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Again, it IS NOT controlling your characters to note the fact that they AREN'T doing anything. If I had been idle on a roleplay where I had made people expect I would be active, and if someone posted about my idleness, I would shrug it off and either make some contribution or admit that I had to bow out. I would NOT bristle and snarl about "character modding" over such a little thing, which my own inactivity made possible in the first place.

DON'T EVEN start with the Hillary Clinton evasion that we "just don't like strong female characters." You already KNOW that it is not as simple as that. What we don't like is certain female players having a chip on their shoulders to be ALWAYS superior to EVERYONE male. Even in your high-school roleplay (yes, I do read things you write), you have to keep on pushing and pushing to be superior.

If I were allergic overall to female characters being powerful, I wouldn't be writing a story right now with a VERY powerful female character in it. Oh, wait, I'm forgetting--that's on another thread where I'm not seeing you posting, so maybe you haven't SEEN Chin Lu-Mao being tough?

I wonder if you, Kim, have the SLIGHTEST comprehension of how far some of us icky Neanderthal males have gone trying to be NICE to you and accommodate you? Why do you REALLY think I made Mr. Bingley in Pride and Prejudice such a clumsy dweeb? It was in an effort to be a sufficiently NON-macho male that you WOULDN'T go into your competition mode. Why do you think I posted multiple poems on your Poems for Friends thread? I could have posted them elsewhere, but I was trying to be supportive of you. Well, every time I try to be nice to you, the thanks I get is to have you still ready to pick a fight.
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"The three superhuman sisters were no help, as they refused to say or do anything."

ok all that right there demeans my three characters. If you simply said "and the three girls did nothing" I wouldn't be AS ticked. But first you used them out of context (Verra wasn't doing nothing she was still in the haze being the one of need of saving, and no I wouldn't have mind if your character saved her) Second you did that passvive agressive thing by calling them superhuman, as if it was a bad thing. Third you said that they refused. How do you know? Are you in my character's heads? No, Im not even in them until something just happens to fall on the page. So you wouldn't know if they refused any thing.

Also I know VERY well what modding is. I've been role playing (and like with 50 ppl too in one rpg too) for a long time. Modding is when you post in another person's character. Plain and simple. There is no way round it.

Now as for Mik, she's the tough girl. I made her that way cuz every high school needs a Breakfast Club punk. She's it. I have another character Ashley who is way less ...what ever Mik is. She's kind but a gossip. A typical american girl, yet a little naive and too trusting. Plus I play guys too who have the same "competitive nature". Jackson in that rpg is very...sneaky in his payback. He's not up front like Mik, so his competitive nature comes out through planning.

And I do thank you for your poems. I even wrote some in a notebook that I take to school and read when I feel down. Bunch of my friends write stuff for me, so i re write them in my "Happy PLace" notebook.

And you didn't need Bingley to be a dweeb. Just being true to his character was all that was needed. He was a sweet, kinda shy guy, so how else would you play him?

And I pick fights with you cuz you mod. I dont like it and I dont appreciate it either. To me it disrespects me. Its taking my creation and mutulating it to someone else's "idea" of what my creation is. As a writer I, and only I, know the character. Yes the reader knows and can identify with him or her, but ultimatly I play god in that aspect. I know their first breath and their last, their inner thoughts and what is never written. No one else does, therefore no one has the right to play god with my characters. )
 
ONCE more, since you choose not to acknowledge it:

If you would BE THERE in roleplays like this that you VOLUNTARILY joined, or even make a definite exit, the issue wouldn't come up. YOU refusing to post was what I was getting at with the choice of the term "refuse." You get people expecting that you'll be active, so that they're paralyzed without you, then you boogie; and as I say, it's nonsense to complain that nothing was happening on this thread when you yourself were in a BETTER position to MAKE things happen than most were, and you DIDN'T make things happen. Just don't join so many roleplays if you can't keep contributing. And don't be on the warpath, eager to perceive offenses, if you don't wish to lose friends. I take it in stride when someone has cause to borrow a character of mine if the plot needs to be moved forward; you could take a little of the same in stride also, if the chip on your shoulder weren't throwing your stride off.
 
