Sins of the Mother Discussion Thread

This RP will no longer be taking place.

Thanks to those of you who showed some interest and my apologies for any disruption.

I'd like to hereby sign-up using Gideon Larrs, the Bounty Hunter also referred to as "The New Guy" in the Tales of the E.P.O.C.H. comic of the same name.

His wiki is only half done, sorry about that.

Thats the first character added, thanks very much.

SotM is open to all classes and it's nice to see you opt for a Bounty Hunter, Mr Dubz. Don't think you've played one on our home turf yet?

Hmmm... I have a problem with this, but only because it overlaps with Pathway to Stone. With two potentially big RPs here, I have a bad feeling about having them both on at roughly the same time. Unless this is planning to start after PTS (though I doubt it due to it's sudden appearance).

However, I do like the set up and I'd definately like to take part if we get our own time slots for each.

I'd like to join up to this but with who I wonder..... I this after DaTd? If so I might use Jylan (yeah I know again )
Nice intro post btw!

Edit I won't be using Jylan in fact, is this a guild members (ic) only RP btw?
I really want to make a new character with a new class though sith doesnt interest me much, maybe I'll just go with the newly revealed Sith overlord class though ......

Harlequin2 wrote:

Hmmm... I have a problem with this, but only because it overlaps with Pathway to Stone. With two potentially big RPs here, I have a bad feeling about having them both on at roughly the same time. Unless this is planning to start after PTS (though I doubt it due to it's sudden appearance).

Well I know what your saying Harl and I agree that the timing is unfortunate. However I would point out I've been brewing this RP for many months. I have been waiting for either DAtD or more importantly DS (which have been running together for almost 8 months) to finish before I started, partly for the reason that you're now worried about, as well as for DS to finish and free up Creed in case SS wanted to use him as I intend to use Lilin for this RP.
I still intend to wait for DS to end before kicking off SotM but if you can look at it from my point of view; I've been patienly waiting for many months for my turn to run an RP and now that DS is close to ending here you come along and very quickly set up an RP inside of three weeks! Imagine how I feel! lol

SotM's start date depends on when DS finishes (still no rush Mr Dubz ) but it's 'sudden appearance' is I admit a declaration of intent. I'm not trying to be mean but I've planned this for too long to want to wait for another RP to start and finish before I get a chance to have a go, and with yours being a cross-over RP and dependant on TSPs involvement who knows how long it might stretch on for (through no fault of yours)? PtS may very well begin before SotM so I wouldn't worry that I'll be stealing any limelight and the two stories I think will be quite unique.

So please try and understand that though I'm sorry you have a problem with the timing overlapping, I don't see why the two RPs can't run along side one another (much like DS and DAtD, and don't forget PJK's AWS was going to run along side as well). And I have no problem with yours taking place on the timeline before mine even though they'll be running for a time in tandem.

If your problem with my RP taking place along side yours is that bad then I'll bow out and keep this on hold until yours is done. I can't be fairer than that.

PrioryJK wrote:

is this a guild members (ic) only RP btw?
I really want to make a new character with a new class though sith doesnt interest me much, maybe I'll just go with the newly revealed Sith overlord class though ......

Er, do you mean 'guild member (ic)' as in Agency member? Because I use the term "Guild Members only RP" in the OOC sense irrespective of which characters the players (ie Guild Members) sign up with. Does that make sense??

That being said, if people want to use non-Agency member characters then you might want to PM me so we can introduce the new character propperly into the story.

I didn't know that you were waiting for months... In that case it's only fair that you go first, I'm sure that TSP will understand. You have to understand my point of view as well though, I've only just heard of this when you made the timeline which was after we had started brewing PTS. Thinking about the running side by side point, I guess it has been done before in the past and the fact that we have dedicated RPers and that they're different types of RP may make it do-able. I want to see SS' perspective on this.

Harlequin2 wrote:

I want to see SS' perspective on this.

Well SS is currently semi-away and, with all due respect to him PJK & Myself are also able to represent the Guild in general with stuff like this. Part of the reason we have officers in the first place is so that the onus isn't squarely on Sure's shoulders over every single point in the guild.

