Take your place

[Blackest Night]

It's undeniable that this particular section has fallen into a pit of activity, the length and span of which being difficult to discern. Many people leap forth, speaking (or rather typing) about their miraculous solution to such a problem, yet action is hardly ever taken. This is not surprising, really. Such things tend to happen often.

The blame for the lack of activity has switched from topic to topic with alarming haste. First, it was that people stopped caring. Then it was shifted to the obvious increase in other activities due to school. There were some other periods and the blame was passed around some more. Finally, or at least as far as my knowledge extends, all fingers are pointing to the lack of what is commonly referred to as "the best" Roleplayers of the forum.

I will not dare imply the abscence of certain RPing tiers, nor will I act as if the RPers whom we have come to call the "best' have left. However, simply because the spot has been vacated does not mean that it can't be filled. I guess the "best" may very well have left, gone off to do whatever it is people of such nature do and come back from time to time to wow their audiences with their feats of literary mastery. I have a tendency to do that as well, but hey, I'm just arrogant every now and then.

Enough of this "The best have gone" idea. Yes, some people of skill have left and I suppose it's all very sad. Yet I fail to see why others do not rise to the occasion. Yes, many people are creating characters with powers far beyond any warped vision of reality, but this is not how you become the "best."

Anyone can have power. I can very well create a character in less than five seconds that could crush, demolish, destroy, annihilate, dissolve, slaughter, and maim anything that could ever possibly even think of going it's way at any time.

But this is not skill. Skill is what defines who is the "best", and it is skill that will serve to bring new Roleplayers up to the levels of those whose absence is needlessly mourned.

It is obvious to anyone that victory in battles is chosen by who defeats the other it a literary brawl. Who's sword pierces who's shield and whatnot. Who has liberally spread the peanut butter of pwn over the toast of another character's corpse, so forth. What irks me with this particular type of judging is that it hardly takes into account the actual style with which the battle is waged.

I can rip someone's head off in five words. Yet that action is choppy, broken, and has an effect similar to that of someone trying to dance, then falling flat on their face and proceeding through the earth to China. Odd to watch, even stranger to envision, yet perhaps slightly entertaining.

Or I can turn my words into steps, my phrases into glides, and create a literary waltz. There is no point in using words far beyond the scope of the average man solely to prove one's ability to look into a dictionary. There is no reason to use "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis " when a simple "lung disease" would suffice and provide the work with much better rhythm.

And so, after this long-winded stint of mine, I propose a new sort of judging. Continue judigng who won what by the actions presented in their posts. But in your critique, explain to them how they wrote. Were you able to witness the scenes as if they were presented to you? Were you able to feel, to smell, to hear? Or did you fall, deaf, numb, and blind, into a a jumbled mess of words and definitions?

Judge by style. Judge by grace. Help others to fulfill their potential, and get others to help you fulfill yours. Anyone can stab another through the heart with words. Very few are able to make a literary dance of it.

There can be no "best" unless others rise to the occasion. Stop complaining about who has gone, why they've gone, and where they've gone. Where are you going?

[TheTerrorofDeath]

Ohhh I very much like this new rule as I've been thinking of the same thing. But as you know, people have different vocabularies. Some use words that aren't common to others as an everyday language so you can't stop them from saying that and put it into simple terms. It also kind of makes it boring.

[Chariot of Fire]

Can we get an "Amen?"

That would be nice. It is annoying having to fight a person who somehow manages to stop your moves while speaking l33t.

[Ankoku]

1337 1$ /\l /\/\0r3z?

Nonetheless, I like this rule, though I'm not very good at the writing part, rather than actions. >> So, yeah. I'm screwed.

[Jopari]

I'm glad to see that this might get the section away from ridiculously over-powered characters. I hope this works out well.

[Dr. Freeman]

lol im such a nublet .

[Hip-Hop]

Since Dillion got his Martin Luther King Jr. on before I could, I shall simply ditto what his said. This is the time to bring RPing on KHI back to what it was, and, I don't know about any of the other RP Veterans here beside BN and Time, but I plan to do my best to be at it's head.

This style of judging also calls for anothe thing: more Melee Battles. It's easy to make a long, intriguing post when using magick to manipulate several things at once, but can you do so when limited to nothing but fist, sword, and shield?

Also it calls for yet another thing, finished battles. Oh, yeah, I said it. Half the battles I don't finish I do so because most of the time I get bored. I've blown shit up (people, planets, etc.) so many times that now it no longer seems cool. But, if you do this and actually challenge yourself to using imagery and maybe even making your post a bit poetic, it should do well to remedy the situation.

Well, as I said before, I'll try my very best to do all that I can to be at the head of this "revolution" you have going here BN. If anyone, from the newbiest n00b to LoC, needs anything feel free to PM or hit me on messanger.

~Carpe Diem.

PS.

Jopari, if you'll notice, all of the most well known "overly-powered" characters are overly-powered for a reason; we didn't make them like that out our asses. We built them that way over months/years of use.

