bit shaky.

 

[Skyrte]

Alright I just got my first post up. I'm hoping it's alright. It took a little while but I think it came out ok? Anyways let me know what you think. Was everything fine? Did I do anything wrong? Did I set up the eventual interaction between Lady Shendoa, Hyde, and Mitchell alright? I threw it together with keeping a few of the things in mind we discussed last night, hoping I didn't miss anything or do anything to out of wack. Apologies as I know it might be a bit shaky.

Not in your interaction but I've been at this whole RPing thing for a while, so I thought I could make some comments.

Just read your post, and right from the get go, it's good that you colored dialogue from the different characters. I've found that it's a good habit to get into, having some way of signifying dialogue in posts, especially when you get interactions with multiple people. There's a couple of ways you could do this, Bolding the text, or picking a Color. Bolding is certainly less hassle, and you don't have to contend with other people about character colors, as it's generally a good idea to have every character with a separate color. But either way, it's a way to make what other characters see pop out. As most characters aren't mind readers, thoughts and narration aren't things other people can have their characters react to.
Dialog, body language, and appearance are what are actually important to the people you're RPing with. Even though it's interesting to read all about other peoples characters, their own characters can only perceive those three major things. Dialogue, body language, appearance. Unless, again, mind-reader or something. Anyways, the more of that you have, the more other people have to work with. I'll come back to this, you did good with your Paragraph 5.

In your character introductory section of the post, Paragraphs 1-4, you hit some really good beats with Mitchell Markstrom. I can tell he's eager for action and excitement, but disciplined enough to follow orders even if they're boring. He's a bit starry eyed, and proud to have become a Knight. This is good stuff, it's this sort of text that makes it fun for others to read, to get a grip on your character and to see his growth throughout the whole roleplay.
Paragraph 5 is what others can actually work off of, as it's your character doing things in front of another player character, and you did good here. To Mitchell Markstrom, Kyriss Shendoa, who was so stunning that Mitchell was rendered speechless. He was visibly awed, eyes going wide, and he thinks that as nobility, Kyriss deserves the upmost respect, hence his kneeling. Stark contrast to his senior, Hyde, who is just standing there.

There's a few very minor things, like spacing things out more, I personally would have spaced out Paragraph 4 into 2 paragraphs, but you don't have to. Like I said that's my personal thing. I like spacings. As you do more RPing you'll find your own posting style, like if you prefer Bolding over Colors, or if you want to do both for dialogue, stuff like that. Or you'll find that you like what other people are doing and take their own quirks, that's how I got into bolding and coloring dialogue.
Overall you did good, I probably wouldn't have noticed you were new to this if you didn't say so.

And don't worry about your next posts not hitting five paragraphs, you don't have force writing to stretch out your post to make it longer. Personally I regularly do a paragraph or two on the average post and that's good enough, at least in my book.
So, good job Edric Blight
Kinda funny typing that out, since I watch Owl House too

 

[Skyrte]

OH YEAH
Also very good asking in the OOC and planning out your interactions. Good habit to get into.
It allows for more complex interactions and it gets a good flow going, as the start of said interaction is pretty much guaranteed to be strong

 

[Edric Blight]

I really appreciate everything you have said here and that you have taken the time to type all of this out. I mean it, I'm always willing to learn from the more skilled RPers here on this site. Any and all comments are appreciated, as I'm certainly pretty new to roleplaying. I've been roleplaying for about a year in general, and only a month on this site. So thank you.

In terms of the colors, I honestly didn't know what to pick or do for my character. I'm hoping I didn't "steal" anyone's colors. I can go bolded text and colorless if needed. It was a bit awkward just picking a random color that wasn't taken and rolling with it, so please let me know if I "took" your color. I'm totally willing to change it up. I usually don't color code my dialogue but I've learned to do so on this site as I've learned from other more experienced veterans on RPNation. Again, PLEASE tell me if you're not a fan of what I did with the colors lol.

I'm so glad you liked my paragraphs for the most part. I did my best trying to open the scene for my character to enter and soon begin to speak with the other character played by all of you. I'm glad you got that starry eyed eager new young knight aspect of Mitchell, and it's especially shown more in this earlier post since as of now in the RP, Mitch's emotions haven't been completely dulled down yet. So he feels things more like pride of being gawked at as the new golden knight, irritation with being stationed in a boring public market, and awe at the sight of seeing a noble in person.