Copperfox said:
ONCE more, since you choose not to acknowledge it:

If you would BE THERE in roleplays like this that you VOLUNTARILY joined, or even make a definite exit, the issue wouldn't come up. YOU refusing to post was what I was getting at with the choice of the term "refuse." You get people expecting that you'll be active, so that they're paralyzed without you, then you boogie; and as I say, it's nonsense to complain that nothing was happening on this thread when you yourself were in a BETTER position to MAKE things happen than most were, and you DIDN'T make things happen. Just don't join so many roleplays if you can't keep contributing. And don't be on the warpath, eager to perceive offenses, if you don't wish to lose friends. I take it in stride when someone has cause to borrow a character of mine if the plot needs to be moved forward; you could take a little of the same in stride also, if the chip on your shoulder weren't throwing your stride off.
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( I got no chip, just contol issues. Borrowing a character usually means that you ASK befor taking. You didn't ask. If you had I would have said "Yeah sure just as long as you stay true to the character," and if you did to further the plot, then ok then fine. But you didn't ask. And as far as my involvement, Im in college. I have papers out the wazoo. Even now im doing a paper, plus finals. If I dont see anything advancing, and I can play off it, Im not going to advance the story unless I know everyone is ok with it and that I can have enough time to make it good. Otherwise I play off other characters until I know what I just said above. And im not eager on the war path, I just dont like that you slight me everytime I tell you you did something wrong. I told you I dont like not having control over my characters in all and every aspect. You go against my wishes anyways. Thats wrong. I'm sure other ppl probably dont care as much as I do, great for them. Super. Not me.

Lady of Narnia had asked me to post earlier, and I was going to once I had the time to figure something out for the storyline. Your post messed that up. Now in the story, my characters are on the sidelines (forget how Verra got out of that deep emotional haze she was in. She's so frigid, it was probably easy to leave her son) being snobs and watching the others do what ever. See what that does. I have no control now. Now I have to pick up where YOU left off. Cuz now the story is in your control. I have to ignore everything I was gonna write b/c YOU couldn't be patient. Isn't that the first rule of love? to be patient? Im patient. very. I wouldn't still consider you a friend if I wasn't. yess we get into tiffs, but that doesn't mean I hate you or anything. Just that you have a problem admitting that you slighted me. Just admit it! It wont kill you. Modding my characters slights me. No matter what the circumstance you cant control them. Even if I never post(I will though), dont touch them. Write around it. Ignore their presence as if they never exsisted whatever.

Also dont worry about me taking on too many rpgs. I've been in about 62 at once back in my Leia days...great fun...lol)
 
Your declaration of how many roleplays you can handle at once, only shows that you should have come back to THIS one sooner. You sure found time for many other threads. But you never spoke a truer word than that you want CONTROL! If you weren't so zealous for your own pride, you might find some things MORE fun than striving to make your will prevail in all situations.
 
Copperfox said:
Your declaration of how many roleplays you can handle at once, only shows that you should have come back to THIS one sooner. You sure found time for many other threads. But you never spoke a truer word than that you want CONTROL! If you weren't so zealous for your own pride, you might find some things MORE fun than striving to make your will prevail in all things.
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(...(<_<)....maybe but then again like I said, real life demands my time. And what do you mean by prevail? Prevail my will over yours, or my characters' over everyone elses'? cuz if the first, I have no quarrel. if its the second, have you seen any of my characters ACTUALLY take over the others'? (The Leila and Destiny fight is proof enough.) No. They are just difficult at times. They are sometimes the antagonist, and sometimes the anti-hero. They make things complicated to make the story interesting. Their type A personalities are just dominate. If they were Type B or C they'd be less so. But thats how I wrote them, so there ya go.


And I want control over my characters, not TDL.

And I might have pride, but in this case you got more. You still cant admit that (and I've told you this offended me MANY times) that you did anything wrong. You defend your actions like it was your "duty" to the rpg to mod my characters. Come on, I would have posted. You just didn't want to wait.)
 
"You would have posted".....while everybody else was waiting and waiting and waiting, seeing how you WERE posting in many other threads during the same period...

I could see cause to apologize if I had written something like, "Suddenly Meridia stabbed herself and fell down dead;" but merely passively noting protracted NON-participation is NOT positively making your characters DO anything.
 
Copperfox said:
"You would have posted".....while everybody else was waiting and waiting and waiting, seeing how you WERE posting in many other threads during the same period...

