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All-purpose basic-info/summary post for the current mystery plot, running the 7th-9th.

BASIC GLOSSARY

Team Normal: People who aren't usually involved in the action in Paradisa, are very new, or are without any extreme powers, skills or abilities. You also want to be on this team if you don't want your character to be manipulated by the castle.

Team Super: Godmodes, spotlight-hogs, leaders. The people who are always on the front lines. These people will be given something else to do.

Team Middle: People who don't fall into either category, or people who didn't sign up for a group. If you want to be a part of the mystery, gravitate to Team Super. If you want to take part in solving the mystery, gravitate to Team Normal.

TEAM NORMAL

What should they be doing?
7th: Reacting to Team Super's strange behaviour.
8th: Investigating the problem, reacting to Team Middle following Team Super.
9th: Solving the problem and returning things to normal.

What if I'd rather have them on Team Middle?
On the eighth, join the mass post where Team Middlers leave the castle. Email the mods for further instructions. Our emails can be found on the community's profile page.

When can we expect our next set of instructions?
Evening of the 8th.

TEAM SUPER

What should they be doing?
7th: Leaving the castle.
8th: Socializing, confusing Team Normal, helping Team Middle move into the city.
9th: Once Team Normal has returned things to normal they can move back into the castle.

What if I'd rather have them on Team Middle?
Have them stick around the castle and head out on the eighth or even early on the ninth.

When can we expect our next set of instructions?
Evening of the 8th. We'll try very hard to get it out early.

TEAM MIDDLE

What should they be doing?
7th: Reacting to Team Super's strange behaviour.
8th: Leaving the castle like Team Super OR staying with Team Normal.
9th: Either with Team Super or Team Normal.

What if I'd rather have them on Team Normal?
Follow directions for Team Normal; if you haven't been put on the email list for Team Normal, email one of the mods for instructions. Our emails can be found on the community's profile page.

What if I'd rather have them on Team Super?
Do what Team Super did the day before on the 8th. Email the mods for further instructions. Our emails can be found on the community's profile page.

When do we get further instructions for either Team Normal or Team Super?
Evening of the 7th. We'll try very hard to get it out early.

OOC FLOW OF EVENTS

7th: Team Super leaves town. Team Normal and Middle react.
8th: Team Super stays in town. Team Normal investigates. Cubie delivers a message from the castle. Team Middle follows either Team Super or Normal. Team Normal meets again.
9th: Team Normal/Middle solves crisis, Team Super/Middle can come home.

IC FLOW OF EVENTS

7th: Come morning, a number of the residents have started leaving the castle. Apparently it's for some bigger, better destiny, but they seem pretty content. Those left behind, with no desire to leave, react to this loss of comrades with varying degrees of anger and sorrow, but regardless of that, it's apparent something's very wrong. They hold a meeting to go over it and try to figure out what the castle's trying to do.

8th: Starting on the second day, more residents leave the castle. Those left behind start >putting their plans into action and spying on the new "city people." Cubie delivers a message from the castle. In reaction, those left behind gather again to plan their move against the castle...

9th: To Be Updated

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What if I'd rather not play this plot?
Your character can mysteriously vanish for a few days, or you can have them join Team Super and head off into town to be Natives for a bit.

Why are you using emails and stuff?
We're trying two new things with this plot:

a) seeing how it works setting up surprises/plot twists to react to.
b) reversing the power play without just "depowering" people.

Naturally, since we're trying something new, we ask for people's patience. If it works, awesome, if it doesn't work, we never have to try something like this again. Things will be back to normal relatively soon and Paradisa will go on regardless. Cool? Cool.

Q & C?
If you have questions or concerns about the plot, let us know. Either comment here, or email one of the mods. Once again, our emails can be found on the community's profile page.

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thank you for this post!

♥ Our pleasure! Enjoy.

Okay, I don't want to be That Person, but some of this doesn't jive with what I was told leading up to this.

When the initial email went out, I asked what to do with my Middlers, since juggling 7 characters for a Major Plot is a bit much. I'd had contingency plans to write them out in one way or the other earlier on in the week, but I was told that the castle was going to take care of them. Finding out that that is basically defined as "they're mysteriously absent or they pretty much have to be played as either one of the other teams" doesn't really fit that, for me. I'm wishing I'd used my IC ideas earlier on in the week, after all. (I might fix that by backdating posts for the four of them.)

Not only that, but earlier on in the day, since I'm gone on the 9th, I asked if I would still be able to participate (and if backtagging was necessary). At the time, I was fine with being present for 2/3 of the days - two outta three ain't bad. This was before I was clued in, in chat, that everyone's plot wasn't being collectively spread out over three days.

