h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello darling,

Can you please let us know where you are going with the shadow man thingy??

I think it would be best to keep us as our own characters now, it is getting a little scatty.. and too much damage is being done to the station, which actually thrives on harmony and well being.. I think

Perhaps we should discuss things more outside of the thread eh??

lil xx

Its improv. Besides my side charecters have the habit of ending up dead.

You are not going to die..

I gave you plenty of information for your character.. mutant.. the name of your father.. even the fact that Lil had been part of the experiment when genetic material was taken..

There is lots of stuff there for you to mull over.. We are fighting to save you from having to be returned to Earth.. But now the ship is hurting.. and in pain..

Planned spontenaeity. With the little mystery element there the game will be more interesting.

Yes.. but please leave the ship intact.. there are plenty of things you could muse upon.. what about the labs?? You could make a great discovery with Dmitri.. stuff like that..

Eh. i did the hull breach thing because i was tired of gheorgeni god moding.

"theres a murder"
"Bam! Magically solved"

"Theres a riot."
"All right. Flood the area with gas. And then teleport them to my ship"

"hull breach"
"containment shield"

It doesn't have to be like that..

It is a nice gentle thread.. with just a few of us in there.. we can't afford to get too involved in a war. There are not enough of us.. and it will just get very scrappy.

It is best to just keep things "in-house" and have our own little adventures.. quietly...

I was just a wee bit annoyed by Elektra's deus ex machinas. So, BAM! Drama. Besides, it brings another plot to bear. And plots are delicous.

All plots have a certain amount of control.. they have to, or chaos reigns and people leave..

Believe me, I have been there..

Theres a difference between control and "ZOMG! TERE R NO PROBLEMS! I ROX!" (exaggerated for effect)

Everything has been sorted in the game now.. try to keep your excitement to a smaller scale, that we can join in..

For blood lust, you could always go outside the ship.. and have a weee accident.. that eventually we all have to come to save you.. but do nothing for a little while yet, let the characters evolve... Then we can sort other themes out.. okay??

Stories thrive on conflict and we're not going to have a good story based on "Eww. Nasty food"

Again, characters are evolving.. don't knock it.. we are having fun in there.. it is just that the rest of us can't play properly with your character offline.. and when you come back, you are mainly alone.. Elwyn and Mala seemed to be trying to draw you into the storyline more, but you seemed to keep shunning them.

Not true. I'm offline when they offer and they take that as shunning. And I'm not knocking the story. All i'm saying is that conflict is good for the story and for charecter development.

All a bit at a time.. or you get instant overload..... don't forget, we are here for hours everyday, not an hour a week like telly. We have the time to sustain it.

Bah says I. I was just trying to provide a unifying thread/common interest.

*giggles*

It was already there..

Well look at it from my POV for a second: we've got the gheorgenis interacting with each other. We have Malaba's problems with her fellow crewsmen, we have Captain Olmen's interactions with Dmitri. We have EC interacting with those two as his superiors and also with the mystery man.

We have Elwyn and Dragonqueen and lord only knows what their stories are yet.

One thing doesn't neccesarily shake the whole net. But something that big certainly did.

Dmitri worked frantically to save as many lives as he could. EC was horrified by the bloodshed and turned on Elektra who he mistook for the perpetrator. Malaba finally confronted EC about his standoffish behavior.

Bam. The net trembles.

It can be tiring doing that constantly.

Can we have time to draw breath now?

We don't want to frighten others away if they can't find a way into the game.. okay?

I hadn't planned to do more than this. One station disaster is enough. And I hadn't planned that either. I had only planned to do the riot which is a reasonable thing to happen.