<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Well, I came back to see stuff I didn't expect from Mira and Lovi.
<CDAtWork> wb Tim
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<Earthflame> Damn net
<CDAtWork> hah
<Earthflame> And indeed Tim! I was pleasantly surprised :P
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Kisses are nice, but now I'm scared of Loviatar and her Devil-Scream powder :P
<CDAtWork> haha
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> ...also, if she had successfully fed it to Star, Martius would have exploded at her.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Like, unrecognizable levels of sheer anger.
<CDAtWork> well, Iki did say earlier that she only does that because it's obvious that Mira's a masochist and that it affects her...differently...than anyone else. Lovi's not that evil.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> True, but Marty is responsible for Star, in whose drink the stuff was poured originally.
<CDAtWork> right
<CDAtWork> it was also diluted
<CDAtWork> Mira got the pure stuff
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Yes...and?
<Earthflame> Yeah
<CDAtWork> just saying
<CDAtWork> not that that would invalidate Marty's reaction
<Earthflame> Star would at most have been mildly inconvenienced, I think. Nothing more than a prank.
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<Earthflame> Damnit
<Earthflame> Did my message get through?
<CDAtWork> beyond "nothing more than a prank" nothing got sent
<Earthflame> That was all
<CDAtWork> ok
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> I don't feel like this would help.
<CDAtWork> probably not
<CDAtWork> I haven't seen a lot of him, but Martius seems like an emotional hair-trigger. Doesn't take much to go from jovial to killer rage and back again.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> ?
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Er, wha?
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<Earthflame> Just like one of The Forsaken :P
<CDAtWork> I could be wrong. Like I said, that's an impression formed on only seeing him "in action" briefly.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> ...I shouldn't be thinking of retiring a character this early, but what you said makes me strongly consider it.
<CDAtWork> lol
<CDAtWork> noooooooooooo
<CDAtWork> Tanner isn't super-patient, either, but she's more likely to plot a silent, lonely death behind someone's back
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<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> It doesn't seem unreasonable, though, for him to get really mad at someone poisoning one of his friends.
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<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Even if she's fine.
<CDAtWork> no, not really unreasonable
<Earthflame> Damnit
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> I dunno, I feel like I messed up on Martius, like the traits that make him unique are annoying and overly stiff.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> I should have made a more Riverlike character.
<CDAtWork> ...he's a Dawn-caste Solar. You're, like, spot-on...
<CDAtWork> at least, from my opinion of them in general
<CDAtWork> anyway, I don't find him annoying
<Earthflame> What'd I miss? Also, the important thing about characters is development, how they change.
<CDAtWork> EF: <Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> It doesn't seem unreasonable, though, for him to get really mad at someone poisoning one of his friends.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Everyone hates Dawns :<
<CDAtWork> not me!
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<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Also, I honestly wish any two characters but Lovi and Star were fighting, because that forces Martius to take a side and I like them both ;_;
<Earthflame> Interneeeet
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<Earthflame> Ffffff :/
<CDAtWork> :/
<Earthflame> I hate my ISP
<CDAtWork> we should ship them my router from home
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<CDAtWork> INTERNEEEETS
<CDAtWork> anyway, you can't give up Marty, Tim. Star's boyfriend would be reduced to NPC status and that would make her sad. WOULD YOU WANT TO MAKE STAR SAD?
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> ...N-no.
<CDAtWork> (I mean, clearly, there are other and better reasons)
<CDAtWork> that was just the silliest to pop into mind
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> I'm really jealous of ID, he does all these great accents, but even using the royal We on one of my characters comes off as sily ;_;
<CDAtWork> it sounds like he's got a stick up his ass, which in my mind is precisely what a disposed ruler *ought* to sound like. And he's already started to loosen it up some.
<CDAtWork> deposed*
<CDAtWork> sorry
<CDAtWork> not disposed
<Earthflame> Damnit, I want to participate in this conversation but I keep missing chunks.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> ...I'm honestly also kind of unsure about starting an ERP already being someone's boyfriend, but...she's a Scourge, what can you do?
<CDAtWork> lol
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> >stick up his ass
<CDAtWork> EF: you're not really missing anything
<Earthflame> (Because I think Marty is cool, Tim)
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Yeah, that's the problem.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> I don't like him.
<CDAtWork> lol
<CDAtWork> we've also not technically even started playing yet
<CDAtWork> give him a bit to get comfortable
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> I just wasn't looking to play an emotional hair trigger with a stick up his ass, as you put it.
<CDAtWork> haha
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<CDAtWork> well
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<CDAtWork> the emotions stuff is, as I said, based on incomplete experience
<CDAtWork> Tanner and he have interacted all of *once*
<CDAtWork> and reading logs doesn't quite give the same feel as actually participating in a scene
<CDAtWork> not that Tanner is some easygoing, everyone-get-along-with type either
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> I realized I wasn't happy when I was reading the logs, and saw how easy it was for Mira to go making out with strange people while Martius is just having boring, formal conversations.
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<CDAtWork> hahaha. Mira's a bit of a special case...and Star isn't exactly shy about making out with new people, if I read your first meeting right.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Star fell out of the sky and is an Infernal.
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<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> Part of the problem is, a female character can be way more aggressive than a male without being threatening.  Worse if it's a male with authority. :<
<CDAtWork> there is that
<CDAtWork> well, for us, at least
<CDAtWork> Exalted society seems a bit more...egalitarian in that respect. I mean, not many people wouldn't shit their pants if subject to the stare of the Empress, for example
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> For me
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> and Victor.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> You are a Twin-Faced Hero :P
<CDAtWork> I meant "us" as in the players
<CDAtWork> but
<CDAtWork> you have a point
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> My point is, Marty can't kiss people out of the blue,  Enchanting Features or no, he'd get slapped.
<CDAtWork> you need, uh
<CDAtWork> New Friend whatsit
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> River could because he was fuckin' River and everyone expected him to destroy bars and break hearts.
<CDAtWork> :p
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> >using mindtricks :P
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> No
<CDAtWork> haha
<Earthflame> ...It's finally settled down!
<Earthflame> Someone give me a tl;dr?
<Earthflame> And/or logs because I do think I could help out here.
<Martius_Aurelius_Aquilianus> CD, can you?
<CDAtWork> one sec