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Jul-29-2007 05:46

I posted a question on the role playing stage but Barry Grant & Violet Parr did not answer me.

Are we suppose to post all questions here? including RPG ones?

Jul-29-2007 05:51

It says clearly in the description that any posts that aren't "in character" will be deleted. So yes. Nothing but role playing on that board.

Jul-29-2007 06:03

Yeah I know that but I posted in the tips and welcome players threads which are not in character anyway.

Jul-29-2007 08:48

Ok. I understand. I don't know the answer to that though. Someone else might know. My guess is "no", however. To RP you character in several different stories at the same time would seem weird and most likely take away from immersion. I mean.. how can you possibly be in several different locations at once?

Jul-29-2007 10:06

Point taken, but that is again besides the question I am asking.

We'll wait and see if there are any answers.

Jul-29-2007 10:32

Barry no longer plays and I haven't seen Violet in a long time either.

I suggest you PM one of the other roleplayers on the board with your questions, try Breitkat or R Anstett.

Jul-29-2007 10:32

I don't roleplay so anyone, please feel free to jump in and correct me!

I would think, from what I have read and deduced, that each thread has it's own particular story and that if someone wanted to enter that story, then they would have to try and follow that story making any new events/characters compatible with that story.

For example, if it's a Star Wars story and people are called Yoda and Luke, you don't want to bring in Harry Potter and have him ride his broomstick through space. Or maybe you do :) but you get my point.

I suppose that if your parrallel stories fitted on an individual scale on each individual post it would be ok.

However, like I said, I don't know anything about this and this is just my guess.
Maybe message some of the people who are already in the stories :)

Jul-29-2007 15:55

LED has it right.

For the most part other roleplayers will not react to drastically out of character/theme instances like her example or someone using a computer in a story line in Sleuth Noir.

To the point of having your detective in a couple of different story threads, that is a personal preference. If you can keep the different threads seperate in your head (and it is clear that they are two radically different stories) then go for it.

Your recent attempt to jumpstart the "21 thread" was nicely done. Hopefully others will pick up on it and carry it forward.

I do almost all of my roleplaying now in agencies and apartments, and several of us have moved our stories outside of sleuth to other venues as well.

Jul-29-2007 22:39

Oh.. kay.. so no-one ever, say for example, refer to events from other stories in the threads? So every thread is an isolated world?

Jul-30-2007 02:28

Once again, just a guess here. I assume that is ok, as long as it's compatible to the story and the character and it's not to change the story's flow rather than to enhance the character.

For example, if there are two Star Wars story and Yoda has to fix a spaceship, he could say, "I remember when my spaceship got blown up on HoosyaDaddi as an allusion to the other story while he fixed his spaceship.

But once again, I don't roleplay and I am hazarding a guess.

Jul-30-2007 06:33

And so if someone goes "Hay I remember when me and him hung out at that place a coupla weeks back", and someone else goes "He's been dead for two years"..

You'd have to keep a lot of records for it to not break immersion accidentally.