Role-Play- Troubles In Tortuga

[Meliva]

Ellen laughs a little You clearly must be new if you have to ask that, though I'm surprised you don't know. Pirates have been absolutely ruthless to this poor port. A hurricane about 6 months back sank most of Tortuga's navy, some pirates took advantage of that and have raided every merchant ship heading here. Tons of local businesses have gone bankrupt as trade is nonexistent here now. That's sort of why I came here. Me and my crew are planning to capture as many of the trouble makers as we can, caught a dozen when I first arrived, but plenty left to catch.

[Sir Thalius Hayle]

Thalius smiles a small smile before answering. Certainly not new, my lady, though I will confess it has been some years since I were last here. Thalius motions in the direction of the body with the knife he has been holding in his hand. That there friend of yours on the table be old Harold, or I miss my mark. He was a wee bit younger last I saw him. That old pirate has survived many a bad day, but not this one. Seems trouble of an unusual sort is afoot. That, or age and bad luck have finally caught up to him. Thalius uses the knife and a fork to cut a piece of the questionable looking meat he has left on his plate. He chews it expressionlessly as he waits for her response.

[Meliva]

Ellen sighs. I certainly hope it was just bad luck and age. Last time an unusual problem happened I ended up with a broken back and fist. Ellen looks to the cast on her hand and the brace on her back. Still Harold was 100 years old, his luck had to run out eventually. Ellen gets up and starts heading towards the exit she motions her sister over. Well me and my sister are going to go through Harold's house and see if he left any sort of will in it. The man didn't trust lawyers so If he has a will it should be in his home. Jack, you can tell us what happened later, Emily could use some time to calm down anyway.

[Sir Thalius Hayle]

Thalius nods quietly in the direction of the ladies as they leave and resumes eating what is left of his breakfast, casting a last glance at Harold's body and another longer glance at the one they called Jack standing next to it. A few minutes later, Thalius downs the last of his ale, pays the grimy old innkeeper and heads for the door, tipping his weathered tricorne to Jack as he passes him.

[Grimrock Litless]

Mel, it would help for your to slow down your story. I think it's one of the main reason why people couldn't join in.

For me, I want to join in, but, the story went too fast with tons of wall of text, because I am lazy to read. Plus, it doesn't help the fact that none of the wall of text have spacing to make it easier to read.

[Jack Teach]

Jack sits down and waits for the ladies to return sipping his rum. He also hopes that the reaction won't be what he thinks it will be...

[DezNutz]

Mel, it would help for your to slow down your story. I think it's one of the main reason why people couldn't join in.

For me, I want to join in, but, the story went too fast with tons of wall of text, because I am lazy to read. Plus, it doesn't help the fact that none of the wall of text have spacing to make it easier to read.

Sadly, I agree. And it isn't just Meliva. Take a look through the threads. Posts are either just a hodgepodge of sentences with no breaks (extra spacing) between speaking and details, or they are posted so quickly that it makes it difficult for a player to directly join in to the conversation. I honestly have stopped reading parts of the RP, because it is too time consuming to decipher and keep up with the story.

Case and Point. On one of the previous role play threads, I had to rewrite a post 3 times because the situation would change while I was writing it but before I could actually post it. I had to read what occurred and then rewrite to fit, only to have to repeat the process again. If had to read a large post to make sure my post made sense, I probably would have given up on trying. I literally had to force their situation to end just to bring a character into play and in effort to try to get another player more involved in the RP. The latter failed.

RP's should be inviting to all. Most players aren't going to start a separate conversation or interaction to join in the overall RP. They are more likely to try to enter the existing points and interactions. While conflict will exist and are expected, killing a player character can only occur at the choice that player. Another player or group of players can't kill another RP player, nor should they gang up and push away another character. This is a community based RP. If another player is having trouble getting into the RP, help them out. If you can't help to get them involved, well I guess you should pull your head out of your rear end and be a community player.

[Sir Thalius Hayle]

I feel the same. I've enjoyed reading them, but no time to participate since doing so and developing a character would require a lot of presence in front of the pc keeping up with the rapid pace. Perhaps some RP threads could include a "One post a day" rule or some such? That would slow the pace down and give more players a chance to participate when they could be online and not face being spun out of the story because it gets ahead of their character.

[Jack Teach]

I feel the same. I've enjoyed reading them, but no time to participate since doing so and developing a character would require a lot of presence in front of the pc keeping up with the rapid pace. Perhaps some RP threads could include a "One post a day" rule or some such? That would slow the pace down and give more players a chance to participate when they could be online and not face being spun out of the story because it gets ahead of their character.

That's too damned slow. If you guys have criticisms, pleas send me or Meliva message rather than posting it here. And now, NO OTHER POSTS HERE BESIDES THE ROLE-PLAY ONES!

[DezNutz]

I feel the same. I've enjoyed reading them, but no time to participate since doing so and developing a character would require a lot of presence in front of the pc keeping up with the rapid pace. Perhaps some RP threads could include a "One post a day" rule or some such? That would slow the pace down and give more players a chance to participate when they could be online and not face being spun out of the story because it gets ahead of their character.

That's too damned slow. If you guys have criticisms, pleas send me or Meliva message rather than posting it here.

Where does it say that you and Meliva are the King and Queen of RP. As I recall you made a topic asking about RP, and I took the initiative and made the first recent RP with a clear set of posting rules, that set forth what is going on now.

RP needs to be friendly for everyone to join in, that is the point of having this in the open forums. Otherwise, you can RP in PMs. At the very least, it needs to slow down a little bit to allow others to start into the storyline.

As well there should be a way for others to post thoughts and comments on the thread that are not RP but related to the topic. I'm using quotes, but that isn't necessarily the best way. It just shouldn't be open text.