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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 8, 2010 22:25:48 GMT -5
Okay, Elliot and I need to move this conversation off of the shoutbox and into a proper RP Discussion topic where it belongs. We should totally, totally, not right now, but after Boullogne ends and maybe also after Ish moves ahead another episode or two so I'm not working too much of my ass off at any given time, run a Homestuck-inspired RP. Not just a vaguely MSPA-inspired RP in terms of the reader-driven format, which is what Boullogne is, but an RP that actually plays off some of the central mechanics of Homestuck, namely Sburb and the Captchalogue system (and also Pesterchum logs? Please? That'd be so cool). If what I am saying is nonsense to you, then holy shit man go read Homestuck now. Or at least get started 'cuz it'll take a while. BUT IT IS SO WONDERFUL. (Use this wiki if you need to. You probably will.) What I envision, this paradise I see, is that we could get four or more players (I want to say an even number would be better but I guess it's not that important) who'd be interconnected in a circle of Sburb clients and servers. (The way that it goes John as client, Rose as server; Rose as client, Dave as server; Dave as client, Jade as server; Jade as client, John as server.) We'd each be running a new RP character (all this would go down in General RP I guess) and we'd pretty much RP through the game together. Best of all would be if, like Renard, all four (or whatever) characters' actions were fueled by reader suggestions, giving it that extra Homestuck feel. Obviously, I hope we wouldn't try to copy the storyline exactly just with different characters. That would be not only stupid (since we don't know the full story) but also kind of cheap and lame. Hopefully the reader suggestions would allow us to build up our own story out of the same framework, probably much, much simpler than Andrew Hussie's, but that only makes sense 'cuz he's one guy and we need a plot we can collaborate on. So? Who's interested? I caution you that if you're not interested it's probably just because you haven't read Homestuck yet, and that once you do you will probably think this idea is the shit. I'm just saying. In fact I'm so enthusiastic about it that I've already put together my self-insert-type character! CLICK THE SHOW BUTTON Your CHUMHANDLE is forteHolder. You think that name's pretty legit because it hides not just a double but a TRIPLE MEANING. That's kind of your whole THING. See, your overall passion for LINGUISTICS incorporates an inordinate love of OBSCURE WORDPLAY. You like to be PRETENTIOUS about that. Hopefully no one can figure out that your ARROGANT ATTITUDE actually conceals some secret SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES because it would totally BLOW if they did.
Besides LINGUISTICS, you also enjoy a WIDE VARIETY OF ARTSY-FARTSY ACTIVITIES ranging from ACTING to CREATIVE WRITING to PLAYING THE PIANO, the last of which contributes one of the MEANINGS of your CHUMHANDLE. On the physical end of the spectrum, your favorite pursuit is FENCING, for which reason you've allocated RAPIERKIND to your STRIFE SPECIBUS. (And which also contributes one of the MEANINGS of your CHUMHANDLE.)
The FETCH MODUS you use for your SYLLADEX is the PRUFFANITY MODUS. Believe it or not, there's no real significance to the fact that that name reads like a misspelled rendering of "PROFANITY". You're just so unbelievably good with the OBSCURE WORDPLAY that you coined "PRUFFANITY" as a DAZZLINGLY WITTY MASHUP of the names of the two FETCH MODI which you fused to create this one. Honestly, though, the association with PROFANITY is kind of helpful after all, considering that the only way you can possibly describe this MODUS is to say that it is pretty F*CKING GODDAMN SWEET. [/size][/spoiler]
PESTERCHUM SOFTWARE: www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?30473-UPDATE!-Pesterchum-1.6 CHUMHANDLES: apotropaicReverie biomechArtisan chakraHammer damnableNarcissistforteHolder obfuscatedBrilliance paperDragon prismaticFashionista randomButter tzolkinRoulette wartimeStrategist waterloggedComputron
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Apr 8, 2010 22:33:07 GMT -5
Balls. This Homestuck thing is forever long.
I may be interested in this. It depends on what I think of this MSPA business you're touting.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 8, 2010 23:12:42 GMT -5
It is mad long. However you should really only need to read like the first act to know what a fun RP this would be. Also it is a fast read. You go through the pages all zip zip zip.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Apr 9, 2010 7:19:06 GMT -5
where doing this man
I'll be sorting out a character for mine later on today. Complete with drawing, Chumhandle, modus and so on.
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October
Citizen of the Archipelago
SINGER IS A CROOK, WHOA-EY-OH.
