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[FWM] OOC 5: Egocentric Changeling Hive
A place to discuss OOC ideas about the MLP Friendship is was Magic RP.
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Q: How dark is this RP?
A: Somewhere below 'Happy Sunshine Fun Land' and above 'Hopeless'. Happy endings are the bulk of life, but the possibility always exists for a sad ending. Darkness also runs rampant across the world and is always lurking outside the safe walls of town.
Q: What is the tech level?
A: I think the general consensus is 'Steampunk' right now. There may be occasional alien technology influence as well.
Q: What is the general policy on weapons?
A: Equestria is an armed society right now. Every military member, including the common town guards, carries a potentially lethal weapon with them everywhere, even off duty. Even civilian ponies are commonly seen carrying weapons. However, it is standard practice to never draw your weapon unless you intend to use it. Drawing a weapon, for whatever reason, is considered a hostile act by most ponies.
Q: How dangerous is the town of Bridle Shores?
A: Interesting question. The town has seen much more than its fair share of action and odd occurrences over the years since its founding, and no one can say why this is. Skirmishes with monsters at one or more town entrances happen almost daily, and certain loud noises are common enough that they no longer enough by themselves to induce a panic in any town resident. That said, the Town Guard and Militia are good at what they do, and few things are a high enough threat level to greatly disrupt life in the town for long. In D&D terms, this is a town where your neighbor is likely to have one or more levels in a PC class.
Q: How are threats classified?
A: Threat Ranks (guidelines):
F-Rank - Helpless. No threat at all.
E-Rank - Mild threat. Only about as dangerous as an average civilian.
D-Rank - Competent combatant. Not something a pony could be expected to defeat without combat training.
C-Rank - Dangerous combatant. Not something your average soldier could defeat reliably.
B-Rank - Highly dangerous. Defeating something like this is what makes your average heroes. Super-Mook/Sub-Boss/Early Boss status.
A-Rank - Extremely dangerous. 'You and what army?' is no longer a joke at this point. Big Sub-Boss/Late Boss status.
A-Rank+ - Army Killers, unofficial ranking. No official is really willing to admit that such dangers even exist at all. End boss status.
Q: Where is the Roleplay thread?
A: There's a link to it right below.
Q: Where can I post my character and find info on existing characters and backstory?
A: There's a link to that below too.
I am bad at puns, so here's a new thread instead.
RP overhaul information here!
(now with 100% more tags.)
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Re: [FWM] OOC 5: Egocentric Changeling Hive
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Lycan 01
Okay wow yeah that might actually surprise Prose just a tiny bit maybe. :smalleek:
If you aren't willing to tear off a limb for victory, you just don't believe in the cause! :smallfurious:
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Re: [FWM] OOC 5: Egocentric Changeling Hive
Thanks for making the thread, Grif. I was planning on making it this morning, so good job reading my mind and beating me to the punch. :smallbiggrin:
As usual, if anybody has any questions, post 'em here. With any luck, we'll have this big fight wrapped up soon and we can shift to scenes that are less inter-dependent on each other.
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TheAmishPirate
Thanks for making the thread, Grif. I was planning on making it this morning, so good job reading my mind and beating me to the punch. :smallbiggrin:
As usual, if anybody has any questions, post 'em here. With any luck, we'll have this big fight wrapped up soon and we can shift to scenes that are less inter-dependent on each other.
You're welcome. :smallsmile:
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Re: [FWM] OOC 5: Egocentric Changeling Hive
Here comes the poking stick. :smalltongue:
Benson for Misc Adventures.
Amish for Game of Ponies.
Myself and MCerberus for Backstage: Cut! (Possibly Lycan if Prose is still awake in the bar.) Also HalfTangible and Benson.
Merellis for the remainder of his post in the General thread, as well as any assorted responses to be made to him.
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Day off today, posts will be written up and added to thread. :smallsmile:
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Benson, we're waitin on you in the misc thread.
Last time everything exploded =/
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HalfTangible
Benson, we're waitin on you in the misc thread.
