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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
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Eurostar said:
TTT suggestion is the most intelligent one: instead of bitching around, Doc or Grimm could have simply tied up Gooz post to Aisling, showing that somehow the menace was coming from Aisling itself. It would have been their right to do (as for anyone else), this is a collective stories and everyone is entitled to bring the story in the direction he feels.



Actually, that's your way of doing things, Euro, and you know it's not shared by everyone. In fact, the "everyone is entitled to bring the story in the direction he feels" aspect was forbidden by the rules and I agree with that. If you didn't agree with it you should have said it earlier. You're being unfair to Grimm and Doc here.

Well, it's the way I learned on the MBL back on those days when it was really a round robin story. It's frobidden by the rules? I didn't noticed, in any case I will try to stay away from this habit in the future, when I will be baole to rejoin. In any case I had not intention to be unfair toward Grimm and Doc, in my mind that was a completlely acceptable thing.

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Also, like Mxy rightly said, we never discussed if one main plot and a secondary one is acceptable, if they both regards Vanguard. Saying that every issue should have just a one, basic plot it's not something good for the stories, IMO.



That's not what I meant. What I meant is that we haven't discussed what "involving the whole team" means. If Gooz's plot is outside the rules, then I guess my little plot under Aisling is outside too.
What you're bringing up is a whole different matter and you should have brought it up when we were discussing the rules.

I couldn't, because by then I didn't think that rule could be use in THIS sense, to stop something creative like what Gooz is doing now. If it would have come to my mind by then, I surely would have done.

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Third, I don't think any rule could help to write a good story, with the various definite moments a story should have. That could be done just in solo, like both Doc and Grimm are showing with their excellent tales. The collective story is a role play, it should be really done for fun, like a challenge.
In any case, the habit of demolishing any proposed plot advancement, that Doc often has done with my posts, is something bad for the stories at the least as introducing secondary plots, IMO.



Again, should have brought it up when we were discussing the rules. I don't think you really thought this through, Euro.

See my answer above. As for Doc, I never said anything before because, for me, he was completely entitled to stop any of my opening and turning the story in the direction he wanted. Just, I don't understand him when he tells that we should be more cooperative, while often he stops possible directions of the stories, undoing posts ( not just by me) .