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Co-writes are great in the future, but we're not interested in seeing PGs' characters in your Permission attempt, because this is about how well you can write, not how well they can write.

I tried, but I just got sent to the Google Play page. I downloaded the app. To connect to the other group I'm part of, I sent one of them my username and number and they sending an invite to me that way.

Sorry for sounding impatient, I've been having some tech issues lately, especially with Google docs...

https://discord.gg/FWFP9W8

So I just joined up with the Discord app for another chat group, and thought I'd ask about this one. Clicking the lounge link sent me to Google play. Should I just send my username and ID for someone to connect me to the chat?

Apologies for the delay, parents dragged me out shopping.

Password is Happy Birthday! Exclamation point included.

First: Yay blending. ^_^ Don't be afraid to go for really dark darks, though. (I say this as someone who has struggled with this fear for years.)

Next: I think these are some of the best eyes you've done so far, which is because you're getting away from the flat footballish shape that pretty much everyone starts off doing. Eyeballs are spheres set inside holes in the head. Eyelids curve around those spheres with the corners set more deeply in the face than the fronts, and the degree of visible curve varies with how open the eye is, the tilt of the head, heaviness of the lids and surrounding tissue, and all sorts of stuff. Eyes are complex little things!

Same goes for the mouth, kinda. The right (her left) corner of the mouth looks pretty good here, because the shading on that side of the face shows the depth where the corner sinks back into the cheek. The other corner looks more flat by contrast.

... I didn't know I was all full of advice like this. >.>

~Neshomeh

Maybe I'll make the mace-head smaller, and tighten her grip a bit. That might help fix the problem without me having to redo the whole arm again.

I disagree about the Female Comic Character Pose. I see why it looks wrong, but I'm pretty sure it'll make sense once it's all colored. She's small-chested, like most really buff women, the breastplate curves around to the side a fair bit, and there's really only a little side-butt showing. Most of what you see there is leg, rotated forward. Maybe there's not quite enough hip on the far side, though?

Glad you like the hair, and the muscles! But yeah, serious facepalm on Derik grabbing the front of the breatplate. My brain filled in a silly costume design with something that made more sense, what can I say? ^_^;

~Neshomeh

I can't make CAHQ today, since I'll be at work, but maybe tomorrow! Let me know if you guys have any ideas to add to any of my decks, though, and I'll put them in tonight.

~Neshomeh

Here's a protagonist (Derik) and an unused character, redesigned (his dragon). Except the dragon was never really mine, and is more, er, deceased than unused. So, cheating. But I've wanted to draw this image forever, so close enough. {= )



It's obviously in a rather early stage, seeing as I haven't figured out what I'm doing with Derik's right hand or Skepnadth's whole body yet. Nor do I know what Derik is sitting on. Maybe a rock or a log or something, I dunno. I think he's gonna stay topless, though, because a) it's fun, and b) his revised backstory has him serving somewhere in the Southern Continent, maybe Eastern Weyr, so it's hot.

Despite using Gerard Butler as a reference, there is still some ephemeral Gerard Butler-ness I seem unable to capture. Argh. Also, I may have gone too far with the near shoulder, but he is supposed to be kinda huge in the shoulders, so I dunno. What do you think?

~Neshomeh

In honor of Mr. Sprinkles' birthday, we're having a CAHQ party!

If you can't make it today, we'll be having a second game tomorrow at the same time.

There'll likely be a round of dramatic readings after CAHQ as well, so if NSFW card games aren't your thing, join us for some badfic!

I'll post a link to the game when the time comes. Hope to see you there!

Hmmm, my email is arbitrary.blogs at gmail.

"Matrix, XMPP, Ricochet, and PGP, and I have Etherpad installed on Matrix."

I have no idea what those are so you're going to have to give me instructions and possibly wait for my admin if I need new software.

I have the story posted in google docs. Shoot me an email and I can send you a link?

I'm probably going to write the meta as "there are leveling guides that they can get in-game" and acknowledge that she's not using a full one. Some people use a book called "Atlas Loot" to talk about what what different bosses drop.

In Dark Legacy, there was actually a character that was named WoWhead. http://www.darklegacycomics.com/105 In Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth, one character yelled for a laptop so she could look up the quest.

Someone could have talked to her about where good leveling zones were and how to find the flightpoints, with some inaccurate information if I remembered something wrong. This also covers anything I learned on an alt, though realistically it could have been things directly told to her by a guildie. (Guild chat and general chat, meta information is that she has a miniature buzzbox.)

My druid did once get an in-game mail from a trainer that said "talk to me when you've reached the 16th level."

I'm not going to have her remember anything about switching to an alt when guildies were calling for dungeon runs. When she mails things to alts, it's the same as sending stuff to a guildie that could use it.

That actually reminds me of something I did in-game that fits with her story. My guildie was requesting bear flesh to level up her cooking. I remembered that I got through those levels by fishing in Feralas. When I mailed her the fish, I included information on where to find the recipes in the mail.

