Character Development Thread--Discussion

Upon reflection, you're probably right — I was listing areas that see a lot of use in general, but when I think about the specific scenario (it's already an untamed wilderness), then... yeah, no place needs designation as such. "Take it outside" is a better thematic fit.

edited 30th Jul '15 5:34:57 AM by KillerClowns

Once again I don't have any ideas concerning Frontier.

I do, however, have a few words about Capital. After all this time it looks like it's finally starting to lose steam (which kind of makes me sad since I haven't done everything I wanted to do, but oh well). Previously I've avoided mentioning this out of worries that it might kill the thread before its time, but now would probably be a good time to mention that I was thinking about having the thread end at the end of the third in-story day. This isn't set in stone; depending on how everyone feels we could end it earlier or even later than that (in the off chance the recent loss in activity is just because everyone's busy rather than a general loss of interest).

My activity dropped off for the same reason why it happens when I don't report it:

I'm just a lazy bitch.

I...really would prefer to keep the thread going, mostly because I feel like my characters haven't really done anything of particular note. I enjoy drama and fight scenes because it feels more natural than conversation and forced exposition that comes with conversation. It's kind of a shame it hadn't happened and I feel like I'm to blame for it.

Oh, also:

HAPPY 1000TH PAGE!!!!

edited 30th Jul '15 9:57:19 AM by Tehpillowstar

I think it's because summer is winding down for the school people- for people with work, maybe things are simply getting busier? I'm not sure myself, but forthe past week I've been quite busy with family-related things.

Oh, and school starts back up in a couple of weeks for me.

When people are on vacation, I really only have to deal with their emergency money needs, not their day-to-day ones. So yeah, work is getting busier.

But then I'm not exactly why the thread is slowing down.

edited 30th Jul '15 10:28:56 AM by Night

As I mentioned earlier, I have a character available if yours need someone to interact with in the Museum Park area.

Should someone put up a google doc so folks can start contributing to the background information of Frontier?

That would be a good idea.

If no one's noticed, I posted for both Varnas and the Captain (a character who I will continue to refer to as "the Captain" despite the fact that I already revealed his name and that other characters using his name).

Also: HAPPY 1000TH PAGE!

@njr: Missed that somewhere. Who/what?

edited 30th Jul '15 1:12:09 PM by Night

Giun Trekesser, alien naval captain, who wandered off from his companions after he started to feel like a third wheel. He's currently somewhere in the Museum Park, deliberately left vague so as to leave him more room to meet up with new people.

All right. I'll just use one of my girls since I do still have a commitment to Teh Pillowstar, maybe, and there are things I doubt they would say about each other in front of the other.

Hooray for 1000 pages of chatter!

Oh, and also, I suppose I'll get around to posting soon...

...I swear I posted. I seem to have lost it.

Possibly because it's in the wrong thread?

...I checked pretty much every other thread but that one. Derp.

And thank you.

edited 30th Jul '15 3:26:09 PM by Night

Apologies for the delay; my sister's wedding is on saturday, and I had to spend most of the day helping out with the techy stuff. Tomorrow, we're doing the rehearsal and setting up the dance floor, which I'm sure will be fun.

Having some trouble getting to sleep. Posting tomorrow may be affected, though I should at least get in that post about the new thread I've mentioned.

Right, okay, so what do we have so far for Frontier? I'm going to go ahead and create a page for it, but it needs to not be a stub.

Just off the top of my head, I remember three saloons (a shady one, a rowdy one, a classy one), the terrain is a desert quickly transitioning into scrublands forest, there's probably a hotel, maybe a bank, an assortment of other shops (general store, blacksmith, tannery, gun shop, etc), there's a Sheriff's Office or a Marshal's Office or both, there's a small and understaffed military base outside of town, an old and abandoned military base also outside of town... And that's about all I remember... Maybe a train station instead of a magic portal?

Also, interdimensional visitors aren't so rare that they're unheard of, but they're rare enough that it's still an event for the townsfolk.

Since various flavours of West have been bandied about, references to "desert" have evoked images of both Arizona's Painted Desert, with its spectacular layered stone formations, and the Sonoran Desert, with its cacti and sage bushes etc. Which one or both? Both could be kinda cool - if we're compressing the geography a bit, we could probably do it.

The wilderness area keeps bringing up images of various You Tube bushcraft videos posted by US bushcrafters, campers etc - hilly and mountainous regions with some areas where you can wander fairly freely between the trees and clumps of denser bush.

Pine forests like in Prescott National Forest and other forest types as are found in Arizona (sticking with Arizona due to a) it's "West" and b) Painted Desert etc).

Are there going to be human inhabitants of the wilderness - Indigenous tribes, mining camps? What about wildlife? Can we assume large predators?

If a train station, then the site I linked in an earlier post mentions most railway towns had a "T" layout with one street running parallel to the line and the main street perpendicular to it in the middle, at the top end of which was the train station.

The "sleazy" saloon and other "unseemly" places would probably be toward one end of the road parallel to the line and the nicer places towards the other so maybe a T with the sleazy saloon on one arm, the nice one on the other arm and the rowdy one on the main street along with a lot of the commerce.

edited 31st Jul '15 3:57:14 PM by Wolf1066

All that's really helpful, thanks. I'll try to get the page up later tonight.

Sorry I haven't posted yet. Been thinking about what I want to do here.

Dang, I was hoping to have gotten further with the stuff in Capital before the new thread launched. Guess that's not going to happen. Not a big deal, I guess. I'll just start with my small familiar thing instead of my big new thing.

Blackfire, Sphinxyness? Either of you thinking of posting within the next 12 hours?

edited 31st Jul '15 8:45:02 PM by Ryuhza

If there's a couple of forts (I'm getting images of the Alamo in my head for obvious reasons, though this would not necessarily be a stone fort) - whether active, abandoned or down to a skeleton staff - why is it there? Are there potential hostiles that would warrant a fully occupied fort? If so, whom? Where? What is the risk level?

Is there a natural portal nearby whereby interdimensional visitors enter?

If so, the fort may be occupied in case someone from the "outside" uses the natural portal to stage an invasion - small numbers of off-worlders coming through, OK; large invasion force coming through, not so great.

What is the town's raison d'etre? (can't be buggered copy-pasting the accented 'e'). Are there farms nearby? Mines? Is it just a place for the train to take on water? Is this on a cattle-droving route or the place to which cattle are driven to be taken elsewhere by stock train? All of the above?

If there was, there wouldn't be a frontiers-y town; it'd be part of the fort. The threat, at least demanding serious commitment, is past tense. The soldiers there now exist more as a guarantee of law and order than as a military force; with a small population and an even small local ability to enforce the law against anyone who wanders in, security is what makes it worth settling.