Bragging (no ic spoilers please)

[Archbaron]

I remember when my noble went to go visit House Oash with another newly-accepted noble, and being put in my place by a specifically awesome Oashi noble.

"We'll have to talk to our older cousin about that..."

"No, you won't."

[Bogre]

Once my char and a companion were walking on the North Road.  I had a plate of spaghetti on my desk, above my keyboard. My CRT took up most of my desk, so my plate hung over the keyboard a little bit.  A gith captain walks in and attacks my companion, and in my haste to type back gith, I hit my plate and knocked it down on keyboard, spilling everything. I still managed to type back gith though, and they were able to kill it, but most of my keys had a permanent orange tinge after that.

Maybe this should have been a shame...

Definite brag. Gith defense through strings of spaghetti. 

[Zoan]

I once got some girl to play Armageddon. She made an insufferably pretty girl who wanted to join the Byn, and had high opinions of certain rights she felt she had with her character. When I explained to her exactly what is involved with the Byn, and why she shouldn't make incredibly beautiful characters (especially in the Byn), she got in a big row at me about how I am only trying to make her play the game the way I want her to play, and I think she quit.

This is totally a brag, by the way.

[Gunnerblaster]

I once got some girl to play Armageddon. She made an insufferably pretty girl who wanted to join the Byn, and had high opinions of certain rights she felt she had with her character. When I explained to her exactly what is involved with the Byn, and why she shouldn't make incredibly beautiful characters (especially in the Byn), she got in a big row at me about how I am only trying to make her play the game the way I want her to play, and I think she quit.

This is totally a brag, by the way.

I think this is pretty true. I bring other players in and I'm afraid I find myself sometimes pressing them a little too much of my own views at how something/someone should be played. I just try and keep it in check, though.

[Barzalene]

You're better off stressing the important things and working in the nuance gradually. Let them be beautiful, but make sure they don't hug elves.
Let them be smart, but make sure they bow to templars (or nod)
Let them be nice, but make sure they understand their place in the world.
People tend to improve with each incarnation but you have to let them settle in.

-Not Zoan. Zoan did it up right.

[Zoan]

I do everything right. 

[Nyr]

After rigorous testing a year ago, I devised a way to use room loops to exploit existing fall code to provide more interesting falling deaths due to acceleration.

[Archbaron]

After rigorous testing a year ago, I devised a way to use room loops to exploit existing fall code to provide more interesting falling deaths due to acceleration.

Now you're thinking with portals.

[Zoltan]

After rigorous testing a year ago, I devised a way to use room loops to exploit existing fall code to provide more interesting falling deaths due to acceleration.

I once fell into an eternal fall loop.

[Malifaxis]

Played a titanic halfling who wasn't a combat class.

Subdued a very well built half elf.

Bit off his ear.  Then more tandu came.

I ran.  Laughing.

[Dan]

Played a titanic halfling who wasn't a combat class.

Subdued a very well built half elf.

Bit off his ear.  Then more tandu came.

I ran.  Laughing.

Almost a haiku.

[Marauder Moe]

Poetic regardless.

[Majikal]

I had a picnic in Tek's personal garden, I left my pants there.

[Dakota]

first character lasted less than 1 day.

second character was 50+ days and she...

-in multiple plots.
-killed a gicker
-killed a defiler (wasn't alone here)
-befriended a very elusive clan and ended up being their main contact / spy to the city world (which nearly got her killed numerous times)
-survived a wagon fall and gith siege.
-pretty much made an officer b4 she died.
-could down a bahamet on her own at melee.. and was a lower end str race.. (but didn't after the first time as I'm pretty sure it was twinky to do so)
-A certain Templar who had a severe hatred for Southerners, offered this character a job (she was a southerner and a breed).
-in a plot to assassinate someone very big (and died a la n00b on the way to do it).
-had a pretty rare falcon and actually emoted with it in almost every possible occasion it was worn (squawks right in your ear in the middle of a speech + shits on your shoulder)
-saw and killed things I can't write here b/c I they're super rare and have no mention from a GDB search or in the helpfiles.
-this character made me really love arm, its staff and the players.
-showed me that mundanes.. even the 'lowest of the low', can be super fun, long-lived, involved in plots, respected, codedly strong, and cause a void when they're gone ever if only for a short while.

[Gunnerblaster]

first character lasted less than 1 day.

second character was 50+ days and she...

-in multiple plots.
-killed a gicker
-killed a defiler (wasn't alone here)
-befriended a very elusive clan and ended up being their main contact / spy to the city world (which nearly got her killed numerous times)
-survived a wagon fall and gith siege.
-pretty much made an officer b4 she died.
-could down a bahamet on her own at melee.. and was a lower end str race.. (but didn't after the first time as I'm pretty sure it was twinky to do so)
-A certain Templar who had a severe hatred for Southerners, offered this character a job (she was a southerner and a breed).
-in a plot to assassinate someone very big (and died a la n00b on the way to do it).
-had a pretty rare falcon and actually emoted with it in almost every possible occasion it was worn (squawks right in your ear in the middle of a speech + shits on your shoulder)
-saw and killed things I can't write here b/c I they're super rare and have no mention from a GDB search or in the helpfiles.
-this character made me really love arm, its staff and the players.
-showed me that mundanes.. even the 'lowest of the low', can be super fun, long-lived, involved in plots, respected, codedly strong, and cause a void when they're gone ever if only for a short while.

Kudos to you.

That's pretty damned impressive for a 2nd character.

Took me a dozen before I hit my "epic" stride >>

[Sephiroto]

Heh, it took me about fourty and a bunch of damn karma.  Doing that with a 2nd character, who is also a mundane, is laudable. 

