Post by ::WOLFURchik:: on Aug 15, 2010 2:19:09 GMT -5
The Laws of ::T I M E::
All about Time Skipping!!!
Some forums require you to wait a certain amount of time out of character before role playing the next step. For example, in many wolf role plays, you must wait atleast a week after your wolf becomes pregnant before you can role play the pup.
I how ever, do NOT require this of you, and I will tell you why: I hate it. I hate to wait. That is all. So allow me to explain what I do allow. As long as everybody in the thread is ready to move on to the next thing I will allow you to time skip. If the time skip takes place in a single thread, then the plot needs to be the same as the origonal plot for the thread.
Here is an example of a time skip in a single thread:
Mateo bumps into Clarice, who accidentally drops her books on the ground. Mateo politely helps pick them up, then realizes that he recognizes Clarice from school. They talk for a while about how they both are dreading the school dance tomarrow night, then they are finished talking and go their own ways. Instead of role playing how they both walked home, put away their school stuff, did their home work, and slept, then woke up in the morning, ate their breakfast, got dressed, AND SO ON (so BORING)! Both role players could agree to skip the night and go straight on to the next night where they just happen to bump into each other again at the dance and in a cliché moment of realization, fall deeply in love. Woot.
THEN they are some people who skip time outside of just a single thread. I allow this too, again, as long as everybody participating is in agreement. I do warn you about this though, because I do not allow you to change the past, do not skip too far ahead. Skip only the time you believe nothing interesting will happen to your character.
Here is an example of a time skip that spans a few threads:
After falling in love with Clarice, Mateo asks her out. They go on a lovely date, and fall even deeper in love. They share an intimate night (which is not actually role played, hint hint. PG13 [violence, language] only people!) and get to know each other a little better, after which Mateo is asked to go out on a long mission, out of the city. Instead of waiting for the entire mission to play out before role playing the two again, I will allow some time skipping. It IS BETTER to role play Mateo out on his mission a bit, and Clarice alone without each other to show their emotions and tell the events that happen to them. However, if both role players know that they are not actually planning on role playing anything in between, I will allow them to skip time to the point when Mateo comes home and everything has changed, finding out that Clarice has a four year old child, and later finding out that it is his.
I will also allow time traveling between time skips, such as going back and forth, but you may not change the future. For example, if you decide to role play Mateo as a child, and then you skip time all the way to when he is an adult, and he is poor and falls in love with a rich woman and he has no children, then you go back in time and he falls in love with Clarice and has a child, then the past and the future don't add up, and it doesn't make sense.
Think of it this way, your role play is permanent, and what is written is written, and can not be changed. This makes your role plays more realistic and from the heart. The past and the future MUST have the same history. You can not change history! I will allow Time skipping unless this rule is broken.
A way to help you remember small details like names and events is by simply writing notes, or rereading your own posts. I greatly recommend this. Do not time skip unless you are sure you know what you are doing, you keep the same facts as the future, and every one participating is in agreement.
I also allow you to post in more than one thread at a time, but not if they are taking place at the same time. Time skipping most certainly comes in handy when it coms to that!
All about Time Skipping!!!
Some forums require you to wait a certain amount of time out of character before role playing the next step. For example, in many wolf role plays, you must wait atleast a week after your wolf becomes pregnant before you can role play the pup.
I how ever, do NOT require this of you, and I will tell you why: I hate it. I hate to wait. That is all. So allow me to explain what I do allow. As long as everybody in the thread is ready to move on to the next thing I will allow you to time skip. If the time skip takes place in a single thread, then the plot needs to be the same as the origonal plot for the thread.
Here is an example of a time skip in a single thread:
Mateo bumps into Clarice, who accidentally drops her books on the ground. Mateo politely helps pick them up, then realizes that he recognizes Clarice from school. They talk for a while about how they both are dreading the school dance tomarrow night, then they are finished talking and go their own ways. Instead of role playing how they both walked home, put away their school stuff, did their home work, and slept, then woke up in the morning, ate their breakfast, got dressed, AND SO ON (so BORING)! Both role players could agree to skip the night and go straight on to the next night where they just happen to bump into each other again at the dance and in a cliché moment of realization, fall deeply in love. Woot.
THEN they are some people who skip time outside of just a single thread. I allow this too, again, as long as everybody participating is in agreement. I do warn you about this though, because I do not allow you to change the past, do not skip too far ahead. Skip only the time you believe nothing interesting will happen to your character.
Here is an example of a time skip that spans a few threads:
After falling in love with Clarice, Mateo asks her out. They go on a lovely date, and fall even deeper in love. They share an intimate night (which is not actually role played, hint hint. PG13 [violence, language] only people!) and get to know each other a little better, after which Mateo is asked to go out on a long mission, out of the city. Instead of waiting for the entire mission to play out before role playing the two again, I will allow some time skipping. It IS BETTER to role play Mateo out on his mission a bit, and Clarice alone without each other to show their emotions and tell the events that happen to them. However, if both role players know that they are not actually planning on role playing anything in between, I will allow them to skip time to the point when Mateo comes home and everything has changed, finding out that Clarice has a four year old child, and later finding out that it is his.
I will also allow time traveling between time skips, such as going back and forth, but you may not change the future. For example, if you decide to role play Mateo as a child, and then you skip time all the way to when he is an adult, and he is poor and falls in love with a rich woman and he has no children, then you go back in time and he falls in love with Clarice and has a child, then the past and the future don't add up, and it doesn't make sense.
Think of it this way, your role play is permanent, and what is written is written, and can not be changed. This makes your role plays more realistic and from the heart. The past and the future MUST have the same history. You can not change history! I will allow Time skipping unless this rule is broken.
A way to help you remember small details like names and events is by simply writing notes, or rereading your own posts. I greatly recommend this. Do not time skip unless you are sure you know what you are doing, you keep the same facts as the future, and every one participating is in agreement.
I also allow you to post in more than one thread at a time, but not if they are taking place at the same time. Time skipping most certainly comes in handy when it coms to that!
