I am actually glad you had us slow down so we could work out the story and character archs. It didn’t bother me, I was elated to hash out what is going to happen before we start.

But if the IRL and you feel you need to aplogize even if I don’t, all is forgiven.

I also want to know if you woukd Co-GM (Moderator) in this RP? It would guve you the experience of running an RP but I would be here to helping co-moderate.  

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I know we are going to learn some fascinating details about the Rainbowfaces (albeit there will always be mysteries) but is there anything we should know about their backstory you and @Little Bro would like to share? If you want to keep it mostly a mystery, that is totally fine, but I wanted to know if I should just be going off “The Stone of Cold Fire” for reference about them.

Thanks for being so understanding, I'm relieved I didn't rub anyone the wrong way. And thank you so much for the co-moderating offer, I would love to do that!

As for Rainbow Face backstories, I've wanted to explore that in fanfiction for a long time, but I never managed to settle on anything to the point where I could start writing. (Unless you count the crummy story that was my very first attempt at fanfiction, never to see the light of day again.) The one detail I ever decided on for certain in my headcanon was that the Rainbow Faces were siblings, but we don't even have to follow that here. For the sake of all of us going into this RP on the same page, it probably works out pretty well that I haven't gotten around to fully fleshing these guys out yet. Unless @Little Bro (I'm going to be genuinely startled if he's given these characters more thought than I have, haha) or @Goldenwind have any specific backstories in mind for the Rainbow Faces, LBT VII is our reference point.

I have realized that we should probably name these characters, for the ease of not having to type "the male Rainbow Face" or "the female Rainbow Face" all the time, which would probably get old pretty fast. Or if we want to leave them unnamed for mystery's sake, we can at least give them code names (or numbers). Any thoughts/preferences on this?
And of course @Goldenwind if you want us to pause our discussion on this RP for you, too, just say the words and we'll do it!

Take as much time as you need on those exams, Goldenwind. Good luck!

Fortunately,

Guido was enjoying some ground crawlers when he heard an unintelligible ruckus in the distance. "Hey, what's going on?" he wondered out loud. Suddenly aware of the fact that he was talking to himself, he sheepishly mumbled, "And why do I say that like I'm going to get an answer?"

"Perhaps the answers are closer than you think..." said a voice close behind him.

"WHOA!" Guido gasped, spinning around and realizing that the female Rainbow Face he'd seen the day before was standing right behind him.

Where had she come from? She'd mysteriously vanished soon after he and Chomper had met her yesterday, and now it appeared that she could show up just as quickly. Nothing like that to give a flyer the creeps.

"Phew," gasped Guido, getting his breath back. "You know, y-you'd be a little less startling if you said 'hello' or something first..."

"I can't give you the answer to your question," continued the Rainbow Face, "but I will say that perhaps the source of the commotion, once you discover it, will hold the answer to another question of yours."

"Another question of mine? What do you..." Then a possibility hit Guido. "You mean...where I belong?" he asked hopefully. "Where--how??" he stammered. He turned in the opposite direction, towards the noise in the distance. "Tell me what--"

But Guido hadn't even finished his sentence before he turned around and realized the Rainbow Face was, once again, gone.

Elsewhere in the Great Valley, Wild Arms quickly looked up from his tree star meal when he heard Hyp's shouts, fear striking his heart. "RUN!" he shouted, taking off across the valley in the hopes of finding someone to help. "Somebody, anybody--there's sharpteeth coming! HELP, HELP!" That was when he accidentally smacked right into another dinosaur and fell to the ground. When he sat up again, Wild Arms realized Chomper was that other dinosaur, and he cowered at the mere sight of the boy's pointed teeth, still in full panic mode.

Meanwhile, Cera ran up alongside Hyp. "Well, everyone's going to have to believe us now!" she said with a smirk.

I like it!

W: Seeing as EV96 didn't have a U in his post and LB didn't have a V in his post, I'll just pretend they simply listed incorrect letters, and I'll ignore RFP as he never specified his letter. Next post should be the letter "X".

X: Well, this is an easy letter not to use, but I'm just going to mention that I'm a she, not a he.

MUD BROTHERS!

Quote from: Goldenwind on May 08, 2020, 07:52:28 PM

They sound very interesting indeed.  A lot can happen with this RP. The gang messing with alien technology and learning to use some to combat sharpteeth till Gnosasaur is taken care off. Maybe Gnosasuar can have a accomplice like Sierra, a flyer who is searching absolute power. It be also a interesting idea if other aliens get involve too if it's fine (I give thumbs up to random crossovers) XD

I like Pterosaur assistant.

Gnosasaur could use a lackey to help him acquire relics and artifacts.

Makes sense! A flyer is definitely useful to have on one's side.

Um... On another topic...

Wait, what? Sorry, I'm not there yet. I think it would be a good idea to get some kind of plan down first. We can't just jump in, start writing random stuff, and expect to create a coherent story. I've tried to do just that with fanfiction before, and it results in the kind of mess that's only desirable in a crack RP (which I'm thinking wasn't what you were intending for this). I mean, I only had to spend a few minutes exploring the Role Play board in order to find an RP that exemplifies the amount of discussion necessary before even getting started: Sudden Change of Species 2.0.

I've been informed by a certain person IRL (guess who) that this post came across harsh, and now that I look at it again, I think he's right. I'm really sorry about that. That wasn't the right way for me to make a suggestion. Hey, this RP wasn't even my idea, so it was hardly my place to come in there like, "we're gonna do it this way now!!" Not to mention that maybe I don't even know what I'm talking about--I barely know anything about RPs in the first place, so maybe I'm mistakenly looking at this as if it's a fanfic. In any case, I'll try not to be so bold about my suggestions in the future. (Sorry again!)

More cool ideas! @Gentle Sharptooth I just have one question about Gnosasaur: is he bilingual like Chomper, or does he only speak Sharptooth?

I like this idea, we could show the creation of the best things in the Valley, like the treesweet tree.

Tree sweets as an invasive alien species? Interesting thought.

Kissing Red Claw.