I honestly wasn't expecting my post to bas long as it was, and I might have drawn it out too long, so I again apologize for that if any of you thought it was too long. Also, I'm hoping I wrote Hyde ok and didn't play TOO much into the cliche "California surfer dude" to the point where it was comically irritating to read. If I should tone it down or work on making him less of a cliche, let me know. I spent less time on him since he's merely an NPC and my main character is Mitchell.

But seriously, thank you for all that you have written here Skyrte, all of it is appreciated, I mean it lol. Also, I don't expect my regular posts will be this long. My only excuse for this one is that it was my starting off post, and that it was mostly consumed by the interaction between Mitchell and an NPC, and it was a lot of setting the scene and describing Mitchell's feelings and emotions and thoughts. Also glad to know I won't be expected to make big posts all the time. I didn't want to be the only one doing 2 paragraphs in a sea of people doing 5 or 6 lol.

And lastly, hell yea! Thank you so much for the rping advice and the comments on my writing and character. I'm so glad I was able to convey Mitchell to you clearly and in the way that I had intended. I was a bit nervous I'd be subjected to some scrutiny and judgement being what looks to me like the least experienced player out of all of you guys. And omg you watch TOH too? Awesome lol, I'm a big fan of the Owl House.

Once again, thank you Skyrte .

 

[Edric Blight]

OH YEAH
Also very good asking in the OOC and planning out your interactions. Good habit to get into.
It allows for more complex interactions and it gets a good flow going, as the start of said interaction is strong

Oh thank you again!

Hoping to get into some good habits. I'm new in the whole group RP scene so it helps to know I'm doing something right haha.

 

[Skyrte]

I really appreciate everything you have said here and that you have taken the time to type all of this out. I mean it, I'm always willing to learn from the more skilled RPers here on this site. Any and all comments are appreciated, as I'm certainly pretty new to roleplaying. I've been roleplaying for about a year in general, and only a month on this site. So thank you.

In terms of the colors, I honestly didn't know what to pick or do for my character. I'm hoping I didn't "steal" anyone's colors. I can go bolded text and colorless if needed. It was a bit awkward just picking a random color that wasn't taken and rolling with it, so please let me know if I "took" your color. I'm totally willing to change it up. I usually don't color code my dialogue but I've learned to do so on this site as I've learned from other more experienced veterans on RPNation. Again, PLEASE tell me if you're not a fan of what I did with the colors lol.

I'm so glad you liked my paragraphs for the most part. I did my best trying to open the scene for my character to enter and soon begin to speak with the other character played by all of you. I'm glad you got that starry eyed eager new young knight aspect of Mitchell, and it's especially shown more in this earlier post since as of now in the RP, Mitch's emotions haven't been completely dulled down yet. So he feels things more like pride of being gawked at as the new golden knight, irritation with being stationed in a boring public market, and awe at the sight of seeing a noble in person.

I honestly wasn't expecting my post to bas long as it was, and I might have drawn it out too long, so I again apologize for that if any of you thought it was too long. Also, I'm hoping I wrote Hyde ok and didn't play TOO much into the cliche "California surfer dude" to the point where it was comically irritating to read. If I should tone it down or work on making him less of a cliche, let me know. I spent less time on him since he's merely an NPC and my main character is Mitchell.

But seriously, thank you for all that you have written here Skyrte, all of it is appreciated, I mean it lol. Also, I don't expect my regular posts will be this long. My only excuse for this one is that it was my starting off post, and that it was mostly consumed by the interaction between Mitchell and an NPC, and it was a lot of setting the scene and describing Mitchell's feelings and emotions and thoughts. Also glad to know I won't be expected to make big posts all the time. I didn't want to be the only one doing 2 paragraphs in a sea of people doing 5 or 6 lol.

And lastly, hell yea! Thank you so much for the rping advice and the comments on my writing and character. I'm so glad I was able to convey Mitchell to you clearly and in the way that I had intended. I was a bit nervous I'd be subjected to some scrutiny and judgement being what looks to me like the least experienced player out of all of you guys. And omg you watch TOH too? Awesome lol, I'm a big fan of the Owl House.

Once again, thank you Skyrte .

No problem, I was just making and eating a late lunch, so I had plenty of time to do it
As for colors, I don't think you have to worry about it too much, it's usually first come first serve in my experience.
Seems like SharkBark's Apollo Kingstriker's taken Gold
Megalodon's Howard Livingston has Red
I claimed Orange in my CS, and I gave it to Cenehar Allisec, and in my intro I grabbed that Peachy Reddish color for Solana
You just grabbed Purple

Another thing to keep in mind when picking colors is the whole CARWASH / CAWA thing. See how it's much easier to see CAWA than RSH?
I think most people are on a dark theme on this site, so I tend to pick lighter colors, so it pops out more against the dark background. I actually have a personal custom go-to color that's a light bluish-purple thing, but since my characters are from a Noble family that likes red, gold, white, that sort of thing I decided to not go for my personal color

We'll see if anyone else has anything to comment, after all I'm just one person

Oh thank you again!

