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Shadowy Ideas The OoC topic for ideas to the live TS

#26 Pallas Athene

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Posted 27 February 2005 - 01:41 PM

I'm not really sure where Letsiya/Martel should be going from the present situation. Mr. Somebody, perhaps we should discuss it at some point? Would be easier to go somewhere if we've agreed on where we're going.

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Posted 28 February 2005 - 01:49 AM

Yeah, sure. Drop me an email.

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#28 Avatara

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Posted 15 March 2005 - 02:01 AM

Avatara, on Feb 5 2005, 01:37 AM, said:

I was bored, so here's some random info about posting stats in the new TS:
Total posts: 32
Total posters: 8
Total words: ~17400
Average words/post: 520

Name - Words Posted - Posts - Words/Post - % of total words - Words/Paragraph
Desert Fox 7723 - 3 2574 45.0% 31.8
Moonshadow 2690 - 3 897 15.7% 37.4
Avatara 2682 - 5 536 15.6% 40.0
Selax 1740 - 10 174 10.1% 31.1
Wizard 1117 - 2 559 6.5% 31.0
Half Truth 461 - 3 154 2.7% 21.0
Mr. Somebody 443 - 4 111 2.6% 22.2
Dark Jet 293 - 3 98 1.7% 22.5

Bored again, no access to personal computer until tomorrow.
Days running: 52
Total posts: 72
Total posters: 10
Total words: ~27300
Average words/post: 380

Name - Words Posted - Posts - Words/Post - % of total words
Desert Fox 10910 - 7 1559 39.9%*
Avatara 4146 - 7 592 15.2%
Selax 3698 - 25 148 13.5%
Moonshadow 3469 - 5 694 12.7%
Wizard 1731 - 3 577 6.3%
Mr. Somebody 1144 - 9 127 4.2%
Half Truth 733 - 4 183 2.7%
Pallas Athene 655 - 2 328 2.4%
Dark Jet 649 - 7 93 2.4%
Harlequins 230 - 3 77 0.8%

I apologize for the lack of spacing, I'm doing this on a windows lab - also why there's no paragraph information, word lies when it says DF had 14 paragraphs total. I tried to compensate by adding colors for some of the later columns.

*I hope you're happy sucking up 24 of the 61 posts the "printer friendly" version of the story takes up.

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#29 Selax

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Posted 16 March 2005 - 04:54 PM

I have two questions: where is everyone (both in the story and in the sense of being active in the story)? Is Catamarca in danger of being flooded?
If Catamarca isn't in danger, then (as far as I can tell) most people seem to be out of danger.

Where everyone is as far as I can tell (I may have forgotten someone):
Desert Fox has left the graveyard and has gone to an unknown location.
Avatara is staggering after Saria through the graveyard.
Selax and Balthon are fighting next to the graveyard (opposite where Desert Fox was).
Wizard is in Catamarca.
Tej and Medoc are still crossing the plain.
In another part of the plain, Moonshadow has taken to the air to escape Cara (the assassin).
Martel and Letsiya are eliminating the guards around the dam, near the plain.

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#30 Avatara

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Posted 16 March 2005 - 05:00 PM

Tej is fighting the warriors where DF is.

I don't think Catamarca is in danger of being flooded, I do believe the graveyard-battleground isn't out of the path of the initial rush of water.

#31 Dark Jet

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Posted 16 March 2005 - 11:18 PM

At the time when Avatara starts staggering off after Saria, Tej reaches the graveyard. I haven't posted to me being technically grounded.

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#32 Dark Jet

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Posted 18 March 2005 - 09:01 AM

Sorry for the double post but...

Since its been raining so much, could it be possible that some of the lake leaks over causing a mini flood?

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#33 Half Truth

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Posted 20 March 2005 - 04:04 PM

I don't know where I am, I am just hanging around somewhere, I will reappear sometime though.

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#34 The Wizard

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Posted 20 March 2005 - 08:32 PM

I posted. And, Half Truth, in my post I put you with Dark Jet fighting in the graveyard. If you want to make your entrance yourself, I'll edit it.

