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<blockquote data-quote="orsal" data-source="post: 5119553" data-attributes="member: 16016"><p><strong>a note on activity (or lack thereof) in the tavern thread</strong></p><p></p><p>Regarding the inactivity recently in the tavern thread: that means that nobody has been role-playing what's happening there. It doesn't mean that our characters all suddenly vanished.</p><p></p><p>Keep in mind that we have an unexplained "variable time" mechanic in LEW. There's no scale for converting real-time to game-time. In some threads, it takes six months to play out a day's activity; in others, a week of game time goes by in a single DM post.</p><p></p><p>If the last post in the tavern thread was months ago, that doesn't mean that in months of game time the place has been quiet. More likely, that period of several months of real time represents a few seconds of game time. That way, when life returns to the thread, there is no discontinuity. On the other hand, to suppose that everybody suddenly left without any indication -- if the last post was someone talking, and that person has not since been indicated to have left, then that assumption would force an awkward discontinuity on the thread.</p><p></p><p>HolyMan, you may want to edit your recent tavern post to take this interpretation into consideration.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orsal, post: 5119553, member: 16016"] [b]a note on activity (or lack thereof) in the tavern thread[/b] Regarding the inactivity recently in the tavern thread: that means that nobody has been role-playing what's happening there. It doesn't mean that our characters all suddenly vanished. Keep in mind that we have an unexplained "variable time" mechanic in LEW. There's no scale for converting real-time to game-time. In some threads, it takes six months to play out a day's activity; in others, a week of game time goes by in a single DM post. If the last post in the tavern thread was months ago, that doesn't mean that in months of game time the place has been quiet. More likely, that period of several months of real time represents a few seconds of game time. That way, when life returns to the thread, there is no discontinuity. On the other hand, to suppose that everybody suddenly left without any indication -- if the last post was someone talking, and that person has not since been indicated to have left, then that assumption would force an awkward discontinuity on the thread. HolyMan, you may want to edit your recent tavern post to take this interpretation into consideration. [/QUOTE]
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