2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: Everything in iambic pentameter? -first comment dance-

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: Then I would have a problem, because I haven't mastered that yet. xD
I suggested heroic couplets because they should be relatively easy, yet clearly following a certain form.

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: Hm. Rhyming, do you think?

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: Oh crap, now I'm confused. Wikipedia says heroic couplets are in iambic pentametre. Help!

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: Yes, I probably meant rhyming couplets. Shoot me now?

2007-01-24 [GoneGone]: I say Limericks!

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: It's okay, Linderel. -pats- And technically, heroic couplets can be in hexameter too, so you're all right. :P

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: A piece of advice: Please don't pat me. Ever. <_<
Limericks? Hmmm.

I had an idea, though. What about having each character speak in a different form? It would accentuate their differences in personality as well.

2007-01-24 [GoneGone]: That, and respond to the strength of the writer. If I'm horrible at heroic pentameter, but strong in limerick, it would be less frustrating to go with what I'm best at.

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: Okay.

Characters in different forms might be interesting. Like ED's comment about Ms. Sestina and Mr. Haiku or whatever? Huh.

I call Monsieur Iambic Pentameter. :P (not really).

2007-01-24 [GoneGone]: I think, between the three of us, we can all safely agree Iambic Pentameter is all yours.

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: yay. -bounces-

But anyway! Would we have an actual structure to the rp? A quest or some sort of thing? Um. I'm not entirely sure what I'm trying to articulate.

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: Aye. I'd rather stay with something as simple as possible at this point - like those couplets. (They're currently my favourite form because I succeeded in writing one longish poem in nothing but them. I did this last spring, and I still feel proud.)

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: As for a structure, at least some basics would be good. xD
I mean, we need to decide what kind of characters we can have, what the setting is, etc.

2007-01-24 [GoneGone]: Well, Linderel, at least you didn't write a five page quadroplet and now despise it..

And simple is a very good idea, at least until details and surprises are addressed.

2007-01-24 [GoneGone]: Fantasy setting?

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: We could take some sort of well-known plotline and do it in verse...like-ooh!

High school! Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl gets boy (or girl, depending on how weird we want to be) girl dumps boy, girl gets first boy back!

...with full cast of evil teachers, sidekick friends, etc. If we did it in heroic verse it would just be incredibly ludicrous.

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: Deost, speaking from personal experience?

Hmm. Fantasy setting is always good. Sword&sorcery, low fantasy, or modern fantasy?

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: ...or Blade's suggestion with a drop of fantasy? :P

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: One of the Faithful Friends could be a witch. Or wizard. Or boy who wishes they were a witch.

And they can whine about studying prose instead of poetry. :P

2007-01-24 [GoneGone]: Speaking from personal experience.

Maybe we can make it even quirkier. An overused plotline isn't all that appealing. Maybe a twist in there. Like throw in magic or something completely unexpected.

Besides, I thought rp's rely on the randomness of what the players come up with...

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: Not necessarily!

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: Oh, gods, now I'm thinking Buffy. Nooooo! xD

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: ....could have enormous comedic potential.

But Deost, my entire point was that we would make the overused plotline a parody by doing it in heroic verse. IT could be quite good if done right.

2007-01-24 [GoneGone]: Banish the thought Linderel! Banish it quickly!

2007-01-24 [GoneGone]: Well, I'm not going to outright put down the idea without seeing it in effect first, but I do have a few doubts about it.

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: That's all right. It is, after all, only an idea.

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: Could be very interesting, though. Ah well, maybe some other time. :P

I had another idea, but I realised how stupid it was before I even wrote it down. xD

2007-01-24 [GoneGone]: Nope. You mentioned it. Speak!

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: Well... A seemingly normal setting, perhaps the previously mentioned high school, where the characters have random encounters with each other and interact. They may be friends, foes, indifferent to each other... But they each have a secret, some sort of tie to the magical realm. These secrets are slowly unveiled through the interaction and it leads to...something.

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: ....that sounds cool. Actually, you might be able to integrate it with the high school cliche plot-what if the girl everyone wants to get is some sort of evil enchantress keeping everyone in an illusion?

...perhaps that's too stupid to contemplate. Sorry. But I figured I might as well join the stupid idea party, if I hadn't already. :P

2007-01-24 [Linderel]: That's certainly interesting.

2007-01-24 [Fireblade K'Chona]: Perhaps not the best idea possible, though. :P

2007-01-24 [GoneGone]: Well, maybe the girl that everyone wants had no control over her evil powers, doesn't want to be evil, and ends up ensnaring people even if she doesn't want to.

2007-01-25 [Linderel]: Sounds like a very nice twist. It will result in a lot of angst, though.

2007-01-25 [GoneGone]: Good angst or bad?

2007-01-25 [Linderel]: Depends on how careful we are about it. :P

2007-01-25 [Daemon SaDiablo]: Oh boy, just out of highschool for a year, and catapulted right back into the mindset. With a twist. -chuckles dryly-

2007-01-25 [GoneGone]: I vote Daemon to be the confused debonair!

2007-01-25 [Daemon SaDiablo]: Woo, that negates suave, but confused is a good thing.

