Destrillians: R2 - Discussion

Relax my darlings. We have a new year to overcome and enjoy. You all deserve it, enjoy~

Dbl post bbies:

Also I'm attempting to repair Zao and Lei's old pisspoor OVA to make it more badass and better while we wait for more posts. I suppose I will add the retconned Kram and Tao OVA afterwards before finally finishing my OVA duties with the final Kram and Salem part and returning to active post duty.

I would remind everyone, however, not to get too far ahead of themselves in posts. Things may be happening in the posts in between that throw these advance posts off completely.

Also, in less than five minutes (dunno how I missed this before ), I managed to find a place for us to write that functions exactly like the old twm, with yhr notable exception being that I can use this one at work.

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ARRRRRRRR

fiotis new year

FAIZ NEW YEAR FUCK YUEAH!!!!

Sorry guys I got nothin for Destrillians new year puns

Maybe we can OVA or something

All the Destrillians get drunk at a New Years party.

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Off of eggnog.



EDIT: also I like pirates. This could work.

2012 Roll Call

All right, then.

Firstly, Happy New Years to everyone - here's to hoping it'll be utterly magnificent before we all go up in a puff of apocalypse smoke. 8)

2012 is going to be a different year for Destrillians, at least, that's for sure. The past year could be called vaguely disastrous as far as moving anywhere goes - we've had people wanting to leave, getting angry, and truly upset because of this.
So the game has changed. After talking to some others and considering everybody's lifestyles, it's been decided that this year, things are going to be different. This year, we're actually going to DO something with this beauty of ours. This year we are going to get out one full post every two weeks, minimum. And that requires a roll call.

I recognize everybody has a life to attend to, and also that Destrillians holds varying degrees of importance to everyone. For some, it's a very intense, personal project; for some, it's an exciting wellspring to generate and exact ideas in; for some it's just a casual thing that gets looked at now and again. All of these are fine, but with both ends of the scale present, they're not fine in conjunction with one another. This is why we need some sort of deadline for what we write. Two weeks is fair for anyone: it's rare for one person to write a post entirely solo, and even then, finding three or four hours scattered throughout fourteen days to sit down and write is not difficult. Take it from one of the busiest of the lot.
It just takes a little bit of dedication.

So now the choice is being offered up to everyone. The choice to stick with it, or the choice to leave--and note that those options aren't biased. I personally think that if anyone has been losing interest, or has been very unmotivated, or simply has no room in their life to treat this a bit more seriously, then that's perfectly okay. Good, even - it means you've got stuff to do. XD
The option to put everything down and walk away is a valid choice, and although it always has been I wanted to really make it clear that if someone has other things they'd rather be spending Destrillians time on, do it. We all have different pursuits in life and if someone thinks they can take the time and effort and energy they're using on this, and direct it to more personally satisfying ventures, then that is a mature and respected decision. It helps them out, and it helps the others out, too.

You could also take a hiatus from the project, if there is just too much going on in your life right now. I don't mean on-again-off-again, here one week, gone the next, back the one after that. I mean a proper, month-long or two month-long or longer hiatus. Totally acceptable.
But everyone needs to know that from here on out, if someone choses to do that, then while they're away their plot and their characters and the story won't wait for them. The characterization and writing will be given to people they like, people they trust with their development and ideas, but Destrillians as a whole will continue with or without their input.

Of course if you stay then you stay, no fancy terms about it-- except that when it's your turn to post, it is up within two weeks. That's the ultimatum there. If that post isn't up in that time? Well I'd like to say heads will roll but honestly, people who are able to write the necessary characters will step in and write the rest. Or even write a whole other version themselves. The details on that aren't quite clear yet but I'd really hope we could avoid that anyway.
(That said, I do believe that in case this DOES happen, there should always always ALWAYS be an outline of each post shown publicly for everyone to see. That way, as a failsafe, at least the post goes the way you wanted it to event-wise.)

If people find this too strict, too deadline-y, too much like work, then again you have the option to leave. But I just want to say that if anyone is thinking that this ruins the fun of Destrillians? The fun was ruined about a year ago for everyone who has been itching for it to MOVE somewhere. You can invest everything in this, or you can barely care-- either way, it's no fun if it basically doesn't exist. I said to someone a little while ago, "I love it too much to let it go, but what exactly is it I'm not letting go of? Right now, at present moment? Nothing. Destrillians is nothing. It's a bunch of ideas-- and nowhere to put them."

Let's give ourselves somewhere to put them, shall we?

i am just very tired of not having people available when i need them to be

this telerra post? has literally been written up 3 times and i've waited for dale to get on so we could actually write the really huge, major parts of it and he's just never on.

i guess ill have to rely on pming him the write up and asking him to please please write something :|

I'm still here and as enthusiastic as ever.

Massively in support of this. A lot of the fun in Destrillians comes from the constant progress in the story, so you won't find any complaints from me that we're actually going to place more emphasis on that this year! (y)

Well I'm always kicking about, just wish folk would pm me sometimes to talk about shit as opposed to doing everything on msn.

Forget PMing unless you're actually tossing a post back and forth. Take discussions like that to a public thread, we have one exactly for that purpose now

Hallefuckinglujah to this new rule.

Hamfuckingdullillah hirabilalamin to this new rule too. /muslim version


I'm glad we can get the ball rolling finally instead of piss ass long waits. I WILL murderously post if its my turn and WILL get it done at the appointed time. Be warned those who slacks, I will be ruthless in teaming up and I expect to be done or at least half done before the appointed time. Working at a 5 star airline service with on time services (even 4 minutes earlier) is my forte.

a week? gimme a day /trool

I support this so as not to lose my motivation and creative juice on the series as a whole.

i've sent out PMs with the post ball fight, pre-group split post

add anything if you want to, will be nice to see different colours in there!

The problem ia that posts lately have required three or more people to write them - coordinating can be a bit difficult. The point, ofc, is that we should try to have fewer "SO THEN KERR THETIS EMMA LOKKA TERRA KRAM TELRAN IDRIS AND STOLZ GO FOR ICE CREAM'" posts, because those take absolutely forever to write - everyone had their stuff they want in, etc.

By comparison, Telran (as an example) spends basically all of act three with Kerr and Ariel, meaning that any post I srite requires me to talk to one other person at most - someone who I can always find online for some writing at LEAST once a week.

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SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTH JAZZ.



Also I'm liking the response so far!

EDIT: Saw your post the moment after I posted, Keen, and that is a GREAT observation. Basically? We do absolutely everything in our power to keep the Dessie groups smaller from here on out except for obvious things like the season finale. It's not necessarily the number of characters, though, but the number of writers that we need to keep small - I'd say that if we absolutely need one of those EVERYONE GOES FOR ICE CREAM sort of posts? The one or two people write it.
Firstly, because by this point? Everyone's had enough exposure to characters to be able to write them comfortably. Secondly, if we're taking the ice cream portion semi-literally, meaning it's a sort of casual post, then there's no need for huge moments of introspection from every character and thus one or two people CAN write it without messing up what other people want.

Hopefully we'll start seeing less and less of those kind of posts after the gang splits in half (in about two or three posts time). Huge parties are already pretty massively unwieldy to both write and coordinate. Bearing that in mind from Act I it should give us a better practical idea of how we want to structure the rest of the RP (BREAK ALL THE FELLOWSHIPS)

O hod damn everything. The opening bits of act two (HI I AM AN AIRSHIP) are going to be rough.

Bu yeah, it just makes it unwieldy, which is the real issue here.