Mari

Considering you yourself, both on this and your alt account generally only write 4+ lines I think it a tad hypocritical to look down on others who only write 4+ lines.

Don't get me wrong; I would much, much prefer longer posts as opposed to shorter ones; I just think it's a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.

Also; I feel it a tad rude to just insinuate someone you are RPing with is doing a poor job without first talking to them. Maybe if you PM Liam Argus/Argumail and say hey I generally like RPing with people who do X amount of lines, can we bump up the length?

Or offer advice on how post length can be extended like I have done here:

http://www.sao-rpg.com/topic/5387-improving-those-rp-skills-turn-1-liners-into-10-liners/#entry355833


Sometimes post length isn't everything it is quality over quantity. You can have a very well written post that maybe only has 15 lines, and a very poorly written post with 50+ lines and the one with fewer lines would be better off, as it is better written; and far more understandable.

Everyone has their own unique posting style; Personally; I feel it'd be best to have it set at 4 lines as that gives you something to work with, anything less and it's difficult, I generally try to keep my mouth shut on matters like this as my opinion isn't very popular and I tend to be harsh with what I have to say.  I tend to write shorter posts when people give me short posts to work with and if I genuinely enjoy Rping with that person then I am happy with it. Longer posts get longer responses.

I think having anything more than 4 lines is just restricting the RP, and those who are still learning how to RP and who want to just enjoy themselves.

Mari gave a soft laugh, a relieved laugh that started out low - almost inaudible before her body shook with it. She was relieved; she wasn't sure why she had been crying; or why her heart was still beating hard and fast against her chest, but she was able to deduce that she cared greatly for Alkor, and  for reasons unknown to her; he seemed to care for her in some way too. Enough to allow her to grow close to him, enough for him to fall asleep in her lap.

And enough for him to tell her his name.

"Amari." She said, pulling away just enough so she could look into his eyes; read his normally hardened facial features, which were now softened with a concern Mari never expected to have directed at her. Mari had tears staining her face, her pink hair dishevelled, eyes puffy from her recent tears, but she didn't care. "Amari Olfsden-Pleasure to meet you Thom." 

Alkor smirked. Once dark golden eyes now lit up with a mischievous light; as he questioned how he was supposed to respond. Mari grinned - leaning forward to plant a light kiss on his lips before pulling away, feeling far better than she had when she first arrived. "Amari and Thom's first kiss." She commented playfully.

Mari took a deep breath and sighed. "Alk-ah..Thom - when I first came here, I ran through what would occur in my mind." Mari leant against Alkor, nestling her head into his shoulder as she continued. "I thought about how you may be angry; may push me away. heh...the possibility of a slap or even a slash with your weapon came to mind, but not this. This is new for me. I don't -" She trailed off, she had been married before - she had relations, she had a kid, affectionate behaviour wasn't exactly a new thing for her - she wouldn't say it, but her marriage was a very manipulative one; and her ex rarely gave her any form of positive companionship.

"I don't know what to expect or how to react with you."

COMPLETE

1 SP Gained

12 Mats Gained
400 Col Gained

Mats Collected: 12
Mari 47/49

Mats Collected: 11
Mari 47/49

Mats Collected: 11
Mari 47/49

Mari grinned; handing over the col

-1800 Col

"Just healing crystals; instantaneous ones would be grand; I can never be too careful these days." Mari gave a shrug, followed up a tap of her nose. "What can I say? I'm a wanted woman. Let me know when they're ready." With that, she had left the Col, and the store. Leaving Celes' shop a little less pink.

Mats Collected: 11
Mari 47/49

Mats Collected: 10
Mari 47/49

Mats Collected: 10
Mari 47/49

Mats Collected: 9
Mari 47/49

"Cerulean Silence. Ce-Roo-Lee-Anne, but you can call it blue silence if you want. It's my guild, I am the leader."

Mari was going to go on and say more but decided not to; more so - she didn't have a chance to. He ran off to the nearest boar; or what he called them ' Piggie'  The kid had a lot of energy, and bravery - Mari had to wonder if he knew the ramifications of dying in SAO. The boar rammed into him - and Jacob fell.

