Second thread

Definitely can't keep up with the posts. I usually visit quite often, but we are reaching the point where I can't even catch up reliably on what is going on.

I am going to start keeping things on the slower side in main threads (not painfully slow, juet a turn order, so everyone can post and keep up) once I get back fully. In regards to events at least.
Clearing my schedule took more time then I expected.
Sorry, and thanks for the patience!
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:36, Fri 31 Mar 2023.

Also gonna make a couple IC threads so people can have conversations between 2 or 3 people at once, instead of being constrained.

With this in mind, if someone adresses Rhod or does something that would require a response, please send me a PM so I don't hold you up.

Personally, I'm all for a more moderate pace.

But, I do not want curb anybody's enthusiasm, or fun.    I'll catch up, when I need to, it's not a biggie.    For me it really has more to do with post quality;  often, I like to be able to think about what I'm going to write, rather than feeling compelled to slam something out.    That is me, I realize others may not feel that way, or may have more available time.

I'm sure Morph, Evelyn etc. are right; things should balance out, after a bit.

I just want to be really clear (in a helpful and non-judgemental way, since tone is tough in text) but I have absolutely zero interest in RPing in an IC thread that exists in a pocket outside of canon. If others want to, obviously bless <3 But for me that feels like I'm going to have a bunch of conversations that my character didn't have, and that's kind of like living the best days of your life but they didn't happen?

Would you rather marry the love of your life or remember a dream you had of meeting them? You know? To repeat those scenes in proper IC would feel weird later too. Maya's only going to sob and share the time her mom almost killed her with a broom once in a meaningful way. Essentially I'm here to explore Maya's personal journey as she grows as a character through ups and downs and lessons and life moments. There's just no draw for me to play her in a space that is out of sync with the timeline. It's maybe even disorienting for me lol.



That said, if there's a set turn order, I think that's lovely. But at the same time, in a scene of 12 players, that will probably grind things to a crawl? Which obviously we need a middle ground (no perfect solutions) but I do worry that we'll just all be bottlenecking around a given player a day (and no judgement, rl first always <3). Or worse is someone or someones have to go afk for a day or two without notice.


So I guess maybe the real question I would propose is (and again, my rejection sensitivity dysphoria makes me hedge here that I mean no harm and only want to be constructive), how necessary is RPing this orientation / is it something we could be split into smaller groups for? And maybe just wiggle the timeline a little so Omni or whomever can be in all three threads?

In essence, how important to the story / scene is it that all 12 of us be stacked into one thread all at the same time vs. breaking out into smaller threads where we're not waiting on each and every one of us to post before the next person posts?


...I might have had too much coffee this morning ^_^ and all of this is meant with an analytical love of the game and a desire to make it work as best as seems possible for all members, swift and slower paced.

It's really easy to split people into groups. Say three to six in a thread as the norm.

These things tend to sort themselves out within a couple of weeks. We'll form separate threads, so separate ways, do separate things. Sure we'll have to have 'two/three lessons at the same time' or 'two/three social events at the same time' but that's usually quite easy.

In reply to Maya Gordon (msg # 7):

I think I pretty much agree with all of this :)

I don't mind being skipped over so long as it's not plot-related or assuming things about my character. I was in one game where after I went to bed, two other PCs asked mine to go on an adventure, then almost immediately decided that me not answering OOC meant I wasn't interested IC and did it themselves. Not fun!

I actually agree with both of you.  It really is annoying to ask a question and then one hour later that character walked away.  But that will fix itself, once we start doing things.  I actually wrote Juli with the memory of this current situation being like a middle school assembly waiting for a teacher to show up. :)

I will try very hard to do my part to not overload the system with Juli's drama.  But where I do agree is that I think spitting off the group without us truly being split up would probably be a mistake.  We do have two 'groups' that are splitting off physically, and that's fine (either going outside or leaving the Gym).  But I would hate for anyone to get left behind.

And Shade, I've had that happen too.  Unfun!

What kind of scenic stuff is there around the campus?   I know Ryan said there's a lake...anything else noteworthy, or nice to look at?

Oh I'm not referring to making an IC thread outside Canon anymore. That was going to be the original purpose, however, I've since altered that, and am simply aiming for them to be fast paced threads that are between specific characters so others don't get lost in the posting. Since they are conversations between characters they wouldn't be 100% necessary for all to know and read, but also are fully there for everyone to read if they so choose, without worrying about getting lost in the main threads.

Because I also don't want to temper people's posting speeds or enthusiasm too much, but also am trying to keep in mind other players. I'm actually really glad to see so many people actively posting.

In addition, I do also really like Rhods idea of pming questions to characters who may be away for a period of time, or may miss them. I would like to extend that to myself, as while I can read, if there are a large chunk of messages, I may miss stuff, or I have time to post but not get back to everyone. So being able to see all the pinged the questions will be really helpful!

Does this sound acceptable?
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:22, Fri 31 Mar 2023.

Isn't that just the way? When you take off to go somewhere that's when the thing you came for starts lol

Right?? Always the way lol.

Sure, I like that. That sounds helpful. That's a good use of the IC threads. Sort of more like pockets of time between characters than locations that are open and flowing to everyone. For those little one on one moments or those "that hangout the guys had in the gym 2 weeks ago during the time skip" moments.

And yea. I usually do that anyway :) I PM'd Tweight as an example when I ratted on up to him so he didn't miss it in my post.

Those all sound helpful.

April Fools

That surprised me, that's funny XD

And sure, I'm fine with the idea of PMing people that need it (especially the GM), though I might forget sometimes.

That was before my coffee.  Great April Fools!

Good one GM!

Definitely got me! I was so confused!

Ya  me to this morning. I looked and did not see the game then seen the message and thought wtf happened. I did not try clicking on it right away unsure if I could, then tried and found out I could, so thought cool, then I seen the date and went of course. I gave a laugh and thru a post together.

Lol, been on rpol awhile, never seen that before!

The AF color scheme, however...  (pretends to be shocked)

Post coming tonight! Thanks again for everyones patience!

Also as previously mentioned, the two IC threads are bubbles of time.

They are places where players who have longer, faster paced conversations can converse without worry about the overall flow of the game, until said conversation has reached it's conclution.

If need be, I can introduce more.

Also I'll be trying to address continuity of everyones back story asap as well. Cause I know I left some people a little... high and dry in terms of background development and who might know who.

So if anyone has questions feel free to reach out, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

For the people leaving the gym, they can start posting on some of the other more appropriate threads. I think "[East Hall] Common Area" might be where Tweight is heading if he is going for a private room.

Great idea, will do!  A little slow in the head this morning, I'm afraid.

And so Tweight gets adopted by the Big Sister Squad.

Big Sister Squad?

I think Evelyn is referring to the forming coterie of girls (and Ryan) who've all tried to reach out and look after him.

My brain is all sleepy today so anyone I owe posts with, I apologize. Those'll be a tomorrow thing.

The few brain cells that I have left finally figured it out, but thank you for confirming it for me.

My brain is fried too.  I'll get out a post before bed, but don't feel like you have to answer right away. Besides my mermaid and I are not sure what to do yet.

We will adopt and protect the precious cinnamon roll

For the GM or any older players:   the description says that a thick forest surrounds the school.   Does it contain normal wildlife, or anything more exotic?    (if this is perhaps open to discovery, that'd be cool)

Does the pocket dimension have known boundaries?  How far do they extend, if so?  And what happens if you reach them?   (or are these questions we should just not ask)

In regards to figuring out wildlife, that is discovery. I haven't had full time to address everyone who has explored yet. I am going to start implimenting stuff like that, if there is a smatter of posting just let me know if you've explored certain areas that I may have missed and I will inform you what you discover!

Although there will be a warning regarding the edge of the dimensional space. Or rather, cause it's been a bit, there has already been a warning about going to far and close to the border of the dimensional space, cause you will be sort of... spat out wherever the bubble happens to be at the time. So if you desire to leave the school it is best to ask a staff member for safety.

The shallow woods have jackalopes. But the deep woods? *Smogs cigarette* that's cryptid country. Rakes, Wendigos,Skinwalkers. Stay out of the deep woods.

In reply to Evelyn Thomas (msg # 31):

LOL, So cute

I’d be more worried about the drop bears, if this dimension has ever rubbed shoulders with Australian borders.  It would certain explain the disappeared students…

Hmmmmmm

In reply to Tiffany Ferguson (msg # 36):

I've heard about those!   Would be a terrible way to go.   Even being like a scaled-down, winged super-girl, I'll stay out of the woods if there's a dimensional bleed with down under!

In reply to Estelle Fullerton (msg # 38):

You'll be fine but if you go down in the woods you better go in disguise cause every bear that ever there was is gathered there for certain because and apparently wearing a disguise means bears won't killlll you.

