route_006 | Slow...ish...ness.

Slow...ish...ness.

SO AS YOU'VE PROBABLY NOTICED since joining my activity's been rather. sluggish. I don't want to declare a hiatus quite yet (especially not so early) but I would like to apologise for it- just a few unforeseen problems with my school schedule and stuff. Bear with me, I'll be tagging as much as I can around weekends and late-nights.

That said, I'd also like to take the chance to ask how you guys manage different aspects of the game, out of curiosity! I've seen a few different methods but haven't been able to decide on one for myself and Bun here quite yet.

Also I'm trying to think of more ways to incorporate Bun's whole artist schtick in a pokémon setting. Anyone else have this kind of theme with their character going on?

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I'm not a high profile player (I never even got around to an OOC introduction, actually). I just make the posts that seem interesting to me, both action and video.

As far as art goes, Sho hasn't had a chance to create any of his own yet, but there are plans for a choreographed pokemon fire dance with his travelling partner's clothing. Mostly I stick with his maths thing, which involves naming his pokemon after maths symbols. Bunnymund isn't as insane as Sho, though, so this sort of thing may not work for you.

Beyond school I've been having trouble getting Bunny to cooperate for posts because of his whole 'loner' thing and I'm like 'bro I get it you're the lone aussie ranger but that is not how RP works my friend, you're gonna have to video somebody sometime'

I'm actually thinking of naming all his pokémon after fictional rabbits-- Tulane is actually named after Edward Tulane, for instance. Bunny's art is mostly painting, which is why I gave him a smeargle, though beyond that I'm not sure how I'll have him acquire things with which to paint. Which could honestly be a good excuse for a video.

You can also try out accidental video via pokemon deciding he needs more human company? Or just accidental in general, Sho's first was him fighting with his Purrloin for control of the pokegear.

Sho is also a loner, and part of how Belphe's player and I dealt with that in order to have him end up with a travelling partner is that his Eevees, when they hatched, decided that Belphe and Sho are equally necessary to their happiness and neither of them are able to deal with wailing, crying Eevees when they try to go their own separate ways. That's letting us build up enough CR that when the Eevees are older the two of them will have settled into being partners.

Yeah, I was thinking of that. Tulane is really antagonistic right now to kind of balance Bunny's complacency, so.

Tooth's travelling with Bunny right now but they're obviously used to working on a team of at least four. Both of us have been dealing with #LIFE right now but WE'RE GETTIN' THERE. Using the pokémon as a means of team balancing is actually... really smart though.... considering they're the whole point of the game. They're gonna be in Cherrygrove for a while, though, because Bun is also still trying to figure out this human stuff, so it's possible they'll run into some of the newer cast soon.

Yeah, the majority of Sho's 'mon are incredibly social, as are Belphe's.

God, I know #LIFE. I took a month hiatus recently due to it myself and just started dipping my toes back into things. I actually had a thread with Jack Frost as one of my first ones back, poor baby.

YEAH... Tulane isn't what I'd call social (he's a little shit) but he's definitely more... assertive. His buneary'll be his only source of sanity and God I have to go calculate that egg time.

I'm considering a few weeks hiatus if life and school don't start cooperating more. Last semester was easier so I was all YEAH I'LL BRING IN ANOTHER GAME and then no... But I'm hella excited about this game so I am determined to make it happen.

I think the Pokemon are Belphe's source of sanity. Sho doesn't really do sane for prolonged periods of time. I highly encourage people to tag Belphe, her player is awesome.

A hiatus can be good. Lets you get your head on straight, lets you plan some potential posts. I like having a couple in reserve, so to speak, so that I'm not flailing around AC time.

I'm not familiar with the character but I'll definitely look into it. And with the guardians I'm sure Sanity is pretty relative. I don't even with these guys sometimes.

If I do end up taking a hiatus it'll probably end up starting next week or the week after-- with two studio classes, I don't have any midterms, but I do have a comic project to start around that date.

I do, however, love plotting and planning. I have a plurk if you want it-- it's

gueyprince

Sho got into an existential debate with Jack Frost about the correlation between name and personality based on naming his Eevee after logic gates. He's a special form of crazy (but I've been told that he can get medicated eventually).

Ohhhh, art school. I do not miss art school. Good luck with the comic project! If you're the one that did your icons you're going to be just fine.

My plurk (lets see if I get the code right) is

madbkitty. Yours isn't letting me add you right now but I will keep trying.

...Oh Jack must have had a field day with that.

And I am! Thanks much. I'm a SCADdie in for sequential, so I have learned that sleep is not a thing I can have in life and the one downfall to making your own icons is that in order to have a set that matches up you have to keep making them. Weeps.

Mine can be a little temperamental but I think it's let me add you.

If by "have a field day" you mean "spent most of the time baffled, especially during the ode to Pi" than yes. He did. :D

This is the one reason that I refuse to draw my own icons. I know I would never ever sleep again until I had a full set that were good enough for my perfectionism.

Yes! And I have added you back!

/threadjacks

OMG that was one of your first ones back? I'm so sorry! XD

(Also, may I sneakily add you on Plurk, as well? I'm

Jaetopus if I did that html right...)

No, it's cool! I'm enjoying greatly! And you may certainly add me.

Sticky notes. Sticky notes for everything. Swear to god, my desk is sticky note heaven.

Also making posts to keep track of things like threads I'm in, etc. That's probably a hold-over from my LJ gaming days many, many moons ago.

Sticky notes. I'm thinking baout setting up a notebook. Or like, using the planner I bought for school and proceeded not.. to use... at all.

/pops in

What aspects in particular are you curious about? I've been in this game since it opened, so I might be able to help!

As for his artist schtick, I don't play an artist character (Heather can be artsy when she wants to be but it's not really a prominent interest) BUT I make a habit of illustrating a lot of her posts just because I enjoy it and it makes them stand out a little. Obviously that takes extra time but I highly encourage, if it's something you want to do, sprucing posts up a little from time to time with art! Maybe Bunny himself can take on art-related work from time to time and you could draw what he does.

Mostly just keeping track of like. All the various in-game stats. I've seen a lot of different methods about it, so I'm looking around at different journals and such and seeing how others are doing it and seeing what clicks.

I might illustrate a few of Bunny's posts, and I definitely want to illustrate his pokémon team stuff- I feel he'd draw or paint them often and it makes it a little more intimate (I actually also illustrate Katherine's CR chart over at Ruby City-- when I have time, anyway). I definitely want him to look into artistic work because holy hell his people skills are not made for service and I'm not putting any poor soul through that except maybe once for the sake of "wow that was a terrible idea"

Aaaah, gotcha.

In terms of the breeding stuff, there's a few calculations you can do for shiny chances and stuff like that. I'd recommend checking out what others do, yeah.

As for levels and money-keeping, feel free to approximate that stuff. As long as you keep things realistic, there's no need to calculate everything perfectly. I've always just kept a rough estimate of where Heather's Pokemon and finances are depending on what she's been up to in the preceding weeks.

BUT YEAH YOU TOTALLY SHOULD and that would be awesoooome. Poor people having to deal with him... XD

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