NEXT WEEK'S GAME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
This message will frequently look the same, but please pay attention to it as I will make the occasional announcement outside the norm.
Announcements
Game Start Times: We're making a slight change to our start times for gaming. Now that I've got a fairly good routine down, I've noticed that I rarely get to posting before 1:00 PM GMT. However, I usually get to it before 2:00 PM GMT. As such, I'm bumping our daily start time up to 1:00 PM GMT. While it may not be a big difference, and I don't know your time zones, perhaps it will give some of you that like to post in the morning an extra hour to do so.
Game End Time (on Fridays): Also, as we play it's become obvious to me that we could have some extra room at the end of the week. As it's the last game day for the week, we could allow some extra time as I don't need posts done by Friday 1:00 PM GMT since I'm not going to post again until Monday. However, I do use some time on the weekend to plan as a GM, making adjustments as necessary to the game environment, etc, as predicated by your choices and actions, so having the Thursday post finished by Saturday mornings would be great. So, in an effort to simply be pragmatic about things, from now on I think we can just give that Thursday post an extra day. As such, I'd like to change the end of the game week, which will really only affect the Thursday post, to Saturday, 1:00 PM GMT. I want to give more room where it makes sense to do so, and in the off chance one of you is pressed for time on a Thursday, or simply don't feel like posting, this will help. I'd like to add that during combat, please be considerate of the fact that others might be waiting on you to take your turn.
Also, if for any reason this you guys don't like this idea (game feel/flow is the only reason I can think of), let me know. If everyone is opposed to it, we can leave things how they are.
A friendly reminder:
We're gaming next week from: Monday, January 9, 1:00 PM GMT - Saturday, January 14, 1:00 PM GMT. Remember, our Thursday post has an extra day now. We're not adding a fifth game post (Friday) to the week.
A convenient link below in consideration of the global neighborhood:
Greenwich Mean Time Clock paired with my time zone
For those in the United States like me, this means the game starts early Monday morning (6:00 AM for me) and goes through late Thursday night/
early Friday morning. This gives us 4 days of actual game time that also allows for the late night gamers to post into the early hours of the morning.
I will always do my best to post as early as possible in the morning, allowing the rest of you to have the remainder of the day, and the late night/early morning of the next day to post at your discretion.
Again, as described below, conversation is different and allowed at any time, within reason.
If you like, feel free to post in the narrative outside of our regular active game time, keeping your posts on the less action-oriented side of things. More specifically, focus on conversation, dialogue, and your character's inner voice, avoiding actions and movements that would distort and stretch the narrative timeline. The reason for this is that conversation, dialogue, and your character's inner voice fit
very easily and neatly into the timeline of the game's narrative, due to the fact that the words your characters exchange, and especially the thoughts they may have, can happen in a
very short period of time.
As such, any time outside of our active game is a great chance for you to RP a little more if you like, especially as an opportunity for your character to socialize with other characters, whether it's planning ahead or just bantering back and forth. Of course,
posting like this has to be done with some discretion and within reason. Your character wouldn't be able to have full conversations within structured time situations (combat) while they likewise wouldn't be able to have an entire conversation in the middle of a dispute with local authorities (depending on how much the officer was willing to hear before interjecting). They would, however, be able to have short exchanges in those situations.
Ultimately, if you do decide to post outside of our active games, you are
more than welcome to do so. It will add color and depth to the game while helping it, and especially your character, come to life. Just be sensible about it.
