The next chapter will be approx a few weeks later at Drakenhof. It will be assumed that everyone was injured in one fashion or another, and this time was spent recovering. New characters will have been told to attend a new meeting at this specific date to discuss what to do next.
Does anyone see any problems with this?
*Disciple of Nagash Will it be set a few weeks later IC, or will it be IRL a few weeks later?
If the former is the case, how many IRL days will it be set after the initial assassination post?
If the latter is the case, when will it the next Drakenhof chapter be set in terms of IC times?
Otherwise, I second what Harland said, and have no problems with the imminent assassination post (bring it on! :devil2: ), barring the fact that you might want to deal with implementing all remaining structural changes
(among other things, picking and announcing mini-GMs -- although of course the question of when this will be done has been cleared up by you saying the deadline for mini-GM entries is by today). Also, you might want to approve the characters of people who haven't entered their first character into the TVC II yet before starting the action again. However, if the Drakenhof chapter is set a few weeks IRL (or even just a few days in terms of IRL) after the assassination posts, then I suppose these sign-ups could easily be dealt with after the assassination post, but before the Drakenhof chapter is launched.
Advertisements for the reboot and the Drakenhof chapter should also be dealt with now-ish, although again, if there is more than a week IRL between the assassination posts and the Drakenhof chapter, the advertisements could just be put up when the assassination attempts were posted. If you want to plan the advertisements' details (and their targeted areas of the forum) meticulously to maximise their effectiveness, you might want to start doing so now, though, and if you need/wouldn't mind a helping hand, we're happy to assist. :thumbsup:
Here are a few methods by which you might want to advertise this reboot:
1. The first step is to write a good description, encouraging old TVC II players to return, old TVC I players to return, and anyone new to come. I'd try to give a sense of freshness to the RP, explain why it stands a smaller chance of falling into inactivity again (by briefly describing structural changes), but also create an air of nostalgia to bring old players back. I'd probably structure it like this (note the IC here is poor; I'm only trying to draw a basic outline of what one could do:
You! Yes, you there! Dire times are upon us!
[Small IC introductory paragraph explaining IC situation and why new vampires/other creatures are needed for the council]. [OOC paragraph explaining what the TVC II is and why one might want to join it. Links to sign-up thread, 'the story so far', the sub-forum 'The Vampire Council II' and the TVC II guidelines page. This invites the reader to join.]
This could be sent in a forum-wide PM and/or put up as a forum-wide announcement and/or as a special offer in the Theatre de Vampyre (the readers in that sub-forum are the ones most likely to join the TVC II). There might be other methods of advertisement too.
You might want to send an email to the role-players currently involved (they have submitted bios for the TVC II) in the TVC II who are not active on CN, because they will almost certainly not receive notification that the TVC II is about to become active once more, because they will probably not check their PM inboxes, as infrequent visitors of this website. Whilst this may seem intrusive, some of them might be grateful for the email; they might have left the site because of the TVC II's inactivity (Lord_Mortis, for instance, was only involved in the inactive TVC II at the time of his last visit to CN) -- but this doesn't necessarily mean that they wouldn't be eager to rejoin it should it become active once more.
These role-players have their 'last online' dates highlighted in orange beneath their username on the list post I made on page 2.
@Disciple of Nagash Thanks again for all the work you've put into making the TVC II, and its reboot, happen. I'm certainly looking forward to RPing in this roleplay again. :D
Edit: gah! Ninja'd by a post in the other thread. Please ignore my information about the GM sign-up still being open! :tongue: