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[mini]

what do you mean OOC in italics?

When telling an IC story, without speech, describing what your character is doing (walking somewhere i dunno) and you describe what happens, the scenery, his clothing whatever... that should be in italics, right?

basically: Everything in italics, except SPEECH, which is in normal between "parenthis"


(anythign that is actually REALLY ooc, should be between brackets with ooc in front)

EXAMPLE


My senator walked to the forum, wearing nothing but a tunic. He stole 5 appels and got clubbed to death by the store owner.
"Jupiter!" said his companion, and ran for his life.


(OOC: i am hungry)

[mini]

Mini, the best way is as we've always done it. Italics for non-speech and for emphasised speech, normal for normal speech, and bold for notable sentences or words. I'd be interested if you could post quotes of 'the posts recently made, that take quite an effort to read.'

EXAMPLE


My senator walked to the forum, wearing nothing but a tunic. He stole 5 appels and got clubbed to death by the store owner.
"Jupiter!" said his companion, and ran for his life.


(OOC: i am hungry)

What you said, perfectly fits the example I wrote, no? Which is absolutely fine by me :)



as to a few examples:

Almost EVERY post on the last page :)
No parenthis, bad disctinction between speech and events etc

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

This random smiling has got to stop, if anything we should have a emergency session just for that.

I do not believe it would be correct politically or indeed practically if the victorious General needs to return to Roma in order to request to return to Roma in triumph. Corlucius smiled.

I agree with Quintus Fulvius, since I presume he meant "change" in the sense of having the courage to improve. That's always been our strong point

Lvcivs Cornelivs Scipio rose, ignoring Corlucius' interjection.

It wasn't due to fickleness but due to the ideals and laws passed down from our forefathers that we were able to make the Res Publica into what it is now, you should know this best, Quintus Fluvius. It is not change but preservation that keeps us from becoming "irrelevant".

L. C. Scipo made a short break before he continued:

Anyway, I do not want to start a discussion on principles now.

I agree with the triumphus being requested by an official messenger and with the voting outside of the season as well - there's a difference between preservation of the law and foolishness.

Do you perhaps mean this letter, old friend? Corlucius asked Quintus Fulvius.

I believe messengers are sometimes required to carry these letters, and read them out for us all to hear at once. He smiled kindly at his companion, meaning no malice in his joking sarcasm.

Don't be modest, some of the elder senatores already gave their opinion, and besides: are you talking about the same senior senatores, a certain "mere Tribune of the Plebs" intended to throw from the Tarpeian rock? Your opinion is most welcome, you should share it with us. But I don't want to force you. If you first want to hear other's opinions to form your own conform to them, that's ok.

TCM's post are always a bliss to read. They're so easy to read and interpret, and you instantly know which is said and what not etc.


About name usage on your site TCM:
"In everyday use, people are referred to by either a combination of the praenomen and nomen, or even more usually by just their cognomen. "

use of the cognomen was not unusual in the empire. Yet during the timespan we (and the game) are taking place, use of cognomen was generally thought of as rude and poor form :)