Writing Scenes

What Is A Scene?
A storygame scene is a short story (sometimes a very short story) where its plot is shaped by the actions and reactions of at least one personal character. Most commonly, scenes take place at a very specific time and place. The scene usually ends when the PC or PCs leave that location or otherwise resolve what happens in a way that leaves the players satisfied, such as fading to black a sexual tryst. A successful storygame chronicle might have dozens or even hundreds of individual scenes. Something exciting or at least interesting should happen to the PCs in every scene they appear in. Every story needs a story.

Posts
Scenes are written in posts. A typical scene has 2-3 have multiple posters, each of them an active member of that chronicle's troupe. People who are not members of that troupe shouldn't be posting or providing any kind of commentary to scenes as they are being written. A post should have at least one paragraph of 3-7 sentences and has only one author. Each author might detail what is happening to just one of their characters or include details about a mix of PCs and NPCs who are present. Posts happen in a vague chronological order so that characters in a subsequent post are reacting to the words, actions, and events depicted to the previous posts.

A Round Of Posts
Scenes are divided into rounds of posts. Before a storygame scene begins, its players agree to a posting order- who is writing first, second, third, etc.,. Once every player has had an opportunity to either write a post or opts to pass their turn, the first round ends. Event dicing (except for HG/LB Reaction Rolls) should always takes place between rounds. Diced Combat Events can change the post order, giving the player who got the highest event roll result the prerogative to post first and be the narrate the chain of events that then take place.

Solo Scenes
A solo scene has just one author. There might be several personal characters involved, or just one. There could be supporting character or extras too. There doesn't have to be conversation, there doesn't have to be combat, but there needs to be something interesting happening to the character, something that other troupe members will want to read about. The most common solo scenes are introductions. In an introduction, the player is writing about the character for the very first time, establishing who they are and what their initial role in the metaplot is going to be. Writing a short introductory solo for new characters might be something a troupe asks of all its members.

There is no limit to how many solo scenes a player can write for their PC or PCs. Any that are going to be shared and/or archived need to follow the guidelines established in the sandbox of consent just like all other types of scenes.

Mob Scenes
A mob scene is one in each every troupe member is invited to post for at least one of their personal characters. They often depict an event like a wedding, festival, battle or any mass gathering. Mob scenes are very hard to write in a timely fashion. Some troupes might prefer to use voice chat rather than written posts to either RP or simply OOC chat through what happens at these kinds of gatherings. Others may simply let mob scenes be left as open and unarchived for 2-4 weeks with little or no formal posting order then closing it at a pre established time and date.

Personal Scenes
Personal scenes are played exclusively in private because the content is never intended to be part of the chronicle's collaborative storyline. Most often, personal scenes reveal details about the character that the player wishes to keep private. They might also have content that is beyond the chronicle's Sandbox and therefore isn't for public consumption. Personal scenes can be written and kept by the players who write them; they just can't be shared with the troupe or put in the Archive.