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[Big_Larry]

Re: The Final Trial

[Tenchizard]

This is one of those times when, being familiar with a similar "world" (sorry, this is just screaming WoD out loud), I'd play along with what I would do in a tabletop RPG. And, like Big Larry up there, I'll try leaving powergaming or metagaming aside (so I won't take into account that I know how utterly dismembered would I be if I decided to leap against a werewolf if I don't even know my character sheet ):

And so I looked again at my so called "Sire", fighting with that enormous monster, and then looked at the bed where the passage to salvation was hidden. And fighting the unnatural hate still burning inside me, I ran towards the bed, pushing it out of the way, and got into the access. I kept on running, till I got to the promised junction, where I looked back to see...

I tend to play (maybe as an extension of tending to be myself) more cautious than adventurous roles, and if my mentor has ordered me to go, then I follow orders and go. If this was a roleplaying session (so I could have access to all this meta-knowledge about rules and systems and such), unless the GM was showing giant neon signs of "you must stay and fight", I would flee too. I don't like my characters dying on the first ten minutes... imagine all the paperwork having to create another character!

[Rogi Ocnorb]

The wording and writing style in the last installment, while somewhat similar to the first two, was different enough that I almost feel like there is a hidden code in there, somewhere. I had to cycle through the text several times just to pull all the pertinent story information out. It just seems like the choice of words was dictated more by some required structure for needed letters than the heavily thesaurused style of the earlier versions.

Since I can't find anything and know nothing of the game(s) the others have mentioned, I'll have to go with the "flee" option, agreeing with them purely based on the story, as presented and for the same reasons listed.

[tabster-mobile]

my response depends if fleeing a fellow vampire is considered letter her die and if that's considered 'killing her' and if so then I must stay. if not I flee with all reasons listed above

[Silent|away]

I didn't exactly deal with the first two puzzles, but a moral delimma sounds interesting:

[Agent Lex]

I don't follow your logic there. You're saying that, by attacking but not killing your sire, you can't be accused of directly killing her. But by running away, and not weakening her whatsoever (and she may well have a fighting chance) you can be accused of killing her?

[faeryqueen21]

I would flee because of the reason most other people said: she told me to and I have to listen to my master!

[Silent|away]

[Omega]

The Quoting Contest

[Rogi Ocnorb]

To your last point. That's something that I'm in constant amazement over, as well. That a community consisting of so many intelligent people can exist with such little animosity and moderation/intervention is something of an enigma to me. I think one of the main reasons is that this is a place where you never know what kind of a mousetrap you'll find yourself in and quickly learn that you don't know half as much as you thought you did, you're not in Kansas, anymore and we all need each other. I can't begin to catalog the amount of information I've learned since coming here.

As for the complexity of the puzzles... This area of the forums is not so highly trafficked. The puzzles in this last one were, in retrospect, types that would have been solvable even without the faux pas and hints by a decent sized player base were they to appear in the more active areas. I know I did a few forehead slaps.

I think your writing style would help to ensure a fairly good turnout. It's actually an interesting style to read (when you're not trying to suss out puzzly details). I appreciate your ability to write that way mainly because I can't. While you can turn it down a notch, I couldn't hope to write that way without spending endless hours stressing over every word and ultimately ruining it, anyway. If I knew the story part was ALL story only, I could relax a little and let the simile wash over me. Maybe just do a quick spin in the dryer so it's not dripping (making sure not to use the "fluff" cycle ).

And lastly, I also applaud your considerations and acceptance of critical analysis.
We get a lot of new folks who start something like this not so much for the noble reasons they imply they're going for as they are doing it to show how smart they are. Those people don't hang around very long. So, you may have seen some snarkieness, earlier on which is dissipating as you show you're not in it just for a quick ego-stroking. You're getting a good lay of the land in a very short time. And I think a lot of people are watching the interaction and learning how to build a better game. Always a good thing.

[rowan]

Re: The Quoting Contest

[Omega]

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[rowan]

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[Omega]

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