That's a fine idea!   Though, the only disguise I can do convincingly is a Hawkgirl cosplay.

But, what bear in their right mind messes with a member of the JLA?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N8zPa9pBxjk

So who else has got their song picked out for karaoke night?

Lol, karaoke might be fun, so many choices..

Also, I'm for sure going to do an excursion into the woods, at some point, for anyone who wants a more adventure-y sort of thing.

I'd also suggest to Juli's player, that the lake might pose a similar adventure.   Especially if she can confer water breathing on someone else.  (and really, if you didn't, I'd beg the GM to fit in one more power)  There could be underwater caves, sunken stuff, etc.  etc.

I'd be keen to join both lake and woods.

Oh, Juli would love that!  And water breathing is kind of cool, so yes, I would think that is a good ability.  Many stories talk about mermaids saving drowning people by giving them the temporary ability to breathe underwater. Usually, it is a kiss that bestows that.

At this point, she wouldn't know about until she tries it.

Maya could be roped in to hijinks for sure. She'll claim to be reluctant but she gets on board pretty quick.

I'm definitely up for a trip into the woods... or karaoke. Either way.

Happy Easter as we come into that period :)

Also RIP Rhod :(

Hoping to post later, after work.

Oh, Rhod's gone!

Happy Zombie Jesus Weekend, everyone!

Ah I am very sad Rhod left... Very interesting character and power.

I'm sorry to see him go.  I suspect he wasn't having fun.  You're right, interesting power.

Julianna must activate the big sis alert so we can get tweight hydrated fed and in a nice quiet place

Yea, I really would have liked to see his character come out of his shell a bit more. Definitely a neat concept.

Julianna come fetch me to save the cinnamon bun.

TeightHawk down! I repeat! TweightHawk down!!

LOL

Oh - like Rhod Zombie, you mean?

Not too surprised -- the player seemed unhappy with the way the posting was going.  Too much, too fast.

I have to admit I'm struggling with it myself. I just post roughly  1/day at the moment and it's not really possible to engage with most other players as engaging in conversation would lock down their conversations to the speed of the slowest (me).

I don't want to slow down the posts of the people who are having fun, but I'm not really sure what to post at the moment for example. I'll probably just do a 'filler' of 'listens to what is going on'. I'd like to strike up a conversation with some of the people I've not really spoken to but it feels very hard to inject into the conversation. And imposing as I would slow them down.

Hopefully we will split up soon into groups where we can be with people of similar posting speeds.

When joining a new game, I do my best to fit with the majority, and/or the group I'm working with.   The bigger the cast, the trickier that may get.

Slowing down is rarely a problem.  It's only annoying if you see the person logging in every day, holding up a whole group because they've got 'writer's block' or such.   Lol, it's only a game, nobody's writing a novel on rpol.

If someone says 'I'll be gone two or three days,' then I can wait two or three days.  No issue with that.  RL always takes precedence.

But they are writing an entire comics universe *Sips tea*

As for me, I'm okay with the pace, but had NO opportunity to post this last few days.

I am more than happy to come together and figure out some sort of posting rules or limit or order or plan. I don't think anyone's a villain for posting more or less but obviously if we've got different ranges then we need to address that in some sort of acceptable middle-ground.

I work a desk job and often enough from home. Gives me room to tag between calls/meetings. But if others are feeling more constrained by the boundaries of rl I don't think they should be left out. I think we should aim to accommodate some sort of reasonable ground. At least in scenes where there are multiple people.

There are 11 of us. That's a lot of people in a social setting and it's a lot of people to RP over.

The obvious and budding medical emergency seems like a great opportunity to divvy us up while the teachers take charge of the situation. Be that with or without our help. But I also don't know what Omni/GM's posting capacity seems to be.



In other questions though -- Evelyn is now shrivelled and dehydrated and essentially taking on Tweight's starved, emaciated, wounded aspect? Does that mean Tweight is now looking healthy and well-fed and startlingly spry compared to earlier? It's not clear from the description and I want to act appropriately.


I'm going to hang tight and not post, let other people move in on the action first though. I know Maya's just been bouncing around everywhere (which admittedly is her power '_';).
This message was last edited by the player at 02:52, Sat 08 Apr 2023.

I think he may be healthy and spry but due to how much is psyche is tied up in his appearance he may not look it. but he's at peak physical health.

I feel like we should figure ahead of time that if Evelyn touches Shade, she doesn't just absorb "has died" XD

I'd post now but Shade and Morph might be teaming up for extra medical intervention, so I PMed her to see whether that would work out. I'm fine with the pace, in any case, though I'm hoping that they don't miss their opportunity to assist entirely.

That's a good idea, which is why I am not posting Juli into the common area, as much as I really want to! I had described her as having a bit of empathy.  So I will wait on you all.  Keep me in the loop.

Should point out to clarify what it looks like right now is that Evelyn fell on the floor and began doing a snow angel with her bloody sleeves but that was from her slipping trying to push herself to a sitting position so imagine a snow Angel with a person laying in it and the wings are blood.

OK thanks.

So the only real blood is from the sleeves? Not from legs or torso? (obvious signs anyway)

I think she may have a bunch of needle marks all over her body but the only gaping wounds are her wrists/forearms.

Thanks :)

I'll react to that info in my next post (I'll need your IC agreement to check over your body).

I'll go quiet now until some other people have posted.

Fun scene Evelyn
This message was last edited by the player at 09:05, Sat 08 Apr 2023.

Shade can provide decency, but yeah I don't want to skip anyone either :)

I just need to check some IC character stuff before I can post!

Between cooking, driving, family time, I'm out, for most of the weekend!  There's plenty of characters for this scene, anyway.   If Estelle is asked to do anything by Omni (or other) to help, she will.   Please feel free with any incidental puppeting.

Okay, I only have time for one post now, but I wanna wait till I have time for two posts, so the gist of Omni's first post will be that due to the current situation the assembly is put on hold. It will resume later.

In reply to Elswin (msg # 74):

I’ll edit my previous post if necessary :)

In regards to the on hold assembly, how much time will ‘later’ be… an hour, a day?

Happy Easter all

Happy Easter everyone!

Julianna was holding Evelyn's hand.  Would she have gone too, or would she stay (since they were not thinking of taking her)?

Julianna is left holding Evelyn's severed hand lol

Oops, apologies, I was trying to catch up and missed that ^^'

I think Shade could separate the two, but would Julianna prefer to go along? If she looks determined enough she could (no time to just ask), but it's a scary trip ;) I can edit her in if so.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:12, Mon 10 Apr 2023.

Reading carefully, I suspect, with the short notice, that Juli would hold on, not truly knowing what was going to happen.  Which is probably good, as she would have planned to go, but actually has no idea where the Medical area is.

OK, edited :)

I think the people that went along would get the sense that resisting being teleported is possible, by the way. I don't want Shade to give the impression of an "I could drop you in a volcano at any moment" type of character.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:57, Mon 10 Apr 2023.

If I just did too much, let me know.  I can edit.

And don't worry about Juli and the teleportation.  She is pretty trusting of everyone she meets, and would never expect someone like Shade to hurt her.

Hopefully, Jacques' player is still around to do his bit.    If he wants to.   I was looking forward to a member of the staff chiming in.

It seems like, one by one, we're losing the guy characters?  Maybe due to the estrogen charged atmosphere?  ;)          Ryan, you can't bail on us!  We'll get to more adventure-y stuff, I promise.   (Tweight I don't worry about; he's well woven in!)

Ryan if you're feeling RP starved we could carve out a solo scene in one of the RP threads? Something that could move at a posting rate that doesn't exceed your availability? I'd be happy to RP witcha.

Also yea, if Jacques isn't a DM NPC, then I sure hope they're still around! :) We could use some adult supervision over here :p

Thanks! Ryan is available for anything you ladies want.

Same here.  I can RP with someone, if needed.  Juli needs a swim as well!

I figured I'd put Maya in two spots since the GM made it clear they could make more IC threads if more were needed.

Sorry Ryan I was not trying to ignore your character. He is just feeling guilty and uncertain about everything. I did not mean to push you away or ignore you. Sorry

Tweight is tweight ooc or ic lol

No I am not! ;P

I just do not want anyone to think I am purposely ignoring them or not wanting to rp with them. He truly believes that he hurt Loud Girl and now thinks he will hurt anyone who is near him.

No issue here. You've got to be you.

Please if it feels like I am being too anti social let me know and I will tone it down.

You don't seem anti social you just seem scared. Anti social is aggressive and tweight isn't being aggressive at all.

Nope, you're fine.  Great playing and very consistant.  It's not his fault that some of us can't understand him, though Juli's getting an idea that she does.

k and thank you.

