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Project Circe OOC thread
Topic Started: Feb 10 2016, 06:07 PM (1,780 Views)
Flisch
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Project Circe
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I guess it seems a tiny bit premature to open up a thread at this point, but I think it's a bit jarring to have the discussion breaking up the flow of the story itself. Also I don't like making OOC posts in the topic itself, because when someone sees a new post by me and then realizes it's "just" an OOC one and not a story post it's probably a bit disappointing.

I intend the story to continue for a while. As you might have noticed, I have tried to update the story on a daily basis, excluding the weekends. I will probably do so for a while, especially at the beginning, because I realize setting up everything is a bit slow, but once we're in the middle of the action I might switch to updating every second day, as it's pretty time-consuming. We'll see.

Another thing that will become important later on, when we enter the "episodic" routine of the story, you can use this thread to give suggestions, both for things you'd like to see and things of what you think could be cool to have shown. This story is partly influenced by the premise of "All your yesterdays", so if you have a neat idea of some speculative behaviour/nonfossilized anatomic feature of extinct animals, feel free to suggest that and/or discuss with others.

GlarnBoudin
Feb 9 2016, 07:09 PM
Question: Can the scientists still communicate with our protagonist while he's in the mind of the animal? Can they see what he sees?

I usually don't want to reveal stuff like this outside the story, but I guess I can answer this. Nobody in the "present" knows whats going on with the user who is currently in the past. They can't see, hear or otherwise sense anything that the user experiences. There are some things they can read from the brain activity, but this will be adressed in the story at one point.
Edited by Flisch, Apr 26 2016, 04:56 PM.
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I find the story quite enjoyable :)
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Ants.

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Mar 21 2016, 07:34 PM
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A few episodes in it could be that sadness ends up being one of the more pleasant emotions to be explored in this story.
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I'm still slightly worried about the sexual themes we'll apparently be exploring at some point. Unless the weaning counted.
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trex841
Mar 23 2016, 05:38 PM
I'm still slightly worried about the sexual themes we'll apparently be exploring at some point. Unless the weaning counted.
I honestly don't want to scare anyone away, but I also want to stress that the disclaimer in the story thread is not just there for decoration.
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Well that should be...interesting when we get there.
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In the past having multiple threads for projects has been frowned upon (see JohnFaa's external tracker), why exactly has nobody had a problem with this? I'm not saying it is or should be a problem, but why the inconsistency?
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OCC topics have been the exception to that rule.
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I guess this is just the first one I've seen.
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I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
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Flisch
Mar 23 2016, 07:06 PM
trex841
Mar 23 2016, 05:38 PM
I'm still slightly worried about the sexual themes we'll apparently be exploring at some point. Unless the weaning counted.
I honestly don't want to scare anyone away, but I also want to stress that the disclaimer in the story thread is not just there for decoration.
I'm loving the story, but I too am worried about the sexual themes. Could you perhaps warn us before a chapter with said themes?
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I'd imagine he would.
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That would be nice, because if my parents walk in and see me reading something sexual... You get the point.
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It's a story about animals people, not a porno.
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