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Landfall: A

Where da googer at?

Also, found this and thought it was familiar.

Precipice of War - Oh Woe the West

You should put that in your resume.

"Promoted mulch-culturalism and diversity in the United States Armed Forces"

Gonna get hella job opportunities.

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Stalingrad with a Katy Perry soundtrack.

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He is in the army club in an American high school. When the Reserves are spent, his are the ones we send in.

And knowing how invading Russia tends to go, that might just happen.

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Terminal said
Even after people have grown acquainted with each other, I have seen instances where the focus was retained on the politics and functions - some people just like it better that way. Writing for the functions of a nation does not need to be tedious, as long as the writer goes to the effort to make it both interesting and meaningful.

That is a valid way of doing things, of course, but for Precipice we are trying to focus on a ground up approach. It's just the style we prefer for this RP.

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Precipice started the same way. I recall we had such meticulous rules for pacing and making sure everything was accounted for that, at once point, each page accounted for a single day. Now, this was in a time when it wasn't as detailed, but it still ran like syrup.

I think the switch to vaguer terms happened when the majority of us simply grew comfortable with each other. Comfortable enough to allow for the occasional curve ball so long as it made sense.

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LOTR was originally written as one book and split by the publisher because large books weren't as marketable at the time.

A Dance with Dragons, the fifth ASOIAF book, looks like this...



...and it is 422k long; nearly as long as the entire LOTR triology.

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Time to do something that the Precipicers will be familar with. A wordcount!

For references, This is the original MCF thread. There was also a sporum thread, it is older... but i'm not messing with that.

So, I actually went ahead and tallied the specific wordcounts of a sample set of pages, which gave me this

(page): (wordcount)
5: 2445
25: 8134
50:10013
75: 7407
100:22,756
137: 33,036

An interesting note: Page 137, the last completed page in the MCF, has a long enough word count to count as a novelette.

Averaging that gave me an average word count pet page of ~13965, which in turn gave me an average post count (since there is 20 posts per page) of 698. This is below my 750 guess I used during the last post counts, so our semi-scientific end result is now only ~1.91 million words.

So what is 1.91 million words?

http://www.cesspit.net/drupal/node/1869

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is 473k words, making Precipice MCF four times as long. Precipice also just slightly passes ASOIAF, the Game of Thrones books, beating their 1.77m wordcount by roughly 140k words. We also beat the Dark Tower series's 1.25k length by 660k words.

To give a visual, this...



Is somewhere between 530k and 560k (depending on the translation and how much fluff they cut, and I don't know what version this picture is). That would be roughly a little more than a quarter the size of Precipice.

Now, the big difference of course is that MCF precipice is a mess. A lot of it is shit posts, a lot of it is shit writing, and there are plenty of dead end stories and unnecessary fluff. None the same, this should help explain to newcomers why we are coming to this with so much in terms of oddly specific rules and baggage. We are cutting a lot of the canon, so don't worry about having to know much about the old thread. We will tell you what is important.

...and if you are wondering, no, we don't expect anybody to read all that. It would be insane if you tried.