[OOC] Return of the Dragon Tamers: The Plague of Ogual

[Soulserenity20]

Lol, I'm so tempted to bring back a second character I had in the first run of this RP. I made a tamer so I could play alongside the rest of the players without having to be big, stern, serious Mr. Merrik so often XD I have that character (though slightly altered) in this run too, but she doesn't come in until later, and she won't be staying with us for very long as she has other things to do in her work to assist in the fight against Ogual. But we'll all meet her eventually :)

[Erranruin]

Soulserenity20 said
Lol, I'm so tempted to bring back a second character I had in the first run of this RP. I made a tamer so I could play alongside the rest of the players without having to be big, stern, serious Mr. Merrik so often XD I have that character (though slightly altered) in this run too, but she doesn't come in until later, and she won't be staying with us for very long as she has other things to do in her work to assist in the fight against Ogual. But we'll all meet her eventually :)

Your tempting GM talk is torture stahp I wanna get further D':

[Soulserenity20]

Lol, just watch, after the first day of training I'll run out of ideas for ingame play and just sit here like "Well shit. I've never gotten to training day two before."

XD I mean, I have sooooo many cool ideas for things to do in this RP. Its just organizing them and fitting them in at the perfect times.

Honestly though, I have no idea how I'm going to do the training. Part of me wants to do collabs with each of you individually to go through the training for the first day, as each of you will have some one on one time with Merrik and Nova, most of the day will be mass training though. And I don't think we'll play through everyday :S I think after the first training day, the next scene will be on the sunday afternoon, after the half day of training is over, so we can all free post and have our little tamer family dinner and blah blah blah. Then we'll do another training day, maybe an event, then a few more training days/ sundays, then something major, then back to training, yada yada.

Alot of this chapter of the RP will involve training, right? Like, I want you all to learn the details of the story, how things work, how your player can use their abilities, what kind of enemies we're up against, how we'll win this war. That way, but the second chapter, when Ogual is fallen again, I can just say "You there, I need you to travel to gather intel from the lost islands, keep an eye out for any rogue ferals." And you'll be all "I got this. I'll just whip out Spell A and Manoeuvre B on creature C and I'll travel to location D to rest and speak with Figure Of Importance E and yada yada. You know? Everyone will be so pro at this RP that it'll be more mass GMing as we go through the rest of the chapters, as we go on to cleansing the land, repopulating the magical creatures, restoring the protective spells, rebuilding the draconic race, restoring the order of the Tamers to full power, finding the ancient burial grounds, meeting the Oracle, yada yada yada. Lots of excitement ^.^

[Soulserenity20]

I need a plot summary XD I have so many ideas for events and twists and turns but its hard to like, figure out when Event A should happen. Lol story planning XD

[Erranruin]

Omg I wanna run around in your mind -o-

and I wanna become an rp expert

[Soulserenity20]

Lol erran, I might appoint you to be my official plot confidante. Because it sucks not being able to spew out ideas and have someone to help me organize them lol

[Soulserenity20]

Do you have a google account? So I can create a google document and add you to it so we can like, work on that to establish the storyline? But. With great power comes great responsibility. I don't wanna see you giving your character any edges based on prior OOC GM knowledge ;)

[Soulserenity20]

Anyways, just PM me your google account email address or whatever, if that doesn't work we can always Piratepad it. But yeah, HUGE chem exam tomorrow morning. I must retire. Good evening my lovelies. <3

[Erranruin]

Soulserenity20 said
Do you have a google account? So I can create a google document and add you to it so we can like, work on that to establish the storyline? But. With great power comes great responsibility. I don't wanna see you giving your character any edges based on prior OOC GM knowledge ;)

I am the picture or descretion and maturity I promise

And yus I do have a google account... I've never ever USED it before but I have it so... what do I do? D:

[Soulserenity20]

Just send me the email attached to it. I'll send you the link to the google doc and you can to there to type and edit. Just like a collab program :)

Google docs is the best. It's basically Microsoft word, PowerPoint, and excel, online for free, all saved automatically and stored on googles servers. I use it for everything. You can access it by going to google and clickng the nine little squares in the top right, or by searching google docs. :)

[Erranruin]

poor google, everyone hates them for youtube even though they do such good stuff

[Draexzhan]

To be fair, they're doing everything wrong with Youtube. They kinda deserve flak for that. Not that I'm ungrateful for stuff like Gmail and Google docs and whatnot. That stuff is awesome.

Anywho, part of me would like to co-GM or something, but the rest of me is like "HELL NO! I WANT EVERYTHING TO BE A SURPRISE!" The part in all caps is outspeaking the other, so I'm fine with Erranruin doing it.

As the saying goes... To err is perfectly cool.

[Nyxella]

OMG Soul, if we had a conversation IRL, it would never end, lmao. Your brain is marvellous!!

I got all excited and loud at the mention of a chapter two! Perhaps, spacing the training evenly between events would be a good way to go. That way, you can pick out candidates for the one-on-one sessions going by how well they perform in group lessons or events, focusing on a certain area. It can also help determine what Merrik will want to cover during his tutorials. If you list the number of things we need to know - as tamers, dragons and roleplayers - and rank them by importance, you could then combine topics if they're similar, shorten the expected 'writing' times for those that are straightforward, or extend it for those that are more intensive, and craft a timetable that way. Taking your planned events in account, you could fit or merge the lessons according to how many of those there are, and decide how much time you're willing to spend writing for and moving us through them.

