Recommended Reading: 07-22-2008

I wanted to get to this on Friday, but somehow ran out of time. There has been some really entertaining play-by-post writing happening on various roleplay forums. Of those I frequent, the Dragon’s Mark - Red Dragon Inn roleplay forums have been a gold mine lately:

The characters in Motley Moxie on the Move by Lirssa Sarengrave have really captured my imagination.

What Broken Things Reflect by Sulissurn Xukuth alternately surprised, scared and amazed me.  I was astounded and impressed.

Every post in Perchance to Wake, by Adhamiel is neatly crafted with a beautiful, poetic cadence.

The scene set in An Urge Toward Happiness, by Piper is just masterful, with great use of imagery.

Even though I’m participating in the thread, Unintentional Arrival bears mentioning. I think the player behind The Doctor is doing a very good job at portraying the character. I’m having a hell of a time trying to set aside my inner fan girl and keep Alysia true to character.

And this exchange between HP Thoth and Kairee in the Red Dragon Inn Monday night made me chortle:

HPThoth: ::smirking:: I think you were bored. But you had your fill and left. Or found someone mildly amusing and enjoyed your evening at least a little.
Kairee: How do you know I didn’t just curl up with an Arcane tome
HPThoth: You very well may have. ::takes a sip of his drink:: Did you?
Kairee: A lady doesn’t tell. ::wink::
HPThoth: ::chuckles:: Touche. Since I am not a lady, I don’t mind mentioning that I curled up with…. a glass of juice, followed by a swim in the pool, and sleep.

Well.  Maybe you had to be there.  But it made me laugh, truly.

Mini rant incoming —->   I will probably garner some spite from this opinion, but I have not been enjoying the cross-posted Changed Lives (in Rhydin Town Center/Fairy Tales) and Altered Lives (in Rhydin Town Center/Drachen Walde) series, if only because it spams up my RSS reader with all the duplicate posts. I don’t need to read them twice! There’s a forum guideline that notes “Please respect other people’s time and don’t spam our boards (i.e., submit the same post more than once).” which has been ignored here for more than a year. It’s easy enough to roll my eyes and scroll on past, but what gives, I wonder? Should I start spamming all of my posts in any sub forum that might possibly be relevant, too? Think I’ll get bitched at if I do?