by Aldus Marius on Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:48 am
Salvete, conlusores! (There's your word, mi Iohanne; it means "fellow-players".) >({|:-)
> It appears that your character's leap at Paulus's character takes place at that moment where Paulus starts his "For the love of all the Gods,
> don't make her angry!" speech. So somehow the rest of his speech follows Marius's attack and the body-slam to the table.
Well, you see...Paulus grabbed Marius and then made the Speech, nonne? Or I thought he did... I also wasn't clear on when (or if) Paulus got knocked down by anyone else before Marius attacked. I actually thought Medusa tripped Formosus; did Formosus get back up again, and if not, then who tripped Paulus? If Paulus was down, he'd've had to get up again to grab Marius. That done, Marius would have returned the favor, restoring Paulus to a horizontal position either on the table or on the floor. Maybe Paulus actually managed to leap onto the mensa before grabbing Marius and being flung off again? (Sounds more heroic for Paulus than making the rest of his speech flat on his back in an obvious plea for mercy. Whatt'ya say, Paulus?) <g>
> Well I'll be an armadillo if I can still make heads or tails out of this...
Perhaps the several separate actions in Paulus' fight scene might have been handled one post at a time, so that the others would have had an opportunity to react to them individually? He grabbed Marius...what then? Did Marius do anything? Paulus tried to leap onto the table...did he make it? (He might have, but it was far from a sure thing.) Did he have everyone's attention before he made his speech? If each of these 'moves' had been posted separately, we might all be on the same page, if not the same paragraph. Paulus might not have even needed to take some of his later actions if the rest of the characters had been able to react to his first few. Hei, our characters might all have had a good chuckle over it by now!
But...no harm, no foul. Knowing where to leave off is a skill. We learn these things as we go along. RP is new for some of us, and I'm pretty sure that having our characters fight each other is new to everybody. There was no rule against it in the old RP; it just never came up...there were always plenty of NPCs ("non-player characters", the incidental types like the grill chef, the waitress, the other diners...) available to be knocked around instead. <feg>
> I think running away would seperate the group and the idea with the tavern was to merge the two groups together...
There's nothing that says the whole lot of us have to stick together, or even be friends. If Paulus and Medusa end up in one subplot, and Marius' group are in another, and the only thing they have in common is that inconvenient Tribune who wants to bust them all, hei, that works too!
So...where are we now? Marius just nailed *somebody* to *something*... Procedemus, then; we can only go forwards from where we're standing! >({|8-]
Aldus Marius Peregrinus.