OOC 27 'Adventures in GunRunning' GR RP

POSTED BY: CapnRahn
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 2, 2005 21:41
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CAPNRAHN

Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:03 PM

This thread will contain general out of character discussion, as well as direction, commentary, and story arc information from the directors. If you're one of the actors, please check this thread before posting a move to the in-character RP thread.

If you need a refresher of what went before, you can reference the last OOC here:
OOC 26 : http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=17&t=10431&m=143297#143297143297

...and the Chat Room here:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/fireflychat.asp

Access the latest story thread here:
http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=17&t=10430

"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*

DECOY

Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:37 PM

Wow! A new OOC!

We have gunshots on board, the board. :)

Decoy, they make me go first.

CHANNAIN

Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:20 PM

*Takes a loooooong breath of new OOC air*

AHHHH.

Alright, time for Rowan to sober up and freak out, I guess.

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BROKENCHILDE

Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:32 AM

Woohoo. Excitement and a new OOC thread.

Also, just as an advance FYI, I'm being a wholly impulsive little crazy thing and making plans to go to Dragon*Con (which is in about 15 days...). I got begged into it by a Stargate-lovin' friend, but seeing that our big damn cast's going to be there kinda sealed the deal.

So I'll be AFK for about a week and change come the 27th. If someone wants to run River whilst I'm keeping from acting like a giddy schoolgirl at Dragon*Con, lemme know here. I'll fill you in with what I'm trying to get to with her.

Shaz

-----
Mal: "Define interesting."
Wash: "'Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?'"

CAPNRAHN

Tuesday, August 23, 2005 10:29 AM

Folks have bad news ... I feel I must hand over my so-called DireKtorship and acKtor parts to someone else.

Because of rapidly failing health {and other socioeconomic factors} I don't have "it" in me at this point. So, I feel I am doing all the talent here a disservice by trying to hang on and mire things down.

As an acKtor, I have MORE than enjoyed writing with all of you, both originals and the newbies. Unfortunately I can just barely seem hear 'voices' of the characters I am trying to play.

DireKting-wise, I can still 'see' the story arcs and character arcs as an interlocking Escher'esque interwoven tapestry - I just don't have the wherewithal {read: energy} to try to direct things along.

I can only hope all of you have had a positive experance here in our writing coopertive experiment that has lasted ... what, nearly 2 years or so. We have tried many different things -- some that have seemed to work, others that have not. But I still had a tremendous amount of fun playing, IMing, debating and most especially -- meeting and learning and sharing with the whole lot of ya.

Thank you for this experance! I hope you will keep in touch with me and each other, on this board, email or via phone. I really hope we all can meet sometime at a centralized convention at some point.

Take care and keep on a 'Runnin'!

"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*

RAVENWHYTEWING

Tuesday, August 23, 2005 8:20 PM

*true to his mountainitsic breeding, therefore gruff in anyh circumstances in which a good friend and fellow writer must depart from a grand and somewhat alien adventure, and will always be a fond memory in his heart-*

Well, get outta here already! You better take care of yourself, or else I'll kick your ass!

*Loosely translated-Farewell and Godspeed, and I hope to see you around.

MERZEDESTROY

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 1:06 PM

Greetings all.

I am afraid that I am joining the Capn in saying goodbye. I was against the hiatus from the start, but conceeded to the majority vote. I waited patiently with great anticipation for the start-up.

Well, it was not a great success. I know that real life makes a great inroad on peoples time and energy and I respect that. I think it is more than that here however. I cannot see that much interest in telling the tale remains. This makes me sad.

This has been a fun experience and taught me a lot. I think I have grown as a writer from our little experiment and that it grew from it's very humble and almost incoherent beginning, into a Big Damn Story. You should all be proud of yourselves - every one of you including our lost players. For a while, Serenity flew again ...

Should you choose to go on, you can keep Merz, although I would be very careful who you give her to ... she's my baby.

cyberose@gmail.com, MerzTroy@aol.com, IndyCyberRose@aol.com. Keep in touch people, I am not going away mad. I am just going away.

