Gareth

Nightlight City

Richter continued his quiet travels in the car. Streets empty, street lights few and far between. The odd person out and about few and far between.

Several minutes later they were much farther away from the party house. Having travelled probably around fifty miles in Richter's estimation as he heard Zi's voice clearly. "Wake her up. We're almost there." You got it. He reached over to her peacefully sleeping form and tapped her shoulder a few times. Sure she would wake up, he noticed some movement in the corner of his eye, as he saw the sun roof close and a bird just above the car. Looks like a normal pigeon but what's with its vehicle fascination. I thought those things liked the corner of rooftops a lot more than hanging around moving vehicles. His eyes narrowed as he kept an eye on the thing. A few moments later the car stopped as the driver said they had arrived. He undid his seatbelt checked all the windows for threats as he slowly exited the vehicle. Motioned for Bee to remain there as he scouted around the area. Within minutes he returned not worrying about Zi as Richter let Bee know it was safe he offered her his hand to help her out the vehicle.

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But BaileyBlue302 you're right here! :O lol

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should I describe us arriving? You guys want to pm me about how the destination looks or, the car ride seems kinda long lol.

Questioning the GM Format

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Well I probably didn't explain it too well, but ideally all the plotting of where to go and what to do would be hashed out before the RP even starts, hence my point on making an outline or deciding on a beginning, middle, and ending at the very least so that you have goalposts to work towards. As opposed to just writing whatever comes to mind in the moment or within one character's arc that hopefully connects with the main plot being woven by a GM. But I can see how the posting format might be problematic in that regard even with all the planning. And, additionally, how much effort that is to put in before the roleplay even begins, which given this is a hobby would require finding people with the same levels of competence, reliability, and motivation as you like Quartz mentioned.

And I recall a few roleplays like that, where each player controls a particular arc within the overarching narrative. Can't say I joined many, as I'm fairly certain a lot were set in DC or Marvel and neither of those series I'm really interested in, but that could definitely work.

@Havoccultist

Oh my bad, I didn't really catch on to that part of your post about the pre-planning. I still don't know honestly, on the fence if it could work site wide. But I mean if you want to give it a shot in a story, who are we to stop you.

That's cool that you were in some of those sharing story arcs within a story under the overarching narrative like you said. :D

At the end of the day, don't feel discouraged and give it a go. You're trying something most of us haven't dared to. So like props to you.

Questioning the GM Format

This is insightful and pretty indepth conversation on the topic. I'm gunna just put in my 50 cents in a simpler fashion.

Would it be viable for every player to be a GM in every story on this site at The Same Time Through The Whole Story? In my opinion no because it's too confusing about who's deciding where the next destination is at a given post and because it would take too much collaboration of people rapid posting back and forth to get a single post out. People's timezones compounds the problem.

Now I think your idea can be tweaked and could work in a story within the site. There was a roleplay I was a part of a long time ago. Where one gm would have control through one story arc and it sort of passed to the next player for the next story arc. Now that's for a single story if you and the other players want to do that.

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yeah true and posted.

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Richter made himself comfortable on the ride over to where? Again he didn't know, as Bee and Zi got in and Zi got the driver to mash the gas pedal. He was having a flash back as he looked around him. A short time ago it was early evening with the orange sun just barely sitting over the clouds, it was outside some bar he frequented in NightLight city. He didn't go there for the booze or to even look at the ladies, he was just there to make some money and maybe make a few 'friends'... He had precious few of those in his past life, fact is he didn't have hardly any friends except maybe his old mentor from way back then. He was still kinda pissed that the man hadn't saved him from his execution.

But then again, I did go off on my own which was kinda stupid now that I think about it. The left side of his mouth lifted in a half smile as he continued to reminisce. The building was old, probably in the range of about forty or more years, with wood peeling off the side and a door that creaked as Richter opened it slowly. Inside the place was rather packed, most of the olden wooden tables were fully occupied but he spotted one off to the side that had a vacant seat. Though he did have to ignore this drunk lady yelling who knows what over in the other corner. There was also the Bar woman, a bigger lady with lots of makeup but done poorly, who tried to call his attention when he first walked in but he ignored her.

"This spot taken?" he asked the three with their chips laid out on the table obviously in the middle of a round of betting in poker.

Two of them were clearly normal street toughs, nothing too special about them physially or especially mentally. One of them made to yell at him to shove off but the Third man a dude with long curly black hair past shoulders gave him a quick glare which quieted him. This third man had a lined face which placed him in his thirties with a deep slash that began above his right eye and continued in the same line below his eye. He seemed to Richter like the only one of the three that wasn't to be taken lightly.

"Sure thing, but you can't join this game-tho it's mid progress."

Richter nodded quickly, "Not a Problem."

The game ended quickly, about two hands later. The other two players shook their heads in disbelief as they walked away not knowing how they had lost four hands in a row to a straight flush. Richter knew but knew better than to say anything as he knew the winner had extra cards up his sleeves and could count cards rather easily. It explained how he knew what to bet before the card even flipped from the deck.

The game winner Introduced himself.

"Name's Porat Theras. I'm a professional cheat and leader of the biggest group of thugs in town."

He offered his hand which Richter took with a tight smile.

"Name's Richter I'm new here but I'm a man of many talents."

"This could be the beginning of a great partnership."

Porat stated with a grin.

Richter blinked back into the present.

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Yeah that's kind of tough having to write on the side, but things should be picking up I mean we're moving from the first location.

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uh what do you mean lol?

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Posted.

I feel like the kid in all this. Lmao.