Setting up the game

[JennyDK]

Apparently it is now my turn to do...something. Not sure what. Help please.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

Sure.

Add a time period, an event or a scene. I'll explain each separately.

"Between the Fall of the Cloud King's Empire" and "The Congress of Stars is named the capital of the Republic of the Midnight Sky" add a time period. This is a big span of time. "The Renaissance" or "Age of Reason".

An event is something that happens in a time period. "The Battle of Waterloo" is an event. So is "The Hundred Years War" (although you could easily make that a time period too).

A scene zooms in on individuals and their actions in an event or time period.

Does that help?

[JennyDK]

I think so, yes. I will give it a go and you can tell me how it went.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

Oh, and since the bookends are time periods you can add an event or scene to either of those.

Also, if you add an event you can also add a scene contained in that event.

[JennyDK]

One step at a time...

[WritesNaughtyStories]

I think your epoch is fine but I want to clarify your intent.

By putting "The Dawn of Man" between The Cloud King and the Republic of the Midnight Sky did you mean to make the Cloud King (and his Empire) not human?

It's fine if you either meant to or did it by accident and want to keep it - none of us know any more about any of this than you do and these unexpected twists are exactly what makes it fun.

[JennyDK]

I have no idea what those terms/names mean or entail...

[Bruhlord]

By putting the “dawn of man” in between the starting and ending period would make it so that humanity did not exist until some unspecified point between the “Fall of the Cloud Kings empire” period and the “Congress of stars period.”

this would imply that some other race was in existence and ruled over the Cloud King’s empire. Which is totally fine, and actually quite interesting. Hopefully that clears things up a little?

Edited April 22, 2020 by Bruhlord

[Youko Kurama]

@WritesNaughtyStories clairification: only the lens for a round is allowed to add nested ideas. The lens may add a period with a nested event. Or an event with a nested scene.

 This allows for them to control the focus a bit.

 

Edited April 22, 2020 by Youko Kurama

[WritesNaughtyStories]

I think in the context of a PbP game that technicality might be harder to track than is valuable. The Lens setting a theme for the round might also add a layer of tracking that might not be especially useful.

[Youko Kurama]

Kay, sound fair.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

Question is, do we just allow the nesting, as I did, or do we just say one thing per turn? One thing per turn would slow things down but allow everyone to get a chance to interact with things before the original poster stamps too much of their vision on things. Doing it the way I did creates depth a little faster but allows a greater degree of control over things when they're first added.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

Thanks for updating The Flow of History, but Ecchi doesn't give notices for edits (or at least I don't get any), so we're all going to have to get in the habit of checking that, I think.

[Youko Kurama]

Nesting still seems fair. Perhaps a once per day limit. Still gives extra control when you want it but not to much.

[Youko Kurama]

Or maybe wait to nest until someone else does?

[WritesNaughtyStories]

I think the once per day thing might be the easiest to implement.

I do wonder if the focus for the round might not be useful though. It is a great way to get some interesting thoughts outside of basic political events.

Any thoughts on how to implement it?

[Youko Kurama]

Perhaps a daily focus? Rotating who selects it? All contributions needing to be related in some way to the focus?

[Youko Kurama]

@BruhlordYour turn to add a period, event, or scene.

(Whenever you are ready, no rush.)

[Bruhlord]

Oh right my b.

[Bruhlord]

Alright, I have done it. Please say if I have done anything wrong because I’ve never played an actual game of microscope before.

[Youko Kurama]

Only question which period does this event happen in?

[Bruhlord]

Oh right facepalm. I meant to put that under the Ohsi dominate (i think that’s what it was called lol)

hold on I can go put it under there real fast

Edited April 23, 2020 by Bruhlord

[Bruhlord]

Alright, I fixed it. Unfortunately I can’t figure out how to delete the topic I accidentally made which is a pain.

[Youko Kurama]

I think that it's good to have it's own topic. I was just checking so I could add it to the FoH thread.

[Youko Kurama]

@JennyDKNext up it's your turn to add a period, event, or scene.

I'd suggest looking at the Flow of History thread and the post for any specific things you want more info on, then add whatever seems interesting. If you need help just ask.