I can not wait till he starts mimicking some of Estelle's bad habits not knowing any better.  :)

Yes.  Yes, precisely;  I am that girl your mum warned you about.

Er, your lab technician, mad scientist, or something.    Ok...I'm sure you've had no warning of any sort.

LOL

ROFL at the m&m comment

good one Ryan

wait until Tweight has his first piece of candy (Sugar Rush heaven)

When is the IC thread taking place?

Actually, have no clue, but I assume after the assembly and before classes?

Okay, I'm going to add the latest RTJ's (when I am able) and then close recruitment for the game. Because I think this number of players, with this level of activity is about as much as it should be.

Are some of those applicants teachers by chance? *crosses fingers*

In reply to Julianna Wilson (msg # 102):

I may be wrong, but I think time is kind of flexibly vague in those threads.   Though, logically, it would be after the assembly.

I'm debating if I should go swimming or if I'm still recovering.

Unless your held up for a day or more, you are probably good showing up.  As Estelle said, it is kind of fluid, no pun intended.

You think you have problems? I'm trying to figure out if Ryan would even be welcome, or if having a male there would spoil all the fun.

When that scene started, Morph's player PMed me & Maya about something.   Which led to a chat between us.

Maya voiced a preference to keep it around four characters, so it didn't turn into a crowd like the gym.     I get that, and agree with her thoughts on it.

It's not a matter of being welcome (anyone is) but of not turning it into a mob.

Note that I'm not at the lake (not on the ground talking to people, anyway), so you don't need to figure me in the total.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:05, Tue 11 Apr 2023.

I jumped into two different IC threads in the hopes of avoiding another Gm fiasco :p If we all show up it's the same mess where we're tripping over each other for post and posting out of turn and people getting left behind.

Maya's hanging out in the weight room in the other post. You guys could turn up there for yoga or weights or cardio or something? I just want to sort of manage the mess lol. So that slower posters like Morph or Ryan aren't getting drowned out by speed demons like Julianna and I for example.

And Juli doesn't do weight room stuff, so won't be there... unless dragged.

"She had sent an apology note to the lion guy for being firm with him..."


When was she 'firm with him'?
This message was last edited by the player at 21:29, Tue 11 Apr 2023.

In reply to Ryan Mackey (msg # 112):

Evelyn Thomas
 Student, 40 posts
Thu 30 Mar 2023
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[North Building] Gym- First Floor

Evelyn's head turned at the shriek and went over to the guy bothering the scared guy and glared at the nosey one. "Leave. Now." she said firmly

Quite early on. When Ryan initially approached Tweight I think.

Ah. So she was.

Well, I think he's seen her naked, so we're probably even.  :D

I was thinking of having Shade pop up somewhere other than IC1 since it's crowded as it is, but maybe I should just hold off and wait for people to separate out naturally. It's very busy everywhere ;) She's a quiet sort, she doesn't mind.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:28, Tue 11 Apr 2023.

The fact tweight is extremely malnourished and not being fattened up in the medical bay with pudding and applesauce. They just let him wander around dehydrated, malnourished, and exhausted tells me Omni is a British/Australian C word Americans can't use.

LOL.  I think Omni's more likely your typical, overworked school administrator, far too much on his plate, and a shoestring budget to make it all happen with.

Not saying I know anything about Omni, but it could be an OOC coordination issue. When I GM I occasionally have players write in setting details about important NPCs that aren't actually in character for them.

Tweight should have an Aide as a special needs students. I went to human public school and I've seen aides for kids with special needs. What is it with these Hogwarts ass schools and their "If he does he dies" mentality? You need to take some goddamn responsibility Dumbledouche!!!.... I mean Omni... Omni is who meant.

<.<

>.>

Sounds like one good way of dealing with it, at the game level. (Shade)

Well, Tweight either gets some pureed chow pretty soon, or they'll be a mob of sign-bearing student activists, all wearing hoodies and chanting:

"Feed our Tweight!  He must gain weight!"

Oh it definitely is. I'm sure Omni as a character is not about leaving  malnourished PDST-ridden untrained telepaths with agoraphobia and inferiority complexes to wander helplessly around unfed, ill-adjusted and afraid. That seems like the sort of thing that is a liability to said telepaths health (physical and mental) and the students.

None of which is a criticism ^_^ These are the things we just massage a little to make games go. GM's probably super busy managing 11 players plus applicants plus rl plus other games plus everything else.

But I do admit the extent of Tweight's trauma / his condition does make it tricky> with suspension of disbelief. I don't mind. But it is a bit of a stretch. Just is what it is. I'm trying to rose-tinted glasses it for cohesion, personally.

I'm doing my good deed and not posting at all tonight.  Let some other people have fun.

I am sorry for causing all this trouble for all of you. I know how the character is and how it looks and I am trying to give some of his information to you all. I know it is not detailed and very vague and sometime not understandable.

If this is going to cause so much trouble I will change this or can just leave the game. I did not get into the game to make everyone angry or upset.

Sorry

Nobody is upset at you dear we want to protect tweight and give him a family he deserves.

Oh honey bun, that's not what I was suggesting. At all <3

I was just waxing philosophical about the natural disconnect in free form games like these. The inherent need to sort of smooth certain assumptions for group cohesion and play :) It was in no way a criticism. We'll find Tweight a home with the  group.

Please please please, you're very welcome here. Don't mind me. I was just speaking in the abstract and without prejudice. I like to chew on the why and the how of things. That doesn't mean they're problems. I just... can't help but observe upon the nature of the things I'm observing, I guess.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:48, Wed 12 Apr 2023.

Yes, trust me, you haven't in any way harmed the game, or anyone's experience here.   On the contrary, you've given us an activity!   A lot of creative posting was springboarded off of your situation, which is in no way a bad thing.

I'm losing my mind.  I thought I posted something and can't find it.  Time to go away...

Hey now! Don't you go nowhere neither!

No, I swear I posted something profound and it is gone.  And it was all about how Tweight and all of us are a microcosm of the real world where everyone feels they don't fit and here we do.  But it just shows I'm confused tonight.  Won't go.  Just going quiet.

Oh no!!! You probably hit Post Message and someone had posted before you and so it did the preview thing and you'd already clicked away :( I've been there. It's </3 city!

Its for the best.  It was heavy, and we don't need heavy.  And I want to back off a bit, because I am here too much, and Juli's not that important, but for being a mermaid. :)  But the summary was to tell Tweight that the he is great, and so is his player, for playing someone who is like a lot of us, out of place and feeling out of place.  Every character here is created that way, just some need more growth than others.  Even Juli was told that another person's bucket list wish was to swim with a mermaid, and Juli said 'so is mine.'  Aren't we all that way in the real world?  Out of place and ourselves and just hoping we fit in and nobody sees us as out of place?  Lots of love here.  I don't want to ruin it.

Stay in the game Tweight :)

Wait a minute....

Personnal nudity and other nudity are different. And I did not say she is nude in her mermaid form.  Right now. She is wearing a bikini.  Now when she changes out, she will be nude.  Clear?

She's got magic clothes? Thats pretty neat.

Yep.  When she was doing her mermaid thing on land, her clothes disappeared and she had a monokini. You could say she controls this,  but it is mood. And if her mood said be nude, she'd be topless. But she is not in the mood.  Really, she was just surprised someone else would skinnydip!

This was my doing and mine only. I did not say anything to the gms about this except the concept of the character and the background. As I said , if I caused any problems for you the gms or the players I am truly sorry. I never meant to cause it. I will abide by whatever the gms wish and if means me leaving I understand.

Sorry and thank you

I hope you don't leave. I like the character.

Damn it, don't bail on us now!   I assure you, the GM has no problem with you.   You would have heard something.

As for me, I don't abide by nothin'.   Anyone want some M&Ms?

I don't think anyone has a problem with you Tweight. Stick around. I wasn't complaining about you. I promise. If it seemed that way, take cookies and my apologies <3 It was more of a musing on the inevitability of characters who come out of left field by the very nature of the diversity of concepts that comes in collaborative creative play.

No one is asking you to leave. No one wants you to leave. <3 Don't leave.

Uh.  Oops?

Well, I don't care.  I've got the M&Ms.

J/k;  we love ya, Tweight.    We'll get a smile on that face, yet!  We're determined and dedicated.  ;)

Haha. Yea. Maya's out here like "Bitch? Where you flying off to so fast??" but no hate =P  We'll rescue the lost little white puppy. We'll nurse him back to health. We've got this! Maybe. Kinda. Eventually. Is my nose bleeding? x_x (kidding!!!)

