Okay, this is a long time coming, but since I've been updating/catching up with this journal, here's a place to let me know if I've been doing anything wrong. Or, I suppose, if you like the way I'm playing Forte, that's always fun! It's flattering, and nice to know too, but I haven't had any criticism, so I just want everyone to know I'm open to it if you want to give it.

If you have a problem with me, tell me here. I'm a pretty typical neurotic RPer, and worry about this, so you're doing me a favor if you tell me just what to improve and what to cut out. I just ask that you be specific about what I can do better and not just tell me I suck or something. This goes for writing style, characterization, out of game behavior, or whatever.

Anon is on, IP tracking is off... I think. If I did this right. Yes. But I really won't hold any criticism against you, even personal stuff like if I'm rude or did something I shouldn't have outside of RP - I have a standing goal to not be an asshole, and help by calling me out on that is appreciated.

Hell, if you have something to say about my icons, for better or worse, I want to know!

teal deer: if you have something to say, say it here. If not, don't worry about it.

Just a reminder for myself:

Shift	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Activity	Breakfast	Library?	Lunch	Game Room?
Appointment	Scott Pilgrim	Depth Charge	Sheena	Sechs

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DISC 2 LOADING....


After a brief respite of being dead, Forte returned in a blaze of glory. Or, maybe, just a haze of confusion. Certainly, in a wheelchair. He took a while to actually wake up and collect himself over breakfast. He spent the rest of the day in the Sun Room, letting people know he was alive, and using them to daisy-chain bulletin board messages. First, he actually felt bad when he learned Depth Charge had blamed himself for Forte's death, and attempted to reassure him - whoever you are, you're not going to do a very good job convincing anyone you're really Forte if you run around showing a capacity for empathy! Next was another awkward meeting with Sheena, where-in he promised to be more careful and she confused him with talk of selflessness and sacrifice. Crazy dame! Finally, he had manlier version of the first half of that conversation with Teisel.

Bulletin Board (mostly vicariously):
[link] Taking note of Sechs, via a nurse
[link] Depth Charge -> Sheena
[link] Asking about healing, via Sheena
[link] Sheena -> Teisel Bonne

Forte woke on day 40 groggy, and disappointed to have missed night 39. All he managed to do 2nd shift was stretch a bit and watch Teisel kick some guy's ass. He met up with Teisel shortly there-after, and he bragged about having not died (what high standards!) fighting the spider, though Teisel was a bit out of it. Then Sheena found him again. He was bored and frustrated with his own inactivity, and unloaded his problems on her. She tried to talk to him, and get him to do his least favorite thing in the world - actually think - and he became belligerent. After a brief argument, he finally admitted his feelings of failure and purposelessness and practically had a breakdown in front of her, but she managed to calm him down.

Also, at some point this happened on the boards. He also saw Depth Charge making plans and offered to come along to gather materials to make explosives.

He waited until night, then went to meet Depth Charge. After some pleasantries, they headed up to the second floor. They stopped to plan where they were going, and continued, pausing to contemplate a door that had been removed from its hinges. And then on, past others and finally to the Chemical Storage Room!

After raiding the room for chemicals, supplies, and weapons, they went back out to the hallway, where they were ambushed by a monstrous cat. It focused on Forte and got him on the ground, and managed to maul him quite a bit while Depth Charge tried to fend it off. After DC injured it, Forte managed to grab it by the nape of the neck and hold it down while Depth Charge delivered the killing blow. Unfortunately, Forte was already bleeding heavily, and lost consciousness quickly after that.



END DISC ONE
PLEASE INSERT DISC TWO TO CONTINUE

Forte just appeared briefly in the Sun Room to watch Sheena's scuffle with iwascloned. After that was lunch, where he had planned to meet with ruthless_hunter - and his robot senses did not fail him. Forte tried to talk business, and Lockdown was, naturally, receptive, but in the end nothing much came of it. Finally, he had an appointment with Washu for therapy, and of course got into an argument with her. Unsurprisingly, she easily pushed his buttons, and he eventually had to be removed from the room.

