That’s right for some reason Jim has a blog

I figure what with my last post seeming to be a little on the rant / flame side, I need one that is a little more light hearted. Of course having discussed the whole ordeal over with dunkel and Brian I realized that my point of view is different from theirs, but we all do share the commonality that we dislike one liners.

Our newest project is that of RPing in asterisk style once again to HMF. Now I am not a fan of this method of RPing I’ll be the first to tell you that, but I kind of figure that this will be a chance for me to unwind after having two RPs fail on me and the fact that it is now impossible for me to finish my Novel project this month. Right now I’m all wall of text’d out so the chances of this even getting that long are pretty slim, though it would be nice of course.

Really I started this topic thinking I should state what I’m thankful for, because that’s what the holiday is suppose to be about. In a few hours my family will be over at our aunts house gorging ourselves on as much food as humanly possible followed by watching television while my mother and her sisters (We go over to her side of the family for thanksgiving) will look through sales papers trying to figure out what exactly to buy for Christmas. As for me, well I’ll have to deal with my now teenage cousins and honestly I don’t really see how all of them became so angst against everything.

Maybe it’s just me though, I was never really the bad child, I never really had that rebellious phase as a teenager, and I normally walk the straight and narrow. I’ve just never found anything else rather appeasing, I mean I’ve heard stories of my cousins going out to parties and getting completely trashed and high. My first thought is always, Now why would you want to do something stupid like that? Of course I did consider it when I was younger, but it never really had gotten past more than a thought.

Back than though I was young, dumb and thought I was in love. My ex-girlfriend was really one of the people that shaped me into the kind of person I am, and I really am grateful for that now that I look at everyone around me. I could have very well ended up like some of my other friends, out in the working world . She wasn’t the one who made the decision for me, but she did help me figure out where I should go get my education. Of course the reason I did break off that relationship is because she was trying to turn me into something that I am not, but that is a different blog post altogether.

I’m actually kind of thankful to be single this again, though I’ve been single for about two years now, and some people think I’m strange because of that. For me it breaks down into two things, 1.) I don’t have the money to have a girlfriend, and B.) I don’t have that much free time (Unless you include these twilight hours, which I don’t.) Now already I can see people saying, “But Jim you’re on an awful lot.” I am, but normally I’m doing schoolwork on my computer at the time. I’m just really good at multitasking while on a PC. The whole money thing is because I work at a dead end job while trying to earn my degree, but hopefully that will change during winter break (Though I love the people I work with…Sometimes).

The people I really need to thank though, are the fellow forum members I spent some of my free time with. Sure a few of them act like complete jerks and nublets sometimes, but in the end watching those people and having to enforce rules upon them make me a better person (I think). The others, my fellow RPers, and my fellow staff members are really a lot of fun, though I’ve only talked to a few people outside of the community the ones that I have seem like rather good people… Maybe not Brian and dunkel. (I kind, Brian is a good kid. As for dunkel well the sad thing is that dunkel and Jim think far too much alike. Sometimes I think dunkel has cameras in my room and is watching me… Does anyone else get that creepy vibe from dunkel? )

Of course I probably won’t be on much at all over the next few weeks, what with finals sneaking around the computer and the whole fact that my laptop is busted so I won’t be able to get online unless I go to the engineering building (AKA the military bunker.) Don’t worry though I’ll be back as soon as I get a new computer with walls of text galore. You all behave yourself otherwise, if Jim gets any bad reports from Brian or dunkel (Two people he keeps contact with), well let’s just say that you thought your grandparents could rant D:<

Well as of lately I’ve been feeling rather nostalgic, I don’t know if it’s the increasing cold weather, or my recent promotion to moderator on Harvest Moon Farm Forums. When I first signed up I figured that I wouldn’t actually change all that much about the RP because heck, it hadn’t changed for so long. I’ve actually been considering creating another character to actively RP with, or using one of my old ones to RP with on their forum which is about, you guessed it Harvest Moon.

It’s been so long since I’ve made any decent RPing posts and it seems to be showing now. I suppose I have no one to blame but myself. I should find myself another community to RP at, but I don’t see myself doing that anytime soon. I’m going to continue to try new projects every once in a while, starting with Neverath here soon and maybe a try Aurora Chronicles once again during the summertime for a greater member turn out. Of course even the thought of that does not sound too grand, but it’s better than doing nothing at all. I hate that my RPs are dying because of inactivity, all the hard work I put into them are basically for nothing. It’s too frustrating, which is why I suppose I’m still here, RPing my little almost mary sue character trying my best to train the upcoming generation of RPers. Sometimes I’m beginning to think that the ways I was taught are becoming obsolete. Taking their place are the shunned methods of old, asterisks and one liners.

