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Voicetesting Meme!~
... as announced a while back.
Here be rules and explanatory things!~
1. Taking part is not mandatory! If you wish to test-drive a new muse, here's the place, but if you'd rather app them without testing - that's perfectly legit, too. :3
2. There are suggestions for scenarios behind the cut. You can use the RNG to roll a relationship and a situation, but you are absolutely free to come up with a scenario of your own. It's more like a friendly suggestion/bit of inspiration from out side.~
3. You may voicetest as many characters at once as you like, and testing them here doesn't make apping mandatory. It's supposed to help you get a hold on the character's voice and to help you decide whether they would fit into the setting or not.
4. Please, keep the following in mind:
a) nothing that happens in this meme is canon or has to be taken into the game. This applies to both the CR and the situation at hand - though if you like it? Talk about it and make it canon once your muse got in.~
b) taking part does not assure that your muse will get into the game.
c) it's just a meme. It's here to help and to have fun, nothing more, nothing less.
5. For the voicetesting characters only: please fill out the short form below:.
Player name: Your name/online alias
Character name: Your character's name.
Character Rank/Suit: The rank your character holds and the suit they are in.
Short description: Three to five short sentences that will give some basic information on your character. This could include their occupation (or whether they are new to the deck), mention existing relationships to characters already in the game (as long as that has been discussed with the character's muns) and maybe a few words on the character's personality. Don't link to an already written app/the character's whole history/an essay on their personality. It's just supposed to be a synopsis.
The information given me is not yet set canon, so you are perfectly free to change it for the actual app.~
6. You can also post a character that is already in the game so people can bounce their voicetesting characters off of you! Actually, this is very much welcomed. Do it! :D If you want to.
I... hope this makes some sense, I am sleep deprived and still sick. xD
As stated above, here is a list of the relationships and scenarios you can roll out in case you don't want to come up with something else or just like randomness a lot.
Relationships
1. Acquaintances - You have seen each other around, but rarely exchanged more than a couple of words. Time to chance that!
2. Friends - What it says on the tin. Maybe you've known each other for a long time, maybe not - whichever works best.
3. Colleagues - For some reason, you two work together a lot - be it cross-suit work or inter-suit things, you keep ending up doing important stuffs together.
4. Lovers - What it says on the tin. Secret or not, just crushing or close to married, it's The Wuv between you two.
5. Exes - When No. 4 went bad. This may or may not get awkward.
6. ENEMIES - You hate each other. That's all there is to say.
7. ??? GO WILD!
Situations
1. Surprise!assignment - For some reason, your King/Queen/whoever decided you two should work together on agloriously random project. Even crackier when it's off-suit.
2. Suddnely, date. - Can be a blind date, an assignment taking a funny route or an Actual Date (or whatever else, really). Go out, have fun. Wheee.
3. Challenges! - Either that person challenged you, or you challenged that person, or you are going to challenge soon or ... whatever challenge-related scenario you want to have here.
4. Morning After - What happened last night? Where are we? I have no idea, you play it out.
5. Party, PARTY! - It's time to celebrate a thing! IDEC what thing! Maybe it's a masquerade or a fun evening at the Four Suits Pub...
6. Bad Day - For all your emo needs. One person has a bad day, the other comforts them. Or makes it worse. Or anything else.
7. ??? GO WILD.
Coherency, I has it.
If there are any questions about this thing, just ask away and I will try to explain.~
Here be rules and explanatory things!~
1. Taking part is not mandatory! If you wish to test-drive a new muse, here's the place, but if you'd rather app them without testing - that's perfectly legit, too. :3
2. There are suggestions for scenarios behind the cut. You can use the RNG to roll a relationship and a situation, but you are absolutely free to come up with a scenario of your own. It's more like a friendly suggestion/bit of inspiration from out side.~
3. You may voicetest as many characters at once as you like, and testing them here doesn't make apping mandatory. It's supposed to help you get a hold on the character's voice and to help you decide whether they would fit into the setting or not.
4. Please, keep the following in mind:
a) nothing that happens in this meme is canon or has to be taken into the game. This applies to both the CR and the situation at hand - though if you like it? Talk about it and make it canon once your muse got in.~
b) taking part does not assure that your muse will get into the game.
c) it's just a meme. It's here to help and to have fun, nothing more, nothing less.
5. For the voicetesting characters only: please fill out the short form below:.
Player name: Your name/online alias
Character name: Your character's name.
Character Rank/Suit: The rank your character holds and the suit they are in.
