I'm going to a picnic today and a fair on Sunday and I can only hope nothing horrible happens to me, as it seems I'm the only one left who hasn't been cursed. D: Hopefully I can stay out from under the doom cloud. (Excellent post by the way, Jig)
Rikki is from the U.S. and she's correct, Erie can be a bitch sometimes. Still, I'll take lake effect snow over tornadoes and hurricanes any day. :)
As far as I can tell, conversations in rps are the great big problem that no one can seem to solve. It's hard to think of an effective and non-intrusive way to do it. Normally people get stuck with one liners for posts. One idea would be, if it were a conversation between 2 characters, the players could work it out in a pm, write their lines back and forth. Same thing for the larger conversations, only that would be a group pm. The problem with this would be that it would take a lot longer to get through a post as we would have to wait for everyone to get their contribution in. But it would be a more realistic way to write meaningful conversations. I was thinking of testing it out on my next post.
My other 2 cents, as curious I am about everybody's characters, I think it would be really neat if we found out about each others characters at the same time that our own characters do just to make it more natural. I have a hunch that's why bliss didn't want us to start off with character sheets and laying everything about our characters out in the open. To keep things all mysterious and such.
Edit: Woah, nice post, cops. I get the feeling that Dr. Halibern is gonna be a wild card in our little adventure.