[@LadyRunic] I did my best not to be picking holes, but if we have something that makes a serious hole in the /world/, it does need to be discussed.  That's the case with the timeframe for Moots, and whether Feoras and Arys had seen each other, and also for if Dagon arrived before or after Arys froze her heart.  I did say several times that it would be best to let you weigh in.  The ability to discuss goings-on in the rp should not be limited just to those involved.  For example -- when Nyx said something that indicated Moots were yearly, or at least very frequent, and Sini responded in kind -- /anyone/ could have jumped in and said, "Wait a minute, there was this other line that says they're very /very/ rare and we should fix this, because both can't be true."  The same would go for if Sini was talking to...say, Arys, and she said something inaccurate about Spring.  I would expect Prince to tell me "Actually Shy, it's like this."  Or you.  Or even Panther or Belle.  And if a player -- not a dm -- noticed something that didn't fit, I'd expect them to say "whoa hold on, you're confusing me because this doesn't match!"

Speaking of, what /is/ the timeframe for Moots?  How often do they occur?

The OOC is for discussion pertaining to the rp.  This most recent exchange was all directly relevant to it -- theories, musings, details.  PM would exclude everyone else -- and I wasn't even addressing Seraph exclusively for most of it.  Unless we make a PM with everyone in it, and make a new one every time we get a new player, I'm really not sure how to make PMs work.  I expect people to weigh in on their characters and their plans and their ideas, and ideas they get from something someone else mentioned.  That can't happen when you have only two people able to see it -- and worse, PMs lead to a high potential for those two people coming up with a very different picture for events than what the players of the characters involved envisioned -- or what the setting allows, or even what other people have in their heads, and building on it, and then it would go IC without any ability to be checked, corrected, or reconciled with the versions others have and are building off of.  This can lead to huge inconsistencies, and I'd think it should be avoided.

It'd be different if we were discussing something unrelated, though really nobody is expected (and most do not try) to read the entire OOC of an rp.  Important information goes in the first few posts.  Everything else is assumed to be just discussion.  ...Though you will get the occasional dork like me that plows through twenty pages of chatter sifting for details because I'm nosy like that.  -.-;

If the issue is really how long the OOC is getting, there's just as much chatter between people as there is serious discussion of the rp.  ...I can't think of any tactful way to say it, so I'm just gonna say it and please understand I don't mean it to be as snotty as it sounds.  Do you want us to stop commenting in general?  I mean, there's a full page of reactions to something Falk did somewhere in there, among other things.  And a page of character songs.  What /is/ okay to put in the OOC?

In the end, almost everything I bring up is aimed at figuring things out, or adding to the rp.  If you have specific examples where it's not an issue for anyone but the two involved, please let me know and I'll look at those and try to cut back on them.  ...And if the plague discussion is one of them, that was mostly me geeking out and I outright said I didn't think changing anything was needed, just to avoid having it be poking holes.