It was way back in January that Forever Knight fans (or at least the mailing list fandom) held its fourteenth war. Hard to believe it's nearly the end of June already! Six months, pretty well; and I've only just finished writing the article for War 14 for the Forever Knight Wiki.
War is always both energizing and exhausting—though, admittedly, I'm speaking from the vast experience of having played in only two wars. At any rate, the "war buzz" kept me going through the editing of my own contributions, which have been on my website for months now. When it came to writing up the article on War 14 for the wiki, though, that was another matter entirely.
You see, I wanted this time to do the job properly.
Of course, I had to include the basic information: what the premise had been, and which factions had played. And a link to the archive—which, since the War Mistress didn't make a warsite means the automated Yahoo!group archive of all WAR posts. Indeed, most of the wiki articles on the previous wars include this sort of information.
However, I also wanted to provide a synopsis of the war, pretty well day to day. No war write-up had so far included that level of detail; but, for our (rather smallish) current wars, it seemed feasible. And, indeed, it has been done...piecemeal...and been up since some time in February.
That left the final part of the article—and that was where I got distracted by minor duties elsewhere (such as writing a couple of stories for![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rarewomen). Nevertheless, it has been nagging at me that I left the article unfinished. You see, War 14 did have its problems; and I felt it was important to write those up as well.
Now, anyone who has been in a War will probably say at this point that all wars can, at times, get a bit fraught. If you didn't participate in War 14, though, you won't realize just how bad it got. By the middle of the second week, the players were on the point of mutiny. You see, our War Mistress was a micro-manager—and War is not supposed to be played that way!
Anyway, the question of having another war came up this week; and, as a result, my conscience smote me and I returned to the article and finally finished it. The "Behind the Scenes" section (at the bottom portion of the page) is extensive and detailed. However, it is more than merely descriptive but also analytical. I hope it is also reasonably dispassionate as to p.o.v., but not expressed without humour.
You can find the article here.
War is always both energizing and exhausting—though, admittedly, I'm speaking from the vast experience of having played in only two wars. At any rate, the "war buzz" kept me going through the editing of my own contributions, which have been on my website for months now. When it came to writing up the article on War 14 for the wiki, though, that was another matter entirely.
You see, I wanted this time to do the job properly.
Of course, I had to include the basic information: what the premise had been, and which factions had played. And a link to the archive—which, since the War Mistress didn't make a warsite means the automated Yahoo!group archive of all WAR posts. Indeed, most of the wiki articles on the previous wars include this sort of information.
However, I also wanted to provide a synopsis of the war, pretty well day to day. No war write-up had so far included that level of detail; but, for our (rather smallish) current wars, it seemed feasible. And, indeed, it has been done...piecemeal...and been up since some time in February.
That left the final part of the article—and that was where I got distracted by minor duties elsewhere (such as writing a couple of stories for
rarewomen). Nevertheless, it has been nagging at me that I left the article unfinished. You see, War 14 did have its problems; and I felt it was important to write those up as well. Now, anyone who has been in a War will probably say at this point that all wars can, at times, get a bit fraught. If you didn't participate in War 14, though, you won't realize just how bad it got. By the middle of the second week, the players were on the point of mutiny. You see, our War Mistress was a micro-manager—and War is not supposed to be played that way!
Anyway, the question of having another war came up this week; and, as a result, my conscience smote me and I returned to the article and finally finished it. The "Behind the Scenes" section (at the bottom portion of the page) is extensive and detailed. However, it is more than merely descriptive but also analytical. I hope it is also reasonably dispassionate as to p.o.v., but not expressed without humour.
You can find the article here.
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