I was not especially well over the weekend, and things got on top of me. However! I shall make a post tomorrow to keep us going, as I'm well overdue to make one >.>

@Silverwind Blade

No worries! Whenever you get the chance- I've been a bit tired due to work of late!

Woo, finally got a post up, and I'm pretty pleased with it, all things considered. Sorry it took me so long to do, but I got my mojo back. It's got us ready to drop, and I'm keen to move to the next bit and into the action :D

Ah awesome! Nice little post- yeah I'll get it all set up!

Took some heavy inspiration from Halo I see there, it's a friggin awesome scene :) Just about to post!

Hey dude, sorry in the delay of writing back. TBH, while I'm still interested I think I gave myself too much to handle by having multiple characters on Python and it's putting me off. I get vexed by having to keep writing four or five different reactions and interactions, and jumping between tabs to keep track of things, rather than just getting a reply up. On reflection, I wish I'd just kept it to one or two characters - like Silverwind and one other - as it probably would have helped my mojo flow a bit, and keep things moving with my rate of posts D:
Still want to keep doing something, but maybe some editing on the go, or a soft reboot might be an answer? let me know what you think.
IMO, the forum seems to be slowing down and dying a lot in activity in general as of late; there's less and less posts or activity on everything, and less and less RP's coming up that I'm really interested in. And any I try to run have just withered shockingly quickly, to the point I lose interest and motivation to make any - it's a shame, as this place used to be really active, but I think the dynamic of online RP has just moved on.

No worries- I've been busy like hell too, and have just gone abroad!

Hmm, okay- maybe let's set some rules then, as this is getting a bit out of hand for both of us:

No more than three paragraphs per post (two per main, one for side team, or three for main)

Editing on the go for longer exposition (let's try and breakthrough with more direct posts, with exposition only where required)

Continue the main plot (where we are) in the current RP we are in- keeping it going but now looking at sidetracking Viper/Python onto other tasks at hand. I might indulge in one good Viper post here and there but for the sake of this RP I think that might work to put us forward a bit better.

I know it seems odd- but it'll speed up our posting and allows us to control a smaller contingent a little more rapidly- so we can write our main characters much more!

Yeah; I've had a tough week with illness and other stuff and some bad family news. Adjusting to things mostly.
And going abroad, that must have been a bit of an experience with the current situation...!

The new ideas for writing posts sound like a good idea to me as well, seems like they'd work well to me, and certainly worth a try!

No worries- hope it's all improving on your end, that doesn't sound good!

Yeah, it's been a bit odd but same time, was definitely good as some well-deserved rest. Not too complex actually!

Sounds good- yeah it'll help us trim down posts, and just get things moving- much as I love writing for Viper it isn't sustainable for either of us to produce essays!

Hey man- are we still going with this? Just wanted to check in to see everything was alright!

Yeah, sorry dude. I just seem to have lost all my enthusiasm for online RP as a whole lately. Not sure why, but it just seems to have dried up completely lately

Ah sorry to hear that :( No worries- it happens man, I'm always here if you want to continue but I've been there before so compeltely understand!

Hey, my dude. I'm feeling a bit more motivated after my little hiatus from things. If you wanted to pick this up again, I'd be up for it. Although, maybe re-starting or at least rolling things back a bit might be an idea?
Either way, let me know.

Hey man! Glad to have you back- whenever you're ready is good by me.

Hmm, we could do a soft re-boot- perhaps start with our two already settled in at the resistance's base, cleaning up after the last firefight? Change the motives a little too? We can start afresh though if you prefer!

Yeah, a soft reboot of sorts would probably be good, strip things down a bit and keep it simple. I think having too many extra NPC's was making it a little difficult to keep track of everything.
Maybe changing the idea and having it be just our two characters and maybe one or two support personnel with us acting as a kind of 'silver bullet' type unit, going in and kicking doors down to take out high-value targets, be they individuals, WMDs, super-prototypes or whatever else, and perhaps still on the trail of Silent Line, just because a) it's a cool name, and b) it adds a narrative weaving things together nicely.
It could also give us a reason to rejigger our GEARs slightly and make them a bit more exceptional if so desired.
Just spitballing some ideas really to pump things up and make it a bit of a more robust idea for it being primarily just the two characters, maybe with just a couple of supporting characters controlled by each of us, rather than whole squads to deal with. Let me know what you think.

Yeah sure! In fact, if you don't mind, Anna (Spectre) would be perfect in that role, a sort of do-it-all stealthy commando as a silver bullet. Yeah the squads were a little unwieldy haha! I'm definitely down for that- shall we continue here or elsewhere? I don't mind- I am open however you want to do it, as that sounds pretty wicked already to me :)

That sounds like a great idea to me; I'll take a look over the characters I came up with too, and maybe adapt one of them as our tech support and/or 'mission control' too.
I'd prefer to continue elsewhere if that's okay with you? Should we start a new topic as a soft reboot, or use the existing one. We could copy and paste over anything we need to from the old one and make any edits as we get started, or just start with new posts. I'm good either way, but I'll probably do some edits etc to my character and GEAR.

Yeah sure- all sounds good. Feel free to start it when you're ready, let's use the existing one's content where we can.

Stuck up a thread for the new one, and made some additions/edits to the lore in keeping with it - roleplayerguild.com/topics/183619-gea…