I like the post very much, it has great description, Sam's memory of the father's report is gripping, it's interesting to see someone who is not entirely cool about what they all must face very soon, and the way you wove in the memory of the father telling about what he saw his former son and now an<em> it</em>do, was just great.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">I personally have no objections to your moving forwards to this point, the picture showing etc., but only if the others already in the scene have none. </span><br/><br/>Likewise with their standing in awkward silence with their plates in hand, with Derrick's chewing celery, their sudden silence and staring at and after Sam... If someone thinks that is not what their characters would do, they should  let you know how their characters would have reacted instead and you can edit those details, as you offered.<br/><br/>I really do like your post  - but it leads me to something I take seriously. It's good it was brought up this early into the RP:<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">We must all be very careful when it comes to writing about what other players' characters do, how they will react, and about things like cutting off a scene and moving on into another, assuming other players' characters will be in that next scene, too.</span><br/><br/>No matter how much sense it makes to move ahead or how good a new scene or great a read it is, if we start deciding what other characters do or cut short their chances to do something, we enter very difficult, often emotionally charged territory, as some RPers practically hate that sort of thing, while others are relaxed about it.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"> I'd rather avoid such situations whenever possible. </span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">To prevent problems or conflicts of this kind, please make it a habit to either avoid making other characters do things in your posts, or first drop the other players involved in a scene a PM</span>(or post in the OOC thread) when you're about to write something that makes it necessary to assume someone else's character is or will be doing something particular you want or need in your post.<span class="bbc_u">Propose your idea, let the other write back whether they're okay with it or what their characters would do instead. </span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Please, ask before you switch into a new scene assuming the others will be in it. Come to an agreement before you post, so that nobody ends up reading your post and steaming in anger or feeling frustrated because he or she wanted to do something in the former scene or finds her character 'taken over' by someone else, however shortly and fleetingly. </span><br/><br/>I know it's a bit of a hassle to check this in advance and might delay your post, but if you post first, others reply to your post, pick up your scene and refer to things in your post, and you later have to edit your post due to an objection, the ones who posted after you will be forced to edit, too, which is more of a hassle and hold up in the end, I think.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">To make the advance checking easier, everybody who is fine with their characters being powerplayed in small things (like the chewing of celery or the lasting silence, the four seconds of not reacting), can state it in this thread</span>, so that we all know we need not ask permission of these players concerning assumptions like these.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">The same goes for jumping into new scenes. If you generally have no objections to that being done with your character, please let us know in this thread. </span><br/>