After some reflection, I have decided that it would be best to close down the forum now while some people are still here so that you have the opportunity to network with one another.
Thank you all for participating and I enjoyed writing with you. I'd be happy to receive friend requests on discord and the discord chat will stay open if you want to stay to chat occasionally.
The forum itself will remain open for posting, but staff support will be ending. You are free to play your characters indefinitely and at whatever power level you desire.
[attr="class","APP3"]The woman seemed to notice the incoming arrow, reacting in a split second to pull her hand away as the arrow embedded itself into the head of the suffering Aburame. Putting an end to the woman’s plot to use her to replenish her chakra reserves. She looked up with disgust, but then surprise as she saw an incoming whirlwind of Inuzuka coming her way.
She began forming hand seals but found herself being violently tackled by Makoto. She fell to the ground, but upon closer inspection Makoto would realize that she had taken advantage of the hasty movement to set up a substitution. Laying in front of her was the body of Mai. The imperial woman stepped out from a flank of the earthly spike that held Aiko in place with an intense look in her eyes.
She turned as she saw a flash of lightning heading towards the pillar before which she stood. She dove out of the way, though she let out a cry as some of the voltage tore away from Aiko and towards herself. As the earth crumbled away, the earth compacting her wounds crumbled and she quickly died.
The woman looked at Zazou with a look of fear in her eyes. Usually, she could just tunnel away, but that wouldn’t be safe now. There were signs of chakra exahustion on her face, such as a large strained vain on her forehead and a sickly look about her. She sighed.
"Alright, I surrender..." she said in an annoyed tone and her arms crossed.
[attr="class","APP3"]Attempts to intervene were too late, Kaito was struck by a volley of arrows. One pierced his heart, ending his life abruptly. Tenchi’s earthen wall was only feet away from saving him, but fate had been unkind to the fledgling shinobi. He fell to the ground and more arrows were shot into the wounded shinobi that he carried.
Nikukyuu Inuzuka, Daichi Konishi, and Ryuunosuke Nara arrived in time to see Korogaru and her bear barreling past the small earth style walls towards the tree line as archers fired at them. Nomi took several arrows to his upper body, which he angrily swiped away as he ran. Korogaru’s own face was glanced by an arrow that didn’t manage to pierce through, leaving a cut across her cheek.
Things might have been even worse, but Ryota’s wind bullets had suppressed several of the archers. One too a direct hit to the neck and gripped their hand on a bleeding neck before turning to run away.
As she got into the tree line, she would come across a group of six archers using the base of trees for cover. The first of them was trampled by Nomi, but the one that she approached dropped their bow and drew a knife up to try to greet the kunoichi’s rush. Other archers rushed to draw more arrows, two knocking their bows and firing towards the bear, while the others fire towards the shinobi behind the earthen walls hoping to keep them from advancing further to assist Korogaru.
For the messenger team, what they were coming into was an open clearing with forestry in front of it. They would have seen not only Korogaru charging in, but the death of the genin trying to rush another wounded shinobi out of the clearing as well. Tenchi and Ryota had the cover of earthen walls but archers continued to shoot towards them while the sounds of Korogaru’s bear growling could be heard distantly.
OOC: Rabbit had departed discord and did not reply to the post while being in immediate danger.
Hi Cuddles, for genin that already had 5 proficiency, you can raise something up to apprentice. This would put you with 6 proficiency, so it wouldn’t be a valid starting set
[attr="class","APP3"]Whatever became of Seiichi and Yousei? With no one around to observe, there was little that could be said for certain about the outcome of the battle.
Tsubaki's lie become truth further sold her deception, and then the man turned to pursue the source of the explosion he was cut down by her from behind with ease.
While one had managed to avoid being hit significantly by the explosive tag, Itada had managed to take a large chunk out of the leg of another man who was now screaming on the ground.
The man who had gotten away from the explosion spotted Tsubaki's action and yelled for help. The second man had been standing right in front of Izumi's place of hiding, squinting because he thought he saw a body in the trees for a moment. He turned his back when he heard the call and made his way.
If they were not interrupted in their movement they would take a vertical strike at her center mass. The other rushed towards the trees and kicked off the side of one to boost himself up with a jump, he slashed his blade upwards towards Itada in an arcing crescent that just might reach his neck if he didn't move.
Note: You can auto-hit these guys to finish them up.
So when it comes to defining what a quality post is, that can be a tricky subject. 3-5 paragraphs where 4 paragraphs are internal monologue in my opinion detracts from the story rather than adding in my opinion. The other reason I don't put a lot of stock in length is because I believe post splicing produces poorer quality writing than linear posting.
Post splicing, sometimes called conversation splicing, is where instead of reacting to the post at the end the responded goes through and interjects their reactions inside of the last post.
Normally when a post begins the writer has control of the scene and lose control of the scene when they pass to the next person. When you post splice, actions posted aren't really finitie and people are posting "inside" of your post. The problem that can occur is that if I say
"How are you feeling?"
and then
"I had a bad day at work."
in the same thread, and then through splicing someone interjects
(quote)"How are you feeling?"(quote)
"I am pregnant."
(quote)"I had a bad day at work." (quote)
"I am sorry you had a bad day at work."
The problem here is that the first writer lost agency. They wouldn't have responded to the person being pregnant by immediatly complaining about work. To compensate to recover that agency, they are now going to have to interject their own sentences into what happened before the previous writer responded to the conversation about the work day. It compounds and creates a very confusing to read thread, or more likely the writers just accept agency being in the hands of another writer.
Note: I am not a huge puritan about splicing and accept that it has been ingrained in a lot of people as a standard practice. I think linear is better form overall, but I can write in whatever style my partners like because I am mostly just happy to be here.
Aside from dialog, this can also be done with actions, which is especially problematic in combat threads.
We do sort of assume that people here are actually interested in roleplaying, if someone was being really rediculous and writing posts that did not move the story forward over and over for the sake of rapid upgrading we'd probably pull them aside and talk to them. There are times when a snappy paragraph reply is appropriate though. Removing the pressure to have to write a certain amount would actually hopefully encourage more back and fourth activity instead of having to wait until you can muster the energy to write 500 words. --- Pacing wise if your waiting at least a month between upgrades and threading with 3 different people, 15 posts is pretty generous I feel. With additional months of time reducing requirements further it is a self adjusting system. That is only 60 posts over 4 months (a post every other day) to go from rookie to veteran if you focus on one thing. In game time that is less than a year, which is much faster than canon to try to accomodate to RP.
Veteran to GM is designed to take about a year or so if you focus on the things needed for it, and leaves you with a master as well.
I am okay with having some turnover at the cost of having a system that can last long term.
Junko has 5 slots (dormant releases count), so only one thing should be getting moved up to veteran, so doton being added wouldn’t work. Would you still like raiton upgraded?
