The Black Cross

Hey!! I was wondering what happened to you :-)

About Whitenights - nah, we've abandoned it because Aabunai was the mod and creator of that one and he's a bit MIA as far as I can tell.

As for the rest - I'm not sure, but I could look when I'm not at work - I'd like to have that option too. Even in the same thread where I've been posting it's hard to find new posts sometimes. I've just been checking postcount every day to see what's grown, but that's the only solution I've come up with.

Welcome back!

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fireun.livejournal.com

i thought one only got notifications if someone responded to your comment or post, and i have yet to interact with [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] then again, they added all that stuff a bit back, and i havent touched it, so who knows.

i usually just check post count on posts i have been involved in and wing it. doesnt usually bother me to try and check every day or so.

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ditto. I only get an email if someone replies directly to my post. I just have the rp's page bookmarked and it only takes me a second to look at it and scan the reply numbers to see if anyone's commented.

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yeah, i believe that's how it works for everyone. i thought there was an option to get notified every time a new post was initiated, but i've never seen one to get notified everyone on a comm comments no matter who it's replying to.

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one thing to keep in mind with whatever i post, is that farfarello's insane. he's exhibited signs of sociopathy, schizophrenia, and various other mental illnesses, none of which he is being treated for. however lucid he might seem, he still can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy. anything he says about another character basically has to be proven true or not true, if it can be, by that character. also, which would become apparent in future posts, this particular incident was something special to him. whatever he might think about other people's reactions, it isn't something he would ever admit to anyone but Schuldig. i wouldn't force anyone to deal with something they wouldn't want to deal with, but farfarello's got leeway in his perspective on the world. it's one of the reasons i like him so much.

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Aight, thanks.

Insight is good! :-)

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Sorry, I've kind of disappeared off the face of IM lately. If you ever see me on, feel free to IM me, I'm usually around, even if it says I'm busy; I just put up away messages usually to hide the notifications so they don't kill my computer while I'm working.

Would you like to set up some time to talk over the whole Ran-Aya relationship/history? Or we could just email each other back and forth about it [mei@seven-bladed.org is mine] I'm pretty prompt with answering emails.

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I think the only issue here is that you have to just declare whether you want to accept Farf raping Aya Chan as something that actually happened, or if you want to say that it didn't happen, and what Farf is telling Schu to be merely a delusion.

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Yes, *duh*... sorry... I am like, majorly brain dead right now.

Right, so recapping what I said to

genuinelie,

I have nothing against Aya being raped. If anything, that'd actually get Aya-Chan a bit more involved in the plot, since my main concern when I took up Aya-Chan in the first place was that she would be considered more as a secondary character [since she can't really go on missions with them or anything?] and wouldn't have that much to do with the overall plot. And so since she was out of it when he did it [or imagined he did it?] I doubt it'd really matter that much, since she wouldn't know either way whether or not it was true

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would you like him to bring up the subject sometime in the future? especially if schuldig can help farf meet aya-chan on several times, he might want to share this with her. entirely up to you. it's also up to you whether you want it to be provable or not.

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If he wants to share with her, by all means, go ahead. Though, I'm not quite sure yet what her reaction would be; I'm leaning towards denial right now.

And like I said before, I don't mind her being raped, but I just want to make sure if it was actual or part of Farfarello's imagination, since there'd be a few details to sort out if she was actually raped [most predominantly, the fact that she wouldn't be a virgin anymore...]

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right, but you could play it any way you want. if she wasn't a virgin before she went in the coma, i don't know what other way there would be to tell. i don't think she'd be pregnant--i'd like to say that he actually did do it, but if there's no way to prove it, it doesn't really matter to farfarello one way or the other what anyone says. to him it was as real and vivid as any other memory, probably more vivid than most. he won't be talking about it to aya anytime soon, though.

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Okay, so he did do it. I doubt it'd make a difference, considering there'd really be no actual proof to it anyways. =) But it's just good to know, for future reference [or something...]

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yay!!! he did it! he did it!!!1!1 call child protection services! XP

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i'm mildly concerned that this bit of information is going to result in the immediate death of a character once it comes out.....

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Yeah, actually, that's what I was concerned about too, haha. There's no way EVER than Ran would not consider Farf Takatori level should it be proven true, which would just make everything hella more complicated. And one of them would be dead by the end of this, which is an undesired outcome. At least on my end.

*pets Farf*

*pets Ran*

*hands out cookies*

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Haha, you mean Ran and Farf can't live as one big happy family?

Well, I was actually planning to have Aya-Chan go into denial or have some sort of internal breakdown if/when she found out, so if Ran ever finds out, it wouldn't be from her.

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I think you underestimate Ran's ~~obsession~~ attention. She might not tell him, but even going into denial about it would probably cause some subtle change in behavior, and Ran's so absorbed in her I think he'd pick up on it and find a way to either get her to divulge something, or deduce things on his own.

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Honestly, I do not think this would make for a happy RP if Farf's story turns up, but again, I am only the mod and if you all want to have the RP of doom and death, well...c'est la vie, or however you spell that.

And as another note, Aya-chan's internal breakdown would pretty much either get her sent off to a boarding school or to Kritiker by a Ran who didn't think she could be protected enough around them or Ran's mental breakdown, which is why all of this is worrying me.

(not to put you on the spot with all of this RQ, so absolutely no worries. )

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I think Ran's rage would surpass Takatori level, and to add into the mix, if Yohji percieved Ran as being in immediate danger, he'd probably do something unnecessarily stupid. I don't really forsee Farf as the one likely to end up dead....

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heh, neither do i. he can use his third ability to save himself if he has to, but i don't see him having to, considering that schuldig could just excise the information from his brain--hers too--if necessary. there's no need for anyone to die. and it's possible that neither of them will ever find out.

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plus, farf's a better fighter now that he's a bit more lucid. still mad and unpredictable, but not as likely to just let himself get hit, like he did in the anime. and he won't be filled with rage, not from that.

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oh, and he's also got a telekinetic and a precog on his side. yeah, no one's gonna die.

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His lucidity is what made me worry that Ran or Yohji would end up dead.

Ran definitely wouldn't rest until either he killed Farf or Farf killed him, and as I said, I really don't see any likelyhood of the former.

It had not occured to me that Schuldig might intervene to prevent things escalating that far.

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exactly--all i'm saying is, we can set it up easily so that no one dies. we can set it up however we choose! we have godlike powers! we are ASSASSIN MASTERS! (ass-masters for short.) i'm thinking that before a major combat scene, we should decide the outcome first, and just play to achieve that outcome. what do you think about that?

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I think that's an excellent idea.

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fireun.livejournal.com

Schu would prefer not to have to mental-edit us back into one bit happily disfunctional group...but it is a failsafe, should ran find out, go ape shit and follow precedent.

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see my comments below.

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