[Sir Meta Knight]

I honestly don't care about "LOLGOLDANAGEZ" as long I can get some good people to fight - which isn't happening now. Judging system looks alright, but I doubt it's going to be implemented. A lot of people can talk, but if people don't want to do it or happen to be lazy, it'll grow into a habit and then the whole thing will die.

also, anyone who says I'm raining on the parade can go and gtfo out now. D: I'm serious, I'm not in the mood to argue. Or take it to PM.

[JUSTICE]

Sam, Josh and I have been stressing this for ages. I suppose we should've just spat it out like you did BN, rather than making such subtle implications through example.

And D2L, make your post, the battle ends next Monday. The victor isn't important, rather the battle, so it mightn't finish with defeat at all.

[Antlion]

I don't know about any of the other RP Veterans here beside BN and Time, but I plan to do my best to be at it's head.

UUUH

But anyway, I have a proposition. Everyone who makes a character, makes it through KHI rules. They start off basic, and almost like a system, you can build them up through RP's and such, and use them in battle. They can have any power as long as you earn it in some way.

It just makes it more realistic, and organized?

Yes? No?

[Sir Meta Knight]

Originally Posted by Fatal Advent

UUUH

But anyway, I have a proposition. Everyone who makes a character, makes it through KHI rules. They start off basic, and almost like a system, you can build them up through RP's and such, and use them in battle. They can have any power as long as you earn it in some way.

It just makes it more realistic, and organized?

Yes? No?

It would be retarded, because you wouldn't be able to make characters on-the-fly for one battle. D: You'd have to RP...

every
single
one

which I do not have tiem to do, with real life and such. Blargh, I find it so annoying that once one person suggests an idea, Time and D2l and everyone else get on the bandwagon instantly. It's like lemmings. Maybe we could, you know, just let it sit for a while? D: We don't all have to be fighting all-day long. It also hasn't been dead for months - it's been fully dead for about a week, maybe less.

[Dr. Freeman]

lmfao, dude, SMK. If you don't want to partake, then you don't have to. I was here for a lill when it was fun and active, a time before you became active agian. Overall, I just want to have fun. If you have a problem with something I'm doing, just PM me dude. I'll talk to you about it. And I apologize for the earlier PM, instant reaction isn't so good most of the time, lol.

Overall, dude, the RP forum has been dead for a very long time. Little psurts of activity, but other than that, nothing. Over the summer, we were the onyl forum that went down in activity, as opposed to going up.

[Sir Meta Knight]

Originally Posted by Time

lmfao, dude, SMK. If you don't want to partake, then you don't have to. I was here for a lill when it was fun and active, a time before you became active agian. Overall, I just want to have fun. If you have a problem with something I'm doing, just PM me dude. I'll talk to you about it. And I apologize for the earlier PM, instant reaction isn't so good most of the time, lol.

Overall, dude, the RP forum has been dead for a very long time. Little psurts of activity, but other than that, nothing. Over the summer, we were the onyl forum that went down in activity, as opposed to going up.

Uhh, it went dead because we're the forum with the longest posts text-wise. People are lazy. It's a fact.

It just seems like EVERYONE is jumping on the train or running like lemmings with the cool crowd who say "let's REVIVE AND MAEK IT GOLDEN AGE!!!!!!". I'm a little skeptical about this because it has been done before, and it failed, because no one participated when everyone said they would. :/

I'm also not taking this offensively, but you mention something about "I was here for a lill when it was fun and active, a time before you became active again". I'm just wondering, does that mean I sort of ruined it when I returned? 'cause if I did, I can just leave again.

Also, wat PM

[Dr. Freeman]

No, I didn't mean it like that. I meant before you weren't here when it had happened. It ended before you came, if anything.

Also, yeah, I know. Everyone says they'll partcipate but never does. But with your mind set, you're more or less saying soemthing along the lines of "it failed once, it's bound to fail again." Get what I mean?

[Jopari]

Originally Posted by D2L

Jopari, if you'll notice, all of the most well known "overly-powered" characters are overly-powered for a reason; we didn't make them like that out our asses. We built them that way over months/years of use.

I understand that. The most well known ones, mainly ones built by the people who have been on this site since forever, are like that because they got their after an eternity of being built. But just to keep up others accelerate the growth of the character, making them overly powerful.

An example would be my battle with Vash. I believe the thread was titled "A Battle Between Less Than Gods." Vash created an alchemist character to face off against my musically based character. While neither character were on par with some of the god characters I found Vash's Rikken to be overly powerful for such a new character and definitely over powered to fight a rather mortal character like my Abel.

This is caused by the fact that any new people to join in the Challenges section must create massive characters to face off against your god characters. I'm not saying that you shouldn't use those character which you obviously have poured some essence of your self into it, but we either need more newcomers so they can build their characters against each other or some balance of gods and mortals.