Post by MeBeLizzi on May 12, 2014 9:19:11 GMT -5
So those of you who have expressed interest in this RP have mentioned you're confused. This is an exerpt from the book Go Ask Alice, which is my inspiration for this RP.
July 10
Dear Diary,
I don’t know whether I should be ashamed or elated. I only know that last night I had the most incredible experience of my life. It sounds morbid when I put it in words, but actually it was tremendous and wonderful and miraculous.
The kids at Jill’s were so friendly and relaxed and at ease that I immediately felt at home with them. They accepted me like I had always been one of their crowd and everyone seemed happy and unhurried. I loved the atmosphere. It was great, great, great. Anyway, a little while after we got there Jill and one of the boys brought out a tray of Coke and all the kids immediately sprawled out on the floor on cushions and curled up together on the sofa and chairs.
Jill winked at me and said, “Tonight we’re playing ‘Button, Button, Who’s got the button?’ You know, the game we used to play when we were kids.” Bill Thompson, who stretched out next to me, laughed, “Only it’s just too bad that now somebody has to baby-sit.”
… Everyone sipped their drinks slowly, and everyone seemed to be watching everyone else…
Suddenly I began to feel something strange inside myself like a storm. I remember that two or three records had played since we had had the drinks, and now everyone was beginning to look at me. The palms of my hands were sweating and I could feel droplets of moisture on my scalp at the back of my neck. The room seemed unusually quiet, and as Jill got up to close the window completely I thought, “They’re trying to poison me! Why, why would they try to poison me?”
My whole body was tense at every muscle and a feeling of weird apprehension swept over me, strangled me, suffocated me. When I opened my eyes, I realized that it was just Bill who had put his arm around my shoulder. “Lucky you,” he was saying in a slow-motioned record on the wrong speed voice, “But don’t worry, I’ll baby-sit you. This will be a good trip. Come on, relax, enjoy it, enjoy it.” He caressed my face and neck tenderly, and said, “Honestly, I won’t let anything bad happen to you.” Suddenly he seemed to be repeating himself over and over like a slow-motioned echo chamber. I started laughing, wildly, hysterically. It struck me as the funniest, most absurd thing I had ever heard. Then I noticed the strange shifting patterns on the ceiling. Bill pulled me down and my head rested on his lap as I watched the pattern change to swirling colors, great fields of reds, blues and yellows. I tried to share the beauty with the others, but my words came out soggy, wet and dripping or tasting of color. I pulled myself up and began walking, feeling a slight chill which crept inside as well as outside my body. I wanted to tell Bill, but all I could do was laugh.
Soon whole trains of thought started to appear between each word. I had found the perfect and true and original language, used by Adam and Eve, but when I tried to explain, the words I used had little to do with my thinking. I was losing it, it was slipping out of my grasp, this wonderful and priceless and true thing which must be saved for posterity. I felt terrible, and finally I couldn’t talk at all and slumped back onto the floor, closed my eyes and the music began to absorb me physically. I could smell it and touch it and feel it as well as hear it. Never had anything ever been so beautiful. I was a part of every single instrument, literally a part. Each note had a character, shape and color all of its own and seemed to be entirely separate from the rest of the score so that I could consider its relationship to the whole composition, before the next note sounded. My mind possessed the wisdoms of the ages, and there were no words adequate to describe them.
I looked at the magazine on the table, and I could see it in 100 dimensions. It was so beautiful I could not stand the sight of it and closed my eyes. Immediately I was floating into another sphere, another world, another state. Things rushed away from me and at me, taking my breath away like a drop in a fast elevator. I couldn’t tell what was real and what was unreal. Was I the table or the book or the music, or was I part of all of them, but it didn’t really matter, for whatever I was, I was wonderful. For the first time that I could remember in my whole life, I was completely uninhibited. I was dancing before the whole group, performing, showing off, and enjoying every second of it.
My senses were so up that I could hear someone breathing in the house next door and I could smell someone miles away making orange and red and green ribbed Jell-O.
After what seemed eternities I began to come down and the party started breaking up. I sort of asked Jill what happened and she said 10 out of the 14 bottles of Coke had LSD in them… Wow, am I glad I was one of the lucky ones… I drifted off into a seasick type of sleep, wrapped in a general sense of well-being, except for a slight headache that probably was the result of long and intense laughing. It was fun! It was ecstatic! It was glorious!… So I’m glad they did it to me, because now I can feel free and honest and virtuous about not having made the decision myself.
I'm hoping that by seeing this formatting, you understand what the POVs are going to look like, rather your typical "so and so's POV" posts.
Here is an example:
Cass
May 12
I got invited to a party at Roger's house tonight, and I'm definitely going to be there. It's not often that I get the chance to do something without my posse of 'perfect' friends. It's not that I don't like them, but sometimes I just need a break from perfect, so I'm happy to have the chance to do this. Roger and I used to be good friends, that is, until he started hanging out with those stoners other slackers who don't give a f**k about anything but drugs and alcohol, and living life to the fullest while wasted. It was around that time that I met Cole. Cole was in the NHS and had a 3.8 GPA at the time. I was impressed with how he carried himself, and when he asked me to hang out, I said yes, with hopes of being able to get on the inside of the "in" crowd. Roger and I drifted apart then, and we haven't really been the same since. But whenever I get the chance to see him, I make time to do it, because there's nobody in this world who understands me more than him.
