Get of W said:
DoN is required for any update Ghouly, he was the GM and holds all needed plot info. And he's very busy currently AFAIK, even his logins to the site are quite infrequent.
I'm not sure how many people we might have lost through stagnation.
As it stands this looks pretty dead, which is disappointing but there isn't a whole lot more we can do.
In late June I could do a few joint supplementals with you, GoW, I'm just a bit busy right now.
In general, we could do a few supplementals about the history of the character and what they have been doing in the past ten years? That way you could involve multiple characters.
E.g. A day in the life of Kraskor at the Necrarch hotel. You could write all sorts of stuff as a small group, with Katie, Alastor, Reshorn, Kraskor and Nekhlior.
There are quite a few important things that revolve around that group that you could write about. For instance:
- Alastor being turned, and his induction into the tower
- What the Kraskor Krew did in the months after Nagash died
- If/how/when they discovered the weakening of their powers?
- They're not my characters; the creators of them could probably think of more escapades.
Also, Ghouly, I'm most of the way through the TVC (I haven't read it for a long time) and I still do not know what happens to Fenrirus and Merovich's brother's. One minute, he's getting ready to aid Merovich, the next, Merovich is dead, the battle is over, and Fenrirus has disappeared. The same applies to Sergei. What happened to those characters? Try to create some backstory. Are they waiting for revenge? Did they join the red duke and die in the fight against Nagash?
I'm sure plenty of other characters could not only think of what happened in the last ten years; they could also do crossover supplementals.
If they couldn't, you could always have someone else RPing an NPC in that character's scene.
E.g. people that Nimrais met on her travels, and when she realised necromancy was weakening, what she did and thought about it, etc. Even the most solitary characters have something to do that the readers would be interested in.
It's not just filler, either; this backstory might have been something we wrote in the future anyway. What's more, if people keep reading the supplementals, there's likely to be some interest maintained in the TVC.
Besides, I don't think we're losing players at the fast rate anymore. Only the patient RPers are left now, though admittedly some of those leave occasionally and the longer we leave it, the more will go.
However, as long as we don't lose more than 75% of the playerbase, we should be fine. If a group gets too small, DoN can (when he returns) engineer some event (preferably catastrophic, knowing the nature of chaos and the exposition of this story) to bring the smaller groups together to recreate adequate RPing.
If the worst comes to the worst and too many players leave for there to be any RP at all, DoN can "reset" the RP and we can begin again from scratch. That would be fine, so long as characters don't express deja vu when they see people from the old RP.
That would be annoying in some cases, e.g. *Reset of role-play*
*Morty walks into the room* *Clears throat-*
Kraskor: how dare you insult Vekarin!
Morty: ...
how did he predict it!?!?! :| That's a bad example in hindsight, it wouldn't be too hard to predict that anyway! :tongue: