User blog:Bzero/Characters without Players

We've had some question on the subject, so I thought we’d establish a basic theme so everyone has the same assumptions about characters that lack players.

As the Transformers series bible stated, “Although all of the Autobots use the mother ship as headquarters, many of them are out on patrol (to advance story action as well as to limit the number of characters in each scene).” The same goes for the MUX. Even when only a handful of players are on, Icly the faction bases are not empty ghost towns.

In character, Earth is still teaming with humans and Transformers. The focus of each night’s “episode” is with whatever characters are online, but that doesn’t mean all the other characters have ceased to exist. Icly Cobras, Joes, and Transformers are still active, even if at any given time most are out patrolling, conveniently unavailable for RP.

The facheads are a slightly different story, since there needs to be a good reason if they don’t respond to a major crisis. We’ll work that out on a case-by-case basis. In general, though, don’t assume your characters are acting in a vacuum – but on the other hand, they are the ones on the scene of tonight’s action, so they’re the ones that need to respond and take care of business. Every one else is busy. ;)