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Selax sorry must have missed your question, We can create classes that would reasonable exist within cythera.. for example a mercenary

Pippin 3, on Dec 25 2007, 06:59 PM, said:

I understand why you feel that way about our current characters, despite how well I like them

Well, I am much more open to this idea as something that takes place in the past without affecting our current timeline or affecting our current characters.

I'm fine with it. In fact, I'm great with it.

Not that I could promise I'd jump in.. just in my opinion (if I might jump in..)

To make things simple you'd have to have a time line that does not correspond with the current one. Otherwise you'll run into possible issues of doing an action that would affect the future (or present time line)..

And Selax, would druids be considered reasonable? Not like Talryn (the way he's transformed), probably more like Tej, if you remember? Using the elements and such?

-Dark

It's an established fact in Cythera that mages use the power of Earth. You could build a character that used other elements (or all of them), but you would have to explain it in terms of Cythera, and it would almost certainly be a major character point. It's also likely that using air or fire would be out of the scope of the story, those having been rendered powerless before the arrival of humans in Cythera.

Dark Jet, I'm probably not the one to ask about druids. (On an unrelated note, I'm not of the opinion that air and fire are powerless: one is contained and the other is hiding.)

By the way, putting such TSs in a new continuity would remove the point of setting them in a different time period (which was at least party to keep continuity); I think setting them in a different time should work (I doubt most people will notice any inconsistencies.)

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I'm just going to re-state the fact that I'm all for this idea and agree pretty much wholeheartedly with pippin

on the other hand, I can see the other side of the "argument" even though I'm not on it



I really like the idea of keeping the TS as true as possible to the actual game...seeing as...well..it's based off the game
I was a little disappointed [for lack of better word -it wasn't really that bad -] at the fact that there were characters of different races than those mentioned in Cythera. Of course, you guys rock and I love your characters, I just felt it strayed from the game idea which is what I thought we were going for. Basically I just saw that the only thing that remained true to the game was the setting and the fact that Alaric is around [somewhere]

I'm trying my best to put this in the least offensive manner possible, because my intent is by no means to offend. You are all great and I'm extremely grateful to you all for accepting me and allowing me to participate in your TSs.



I know for certain that the main reason why I'm so easily accepting of this idea of Pippin's is because I'm new and haven't been RPing for a long long time with the same character I've taken so much time to work on and get everyone familiar with, as well as growing to know everyone else's characters

I can see how it could be hard to all of a sudden accept such a drastic change...so I'm really in the middle here


I think it's a great idea and I actually prefer the character confines to the freedom everyone has previously had with their characters

at the same time I don't want anyone to suffer having to drop their beloved characters they've grown so fond of....perhaps there could be a way to simply alter your characters rather than start from scratch?

Wizard's character for one, doesn't seem to need to change at all...not in my opinion at least...maybe the only issue is the character discussing past events

I don't know

*ramble mode off!*

you can tell I'm very lonely today



I guess basically what I wanted to say in this post is that I'm on pippin's side but at the same time I understand where everyone else is coming from and I've got their backs too


so basically I'm useless


thank God this decision doesn't rely on me >.<

This post has been edited by TheMuseInYourHead: 02 January 2008 - 04:33 PM

Selax, on Jan 1 2008, 04:42 PM, said:

Not true, time period also affects setting.

As for the druid thing, as Pallas said, you have to take care to not define your character as a druid (which I don't believe was a character class) but in terms of a class with abilities similar to your concept of a druid - otherwise you would be defeating the purpose of a "back to Cythera" type story.

As said before, nobody is saying lock your characters away forever. Its more as a "lets try this as a change of pace." If you really wanted to, you could run two stories in parallel, one in each little 'universe' (the current style and this style). That way, your active posters have something to do when one of the stories is waiting on Wizard to post.

Avatara, on Jan 2 2008, 03:57 PM, said:

I like the idea of these stories merely being set in the past and not in a separate continuity; something about that phrase "new continuity" makes me feel like I really am throwing away my old characters.

This sounds like an interesting mode to attempt, & indeed, part of the reason that I designed Jehezekel the way I did was so that he'd fit in a TS like this. I'd probably have to tone him back a little, but since he's still rather undeveloped (partly because he doesn't fit with the current TSs very well,) that shouldn't be too hard, especially with him reacting off of other Cytheran characters.

I think that 453's Retsy would also fit in with this sort of TS better.
As well as CCs Aster.
& there are probably more that I'm not immediately aware of.

Indeed, it might be possible to have a somewhat parallel TS, that follows the common-person & their adventures, while the 'heroes' are off saving the world. For instance, while our current set of heroes is off learning about the joys of cider, a small party of commoners on the Catamarcan Peninsula have banded together to rescue Glaucus's wine vats from nightly incursions by an anonymous thief, & when they find Aster having a wild party in the bandits' hideout with some of the other youth of the neighbourhood, what do they do to them? ^_~

Sorry, only way Aster would be having a wild party would be if he was completely drunk.
But hey, that could work. Maybe his friends pretended the wine was actually grape juice (well, it is sort of...).

Aster would really fit this. He doesn't exactly have much skill with weapons, and he's terminally shy, both major failings. It would be quite challenging to develop him a little.

Avatara, on Jan 2 2008, 03:57 PM, said:

I tend to suspect that he'd manage to delay both TSs at the same time...

I think the odds of his delays overlapping are less. Certainly its a reduced chance from the one-story scenario.

I am emotionally shattered by everyone's disbelief that I will post soon.

This post has been edited by The Wizard: 08 January 2008 - 01:44 AM

Well, unless you prove you're able to post soon, you may have to keep being emotionally shattered. Not that I can talk... Haven't posted for a very long time...

You just need to work out your priorities, Wizzy :P

I'll remember that.

Hey! I just realised that the topic is named... "Ann" ts idea.
Perhaps i should work on my typing skills

Anyway, The idea seems to have been liked, and it shall not be overriding the current Ts timeline.
After the current Ts has been finished I shall post a topic that will allow for some more discussion and finalisation of how we will run it.

Thanks people for all the input.

Actulay the topic was orignally, "An TS Idea". I think someone somehow changed it to "Ann" after I commented about it.

Two Jacks, on Jan 11 2008, 03:33 AM, said:

Indeed, Avatara changed it sometime ago. (He also made an adjustment to the subtitle, which I did fix.) I didn't fix it for several reasons: one which was whether I should change it to "an" or "a" (the latter is my preference).


I'm curious: what time period would these TSs likely be set in? (It might be interesting to do a series of TSs set around the time that humans first came to Cythera, the rise of the Tyrant, the exile of the mages, etc. and then jump ahead.)

I think for an idea like this, it'd probably be easiest to base it close to the actual game's time, since that's what most people are most familiar with.

I don't think there was an original subtitle, and "an" doesn't work with words starting with "t".

Avatara, on Jan 14 2008, 02:00 AM, said:

Hence, my preference for "a."

*Throws a life save to the topic*

Another TS I would like to do would be the other side, Ruffians. It would be interesting to create our own ruffian characters, be them unique or not, and we could even have a chronicle type thing where they would die at the end of every chapter (<-- not the best word I'm sure). Also ever ruffian TS could follow previous TSes to see what was going on on their side of the story.

Edit: Interesting my profile just broke 3k views.

This post has been edited by Two Jacks: 16 January 2008 - 07:15 PM

By the way, the Tree of Life TS is over now, so feel free to forge ahead with this idea .

I thought we were all waiting for Wizard to post.

(But seriously, are there ideas for the next story? Should we try running two in parallel?)