<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=153646.msg7135659#msg7135659">Quote from: The Last Standing on 27-10-2012, 19:46:04</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm in the same boat as Caitlin. I don't think the second posts will come from a lot of people until a considerably new situation presents itself, or at least a further cue about what we should be doing arises. Once the story really gets rolling, I'm sure we won't need to depend on you to set the pace, but for now, the nature of the ludus is still a mystery to us, and I feel that this uncertainty is slowing the rp down.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><br/>Agree with Last, the lanista couple are the only ones of the main characters who have a clear overview of what the ludus is actually about (beyond the bare statement that the gladiators are there to train for fighting) and of what the scheme of preparations looks like until the legatus and his entourage arrive for the reception, how the slaves and gladiators are normally treated and so on. Those things need to be built into the narrative of the RP a bit - not just recited but shown - and the big lines of it are mostly up to Blonde and Primarch as writers. If I or TLS tried to do it, we would immediately run the risk of making statements that seemed tossed up into the air, plus our characters can't really know anything much about those things.<br/><br/><br/>It's not a matter of the two of you making five long posts each before anybody else would post, but of showing, sketching out clearly, what the house and the gladiatorial school are like in daily life - not just location - how they work, how Augustus Magnus exercises authority and how his wife will talk to the slaves, in what way she'll think of them. I would post soon enough if I could see you were taking the lead on this, here early in the game.