Now, mind you, I'm not whining and saying "SOMEONE FIX IT AND MAKE ME HAPPY". I'm laying out why I'm annoyed so that it can be taken into consideration for communication in the future, since I know this is an experiment for our three lovely mods. Maybe, next time, this sort of vague, spoiler-free schedule could be put up from the get-go so that people will be able to plan/react/sign-up accordingly?

IDK. I'm gonna do what I do: go with the flow when and where I can, and have fun with what I get. :)

It's up to you however you want to play "mysteriously absent," be it them ignoring what's going on, or getting lost in their own little worlds, or sleeping through it, or whatever you deem best/can come up with. Note, though, that it's pretty easy to have your Middlers go off into town and (like most of the natives) not be heard from, and come back when the plot's over. It's an easy way of getting them out of the way so you can focus more on your other characters. The Middle ground is a great way to "opt out," whether your characters coast along with the Supers or if they just follow behind the leaders with the Normals.

Plots are seldom equally balanced so that every day has equal amounts of action for everyone. It's nearly impossible to coordinate things to keep everyone happy and equally busy, especially when everyone is on their own time schedule, and from a story perspective, it makes more sense to have rise and fall in the action. When people are away for specific days, there's unfortunately precious little we can do: there will NEVER be a plot that is good time-wise for everyone.

However, suggestions re: vague schedules being put up from the get-go taken, and we agree: in the future, if we ever attempt something like this again, we'll be sure of that in the future!

I know it's impossible to make everyone happy ... I just thought that you'd like to see my thoughts out on the table, since there was a lot of flailing going on in chat. Thank you for listening. :)

I definitely like the idea of using emails to maintain a sense of mystery and surprise. It's more fun to not know exactly what's going to happen over the course of the plot. :)

Question: What's exactly the point of having a Team Middle at all if we have to choose between Team Super and Team Normal anyway? Like, is this something that would be clarified in an email, or...what? Because right now it seems like the choices are either "Normal, Super, or Disappear for a few days."

That's what it is, basically; they're the middle ground because the mun doesn't know where to put them, so they can play to whichever storyline they want to, be it Team Normal, Team Super, or just skipping the plot entirely with that character. They're still meant do do one thing or the other:

But see, if the mun didn't know where to put them in the beginning, how would they know which to storyline to choose now? It seems like "not knowing where to put them" and "having to put them in one group or the other" are two ideas that just don't mesh.

Not that it'll affect me specifically, since Nine's opting out of this one, but just in general, it seems a bit confusing. Maybe it's just me, though.

The idea is that it's easier to pick a side when you have more of an idea of where it's going. Even on middle ground right now you can see that Team Super is being manipulated into moving into the city to be townspeople, and that Team Normal is going to have to deal with it and solve the problem. As things unfold, people can decided if they want their character to do what the Supers are doing, or stay in the castle and (if they want to) do what the Normals are doing.

Question: Will Team Super discard their journals, or keep them?

This. I'm not sure if they're still supposed to be communicating with the castle or not.

Aha, I keep wanting to threadhop Arthur or Ken's post and being all 'I can read this you know'. XD

If they're allowed to keep them, threadhop at will? ♥

Oh, that was my other question -- what about people who aren't on either team and are away from this whole thing? Can they still react via journal too?

They certainly can!

I was wondering this as well.

They'll still have them, but they should have no strong inclination to use them.

I had commented on the normals thread, but never got a reply, and so I haven't gotten any emails....should I play along anyway? Am I missing anything I should know from the emails?

I'm assuming mine as normals, maybe Michael as middle.

Basically, where should I go from here?

What's your email? I'll send you the Normals emails thus far to catch you up.

journeysrose@gmail.com

Sent!

:D received! Thank you.

Also, where is Team Super living now? Are they in a dee-luxe apartment or just finding themselves random retail or living in a cardboard box somewhere? OR IT IS LIKE A REAL WORLD HOUSE AND THEY'RE ALL GOING TO HAVE SUPER DRAMU?

As silly as I am wording this question, it's still a valid detail that I would like to know more about. Thanks!

They can live wherever they want in town, be it random apartments, houses, farms, or even in those luxury cardboard boxes. :)

Haha, right when I asked this, Valerie told me what Fudgey said ~~since I made her ask STUPID IMPATIENT ASHLEY~~. Well, at least this is here for other people to see who may be wondering, no?

Yeah, that's all dandy 8D Thank you for asking!

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