A Winter to Freeze Your Heart RP

[Blaggut]

 Find it unlikely you killed that rat..m Oh, and il, break do pen those doors.

Bic: Suddenly all the vermin rewind and the doors close. A few vermin bearing logs came to the smaller gates and wooden door, smashing them.

[Dannflower Reguba]

OOC: Han, I know you're not on as often as we are, but can you please take charge of your RP? It's falling to pieces which is ruining the experience of an RP with great potential. 

Blaggut, have you even read the books? Because I'm starting to find that hard to believe. You can't just walk up to a hulking mass of wood and bash it down or burn it up, do you know how long it takes to burn the average LOG? A long time, all of these things take time, you have literally no patience which is detracting from the amount of reality that's to be expected in a Redwall Roleplay. Cluny took days to get his plans rolling, and in the end only held the Abbey for a few hours. Raga Bol (spelling?) never even made it inside the main building. Point being that if you aren't ready to let time do its' job, then you really need to reconsider participation.... I'm sorry to say it but that's what its' come to, are you willing to wait?

[Faiyloe]

OOC: A simple solution to this is to pick up one or two random vermin characters and play them out in the battles. If you play 20 characters at the same time of coarse things are going to move to fast. Show things threw a single perspective and that should slow things down.

[Unimaginative]

OOC: Then do it. I'm sorry, I thought I could manage this, but I made this when I was still relatively new to these forums and didn't understand how the characters were played. It seems to me like all character are powerplayed in a way, being nearly impossible to kill, but honestly the most trouble is Blagguts horde. For the sake of the roleplay, Blaggut, please start limiting your horde. At this point many of the vermin would have realized their defeat and fled, and you don't have a never ending supply of rats. Also, I've said this before, but you will not win the battle! I do feel, however, that Grund is a strong enough villain in many ways to take the abbey for a time. I'd still like to get more opinions on this, however, so I am making a poll.

[rachel25]

OOC: I voted yes, as long as it's not permanent, but if it is, then I think there should be a sequel RP.

BIC: Zanga was getting tired, he couldn't continue on like this. They had to stop the vermin getting in.

[Cornflower MM]

OOC: I voted yes in the poll, so long as it is temporary. Oh, and Blaggut? You forget that Cluny and Raga Bol and that little wimp - what's his name? Bad Red! And all the others who attacked the Abbey did so in TIME. TIME is very important. Time and strategy. You're a little too eager there. Now, let's see if I can get those creative juices flowing like yesterday.

BIC: Arya continued patrolling, but tripped on the dead rat's carcass and fell. Thankfully her bed was there, and she fell on it, therefore gaining no other injury. She sighed and started dragging it toward the window, which hurt quite a bit, and something poked her. The vermin had a bow! She thanked the fates and got it off him and then realized that she couldn't shoot with it, so it was quite useless. she cast it aside and got the vermin out the window, then sat down in a spot where she could watch the door and window.

[Blaggut]

Ooc: Guys, I haven't broken the gates yet... Im just saying we are trying to.

[Cornflower MM]

OOC: Okay...But your posts kinda sound like you're rushing things....Majorly rushing things.

BIC: Arya started gnawing her lip with worry. What if Ervoyce or Zanga o Vatra fall over the walls? Or even worse, are killed fighting? What if the Abbey falls, and they don't come back for us? We're just a group of invalids, with the least hurt one of us with a hole in his shoulder. We wouldn't stand a chance! They need us out there...But we can't!! She thought, picking up the arrow making stuff to keep her paws busy. Then she looked at the bow. Her eyes hardened. She went over and picked it up, not caring that it was going hurt, probably the worse she'd ever felt in her life. She didn't care, since her friends were in danger, and who cared if it hurt her? She moved the chair noisily over to the window and sat in it, waking up the others who immediately tried to make see reason, but she didn't listen and started firing arrows at the vermin. At least, she hoped it was the vermin.

[Dannflower Reguba]

     Ervoyce stayed his course, these vermin shot just like any other he had encountered, so he knew when to stutter. Even so, he kept his head fairly low, "Vatra listen to me! If there were ever a time for your common sense to take over now would be it! You need to focus. You hear me? FOCUS!" He was lucky enough to have only a runty weasel in his way going for the first ladder. He bashed the vermin off the wall and slit the first ladder... Now the trouble started. He was faced with a fox and a stoat, both had spears. After cutting the second ladder down, he thanked his lucky stars for the throwing knives that had solved his former predicament. While in the middle of a deadly dance of blades with a rat, the squirrel couldn't help but wonder how they were going to get out of this messy situation. The population of un-wanted visitors on the wall tops was increasing at a rate that was quite frightening, and the gates wouldn't be able to hold forever.

OOC: Faiyloe, Rachel, and (shade?) just a reminder that our plans are for the final battle, and it's looking like this isn't it, so we'll have to wait (was really looking forward to it too).

[Faiyloe]

Vatra heard Ervoyce's voice as if from far away threw the melee. 

"Vatra listen to me! If there were ever a time for your common sense to take over now would be it! You need to focus. You hear me? FOCUS!"

