I want there to be a bit more continuity. Think of it as a primary, overarching timeline and within it there can be secondary timelines. For example, the farmers’ outpost is going to be the next primary timeline and depending on what the characters do, there will be secondary timelines. It’s more or less the same as we’ve been doing already, but it will help me with a few things ‘behind the scenes’ to structure it this way.
The only reason for there to be a separate combat-timeline is when it belongs to the story, but it would be too extensive to function as the primary timeline — doing random combat encounters for ten pages without advancing the story would surely kill this roleplay off. Keep in mind that these are quite low key combat encounters and shouldn’t affect the story in any significant way. So, we will have The Anatolian Mountains-timeline for combat and the farmers’ outpost-timeline for story progression.
@Ex, the farmers’ outpost will have a Shaman, or a Witch Doctor, or some such nonsense. Surely, that person can examine Emily, if she has the guts to show it to him or her! Actually, this person might be more so qualified than a physician. Or what JJ said, let Kim fix it. Perhaps with the aid of whatever people there are at the outpost.
@JJ, they’ve traversed a small mountain pass, but it’s not too extensive. So, I’d say that they’ve been walking and fighting for two days or so, which to a normal person would equal half a day of the same effort.
@Rockette, exciting indeed!
Edit, important
Also, I’d like you to refrain from collaborations when all the characters are together. Let’s say that I introduce some story element and you guys start to plan collaborations. What happens is that everyone post their collaborations with little regard for everyone else’s efforts, as you either don’t know what they are or don’t account for them as they appear in the in-character. This leads to no character acknowledgements and nobody knows which collaboration that is the ‘present’ in the story.
So, limit collaborations to situations in which there, without doubt, are primarily only the characters whom are involved in said situation. Flashbacks are collaboration galore. When I split up the team for some side-quests at the farmers’ outpost, it will also be ideal for joint posting. However, when all the characters are doing something together, I’d prefer if you post regularly and leave the interactions open to everyone. Because right now, it’s mostly a collection of random 1x1s that happens to be in the same thread, and I don’t want that.
