OOC Kingdom of Ashes IV - Who's yo' daddy?

[AIM-54]

Whee! Look at the sparks fly!

Anyway, I think at this point it might be a good idea to sit down and come up with a list of the major things we want to do, prioritize them and then go about planning/undertaking them. All in the move forward state of mind, as I agree with Kennon's point about sequencing and whatnot. Missed opportunities are missed opportunities, let's go from where we are right now in the timeline. JMO.

Some of this stuff has been sorta bandied about, but mostly in an ad hoc manner. We've had stuff going on about Caer Albion, Jaine, the Bluestar, mercenaries and more (probably, my memory is kinda fuzzy), but we've sort of jumped from topic to topic as new things get thrown out, without ever really resolving what we were previously concerned about.

By laying out a comprehensive plan of sorts going on what we know and are concerned with right now, I think we'll be able to much more effectively tackle those tasks that need to be tackled. As events warrant we can make changes to our plan; priorities certainly can change based on events, but with this plan as a foundation, I think we'll have much less dead-time because we can't remember everything on game day or we're still fighting out what our priorities should be.

To begin, stuff that's kicking around that needs to be taken care of:

Caer Albion
Mercenaries
Bluestar
Jaine Succession/pregnancy etc.
Isle of Mourning

I'm sure there are more, but my memory sucks, so I'm going to stop there. None of those are in any priority order, I'm simply making an initial list from which we can begin to prioritize. Let's just get ideas out first before we begin prioritizing too, just to keep things organized and flowing in a sequential manner.

If I'm way off, feel free to ignore me.

 

[The_Universe]

A general note on IC discussions:

1) I know there are several completed IC discussions that have not reached the IC thread. Get them there, please. ALL of them. In-character, you can have secrets. Out of character, they're just annoying. Disclose! Post them for public consumption.

2) The one-on-one discussions between PCs and NPCs have gone a little too far. Please, try to visit NPCs in small groups, at least, or at least offer to include others in the discussion(s). The easy solution is to use gmail threads (reply-all, etc.), and allow people to pop in and out as they please, and as their schedules allow. Alternately, there's the IC thread, which I would also encourage. It also cuts down on secrets and information doubling, which is cool.

3) Whenever possible, I'd like RP to happen in the session. E-mail and msn are fun, but are poor subsititutes for real life interactions, even if based on fake stuff. I also realize it's not the most fun to watch if you're not involved in the discussion. So, I'll also ask that in-character discussions, ESPECIALLY in session, include as many people as possible. So, rather than having Xath talk to AB, Archonus talk to Cawys, Justice talk to Jaine, and L'Aurel talk to Dorn, take the whole Circle to talk to each of them. PLEASE. There are, of course, exceptions (like much of Jansten's stuff). But I'd like one-on-one conversations to be an exception, not the rule.

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It's far too late in the game to keep playing conversational chess. You all need to get on the same page, and stay there! Please!

If you're looking for clarification, I'm happy to provide.

 

[The_Universe]

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Just for the record, this was not intentional.

 

[The_Universe]

2 of 4

Even though I was joking about accidently triple posting last night.

 

[The_Universe]

This was actually the 3rd freakin' copy

I blame TSA's network.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

A general note on IC discussions:

I completely agree with all of that.

Everything that I have done that is postable has been posted. Do we want to set up a place or a way to post the MSN conversations that never got turned into "stories"?

 

[The_Universe]

But what I wanted to say was....

Whee! Look at the sparks fly!

Anyway, I think at this point it might be a good idea to sit down and come up with a list of the major things we want to do, prioritize them and then go about planning/undertaking them. All in the move forward state of mind, as I agree with Kennon's point about sequencing and whatnot. Missed opportunities are missed opportunities, let's go from where we are right now in the timeline. JMO.

Some of this stuff has been sorta bandied about, but mostly in an ad hoc manner. We've had stuff going on about Caer Albion, Jaine, the Bluestar, mercenaries and more (probably, my memory is kinda fuzzy), but we've sort of jumped from topic to topic as new things get thrown out, without ever really resolving what we were previously concerned about.

By laying out a comprehensive plan of sorts going on what we know and are concerned with right now, I think we'll be able to much more effectively tackle those tasks that need to be tackled. As events warrant we can make changes to our plan; priorities certainly can change based on events, but with this plan as a foundation, I think we'll have much less dead-time because we can't remember everything on game day or we're still fighting out what our priorities should be.

To begin, stuff that's kicking around that needs to be taken care of:

Caer Albion
Mercenaries
Bluestar
Jaine Succession/pregnancy etc.
Isle of Mourning

I'm sure there are more, but my memory sucks, so I'm going to stop there. None of those are in any priority order, I'm simply making an initial list from which we can begin to prioritize. Let's just get ideas out first before we begin prioritizing too, just to keep things organized and flowing in a sequential manner.

If I'm way off, feel free to ignore me.

Look's great. I think, IC, the current priority chain is:

1.) Caer Albion
--a. Mercenaries
2.) Isle of Mourning
--a. Bluestar
3.) Jaine's succession/pregnancy etc.
--a. Bluestar

The above groups the major problems, hopefully showing how the group seems to think they relate to one another. Am I close?

 

[The_Universe]

I completely agree with all of that.

Everything that I have done that is postable has been posted. Do we want to set up a place or a way to post the MSN conversations that never got turned into "stories"?

In fact, I would suggest that Msn conversations that are not stories get posted in the following format:

Cut out the extraneous discussion, and just have it be

Kaereth: Blah blah blah
Ol' Blue: Blah blah blah
Kaereth: blee blee blee
Your mom: wah wah wah

etc. It's not as pretty, but it gets the job done. Expediency is the key, here.

 

[Xath]

That'll make it alot easier. Putting stuff into story form has been holding me up quite a bit.

 

[The_Universe]

That'll make it alot easier. Putting stuff into story form has been holding me up quite a bit.

Cool beans. I saw the posts on the IC thread. That should help.

EVERYBODY: Now, let's get to some planning, again. JC has provided an excellent framework for initial discussion, on pretty much all the issues. I tried to group them, above. Any thoughts on whether I grouped them well?