UPDATE EDIT: The Rumors in the Air Thread is a thing! Post your rumors there, and post your questions here!
Hello all,
So I've been looking around the site to see where I could post a specific rumor. I have been wondering how people handle rumors, and this is what I've found:
- Rumors in wiki pages, related to specific characters.
- Lantern pages, written newspaper articles.
Now, I like both of these, but I think they are both a bit insufficient in helping an IC rumor spread. The wiki pages contain rumors specific to certain people, and they're also rarely checked unless you already met that character IC.
The Lantern is good, but I assume it'd be hard for IC illiterate people to acknowledge what it says, and the articles are usually based on well proven facts. It's rare that journalists only write about "rumors" (unless it's legeds), BUT, sometimes, rumors can lead a journalist to investigate one and maybe turn it into an article later.
So I was thinking it might be a good idea to make a Rumors Directory thread, where we can post stuff that we think should be acknowledged by people around a certain area: beastmen attacks, a new serial killer in town, a music band growing famous among the teenagers, you name it. It's not only a good way to lure attention to certain facts that you have been roleplaying, but also a way to ICly promote events, too ("The ABC Manor's wench has finally found a bachelor! People in the Goblet are already talking about an upcoming engagement party!").
It doesn't have to be speficic to a character (it usually shouldn't be speficic to a character, unless you think it's someone most of the city/area would know), and perhaps it's best to avoid writing stuff that will commonly frowned upon to be ICly acknowledged, such as things related to major NPCs, or an in-game accessible area getting wiped by a nuke and so on.
I think it doesn't need its own category, but a single thread under "Roleplay" (maybe in IC Square, or under Lantern) would be good.
Hello all,
So I've been looking around the site to see where I could post a specific rumor. I have been wondering how people handle rumors, and this is what I've found:
- Rumors in wiki pages, related to specific characters.
- Lantern pages, written newspaper articles.
Now, I like both of these, but I think they are both a bit insufficient in helping an IC rumor spread. The wiki pages contain rumors specific to certain people, and they're also rarely checked unless you already met that character IC.
The Lantern is good, but I assume it'd be hard for IC illiterate people to acknowledge what it says, and the articles are usually based on well proven facts. It's rare that journalists only write about "rumors" (unless it's legeds), BUT, sometimes, rumors can lead a journalist to investigate one and maybe turn it into an article later.
So I was thinking it might be a good idea to make a Rumors Directory thread, where we can post stuff that we think should be acknowledged by people around a certain area: beastmen attacks, a new serial killer in town, a music band growing famous among the teenagers, you name it. It's not only a good way to lure attention to certain facts that you have been roleplaying, but also a way to ICly promote events, too ("The ABC Manor's wench has finally found a bachelor! People in the Goblet are already talking about an upcoming engagement party!").
It doesn't have to be speficic to a character (it usually shouldn't be speficic to a character, unless you think it's someone most of the city/area would know), and perhaps it's best to avoid writing stuff that will commonly frowned upon to be ICly acknowledged, such as things related to major NPCs, or an in-game accessible area getting wiped by a nuke and so on.
I think it doesn't need its own category, but a single thread under "Roleplay" (maybe in IC Square, or under Lantern) would be good.
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