Hoping to get into some good habits. I'm new in the whole group RP scene so it helps to know I'm doing something right haha.

Interestingly I actually don't see OOC interaction planning too much, in my experience
But still it's a good habit to pick up imo

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And yeah, I'm a big fan of TOH too, I actually haven't gotten around to seeing S2B yet, but I will soon

 

[Edric Blight]

Alright that sounds good. We will have to see if any other people have any input on the color thing. And yea, I personally use dark mode on this site lol.

Also, I haven't got around to TOH S2B yet either, but I was hoping on maybe checking it out later tonight.

 

[noxrequiem]

Hey sorry, been really busy the past few days and will probably be busy for several more. I'm trying to at least get a rough outline out in the CS of Morrigan's family before I begin posting in the IC. Just thought I'd let everyone know what's up

 

[BLK]

Hey all! Finally gonna hop in here. Posted my CS a bit later than y'all, but I love what I've been reading so far! Excited for some fun RP, pending the OK from LP.

As far as character intros go, would the people at the gate be okay with me moving in Gerard to see what's going on (Pending the OK, again)? I'd love to get some good early characterization through dialogue going on

 

[Skyrte]

Hey all! Finally gonna hop in here. Posted my CS a bit later than y'all, but I love what I've been reading so far! Excited for some fun RP, pending the OK from LP.

As far as character intros go, would the people at the gate be okay with me moving in Gerard to see what's going on (Pending the OK, again)? I'd love to get some good early characterization through dialogue going on

I'm good for it once you get approved, though my two characters Cenehar and Solana are technically like some 20 or 30 meters away from the gatehouse. They're standing in a line to get in.

I read over your character sheet and spotted some interesting overlap between our two noble houses
Both of the Golden Knights from House Allisec have had major events in the eastern regions of the Kingdom, where your Noble Family is from

In the Iridian Civil War, Year 511, Asmundr Allisec the Rose Knight personally defended the neutral city of Arcton, in the east, from the civil war for the entirety of the war, all 43 years. Though I uhh may have forgotten to mention in my CS that Arcton was in the eastern parts of the kingdom. It was implied, city founded by Knights, yeah, totally implied. He also participated in the Dead Return event in 801, where House Ashcourt was able to expand their influence
And Solana Allisec was active in the east as a peacekeeper, having promised the eastern town of Yellowseed that she or House Allisec would help them, if they ever needed help. She actually earned her title, The Daydreaming Knight/The Daydreamer, during that period of time. Since she's at the Capital now, House Allisec has stepped in to help in her place, there's a whole regiment of Allisec House Guard, and an entire group of doctors stationed in one of the eastern regions.
In fact Solana was active in the region when Gerard Ashcourt was growing up (10-17 yrs of age?), and House Allisec's XIII Regiment would have been sent there to help after she left in 1007

Lots of history between our characters already and they haven't even said a word to each other IC yet

 

[BLK]

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If nobody has posted anything outside of the gatehouse by the time I'm cleared I'll just drop my char outside with yours lol. Get some early interaction going there.

I'm really looking forwards to seeing how our characters interact! I think there's a ton of fun potential for either some uneasy friendships, especially stemming from Gerard likely knowing who both of your characters are, but not that not necessarily going both ways.

 

[Skyrte]

If nobody has posted anything outside of the gatehouse by the time I'm cleared I'll just drop my char outside with yours lol. Get some early interaction going there.

I'm really looking forwards to seeing how our characters interact! I think there's a ton of fun potential for either some uneasy friendships, especially stemming from Gerard likely knowing who both of your characters are, but not that not necessarily going both ways.

Sure

And oh yeah, Solana may be able to recognize an Ashcourt crest or insignia, but she wouldn't be able to recognize Gerard by face at all. And even if she did, she definitely wouldn't want to say anything too direct, that would give her away to Cenehar. She's supposed to be keeping an eye on him in secret
Cenehar too, definitely learned about the Ashcourts in lessons from his father but the name probably didn't stick. He'd have no idea unless you or someone else spelled it out for him

Definitely going to be interesting