Posts: 44
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Post by October on Apr 9, 2010 11:06:06 GMT -5
showing interest etc
requesting players temporarily change MSN names to chumhandles to fabricate pesterlogs
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Apr 9, 2010 12:13:01 GMT -5
Sadly, my scanner is no longer working. I've had to use my webcam instead. Without further ado, though, here we go. Your CHUMHANDLE is prismaticFashionista. You like it, because it represents you perfectly. You're always a the height of fashion and consider yourself a fashion expert. A FASHION GOD almost. And you like the many many meanings of the first half too. It shows your MULTI-FACETED personality and interests, as well as being PRETTY SOUNDING and vaguely like RAINBOWS. It's apt. It's classy.
Outside of being a POSTER BOY for the ALTERNATE LIFESTYLE, you enjoy a simple life. Your main interests are GAMING, WRITING, READING, ACTING and SOCIALIZING, usually while UNDER THE INFLUENCE. You're pretty good at everything you do, but you're not really great at it all. You're more like a JACK OF ALL TRADES rather than a MASTER OF EVERYTHING, EVER. That's sill pretty classy you think though. As long as no one calls you Jack.
Your chosen FETCH MODUS is called the DEAL MODUS. To anyone else it'd be completely impractical and relying heavily on luck that they don't have. You like it though, because it keeps things interesting. As far as you're concerned, your MODUS is the BEST MODUS EVER. Plus, it's classy.
Please give a name to your character.
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October
Citizen of the Archipelago
SINGER IS A CROOK, WHOA-EY-OH.
Posts: 44
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Post by October on Apr 9, 2010 12:26:29 GMT -5
okay okay here we go bear with me on this one okay Your chumhandle is obfuscatedBrilliance. There are a few reasons behind this, but nobody would really GET them. Your INTERESTS aren't the kind of things you'd find in most people's rooms. You have a passion for OBSCURE MUSIC and ART, and a DISDAIN for the MAINSTREAM. You dress in a DISTINCTIVE WAY to reflect this and because of this you are often PHOTOGRAPHED. Your active pursuits include DRAWING, READING and CUSTOMISING CLOTHES, because god forbid anyone see you in the same dreary get-up as everyone else. You have a COLLECTION OF AMUSING HEADGEAR, which you often wear OUT ON THE TOWN in an IRONIC way. You only have a few CLOSE FRIENDS, because most people are so depressingly TRYHARD. Regardless, a lot of people seem to know you because you're a PRETTY COOL GUY. You are an unashamed POWERGAMER. Nobody can hope to compete with you at any GAME you have MASTERED, and you can pick up pretty much anything IN NO TIME AT ALL. Generally you wouldn't be seen gaming, as it's typically UNCOOL, but you claim you do it IRONICALLY and nobody is any the wiser. Your SYLLADEX uses the NUMERICAL MATCH modus, wherein the number of letters in the verb must match the number of letters in the noun to either CAPTCHALOGUE or USE an item. This leads to you using a lot of OBSCURE VOCABULARY but that's fine because you're PRETTY SMART, too. You have two strife specibus; the first is flailKind and the second is clawKind. There is an INTERESTING STORY behind this but we've already wasted too much time.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Apr 9, 2010 12:36:20 GMT -5
Got scanner working, so here's a clearer (though still quality-raped) image:
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 9, 2010 12:54:12 GMT -5
How does the DEAL MODUS work, Elliot? I am totes the maddest cur-curs. I guess I should explain the PRUFFANITY MODUS: forteHolder’s first fetch modus was the PRIORITY MODUS. It wasn’t the absolute easiest modus on the market but it was pretty simple to understand. Whenever fH captchalogued an item, he would assign it a priority value between 1 and X, where X was the total number of cards in the deck. (The priority had to be a whole number, and couldn’t match that of any other item already stored.) At any time, fH could only retrieve the item with the highest priority of all the occupied cards in the deck. Obviously that meant if he wanted to fetch a lower-priority card he’d first have to eject the higher-priority cards which was a bummer. So the modus was restricted in that way. But it was also flexible, in that every time he recaptchalogued an item he could assign it a new priority value, adjusted up or down to match the new situation, so as to minimize tedious item dumping. Altogether it was a pretty great modus and he had some good times with it.
Then he got a new modus, the HUFFMAN MODUS. This modus played off David A. Huffman’s algorithm for data compression based on “weights”. Whenever fH captchalogued a new item, it was given a base weight of 1. Then, every time he recaptchalogued the same item, its weight went up by +1. The idea obviously was that items that he retrieved, used, and stored over and over would get “heavier” and “heavier”. The catch was that he could only use the heaviest card in the deck at any time. Again, he’d need to dump heavier cards to access lighter ones.
