Another old, dusty vet might have to join this. I'll seriously consider submitting something soon and joining up.

Edit: It's nice to see Manu back as well! There's nothing better than a good Morrowind RP.

Very nice. Feel free to link those images to the main thread as well. I went back and put a few images in myself, so please guys feel free as long as it follows the guidelines (which I also amended in the OP).

And I agree, I'm quite excited!

I'd be honored to have another dusty vet! As a warning though, I think for now I might only be letting one more into the party, for the sake of manageability. Like I said earlier, its more of a test of how much weight the RP and myself can bare, and if it seems like we can handle more, then more it shall be!

The are exceptions to this of course, so don't feel rushed.

Anyways, I made another post in the RP to move us forward a bit while still allowing for people to join us. I left a lot of things intentionally "blank," so to speak (i.e. the "day-dream," and memory loss) , so that everyone else can fill in the gaps as to what happened, and work the story in their own way.

With that said it's off to bed for me. I've got an exciting five hours of sleep coming my way (again) and a long day of work to look forward to. In all seriousness though, I look forward to what comes next! See ya soon!

A bit late in posting, the day's been busier than expected and I got caught by the last post.

No worries about the late post. There is one thing of concern, though. The Serpent's Wake hasn't set sail just yet. It will be departing on the morning of the 18th day of Sun's Dusk. For now its just dinner on the docks, so to speak, and getting to know each other before hitting the open sea.

EDIT: So basically, it might be night fall before you reach The Serpent's Wake proper, but no need to rush. The ship isn't going anywhere for several hours. You might even make it in time for dinner, and to be subjected to Oaken-Hull's whims.

I aws persuaded the ship had st sail - i'll rework my post to take into consideration the fact the ship's still docked - I'll rework my post to have her show up at the dinner's end about the time everyone settles around the brazier. (and ad a warning note in my post to refer to the OOC post if someone posts up while i'm writing to help coordinating posts.

Awesome sauce. Thank you Manu! Sorry if my post contributed to the confusion in any way. Let me know if there's something I should change to make things more clear.

EDIT: Another thing you may wish to recognize as you revise:

- Heinrich Oaken-Hull. He might be mad, but he will certainly not ignore the presence of a new comer. Even in his current state of captivation, he would likely be shaken by your arrival and start harassing you.

PM me if you have any questions.

Also, a few clarifying points directed towards everyone:

- Resdayn Omothan doesn't clearly remember all of the events of the day, from the point after everyone's arrival, to Oaken-Hull's speech and the following dinner. The reason I did this was to allow you all the freedom to fill in those gaps and tell us more about what happened on the ship that day, and so anyone still joining in would have the opportunity to do so without missing anything. Use this to your storytelling advantage! Unless of course your character has memory problems as well. In which case gods help the party of amnesiacs... we'll never remember why we are here. XD

- If anyone ever has questions regarding what's going on in the plot, and if they are confused on how to advance, please PM me or make a post here. If you ever feel like a post I have made is confusing and misdirecting, again PM me so I can fix the problem as quickly as possible to avoid messes. I have added a bit about this topic to "The Rules" section of the OP.

Okay, so on Tuesday, IRL, a lightning bolt struck my house and fried the modem and wireless router. The modem is getting fixed after I get off of work today, so I SWEAR I will have something up by tonight in the RP thread.

No worries, take your time. We're still waiting on several others to post anyways, and I know how real life stuff goes, so I'm not concerned.

In other news, Uglius Maximus! I would recommend not making a habit of posting out of turn (although I always love your posts)! I'm sure that right now its irrelevant and not a huge concern to anyone, but in the future when something important is going on it might get to be a nuisance. Like when we're in an epic battle and all the sudden you swoop in to steal the glory out of nowhere.

Although now I realize that's a really bad example, given your character's nature. You know... being the "scholarly" type and what not. But you know what I mean!

Just make sure you check in before posting out of turn! XD

Or, alternatively, do you guys think we should just throw that rule out the window? Will it be effective? Or will it be more of a detriment than its worth?

I think it might be easier scraping the round-robin rule, just for the fact if someone needs to post they don't have to wait for there turn.

A fair point. Being conscious of others' schedules and what not. For now I wont enforce it then, and we'll see what the others think. If we all come to an agreement, I'll get rid of it all together.

I don't mind not having a round-robin during "down time", so long as we don't develop the story too far and leave people in the dust to either play catch up or bail altogether. I do, however, think that we need to have a round-robin style for encounters because the story evolves so quickly in those circumstances that if we skipped someone then they'd just miss out completely. I also think, depending on the scale of the encounter, if we discussed posting order and tactics in this thread prior to or just at the start of an encounter, then people would have some pre-planning time and the process would go much smoother.

Yeah, we should setup some kind of posting system.

Well originally we had decided on "round-robin," which I also have posted into The Rules as the way posting should generally be... meaning that we basically post in the same order each time. This is the only "system" I know of that would technically work for a RP, other than "free-for-all," meaning we all just post when we are available to post, which is admittedly more considerate to peoples' differing schedules, but may result in a continuity nightmare.