I can’t help but wonder what happened to the old days, back when RPing was about telling a story of a character in a foreign world doing things that you yourself cannot possibly accomplish. There is no quality in the work that I see a lot of the time nor is there any quantity to it. It’s dribble plain and simple, but I did have moments where I to was like that for a short while. I don’t now, I’ve always been a fan of descriptive posts, but finding people who can accomplish them these days are few and far between. I just wish that I could find one person on the forum who could actually surpass my abilities, but so far the only people who have come close still aren’t quite there. They have some length to their posts yes, but some of them just get lazy and don’t feel the urge to be descriptive. Maybe I should take a vacation back to the home board, though I doubt that would bring me comfort, that place has been dying for years, becoming infested with people who think that short one sentence posts are the only way to go. You know what I think at the bottom of the section I’ll show the three different types of RPing, though two of them are very similar.

It’s starting to become apparent that even now, with two new moderators the staff is still spinning it’s wheels. The last festival we had completely failed and now both dunkel and myself are probably feeling similar to how Brian did when his festivals started to have no one show up. We’re trying to pick ourselves back up, but what with everyone looking to us for answers instead of using some common sense, well it’s hard. Soon enough we’ll be giving even more power to a few of the members on the forum, now I’m not sure how well this is going to turn out, but I have a bad feeling about it.

RPing Methods- Character: Melayna Wainhart (Because I <3 her)

1. Asterisk Method

*Melayna enters the library and sits down*

“I think I’ll read a book while I’m here.”

*Melayna reads a book*

“Oh I was suppose to go meet someone.”

*Melayna leaves*

2. Short description method

Melayna enters the library and takes a seat. “I think I’ll read something.” She takes a book from the shelf and reads it. “Oh I was suppose to go meet someone.” Melayna stands up and leaves.

3. Long description method

Melayna pushes open the large oak door leading in the gigantic library a whirlwind of dust greeting her as soon as the first cracks in the two doors appear. This place was like a home to her as she came here quite often to partake in the wealth of knowledge within the building, though no one else ever seemed to. “I think I’ll read something.” Melayna searches the bookshelf for something that she had not already read. Her chestnut eyes scanned spine after spine, each book varying in color until she found one that caught her eye. She took out a dust old gray tomb which had no title to it and began to flip through a few pages scanning the printed words within to see exactly what the book was about. Before she could get a grasp on it a realization entered her mind causing her to quickly shut the book and head towards the exit. “Oh, I was suppose to go meet someone.” Melayna hurried herself over to the exit until to have herself fall on her face just a few feet before the door. Taking a moment to pick herself up off the ground and dust herself off Melayna headed towards the exit, closing the large oak doors behind her. The library once again fell into the all too common darkness.

November, time for getting ready for winter, turkey day, and of course writing. National Novel Writing Month officially started a few hours ago and so far I’m already over my 1667 words per day limit. The great thing about it is that I already have a pretty good attack plan for this novel, so hopefully I’ll be able to get the whole 50,000 word limit done.

The story I chose was one that I’ve had with me from all my years of Role Playing on the various forums. It’s about the life of my character Isaac, the beginning of it is set just before the RP Aurora Chronicles and describes a different character than the familiar dark and demented Isaac we all know and love. It is basically a recap of his life, the prologue shows him at the grave of his comrade Laura and explains briefly how she died. Clearly this is actually both the beginning and the ending of the story, since if I go past that whole incident than I’m getting into my project for next year’s NaNoWriMo, which I don’t even want to begin thinking about yet. Actually I take that back I did want to at least get the titles done for my projects and basically I’m doing a trilogy:

• Aurora Chronicles: The Crusades
• Aurora Chronicles: The Celtrean Wars
• Aurora Chronicles: The Eternal Peace

Clever titles? I don’t think so either, but they get the point across. Anyway I’m rambling the point is it focuses completely on Isaac’s life and after the present it goes back to the past where he lives in an orphan in the kingdom of Silvercrest, he’s only five when that start I believe. So far it kind of starts slow though there is a little bit of action to start out with, but not much. The first couple of chapters focus on how he develops into a divine knight followed by him getting involved in the Crusades. That’s all I’m willing to give away now, but stay tuned same Jim time, same Jim channel.