summer hiatus announcement
This deserves a post of it's own, so it doesn't get lost in the episode discussion: in the past, at the end of the season we do a soft reboot to allow players to bring their characters back in line with canon, if they so choose. This summer is going to be a little different from last: instead, the game will be going on summer hiatus as soon as we finish playing out the events of the season finale. The finale was a pretty major shake-up, both in terms of character interactions and physical locations from here on out. Without a clear idea of how Season 4 is going to play out, with a proposed split-narrative and quite a few characters scattered to different ends of the country or left unresolved altogether, I'm hesitant to commit to another season of a canon-based game until we have a better idea of how difficult it might be to keep up character interactions.
On top of the shift in focus planned for next season, I'm also packing up and moving halfway across the country here in one week, and the stress of that plus various other factors has made it so I can't give the game my full concentration for a good chunk of the next month or so. For now, this is only a hiatus; as soon as we have a better idea of how Season 4 will go, I'll put out some feelers and make a call on when and how the game will reopen. In the event that it doesn't look feasible to structure a game around the new format, I'll post a notice here in the comm; if it does look doable, though, I will send out an email letting folks know that the game is coming out of hiatus and rebooting for S4, and letting all of you choose whether to stick with us or withdraw.
Past experience from last summer shows that things usually get slow during the summer anyway, so hopefully the break will do everyone good -- I don't want to close the game outright, since we still don't know what S4 has in store, but if the format isn't conducive to a canon-based game, it'll be harder to recruit and retain members.
If there are any questions, however, let me know -- have fun playing out the finale, and here's hoping I'll see you all back in Season 4!