Outracing the Flames Discussion Thread

[Folwren]

Originally Posted by Undómë

Meghan doesn't give a fig for what Rædwald thinks she should do.

She's sent him back intentionally so she can ride ahead with Athwen. And besides, she's eager to see that Osmod and Fion really are alright. She knows that if Sythric and Rædy get together, there could be a long drawn out conference on what to do.

Oh, she doesn't? Alrighty, then.

Originally Posted by Nogrod

I withdrew my save.

I'll put up a post as things appear to be favorable in that direction and we'll start on our way, whether Raedwald wants it or not, eh?

-- Folwren

[Nogrod]

Well, as we are having more people posting with each other, I thought we should be more careful with at least two things.

First: at least Farael seems to make Osmod's outspoken lines in italics - and I have a feeling, that at least most of the others use italics only when there is inward thinking going on - using the "parentheses" while speaking openly to others. It just the same for me, which are the stylistic conventions we adopt, but it would be clearer, if we all sticked to the same principles.

Secondly: might be due to aforementioned uncertainty also - might be because of some other reasons - but I hope we should be careful enough in writing our posts as not to make our players into "mind-readers". So if a character just thinks about something by her/himself in a post, that should not be known by any other character...

... and maybe to avoid these unhappy situations, that just happened between me and Eowyn, could we kind of note here on this planning-thread beforehand, that we are up to something - at least if we have been away for a time? I just thought yesterday, that the things were clearly developing at a pace, and E & S were somewhat being left behind also in the narration (as we both had been away), and because there were no mentioning by Eowyn to make things go forward, I reserved a save (so that the post would be at a reasonable place along the storyline). I will really appreciate Eowyn's post and have no specific urge to make that one myself. So I hope he comes back with it. I have been very busy (RL) - and tried to hang in a WW-game simultaneously... Very bad scheduling from me.

But in a way, this story / game has just begun?
(And I guess, most of us have just been practising this thing up to now? At least I have never played this kind of game before... but hopefully have learned something up to now.)

[Farael]

Hey Nogrod,
It is true that I write dialogs on itallics while most people use them to either stress a couple of words or for the thoughts of the characters. To make a long story short, I like it better that way. It makes it easier for me (at least) to notice when storytelling changes into dialog.

Anyway, given that you are the second person to call me on that, I'll ask the rest of you all.... do you mind if I keep on writing like that, or should I go to a more standard " X " Osmod said?

[Valier]

Farael I have no problem understanding your posts, They are fine the way they are! I think we all have different styles of writing and that's ok as long as we understand what is being said.

And Nogrod, I don't remember Eonwe being in this game.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Valier

And Nogrod, I don't remember Eonwe being in this game.

My bad! I've corrected that...

[Arry]

Farael

I think your use of italics is fine - you seem to always use the quotation marks with them anyway.

Since I can't recall - how do you handle if your character is thinking something?

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Nogrod

Has there been a problem with players using another character's private thoughts? If it does happen, I do hope that if this happens, the writer will ask for an edit by posting on the Discussion Thread and gently reminding the other player that those were a character's 'private thoughts'.

[Nogrod]

= Arry
Farael

I think your use of italics is fine - you seem to always use the quotation marks with them anyway.

Since I can't recall - how do you handle if your character is thinking something?

I don't mind anyone using italics in speech as such, but this latter is the problem... You can't differ your private thoughts from either your open talk or from your overall narrator's voice so easily...

= Arry
Nogrod

Has there been a problem with players using another character's private thoughts? If it does happen, I do hope that if this happens, the writer will ask for an edit by posting on the Discussion Thread and gently reminding the other player that those were a character's 'private thoughts'.

I wouldn't call them "problems", but just curious, or just slightly annoying incidents at times. I have taken a couple of longer reads, as I haven't had always time to read the thread day by day - and when reading the thread in concerto for a longer period, like 20 pages of print in a row, those lapses kind of jump on your nose more clearly than in just reading one stuff today, and other tomorrow... I wouldn't like to go on pin-pointing anyone or any actual place (if you think I'm just nagging at nothing, I will come forwards with cases, but I hope I need not to). It's not so big a cause anyways. I was just asking people to be careful with this thing - myself included.