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

[bornofthedarkness]

Heyo,
Whew, so this is a lot to chew on but I appreciate all the thoughts that have been going on here! I think for me I feel pretty distant from everyone which might just be a fault of my own, frankly. I'm prety busy, I have a difficult time keeping up with and being on plurk too so there is that.

I know Malekith is... difficult, he's old, he's seen a lot, experienced a lot, holds some pretty gnarly views that are deeply entrenched in his being and by nature alone travels down the path of antagonist because the state of the universe is kinda killing his kind, yanno. He's not the most ACTIVE inmate at the moment because he's watching, and scheming, and planning. Learning things. Also because he knows he's weak and sorta hates that but is kinda vividly aware of that. So that's been a bit of a trial to navigate. His superiority complex doesn't help either so there's some just. Things that make it difficult at the moment just by nature of him being him, lmfao.

I really love deep and complicated CR, I love negative or kind of gray spaces. I just don't really know how to get involved at the moment as much. It's been a bit of a struggle on that front, and maybe its just that this type of character isn't where it's at right now. Though I have a few leads and hell who doesn't love a slow burn. I do have another character in mind that would be more likely to make a mess of everything. So I might give that a go!

That being said, I'm nowhere near as intense or archaic as this asshole lmfao so please by all means if anything is uncomfortable hollar at me. I adore terrible shit but sometimes that's not the jam for people, its cool.

Also, if something seems to be read wrong it may be 1. that HE is interpreting it wrong and my meta is reflecting that or 2. That I am actually interpreting it wrong and please by all means correct me, I have no problem with that.

As for the whole of the game, I love the setting. I'm torn between some of the accommodations being really nice and kushy which makes it hard to feel prison-y but also that there's such a limited amount of things for inmates to do that it makes things equally hard to navigate but I think that's coming from the mindset of a character who would usually rather talk to a brick wall than someone who isn't also Svartalfer LMFAO.

Mm, yeah I think that's it. Thanks mods for opening this dialogue and thanks everyone for your great input and thoughts.


OH -- I figured to add this: I think sometimes he can be intimidating cause he's so large, he's obviously old, he just carries himself as an imposing thing, but I don't mind him being put in his place, challenged on his ideas, or like ANY of that. I truly welcome it all!! If this helps at all.