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Let's see. I joined this group because I love writing and I love thinking. I wanted a place where I could shoot off some ideas and see how they played among a group of friends. For the rest of this page I'll give some history of what I've done here and how I've tended to roll when simming. | Let's see. I joined this group because I love writing and I love thinking. I wanted a place where I could shoot off some ideas and see how they played among a group of friends. For the rest of this page I'll give some history of what I've done here and how I've tended to roll when simming. | ||
==Introduction== | |||
This text is and always will be an organic one. Since I'm trying to convey a history of my role in this group while still a member I cannot ever portray objectively or even clearly every part of that role. I cannot say for certain what my membership here will contribute to the group nor what it will contribute to my own life. | |||
Broadly I am at a stage in my membership of this group at which I see myself as trying to tell little stories with my sims. I try to carry forward the plot while at the same time attaching to my posts little comments or observations about life. Sometimes I fear I will get into trouble for this some day though I think if that happens it will more than likely be because I've somehow taken that approach to simming to an extreme. | |||
So with this approach in mind, I give you what I believe to be an accurate picture of what I've done here from my rather humble position as a novice. | |||
===Previous Writing Experience=== | |||
I've never been published as a writer. But I do often post to poetry/prose forums and I have been known to keep a blog. That experience has made my sims a tad verbose at times about my characters' internal thoughts (indeed, one of my points for improvement going into this group was my lack of dialog with other players). I've also tended at times to make simming into a more laborious task than it needs to be. But that is probably also owing to the fact that I want to get out of this experience some practice writing. | |||
==The Modus Operandi== | ==The Modus Operandi== | ||
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====[[Patri Jia Kom]]==== | ====[[Patri Jia Kom]]==== | ||
was a character whose story consumed my time more than Breeman's. This eventually led to a major incident involving a marathon sim. In short, she was designed to explore human emotion from the standpoint of a human outsider. She was a quasi-romantic heroine in that she was tormented by the consequences first of divorced parents and second of a botched slave tagging attempt that left her with a prosopagnosis preventing her from recognizing her parents. | was a character whose story consumed my time more than Breeman's. This eventually led to a major incident involving a marathon sim. In short, she was designed to explore human emotion from the standpoint of a human outsider. She was a quasi-romantic heroine in that she was tormented by the consequences first of divorced parents and second of a botched slave tagging attempt that left her with a prosopagnosis preventing her from recognizing her parents. | ||
=====Retirement===== | |||
Patri's story ended due to both IC and OOC factors. In the case of the former it ended because Patri was pursuing a dream of racial extermination through the ritualistic killing of a Grendellai named Cyrus. This impossible and unrealistic dream owed presumably to her arrested development at the hands of the botched slave tagging attempt. A rescue attempt by the FTU ended in failure when their vessel was detected as it attempted to escape. | |||
Turning to the OOC reason for the story's end, I composed, with the help of some others, a marathon sim in which I attempted to extricate her from the ship's brig so as to enable myself to continue writing her. This "Patri Incident" was probably the lowest point in my history here but also an important turning point. It represented the end of the "grand strategist simmer" picture I had of my role in the game. I saw myself as some kind of [[#Simming as a Game of Risk|strategist pulling strings]]. | |||
Patri's story and its subsequent closure as a result of the emotional ramifications of my getting far too deep into it, prompted me to create a much less tormented female character, | Patri's story and its subsequent closure as a result of the emotional ramifications of my getting far too deep into it, prompted me to create a much less tormented female character, | ||
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Blake Dragon is a musician who performs traditional heavy metal music at religious services throughout the galaxy. His music is a mixture of many different religious traditions. As a theist tending toward a judeo-christian bent Dragon imbibes much of his art with references to themes of sin and redemption. | Blake Dragon is a musician who performs traditional heavy metal music at religious services throughout the galaxy. His music is a mixture of many different religious traditions. As a theist tending toward a judeo-christian bent Dragon imbibes much of his art with references to themes of sin and redemption. | ||
== | ==Retired Simming Strategies== | ||
===Simming as a Game of Risk=== | |||
When I first started as a regular player here I saw myself as some kind of strategist, trying to move characters around like nations in a multi-lateral world of plot development akin to the board game Risk. Indeed, my general feeling toward this game was inspired a lot by my recent reading about world war one and the atmosphere of distrust that preceeded it. I would have to say that the Patri-Jia Kom incident ended that. | |||
This was for the better as I focus now more on the team-oriented aspect of simming. I should like to focus even more on that in the future. | |||
==Current Simming Strategies== | |||
===Narrative Voice Injection=== | ===Narrative Voice Injection=== | ||
This involves making use of the narrative voice to add a bit of effect to a post. For example, consider the following piece of text: | This involves making use of the narrative voice to add a bit of effect to a post. For example, consider the following piece of text: | ||