Before you read this know that I haven't read Lug's response above yet.
Tbh, a timeskip straight after a set of missions really kills character interaction.
They need a breath of fresh air, some acclimatization back at the Academy, and more chances of character development/forming character dynamics with others.
My bad for not clarifying. I didn't mean right after the missions were over then just immediately skip into another week. I meant after the weekend when people have had a chance to have there character's interact with stuff and things and things and stuff. I also meant more like a one or two month timeskip. We've seen so far how people new to a school acclimate to the life of boarding school, pair off, make friends and enemies and what now. The next step from that would be to see how they settle in after a longer period of time. Again though I'm not advocating that we do this immediately cause I think that would cause incredibly whiplash especially for the people new to the RP.
A solution to not getting the time you wanted for stuff within a certain timeframe would be to work on a collab with the team while putting up posts that follow along with current developments, and then when the extra stuff is completed it can be posted with a disclaimer that tells when it actually occurred. This would mean multitasking for those players, though I can't imagine that to be an issue for people whose praiseworthy writing skill leads them to in-depth character development.
I have nothing against flashbacks, they are a fairly good plot device and serve well for a variety of matters but there is two very important things about them. Firstly they can't be longer than about ten to fifteen minutes IC time otherwise it seems like you forgot about something that should have been there so just plopped it into a flashback. Secondly flashbacks are used for something that absolutely had to happen in the past. Like if it be important that Adam said something that was never scripted for Paul and Kristy to remember but Adam has been killed off then you flashback it. If you have a flashback that just as easily could happen two minutes from now and not effect the flow of the story then it should happen two minutes from now. Flashbacks are like Ecstasy, use sparingly.
I do agree that the timeskipping over free time is getting very very old. I think that's some of the most important parts of the IC but it just keeps getting overlooked. I had to flashback a scene with Sapphire and Shiro arguing over his pills because the afterschool periods were skipped over. We're essentially doing the same old thing. Morning, Combat Class Fight, Math, History, Period Four of your choice, skip over Period Five and Six cause everyone's getting board of school, timeskip to missions causing going through mundane school events for so long has everyone shouting for some action and that seems to be the only way we can think of to do it. Then everyone begins to get ready for some good interaction, they set up plans and stuff that can only be done over the weekend and find that they have two hours to finish very complex things before we skip to another day of school.
Like the event with the monster in the lake. We had half a collab of that fight and then after that we had party plans in which the whole school was invited were we could get into trouble and possibly fight some people but just as we were getting really into that suddenly bam, timeskip, "You can just talk amongst yourselves about what the results of that were." If I'm being honest that fight in the lake and what was looking to be a party afterwards were the most interesting parts of the RP so far and because of the timeskip I don't think we even got to
post the fight let alone finish it. I mean imagine what it would be like in the show if they timeskipped over Team RWBY's fight with Roman and the White Fang at the docks and just talked about it afterwards cause it didn't take place strictly in school hours or on a mission. No one would give a damn about what was happening at the moment and simply be asking themselves why the hell that fight wasn't shown. They'd assume it was because of low operating budgets the show couldn't animate that fight. Do you really want to be the
RP! that has too low and operating budget to show the interesting stuff?
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