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[CHIHUELANS] OOC Wrapup
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cherrywoodHi chelonauts, Li here!
I really want to apologize for the sort ofhot mess sporadic handling of the Chihuelan event this month, which I was in charge of, so this is on me. (Pur and Am have been graciously doing part of my work, whoops.)
Essentially, I planned too big a plot for too small a timeframe, and then I didn't take into account a lot of factors. As a result, there actually happened... very little, and what did happen, didn't factor in things that I should have allowed players better chance to react to.
In short: I bungled it! Just a little bit.
But that's okay, because we're a flexible game with lovely players, so what's going to happen ICly is: the Justicar received an emergency callback to Chihuelo, and spittingly mad as she is to leave something in the middle of it, she's a good soldier and is going home briefly.
OOCly, the mods have all agreed to take a step down breather for a few months, as we noted in the September itinerary. What this means is that we're temporarily shelving the Chihuelan plot, and switching the metaplot focus to elements already introduced, namely the sinking turtle, and to player plots for the remainder of this year. (October since it's almost already here, November so everyone's not trying to cram everything into October, and December because hello holidays and exams and no one wants to deal with plot things during that.) This will mean no landfalls between here and the new year, as well.
THAT SAID, we're not going totally slice of life during this period. There are lots of things already in the works that can be followed up on, and plot developments from reward requests are always an option. We're simply stepping back from the game-wide metaplot for a bit, so that everyone can have a bit of downtime, including us mods!
We're also going to be using this time to rework a lot of the core posts and game mechanics, which is something we've been trying to do since summer, and it keeps being shuffled back because of time constraints.
So that's where things are standing at the moment, but if anyone has questions/comments/concerns/etc, please leave them here. Anon is acceptable, if anyone wants to go that route as well.
Thanks all!
I really want to apologize for the sort of
Essentially, I planned too big a plot for too small a timeframe, and then I didn't take into account a lot of factors. As a result, there actually happened... very little, and what did happen, didn't factor in things that I should have allowed players better chance to react to.
In short: I bungled it! Just a little bit.
But that's okay, because we're a flexible game with lovely players, so what's going to happen ICly is: the Justicar received an emergency callback to Chihuelo, and spittingly mad as she is to leave something in the middle of it, she's a good soldier and is going home briefly.
OOCly, the mods have all agreed to take a step down breather for a few months, as we noted in the September itinerary. What this means is that we're temporarily shelving the Chihuelan plot, and switching the metaplot focus to elements already introduced, namely the sinking turtle, and to player plots for the remainder of this year. (October since it's almost already here, November so everyone's not trying to cram everything into October, and December because hello holidays and exams and no one wants to deal with plot things during that.) This will mean no landfalls between here and the new year, as well.
THAT SAID, we're not going totally slice of life during this period. There are lots of things already in the works that can be followed up on, and plot developments from reward requests are always an option. We're simply stepping back from the game-wide metaplot for a bit, so that everyone can have a bit of downtime, including us mods!
We're also going to be using this time to rework a lot of the core posts and game mechanics, which is something we've been trying to do since summer, and it keeps being shuffled back because of time constraints.
So that's where things are standing at the moment, but if anyone has questions/comments/concerns/etc, please leave them here. Anon is acceptable, if anyone wants to go that route as well.
Thanks all!