Trollslum Discussion 6: The tears will never stop!
 

Oh the tragedy of it all.

Now for some pictures lovingly torn from the fanart thread.

We're all thinking it.http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/a...trollight2.jpg

D:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../expenchar.gif

Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ersofevil3.png

IMPROMPTU VICTORY DANCE!!!http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/...us/exult-1.gif

Pictures courtesy of Loyal

Pironhttp://www.deviantart.com/download/1...es-d3397tz.png

Gorrmahttp://www.deviantart.com/download/1...es-d332q4o.png

Pictures courtesy Mauve

Poor Tergumhttp://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4440/poortergum3.png

Poor Pironhttp://img713.imageshack.us/img713/4664/poorpiron2.png

Poor Reztekhttp://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7306/poorreztek2.png

Poor Zebrekhttp://img710.imageshack.us/img710/3746/poorzebrek.png

Poor Sharl?http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/5047/poorsharl5.png

Entry Order so Far

TEAM ROCKET
1st: Tergum - Your beloved leader who hates your guts
2nd: Baalla - Don't want to meet him in a brightly lit alley
3rd: Iropha - Blasting off at the speed of light!
4th: Scalis - Knowledge is power!
5th: Reztek - Everyone knows a Gyclops can't handle the screech of a guitar!
6th: Vintag - On her way to stardom.
7th: Nasryl - Professional butcher surgeon.
8th: Aldurin - The ward of Herpey Derpah


TEAM FORTRESS
1st: Caoway - HE'S ON A BOAT
2nd: Lerjae - All according to keikaku
3rd: Burgun - Plays games for children
4th: Piron - She tried to eat a dude once
5th: Glissa - She finds everything you do to be quite uncouth. Stop it right now.
6th: Zebrek - Zebrek once - OOH LOOK A BUG
7th: Gorrma - She has eaten things that may or may not really exist
8th: Sharl - He knows a guy

She has too. :D

And she'll probably do it again before the game is over. For therapeutic purposes.

Could I just say "Not it"?
Cause totally Not It.

Only Leraje would feel better when someone is chewing on him. Stop being silly.

Dammit Sharl, Aldurin would have still been a customer probably-maybe.

I'm just repeating this here since it seems to have been overlooked in the wake of the new thread:

Hmm...
Code tags do have the downside that any long text stretches the box, so you need to scroll horizonally as well as vertically.
But Swap can be annoying as well.

Guys, let's give CODE a try. Everyone use it for a few posts, then we'll see how well it works. If we don't like it, we can always go back to SWAPing.

I also support the use of CODE tags for now.

I don't trust that there Bard, he threw in a for now at the end a that one. Means he's a flip flopper. Can't trust no flip flopper.

The author of this post apologizes in advance.
 

I think his support is unwavering. But the proposal he's supporting is a preliminary one. That is to say, it's not necessarily permanent.

In other words, use code tags until we say you can stop. Oh yeah. Use them. Use them gooooood.

I need to see about bringing back the TL;DR tags or something operationally similar.

That might be useful. Neither Spoiler or Code are really ideal.

SO YES.
DO THAT.
I COMMAND IT.

A compromise has been reached and a change to the swap tag has been made. They are now activated by double-clicking instead of single-clicking. Hopefully that should be more convenient than it is inconvenient.

That would be excellent, POS.

BLUH BLUHHUGE BITCH

This is working very well indeed. Thanks.

That addresses the problem nicely, soooooo we will henceforth go back to SWAPing like a collection of bosses. Or trolls, as that may be.

...

And now I'm stuck making a Trollslum version of "Like a Boss". Thanks, guys.

Do the green quote boxes look okay in that post, or are they too ugly? I was experimenting with the color tags.

THey look fine here.

Yes and they taste wonderful.

I think it works pretty well.

Yeah, I pretty much have no excuse for not posting (or, y'know, not reading the thread for a few weeks, what the fuck). Gonna post all the memos and chats and shit today, hopefully.

Bard, would it be okay if I pulled a Dave and skipped forward slightly to when I'm first in the medium, then show the actual entry in a little later? This animation still needs a lot of work.

Actually, you have the most excuse.

This is actually what we were expecting.

edit:

Scalis doodle I made a while backhttp://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/...st-d39dp21.png

YESSSSS UPDATES!!

Loyal, do you have a Trollian template for that? I could use one for my posts.

I just grabbed one of the panels on the MSPA site. Specifically one of the earlier conversations between Vriska and Doc Scratch. (Ctrl+F "highlight" should help). And then I edit it as necessary.

[edit]As a note, Ovie, my post was written from the perspective of past Burgun, before she connected to you. My next post is her getting Leraje into the medium.

I love how you draw Burgun's hivestem, Loyal. That thing looks so awesome.

I am both relieved and dismayed that only the triangular structure at the bottom will actually be teleported into the medium.

But if I knew how, I'd totally draw the entire thing crumbling from the simultaneous effects of Burgun's hive not being there anymore, and the meteor impact.

It is time. Time to do more of this stuff, everyone still here?

Yep

Dude, I've been here working on a new post this entire time! Day after day, toiling away over a pit of red-hot words, picking them out to use in sculpting this literary masterpiece. Clutching these searing letter jumbles with nary a bit cloth between them and my palm, listening them sizzle as I hurriedly place them down upon the page. And how I would love to just let them go. To let these fresh words fall down and hit the floor and start a fire.

But I don't. And I continue on with my post-craft, aching and weary but never ceasing!

