State of Decay OOC

Hey y’all! Just some notes on my current plans for February and beyond. These are the plots I intend on wrapping up:

The Peace Summit plot will continue the meeting at Whitney this week, which will be the last business-as-normal meeting. The February meeting at Lundegaard will serve as a trial for Roswell, where his punishment will be decided.

The Feral Cougar plot will be wrapped in February with an action-oriented event.


The Red Talon/Fairfield group plotline will be wrapped throughout February with a final confrontation occurring in Early March.

After these three plotlines are wrapped up, I would love to pivot the game into a slower more slice-of-life and sandbox format. This will be a much more relaxed format and focused more on character interactions and providing a space for people to write their lines, and less community-wide plotline oriented. I’d love to have a space for writing characters and their arcs in a long-term fashion, without the level of energy required to run (or keep up with, as a player) multiple plot events per month. My vision is that I will continue to provide a month overview of happenings in the community and environment which players will be able to use as prompts for their characters’ own plotlines however they’d like to.

I have two broad concepts for this post-Summit-plot phase of the game. The first is a direct continuation of the events of the game, with the focus being the characters working on the construction of the supercommunity. Monthly plot prompts would focus on scavenging and gathering resources and specific projects.


The second is doing a one-year time jump, with the focus of the community prompts focusing more on day-to-day post apocalypse life in the supercommunity of Lowl. I think this would provide a good opportunity to re establish characters, write off any characters who will not be continuing on, and generally do a soft reboot. Monthly plot prompts would focus more on the human drama of the town rather than action or adventure.

Thanks again for hanging with me! I know things have been a little slower-paced since the holidays, but I’m hoping we can all settle into a more relaxed low key rhythm. Let me know your thoughts, especially vis-a-vis no time jump vs time jump if you're interested in staying on after the resolution of the Summit plotline.