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[Voidus]

Planning thread for era 2 planning

[MetaTerminal he/him]

What makes the most sense to me is a division into Eras 0, 1 and 2, with the division between Eras 0 and 1 being somewhere between the expanse of inactivity and the beginning of Calm Before the Storm. If I had to pick an exact date, it would either be at the formation of the Ghostbloods (March 14), or at the formation of the combat rules (April 10). The latter would make the most sense to me, as it was the point that the system of characters and combat was formalized. Everything before that is fairly fluid in terms of RPing, everything after being fairly RP dedicated. 

[Archer he/him]

I think that the Challenge of Champions Preliminary Match (April 14th) was the first time Alleyverse characters were used. Before that (The SLICE Opening Sale etc.) was 1st person RP. So, everything before then would be what I consider the first era. After the timeskip would be the third era, with the stuff in between being the second. 

[MetaTerminal he/him]

The character system happened at the same time as the combat rules, I think. Early April.

See, I prefer the 0th era system. The Guild War being Era 2 seems weird to me - and besides, given that before Challengd of Champions the system wasn’t even formalised, it makes much more sense to be an Era 0. That would signal that it’s not very streamlined and the system was different - the (not so) distant history of the Alleyverse. I also like the idea of each Era having a discrete ‘plot’ or series of events, so making the shadowdays Era 1 means that there isn’t really anything that happens in it. If we make it Era 0, then it can be clearer that not a lot of stuff occurred in it, whereas Era 1 can be a much more cohesive and interesting story.

[Voidus]

Yeah I started tagging things already so currently it's 0 based (Programmers preference for me, I like my indexes 0-based)
Definitely up for discussion still if there's a majority who would prefer it another way but I tend to agree that having everything before the Alleyverse was formalized be era 0 makes more sense to me.

[BitBitio he/him]

YAY WE CAN UPVOTE PEOPLE NOW

[Voidus]

Phew.

Alright, most things should now be tagged, I only included era tags for anything that had RP in it, or some of the era 0 stuff so it's clearly distinct from the rest.

All subject to change, plenty I probably got wrong so feel free to update or point them out

[I Am Witless she/her]

I like the Era 0 thing. It makes sense to divide times from before we started 3rd person POV and afterwards.

I know that we don't have much purpose (yet) for Era 2, but I have a thread that I might create while we figure out the plot and purpose. Yzabet runs a waystop/inn near the Horneater Peaks perpendicularity, and she is willing to teach anyone the basics of all Sanderson magic (except Hemalurgy), cooking, gardening, and breeding dangerous spiders. This could be an intro thread for some new characters (maybe teaching new people the basics of Role Play) but I doubt that I could balance most of the Alleyverse in the narrative.

 

[Voidus]

1 minute ago, I am Witless said:

I like the Era 0 thing. It makes sense to divide times from before we started 3rd person POV and afterwards.

I know that we don't have much purpose (yet) for Era 2, but I have a thread that I might create while we figure out the plot and purpose. Yzabet runs a waystop/inn near the Horneater Peaks perpendicularity, and she is willing to teach anyone the basics of all Sanderson magic (except Hemalurgy), cooking, gardening, and breeding dangerous spiders. This could be an intro thread for some new characters (maybe teaching new people the basics of Role Play) but I doubt that I could balance most of the Alleyverse in the narrative.

 

Personally I think the strength of FFRP is shown to its fullest when you discovery write, figure out the plot as you go along. Just meet up with some characters, see what happens.

[Nohadon he/him]

23 minutes ago, I am Witless said:

I like the Era 0 thing. It makes sense to divide times from before we started 3rd person POV and afterwards.

I know that we don't have much purpose (yet) for Era 2, but I have a thread that I might create while we figure out the plot and purpose. Yzabet runs a waystop/inn near the Horneater Peaks perpendicularity, and she is willing to teach anyone the basics of all Sanderson magic (except Hemalurgy), cooking, gardening, and breeding dangerous spiders. This could be an intro thread for some new characters (maybe teaching new people the basics of Role Play) but I doubt that I could balance most of the Alleyverse in the narrative.

 

WOO! Another teacher character! Devaan's training ground will also be open for new characters, but It's more combat based

[Voidus]

2 minutes ago, Nohadon said:

WOO! Another teacher character! Devaan's training ground will also be open for new characters, but It's more combat based

I really like the idea of a bunch of students graduating together and then setting out on an adventure.

[I think I am here. he/him]

Me too. Most of our new characters are at the 20-25 year mark though, so maybe for some of us the graduation's already happened.

But yeah, I'm growing more and more excited. It just seems awesome to have a completely new generation of characters who idolise the previous one. They have their own problems, and their own things to deal with all the while having what the previous generation has done as history.

[Cyanic he/him]

It'd be really interesting to see how the new characters interact with Deras since he's like a relic from the past, but wasn't around long enough to have much renown or even know much of anything about the time he just left.

[+Sorana she/her]

What about the hospital and the bar? I mean we nuked the City. They should both be gone, shouldn't they?

 

I like the idea of the graduation class a Lot. Would be perfect for Sheila and her scholarly approach.

 

 

Edited August 17, 2018 by Sorana

[Cyanic he/him]

would we be allowed to make more non-canon threads for fun? For things that seem fun or cool to RP but aren't in line with the main universe/storyline (like my idea for a DA counterpart called "Brightwall")

[Voidus]

Well the beauty of non-canonical threads is you don't really need anyones permission for them since it can't interfere with the rest of the story.
But yeah I'm definitely in favour of more of those cropping up, try to tag them as 'Not canon' if possible.

[Cyanic he/him]

Makes sense yeah

[Life&Death]

I'm planning for Mr. Amber to start up a chocolate shop. Sort of similar to the alleyway bar that we demolished. 

[I Am Witless she/her]

10 hours ago, Voidus said:

Personally I think the strength of FFRP is shown to its fullest when you discovery write, figure out the plot as you go along. Just meet up with some characters, see what happens.

I getcha. I'll make a small side-thread for Yzabet's waystop for training and see if anybody is interested. Have we officially finished Era #1?

[Cyanic he/him]

So the SDW thread seems to be drawing to a close (if not already ended), so I think it's a good time to post the Era 2 thread soon, and everyone that still needs to close their character's arcs can do so in the SDW thread itself even while the Era 2 thread is already ongoing?

[MetaTerminal he/him]

 

8 hours ago, Sorana said:

What about the hospital and the bar? I mean we nuked the City. They should both be gone, shouldn't they?

I like the idea of the nuke only completely decimating certain parts of the city, with half of it being a massive smoking crater. (And a little island in the crater where the Canton of Combat is). That way, if there’s a location we want to carry over, we can just say it was in the flattened part of the city, not the crater part of the city. Over 16 years the flattened part would be almost completely rebuilt, and new alleys and buildings would spring up inside the crater.

And I believe the Alleyway bar has been decimated on multiple occasions.

[Lord Meeker he/him]

It would be interesting of the Alleycity became something like the United Isles from the Rithmatist.

[Life&Death]

22 minutes ago, MetaTerminal said:

And I believe the Alleyway bar has been decimated on multiple occasions.

That's why I want to make something similar, but different.

[MetaTerminal he/him]

Okay, doing some minimal research on nuclear weaponry has probably gotten me onto several government watchlists. But I recommend that the thermonuke detonated above surface level, to minimize radiation fallout. This should limit it to a couple months at absolute most.

[+Sorana she/her]

@I am Witless To come back to your offer to teach: Would it be possible that Damaya spent some time with you? Maybe starts at your place or something like that?