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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I was thinking back today and noticed I made a critical mistake in Las Noches for this game.
I gave every espada their own little (ok, massive) palace in their own little (fine, titanic) sector.
Why is this a critical mistake? Because it splits the main characters of Hueco Mundo apart (Hueco Mundo has pretty much always been about court games). Hueco Mundo was active in the last game because everyone was cramped in the Royal Palace 90% of the time. I will have to do something to bring that dynamic back.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
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Originally Posted by
Draken
I was thinking back today and noticed I made a critical mistake in Las Noches for this game.
I gave every espada their own little (ok, massive) palace in their own little (fine, titanic) sector.
Why is this a critical mistake? Because it splits the main characters of Hueco Mundo apart (Hueco Mundo has pretty much always been about court games). Hueco Mundo was active in the last game because everyone was cramped in the Royal Palace 90% of the time. I will have to do something to bring that dynamic back.
I'm sure you could justify forcing them all to move. Perhaps recent changes in who's in what position have made you rectify this mistake?
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
Maybe it has come to the Ghost King's attention that his Espada and their respective Fraccion are much too prone to acting like children in his immediate absence, and thus decides to punish them by having them hang out in the Royal Palace until ordered otherwise?
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
My post in MW (the latter part, mostly) is open for any SWORD members to jump in on; I figure that group needs at least a bit more action and character introductions.
I won't kick anything off in SS yet, but I do still think someone ought to see what's going on soon-ish.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
A notice: as you might have noticed from my lack of posting past week, I'm out of motivation and out of inspiration to do anything with or for the game. As such, I'll be taking an indeterminably long break. No, I don't have any directions to give you for my characters, and don't come asking for any. I won't be checking or updating the registry, and I sure as hell aren't going to update the "story so far" listing - someone should darn well pick up the slack.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
At this point, it might be good to take stock of where we stand. Between people just drifting away, and definite breaks/leavings/whatever, it feels like our roster's taken a hit.
If I may be so bold, I'd like to ask who's still trying to be active with this game. It may take some time for those with more erratic personal schedules to post, and I realize that.
Anyways. I am still trying to be active around here.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I'm still trying to be active, but stuff is going on and I need responses in MW and SS.
...I do need to post with Mei, though. I'll get on that ASAP.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
i am active and plan to be as long as people will RP with me
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Originally Posted by
KnightDisciple
At this point, it might be good to take stock of where we stand. Between people just drifting away, and definite breaks/leavings/whatever, it feels like our roster's taken a hit.
If I may be so bold, I'd like to ask who's still trying to be active with this game. It may take some time for those with more erratic personal schedules to post, and I realize that.
Anyways. I am still trying to be active around here.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I'll take a defibrilator the size of Mos Eisley to this game's chest if I have to.
Goddammit, it feels like every time I get involved with something cool, it dies. I'm not having that.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I'm still here, I just haven't felt like I've had much chance to do anything with my characters.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I can't say for sure, to be quite honest. Some things have changed in my life, and it's hard to get the motivation to post. But if I do decide to leave, I will do what I can to close any loose ends.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I suppose I'm still part of this. But we update about the same pace as a speeding snail, which is quite a dilemma.
But yeah Draken, just make everyone move into the palace. Why? You don't get to ask why, the Ghost King is the leader.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I do believe the slowness of the game is starting to wear on most of us. It just doesn't feel that fun when everything is so bloody slow.
I will work on doing some IC changes on Las Noches... And make the official cleanup for the espada roster. As well as start taking official applicants for...
Novena, Tercera and Primera.
Oh that is gonna take a long post. And I am afraid what I plan to do will be slightly on the OP end of Von Geister's bioengineering powers.
I will say he ate Pan and Arcelia to muster the energy to do it. Hehehe. Time to remodel the city with Soberano de La Evolucion.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
Okay. Here to say that I'm still in and throw in Pico's application for, at least, Novena.
Also, as for Hasunaga and his date, Carmelia's still waiting for Viatrix to make her Gigai so she doesn't have to worry about being eaten. Or should she get booted through into the Mortal World conveniently? Actually, scratch that. A better question would be if she should come through at all, as I have an idea as to why she'll show up.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
Rouga sez you gotta complete your training first, boyo.
Also, Frozen... I really hope you come back soon.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I'm still active, and am actually trying to write a post for Mayumi and Vincent to respond to recent Mortal World events. My current slowness is still due to school problems, but I do want to see this thing through.
Regarding the Samsara, I'd like it if everyone who's playing a Samsara character would send me a PM, I want to make sure I know who's playing who in our little gang that apparently belongs to me now. I'd like to go ahead and get that started soon after school ends, in a desperate attempt to shock some life into this RP.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
Shame that FF is on a hiatus, cause he was part of a plot with Sora.
Who wants to take Elder's place to go tell Sora to stop being a crazypants? I think that Silva does!