I could see cause to apologize if I had written something like, "Suddenly Meridia stabbed herself and fell down dead;" but merely passively noting protracted NON-participation is NOT positively making your characters DO anything.
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( but its not like anything was really taking place. I mean me and Lady N's characters were still in the room with the haze daze stuff. Its implied that they were trying to get Verra and the others out. So no my post would not have been "and then they waited," it would have done something to get Verra out and the haze completly gone. But you see I cant do that now, because you wrote that all three sat on the sidelines. Therefore making it seem that all three were out of the haze and not caring about the others. Which isn't true.

and just by saying ANYTHING you mod. ANYTHING CF!!!! you didn't do that to the WHOLE group of ppl, you singled out my characters, therefore taking over MY role, which isn't yours to take. You could have said, "kim isn't participating..." that would be red flag for me to compose my idea and make sure Lady N didn't mind me taking away the haze. But, again, no way is it right for you to mention/control/think for/ my characters unless I give it the ok. Yes you can say "and then Ivan walked up to Jade and yaddy yadda" but you cant say "And then Ivan walked up to Jade who was doing nothing," for infact its implied (by my previous posts) that she is doing something.)
 
Copperfox said:
You already KNOW that it is not as simple as that. What we don't like is certain female players having a chip on their shoulders to be ALWAYS superior to EVERYONE male.
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Bat-Bat was amused to see that he had not been the only one who had noticed the "chip."
 
>ignoring, again, CF's mod post<

Up until that point Verra was very much enraptured with her son. But she saw that something was not right. Keven was there. He was not the father, nor did he have anything to do with Sion. Suspicious, Verra veered away from her son and took Keven's hand. "What are you doing here?"

"Our son," he said.

That was when Verra knew this was all an illusion. Keven, having never wanted children until Quenn and Nyken, would have never claimed Sion as his own. He knew better than that...he never wanted it.

"This isn't real," she said, her heart sinking as she uttered the words.

Her plasma flame surrounded her hands, and with a loud cry she threw the plasma flames at the illusion. As Keven, Sion, the whole Utopian place faded, so did her heavy heart. When she realised that Jade and Meridia were next to her, then did she feel better at what she'd done.

"You got rid of it completly," Jade said.

"No wonder then it hazed you the most, it knew you were the one to destroy it. Plasma once again is the antidote to everything."

"What is this place?"

"I dont know but lets get the heck out of here, come on." Jade grabbed Verra's hand and led the others toward the door on the otherside.
 
Ivan, Lisbeth, Darron, and Raj followed them over to the other door. It was closed.
Lisbeth put her hand out to open the door but Ivan again insisted on going first. She stepped back and let him.
Ivan pushed the door open. It was dark on the other side.
 
"Great."
"Wonderful."
"Meri? I think you should go first."
"Right." Merdia stepped foreward, letting herself become one with the darkness. She could see perfectly where as the others could not. She never thought being clinically allergic to light (to the point where too much made her fade into oblivion) would come in handy. Guess it was an ironic karma thing.

"Not much in here, just a bunch of sheets over furniture."

"Freaky." Jade said sarcastically.
 
Raj tugged on Lisbeth's hand. "Let's go," the little boy said.
Lisbeth nodded, glancing over her shoulder. It was beginning to be dark through the doorway they had entered the room with the illusions. Weird. They had been no window in the room.
"Yeah, let's go," she said hurriedly.
 
"It smells...old."

Meridia nodded. She looked around for any source of light. There was none. "Hold the shoulder of the person in front of you," she told them. She saw a little silver locket by her feet. She picked it up. When she opened it it sang.

"What was that?"

"Its a locket," she said, closed it and put it in her pocket and led the others to another door. But this one was locked shut.
 
Lisbeth held tightly to Raj's hand, as if she was afraid that she might loose the little boy. She felt a hand on her shoulder. She knew exactly who it was. She reached out and put her hand on the person's shoulder who was in front of her.
 
As he placed his hand on Lisbeth's shoulder, Darron looked behind them. The rooms which they had come from were getting much darker very quickly. Neither of the rooms had had any windows, though, so it couldn't be a cloud passing in front of the sun. What was it?
 
"Ok well this isn't good," Merdia said, "I'll have to phase through and see if I can open it from the outside."
"Well get to it."

Meridia phased through the door and tried to open it. She couldn't.

"Alright...well looks like I'll have to phase each of us through. Whose first?"
 
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The others looked around nervously.
"I'll go," Darron said, hesitantly. "I'll go first, if no one else will."
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"Alright kid, take my hand."

She took his hand and walked through the door as if it was second nature to go through solid steel.

"Ok stay here, and when the next person comes through grab hold of them and dont let go. Alright?
 
Darron nodded. "Okay," he said. Suddenly, his foot hit against something. It was made of wood, he realized. Well, he would have to check it out later. Right now, they had to worry about getting the others through.
 
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