Last time everything exploded =/
Was such a beautiful explosion too. ;-;
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Re: [FWM] OOC 5: Egocentric Changeling Hive
Well, definitely been very quiet for the past few days. :smalltongue:
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The entire forum has been dead quiet. I think Academia is heating up before the storm cools down, plus it's Memorial Weekend in the U.S. of A. Once summer gets going, I reckon we'll see an explosion.
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Re: [FWM] OOC 5: Egocentric Changeling Hive
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Kelvin360
The entire forum has been dead quiet. I think Academia is heating up before the storm cools down, plus it's Memorial Weekend in the U.S. of A. Once summer gets going, I reckon we'll see an explosion.
That'll explain it. I been quite busy myself, so I can't quite devote time to this just yet.
(And still need to get that character worked out.)
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I can't blame business myself. I've had a lot of free time. I'm just sapped for creativity for a bit, I guess.
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My classes are ending (forEVERRRRRRRR) this week, plus it seems my characters are coming out of the holding pattern, so that's good.
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Re: [FWM] OOC 5: Egocentric Changeling Hive
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MCerberus
My classes are ending (forEVERRRRRRRR) this week, plus it seems my characters are coming out of the holding pattern, so that's good.
Good to hear that! :smallbiggrin:
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Right. Been a week since this has last been posted in, and the general RP has ground to a halt.
So, at risk of sounding pushy, are you guys okay with the pace? Do you think we need to change things up? Switch to a more GM-centric format? (Which would entail moving the Structured Games forum, I think.)
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The main problem is that the main thread has been in time lock for a long time with too many locking parts, making a feedback system of slow.
If we could break out of that, it would be great.
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I was under the impression that we were already operating under GM supervision. I think the Backstage thread is actually the only one without any, and it's doing the best overall. Not by much, mind you, but by fractions at least. Also I think we somehow lost half of our regular posters. I count Benson, Grif, me, MCerberus, Amish, Purity, Merellis, Orzel, Mindfreak, HalfTangible and Lycan as all of our involved players, I think.
Of those, only five have posted within the past week. Three in backstage (HalfTangible, Grif, and Benson), three here (me and MCerberus, and Grif again), and one in Game of Ponies (Amish). That means more than half of us are AWOL. I don't know if hyper-initializing DM supervision is the solution. What we really need to do is figure out who's even left. I know Purity said he was still floating around, but how many of us are waiting and how many are gone? That's what we need to figure out. And, if necessary, we may need to start from scratch with a timeskip and just one, maybe two threads. The main thread hasn't been used for 11 days and the Misc thread has been rotting for nearly two months. I have some ideas about this, but I'll spoiler them because we don't know if they're wanted or necessary.
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I don't think the threads we have are dispensable, exactly, we just need to contain what we've got to a smaller venue. Thus, the main thread should contain current events (in this case, Game of Ponies and, if the current battle doesn't pan out, a 'few days later' version of the main thread we have now), and the secondary thread should be a time-neutral zone, sort of a combination of everything happening outside of Bridle Shores with a sketchy timeframe and the Backstage events.
Our posts would end up being longer and more segmented by necessity, but is that really a bad thing? It'd certainly be easier to keep track of than four different threads.
So yeah. Sound the clarion call for everyone even thinking about posting at some point to post here about their availability, and THEN we can act. Personally, I favor downsizing either way, but it depends on what we've got to work with.
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MCerberus
The main problem is that the main thread has been in time lock for a long time with too many locking parts, making a feedback system of slow.
If we could break out of that, it would be great.
That is true. I think I'll try to rouse Merellis to post his other half and we'll see how we go from there.
@Kelvin
A fresh start/timeskip is a good idea. At this rate, all the threads are carrying a significant amount of baggage and interlocking time-freezes.
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I know Purity said he was still floating around, but how many of us are waiting and how many are gone? That's what we need to figure out. And, if necessary, we may need to start from scratch with a timeskip and just one, maybe two threads. The main thread hasn't been used for 11 days and the Misc thread has been rotting for nearly two months. I have some ideas about this, but I'll spoiler them because we don't know if they're wanted or necessary.
