How do you roleplay notes?

[Arenti]

Dare we ask where the pen/pencil/ink/chalk come from?

Cantrians spawn with a regrowing sheet of notepaper and a performing octopus that produces ink and writes with the tip of his tentacle. You rarely see them in game though as they are usually kept in hammerspace.

Maybe I should use that for a description for one of my chars.

[AlchemicRaker]

Morphic paper (to be the appropriate size of whats written on it) and an always sharpened and never dulling #2 Pencil.

- Natso

[NaruShadow]

I'm a firm believer of the octopus theory, especially since I saw a character that looked like Davey Jones one time.

But in all honesty, the same question popped in to my head when I made a new charrie the other day, so he uses large leaves for paper, sticks for pens, and berries for ink.

[Arenti]

I don't really bother thinking about what I use as notes. My chars just do.

[EchoMan]

As my favorite Game Master (IRL roleplaying) used to say: You don't have to roleplay everything.

I believe that is one of the better statements I've ever heard from a GM. So I'll stick with that here too.

[Alladinsane]

Sorry to bring this one back, but I have a question for all of you top notch RP (thats as much kissing up as I will do).
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Q: How should one react to what essentially looks like (and is) just C/P'd conversations used as evidence of a task you did, something somebody else said, the exact time something happened etc,?
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It seems to me that notes are not equivalent to a hidden tape recorder or such. I am just curious as to how others approach this. I thought like I saw a discussion of this when I first joined and had no idea what I was doing, so sorry if I am missing the proper thread. Now that I have been playing for a few months, and still have no idea what I am doing, I thought I would consult with the council of cantr II sages.

I guess anyone who has the reports mailed to them can just go back to refer to those emails if they so choose and if they are digging more than 4 days into the past. It might not be CR breach, but seems a bit iffy if everyones character is rp'ing that they have photographic memories. Plus, it again leaves the possibilities of c/p'd evidence.

Be well

[SumBum]

Those copied events shouldn't be taken as hard evidence as they can be easily altered. For me it really just depends on how much happened and how lazy I am at that particular time. I've had some chars summarize events (and sometimes "misremember" how some things happen) it just all depends how I feel like RPing a given situation. I do think the summarized, not 100% accurate accounts from your char's point of view are more fun and realistic. There are other times when I would rather see exactly what happened if I'm on the receiving end of such info.

edit: To add to my first sentence: It does surprise me how often copy/pasted events ARE taken as absolute proof.

[CrashBlizz]

I'd say it depends on you as a player and your character.

Although events are routinely copied into notes to be used as gospel by lots of people I myself don't like it. And I'll rarely view any such notes as 'evidence'. Its easily faked. That said I have one or two stupid charries that might just not think and accpet it as face value from time to time. Its a bit bad form though, especially when they don't even bother to change the events the right way up and you're reading the note from bottom to top.

I think they'll be lots of different opinion on this though.

[SekoETC]

I think the use of copy-pasted event logs reflects laziness. It's understandable if you assume you might get killed before you have time to write a narrative, or if you only store it OOC for later reference, just like you might save turn reports in your mailbox, but when you have plenty of time to actually turn it into a narrative or if it wasn't very complicated in the first place, still using an event log in-game is just laziness to me.

Same thing with copy-pasting character descriptions. I might copy-paste them into notepad if I want to check out suspicious people in the harbor and retreat back to safety before they spot me, but then I write the descriptions using my own abbreviations, like tshell for tortoiseshell shield and ishield for iron shield, and if they're wearing several clothing articles of the same material, I might write "hemp tunic, trousers and hat" "bone earrings, bracelet". It takes much less words and lines so it should also be faster to read. But no one is going to appreciate speed-writers when anybody can give a detailed account using copy-pasting. No one is going to think someone is cool if they can write an inventory list without using copy-pasting or Joo's tool, or someone who can record the appearance of suspicious people like I do, or someone who can tell what happened instead of repeating lines of 1234-5: You see...

[raspberrytea]

I completely agree with Seko.

I have characters who frequently relay information, and I never just copy&paste, instead writing out the events that transpired in that character's particular style of writing/note-taking/scribbling. In some cases I've purposely screwed up the character's "memory" because they wouldn't be the type to remember something accurately.

[Money]

Just a quick question, how does one treat time? Do cantrarians have a magical inner clock? Or do you just not rp specific times?

[CrashBlizz]

Its embeded in their brain. Same as they always know where north is. Its just years of cantr evolution.

[nateflory]

I have copy-pasted events into a note, but then went through and changed the time stamps and "You say:" and "ABS says: " to read more like "I said Blah blah" then you said Blah Blah... and made a few minor edits so it was not rote-perfectly copied.
That seems to work good.

[Addicted]

I have copy-pasted events into a note, but then went through and changed the time stamps and "You say:" and "ABS says: " to read more like "I said Blah blah" then you said Blah Blah... and made a few minor edits so it was not rote-perfectly copied.
That seems to work good.

Is there an easy way to reverse the order? Top to bottom?

[nateflory]

I have copy-pasted events into a note, but then went through and changed the time stamps and "You say:" and "ABS says: " to read more like "I said Blah blah" then you said Blah Blah... and made a few minor edits so it was not rote-perfectly copied.
That seems to work good.

Is there an easy way to reverse the order? Top to bottom?

No, I kept it as it was, Cantr-style, bottom to top when I've doen that.