Okay, maybe I ceased a few times for a soda break. And then a sandwich break. Not to mention the dance breaks.

Alright, so I'm just working on it off and on between bouts of slothfulness and playing Persona. It's not my fault, The Answer is real stinking hard.

Assuming this stupid stroke-scare thing stops, I should have something up today or tomorrow.

I've got this overdue Umbral post that I'm writing, albeit incredibly slowly.

As soon as that's done, I'll get more sadsack Zebrek all up in this bitch.

Yes, I'm still here. I just have no idea what kind of pictures I should do for my next post.

I'm still here!

I'm here. I'm pretty sure I'm still important to this RP right?

I'm around. Just been busy playing minecraft when not filling out job applications.

IT'S ALIIIIVEEEEEEEEE

But for how long? And in what form! What have you created Drac!

I also made a thing. It was quick, but fun.

Trollslum: Ace Attorneyhttp://sadpanda.us/images/381904-N7INIB6.jpg

Going to make a Team Fortress one later. Spoiler alert Gorrma is going to be cast as Armstrong.

Totally just noticed now that there was a roll call going on a few days ago. But yeah I'm here. I have three midterms this week though, so I won't be working on my next post until after I'm done with those.

This is both the scariest and most hilarious thing. Scarelarious?

There is an exile, and she uses turntables. That is badass.

Shouldn't Caoway's Exile's station be at Leraje's house? They normally appear at the ruined home of the server player, so why at Gorrma's hive?

Well, she's not just Caoway's Exile. She's gonna bug Scalis and pretty much anybody else who's screen isn't locked.

Still it seems off. Unless she is Zebrek's exile then it would either be at Leraje or Reztek's hive.

They are just little nubs that go backward. I think they raise about an inch and a half before shooting back to a point about a half inch.

The Pad for Alchemy requests.

Read the rules and use it wisely. It is going to be added to my Sig soon. It is now in my sig.

Nin, that post was awesome. XD Your Exile is fantastic. I hope we can expect some Tergum VS ID rap battles sometime in the future.

Busy busy busy. I'll have to try to work out something in the next few days.

This exile. I have no words other than fuck and YES.

I will commence with the preparation of beats immediately.

Eating good fortune is the best way to gain it.

Eating good fortune is the best way to make sure it never goes away!

It's cool, Giga. Your brave sacrifice will not be in vain.

I've just realized I need to write a post. At the very least I should keep up with the intended murderers of a certain character, so that mental progression on both sides can be shown consistently.

Yes, I am going somewhere with this.
 

HONK
honk
MOTHERFUCKERS.

Token. That was AWESOME.

SO AWESOME.

@Token post: Wait what

Is this one of those choose-your-own-demise type stories?

I didn't overstep or anything, did I? I had planned for Tergum to slowly begin to lose it, and Black Text Tergum is going to be the eventual outcome of that. He won't directly interfere with the events, if you're worried about that; just sort of be a douche to Tergum because he's become a jaded, nihilistic asshole.

To be fair, Tergum is a writer.

No there's no real problem with the concept, but it seemed like Tergum died in both timelines. Pretty confuzzling.

Indeed he did.

... Alpha Token?

And I thought he prototyped Strize and Trollight? The post made it seem like on or the other got pre medium prototyping.

well shit, that was stupidly unclear on my part. yeah, he prototyped both. in the =/=> doomed timeline, he only prototyped Strize, which fucked the timeline up.

Chumley-voiced Beechie is the best thing.


Also: Viki noooooo! Don't listen to the possessed frying pan! D: D: You were too young! *sob* Who will randomly leap out and perform a lively jig for visitors now?!

Good to see you back in the game, SSB!

Truly the most tragic part of Vicki's death is that as a sprite, he will have no legs.

He can still transform into a giant tap dancing monstrosity.

Why does Leraje keep exploding his computers?

Because shutting it down is too boring.

Hurrah, weird time shit.

Crazy thought: Using Trollian.

Okay guys, nows the time where I encourage speeding up entries. The real plot will only begin once I feel a sufficient number have reached the medium. If you are next in line to enter, send me a PM and I will inform you of your Cruxite artifact/test of character.

I don't have any Aldurin posts going, but I can try for an exile or something.

The exiles can't really carry any communication until the medium.

Maybe we can do things a bit differently. Since there's a bit of slowing and its holding up the whole line, maybe some of the players can elect to break up into 4 sessions of 4 for a brief amount of time and then connect up with the other groups afterward? I'd still prefer two teams, but different entrie groups may speed it up.

It would likely go like this:

1.)Tergum, Ballaa, Iropha, Scalis
2.)Reztek, Vintag, Nasryl, Aldurin
3)Caoway, Leraje, Burgun, Piron
4.)Glissa, Zebrek, Gorrma, Sharl

What do you all think?

Reasonable, Aldurin could notice while tracking the meteors that they'll impact to early for the procession, and order a split for both teams to speedline the process.

Alright then, we're picking up this crazy train. Speeded entry is a go. Earl, go ahead and have Aldurin make his declaration in like a memo or something. Don't bother putting it in the pad. Just have him send the message out so it can be posted in character quickly.

My question is this: Who gets the last person into the Medium from each group?

I'm fine with temporary small teams.

I have no objections to the smaller teams.

I'd guess the first person of the small group. But that would make some people change their server/client for a short period.

Nah the small groups are only temporary. We keep the original chain order, it's just there will be more people entering at the same time. So Scalis would still link up with Reztek and Piron would still link up with Glissa.