This struck fH as pretty much the same principle as the PRIORITY MODUS, but less flexible since weight automatically increased while priority was manual. So he decided to use his MODUS CONTROL DECK to combine the two into a totally new fetch modus, which he now uses.
This modus uses both the concepts of priority and weight. Whenever fH captchalogues a new item, he gives it a priority between 1 and X, and it gets an automatic weight of 1. And whenever he recaptchalogues the same item, he assigns it a new priority and its weight goes up by +1. The total of these two values for any one card is called that card’s harshness.
Now the cool thing is that fH is not restricted to just using the harshest card in the deck. Instead, he can use any card with a harshness between Y-(X/2) and Y, where Y is the value of the harshest card in the deck. So, for instance, if his deck contains 12 cards at the moment, and the harshest among them has a value of 8, then he can access any card with a harshness between 8-(12/2) and 8 – that is, between 2 and 8.
PRIORITY + HUFFMAN -> PRiorITY + hUFFmAN -> PRUFFANITY
A pretty f*cking awesome name for a pretty f*cking awesome modus.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Apr 9, 2010 13:09:11 GMT -5
The DEAL MODUS: prismaticFrashionista's DEAL MODUS was the first one he acquired, but he still uses it because of the element of randomness involved. It basically functions like a deck of cards, but with a few variations.
There's a limit on how many items can be stored, capping at 52. When a new item is CAPTCHALOGUED, it is shuffled into the DECK with any other items CAPTCHALOGUED. The MODUS then DEALS a set number of cards that can be used at any time.
The luck involved keeps the DEAL MODUS interesting, but to keep things MIND BREAKINGLY RANDOM, the DEAL MODUS can deal anywhere from 1 to 7 cards at once.
For further complications, when prismaticFashionista had been dealt a hand, he can pick up new items as long as he doesn't mind his current items being EJECTED. The EJECTED card is chosen at random.
prismaticFashionista finds the MODUS fun to use, even when it inconveniences him by giving him useless items or ejecting his important ones.
Also, jpeg rape time
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 9, 2010 15:38:21 GMT -5
IDE/Theory: forteHolder will be the only player without sunglasses, thus inversely turning him into this session's Dave Strider.
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October
Citizen of the Archipelago
SINGER IS A CROOK, WHOA-EY-OH.
Posts: 44
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Post by October on Apr 9, 2010 16:32:13 GMT -5
IDE/Theory: oB will give the captcha code for some SWEET SHADES to fH.
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Post by Testbug on Apr 9, 2010 20:29:18 GMT -5
-Totally doesn't just make one post every year and then vanish for another year- [IMAGE TO BE ADDED LATER]
Your chumhandle is wartimeStrategist, which has VARIOUS MEANINGS in your life. Originally it was battleStrategist, but this led to very SAD AND UNFORTUNATE PesterChum abbreviations. Your chumhandle stands for your two loves of this world. One is BATTLE and FIGHTING, hence your strange obsession with ANIME. It also stands for your love of CHESS and STRATEGY. Your love is so great, in fact, that you have even set your FETCH MODUS to the CHESS MODUS.
The CHESS MODUS is a real headache to anyone else that uses it. Your modus sets values to every item that comes into your SYLLADEX, and this value is secret. It ranks your items ino rder of most important to least important, and bases its sections off of how many CAPTCHALOGUE CARDS you have. The downside to your FETCH MODUS is that it won't work if you have any less than SIX CARDS. Your most important item is referred to as your KING, and your least important item your PAWN. You have two different retrieval methods for your CHESS MODUS, MILO and MIFO, which are MOST IMPORTANT LAST OUT and MOST IMPORTANT FIRST OUT respectively, allowing you to chose to either only deploy your KING or your PAWN item. Your KNIGHT and BISHOP items are the most buried, and are usually LOST. The reason this FETCH MODUS works so well with you is because you are a master at COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING, the process in which you can change your own beliefs and thoughts so that you can make yourself believe other things to be true. For example, you can convince yourself that this CINNAMON SCENTED CANDLE is more important than your ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS with a little bit of work. However, the FETCH MODUS is likely to catch you off-guard if you're not concentrating.
