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I dissolved the groups a long time ago... I didn't realize that wasn't made clear.oh.... I must have missed something... I at least assumed that some of that group was still there? Since this was only happening in the span of a few mintues....?
I was trying to not worry about time and just say "whatever the next post for these character is, will be a mini-time skip to say that they got out of the group that they were previously in". Because I had spent so much time and effort trying to actually RP out so many groups splitting up or re-joining, that I decided it would make a lot more sense to just wipe the slate clean and say "these are all free characters now -- bring them back into the RP whenever and however you like".
However, none of the other characters who used to be in that group have made any posts since the dissolve. Which is why I said that I might be cool with just saying that group never dissolved at all and just continuing where we left off. (My only concern is that it might be confusing for all the people who thought the group had dissolved -- since, clearly, this is already a confusing situation, and I don't want to make it more confusing by going back-and-forth on it...)
I don't even know what this is referring to, here. You mean the location where Exdeath is? I thought that he hadn't gone to that location -- only pinpointed where it is.Also I just realized that he wouldn't have actually gone to the location yet if he just got out of the loop.
No posts for any members of the gem-chasing group have been made ever since I dissolved that group. I considered all the characters in it to be free characters and deleted my posting notes for that particular group, allowing everyone to do mini-time skips in order to place their characters somewhere else (although no one did).Exactly what's going on
You then continued to ask me about doing the Loop thing. I said that no characters would be joining Sub because no one said anything about wanting to join him before the group dissolved, and that I also didn't want you just RPing it out on your own, and that I'd prefer if you just time-skipped over it. What I didn't realize is that time would work differently inside and outside the Loop, meaning that you could say the entire Loop thing happened in such a short span of time. Also, I didn't realize that you were completely unaware of the whole group-dissolving thing, which happened quite some time ago. I thought that I had clarified this whenever you mentioned not knowing what's going on in that group, but apparently I wasn't clear enough.
This is one of the reasons why I wanted to dissolve all the groups in the first place. So little was happening, and no one was engaged in what was happening or was able to remember where anyone left off -- so I said it would be easier to wipe the slate clean, rather than trying to hold onto these dead groups and make sense of all these small details that people keep tripping over.
Now, you've made a post for Sub both entering and exiting the Loop, but ended your second post with him interacting with characters from the old, dissolved group. However, like I said, none of the characters have done anything else since the dissolve -- and the only thing I ever did to dissolve it in the first place was just declaring it so in the OOC. So, I could easily say that the group never dissolved in the first place, and there wouldn't even be anything in the IC that I would need to retcon. So now I'm not sure which option I want to go with.
Well, the original plan is that the group would dissolve, and then none of us would have to keep worrying about the specifics of what's going on in a practically-dead group like this one. Everyone could re-introduce their characters on their own time and place them somewhere else -- presumably something related to finding SU, but, you know. The goal was that we wouldn't have to hem and haw over how exactly to move all the characters from the dead group somewhere else and transition them into a new group, like the slow and painful disaster that was splitting up the screaming group. (And I would've thrown Trigun somewhere if this semester hadn't turned out to be so goddamn exhausting.)and what's supposed to be going on?
I said that you could say that the Loop thing happened, but I thought that you would just time-skip over it and re-introduce Sub as doing whatever after the dissolve.
So, what was originally supposed to be going on is that none of us would be worrying about where the old group left off, because all the characters from it would have just been re-introduced in different places. And, yeah, they probably would've come back together and formed the same group again, anyway, but at least we wouldn't have had to worry about awkwardly transitioning from one thing to the other.
However, given the fact that none of the characters from the dissolved group have since posted, and that I'm not even sure where exactly I would put Trigun even if I did have time to post for her, and that Submachine is now giving everyone an easy way to get to Exdeath (which I'm cool with at this point, since the Tower group is splitting up, and therefore isn't as huge as it used to be), I'm ok with just dropping the old group-dissolving plan since A) it didn't work, B) there's nothing in the IC that I would need to retcon, and C) continuing from your last post gives us an easy way to get things moving again, which is really what the goal of this entire thing was.
My only concern is that the people who were in that old group might now be getting rather confused -- having told them that the group was dissolved, and that now it isn't dissolved and that we're continuing from where you left off, even though many of them might not even remember what was last happening in the group because I didn't think anyone would need to remember the specifics of it, and especially considering that just dissolving the group in the first place was apparently incredibly confusing even before adding this whole back-and-forth thing.
So I guess I'll just ask the members of that group whether or not any part of this explanation makes any goddamn sense to them and where they'd like to go from here:
@Flame @Raven
(Assuming I actually remembered everyone who was in that group, given that I deleted my posting notes for it. I looked back at the IC posts for it and I don't see anyone that I'm missing, but this list still looks small...)
Come to think of it: maybe I could just have Trigun go with Submachine. And anyone else who wants to tag along can do so... or not, if this is confusing and they'd rather just have their character go elsewhere.