some of the thoughts i was feeling dread about earlier: was reading over some of the recent mod updates involving recent world developments with the war, thinking about the desired player plot concepts, thinking about research dept, thinking about project felandaris, thinking about allumin's future, thinking about myron and where he's suited best...
obviously i am new and i don't know what sort of over-arching long term plans are in motion or on the horizon, but i am feeling a bit daunted about the thing i had been looking forward to being... potentially a dead end as things go
i dont know what the mods have planned but please dont take the 'where research goes to die' comment too seriously, that was just offhand self-deprecating. allumin would find a lot of data that tony and wysteria and others continue to update
pls come do magic and/or bring some native IC magic knowledge to this project being run by hooligans who only want to poke stuff with sticks and don't know anything about elves and have never cared to learn
that would be really nice, i've been relying heavily on the wiki and feeling like i'm not doing enough with the available material and i would like to be helpful and contribute more than just "here's my idiot come laugh at him"
as an accessory to offers to help with specifics, I think the thing that has helped me generally in terms of plotting and planning in fade rift is that the mods have historically allowed a lot of latitude to suggest making shit up when submitting player plots.
so if there's some seed of an idea you find on the wiki that doesn't seem to have anything attached to it but you go 'hey though this gives me an idea I can spin out into a bigger thing or make relevant to [other thing] if I do this' or whatever, that often will fly.
me: I want a plot that features an oubliette prison so I'm gonna MAKE ONE UP AND VALIDATE IT HOWEVER I CAN BECAUSE I WANNA MAKE CHARACTERS GO INTO A SCARY HOLE
for as much as there may be secret machinations going on the background mod plot wise, the world setting's really big so I've rarely run into issues with submitting plot ideas and having the mods go 'your conspiracy theory is wrong'
and even if my conspiracy theory is wrong, they're usually happy to help retool an idea to help it work with whatever they have planned behind the curtain
but allumin got ushered into the warship plot and the Gates stuff is rift related, and therell be more of that for the foreseeable future for those that didnt
okay - that is a relief to hear. i've just been thinking about things i can do to contribute, and worried about if the stuff i have drafted up for tsenka & myron's arrival is going to be fun for people, and also was thinking about how it might be cool to plan something that doesn't revolve around a character I play and just got overwhelmed i think
slides in late to add, jim definitely joined the div bc of an interest in understanding rift stuff tho he's No A Scientist and i offer him up for ic supportive spitballing, but ALSO w mod plot introducing The Gates* as a significant thing last winter i imagine it'd be easy to tie in rift research to like advancing ic info in that direction too
ahhhhh, yes! that would be awesome, thank you (I've been trying to read over old reports and logs and such but i haven't gotten very far so i should plan some time to review stuff that allumin might have read about in a report or file somewhere, bc aside from the mention on warship signups i didn't know what the deal was at all)
i am unhinged