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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#257451: May 2nd 2014 at 9:47:08 AM

you would think that would make lemming rushes not a thing tho

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#257452: May 2nd 2014 at 9:48:11 AM

It's because everyone scrambles to be not left out, and not everyone succeeds.

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RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#257453: May 2nd 2014 at 9:48:11 AM

Dreams are particularly bad in disconnecting people.

With areas like Upstairs- you can get away with a medium of "Oh, you can probably hear it happening."

Forest is sketchy territory.

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#257454: May 2nd 2014 at 9:49:13 AM

Which ties into a bigger issue — most of the characters have almost nothing to talk to each other about, since everything is so private. So normal conversation has stalled as well.

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#257455: May 2nd 2014 at 9:50:16 AM

normal conversation is good

need more of

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RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#257456: May 2nd 2014 at 9:51:36 AM

I have noticed that as well.

Small-Talk has diminished.

Substantially.

I know I find it hard to come up with material for small-talk sometimes, but- I still try to keep conversations flowing when I can.

Rather than just a war of Ellipses.

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#257457: May 2nd 2014 at 9:51:57 AM

I'm gonna do the thing when I get home, where everyone gets stuck indoors and in the basement with no power.

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#257458: May 2nd 2014 at 9:53:01 AM

i will be at track practice around that time

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Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#257459: May 2nd 2014 at 9:56:17 AM

See the problem with that is, that we treat most characters like they're stuck in the room. There is nothing normal to talk about because nothing normal happens.

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#257460: May 2nd 2014 at 10:04:01 AM

I'm saying normal conversation as in "not life-changing revelations". Those are good, but maybe it might be better to say something like "I got blown up the other day. How was your morning?" There is plenty to just plain talk about, but nobody does it because it occurs in isolated pockets so nobody feels like sharing.

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Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#257461: May 2nd 2014 at 10:10:46 AM

But see having characters become emotionally dead towards near death experiences is incredibly dumb. Unless that's the point of your character.

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#257462: May 2nd 2014 at 10:12:27 AM

That was just an example, I didn't mean they should literally talk like that. I'm saying that they should at least bring this stuff up to one another. But nobody ever does.

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TheSpacePhantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#257463: May 2nd 2014 at 10:12:43 AM

that was just an example

ninjas

edited 2nd May '14 10:12:58 AM by TheSpacePhantom

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trip Since: Mar, 2012
#257464: May 2nd 2014 at 10:14:16 AM

can i just say that i object to the "locked indoors" idea?

it feels a lot like railroading tbh

and this is an rp that i thought there was no railroading to

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#257465: May 2nd 2014 at 10:16:16 AM

trip, I don't think the intent was to railroad any particular plot. It's more creating an abnormal situation to spark interaction.

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#257466: May 2nd 2014 at 10:16:33 AM

The point is to make sure everyone is actually in the room they're supposed to be in. It's not railroading, it's trying to get back to what actually works.

I've been meaning to bring this up for a while, but there are waaaay too many locations now. Mall, ship, upstairs, dream, shrine, main room, kitchen, apparently the cliff and beach came back at some point...

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RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
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#257467: May 2nd 2014 at 10:18:13 AM

Eh.

I never even use the shrine.

It might as well not be there.

Unless this is the memorial we're talking about.

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trip Since: Mar, 2012
#257468: May 2nd 2014 at 10:19:02 AM

get rid of the cliff/beach, blow up the mall, have the ship be taken back by mr. bats, and the kitchen stays because it is literally the room right next to the main room, it's not that big a deal

Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
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#257469: May 2nd 2014 at 10:20:04 AM

Spaz this is just creating more problems than its solving.

The dream things are done a little too much yeah, but people can easily get to the other locations. A diveristy of locations works better than being stuck in one room all the time, because it creates more freedom.

I like the mall. The mall will not be going anywhere.

edited 2nd May '14 10:20:54 AM by Azure

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#257470: May 2nd 2014 at 10:20:58 AM

That too. The graveyard should probably stop being a thing and just go back to being something that also just happens to be outside, now that its outlived its relevance.

[up]It also breaks things up and leaves a bunch of people stranded. This is part of the isolation thing I was talking about. Things have become way too spaced out.

edited 2nd May '14 10:22:31 AM by GameSpazzer

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trip Since: Mar, 2012
#257471: May 2nd 2014 at 10:22:20 AM

i will say i'm not fond of all the outdoor locations, but places that should normally exist in a house is fine because, well, it's as simple as walking five or six steps

and i think the outside should stay, only main interaction should turn out in the LAWN

forest can be used for plot bunnies

MacDuffy from Enies Lobby Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#257472: May 2nd 2014 at 10:22:39 AM

I don't really agree with that "we have too many locations" argument because this isn't a forum game anymore.

edited 2nd May '14 10:23:03 AM by MacDuffy

thestonedog78 Princess Warlock from from deep space Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Princess Warlock
#257474: May 2nd 2014 at 10:24:21 AM

i agree with spaz. it kinda feel like this my group of friends and lol you can't join.

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#257475: May 2nd 2014 at 10:25:27 AM

We have too many locations because it's causing everyone to splinter off into groups of two or three and is restricting conversation, which, foum game or not, is what this is supposed to be the focus of. And if you didn't find a group in time, you're fucked.

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