Nine Swords

This is the thread where all your OOC (out of character) posts go for the game "The Templars Gambit"... so if 'you', the person behind the character have anything to say - this is the place!!!

- Volen (Host)

Peace and freedom and chilydogs for everyone

Hi there RP Team!!

5/5/13 is here... and I'm happy that you have decided to join us in this first, 9-swords RP "event"... please feel free to ask me (Volen) or Geth any questions about the mechanics of the game, clarifications of post, etc.!!

You can assume that you see the other members of the current cast in the opening scene with you... you reactions to them can include your previous experiences with their characters, etc. ... that's all up to you.

Here is a little opening tip, it will be added to the FAQ thread today:

The "Post" in the Play by Post Format

You'd be surprised how many folks besides our 'team' will read our games!

This means you write your posts as if you are writing a novel, first or third person, limited (your character's) perspective. In other words, we want the game threads to read MOSTLY like a book. You can write about what your feeling, do flashbacks (esp. nice if you missed an opportunity to post before someone else moved the story along), explore possibilities, etc. but all in our "novel" format.

Out of character (OOC) comments should be clearly marked using the [fieldset tag] or double brackets of some kind (( )) {{ }} [[ ]] BUT USED minimally in the game thread. Good examples of these are SHORT explanations of game mechanics related to the current post, and so on. ALL OTHER OOC comments should go in the players coffee room (the OOC room). I will usually try to clean up the current thread as I go if you miss some of these, this includes marking out unrelated OOC comments.

Other nice, but not required conventions for postings are: BOLD for direct character quotes, italics for ‘thoughts’, and the tilde (~) as brackets for telepathic thoughts.

Postings like,
‘My character picks up his gun and shoots the Vampire’ are better written like this:

Brutus sees the Vampire swoop down from the high ledge, curved katana in hand. Reflexes honed from thousands of practice sessions kicked into gear, as his pistol seemingly appears in his hand having been drawn from its holster. He aims and fires between its pair of red eyes.

PLEASE notice, your character's name is used in all the posts. There is not problem using the first-person pronouns ("I" for example, but use your character's name first - see the example above).

[[Any explanation of needed for this post are included here in OOC]]

I hope this helps! Enjoy, Volen

Love the posts so far!!1

I'm just waiting for Bagbus & Cybella to pipe in before posting the response....
I know you want a closer look at the coin and the article

I know it seems like a long wait sometimes... but if I don't see a post from a character in a couple of days, we 'move on' and hope they catch up with the scene latter.

- V

Poking my head in here for the first real time.

So, I got thinking: we had an old thread for in/out of game RP, that our characters sent text messages to others. Maybe that' something you might consider bringing back, Volen?

Arcadius wrote:Poking my head in here for the first real time.

So, I got thinking: we had an old thread for in/out of game RP, that our characters sent text messages to others. Maybe that' something you might consider bringing back, Volen?

Interesting... how did that work?

Volen wrote:

Arcadius wrote:Poking my head in here for the first real time.

So, I got thinking: we had an old thread for in/out of game RP, that our characters sent text messages to others. Maybe that' something you might consider bringing back, Volen?

Interesting... how did that work?

I think Didas set this up. There's a good description on what happened here.

http://www.nine-swords.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1402

Waiting for people to post before I post anymore!

Getting a post together as we speak, I will try and include some investigation so Kleopas can look smart....

Edit* Just so everyone knows. Miranda's action and speech will be put in Italics so if there is speech without Miranda did this* it just means she's still saying something.

I am so enjoying the asides with Miranda! That's a wonderful foil for writing Kleo. <3 it