You have assigned your STRIFE SPECUBUS to the POLEKIND variety, due to how your FATHER has BATTLE-TRAINED you. Surprisingly enough, your FATHER uses TWO KATANAS to do battle, rather than any kind of poles, like he should. You keep your QUARTER STAFF with you at all times to make sure that you can defend yourself, and if it isn't equipped, it usually ends up in the KING SPOT of your FETCH MODUS. Your FATHER loves ANIME just as much as you do, which leads to COMPLETELY FALSE ENCOUNTERS that don't have any REAL EMOTION behind them, but are mostly either references to your favorite ANIME or just funny, over-dramatic conflicts.
You live SOMEWHERE IN THE UK, near a LARGE CASTLE that is reportedly UNTOUCHED BY TIME. It has been STORMING around your place for weeks now, but it never rains, only drops the occasional plume of lightning and clap of thunder.
You fancy yourself a HACK-CODER, a term you invented by yourself. You HACK into programs and take bits of their CODE to assemble your own MODS and ADD-ONS for programs. Your most NOTABLE ACHIEVMENT THUS FAR has got to be your GAME-JOINING SERVER you made for the game known as SBURB. This is especially notable because it was written in a programming language you'd never seen before in your life, resulting in a BARE-BONES PROGRAM. You've sent it to some of your HACK-CODER FRIENDS, and they've vouched that it works before STRANGELY DISAPPEARING.
What will you name this YOUNG STRATEGIST?
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 9, 2010 20:40:47 GMT -5
Ooh I don't know if we can have prismaticFashionista and wartimeStrategist both be blue. That's just not right!
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Apr 9, 2010 20:47:16 GMT -5
Oh no way I so totally called prismaticFashionista in blue first.
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Post by Testbug on Apr 9, 2010 20:47:29 GMT -5
You are positive that it has always been wartimeStrategist and was never any different.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 9, 2010 21:00:28 GMT -5
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Post by Testbug on Apr 9, 2010 21:02:01 GMT -5
Also, in accordance the the "Creating Pesterlog" argument, using an IRC chat client could result in more easily created logs. EDIT: Sometimes I'm the best! Other times, I use MS Paint to do things.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Apr 10, 2010 1:46:25 GMT -5
Sometimes I'm the best! Sometimes I steal Paint templates. Your CHUMHANDLE is chakraHammer. You weren't too fond of the NAME but your FRIENDS thought it suited you, so you kept it. You're as EASYGOING as they come, due in part to your endless practice of ZEN BUDDHISM and your VOCATION as the local WEED FARMER. Your favorite word is BRAH, brah, and you enjoy speaking in a RASTAFARIAN ACCENT, though it's hardly your native tongue. Aside from being the GANJA GURU of the tri-county area, you enjoy PAINTING, BONGOS, and UNINTELLIGIBLE DRUM AND BASS TRACKS. You're slow to anger, but they don't call you HAMMER for nothing, do they? The COMPRESSOR MODUS you employ makes you a HANDY ALLY and formidable OPPONENT, and everyone is well aware of the HAMMERKIND tucked neatly away in your STRIFE SPECIBUS. The FETCH MODUS you use for your SYLLADEX is the COMPRESSOR MODUS. You chose it for several REASONS, the first being that it is SELF-PRIORITIZING - at least in the way you see things AS SUCH. The STRUCTURE is remarkably simple, yet its practical application can be viewed as SEVERELY FLAWED. The COMPRESSOR structure allows for CAPTCHALOGUES to be added to your SYLLADEX from both ends, and there is no set LIMIT as to how many CAPTCHALOGUES may be introduced at any one time (at last count, the MOST ever contained in your SYLLADEX was TWENTY – but you don’t like to TALK ABOUT IT. The COMPRESSOR function manifests itself in the DISENGAGEMENT of CAPTCHALOGUED items from your SYLLADEX. Depending on what value the COMPRESSION ABSTRATUS is set to (any whole value from 1-10) the CAPTCHALOGUES in between the FIRST and LAST cards will be forced together, and increase in WEIGHT and PRIORITY the more stress is applied. For a set of three cards t a COMPRESSION level of one, for instance, upon the introduction of the third CAPTCHALOGUE, the second card in the STACK would be ejected, and must either be reintroduced to the stack (resulting in the ejection of the new middle card and repeating the process) or used/discarded. As the COMPRESSION VALUE goes up, however, more cards must be introduced before the middle card EJECTS (and this card ejects with EXPONENTIALLY INCREASING FORCE, up to a factor of 100). If there are an EVEN NUMBER of cards, the two middle cards are ejected with the compressing FORCE divided equally between the two (i.e. a single card ejected at 50 mph or two cards travelling at 25 mph.) You prefer this MODUS because you tend to FORGET what items are in your CAPTCHALOGUE, and when a RANDOM CARD is ejected, you view it as a gift of KARMA, and use it to whatever APPLICATION you believe FATE has set forth for it. Also, when AGGRIEVED, you can INUNDATE your SYLLADEX with random CAPTCHALOGUES, expelling your MIDDLE CARDS with REPREHENSIBLE FORCE.