Short description: Three to five short sentences that will give some basic information on your character. This could include their occupation (or whether they are new to the deck), mention existing relationships to characters already in the game (as long as that has been discussed with the character's muns) and maybe a few words on the character's personality. Don't link to an already written app/the character's whole history/an essay on their personality. It's just supposed to be a synopsis.
The information given me is not yet set canon, so you are perfectly free to change it for the actual app.~
6. You can also post a character that is already in the game so people can bounce their voicetesting characters off of you! Actually, this is very much welcomed. Do it! :D If you want to.
I... hope this makes some sense, I am sleep deprived and still sick. xD
As stated above, here is a list of the relationships and scenarios you can roll out in case you don't want to come up with something else or just like randomness a lot.
Relationships
1. Acquaintances - You have seen each other around, but rarely exchanged more than a couple of words. Time to chance that!
2. Friends - What it says on the tin. Maybe you've known each other for a long time, maybe not - whichever works best.
3. Colleagues - For some reason, you two work together a lot - be it cross-suit work or inter-suit things, you keep ending up doing important stuffs together.
4. Lovers - What it says on the tin. Secret or not, just crushing or close to married, it's The Wuv between you two.
5. Exes - When No. 4 went bad. This may or may not get awkward.
6. ENEMIES - You hate each other. That's all there is to say.
7. ??? GO WILD!
Situations
1. Surprise!assignment - For some reason, your King/Queen/whoever decided you two should work together on a
2. Suddnely, date. - Can be a blind date, an assignment taking a funny route or an Actual Date (or whatever else, really). Go out, have fun. Wheee.
3. Challenges! - Either that person challenged you, or you challenged that person, or you are going to challenge soon or ... whatever challenge-related scenario you want to have here.
4. Morning After - What happened last night? Where are we? I have no idea, you play it out.
5. Party, PARTY! - It's time to celebrate a thing! IDEC what thing! Maybe it's a masquerade or a fun evening at the Four Suits Pub...
6. Bad Day - For all your emo needs. One person has a bad day, the other comforts them. Or makes it worse. Or anything else.
7. ??? GO WILD.
If there are any questions about this thing, just ask away and I will try to explain.~
Past!Thread, what? (6-of-Spades-Julien so...about 17 years ago? ish)
Which is why it was such a shock the first time he sparred with Laureline and had to pick himself up off the floor while she stood over him and looked down at him coolly. He hadn't complained though, he hadn't made excuses. He'd just gotten up and they'd gone at it again. She made him work hard, it was true...by why would he complain about that? When she was making him better.
Even if their latest training session has left him practically exhausted, enough to have him covered in sweat and drooping as they finish for the day. "...sometimes I am not entirely convinced you aren't actually trying to kill me," he says, wry, his words still laced with the hint of an Eastern European accent he hasn't quite managed to purge from his voice yet, for all he's tried.
It works for me :)
It might have seemed harsh to those unused to Laureline's teachings, but it was the truth. She had, in the past, sent unworthy students to their graves- those that reached too high but hard hat the dedication to commit. Her blade was sure, firm in her hand as she danced across the ground- her confidence clear. She lived by the blade, and when she died she knew it would be by a blade. It was, in its own way, a honorable death.
"Perhaps I should put on your tomb- 'Sometimes he fought to live'."
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And he does. It wasn't exactly something he'd never considered, after all. But it had been easy, for a time, to let bad habits creep in. The nod becomes a slight smile, just a flash before he's serious again. "Perhaps it will be I who puts something on yours: She was a clever teacher."
Didn't every teacher hope their student would surpass them, after all?
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And that made all the difference.
"If you are to someday do so? Then I would be most proud." She said, in that typical mannerism of hers. She complimented him in a way that seemed to suggest, well...that she didn't think it was very likely. "But before we can discuss my tombstone, you have to master more than your own wit."
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He had, after all, absolutely no plans to remain a Six for long. Not when what he truly wanted, the rank that was meant for him was so much higher.
And learning from Laureline was going to help him get there. "Are we to begin again, then?"
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"There are more lessons for you to learn, as well. The art of a blade is but one aspect of the effective leader. I trust you've kept up with other studies. Today I want you to prove to me you understand the application of such knowledge. A leader does not need to be an accountant- but he must be able to see when something is amiss, and to understand what it is that causes such. There is a problem with the books- you have by sundown to find and tell me where the discrepancy is."
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Such things weren't something there'd ever been much emphasis on before in his life. It was, in fact, something that came to him with rather more difficulty than, say, the sword. Or the knife. Or the bow. He was a weapon himself, he wanted, to say. Such things were for others to deal with.
But one didn't argue with one's Teacher...particularly not when the Teacher was someone to respect. So he just nods his agreement. "I will find it."
There was no other option.