I think writing characters in relation to an ongoing plot is something worth practicing, though I'll admit it is more difficult to coordinate and tends to confuse people.
I like the Chatroom's free conversation element, which the Cantina resembles at present, but I'm not entirely sure how useful it is. (I'm thinking I might switch to another character in the Chatroom soon, but that's something I'd be more wary of doing in the Cantina.)
Welcome To TV Tropes | How To Write An Example | Text Formatting Rules | List Of Shows That Need Summary | TV Tropes Forum | Know The StaffEveryone else seems to have unofficially quit Titanic. I might have done it eventually— Emo!William is hard to work with.
Warm hugs and morally questionable advice given here. Prosey BitchfestI shouldn't have created Emo!William... he is an abomination >.>
Is it proposal time yet or are we still keeping Titanic on life support?
edited 6th Jul '11 8:20:58 PM by snowfoxofdeath
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Me too.
Let's scratch it off as too hard and put it out there to be Re-tooled into a proper RP.
Now back to Cantina. Since Titanic sank, can it be considered an official Character Development Thread, as opposed to a spin-off?
Am I being too lazy of a supervisor, or should I let everyone keep babbling around?
edited 6th Jul '11 8:23:00 PM by chihuahua0
I was really looking forward to participating in a plot based thread, though, and Cantina is hard for me because so many of my characters are loners >.<
D:
edited 6th Jul '11 8:26:04 PM by snowfoxofdeath
Warm hugs and morally questionable advice given here. Prosey BitchfestCantina should ideally have a casual, drop-in/drop-out nature. As long as we always have some fresh characters it can be sustained indefinitely without any sort of ongoing plot.
I even have some characters to try out here after I make Vince leave- plainclothes Cyrus and Selene the courier.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."However, if you want, you would know if somebody could overhear something from a nearby table.
I'll be happy to draw up a diagram of the cantina on MS Paint tomorrow and give each table a number, which is something they should have already.
Tell me a bit about the side room (where's the door to it? How many chairs?) and the upstairs area (where's the stairs? About how many rooms? etc.) and I'll include them, too.
edited 6th Jul '11 8:44:05 PM by CrystalGlacia
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."(i thought he said there was going to be one, so i was just asking...)
Anyways, yeah, I don't think we need a plot. Asking several people to coordinate a coherent series of events gets messy fast.
Whatcha gonna do, little buckaroo? | i be pimpin' madoka ficsAre we saying "no plot for Cantina" or "no plots at all for now"? There might be some in the future, right?
Warm hugs and morally questionable advice given here. Prosey BitchfestThe rule seems to be "No overarching plots". Theoretically, you could have very tiny, self-contained, intrapersonal plots with only a few characters where they simply grow and change through their interactions instead of an outside force making shit happen. Just like QQQQQ always wanted.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."Here's
the post where I gave a clunky description of the Cantina. I posted a short description of the side-room earlier than that.
And a shorter
and earlier one with the side room.
I'm not sure of the dimensions, but the rooms are big and rectangular. I have no idea what the rooms upstairs looks like though.
edited 6th Jul '11 9:54:57 PM by chihuahua0
No more plot threads, then?
I needed to make sure because I'd rather have it during the summer and I need to plan accordingly. If there are any during the school year, I also need to plan accordingly and it will be much trickier.
Warm hugs and morally questionable advice given here. Prosey BitchfestWe need a nailed-down description of that the Cantina is like. Chiguahua suggested a simple map, that would work quite well I think. Whatever we end up with, it ought to be posted in the Cantina CDT thread. Also, we need the participants to post their characters' names and physical descriptions to let everybody get a sense of who is in the Cantina.
edited 6th Jul '11 11:36:13 PM by Gault
yeyUltimately, this is a forum. If you wanna create a thread, nothing's stopping you; the question is whether there's enough interest for it to be worth the effort. Perhaps the rule could be "no overarching plots for main threads"?
Actually, first, is there anyone who would be interested in a thread where the characters are divided into teams and attempting to accomplish some objective or other? I liked the idea, for one.
Physical description of my current Cantina character, Friendship.
(Speech quirks aside, he does not resemble a pony in any way, shape or form.)
edited 7th Jul '11 3:24:31 AM by BobbyG
Welcome To TV Tropes | How To Write An Example | Text Formatting Rules | List Of Shows That Need Summary | TV Tropes Forum | Know The StaffThis is exactly what Motree, Infinite Paragon, and myself are planning to do for an RP. A Game Of Chance. The main catch, though, is that the player characters will be together in a strange place with no memories and no knowledge of how they got there, with a trinket of some kind giving them their name. They'll be given targets (other players) to kill with the consequence that if they don't do so in the allotted amount of days, they themselves will die. They'll also be caught in the crossfire of three much stronger factions.
It's a wonderful RP concept that doesn't have to involve a ton of fighting. The first time around, it consisted mainly of people trying to manipulate others onto their side- great if you want to try to learn how to write a Manipulative Bastard. We're still working out the kinks and it won't be ready until late August at the very least, but if you're interested, feel free to join us when we get the signups posted.
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"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."^ Sounds good. I was planning to get into the RP forums anyway >…>
Warm hugs and morally questionable advice given here. Prosey BitchfestRPs can be great writing exercises if you choose carefully. They also move along slower than the CDTs. Me and twelve other people rallied for two weeks to get this idea off the ground because the original GM went AWOL.*
edited 7th Jul '11 5:41:03 AM by CrystalGlacia
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

We don't know yet.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."