STATE OF THE GAME

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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!

Comments

[omniavincit]

Hey! I was working last night and am just now catching up on all this, but since you mentioned William I thought I'd chime in for some clarity/to give you a sense of where he's coming from.

he has actually been plain on the network on how poorly inmates were treated on the last ship

I've tried to be really circumspect about this, since OOCly I don't want to dwell on bad past experiences or potentially drag new players into discussing or even relitigating things that happened in a game they had nothing to do with. ICly William is also being circumspect because he has difficulty talking about it and doesn't want to freak inmates out. It'd be really helpful if you could point to threads where this happened so I know what to adjust!

(And also feel free to ping me if William ever takes things too far--I'm trying to take an approach of "William is impressed with and surprised by things that are an improvement over the Barge" vs. "William laments how terrible his time on the Barge was.")

there was a whole chunk of network interaction where bucky was lambasted for giving silco a nickname, which tells me oocly that icly characters will not take to harsh things well.

I think other people have alluded to this, but differences in wardening style are really common--I don't think you EVER have to worry about every warden unanimously condemning Bucky for a choice he's made.

In the thread in question specifically, William's reaction to Bucky had to do with a couple factors: 1. canonically having experienced the kind of treatment Bucky was giving Silco (there's a reason "don't call me Billy" is in his name field) and feeling as a warden he needed to stand up for the guy; 2. Bucky's defensiveness, along with Claire immediately jumping in, made William feel ganged up on and like Bucky and Claire weren't interested in discussion so much as being right. In some ways William's response was intensely personal, in part because that's how he approaches wardening--it's a personal experience and he's an emotional guy.

If something like this happens again and you ever have questions about where William's coming from, please hit me up! (Or like, feel free to ask here and now!) I love talking about him, I'm always happy to shed light on his motives and can easily adjust if something is uncomfortable (or just too CRAU-y) for you--but I can't know something's wrong if you don't reach out.