The Queen's Madness - OOC

SirFlabberghaspy said:
Don't worry, I'm aware, just referring to him as 'young dragon' through third-person literature rather than Siara's knowledge. She's got no idea he's a dragon.
@Idea
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I see. Ok. Not used to omniscient narrators, but alright.
 
I may post later again today. I'm sorry if you feel my character is cheating, and shouldn't know about Asavar sending guards the the tavern, but if she didnt, Joyce wouldn't be a very good spy would she?


I'll flesh out the network she uses, but most often nobles have very loose lips when drunk, even more so when flaunting their wealth to other nobles while hosting expensive parties with entertainers. No one seems to pay much attention to beggars or servants either.
 
Vantruss said:
I may post later again today. I'm sorry if you feel my character is cheating, and shouldn't know about Asavar sending guards the the tavern, but if she didnt, Joyce wouldn't be a very good spy would she?
I'll flesh out the network she uses, but most often nobles have very loose lips when drunk, even more so when flaunting their wealth to other nobles while hosting expensive parties with entertainers. No one seems to pay much attention to beggars or servants either.
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It's alright :) If anyone would know it would be her. And I like the code. Works especially since the siblings own a cat who frequently wanders around the tavern.

SirFlabberghaspy said:
And she's got a perfect disguise: A pretty face and pointed ears.
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Apparently a pretty face and pointed ears work on more than just nobles.
 
I think I might start gathering all the tidbits of information about this world that have been mentioned throughout the roleplay and compiling them.


Because I'm apparently a masochist.
 
I have a feeling Siara is going to completely hate Joyce and will only act nice to her because of Allan, until she finds a way to begin adoring her.


Also, I can help you. @ianbabyyy


Compiling information and creating Lore is something I find extremely fulfilling.
 
SirFlabberghaspy said:
Compiling information and creating Lore is something I find extremely fulfilling.
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Ignore my grouching, I absolutely adore doing things like this. Not so much the creating Lore, but compiling information definitely. And organizing it. And then making everything pretty. And then- I dunno. I like sorting stuff.


I would adore your help though.
 
I like it. While I have no personal preference, it would certainly help some imagine your characters in their heads. I know people who prefer imagining characters through an art-style, while others prefer to imagine them as actual people.
 
It all comes down to personal preference really. And also, I'm going to just let it be known that Gareth has nothing to do.
 
SirFlabberghaspy said:
I like it. While I have no personal preference, it would certainly help some imagine your characters in their heads. I know people who prefer imagining characters through an art-style, while others prefer to imagine them as actual people.
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That's what I figured, so I figured I'd have one of each. I like seeing both.
 
Some say this song gives them a sense of claustrophobia / being chased after, but it just reminds me of that feeling when you know you're hungry and you can go make something but you're busy with something or just too lazy, but it just keeps biting at you like a small child at a sandwich the size of his head.


Ultimately, it's an epic struggle between should I make something to eat or should I sit here and starve happily?





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Vantruss said:
I may post later again today. I'm sorry if you feel my character is cheating, and shouldn't know about Asavar sending guards the the tavern, but if she didnt, Joyce wouldn't be a very good spy would she?
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There is a line between good spy and omniscient, and you are messing with that line. He told them to do that hours ago. There is no realisitic way she would know yet especially when no effort was made to show her getting to the bottom of anything like that. If it had been days ago, maybe, weeks or months ago? Yes, but hours?


Again, that isn't good spy, that is... omniscient bad writing.

Vantruss said:
I'll flesh out the network she uses, but most often nobles have very loose lips when drunk, even more so when flaunting their wealth to other nobles while hosting expensive parties with entertainers. No one seems to pay much attention to beggars or servants either.
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Given Asavar has not spoken to any nobles nor do any nobles know about this, nor does he answer to them, that would not explain how she knows mere hours after he did so.


