✜// CHECKMATE (OOC)

[Retro Bug]

Nah, you're fine. I don't mind being the "lame guy". Aha.

[drunk ¬_¬]

Originally Posted by Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers

Yeah, oh about my post. And yours. Do Ricardo's family have, like, servants running about the house? Or is it just the family?

Yeah, picture a house with servants and bodyguards and butlers and maids and doormen who are actually bodyguards, and maybe snipers.
I've been playing with the idea that Ricardo's mom's father is a drug dealer in Mexico and that his dad is running **** on the other side of the border.
But OF COURSE Ricardo wouldn't know any of this, nor would it be relevant… I'm just playing with the idea.

I know what you mean, when I first started reading it, I didn't want to go to sleep. Darn addictive comic shenanigans.

EDIT: Actually, I'd prefer if you guys didn't write in second person. You can if you really think it looks better / is more fun / easier - I won't force you not to - but it makes more sense for me to do it since I am the narrator and is talking relatively directly to... hm, to your character's subconscious xD

EDIT2: Retro Bug posted too, so now you're all clear to chat away or do whatever until you feel like you want to start playing SBURB. End a post when you've begun installing the game, because when the first person has done that, I'll post the next narrative.

Oh man…

Okay, boring third person narrative coming at you beginning on my next post.

@ EVERYONE: I feel like we should have USERNAMES for PESTERCHUM. It just feels wrong not to…
Here are some examples from the comic:

Spoiler:

• ghostyTrickster
• ectoBiologist
• turntechGod
• adiosMatador
• cuttlefishCuller
• apocalypseArisen
• arachnidsGrip
• carcinoGeneticist
  …
  yeah, a lot of these may be wrong since they're off the top of my head, but you get the idea.
  
  I'm thinking of the following for my character:
• babelsEngineer
• blockMaster
• superCharro
• rickRoll (okay that one's just a joke )
• poloPolo
  what do you all think? (and any suggestions?)

[Retro Bug]

I like usernames! :)

DressyVieve
PaintSplatter
SplashesofColor

Hmm.

[drunk ¬_¬]

Originally Posted by Retro Bug

I like usernames!

DressyVieve
PaintSplatter
SplashesofColor

Hmm.

I like paintSplatter
And I decided I'm going with babelsEngineer for myself. /shrugs

Anyways, I can't wait to see what Aspects Red has in store for us!
(the Aspects are the titles they get in the game, right?)

[Lt. Col. Fantastic]

How about sexMachine for Vinnie?

.....okay, I'm just kidding.

But what about bemyValentine? Its a play on words with his last name.

[Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers]

Looking good, everything.

Aha, well, we'll see what happens to those servants when Ricardo's house... Well, you know, perhaps. I might not do completely as Homestuck does. Or at all. Because then you'd know what would happen aaaand. You don't :3 well. Not completely. Anywaysssss

Usernames is a cool idea! And actually, forget I said anything about 2nd person. It's ok, you can write in any perspective you want. Sorry for being indecisive :)


Aspects are a part of your title. The other one is your Role, like class. But let's not spoil all yet...

I can say that I've found the Time aspect to be a bit troublesome to implement in the RP though, so the one who gets that power will either have to be careful about using it, or I'll limit their powers greatly. I'm thinking of just replacing it with some other aspect though... And I just came up with one that can work!

*goes fiddling with the many documents of texts there already is on the background and plot and details of Checkmate*

[Otherworld9)]

Originally Posted by drunk ¬_¬

I have to say: Dave, Vriska, Gamzee and [the blind girl] are by far my favorites so far. adiosToreador (forgot his name), was cool too, but he was such a pansy! :'(

My favorites, now, would have to be Karkat and Gamzee. I'm in on the end of Act 5. o_O I am at THIS.

A lot happened while I was gone??? D:

YES, I AGREE DRUNK. I stayed up so late reading the comic, so gooood :3

I was going to base mine off Gamzee when I joined, but I saw how complex that was gonna be XD So I just made up a lazy character.

