Scotland Suggestions

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Okay I had a much longer post typed out before, but then stuff happened and I lost it and I don't feel like going in as much detail, so sorry if this post seems short and sweet.

Basically, my father had some suggestions regarding Scotland: Allow players of a certain level (15+) to join the Scotland Expedition on occasion as reinforcements, that way the event doesn't die because of inactive people. Along with this, we need to reassess our goals in the Scotland Expedition; we do not know what we are supposed to be doing, as we were just vaguely told "Here's this wasteland, go nuts." We cannot write our adventure if we do not know what our adventure is, after all.

As my father said:

[Dr. Ultima]

I know first and foremost we must reach this mysterious wall (this should be on franny stein, but I already typed this....whoops)


I feel we have been doing a lot of stutter stepping by making threads before the wall proper, while this is fine, it hurts any idea of forward progress. Basically we lack landmarks. Think the hobbit, they have to go through landmarks for the journey to make sense on the page. 

Grackis is helping us with us by giving us interaction with a named town, these little things help.


Also, we could really use some basic guidelines on what CANNOT be done. If we know the limits we can better fill in the landscape with our own threads.

IE no spaceships, while that's a factitious example, if we have some basic examples we can have a better frame of what we can do. If we shouldn't be creating tribes and kingdoms then I think a document listing this rule would be handy.

Really we don't need a whole lot to make this great, we're doing a pretty good job already. The bottom line is activity, and the lesser bottom line is direction. We need to be active and like dumah said, actively working toward something. Even if we are making up whatever it is as we go.

[Capsule]

An outline of events and locations should be essential. It does not have to be too detailed, so as to allow creativity from the scouting crew.

[Sark]

Oct 19, 2015 6:06:49 GMT Capsule said:

An outline of events and locations should be essential. It does not have to be too detailed, so as to allow creativity from the scouting crew.

This +1

I signed up for the Scotland expedition as I think the "journey" arching event would be really interesting, and I look forward to joining it. Both IC and OOC I lack a goal to strive towards at the moment, or a clear idea of where the expedition currently is. (Is it past Avon yet? Is it past Hadrian's wall?). The split threading works great to allow each thread to pursue a separate idea, but also means that it is harder to follow the overall story.

[Dr. Ultima]

If no one else volunteers or has a better idea, I could possibly run a very brief summary page in the section that would not be for RP purposes. I imagine this could be useful for those of us who are only in some threads that need a refresher.

(keep posting on the wrong character, sorry)