We need more action (9.5.06)

[Domnopalus]

Alright folks, so we've obviously gotten past the stage of getting this site off the ground, and we have some very dedicated members which River, Jiggsaw, and I are very pleased about, but it's time that we went up a level in forumdom.

So, the two most active threads we've got are The Gathering, and Ragdoll. The Gathering slowing down, and Ragdoll which I believe just ended is a graphic mating thread. Note they are also in the same forum section, P4 Jungle. So, what do we need next?

1) More members
2) More variety
3) More characters (to add to the variety)
4) Something of a "next step" in the plot

So, we've got The Gathering thread, which essentially is the 'first' step in the plot, right? And how many months have we spent on it? At least two and a half already. So, pick it up, folks! Throw in more characters, plug Hellion Reign on DA, and altogether publicize it as much as you can. You all have forum-goer friends, right? Encourage them to try us out. BBA people are obviously a good asset. I was thinking of personally inviting some of the people who own Hellhound-ish things on BBA.

Also, what you can do here is of course throw in more characters, experiment with them--if you don't like them, throw them away. Keep trying though. Thread out of here, too - we need active topics in as many forum sections as possible.

Basically, we need everyone to do all that they can if we want this to be an exciting place to be.

It's a known issue that we need more human and regular wolf/dog characters, so I say we form a recruitment plan that's something like this:
There must be a million human RPs out there. Each of us should find an active one and list it in a thread somewhere here. Then, we should send somebody over to each one to invite folks to join us. Most likely they won't be interested in RPing animals, and it would be interesting for them to RP in an environment where you can interact with 'animals,' too. We can get a strong group of human-lovers and they will be what forms the friction between the hellhounds and the people.

With all that in mind, please contribute your ideas as well, or questions and concerns regarding mine. I hope we can pick this place up to the next level!

[River]

Well, hang on a sec Dom. Jig and I have been dicussing advertising in the Staff board thing and we think it's best that advertising wait until the movie promo thing is finished since you only get one good shot at advertising before everyone assumes they've seen your site before and forget about it. So, we figure it should be one hell of an ad the first time and the promo will make it such, a sure fire way to get people to join... You can check out the thread for more details...

But I agree. Threads are getting slow but it's because people aren't very organized with their plots and plans. Like mine. I have a thread with Malice and Gunter that has come to a halt because we need someone to play Gunter's brother Adolf. Then there are characters created for the simple pleasure of creating another character, with no plans in mind and no plots to make role-play interesting. They're boring and hardly used. On top of all of that, most of the members we have are growing in active. I haven't seen Jig in the longest, nor Eva and Nuru is busy/MIA...

It's true that something should be done but I suggest light advertising. Don't run around and post and ad on every site you come across. Maybe choose a few, smaller personal sites and we can re-post the ad on the BBA but don't try to go too far. keep it seldom, keep it simple. like I said, we only get one shot to tell the world. let's make it count. in fact, rather than simply advertising on the BBA, we could create a thread asking if any artist would like to help us with the promo. The knowledge that something big is going on here might make some people in that community join up...

Other than that, we need more people the post in the simple jist of things. We need to move the plot along a bit and organize any side plots that may be going on, such as the one I have with Wrath that I can't tell you about... >.>

[LockHeart]

*raises paw* Yes, Ragdoll is as stated...that would be one of my characters.

Anyway, I've an idea for Lock for a future plot, but I can't do it till I can handle more characters. I don't know about anyone else, but 3 is about as many as I can handle in one place. (The seperate accounts makes this more difficult for me. ^^;

I really don't have any ideas as to helping, other then to look at it similar to a business. Most small business' don't see anything for the first year or two.
I've a plot idea for Lock, but I can't do it till I find out who s/he is. Needs some play time.

As for Malice, I apologize if anyone gets offended by her, that's just the way she is.

There might be a small plot with Malice about the older male with the claws. Just a story line, nothing fancy. Kind of a character builder that might influence her to change her ways alittle. Probably involve one big fight with 2 humans and a couple dogs. NPC, but important.

[Domnopalus]

Alright guys - just so you know, whatever River says, goes, no matter what I say. I kinda jumped to a few conclusions without thinking them through and you see the result of them (ie River's next post).

I think River has a good point and that's that we should get more to work on the film thing and use THAT as our ultimate advertising. Part of the reason that's slow is my fault because I've been not doing my homework by not working on the animation part, but I think we need a little more structure to it before we begin. Someone should block out the whole thing with complete details such as what's going on in order and who's working on that at that time, etc., and especially where everybody's scenes are going to fit in.

I agree that we should not go around spamming other boards to join us either (I never thought that was a good idea) and I say we should wait for River's command to go out to other places. If you personally belong to a place that could get members for us, then go RIGHT ahead and invite people, but we should definitely get the OK from River before we start to "reach out" to "uncharted" forums for us, as a matter of politeness.

