Robyn, Forest,<br/><br/>No worries, play by post accomodate time zone differances, that is the beauty of play by post as oppsed to IM play.<br/><br/>Side threads: Ttoo many can be hairy, confusing and harmful to narrative flow, yes.  What I have in mind to create is an Out Of Time thread so that Eshalu and Aeryn can burn off their collective frustration before they explode without holding everybody else up, not a side adventure thread.  I'll put a link here so that everybody else can find and read the juicy smu- , ah, keep abreast of what is going on.  In such threads, often more than one, um, encounter is going on  so tagging is essential the tag should include who you are, who you are with, and where.  Examples:<br/><br/><strong>Aeryn Sunlight<br/>With Eshalu<br/>Aeryn's room at the Magna Sophia Chapterhouse in Point Respite.</strong><br/><br/>And:<br/><br/><strong>Aeryn Sunlight<br/>With Erianthe<br/>The reception area/libary/courtyard of the Magna Sophia Chaperhouse in Point Respite</strong><br/><br/>This allows everybody, those involved and lurking to keep track of who is doing what to/with/for whom.<br/><br/>Out of Time threads are not just for getting all up in each other's bizness, IC conversations are much better than raw datadumps for RP purposes, and these can take  considerable Real Life time.<br/><br/>With tagging, you will not need a seperate Out Of Time (Fuzzy Time is another term for this)  thread for each interaction and may not even need one for each player.<br/><br/>Now I have to come up with a title for Aeryn's fuzzy time thread.  Aeryn's Adventrures is jsut too obvious, but I may have to go with that.