Trailblazer

@rae

I don’t usually have the problem of running into people older than me on here, lol. Probably because most people out of high school don’t have time to be on KP much. I’ve found that even in person I tend to gravitate towards people my age or younger for friends, but I do have a few who are older than me.

@hybridlore

It’s a whole thing… Rae will randomly start filling up the Character Party chat with pictures of dragons.

@hybridlore @savannah_grace2009

Here’s the next part:

May was an unusually dry month, drier than any I’d seen before. Pa and Mama were fearful of fires, always exercising caution when cooking. Any wayward spark from the chimney could catch the dry brush and start an inferno.

On a Sunday afternoon, shortly after we’d finished planting, Mam…[Read more]

@hybridlore @savannah_grace2009

OK, thanks for the input! Maybe I’ll just write a couple scenes in Etta’s POV and see what happens… I wouldn’t have to keep them as part of the story, but maybe it would be helpful to see some of my characters from a different set of eyes.

@every0ne

Maybe Carrie should join first before we move forward. What were the characters doing last?

@beth-torres

I think you should keep her in! Kari hasn’t had a lot of conflict with other characters in this RP so it might be fun to make some confusion. I feel like it could go two ways- either the girls bond over their names and have fun confusing people, or they get annoyed at each other and butt heads.

@hybridlore @savannah_grace2009

I just had this thought: what if I added Etta’s POV to the whole story? Like switching back and forth between Libbie and Etta’s perspectives? I think it would be fun, and might help develop some of the side characters better, but it also might make things more confusing, and for simplicity’s sake might be better…[Read more]

@beth-torres @jonas

Ooh, this could be fun! Imagine all the confusion that can be caused with their names lol.

@hybridlore @savannah_grace2009

Let me know if any of this needs to be fleshed out more (or if it moves too fast and there should be more specific scenarios).

Things are about to get dicey…

1886

Come spring, many changes occurred. The first was Bert Hawley asking Pa for Clara’s hand in marriage. The wedding was planned for June, and Clara w…[Read more]

@jonas

Yeah, I think Lane was 14.

@jonas

Kari is 16, but her age doesn’t really matter that much.

@rae

Kari can swim, and she’s been trained as a lifeguard, but she hasn’t had experience in freezing water.

@jonas

That sounds like a good idea. If we can get our characters to stay out of trouble, maybe each group can give an update on what they’ve accomplished.

@jonas

Honestly I don’t know where else to take the scouting scene so we can just leave that a little more obscure if we have to and keep things moving along.

@savannah_grace2009 @jonas @rae

I guess I’m pretty boring, lol. The only pets I’ve ever had were fish, and most of them didn’t stick around long. Bubbles was a goldfish who made it to the extraordinary age of two months before departing this world. (I think two months was the longest any of my goldfish lasted. I had one that only made it three…[Read more]

@jonas @rae

I’m gonna sign off, too! Goodnight!

@rae

That sounds rough!

@rae @jonas

I’ve heard of seafood allergies but not meat.

@jonas

Lol