Firewombat

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I do lift in my spare time, gotta stay swole. Ajani lifts more than me, granted, but I keep in shape, though I don't do it with the same dedication that I play video games with.

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In the end it may just be me being worse at getting someone's point than someone making the point. No need to be evasive, though, I think it's healthy to discuss how we're going to do this whole thing and that everybody says how they'd rather do it. Obviously, I got my own preferences, but I'll gladly budge from them if need be, I really wouldn't mind doing something a bit more complicated.

If we were going to do something like have two different parties going toward the same goal - really it would be as simple as creating the other thread, and having everybody Subscribe to it, as well as this one. It would only take switching between the two and read and type in both.

Regardless, speaking of nerds/geeks/whatever, I think it's clear, since we all like to Role Play - that we all apply. Aside from this though, I obviously play video games (as made clear in my signature, I even record myself playing them - clear sign of narcissism), as well as a lot of D&D whenever I get the chance. I also know way too much about Magic: The Gathering than I should, given that I don't even play MTG.

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I'm more so against the notion that we should be aware of anything going on on the other side of things.

For example: Assassins come after Ajani. Out of the blue, no foreshadowing, our game master didn't tip me (the player) off.

Say Ajani survives - now that leaves both me and the character with a new, and interesting goal. It gets me thinking about the choices I had Ajani make in the past - which one led to this event? How did they find her? Who hired them and why?

If I don't know any of these things, I don't risk metagaming, and it leaves an interesting mystery, crafted just for me, that I'll have to direct the character through.

I -may- be missing your point entirely here, but I'm used to a very DnD-esque way of doing things, where I only know as much as the Dungeon Master tells me. Like you said though, we're just riffing on possibilities and ''what ifs'' and whatnot.

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Kids, right? At least out of all the things the little guy could've gotten his hands on, Paracetamol is not the worst I could think of. I swear, I'm terrified by the thought that it could be me in a few years. >.>

Regardless, on the topic of the RP itself, I think a forum's limitations make themselves pretty apparent, if we have to do two separate storylines for two separate factions. That, at least in my mind complicates things a lot more than necessary. Really that only ever works in long-winded fiction like the Wheel of Time, or perhaps even better as an example - Song of Ice and Fire.

I'm of the belief that trying to replicate that will most likely just get us lost in a sea of characters and I don't think we want that. Since the first character, the OP's is sided with the Resistance, obviously the rest gravitate toward that side.

Mind you, we do have sleeper agents and people who aren't sworn to either faction so, here's my proposal:

Think of the two factions like two different roads. Like a crucial turning point in a Role Playing Game where you have to pick between two mutually exclusive choices.

Edhil Resistance branches off one way and closes off the Fatanen Rule path.

Fatanen Rule branches off another way and closes off the Edhil Resistance path.

Naturally, on the whole the party will be considered as sided with one, or the other, but sleeper agents, double-crossings, and people who are along for the ride for their own reasons and aren't really for one side or another are still a possibility and can still shape the outcome. Naturally, that all depends on how much freedom and impact we will have on the eventual end of this leg of the journey.

At any rate I think this is much more easily manageable than each of us making two characters and controlling them separately (but I'm usually not for making more than one character in the first place, so maybe that's just me).

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Given that most characters seem to be on the Edhil side of things, aside from Ajani, who technically hasn't sided one way or another at this point, what do we do if we end up with no ''official'' Fatanen questing party, and what do non-questing party character end up doing once this all kicks off? Are they going to be recruited into one or the other, or go do their own thing?

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Seems we've got a very colorful cast on our hands, here. Ajani'll definitely be looking forward to beating the crap out of each and every one of y'all in the sparring ring. Milk and cookies for all afterwords, though.

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I would still recommend one rolls with whatever one finds the most appealing, far be it from me to insist what one has to play.

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That sounds great, actually. Myself I've got a special place in my heartzones for Tolkien's works, though it took me a while to go through the books, meandering as they tend to be. I'm glad to hear there's inspiration from those there.

I'm happy to hear there'll be action, and not just fighting, I hope, the meat of any experience is just being active and doing things, though down-time to see what's what is also helpful.

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Inb4 I go and create Chi-magic and turn this into a Wuxia film. In all seriousness, though, years of martial arts and fencing help out in that regard. On that note, though, how much fighting and danger do you intend to throw at us during the whole venture?

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Glad to be on board, can't wait for us to get started!