I noticed that WoW bags still seem to work within PPC. I assume they are physically small and can hold an entire set of armor without being heavy. Maybe they work more like bags of holding? In-universe, I think Trojie might have had a Bag that was made in DoSAT.

I've also heard of PPC characters who can read the Words during interludes to get insight into what their partner is feeling. I might play with that a little bit.

One thing that I don't want to do is have her meet her player, or for her player to really be able to recognize her. I think I'm going to go with how she didn't have much of a personality when she came to the PPC, and FicPsych actually renamed her when she was there because her old name was offensive.

-Good writing.

... what you wanted more? ^_^

-Good SPaG.
-An understanding of both the setting and spirit of the PPC.
-Characters who come across as three-dimensional and interesting to read about, and fit in with their supposed backgrounds.
-A story that reads like a story, not half a scene cribbed from a larger work.
-Reasonable reactions to events around them (ie, character-driven rather than plot-driven).
-Other stuff like that.

Oh, and:
-400-800 words per prompt.
-A BRIEF bio for each character that tells us the relevant things we CAN'T get from the prompts.
-Bribes Gifts for the PG. :D :D :D (No, not really.)

hS

Maybe her waking up somewhere strange is the side effect of being a deleted character. Maybe her player was hacked and she was deleted, sending her through the plothole. If she ever met her player again, she'd be surprised to learn just how much they know about her, like "Wait, how do you know I like to jump over the cracks in the tiles."

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I can't offer much advice on the PPC itself since I'm very new here, but I could look over your stuff for general readability, formatting, and style, and maybe help clean that up if you're interested. I also like Supernatural's earlier seasons. I haven't seen all of it yet, and unfortunately I'm pretty new to the PPC itself, so that's about all I can offer at this point, but it might give you something to work from.

I'm available via Matrix, XMPP, Ricochet, and PGP, and I have Etherpad installed on Matrix. I wouldn't mind trying my hand at beta reading. Let me know and I can link you to my website that has my contact information. (I didn't think it would be polite of me to send unsolicited links).

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I realized that most of the overpowered meta characters are the ones that can actually manipulate the world outside the game, and that where you're going is a good direction to go with it. However, characters can also be Mary Sue or just really annoying when they only are aware of everything else, so you have to set a good limit for how much your character knows (or has a gut feeling to do, guessing by your word choice) that the player knows. For instance, if the player uses online guides, from my perspective, she should know some of the strategies the player picks up, but nothing about whatever NPCs there are that she didn't learn from in-universe experiences (motives, etc.) I remember being part of a collaborative work back on Scratch where I (deciding to function as a villain) stated my in-universe motives in the comments of a project and another guy (functioning as a prominent protagonist) made his in-universe self know them a couple remixes later, even though I hadn't said anything in-universe about them. It wiped out all the drama and conflict of the side plot that I wanted to create in the span of one line of dialogue, and it was just frustrating. So yeah. Don't make your character know any NPC's motivations, that's Sue territory.

The whole thing about saves and reloads is tricky territory to navigate. I suggest you analyze some Undertale characters, canon and original, to get a feel of where that works and where it doesn't.

I do like where you're going with the gut-instinct thing (and if that's not what you were going for, then consider that my suggestion!) This seems like an interesting idea for a character, and I have a feeling that since we all care about how well we write, this will come out well (even if you must make a few errors to get there.)

-Twistey

I'm still having the same problems I did yesterday, so I have a feeling it's the ad blocker I'm using (a triple-threat combo of Flashblock, BetterPrivacy and Leechblock.) I'll look into that soon.

-Twistey

I've been lurking at the wiki for a while, but I don't know what the PG's are looking for. My check would probably be more "obvious things you miss because you've read it too many times."

arbitrary.blogs at gmail if it doesn't show up.

*nod* Thanks. I'm still kinda iffy on how she is.

I tried writing out her life as if she had a backstory before becoming an adventurer and then suddenly there was another presence in her head influencing her... I didn't like it. The backstory I wanted conflicted with lore anyway, according to some RP guides I read.

I'm kinda feeling that who she is was unstable when she hit the PPC... Kinda the threads of a person, who I imagine her to be when playing without really getting a coherent person formed. Basically make her be a collection of random traits before she fell through the plothole and then only "wake up" afterwards. Maybe there would be some scraps of her player leftover, but she doesn't know what a TV is.

It's like when writing a character. I can say "this person did this" for chapters, then suddenly they start talking to me and telling me who they are after I've been working with them. The surprises can be disconcerting.

When I was playing WoW commercial years ago, my previous Gnome warrior was very angry and stubborn. She actually whined at me about not wanting to participate in Hodir's Daily Euphemisms just to get a gem recipe. My other characters were more laid-back. My paladin was a complete stoner who would just sorta zone-out and not pay attention to anything while swinging his mace.