Mari pulled out her dagger; and threw it at the boar - it disappeared, bursting into hundreds of pieces of data - a small sphere was all that remained. Loot. Mari could not get anything from the boar because it was too low levelled. "There, look." Mari said as she picked up her dagger again and pointed toward the orb. "Touch that to see if you get any loot." 

Battle Dice: 11 +2 = 13
SUCCESS

Boar 0/5
Mari 49/49
Jacob: 8/9
 

(Mari isn't in town, she is a PKer and so cannot enter towns or safe zones~)

Mari stood up, as he showed off his weapon, the weapon she had given him. "Oh, so you're my new guild member." Mari said as she placed a hand on his head and ruffled his head. The next thing she knew; Jacob was pulling her along enthusiastically going on about the boars that were in the next field over. Mari would kill the boars in one hit, so she wasn't sure how this would work - perhaps they would take turns and if she killed it he could loot it. It would be a fast way for him to gain Col and Materials.

"Heh...you're pretty eager - ya know I can kill boars in one hit."

Mari bit her lip and shook her head. "She's not here any more - she passed away and is now up in heaven." Mari said. She was never one to delude children from the concept of death - kids were smart, very smart, and Mari felt that people should give them far more credit. Children were more perceptive than adults, they could pick up on things; and Jacob proved just that.

"But, I'd be happy to kill some piggies with you, if you like. Do you have any good armour or weapons? I can give you some if you like." 

Mats Collected: 8
Mari 47/49

Mats Collected: 7
Mari 47/49

Mari brushed off his concerned look; answering a question that was never asked. "I rarely ever sleep any more; don't blame yourself." Mari guided him out the cave. It was early morning and the sun had just risen over the horizon. The sky was still painted in lines of gold and hues of red. The pink clad girl took a deep breath and gave a satisfied sigh. Giving a small smile as she recollected the talk she had with Alkor; and how his eyes had matched the warm tones of a sunset, and sunrise.

"Right, C'mon then." Mari said as she started walking, not checking to see if he'd follow. "Best keep up rabbit; else you'd get lost again."  

Mari shrugged as she brushed back strands of pastel pink hair from her face. "Don't apologize." She said, "Really, these things happen - at least, they happen within Aincrad." Mari sighed, ah - what I wouldn't give to punch the ol' kook who made the game though. Just one good, hard right hook to the face. 

Mari gave Kosan a wry smile as his tone changed from a low one to a energetically defensive one; as he proclaimed her innocence. "I took one life by mistake, but willingly took the others. Even mistakenly killing someone is a prosecutable offence. I appreciate the sentiment Kosan, but I am not going to hide what I've done - nor am I going to pull the wool over your eyes. I ain't got much to hide, but I ain't got much to say either." 

Kosan said he had trusted her; and admitted she was one of his few friends, if not his only friend within SAO. "I'm sure you will find others to trust."
 

Annoyed blue eyes, seemingly uninterested travelled over Mari's appearance; He made a disgruntled noise before commenting on the sanity of Aincrad's players. Mari crossed her arms, shifting her weight to one side. Mildly amused at his remark. "Well; the situation does seem to zap the sanity even from the soundest of minds." 

Her smirk turned into a slight frown; "Perhaps you should bang your head on the tree a few more times and consider yourself lucky circumstances are different; else your life would be forfeit right now, I'd have struck you down- " Mari reached out, her hand in the shape of a gun as she placed an index finger against the centre of his forehead. "Bang. Dead."
 

Mari shrugged off her comment, leaning her shoulder on the tree, "Now that you mention it, yeh - I do. Want to make some quick Col?"

Sousuke seemed to know a lot about war, and the military. Yet he seemed rather young in the face, it didn't show but he had this air about him that was difficult to explain, Mari couldn't quite put her finger on it. So, her in her usual tactless, straightforward way asked. "So how are you anyway? You seem pretty young."

Mari tilted her head watching as he lowered his voice, speaking in a melancholy tone - with a melancholy look, and a melancholy tear streaked down a melancholy cheek. She ignored it, it didn't concern her and she didn't exactly feel like having the man delve into his past and tell her his lifes story.

"mmf!" Mari made the sound, honestly shocked that Alkor had breached that gap between them. Sure, the two had kissed - for a second once before but it was forced by the very, very drunk hand of Life. This was far different from that, far different from the stolen kisses from Daeron and Zero. Mari couldn't pick nor understand why - it was only a kiss. Such a simple action, lips pressed against lips. Yet there was such a ferocity behind it, a turbulent wind of emotions that was constantly stirring between the two, and it was as though with that one seemingly effortless action had settled any unspoken emotions.