All of us about tweight:

I mean Maya's getting a little tired of all the effort (she's not great with delayed gratification and putting in work) but she's still committed lol. She's just going to roll her eyes now and again along the way ^_^; She means well though.

Thank you all for your kindness

Sorry Maya
This message was last edited by the player at 12:35, Thu 13 Apr 2023.

Hey fellers, new guy here :O looking forward to talk to yall

Welcome Sebastian!

welcome!

Welcome and greetings

Hi I'm posting!
I mean I'm Iris!

Did I miss anything super important? I saw there was a medical emergency, it seems to have settled, anything else?

Holidays are brutal.
First and foremost, thank you everyone for your patience. It's really amazing to see the posting rate as high as it is, do id like to thank you all for that too. Sorry I've been absent lately.
Secondly, it's really cool the threads and IC events you've generated in my absence. I'm planning to be more present now, but by all means don't let my presence disturb that!

Welcome back to those both new and momentarily absent!  I look forward to meeting you.  And welcome back, oh mighty Elswin! It is good to have you back!

Welcome Sebastien! Welcome back Elswin.

I just updated my last IC post.  I didn't like the tone of it, so I rewrote part of it.

Hello, mystery man, with a semi-famous Swedish surname no less.  Welcome on!

And no worries, Elswin;  as you say, post rate hasn't really suffered.  ;)

Okay.  I as a player seem to be doing a good job driving people away from the fun, whether it is interfering with character concept, posting too much or maybe being too introspective.  I am not sure what to do, but I think I need to rethink a lot of what I am doing here. I apologize to all of you.

You don't need to.   We had a slight clash, not the end of the world.

I felt like I was being held to a different standard than you've been playing your own character with.  I found that annoying.   I'm always willing to cut things back, if they get over the top. The suggestion box is always open.

But that means other people will do the same.  Level playing field, and so forth.

To be honest, I was just trying to be reactive, and I did it very poorly. Even now, what I think was trying to do was just poorly thought out.  Clearly, I need to rethink both my writing and characterization.  I don't know what the standard was, and honestly I was stepping out of character myself.  Phooey.

Don't sweat it too much! We are in this game to have fun. We all get swept up into our characters and they become very real. But we also all mess up sometimes. Don't let that eat you. Just treat it as a learning event and move on.

Just FWI I enjoyed reading your posts. I was a little confused by what was happening around me (posting rate again) so decided it was subtle and I hadn't noticed. I think I need to work that into the last post actually (bit like you... I obsess sometimes)

Ooc I'm tempted to leave the IC thread but I try to separate my ooc feelings from ic

Well, I can't change anything now.  So I think I will just wait and see what else happens.  I thinnk perhaps the player (me) needs to get a handle on things so that my mood doesn't impact my character.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:52, Fri 14 Apr 2023.

I've been reading along with the thread, and I've gotta ask... whuh? What's the sudden drama? Nothing reads as especially sinister.

Oh you're not seeing private lines those are the things that make me want to leave.

In reply to Evelyn Thomas (msg # 165):

Oh.

I just don't know what to do IC now.

There's no need, Evelyn.    Let me go, instead.     I'll stick by the essence of what I've said, but should've found better words.    I'm sorry for anyone that has real life pain.  But, I'm beyond tired of certain behaviors that get masqueraded under the guise of role play.

What I was trying to convey, and I did it really really poorly, was that Juli was surprised at the pretty light and Evelyn's reaction to it (which reminded her/me of how Tweight reacted to Juli crying as him having hurt her - so what did that light do that was bad for Evelyn) and also to have a sudden introspective of how ordinary Juli looks without her tail but others (like Evelyn and healing, and Estelle with her beautiful wings) seem so much more obvious.  Juli really doesn't know that Estelle would love to hide her wings, and she doesn't know what Evelyn's father did to exploit the healing.

See, it just took me a whole paragraph and even then, I just want to delete what I posted.  It was too introspective, it was poorly written and out of character.  I don't want anyone leaving for what I started.

I appreciate you taking the time to write that, I do understand what you're saying.

There's no lingering issue at player or character level with anyone.  Nobody's perfect, me especially. It's life.   I'd probably give a bit more thought to who/how I do future interactions, but I don't think that's a bad thing.

If it's the only way the game can keep Evelyn, though, then I'd prefer to leave!

In another game, I play a psychologist/lead councilor aboard a starship.  Very different character from Estelle.   In that game, I do a lot  of posts about dealing with Complex PTSD and similar issues.

I admit, coming here, I was looking forward to something more superhero-y and lighthearted.   But that's me.      It's not my game!   Nobody's 'wrong' for how they choose to play their character.     But as with powers, it may be a good idea to sometimes consider how personality and issues might be affecting those around you.

I formally resign from the game

I think I missed totally the IC drama that caused this. Perhaps it was private lines.

In any event I'm really sorry to see people leave. I thought we had some interesting characters and interesting RP was going on. I was really enjoying reading it even if it was a little fast for me to really keep up.

I hope no one else is going, and I would really like Evelyn to reconsider! Of course I don't know what was going on in the private lines, so I'm just saying that as an outsider

I'm sorry too.  I would like to delete the last half of my IC post, it wasn't necessary.  And I'm not sure where to go that won't drag everyone down with things as they are.

And Evelyn, I wish you would stay.

Ditto.    My offer stands.    I'd like to move on from this now, whether it's via my departure or rethinking how to better deal with things in the future.

I will say:   In a supers game, everyone get their moments to shine, to do something unusual or cool.   If it's a problem, then you're playing in the wrong genre.

I'm okay with people not liking my character.  I'm okay with someone becoming a rival or antagonist, within limits.  I'm even okay with being verbally insulted.  Just be prepared to dance.

But snarky comments delivered in thought balloons?  with no accountability for the player?     I'm going on record as requesting please don't do it.

Deal.

I'd really love for you to stay. I think that spirit seems universal.


In regards to the rest. I think, to echo some sentiments already said, I think maybe we could just have a do over? Anyone who's feeling any sort of anything to people(s) should maybe hash that out in PMs? But I can only speak for myself. If I'm among any kind of offending party, I'm happy to have a conversation <3

I'm not personally ruffled by anything that's gone on other than being sorry to see frictions. It does look like some of it is being discussed/resolved already which is nice.



In closing, Evelyn, would hate to see you go. I think yours is a rich and interesting character with a lot to offer to the RP.

I would only want a do over if it facilitates Evelyn staying.    In that case, gladly.

Otherwise, let's not?   The sad thing is, I wasn't even originally going to take part.  It was running better before my arrival.    I think Shade had mentioned wanting to take part --  I'd suggest looping her in, since she's Lucy sister.

I wake up to chaos.
I'm gonna take sone time to chat with players. If anyone has any concerns feel free to DM me. I'll get to you as soon as I can.
I apologize for my lateness.

To clarify I meant an emotional do over lol. But an RP do-over might not be awful either I suppose :)

Thank you for thinking of me :) I'll probably just loop back in later, I'm fine with observing for now. Things are much more... I don't know, dramatic than I was expecting. Not in an objectively bad or insulting way, but I feel like I would get in the way of people wanting to have these emotional scenes. Like presumably Shade would help Morph try to keep Evelyn in bed and not reinjuring in the nurse's office (or figure out why there's no nursing staff to do it except that's an OOC issue), but she wants to have a dramatic scene there, so I'd just be a wet blanket.

I am still not sure where to go.  Me, the player, drove off another.  Now me the player, does not know how to move forward from this RP moment.  In one thread, her thread mate left.  In the other, I am not sure how to realistically rp her without a meltdown. And it is all my fault.  I am sorry, everyone.

It's alright this stuff happens, don't blame yourself. I'm working to resolve it as we speak.

Cool.

Let's drop all the fault stuff, please?  It's a game.   We're fallible humans.   Hopefully, Ev will come back, and you can go from there.

My intent in leaving the lake was to just put things back in order, as much as possible.  If it's gonna have any negative effect, I'll stay.

Hey, just go.  You did it with the m&ms. :)  I think I can make it work.  And if Juli is a little afraid of Estelle, we'll settle it.  Let's leave it as it is and I'll post something tonight.  Might be good for Juli.  She truly thinks everyone must love the mermaid.  So it will be good for to have to think about others rather than herself, right?

There. Posted in IC and in the Nursing Station.  I'm caught up.  Maybe I'll come to the Gym tomorrow.

Greetings and Welcome Sebastian

Okay I have an idea what I'm going to do.
I'm going to be taking care of it in my freetime today and tomorrow.
Again if anyone has any concerns feel free to DM me.

Just want to apologize to any and all threads I'm holding up. Had a busy Saturday and the time got away from me. Will post tomorrow evening. If anyone wants to post past/around me I won't be bothered in any way (if people haven't already ^-^).

