Hey guys, I know I don't get to talk, since, ya know, I don't post as much as I should, but lets be honest here.

Collabs slow down the RP. Now, they're great when you are doing something massive, or when you are returning after a few months, but when you are just making a post, I don't think they're necessary. A collab, at best, takes a few hours, but when you aren't on at the same time as the other Writer, you are looking at something that can take up to a week to write. That post I made only took me about two hours of thinking - Yes, It took two days because of some RL issues, but in all honesty, adding the time I worked on it, it wasn't much. If we can just put the two hours and do a post, BOOM, we won't be at risk of dying, and Soul and Dervs wont have to do a timeskip - All the way to skyrim, causing the current character development and plot lines to die. So please guys, I'm begging - Lets get some single posts up and show them we care about the RP. Make the time - Put aside an hour or two, and just churn something out. Dervs and Soul made this amazing RP, and we owe it to them to give their RP the attention it deserves. Please.

Dipper said
Hey guys, I know I don't get to talk, since, ya know, I don't post as much as I should, but lets be honest here.Collabs slow down the RP. Now, they're great when you are doing something massive, or when you are returning after a few months, but when you are just making a post, I don't think they're necessary. A collab, at best, takes a few hours, but when you aren't on at the same time as the other Writer, you are looking at something that can take up to a week to write. That post I made only took me about two hours of thinking - Yes, It took two days because of some RL issues, but in all honesty, adding the time I worked on it, it wasn't much. If we can just put the two hours and do a post, BOOM, we won't be at risk of dying, and Soul and Dervs wont have to do a timeskip - All the way to skyrim, causing the current character development and plot lines to die. So please guys, I'm begging - Lets get some single posts up and show them we care about the RP. Make the time - Put aside an hour or two, and just churn something out. Dervs and Soul made this amazing RP, and we owe it to them to give their RP the attention it deserves. Please.

I totally agree. I feel like we can totally keep this going if we just change up a few little things to get posting speed up. Who's got a post in the works right now?

Dervish said
I quite like it. I have no costume this year because my plans fell through last minute. Bitching party I assume?

There's a street in New Orleans (Frenchmen) that is simply bitchin' on Halloween night. Packed with people, everyone in really cool costumes, etc. Got pretty drunk, danced a lot, bought my first pack of cigarettes (not so proud of that last one).

In regards to the RP, once the Scorpion group updates I'll write up something, but I won't be able to work on it until sometime tomorrow. Party tonight and most likely crashing there so I won't be able to make it to a computer for until some time later tomorrow.

I wish I had an awesome street party to go to. Glsd you had fun!

Alright, I had started writing timeskip because I thought it's what was wanted, and now there's a strong voice for continuing where we are. Both have ups and downs, but I figure we should sort it out now.

I will say that the general idea, now the resistance is buckling, is to start pushing East and the two groups meet up en route. I'm just generally of the opinion that a change of setting and no overlying rules are something that would help people write a bit more. Heck, we could write as if the two groups had just met up a few days prior to the timeskip so there's still that friction.

Volty, don't worry about Blade, I'm pretty good for writing deus ex bullshit na to get him back with everyone and it opens up a little side arc I had bern planning for a while.

So where's everyone at? Skip or no?

I'm okay with either option, but id still love to get some bitchn arena fights going too.

Dervish said
I wish I had an awesome street party to go to. Glsd you had fun!Alright, I had started writing timeskip because I thought it's what was wanted, and now there's a strong voice for continuing where we are. Both have ups and downs, but I figure we should sort it out now. I will say that the general idea, now the resistance is buckling, is to start pushing East and the two groups meet up en route. I'm just generally of the opinion that a change of setting and no overlying rules are something that would help people write a bit more. Heck, we could write as if the two groups had just met up a few days prior to the timeskip so there's still that friction. Volty, don't worry about Blade, I'm pretty good for writing deus ex bullshit na to get him back with everyone and it opens up a little side arc I had bern planning for a while.So where's everyone at? Skip or no?

You and Soul are the Leaders, I'll bow to what you guys want. However, I am strongly againts a Timeskip - If I may, I think the only times a timeskip was justified was when I and...People who dropped out joined, because everyone was on the Boat and it was only a day skip, and after the Thalmor destroyed Roleplayerguild by causing Guildfall.

Voltaire said
I'm okay with either option, but id still love to get some bitchn arena fights going too.

Feel free! Even if you did some like flashbacks for a timeskip would work fine.

Dipper said
You and Soul are the Leaders, I'll bow to what you guys want. However, I am strongly againts a Timeskip - If I may, I think the only times a timeskip was justified was when I and...People who dropped out joined, because everyone was on the Boat and it was only a day skip, and after the Thalmor destroyed Roleplayerguild by causing Guildfall.

While normally I don't like time skipping unless it saves like 80 posts of "And they walked!", in cases such as this, there's been very little activity the past month by anybody, so I'm kind of feeling like the best solution would be to get the groups together and start moving onto a less structured format. Plus, I think people are pretty much done with Hammerfell; it's been like a year since we got there and we're still in the second city. This is not encouraging.

Dervish said
Feel free! Even if you did some like flashbacks for a timeskip would work fine. While normally I don't like time skipping unless it saves like 80 posts of "And they walked!", in cases such as this, there's been very little activity the past month by anybody, so I'm kind of feeling like the best solution would be to get the groups together and start moving onto a less structured format. Plus, I think people are pretty much done with Hammerfell; it's been like a year since we got there and we're still in the second city. This is not encouraging.

