For those involved in the space arc, I'm holding off on posting to allow those who haven't had a chance to react to certain developments go before I move on, so don't be waitin' for me unless you have nothin' to say... in which case, you should probably like... let me know, or something.

I have no intention of replying in the thread right now, so its all yours.

You're good to go. Got nothing to post at the moment.

Space arc guys: Don't think that you have to wait for me and Greens to finish this back and forth between Rock and Ace or anything. Feel free to start up your own interactions between characters anywhere else, if you wanna. Remember that there's also a map under construction here if you want some idea of setting. And for more specifics on settings, you can always turn to the glorious map-maker John when he isn't suffering at Marine Land.

Mystery arc guys: Don't forget about this post. We will have another timeskip when you either make your characters retire for the night, or ask for a skip. No rush either way; I am fine with the relaxed pace in the mystery RP, but I just thought I'd throw that out there as a reminder.

hngh, groggy

Help me out, mystery peeps... Who's goin' where again? I know somebody was talking about going to check out the robot, and somebody was talking about going to the hotel, but I dunno who's going to which. It's not a huge deal or anything--this thread should be pretty short (next one's what I've got a looot more planned for), but... yeah, I'm just in a jumble.

I personally wanna give Tank the opportunity to do some detective work in his KGB secret police form, myself, so I'd put him in the scene of the robo-murder (and peg Ivan as my prime suspect.)

But everyone SAW Ivan kill the robot. No mystery there.

As soon as the scuffle between Coop and Ace does something decisive, we're moving to the next thread. It's gonna be all-skate from there onward—anyone who can find an excuse to be there can be there.

From the sounds of it, they're headed for the Marble Ruins / Marble Mountains / Marble Zone / Marble whatever you want to call it just outside of Spring City. If anyone needs help with involvement ideas, by all means speak up.

We've gone ahead and moved to the next thread, in the Wilderness and Ruins forum. Anyone is welcome to join in at this time. Not much time has passed since the last post in the previous thread; maybe just a couple minutes. This is purely a scene change.

Dry Lagoon gameplay

I had kind of forgotten what Dry Lagoon looked like when we started this most recent thread. We're almost done here now, but I'm sure we'll be revisiting the area.

It's primarily comprised of two parts joined by an underwater passage: One part (the first part seen in the video, and the one where the cast presently isn't) is a temple-looking area with four solid stone walls going all the way up on all sides, surrounding a central pool and stone gazebo-looking-thing. The other part (probably the present location of the cast) is more like a natural canyon / gorge, albeit with some stone walls, giant stone faces, stone block spires, and other stuff. Both sides have grass, foliage, etc.

We will be taking many liberties with it, adding to it, and so on, so don't worry about specifics too much. I just thought it'd be important (and helpful) to have some actual imagery to go with the place.



Now, we're about to move on to another scene. Just to help keep us on the rails for now, I'm going to pick who comes along. If you have any kind of strong feelings one way or another, though, feel free to speak up. The only ones who are frozen (i.e. no compromise) at the moment are the officials.

Going to Gigalopolis:
- Tails
- Tabitha
- Coop
- Geoff

Staying at Dry Lagoon:
- Big
- Ace
- Midian

???:
- Aga (Up to Franky; he is surrounded by ruins, so I don't know if he'll want to stay [and make sure no one setting up the camp screws them up] or if he'll want to chase the excitement.)
- Rodolf (Up to Kazz.)
- Leon (Did he come along? Where is he now?)
- Badge (Not sure where he is, either.)
- Anyone else I'm forgetting



Whether or not the Dry Lagoon thread continues depends on who stays, who goes, and whether anyone wants it to keep going. It could be an opportunity for interesting "idle" character interaction, but I don't know how much some of you even enjoy that, so I don't want to force it. Other stuff could go amiss, too, but I don't want the action to become generic "action for the sake of action," if that makes sense. The other thread has some definite purpose and direction, but it just can't accommodate a whole metric butt-ton of characters all at once.

If any players/characters want to start stepping forward and helping lead things, times will soon be coming when that's appropriate, too. Those of us planning this are kind of just... sculpting it and planning small bits of the story as we go, so it's very open and flexible. Talk if you want to discuss/come up with ideas, or just do crap and see what happens. It's up to you. Just bear in mind that I am working now, so I will not be around even nearly as much as I have been in the past, so... don't expect lightning fast progression, or to see me a lot, except on my "weekends." I find RP planning to be a fun thing (or else I wouldn't do it), but it's more fun with help and collaboration, so. Help me out.

Aga will definitely be on Team Set Up The Base No Not On The Priceless Stone Engraving You Idiots

ALSO I COULD HELP COLLABORATE but I'll need to. Think of stuff.

Probably gonna start a new thread tomorrow (or later today, technically). Be thur or be squrr

This is the current thread.

If you want to be in it, post posthaste. It's open to anyone on the protagonist side who wants to get involved, but it probably won't stay that way. If it turns out no one else joins in within a day or so, we'll just carry on with what we've got and have a small-cast thread.

Is this the way you (few remaining) folks want the mystery story (3a) to end?

Three options:

1. Do nothing, and it'll peter out and just stop abruptly where it already has here. The End.
2. Continue posting.
3. Discuss some kind of epilogue thread to wrap it up.

It's up to you. Option 1 is the default in the event no one replies to this or posts. The thread will be locked in two more days.

Maybe just a post to tie up any loose ends and give a set way for them to get home at least?