<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148484.msg6772690#msg6772690">Quote from: dreamster on 17-08-2012, 15:32:45</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">In my next post, I'll make the captain ask Macheath to lead the girls to their stations (which Truhan can do in his next one perhaps), so that the story has 4-5 parallel threads in place.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Sounds good, skipper.  I'm getting the sense Christa is in for something a bit heavier, but I'd like to start slow and build tension.  Macauley is willing to go...far to maintain discipline, but he's going to require some button-pushing to do anything really interesting.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148484.msg6772799#msg6772799">Quote from: RedEve on 17-08-2012, 16:29:10</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hmm, well if one girl is thrown to the lions, it will probably fray the discipline on board to the point where all of their bodies are considered forfeit, and I'm not sure that is the intention of all of the players?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well...only if we want it to be.  I mean, we're suspending disbelief to a certain extent anyway, in that the Captain is working over Ophelia and doesn't seem concerned about being hung from the yardarm when we get back to port.  If we want to say that the crew is satisfied with having one girl to play with and basically ignores the others, well, that's what happens.  Personally, I don't have a problem suspending disbelief that far- we just say, "This one is the crew's designated playtoy, the others are off-limits."  Yeah, it probably wouldn't work in real life, but in real life we'd probably have a mutiny already. ;)  So let's do what makes a good story.