General OoC discussion

This is at least a four day journey, right?
Edit: Pretty much two full days at normal pace, I think.

Correct; on foot/with a cart, it takes two days on Cecily's Road to travel from Hochoch to Orlane. Two days there + two days back = at least four days gone.

I just realized — thanks to your superb summary, spaceseeker19 — that Myrtha has been holding on to Bertram’s documents since she took them. I would assume that she would have read through them and handed them over to Olpert, at least during the two days of training. Assuming it’s too late to retcon those actions into the narrative, Myrtha will be studying these documents at night, before going to sleep or keeping watch…

I'll note it in the game thread so it doesn't get lost in this OOC thread (for future reference).

Question about notifications: I've noticed in some games that people are having a hard time noticing when they should be posting. I'm not sure I understand the nature of the problem (and it might not be one problem). For my part, I just keep a tab open with the "Latest Game Posts" page open, which I reload each day, and that seems to work pretty well. But I also want to ameliorate any difficulty in the games that I'm running. So far, I'm trying to do that with listing the initiative in each post and mentioning @names of the players when it's their turns (so they get a notification in e-mail as well as a notification on the GP top page). That said, is there more that I could be doing that would be helpful?

It may be related to database issues we've been experiencing for the past week or so, and some people have experienced slow load times.

For what it's worth, my workflow is almost the same as yours; I have a bookmark to (https://gamersplane.com/forums/search/?search=unreadPosts) which lists all the unread posts I need to see, and it includes any games I'm in. I'll admit to refreshing the page more than a few times to get the latest. I also do not subscribe to public games, so the number of unread posts for me is quite low. I'm able to easily see when D Busters has an update.

I'm not sure what else could be done to expedite posting rate. I think the @-notifications are a good idea, so keep doing that.

The @-notes work well.

My biggest issue is real life of late. I go a week and a half with no issues whatsoever, and then out of the blue an easy day turns into a double and the next day I pass out as soon as I get home from work. Suddenly I haven't been here in two and a half days, with no warning.

My hope is once the boss finishes merging her business with her new partner and that all gets sorted, things will go back to the usual boring day to day. Unfortunately... they aren't there yet.

And there is nothing you can do to help with that. 🤷‍♂️