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vagrant branwen
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:13 pm


I wanted to go over with everyone here the ideas I had before I change anything. Anyone who is an active poster needs to be apart of this.

I would like to change the Tower Grounds thread to the Main Story thread

Tar Valon would become a secondary thread for side stories. In this way characters will not have to bounce around to different threads.

If I do this, I will eliminate all the other threads from posting. Anything that happens with the characters will all happen in the tower thread. I want to know what everyone feels about this.

Also I believe I am going to work the Ashaman into our story line. Branwen as keeper is going to invite them into the tower to bolster her support...how does everyone feel about this?
PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:36 pm


The Tower Grounds has basically become the thread everyone posts in to interact with, but i still think the novice/accepted quarters and study halls are important for when someone wants to make it more realistic away from all of that and not interrupt the main story.

I also think inviting them would be awesome because then everyone can interact together. We also need to do some major recruiting and structure setting up. A Mistress of Novices should be given a name and a person I think because that is a very important character. We should make a list of names and Ajahs of just random Aes Sedai with a little bit about them so they can be used in the RPing, but they don't need to be played by actual people.

Since we have so few people I think everyone should have two characters, but I don't know how everyone feels about that ?

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:57 pm


I like all those ideas. Main Story thread, Ashaman in story, and character list. About the two characters; I have enough troble writing for one. I always go into major detail and so by the time I'm done I need to go back and edit to make it work with what someone else posted before I finished. About the novice quarters and such you could always say that you went there in the main thread and go on with the story. You would not hear what is said in a "diferent area" and would have to be told when you meet back up with the others.

See what I mean about details?
PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:06 pm


I always say where my thread it going and coming from lol

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:16 pm


I actually like the current set up. It helps to prevent the one thread from being chaotic with so many people in so many places in the same thread. I feel that the White Tower is good as is.

As for working Asha'man into the story, I say why not? I always thought that would happen once people became Aes Sedai, so they could travel.
PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:26 pm


Each tower should have one posting thread, and everyone in the thread should be smart enough to pay attention to what their character would actually know about what is going on. (Ex: if someone is posting from inside their novice room, only the other people in that room would know what was said or what happened in that room. I have seen people on other guilds and threads that seem to think that their character is knowledgeable of every aspect going on in the thread when really the character ought to be clueless.)

As far as inviting the Asha'man I don't think the towers should be merged, but their should definitely be many connections between the two.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:43 pm


Still, it gets confusing if one person is at Tar Valon docks, another is in the Keeper's office, etc...You begin to loose track of where people are.
PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:34 am


However you wish to do it of course however, I have been considering starting a dreamers thread as our dreams are usually important to character developement. They are throughout the novels. Also, I could use such a thread for when I'm traveling tel'aran'rhoid, or as I eventually learn to travel to other dreams. That's just a personal side though.

I have been trying to work my storyline in with the main one and I believe it meshes ok. That said, we all have at least read one of RJ's books I am asumeing and in those the side stories are as important as the main story. perhaps if we chaptered who was taking the lead by week or month.

Just a Suggestion.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:14 am


Okay you all have fantastic views on the situation but look at it from a different point of view. If you were reading this as a BOOK everything is written into one story yes?

Just because everyone is writing in one thread does not mean it will become chaotic as long as when more then one person is on at a time, we establish an order like Myrelle and Orion and I did one day.

When you read a novel everything isn't split up into different sections, its written smoothly into one novel. The wheel of time is a perfect example, look at the amount of characters and the things that go on in ONE book even. If you would like we could break it onto chapters?

Maybe once we hit a certain point in the story start a new chapter thread so that the previous thread doesnt get ridiculously long. I will go with what everyone else decides...but to be honest I am a bit overwhelmed by everything here. ^^'

I am not good at following multiple arcs in different spots...so I find it very hard to move my character about, but thats just myself and I won't force my own troubles on everyone else XD
PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:31 pm


I like the idea of a new thread when one get's too long. I didn't even bother with reading anything before I joined beacause it was about 15 pages; I didn't have time.

I also like the dream thred idea. Your dreams are lioke your eyes: a portal into your soul. Within a dream you can see your hopes and fears a person has in their heart. You see their true colors. That will be great for the story.

There is a chance of chaos in one thread, but it isn't too hard too ignore those who aren't near your character.

That's about all I got to say.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:27 pm


By placing everything that happens in Tar Valon in one thread it will clear up alot of confusion, especially the confusion that a new recruit faces; which in turn will make it more likely that the new recruit stays and continues to roleplay.

If there are going to be alot of characters travelling through Telaranrhiod then a thread dedicated to it would be a good idea, however since Aria is likely the only current member capable of doing so it would probably be best for her to stay in her respected thread and post in Italics or something else that sets it apart from her normal posts.

At this point we should only have one or two roleplay threads. Either one that includes everything, or one for each tower.
PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:49 am


Well I would like members of the black tower to be included in the current role play....simply because there are so few of us at the moment anyways.

If I was to change things I think what I would do is the following:

Tower Grounds-Main Story

Classrooms-this is where novices and accepted can post how they learned certain weaves, or if they had blocks how they came down though I still think that should be included in the main story.

Warder Grounds-I would leave this one in tact so warder and younglings have a place to go learn new techniques and have a place to get away from the main story

essentially the second two would be more for the purpose of gaining the required number of posts.

I would then move all the Old threads into the Andor subforum, and use that as more of an archive for old threads. Does this sound like a fair deal to everyone?

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:57 am


Yeah, but I still like the idea of a dream thread, for reasons already stated. But yeah that sounds cool to me.
PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:05 am


Sounds cool, I'll miss the dream thread although as some of us know

SPOILER




Sometimes normal dreams are so strong that even the average person temporarily enters Tel'aran'rhiod. and of the 'angrel that can facilitate entering Tel'aran'rhiod (this is how i figure some black sisters are entering)
not to mention once I figure out how I might be able to pull others in to Tel'aran'rhiod (still considering that one)

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:19 am


SPOILER: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Also there's the wolf-dream. It is be expected that not just wolf brothers can do that, that normal people can to. Pulling others in was considered evil though.
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