State of the Alts
What's this? A Post!? Madness!
Dash: I like Dash, I really do, but some days I really just feel like I'm out of touch with the character. Part of it's that he's supposed to be cheerful, friendly, extroverted, energetic, and so on. Basically? He's just about all the things I'm not, to the point where it feels difficult to really push past my own veil of conservatism and play him the way he's really meant to play. It's probably good for me or something, and hopefully it'll get easier with time.
That said, I think his direction is a little up in the air at the moment. He had two different people ready to train him to be hardcore, but one of them (Krauser) dropped abruptly just when we were getting back into the swing of things, and the other (Andrew) lives on the other side of the world, so actually getting scenes worked out has proven very difficult. Not sure where I'm going to go with this facet yet.
Blaze Heatnix: Ah, Blaze. I've been playing here for almost two years now (even though I've done woefully little in the last year), and I think I'm really satisfied with the direction she's going. It's been slow, at times it's even been painful, but I think the arc of taking her from psycho-bitch to true hero is likely to reach a climax in the next few months. More activity would help here for sure, likely socials in particular.
Solaris: When I play Solaris, I love her. When I'm not, it seems hard to really get motivated to play her. I've gone back and forth between dropping her and getting active with her again so many times it's not funny. If I get active with her, I think I need some good old-fasioned SCIENCE! to pursue to give me something to do, and if I drop her, she'll probably end up ICly disappearing and joining the 'Point Trouble' colony. She really is still an Irregular at heart.
Baryl/Giro: I love both of these guys, I really do. They're hardcore to the max and if I could app them on M3, I'd do it in a heartbeat. As it is, playing on two different Megaman games has proven challenging, especially with my time getting sapped by Admin stuff on Zelda MUSH. I may just resign myself to showing up everyone once in a while and making it particularly awesome to make up for it.
Zelda: Right now, Zelda is one of those characters that doesn't really need a 'direction.' Her personality is very stable, and unlike most of the other young characters on the game, growth in skills and generally hardcoreness is not really a significant part of her concept. She's already one of the most hardcore Hylians there is, and her range and level of skills are extremely high. Then again, she's also the sole Z-fac EFC, so this is appropriate.
Basically, I'm just kicking back and having fun as I can. The little thing with Fassad is pretty awesome, and I look forward to chances of shocking and/or pushing him towards badassitude in the future.
KhronosWolf: Geeze Louise, Adminning is a major time and energy sink. Still, I think so far I'm doing a pretty good job of it, and nights like last night where we had so much kickass RP going on makes it all worth it. I only hope I can have a fraction of the stamina of people like Leo, who've been doing this for years on much larger games.
When it comes down to it, I'd like to be able to be doing /more/ across all my alts, but that's not really in the cards right now between school, work, playing Mtg as a hobby, and recently actually starting to *gasp* gain something bordering on a social life. I think in about eight months when I'm done with my Bachelors, I'll be able to really roll up my sleeves and RP like I really want to.
Dash: I like Dash, I really do, but some days I really just feel like I'm out of touch with the character. Part of it's that he's supposed to be cheerful, friendly, extroverted, energetic, and so on. Basically? He's just about all the things I'm not, to the point where it feels difficult to really push past my own veil of conservatism and play him the way he's really meant to play. It's probably good for me or something, and hopefully it'll get easier with time.
That said, I think his direction is a little up in the air at the moment. He had two different people ready to train him to be hardcore, but one of them (Krauser) dropped abruptly just when we were getting back into the swing of things, and the other (Andrew) lives on the other side of the world, so actually getting scenes worked out has proven very difficult. Not sure where I'm going to go with this facet yet.
Blaze Heatnix: Ah, Blaze. I've been playing here for almost two years now (even though I've done woefully little in the last year), and I think I'm really satisfied with the direction she's going. It's been slow, at times it's even been painful, but I think the arc of taking her from psycho-bitch to true hero is likely to reach a climax in the next few months. More activity would help here for sure, likely socials in particular.
Solaris: When I play Solaris, I love her. When I'm not, it seems hard to really get motivated to play her. I've gone back and forth between dropping her and getting active with her again so many times it's not funny. If I get active with her, I think I need some good old-fasioned SCIENCE! to pursue to give me something to do, and if I drop her, she'll probably end up ICly disappearing and joining the 'Point Trouble' colony. She really is still an Irregular at heart.
Baryl/Giro: I love both of these guys, I really do. They're hardcore to the max and if I could app them on M3, I'd do it in a heartbeat. As it is, playing on two different Megaman games has proven challenging, especially with my time getting sapped by Admin stuff on Zelda MUSH. I may just resign myself to showing up everyone once in a while and making it particularly awesome to make up for it.
Zelda: Right now, Zelda is one of those characters that doesn't really need a 'direction.' Her personality is very stable, and unlike most of the other young characters on the game, growth in skills and generally hardcoreness is not really a significant part of her concept. She's already one of the most hardcore Hylians there is, and her range and level of skills are extremely high. Then again, she's also the sole Z-fac EFC, so this is appropriate.
Basically, I'm just kicking back and having fun as I can. The little thing with Fassad is pretty awesome, and I look forward to chances of shocking and/or pushing him towards badassitude in the future.
KhronosWolf: Geeze Louise, Adminning is a major time and energy sink. Still, I think so far I'm doing a pretty good job of it, and nights like last night where we had so much kickass RP going on makes it all worth it. I only hope I can have a fraction of the stamina of people like Leo, who've been doing this for years on much larger games.
When it comes down to it, I'd like to be able to be doing /more/ across all my alts, but that's not really in the cards right now between school, work, playing Mtg as a hobby, and recently actually starting to *gasp* gain something bordering on a social life. I think in about eight months when I'm done with my Bachelors, I'll be able to really roll up my sleeves and RP like I really want to.