Crossfire Tales Comments

[Jasonian]

Nah. Not a party spoiler. That's Lal for ya. I'd like it if I didn't have a bunch of female faction leaders against me.

Morgan could join guys since he's against the existing girl pact... and sinder obvisly wants to get away from it all right about now. That would make 5:3 in favor of the guys.

Hmm... would Aki join the girls? I'd be on the guy team, and Lal has promised to protect me. I guess she would have no choice. What about Yang? Would he break this odd coincidence and join the gals?

Anyway, I think it's an idea to toy with. I await that Peacekeeper council meeting so I can reveal myself to the world.

[Raging Mouse]

I do think a council might be in order, to bring all the factions up to date about each other. Of course, Lal wouldn't invite Sinder, but she could be let in by someone else, say Domai?

Also, Lal STILL hasn't heard about the Cult of Planet! Of course, Cha Dawn could barge in uninvited to the holo-conference..

What say you fellow writers?

[Jasonian]

I say we have a council soon, and then another one when the aliens land. Of course, that 2nd council won't be too pretty since people will be siding with the aliens, going independent, and pretty much just panicking.

Domai has to LET Sinder in?! You're joking, right? She'd rather hijack a satalite and break herself in, and probably draw a stupid cartoon nose on Morgan too.

Topic Two: Alien landings

It's kinda far away, but... oh well. It's been decided that the aliens are going to land near the Manifold Nexus, correct? That's where Aki is. Are they going to fire some shockwave weapon to clear out some Cyborg bases, or are they just going to make a base in the middle of Cyborg territory and start rampaging? Will the land together, or will one of them fall on someone else? Will Aki be captured, or will someone give her a "safe haven" base in their territory to keep her alive?

Just a point to ponder.
[This message has been edited by Jasonian (edited January 28, 2000).]

[Cotroneo]

another question is should we wait for the aliens to land, before the humans finally get together and have a council?

[Bearcat]

Actually Jasonian no one really camee up with the decisive Pact thing. Dee just switched to Fundy and Miriam to Green. As for the guys I can only suppose it is the Knowledge values. Or something like that. In my latest post Cha Dawn declares that the Planet Cult needs to find allies.So this could play into your PWI thing. Anyway I think that's a good idea.

And as for the alien landing I say let the Proggs crush the Cyborgs.

[Barshy]

I would have to go with choice E probably... I mean, there's a chance it will happen, but I feel like right now it's too easy and one-dimensional if everything was lumped together like that--> in my humble opinion it takes away some of the depth and complexity away from the characters.

For example, the way I interpret Miriam is that the only way she would pact or ally with someone is if they were fundamentalist. I mean, she could be friends with whomever, but she'd only pact with those that were like-minded in spirit.

On the war side, Miriam may or may not get into a war with Lal, but i don't see any reason she would war with the Drones or Pirates b/c they are not particularly close with Zak.

I guess in summary, I don't want to "force" a world war that isn't there yet... A lot of events right now are rushed enough already, and it takes away depth. I guess it's all about one's style of writing.

If everyone else is for it then I'll be for it, just please e-mail me first before doing something with the Believers, because I don't want something drastic happening without developing the plot...

Just a heads up--- I tried to tie up a lot of loose ends b/c I don't plan on posting much at all for a while; I'll probably post "reaction" posts; meaning, only if something happens to the Believers. (which you forewarned me about through e-mail )

[The_Progenitors]

Our next post will be the battle above Chiron and the landing of the escape pods.

If we run a typical game scenario (2105) the Us and Cs will be incredibly weak with only 3_res sentinels against the combined weaponry of the human factions.

Are you agreeable to a presence as we have in The Spartan Chronicles whereby we land with a semblance of an airforce and at least 8/8/1 forces?

If any of you have read Harry Turtledove's alternate WW II "the Balance" series (highly recommended) superior alien power doesn't automatically mean they always have the edge, thanks to probes.

Comments?

[Raging Mouse]

On the above subject, I say honor the spirit, rather than the letter, of the game and let the Progenitors trash any initial human resistance.

Now then, I am ready to post a message where Lal calls for a council of Planet. If anyone wants him/me to wait, please answer soon.

[Barshy]

I'm all for the Council idea. But my question is: how is it going to run? There's obviously going to be a lot of dialogue back and forth, but who is going to control who's gonna say what? Do people attend physically or via hologram?

[Jasonian]

Since the aliens would get nailed if we let them start like they do in SMACX because we've got a 135 or so years advantage on them! I say give them a Mark II ogre or two and an extra colony pod. That should secure them until they get Bioadaptive Resonance and get their res lasers (maybe they start with it?)

The council... yeah, this is a daunting task. I had an idea on how we do this to make it run smoothly:

1) We discuss the topic and who will be there
2) Each faction(write for as many as you normally write for) will come up with a brief (make it short) list of things they will say, and how they will vote.
3) A decided person (doesn't have to be PKs) will complile all of that into a conversation. Ech!
4) It is given to the PKs, they do an opening and closing, and post it.

That's kind of a bad, especially for the poor soul that has to write the conversation, but obviously we can't all post to the council topic.

Any other ideas on either topic?

[Raging Mouse]

Lal will announce that the council should be held one month after the announcement. This should give the faction-leaders time for some initial scheming and vote-buying.

It will also give us, the writers, time to sort out how we are going to handle the council.

I say we handle it in three rounds:

Round one, everyone posts here their suggestions for topics at the council.

Round two, the actual voting. Also done by posts here.

Round three, Some poor sucker (like me) sums it all up, and the others write about their faction-leaders' reactions.

Kinda drawn-out, I suppose, but hey- so's probably the council!

PS. I was thinking about a holo-conference style council. I think that if all Planet's faction leaders show up in the same room, there will be shots fired.

[Googlie]

I'd be happy to be the recorder of the various factions' comments and discussion points, and script a post that would capture the ebb and flow of the debate and the final vote.

My faction (The_Progenitors, with Vel and Hydro) is obviously unable to participate, so I can offer my services

Googlie

[Googlie]

Another suggestion:

Pick a time convenient to all and use Vel's chat room for an actual council meeting. Log in as your character, and conduct it as an actual council meeting. You'll have hard copy of the speeches etc if you click and copy, and it will be easy for the scribe to write and post.

Vel's chat room is only used by Vel on Tuesdays, (ie it is free the other six days) and has the advantage of accepting any ISP, not just AOL.

Just a thought,

G.


[This message has been edited by Googlie (edited January 31, 2000).]

[Jasonian]

Hmm... those are some pretty good ideas there. Anyone else have any comments on the issue?