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[{IRS}Athos]

Plus watching peasants die is fun.

[Taralom]

Man, I'm beat. Friday, I had two exams, namely an English letter-writing test and a regular Biology test.
Tomorrow I have Mathematics, but it's too much >.<
I need to do one more chapter, but I've done 14 chapters today.

[Copaman]

Apologies for not posting... long weekend has had me out of school and thus unable to post. I can't post tomorrow; no classes to post in, but Wednesday I've got two back to back classes of postacularity.

[Taralom]

*Taralom is done with his tests! Whohoo!

Ah man, /me doesn't work here...

Edited by Taralom, 21 January 2010 - 02:14 PM.

[Luchiaros]

Due to some IRL issues I can't post till February at the earliest, sorry guys

[Copaman]

Where'd everyone go? :(

[Vortigern]

No idea, but it's feeling a little bit ghost-town-y around here... Come back! I have future plot points to reveal!

[{IRS}Athos]

Arrrrgh... I need to recover from my past week of long choir rehearsals and concerts.

[Vithar-133]

I'll be honest, I haven't been hangin' round these parts of late recently, so the recent plot advancements have left me utterly confused.

[Vortigern]

Summary: we're inside the Maughold, which is, if you recall, a gigantic fortress city. Winter Vayu, back from the dead and stronger than ever, has it under siege with a big army of Paladins, mercenaries and melds. He also has a great many spies inside the city who are getting the gates open for him as best they can so as to smooth his ingress. For the most part, there's just a lot of fighting going on.

[Vithar-133]

I see. I'll work on getting to posting at some point in the (probably near, given the lovely dosage of frosty white precipitation I've received from Nature...) future.

[Taralom]

I do want to make a post, but I thaught it was best to leave Varin out of this for now.

[some_weirdGuy]

I was the last one to post, so don't look at me, its up to you guys to do something.

However vort, i must say from experience that sieges, or siege-like occurrences in revoras various RPG's, don't work well. They always seem to result in stagnation. Seems that movement is the key to progress, without physical movement we don't seem to do much in the RPG.

However, and i believe i said it before, you as the leader will have to take charge. We need progression, meaning you need to get in there and make key events occur, and have the battle progress. Really the rest of us don't have much choice in what we can do, as all the big decisions must be left up to you, and in a siege basically everything is a 'big decision'.
(basically our only option is 'and character X fought bad guys on the walls')

[Vortigern]

Read my last post. I made something happen and then you guys haven't done anything about it. Stuff is happening, folks. And more stuff will be happening soon, but first I need you lot to help move things along. That's how this whole 'collaborative storytelling' malarkey works.

[some_weirdGuy]

What are we suppose to do about it? we don't know your plans, we can't do anything cause it would interfere. You may think you left it nice and open for one of us to do something with it but really you just made it a dead end. We can't do anything with it, we just have to wait till you show us what vayu is actually doing. Remember, we can only control our own characters, You're the only one with the authority to control the story and god mod the characters/villains, etc. We can't take over the role of vayu and say what he's doing, he's not our character and he's too central to the plot for us to go tampering with.

Again its the problem of: "all the big decisions must be left up to you, and in a siege basically everything is a 'big decision'."
What vayu is doing right now? that's a big decision. Same with stuff like weather we lose a wall, or any of the other things that are fairly central to story development. They're all big decisions and as such must be left up to you (the mastermind of the operation), not us.

Unless you tell us what you want to happen/ make it happen yourself, we can't really do anything.

Edited by some_weirdGuy, 07 February 2010 - 11:19 PM.

[Vortigern]

Vayu has his own plan that isn't affecting the rest of the siege. That's why I've left him out of the main part of the fighting. You all know how battles work. Tell you what, I'll let you all make some big decisions as regards the siege. The Maughold has six walls, the invaders are now in the process of taking the second. Work from there.

[{IRS}Athos]

Vort, I need your input on the second half of my post. Might've been godmodding, might not have been. Your choice.

[Vortigern]

Fine by me. Nice to see an old face back in the groove.

[Rafv Nin IV]

I'm reading. You've got an observer...who's quite far behind and will likely not be posting any time soon.

The Maughold's under siege. I'm not sure what you've got Arap Datrebil doing, but I would prefer they stay close to my vision (although I've forfeited influence in the RP by leaving). From what I envisioned, the society is an underground radical political movement, and even though its leaders are occasionally designated military ranks like Shava, remember that the top positions are "Representative" and "Chairman". Shava was given the title Lieutenant not because she led gnomes into battle, but because she led small groups under twenty on reckless (but effective) ambushes, arsons, and raids in back alleys. They would, in a siege, not be in rank and line but distributed throughout the whole city, safely a hundred or more yards away from the furthest advance and hidden behind buildings or street refuse. In other words (although you don't need to strictly heed this because I'm no longer RPing), Shava and her kin would create some havoc from safety but not reinforce a weakening bastion. They fought a guerrilla war for a decade and would rather start over with Paladins back in the city than lose everything in a foolhardy struggle with people four times their size.

EDIT: Hey, props to the end of Chapter 2. Pirates always lighten the night.

Edited by Rafv Nin IV, 13 February 2010 - 06:10 AM.

[Vortigern]

The way I've got this working, the gnomes are mostly just helping out across the siege, although Vayu went and knocked them all out because he figured it would be fun and/or a tactical advantage. They're not fighting, just communicating orders and maybe defending themselves when necessary.

Dammit, Rav, why'd you have to leave?