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Post by albatross on Jun 14, 2010 20:39:48 GMT -5
I'll be driving and backpacking til the 22nd. Later!
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Post by Dome on Jul 1, 2010 6:29:34 GMT -5
i must have missed it, is Dante going with or staying with Jeckle?
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Post by albatross on Jul 1, 2010 15:25:12 GMT -5
Everyone except Jeckle is going along this time. Including Dante and Strongbow. Tiger thinks its a good idea to bring medics and pyschics when searching for megas in the hills of Nepal.
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Post by albatross on Sept 18, 2010 20:00:01 GMT -5
I'll wait til Dakota comes back for the next step. Kris would sense something strange, and I don't want to skip over it.
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Post by albatross on Oct 10, 2010 20:26:31 GMT -5
Training Montage
There will be two months real time and two months game time for training. Each training thread will be separate: Meditation, Martial Arts, Tester Building, Tester Training, Teamwork Training, Mental Training, Guerilla Training (Hide and Seek), and Trainer Meetings (bar time).
Everyone is welcome to post in each thread that applies to them. Since each part of the training happens at different times, this shouldn't create many continuity problems, and please over look those it does create. The point of the training montage is to cram in lots of high quality training, without this part of the mission taking two years to complete.
Since the training is mostly for the benefit of the non-player characters, there is little point to laboring over each training aspect for weeks. We will simply go through them all at once. This will also prevent us from laboring over parts of the training which don't involve your character directly.
The threads will look like this (see the various threads on the main board.).
The Training Schedule for Peacemaker, Dancer and Rock will be:
0500 - Peacemaker, Dancer and Rock wake up 0530 - Meditation training for one hour with Dante and Roan 0630 - Breakfast 0700 - Martial Arts training for four hours (Tiger, Akane, Bel, Lt. White, Roan, Marv) (Note: Also Tester Building and Research for Jeckle and Dante) 1100 - Tester Training for one hour (Jeckle, Dante, Tiger) 1200 - Lunch 1230 - Teamwork Training for three hours (Tiger, various) 1530 - Mental Training for three hours (Roan, Dante and Tiger) (Note: Dante, Tiger and Jeckle Tester Building and Research 6:30pm to 9pm) 1830 - Dinner 1900 - Hide and Seek Guerrilla Training for two hours (Shroud) 2100 - Break for one hour 2200 - Tester Training for two hours (unsupervised)
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Post by dakota on Oct 10, 2010 20:53:18 GMT -5
Woohoo! Shroud gets to sleep in every day!
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Post by albatross on Oct 10, 2010 20:57:25 GMT -5
Yes, I left Kris and Akane lots of free time since they will also be on security detail.
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Post by dakota on Oct 10, 2010 21:13:15 GMT -5
Oh.. Darn
I'm assuming there will be some sort of setup post to come for each then?
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Post by albatross on Oct 10, 2010 21:19:09 GMT -5
Relax - Kris won't need to watch any kids when they are with other trainers, and I'm sure he can come up with a rotation since the kids will always be together.
It looks like they are only alone for sleeping, breakfast, lunch, dinner and from 9pm to midnight. Not exactly a hectic security schedule. Kris should be able to split those with Akane and the yet to be introduced Marv and Lt. White.
Yes. There will be a bit more introduction to the training...
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Post by albatross on Oct 16, 2010 5:27:49 GMT -5
Does everyone understand the training montage format we will be following for the next two months? Message me with questions
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Post by dakota on Oct 16, 2010 9:48:45 GMT -5
Does everyone understand the training montage format we will be following for the next two months? Message me with questions Umm no, not really. I get the schedule, just not how the format is going to work.
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Post by albatross on Oct 16, 2010 13:26:14 GMT -5
If you click on the main Omega Sheild thread there are severval sticky threads:
Meditation Training Martial Arts Training Tester Training, Building and Research Teamwork Training Mental Training and Education albatross Hide and Seek Guerrilla Training Trainer Meetings
If you look at the schedule you can see that each training segment listed above has certain people assigned to it. You can also see this when clicking into each thread. For example the Meditation trainers are Dante and Roan, and they will be training Peacemaker, Dancer and Rock. So Dante can post in the first thread. But he can also post in the other threads with his name on them.
There will be a two month time limit, so essentially various threads will run simultaneously - that way the two months of game training will take two months in real life rather all the time it would take to resolve all the aspects of training waiting for each post on each topic.
I know this might get confusing, so just message me if anyone has questions.
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Post by dakota on Oct 17, 2010 5:38:52 GMT -5
the confusing part is what I don't understand. I'm trying to get my head around how there will be any continuity. The individual threads aren't an issue.
Could have pm'ed, but I thought the answer what important for everyone
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Post by albatross on Oct 17, 2010 8:52:16 GMT -5
Oh. Yea, that is a good one for everyone. Continuity.
If we've ever seen Pulp Fiction, read Catch-22 or the Malazan Book of the Fallen you'll have an idea... we are going to maintain scene continuity, and gloss over the overall continuity. How?
Each thread is a self-contained length of time occurring once each day (well three times for the tester, but each occurrence has a different cast) .
So as long as Dante doesn't mention much that would be occurring outside the Meditation training thread and each other thread maintain its focus, then continuity should be fine.
If we tried to do something fancy like have Rock get a bruise in martial arts training and carry it into the other threads, it would be continuity disaster.... but as long as all our 7am to 11am Martial Arts training stuff is in its assigned section and we ignore what is going on in the other threads (or are vague about it), then we should be fine.
For example, in Kris' Guerrilla training thread, after a couple of weeks he could mention how they are improving in their hand to hand combat but still need work prowling. This is vague about the "outside" or other threads, but specific within the Hide and Seek thread. As long as the outside stuff is keep vague, then Kris can develop continuity within his topic.
Essentially I'm splitting the training up by topic to develop "scenes" about the training. The scenes will all not occur in chronological order. Rather they will be in chronological order by topic. So meditation will be in chronological order for meditation, but we aren't going to bother matching it up to any of the other threads. Martial arts might be way ahead or way behind.
We can do this because training at Omega Shield is somewhat of a controlled environment. None of the characters are likely to die or be seriously injured, and for the most part there are not any continuity problems. If meditation goes poorly, the kids will still attend the martial arts training, so its not like failing meditation or doing well in it significantly impacts other chronologies.
I'll try to kick some of these off. Hopefully it will become clear as we look at them.
-Albatross
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Post by dakota on Oct 17, 2010 11:47:52 GMT -5
K, I get it, but the trainer's meetings is the one that concerned me,
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