[OOC] Mass Effect: Nova

[Voltin]

Sadly, it's probably for the best of this RP's health so I agree..

[Dervish]

Oh, in other news, I'm laying groundwork for a new ME RP set during the Reaper invasion. Stay tuned!

[Legion X51]

I'm currently writing some more about Mari taking down the engine room.

[Voltaire]

Dervish said
I was talking to Mosis, we kind of think a bit of a time skip is in order. We're almost done our collab, so what do you guys think about skipping to the end of this mission or at least a point we aren't waiting on people? We should do a head count and figure out who we have still active for our next mission.

I feel like I don't really have a say, being so new, but I wouldn't say no.

I'm really starting to wonder what happened to tick and Grif. Is it exam season or something? Cuz tick is usually pretty talkative but I haven't from him at all.

[Dervish]

Voltaire said
I feel like I don't really have a say, being so new, but I wouldn't say no.I'm really starting to wonder what happened to tick and Grif. Is it exam season or something? Cuz tick is usually pretty talkative but I haven't from him at all.

'course you have a say. If you want to play out a scene, go for it! I just think a lot of people are at a loss because of the massive amounts of AWOL people, which REALLY sucks. Grif I've seen online recently, don't know why he hasn't come by lately. Tick I haven't heard from in a week or two, I imagine he's busy with real life shit, as are most people.

Either way, my line of thinking was if we can skip ahead to a part where we can get anyone who's still active for a while, we can start a new mission while saying inactive characters are remaining on the ship, like Tillus.

Another option is to simply go on hiatus for a little while, but I'm not fond of that. I really, really want to keep Nova a thing, 'cause we really made something special here.

Also, Legion, that was a good read. Glad you're still with the land of the living. :D

[Voltaire]

Yeah, the problem is my actions are kind of directly dependent on my collab partner's characters. Mark was last seen being marched to the 'brig' in cuffs. It's be kinda weird if he was just free all of a sudden.

[Vakte]

New post up for Barb, I may subject it to change when I'm more awake, for a holiday I spend alot of time working :/

Also, Derv, Hayley (my missus) says if you put this on hiatus, she's going to find you, and slowly burn your soul of all life.

Just a warning :/

[Dervish]

Vakte said
New post up for Barb, I may subject it to change when I'm more awake, for a holiday I spend alot of time working :/Also, Derv, Hayley (my missus) says if you put this on hiatus, she's going to find you, and slowly burn your soul of all life.Just a warning :/

Far be it from me to let down the lady folk. :P

[Tick]

Sorry, peeps. I'm still in this game, but yeah, there wasn't much chance to get on. I can't apologize enough for how much I've added to the lag, but that's not going to undo the damage.
On the timeskip thing; if you think it'll help, I'm fine with it. I think the mission and setting we're on's really awesome and interesting; it wasn't killing muse. When I've tried to sit down and write something, I get stuck on the next step that keeps the momentum going (ironic..) or on characterization, but that's largely centered around the character and direct interaction.

I think the timeskip won't save us on its own. The main problem is the majority of us have been nonentities for the large part of the mission or gone inactive since. We need to contact and gather people up and get them to do stuff. Entire teams haven't been in the mission since we got NewGuild, excepting Roland from the equation.

Voltin said
And didn't Roland somehow become a, if not the, prize for that?

He was going to be the bed-maid, nurse, whipping boy, something of that sort.

Or maybe it was that they were going to be an assistant to him if they lost. That sounds more right.
I unfortunately lost the posts I had saved on my doc's from the SB thread, and I didn't realize Google Cache doesn't stay, so I'm not sure if that's something you can check...

[Dervish]

Tick, I missed you like a fat kid misses a reason to get Diabeetus.

[Grif of Hearts]

Despite popular opinion I am not dead.

Sorry to disappoint. :p

[Voltaire]

Liar. You're clearly a zombie.

[Tick]

Dervish said
Tick, I missed you like a fat kid misses a reason to get Diabeetus.

I am the fried-butter-on-a-stick that has arrived to save the day. :D

Voltaire said
Liar. You're clearly a zombie.

Status quo.

[Dervish]

Oh, by the way Vakte, that was an EXCELLENT post. You put a lot of work into that. :D

[Vakte]

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[Voltin]

Oh yes, I thought I would say that the collab is finally moving along on our end.

[Dervish]

Oh, good!

I was actually going to ask for those in favour of the time skip, how far ahead they wanted to go and if they wanted me to get started on it?

[Mosis Tosis]

Hey guys, I finally have a stable enough internet connection/enough free time to post here again. While it's nice to see some new posts (Legion's alive! :D) I think it's pretty safe to say that most people have tired of this mission, and we need to get our asses out of there and into something more exciting. Or at least, something different.

SO. We have two options:

1). Timeskip. Fuck this ship and fuck this planet and fuck this mission, let's get our feet back on solid ground (or at least back onto the Tyrus). I'm starting to favor this idea. We can take a real, honest-to-god headcount and see who is actually available to go on the next mission(s), and get our newbies into the fold (Vakte, you've done a tremendous job of keeping yourself ((and others, I'm sure)) occupied and entertained in the meantime). I've been talking with Derv a bit, and it's possible we might just do a bit of a collab on our end just to kind of wrap things up and show what would've/"did" happen.

2. Jump this mission into the endgame. I have a bit of an ace up my sleeve in case we needed to end the mission somewhat quickly, and it's possible that I could just start that up and then we play this thing out at a bit of an accelarated pace. That being said, it'd require AT LEAST another round of posting/a collab or two, and at the rate we're going I'm not sure it's worth it. Might be better just to move on and get a fresh perspective, maybe jog everyone's creative juices.

So I don't know, check in if you're still around and let me know what you think, and I'll put it in motion. Operation "Blow-this-taco-stand," COMMENCE. #FuckThisPlanet #NOVAHatesParties #AboutDamnTime

[Voltaire]

Personally I'd like to at least do the endgame stuff so Mark doesn't just appear on the Tyrus and all the characters are okay with it because reasons. But I'm fine with a timeskip if everybody else want to.

[Tick]

I'm not sure where this'll put people on things, but we've got at least one major collab post just about wrapped up. The major lag I caused got fixed by me not lagging it. Like a car deciding to move on a busy one-lane street after twenty-four hours. The part we're gonna get out soon is the stealth team finishing up and starting toward the Bridge. So if we had to cut off, admittedly this would be the time. Otherwise the group would have another collab to crank out (albeit, the plan was to keep it shorter), and I'm not sure how up to it people are.

I don't have a problem with this mission, and I think the people that did just didn't have plans on something to do (after the mission's intro: everyone that didn't involve the stealth team's side or the safecrackers) or got sick of the lack of activity. The mission itself was fantastic, since it had an interesting way of getting to the goal and a distinct setting.
That said, we still would have to get people involved, and that would easily just drag things out without momentum.

The biggest thing I'd say is in favor of the timeskip is that the newbies have been waiting a long-ass time to get in the team. The amount of time they're supposed to wait in the lobby for team-dom expired a while ago.
If you could do a big event that automatically engenders reactions/engagement from everyone, that might work, though. E.g. The premature ending to the Shadow Broker storyline, where everyone got jumped and murdered/seriously injured and lost everything.

At this point, I'm just gonna let others decide. And if no one responds, I think that's a pretty good sign of which way to go. :P I enjoy this mission, but I'm not going to fight against cutting it short.

EDIT: Yeah, the Mark thing's a little tricky. We could do a short retro collab if Volt/Grif are cool with it to get him some early establishment and participation points.