I was wondering if I could make my Pesterchum account like archaicMiracle. It fits the view of my character a bit XD [Not literally though]

@drunk - I like babelsEngineer better for you :3

Usually, like the characters in Homestuck, I just mix two adjectives from that describe the characters, or two things they like...or that's how I saw it all along.

I liked the aspect in the trolls:

Spoiler:

Rage
Hope
Doom
Rage
etc.

For some reason I was thinking like Life, Death, Light and Dark. oO

I actually like bemyValentine =P

[Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers]

You can have any chumhandle (Pesterchum username) you want. babelsEngineer, paintSplatter, archaicMiracle and sexMachine are my favorites xD

Seems all of you missed the very first rule I stated in the OP by the way :p

Most of the time (as I plan, at least) you will control your own character ONLY.

- As stated earlier, you will only control your main character and I will be... a kind of narrator.

Buuut, seeing as several of you have already played as your family members now, I'll let you continue with that until a certain point. I'll let you know when I take control of them. I have some requirements though... I'll PM you if it concerns you :3

[Retro Bug]

Alright, I'll being using paintSplatter and I'll have a post up by later today.

[drunk ¬_¬]

Originally Posted by Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers

You can have any chumhandle (Pesterchum username) you want. babelsEngineer, paintSplatter, archaicMiracle and sexMachine are my favorites xD

Seems all of you missed the very first rule I stated in the OP by the way :p



Buuut, seeing as several of you have already played as your family members now, I'll let you continue with that until a certain point. I'll let you know when I take control of them. I have some requirements though... I'll PM you if it concerns you :3

LOL. xD

I totally thought that meant no bunnying other people's character's…

Anyways, as one of the perpetrators I would like to say I'm sorry and it won't happen again.
Can I see people doing menial/irrelevant things though (such as how doorman #1 opened the gate for mom's car)?

[Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers]

Yeah, bunnying wasn't even stated in the rules, lol. I can add something, though we all probably feel it's obvious.

I told you that I'd be a bit unsure about the playstyle in the beginning ^^' I apologize for any confusion.

Anyways, now I've just said that you might as well keep playing your family member(s) for a while longer. Go ahead! :3 And yeah, butlers are included there ;) Let me know if you ever think I take away too much of your freedom! Don't want to make it difficult to post.

[Lt. Col. Fantastic]

Alrighty, bemyValentine will be Vinnies chumhandle. (or whatever its called)

sexMachine is a little too suggestive, even for Vinnie. :P

[Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers]

Well, the RP is rated M ;) but bemyValentine is nice too!

I'm currently trying to provide images to describe what the server player will be seeing when they enter the game, without linking to Homestuck itself xD Lots of openmindedness might be required from all of us for these next posts teheh. As long as everyone raises their hand/voice/post when they feel confused, we'll make it work well.

[Lt. Col. Fantastic]

Alright, how about a little survey since we've gotten this train rolling?

Questions!

1: Why did you pick your color?
2: Did you have any inspiration for your character? If so, who?
3: Why did you name your character the name you named it? (lol)
4: Why did you put your character in the economical enviroment they are in? (ex: why is ricardo filthy rich?)
5: And finally, what made you want to join this rp?

My answers!

1: Since Vinnie is all about love (hearts, red, personality), I chose red. Pretty straightforward and not exactly groundbreaking symbolism.
2: If anyone watches NCIS in here, its pretty easy to see DiNozzo inspired Vinnie. Only Vinnie is more tech savy and a lot cooler.
3: Vinnie Valentine sounds cool, and I wanted his name to be Valentine. Vincent is my name in French class, and since Valentine is french (right?) I made him Vinnie. It flows well.
4: I made Vinnie pretty rich because I wanted to him to be "that one guy who has everything, yet still looks for more". I'm probably not going to do this as well as I would like, but thats basically how I imagine Vinnie
5: I joined this because I saw red talking about it in the RPD thread :3

[Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers]

Hehe, Evan, you make Vinnie sound even more Gary Stu than he did in the SU... can I give you advice? As a fairly experienced roleplayer. Don't make him great at everything. You've GOT to show his weak points now and then. Otherwise chances are that others won't feel that he's a believable human character, or very fun to play with in the long run. And I certainly won't, as a GM. So remember to not make him too awesome, because real people just aren't...

