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Open the Blast Doors...

Beowoof

Morality Policeman :)
So what do you do when your IC mentor, best friend, leader, Master, lover, owner, or thread buddy seems to be sort of... not at hand? You had something set up. You were getting there. Your character was there...

But nothing.

Your character needs to learn from their mentor, or needs to experience something. Or you just wanted to reach the critical point in that awesomely awesome, all-important thread that suddenly stalls to your horror. But... everything was going so well!

Now your character is doomed to some sort of purgatory. Sure, you can go and write 'past RPs' and fill in backstory, but... what about moving forward? Your character just does not fit in with the rest of the crowds. Their story required to at least finish that one thread so they could progress. But you're stuck. Possibly forever, depending on how some of those unannounced LOAs go or if Ben Kenobi just stopped caring about your young Skywalker. What do you do? You put work into your character. Their inspiration is still strong. But you're feeling like you called for the blast doors to close just a second too late, severing you from Captain Solo forever.

One critical element was all you wanted. Really, the galaxy could be yours to dive into and your character could tear up the town--if you could just get through this one door.

What do you do? Where? How?

...Is your character dead for all purposes?

How to proceed?

I'm just looking for advice.
 
I'm having the same problem! Hell, I had that problem with one of my wedding threads! It never got completed! We had to skip it! I was so sad... :(
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Beowoof

Morality Policeman :)
Fabula Cavataio said:
Scrap it. Try again. Think up an IC justification for changing teachers.
Appreciate the advice. I really do. But this is no isolated occurrence.



Ayden Cater said:
Depending on how it goes, and what you needed to learn, you could just skip ahead some and assume you learned it but have not mastered it yet. Same end goal, different process.
A very long time ago, I had a character who was in the Republic and needed to just be initiated as a Padawan. Their master died in another thread and his training never even began. The only other appropriate Master wasn't available to teach. Learning from a rogue or Sith would have made my character... no longer my character. It would have been a cop out and no fun.

Similar situations these days, with more than one character. I'm low-maintenance, not trying to stack stats and upgrade abilities every thread.

It's simply discouraging. Do I just have bad luck?
 
Bad luck happens. Some writers get busy, forget about threads, wander away from the site, or simply aren't that reliable in general. Only real option is to keep plugging. You can't make them post. If you get tired of waiting, moving on is pretty much all you can do. Find a new partner and give it another go. If you let yourself get weighed down by what you can't do, chances are you'll miss what you can do.
 
You can either assume whatever need to happen has happened (to a limited extent) and move on, and then go back and fill that in in a "past" RP. Or find another way to gain the skill as Ayden said.

Something else you can consider, and I personally don't see an issue with this, if you get written permission from the other person (via PM preferably), I don't see why you couldn't write their role, especially if they're on one of those unexpected extended LOAs. It's not GMing because he's giving you express written permission to control his character in that limited sense. But those only works if you're in a situation where all you literally need is some quick event to happen that's relying on the other guy. It may not work in all situations.
 

Beowoof

Morality Policeman :)
Thanks for your responses. Hopefully I didn't come off as 'whiny', because complaining wasn't the idea at all. Just needed help on how to get out of a persistent storyline tar pit.
 

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