Unfortunately, the only time Forte seems to have shown up in the day was in the library, where his robot senses, predictably, led him directly to hailmegatron. He and Lugnut had a little chat, about puny Starscream and puny humans, and other puny things (which they themselves are not).

That night, however, he was finally active again, and he managed to find a partner in 4lulzngiggles for an excursion upstairs. After a good start*, he found Joshua and they headed upstairs. Finally, they found just what Forte was really looking for - a fight! Forte got caught in a giant spider's web, but managed to fend it off, with a little help from Joshua, long enough for morning to come.

* no, he didn't spontaneously switch rooms, the player just fails at life... yet again

His robot senses tingled, so Forte found scalyfishman got some 'bot bonding on, giving Depth Charge the rundown on the institute. This continued in the showers, where he had happy-fun-naked-time with whiny_egomaniac and talked biology and exercise. After the shower it was already time for lunch, where he caught up with Teisel. Meanwhile, he got in an argument with lossofface, and after a while he got clever and they met up, and Forte bragged some more, and attempted to defend Starscream. Oh yeah, and he was an insensitive dick to his roomie, big surprise.

That night, due to a mix-up, he went to meet Starscream, along with Blitzwing. They argued for a bit, and Forte was not impressed by Starscream's cowardice.

Tracking post for day 35:

Forte finally had a grasp on the situation, and started off making a bee-line for the message board, only to be molestered greeted by traitors_smile. Then, thanks to earlier practice careful tutoring by whiny_egomaniac, the poor robot managed to eat a full meal without choking himself. I'm sure the nurses were so proud! Unfortunately no-one told him to wait half an hour or stretch or anything before performing any kind of exercise. FAIL

Finally, the time to meet a concerned parent maker caretaker arrived, and it was a tense reunion. There was a lot of shouting involved, and while Forte was confused at first, once he figured out this wasn't really Wily, he was just angry. And Wilhelm, naturally, didn't help at all. Forte ended up sedated, out in the Sunroom. Where he went and made a weird post on the message board. Because apparently being sedated is totally like being drunk? What the hell? Who's writing this nonsense**?! Whatever. At dinner, our hero discovered the joys of steak, and he and littlegoblinjr finally get to bond.


Once night fell, he got his bearings and went on his way. He had a brief talk with cnflctofintrst about Forte's dependency issues. Then he backed up, and finally reached the clinic. He had a nice, long training session with Sheena, and after she taught him to wax on and wax off, she decided to punch him in the shoulder. He wasn't very happy about that, not at all. I mean c'mon, he's the definition of a sore loser.



On the bulletin board:
a rocky start: A TRAVESTRY
a little freaked out: Our New Bodies, Ourselves*
making plans: Assemble!*
decidely lacking in subtlety: Weapons?
now you're just being silly: Doplergager!

*just a reply to someone else's message
**it may be worth noting that the player, that same night, got totally wasted and made some nonsense post on the internet that went on
for like 2 pages. Yes, after the doppelganger thing.

[updated day 45: Frank has torn this page out to use the journal as a journal]

Robots

• HK-47
• Starscream

Pushover

• Sheena
• Raine
• Red-hair guy
• Square-nose guy?

Smart
Realistic
Not-a-pushover
Useful

• Teisel

????

• Ichimaru Gin

Tracking post for day 35:

Forte started off no less confused, and ran into HK-47 on the bus. He then choked on his first meal, and reappeared on a bus back, finding Kratos to hang out with again. Dinner was uneventful.

He started the night eager, running into no_barbarian quickly. This time they wandered the halls together, and even bonded together on the way to the Front Door. Neither of them could get the door open, nor could Kaku when he showed up. Not that Forte tried very hard. Now he knows several rooms his body isn't in!

