(01-21-2015, 01:26 PM)Gegenji Wrote: That's a bit of a head-scratcher and actually ties into another issue I've been musing on as of late:
What about character important forum RPs? They obviously take a bit longer to complete than RP in-game. Unless you're setting the dates for it rather nebulously - or having it happen so it "ends" in the present, working happening events into it - how do you work what happens into things?
So, uh, yeah, I'm guilty of this one. Started a forum RP with someone, threw them into a jail cell ICly, then...
Got busy at work and never posted.
Eventually, I felt horrible and basically nixed the entire damn thing. I felt like a huge heel. We agreed just to retcon it out so it never happened. Of course, this was an RP that basically stopped entirely for weeks rather than just stalled and slowed down, and it was with an alt that was able to be in limbo for a few weeks, but I kept the character from participating in an important event he'd signed up for, and I felt like a jackass for it.
I guess the only solution is OOC coordination when things start to bog down. RL happens, but RP has consequences to the characters, so.
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