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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 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.

Jul-30-2007 07:09

lots of those threads in the RP Boards inter-relate if you care to read them. Can't say I'm particularly well-versed, but I'm sure they do. There's some over at the Race track too that tie in here and there.

And I might add that it seems a shame the roleplaying has been taken elsewhere when Ben created a brand new board just for that purpose. But it's all good, I'm not saying it's wrong or anything, coz I can totally see how people would feel more freed up to not have the eyes of Texas upon them, but it's just a shame that's all.

It is still one of the spam free frontiers.

[Oh I saw Violet post something the other day in Anikka's competition, so he's around somewhere.]

Jul-30-2007 15:05

I have read the Violet & Barry threads now.

The story is a little complicated and I think I'd rather start my own thread than try and get myself involved.