[Sodium_noir] OOC Update

[Alyson Young]

Taking a page from another PBEM I've been in...

Time can be fluid.  It's only important within context.  For example, since 
Titus and Rachel are living cheek-by-jowl, we can't slip two weeks for 
Rachel without slipping two weeks for Titus.  That said, they're not 
interacting meaningfully with anyone at the moment, so if there's another 
storyline that only needs to advance 24 hours, it's not a huge problem if 
their timelines don't line up.

I have two characters.  For my two cents each, they were both on the cusp 
of fairly major endeavors.

Rachel and her pack were cementing control of Chinatown, largely by 
blood-bonding the enforcer Tong (or at least its leader) and negotiating a 
working detente between the street pimps' Tong and the Chaste Dragon.  On a 
personal front, Rachel had an entangling but thoroughly enjoyable and 
arguably profitable liaison going with Panic.  Lastly, she was learning 
Cantonese.  Slipping time forward allows a scene change to a point where 
the work in Chinatown has reached a stable point (or a crossroads), things 
with Panic have settled into a routine (and/or found something untenable), 
and the Cantonese is moving toward conversational.  (My preference would be 
for new complications in Chinatown, a routine with Panic, and perhaps 
something new in the Titus vs. Santiago storyline...)

Korben and company had just made contact with a water spirit on the Isle of 
Crabs, who essentially is offering to found a new (and painfully small) 
Sept in that location.  There's a lot of work that goes into that; 
roleplaying it or not is a matter of preference and I can go either way. 
Korben was talking about making trouble in Chinatown to try and keep the 
leeches off-balance, so that they don't move forward right away - that 
could be the new complication for Rachel and Titus, and I don't see it as 
necessarily important that those timetables be kept level.