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
Hey, Hasunaga could always dig up more embarassing pictures of Sora to help him straighten up his act.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
if there is going to be a bunch of changes in positions and ranks etc. should we perhaps jump forward a specific amount of time?
that would allow a fresh start to some degree as well as limiting a bunch of exposition RP to get through the changes...brief exposition after the jump woudl be necessary to some degree, but each player could take care of it in their initial RP posts...
if we wanted to do that Zombie idea it might make for a good place to jump back into a timeline
what are the current storylines going on that woudl need to be finished up before a time skip?
also...as Callos is gone...what woudl happen to the Fraccion of the Primera? I am one of them and i can try to RP somethign out or if there is a skip in time he coudl end up wherever... just asking is all
also...if it wasnt clear through his RP i would like to apply for 9th Cpt with Hirokatsu Goto
if Hirokatsu was granted Cpt then i would apply for Taro as Lt of 10th as well..or as Lt of another division if we are in need...
i know we have rules on who plays what types of characters...but not having players in certain roles does dimish the ability to RP in the Gotei to some degree...i dont like the idea of people playing multiple Cpt roles or anything, but not having anyone in those roles at all does stagnate the possibilities...
if the Central 5 want to make generic characters to fill those spots and hand them out to peopel to NPC until someone made a PC character for it or something that woudl work as well... even the "deaths" of those blanket NPC characters would be of some cool RP as well... (ranging from somethign simple liek a death from old age, promotion to zero division, self sacrifice to stop a bad guy, death in battle, all the way to somethign short to explain a new antagonist or situation...ie..Samsara, Bount, Zombies, whatever really)
disposable characters can have their uses both for filling gaps until membership comes along as well as for RP exposition and RP advancement
sorry to babble.... just trying to help is all
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I think we should hold off on any large timeskips in the immediate sense. Right now, we need to take stock of our playerbase, and hash out just what we want to do.
Also, I'd rather have "empty" slots than having people playing 2-3 Captains/Vice-Captains. The same applies for Espada (though Fraccion are inexact enough in rank that having some isn't as big of a deal).
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
that makes sense KD...which is why i brought up the idea of player run generic NPCs for main positions just so people could RP their characters in certain divisions...since the Gotei is a military and orders are usually how people are placed into RP situations..
but i defintiely understand taking a moment to figure out who we have and what we all want to do...
maybe if we prepared for a timeskip by tying up RP it could provide an opportunity to restart with what comes of that "hashing out" you referred to
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KnightDisciple
I think we should hold off on any large timeskips in the immediate sense. Right now, we need to take stock of our playerbase, and hash out just what we want to do.
Also, I'd rather have "empty" slots than having people playing 2-3 Captains/Vice-Captains. The same applies for Espada (though Fraccion are inexact enough in rank that having some isn't as big of a deal).
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I believe it might also behoove us to seek out potentially interested players. As each of us happens to be fairly prolific players, I'm sure we've run into other people with a similar interest in freeform. The game is STILL open to all, so if anyone wants to invite, now's the time.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I dunno why the glacial pace occurred initially, but it is the intrinsic problem that needs to be fixed. It's bad when I say I want to play, then realize that it's been a week and I still haven't really needed to post anything.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I'm still here, but with nothing to post in any more (now that Callos and Frozen left; Yuudai, Gwen, and Anita really have lost a major part of their character)
This leaves me with Paramonos, Eirene, and Yuudai if I decide to keep him.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
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tgva8889
I dunno why the glacial pace occurred initially, but it is the intrinsic problem that needs to be fixed. It's bad when I say I want to play, then realize that it's been a week and I still haven't really needed to post anything.
Well, the problem is we've had several people who seemed to not feel like posting this week, as well as two very important role-players quit (and berry's not as active by his own admission). It's just one of those weeks. Which is why I said we need to take our bearings, so we can dive back in with more force and speed.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
is Frozen totally gone? may be i just cant read between the lines well enough
....regardless, what's the next step in figuring how to go forward?
wait a week to see who responds about wantring to be active? im just curious is all...
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
On FF: I dunno. Maybe he'll be back. I'm assuming he's ditched us for realz.
On figuring out where we are: Some of that is letting a few of the more minor plots currently ongoing wrap up. Some of it is seeing who all still wants to take part. Some is seeing if we can get some good new blood in the short-term.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I can't speak for Frozen, but I don't think he's left in a definitive fashion. As per his own words, he wouldn't leave his characters without tying the appropriate loose ends.
Anyway, I think one of our initial priorities should be to find new players. Not only is our roster severely diminished at the moment (seriously, we've got three Espada spots and well over half of the Divisions Captain-less), some fresh ideas could be a big help. Thus far the most I could suggest to get the ball rolling again was a zombie-like plot, and I'm afraid that's a little unimaginative, even for me.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I think that there must be new story for Mortal World thread. It would be nice to see more small stories too I think. It seems to have a big story is difficult to have everyone participate in always.
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Re: [BitP:R] BleachITP Reborn OOC Thread 15: Eye of the Tiger... Hollow
I'm not talking about current glacial pace, I'm talking about OVERALL glacial pace. The game has ALWAYS been slow, and that's a problem that needs addressing because if we don't and we just try to address current slowness, we will just hit another roadblock. We lost players before now, players who were very involved originally, because of the glacial pace, who were involved from the start. I feel that we should really address the main problem of slowness in the game.
I really don't want this game to die because I'm only as good a writer and roleplayer as I am (well, decent, maybe not that good) because of this game. I think recent events have led me to believe the in-game slowness is a much larger problematic issue, one that we aren't solving and one that needs to be targeted, addressed, and solved by the community. I mean, should I really be considered an "active player" considering that I post seriously maybe once or twice a week? At the pace that this game has been moving, that level of posting is enough, which is saddening.
Yes, I do also agree that we need to build recruitment, Kuroimaken. But new players are not going to be able to easily join this game at the slow pace it operates. Plots are unclear and relatively restricted currently. There is not an easy entry point. When I joined the previous game, there was no easy entry point. I actually just decided to take a sledgehammer and bash one in. Not everyone is going to do that. We need that entry point to exist.
I dunno. I don't have many great ideas in a typeable form (it's very late I should be asleep) but we do need to address problems in the game.
If we are looking for a plot, we need something that can involve 1) a wide majority of characters with 2) minimal reliance on any specific characters to move the plot along. Can we, like, have a festival or something? Have people come up with their own things to do for the festival, and just do it.