Realistic or Modern The Struggle

[Doc Taylor]

Noah sits down at his computer. It's been a long day. A combination of work, school, and a bit of stress at home. He checks his Rp forum. It's been twenty four hours since his interest check was put up, and the excitement of possible replies has the hair standing up on the back of his neck. He goes to the interest checks,  scrolls down, and...nothing. "Nothing? Are you serious right now?" He gets on Skype, and calls up his assistant gm. The call fails once, twice, three times. The frustrations build upon each other as his internet capabilities keep him from communicating with his buddy in Texas. "Technology hates me." He throws his hands up in the air in defeat, but wait. It's ringing. It's connecting. My lord, there he is. "Captain, we've got a problem. Check the forum."


@ClassicCaptain

 

[ClassicCaptain]

"You've got to be kidding me" Levi stared at his screen, through the gaps in his fingers. "We put this up hours ago!" He exclaimed over the poor video connection, "we haven't generated anything yet?" He sat refreshing the page in what seemed like an endless loop, watching views go up, but replies remaining stagnant as a dammed pond. 

 

[Doc Taylor]

"Not a single thing man! Quick, put something up so that we stay at the top of the forum." Noah refreshed the page a few more times before going on. "You see it's like the pie psychology. You see no one wants to take a slice of pie when it's full, and no one wants to take the last one. We've got to bait people here." More refreshes, more views, but the replies still rested at zero.  

 

[ClassicCaptain]

"There we go, now watch the numbers soar" Levi said expectantly, posting a reply to hopefully draw a little more attention to the project. He sat waiting as the video call dropped and came back almost as often as he refreshed the page. The replies were the same as bees currently in his room, that is being none (that he knew of).

 

[Doc Taylor]

"Oh yeah, here we go man. I'm sure people will love this thing. It's such an original idea." Noah watched as other rp's with one liner introductions flew past their short novel of an opening in replies in views. "This just doesn't make any sense man. What's so interesting about a peach finding his lost strawberry brother?" He got up quickly. "I'll be right back man, I gotta do some dishes." With that, Noah left the room, only for the call to drop a few seconds later anyways.