Questions about the RP in general

[radishson]

(hopefully this is in the right place) I am excited to RP here but and there's not much I understand about the whole business. I'm really worried these are dumb questions though so ... sorry in advance.

Does each thread follow its own plot/timeline or will there be one over-arching plot that includes everyone? And how close should the RP adhere to canon? I'm confused about that because there are quite a few characters that die/change locations/change roles/etc in the course of the game and I'm not sure how they're supposed to interact with eachother considering this. Are we just sort of going with the flow and playing each character's personality as best we can even in situations they would've never been in (like De Santa going to New Austin, Luisa meeting 19 year old Jack, MacDougal staying in Blackwater, etc) or are we following the game's events as closely as possible?
And what exactly does "year 1" (to the left) mean? Are all canon characters alive at this time regardless of canon events?

Sorry again if these questions are dumb or annoying, I'm just curious and don't want to misunderstand anything!!

[Jacklo]

Currently, all plots adhere to a certain timeline for those characters in a progressive way, so your character cannot be fighting in one map while he's also in a saloon across the map in another place, but instead you can be in two threads and one rp occurs later than the other.

Because I know its difficult what with the game and everything, so I'd say try to keep everything as far as you can go with the characters missions before they "die", e.g John is still alive, Shaky was rescued but Irish isn't "dead" and West dickens hasn't yet been arrested.

Its sort of hard I know, especially if someone wants to play older Jack while we still have a John running around, so it may do to include a time-frame at the start of your post (e.g "This is set before John returns to his farm around the time ___")

Luckily none of this would apply for OC only plots xD

Year one is just how many "years" this forum has been active, I'm too much of a lazy fuck to go find the actual year because again, it'd mess up the time frames for everyone playing canon characters so...

Sort of, everyone's character isn't dead yet, and whatever timeline you can try and squidge that into, be my guest.

... Especially as Red Harlow would somehow be in this if someone chose to play him :l

[miluvrox]

Sorry I have a question. What if you're doing more then one RP with the same character? Like one in Mexico and one in New Austin. Can they be in different timelines? Also maybe people should say what character they're posting as. It can get confusing once people start claiming more then 1.

[Jacklo]

Yes, as long as they're in different timelines your character can be in ALL THE THREEEAADS, but you may want to be careful with that, if your character is shot in the leg during one RP and you're also in a different thread that takes place about 2 days later, that's when it gets awkward xD

And yes, i'd recommend we all do this, i usually do it by doing this;

[url=(insert the URL of your characters biography!)] CHARACTER NAME [/url]
[TITBITS OF INFO HERE like Status: Healthy, Armed: W/ Pistol.]

But I don't enforce other people to do the same C:

[objectableoutlaw]

Do i HAVE to create a character to rp?

[Jacklo]

No. You can claim a canon (game character) to play.