Crystal Dragon

A lot of the commonality with my character roster generally stops within the lines of believable separation of self and persona. Not everyone is able to disassociate as naturally as I can, given it's a mental condition I live with, but a lot of players find commonality in the method of my writing, my problem solving, and at times, social connection by shoulder brush between character alts. But the commonality ends there. The only character out of my list that's anything like myself in personality type, or attitude, it's Crys, to the core. She embodies me as a personality at least in fraction, though heavily warped in the sense that she's not human, yet she wishes she was.

We all have our moments where we flub a situation or circumstances don't quite go the way we had originally thought out. This is a good chance to write a little about those, I'll share one of my own. My dragon doesn't very often enjoy being in club situations for a variety of reasons, but the one that was originally grilled into her base concept, was the fact that she simply doesn't like crowds all that much, but she lives for the loud beating music. Reason for this is because she had some pretty bad encounters in the distant past, one resulting in losing a good deal of memory, and the other resulting in a broken heart. She'd likely talk about it if she trusted ya enough to talk over a bottle of black label mead, but she tends to keep a lot of those embarrassing moments mum.

Reserved for updated list.

Community writing prompts (I'd forgotten to add this one to the list as the very first prompt, but I'll leave it here as a reminder for myself. But yeah, have fun, these are great for helping round out your character concepts and build their background a bit more with depth.)

No ooc information. Personal views, personal information, needs to stay private and should be kept so. What your characters do/react/say are the important focal points to write on, use that as fuel. These threads are specifically for roleplaying development, if I see drama starting among the posters, I will ping a GM to manage the situation and help clean up the thread of the disruptions. OOC commentary is welcome, but please, remember to bracket or use parenthese so we know what is and isn't IC responses. Each thread starter must be unique, and yes, I know there is a specific challenge to this. When we run out of ideas, we'll see about trying different slants of the prior topics but let's try to keep this one as a common rule. No COC/TOS breaking content please. Romance is fine, but there's a line between romance, and erp and I'd rather not see posters getting in trouble for writing erp replies to threads here. If there are questions about the thread topic, please just ask in brackets. If I or the OP of that thread doesn't respond, the other users may be able to answer your questions. Have fun with it. If the topic is a touchy one, don't be afraid to skip posting in that one. None of us will judge your RP on that. This is all meant to be for practice and for fun both. That said, here is the list of the current writing prompts, and yes, I will do my very best to keep this thread updated with the new prompts that pop up, and if I don't, just ping me on here or on the HC discord to remind me.

Holy carp! You struck it lucky! A lotto ticket dropped into your hands following a fire rescue out in Brickstown. Only thing is, you gotta decide what to do with about 3 million in influence dropped into your very lap. Knowing my dragon, she'd likely just donate the whole thing to the local human services department as a Christmas gift. Those people work for peanuts compared to some of the folks she's rubbed elbows with, and they could really use the extra funding to get those orphans from Galaxy City into good healthy homes.

(That one was a wild ride, well done Chase!)

(I'm almost tempted to ask for more, that's a great short story Cass! Keep it up, shows a lot of promise!)

Someone seems to have left a letter in your mailbox, without a return address, or a means to return contact. Do you open it? What do you think it would read? Knowing my own main, Crys would likely end up opening it and receiving something left by one of her mates as a reminder, or a prank to poke fun at her some more over her admitted crush. Her mates love her dearly but they love to tease her all the more about her professed interest in someone, just for the sake of making her laugh, even if she was embarrassed by it.

That last line got me laughing!

*low whistle of concern.* Oh man.

Everyone faces hard times, sometimes those events shape our characters differently or leaves them with difficulty facing similar events again. What kind of difficult situations has your character faced? I suppose Crys has had quite a share of difficult situations. Watching her adopted daughter rage at her birth fathers murderers, feeling helpless and unable to do more than offer the child comfort and support, seeing others in pain and unable to do more than soothe what they allow her to, even emotional pain is difficult for her to stand by and just simply watch. She's kind of adopted a mother-in-the-wings sort of personality over some of these situations, because she hates seeing others suffering and hurting and feeling helpless in doing anything to help them about it. This has caused some difficulties for her, as she does get overwhelmed and sometimes overtaxed by her capacity of empathy for those around her, draining her to the point that she wobbles her way home instead of flying because her wings just feel too heavy to lift. That's the most PG I can actively share, other events are more dark and aren't suitable for a public audience.

Heya Boyband, should drop by for a visit on Everlasting again. We miss your performances!

I'm talking at the Vanguard base, have one drinking a coffee or tea near Lady Gray, or place em over by the Research department. As many times as we see new players arrive and just forget to buff up their XP boosters, there's been quite a few that got locked out of a mothership raid because they had to refresh it and couldn't get back into the zone in time. Maybe this will help?

Romantic situations and romance does often come up in story and character development as characters meet people they like, fall for, and become infatuated with. Sometimes it's just a flirting situation with a dear friend, and sometimes it evolves into something more. How does your characters handle romance? Admittedly, it's an ongoing joke that Crys' has developed a pretty intense crush on Veracor, but she is too blasted shy to approach or even discuss it with him or his partner. She likes him, appreciates his friendship and his playfulness but also knows when work is a priority, to try not to distract him when she and the others are on the job. The teasing just goes on and on, from her friends, her mates, and even her family members poke fun at her over her crush on the big ol dragon raider pro. It's all in good natured fun however, nothing serious intended behind it, and I doubt he even really takes notice since he's not deep into the RP aspects of the game. Crys' is all thumbs when it comes to talking to people she has become infatuated with, sometimes she just acts on impulse and lets things unfold from there. She's had bad relationships and good but her openness, insightfulness and appreciation of those around her kind of gives her a bit of a charm most folks kind of like about her.

