<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=196076.msg9536505#msg9536505">Quote from: Haibane on 01-02-2014, 18:13:27</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Wouldn't the twins be quite well known early on in school? Identical twins are rare and two this pretty rarer still. I don't know that it's a good or bad thing to make the fact the others don't realise there are actually two people a plot point? On the other hand, if Dirk and Carmen are not in the twins year and are a year older, and it was a huge school with 1000+ students its quite possible due to very little contact with them in studies that they wouldn't be aware there are identical twins in school and each time they see "their" girlfriend they just assume its her.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well, there's two issues here, one of which you have split off... If they've been there a few months, then everyone os going to know the Stoneley twins. Whereas, if they've only just joined the school, the confusion would be higher because very few people would know them.<br/><br/>The problem is that if everyone knows who they are and that there are two of them, the joke Isn't going to work, because people will know to ask which is which,<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Also if Carmen and Dirk are a year older the four would have no classes in common allowing us to gloss over much of the (uninteresting) school day and focus on the times they can meet such as lunchtime and after classes. We could say Amber and Beryl share very few classes too since Amber's following a science major and Beryl arts.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This I agree with completely.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Perhaps we can play the posts normally to begin with and if anyone sees a good opportunity to flip authors or something we can try it. Its a curiously attractive idea, I'm interested to see if it could work from a technical point. Of course confusion would be heightened if Chrystal and I both posted in the first person and just referred to "I" foir the writer and "my sister" for the other twin. Then it might not even be possible to identify which twin is actually posting. On the other hand it could all just end in an holy mess; maybe OOCly the players do need to know who is who.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think if we play it by ear for now? We may find that we can have just as much fun without swapping characters.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">On a different subject I wanted to ask about where the start point of the story will be. I am not a big fan of starting stories at the beginning and much prefer dive-in type openings where things are partly established already and we cover the actual history with references back to them. Also if we begin this RP with Dirk-Beryl and Carmen-Amber meeting for the first time we could be delaying the juicy fun parts that are the core of the game for several real-time weeks or months. If its a few weeks or months into the school year already and the two pairs already know each other that could help scoot us along a bit.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>As i said above, this relates directly to how well known the Twins are.<br/><br/>I'm going to suggest a compromise:<br/><br/>It's the the second or third week of the new school year. Dirk has met Beryl and Carmen has met Amber, the casual feeling-each-other-out process is over and the two older kids are about to ask the twins out. But they have so far not met the other twin. They have seen the other one in passing, and been rather surprised that they didn't respond to a call - can be dealt with in flashbacks. But for the first time, both 11th graders are actively looking out for the twins to ask them out - possibly to the homecoming dance? and they initially ask the wrong twin.<br/><br/>Now, given how close the twins are, they would almost certainly have shared information on their respective suitors, and the playful side in both of them instantoly comes out, so rather than pointing out the mistake, they both, independently, decide to have a little fun with it, and later compare notes.<br/><br/>So when the homecoming comes, they both wear identical outfits, but with one small difference that they keep swapping during the evening. We can build on that as we get there...<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">BTW Chrystal and I were both assuming the twins are British and the game is set in America, the USA to be exact. This is the reason behind the references to a family move to a new country in the profiles.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Neither Desi nor Laza have a meaningful location listed, so we assumed you are both in the USA. Of course if you aren't please say. We can adjust as necessary!<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As to sexuality and sexual themes, are we keeping this "light"? As both twins are 16 and virgins I wasn't planning on any D/s play and was just going for a vanilla romance game but with the identity twist.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well I did put this in "Light small groups"...