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TA2: Nora's a joy, yeah! It's good to have a straight up heroic character in the mix. No ulterior motives, just outright "let's do good".

TA2: Any gooder and she'd be on her way to be a classic D&D paladin. Lawful Stupid anybody

Diesel: Would the police be able to trace a bullet casing back to Jia's place? I doubt it, but I'm not sure what police in the 1920's were up to.

^Shell casing matches are a bit more of a modern art. Back then, you either trusted yer gut or counted how many bullets were still in thr chamber or accounted for >_>.

Also revolvers don't leave shell casings when they fire.

^ They don't leave a casing - ah, ok. No problem with that being left around then.

GRPD: Regarding the forced stuff, yeah, that's stopping right now. Hate it when the part of my brain that is supposed to go "No. Just no." fails to work and well, i'm unemployed, don't get out much and spend way too much time not interacting with people. 9 months will do that to me.

TA2: She's a nord. Nords and elves kinda like to annoy each other. But fine, i'll try to change the way Kat act to avoid another failed [&@%!] PC because I seem to be [&@%!] [&@%!] at doing decent characters of late. Sorry, just needed to let that out as i have had some thoughts of a negative variety and well, losing 3 and potentially 4 PCs because of my own [&@%!] mistakes is [&@%!] me off. That and i am my worst critic. I tend to obessess over what can and could have been done. The whole [&@%!] mess with [&@%!] Mira could have been [&@%!] avoided if i remembered to shut her mouth and know her goddamn role. Guess i need to create another goddamn PC.

Sorry, just a bit [&@%!] at the moment by the quality of my characters, constantly being reminded by it and needing to vent.

GRPD: Best strategy I've found for being certain of my characters' communication is to read it to myself, and think how I would react if that was said to me/done to me. It's simple, but an effective way to determine what does and doesn't sound like what one would realistically do and say.

Or not. I will sometimes intentionally choose for my character to say something unintentionally, or to come out sounding harsher, or to be more aggressive...all the while understanding the potential consequences. I play my characters the way they ought to be played, even if it means their deaths. Rick might not ever know a peaceful life, but he will have an interesting death. Revas lives by the Qun, and dies by the Qun.

Characters don't have to be yes-men, don't have to be perfect, and shouldn't be. Conflict is a natural thing. If a party constantly agreed on every course of action from start to finish, it would be a bit dull. There are compromises to be made, sentiments that should or shouldn't be expressed, and certain tropes or jokes that get tiresome when repeated incessantly. Revas has dawnstone (pink) daggers, but that's not all there is to his character. Rick kills, but he accepts responsibility for it, bears the weight of it, yet will do what he feels he has to do.

Contrarian attitudes clash, but someone who commits to being friendly and consistently morally upstanding will seldom be at odds with the party. Know your character and how they fit into the world, and the party.

In GWN, Luke would be (and has been) horrified at some of the decisions Rick has made (and will make), but they still get along because they work towards the same goal, and Rick doesn't do things without a half-decent reason. He didn't kill the Chinese ghouls because ghoul blood just looks so pretty on his hands, he did it because he felt they would have destroyed any chance of cooperation between the Camp and Vault--and at worst, they might have held the Vault responsible for Tong's injuries/demise.

TA2: There you go. A willingness to compromise is always a plus. Even if Niralie and and Kat never get along (which I don't expect), other characters will appreciate it.

GRPD: Whilst i always appericate advice, i'm just [&@%!] at myself because I know i can do likable, decent characters. Psyfalia, ironically, may be the best PC i've done and she was well, poorly planned, created within 15 minutes and kinda ended up being an experiment. Hence the Skooma angle. Looking back, that should have been done from the very begining.

DAR: If, by some chance, Revas misses or Mira is not killed, going to work on redoing her personality or at least, give her some points in cunning.

GWN: See, i can avoid fights. *then kerr throws an anti-american NPC at me*

DAR: More like she need points in willpower, that'd be what she needs to keep that mouth shut.

DA:R: Or both. That said, I do have a Grey warden Character that i was kinda planning on saving for Mars's COCK. (Chronicles of Champion of Kirkwall RP) but I can always make another PC when that times come.

TA2: Unless Zudeel chooses to go off somewhere else, it's 'Last one to Riften is a rotten egg!' Dundiddledundiddledun.

TA2: Or swing by Solitude where we can get roaring roasted nugs. Beer mugs the size of your arm and i've gotten the franchises mixed up. Oh dear.

What about Niralie?

TA2: She is elven and I must break her like man breaks eggs.

TA2: Niralie's like that too, she just still has to struggle with the less-than-brave thing. Though obviously she's gotten over that, at least a bit!

It's just that Nora was in the fray whackin' people. I dig Lawful Good warrior types, yo.

TA2: And Nords value warriors over mages. But Nords forget that warriors can't rip a part someone with their mind or turn them into ash or summon Cuthlu and sit back to watch their work or summon thunder bolts etc...

TA2: 4th era Nords value warriors over mages. 3rd era Nords are more tolerant than that.

TA2: True but a majority would rather fight with a sword or an axe then use magic. Granted, nords love to fight and magic is viewed as a tool by them in the third era but their roots are deep and they prefer up close and personal combat.

TA2: Going to be adding some stuff to the TVTropes page at some point this week. If you know of tropes that apply to certain characters or events that have occurred in the last 2 months or so, let me know and list em under hide tags or somethin.

TA2: Ah, yeah, good point, Niralie's not the sort to go rushing into battle.
I don't know about "gotten over that", unless you mean she actually took part in the battle rather than sheltering in the Palace. Though to be fair I guess she did have that moment where she decided to cast the blizzard spell even with the pirates rushing toward her.
But yeah, she's had enough happen to her recently in the RP that she has very good reason to be fearful.

TA2: Sorry that I'm taking so long to respond. Just have not been feeling up to it at the moment.

TA2: She still ran off n abandoned her shipmates to their doom <_< so still got a ways to go with that bravery thing. But yes, sticking around for a city's defense n being pure of heart when faced with the Threads is a step back into the right direction

#NeverForget

@KF: Its all good

TA2: That's because she ain't a nord. If she was, she would have stayed and helped the others before fleeing like a Khajiit that is selling wares and has been caught smoking Skooma. #Justicefortheshipgroup #Betasmells

TA2: Niralie wasn't really the one that skedaddled off without everyone else. She hopped on with Valentia and Arellius, likely under the assumption that they would be bringing more people. Arellius and Valentia cut the ropes without her having a say in it, and if I recall correctly, she was none too happy about it.

@KF: That's cool man, but by the end of the week (Friday-ish) a DM post will be going up and people will be moving. You'll be able to post where Zudeel went afterwards if you wish.