June 1st - June 19th
It's almost summer! The last few weeks of school have come, and students will need to study hard for their final exams! Don't let up yet, or your grades won't be what you want them to. Of course, the weather is almost perfect and pristine, in attempts to lure students away from their studies.
Timing Poll So...Rei and I were talking (dangerous, I know) and we started to think about the time block, and how things are starting to lag, not just post-wise but plot-wise as well. And we were thinking that we could make it to the end of this March time block, and then fast foward to June, take care of exams, end of year funness, and then move into summer. Once summer comes, all players will be allowed to either advance their characters a year, or drop characters that they don't want to play anymore, seeing as a fresh start for a fresh year is always so...refreshing. And then we can start to formulate and get big plans together in the Plot Discussion about the plot for year two at ANDHC. OR we could keep to the plan and play out every month. So here's a poll for you guys to vote and give us some input on what you think. All input is much appreciated. Show results
Anothe rboard I'm on has a special time system where 3 or 4 mon In Real Life = I year In Character. So for example, Jaunary to April would be played as one year, then your character adavances to the next year. Then the same happens from May to August, and again our character moves up a year. So by the end of Real Life year, your character has advanced three years.
January to April
1st Year
May to August
2nd Year
October to December
3rd Year
Personally I love this system because you can start a character really young then after two years have them graduate XD It also allows players to design epic-type plots that go on for years in their characters lives. Like, their father could die in their first year, their mothe rin their seoncd and by their third they're really twisted Sorry, I just saw that emoticon hehehe.
So yeh, that's my suggestion
Lyssa Kerr
Bridget "Brid" Campbell
1st Year Ravenclaw Fly on the Wall
Adrienne Denton
4th Year Ravenclaw
Chaser It's all in the Details...
Jordyn Huntington
4th Year Gryffindor Eh?
Sera Tilton
7th Year Gryffindor
Prefect/Chaser Overachiever
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I've seen that type of RP played out - as in, I'm on a board like that too. *G* I like the concept, but sometimes I find things move almost a little too quickly. If done properly, it works, but at the same time it's sometimes hard to work in both the huge plots and the character development. If that makes sense?
I've got a question that's semi-related Do we know what point the kidnapees are getting back to their regular lives, or is that dependant on how time progresses and how the plots work themselves out and stuff? And another question in relation... Will Adrienne have to repeat fourth year since she's missed a good half of it? *g*
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Weeeell, Pan was supposed to release them during that thread you guys had going back in March RP-verse. >.< I'm guessing we can assume that they WERE released, and she can work herself back into the year, or we can say they've yet to be discovered. Whatever you want, Lyssa, seeing as Adrienne's the only active character in the mix at the moment.
I like the sound of watching characters grow up and such, but same thing as Lyssa said, I'm afraid it might move too fast. In which I guess we could toy around with the number of months and say 6 OOC months = 1 IC year? Everyone should definitely give input on this, because the idea is intriguing!
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Well. Yay for mentally scarred Adrienne! I'd rather not play her repeating the year so.... yeah. We'll just say she's been rather shell-shocked up until this point. It's probably true
That time frame was actually what I was going to suggest - 6 months sounds like a long time, but really isn't, and it leaves enough time to get some decent threads done both plot wise and otherwise. Not that it can't be done in three months or anything... It's just harder. *shrug* Maybe try that out, and then see what people think about halfway through or so?
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I'm thinking it might be better for keeping people interested and such. Because even I can admit that the current time is waaay too long and drags out, and it's like, some times are plot full, others aren't, and this way they all CAN be! And we can get long term plots going too, seeing as they CAN stretch over a year or two and it won't take some four years to get it RPed out.
So yeah, I think I'm kinda liking the one year in six months. We can divvy up the months like, September to December in two months, then January to June in four months. Since there's only four months before Winter Break and stuff.
Lyssa Kerr
Bridget "Brid" Campbell
1st Year Ravenclaw Fly on the Wall
Adrienne Denton
4th Year Ravenclaw
Chaser It's all in the Details...
Jordyn Huntington
4th Year Gryffindor Eh?
Sera Tilton
7th Year Gryffindor
Prefect/Chaser Overachiever
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Sounds like a plan to me. I like the six months plan, and I'm also all for the jumping to June ...
Though, Lianne and Devon's relationship has only just started, and, depending on how long they stay together, I wanted to have more of a chance to play them ... meh, I can work that out with Rei. No worries. Besides, I'll soon be able to just play Lianne. *pats Lynn, who is thinking about the best way to 'go out'*
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*thinks* well I think that it's a grand idea to try and move things along easier, but I'm going to have to disagree with doing like, 4-6 months in two months. There are some of us who are exceedingly busy and can be gone for weeks, and even months at a time. Just for example, during mock trial season, Rei was almost nonexistant at the board because of the sheer amount of work that she had to do. Looking at it at the possibly new RP style, that is a huge chunk out of 2 months, and a huge chunk out of any plots that she wanted to accomplish with her/other people's characters (sorry to use you as an example rei but it just fits so well cause it clearly demonstrates how busy we all can get ^^). Times where people are gone for a week because of holidays or grounded or exams or studying or anything would cut drastically into RP time, especially if they miss a whole week or more out of two months when that two months is devoted to covering the entirety of FOUR (or more) RP months. There is a lot that happens across 4 or more months, and to try and cram everything into 2 months with all of the university, high school, sports, work, holiday, grounded, drama, exams, papers, homework, band, clubs, mock trial, real teenage drama, and all of the other things that we do (since most of us are students), it's almost unfathomable to look at 4 or more months and expect us to cram everything into 2.
I mean, if you look at how things go now, it's hard enough to finish 3 threads in the amount of time that we have alotted for 1 or 2 month RP time. That means that each person will generally only be able to handle 3 or so RP threads per month. Like. September-December. I'd be able to handle one thread per month, with just one character, basically, which really cuts down on character development/interaction. Or, I'd end up having to split one thread per character. October: Puck gets a thread, November: Lucian gets a thread, etc etc. Not even counting plot threads that I might be involved in. We'd also end up foregoing most holiday celebrations, because the Masque (or whatever we put in place of the Masque for next year) and the December ball (whatever it may be) would be in the same time slot. It's hard enough to get people to post in them when they're not happening at the same time, but when they are their attentions will be split across those 2 threads, plus whatever character threads they want, plus whatever plot threads they might be involved in.
I do agree that things are lagging, and that there are months when things lag more because we don't have a lot plotwise, but it just seems a bit hasty to move things so quickly when so few of us have time to sit around and stare at the board for hours on end. I mean, all of us have pockets of time where we're not busy and we're just sitting around trying to post, but then we all have hectic times where we can hardly sit down at the computer for more than 5 minutes.
I hope it doesn't sound like I'm being too much of a wet blanket. I do think that we need to change something. Perhaps we should just speed up in the times that the plot DOESN'T have a lot of activity, or something, if we want to get things moving. Or we can jump or skip or. Something. I don't know, I just think that it's a bit much to speed along in the other time table. You know?
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Yeah, I definitely agree, Seshi. I do like the idea of speeding it up so it doesn't lag, but missing like...two months of our characters lives just from being absent for a bit doesn't make sense. >.<
Aaand I had more to say, but I have to leave now, so I'll type it up later.
I'd like that! Just because i've been so busy and I'd love to have the time to build on my characters and have fun with them. It seems like lately I haven't been able to actively post with anything and threads sort of drift off. Having more time will mean more complete and thorough threads that really make a stable and developing plot.
Hm?
Lyssa Kerr
Bridget "Brid" Campbell
1st Year Ravenclaw Fly on the Wall
Adrienne Denton
4th Year Ravenclaw
Chaser It's all in the Details...
Jordyn Huntington
4th Year Gryffindor Eh?
Sera Tilton
7th Year Gryffindor
Prefect/Chaser Overachiever
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Actually Mal, one year for an IC year is shorter than what we're doing now... >.<
It would probably be easier to do it that way, don't you think? It might be hard to get caught up in the time, though. Well, I mean, unless we jump ahead to April RIGHT now and then play from there. But then that means we can't jump ahead to June and such...
Lyssa Kerr
Bridget "Brid" Campbell
1st Year Ravenclaw Fly on the Wall
Adrienne Denton
4th Year Ravenclaw
Chaser It's all in the Details...
Jordyn Huntington
4th Year Gryffindor Eh?
Sera Tilton
7th Year Gryffindor
Prefect/Chaser Overachiever
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Mmm.... That'd be confusing. Plus, I know that I personally (along with a lot of people, I think) have more free time in the summer than during the school year... So RPing out the summer months (which may or may not have a lot of activity, depend on what happens) during the real summer months doesn't make much sense to me... If that makes sense? I'm not being very coherent today. *shakes fist at math*
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Mmph yeah that does make sense. So we're probably better off just jumping ahead to June after this block, finish off the year with a final plot point thing, and then go into summer. And then decide the summer time frame when we reach it, I guess.
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End of this block... whenever that is? I'm hoping it's not soon, because I'm kinda wanting to actually do some RPing, but with the way school is now I'm lucky enough to even get on the computer. *le sigh*
Timing Poll
And then we can start to formulate and get big plans together in the Plot Discussion about the plot for year two at ANDHC. OR we could keep to the plan and play out every month. So here's a poll for you guys to vote and give us some input on what you think. 
All input is much appreciated. 
Sorry, I just saw that emoticon hehehe.
Do we know what point the kidnapees are getting back to their regular lives, or is that dependant on how time progresses and how the plots work themselves out and stuff? And another question in relation... Will Adrienne have to repeat fourth year since she's missed a good half of it? *g*
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