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FORKNI-L Digest - 8 Jun 2001 (#2001-181)

Fri, 8 Jun 2001

There are 6 messages totalling 166 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. This Old Knight
  2. FORKNI-L Digest - 7 Jun 2001 to 8 Jun 2001 - Special issue (#2001-180)
  3. War Tutorial
  4. War: Linking posts to the war premise
  5. WAR: Dates? Mercs?
  6. WAR: Picking a faction

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Date:    Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:17:40 -0400
From:    "Susan M. Garrett" <susanmgarrett@e.......>
Subject: Re: This Old Knight

Emily Hanson <emilymhanson@y.......> says:

 >Wouldn't it be Knight Improvement?  Or possibly Loft Improvement?>

Please reference "This Old Loft" by Pam Rush.

It's probably still on the fic site.

susanmgarrett@e.......  -- http://home.earthlink.net/~susanmgarrett/
EVER Faithful Ravenette. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2167/fiction.htm
"Friends help you move.  Real friends help you move bodies."

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Date:    Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:12:28 EDT
From:    Alifoxx@a.......
Subject: Re: FORKNI-L Digest - 7 Jun 2001 to 8 Jun 2001 - Special issue
         (#2001-180)

In a message dated 6/8/01 1:54:08 PM, LISTSERV@l....... writes:

<< Remember this is the company that somehow made up a fictional critic even
though real critics had liked their product!  They really do need a common
sense infusion. >>

And remember that this is also the company who threatened legal action
against Jean Graham and her FK book....I believe it was a cease and desist
order, but she could clarify that fact. Although they seem to never have
heard of FK in their marketing department, their legal department certainly
has.

JL

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Date:    Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:23:46 -0400
From:    "Susan M. Garrett" <susanmgarrett@e.......>
Subject: War Tutorial

May I recommend the War Tutorial we put together a while ago?

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7139/war9ldrs.htm#tutorial

It might answer some questions like:

What is a war?

How do I play?

What is an attack?

You can download the entire thing as a zip file or read it online.

susanmgarrett@e.......  -- http://home.earthlink.net/~susanmgarrett/
EVER Faithful Ravenette. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2167/fiction.htm
"Friends help you move.  Real friends help you move bodies."

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Date:    Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:50:06 -0400
From:    Bonnie Rutledge <br1035@i.......>
Subject: War: Linking posts to the war premise

Wars have premises so that everyone has a starting point to encourage
interaction among the factions and/or individual players. The premise is the
main plot, while intrafactional or non-related storylines make up the subplots.
To continue the book metaphor, if you never develop the main story, then all
you're left with is a bunch of disconnected subplots. They may be funny; they
may be little gems on their own, but that's a collection of short stories rather
than a round robin - there's no unifying thread weaving them together. The main
plot doesn't have to have any subplots for it to stand on it's own as a complete
entity, whereas satellite story arcs need the main plot to give them reference,
a reason why they're there.

But that's just my explanation. If you ask 20 people what a war is about,
chances are you'll get 20 varying answers. Why waste time whittling down a
single definition of what is supposed to be? Any fanfic war is what the players,
with respect to their current WM and listowners, make of it.

Both premise-related and non-premise related stories can create great war
memories. I think some of the comments that started the worrying weren't meant
to shoot down non-premise related stories entirely, but to prepare people for a
war with a premise that has a wealth of possibilities that can interest all the
factions again. What with the premise of War 9 pretty much ignoring all
the 3rd season characters, and the premise of War 10 focusing on the vampires,
we've had our reasons for developing a love for non-premise related stories.

But let War 8 act as a reminder that non-premise related stories aren't the
only option. The time between the announcement of the premise and the first
post drop in that war was filled with a bit of an uproar. There was confusion,
doubt, and excitement. I remember some Ravens threatened to pull out as soon as
they heard they wouldn't have control over the 'real' Janette because of the war
premise. There were complaints, talk that it was too different from what people
had done before, that it got in the way of what they *liked* doing, what they
were used to doing. Yes, War 8 was different, but once it got underway and
people ran with the premise, it was FANTASTIC. It was original. It was creative.
And, yes, we still had some faction-centric posts, like a Merc trail and Cousin
Cherri's revenge on the Vaqs.

As players, let's not decide what the war will or will not be before it even
starts. Let's keep an open mind that there's not just one way to play a war,
but many ways to play it, some we haven't even invented yet.

<waves>

Bonnie
<br1035@i.......>
NA Co-Leader, Among the Anti-Organized

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Date:    Fri, 8 Jun 2001 20:01:41 -0000
From:    "Mildred G. Cady" <mgcady@h.......>
Subject: Re: WAR: Dates? Mercs?

I responded to Della off-list regarding the Mercs.


~Mildred G. Cady~
Merc Mommy General and Computer Genius

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Date:    Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:25:26 EDT
From:    Meliss9900@a.......
Subject: Re: WAR: Picking a faction

In a message dated 6/8/01 12:28:29 PM Central Daylight Time,
multiplepov@y....... writes:

<< Wouldn't a faction have had to *have* those
 notes and be required to let out hints about them,
 then allow other factions to "steal the notes" in
 posts down the line? >>


IIRC LaCroix had those notes.



Melissa

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