Retroactive training?
Jan 1, 2018 13:54:56 GMT -6
Post by Kheisa on Jan 1, 2018 13:54:56 GMT -6
It's (obviously) been a long time since I was here, and I've been slowly catching up on the updates to mechanics, stats, etc etc. I realized that I can't really play with my bonded Draconic, Kiro, without "training" Speak, because he's not of the minimum level and I haven't done any dedicated teaching posts. (Unless there's some kind of mechanic exception that I haven't seen yet.)
I was wondering, would it be acceptable for me to make a thread in which I retroactively teach him Speak, as a hatchling, as though I'm telling the story of him learning to Speak in 150-250-word chunks? That way I can point to it as his Speak teaching and also get him up to that minimum level, and it doesn't weirdly rewrite almost the entire relationship between Kiro and Kheisa because she has to teach him Speak now, post-soul-bonding, as an adult Draconic.
Also, I saw a thread from ~2011(ish?) in which it was mentioned that Draconic training is pretty much just on an honor system basis. Is that still the case, or do I just post for any training in the regular training thread?
Posting here so nothing gets lost in the cbox.
Edit: For practicality's sake, what I'd probably want to do is get his Speak training started in one thread, probably get him up to speaking rudimentary sentences (about ~20ish dedicated training posts), and then close that thread and continue as normal with him practicing and learning while doing other things, which I can justify IC. (I can't justify him not knowing how to talk at all before now, but I can justify him speaking at sub-fluent levels.)
Since I'm not trying to retroactively hit a level or loyalty req I missed but just trying to make normally hitting the level/training req make more IC sense, I'm hoping that's okay.
I was wondering, would it be acceptable for me to make a thread in which I retroactively teach him Speak, as a hatchling, as though I'm telling the story of him learning to Speak in 150-250-word chunks? That way I can point to it as his Speak teaching and also get him up to that minimum level, and it doesn't weirdly rewrite almost the entire relationship between Kiro and Kheisa because she has to teach him Speak now, post-soul-bonding, as an adult Draconic.
Also, I saw a thread from ~2011(ish?) in which it was mentioned that Draconic training is pretty much just on an honor system basis. Is that still the case, or do I just post for any training in the regular training thread?
Posting here so nothing gets lost in the cbox.
Edit: For practicality's sake, what I'd probably want to do is get his Speak training started in one thread, probably get him up to speaking rudimentary sentences (about ~20ish dedicated training posts), and then close that thread and continue as normal with him practicing and learning while doing other things, which I can justify IC. (I can't justify him not knowing how to talk at all before now, but I can justify him speaking at sub-fluent levels.)
Since I'm not trying to retroactively hit a level or loyalty req I missed but just trying to make normally hitting the level/training req make more IC sense, I'm hoping that's okay.