Okay. Can Zainat be the one who plinks the Governor in the Eye with an arrow, then? ;D

Dervish said
Feel free! Even if you did some like flashbacks for a timeskip would work fine.

I'm okay with this.

Dipper said
Okay. Can Zainat be the one who plinks the Governor in the Eye with an arrow, then? ;D

Oh, she's going to be surviving. Part of the fun of it all is the crushing sense of failure of basically taking on the Galactic Empire if it wasn't run by idiots. ;D No, my friend, this is where we start going down crazy desperation.

Voltaire said
I'm okay with this.

Lemme know if you need a hand with anything!

Dervish said
Oh, she's going to be surviving. Part of the fun of it all is the crushing sense of failure of basically taking on the Galactic Empire if it wasn't run by idiots. ;D No, my friend, this is where we start going down crazy desperation. Lemme know if you need a hand with anything!

Oh lovely! I love it, ahhahahaha

Yeah, I'm so sorry we had to do a timeskip like this. I really should have tried to get those posts out for you guys. I really didn't mean to mess up on my part like this

Back friends~

In regards to a timeskip, I, for one, wouldn't mind it. Because this.

Dervish said
it's been like a year since we got there and we're still in the second city.

But, I'm on-board with whatever goes down :D

Alright! Time skip is up. To be clear, this scene isn't meant to be a camping scene, it's simply a convenient place for the group to figure out their next course of action before disembarking.

If we don't hear back from Jenno in a while, we're going to assuming that Burkswallow has gone with Harding and Rena. Likewise, I wouldn't mind if several of your NPC tag-alongs decided to go with them just so we can focus on group dynamics instead of, like I said, having players interact almost entirely with their pseudo player characters. It's optional, but please make an effort to focus on other player characters more moving forward.

The group's all been together for a few weeks now, so there's a chance they know each other somewhat but there's still plenty of room for them to start interacting now they aren't in a large group of insurgents and largely on their own. If you want to make up situations that might have happened in that time, we can do what was done in my other game, Mass Effect: Nova where all the characters had known each other and referenced things that had happened before the game had started and other characters filled out the details. It actually made for some very fun story telling and it ended up setting some very defining characteristics and relationships between characters in a very subtle way.

From here on out, the group is not taking instructions from anyone, so it's up to them to decide where to go and what to do. Information will become available as they go, and some NPCs might have some important information which might help guide their decisions. The dwemer in Skyrim are far more brutal than those in Hammerfell, but they are also very limited by a leader who only sees other races as vermin and doesn't respect their resourcefulness and the fact that a lot of the terrain and the climate is very prohibitive for a lot of dwemer tech to work as well as it did in Hammerfell and to some extent Cyrodiil.

Any questions, feel free to ask!

So I've kind of slightly got my shit together academically now. Found out I aced my statistics midterm, which puts me in the clear for now. Might be able to post again.

Two questions, one for Derv the GM and one for Derv the player. First, Cub had to march all across the recently-invaded Skyrim in my CS; ground broken and uneven from the crawlers, entire holds on fire, survivors hunkered down in forts, it was great. How have things changed or not changed since his trek across the province? Secondly, any ideas for the reunion or would you like to do the Mass Effect thing as well?

HASTY EDIT: I'm sorry if this was answered in the IC, I'm about to read it, one sec

Looks awesome, one of the reasons I wanted to join a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time ago was because of how the RP was supposed to be! :P

I feel bad, though. I didn't realize I made Zainat be so hated... Sorry.

Psyker Landshark said
So I've kind of slightly got my shit together academically now. Found out I aced my statistics midterm, which puts me in the clear for now. Might be able to post again.

Yeah! You show those textbooks who's a real man.

WittyReference said
Two questions, one for Derv the GM and one for Derv the player. First, Cub had to march all across the recently-invaded Skyrim in my CS; ground broken and uneven from the crawlers, entire holds on fire, survivors hunkered down in forts, it was great. How have things changed or not changed since his trek across the province? Secondly, any ideas for the reunion or would you like to do the Mass Effect thing as well?HASTY EDIT: I'm sorry if this was answered in the IC, I'm about to read it, one sec

No real idea for the reunion, although I wouldn't mind if you guys wanted to do the particulars with that. I just had a lot of ground to cover; didn't want to get too specific otherwise I would have been writing foreeeever. But how Cub remembers things is largely the same, but we'll go over things as we encounter them. I don't want to say exactly everything that's going on, that would ruin the fun of discovery. :P

Dipper said
Looks awesome, one of the reasons I wanted to join a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time ago was because of how the RP was supposed to be! :PI feel bad, though. I didn't realize I made Zainat be so hated... Sorry.

Haha, it's not you! Zaitnat is fine, it's just Marassa pretty much severely dislikes most people and it takes a while for her to start seeing people as companions instead of expendable company. It's easy to forget that she's a very cold person initially when she's been interacting primarily with people she's known and trust for a while.

First attempt at player interaction with the other group, let's see how this goes :p

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Also, working on a post.

Also also, I was just thinking, how cool would it be if Blade found Jesus and became a Templar? Eh, eh?!