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Hang on Likar are you referring to the church burning down in Zjaum's post and if so are you working in tandem with them?

Camelone wrote:Hang on Likar are you referring to the church burning down in Zjaum's post and if so are you working in tandem with them?

As an organization they're able to make any claim they want, but I didn't coordinate with him concerning the update.

All right, everyone! We have two posts, so I'll be updating shortly!

I apologize for not updating. I hope to update soon.

Anyone want to give me a heads up as to what's been happening? Thanks.

Talchyon wrote:Anyone want to give me a heads up as to what's been happening? Thanks.

Switch out the FBI meeting in Memphis to a papal meeting in Rome. We've been discussing things, and one church burnt down.

Apologies; update will have to be tomorrow. Finals week is hectic.

Hello, everyone! We're back!

I apologize for the lackluster post, but I would like more people to jump in on the conversation, perhaps adding a bit of their own external affairs from outside the meeting if possible. I want this to be open-ended, rather than a narrow pathway down which I shuffle all you guys.

In the meantime, Talchyon and Bruke should be back, and I look forward to reading what they have to contribute!

Zjaum wrote:Hello, everyone! We're back!

I apologize for the lackluster post, but I would like more people to jump in on the conversation, perhaps adding a bit of their own external affairs from outside the meeting if possible. I want this to be open-ended, rather than a narrow pathway down which I shuffle all you guys.

In the meantime, Talchyon and Bruke should be back, and I look forward to reading what they have to contribute!

I am back! Glad for Easter.

Let me read up first and catch up, then I'll bring my characters in.

-Talc

All right! Once Bruke posts, I'll have an update!

Zjaum wrote:All right! Once Bruke posts, I'll have an update!

Oh shoot the post! I'll get on that and be done at the end of this week by the latest

All right, everybody! I think it may be a bit too late, but I've got something. We're no longer wandering in the dark anymore, folks!

In the meantime, I hope you guys can find it in you to post, and I hope we get more people soon!

Zjaum wrote:All right, everybody! I think it may be a bit too late, but I've got something. We're no longer wandering in the dark anymore, folks!

In the meantime, I hope you guys can find it in you to post, and I hope we get more people soon!

Great! I'm still scratching my head on what to do with those protesters......

I'll get something up.

Anyone still here?

Zjaum wrote:Anyone still here?

I'm here, just finals are coming up.

I'm back, sorry for my long absence. Hopefully the RP didn't die out when I was away.

Bruke wrote:I'm back, sorry for my long absence. Hopefully the RP didn't die out when I was away.

I think it did. I tried to prop it up, but I don't have the skill to make it interesting, and no one else had the interest to keep it going. Sorry.

Zjaum wrote:

Bruke wrote:I'm back, sorry for my long absence. Hopefully the RP didn't die out when I was away.

I think it did. I tried to prop it up, but I don't have the skill to make it interesting, and no one else had the interest to keep it going. Sorry.

Aww man!

Bruke wrote:

Zjaum wrote:I think it did. I tried to prop it up, but I don't have the skill to make it interesting, and no one else had the interest to keep it going. Sorry.

Aww man!

No worries. If you want to pick it up, you'd definitely get support from me. I just can't do it well.

Zjaum wrote:

Bruke wrote:
Aww man!

No worries. If you want to pick it up, you'd definitely get support from me. I just can't do it well.

It's a tempting offer, what kind of skills do you need to keep the RP going?

I think what slowed down the roleplay had to do with lack of, maybe impetus is the word? There were characters ready to have various conflicts, but it was hard to see where those conflicts could be kicked off. A reboot could solve that problem perhaps by having a big catastrophic event that starts things rolling (say, the Pope has been shot by one of the sectarians). Another option, something I do with my roleplays but that doesn't necessarily fit for every RP, is to have defined milestones or finish lines. For instance, I had a roleplay where people were trapped in an elevator, and after a certain period of IC time the elevator would explode. Or in a roleplay I'm doing now — Zjuam is a part of it — everything is building up to an election. So these things that are going to definitively end the roleplay drive it while it does exist.

Vienna Eliot wrote:I think what slowed down the roleplay had to do with lack of, maybe impetus is the word? There were characters ready to have various conflicts, but it was hard to see where those conflicts could be kicked off. A reboot could solve that problem perhaps by having a big catastrophic event that starts things rolling (say, the Pope has been shot by one of the sectarians). Another option, something I do with my roleplays but that doesn't necessarily fit for every RP, is to have defined milestones or finish lines. For instance, I had a roleplay where people were trapped in an elevator, and after a certain period of IC time the elevator would explode. Or in a roleplay I'm doing now — Zjuam is a part of it — everything is building up to an election. So these things that are going to definitively end the roleplay drive it while it does exist.

Sure, perhaps. Very few of the climaxes of Christianity ever seriously concluded anything, so we can't really build up to one big thing. Still, the assassination is a good idea. I might think about that.