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It's partially the result of the AC smut requirement, but it's also partially a result of the overall speed of the game and players (not a complaint, just an observation).

I tend to play fast, loose and improvisational everywhere but CoA. In Ariel, that doesn't work. Like, at all. I'd love to be able to just toss my characters into a thread and let it go, without any planning as to what the outcome will be, but it just isn't feasible. I need those 10 smut comments for AC, and it might take most of the month to get to the porn. That's the part where you've got it.

The other problem is the OOC/IC time ratio combined with slower taggers (though, yeah, they go hand in hand). I can't not play my character until a previous thread has reached its conclusion, unless I have some idea what's going to happen in it, or where it's going to go. If I wait for that to happen IC, I'm going to be waiting for a while and maybe for a long while. Even if the thread moves quickly enough, I have to wait 3 more days OOC for one day to pass IC and move my character on, unless I forward date something. If I'm forward dating, I still need to be planning because I'm ahead of game time and the other player needs to know where/how/what their character is to some reasonable degree. That means they need to have a speedy partner and nothing dangling, or to some idea of the conclusion.

All of that's before the fact that you're dealing with extreme kink subject matter, and that's generally something that works better without surprises.

I post opens and tag in to network posts and open logs without asking first, but overall yeah. The subject-matter, the speed, the timing, and the AC all pretty much mean you really do have to do a ton of communicating ooc to get anything done. I think it's worth it, and I really enjoy the game, but it does take a lot more organization and communication than a lot of games.

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