The general premise has been brought up in the discord channel but I will go over it here as well as handle recruitment (In a dastardly plot to get more people to post on the forum).
So we have previously discussed the idea of having a soft reboot tied with some changes to the board, but we haven't really set anything in stone on what or how. Rather than getting stuck in the minutiae of what that could entail for the board, characters, and the world I propose we have a
soft soft reboot. We will make no changes to the site infrastructure, setting, or anything like that. The focus here is to get people to
post, to achieve that goal I propose that we focus on setting up first-year beacon teams as they are by far the most popular characters, and have an easy first thread plot hook in the form of initiation (Describe your characters landing strategy, run around and kill some grimm, meet up with teammates, kill more grimm, find something. Easy plot with no need to plan anything). To simplify setting up these teams we will pretty much ignore any previously established character lore, hence reboot.
Requirements 1. Your character needs to have a profile on the site.
However, as many of us will want to update characters they don't have to be fully approved, as long as they are in Character Editing or Character Creation they can be used to facilitate some speed (and in case approvals are slow since you know we haven't done them in a
while)
2. Your character is being rebooted (ish).
Outside of their team we aren't being overly strict about this, however the point is just to help facilitate story elements. If your character has been influenced by a previous thread or has an important relationship with another character no one is going to stop you from keeping that canon, but too much of that could bog things down.
3. You are okay with getting discord pings.
Now I don't want to be spammed on discord anymore than the rest of you, but a simple message in a group chat to say "I posted, it's X turn now" and potentially a ping if they haven't posted in say 3 days, is perfectly reasonable.
4. Post the elevator pitch of your character here (this will count as recruitment).
This doesn't have to be much, just the broad strokes of the characters personalty and combat style (Mainly so we can avoid having a team where everyone is an anti-social sniper)
Sidenote: I am just making up these requirements and using "we" so it sounds more official. I would 100% welcome input on these points.
Based on the interest in the discord thread we will likely need more than one team, however, if we are lacking enough players to fill two teams then I will be happy to be on both teams (with different characters), and will gladly open that option to others as well. Once this has been up for a week or two I figure we will start to look at what teams could be made both in terms of characters and potentially names, but we will get to that when we get to it.
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