[OOC] Side Quest - Sword Art Online

[Haeo]

And let's get through to the fun part, shall we? Let the hunt begin!

@BlackPanther@Lightbox

[Zelosse]

*dieing of boredom waiting for others*
I can feel myself aging rapidly.

[Haeo]

This kind of thing always seems to happen when there are a lot of players trying to come together. Once the group gets together it will probably split into several groups. If that happens the way I think it will then we'll end up with two or three parties operating with different priorities. I know that one is probably going to prioritize profit and fun. Another will probably be more driven to beat the butt hair off of a certain programmer. Characters with different views on how to live inside the game will likely have a hard time working together well.

On another note, I had a pair of characters, close friends, in mind for this too. I may even include them later on. But, they wouldn't fit right now and we have enough parts to wait on. The soonest that I could even offer to add them would be after we pass Floor 20 because of the quests and skills that they had under their belt. Speaking of Floor 20, I think that I should help out with maps. There's 98 more field Floors and a castle on top. I don't want to dump that whole mess on any one person.@Zelosse

[Zelosse]

@Haeo I just want Belwar and Delcastle to get to work T-T

[DestinyStar]

@Zelosse Sorry that took so long! Work has been hell this past week... Finally catching up on my work though, so I will be posting more often!

Also, did the bold work better for the dialogue or is it not quite enough to stand out? ^^"

[Zelosse]

@DestinyStar Seems fine to me ^^
What group are you mentioning btw. Hate to keep you from them if its important.

[Ookawa]

@DestinyStar
I really like your character so far. She seems like a real person I'd meet IRL.

[DestinyStar]

@Zelosse Cool! And your group haha... Sorry, was trying not to be confusing. Proper descriptions escape me, today. xP

@PyroDash888 Haha thank you! :) I take a lot of pride in making my characters realistic, so that means a lot to me! <3

[Tracyarmav]

I never can get my characters to be more the 2.5 D it seems, I have difficulty growing my characters. :/

[Zelosse]

We've given out a lot of stuff.. Hopefully this pays out in our favor!

Anyways, I think my little group is gonna go on an early morning adventure to get goods and such. Since Haeo is doin a night run, I figure I can just have our group put a [morning] label on our posts and imply it is the next day or something.

[Volenvradica]

I never can get my characters to be more the 2.5 D it seems, I have difficulty growing my characters. :/

@Tracyarmav

Character interactions tend to help with that. ;)

[Haeo]

If we're doing divergent timelines then we should probably do day and time.

Day 1: Night

Day 3: Midday

etc.

We'd have to coordinate time-skips too. We don't want any of our industrious groups to lose the benefit of a day or two. It could matter.
@Zelosse

[Zelosse]

@Haeo
Good plan. No pressure on people who forget it thoug. Just to keep everyone aware of other players areas and times to prevent clashes of some sort. Like stumbling into each other.

I worry this may cause issues for people who post on a different timezone (morning where someone else is night) and just add more work. But meh.
It'll smooth out

[Haeo]

That's why I don't recommend having actual times and only a four part day cycle. Morning, Midday, Evening, and Night allow numerous opportunities for people to miss each other by as much as a couple hours without having to fix anything. Being too specific can get to be a problem really quickly.

Though that does remind me of something else that gets to be confusing with differing timelines. Weather. I think that the canon had Floor-wide weather that varied. But, if we do any real weather mentioning then we should probably decide to do either heavily localized or Hawaii boring. Basically, either the weather at a given time of day on a given Floor is always the same or weather changes rapidly with micro-weather fronts that may only affect a hundred yards at a time.

Any thoughts on that?
@Zelosse

[Zelosse]

I hadn't read the bottom part of your post and came to a decision about literally the same thing you did. Localized weather, rapidly changes, some monsters later can effect it in an area, but for the most part the biome of the floor depicts the weather.
So one of the floors is guaranteed to have heavy downpour all the time while another could be the desert. Stupid hot all day, cold as my heart the rest of the time.

Good to see we're on the same page XD

[Haeo]

It's just that there's only so many ways for it to work well with so many authors involved. It is impressive that we were on the same page so quickly though. Oh, did you get the link for that Floor 2 map that I roughed out?@Zelosse

[Zelosse]

@Haeo yeah but I haven't taken a serious look yet. Been plotting for a bit about where to go and stuff.
Not gonna be able to post it till much later tonight. Overtime work hours suuuck

[Haeo]

I feel your pain, @Zelosse. Overtime always sucks. I'll be online tomorrow so we can start looking at options and such then. Unfortunately, I only have a very limited art program available. It's geared toward painting rather than drawing so... ick.

[pockets]

I worked a 16 hour shift yesterday @Zelosse I feel your pain. I just kept reminding myself overtime pay, overtime pay, overtime pay.

[Zelosse]

@DestinyStar@LadyTale@Pockets

Just a heads up. We have done a slight skip to the morning. Please label your posts accordingly. Thank you.