Question Fluid time and how to deal with it

[Cassus Akovin]

Hello!

So time isn't absolute when role playing around here, and I'm encountering a situation I don't know how to deal with.

I am participating in a thread that is being written after my first thread, but in my personal timeline I was putting it's events prior to that first thread. Another character is in the thread that also participated in that first thread, and is making a mention of it in the new one.

How do you deal with this typically, do you politely ask if they wouldn't mind adjusting, or just abandon your time line and adjust to them? Do you ignore that call back and maintain as usual despite the discrepancy?

Let me know what you guys do usually, or what you would do in this situation.

 

[Joycelyn Zambrano]

Cassus Akovin

If it really disrupts the timeline, I would suggest talking to the other writer and seeing if they may be okay with removing it. Otherwise, I would encourage ignoring it. There streams cross so many times, we sometimes just have to plug our ears for some discrepancies.

 

[Scherezade deWinter]

Communication is key. Communicate with the people you're threading with and see if you can come to an agreement, whether that agreement is changing time-related elements, or story-related elements. At worst, you can always bow out.

 

[Jerec Asyr]

Just call it a paradox, a wrinkle in the space-time continuum. Clearly a hyperspace accident or some such.

 

[Jerec Asyr]

Oh you laugh but it's true: space-time messes are the best underutilized IC way to tackle the OOC wrinkles.

Up to and including this one fleet battle when one side insisted a ship was destroyed and the other side insisted it wasn't. The ship entered a state of technobabbled quantum uncertainty, both existing and not existing simultaneously. It was fantastic.

 

[Tsavong Kraal]

Ignore the discrepancy. Not only is it not worth the expended energy, but to act on it would set the tone that "you think you can dictate the timeline of threads", which you cannot.

What if the other guy has the threads in reverse order in HIS character's history? (Which looks to be the case.)

And if so, why do your needs outweigh his?

 

[Ellie Mors]

I would just go with the time paradox situation.

 

[Gna Grimwasp]

i'd just use a mop