For anyone who PMed me I haven't answered;  points taken, input appreciated.  I'm good, and would rather just play things out in game, from here.  (or not, if you so choose)

And, on a completely different subject:   I have an offer to see 'Cocaine Bear.'   Anyone see it, have any regrets?

If you get a soda, popcorn out of it free and you did not have to pay to see it, then see it, otherwise do not waste the  money on seeing it.

Good to know...that's the general vibe I'm getting.

Also, I hope nobody wants any pop up books from the library.   Because I'm checking them all out.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:39, Sun 16 Apr 2023.

Sorry everyone, I have time, but my computers not working now, so I'll slowly be putting everything together either using my phone or when my computer behaves. So I hope you can forgive any errors.

In addition I am still available to listen to any concerns and suggestions.

I've been reading since suggestions and I'll be applying them overtime.

I will be opening 2 more IC threads, and resuming the announcement soon, as well as adding the last few people.

Take your time.

Cheers for the update and best of luck wrangling your computer :)

RL ever the priority, no worries!

I've been kind of waiting for the auditorium scene to conclude, and for time to move forward a little.    But, if the plan is to keep it going for awhile, I'll probably rethink that.

I just noticed i've been called on the podium for the ceremony... Well damn. I'll read through everything and answer shortly.

To quote Julianna, "I hope this assembly doesn't take too long..."

In hindsight that's funny. Oop

Do make sure in your speech you apologize to Psychics and Empaths who have come to school to learn to control their powers for being shoved into a setting which would be hell for them.

Ah joking aside let's remember the GM is a person who can't be expected to predict all this stuff up front. The moment the RP started it was obvious but the GM (as advertised) only posts a couple of times a week and the drama took place before they had a chance to even know it was happening.

Even if Elswin is a caring, fluffy dude of goodness... or an evil git... (Lucy is currently favouring 'caring, fluffy but without working out consequences') then the GM didn't have a chance to project that.

So the GM is happy with 'eek OMG I screwed up' posts then it's cool. If not let's remember it's a game and thus we have to blur our eyes sometimes and not see stuff.

I might jump ahead time to the afternoon and resume the auditorium stuff with Jacques leading off.
Of I do it that way, I'll do it when I get on and get the new IC threads.

Also as players who determine the pacing, and having been given 2 IC threads to muk about in. How many IC threads woukd you guys like? There's not really an upper limit on my end.

In reply to Jacques (msg # 196):

My character may be some disappointed you're not in fact a hipster from France, but as a player, I'd like to hear you do your bit.   It'd be nice to get the perspective of a non-npc staff member.

And, I think another IC thread or two would be good.   We've tried not to turn any single thread into a crowd, but that means we could use more to support other people's ideas.

I think I'll wait for at least one reaction shot before continuing Jacques' presentation to prevent me from writing a brick that'd stone the momentum

I am so sorry!  I had the flu and have just now gotten off my back.  I had an awful headache and couldn't look at screens, which really sucked.  I am back now, just a little wobbly.

In IC3 I'm going to start my work on Tweight.

I'd like to do some exploring in IC2.

Presumably the lake has a stream/river that feeds it and we can follow that until we hit the boundary of the dimensional bubble?

I had been hoping to do the exploring bit, and was about to ask for an IC 4 in which to do it.

Rather than come up with a contrived reason to come back, I still may, and maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle.

I personally imagine it flows through the woods into another lake down another  river into a waterfall into another river into a makeshift ocean that goes out a couple miles then channels into a river leading back to the lake they're currently in like a moebius strip of water. And all trash and toxins and such get flushed out to the Hudson bay through portals in the bottom while clean water comes in through a portal in the Bermuda triangle. And also the water going into the ocean passes through a salt wall. And the water coming out passes through a desalination barrier. It's super convoluted but that does seem appropriate lol

In case you're waiting for me to reply, you can converse a bit, I'm busy with something and will resume Jacques' speech once that's done

I love how sweet Evelyn acts towards making Tweight feel better. Really makes my heart melt

He's been through alot.

Lol, most of us can control our powers.   And in terms of structural damage, resulting from the use of them, I wouldn't consider that the domain of a janitor.  But maybe I don't quite understand the job description...

Presumably the school doesn't say " hey did you hear about the kid who shoots lazers every time he opens his eyes? Give him some time to figure that shit out maybe make some ruby quartz glasses fully control his powers and THEN we swoop in and recruit him to our school so he can take our super college classes in custodial maintenance."

The kind of damage someone like an out of control Cyclops would do would be beyond the work of a janitor, is what I'm getting at.  Unless that title here includes the skills to make structural repairs to building, etc.   The sort of thing that usually takes a team of construction people.

Though it does bring up the question of how damage resistant the campus is?    Are these like normal facilities, or reinforced in some way?

I mean even with just messy powers like goopy the mucus boy I assume the school tries to get them before they master their craft otherwise they wouldn't need a college just a clubhouse for fully trained superheroes. If you view the college from a Hogwarts perspective. The people recently recruited might all happen to be seventh years but presumably they ideally want to get first years who need training.

Mini update, y'all can hear the assembly regardless of where you are on campus currently.

Oh also I didn't fully address this before, but I'm not perfect, and I miss thing sometimes.

But I also think that makes things fun.
I may have a character respond incorrectly or in a way that doesn't properly convey their thoughts. And that's okay, the characters themselves are also not perfect.
So "Eek I screwed up" posts, as well as thr responses to the miscommunication messages are fun.
For me, at least, it adds a layer of... I dunno... realism almost. Unpredictability.

I like that unpredicatability myself. IC and ooc. It's why I like dice in a RPG actually: far more realistic.


As for 'damaging powers' read my description :). If Lucy changed into glass girl every pane of glass in a 100' would shatter and shards would fly to her. (Happened once in her backstory... no body died). Which is exciting and dangerous and unpleasant. The only control Lucy has at the moment is 'don't do that'. I'm using that as an example like the ones above. Oh...and there are circumstances outside her control where that might happen...

That's something that can change with time of course. I suspect Tweight can't control his powers either.

I'm just using that as a 'supporting the theme of the argument' being given.

Note to self: Get Lucy to go to Chernobyl so all the radiation gets sucked up into her and then absorb the radiation poisoning from her if she can't safely dissipate it

Actually... gosh that's a good idea.

And it would probably work even better with events like Fukashima because a big issue there was the strontium released to the sea water...

*ponders in a joking way* could we use this to extract gold from sea water?

I didn't have any 'plans' for it when I created her. I just thought it was a fun side effect. Mostly I was aiming for large amounts of property damage! (sorry Jacques). I was walking through a car park today and wondered how much that would cost if all the glass broke and probably made a mess of the paint work and upholstery....

Lucy's absorbing power + teleporter + landslide/tsunami/etc

Even more property damage! I like it!

Maya's powers are all sorts of useful for all sorts of theoretical applications. But she's just such a lazy bones that it never occurs to her to think big. She makes a fantastic infiltrator. She makes a fantastic heist crew. She could turn into so many rats and just... chew things up if she wanted to be destructive.

But instead she's just lays about and eats spicy chip ^_^

omg!!! plot twist... this is the villain academy! O_O it explains everything.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Did Tweight just die?

No he did not die, but simply gave in to his inner darkness. He has given up for now.

He'll feel better when he tries the pudding*


*_{Good feeling may be caused by a sugar rush from the pudding.}

Although she doesn't know it yet, Estelle is designed to oppose evil and combat monsters.  So it would certainly keep me busy.  -_^

Oh, Evelyn ended up leaving after all? Just saw her name is gone above Estelle's post.

Oh, that's too unfortunate. Thought she was gonna stay? I was out the last two days, so don't even know what happened in game, yet.

I thought so too, it seems very sudden.

She literally posted in the IC thread about deciding to stay and then... left? I wish her well in all her future paths and travels. Shame to see her go.

*echos above comments*

As GM for the sake of transparency, it was an executive decision on my end after talking it through with a couple of people, reviewing as many of the factors as possible, and considering all of the available options carefully.

Jacques and other janitor volunteers: Should we grab a vacant IC thread and maybe have a training day?  Obviously takes place after the Gymn thread.

I think that'd be cool.

In reply to Tiffany Ferguson (msg # 235):

I was just thinking about this today. I might not be on for today but let's say the IC thread starts at Jacques' Cabin around 10 AM

I'd be game.

Sounds good, Jacques

Oh no. So much has happened since I last posted I don't remember what I was doing. That's too funny.

Um.... I know I was following Tiffany. But I don't remember if I abandoned that in favor of following the situation or if I just read about it and didn't post...

Time to go spelunking

Edit: Bleh just gonna pick up as if I followed Tweight.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:48, Sat 29 Apr 2023.

Also provided people don't mind a slower pace I can probably commandeer an IC thread.

Shade could meet up with you Iris, she's not doing much either :)

Good idea.  Did you want Tiffany present or NOT present?  Happy to abide by your decision :)

There.  All theatrics and flirtations and fun aside, Lille just gave her biggest fear to the teachers.  Didn't expect it to happen this way.

I'm fine with anyone being there! Makes for interesting RP!

For the record, I want to clarify that, PE will not be focused on fighting, but rather physical activity. But Faze is focused on yesterdays lesson right now.

Thanks for the clarity Elswin :)

Sorry in advance if you haven't actually called yourself granite girl or princess firestorm on campus, I saw them in your profile, and also know you have said a few on campus, just couldn't remember all of them.

If they are in the description it's public knowledge! At least at the school

 My first description didn't include them but as powers were revealed in game I updated it

I just love how Morph literally talks in bullet points.

Well I do in real life :)

Text sucks as a communication medium. Most people are lucky to get 1/3 of the information in it. I try hard and I only get about 1/2 I think. Things like that just make it a little easier for people to read

Ryan saying "I miss popcorn." is the saddest thing I've read on this group so far

I wanna laugh and cry

Aww. Thanks!

In reply to Jacques (msg # 252):

I mean, if we discount 95% of Tweight's posts and the late Evelyn's entire backstory =p (all of which I say with love, it's all emotionally charged stuff full of rich pathos)

If he'd said chocolate, I'd have agreed with you ^_^
This message was last edited by the player at 00:46, Tue 02 May 2023.

oops wrong game! Sorry posted a request for a thread for a different game. Just deleted it
This message was last edited by the player at 02:07, Tue 02 May 2023.

"Tweight might be" casually throwing Tweight under the bus.

Well he might be! Anyone seen Processor X going senile in the Wolverine movie?

Sorry.  With the ones with real issues having gone, Lille is now having a breakdown.  I wonder, will the assembly ever end if we keep running away? ;)

By the way Morph, just wanted to clarify for you, and anyone else who might be under the misconception. Omni is not Elswin. (if I accidentally posted as Elswin while posting as Omni I'm sorry for any confusion that may have caused)

No it was my bad. I confused Omni with Elswin. I'll go edit. (Lucy wouldn't have made the mistake it was only a few hours ago for her)

IC drama can easily go amiss..

I just wanted to say I am liking the IC drama at the moment, and won't be 'escalating it further' or anything. IC Lucy is feeling that somehow she's got caught up in a madhouse. That's entirely in genre though. I mean have you read Harry Potter? And wondered... in what planet do they send 11 year olds out to face werewolves and giant spiders etc.

Looking forwards to seeing what happens at the school now!

No one need think I'm mad as a player.   But that reaction was completely in character.

I'll wait to give Iris a chance to post in the IC 4 thread before I go :)

That thread would take place after the gym assembly, right?

I think the assumption is all the IC threads are after the assembly but that's just been my working presumption.

Yes, I don't think we need to get too specific, but it is sometime after the assembly.

In reply to Morph (msg # 261):

I saw a TikTok on this specific matter where a guy asks an offscreen hogwarts person about suitable punishment for the "crimes" the students commit, the whole bit makes you think J.K Rowling had some repressed hatred towards children sprinkled through her books.

Google seems to think I'm searching for some strange fanfiction however...

Out of curiosity, how do people feel about big plot?
I feel like this game can go either way, so I'll leave it to the players to decide.

Edit: Not right now, just to build towards.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:16, Wed 03 May 2023.

This is of course just a personal view given because you asked.

I like a sandbox but I also like there to be toys in the sandbox to play with.

So for example I like 'story arcs' or 'big plot'. We don't have to be 'on railtracks' but they give us things to talk about, things to investigate, and I think work real well. It's best in a game like this if they are 'ignorable': i.e you don't need to 'do it now'.

Other good toys in the sand box are 'lessons' and 'school trips' and 'visitors'. Again (like in HP) it's nice if some of these are linked to a 'story arc' or a 'big plot'.

I'll get my posts out soon! Also I agree with Morph!

Is the Big plot the threat of SASPAR attacking the school?  If its something else I haven't noticed :)  The sandbox nature is still fresh for us newer players.  We've yet to meet the whole faculty or engage in a lot of class staff yet.  Lots to do!

The IC threads have been great for the game however, just wanted to mention that :)

Well SASPAR are being set up as the big bads. Perhaps we have an issue with them:

• They 'kidnap' someone that was on the way to the school. What do we do about it? We might choose to investigate/mount a rescue/say 'hey it's the police it's not our job to interfere'. But it would certainly give us a lot of topics to think about/investigate
• There are press articles about them. 'Victories'. And perhaps one of us knew more about that incident
• Some one arrives at the school on the run from them.

All of the above sounds fun! Though I don't know how much my opinion counts considering I just joined and have yet to post, but yay big bads!


Also Hi! I'm new and excited to role play with yall!

Hi Maenzee

Hi morph/lily! you can call me May or Zee for short if you want

Welcome May :)

Also, forgot to say, I'm with Morph on plot points :)
This message was last edited by the player at 09:21, Wed 03 May 2023.

Welcome May!

Are you going to post in the Lake thread Julianna so we can chase you there? It's on the second page

We've got a Maya.  You can be Mayb?   ^_^      Any case, welcome to the show!


I too agree with Morph's general points on introducing bigger plot stuff.   Optional toys and sandboxes.   But for sure, there should be something more than just daily student life.

Oh! If May sounds to close to Maya then you can just call me Zee im not very particular just regretting what I pulled from the random name generator ;)

I was kidding. My mind works like that.  The proper name is different, and it's one of two nicknames.  So I wouldn't worry about it.   ;)

Oh I love Maybe as a name. Having May-a and May-b is very cool.

It seems to me that the Gym thread is pretty over. Shall we move onto the next scene?

I'm fine with it. I don't want to be a curmudgeon but that joke breaks down since they don't pronounce the same :p Maybe is May-b but Maya is Mai-uh. So it'd be Maya and Mai-b lol.

Plot sounds fine. I do want to echo that I think classes themselves are probably ample material for plot/framework but it's your game, Elswin, measure with your heart ^_^

If I ever made a character with  the name Maybe I'd give them the power of confoundment and there last name would be Uhhh.

"Maybe? Is there an Uhh Comma Maybe?"

Burger King drive thru be like

I'm going to assume the canteen thread is 'a little time after the welcoming ceremony' if that's OK. Otherwise Maenzee is on her own

Nevermind. Already have someone posting there.I'll wait for Julianna to post where she's run to and join her there
This message was last edited by the player at 15:00, Thu 04 May 2023.

Sorry everyone, I got treated to my 3rd Covid this week and really didn't do anything.  But at least I went to page 2 and found the actual Lake thread, so I am now there.

Oh no!! I'm sorry to hear that, hope you feel better!

Ouch. I hope you are feeling better!

Better today.  4 shots and I still caught it.  But no harm done except missing work.

Ugh.  Glad you're recovering.    I've only had to go through it once, and that was enough.  No fun.

Aww. Glad your hanging in there. We do be missin you!

Best wishes Juli.

Get well soon!

Sorry will be posting soon, just IRL yall know how it is.

Indeed. take your time!

I may have mentioned this previously, but I am going to reiterate it again.

I may alter how classes work, and just sort of scrap the previous schedule. There will still be classes, and the more core classes (eg what you'd find at regular school) will occur in the mornings.

But I may make it more of a... I dunno yet, but something a bit more free.

Such much temptation to detain Morph so that there we can see how the laws of the reasonable places of the world treat her (kidding of course)
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:01, Mon 08 May 2023.

Also, do we want more IC? Should I make like... 10 of them? Or will you guys reuse the ones we have?

Because they aren't set locations, maybe just make more?  I suppose if you have a lake thread (for example), you could wait til its done, add a GM note that its closed, and let ppl reuse it later on.

So currently I have an idea, curious on thoughts.

I'm thinking of having three types of threads, especially as I'm more active right now (famous last words).

IC threads. In character threads that are bubbles where players can freely interact in a continuous scenario until its conclusion, separate from the main timeline. Eg assembly, etc. It's outside of the timeline, but in Canon. These can be as fast or as slow as yall like. These are less monitored by me, but I will still try to spice them up.

School threads. Student day to day activities. Dorms, classes, assemblies, etc. Most of the named threads fall under this category. These threads do their best to include everyone and fall within a day to day sort of school schedule. There are a bunch of things to be discovered in these areas if you choose to go looking. I'll be doing my best to keep an active on them.

