Talavera planning?

I'm already wanting to write stuff that happens at the END of Talavera. Would it ruin anybody's life if we started doing some battle stuff? Not starting at the end necessarily, just getting the ball rolling. It wouldn't have to negate anything that happens at the bridge.

Sharpie, you said it was fine with you to get Talavera started, correct?

It'd be good to move things along to the actual battle, though it had been my understanding that Latin was interested in taking part as well, though as she's quite busy with uni at the moment, actual Talavera-oriented threading had been put on hold.

I'm neutral in this. I sure wouldn't mind putting Fraser and Duuring into action, but at the other hand, I don't mind waiting either.

Everything is fine with me, but if Latin wants to take part, I would opt for waiting. My two cents.

I'm sure we could have multiple Talavera threads going on, and players could join one or more when they're around. It was huge, after all.

Yes, but a battle without the commanding general?

I've told sharpie about my particular tiny thread idea and she said it would be ok for me to start it, but we just won't open up the whole battle yet for full participation. (Is that right, sharpie?)

May I ask what this tiny thread is about?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of the played characters who are going to be involved in the Talavera threads also going to be involved with the bridge taking stuff?

In which case, it's a bit silly to have two large events occurring almost on top of one another, especially when one of the people who was pushing most for getting to Talavera hasn't been around for a while due to RL stuff?

I think, personally, that it would be most fair if we take the bridge - or not, as the case may be! - as it's not an event that Latin has any knowledge of. And then move to taking Talavera afterwards, hopefully at a point when Latin can get on the board for a bit and post some stuff as Wellesley if not as Padstowe. It was, after all, Latin who was one of those pushing towards getting to Talavera, before she got overwhelmed with uni and other RL stuff.

I know that there are people who want to play out stuff that happens after Talavera, and I've got no issue with them doing that, so long as not everybody is expected to make the same jump all at once and risk leaving people out completely. (So yes, sans, you're right.)

I am thinking more and more, actually, of bringing in a specific timeline type of thing, for example: One RP week per 2 RL months or something. Because to be only in July 1809 after the board's been open nearly five years is patently ridiculous, and leads to all sorts of issues like this.

Ok, thanks sharpie.

Heh, I keep remembering that Billy Barrow was shot six weeks ago, and thus is still feeling pain, even though that happened before my niece was born, and now she's nearly four years old.

The pace (or not!) of this board is ridiculous. A snail could move faster.

Sometimes, anyway. I'm in no real rush to get to 1815 because what would we do then? Though at this rate, I'll be in my 80s by the time we get there and Cotton and Maggie return to England to their cottage with roses and honeysuckle and all!

I tend to agree with you , Sharpie, about doing two big events at the same time. Plus like some have said, Latin definitely wants in on Talavera. So I think too it would be better to wait on that one til the bridge storyline is completed.

Oh and as slow as this rpg goes, it doesn't hold the record. I once was in a yahoogroups western rpg where we (it was a town) were in the same game day for 18 months real time! And yes, it caused a lot of problems too. Some of us laughed when one pair of writers (who pretty much went their own way all the time despite the so called day) had their young couple married and then later that real life year the wife gave birth to a baby. Of course strictly gamewise, it was all the same day!

Henry Fraser wrote:May I ask what this tiny thread is about?

It's an idea that outis and I had discussed about having two of our French soldiers get injured and captured. For now, we've started writing it via email so as not to disrupt the time flow of the game or cause confusion, and we'll just copy our posts here later. We were just bursting with eagerness to start writing.

François Sevière wrote:I tend to agree with you , Sharpie, about doing two big events at the same time. Plus like some have said, Latin definitely wants in on Talavera. So I think too it would be better to wait on that one til the bridge storyline is completed.

Oh and as slow as this rpg goes, it doesn't hold the record. I once was in a yahoogroups western rpg where we (it was a town) were in the same game day for 18 months real time! And yes, it caused a lot of problems too. Some of us laughed when one pair of writers (who pretty much went their own way all the time despite the so called day) had their young couple married and then later that real life year the wife gave birth to a baby. Of course strictly gamewise, it was all the same day!

Good heavens! (And darnit, I need a 'like' button! Too used to having one on RPG-D! )

*runs past, muttering* Duff just needs to get shot on of the hills with the English, cause that's history. *runs away* XD

*blinks* Was it just me, or did a Colonel in the Spanish service run past, muttering to himself in what sounded like English?!

It's a drive-by shooting announcement!

He is Scottish!

He looked very much as though he was wearing Spanish uniform, to me, though, sir!

He is a lot more badass and is not going to run at Talavera!

Sharpie, could we maybe set a date at which time Talavera threads can start to be played in earnest, open to everyone? Like, a week from now? Two weeks from now? Something? I'm looking forward to it and my mind is in gear and raring to go.

(don't mean to nag, sorry! But maybe if we set a date, it can give people plenty of warning and time to get their ideas together and make time so they won't miss out on the fun. And it might help get the bridge stuff rolling at a more rapid pace too.)

I'm going to admit to being torn. I know that Talavera is a plot that Latin desperately would love to take part in. I also know that she's up to her ears (I typed 'eras' which is particularly applicable to her, being as she's studying History!) in Uni work and has not been on the board in a while.

I also feel, from past experience, that if we try to plan one event while RPing another, the event we're currently playing will likely fall flat and the event we're looking to play may not take off.

I would like, if possible, to play out the bridge event, figure out what state that leaves our characters in, and then start planning for Talavera, with maybe some smaller slice-of-life threads between the two major events?

Which is not to say that we'll be putting off Talavera for months and months - I don't want to do that, either!!

Aww, ok. We did end up doing a thread in the AU section which is meant to take place after Talavera, but it can also just be AU if it doesn't work out (if the board decides for the French to win and the British to take absolutely no prisoners or something crazy like that). And we also don't mind backtracking when the time comes to play the real thing.

John Vickery wrote:Which is not to say that we'll be putting off Talavera for months and months - I don't want to do that, either!!

Good, please don't!

PS - And, I wasn't asking to start Talavera now, I was just asking to set a date that we might look forward to starting Talavera. Any chance of that? Or do you just mean that you want to play out the bridge and other days for as long as it takes to finish them, and you're just hoping it won't be months and months, but you're not sure?

I want Talavera to be sooner rather than later, and I want Latin to be able to join in with it, though if we get to the point where it would be really silly not to play it out, and she's still not around, then we'll do it without her. I would like her to be able to join in with it if possible, though.

The Ghost of Christmas Past is putting an appearance here.

If people want to get on and play the main battle of Talavera they are welcome to: there is no point in hanging out for me to rejoin, as it is very likely that I will probably not be returning to the Game for a very long time - maybe not even until after I graduate next year. Just assume that Wellesley, Padstowe and all the rest are in the background somewhere. They usually are.

Laters -

LC.