07-18-2015, 02:37 PM
Greetings,
Some of you might remember my ugly face from the Chucklefish Forums. If so then Hi (again). If not then Hello. But in either case, I don't believe I've had the opportunity to introduce myself properly. At least now I'm not just some random moron who popped out of the blue from nowhere and wanted to get in on all this Avali stuff.
I suppose we should start with my story. For the sake of time and pagespace, I'm mostly going to focus on my personal history with the Avali. There isn't much to it, but it all started on one Team Fortress 2 server. A bunch of guys were running around, spraying the faces of creatures that I didn't recognise - and when I asked (though admittedly I did mistake them as being "Goat-Headed"), nobody knew or was willing to tell me. So I did some link following (because I am a sucker for just about anything adorable) and it lead me to the Avali wiki. I spent much of the evening reading the Wiki and processing the information as best as I could, and so much clicked on a level I hadn't experienced in some time. That evening, I also found the Chucklefish Forum Avali RP. I spent many hours debating whether I should jump in and try things out - after all, I sorta owed it to myself to try and interact with people again. The end result of that was Scipios - a quite mad cyborg Avali whom I never got to do much with, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Also I completely suck at naming things, so despite trying to be as close to canon as possible, we might have ended up going against the character creation guidelines in a few places (also coming up with the name took the best part of a couple of hours, trying to get one with a trilling sound was going to result in something akin to the Monolith Sequence from 2001).
At any rate - not going to lie, but it was a bit of a clusterfuck. It had been the first big forum RP I joined in years, and as such I had a lot of difficulty keeping up and following events though (usually when two or three different members were trying to have different interactions with me at the same time, or when a suspected writing flub popped up). And then there was that rather...embarrassing...incident regarding the Avali Mod and trying to get it to work (long story short nothing seemed to work even after slotting things into folders and exasperating several members, so what was to be an educational experience turned into a gigantic clusterfuck and the whole idea was very quickly abandoned). RP-wise things didn't exactly go well - a member of the RP vanished without explanation, leaving us without a partner and they never returned nor was any explanation given for their disappearance. After a week of frustration, I attempted (and even asked permission to) circumvent the current situation to move things along...only for that RP to close a few mere days after this happened. With that, I thought the Avali community pretty much died out - there was no revival nor communication of any kind.
Then I stumbled across this forum. Naturally I registered soon after and proceeded to explore.
So to recap, still the same neurotic wreak of an individual some of you remember. For those who I haven't met, I can be prone to panic and am unfortunately rather literal minded - this does not mean I don't have a sense of humor, but it does mean I'm going to be following what the most seemingly obvious interpretation of one's post is. If you mean something else, you're going to have to correct me, in which case I'll go back and correct my response if it isn't too late to do so (quick example, the "No NSFW" rule - is it just there to stop porn or are there limits on things like cursing for example?). I would describe myself as someone who tries to watch what he says, though it usually ends up not being what he means. As a result, integrating with other groups is difficult. Also, I am rather self-depreciating, but you probably already worked that part out.
On one last note, if it wasn't sticking out like a sore thumb - yes, I'm mentally disabled. I'm still very much on the high end of my own spectrum, but you can expect some rather...unusual responses. I'm not expecting special treatment, but I figured most people would want fair warning.
Some of you might remember my ugly face from the Chucklefish Forums. If so then Hi (again). If not then Hello. But in either case, I don't believe I've had the opportunity to introduce myself properly. At least now I'm not just some random moron who popped out of the blue from nowhere and wanted to get in on all this Avali stuff.
I suppose we should start with my story. For the sake of time and pagespace, I'm mostly going to focus on my personal history with the Avali. There isn't much to it, but it all started on one Team Fortress 2 server. A bunch of guys were running around, spraying the faces of creatures that I didn't recognise - and when I asked (though admittedly I did mistake them as being "Goat-Headed"), nobody knew or was willing to tell me. So I did some link following (because I am a sucker for just about anything adorable) and it lead me to the Avali wiki. I spent much of the evening reading the Wiki and processing the information as best as I could, and so much clicked on a level I hadn't experienced in some time. That evening, I also found the Chucklefish Forum Avali RP. I spent many hours debating whether I should jump in and try things out - after all, I sorta owed it to myself to try and interact with people again. The end result of that was Scipios - a quite mad cyborg Avali whom I never got to do much with, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Also I completely suck at naming things, so despite trying to be as close to canon as possible, we might have ended up going against the character creation guidelines in a few places (also coming up with the name took the best part of a couple of hours, trying to get one with a trilling sound was going to result in something akin to the Monolith Sequence from 2001).
At any rate - not going to lie, but it was a bit of a clusterfuck. It had been the first big forum RP I joined in years, and as such I had a lot of difficulty keeping up and following events though (usually when two or three different members were trying to have different interactions with me at the same time, or when a suspected writing flub popped up). And then there was that rather...embarrassing...incident regarding the Avali Mod and trying to get it to work (long story short nothing seemed to work even after slotting things into folders and exasperating several members, so what was to be an educational experience turned into a gigantic clusterfuck and the whole idea was very quickly abandoned). RP-wise things didn't exactly go well - a member of the RP vanished without explanation, leaving us without a partner and they never returned nor was any explanation given for their disappearance. After a week of frustration, I attempted (and even asked permission to) circumvent the current situation to move things along...only for that RP to close a few mere days after this happened. With that, I thought the Avali community pretty much died out - there was no revival nor communication of any kind.
Then I stumbled across this forum. Naturally I registered soon after and proceeded to explore.
So to recap, still the same neurotic wreak of an individual some of you remember. For those who I haven't met, I can be prone to panic and am unfortunately rather literal minded - this does not mean I don't have a sense of humor, but it does mean I'm going to be following what the most seemingly obvious interpretation of one's post is. If you mean something else, you're going to have to correct me, in which case I'll go back and correct my response if it isn't too late to do so (quick example, the "No NSFW" rule - is it just there to stop porn or are there limits on things like cursing for example?). I would describe myself as someone who tries to watch what he says, though it usually ends up not being what he means. As a result, integrating with other groups is difficult. Also, I am rather self-depreciating, but you probably already worked that part out.
On one last note, if it wasn't sticking out like a sore thumb - yes, I'm mentally disabled. I'm still very much on the high end of my own spectrum, but you can expect some rather...unusual responses. I'm not expecting special treatment, but I figured most people would want fair warning.
