Look, I needed to advance it a little bit. I usually do not like doing this but frankly, it was going a bit slow. I could've waited patiently for someone else to post and I should've. Sorry. I hand all of that kind of stuff back to Gummi Bunnies, our GM. I will not advance the story in any massive way anymore.

Of course, Minority Report style clairsentient police aside, now you have two police officers that can identify everyone. That leaves only three choices, you have to either kill them, take them with you or tie them up and leave them. Even tied up they'll probably be discovered mere hours afterwards up and that's assuming they don't wiggle out of their makeshift gags and scream for help.

Gwen was on the other side of couch, she put her helmet too for a good measure, they wouldn't know her face but if she ever wore a black bikers helmet they'd know her. Not everything about a roleplay should be completely realistic whenever possible, the point of RPing is to sort of escape reality. I mean if we have no problem with people turning into fictional characters why are these two police men causing so many issues. If we don't move on soon this will be the death of the RP. I didn't make the situation any better and I apologize for that, but if we sit around pointing out stupid mistakes we will never get any where.

This wasn't meant to be mean, I'm just kind of tired of being hung up on something that doesn't even matter.

Suspension of Disbelief. It's a writer's tool. It's the main reason why aliens didn't atomize Joffrey in Game of Thrones :)

I'm not sure of the connection you're making. I'm say we should suspend our disbelief in the validity of the police situation in order to move on. I could be missing the point of your comment entirely but from my understanding of the phrase as well as explanations from several online sources and a living breathing intellectual source, that comment makes no sense. However it is in everyone's best interests to put up the white flag. You win, this isn't worth arguing over.

I apologize to everyone who witnessed this, it was unprofessional on my part at least.

I haven't started arguing. I made a single complaint and I didn't ask anyone to change or delete their posts.

As for explaining the term, suspension of disbelief is a writing tool that writers must give respect to. It is a state of being in your audience that you strive to maintain. You want your audience to think that your story is plausible. The moment your audience has to pause and think if something is or isn't possible you've lost their suspension of disbelief. Ie. They disbelieve. If they disbelieve, the magic is lost.

A good example is a writer who has written a true life story set in the 1960's. In this story the protagonist pulls out a tube of Vaseline. Now, this would seem perfectly normal in terms of today but... those of us who know, those to who you are probably trying to touch with your storyline, would know that Vaseline did not come in a tube back in the 1960's and thus he disbelieves and the entire effect of the story is ruined. If that fact is not true then the entire story cannot be true.

Suspension of disbelief in science fiction and fantasy involves the storyline being true to the principles dictated throughout the series. In "Star Trek", for example, one cannot teleport through a ship's energy shields. When the writers conveniently forget this it sticks out and ruins the illusion that the series has crafted over a great many episodes. Could you imagine what it would be like if you caught two of the zombies from "The Walking Dead" casually chatting about the person they just finished eating in clean perfect English? You'd be totally floored, confused and have lost your emergence in the storyline.

In this case. I can't believe these are police officers because police officers do not wander the fifteen floor of hotels... not unless there is something special about them. This means there has to be something special about them. They could possibly be cosplayers but then who cosplays as police officer? They could be alien shape shifters, faeries under seeming, demons in disguise or anything else but that still doesn't explain why they're watching the protagonists. -and now, all these messed up questions have confused me to the point I disbelieve. They simply are not possible.

Holy hotdog in a garden hose I finally fucking posted! Took me waaay too long to get into this RP. Sorry!

Ok let's get this show on the road! Finally got enough bloody people to post so we can go do our shit!

Sorry everyone but I'm gonna have to drop out of this rp.

see you later, eem.

Bye eemmtt! We couldve been commissar buddies but nevermind, oh well. Bye man!

I was going to wait for someone else to post but screw that, its been two days that's way too long.

I am so sorry for not posting. I am in between a national tournament for swimming right now so I have been busy. I might not be able to post tomorrow. I usually like speeding it up but I am slowing it down right now. Sorry.

That's alright, Randen. Good luck with swimming!!!

I'm so sorry guys for the sudden absence. IRL is being a bitch, and I have a feeling that at this point, I may have to consider stepping down from the GM spot for this one. :(

Or we could resume in the new year? The question that lies unspoken is if you're going to find your schedule opening up again after the holidays? I know I'm experiencing some difficulties with work demanding more and more time of me. Though, I do appreciate the extra money it does prove problematic.