Okay, so doing RP on Dreamwidth is very similar to RP on LiveJournal, if you were around that corner of the internet back then. If not, I got you fam. Heads-up, I use the terms "journal" and "account" interchangeably- they mean the same thing.
For the sake of a structured example, let's say that a group of nine adventurers go into a dungeon to get a treasure. They immediately find a three-way fork, and split into trios. One group finds the treasure, but it's guarded by a boss fight! The other groups don't know this until they finish exploring their paths, only to have people from the boss fight group run in and tell them to help fight the boss before the party tank dies from distracting it. They make their way back to the boss, but the tank has taken some serious damage and can't keep fighting, so the other eight adventurers fight the boss instead! Then, the tank gets taken to a hospital off-screen, and later the other adventurers come by and give them chocolate and flowers and hugs and stuff.
Visually, it would look something like this...
Post Body: Mod details dungeon and points out the three paths. In a Discord or OOC comm discussion (or even an IC thread if people want) the trios are determined and each gets their own thread within the post.
Optional Pre-Event: IC discussion of who's in which groups, characters shooting the shit beforehand, whatever.
TEAM ONE: Enters the dungeon through the first path.
team one chains a bunch of comments (probably alongside the mod guiding them like a dungeon master) until they finish their chunk of dungeon. comment chains gradually slide to the right so it looked like a giant triangle of rp content.
At one point, someone from the Boss Group appears, and tells Team One to come fight the boss before someone dies. The thread would then (or soon after) end, and be assumed to link up with the boss monster.
TEAM TWO: Enters the dungeon through the second path.
team two chains a bunch of comments (probably alongside the mod guiding them like a dungeon master) until they finish their chunk of dungeon.
At one point, someone from the Boss Group appears, and tells Team Two to come fight the boss before someone dies. The thread would then (or soon after) end, and be assumed to link up with the boss monster.
TEAM THREE: Enters the dungeon through the third path.
team three chains a bunch of comments (probably alongside the mod guiding them like a dungeon master) until they find the boss, oh shit.
There's probably a pretty short thread of the tank in question fighting this boss monster on their own, or maybe it's handwaved altogether. Or maybe it's set aside as something fo the mod and player to write out at their leisure, separate from the group's expectations for the event.
The other party members show up, the tank goes down, and they fight the boss. OR...
BOSS FIGHT: gets its own separate thread in the post so it's not so hard to find
THEN, once that event is done enough, the tank's player makes a new entry in the community located in the hospital as an aftermath post. If the players all agree, it could even be included as an extra thread at the end of the Event post. It's whatever.
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GUIDED THREADS
Date: 2019-01-02 10:52 pm (UTC)Visually, it would look something like this...
Post Body: Mod details dungeon and points out the three paths. In a Discord or OOC comm discussion (or even an IC thread if people want) the trios are determined and each gets their own thread within the post.
THEN, once that event is done enough, the tank's player makes a new entry in the community located in the hospital as an aftermath post. If the players all agree, it could even be included as an extra thread at the end of the Event post. It's whatever.