Okay, I follow your logic, I just don't agree with it. That's like saying I can't call it an Agency or a Bureau because those words have been used all over the place. I can call it an Agency; I just can't call it the CIA.

CRASH is fine.  And thanks everyone for the thumbs up.

While we wait for the 27th, here’s some questions…

Q1). Do we still need to set the game date as 2041?  I haven’t seen much futuristic tech/themes in the game that couldn’t be replicated with powers or an NPC.  The timeline could be pushed back to 2025… and RL tv/music/fashion/tech would probably be better for it.  Just a suggestion :)  What do other ppl think?

Q2). I’m working on a secondary teacher PC and wondered what subjects were of interest to the current PCs.  So far I’m leaning towards Finance, but could certainly pivot to something else or have other specialisations.  The tricky part is that I’m not a RL teacher or a US person, so I don’t know it’s education system.  Are people here willing to overlook specifics in the name of fun?

In reply to Ryan Mackey (msg # 727):

Thats fair! And that makes complete sense I also liked the analogy you used to explain it.

I guess it just boils down to I'm not a big fan of 'Central Regulatory Agency for Super-Humans' but a rose by any name.

It's a work in progress. I might still change it.

I'm thinking you want something <i>against</> super humans.  How about the idea with CRAASH - Central Regulatory Agency Against Superior Humans (or super humans if you prefer). Still an obvious acronym, not sounding like anyone else.  I like the 'superior human' idea which implies that we think we are superior to normal humans.

Could also, to be nasty, Central Regulatory Agency Against Subnormal Humans. :)

Oh its not the super humans thing I have a problem with but thanks Juli!

Timeline
I like pushing this back a lot. The next twenty years are going to be enormously changing and guessing what's going to happen is tricky... and not part of the game really

Names
All good.

I feel like there's a difference between using an agency from the real world and someone else's fictional agency in this context but I think I get where you're coming from



Modeling the game too extensively on the actual American school system will just kill the game a third time. We're already attending classes in a bubble dimension, so we may as well just have fun with it.

Wheeee, the day before Elswin's impending change of management!   Can't wait!

Organizational name:  No vested interested, any suggested are good.  Since Ryan will be playing those npcs, it's best he goes with whatever resonates with him.

Time:  Yeah-- I too would like a dial back on the year, something closer to the one in which we live.    I don't think anyone's paid much attention to the game taking place almost 20 years in the future, and how technologies and other things might be different.   And why should we want to-?  It's an extra layer of complexity that adds nothing to the game, in my book.

Teaching/school:  What QuanTa said.  Striving to emulate real world scholastics = no point/no fun in a non-realistic game.    I'm also giving some thought to a teacher character, but I dunno, probably won't.

Lol. Some of us don't know the actual American school system at all. So I'm good with anything.

I won't be doing a teacher character. I might have a go with the first aid club again. And maybe a capoeria club. We'll see how they work out

Time: Yeah, I'll probably rewind the clock a decade or two.

School system: Yeah, the whole school system thing means nothing to me. This game has gone on for a year and a half, and have we actually had a class yet?

Agency name: I'm probably going to stick with CRASH. Nothing else I've come up with sounds even that good.

Maybe we think of it as more of a learning environment rather than a school?  A place where everyone learns about each other and why it is important to stay hidden, with older mentors (like teacher, but more informal) who can connect others to skills or tactics that can assist them both to control their own powers as well as to possibly protect them or give them tools to protect themselves.

How does that sound?

Actually it sounds quite good.

I like it.

Something like that is probably a better model, and makes more sense.   Most of us already have at least a basic education, and some have university on top of it and/or a career.    Most of our issues have more to do Altered-centric things, rather than getting a traditional education.    Not that there can't be a place for that too, and a teacher(s) who specializes it.

Yeah, I also noticed the lack of in-game classes, and it seemed to me that dovetailed with a lack of GM-run npcs in general.   Jacques made efforts, and did offer a class in the end, but it was specialized, and intended only for a few players.

Even though many of us attended anyway, lol.  I think it was kinda like--"OMG, a class, at last!  Let's go!"

Well except for Lucy/Shade. When we joined it was a school and we thought that meant a school not a 18+ college/university. That comment's just for 'why we are the age we are'. Changing that would be huge and I'd prefer not to. Even if we go adult it will be fine: you can have children characters in adult games, just not in certain types of scene.

So I think it will work out fine. Lucy and Shade might need 'home schooling' or 'do it themselves'. But given the chaos outside with CRASH doing bad stuff that's the way it is. Besides I'm not convinced conventional schooling will help them enormously with what they need... I'm thinking more a 'guerilla camp' type of thing is how it might end up

Mae also joined the school hoping for education [among other things]. She has been trained for awhile on staying hidden. It will still work fine though.

I like that with the age thing especially.  And even with the rest of us, we all have life experiences that someone might want to know about in an informal setting.  Adult or peer or even friend mentoring would be more useful in this environment as opposed to structured classes.  Among us we have likely people with knowledge in math, sciences, history and arts, plus real world experiences, both normal and those based on our gifts.

Moving day!

link to another game

I’ll RTJ after work, thanks Ryan!

Just checking that the plan is we continue in the other game not here

AFAIK it is, but I wasn't in the other game yet when I posted here. I'd guess Julianna could post in the nursing office in the other game?

I see no reason to split our attention.

Hoping to see Jacques, Greg, QuanTa, Iris and anybody else too.

Yeah sorry, my computer turned into an elaborate paperweight again so I'm working on getting a proper replacement

Copy/pasting the rtj on mobile is going to be a pain since it won't let me quote the message, but I think I can manage a workaround