July 10
Dear Diary,
I don’t know whether I should be ashamed or elated. I only know that last night I had the most incredible experience of my life. It sounds morbid when I put it in words, but actually it was tremendous and wonderful and miraculous.
The kids at Jill’s were so friendly and relaxed and at ease that I immediately felt at home with them. They accepted me like I had always been one of their crowd and everyone seemed happy and unhurried. I loved the atmosphere. It was great, great, great. Anyway, a little while after we got there Jill and one of the boys brought out a tray of Coke and all the kids immediately sprawled out on the floor on cushions and curled up together on the sofa and chairs.
Jill winked at me and said, “Tonight we’re playing ‘Button, Button, Who’s got the button?’ You know, the game we used to play when we were kids.” Bill Thompson, who stretched out next to me, laughed, “Only it’s just too bad that now somebody has to baby-sit.”
… Everyone sipped their drinks slowly, and everyone seemed to be watching everyone else…
Suddenly I began to feel something strange inside myself like a storm. I remember that two or three records had played since we had had the drinks, and now everyone was beginning to look at me. The palms of my hands were sweating and I could feel droplets of moisture on my scalp at the back of my neck. The room seemed unusually quiet, and as Jill got up to close the window completely I thought, “They’re trying to poison me! Why, why would they try to poison me?”
My whole body was tense at every muscle and a feeling of weird apprehension swept over me, strangled me, suffocated me. When I opened my eyes, I realized that it was just Bill who had put his arm around my shoulder. “Lucky you,” he was saying in a slow-motioned record on the wrong speed voice, “But don’t worry, I’ll baby-sit you. This will be a good trip. Come on, relax, enjoy it, enjoy it.” He caressed my face and neck tenderly, and said, “Honestly, I won’t let anything bad happen to you.” Suddenly he seemed to be repeating himself over and over like a slow-motioned echo chamber. I started laughing, wildly, hysterically. It struck me as the funniest, most absurd thing I had ever heard. Then I noticed the strange shifting patterns on the ceiling. Bill pulled me down and my head rested on his lap as I watched the pattern change to swirling colors, great fields of reds, blues and yellows. I tried to share the beauty with the others, but my words came out soggy, wet and dripping or tasting of color. I pulled myself up and began walking, feeling a slight chill which crept inside as well as outside my body. I wanted to tell Bill, but all I could do was laugh.
Soon whole trains of thought started to appear between each word. I had found the perfect and true and original language, used by Adam and Eve, but when I tried to explain, the words I used had little to do with my thinking. I was losing it, it was slipping out of my grasp, this wonderful and priceless and true thing which must be saved for posterity. I felt terrible, and finally I couldn’t talk at all and slumped back onto the floor, closed my eyes and the music began to absorb me physically. I could smell it and touch it and feel it as well as hear it. Never had anything ever been so beautiful. I was a part of every single instrument, literally a part. Each note had a character, shape and color all of its own and seemed to be entirely separate from the rest of the score so that I could consider its relationship to the whole composition, before the next note sounded. My mind possessed the wisdoms of the ages, and there were no words adequate to describe them.
I looked at the magazine on the table, and I could see it in 100 dimensions. It was so beautiful I could not stand the sight of it and closed my eyes. Immediately I was floating into another sphere, another world, another state. Things rushed away from me and at me, taking my breath away like a drop in a fast elevator. I couldn’t tell what was real and what was unreal. Was I the table or the book or the music, or was I part of all of them, but it didn’t really matter, for whatever I was, I was wonderful. For the first time that I could remember in my whole life, I was completely uninhibited. I was dancing before the whole group, performing, showing off, and enjoying every second of it.
My senses were so up that I could hear someone breathing in the house next door and I could smell someone miles away making orange and red and green ribbed Jell-O.
After what seemed eternities I began to come down and the party started breaking up. I sort of asked Jill what happened and she said 10 out of the 14 bottles of Coke had LSD in them… Wow, am I glad I was one of the lucky ones… I drifted off into a seasick type of sleep, wrapped in a general sense of well-being, except for a slight headache that probably was the result of long and intense laughing. It was fun! It was ecstatic! It was glorious!… So I’m glad they did it to me, because now I can feel free and honest and virtuous about not having made the decision myself.
I'm hoping that by seeing this formatting, you understand what the POVs are going to look like, rather your typical "so and so's POV" posts.
Here is an example:
Cass
May 12
I got invited to a party at Roger's house tonight, and I'm definitely going to be there. It's not often that I get the chance to do something without my posse of 'perfect' friends. It's not that I don't like them, but sometimes I just need a break from perfect, so I'm happy to have the chance to do this. Roger and I used to be good friends, that is, until he started hanging out with those stoners other slackers who don't give a f**k about anything but drugs and alcohol, and living life to the fullest while wasted. It was around that time that I met Cole. Cole was in the NHS and had a 3.8 GPA at the time. I was impressed with how he carried himself, and when he asked me to hang out, I said yes, with hopes of being able to get on the inside of the "in" crowd. Roger and I drifted apart then, and we haven't really been the same since. But whenever I get the chance to see him, I make time to do it, because there's nobody in this world who understands me more than him.