I'm going to have significantly more time coming up, so Rustic and i will have more planned in a bit, so hang tight guys.
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Now for the main announcement.
Guuuuuyyyyss, can I make a request? Or at least warn you before my NPCs get snappy at people for doing things??
Can we stop bringing the current Splatfest topic into the IC?
Talking about current Splatoon happenings is fine, to an extent, but talking about the current splatfest themes as they happen in real life, while in character, is META-GAMING, as it is not information the characters would realistically have if they've been at camp for, like, 2 days.
It really screws with the chronology of the IC setting, and as GMs, we can't do anything about it, besides be like "blah we're horrible and keeping squids away from splatfest to be at CAMP." It's also difficult to work with a timeline that appears to be 1-2 days long when people are mentioning events that are 2-3 weeks apart.
Now, I'm not saying don't talk about splatfest/don't mention past themes, because those are part of the splatoon world. I'm not saying, stay frozen in your knowledge of new weapons or splatfests for the sake of accuracy. Your characters can know about new weapons or stages that were not available at the start of the RP because this is supposed to be fun, just don't make it blatantly obvious that time is changing differently in real life and in the IC because your characters should not know what happens in the real world. At least not in this RP's setting.
In fact, I would totally encourage an RP thread about talking about the current splatfest event as your character! Seriously! But this thread is not the place any longer.
From this point on, to anyone who mentions the splatfest topic, I'm not gonna "ban" you or anything, but fair warning. If you make your character semi-omniscient by having information that extends beyond their boundaries, I'm gonna be a jerk and creatively overstep my boundaries as GM, as a reminder to not do this. Simply put, you're gonna have a bad time.
EDIT: Sheesh, in retrospect the whole "blah I'll be a jerk, gon have a bad time" was a little immature. Warning still stands, but I'll be tactful about this, I swear.