#colonelmagpie

You’ll need at the very least a character/setting/world bible, and a way for everyone to access it. You might also need rules for whether changes can be made, etc…

I’d suggest Google Docs or a wiki or Dropbox or other document-sharing app. In other words, technology will be your friend here. 

I’ve done this in the past with a much larger group of people spread over the world. This was in the days of Geocities, and those email lists that predated Yahoo! Groups (onegroup, egroups … back in the day when you got excited getting an email!) and so we had dedicated email lists and an oft-updated website. I’m getting misty with nostalgia; this was the place where I first realized I might actually be able to write fiction. My novel I worked on for NaNoWriMo 2014 was built from what I wrote in this group. 

Yeah, I’ve been meaning to play Suikoden too. Tales of the abyss is notable, though, for lots of weird sword stuff. And weird swords in general.

Suikoden's a bit stressful for me mainly or my indecisiveness and my ability to panic and stress over my indecisiveness (108 party members shit fuck fuck), but otherwise is quite enjoyable. 

You should either definitely do that, or play Tales of the Abyss and then do that.

Seeing as they're currently trying to challenge CSIS's illegal/unconstitutional activities spying on Canadians overseas that does give me hope, and there is plenty in the bill which could err on the side of unconstitutionality/breach of civil rights.

And everyone forgets that the party isn’t there to be perfect judges of character - they’re people too, and early on in the game like that they’re still all carrying their own baggage and guilt. Everyone in this game changes. For the better.

I mean, I expected a cool answer, but that is an exceptionally cool answer.

It’s short from “Tezcatlipoca,” Aztec deity of darkness, chaos, sorcery, rulership, the north wind, and a ton of other things. I used his name as a handle online for a while (because I was constructing a fake secondary identity to mess with some people from a forum I used to hang out on), became nicknamed “Tez” from that, and derived “downtroddendeity” as an alternate handle when everyone was very, very Homestuck and were turning their names into chumhandles. It’s based on the fact that Tez is also the god of slaves, and punished people who were cruel to them.