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plot: jurassic park

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Welcome home, everyone! You're back in Cair Paradisa! IN THE DUCK POND, SOAKING WET. AND IT'S STILL THUNDERSTORMING. IN YOUR TACKY TOURIST CLOTHES.

PLOT OVER.

Thank you so so so much for making this plot so fun; participation was awesome. I'll edit in rough numbers soon, for the lulz.

Any thoughts? How did you guys feel about having a lot more mass posts, instead of the usual anything-goes set-up? Concerns? Constructive criticism? General dinosaur love?

Again, much love goes to Mimi, for bringing forward the Jurassic Park suggestion in the first place, and for letting me take it. It was fun.

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I think the amount of mass-posts there were was a little crazy for the short four-day time frame (I missed a bunch of them and it felt a bit hurried) and I don't really like shuffling through all the hundreds of comments on each post to see what I can reply to.

But on the flip-side, it's a good way to make sure things get done in the plot instead of everyone going "...uh what now? D:" and it's still a good alternative way to get CR since characters will feel inclined to communicate just because they're in the same room.

So I'm really just talking circles. X'D I guess I liked the posts, but would have liked them a little more spread out, perhaps? They would have worked fine if the plot had gone on for a couple more days, I think.

Also, cheers to the fun plot in general. ♥ I'm sad I got distracted and busy for a lot of it! THE LULZ WERE GRAND, THE DINOS WILL BE REMEMBERED FOREVER.

^ This. You explained it better than I did. Derp!

Perhaps ironically, I was about to comment to your comment asking if you were psychic. GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE. BD

Dude, we even posted it AT THE SAME TIME. WHAT. (BUT YES, THEY DO. :B)

Dude, that icon. 8|

What she said! Awesome, epic, lulzy, had a blast, but I felt like I lagged behind some due to being at work and missing the during-the-day stuff, and never getting to post in the MUST GO FASTER part of the docks post because I was waiting on tags.

But overall, A+!

I'm sorry. D: You shouldn't have had to wait on me. XD Just like... go DAMN THAT ACE, BEING BUSY and pretendytiems to your heart's content the next time I go into epic fail mode.

Thanks for the feedback!

I agree with spreading them out; I initially hadn't planned so many, but things were getting convoluted on some of them. The Park Drive, for example; I felt it would be RIDICULOUS to try and do the build up (giving characters time to interact and fool around and talk and stuff), the attack, and then the aftermath all in one post, not to mention it would be a nightmare to try to reread later.

When I suggested to the mod squad that we make it shorter and tighter (3-4 days ) because people seemed to get bored with 7 days.... activity would just dwindle towards the end, or people would itch for normal Paradisa. I wanted to test out a more directed plot, and I thought that needed to be shorter, because if it bombed, it'd drag and drag. Though, in hindsight, with all that action, another day might have eased it up a bit, and lessen the need for backtagging.

Does that make sense?

Either way, I'm glad you had fun, and thanks again for the feedback! :D

Yeah, that does make sense. If my browser kept freezing with the posts as they were, I'd hate to see one containing all three of those events. D:

And it's totally not an exact science or anything. Some lengths work better for different plots, I guess. It's hard to gauge! At least with the way this one rolled, there was stuff to do and I don't think anyone was bored. 8)

Noooo kidding. It'd be... over 1500 comments and NO ONE wants to keep up with that.

Oh, I know, I just go "laksjdlasjd" trying to figure out how to make it as good as I can. I LOVE YOU GUYS... AND DON'T WANT YOU BORED... alksdjas.

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