[Pale Horse]

Heh, it took me about fourty and a bunch of damn karma.  Doing that with a 2nd character, who is also a mundane, is laudable. 

..took me almost eighty characters before I hit an "epic" stride.

I hold a great deal of respect for those who manage it so soon.

[i can haz mantis]

Took me a dozen before I hit my "epic" stride >>

I can't wait until you can post about that one epic character of yours that I know of.

[Zoltan]

I had a character who...

- Became a Byn Lieutenant, which was one of my little OOC goals since my first character, who was also a long-lived Byn leader.
- Was in more tight spots and crazy expeditions than I can really remember, and met each and every one with a brazen, death-and-glory-seeking badassitude that was a lot of fun to play.
- Managed to utter a very Flintstones'-appliance-like "It's a living" before just about every stupid (but necessary) drop off of a cliff. The climb skill was the bane of my existence, and there was a running joke for a while that the only thing that could stop Warband Fury was a climb of about ten cords.  ... he then climbed a god damn mountain with some extreme help from a super-ranger.
- Had an absurd stat roll, which probably aided his survival. Wisdom was something like average, but the other stuff was -insane-.
- Apparently had a cursed seed, as the women he impregnated would die before giving birth. (Sorry!)
- Had the pleasure to play around some very memorable characters.
- Struggled through a rhyming contest in the north, just because the Byn needed the damned publicity up there!
- Was confused for southern militia several times. It was a black -military aba-, guys.
- Was invited to become a student at House Tor, paid the price and did so, and then more-or-less gave them the finger and walked away because he thought they mostly sucked (but I loved you guys!  )
- Had a metal item given to him by a noble at a party. Had another item that was suspiciously metal, but I'm not entirely sure about it. Wore the latter constantly, and saved the former for special occasions. Because seriously.
- Had a cache of totally weird and obscure items from whenever the last PC Byn Lieutenant was around.
- Had an extreme sensitivity about his height, and a general inferiority complex that I'm not sure people really picked up on. In his virtual background, his first days as a sergeant after he let his previous superior die (Byn advancement, yo!) were spent sorting shelves in the northern compound's storeroom. He had a lot to prove when he became a PC.
- Had adventures. Crazy god damned adventures!
- Had an extremely long list of titles, some self-styled and some given: Boozebane the Magnificent, Byn Guardian, Demonslayer, Hero of Deeds, and more. Boozebane was the only one made up based on virtual events (his trooper years), the rest were all "earned" in one way or the other IG. Oh, in his background he was also frequently called "Runner Runt" by his tyrannical sergeant, due to his short stature and over all wimpiness.
- Was codedly pathetic (in relation to the other badasses of the era, and even a decent amount of his minions), but still managed to survive and thrive in some absurd scenarios. An IC-pruned but by no means complete set of examples:
     1) After a total clusterfuck of magickal proportions in the wilderness, a templar hit the road to cure him of some curse. My Bynner then allegedly (because even scanning over the log, I'm not sure) "borrowed" said templar's mount after flat-out refusing an impromptu contract so he could go rescue his mate beyond the reaches of the Known. It was a one way trip for the beetle, heh. Quite a crazy adventure in halfling land ensued. It was beyond epic, but I won't recount the whole mess here. The character told the story IG many, many times, and he was nothing if not honest about such things.
     2) Survived killing an ankheg without a scratch. He was not so proud of that last bit. (Everyone else kept typing >kill ankheg faster than me! I wanted to taaaaaank  )
     3) Fought some exceedingly rare beasts WHICH SHALL NOT BE DESCRIBED.
     4) During one of those mystery beast battles, he became mortally wounded. He hit -11 hp at one point. My prompt said "dead", but DEATH WAS NOT READY FOR THAT HERO OF DEEDS.... a templar rescued him. 
     5) In a crowning moment of awesome, he and some others cut down a magickal beast or two or three during the HRPT. This was after he refused to beg the templar who had saved his life previously to open the city gate to let the mother of his unborn child in to "safety." She vindictively Wayed him prior to her murder just before the magick critters hit.
     6) Died literally charging into a blaze of glory.

tl;dr version: I absolutely loved playing that character. I've had better characters since then, but I've only had a week or so of play that even came -close- to the awesome of those months. I just can't believe it's already been a year! My two regrets are that I inadvertently got Janus killed a day before his retirement (classic), and that I more-or-less got the Byn mul killed on an impromptu trip. Kids, if you're leading a clan, don't let perceived OOC boredom of minions influence you into taking a pointless, ill-advised trip "just to do something." Become a part of ridiculous RPTs instead!

[Synthesis]

My character totally kicked Zoltan's character's ass in front of a bunch of Runners...and ended up dying exactly the same way.

[Archbaron]

My two regrets are that I inadvertently got Janus killed a day before his retirement (classic)...

Bahahahaha! So awesome.

[Marshmellow]

I know someone that hit that on the first.  Not me, mind you.  This other person had about 115 days played on her first ranger that went to work for a hunting clan and then left to go work for a noble clan instead, did all sorts of stuff and was eventually executed for being a traitor to the city but was really executed for being too much of a trouble magnet.  She helped, long before that, assassinate the head of a noble house, the one she worked for too.  She helped find the cure for loosetongue.  All sorts of other crap I can't remember since it wasn't my character.

[MeTekillot]

My character totally kicked Zoltan's character's ass

I vaguely remember pounding on Zoltan's character with mine, too.

[Winterless]

I had a character who... did a lot of epicz stuffz.

That was you? lol Here we go again.

[Is Friday]

My character totally kicked Zoltan's character's ass

I vaguely remember pounding on Zoltan's character's ass with mine, too.