Strange Days

[Mr D]

*sigh*

So after contacting various people via PM, the replies I received indicate that we are indeed the only ones left.

As much as I'm enjoying things and the wuality of posts, I'm considering retiring this RP for the time being to relaunch it when I get some more free time to devote to it. (Possibly around December time.) What are people's opinions?

[ProfPeacock]

Hmmm . . . I would very probably rejoin in December, as long as you PMed me. I have no problem continuing to post, but agree that three/four can be hard. I do think it would be easier to keep forward momentum if the world was a little bit smaller. I know that, for the most part, we've made it smaller to keep everyone in the same general area, but I think there is so much room for expansion that it can be easy to expand in totally different directions and eventually loose sight of each other.

I know for me, I'm trying to consider what you, Mr. D, had originally set out: some humor and a sense of normal-meets-abnormal. It's really hard, though, without wanting to suddenly burst into a bonfire of magicalness. I do kind of like the different priorities of the characters, though, so perhaps I shouldn't complain. I feel like "can Kinzie and Aurelie be friends when Kinzie cares about saving Bay City and Aurelie about saving her reputation?" is an interesting question that the game can explore, but I'm not sure if that's what you want for your game. (I think it works; it's just hard.)

[Kallas Redwater]

I don't mind the restart, if you sent me a PM when you are ready. But Like Profpeacock already said we'd need more players or a smaller world, if you'd restart it. To me its no problem to continue posting, but I am starting to wonder if Trevors save the day behaviour isn't ruining situations that you guys are setting up.

[Mr D]

Well let me just clarify, because I don;t want anyone getting the wrong idea. I'm actually kind of happy with things as they are in terms of how the characters are interacting and in fact I don't mind if things go into, as you say a 'bonfire of magicalness' because for me part of the fun of it is in the concept of a place where outrageous things happen and people treat it like it's completely mundane. Originally the idea was for all the 'magic' so to speak to be out in the open, with only my character thinking it odd. I had hoped for a large cast, so that there would always be something going on and people would always have someone to interact with, but I guess that was wishful thinking on my part.

But as it stands I think you're right in that I need to rethink the structure of things. The idea of the city was so that there were different settings established for occasional side trips (so characters could have an 'episode' taking a trip to the city or the marina etc). The problem was I never established one particular central location to act as a hub.

So yeah, I'll restructure, clarify the intro, introduce character approvals before people can post to hopefully prevent people from signing up, posting once and then disappearing, and hopefully recruit some more people. And like I say I should have more free time to devote to things around December once I've settled down from travelling and have a stable connection.

[Phoenixrisen]

Alrighty then, but like the others have said, a PM when it's all ready would be appreciated.

[Kallas Redwater]

I'm cool with it, just Pm me when your ready for the restart.

[Phoenixrisen]

It's December... DO we know if we're going to do that restart or not?

[Mr D]

I was ggoing to contact everyone and set up everything in the next couple of weeks once I'm back from travelling. Almost there.

[Phoenixrisen]

Okay, just wanted you to know for sure that you still had at least one devotee.