<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=13067.msg535351#msg535351">Quote from: Reshki on 26-02-2008, 20:59:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> I didn't think we'd play more than a week before getting at least something in the supernatural for us to sink our teeth into, but I'm not really certain how pacing works in PbP.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well, much like a tabletop game, time in a PBP can be pretty fluid.  We can jump forward, back, gloss over things, whatever.  The major concern is the pacing within an individual post - it's too easy to write a bunch of stuff where, reasonably, other PCs could act to interrupt and so forth.  It's sort of a sub-set of the whole writing for other people's character thing - you can write in a way that assumes none of the other characters do anything that affect what you're doing, and that's sort of noxious.  So, y'know, don't make big jumps if it's likely other people are going to want to do anything else in a scene, etc.<br/><br/>To go ahead and put myself out there, I really should have written my last IC post in such a way as to give Khayin some room to interrupt or whatever.  I just didn't think about it because I got to Chris's post and replied first.  Probably a relatively minor infraction, but it can get a lot worse than that.  (And, Khayin, if you wanted to interrupt, just let me know and I can edit.)