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| ======So, how does a session work?====== | ======So, how does a session work?====== | ||
| - | We all meet up once a week on a Tuesday and spend a couple of hours as our player characters (or **PC’s** as they’re known) interacting with everyone else who are also pretending to be their PC’s (this is in contrast to narrating your actions as you might do in a table-top game) In this time you can talk to one another, plot, scheme, discuss news and recent events, make deals and generally do whatever it is you think your character would do. As well as interacting with all the other players there will be non-player characters (or **NPC’s**) played by the games masters (or **GM’s** – that’s us!) who are running the game. These NPC’s will also be people from The City and you can interact with them however you feel is appropriate – perhaps one of them is your boss, and another one works for you. Interacting with NPC’s is one way in which the GM’s can introduce storylines into the setting for you to interact with as much or as little as you like.\\ | + | We all meet up once a week on a Tuesday and spend a couple of hours as our player characters (or **PCs** as they’re known) interacting with everyone else who are also pretending to be their PCs (this is in contrast to narrating your actions as you might do in a table-top game) In this time you can talk to one another, plot, scheme, discuss news and recent events, make deals and generally do whatever it is you think your character would do. As well as interacting with all the other players there will be non-player characters (or **NPCs**) played by the games masters (or **GMs** – that’s us!) who are running the game. These NPCs will also be people from The City and you can interact with them however you feel is appropriate – perhaps one of them is your boss, and another one works for you. Interacting with NPCs is one way in which the GM’s can introduce storylines into the setting for you to interact with as much or as little as you like.\\ |
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| After the session you have the chance to write a turnsheet – this is a description of three actions you want your character to achieve between one session and the next. In real life obviously this gap is a week however in game time the gap is a month so you can get a fair bit done. Guidelines on what to put in a turnsheet can be found on the [[Turnsheeting]] page.\\ | After the session you have the chance to write a turnsheet – this is a description of three actions you want your character to achieve between one session and the next. In real life obviously this gap is a week however in game time the gap is a month so you can get a fair bit done. Guidelines on what to put in a turnsheet can be found on the [[Turnsheeting]] page.\\ | ||
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| - | You submit your turnsheet via the Wiki (we’ll give you an account of your own) by Thursday Midnight. Between then and the next session on a Tuesday the GM’s will meet up and decide based upon what you’ve written, your skills/resources, and whether anyone is opposing you or helping you, what the results of your actions are. The GM’s will then write up a brief response to your turnsheet letting you know what happened and for you to respond to during the next session. The GM’s will also write up a brief review of notable things going on in the city that you will have been aware of in your day to day activities – this is called the news and will be published each week on the website.\\ | + | You submit your turnsheet via the Wiki (we’ll give you an account of your own) by Thursday Midnight. Between then and the next session on a Tuesday the GMs will meet up and decide based upon what you’ve written, your skills/resources, and whether anyone is opposing you or helping you, what the results of your actions are. The GMs will then write up a brief response to your turnsheet letting you know what happened and for you to respond to during the next session. The GMs will also write up a brief review of notable things going on in the city that you will have been aware of in your day to day activities – this is called the news and will be published each week on the website.\\ |
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| Beyond that it’s up to you what you want to do – you can get involved as little or as much as you want in the stories the GM team introduces or you can go and find your own plot if something interests you or if you have a strong character goal in mind.\\ | Beyond that it’s up to you what you want to do – you can get involved as little or as much as you want in the stories the GM team introduces or you can go and find your own plot if something interests you or if you have a strong character goal in mind.\\ | ||
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