COOL STORY, BRAH.
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Post by Tangrufa on Apr 10, 2010 2:23:57 GMT -5
Um er um hello <3 I'll get with the introductory stuffies when it's not 3 in the morn where I are. Well, I more or less was invited to try by Testbug and El, I think, so, um, here I attempt~! :> I am not horrible at code but the darn image won't show up under img tags so here's the URL, at least :> (POHATU SEZ: Fixed. There was a little extra gibberish after the .png extension, making it only visible on Photobucket itself.) Your chumhandle is coruscatingRainbow. You’re sure this name fits you, as your favorite HOBBIES happen to be PLAYING WITH UNICORNS coupled with INTERIOR DECORATING, despite that having nothing to do with your name. You also find it to SOUND PRETTY. These tendencies may stem from your being raised with the IDEALS of FRIENDSHIP and HAPPINESS. You are so sure of these beliefs, in fact, that you are too SHALLOW to see that your PARENTS HATE YOU. For now, you have to been lead to believe that you currently live with your AUNT in a PICTURESQUE TOWN because your parents are on VACATION, going on for a YEAR by now. You are SLIGHTLY SUSPICIOUS of this, but it has been put OUT OF YOUR MIND for the time being. Your AUNT is always out protecting ANIMAL RIGHTS, rallying some PROTEST or the other, and from time to time brings home an ABUSED WOODLAND CRITTER. From watching your AUNT, you have gained a WIDE KNOWLEDGE about FIRST AID. These ABUSED WOODLAND CRITTERS leave the HOUSE smelling like MANY DIRTY ANIMALS, so you hang many AIR FRESHENERS around the HOUSE. In YOUR ROOM, you have taken to AMASSING MANY STUFFED ANIMALS, especially UNICORNS. Although you are NOT VERY SMART, you are still aware that these UNICORNS are NOT REAL, despite them being your OBSESSION. Being SIMPLE, you are NOT VERY TECH-SAVVY, but can still use a computer, as some of your SMARTER FRIENDS have shown you how. Because you are so very SIMPLE, you have assigned your STRIFE SPECUBUS to KNIFEKIND accidentally. Your AUNT always told you not to play with KNIVES, but you did anyway, and it was ACCIDENTALLY ASSIGNED as your STRIFE SPECUBUS. You don’t mind though, it allows for convenient VEGETABLE CHOPPING. After looking at all the FETCH MODUS, you decided to pick one that was EASY TO UNDERSTAND. The RAINBOW MODUS relegates CAPTCHALOGUED ITEMS to a different COLOR of the RAINBOW, dependant upon the DOMINANT COLOR of the item. Each COLOR can hold up to 7 cards on its own. If a slot becomes full, you try to remedy this by using your TRUSTY CRAYONS to RECOLOR an item so it moves to a different COLOR Also, you may only RETRIEVE the CARDS in the SAME ORDER they were CAPTCHALOGUED in. Right now, you have many CRAYONS in the COLORING CHEST in your ROOM. This SIMPLE GIRL forgot her NAME! What was it again?
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Apr 10, 2010 7:34:51 GMT -5
This SIMPLE GIRL forgot her NAME! What was it again? Flighty Broad.
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October
Citizen of the Archipelago
SINGER IS A CROOK, WHOA-EY-OH.
Posts: 44
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Post by October on Apr 10, 2010 8:00:37 GMT -5
This SIMPLE GIRL forgot her NAME! What was it again? Flighty Broad. Farmstink Buttlass.
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Post by Testbug on Apr 10, 2010 9:41:47 GMT -5
you think about entering a different name for her, but that would be a really terrible thing to do to poor, sweet Farmstink.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 12, 2010 21:13:50 GMT -5
We should also pick associated elements now. I call Poison. And in reference to some FF games I've never even played, my web browser will therefore be CUCHULAINN.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Apr 12, 2010 22:16:43 GMT -5
Uh... I call Holy.
And my web browser is... Tonberry.
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Post by Tangrufa on Apr 13, 2010 5:47:01 GMT -5
Oh oh I think I'll choose Color, of course if such an element is not believed to be an element I'll certainly do my best to look for another.
And my magical web browser will be Chloris <3
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