Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (OOC Thread)

[Dire Lemming]

Ambrus can't help it. He's a droid in real life you know. Yeshua appreciates both the need for action, and the need for planning, one of his sisters is a captain you know. He's not that good at strategizing though so he's glad Lorem is.

I'm not the least bit angry with you Shayuri! How could I be angry with someone who says "Mew"? Well, if they were a jerk, that's how! But as far as I know you aren't, so that's besides the point. Yeshua kind of feels like a big brother to Kestrel, so he's just trying to get her to act more like he think a Jedi should.

 

[Voda Vosa]

I like both types of action, I mean action and... the other that is not action... what ever.

But now it's time for action!

I think >.<

 

[Ambrus]

Honestly, I didn't think this much planning would be necessary either. I figured the group would arrive on Ossus and receive a comprehensive briefing telling us where we should go to fight the pirates. But that wasn't the case.

Frankly I don't understand how we could have sped up the research more than we did. We just now figured out where the next pirate raid would be. Up until that moment all our characters could have done was to go to the Farnost system and wander aimlessly around the eight planets in the hopes that we'd eventually bump into a pirate ship.

If your action-oriented characters had a better plan all along I'd love to have heard it. Did I miss an easier methodology somewhere? You guys know something I don't? :\

 

[Shayuri]

Smee...I didn't mean to sound like I was criticizing.

I was just trying to explain why Kestrel was so quiet. I wasn't trying to imply that anyone else was doing something "wrong" or that I disagreed with.

 

[Dire Lemming]

See? Every game needs an Ambrus. We probably would have wandered off without researching anything, and possum would have had to have come up with some barely plausible reason for us finding a clue.

 

[Ambrus]

I didn't mean to sound snappy; I'm just saying that perhaps all this researching and debating wasn't what I had planned for either, but roleplaying our way through it seems to be part of the challenge involved in defeating these pirates. Consequently I'm trying to work my way through it as efficiently and as quickly as possible. Doing everyone's else's thinking is exhausting!

I'm afraid I have trouble understanding the "my character is waiting for the action to start" standpoint. Instead of patiently waiting on the sidelines so your characters can finally "do stuff" why not do stuff to try helping the process along through roleplaying? Imagine if all our characters simply stood around with our lightsabers in hand while waiting for the pirates to show up. *cue the sound of crickets*

If you really don't want to participate in this part of the adventure then you could have made that clear upfront so that I'd know not to try and involve your character by asking for his non-existent opinion and then needlessly waiting around for a response. :\

 

[possum]

I'm not complaining at all. After getting my bearings, I kind of liked having to come up with all of the stuff. It's very realistic, too.

 

[Ambrus]

Can I ask then; how were you expecting us to find the pirates?

 

[Shayuri]

Whoa...blow the whistle, ref. *fwee*

If, and to date I'm not aware that I have, but IF I have not responded to a direct query by your character to mine, it's not because I don't have an opinion. If it happened, it was because I missed the question. I won't ever intentionally fail to respond to a direct interaction between NPC or PC and my character. If you find yourself waiting for me to reply to something you said to me, it's not because I'm ignoring you. It's because I'm a twit and either misread your post, or something else happened and I didn't see it. Give me a kick in the pants over here on the OOC thread, and I'll set all to right.

As for finding the pirates, I figured we'd go to the planet and "stake it out," waiting for the next attack, then follow the pirates back to their base. Oversimplified, of course. We'd need clever places to hide for the stakeout, and then fancy piloting to follow them -just- far enough that we could detect them, but they couldn't detect us. Etc etc. Nothing's ever easy, right?

Why didn't I just say this IC? Because you guys were having fun, and I didn't want to be the dead squirrel under the floorboards of your cabin in the mountains. After awhile, I did have Kestrel posit a plan similar to that which I outlined above.

Anyway, no biggy on my account. Like I said, I'm not finding fault with anyone.

 

[Dire Lemming]

If we did that we could have ended up being on a different planet from the one they attacked, or on the other side of the same planet. It would have had the same effect either way of making us miss the pirates. Of course possum probably wouldn't have been that mean so actually that probably wouldn't have happened... but realistically it was more likely than not.

So what is the point of this post? Well I guess it's just that all this research and thinking is making the game significantly more plausible and consistent.