The second, is there a way to play a scene with more than one player using the message system?

Rysiek wrote:

If I might ask another question... the famous russian patronymics DID work back then,right? So something like Arkadi Kirilovich Renko would be a name? I think whether Władysławowina would work or, due to the russians it should be a more russian name for Marias father instead. And since patronymics seem very official... she would use it when expected to state her full name (I wish people who try to write that down luck, even if it isn't Grzegorz Bręczyszczykiewicz ze Szczebrzeszyna w powiacie Lękołody.)

No offense meant, but I take it you don't really know that much about Russia, do you? I encourage reading a few of the Russian classics of the 19th Century, they'll give you a good idea of how Russia operated back in the day. Yes, a Russian middle-name would be derived from the father's name with the difference depending on the gender of the child. Patronymics are not exceptionally formal - they are, at times, used in replacement of the surname.

I feel like I have to point out that some of a character's origin details are actually really important to them. But not always in a 'this is their nationality therefore they fit X stereotype'way. For example, I have a secondary FL character, Siobhan O'Malley, who is Irish, and angry, but the anger comes from actual historical stuff. The Irish Potato Famine happened not long before the Fall is supposed to occur, and Queen Victoria et al worsened it, leading to many deaths. Therefore my character has a very specific grudge, from an experience she wouldn't have had as part of her history if she was, say, Bavarian.

Yes indeed, plenty might, but not that specific grudge. Sometimes culture and history can be the making of a character, I think? Like thinking on what superstitions they grew up with, what traditions, to determine how they might react to something. For example having a Russian character who gives odd numbers of flowers to people because even numbers are for funerals traditionally. (This one I got from a blog by a Russian person telling people about it to avoid a faux pas.)

Vavakx Nonexus wrote:

[OOC: ARISE, O THREAD OF USE AND DUSTY TOMB, FOR IT IS I, V. N., THAT SUMMONS YOU.
Necromatic rites completed.]

How would one go about managing an RP based on the Great Game? I've wanted to attempt such an RP, one-on-one, of course, and it is quite interesting how others would attempt to turn the Game into Roleplay and deal with the mystery-based essence of it.

OOC: I would probably suggest setting up a thread here in the forums that acts as a meeting grounds (i.e. bar, alleyway, marketplace) or someplace where a lot of activity within the Great Game goes on if you want a large amount of people otherwise pming and in game messages might do the trick.