Furthermore not wishing to throw my weight about (which, all my in-joking aside I actually do very rarely), but my other job besides Chief Op is that of RP Director so really this is my 'turf' anyway.

I put forward that we are all pro and dedicated enough to easily run both RP's at the same time. We've done it before (DaTD & DS) and I'm sure we can do it again. Also, don't forget that one is a x-guild RP and the other is in-house meaning they will both act differently anyway (you'll find PoS will probably launch much faster and have a 'sprint' start with many posters getting involved at the start then slow down to its own momentum when players from other guilds drop off leaving only the "core" TSP & EPOCH players. SoTM on the other hand will probably start slower (being just us EPOCHians) but will maintain a steady pace).

Both GMs have a stonker of an RP lined up and I can't see any reason whatsoever why either would impact the other. I'm sure if PJK or SS disagree with me on any of the above that they will say so here, but I suspect their views aren't too far from my own.

As things stand SoTM will be starting after PoS anyway as there is nothing holding up the start of the X-Guild RP whereas 'Sins' begins when DS finishes, so a lot of this is a moot point anyway.

In short:

Official RP Directive: Green light given for both RP's to start whenever they are ready, at the discretion of their respective Gamesmasters.

I agree with LW (King of Roleplay ) about this, on your front Harl I see no need to be worried a cross Guild RP certainly won't fail becuase you have another one in the works over here. You've got 2 Guilds participating so its going to get alot of imput.
I think this is another reason we should have discussions before we release new RPs just so theres a mutual recognition of whats going on, no ones in the wrong here but a bit of planning never hurt anyone

As this is occuring after DS I'll be using Ril Tesv ...probably, if theres a new class out I might go with that but I've had an interesting idea for a Sith character.

Thanks for the support guys, I really appreciate it^^ I'm not belittling Harl's objections but I didn't think holding two RPs at once would be so controvertial within an RP guild.

Though I do take your point about discussing planned RPs PJK. I had dropped a hint or two at our RP Director back in October about having an RP up my sleve and I had put SotM on the EPOCH timeline where Harl and I actually discussed it there a week ago:

Harlequin2 wrote:

Ok, well, I'd of expected that this will happen before 'Sins of the Mother' but it has to be after Hyperion, and here's a brief synopsis:

Re: Our own timeline? Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:58 pm

Harewood wrote:

Harlequin2 wrote:

I'm guessing "Sins of the Mother" is about some female official gone rogue that needs taking down? Or, it can be the sins of one of the factions, like some refer to Russia as 'Mother Russia'.

Neither^^ I wouldn't want to give the game away, though . I don't want to hijack another thread so all I'll say is I've had this story brewing in me noggin since joining DAtD and will be putting up a front page and sign up thread soon.

Re: Our own timeline? Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:19 pm

And the boss picked up another hint previous to that:

Sureshot wrote:

Harewood wrote:

But of course, when I step in to GM my up-coming RP; that one will take priority.

MOAR INFO PLEEZ!!!

Re: PRIVATE (Guild Discussion) RP Cross-over Thread Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:47 pm

So I have sort of been ramping up a bit to announcing it. Maybe I should have better annouced my upcoming announcement.

But this all seems to be my fault so I apologise to everyone for all the aggrovation. This has not really been the reception I was hoping for.

I'm absolutely fine with the RP's running at once although as L-Dubz has mentioned he's the guy running the show what with being the RP director n'all. The only thing that concerns me at the minute is having to much RP on the go and the other ones suffering, although I'm sure we'll work a way around it cause we always do! At the minute I'm not far off finishing DAtD and I already have another RP in mind (which L-Dubz is aware of) but I'm waiting for the species announcement from BW first before I continue with it. Needless to say it will indeed be part of the guild lore.

Back on topic though I'm well up for joining in both PtS and SotM if it fits with the timeline & and my chars so count me in. What would be cool though if some of the agents that aren't currently in RP joined in. It would actually even things out a bit and people could create as many stories as they'd like and not have to worry about not getting a good amount of numbers.