The sound of his voice lit a small spark of sanity deep inside her mind fighting to gain control. Something yelling screaming but quiet like threw a closed door. And while Vatra fought vermin on the outside something on the inside fought to regain control.  Yelling, reasoning with her, slowly getting loader and louder yet still the blood lust did not fade. The suddenly for a split second she saw Alec and she stopped stock still, time slowed, not moving, hardly breathing. The light of the fire dancing across the side of her face the other side dark pail moon light and a single tear mingling with sweat and blood on her cheek. The sound of fighting crisp and clear yet quiet as if far away. The dark sky spattered with the sliver specks of shining stars above her head and the red sandstone strewn with blood below her feet. She took it all in in a moment. Such beauty, sorrow and death. Why did the world have to be so cruel.

Something hit her over the back of the head yet Vatra hardly felt it. She went over the wall and fell into a snow drift darkness consuming her. 

OOC: If You seriously have a problem with me taking Vatra out for the count then I can change it. But I will only do it if I really have to. And If I do you will have to Deal with one seriously mad Squirrel and for once it wont be Vatra. 
       

[Blaggut]

Ooc: Dan, who says you'll are winning? It's in my favor. And you can't just walk over and cut ropes. Their coming up steadily (vermin) Not so fast you can beserk them but fast enough you can't just walk over and block the ropes! And am not rushing this! I said the vermin were merely beginning to break the gates. And when I say why isn't anyone defending the gates, how long does it take your incompetent archers to get there for firing support! 

And Redwall mods, get a better angry smily! One that's yelling!

[Faiyloe]

OOC: Ropes don't take allot of cutting before they brake and any vermin on the ladder is vulnerable because they really can't use both hands and they have extremely little room to move freely. Making them easy to push off loose balance and kill. You may not be moving fast but in comparison to the speed we are moving you are going way to fast. In the time it took for us to climb to the wall top and cut two rope ladders (Out of 10 I am amusing) You have set fire to the front gate swarmed the wall top invaded the infirmary and started to brake down the other side gates. All things that take a lot longer to really do. For every one action we take you take three. Like I said before this problem is easy to fix just make every thing happen through the perspective of one creature. You are controlling way to many vermin at the same time to the point of GMing there is no way for us to win cause you have a never ending horde of vermin all under your command.

(Example:

Post 1: Grund told random vermin number 1 (or RVN1) to go take a group off to try and brake down the west wall gate.  RVN1 went to go do his biding.

Redwall Post: ?

Post 2: RVN1 had found ten big strong creatures to help brake down the door they all had clubs and spears. The small side door would not stand a chance against them.

Redwall Post: ?

Post 3: They went around the side of the abbey dodging arrows from the wall top till they reached the side gate. and started to work on it with a lot of noise and shouting.

Redwall Post:?

Redwall Post:?

Redwall Post:?

Post 4: ?

Redwall Post: ?

Redwall Post: ?

Post 5: The gate hinges where beginning to give way and the wood to splinter groaning under the punishment.

Redwall Post: ?

Post 6: The hinges snapped, the wood cracked and the door gave way. The vermin crowded in but the door was so small that they could only fit in 2 at a time. 


That is a more realistic timing. The problem was that you executed an action before you executed the necessary actions needed to prepare to do it. you just miraculously had every thing necessary to do it right away. Also what is Grund doing He hasn't given a real command since the battle started. show him commanding let him do his job. How dose the horde know what to do when if he doesn't tell them. All this will add "air time" or word count while lessening the RPing time. (Pleas don't be mad I am only trying to help improve the Rping experience for all of us.)   

[Cornflower MM]

OOC: Faiyloe's right. And Faiy, if Vatra dies you are going to have one seriously mad and suicidal squirrel on your hands. I mean it. How about she somehow survives the fall and gets to the Infirmary after the battle ends, in which case Blaggut doesn't win YET??

BIC: Arya took a break from shooting, started gnawing her lip again, getting more worried by the second. Surely they will sometime? They can't be unstoppable! Gah, this pesky rib....I just selfishly wish that everyone I care about could be in this Infirmary. Arya thought, picking up her bow again. Hey, a squirrel I think just went over the walls! I hope it isn't Vatra or Ervoyce. I don't think I could deal with that. I'd go out and attack the army...As I did once before. she grimaced, the memory disturbing her. How could it not? She'd nearly died. Then again, at the time, she didn't care. Vatra was not the only squirrel around with issues. Hers was grief.

[Faiyloe]

OOC: Don't worry I still have plans for her. I'll just make it that she fell just the right way in an exceptionally large snow drift. She is not dead and she does not have any broken bones. She will just be sore and cold when she wakes up with a spitting headache. But I don't know about getting back the the infirmary cause she is probably on the wrong side of the wall. (haven't decided yet)

[Cornflower MM]

OOC: Ahh...Good. Is said in last post, Arya has some newly discovered Grief issues! Haha, just one of those spur-of-the-moment things, ya know.

BIC: Arya aimed, and fired another arrow, and gasped with pain. The more arrows she shot, the worse that pain got. It racked her slim, fit frame, but she put it out of her mind. Until she fell on the floor, that is. She blaced out for a moment, then realized, Oh, hey, I'm on the floor. She got up, and staggered for a moment, but sat back in the chair and started firing again.