The time stamps look...okay? I do know that we attempted to put all the posts in GMT, so seeing a "4 PM" is a little odd, knowing that I was posting (Sirius) at, say, 11 AM, but I think that's the time difference talking. The stamps may not work perfectly, since there are times when we were posting mindful of the time shift, and times when we were on our (mostly east-coast but not entirely) "real-time" schedule. That is, the journals were set to GMT, but we (the game) ran on Central time (because at one point 1/3 of the players were in Central, 1/3 on the east coast, and the other third were elsewhere (Mountain or Pacific mostly), and we were all running on our real-life schedule where 10-11 PM was (usually) bedtime (except for crazy me who was up til 2 because I was having too much fun not to). Also - we had "class schedules" but it was RARE for us to actually be able to post on that schedule. Because jobs, transportation, errands, life. So there will need to be fudging for time now and then.
Avatars...yeah, do your best? For a while many of us had paid accounts which allowed for a lot more flexibility. (And thanks to Dreamwidth for helping us maintain multiple paid platforms for most of the duration of the game!) But when we dropped the paid accounts that meant we couldn't keep all the icons. I have files with *most* of the characters' icons I controlled, but I did mysteriously lose several of them in computer replacements, changed jobs, etc. I wonder if we could provide you with our icon sets and if that would help, but honestly I'm not sure we could remember all the choices that were made.
Names...I don't really have a preference, but we can point out that Hermione and Terry both still had surnames (though I would probably use "boot" for him in the beginning). As for Fred/George I'll leave that to their player, but I think for the sake of consistency I would default to the name you can use consistently the most often. (A hint might be to look at the later posts, as you mention, for ISS and Order and see what people write in the PM headers.)
I'm happy to provide commentaries. I can tell you right off the bat that some of these early posts are pretty cringe-inducing now, but we were figuring things out and settling into a consistent voice and tone, so there's bound to be some misfires. It's kinda like the first 4-6 episodes of a TV series in that sense.
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Date: 2020-04-10 12:30 am (UTC)The time stamps look...okay? I do know that we attempted to put all the posts in GMT, so seeing a "4 PM" is a little odd, knowing that I was posting (Sirius) at, say, 11 AM, but I think that's the time difference talking. The stamps may not work perfectly, since there are times when we were posting mindful of the time shift, and times when we were on our (mostly east-coast but not entirely) "real-time" schedule. That is, the journals were set to GMT, but we (the game) ran on Central time (because at one point 1/3 of the players were in Central, 1/3 on the east coast, and the other third were elsewhere (Mountain or Pacific mostly), and we were all running on our real-life schedule where 10-11 PM was (usually) bedtime (except for crazy me who was up til 2 because I was having too much fun not to). Also - we had "class schedules" but it was RARE for us to actually be able to post on that schedule. Because jobs, transportation, errands, life. So there will need to be fudging for time now and then.
Avatars...yeah, do your best? For a while many of us had paid accounts which allowed for a lot more flexibility. (And thanks to Dreamwidth for helping us maintain multiple paid platforms for most of the duration of the game!) But when we dropped the paid accounts that meant we couldn't keep all the icons. I have files with *most* of the characters' icons I controlled, but I did mysteriously lose several of them in computer replacements, changed jobs, etc. I wonder if we could provide you with our icon sets and if that would help, but honestly I'm not sure we could remember all the choices that were made.
Names...I don't really have a preference, but we can point out that Hermione and Terry both still had surnames (though I would probably use "boot" for him in the beginning). As for Fred/George I'll leave that to their player, but I think for the sake of consistency I would default to the name you can use consistently the most often. (A hint might be to look at the later posts, as you mention, for ISS and Order and see what people write in the PM headers.)
I'm happy to provide commentaries. I can tell you right off the bat that some of these early posts are pretty cringe-inducing now, but we were figuring things out and settling into a consistent voice and tone, so there's bound to be some misfires. It's kinda like the first 4-6 episodes of a TV series in that sense.
I will say again THIS IS COOL THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS