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Pixelmage wrote:

Qara-Xuan Zenith wrote:Is it worth noting that these were what I decided were "breather quests", or would that just have you calling for my blood?

She tells the truth. Relatively. If you had seen what I happen to be working on for the overall game you'd consider these as breathers and be thankful for them. ^_^

Pixel... you scare me sometimes.

Ummmm.....yay?

To be honest, I'm in a bit of a Darkness Induced Audience Apathy state here. It seems like pretty much ever major event is laced with some level of heading downwards into dark places, and while the Special Event 3 is having quite a few positive things happen to balance that out, it doesn't really feel to me like things have had time to recover, really. But, then again, that could just be me not really being invested in, or keeping track of the positive things going on, so it might just be me. Dunno.

Eh, that's mostly because a select few characters are hogging most of the screen time, at least from what I can see.

(Mental note: write more Curtiss. Prior experience tells me he makes anything sillier. :P)

To be fair, this is an open event. You can post at any time in either the Side Stories thread or the Special Event 3 thread.

As for the Apathy, Qara and I are trying to work on lighting things up. We just don't want to dump everything ever onto you.

Hmm... maybe I should go back to my original idea of just playing Likovya for laughs.

Endless Sea wrote:(Mental note: write more Curtiss. Prior experience tells me he makes anything sillier. )

RussetDivinity wrote:Hmm... maybe I should go back to my original idea of just playing Likovya for laughs.

God knows the Castle needs some tone variation. And the only times Jenny's actually enjoyed herself in the Castle were her quests with Likovya, so maybe it's her calling?

Fun fact: Ben's fainting spell is lifted directly from my own really weird experiences of passing out.

Also, she has given me her enumerated and logical reasons for cutting her hair, which sort of make sense, I guess. I tried to argue. hair.

Endless Sea wrote:Eh, that's mostly because a select few characters are hogging most of the screen time, at least from what I can see.

Agreed, it does seem like Ben, Kevin, Nova/Anji, Eliziya, and Tamar (to a lesser extent) have been having all this stuff happening to them, and nobody else is, so it really seems like their hogging the screen time. No offense is meant, and I realize that you all have all this fun plot stuff, and that's awesome, but does feel that way, kinda. You all have this stuff going on, and the rest of us are sorta just sitting here waiting for something to happen.

Also, SO MUCH ANGST dear god it's overpowering. I need to do some trolling. :|

Krika wrote:Agreed, it does seem like Ben, Kevin, Nova/Anji, Eliziya, and Tamar (to a lesser extent) have been having all this stuff happening to them, and nobody else is, so it really seems like their hogging the screen time. No offense is meant, and I realize that you all have all this fun plot stuff, and that's awesome, but does feel that way, kinda. You all have this stuff going on, and the rest of us are sorta just sitting here waiting for something to happen.

Um. As I think eli's pointed out, both the sidestory thread and the Event 3 thread are open for anyone to post anything they want at any time.

If it looks like Ben, Kevin, and Anji, for example, are getting a lot of screen time, it's not so much because "we have all this fun plot stuff going for us" as eli and I say to each other "I'm bored I want to write with you" and then we just write something, and CREATE fun plot stuff for ourselves.

If you want something to happen to your character, you can't just wait for it to happen-- the only person who controls your character is you. We highly encourage people to do things, make trouble, write, whatever-- but we can't do it for you. We can only do it for ourselves, so we do.

Yeah, we're kinda trying to, but you guys keep writing SO MUCH and leaving the rest of us out. T_T

For the record, I am pretty shy when it comes to getting involved in things - I don't like to interrupt things, or to butt in without some sort of invitation, so I tend to take some time to work up the nerve to ask things, and it screws me over. For instance, we had the whole sub-plot of Nova!Anji and Marcus both joining the Loreknights for some short amount of time, and I wanted to do something involving that to get Fern sorta interjected into overall situation a bit, except by the time I had decided that yes, I did want to do that, and got myself to the point where I'd be able to ask about actually pulling that off, it was 10 days later on August 29th, and hey look they're all gone, so whoooooops, there goes that idea down the drain.

And I agree with Endless' point - in the 19 days that Special Event 3 has been open, it's had 21 stories posted to it, most of them tending to do something that alters a few character's relationships, their circumstances, or otherwise brings change. For those of us who are essentially watching this, this are happening fast enough that we might see something we could latch onto, but less than 24 hours later it's gone or otherwise changed. We have no idea what you're doing, where your going, if you have a plan or are just making this up as you go, and that makes it harder to get involved, because we don't really have any idea of what the overall "thing" is that we can get involved with.

Meh. Rant, rant rant.

Well, if it helps, I'll weigh in.

First, bar brawl idea... Julius is out. Could make it work and make it an omake of sorts but I'll skip it, amusing as it can be. With that out of the way...

As far as "things happening", rest assured, I have something in my pockets that won't leave anyone complaining about nothing happening that affects them. /tease

The reason I'm reluctant in uploading it right now is twofold: first is real life, but when do we actually take care of that anyway?

Second one is NaNo. Let me explain a little, I want to take part on NaNo, and this will mean even less time than I already have to move sticks in FC, and because of the magnitude of the next planned development, I can't just fire it and not oversee and make sure things settle down smoothly.

That's not saying that game is or will stop, there's a round of quests running right now, you know? And overall it's like Qara said, these threads are open for you guys to react to the events as they happened. How did your character find out that the war was over? What did you do afterward? Does everyone go out to drink and end up in a bar fight? This series of posts are dealing with how Anji/Nova deals with the aftermath of the war, but everyone was involved in it, hunted by it or waiting for their opportunity. Say, would Jenny and Likovya go back to that school and check if the kids made it okay through the end? Lori was heavily involved in research and shenanigans as always, how does her absence affect Fern and the Lorekeepers?

These are just ideas off the top of my head. And npc mentions aren't exactly forbidden. You just have to ask the NPC's writer to join in, collaborative writing and all.

Or at least that's the idea behind these threads. If the general consensus is that we need to throw in some larger developments, I can fire some things earlier, but that would not be optimal to me, personally.

Well, guys, I know it's really hard to keep up sometimes, and maybe you guys want to join after a concrete idea has been posted. Those are legit reasons to be upset I guess. But come on guys, there's always a way around it As Pix said, what are your characters doing?

You guys could always kickstart your own subplot or whatever, you know ?

JackAlsworth wrote:

Endless Sea wrote:(Mental note: write more Curtiss. Prior experience tells me he makes anything sillier. )

RussetDivinity wrote:Hmm... maybe I should go back to my original idea of just playing Likovya for laughs.

God knows the Castle needs some tone variation. And the only times Jenny's actually enjoyed herself in the Castle were her quests with Likovya, so maybe it's her calling?

Maybe the three of them should just be best friends and have lots of adventures together.

We'll make our own guild! And it shall be called "This Guild". Yus.

...fine, or we could name it something more adventure-y. Like, Cliff Runner Guild, maybe. Or Landfall Guild. Sky Chaser Guild. Something along those lines. :P

Alas, Jenny's fate lies not down the path of levity, although she certainly appreciates the gesture.

Well, if you change your mind, she'll be welcomed with open arms. ^_^

Blurred_9L wrote:As Pix said, what are your characters doing?

You guys could always kickstart your own subplot or whatever, you know ?

Fern is going to be doing Loreknight stuff, unless there's something that could hint at a way off the Castle, at which point he'd be working on that. The latter is something that I don't feel comfortable doing without GM work, and in any case might be a bit early to do anything like that (or would be ridiculously drawn out). The first is not something that Fern as I see him wouldn't not do, so I sort of need someone else to help drag him out, and get him involved with other people (like, you know, those odd two Loreknights who showed up suddenly one day), because otherwise I don't think he would do that willingly. The Library is where it's safe, after all.

Krika wrote:

Blurred_9L wrote:As Pix said, what are your characters doing?

You guys could always kickstart your own subplot or whatever, you know ?

Fern is going to be doing Loreknight stuff, unless there's something that could hint at a way off the Castle, at which point he'd be working on that. The latter is something that I don't feel comfortable doing without GM work, and in any case might be a bit early to do anything like that (or would be ridiculously drawn out). The first is not something that Fern as I see him wouldn't not do, so I sort of need someone else to help drag him out, and get him involved with other people (like, you know, those odd two Loreknights who showed up suddenly one day), because otherwise I don't think he would do that willingly. The Library is where it's safe, after all.

Zi is a rather frequent patron of the library by this time. The question is, how familiar is Fern with magical evul voices in heads? It's not inconceivable he notices what precisely Zi is researching on after some time. Mayhaps we can pull in interaction from that node?

agoraoptera wrote:Zi is a rather frequent patron of the library by this time. The question is, how familiar is Fern with magical evul voices in heads? It's not inconceivable he notices what precisely Zi is researching on after some time. Mayhaps we can pull in interaction from that node?

I was under the impression that Zi was currently unconscious?

Krika wrote:

agoraoptera wrote:Zi is a rather frequent patron of the library by this time. The question is, how familiar is Fern with magical evul voices in heads? It's not inconceivable he notices what precisely Zi is researching on after some time. Mayhaps we can pull in interaction from that node?

I was under the impression that Zi was currently unconscious?

Stories can be posted out of order. They could have met weeks ago.

Krika wrote:

agoraoptera wrote:Zi is a rather frequent patron of the library by this time. The question is, how familiar is Fern with magical evul voices in heads? It's not inconceivable he notices what precisely Zi is researching on after some time. Mayhaps we can pull in interaction from that node?

I was under the impression that Zi was currently unconscious?

Yeah, but I'm thinking after she gets up. No harm planning ahead.

Okay, I can't remember it and now I'm curious. Did Floor One's city ever had a name? If yes, what name was it again?

Cowville. You know you can trust me, because I'm saying it on the internet.