OOC: It's not like we haven't been waiting for you sometimes too, Mars
(Disclaimer: No offense is intended by the preceding sentence or any of the following sentences)
And to help you understand why Dripik was so annoyed with the recent episodes, you've got to remember that he's been with this RPG since the beginning (4th October 2002) and he's seen a lot of bad stuff happen over the years. Even I have seen some really bad RP'ing in the time I've been here. And while you have a good point that no one is perfect from the beginning, the key difference is in their attitudes. Someone who makes mistakes, but listens to advice and acts on it and tries to improve will always be made much more welcome than someone who won't listen and gets angry when they're corrected by others.
And it's even worse for Dripik than the rest of us when the thread gets flooded out with OOC posts, because he has little enough time as it is (which is another reason the posts per day rule was made) to read through the IC posts and respond to them without having to read through a bunch of OOC posts as well.
So in short, Dripik (and the other old RP'ers including myself) don't hate newbies. On the contrary, it's often the newbies who help keep the game alive. We just don't like newbies who disrupt things.
Now I'm sorry, I think I've gone on a bit too much (I have a habit of doing that...), and you do make a good point, let's get back to the game and zip it with all the OOC'ing.
IC:
"Well, I just run, talk or hit things. It's all I can really do. And honestly this is getting crazy. Jeez, I should just leave the factory." Mars replied to
Hembar.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down!," Hembar exclaimed, "I'm just wondering what your purpose is here. As in, why did you come here in the first place?
"But perhaps we're starting on the wrong leg. Speaking of which..." she looked down at the wound on the other mudokon's leg, "...we probably should get that fixed up."
She looked at
Anni, "I heard you saying before you might be able to bandage it up using supplies in this lab? I think the first thing to do is take care of that, then we need to get out of here before the slig on the other side of this door gets in. But what's going to happen when he frees the other slig, I don't know."
She walked over to the controls to the lab door and put her palm against the panel. "I can try to slow him down though." Her hand lit up with a blue glow as she pushed it into the panel. There was a fizz and then, anti-climatically, a few sparks leapt from the control panel both on the inside of the room and on the outside too.
"There, the lock on the door is busted now, so they'll either have to fix it or get the door open manually. Either way, it'll buy us time."
OOC: Almost forgot to say, Opril, if you take a look at the
first post of this thread you'll find a link to the
W@RF map which should answer your question
And as for getting to where the action is, it's best in the RP to get in your character's head and think what they'd want to do. So I'm assuming your character's first priority is going to be getting employed, so he'll be wanting to find Arnie's office.
So your options for getting involved are either have him not know how to get there and taking a guess and maybe running into someone else (you'd have to check where other people were and see where that corresponds to on the map) or you can have him find Arnie's office, where he'll happen to run into the little dilemma that's currently happening there
And sorry for the wall of text, as I said, I tend to go on a bit and take three pages to describe something that could've been said in one sentence