Of course all players in this RP are awesome, but that's a different story.

[drunk ¬_¬]

Originally Posted by Lt. Col. Fantastic

Alright, how about a little survey since we've gotten this train rolling?

Questions! My answers are bolded

1: Why did you pick your color?
Originally my color was Silver, but I felt it was a little too light… and before that my color was black, but that was off limits :\
2: Did you have any inspiration for your character? If so, who?
My cousin, several friends, a deceased friend from a while back, and the movie Savages.
3: Why did you name your character the name you named it? (lol)
Ricardo is sort of the Average Joe name in Mexico, I guess? I don't always care much about names, they're things your parents give you before you're even born sometimes, so they're pretty damn arbitrary… :\
4: Why did you put your character in the economical enviroment they are in? (ex: why is ricardo filthy rich?)
Because I watched the movie Savages basically RIGHT BEFORE I created him… so yeah
(the movie is about the drug business in the Tijuana/San Diego border, and the violence associated with it. If you're mature enough for R-rated movies, I highly recommend it… but it's pretty ****ed up in every aspect :\
5: And finally, what made you want to join this rp?
RED! :D
Honestly, this RP looked pretty damn awesome to begin with, and it's what got me reading Homestuck. Now that I'm all into that shiznit I'm all like "let's get this started!!!!!"

I'm done with Part 6 Intermission 1 now, by the way… @_@

[Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers]

naww<3 I love that I made you read Homestuck ;D And that's my favorite Flash clip! The music is just... amazing. I'm so going to use it in the RP at some point. http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/infinity-mechanism


SOOOOON done with the post. It's gonna be, um, a bit weird :]

[Lt. Col. Fantastic]

@Red: Yeah, later on you'll see some of Vinnie's brokenheartedness. And at times he'll get serious about his emotions and such. In times of pressure he'll try to stay light and funny, but it will be obvious hes scared out of his mind. Thanks for the tip!

EDIT: Now that I think about it....Vinnie is more like Gatsby than DiNozzo. At least, on the inside. I don't know, I'm just trying to make him a good character

[Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers]

Naww, poor Vinnie! Ok then, no problem, good that you can take constructive criticism :3

[Lt. Col. Fantastic]

Ah, well, criticism is easier taken when delivered by someone who knows what they are talking about.

And I usually take criticism pretty well, especially since I'm new to this sort of thing.

That next post...is...pretty weird. I get all of the pesterChum stuff and the fact that I can see candice's room....but the buttons and interface is kinda confusing. I'm just suppossed to react to this, right? Or do I have to use the deploy thing like VC said?

[Retro Bug]

Originally Posted by Lt. Col. Fantastic

Alright, how about a little survey since we've gotten this train rolling?

Questions!

1: Why did you pick your color?
2: Did you have any inspiration for your character? If so, who?
3: Why did you name your character the name you named it? (lol)
4: Why did you put your character in the economical enviroment they are in? (ex: why is ricardo filthy rich?)
5: And finally, what made you want to join this rp?

1. I like purple but I wanted a different shade so I searched through hex codes to find Wild Violet and I really liked it.

2. No, I made her up off the top of my head. She sort of came in bits and pieces, the more I thought about her the more I wrote about her.

3. I wanted a unique name and I was just thinking of olden names that people had and there it was.

4. It's easier for me to write about, I'm not filthy rich so I can describe it more. It's simple.

5. The first post just really drew me in and I wanted to get involved in RPing after the lengthy break that I had.

[Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers]

Told you it would be weird.

