On plots.
Natalie again, and I've been meaning to do this sooner. Rereading the honesty meme, I can see that we need a change in plots so I'm opting to make this another forum again. If you remember a few months ago, we introduced the "Events Calender" to set up plots and events. Not only that, the past plots have become truly repetitive. Being that it's
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Another thing I've noticed, and I've actually been mulling this over since the honesty meme, but it seems like most/many of the plots I've seen since I've been here - and granted, that's only been a couple months - haven't really challenged our characters to do much else besides react. I know I've mentioned this in tl;dr ramblings on my own LJ, but I'm finding it difficult to develop some of my characters in meaningful ways. Does that make sense?
Well, OK, let me use personal examples - B as a character is very guarded, and before I did the reset on him, he was basically getting away with lying his face off to everyone - he's a damn good liar, after all, but in a city of mystical forces, I would hope something would force him to slip up at some point. Otherwise, he's just going to repeat the pattern this time around, which would be kinda pointless. Mello is less guarded, so I'm finding it a little easier to make my own development plots with him, but he too is more or less hanging out in the city, just reacting to things going on around him.
I was probably one of the only people who actually liked the housing changes Raina proposed, because the way I understood it, the consequences of the upcoming plots would pretty much force the characters to address aspects of their respective personalities. All of our characters have issues, fears, dreams, hang-ups, etc. - this is why they're interesting to play and develop over time.
I guess the point of all this tl;dr is that I'm hoping more plots emerge that encourage character personality development. I hope my rambling made sense and helps at least somewhat, though please feel free to ask for elaboration or just tell me to STFU, heh. >_>
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