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#35 Selax

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Posted 22 March 2005 - 12:48 AM

Hm. There has not been much activity on the TS lately. Is everyone off on break (mine just ended) or something?

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#36 Selax

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Posted 26 March 2005 - 06:35 PM

Hm, I might introduce another plot device (in this case a character). If I choose to do so, please let me know if the character starts to become a problem.

And I ask again, where is everyone?

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#37 Half Truth

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 04:57 PM

I have been away quite a bit reciently.

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#38 Pallas Athene

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Posted 05 April 2005 - 08:55 PM

I have not, but my inability to concentrate anything for more than a couple days at a time is severely inhibiting my ability to post.

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Posted 14 April 2005 - 08:56 PM

Well, I'm afraid it's necessary to ask the much-repeated question: Where Is Everybody?

The TS has been moving slowly right now, and I'm willing to post again soon. To do that, though, I need to know where some characters are. Otherwise, I have nothing to post about yet. What would be nicer than me posting again, however, would be for somebody else to post.

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#40 Moonshadow

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 02:42 AM

*enter stage right*

Ta-daaa! Lookie, it's a shiny new post by yours truly. ^^

Er, yeah, sorry for my absence, but I've had 2 very important exams, plus 1 not-quite-as-important exam, to study for.
On the plus side, however, I passed all 3 of them, so there's only 1 more to go for now, on Saturday to be exact.

So, um, I'll try to post more.

*exit stage left*

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#41 Avatara

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 02:46 AM

No! You can't go that way, its a-*loud crashing noise and surprised shriek from stage left*...broom closet...

#42 Pallas Athene

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 12:53 PM

One of the main problems is that the TS doesn't really have any direction now that DF doesn't need to be freed. I've been trying to think of what the Zetacomb would be useful for. It appears to (at least) have the ability to bind/unbind souls from bodies, and it's associated with graveyards, so I take it as a very useful necromantic tool. However, the idea of "stop the necromancer who's creating an undead army to rule the world" is very overdone, and I'd avoid it unless there's no other way to provide closure to the TS.

#43 Moonshadow

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 02:52 PM

I *could* possibly (re-)introduce a character (or several, rather) I have developed some time prior, for the "closed" TS (Avatara will remember). However, the plot I had planned would need some tweaking and twisting, since I cannot possibly (re-)introduce all the characters I had originally planned for it without the whole thing seeming extremely far-fetched.

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#44 Selax

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 08:23 PM

It's good to see some other people around.
As for plot, I don't really have any ideas at the moment. I could try to increase the role of my other two characters if it would help.
In what ways would the plot need to be tweaked? I am more than willing to agree to plot alterations if they will speed the TS up again.

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#45 Moonshadow

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Posted 16 April 2005 - 12:25 AM

Nono, not the plot of the TS (other than that we're not looking for DF anymore), but the plot I had made up way back then (since it was originally set to play on another world, and in larger scale). I could make it work as a sort of.. premonition, leading up to bigger things (possibly in the formof another TS).

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#46 Avatara

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Posted 16 April 2005 - 01:57 AM

I still think we should follow DF's story halfway to completion and find the Zetacomb by the end of Shadow Games. It doesn't have to be controlled by a necromancer, maybe its just guarded in some dungeon-level-like-thing of sorts and nobody has it yet. We don't have to do anything yet, leaving it open for a future story to determine what exactly it can do - all we do know is that its a powerful artifact and it has some sort of power over the mind and souls. By all means, this doesn't have to be the only plot, and it probably won't do too well standing on its own.

My biggest belief is that we should try to not introduce something completely new out of nowhere in the middle of this story. Sure DF dropped out, but that doesn't mean the plot and drift of events should change drastically. Maybe some characters could come [back?] to set up events in a future story, but not at the expense of the current one. IE, anything people come up with as an overall direction for Shadow Games should at least follow from the events that have led up to now.