Passive-Aggressive GM Moments: When a player - despite repeated corrections - kept telling Nazrin to douse things instead of dowse things and I eventually had this result in Nazrin throwing the contents of her canteen at his intended target.
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Passive-Aggressive GM Moments: When a player - despite repeated corrections - kept telling Nazrin to douse things instead of dowse things and I eventually had this result in Nazrin throwing the contents of her canteen at his intended target.
(Although, because I am bad at being mean, I somehow made splashing water onto the wall produce at least as good an end result as using her dowsing rods would have. Perhaps this was a mistake because he still never stopped spelling it that way.)
Kyouko contemplates the divine
"Just imagine having to listen to all those prayers, all the time! I mean, it might be kinda fun at first? But trying to handle a hundred requests at once, all over the world, must be a huge responsibility! How do they keep them all straight?" She pauses. "Actually, maybe that's why most gods seem kinda inattentive, most of the time - they're all distracted listening to other people. ...does this means that the best god to worship is one that almost everyone else has forgotten about?"
It’s always a sad feeling to have to delete individually great moments because you can’t get the rest of a scene to flow around them properly, no matter how nice the exchange is in isolation.
And I just had to do that 4 separate times within a single scene T.T
I have written more words about people kissing each other tonight than I have in my entire literary career up to this point.
About damn time.
I mean this with as little disrespect as possible (he’s a nice guy), but I have come to think of my last remaining regular in Nazrin Quest as some kind of anti-editor.
Because no matter what I do to cut down on superfluous scenes and keep things moving along, he finds some way to worsen pacing and fill the story with extraneous text that neither advances the plot nor is interesting of its own merits.
“No, we don’t need 8 posts inquiring about the quantity of ink and paper needed to write a letter you will never send.”
“No, now is not the time to go shopping for a new sleeping bag.”
“Oh, would you just freaking kiss her already?”
A Representative Day in the Life of an Author
DracoOmega: This scene is not going as planned
DracoOmega: Because OF COURSE IT ISN'T
>Kagerou may be well-proportioned, but the smoking in this case is being done by a literal fire.
In retrospect, perhaps saying she was ‘bent over a smoking rack’ was a poor choice of words.