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Standard play-by-post takes far longer and can't be structured as easily. Obviously we can't have a chaotic free-for-all of a collab. We probably won't even be able to do set order. But that doesn't have to be a problem. If we can agree on a format, like a single-writer introduction followed by a discrete sequence of respects which each character pays, spending a paragraph or so on, and then steps back, then the order we move in doesn't matter.

The afterparty then breaks up into separate posts and chitchats and minor (major?) smitings and whatever. The gathering at the start could go the same way. The more thinly we split it between posts, the more broken-up it's going to feel. Which may not be a problem outside of the central idea, which is meant to be a single event.
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I suppose that could work. By staying relatively structured, we avoid the collab spiralling out of control.

P.S. My concern was that it would be very easy for the collab to extend on forever as a to-and-fro occurs between a couple of characters during a key moment, or for us to be eternally waiting for someone to reply. But the model of, after an introduction by a single author, everyone submits a single (mostly) self-contained passage eg. a speech, then it should work out.