- DeeDee

Once you pull the pin, Mr. Handgrenade is no longer your friend.

CHANNAIN

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:09 PM

While I hate to see this come to an end, I must admit that I've seen this coming down the turnpike for a while now and expressed my concerns privately to both Capn and Dee-Dee. As Dee-Dee has stated, taking the hiatus may have seemed like a solution at the time - even to me - but the result has turned out to be quite the opposite.

If your opinions differ, please let us know.

CAPN: I've known you were unwell for some time, but not HOW unwell, and I mourn for the loss of your AWOL muse. I fully intend to keep in touch with you - crafty codger.

Dee-Dee: We are most certainly still friends. If we weren't I wouldn't have been able to speak my mind, knowing you would accept my words and POV even if you maybe didn't agree with them. I don't think anyone could or would dare try to write Merz the way you have. We'll also be in touch.

FOR THE REST OF US:
Apparently now is the time. As the last surviving co-DireKtor, I would put it to you, the aKtors, to determine our fate. If there was poll capability in here, I would start one.

However, you all should be made aware first that my participation has been lacking of late for several reasons, most of which relate to the gorram and everlasting trial of combining full-time work and full-time school. Due to that adversity - and the fact that I don't see it lightening up anytime soon - I would be wholly and completely unable to take on any of the roles currently up for grabs.

My plan is to arrange for Rowan to leave Serenity - NOT by taking a sudden spacewalk - to pursue the search for her lost husband. I'm also taking ownership of Damon in order for him to go with her, as their storylines intertwine. Since he's already shot Mal, chances are pretty good he wouldn't want Damon on board anymore anyway.

So, here's how it is:

We agree to press on, send out a casting call for the various roles that Capn and Debs have left in our hands.

We pull the curtain down, with a few curtain-call posts to wrap things up and send Serenity off on her merry way.

We pull the curtain down NOW - forever and for always.

What say you?

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BROKENCHILDE

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 6:32 PM

I wish the two of you best of luck and thanks for a great time.

Aaaaand... I'd love for this all to continue and that there's a casting call put out. With the movie coming out, there's a chance that it won't be difficult.

For me, I can still do it. Hell, if someone could promise me that I wouldn't be at everyone's beck and call 24/7, I'd be willing to help manage... but I'm not gonna ask or presume that. One, because that's cheeky of me to think I can stroll in and do it, and two... well, two is longer.

Here's the scoop with my life, fast and dirty. I'm graduating from college this year, taking the GRE in September (a week before the BDM comes out), and spending the summer digging through a storage locker I've had for three years to get rid of excess crap. Then I'm going to grad school. o.O

I want this to go on. I enjoy it quite a bit. I'm willing to pimp it whilst at Dragon*Con-- if anyone wants-- to drum up interest, in fact.

But that's just me, one voice in the choir.

Shaz
-----
Mal: "Define interesting."
Wash: "'Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?'"

CAPNRAHN

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:59 PM

Quick character arc note - Mal wasn't going to boot Damon off the boat after the shooting - he was just going to be shocked that Damon shot him and then asked {in his own special way} if Damon had got his "wantin' to shoot somebody" outta his system...

OR - even shot Damon back (in the same place Damon accidentally shot Mal} and asked Damon how it felt to have someone betray him/be SO tetchy etc. and so forth ...

It was an attempt to show the 'personal growth shock' that some folks, like the character of Damon, need to finally make a hurdle that had eluded them - an bloody epiphany -- so to speak.

Damon, while a really great character at times, had a tendency to be a bit ... basic and 2 dimensional at other times. I still feel that Mal would have not tolerated the whiney, self-involved parts of Damon as well as I played it. As soon as Damon pulled the gun the 2nd time - Damon would have as likely been dead - if it were ran as a real FF episode.

Oh well ... that is only my opinion and I could be wrong in the long run.

"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*

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