WWG V:WhiteChapel OOC Discussion

[TatteredShoeLace]

No offense to you, but I know that Cantr is full of great RPers, just thought I'd see some more old english in here. Just a mini-rant.

[Dee]

Okay I'll try to be more rational next time, I promise.

[AoM]

*sighs* Okay. I think I understand the voice now... well... not entirely, but going by literature based around the 1880's, I have an idea...

[Nixit]

Sorry... but I don't really have the time to look up 1800s literature...

[CFWG Voice]

Here's a slight hint for you all...

And from a rooftop, one person saw everything, and wondered how this situation could benefit him...should he save the village or damn it? His unseen grin held the answer...

[Sparkle]

Yeah...we figured that much out. I just got lost when TSL began speaking of 1800 literacy...I don't fancy myself with that type of reading...I'm more of a fiction kind of girl.

[TatteredShoeLace]

And whose to say it isn't fiction? I'd certainly hope it is. But AoM is a smart cookie, I think he's got it.

[mortaine]

Actually, I've kept in period by calling for investigations-- although there was a lot of superstition in Victorian England, there was also a much greater emphasis on science, and London's first police force was formed in the mid-nineteenth century. Jack the Ripper was a heavily investigated case, albeit unsuccessfully. Nonetheless, there were great blind spots in criminal law-- for instance, the first and foremost suspects would be poor and male-- it would be unheard of to suspect a woman of committing murder using any weapon other than poison (this is how Lizzie Borden was acquitted, in fact-- no one believed it was possible).

I am trying to figure out why you'd like more "old English," though.... you must not be speaking of the language or literature known as Old English, which ceased existing as a living language sometime around 1066....

The "Love Hurts" song threw me.... I couldn't figure out how to politely say "But Dee, dear, that song won't be composed for another hundred years..." and then I just kind of wondered if we were going for a Moulin Rouge kind of thing (you know, wildly inappropriate music for the time setting....) and I let it drop.

Um. Quite. Yes, you all should ask the bookseller. But don't expect her to talk to anyone accusing her of murder.

[Sparkle]

Oh really? Then AoM needs to come over here and shed some light on me cause I am totally in the dark. It's not my fault I wasn't into that kinda thing growing up...you know how young girls can be.

[AoM]

Well, if you were one of the poor sob's who shelled out money to see "the league of extraordinary gentlemen" you would have an idea of the fictionalized characters that were set in that time period. Jekyl and Hyde is one example... Sherlock Holmes and Van Helsing were others... I think we have yet another dramatic role amongst us.

*smiles* I think it would be fairer to the spirit of the game if I didn't go out and blurt my hypothesis, although the more I think about it, the more I think I know what it is...

[Sparkle]

Oh, ok. We are thinking of these people...not just using their names as characters. LOL I'm so slow...don't pay me any mind.

[RainKing]

I agree we should try and keep it as close to reality (the reality of the 1880's in London that is) as possible but it's impossible to be 100% correct.

First of all we all have different amount of knowledge of what those times were like. I try to incorporate what I know in my character but I must admit I don't know that much and I don't have the time to do any research.

Secondly some of the things that we do know we have to ignore for the sake of the game. If no wealthy man or any women could ever be a suspect then the game wouldn't be that fun.

That's what I think anyway, feel free to disagree

[Nixit]

I'm assuming, that since this game is more like 1800's thing, that OOC reasoning is not allowed... right?

[Yo_Yo]

Well its a good thing I was killed. I'd of butchered it. I was going to call everyone chap and say Jolly alot. Jolly Right. Jolly 'o. The list goes on and on.

[TatteredShoeLace]

Yo_Yo, I would have loved to see it, regardless of its correctness.