[Thank you for bothering to at least post your concerns and trouble with the RP. It is supposed to be taken IC. Normally forum RPs are a bit more structured and clear, but it is a bit jumbled due in part to an earlier misunderstanding and people being reluctant to join. I've never had to
pull teeth like this before to get people to join a story at the
same time.
Here's an example of an open RP thread that went more linearly and faster.
Dancing at the Bottom of a Bottle It petered out eventually instead of having a sharp ending since it was allowed to flow organically without a predetermined end. When finished, it was a story in the collective background of the involved characters. However, yes, all of them and the setting had in game equivalent.
Think of this this as if it were an RP that happened in a different timezone. RPs going on in a different timezone would be inaccessible but you could hear about them. You could also interact with people who overlap timezones and have access to RPs you don't have access to. You may even see RPs posted on forum, so that you see events as if watching when they happened, even though you yourself are not directly involved.
No, none of these characters currently exist in game but that is the matter of a few button pushes. Whether or not someone creates a 3D model of the character is not what defines any character as a character. Remember also that you will never personally meet most of the in game characters that have a story that can affect RP. Also, you will not participate in every single RP that happens in game. I have never meet or directly RPed with Kada-El, but that does not make her character or the tavern that resulted from popular forum RPs any less real. It was real before they made a model of it.
I will go back and better mark my second IC post as earlier in time since I understand better what Thoss meant to do. For the skimmers:
The only thing that has happened in the present is Tiler, Llyeth, and Kwynnuhaav are moving towards the sack.
This has been moving slowly trying to allow for people either jump in or ask questions about what is preventing them from jumping in.
This was a training exercise. However, it if it is not even serving that purpose then I might as well stop trying to stall for time.
If you are ready
@Zwei and
@Thoss, I'll finish up the early story details sometime after the RP is done and we'll just move to full present for the next posts.]