Marcus QDunn
Sep 17th, 2001, 06:45:28 PM
A year ago, a defining roleplay was finished. It had as it's subjects love and sorrow at passing. It was called Learning to Cry and it is still one of the best, if not the best roleplays anywhere. It's end had what I up to then regarded as my best post.
Unfortunantly, it also finished me off as a roleplayer. Burnout or something, I dont know. But I just didnt want to write on. But there was always more to the story, there were ideas and plans that I always wanted to run with, especially the central illusion that I've based myself on.
The first part of this was when I had to go on a eight week road trip. I re-evaluated what I was doing, took one look at Turbogeek and shot him. Buried, over, I wanted a fresh start. I was going to do that anyway, but I just said screw it and changed the timeline. In all of this, I shelved Dark Fury, but I kept the storyline.
Enter Hunter, a fresh start. And a change to my storyline. Some ideas were pushed forward, other back. Still, I wasn't really roleplaying. Even the Roleplay challenge didn't really work, although that began to bring myself back where I wanted to be. The problem was that I work best teamed up with others - I had isolated myself, the old crowd I worked with were gone.
The Jeseth had a chat with me. I was never going to bring back Turbogeek, but he proved most persuasive. Thence the second clone came into being. That basically set off a chain of communication, that lead me beginning to work with Lady De'ville / inventing Arya Ravenwing. Then there was Jyanis, and the defection. Having some fun playing DT as a moron. Introducing the fact Hunter wasn't what he seemed.
And discovered Roleplay could be fun again.
Arya and I worked out the framework to a roleplay, what was intended to be a four way joust of about 100 posts, involving Arya, DT, Tohmahawk and Jyanis. In the process, they both somehow understood the Hunter storyline and what I wanted to achieve. Helped writing it down, as this was a two year old concept that had never been committed to writing, it was always only in my mind. Idea sessions, planning. Found the right theme song, I played it over and over to get a feel, to understand. The roleplay was going to be called Can you see who I am. The original post WAS titled that. I didn¡¦t think Sick Cycle Carosel was going to work. Well, after getting a few others in on it, it began to work. It opened with a blinder of a post. Ideas came and some parts changed, were deleted. Pierce Tondry asked to join. It became a story of finding who you are, of making a stand for what you believed in. Learning to Cry was an ending. Sick Cycle Carosel was about a Beginning.
At about post 78, we all realised we were, as a group creating something special, especially as to our amazement we realised people were actually reading this thing. And ENJOYING IT. You know how much of a kick that was and just inspired, well me anyway, to do better? Then came the revelations, the plot switches, the twists and turns.
Well, it's now over and I'd like to publicly thank the following people for joining what I fully believe has been the best roleplay I have seen or been in by a long shot. Oddly enough, it's a year to the day since Learning to Cry finished. Which I personally regarded as the best until now. Not anymore, not by a long shot
What was seen in SCC was the culmination of two years of planning, ideas, arguments, fast idea changes and scripts. I had originally thought I was going to do that in a Dark Fury type story, but to be honest, I doubt I ever want to revisit Dark Fury for a long time.
Anyway, mad props to the following -
Jeseth for talking me back into running a Darth Turbogeek character again. I was never originally going to reprise DT, but he talked real well. He also had the effect of drawing me back in Roleplay again. Thanks mate!
The main partner in crime, Arya. I enjoyed the planning, the twists and turns and the jokes over AIM. One day we should post a SCC outtakes form the forum we planned this from. Thank you very much, your a brilliant roleplayer
Pierce - Added something special. Damn your good.
Jyanis - Dont undersell yourself. Again was in on this from the beginning. Much appreciated
Elieen - Love you lady and I am going to get you back for pulling those two fast ones on me
And to all those who joined in in some way -Yog, Hera, Gurney, Nathan West (who was also in on it from the beginning), Liam Jinn, Beldarine, thanks muchly :)
And thanks to everyone who AIM'ed or emailed me telling me how much they enjoyed reading. You kept us going.