Tracking Post for Nighshift 34

Forte woke up a bit confused, and wander out into the hall, shouting at the darkness. He was finally attacked by a monster and cried like a baby until mizuhomaiden  came to rescue him. And, uh, went to some lengths to help with the injury. Sheena helped him stumbled from hallway to hallway, eventually making it to the clinic. He spent the rest of the night hanging out with the ToS crew, being generally ungrateful.

Because I've spent way too much time thinking about this while waiting to apply (and it was fun)


Any documentation on Forte in Landel's should preferable reflect this story (because I think it goes so well with his "delusion")

Just because I liked seeing others' applications while I was researching/stalking.

( Read more... )

Now I just have to decide whether or not to keep/delete the existing entries. Man, I don't have to get rid of them, do I? They were fun.

Alright, so we had a plan all set. I attacked, knocked down one of their walls, and announced how I was going to destroy Rock. Then he gets pissed off about the wall - what, was I supposed to knock on the door? We're supposed to be keeping Roll busy with a fight, not a tea party. Before I could tell him that, though, she comes running out, and we have to shut up and pretend to fight - fine by me. Then, we here this whistle coming from the back of the place. And Roll turns around 'cause - yep, Blues whistled loud enough for us to hear in the middle of a battle, while trying to sneak into his sister's room. It's bad enough he plays his own theme music everywhere he goes, but he's the one who volunteered, said something about living his life on the fringes of civilization, and then he announces that he's here.

Of course, I've got to think fast, so I grab Rock and throw him into Roll so she doesn't run back to investigate. It worked, but now they're both pissed at me. Roll starts hitting me with a broom, while Rock's yell at me from the sideline. I see Blues walking out behind her, with his shield and scarf, but that's it. He gives me a smile and a shrug, but she see my line of vision and turns around again.  She screams "what?" and goes after him now.

So then Rock and I run back into her room while yelling at Blues, and find Rush and Gospel tied up next to her bed - wearing bows and ribbons, blue on Rush and pink on Gospel. C'mon, he's a powerful, robot wolf, not a puppy to play around with. We find our other stuff too, and as we're leaving Rock - can you believe this guy - says he's glad we stopped before I recked more stuff. I tell him I'm just making sure it looks real, and he says if it was going to look real, he would beat me in 10 seconds. I've had enough, so I tell him we should just have a rematch of a couple days ago right there.

So then, I combine with Gospel and he combines with Rush, right there in the hallway, and then Roll comes back and sees us, and gets even more pissed off. I tell her to shut up, Rock tells me not to talk to his sister that way, and somehow Auto became involved... I'm not even sure what happened there.

Eventually, Dr. Light gets home from shopping, and finds us all arguing, with the place a mess. He kicks me out, says he's going to call Wily, and grounds Rock and Roll.

It wasn't until I'd flown home to a smug Dr. Wily that I realized I'd ended up with pink bows on my head when I fused with Gospel. That's the last time I play poker with those losers.

So, in half an hour Rock and I are going to distract Roll by staging an attack. Blues is going to sneak in, and get his shield and scarf, as well as our extra weapon upgrades, and set Gospel and Rush free. If we can get her outside and keep her there for 5 or 10 minutes, he says he can get in and out in that time.

I don't know how that bitch did it, but I swear, I will get Gospel back if it's the last thing I do! I swear, Rock is the worst dealer in the world. This is all his fault, and I will destroy him for it. Just as soon as I get my dog back. And he gets his.

So, I'm all fixed up now, as is Gospel. Wily's off sulking, which is okay by me (I don't I know if could stomach a whole world ruled by him anyway). Blues invited me over for a game of poker. I wasn't that interested until he said Roll would be there.

I mean, c'mon. Easy mark, right?

Anyway, I'm going over there tonight. I'm pretty sure none of us have money, but we'll figure something out. Besides, this will be the perfect opportunity to get revenge on that damn Rock.