Suzerain of Sheol
Desolation Denizen
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Illusion, I'm honestly not sure what sort of story format you're suggesting, or how the suggestions you made would actually interact with the story rather than just being general "flavor" for the event around the site.
We would love to have art or even comic panels to go along with the story, but the fact of the matter is that we don't have the personnel resources at this time to do something like that.
As to your other comment, I am, like Quiet, confused (despite hearing it I believe 4 times now from you) how the story resembles a roleplay, when it is conceived and written holistically like any other published work of fiction.
Your complaint that it too closely resembles a novel is somewhat more appropriate, but the entire story for this event amounts to about 1.5 chapters in the average novel -- perhaps a half-hour to forty-five minutes of reading. I'll also note that we skip over large swathes of story time by doing it in this act structure. For instance, if this were a novel, perhaps as many as 10 chapters would have been devoted to the group's journey across the desert to get to the water city, during which we would see them get to know each other and grow as characters to the audience. This was entirely skipped in the event narrative, precisely to keep the story from bogging down, since it is not in fact a novel and we don't expect people to sit at their computers for hours reading it.
Backtracking a bit to your first paragraph now, it's a story, not a history text. It's character drama, through which the plot of the event is shown. This is... a pretty standard way to tell a story. I'm sorry if you don't find it personally appealing.
Thank you for commenting, though, we do take these things under advisement after each event.
Cold silence has a tendency
to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers.
Between supposed brothers.
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Posted 03-09-2012, 11:48 PM
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