So if someone has a better idea, by all means let me know. But those are the two methods I know of, and if no one has a better option then we'll just have to put it to a vote.

EDIT: And to address your comment Kaivel, while that sounds ideal on paper, its not very pretty in practice I'm afraid.

If I were to cast a vote, I think it would be for careful and considerate free-posting. As long as we all make sure not to step on people or leave them behind, and keep a watchful eye for consistency with the plot and whats going on with the other characters, we should be fine. To achieve this I think that we will have to notify everyone here in the OOC thread that we are "currently posting," or something of the sort, to avoid multiple people posting at the same time, and then having massive ret cons to account for.

Alternatively, whoever is going to post at that particular time could just make a quick post in the RP thread itself saying something like. "I am currently posting" in big red letters so that other people know to wait for a bit until said post is up. Then, once the person has actually finished their post, of course they would remove the big red bold text, and everything would be hunky-dory. I actually prefer this method.

But that's just one man's opinion.

Thoughts?

I've never Rp'd to a round-robin system and while the idea of it makes sense, in an international framework such as we have, I can't see it working very well. When you think of how active this forum is right now, with 2 - 3 posts a day, it doesn't make sense to limit posting by such a means as people might have to wait several days before posting and by which time, their interest in that particular moment might wane.

I typically only have 1 oppourtunity to post and that's after work at about 8pm GMT which for people in Eastern Europe might be bed time while people in Western America might be at work and have missed their opportunity to post. I understand it in focused, intense moments such as combat but even then - That should be made specific to people who are in that encounter.

I have ran and participated in a lot of Rp's where the story is waiting upon a single character to do something in order to advance and after several days, players will lose interest and find it difficult to reattach themselves to both their character and the situation. I see the system creating more issues than it solves.

A round-robin rule system doesn't allow for much 1 to 1 character interaction for example, imagine I want to have a conversation with a specific character but have to wait for everyone else? By the time the other participant can react, so much has already occured that our conversation is now in the past tense, the story has moved on too far for us to get anywhere. A 10 minute conversation that could grow the bond two characters share is limited to 2-3 posts at best before the story progresses. Even in pen and paper RPGs I've never used a round robin system unless combat initiative plays a part.

I agree with you. Now that you mention it that way, I think having a posting order is absurd.

I still want to know everyone's opinions on the matter, but for now please the The Rules section of the OP of this thread in regards to how we will (maybe) be handling posting from now on.

Sorry, I've been out of the RP game for pretty close to ten years.

I think so as well. Also, so you know there is a handy dandy quote function located at the bottom right of every post. You can just click that to quote someone. If you wish to quote multiple parties, just click the "MultiQuote" button, in the same location, on each post you wish to quote, then click "reply to 'x' number of quotes."

P.S.: I am seriously considering writing some fiction for Heinrich Oaken-Hull and how he got to be so damn insane. XD

I think a free-post system would be best.

At this point I doubt anyone will disagree. I added a revision to the section about posting into The Rules section of the OP of this thread. I would advise everyone to check it out to understand what I'd like to see for adding new posts. Its much better than round-robin, and very simple.

Looking forward to new posts from y'all!

I'm going to start working on my post now.

Looking forward to it.

The legacy of Heinrich Oaken-Hull continues! Love it!

And I'm not sure how one would sing The Lusty Argonian Maid, but I'm pretty sure that's better than Christmas.

Made a few updates to my first few posts in the RP thread. Just decided to include the cast and the rules as part of the OP, and add a chapter title (top of the third post). I decided to call the first chapter The Legacy of a Mad Dog.

Not a major update or anything, just thought I'd let y'all know.

Going to begin to work on a post.

Hey, so quickly, just to clarify. My character is very obviously female. Oaken-Hull is just a lunatic. However, since Oaken-Hull has decided she is a boy, his crewmates will most likely continue to use "Boy" as her nickname from here on out. She really is a girl though. I will draw her soon (possibly this weekend) and then post her on here so you can all have a better idea of what she looks like. Also, I am loving the story thus far!

But, Ovan, don't change your post because I think it will be funny to play off of your characters comment of, "Perhaps a man, if not a boy." HA HA HA!

Just finished reading it. You totally dropped the ball on being an Ayleid! Though with this party, I don't know that anyone would be like "WHAT THE HELL?!" Except maybe the scholarly Larry Wall. Those who hail from outside of Cyrodiil may not even know what an Ayleid is (like my character), apart from maybe knowing they (pretty much) built the Imperial City.

Regardless, an excellent post friend. Hopefully we'll hear from Manu and josephb soon, but if not I will be posting fairly soon...ish. Like a little later on tonight or something. XD

EDIT: So I lied, I wont be posting tonight. I got side-tracked and now it's far past my bed time. BUT! I did read all of your wonderful, beautiful new posts. I know what I'm going to do next, but it'll have to wait until tomorrow. Thanks to all you great roleplayers! See you in the 'morrow!