And another small note; Though I am a VERY open-minded person, I've noticed that Malice, your characters tend to lean towards a very sexual side of RP, and I haven't seen much else. I understand that you made them that way, but keep in mind that you made them that way so they are your responsibility and they're not doing it by themselves. I also understand that there haven't been enough RPs posted by you to really judge, but I'm getting an inkling for trouble. I know it is obviously a natural thing and of course it's pleasureable to RP, but remember the moderation principle. I REALLY don't want Hellion Reign to turn into a graphic breeding grounds. Somehow I think you know better than to do that, especially with your talking about character building plots, but just remember I'm starting to get a slightly negative impression in regards to this site. Thanks for understanding - I really don't mean to be offensive or picky by saying all this, either! <3

[LockHeart]

Well, duh. Of course I made them that way. Which is why I have a plot in mind and now have a calm character.
All characters have to start out somewhere (picked something new for me) and will grow. Malice will grow out of it as she grows from being played.
(I believe I told River that I was moving away from sexual play after the Ragdoll thread, but don't quote me on it.)

You had a couple posts on UV with another character of mine who is nothing like this.

As for the animation, I think we need some order to it. Like what's going on. I've kind of forgot about the whole thing.

[Faust]

www.roleplaysource.com/directory_list.html

We could post this Rp on this site too, I believe.

[Domnopalus]

It all sounds good to me, then. I didn't mean to insult you; it's just a combination of wanting to keep the integrity of the forum and my own personal reasons. I definitely trust you to have awesome ideas and everything, and the UV RP was indeed VERY entertaining (which was another thing that surprised me a little into making my last post). I was just being careful because this forum has become somewhat of a baby of mine, so to speak.

EDIT: Thanks Faust! Sounds good - but once again wait for River to clear it.

[Faust]

OK ;D

[Sadae]

I agree with everyone else, this place has become inactive and Nuru is Faust, River. Most of my characters are made for roleplaying on all the different sides, the chimera for human interaction, Nara for more dogs and because I've never had a character like her, and Ino for the wolf side. But I've only been able to use Sadae and she doesn't get to have much action because most avoid her if they can and I'm kind of waiting and hoping that someone can help bring out the real Sadae. I ad a plot on her that would deal with the true identity of her heritage, but it requires another hellhound and we have an abundance of them so that's being put on hold.

I think that in terms of the animation thing, we need more of an idea what scenes our ccharacters will be used for because I have an emotion sheet for Sadae and working on more for her and Scarr(since he's an important character). I'm trying but I've actually forgotten about it and having a tough time getting scanner and my parents took my tablet pen so that is on hold for me.

[River]

Sadae: Not that Nuru, Nuru as in Nurumaji. remember the octopus Kitty? I forgot we have two of them now... >.>

But anyway, as Dom says, I believe we should ONLY advertise on personal sites, maybe even ask people directly. As in pming our close friends and such, getting them to join since your friends are more reliable than just random people running around.

Also, I think we need to fan out with our characters. There are simply too many hellhounds and not enough of... well... everything else. I'm guilty, I have three hellhound characters and a wolf. We'll need more dogs, more timberwolves and more direwolves, that way the P4 can get into major conflicts with the wolves and all that fun stuff, get a whole site-wide plot going between the three groups of animals so we can save the big humans-attack-hounds plot for when we have many more members.

An easy way to create more characters and get some fun plots going: find a mate. Unfortunately, we are male-dominated again with hellhounds but maybe we could find a way around that. Then, the pups can be adopted and played with little family plots and fun stuff like that. But it's hard to find a mate, something we honestly can't rush in my opinion but it's definately something to keep in mind...

As for the whole Malice and sexual thing, I honestly don't think it's anything serious as long as the threads are labeled. If people don't like that kind of stuff, then they don't have to read those threads. This site is rated PG-13 to R honestly so it's perfectly fine... again, when the threads are labelled...

So... um... yeah...

[Sadae]

WEll said River. *claps* Although Faust is the worst culprit of sexual stuff. XD He's the hellhound equivalent of a manhorwe. It's sad. XD

[LockHeart]

He's blue with long ears and puppy eyes. How can you turn him down? lol

I shall remember the labels Rivers. ^^;

[Faust]

lol ;D

[River]

I'm sure you will, Lockheart. ^^

[Morsus]

I'm still in the process of designing my hellrat... thing.

You have no idea how badly I wanted to make it have an ear on it's back. XD

[Sadae]

XD

[River]

X3 Yes, that would be friggin' hilarious... but what we really need are some female hounds... Like I said before, a few litters could encourage plots and characters... Unfortunately, I already have three hounds and a terrible time playing females... -_-

But Gunter has a sister that needs a player... though I know most people don't like to adopt characters...

[LockHeart]

Malice isn't in heat, so that doesn't help. Plus I need some dice thrown on which of her last heats are truly fertile. (in other words don't count on her)

As for Lock, if s/he has a relationship before s/he goes into heat. Then I will offer him/her up for a litter.

[Sadae]

Well Sadae, my only hellhound, will soon come into heat, but because of her psychological problems most tend to keep away from her. Nara could be helpful with breeding between hounds and dogs, but she's stuck in the Kennels until someone makes a stud dog.

[River]

Nara's actually a good idea Sadae. A hound/dog cross breed wouldn't be accepted totally by either society. Perhaps if a male hound were to sneak into the human village, there could be this whole plot started right there where she'd be forcebred and the pups outcasted, perhaps an angry desire for vengeance and what have you...

Hey, it's a plot... o.O I can think of at least one hound that would do something like that...