You make a good point as well. A roll call and taking stock on who's left so that we don't end up waiting endlessly for a post that'll never come will be key to getting somewhere.
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Part of the problem has been that I've been having less time to handle this game, owing to a myriad of real-life things cropping up. Otherwise, I would've tried to get a handle on this much, much sooner. :smallsigh:
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Grif
That is true. I think I'll try to rouse Merellis to post his other half and we'll see how we go from there.
@Kelvin
A fresh start/timeskip is a good idea. At this rate, all the threads are carrying a significant amount of baggage and interlocking time-freezes.
Both of these are good ideas that I approve of. Going forward, we also won't have these large-scale battles, simply because we don't have the speed and population to pull them off. Scenes and conflicts will be much smaller and focused to keep things moving.
Additionally, a time-skip would give folks chances to introduce new characters that they've been brewing up.
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You make a good point as well. A roll call and taking stock on who's left so that we don't end up waiting endlessly for a post that'll never come will be key to getting somewhere.
I do know that Mindfreak formally left a few months ago. And while Orzel seems to want to post, real-life is hitting him hard. Until we get a confirmation that he's free and ready and able to post, we should treat his characters as sidelined for now.
Poor Sandy will have to cope without the help of his special somepony, it seems. :smallamused:
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@Roll call: I'm here. Benson just made a post, so he's here.
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HalfTangible
@Roll call: I'm here. Benson just made a post, so he's here.
Aye, we can count Benson in.
Another thing I'd suggest is to start consolidating threads and storylines. Quite likely Misc Adventures can be merged back to the General thread, while Game of Ponies is up in the air. I don't think it's affecting anything at the moment, but it's also progressing at a snail's pace, which might make keeping interest difficult.
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I'm here. Kinda had to pull out of the "Backstage" thread, but I'm still active in the main thread. My sole character is just tied up in the big battle thing right now, so I haven't got much room or reason to post. :smalltongue:
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Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I'm just still trying to figure out what to post in Backstage, and I'm waiting on people in the main thread.
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For the record, I have no plan for what's going on in the backstage thread now.
I'm just rping what makes sense for the characters to say and do and letting the chips fall where they may.
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Re: [FWM] OOC 5: Egocentric Changeling Hive
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HalfTangible
For the record, I have no plan for what's going on in the backstage thread now.
I'm just rping what makes sense for the characters to say and do and letting the chips fall where they may.
Don't worry, neither do I. :smallwink: (I had expected something chaotic, but well...)
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I actually have an idea for something after a little time skip.
Now, who wants to be someone "in" on it. I need 1-3 kidnapping volunteers.
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Re: [FWM] OOC 5: Egocentric Changeling Hive
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MCerberus
I actually have an idea for something after a little time skip.
Now, who wants to be someone "in" on it. I need 1-3 kidnapping volunteers.
I'm intrigued. Tell me more.
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I really seem to keep running into real-life stresses lately and just generally making you lot wait in general. :smallsigh:
Catching up on thread, posting tonight, and everything has slowed down for now so I can keep a far better schedule now.
Course I've said that before so lets see how that goes. :smallannoyed:
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Re: [FWM] OOC 5: Egocentric Changeling Hive
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Merellis
I really seem to keep running into real-life stresses lately and just generally making you lot wait in general. :smallsigh:
Catching up on thread, posting tonight, and everything has slowed down for now so I can keep a far better schedule now.
Course I've said that before so lets see how that goes. :smallannoyed:
Trust me; life is pretty good at beating us senseless. I know that feel all too well. :smallsigh:
If you need help with anything, just let us know.
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TheAmishPirate
Trust me; life is pretty good at beating us senseless. I know that feel all too well. :smallsigh:
If you need help with anything, just let us know.
I'll be annoying the hell out of Grif later. :smalltongue:
As for Game of Pony's, think you can hop on Steam or something this week? :smallbiggrin: