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faderiftooc2016-06-08 01:05 pm
lionheartedman) wrote in faderiftooc2016-06-08 01:05 pm
a call for assistance
Hello, Fade Rift. My name is Ophelia and I'm your new Cullen. If you want to just chat and plan new stuff, that is awesome and I am excited and I have an intro comment for it right here! In the mean time, this is a call for old CR to come give me a hand.
THIS POST IS CLOSED, AND I AM NO LONGER ACCEPTING OLD CR FOR CULLEN.
Due to the nature of his character, and the level of involvement he has with those who come to the Inquisition, adding past CR continually as it is brought to me is not a viable way of playing Cullen.
As such, from here on in, anyone who has not already commented on this post with their past CR will be treated as brand new CR. I apologize if this creates an inconvenience for anyone, but I made this post available for what I feel was an ample amount of time.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me.
So, there is obviously a bit of inherent difficulty in playing a character that has been previously played by someone else. Especially in a setting like Fade Rift where that character did not go home or leave for any length of time, and where they are not coming in as an alternate version of themselves. I'm going to ask for some help in that arena, especially since it looks like the previous Cullen was in the game since the very beginning. There must be a lot that he's already done.
Here's how you guys can help me! (And thank you so much in advance for the assist.)
If your character had any important interaction with Cullen, something that you feel helps to define their relationship, or even just something fun that you want to keep as past CR, please drop me a link to the log. That way, I can read up on what Cullen has already been up to, figure out a way to incorporate it in my own playing of him if at all possible, and have a firm grip on where he's at. This way I weed out all the interactions with characters who have dropped, or interactions that don't matter much to you guys. Anything that isn't brought to me, I'm going to assume you're fine with having it ret-conned out of his history. This will be far easier for Cullen from an IC standpoint than suddenly losing a bunch of his memories, since we all know that's been a huge looming fear of his. The fact that it won't be lyrium doing it will be a small comfort, but not much. A gaping hole in your mind is still a gaping hole in your mind.
While this is mostly a call for logs of one-on-one CR, if there was any big event that Cullen was part of that you think I should know about, please share it. You guys have been here longer than I have, and you know what's already gone down. That's the help I'm after.
I'm going to ask that you guys get these links to me within the next two weeks. This way, I can dive right in a.s.a.p. and get to playing with all the fun stuff available here. I feel like two weeks is enough time for anyone who wants to to have a chance to get things to me, enough time for me to read it all, and not so much time that I will lose my whole first month in the game to it. If you know of anyone who is on hiatus and has had significant interactions with Cullen, please give them a heads up. You can also just tell me who they are and I will PM them to make sure they know what's going on.
So, yeah, that's how you guys could really help me out. Get me your important Cullen logs by the 23rd of June so I can get to playing this fluffy little lion man with a concrete idea of his game history. Also, while I'm totally available for chatting and planning things on plurk or AIM or wherever, please contain logs for me to read to this post only. This way they are all in one place. I am going to literally be using this post as a checklist. It's just so much easier for me.
THIS POST IS CLOSED, AND I AM NO LONGER ACCEPTING OLD CR FOR CULLEN.
Due to the nature of his character, and the level of involvement he has with those who come to the Inquisition, adding past CR continually as it is brought to me is not a viable way of playing Cullen.
As such, from here on in, anyone who has not already commented on this post with their past CR will be treated as brand new CR. I apologize if this creates an inconvenience for anyone, but I made this post available for what I feel was an ample amount of time.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me.
Here's how you guys can help me! (And thank you so much in advance for the assist.)
If your character had any important interaction with Cullen, something that you feel helps to define their relationship, or even just something fun that you want to keep as past CR, please drop me a link to the log. That way, I can read up on what Cullen has already been up to, figure out a way to incorporate it in my own playing of him if at all possible, and have a firm grip on where he's at. This way I weed out all the interactions with characters who have dropped, or interactions that don't matter much to you guys. Anything that isn't brought to me, I'm going to assume you're fine with having it ret-conned out of his history. This will be far easier for Cullen from an IC standpoint than suddenly losing a bunch of his memories, since we all know that's been a huge looming fear of his. The fact that it won't be lyrium doing it will be a small comfort, but not much. A gaping hole in your mind is still a gaping hole in your mind.
While this is mostly a call for logs of one-on-one CR, if there was any big event that Cullen was part of that you think I should know about, please share it. You guys have been here longer than I have, and you know what's already gone down. That's the help I'm after.
I'm going to ask that you guys get these links to me within the next two weeks. This way, I can dive right in a.s.a.p. and get to playing with all the fun stuff available here. I feel like two weeks is enough time for anyone who wants to to have a chance to get things to me, enough time for me to read it all, and not so much time that I will lose my whole first month in the game to it. If you know of anyone who is on hiatus and has had significant interactions with Cullen, please give them a heads up. You can also just tell me who they are and I will PM them to make sure they know what's going on.
So, yeah, that's how you guys could really help me out. Get me your important Cullen logs by the 23rd of June so I can get to playing this fluffy little lion man with a concrete idea of his game history. Also, while I'm totally available for chatting and planning things on plurk or AIM or wherever, please contain logs for me to read to this post only. This way they are all in one place. I am going to literally be using this post as a checklist. It's just so much easier for me.
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i do not have a lot of stuff to share, myself. the first interaction on game between cullen and dorian would be this moment -- the context is that the inquisition held a funeral for the herald, and it was a little tense with templars and mages. IF YOU SOMEHOW CAN'T TELL FROM DORIAN'S AMAZING DIAGRAMS, he and adelaide helped break up a brawl, and dorian reported it by way of said amazing diagrams. cn ofc provide more context but i don't want to overwhelm you with stuff cullen wasn't directly involved in, and it was a small incident.
i'm not sure what the previous cullen set up for this cr, or how far past their canon tension pre-skyhold he got, so it's honestly up to you. time has gone by and dorian hasn't performed any blood magic, and he speaks well of the advisors, so there's that. if you want to leap into chess-playing friendships, i'm down, or we can back it up and develop it ourselves. it's a blank canvas, but i'm very keen for cr either way.
my other relevant character is knight-captain marcus kane who made some diplomatic overtures upon trying to smooth templar feathers who were ruffled about anders not being immediately drawn and quartered. he is a few months new to the inquisition and he and cullen haven't spoken, but he was a free marches templar of kaiten.
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The reason I'm doing this with this post and not just going back and reading everything is mostly because I don't want to bother with things from dropped characters that don't matter, and partially because there are probably things with current characters that just aren't important. Everyone has those logs where nothing ends up changing from the beginning of it to the end. You guys know the difference, I don't. So it's not that I don't want to read things, it's that I genuinely don't know what I should be reading because I don't know what's important. Can't know what's important without reading all of everything, which defeats the purpose of weeding out the important stuff. I'm rambling. No help for it. Sorry.
TL:DR, if you've got context, bring it on.
When it comes to handwaved growth, your guess would be as good as mine, which is why I'm not going to be incorporating handwaved stuff. There's just too much interpretation, too much depending on the conversations that decided on that handwaving, and I was part of none of it. It would probably be better if we did it ourselves.
As for the Anders thing... we all know how Cullen feels about what he did. That's nothing new.
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the next morning, dorian, somewhat conscious of making a mess, issued a report. in defense of dorian's art, he was very hung over (and annoyed).
that's all, really!! i wanted the pictures to be game canon bc they're dear to me and also maybe demonstrate at least tentative beginnings of rapport. apologies if i came across obtuse or obscure, i just didn't want to put this event on par with other people's probably more profound moments in cullen's game life. (as you can see, i am a rambler too.) but i hope this helps!
and yes, i'm very down for developing cr ourselves.
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Also, seriously, no CR is more or less valid than any other CR. People are bringing me deep meaningful emotional logs, and that's awesome and important. People are bringing me passing conversations that are only a few comments long, and those are also important. There's no minimum requirement for things you have to give me. If it happened with Cullen, and you want it to still have happened with Cullen, then it's valid.
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