Elsewhere U Plot Role Info

[powersthatbe]

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Comments

[whocanname]

Anything to report from week 2?

Next week: Provided the plants are dealt with on time, the second obstacle of the journey will be Anna Monday's territory. Anna Monday itself will appear and give the rescue party some choices. Consolidate discussion of these choices and take an IC vote from remaining members of the official rescue party. If there is enough of a consensus in week 3, bring the final decision to Anna Monday. If not, finish threading that in week 4.

At any time, the RA may send a message from the Elsewhere to ask for more official volunteers to replace the two she lost in week 2. She may also deputize anyone she encounters in the Elsewhere and deems fit. She carries the relevant paperwork.

[galvanizer]

I'm going to be honest - I've got nothing for week 2 because it completely slipped my mind with AC happening, and then I saw there were almost no comments happening in it since I'm guessing people were waiting for September to end before starting new threads.

I'm at a bit of a loss - trying to coordinate with Foxglove at the plants but I'm not sure that'll be resolved by the end of this week.

In the worst case scenario where we don't wrap up things of week 2 in time, what should we do? Handwave or play by ear?

[whocanname]

Handwave and backtag? I need to know which of Foxglove's two options the rescuers would do to post the results on next mingle. Asking them OOCly and then backtagging whatever any of you want to actually thread on week 2 seems to be quickest.

[galvanizer]

We'll have to backtag - the votes are in and they decided to go for the option to learn how to garden and tend to the plants themselves instead of striking a deal with Foxglove.

[whocanname]

Originally I had thought to just look at IC reactions to the plants to help shape the next mingle. Just in case, I had Foxglove's player announce from the get-go that they had solutions anyway. Several days into the mingle, it seemed to me that Foxglove would be the only one with any ideas. Trying to include player participation so no one would feel left out or hauled into a decision they didn’t make, I wanted Foxglove to ask opinions on which of his solutions the rescuers would like better. Whether the players took too long to answer, or didn’t answer, I don’t know. But finally it was near the end of the week, and in desperation I asked you because the RA is party leader.

To avoid the same problem next week, after you make your top level, may I suggest tagging out, so that characters will have to answer the RA's question? That’s the best tactic I can think of at the moment. Feel free to link Anna Monday's top level in tags for easy reference. Even if just one or two characters have opinions, or even if everyone says "I don’t know", that will do. If there is just something onscreen, anything, a vote isn’t even needed for me, and not all characters have to participate if they’re busy.

ETA: It's possible characters will want to do both of Anna Monday's requests, and that's a valid course of action too.