Subject: Keep them!
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Posted on: 2016-08-18 21:05:00 UTC
I'm mildly worried about “the whole Big Sib thing's Pompeii-ified,” and hope everything's okay, but leaving that aside for a moment, there's absolutely no problem with Background Maintenance teams. I certainly hope that hasn't changed, at least, or it makes my next mission rather pointless. Write the kinds of characters that you want to.
And, er, the whole Big Sib thing's Pompeii-ified, so I suppose I'll just shout out to everyone in the general vicinity, hoping nobody complains about civil disturbances, or anything like that.
Majority of my PPC stuff, permission prompts and all included, focus on fellows in Building Maintenance. Always been fond of the under-represented background-types, myself. Was initially planning on trying out weirder stuff, moving into missions later on.
So, I came up with the concepts of them a bit back, when I had less knowledge of the PPC, how it worked, how it ought to work, what we ought to be doing, et al, and I now wonder if that's a good idea, is all.
Perhaps it's a point against me, my writing skills, my personality, my being, my existence, and my horrible stench that I'm going out asking about this, but I figure, what's the sense in a community that doesn't commune, right? All you have left is 'Ity,' which sounds like a bug of some kind, and I quite like bugs, but they're fairly irrelevant to the point I'm making.
Just ought to ask if it'd be better to retool them into mission-doing-fellows, retconning past stuff (I mean, it's not technically canon, anyway,) or if I ought to keep them, and make other, separate characters, over them.
I mean, I quite like them, as is. Pretty decently developed, I like their personalities and chemistry and all, and I probably could alter them, but, at the same time, it feels a tad spooky to make a change like that, y'know? I've already done quite a bit with them, and it just seems (seems) an awful big change. Have to redo those prompts, and all.
I mean, you lot know what you're doing. Figured it wouldn't hurt to get some ideas.
I'd just like some advice. Thoughts. Silly jokes. Insults. Undisguised loathing. Cooking tips.
While I have not been paying attention to the board as of late (still busy, incidentally), you're using BM?
Er, not to be rude or anything, but this is the first I've known of anyone else planning on doing things with them? I'm trying to not come off as possessive but I did kinda come up with BM in the first place.
-July, who has apparently missed way too much.
Chose them for that reason. Background, not in limelight, that sort've stuff. Considered DoSAT, but they've far, far more stories and characters in.
Was I, er, supposed to consult with you, or anything like that?
I would've appreciated at the bare minimum a heads up or something, considering the size of BM and the fact I do in fact do things with the characters I own in BM.
-July
For clarification: by 'fellows in Building Maintenance,' I meant my own fellows. Characters. Of my own.
I don't trust myself to not bugger up other people's characters, y'know?
Well, there's the bare minimum heads-up, I suppose. Probably could've gone better. Probably could've gone worse.
As long as you keep liking them too. Background characters are just as important to a story, though they might not be in the limelight.
Hope things are going alright for you :/
And putting cheesecakes in water baths when baking help prevent cracks :)
Someone took the bait!
The best kind of punchline is a poorly planned punchline, I always said.
Nah, mate, things're going fine for me. Just noticed that my PPC stuff was slowing down (uncertainty buggers with productivity, let me tell you.) and, y'know. Communing, and all.
Cheers for asking, though!
Also for that punchline/cheesecake bathing tip!
Boy, am I indebted.
Even if the Big Sib thing exploded I'd still like a big sib
It always just seems to kind of flop through. But I'm always willing to be a big sib to anyone who wants one. :)
What are/were Sib Houses
I'm mildly worried about “the whole Big Sib thing's Pompeii-ified,” and hope everything's okay, but leaving that aside for a moment, there's absolutely no problem with Background Maintenance teams. I certainly hope that hasn't changed, at least, or it makes my next mission rather pointless. Write the kinds of characters that you want to.
The concept of Big Sib/Little Sib pairs appears to be nonexistent. Us newbies who asked to be adopted got no response from Big Sibs (the newbies who even found the page describing the concept, that is. It's buried pretty deeply in the wiki). Therefore Larfen, in his charming if occasionally baffling way, says that the concept of Big Sib/Little Sib is as dead as the city of Pompeii.
--Key has sort of adopted Larfen, and he her
Mum!
Gosh! You're so embarrassing!
Ugh!
So, have you done your homework, sweetheart?
I hope you enjoyed the lunch I packed for you!
- Key is a walking Google Translate, but for stupid instead of languages.
-- Larfen charmingly and bafflingly approves.
You're wonderful, honey. By the way, how was the math test? You were up last night studying, weren't you? I saw your light on pretty late.
--Key is going through old Board posts and discovering stuff she missed
It's the Big Sib thing you ought to be worried about.
And the city of Pompeii. Have you seen that place? Looks like a bunch of outdated stoves and clay bricks nailed together in front of a mountain. I know I certainly wouldn't raise my five-year old daughter there.
And I shall write said characters. Cheers!
I don't see any explanation in here for why you think you need them to not be in Building Maintenance. So, could you clarify?
hS
Suppose my biggest fear with what I'm doing is not engaging with the setting enough, y'know? Turning it into something that's mine when it isn't.
I figured that straight up shooting off and away from missions with a couple characters might've been in the spookzone, and, I get that 'PPC is a community first' thing, and the relative unimportance of missions to this or that, but you catch my drift.
I mean, I suppose it really shouldn't be a worry, considering that I've been fairly careful with all that stuff, so far, and even the mission thing I'm still planning on doing, and all that, but, y'know.