The action itself must have only lasted seconds, a minute at most but - as cliche'd as it sounded it felt slower than that. Pent up frustrations and agony that Mari had felt was drained away by his soft lips, the smell of his breath on her face. Her grip around him tightened as she pressed herself deeper into the kiss, lips parting slightly as she drew in a small breath. fingers entwined into his hair - affectionately scratching at the back of his head. Mari could feel her heart pounding against her chest, and as Alkor finally pulled away she noticed that her lip was quivering, and her body was quivering.

Alkor slowly opened his eyes and he looks just as confused as she felt. Mari blinked, and could feel droplets hit her cheek, then slide down to her chin, crying...?

Why wouldn't her tears stop? And why was her heart beating so fast?

Why was she allowing herself to get so close to this man? How was he able to penetrate her defences with nothing more than his golden eyes? His empowering presence - and his stalwart soul. Mari wanted to say something, she didn't want a silence to fall between them this time, she wanted him to talk - to hear his voice. Mari gave him a smile, removing her hand from his hair she allowed the back of it to brush against his cheeks - "golden with hues of red, just  like the sunset." She murmured - the words sounded stupid and she almost immediately regretted saying them the moment they fell from her lips. Way to ruin the moment. 

Busted. That was the tone of voice he held as he simply acknowledged her words with a sound of affirmation, yet he didn't pull away. Nor did he push the girl aside. Instead he, in a surprisingly affectionate action had began to rub her back, Mari shifted her gaze to his when he pulled away; just enough to stare into her eyes. His golden eyes were puffy, and bloodshot. He had been crying. Without even thinking about it; Mari reached out to have her thumb lightly wipe any tears away.

Alkors hand seemed to shake as he found her cheek, callused hands; marks of a hard worker; a fighter focused on freeing himself and others from the prison that was SAO, Mari leaned into his palm closing her eyes. Enjoying the action for all that it was worth. Words and feelings that Alkor couldn't express or show; the reciprocation that Mari so desperately wanted to give but was at a loss for how, until he uttered that greed was relative. Mari slowly opened her eyes, shimmering blue meeting a tear stained gold. The Colour of the sunset, and the colour of the sunrise; glorious yellow orbs oozing a warmth and kindness that Mari wasn't sure she had ever really seen.

"Selfish huh..." Mari whispered as her hand found his cheek, grazing past it to his neck as she lifted herself closer; shutting her eyes Mari thought about kissing him. Would that be selfish? Her lips almost grazed his; but she hesitated. How many people had just planted their lips on hers without asking? She was about to do the same to Alkor - was that fair to him?

The young boy counted numbers on his hand, then - holding two tiny hands up toward her he showed her that he was six. Mari gave him a weak smile. "Six huh. That sounds like a fun age."  Mari was finding it impossibly hard to speak to him, it caused a whir of feelings inside of her, the guild of the death of her daughter was beginning to resurface, after she had tried so hard to push it deep down inside of her. Mari found it difficult and wanted nothing more than to run away.

But where would that leave her? 

Mari lightly brushed his fringe out of his face. "You just remind me of my daughter, you are around her age." Her smile faded for just a moment when Jacob mentioned that his mum had come in here with him, and that he had lost her - that could mean a number of things...

Mari swallowed; tilting her head to the side. "What sort of game do you want to play hmm?"
 

I think it'd be better to message them personally but your chance of joining is 0

people don't need 'Saving' everyone is doing perfectly fine without you. Don't be so arrogant, it's not very pleasant man~
To be honest this whole topic seems sort of spammy to me :P

Mari paused in her stead, hearing someone shouting and cussing rather loudly. There was an older boy, at least he appeared older than the people she had met as of late, he was repeatedly ramming his head against a tree. "Eh?" Mari wandered over to him, placing one hand on her hip. The other scratching her cheek lightly as she watched him a few moments longer - as he imitated a younger player in a high pitched tone.

"You OK there?"

She asked as he finally seemed finished with his self abusing tyrade. "Yanno..." Mari began, "If you want to hurt yourself that badly, weapons are far more effective."  It was dry humour.