You would be better off saying she bribes servants as servants often go unnoticed by 'important' people, and so, would be a great wealth of information, but even then, she still wouldn't know. The servants would have had to finish their shifts, walk down (as they are servants, they wouldn't be paying for a messenger), and inform someone so they can inform her. Which would take time. Especially as the servants would be... well... hesitant about betraying the confidence of someone like Asavar.


So, in the future, if you could shoot me a PM first, that would be lovely. I don't mind playing ball, but doing stuff like that can really endanger plans other RPers have. I have no problem letting you in on things they are planning, tid-bits to help her with her spy work that doesn't border on omniscience.
 
@Cosmo I apologize if you feel this way, but Asavar accused the guards of frequenting the tavern, and they admitted that they did visit, so Joyce would naturally have them being watched for anything suspicious. They are after all the Queens guard, and it would be foolish of her to ignore that fact.


A regular walk to the tavern would be that of carefree guardsmen looking to unwind after a long days work, or so i would like to believe, but I would also like to believe that being threatened by the commander and exexicutionor would change the mood of said walk. They might be slightly more rigid, a laugh seem a bit more forced, or it maybe completely silent for they fear for their lives upon return. You said yourself, executions are far more frequent than they used to be, and what better reason than disloyalty and open mockery of the queen from her own soldiers.


In short, word of mouth had just arrived before your guards did; please remember, she had been set to perform. Also, Joyce doesn't know what riled the guards up, it says she is leaving to find out why.
 
Vantruss said:
@Cosmo I apologize if you feel this way, but Asavar accused the guards of frequenting the tavern, and they admitted that they did visit, so Joyce would naturally have them being watched for anything suspicious. They are after all the Queens guard, and it would be foolish of her to ignore that fact.
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If the were guards that didn't often visit, you would have a point. But you don't.


They often visit the tavern, unless you are seriously saying she sends word to the castle every. single. time. they visit or anytime any of the guards show up worried (cause, I don't know, it is almost like they have lives outside of work and, crazy, I imagine more then a few have money/family issues). Which would make her a terrible spy as it would greatly increase the chance of discovery for no reason.

Vantruss said:
A regular walk to the tavern would be that of carefree guardsmen looking to unwind after a long days work, or so i would like to believe, but I would also like to believe that being threatened by the commander and exexicutionor would change the mood of said walk. They might be slightly more rigid, a laugh seem a bit more forced, or it maybe completely silent for they fear for their lives upon return. You said yourself, executions are far more frequent than they used to be, and what better reason than disloyalty and open mockery of the queen from her own soldiers.
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Have you never been to a bar? It isn't full of people looking to unwind, many times, it is people trying to drown their sorrows, and I have met, more then a few, people who were shifty and creeped me out.

Vantruss said:
In short, word of mouth had just arrived before your guards did; please remember, she had been set to perform. Also, Joyce doesn't know what riled the guards up, it says she is leaving to find out why.
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Oh? Really? You mean from that person that magically overheard them because you need them to in order to validate this? The same person that must of jogged all the way to the tavern in order to arrive before the guards he sent there? Really?


Again. If you want to do something like that. PM me. I had plans and events that I was going to do using them as a launching point, but with that one statement in order to make your character seem like a great spy just to make her seem like a great spy, I now have to figure out how to salvage this and work around it to get the plot ideas rolling. There is no 'she is leaving to find out', it is 'she warned them that there were spies and to be careful'.


I already have two PMs open with people talking about possible events and RP ideas. I don't mind three.


So, again, if you want to do something like this, PM me first. See if I had any plans, anything I intended to do with them, instead of just jumping forward, because, believe me, I am open to working with people.
 
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KillThemAll said:
The Friendzone Elite's intellectual property is under attack, hiss.
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If they just woulda pmed. I already know how I could have worked in her finding out about the spys without impacting anything too greatly.


Its freaking frustrating. (:'()


(I will have a post up talking to Joran in a few hours)
 
(Alright)


Also, @Beowulf


Don't despair that Gareth has nothing to do, yet! You'll be getting lots of attention when the climax of the story hits, I'm sure. You know, since Cosmo's little moody giant wants to crush you into nothing~


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