Talk:Offline/Contributor's Guide

Misc

Is Uncle Dave Yulia and May's dad, or is there another Uncle/Aunt here who is their parent(s)?

For the adults, I generally haven't noted their siblings except in the case of Uncle Mike and Auntie Grace because it is explicitly stated they are step-siblings. This implies the family tree is a little more complicated and not every one is necessarily a blood relative. Not sure if that needs to be important to the story, but perhaps it would shift Justices view of some family members if he puts together it's not technically incest. Then again, maybe his dad is the only one who is half siblings with everyone, making justice the only one with no none blood cousins to mess around with.

(That set me off trying to figure out how it works since Auntie Grace is the youngest and now I have to share: The year is [the past]. Justice's grandparents are both married to different people, but have an affair that results in Justice's dad. Grandma gets away with the lie for some years, and in the mean time Auntie Grace is born. One day, both of Grandparents' spouses find out about the affair and call for divorce. Feeling they can't trust any of the children are legitimate, they give Grandparents full custody. Grandparents marry and raise their family of horny step siblings plus the one half sibling in the middle.) --LukeJ (talk) 04:11, 23 December 2022 (CET)

Format

I like the format changes! I know you are still playing with it but I wanted to build on your ideas. It's too bad I can't develop on a branch or something. If any changes I make interfere with your plans, feel free to revert the changes. I am also making changes on the template page so if those changes interfere with your plans, also feel free to revert those as well. If jumping in while you are in the middle of experimenting was super annoying, let me know and I'll wait for you to finish next time. --LukeJ (talk) 03:39, 11 January 2023 (CET)

Mostly all I've ended up doing is move some of your changes to the character sheet template so it automatically matches for all the characters. I was hoping to make a template for households, but the complexity level jumped when I looked for a way to a have a template with two parameter which are variable length lists of characters. I plan to do a little formatting on the events list next. --LukeJ (talk) 05:32, 11 January 2023 (CET)

Thanks! The template thing is neat. I'm not so good with those! I think I'd like the character name on the template to go in the right column if you can make that work. I'll eventually fill in more details but this is all I can do for now. Hopefully some of the changes answer your old questions above as well! --Villenia (talk) 06:48, 11 January 2023 (CET)

I made the name span across both columns making it centered on the table now. I had assumed everyone was just Dad's side of the family since his brother organized it so I'm glad to know Mom has siblings here as well. It's also great to know Yulia and May's mom since I want Jay to have an awkward conversation with her the night after May loses her panties in the lake. --LukeJ (talk) 07:13, 11 January 2023 (CET)

Roughly filled out the remaining named characters. Plan on adding a couple more, but there can be a few other nondescript kids or adults present who can pop up while writing that don't have to be detailed here, extended family that Justice wouldn't especially care about since he might hardly ever meet them again. Always intended on keeping things flexible there and Justice's general disinterest in the rest of the family makes that easy. --Villenia (talk) 08:10, 12 January 2023 (CET)