Glad you're getting your money back, rocu

Seems like it anyway. I´m just happy I got a response

'Cos I'm all alone, there's no-one here beside me...

Feeling a bit melancholy, are we?

Actually I was quoting Donkey from Shrek

Since nobody else was here I figured it was appropriate

Donkey?

As in... Donkey Kong....?


I SHALL PLAY DONKEY KONG TONIGHT!!!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 13 2014, 05:07 PM

Wow, just about anything'll set him off.

Add donkey to the list people!

Yay!


See ya fo´ks lata!

Urgh.

Spent two hours today wrestling with a convo in The Journal Of Eldrar Andrethi before realising what the problem I'm having is.

See, while I gave him a name, backstory, and in-game setup, I seem to have forgotten to give him a personality. So I've no real clue how he reacts to things...

Time for a rewrite, I think.

Ach, good luck with that...

I'm having to write a character with a major case of unrequited love, without making him look like a drooling leashed puppy...

Aaaaaaand having not written anything at all for months...Yeeesh...

Yeah, simples... ...


EDIT...When I say having, what I mean is, that the character has these issues and this is what I need to write next in the story...*Le shrug*...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Mar 13 2014, 06:34 PM

Use the backstory as a clue to his personality.

That's the notion.

Fortunately Eldrar being ex-Telvanni gives me a solid framework to start from.

But still, could I have actually managed to forget anything more important? *facepalm*

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Mar 13 2014, 06:53 PM

Time for a game session or 150 of them, I´d say *winkie-winkie*

Seriously, just play the game with him. I don´t really know how else to actually find out who he is. I´ve never written about Lothran and his backstory until now, and that´s after hundreds upon hundreds of hours of gameplay. I didn´t really know him before and frankly, how could I? It takes alot of time to get to know somebody properly

You´ll probably say you´ve played the game with him already but I´d say not enough...


Good luck though, matey

Heh, then the problem is that I end up six weeks behind on writing up what he's doing. I don't need to know everything about him, but I need to establish a baseline personality so that his side of conversations will be consistent. And since I've already got a backstory established for him, in some detail, I really should have at least that much.

Even if it's fairly vague, something like:

ruthless, ambitious, opposed to slavery "needs to be mentiond since it's unusual for Telvanni and affects interaction with "beast" races), cunning, and is something of a misanthrope, or at least is generally slow to trust.

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Mar 13 2014, 08:34 PM

Can´t help obviously, so I´ll just continue watching Seinfeld and playing NES...




This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 13 2014, 08:33 PM

Seinfeld and NES?

[spaced out hippy voice]
Dude, you need to stop living in the past, man...
[/spaced out hippy voice]

Oh, I love that voice!!


And no, I won´t

Do what I do and keep pen and paper next to you while I play. I noticed that Kayla has to pick up every single damn alchemy ingredient she finds. I also discovered that, despite her being elven and opposed to Ulfric, she'll free anyone the Aldmeri Justicars takes in for questioning if she comes across them, and give them food, warmer clothes, a weapon, and some potions. Only because they're taken in for "being under the suspicion of worshipping Talos" and they basically admit they're going to kill them either way.

Today we put a lock on the old smithy

I go one better.

When I first started getting interested in writing I brought one of those dictaphones, so I just record it instead. It was only a cheap one, but my handwriting's so bad I can barely read it, and I find it far more convenient to keep with me than a pen and a notebook.

You have reminded me of just how many ingredients Eldrar's been harvesting, I think he's grabbing everything as well...