* Bows *
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Unfortunantly, it also finished me off as a roleplayer. Burnout or something, I dont know. But I just didnt want to write on. But there was always more to the story, there were ideas and plans that I always wanted to run with, especially the central illusion that I've based myself on.
The first part of this was when I had to go on a eight week road trip. I re-evaluated what I was doing, took one look at Turbogeek and shot him. Buried, over, I wanted a fresh start. I was going to do that anyway, but I just said screw it and changed the timeline. In all of this, I shelved Dark Fury, but I kept the storyline.
Enter Hunter, a fresh start. And a change to my storyline. Some ideas were pushed forward, other back. Still, I wasn't really roleplaying. Even the Roleplay challenge didn't really work, although that began to bring myself back where I wanted to be. The problem was that I work best teamed up with others - I had isolated myself, the old crowd I worked with were gone.
The Jeseth had a chat with me. I was never going to bring back Turbogeek, but he proved most persuasive. Thence the second clone came into being. That basically set off a chain of communication, that lead me beginning to work with Lady De'ville / inventing Arya Ravenwing. Then there was Jyanis, and the defection. Having some fun playing DT as a moron. Introducing the fact Hunter wasn't what he seemed.
And discovered Roleplay could be fun again.
Arya and I worked out the framework to a roleplay, what was intended to be a four way joust of about 100 posts, involving Arya, DT, Tohmahawk and Jyanis. In the process, they both somehow understood the Hunter storyline and what I wanted to achieve. Helped writing it down, as this was a two year old concept that had never been committed to writing, it was always only in my mind. Idea sessions, planning. Found the right theme song, I played it over and over to get a feel, to understand. The roleplay was going to be called Can you see who I am. The original post WAS titled that. I didn¡¦t think Sick Cycle Carosel was going to work. Well, after getting a few others in on it, it began to work. It opened with a blinder of a post. Ideas came and some parts changed, were deleted. Pierce Tondry asked to join. It became a story of finding who you are, of making a stand for what you believed in. Learning to Cry was an ending. Sick Cycle Carosel was about a Beginning.
At about post 78, we all realised we were, as a group creating something special, especially as to our amazement we realised people were actually reading this thing. And ENJOYING IT. You know how much of a kick that was and just inspired, well me anyway, to do better? Then came the revelations, the plot switches, the twists and turns.
Well, it's now over and I'd like to publicly thank the following people for joining what I fully believe has been the best roleplay I have seen or been in by a long shot. Oddly enough, it's a year to the day since Learning to Cry finished. Which I personally regarded as the best until now. Not anymore, not by a long shot
What was seen in SCC was the culmination of two years of planning, ideas, arguments, fast idea changes and scripts. I had originally thought I was going to do that in a Dark Fury type story, but to be honest, I doubt I ever want to revisit Dark Fury for a long time.
Anyway, mad props to the following -
Jeseth for talking me back into running a Darth Turbogeek character again. I was never originally going to reprise DT, but he talked real well. He also had the effect of drawing me back in Roleplay again. Thanks mate!
The main partner in crime, Arya. I enjoyed the planning, the twists and turns and the jokes over AIM. One day we should post a SCC outtakes form the forum we planned this from. Thank you very much, your a brilliant roleplayer
Pierce - Added something special. Damn your good.
Jyanis - Dont undersell yourself. Again was in on this from the beginning. Much appreciated
Elieen - Love you lady and I am going to get you back for pulling those two fast ones on me
And to all those who joined in in some way -Yog, Hera, Gurney, Nathan West (who was also in on it from the beginning), Liam Jinn, Beldarine, thanks muchly :)
And thanks to everyone who AIM'ed or emailed me telling me how much they enjoyed reading. You kept us going.
* Bows *
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Hope everyone else enjoyed it too. Comment away if you like now :)