@DJAtomikaI'll take it and fill it up with sloth videos.
Indeed, I've been doing this for far longer than I'd like to admit and you learn one thing in that time and that is that people in Roleplays come and go like the tides; coming and drifting out back to sea. In a perfect world everybody stays in the things they started and all the roleplays get completed to their inevitable end. But that doesn't happen and people lose interest or life happens or whatever and they must part ways. Trying to force that to change is like trying to tell Putin to stop being an evil Bond villain trying to take over the world, it just doesn't work. You just gotta let it happen sometimes you gotta shake the house up a little bit and see who's left inside. We have like five people who obviously don't wana give up on this yet and that can keep this thing going for awhile yet and yes if it is deemed needed as Dervish pointed out it is not really hard to let people in. Frankly I should've just not waited for Nevermind and we probably wouldn't of ran into this problem in the first place but that is what I get for trying to be nice. Curse you cruel cruel world.
Anyway summer goes as summer goes usually I complain that it is too hot, go surfing, take naps on the beach before remembering that it is till too damn hot. Summer and I have a very complicated relationship.
Don't worry Lalia I think we have established that we are not going anywhere so just take your time, we don't rush perfection here we try to create it and fail miserably in the process created twisted mutated abominations that kind of maybe look like stories at the right angle.
And thought exercises are an interesting idea. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
It's been my experience that you're always going to hemorrhage a few people in the first month before the core of players remain, kind of like sifting for gold. I also find that fairly active OOCs tend to keep a game nice and healthy even if the posting rate is slow; it at least shows the players are bonding and are invested enough to hang around. I also found out that games can't wait up for anybody unless they give a concrete time for when they'll be posting, because I've had a few experienced where I've had game grind to a halt for weeks waiting on one person. That kind of spelled the beginning of the end. D: Coincidentally, it was also a Mass Effect RP I put a loooot of time and effort into.
I've never lived anywhere close to where surfing was a thing. I think you're the first person I've met who does it! And for whatever reason, this is the first year I've noticed the heat actually getting to me and being pretty intolerable. Usually I'm totally fine with it being a broiler outside, but this year... not so much. >_> Although being up North, I'm sure what I consider hot is probably run of the mill normal for most of you guys.
@McHaggis Rain's very hit or miss where I live in central Alberta. Some years, you'll get three solid months of it followed by no rain for two months (like literally, no rain at all), and this year it's once in a while, but it's always a thunderstorm. In short, the weather here is very temperamental.
Alright! Let's do some of these thought exercises. We'll each take turns coming up with a scenario (one at a time) and everyone who wants to can join in with a response for what their character would do in any particular situation.
Let's start off with something simple: Your character is given a choice between saving someone they care about most (family member, lover, friend, your choice) and a large group of innocent bystanders. There is no way to save both, and the choice has to be made immediately. What would they do?
I'll answer after I get a few replies in; I need to get something to eat. :D
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