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The Return Journey ([personal profile] returnjourney) wrote in [community profile] returnjourneyooc2022-03-05 05:37 pm

STATE OF THE GAME



STATE OF THE GAME

Hello, passengers!

We've passed our two-month anniversary, and so we'd like to take this opportunity to check in with our players, to see what's working for you guys and what could use improvement. You can consider this post a place to freely share your thoughts, both with us and the game at large. If you'd like to engage with the mods one-on-one, please see our Mod Contact page!

Feel free to converse amongst yourselves, whether it's about expectations, concerns, or anything else.


Character Activities

We also wanted to introduce a new page we set up, to make it easier for your character to contribute to the ship and also notice those contributions! Please check out that page here.

You guys can use this page to post and track any background behavior or activities your character and others are up to, whether now or at any time in the future. Basically, things that aren't big enough to merit a player plot, but are still important to how your character engages with the setting! Think of it as something adjacent to a handwaved CR meme; you can see examples on the page itself.

We'd also like to give you guys the opportunity to plot amongst yourself, insofar as the group activities go. There were a few of these mentioned on the warden meeting posts, so if you have an idea for a group activity and would like to present it to the game at large, please post it under this header! Then, if it gets enough traction (or has received support elsewhere, like plurk), submit it to the proper header on the Activities page. Other players can show their support by adding a +1 or -1 in the subject of their replies. Let's say there should be participation from 4 or 5 characters for it to count!

That said, if a group activity doesn't get enough support (or your character wouldn't bother trying to get support and would do the activity solo), please submit it as an individual activity! You can always bump it up to a group activity in the future, if more passengers participate later.

Please note that this page is not meant as a substitution for threading out cool things or player plots. Rather, we'd like to give everyone a neat, easy way to see what's going on around the ship at any given time, so wardens and inmates can stay on the same page with their activities and share plot hooks.

Since this page will be a mainstay, if you have any questions, please ask them on our FAQ!


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[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-06 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Not to speak for Carolyn, but William and Loki are definitely seeing this as an improvement upon the previous system, so they aren't really in a dramatically different boat (lol) than any of the other wardens. They wouldn't be here if they were. Loki's skeptical and has gone to seek reassurance, and I'd like to leave it at that for the time being rather than stress testing the setting's premise, if that makes sense?

I do want to add that I think your tagging pace might be contributing to your overall stress about all this in addition to putting some pressure on other players that I don't think you're going for. It might be worth it to slow down some more, do some more day-to-day things, etc. Not full SOL or anything, but I think sometimes Volk comes off as if he's trying to speedrun the metaplot and it's requiring an awful lot of thought and effort from everybody involved to manage that.

Volk being high-strung isn't necessarily going to go away, obviously, but it could be lightened up, I think. Make it fun. Take your time. The game'll still be here tomorrow. <3
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[personal profile] saklas 2022-03-06 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
lol my tag speed is forever going to feel too slow ....... i like fast characters

no honestly at this point im thinking i just didnt pick the right guy TONALLY for what's fun for me and other people. which, you know -

i always think that if youre doing something long term you have to make every mistake at least once and this is one i have yet to make before :V
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[personal profile] shiftedshape 2022-03-06 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
I can picture Volk fitting in if he was toned down slightly re: setting poking, personally, but if you don't think that's something his personality can manage, I totally get it. Whatever works for you, my dude.
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[personal profile] saklas 2022-03-06 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
nah, I think people are pointing out larger tonal issues and im cool with that