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Elena Clark wrote: 27 Jun 2024, 21:06 hi everyone ! i saw you were talking about encys (btw i agree with whoever said River's was amazing), could you check mine and tell me what's missing / what i could add ?
ty all !!

Huffle-buddy away! Going back into "Check" mode...!

Night River!

And I totally agree with you Emily! If you throw everything in the Ency, I feel as if you can't make new info and build your character as much!

Ofc Elena! I'll look now!

Elena Clark wrote: 27 Jun 2024, 21:06 hi everyone ! i saw you were talking about encys (btw i agree with whoever said River's was amazing), could you check mine and tell me what's missing / what i could add ?
ty all !!

Your ency is very very pretty and feels very aesthetic and clean! I like it!

I like it Elena! You have everything you need so now you can add whatever you like to it!

I think it looks terrific Elena! The only thing you could play around with if you wanted to is the quote feature! It puts a box around certain information and groups it!

Like this!

Emily Shephard wrote: 27 Jun 2024, 21:05 I'm resisting the urge to go now further than 15 pages in my Ency in total (at most). I feel like in some (not all!) Encys are a little bit oversaturated in information. Not that that's a bad thing, but I don't want to try and throw so much info in mine. I'd rather "Emily" speak for herself in the threads she's in

Last thing before I go offline. I'm planning to do something similar, but instead of putting absolutely everything about my character in my ency, I'm going to add things as I go that River mentions to other characters. So it's still essentially letting River write her own character as I join more threads and add info in ways that feel natural, but I'll still have a fallback place where all of what's essentially "canon" in River's life will be. It'll mostly be for myself so that I don't repeat myself to certain characters or leave plot hols/contradict something mentioned before

Elena Clark wrote: 27 Jun 2024, 21:06 hi everyone ! i saw you were talking about encys (btw i agree with whoever said River's was amazing), could you check mine and tell me what's missing / what i could add ?
ty all !!

I really like your aesthetic! You could possibly add a thread tracker or relationship chart? They might come in handy later on as you post more and more

(Oops, just realised I double posted. Sorry T^T)

River Luxley wrote: 27 Jun 2024, 21:12

Emily Shephard wrote: 27 Jun 2024, 21:05 I'm resisting the urge to go now further than 15 pages in my Ency in total (at most). I feel like in some (not all!) Encys are a little bit oversaturated in information. Not that that's a bad thing, but I don't want to try and throw so much info in mine. I'd rather "Emily" speak for herself in the threads she's in

Last thing before I go offline. I'm planning to do something similar, but instead of putting absolutely everything about my character in my ency, I'm going to add things as I go that River mentions to other characters. So it's still essentially letting River write her own character as I join more threads and add info in ways that feel natural, but I'll still have a fallback place where all of what's essentially "canon" in River's life will be. It'll mostly be for myself so that I don't repeat myself to certain characters or leave plot hols/contradict something mentioned before

Not a bad idea! I've somewhat been doing something similar though it's mostly for the bigger parts of Emily's canon - on my first page I have little yearly summaries that combine story info in threads and small little parts of her life together

And then there's my Fan-Made Soundtrack pages to accompany most of my threads. Some are left to the imagination of other players who come across it

Ty for compliments everyone and yes why not a thread track and a character chart !
Do you have examples of how I could make those ? I don't know where to start / what to put in it

Elena Clark wrote: 27 Jun 2024, 21:17 Ty for compliments everyone and yes why not a thread track and a character chart !
Do you have examples of how I could make those ? I don't know where to start / what to put in it

You can look here for examples/inspiration!