[PLOT DISCUSSION] More Fuzzy Time...

[Pyro]

I'd like to propose a current game time shunt ASAP to two weeks post-Baltimore.

Due to the fact that lots of us have been out of the loop for so long, this would allow us to effectively 'start over' and would have given most characters the opportunity to recover from Baltimore.

Any open threads can easily be 'bubbled' for finishing, or appropriate things can be written in Flashback.

I'd suggest that Trask doesn't lynch arrest Bobby until this time; after all, he'd do a lot of research into civil loopholes and things first.

My suggestion is thrown to the dogs floor, let's discuss.

*hides*

[guardian]

Does this mean fast forward to two weeks from post-baltimore, or assume everything we've done has been spread out over a two-week time-frame?

[Pyro]

Whichever works best for people...

[guardian]

Cool. I'm down for that, it'll give Forge a chance to work on his leg! =)

[mystique]

I like the idea of saying it's sort of been spread out over a two week time period. Trask's activities, Bobby's parents visiting, Oracle showing up, several other new mutants showing up, Forge's leg, Bishop's arrival, Hannah's file being delivered, Logan and Rayen, Madelyne's announcement... it makes sense that all these things didn't necessarily happen within the same 72 hour period and those are just the things I've been involved in.

I think we should feel more comfortable not calling day/night transitions. It keeps people from "getting behind" if they aren't able to play. I know some people like being that gnats-ass about it, but it slows down RP and prevents people from quickly catching their characters up during an RP lag.

I'd be happy saying the events we've RPd in the last 3 weeks happened in say, two weeks rather than 3 days. Wouldn't bother me a bit.

[deadpool]

So what if people want to play something that happens with a specific reference to time, but also want to play something else that someone has posted "two weeks from now" - and the latter is important for their charecter to be there? Should they ask to have their thread moved to the flashbacks board? Or should we just forgo the flashbacks board?

[mystique]

I don't know... IMO, if you want to backtrack that far and it's going to change future events, why play it in the first place. Once it's played, it's played, and if your character wasn't there they just weren't there. Tough luck. If you're embellishing events you were privvy to, that's a flashback. But I don't think we should be in the habit of just jumping on whatever thread we feel like it. If you're not here to RP, you're just not here.

[Iceman]

Hmm...I guess I'd agree to spreading things out over a two-week period, but definently not to skipping ahead. So lets say all this happened over two weeks - I was thinking that Bobby's schedule was a bit crazy anyway, so this works better. I think. If I think of a problem, I may change my vote.

[Iceman]

As promised, my second thoughts: Now there's a crapload of stuff to flashback. Jubes and Gambit's arrival, Jubilee telling Bobby about being cured, telling Storm, telling whoever else. My thread with Morph will have to be moved to flashbacks, as well as what was very soon going to be rped between Emma and Dead Man. And thats just two characters.

And they aren't really flashbacks, I mean they don't belong with threads that happened a year or more earlier.

[deadpool]

Yeah, I believe from what I'm understanding, it wouldn't need to be done in flashback, as there's really no "Current time"... just a haze of about a roving three week period.

Just get it all done and post it, and don't let it intersect too much with everyone else, and it won't be necissary.

Basically if you don't do anything the whole world will need to know about at a specific time, you can just go ahead and do it.

[Iceman]

Kay. Cause I want to put Jubilee and Gambit's arrival in current time, not in the flashbacks board. Which I think I may start tonight.

[Iceman]

Wait but if we're just spreading everything out, whats the point? Why not spread out over a couple days and then go normally?

[Shadowcat]

How about we post whenever we want, but have to put dates at the top, and try to stay in the middle of a floating three-week period? I always saw Flashbacks as a board for character development or the way-past, not just stuff from a few days ago or somesuch. We have the Archives for outdated threads, right?

I'm all in favor of moving ahead two weeks; it would just make my life a lot easier. Mickey could arrive weeks after everyone else rather than being part of the Restored deluge and Jane could finally wake the frick up. Sam could hover in netherspace like usual.

also ARG why does everything happen while I'm at school?

[Loa]

I dont mind the idea of spreading the events that have already been written over a vague, larger period of time. It seems a bit much that it would all happen at once.

But I really don't like the idea of just jumping ahead to any time you wish and leaving others in the dust. There's obviously a point where you move on and not wait for people anymore, but we should be courteous and stay in a pretty general Now-Time.

[deadpool]

I'm under the impression that the point wouldn't be to leave others in the dust, but rather to HELP others who are behind.

See, if it's a fuzzy time three-week bubble, then we can not worry so much about hard dates. You can easily move your charecter forward, or say something that you're doing - when you're left behind - actually happens on the day that other players are on.

A lot of message boards work this way... it's basically to prevent 9 months going by in real life equaling about five days in game. Just so people can actually have long term plans, and not have long term mean two weeks.

Consider the stretching out what we're doing thing. That doesn't seem wrong, stretching out all the events have have happened over the past "36 hours" to actually be happening over three weeks.

All this suggestion is doing is say do that, but do it sort of as we go. We all post our sides normally, and just gray over some of the time.

I kind of like charlotte's ideas of putting times and dates on your posts, for people who like to keep track of time and place. But do it in a rolling three week period.