As I understand it, the idea is to have tamer-time with one Rper as the rest participate in mainstream training - please correct me if I'm wrong. If the day is divided into a number of classes and routines, hypothetically speaking, a month could look like: week one - briefing/routine (like personal prep', or a dragon's morning flight), week two - morning lesson, week three - afternoon lesson, week four - family dinner/debrief. If our training involves partnering up to spar, race or solve a problem, it opens up another list of things to consider regarding collaboration. Of course, they aren't always carried out in PM and on pads, functioning just as well as angled exchanges in the IC. But we may need to extend our traditional week to accomodate the number and frequency of posts (yes, I am looking at myself, lol), since that sort of activity will require more input.

Maybe normal training sessions would require more input than what we've given the current events to date. It would depend on the type of training, and each person's personal preference for detail, but more importantly, there's the fact that not everyone can post more than twice within a week. To level the playing field, will there be a minimum and maximum given for each round of training? Like requesting two or three posts to show how we handle the given challenge (obstacle course, flight route, automated dummies), with one (of course) being the minimum?

If the focus of an individual session coincides with that of the group one, training for both could be held in the same area, giving the other Rpers something different to react to, whilst moderating the time. Say, if Merrik and tamer finish their training in two posts each, the rest of us should be expected to, as well, and it directs the lesson's flow. Held apart, our group session could be either longer or shorter than a one-on-one, and vice versa if the collab' features a more intensive focus on training - which I sort expect it might, as our specialties emerge and develop. I'm all for it, whichever way you carry it out. It will be exciting to see the set-up, and if these scenes unlock new areas in or around the compound ^_^

Hope this helps in some way, it was fun rambling but now I've used up the time I set aside to finish this here IC post. It'll be another day, sorry T__T Maybe that can be our tutorial? FIGHTING TIME-WARPS, lol.

[Marc]

Alright judging from what I've read I'm gonna like it here. I just hope I don't get overwhelmed. I'm gonna work on a CS soon. I assume I can just copy someones cs from the site and use it as a template.

[Nyxella]

^NEW BLOOOOD!

Welcome Marc! Gosh, if you're a friend of Erran's, you'll fit in well here ^__^ You can certainly base a character sheet off the ones stored on Soul's website (I was going to say 'ours' but that takes credit away from our benevolent GM, and the work she puts in to keep it looking pretty). There was one on the original post in RPG v.1, but when that forum sank, it took everything, including the kitchen sink, along with it. I'm excited you're here, we now have a new brother-in-arms and two new characters to look forward to! Yay! If you're stuck on anything, let me know how I could help, and I'm sure one of our many fellow cast mates who stalk this thread will be happy to, as well.

[Marc]

I'm happy to be here. I didn't get a chance to get my character up since I had to make a couple guys for another rp... and that took longer than I expected.

[Erranruin]

Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Backstory:
Skills/Abilities:

Dragon breed:
Dragon Name:
Dragon Gender:

Thar ya go friend :D

[Erranruin]

Nyxella's musings are like... Aristotle level o_o

I'll have to read it properly when I'm awake more! XD

[Soulserenity20]

Hahaha Nyx I adore you XD I agree, we'd have hours and hours of entertaining conversation. I just picture two brick walls of ideas colliding in a flurry of excitement, fact, theory and noise XD so awesome.

@Erran, thank you for supplying the CS skeleton for me! I really suck at remembering to post that to the OP lol..

I like some of the ideas you offered up Nyx, I think I'll do some serious planning this week to get things set up. I think I'll set a post requirement for each training session based on what the training will be, and we'll do it via PM, then the conversation will be posted in the IC via hider so anyone can read it if they choose. So, for he first week of training, what I might do, is post my post for each of the time slots on the schedule, a mass interactive post for each and post them all at once. Then, each player can choose whichever section of the day they want to post a response to in order to focus on that area of training. That way nobody has to post for an entire training day each time, just the parts they want. For the one on one training, if I'm wanting to do one on one healing training with a certain player, I'll PM them an additional intro to training post, as well as post the generic magicka training post on the daily training post in the ic. In game timeline; while the entire groups is working on magics, Merrik pulls character X aside and asks if he can work personally with them, as he does, he's keeping an eye on the other tamers. This allows for tamers who are doing the generic training to interact with Merrik while he is doing the private training.

Does that kind of make sense?

So I think I'll do the first training day session starting this Sunday. We'll have the week, possibly 2 to see how it goes, and then the next movement post we'll have will be a mingling Sunday evening post, just to give everyone a chance to request personal training time with Merrik, or work with each other or do personal projects with what they've learned from that in game week. Then, the next movement post will be an event, likely Merrik will send a group of tamers to complete an assigned task, keeping others with him to complete a different task.

Opinions? Thoughts? :D

[Soulserenity20]

Erran and I have some juicy material going for you guys. Can't wait to get going. :)