Some general information regarding The Saga of the Stars: The Mystical Clock

This role-play was started on

Monday, September 06, 2004

This role-play was finished on

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

    Mystical Clock was the very first truly serious RP I participated in. From the get-go I knew it would be a great experience, because it was open-ended enough for me to throw in what I liked and yet still conform to the plots at hand. There were a few moments that were a bit out-of-place or weird (like the whole part that Ricky was forced to write off as a "dream") but it was a wholly exciting story.

    Thalzon was the sixth person to join Mystical Clock. He wrote 29.48% of the story, doing so in sixty-eight posts. He now goes by the username Corey.

    This was my third attempt at making an RP, and it was my first success. Looking back on it, I feel that this RP was one of the more entertaining and fun RPs I've been in. Everything, somehow, just seemed to work. The variety of characters, the subplots, even the final boss that Thalzon came up with... it just worked. Sure, there were some minor problems here and there, and one kinda major one when I had planned to have an event occur at the Valley of the Dwarves and we left before I could do it (which was then followed by some strange morphing of three of our characters), but that was fixed by me making it a "dream sequence" (which was simple, since we had recently knocked everyone unconscious). Mystical Clock was originally a Legend of Zelda fan-story I had been working on, and the first post makes this painfully obvious, but with everyone's input, the story changed immensely and I ended up creating a brand new series out of it, and even connected this story to two otherwise-unrelated RPs. I am very happy with how Mystical Clock turned out.  

    Ricky started the RP, and was, as such, the first person to join. He wrote 22.63% of the story, doing so in fifty-six posts.

    Metamorphisis was unavailable for comment. He was the eleventh, and last, person to join Mystical Clock. He wrote 12.18% of the story, doing so in thirty-five posts.

    Despite some slight inconsistencies and conflicting of ideas, as well as some minor arguments, I feel things went pretty smoothly. All in all, I really enjoyed it.

    Elec was the fourth person to join the RP. She wrote 8.88% of the story, doing so in seventy-seven posts.

    Well, with the neatly thought-through plot, the wide variation of participants and the gooooodly developed characters (judge for yourselves if it says "goodly" or "godly"), this RP has become among the most popular, with even a game devoted to it, so of course it's an honor to have participated...even if I dropped off, which you probably knew I did. ^^ But it was thrilling, and it contained everything a good RP needs, so it's a full-pointer.

    Horn was the fifth person to join Mystical Clock. He wrote 7.61% of the story, doing so in twenty-one posts.

    catfriedrice was unavailable for comment. He was the ninth person to join the RP, and wrote 6.94% of the story, doing so in twenty-one posts.

    Maniacal Gruntling was unavailable for comment. He was the third person to join Mystical Clock, and wrote 5.19% of the story, doing so in thirty-five posts. He now goes by the shortened name of MG.

    Kayorei was unavailable for comment. She was the second person to join the RP, and wrote 4.68% of the story, doing so in twenty posts.

    NaokoYiran was unavailable for comment. He was the eighth person to join Mystical Clock, and wrote 1.68% of the story, doing so in six posts. He now goes by the name Nerikuro Shino.

    Whitewind X was unavailable for comment. He was the seventh person to join the RP, and wrote 0.51% of the story, doing so in five posts. He now goes by the name Blackwind.

    Dr. Gate was unavailable for comment. He was the tenth person to join Mystical Clock, and wrote 0.15% of the story, doing so in two posts.

GeminiSaint

Cyril

Matthias

Wizard

    - A number of characters, in my opinion, were overpowered. Here's my list:
          *Micheal: Peerless fighter, with superb fighting ability, strong mind... and ray beams?
          *Miko: Everyone's favorite little kid, with a overly expansive list of abilities that makes you wonder if it's a fair fight with her on the field.
          *Skyre: Eyes dried out? There's a Visine for that. Need to stay undetected? There's a Visine for that! Need a steed? There's a Visine for that too!
          *Zander: The man has beads for everything. Heck, some of them probably work as flotation devices! However, I really liked Zander despite this.

    - Though not a bad thing, it seemed mind boggling that the wide array of future interferences and Guardians combined to create something fluid. The appearance of soldiers from the future surprised me, and negative supernatural creatures were unexpected.
    With those things being said, my favorite characters were Lode and Zander (and maybe Dan). The story was fine, but I seriously hope there was some kind of discussion about where the heck they were going. Things were changing really fast. As for being a fairly well written and entertaining story, . For confusing me and completely changing my perspective on this series, . For not mentioning steam rollers, yummy.

Trauma Advocate

    Mystical Clock was a very epic roleplay, and it's easy to see why it was so much fun to do. There were a number of complaints I had about it, though. Throughout the roleplay, it seemed like a good portion of the posts were intended solely to do away with what the previous poster was trying to do, especially the scenes with the dragons and later the whole character fusion nonsense. Some of the characters also seemed to be developing nicely until something stupid would get in the way... for instance, Dan had great potential, but became oversimplified when the other party members casually informed him that the voices in his head weren't real. This seemed to "cure" him of his schizophrenia until catfriedrice took control of his character back. 
    And of course, many characters were insanely overpowered, others were underdeveloped, and some more things along that line, but they were no big deal. My biggest problem was how much resurrecting went on in this RP. Several party members fell again and again in combat, only to be brought back by tears, inexplicable heavenly light, and of course time travel. The wide and colorful cast of villains fell prey to it as well; despite having at least thirty good villains, very few actually stayed dead the first time. By the end of the roleplay, I was numb to any more death. 
    Final words: Great cast, great villain, great story, but naturally impeded by the fact that it was an roleplay. I bet it was a blast to everyone involved. 

January 03, 2007