Character Development Thread--Discussion

It's going to be a while before I can post.

@Cotton: I actually do mind, because you added your bit before I could respond to the question whether or not I minded, and now I will have to reconfigure what I was planning. Can we hold off on further development of the food court scene until tomorrow?

EDIT: To clarify, there's no need to send Leo away. I'll just need time to rewrite what I was doing to accommodate his sudden appearance.

edited 16th Oct '14 2:05:56 PM by StrixObscuro

Sorry for the late reply, but keep in mind that should you vastly prefer your intended scenario then I have no qualms about withdrawing Leo. From a collaborative writing standpoint, It was rather rude for me (although in character for him) to suddenly inject Leo to the group, after all.

edited 17th Oct '14 11:08:39 AM by FlowingCotton

No need to send him away. Killer and I have posted, so the ball is in your court now.

Hey! I've been particularly busy with housework/very distracted by Skyrim, but I'm going to try to fit time and participate in World's Fair again. Any suggestions on who is free to interact with?

Hey Glacia, can you give me an estimate on when you're going to post?

Also, I noticed this when going through recent posts: Killer Clowns, you never did edit in a response to Ila.

Tonight; if nothing else, you'll find it when you wake up tomorrow. Trying to get my online multivariable homework done more than 24 hours before the due time for once.

I know, still working on it. I have not thought this plan all the way through.

As a minor note, since a couple of people have dropped since the beginning of the thread, I'm going to advance the time in Fair slightly faster from now on - instead of an hour passing for every 90 posts or so, it's going to be more like 75-80 posts. If this proves a problem I can slow down, but honestly the thread's sluggish enough that that's still going to be over a week in real time.

Edit: Also, I'm probably not going to be able to post until after 10:00 PM tomorrow.

edited 19th Oct '14 2:01:52 AM by nrjxll

I'll write something for Rufus eventually, but regardless of that, he's free for interacting now.

I will post for Iris by the end of the day Wednesday at the latest; the first half of my week is looking pretty jam-packed assignment-wise.

Was thinking about popping back in here, what with renewed sense of motivation/a new story idea that I can try and flesh out instead of using the same characters over and over.

Nobody would mind another stall, would they?

I don't know how much interaction you'll get from creating a new stall; we still seem to have more of them than active characters.

Apologies for not posting; been busy with other things. I'll try and get a post in sometime tomorrow.

Hopefully I can post in 12-18 hours from now, meatspace business has intensified without prior notice.

@Truth: What kind of stall would it be?

@TC: sorry for not posting for the last three days. I always think I'll come up with something during the day, and then I don't, and then it's night. Yeah...

Anyway, Happy Diwali to everyone.

I know people have announced their intentions to post, but I'm still a little concerned about the slowdown in Fair. We've gone from averaging 8 posts a day (which is still pretty bad) to averaging 1 in the last couple of days. This once again makes me concerned about whether people are going to be able to sustain two threads.

I'm waiting to see if anyone wants to have their characters check out Rufus's stall. If that doesn't happen any time soon, I think I'll put another character in.

But yeah, the slowdown is a little perplexing.

I feel like the stall system has sort of hurt the thread, in that people whose only character is at a stall can wind up doing nothing for long periods, even if they could otherwise post.

True, although I have been fairly busy this week. I was also planning on having Rufus transition away from his stall after a couple more people showed up to have him do stuff, but now I feel like I've overshot my expectations for the activity level of the thread.

I didn't mind having all that downtime. Although I suppose I should probably bring my guy back for the next one or something.

I'll post for Selina (the other character I wanted to bring into this thread) one of these days... I'm just afraid that I'll over-commit with a second character, because I have to deal with varying amounts of schoolwork at the moment. :/

Ryuhza: The nature of Rufus's stall could allow you to make him a traveling attraction of sorts.

Obviously, having so many writer-specific stalls is unsustainable; I don't know why I didn't think this would happen. I suppose one way to fix it aside from just closing down whole stalls (if the nature of the stall is one mainly of promotion, closing the stall and making the proprietors rove about would give you your cake and let you eat it, too) would be for stall writers, assuming they have more than one character in charge of a stall, to send one of those characters out into the rest of the fair after some period of not getting any visitors. It's frankly looking more and more necessary considering our crowd that just doesn't seem to have the same amount of time on its hands as in the past.

More personally, I feel like a big reason why I can't trade some of the Reddit time on my more 'filled-up' days for CDT-posting time is because I have a too-general idea of where, specifically, I want to take Iris. I don't have a very strong notion of her outside some very pivotal points in her story, something that can only be fixed just by writing her and seeing how she functions on her own and when she's not 'working'. I actually think I could keep a better posting rate for the Halloween thread because I have a more definite game plan for Henri.

As for when I'll be posting in Fair, things should be much quieter through Sunday. I should be able to post every day through this weekend, including today.

Sincerely sorry for not really being too active around here.