Plot threads. These threads can be used to expand special events. I'm thinking things like trips outside of schools, basically things that fall outside of school life thar can advance plot, without locking you all into whatever is happening. Stuff regarding SASPAR or specific student events (also you can pm me if you'd like a particular side plot line added. I already have ideas for several students to face from the info I have, but if you have a specific one for your character, I'm all ears.)

I am half asleep as I write this  so it may not be fully accurate of what I gave in mind. But it's the gist.
Thoughts?

One: Easily the most co-hesive post I've seen written while tired props to you elswin!

Two: Sounds great! Its a good way to make sure everybody has a thread they want available to them!

Three: When it comes to plot threads would there be a way to differentiate from SASPAR and established character development threads? It seems that some people are wary of doing the SASPAR threads and I would hate for them to miss out on the character development. I also understand if not if you'd rather people not know what there going into for the plot threads so their decisions don't change accordingly.

That's all, lovely idea though!

No objections :)

IC threads are going great.  I'm not sure they need spicing up with events, as that could risk the point of the thread.  eg Roger and Mary go for a heart to heart chat... and then ninjas attack, interrupting the chat.  Small events that invite interaction are probably fine though.

School threads seem ok, but with each student having optional class schedules, it might be a bit tricky to run.  You'll be reacting to a lot of different classes all at once and the pacing might get a bit jumbled.  Could you shift the school mysteries into plot threads instead?  Maybe then you could have a general 'Day One' school thread and the players can narrate what their characters do.  You can advance the School Day every 1 IRL week... with IC and Plot threads being timeless (until finished).

I think most ppl would want to participate in plot threads, so thumbs up!

Overall sounds good.    In addition:

I believe in working with the GM of a game, as much possible.  It is usually a lot of work to run a game, which is exactly why I tend not to run them.

I've been trying to get a better sense of where this GM's comfort zone is.  specifically:

- If you (GM) want to run all the adventurey/event things yourself, I'm good with that, and won't try to initiate anything.

- If you do want help from the players, so it's not all on you, that works for me as well.     I'd just like to know which it is.

I enjoy chat & debate. But not as much when I'm in multiple threads, and that's what they're all centered on.    I am hoping for some diversity of activity, as the game moves along, however that can best be achieved.

To begin with, yes there will be a way to distinguish between different plot threads. Specifically between SASPAR and character threads. More generic threads are going to be... well generic. But what I'm thinking of is titling them kind of like books or chapters. So something like "SASPARs reach" would clearly be a saspar thread, but something like "Morphs Father" would be a plot line about Morph.

I will most likely be hiding what the plots of each thread entails in terms of too much detail, so people can have fun with discovery and what not, but I will give the bare bones information so you can decide if you want to participate, or if you just wanna read. Cause I know that some people joined this game with the distinct hope for a more school based game, and not everyone wants to go around fighting SASPAR or dealing with other peoples problems.

Oh in the IC threads, it's less "Being attacked by ninja's" and more "Oh there's something weird in this area we're in. That's something to talk about" Like if the Iris group who's currently exploring find a radio tower or something. That's the sort of event I'm refering to. Something that's completely optional, and only has an impact if they so chose it to.

I will consider moving school mysteries and what not into the plot thread, the only problem with that is that the school thread, while as you said may get jumbled, allows for that sort of free interaction, where having a plot thread that's like "The Radio Tower" sort of... removes that mystery and discoverability. Though alternatively, because you all have freedom within the threads, I might just sprinkle them wherever they are needed, provided I catch an area. So just cause you explored an area before, doesn't mean that you saw everything that area has to offer.

In regards to players initiating things.

It's difficult to say. Cause there are some instances where it works out, EG Tweight was a great initiation from my perspective cause it led the group down a whole thing, and has lead to intereactions between students, and also given other characters chances to interact. But generally when it comes to instigation, I would prefer it if the idea was at least run by me, so it doens't run counter, or directly contradict something that is coming later.

Cut to the end of the assembly with teachers literally talking to themselves cause everyones left

Sorry I've been silent in my friends all. Just been busy with some rl stuff. Nothing crazy.

I don't like the idea of random twists in the IC threads, personally. I think those are mostly curated snips of time. Essentially they're the stuff that happens off-camera, in my mind. They fill in the space of establishing lines like "After a leisurely weekend, classes resumed Monday" or "Estelle and Maya had grown apart in the weeks that followed the assembly, unable to reconcile their disagreement on whether snorkels or goggles were a swimmer's greatest tool."


I think a new category of thread would be fine though if you wanted to run something that was both a) a side-vignette sort of scene/situation but also b) implicitly going to have dm interference/interaction. Whether that's a trip to the mall in the real world of a training simulation or a talent show or whatever it might be.



I do think a few teacher PCs would maybe be a good plan. That would lighten your load a fair bit. Just my thought. I think running a whole Hogwarts with only 1 or 2 players running the teachers might be tough.


I also think that, in my opinion, most of the classes can probably just be implied rather than experienced. I don't know that there's a lot of juice in sitting in Calculus together and actually going through the lesson unless that class is going to get disrupted by a brawl between the kid who turns into a two-headed bear and the girl who can shoot lasers from her eyes and then we're sort of stuck getting in the middle of it?  Our schedules can be amorphous enough to allow enough of us to be in this class or that class at a given time. You can always run individual specialty classes on request.


Just my thoughts, in no particular order. You're doing great. Keep up the good work!

Given the GM insisted that IC events be small, optional, and mostly generate future talking topics, I’m ok with that now.

I think Maya’s vignette suggestion could be handled with plot threads, but sometimes you just want to go shopping and not deal with ninjas, so a different catergory could be feasible.

PC teachers would be great, even just substitute ones.  There’s always the danger of vanishing or narrative control issues.  Would there be use in 1-2 NPC teachers created specifically for any player to puppet?  Mostly a thought bubble.

Implied school threads would be similar to my downtime school thread suggestion.  I agree in trying to distill a school day down to the more interesting/challenging parts.

I agree with Maya's idea, that we hit high points.  Or if something is going to be a point of contention, then it gets played out somewhere, just as important events might?

No matter what, despite Lille's drama, I am enjoying what we are doing.  I rather hope we would be annoyed at each other in character than in RL.  There's enough strife in the world as it is.  My life has been massively sucky the last few weeks and I look forward to playing in the fake world for a change!

Okay! I'm taking all feedback into consideration. Do a few structural changes may be coming in the near future.

Also based on feedback, what I may do is set the school system up to be more like persona. Where it's implied your attending, there are certain school events such as that first class and this assembly, but it's more what you do around school and who you hang out with.
And if people desire them there can be special classes that occur, but also separate so no one's locked in.

Basically, I kinda want to set it up as a web of continuity, where just cause you choose to do one thing, doesn't mean your locked into said thing and can't participate elsewhere. And the continuity is decided as events conclude.

Cause I've played in other school based games before, and... it feels like they die due to lack of posting freedom, and people lose interest in "whats happening right now"

I'd like to say that I am a little sorry I pissed everyone off as Lucy. Particularly Tiffany: that was just bad posting on my part. We'll see what happens after this.

Damn it, this isn't over!  You're so gonna regret not admitting a snorkel's inherent superiority!

Pissed off is a bit strong (annoyed is more accurate) and Tiffany has moved past it anyway.  Oocly I’m not bothered in the slightest :)

I'm sure I'm missing something I should know, but am unclear what thread to use for the garden?

I know we went there in IC 3, but I'm unclear where there is, physically speaking.  I've looked through that thread, but running out of time, tonight, and my eyes are at their limit for computer screens!

If anyone can tell us which thread, then let's shift from cafeteria to there.  Or I'll take care of it tomorrow, if no one else beats me to it.

Oops I'll make one. I believe it's missing.

Oh sorry I forgot to make a garden, I'll do that once I sit down.

Super tempted to hijack a second thread for a power development club of some sort, but also dunno if I could manage 3 threads lol

Hmm...

Can I ask for a thread called First Aid club. I am a big fan of threads having nice titles or I would just steal one of the IC X threads.

That gave me an idea.
I think I know how to manage IC threads now.
Each IC thread will start off as an IC thread. Then either as it goes on, or once it's finished it'll be retitled to match its content. And once it's fully finished it'll be closed for those who want to read or review it later.

So there will be a steady flow of IC threads being made.

OK I'll hijack one of the IC threads then :) Can you change the name though when I've hijacked it (this evening probably)

Yeah, I'll do all of them when I'm free.

For clarity, they will all still have IC in the title just to distinguish them from the other threads.


EG

IC: First Aid Club


Just to avoid confusion

That's a great idea and it does reduce confusion!

I have a bunch of stuff to do for the game tonight, so while I am not planning any progress posts, here are a list of things t expect.