2007-01-26 [Fireblade K'Chona]: Well, you can be suave when you aren't confused... :P

I'd sort of like to play a teacher, but only if I get to interact with the kids a lot. Maybe I'd be better off being a bookish kid who's a teaching assistant.

2007-01-26 [Fireblade K'Chona]: Or a student teacher!

2007-01-26 [Daemon SaDiablo]: Oh, I like being confused. Fits my personality well. And its alright for me not being suave, another personality fit.

Maybe a new TA fresh from college or something. A bookish kid teaching assistant would have your character snubbed alot by other kids. Teachers pet being amongst the nicest things said.

2007-01-26 [Fireblade K'Chona]: Yeah, whereas a student teacher might still be young enough to be cool, if I pulled it off right...

I'm heading to bed in a bit.

2007-01-28 [Linderel]: So are we settled with at least the high school setting, then?

2007-01-28 [Daemon SaDiablo]: It would seem that way, so I suppose yes.

2007-01-28 [Linderel]: Egads. Upon making a little bit of stalking, I noticed I'm currently the only one here who's not from North America. xD

2007-01-28 [Daemon SaDiablo]: I noticed the same thing on idly browsing. Only problem I see is differing times and the like. -scratches his chin idly-

2007-01-28 [Linderel]: The other problem is that my knowledge of your school system is a bit limited.

2007-01-28 [Daemon SaDiablo]: As long as we can match what is required, it doesn't matter to terribly much. I know my poetic knowledge is not in the least bit as developed as some of my other classmates. I ignored most of my teachers. -chuckles dryly-

2007-01-28 [Linderel]: We don't have poetry as an extensive subject in school - well, perhaps in university, of which I'm not sure - so I probably know even less. Bah.

2007-01-28 [Daemon SaDiablo]: I know my school took three months to cover different mechanisms of poetry in a few of my different years. I pretty much brushed it off. I just figured, if I could write, and my teacher liked it, or others did. What did it really matter if it rhymed, followed some sort of meter, or any other sort of poetic device.

I don't want to sound arrogant, I just didn't see the point of putting so many different restrictions down on something thats supposed to be an artform. Unless its something specific like a Haiku layout, or rhyme. Something like that.

2007-01-28 [Linderel]: I would like to know, though, just for the sake of knowing. Maybe so I could go, upon reading a formatted poem, 'Aha! This is a <insert form>!' and be able to appreciate it for what it is. I'll take off my hat to anyone who can make rhymes sound natural.
And now that I have a bit of confidence in myself, I enjoy taking the time to try out metres and forms. It's fun.

2007-01-28 [Daemon SaDiablo]: I'm just more into art, for arts sake. But I see where your coming from, and can agree to an extent. I'll eventually try and bind myself to form and metres, but it won't be for awhile. Still to set into my rebeliosly free stage of life. -chuckles dryly-

2007-01-28 [Fireblade K'Chona]: I used to hate sonnets with every fiber of my being, but now I absolutely adore them. There's a kind of freedom in the structure of them, if that makes any sense whatsoever.

I know a lot about rhymes and meters, though.

2007-01-28 [GoneGone]: I see certain poetic restrictions as wonderful challenge, see if I can do it. If I'm in the mood to write poetry, whatever comes out, that's it. But sometimes as a challenge I like to try out different things. They expect me to write it like that? Let's see if I can outdo their expectations.

Doesn't always work though.....

In grade twelve I took a "Creative Writing" course. It was not too bad, but the teacher was the son of British coloniolists and was rasied in South Africa. His ideas of good literature revolved around Conrad Black, William Golding and George Orwell......

2007-01-28 [GoneGone]: Oh! I want to be the crazy science teacher that has unusual bouts of surprisingly rational wisdom for her students.

2007-01-28 [Fireblade K'Chona]: The teacher I had for that at my school was asked to leave and is now gone. -sigh- He shall be missed.

2007-01-28 [GoneGone]: Asked to leave? Why?

2007-01-29 [Fireblade K'Chona]: I have no idea. He was awesome.

2007-01-30 [GoneGone]: Pity....

2007-01-30 [Fireblade K'Chona]: Yes, it is.

2007-02-21 [Linderel]: Still alive? *prods*

2007-02-21 [Daemon SaDiablo]: I was going to ask that selfsame question, beat me to it though. I'd really rather this not die from lack of attention.

2007-02-21 [Linderel]: Mmh, me neither.

2007-02-22 [Fireblade K'Chona]: me three! Only I didn't want to post twice in a row.

2007-02-22 [Linderel]: Have no inhibitions about that. :D

2007-02-22 [Fireblade K'Chona]: oh, awesome. :P

I actually do have to do homework now, though... -weeps-

I hate school right now. I am so tired of it.

2007-02-22 [Linderel]: I have no school. I have no job.

Would you believe it gets boring after a while? xD Sure, I can do whatever the heck I want all day, but my conscience nags at me, and my rhythm is all messed up. And I do get bored. :P
It's half past three in the morning. Ahahaha... ha. *sigh*

Yeah. :P

2007-02-22 [Fireblade K'Chona]: I know it gets boring after a while, but I could really, really use a break.

2007-02-22 [Daemon SaDiablo]: I just got in from work. Eleven hour shifts are never fun. -grumbles-