Having discussed next to none of this in PM since Ajtazt’s post, I’ll save my more scathing thoughts for when we get around to talking about it there. But at least to me, a lot of the issues here would be solved if the characters had something definite to do. Right now the goal is ‘leave’ and has involved some convoluted explanation to a puzzle that should have been much more straight-forward and require less gm hand-holding. Since the gm hasn’t been around often enough to justify that approach, it’s left the characters aimlessly meandering in space and filling posts with large, well-formatted bodies of text that accomplish nothing outside of an internal monologue.
Eventually that even for an ego lord like myself gets tiring. You start running out of things to say about yourself and you end up with a Malaco situation where his greatest contribution to the scene around him was choking on a piece of fungi in a gross manner which literally everyone else ignored.
Except ME, because I’m smart. Ignore the ego thing I just said.
In-game the RP has been in existence for about an hour, tops. But the actual amount of time passed is close to three months. That’s an awful long amount of time to write about the same characters milling in a room and overreacting. Which is why Basil had a seizure, broke the lightbulb, treaded in the glass, and is now bleeding profusely.
When the party gets through that door - whichever one it is - there should be a definite goal in sight. Head there, do this, get that, react to your situation or simply take in the world around you. I’m not sure what you’ve got planned beyond that top door, but as example, you have three flights of stairs to accomplish what should have been done with one.
Of course, I’ll defer to whatever your best judgement is with regards to your plan and how much you want me to be aware of at once. But something of substance needs to happen soon, preferably the moment after Basil’s able to move or be moved again. I have a good amount of patience here for my lovely co-child (don’t read into that) but another three months of nothing can only end one way.
And like Winger said, suggestions, please! If there’s something specific you’d like to see coming out of this, we’d really appreciate hearing about it. Let us know what your thoughts are so when I head to Winger’s home at 3 Am with a crowbar, it won’t look quite as suspicious.