[OOC] The Blighted Kingdom

[Roman]

Currently working on opening post and will have it up this weekend now that we have a full roster.

[Roman]

@zyshi // @Lord Wraith // @BlackBlood // @Nib // @Stitches // @Hillan // @Tackytaff // @Mao Mao // @DinoNuts // @Thrash Panda

IC has launched and is open. Thank you all for your patience, and I look forward to reading your stories.

[BlackBlood]

I feel like a little kid on Christmas!

[BlackBlood]

So we start outside the palace gates right?

[Roman]

So we start outside the palace gates right?

@BlackBlood

At the edge of Vasilius’ city gates, outside the city walls proper.

[BlackBlood]

Right it says palace steps on the last line, I'll edit.

[BlackBlood]

Done.

[Mao Mao]

I will try to post something soon. My eye is currently bothering me at the moment and I am getting it checked out tomorrow.

[Hillan]

I will try to post something soon. My eye is currently bothering me at the moment and I am getting it checked out tomorrow.

@Mao Mao

Remove it from the socket and eat it.

To establish dominance.

[Stitches]

Sorry, me and Dino are still here, we're just waiting to see how the others post first!

[Lord Wraith]

I'll be posted this weekend.

[Stitches]

Sorry for the brevity, there's never usually much to work with in the intro post!

@Roman, since Roderick's such a stoic character and me and Dino are real fast at collabs, I wanted to make a pseudo-epistolary form where the introduction to our collab is laid out like a bunch of archived letters. For that, I was hoping to have the precise location and the date/time of day - would you be willing to provide that in your IC posts?

[Roman]

Sorry for the brevity, there's never usually much to work with in the intro post!

@Roman, since Roderick's such a stoic character and me and Dino are real fast at collabs, I wanted to make a pseudo-epistolary form where the introduction to our collab is laid out like a bunch of archived letters. For that, I was hoping to have the precise location and the date/time of day - would you be willing to provide that in your IC posts?

@Stitches

Yeah, sounds great. The opening IC post ends with the player characters outside Vasilius' city walls very late at night, 2 months after the departure of the Official Party (I will come up with a better name to refer to them with I promise), on the night on the player party's gathering and debrief. There isn't an official date so to speak, but we will say that the season is just turning to autumn - so mid-to-late August. Feel free to specify as you wish.

[Stitches]

It's more than fine if we don't get a precise date, I just wanted to figure out what I can play with when I start doing the proper collab posts. Presently, there isn't much to respond to when we're stood around the gates.

[Roman]

I left the IC opening where it was to give the opportunity to you guys to do some back-dating, detailing how your characters came to the city, any pre-campaign life you'd like to detail, and then a chance to introduce yourselves to each other and decide how to tackle the task before you. There was a pretty even split between the players travelling as one large group and players splitting up and tackling cities separately, so I didn't want to force anyone together who may have preferred to strike out on their own.

[Stitches]

Yeah ofc man, don't take that to be a criticism. It's up to the players to make up their responses, you've clearly got a lot more planned in the imminent future - I just wanted my intro post to be a prelude to the more elaborate collabs with actual dialogue.

[Enarr]

Thanks for the posts, gents

[BlackBlood]

Are we going to be setting up a discord for this? It's more accessible OOC wise and stops it looking too noisy.

[Roman]

Are we going to be setting up a discord for this? It's more accessible OOC wise and stops it looking too noisy.

@BlackBlood

While I’m not actively opposed to a discord I do find it promotes a slower OOC thread and many questions end up being missed or DM’d directly to me, where I prefer an open discussion to foster engagement. The OOC here hasn’t been overly rowdy yet either.

Can I take a poll from everyone perhaps? Discord Y/N, pros and cons?

[Zyshi]

While I’m not actively opposed to a discord I do find it promotes a slower OOC thread and many questions end up being missed or DM’d directly to me, where I prefer an open discussion to foster engagement. The OOC here hasn’t been overly rowdy yet either.

Can I take a poll from everyone perhaps? Discord Y/N, pros and cons?

@Roman

Personal preference would be to keep questions directly related to the game in the OOC thread, so that whatever miscellaneous chatter occurs between questions doesn't make it difficult to keep track of such queries and canon related decisions in Discord.

I'll have my post up tomorrow, apologies, my internet was out for a couple of days. Cheers!