[character rp] talkin’ about languages

[lleullawgyffes]

[I'm bad at tracking multiple conversations at once, and there wasn't really a convenient time to do it during Move 2, but Virmad and Yehan found time to chat about language stuff at some point during the trip — we'll say they're in the same ambiguous common area where the “Off Duty Conversations” took place; anyone else who’s interested is free to drop in as they see fit!

Virmad is sitting at a table in the common area with books and notes spread out around him — all either in Tlen Gwa (the book at the center of the arrangement, some of the notes) or about Tlen Gwa (everything else). Yehan is passing idly by en route to nowhere in particular, and the foreign script catches her eye.]

[admin] GM policy note

[yhlee]

vass brought up the question of party-splitting in this thread.

My policy (as posted there, and reiterated here) is as follows:

I agree that having anyone's character sit out while others Do Things is generally not fun, and that I want to avoid that happening unless it's prearranged (e.g. someone is on vacation for a couple weeks and needs their character to be off doing other things). If you choose to have Iawa stay behind, vass, I will make sure that there is stuff for you to do. From my perspective splitting the party for any length of time is not ideal simply because it reduces inter-player interaction and the more independent plots there are, the harder it is for me to coordinate them. But if that's how you want to handle it, I will definitely make sure (say) Iawa gets juicy plot time.

Any questions or concerns, please discuss in comments or message/email (yhlee / yoon at yoonhalee dot com), whichever you feel more comfortable with.

[admin] announcement

[yhlee]

I'm going to be on-call for jury duty for a full two weeks from July 31 to August 11. "On-call" means I may never have to go in at all. But I might have to go in, and we're forbidden from having cell phones or laptops or even ereaders. So if they do call me in, I'm only going to be online in the evenings (CST), and my responses will be delayed until those hours. I just wanted y'all to be prepared for potential slower responses those two weeks.