thusia_ooc | CONCERNING THE CURRENT WORLDPLOT AND SUCH THINGS

Hello Thusia, it is me. Thusia, have you ever thought to yourself, "My character is probably the sort of person who would want to be involved in helping other people and doing useful society things, but I have other plots going on and I am busy IRL and I am more interested in playing other things that appeal to me more as a player and I am too shy to shove my character out into the spotlight of a big plot and etc. etc."

Thusia, if you have thought this, I just want you to know that I think that is totally valid and cool and honestly, sometimes world plot is just not what you want to play out explicitly, and you shouldn't have to spend tons of time playing out things explicitly that don't really interest you.

So purpose number one of this post is this: if you want to handwave your character doing anything whatsoever - giving sacrifices to Eizon or Selyir, offering to help grow some vines for our (future) shiny new generator, doing literally anything else that I haven't thought of yet, doing something completely unrelated to those plans, doing something actively against those plans, seriously I am so cool with anything - anyway, if you want your character to participate or think your character ICly would participate but don't want to spend a ton of time threading it out, please just fill out the short form here. It's very short for real.

And if there are any questions you think are boring or whatever you can just not answer them. It can just say something like, I think my character would really want to help in setting up the portal for people lost in the jungle, but I don't think they would want to help Eizon because he's a huge butthead. Or maybe something like, my character has a little bit of tech savvy, so maybe when the generator is made they can help get it up and running.

Mostly the point of this is so that we can get a gauge on how many characters are actively doing such things? So then ICly we can figure out how fast things are moving, what is going to work and not work, etc. ALSO I would like for this to be a general plotting post about the world things happening. So I have a little survey which you can fill out if you like. I'm really excited about this so far and I think it could be pretty cool, but I just would like to make it so that absolutely anybody who wants to be involved can be, even if they are like, lol whos yukari tho. So yeah.

By the way, do you want to be my friend? I want to be your friend, Thusia, so you can be my friend on plurk at NECROFANTASIA. Here I'll make it a link. NECROFANTASIA. Boom.

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→ Do you know about all of the world plot stuff? (And if not, how can it be made more explicit?)

I keep track of things! I don't follow every post like I did before the flood/S'vex/Gods' backstory, butI'm generally aware of what's going on.

→ How does your character feel about it? Do they care?

Both my characters are noncombatants, so they've dealt with 'there's a lot of dragons on the roof that will kill you' by staying away from the roof.

→ Are they going to do anything about it?

Unless they're directly approached, probably not. Kururu's been focused on dismantling the second-floor laundry machines for Zhen Ji, and Zexion's been dealing with some unexpected losses/gains in the population of his household.

→ Is there anything that I, other players, or the mods can do to make this more awesome for you?

As a player, I'm the kind of person who needs something (someone) to engage with in a thread in order to find it enjoyable. I don't handwave well; I really need to interact and play things out in order to have them feel 'real'. That's why I started the IC bulletin board in the first place; there could be all the OOC announcements and communication in the world, and I still will not feel a part of anything unless I've threaded it out.

I also need plot growth to be a little more . . . organic? Than Thusia's world-plots tend to be. More 'because you did X and Y, Z happened', and less 'because you didn't do A and B, C is happening'. Plots that are centred on, and grow with the characters—with their ideas and actions and solutions—are what I love.

On the flipside, plots where the course of action and the right solution are dictated by the storyteller/NPCs tend to be what I go to video games or tabletop RP for, rather than journal RP. It's just not my thing in this kind of setting. So when things start to go that way, I tend to pull back and let the people who are enjoying it play it out.

CONCERNING THE CURRENT WORLDPLOT AND SUCH THINGS

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