Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

Discussion in 'Boat Trolls RP' started by jacktrash, Jun 14, 2015.

  1. jacktrash

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    oh! ok, i like! let's go with that.

    i am still game for Fisticuffs With Strangers, but i am much distracted by late, hungry, incoming thunderstorm, and the sudden urgent imperative to make overnight cinnamon bread, so i think you would have to introduce them.
     
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  2. roach

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    Alright, no problem. I hope you get something to eat! I'm hungry too, I need to get food but I had guests over for six hours today (it was really fun!) so I'm kinda hunkered down in my room all paralyzed. Grumpf.
     
  3. roach

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    Alright, no problem. I hope you get something to eat! I'm hungry too, I need to get food but I had guests over for six hours today (it was really fun!) so I'm kinda hunkered down in my room all paralyzed. Grumpf.
     
  4. jacktrash

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    haha i made the bread dough STAGE ONE COMPLETE!!! but forgot to get any food for myself. oh well, it hasn't been all THAT long since dinner. :P
     
  5. jacktrash

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    hottie wearing nothing but wet boxer briefs in desert oasis: newcomer trolls think they are in either a music video or a porno. :D
     
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  6. roach

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    oh

    my god

    they're probably not sure whether to mug him or roll to seduce.
     
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  7. jacktrash

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    true gamers ALWAYS roll to seduce :D

    btw, if they demand his flyer, he'll let them take it and then report it stolen, and they'll get to have funtimes with whatever the rental biz uses for enforcers. so like... i guess that wouldn't be very exciting for us. whoops.
     
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  8. roach

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    Eh! Let's say whatever questy relay race kind of thing they're doing involves on-foot travel. Taking the flyer would be a foul. Mugging someone for extra supplies is not a foul*.

    *in any troll game, ever
     
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  9. jacktrash

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    GOODNESS I JUST HAPPENED TO BE MOSTLY NAKED HERE IN THE DESERT FOR REASONS, IT IS PURE COINCIDENCE
     
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  10. jacktrash

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    btw, at the first sign of an attack, bel's going to throw the knife at the psionic. he doesn't have to kill the guy, just distract him enough to keep him out of the fight. bel's still really conscious of how erskin doesn't like him to kill folks.
     
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  11. jacktrash

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    poor erskin!
     
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  12. jacktrash

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    it occurs to me that erskin probably doesn't understand that bel's courage comes from basically having a weird morbid deathwish. not that understanding would probably help lol.
     
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  13. roach

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    yeah there's no way erskin's NOT gonna flip his shit— actually, i think this would be a good time for him to yell at bel about, like, the necessary differences of surviving as a commander in an organized campaign, and surviving as a lone wanderer. i don't think bel's heard very much specific about what erskin's been through? they've had so many misunderstandings.

    but i like the idea of erskin standing there and coldly, furiously pointing to the scars he got from 'scrubs', using them to chew bel out for his casual arrogance and illustrate that alternia is not a nice place and no one is too special to die a stupid, pointless, lonely death.
     
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  14. jacktrash

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    i think that would be good, actually, and i think bel might really listen this time.
     
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  15. roach

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    i wouldn't have guessed either! i would have thought— and erskin thinks— it's that his threat perception is really skewed, because he's so used to campaign fighting that he feels like any group smaller than an army isn't a problem.
     
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  16. jacktrash

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    naw, it's more like he's been a child soldier so long that death is unreal and kind of interesting where it pertains to himself. he's super squicked by cruelty, as witness his reaction to cloris. but death is just business as usual, and he genuinely doesn't expect to live very long. he's got a bit of a war boy 'awaited in valhalla' thing going on, tbh. he just keeps it quiet because it freaked out pancho when he first told her about it. :P
     
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  17. jacktrash

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    erskin bb let me wrap you in a towel and feed you cut-up mangos ;_;

    ps you doubleposted
     
  18. roach

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    ha, it looks like it's actually erskin knocking some sense into bel, for once. i suppose it was going to happen eventually!
     
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  19. jacktrash

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    bel needs it, holy muffins. his fatalism was starting to get to me. whup him with the clue stick, erskin!

    ... not that i know what argument erskin could make against bel's position. 'fight for the empire until you get killed' and 'rebel against ridiculous odds' pretty much ARE their only options. :/
     
  20. roach

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    I think Erskin's general attitude is that there's option c, which is basically 'fuck it, go do your own thing'. I have serious doubts how viable it is— or how grounded in any sort of objective reality. But Erskin's pronounced indifference to socialization has meant that he treats a lot of customs and rules as mild suggestions. It seems to me like Bel's problem is that he's too much of a team player? And so he only sees the situation as 'who do you want to die for', wheras Erskin is more like... 'i'm gonna figure out how to do what i want once i figure out what i want. i'm prepared to take suggestions.'

    Does that make sense?
     
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