First I am going to turn the Assembly into a separate instance, so that we can move passed it, it's already gone way longer then I expected it too, and it frees people to do other things.


Second, gonna retitle all the IC threads to match what's happening in them and create a few new ones.

Third, gonna introduce a few objects and potential leads for people to interact with.

Fourth gonna start the first plot thread, most likely a furlough period of time, where yall can go out into the real world for a little while on some kind of fieldtrip or excursion.

I believe that ends these patch notes.

Sorry for being slow, having a little RL stuff. I'll try to post tomorrow :)

In reply to Elswin (msg # 323):

Cool;  I think IC 5 can become "The Garden" then.

In reply to Elswin (msg # 323):

Thanks for the update, I'm excited to see what's next

Post 4000

Congratulations!

thanks for all the posts and the new thread Elswin.

Could I request a response in the Nurses thread?

good job with the Patch Notes :)

Glad you like it. Thought it might help with organization so people know what's new or different.

I'll post as nurse soon. Been a rough week.

Also might do a teacher exclusive call. So some NPC teachers may only be active in special cases.

Happy Mothers day

Happy Mother's Day everyone :)

*Doing research on teachers and stumbles upon some of the old classes*
THERE'S A BAND???????

I'm a great GM.

Also does anyone care what sort of city we visit? Or can we just make it basically San Fransokyo (Eg, just a mix of modern cities from all over)

If y'all want a specific city, I can arrange for that, but for now I'm thinking something more generic.

Generic/fictional city is fine by me.

Generic is good. I'd like a name though :). Just so I can use it in posts.

How about Metropolis. Or Star City Or... <inserts other generic name>

Like a rock band, or wind instruments/school style band?

Lol, I love playing rock musician characters.   Though sadly, I didn't give this one any such skills.

Ryan can play the guitar. He just doesn't happen to have one.

Lucy can play the Berimbau, Drum and Tamborine. And sing loudly in Portugese...

A Berimbau is an African instrument made from a garden cane, the wire from a tire, a gourd and a few other miscellaneous bits.

I think I remember from Julie's description that she's got instrumental/vocals skills.

Ryan, if you and she formed a duo, it could be called...  (wait for it)

CatFish!   =^.^=

All we need now is for a singing martial artist and we get the monk fish....

*Insert clapping*

Beautiful, best ideas ever! [says the person always wearing a punny shirt-]

As for the band May's decent at dancing but she doesn't trust her self with anything fragile and expensive so she doesn't know how to play anything.

So learn to play the berimbau :) It's as cheap as chips.

Or a drum. Lucy's (not here: at home) is an Atabaque. Really cheap to make, and you can make your own.

Nice! Hopefully Lucy will be able to give her a few pointers :D

Maya's there for harmony backup vocals and dance ^_^ she's all the backup dancers you need :P

The jokes are hysterical!  Yes, Juli sings and plays (which I didn't specify, but probably piano and guitar).  And being a mermaid, her voice is beautiful.  That's just they way to hide us, isn't it?  We change the name of the school to the Elswin School of Performing Arts and go from there!  We pretend Ryan and company are in costume.  Kinda a folk version of Kiss!

Ah yes a performing arts school its perfect! It would even let us keep most of our trauma with out it seeming unreal!:P

Lol, a Kiss themed party would be cool!  I'd love to do the black on white, kabuki style makeup, with some glam costumes.

Question for GM (or anyone who can answer):  Is there a way to order things to be delivered at the school?  Or is going on the city trip, or asking someone to get things for you, the sole way to go about that?

I'd be delighted to give some pointers Maenzee :)

I don't think we've met IC yet. Are you coming to the City?

Well first Maenzee would have to find out what a Berimbau is. [that was more or less meant to be a joke]

No, shes not, May trusts herself around people even less than she does mos instruments I was about to post in the school grounds exploration though.

I'm hyped for a costumed rock band

I was thinking about something similar with Ryan wanting to take part in the city trip. Just add a zipper on his back and he'd make for a very convincing cosplayer, considering the game is set around the 2040's

Mermaid on a stage, mic and tail with a tantalizing bikini top on a platform.  What else do you need?

I unironically say "Whatever floats your goat" "Row row row your goat" and "It's all ogre now" all the time. So seeing someone say they have a shirt that says "Whatever floats your goat" makes me happy lol

awe, yay! im glad I could make you happy!

I actually also say 'Whatever floats your goat' a lot so when I found a shirt of it I immediately went into the folder of May's Punny shirts
This message was last edited by the player at 05:31, Tue 16 May 2023.

Oh I have something that'll allow Ryan to join, as well as others who may be nervous about going in their present state, I'll put up a post regarding it soon.

I'm humming and hawing about going. I'm not sure I have the mental bandwidth at the moment for a high volume / many people thread. I want to be so painfully clear that's not any kind of loaded statement :p Just sort of airing my thoughts to see how they sound.

It feels like a space Maya would want to join in on but at the same time I don't know if I can keep up as a typist atm.

I feel that! You do what your comfortable with.

TBH I think the only reason I'm keeping up so well with all this is because its my only roleplay at the moment and I really need the creative release.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:38, Tue 16 May 2023.

Sorry yall real life. Gonna try to post later today.

NP... and don't forget the assembly thread :)

What Tiffany said. Although if you want you could just turn up and say 'hmm... hardly anyone here. Well that's it for the day then...' or something. Unless you have some messages / plot building etc that you want to get out

Whoo monitor broke. Um going to try to get something going. I'm going to put the assembly on hold cause there is some stuff I wanna cover for it, but for now there are other areas that are more important.

There are still the IC threads so that is good, but I'll try to get the plot thread and first aid thread going.

I might be missing something, if you remind me, I'll get on it as well. Might be a little slow though.

Oh yikes! Sorry to hear that.

That sounds unpleasant!

--

I just realised I hadn't responded to Julianna so edited it in.

I am advancing time so that people can do some new stuff, however, for Tweight, Iris, and Jacques, you can continue what you are doing. Also the assembly thread is still on going, just taking my time. And I will continue to post in the medical thread as soon as I have a moment.

Also I have put out a call for teachers. So hopefully the roster will have a little more balance soon.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:54, Sun 21 May 2023.

There's no pressure from me for you to post in the Nurse's thread. It's just setting up the First Aid club... and at the moment we have plenty going on

For the record if you want to start the first aid club, you can, the answer at the end of the dialogue will be yes, you can use all the materials your asking for.

Ah that's interesting. Thanks. I will leave it a few days (lots happening now) and then start it

Hi QuanTa!

Hey QuanTa. Nice to have you joining us

I've been spotted! Hello all, thanks for having me

Sadly, I will not be helping the teacher shortage :P

Welcome QuanTa!

Should I make a thread explaining the way the game runs?
That is the difference between IC threads, base threads, and Plot threads? Or is it intuitive?

Welcome QuanTa!

I don't think it hurts to have that in the RtJ thread, or somewhere. Even though it is intuitive. It's only a couple of lines and what is intuitive to some people isn't to others

Hello, QT.

Plot threads are pretty easy to understand based on the name, and I think I read in the OoC somewhere that IC threads were for chronologically ambiguous interactions?

I got the impression that people could just kinda bebop around wherever (within reason) and that being active in certain threads didn't necessarily prevent the character from participating in others?

....... I'm probably going to second guess myself until there's an official statement somewhere obvious

That sounds about right.

So yeah there are three types of threads.

Plot is right. Just for plot without locking people into a story and forcing them to participate.
IC is right. Chronologically ambiguous so people can interact freely.

And then the general threads are more just... day to day interaction, hanging out, potentially a class here or there, some school events, romance, etc. Also there can be some stuff that is discovered in them if you're so inclined. Though said discoveries may not last forever.

And yes, you can post in the IC threads and Plot threads freely, without worry, and time will pass in the more general threads.

and yeah that's really short, I'll toss it into an RTJ thread when I wake up or something. Make it easy.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:43, Sun 21 May 2023.

Hello QT

Might need another day or two before I can update Tiffany stuff.

Also new teachers incoming soon. So yay! Balance!

That's good to hear :)

Greetings and Welcome Qt

I'll leave it up to May whether she wants Shade to bump into her in the expedition thread :)

Yesssss do it. Though if you'd like Shade to not sustain any serious injury at the moment I suggest you not...then agaian it all depends how things to go down but so if you'd like for Shade to bump into May go ahead! In the end its up to you.

You can just react to Shade trying to find her as you like, then :) She might as well see for herself what happens if one student seriously injures another, I don't mind OOC if that happens.

This is just a heads up post. I have access to a computer for a short period of time tomorrow, so I'll try to get everything updated in that time.

Just wanna check before I get access to a computer, if there is anyone else who wants to take Omni's offer to not stand out as much if they so choose.