Sapphirebreeze's Journal of Joy

It is incredibly lame to have the outcome of an extremely lengthy, hard-fought battle where one side manages, after many hours, to force the retreat of the other side completely reversed at the last minute because Retreating Side has a West Coast heavy-hitter log on, and all the East Coast heavy-hitters are already exhausted and have to go to bed.

Just saying.

The earliest Discworld novels were based off of Prattchet's RPG experiences. In fact, references to the bizarre D&D magic system and dice-rolling abound in The Color Of Magic. Back in the days when Prattchet DM'd (is it really surprising to learn that he ran games?), he wrote adventures for his players that involved a self-transporting chest with many, many feet.

So, yeah.

Were it not for D&D, we probably wouldn't have Discworld, and were it not for Gygax, we probably wouldn't have D&D.

It's just amazing to think how many aspects of my life are directly or indirectly affected by that game. I am one huge nerd!

... I would totally approve a female original-character from the Marvel G1-verse whose explanation for being female was, "Like all Transformers, he never really understood the concept of gender one way or another, but after going to Earth and meeting Arcee, he decided he, or rather, she, has always been a female but just never realized it."

That'd be cool. ^_^

(Well, okay, it still need to be a good application otherwise. I'm just saying that such a background would contribute to it being a good application.)

Decided to go ahead and upload my icons for my other Deadzone characters. The exception is Needlenose; the Needlenose icon I use was a gift for someone else, and although I have her permission to use it on the board, I don't want to use it here.

In addition to cranky old Kup, I've also added Screwdriver.

These are not really supposed to be pictures of the "real" young Kup from the good old days back on Cybetron, but the back-story is kind of convoluted. Because this is my blog, I'll tell it anyway.

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Quoth the Ravyn, "....."

/silly

Information page for Transformers Go-Bots. Haven't looked at it yet. I hear it's got all the episodes.

Scott: better get cracking! I'll be waiting on that app!

http://chawks.brinkster.net/gb/story/downloads.shtml

Weird interactions or just general weirdness that have amused me:

* Autobot Long Haul
* Omega Supreme's reaction to Autobot Long Haul
* Predacon Wheelie
* Emperor Starscream
* Alpha Starscream III
* G1 Marvel Emirate Xaaron and G1 Cartoon Kup decide that "damn punks" are multi-versal.
* The reactions of every single non-G1 Decepticon upon the arrival of Omega Supreme
* The reactions of the G1 Decepticons do the non-G1 Decepticons' reaction to the arrival of Omega Supreme ("Uhm, we did tell you guys about him.")
* Predacon Wheelie (this is weird enough for two mentions)
* Actionmaster Needlenose
* Spinister's reaction to Actionmaster Needlenose
* Dead End vs. Swerve
* Kup vs. Wreckage (Kup appears to be well on his way to gaining a starry-eyed, tag-along RID kid admirer from this one)
* Autobot Long Haul has to prove himself every time a new G1 Autobot arrives. Sads!
* Holi vs. the dragonette
* Nightbeat vs. Arcee
* Yes, he's really Starscream. Deal with it.
* Emirate Xaaron weaving flowers for the dragonette
* Shortround and Fleetwind discuss transforming toys
* Needlenose vs. Omega Supreme (Gah!)
* Optimus Prime is spare parts
* Synapse. Nodes. Need I say more?

And that's just a partial, spur-of-the moment list. Sometimes I get antsy at the pace this game is going, but really, looking back, we've only been going a bit over three months, and we've had a lot of cool stuff so far!

Because I like posting my applications. Because I'm weird. I skipped right to the character information. Warning: I'm long winded in this one. I want potential players to know that I would generally not expect their applications to be this long. What can I say? Kup is rambly.

( So long I need a cut! )

I am one of three admin at the Deadzone bboard based RPG, an application-required Transformers game. So far, only a handful of distinctive applications have been submitted to the game, and of them, only three non-admin applications have been approved (although it's worth noting that admin-played characters have to go through the same approval process; we just have one less person voting on us). While I certainly would like to see more characters, I'm definitely a quality-over-quantity type, and as long as there's a single other person to play with, I'm pretty happy. In other words, while more is better, I'm not inclined to go easier on an application just because our player base is small.

I've chatted with a few people who know all three of the admin, and they all have certain expectations as to who's the harshest judge of the three of us. They're also generally wrong. I am (in the defense of others, I usually get pegged as second). I have a very long role-playing history, but it's almost universally in highly structured environments such as MUSHes and table-top RPGs. Most MUSHes have fairly involved application processes, and while table-top games don't always, they tend to have more internal balances and are more resistant to abuses.

I am not here attempting to be disparaging towards more open, freer games. I simply accept that different people operate best at different ranges of structure. If anything, I rather admire those who can easily go back and forth between free-form and structured environments. I'm not. I'm one of those people who need a few firm rules in place. As for those who work best in free-form games, but have trouble in structured ones, I don't look down at them. I recognize that not every player is suited for every role-playing game, even if both player and game are considered "good" by their peers or participants.

Anyway, the purpose of this post is to lay out, for anyone who's curious, the pitfalls of Deadzone's current application system from my own perspective. As I said, I tend to be the strictest judge (although I look more at power levels, while another looks more at canon accuracy), so this information may prove useful to anyone thinking of applying at Deadzone, and who knows, maybe it'll be interesting or amusing for the rest of you. :) Although I sometimes use "we," what I am describing my own opinion and what contributes to how I vote. So when I say "we do this" or "we do that," what I mean is, "I suggest to the other admin that we do this," or, "I suggest to the other admin that we do that."

Edit 1: This post will get edited periodically as applicants do things that make me think, "You know, maybe I should have mentioned that." Actually, it's more like, "Argh! Rant time!" but, you know... I will number my edits, for those who want to skim for only the new stuff, and the number of the current edit will always be listed at the front of this paragraph.

( App and my comments. )

There. Done. Hope that was edjamacational or ennertaining for some.