Well it sounds like with both DAtD and DS coming to end soon a couple of new RPs won't break the guild's back anyway. And like I've said, PoS will very likely kick-off before SotM since I'm going to wait till DS has been completed (but still no pressure LW, I'm really enjoying it!).

I've put up the names of the players who have expressed an interest and once everyone's decided on which character they want to play, just post a note here and I'll update the op as and when.

For anyone else who might want to play, I'm not limiting the number of players with a max cap (sadly there aren't that many active members in the guild at the minute), so as long as folks can commit to regular input then anyone and everyone is invited to join in^^

I'm not sure what LW has in store for those of us in his DS RP but I can't see SotM actually starting until Christmas is out of the way - so there's plenty of time to invent or polish up your characters! (...And if anyone is having trouble with their character then I'll gladly try to help iron out any wrinkles )

It's PTS, Hare (Acronym-play on TSP - The Sith'ari Path)

Anyway, I guess we should run them along side. I just had doubts, not really an objection. I don't particularly want those doubts to be too distruptive. Anyway, I agree that we should just let the two RPs shoot off whenever they feel that it is relevant/ready.

No more thread highjacking for me, lets cut the PTS out of the conversation and get the focus back onto Sins of the Mother. I'm still thinking about if I should join or not. It would definately give Skursir a chance for some action methinks. We'll see.

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So I have sort of been ramping up a bit to announcing it. Maybe I should have better annouced my upcoming announcement.

But this all seems to be my fault so I apologise to everyone for all the aggrovation. This has not really been the reception I was hoping for. :Neutral:

Yeah your right, this is just an announcement so there shouldn't really be anymore need to pre-announce it lol, and I'm looking forward to RPing in it Hare but lets be honest if something doesn't caase a bit of aggro on here its not worth doing

I didn't have aggro as I said, only doubts.

Well, that was certainly a storm in a teacup! Glad we've cleared the air and straightened all those wires^^

I think everyone deserves a cupcake:

I would like to sign - up as well with Horatz "Substance" Sallo. A human imperial agent/chemist. Btw, I would like him to be introduced into the agency through this RP. Is this possible Harewood, won't this somehow interfere in the story? I can still make him a member through his backstory, when this attempt would fail, so it's up to you Hare Btw, his wiki will be done in a few days

I've added Horatz to the character list Dugo, and thanks for sigining up!

Using this RP to introduce your character to the Agency is 100% doable and exactly the way I like to go about introducing my own characters - so bravo Sir! I'll PM you about how we can slot him into the RP early on in the story.

Just a small bump on this, guys.

@ PJK & SS - Any further thoughts on which character you'd like to play for this RP Sirs?
@ Harl - Have you decided if you want to sign Skursir up?
@ Dugo - Any chance I can take a peek at Horatz's wiki if it's done? I'd like to start thinking about how we can incorporate his introduction into the plot. Cheers^^

And if anyone else would like to join in, please feel free to sign up .

Not sure Hare, I'm worried that I may have too much to do, after all, I'm playing all the NPCs on PtS. We'll see soon I suppose...

Well i may play Ril considering she's a spy, I'll get her bio done.... soon

As soon as I finish it...It's halfway done, because I hadn't much time recently. But If you want to ask me about whatever you need, I can provide you with answer as his backstory is roughly in my mind.

I'm not sure if I'll have the time to come into this straight away mate, but would it be ok to join at a later date?

Okay folks...

Harl & SS- This RP won't be kicking off for a goodly while yet. I just wanted to get an idea of the characters involved so I could plan in some personalised bits and bobs. But don't worry if it's too soon for you to commit. I'll ask again later down the line .

PJK- If you'd be so kind as to leave a message here confirming your choice of character when you're sure, thanks^^

Dugo- I don't want to rush you mate, sorry. It'll be well into the new year before we start so you've still plenty of time to finish up (and if you don't get round to it, I'll PM you when the time is close, okay?).

LW- I just want to say 'Hi' cos I feel rude not mentioning you since you're all signed up!

If anyone else is interested there's room for more players to sign up.

Ta!