The interface is, well... it's just a bar of buttons at the top of the SBURB game window. Or at the top of the screen, if Vinnie play in full screen mode. Do you understand?

But I kind of meant for this post to confuse you. Why don't you have Vinnie ask VC if there's stuff he doesn't understand? ;)

You should play through the events in the post in the way you think Vinnie would have done them. I wrote "if you do this" in some places to denote that you can do them if you think your character would, but you don't have to. And after these events... you may do whatever you want :3


Hahhaa... "BE RICARDO" !! :D

Do you guys want personalized narratives too? Of course you want. *goes to make something YOU CAN'T STOP ME*

No, actually. The same thing will happen to Vieve that happened to Candice, and the same thing will happen to Ricardo that happened to Vinnie. But with Vieve's room in the game screen. Naturally. So.

[Otherworld9)]

LOL, so much happened while I was gone X3

1: Why did you pick your color?
-Well, I was aiming at blue from the beginning, but I didn't want to use the dark blue since everybody else already some dark color...so I went to a light blue. It's also one of my favorite colors.
2: Did you have any inspiration for your character? If so, who?
-When I first made it, I was aiming at a female Gamzee. Halfway through I realized it would be a bit odd, so all I kept was the laidback and calm nature. I made her a tomboy, boring, and added some silence to her.
3: Why did you name your character the name you named it? (lol)
-Well, I named it after a different version of my nickname. Also since it's based off a fan fic character.
4: Why did you put your character in the economical enviroment they are in? (ex: why is ricardo filthy rich?)
-At first I was aiming for poverty, but decided that somehow that wouldn't fit her personality, seeing as she would have to struggle. So I decided to make her kinda average when it came to that. That way, they would have no worries, which explains how laid back she is.
5: And finally, what made you want to join this rp?
-Fan of Homestuck. Also since I haven't RPed in a while, and I also joined one of Red's RPs before, and I enjoyed him as GM. ^^


@Red - Oops, sorry for kinda controlling over the dad there ^^;

[drunk ¬_¬]

Posted.

I think I may have gotten a bit ahead of the ball there, but I'm fairly sure it's fine.
It's fine right.
Please say so.
I'm so bad at this…
……
…

:'(

JK, your turn Retro

[Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers]

Originally Posted by Otherworld9)

LOL, so much happened while I was gone X3

1: Why did you pick your color?
-Well, I was aiming at blue from the beginning, but I didn't want to use the dark blue since everybody else already some dark color...so I went to a light blue. It's also one of my favorite colors.
2: Did you have any inspiration for your character? If so, who?
-When I first made it, I was aiming at a female Gamzee. Halfway through I realized it would be a bit odd, so all I kept was the laidback and calm nature. I made her a tomboy, boring, and added some silence to her.
3: Why did you name your character the name you named it? (lol)
-Well, I named it after a different version of my nickname. Also since it's based off a fan fic character.
4: Why did you put your character in the economical enviroment they are in? (ex: why is ricardo filthy rich?)
-At first I was aiming for poverty, but decided that somehow that wouldn't fit her personality, seeing as she would have to struggle. So I decided to make her kinda average when it came to that. That way, they would have no worries, which explains how laid back she is.
5: And finally, what made you want to join this rp?
-Fan of Homestuck. Also since I haven't RPed in a while, and I also joined one of Chili's Red before, and I enjoyed him as GM. ^^

@Red - Oops, sorry for kinda controlling over the dad there ^^;

I'm having a good time reading your answers to Evan's questionnaire ^^
Also, no problem, you actually made him do exactly what I would have made him do XD

Originally Posted by drunk ¬_¬

Posted.

I think I may have gotten a bit ahead of the ball there, but I'm fairly sure it's fine.
It's fine right.
Please say so.
I'm so bad at this…
……
…

:'(

JK, your turn Retro :P

Noo, you're great! Now you guys know what will happen, since you can look at the others' narratives.

ONLY - VC won't talk to you. Just so you know.