I want to point this one out for a reason. Okay, so the things I teach, do actually point out specific problematic behavioral traits, and habits that show up in roleplaying with individuals that are poorly behaved, or have conditions that result in bad communication skills, or the desire to manipulate situations to their favor, no matter the obstacles in their way. I want to be absolutely clear on this with anyone reading this thread. If you feel targeted, threatened, or harassed by the players you engage with, consider taking a step back, and informing these players in private, whether it's in tells, party chat, or league chat, however many of them you are dealing with, that you feel uncomfortable and need a bit of time to work out an ooc solution to help smooth things out. If the players persist to be harassing, or causing you issue after talking things over, then is the time to talk to a GM to ask some further questions of what more you can do. A lot of the times, communities like RPers tend to develop cliques and this community has enough mature players to know that cliques are never a good thing to support or keep. Close friends is fine, super groups are intentionally designed for group play and planning together different projects and such, but cliques are toxic as hell and don't have a place in a community that simply wants to write their own stories and develop their own characters over time. Cliques tend to be very destructive to communities like this one, and it's goal to be able to communicate clearly, without divisiveness, to pursue a good plot and story development along the way. Something else I'd like to note and recommend: Don't let it continue for days, weeks, months on end. The minute you get uncomfortable with the encounter, address the issue directly, talk to your partner/s and make sure everything is well understood before moving on from that disturbance. If it continues, you can and are encouraged to disengage, slip away to deal with that discomfort and if you need to break contact entirely, global ignore them. This is not just a healthy tip for you, this is for anyone that runs into a situation they are uncomfortable with and don't wish to continue to see that discomfort daily. ❤️

How does your characters handle being behind schedule, or unexpectedly delayed on their usual routine? Crys -hates- being late for anything, be it a family gathering, a meeting, or arriving late to a scheduled event. Drives her to the point of being frustrated with herself for the time missed. Most times it's no fault of her own, delays happen, family emergencies ect. But sometimes it is something she could have scheduled better and just lost track of her time.

The difference is it's conducted entirely in-character, using ingame funds, and it sparks serious roleplaying interests. Faverty has my full support with this venture, it's a unique perspective of roleplaying being put to use for this, and I can see how this might be slanted as biased but in truth, I'd been watching how they handle the requests and questions about the bases pretty closely. They are legit in their intent to just roleplay and the base builds are just the fruits of their labor and inspirations.

I'm sure everyone finds their own groove over time. It's intimidating at first to roleplay with complete strangers, but if you are repeatedly part of the events happening on a regular basis, it becomes almost natural and gives a lot of wiggle room for learning about other players characters, and befriending them through interactions too. Just a thoughtful tip I wanted to share.

Yep, the sale was completed this evening. Areia and Gabe send their deepest thanks to Faverty Industries for this beautiful new home.

After a particularly long day or night shift, your main character arrives home. What is their usual routine for unwinding and downtime? For my dragon, she tends to spend a lot of time with her friends and her family both during her off shift hours, it's a great way for her to unwind and just meet new people as her friends introduce new people to the circle that's developed over the last couple years following her shifts with raid leading in the Vanguard HQ. Following that, she heads home to prepare a meal and make sure her kiddos are fed, gotten their homework dealt with for school the next morning, and settles in to cuddle with her mates in the den. Her routine does sometimes gets shifted around, adding a visit to help out at the local hospital for a night shift, or assisting with welcoming newcomers to the city, or even Prime occasionally. As odd as it sounds for a disco-scale colored dragon, she's very much an ambivert, she has a difficult time being in crowds of people she's unfamiliar with for long periods, and "recharges" in a fashion by reconnecting with her friends and her family every night.

Assault bot summon does not summon the bot out at the time used following the animation, and took a server relog to solve the problem. Not much detail I can give beyond that, no other abilities were active at the time the skill was used, and no latency issues at the time either. /shrug in confusion/

Personally I draw a lot of inspiration for my characters based off of comic books I read during the 1990's and some from earlier still. A few (*eyes their dragon character and the army of dark elves waiting impatiently to be leveled and played on the roster for Everlasting.* ) had been with us since our childhood and sort of took root from there. What inspired some of your characters? Babe/Babe 2 (1989 to 1996) and a blenderful of Greek mythos was my inspiration for Areia, and about six or seven light romance novels in the mix. Crys, literally was a concept character for D&D that got written out and sort of offered to Wizards of the Coast as a template character sheet for dragon characters back in the early 1990's. I was thrilled to be informed when the Draconomicon was finally included among the dozens of core books available for the TTRPG in about mid 2000's. Little Crys, was one of many dragon character sheets that encouraged the original creators of the game to take a closer look at the concept for potential player additions. (And no, never asked for credit to the inclusion, just to be informed if they did choose to add it, which they did, several years after the sheet was sent in to them.) Some of my characters were based off of other universes I've played in and developed characters for, but can't return to, either because of toxic community's there or just cause this seemed to fit them so much better. (Yes, the elves, all of them, every single one.)

(I thought I recognized some of your character names! Looking forward to running into ya on my army of alts at some point!)