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[HexaDoken]

Activate...?

What the hell are you talking about? We do not activate explosives. We goddamn explode them.

[Silhar]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Is that drawing still on the way, Silhar? I don't want to rush you, but on the other hand I don't want us making too many assumptions.

I tried and tried and tried, but my scanner is badly messed up. I can't publish it. Let's just say that your assumptions are alright until now.

[Sylith]

Guys, btw, I'm just curious.
Why use spoilers for things like "I'm loading my pistol"? You want to hide it from everyone else or what?
Don't get me wrong but I'm used to describing all your actions like you're writing a book and it's a first time I see something like this in PBF, so I don't really get it. Also I don't really see the point for hiding actions like this (not to mention it's probably not so easy to hide without the rest noticing you're doing something)...
Just why? What for?

I'm also asking because when I'll be playing I probably won't be reading spoilers unless it will be pointed I should and it's for me, not for GM... and that might cause some misunderstanding.

[Klear]

We hide OOC stuff in spoilers so it doesn't ruin immersion... or something.

If there's something you shouldn't know, you will be notified before the spoiler (such as with the awareness roll earlier).

[Sylith]

I noticed, I just don't understand it. Why write OOC when you can come up with some pretty description of your actions?
I'm used to think about PBFs like about a book where every person is a narrator, just with a little restrictions. You can write "X smiled happily and reached for his gun. The he reloaded it, so he could react quickly in case something bad jumped from behind the corner". And I think we all can agree it's a little more entertaining than simple "I take my gun and reload it" in spoiler.

[HexaDoken]

Well, loading pistol is not really OOC stuff. That depends on how you write it.
ACTION -> RELOAD PISTOL  - is rather OOC stuff. But something like HexaDoken reloads his pistol - could perfeclty fit in IC thread.

[Silhar]

Well, loading pistol is not really OOC stuff. That depends on how you write it.
ACTION -> RELOAD PISTOL  - is rather OOC stuff. But something like HexaDoken reloads his pistol - could perfeclty fit in IC thread.

This is the point. Why write C:\RELOAD\PISTOL? We're narrating, not navigating the DOS terminal?

[Klear]

Well, in the case of my readying the autopistol, I did it like this since I forgot to mention it in my post and somebody already posted a reply, so I didn't want to edit it.

Other than that the spoilered texts are mostly OOC talk. When the action starts, we'll probably be using both (IC to narrate, spoilered OOC to see the exact stats/rolls/whatever.

[HexaDoken]

> ACTION -> CHARACTER -> EQUIPMENT -> WEAPON SLOT -> PISTOL -> RELOAD -> AMMUNITION -> PISTOL CLIP
ARE YOU SURE? Y/N
> Y

...yeah that's not really fun. Let's avoid that.

[Sylith]

Klear - I still not quite see why couldn't this be done in IC manner, but I think I got your point. ;)
I'm not reacting just because of it anyway, I'm even more curious about Esther's post than yours. Writing some actions in IC and some in OOC might also cause a problem when someone else will want to interrupt. I'm just used to...

Raskin looked around and nodded.
"That's a good idea", she said to Melissa. Then she took a step to Nathan and leaned to his ear. She whispered something and walked through the door.

Nathan:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Just don't get yourself killed, boy."

this kind of spoiler use. Or rolls.  Everything else seems available without spoilers.

[LuckyDee]

"Need a light? Just tell me"

What the hell do you use to light these things with?

"We should wait a bit and examine this place carefully, before you do something rash."

Simply speaking as a player, I totally agree. For some reason, it doesn't seem to work this way IC however. Maybe we're all rushing into things too much now, to overcompensate for the slow start. I think a very important reason is the size of the group as well, and the different times at which players are online. I have no trouble assuming that we're going to be forced to go this way eventually, but I dislike the fact that we simply don't discuss it and go ahead.

And I'm just as guilty as everyone else is. I think it's cause nobody wants to lose the initiative, or get left behind or whatnot. Any ideas on how we can circumvent this, and help make the story more realistic in that respect?

[Klear]

Nope... I just wanted us to wait for the drawing of our surroundings, but since that's not coming, it doesn't matter, I guess.

One thing that occurred to me though - I know it's customary in standard RPG games to never split the party, but the way we are playing it (and if there is IC reason for that), splitting might make things run more efficiently. Though we may have to make a separate thread for the split so the posts don't get in their way...

[LuckyDee]

Makes sense, although Lazerus doesn't have enought trust in any of the others to simply let them wander off yet...

But still: don't you think we're missing something by not thinking/talking things through IC?

[Klear]

Well, MkLear is quite content to smoke lho-sticks and let you figure out plan of action. If he had anything to say, he'd say it already =)

[HexaDoken]

Last time I talked about such a possibility with Silharr he insta-noed that, because he isn't PI and his Imagination stat is not high enough to GM two roleplays simulatenously. So probably no.
Probably.
and yes Klear, you totally infected me with MSPA.

I think I do rush because of the nature of me and my character. See a tube probably full of dangerous spiders? MUST INVESTIGATE IMMEDIATELY.

EDIT: HexaDoken always lays down all things immediately. It's more of the fact that he usually does not have much things to lay down.