#multimuse help

1) make your blog mutuals only or mutuals being the highest priority. this can help lower the number of interactions you get a little if you feel too overwhelmed trying to interact with everyone and / or it can help lower the stress of having to reply to non-mutuals quickly.

2) make your blog low-activity. if you don’t want to stress with replies, make it clear in your rules / on your blog description that you are low activity. this way, people who follow and interact with you, will know that sometimes they have to wait longer for replies.

3) give your muses statuses. for example, those muses you have a lot of muse for can be active, those you feel a little less can be slow / semi-active, and those you are unsure about can be test muses / low-activity / plotting only, etc. this helps both you and your followers know which muses you’re going to be most active with or have the highest change of getting a response quicker to.

4) surround yourself with patient people. this is kind of a no-duh, but if you don’t want to feel stressed about replies, try to focus on finding people who have it in their rules that they might be slow with replies and/or they are fine with you taking your time. people of similar mind that reply speed =/= interest. as much as it’s nice to have people excited about a thread, it should never reach the point where you feel pressured to reply, so it’s good to surround yourself with other, patient people who won’t mind the wait.

5) stay firm about it being ok to take your time and being selective. it’s just as important to stay firm towards yourself as it is towards others. stop apologizing for taking your time. you can keep people updated that you’re too busy or uninspired or whatever to reply, but don’t apologize for it. the more you practice this, the less you will start to feel guilty about it, too, which you shouldn’t! after all, if you think others should be allowed to take their time, why shouldn’t you? the same goes with only writing certain muses of yours for a while. that’s okay, too. let people know those are the muses you have the most inspiration to write right now, but don’t apologize for it. it’s okay.

below the cut you’ll find an easy tutorial for how to create a  MULTIMUSE BLOG  based on my own experience, from tags to pages! feel free to do whatever you’d like with this information, and i hope it helps! <3

as of 7th October these URLs are free:

ofcalmings

oftranquilities

ofnaturalcalm

calmingnxture

airofnature

calmiisms

it’s not too much different from a single muse blog !! you just need to do everything you would do for a single muse blog into one big multi muse blog. 

so for tags, i recommend doing a condensed version of this for each muse. ( i say condensed only because that’s A LOT of tags for a lot of muses. ) of course you don’t have to make a separate ooc, promo, meme, etc. tags for each muse.

for verses, in indie rp, each thread kinda take place in a separate “ universe ” so each thread you write doesn’t necessarily affect another thread. here’s a good post on verses in general. so for multi muse blogs you’d make verses for each muse !!

masterpost on indie rping !! i hope this helped ?!

I do! Since a multi-muse RP takes a lot of time and effort just to set up I highly recommend that instead of searching out a random partner to do it with you ask someone who you’re already familiar with and trust. I’ve only done them between myself and one other person, however there really is no limit so it could be with two people, four, and so on.

As for the number of characters, again, no limit. I usually recommend starting relatively small because if you’re like me and like to write out bios for everyone (I suggest you do, it’ll help you keep track of who’s who and what their histories are) you probably won’t want to burden yourself with writing 20 at once. In one that I have going I currently have 30+ characters and that number is constantly growing. Starting small is good though since you’ll also want to figure out connections, if any, which also answers your question about how they’re tied together. In my own multi-muse some are and some aren’t and some become connected later on through plotting and mutual friends.

You can RP with yourself if you’d like. I don’t, personally, and if I need to have two of my own characters interact then I’d write a solo-para for it. However that’s not to say none of my own characters aren’t tied together at all either as I have characters who are family members, friends, enemies, etc. with one another. Even some possible major plot points for one of my characters rely on other characters I also have though I don’t let this be a common occurrence.

Within the multi-muse, I don’t know how other people do it, but you can have gif chats like how you might in an RPG. I don’t, but again, that’s personal preference. Within the multi-muse my partner and myself come up with smaller plots that can either only tie together two characters or may start with a couple then end up pulling several others in. At the moment I have both smaller plots that only involve two or three characters and focuses on character/relationship building for them and then I have a larger plot that involves six right now but will be pulling in others. If there’s conflict between a couple character you can always bring others into the plot if you have then turn to their separate friends for support, for example.

I've seen a few people ask others and have been asked myself how to go about making a multi-muse RP so I now that I'm currently in two multi-muse RPs and would like to think I've got the hang of it I've decided to write this up in hopes someone might find it useful. If anyone has any questions feel free to message me! I would appreciate and be thankful for you to like/reblog if this has been helpful to you at all.

Members (The RP'ers)

These can be done between two people as a 1x1 multi-muse or with more people so there's no limit to the number of RP'ers that can partake, that's entirely up to you. I think multi-muse RPs are typically done between two people, but that doesn't at all mean you can't add a third, fourth, and so on.

Set Up

I don't know how other people do it, but for me with the two that I have I make a separate account to serve as the main blog (where I may post upcoming FCs, to-do list, other misc. OOC posts relating to the RP) and then for every character I create for the MM I create sideblogs since chances are you're going to constantly be adding (and maybe removing) characters so having to make separate accounts for them all can be a hassle both to remember the emails and logging in/out of. Be prepared to dedicate a good chunk of time to the set up as doing all this can take anywhere from days to weeks to a month (or more depending on how quickly you and your RP partner work).

The RP's Plot

Think of a central plot that'll tie it all together. It's usually better if it's something that's more basic and general than extremely detailed so that it's easier to fit in a large range of characters. You can think of it as being similar to creating a plot for a RPG where you have a broad plot for the characters to be apart of. Or you could stick only picking out a setting for the RP and leave it at that.

I'll be getting into having more detailed plots farther down in the post.

Location

You'll want to pick someplace (fictional or real or even a mix of both) for the RP to focus on. However that doesn't (nor should) limit where the characters can go whether you do pick a fiction or real location. It could be nice to have the option for characters to be able to travel if they want and not all the characters probably were born in that single location.

Characters

I think this pretty much goes without saying, but there's no limit as to how many characters there can be in the multi-muse. It's a good idea to start with a small handful so you have multiple to work with and then add more from there. As mentioned in the "Set Up" section (and I think it's safe to say a given) that you're going to be constantly adding characters, removing characters (whether you choose to have them die or move away, etc.)

Sometimes characters will be put to use and interact with others and some may not be used right away -- that's perfectly okay.

Connections

Chances are not every single character knows everyone else, but with that said it's also just as likely some of them will know a handful of others (or there could be some who happen to not know anyone else).

Connection can of course be created between characters if they work(ed) together or go/went to school together, but that shouldn't be the only way connections are created. Maybe they ran into each other by chance in their free time, maybe mutual friends introduced them, maybe one character knows of the other but that other character doesn't know them. There're a lot of possibilities here so try not to limit yourself.

Detailed Plots

This is where it can be like a 1x1. Now that you have a cast of characters to start off with, it's time to start creating plots between yours and the other person's (or people if there're multiple people RP'ing together). This is a great way to make more connections, make characters better acquainted with each other (or dislike one another more), etc.

Just as you might with a regular 1x1, you can have other characters make a cameo/be mentioned in a para between two characters.

But there's another option for para'ing now aside from a 1x1 between two characters! You can have multiple characters join in on a single para and rotate the responses between them all if you want multiple characters to be part of a single event.

Events

This isn't necessary but can be fun. Just as a RPG is likely to have events take place for the whole group to participate in, you can do this in a multi-muse as well. Think social events (i.e. some type of party, speed dating, etc.)