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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binder Fred" data-source="post: 4193785" data-attributes="member: 63746">I've always been more of a pbem man myself, but that's what you call Fluid Time : there *is* no present, everything is fluid until all scenes have come to their respective conclusion. Given the slowness of posting, you simultaniously play (bits of) scenes that don't actually occur at the same time in the order of narration. The only requirement is that you know the end situation of side-scenes (and get there) so the scenes can hook up to each other and form the finished story. So we *could* have gone the table-top/order of narration way and stopped at Baran seing the thieves in his hut and myself asking for spot rolls. Waited for Renau to describe his character's actions. I would then have rolled, Dave would then have answered with results on both our actions.  And so on before moving on to the running scene and then the entering the woods scene. That takes a heck of a lot of time in a forum game. In this case, since we know the outcome of both earlier scenes (thieves get away and enter the woods) all those scenes can be played at the same time and so can the "before the robbery" scene with its "Suddenly there comes a crash and the sound of cursing voices from Baran's hut" end point. When each scene is finished writing, it is then slotted in its place in the order the characters actually experienced them, becoming the finished story. Takes a bit more care (and there *is* the occassional hook-up glitch) but this system ensures everybody has something to do and that things progress apace.In this case, first decide where your character is and what she was doing when all this occurs. Then decide her actions, wether she notices or not (roll a die if you wish). Describe away in the appropriate thread(s). She could come in as early as the curse and crash, at the screaming or at any other point. You decide... I take it you're used to something different?Binder Fred, watching the cultures clash.</blockquote>

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