@Vilageidiotx

Told you having no central location, where our chars can gather to reply with eachother, was going to bite in the butt.

@Vilageidiotx

Told you having no central location, where our chars can gather to reply with eachother, was going to bite in the butt.

i think the holidays are mostly butt biting right now

@Vilageidiotx

Central location = more interaction = more replies.

Without such a case, we'd be writing a book here - which is #1 killer. Unless of course, the GM replies to our posts.

@Vilageidiotx

Central location = more interaction = more replies.

Without such a case, we'd be writing a book here - which is #1 killer. Unless of course, the GM replies to our posts.

but i like books

@Vilageidiotx

Yeah well, not a book club. Sorry.

I think what needs to be worked on is moving things to a central idea, less than a central location. The RP is still early and from a narrative perspective the foundations for a plot are not laid down. We have characters to introduce and a world to establish, all the while moving to some conflict at the middle of it all.

While things could have been restricted to a single town, the same problem may arise in that everyone would end up in different parts of town. And while the distance is smaller, so is the world of the character. He or she may not walk very far between home, work, and pub and so in daily Towney routine wouldn't really interact with another character. This isn't to mention the stratification of the social classes in this RP with characters who are common, new world aristocrats, and kings; if they did pass in the streets the social distances between the two would not lend to any social interaction at all.

The scale of the distance in the end doesn't matter, because the scale of the world the characters inhabit would be decidedly smaller than if they were rural backwoodsmen or even province-wide legislators on the local House of Burgess. The real thing that needs to be assumed is motion to that central plot where all characters can interact at large distances in a system of causes and effects if not in direct interaction at first. So: get some fucking patience and interim creativity and just write, I'm moving myself to some central idea of what'd be a action point, and arguably major as well.

I think what needs to be worked on is moving things to a central idea, less than a central location. The RP is still early and from a narrative perspective the foundations for a plot are not laid down. We have characters to introduce and a world to establish, all the while moving to some conflict at the middle of it all.

While things could have been restricted to a single town, the same problem may arise in that everyone would end up in different parts of town. And while the distance is smaller, so is the world of the character. He or she may not walk very far between home, work, and pub and so in daily Towney routine wouldn't really interact with another character. This isn't to mention the stratification of the social classes in this RP with characters who are common, new world aristocrats, and kings; if they did pass in the streets the social distances between the two would not lend to any social interaction at all.

The scale of the distance in the end doesn't matter, because the scale of the world the characters inhabit would be decidedly smaller than if they were rural backwoodsmen or even province-wide legislators on the local House of Burgess. The real thing that needs to be assumed is motion to that central plot where all characters can interact at large distances in a system of causes and effects if not in direct interaction at first. So: get some fucking patience and interim creativity and just write, I'm moving myself to some central idea of what'd be a action point, and arguably major as well.

Yeh, it's too early to freak out about stuff. This is Thanksgiving week so we're going to slow down until things go back to relative normal.

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Yeh, it's too early to freak out about stuff. This is Thanksgiving week so we're going to slow down until things go back to relative normal.

And really holidays aside, if you're worried about how things might be so slow because no one's getting involved in anything then it's time to go get involved in something yourself somehow. The world is big: yes. But it's also full of possibilities. Even if you think you're never going to get involved you can consider yourself free from relying on someone else to keep momentum, all you need is someone to post anything. You can spend the time getting your footing in the world and to figure out on what side of any plot conflicts you want to be on before joining in.

Brazil is gonna be like the Targaryen thread of this RP I feel, for example.

Okay, so holidays have slowed down enough I can actually turn back to this.

Regarding the central location thing: It's there. People are gathering in specific places. You don't have to spread yourself out. Right now we have two of us posting in the South Carolina region and two of us posting in the Ohio Valley region. As people join up they can totally gather around either those locations, or others.

I tried to centralize it as far as I could without being too limiting. If any of you don't want to post alone, you can always scrap characters and pick up new ones closer to the action, or you can get together with each other and collude to create new centers of action. The world is what you make it.

@Vilageidiotx

How about having a reason for our characters to gather? Maybe using your GM powers, to organize a meeting between the people. Ala discuss the approaching ice age.

Whenever shit happens, people of power tend to gather. Maybe have our characters invited to a said Ice Age convention? =.=

@Vilageidiotx

How about having a reason for our characters to gather? Maybe using your GM powers, to organize a meeting between the people. Ala discuss the approaching ice age.

Whenever shit happens, people of power tend to gather. Maybe have our characters invited to a said Ice Age convention? =.=

Right now everyone needs to feel out their characters and get a grip on what they are doing. A manufactured meeting would derail that. This is a time for vignettes and planning subplots in PM's with other RPers.

You'll find I am a pretty light handed GM. I'm mostly here to make sure everything makes sense and nobody starts godmodding, but I'm not particularly interested in dictating what everyone else is going to write post by post. That would be like me having everyone write a novel I have planned out in my head, which doesn't seem fun. I want to see everyone else's imagination at work too.

@Vilageidiotx

We have only four replies, in a week. And this isn't even nation building.

@Vilageidiotx

We have only four replies, in a week. And this isn't even nation building.

People need to post. I can't make people post.

@Vilageidiotx

I am not saying you should. Just give us a location to start from, being stuff up is hard - when you have nobody in the vicinity to reply with.

@NecroKnight

Then just reply to yourself. It's literally not difficult.

You're making a mountain out of a mole hill.

I added some research links in the third post of the OOC. This is mostly just a few things I wanted to keep track of without having them bookmarked, but I figure they could be useful for others. If anybody has anything to add, just say.

Here's a map of Colonial SC.

usgwarchives.net/sc/maps/sc_1769.gif

The one notation to make is that Columbia doesn't exist yet. They made a note that Spartanburg wasn't around until later, but Columbia was created in 1786 for the express purpose of being the state capital.

I might throw a character up later this week. No promises, though, I'm getting flooded with work these days but would really like to be a part of this.