Okay, at just about a full week with no word from Poppy, I'm calling it. I'm reopening the scene and replacing her at the science station with Eriksson. If she wants to be involved in subsequent scenes she can let me know before we're done with the Teaser.<br/><br/>I will not reboot the shooting thread. I will just suggest the following guidelines going forward:<br/><br/>a) It is perfectly okay to provide some details about what your character is doing, thinking etc. -- that is part of the point -- but<strong>please try to keep it more in the nature of stage directions</strong>than chunks of worked-out prose if you can. Remember that you are providing rough ideas, not posts in the normal group game sense.<br/><br/>b) Please try to go<strong>line-by-line</strong>in dialogue whenever possible -- or if the poster ahead of you says more than one thing, try to<em>follow</em>their dialogue naturally instead of interjecting responses to every piece of it -- so that the scene poster does not have to unravel a vast snarl of overlapping interjections and put them into sequential order.<br/><br/>c) It is okay to provide<em>options</em>for your character for subsequent players to respond to, of the "if x then y" type that Joslyn mentions above. However, the next posting player should pick just<strong>one</strong>option and respond to it; don't try to respond to every option.<br/><br/>Thanks everyone! And for fellow-Canucks among you, Happy Thanksgiving!