With the increasing number of Events happening in Egypt in Tale 3, my greatest fear is that the Events are going to happen in Tale Four and seemingly no order is given to them.
For this reason it would be my idea to have any event character list codes that refer to events that they partake in, and blurbs about such events. Lets take the bards wedding as a step by step process, both before it was released and after it was completed. The information in the /info of the characters could be something like:
Before the events are finished:
Before:
- B;greetings-001
- The Mithrandu and Ahhutu met.
- B;greetings-002
- Mithrandu comes to Egypt drawing all sorts of plant life.
- B;greetings-003
- Mithrandu lets a secret of hers slip and returns with her results.
- B;greetings-004
- Mithrandu and Ahhutu leave Egypt together with smiles on their faces.
- B;greetings-005
- The big Event.
- B;greetings-006 AND Ktisibios;001
- The big Event Ending.
After:
- B;greetings-001
- Mithrandu and Ahhutu first met at this stage, and both find each other attractive.
- B;greetings-002
- Mithrandu comes to Egypt drawing plant life, and asks to spread the word that she is going to release a challenge to Egypt of growing roses.
- B;greetings-003
- Mithrandu tells the gathered group that she likes Ahhutu, blushing when a player asks her if she loves him.
- B;greetings-004
- Mithrandu and Ahhutu leave Egypt so they can spend time with each other.
- B;greetings-005
- Ahhutu and Mithrandu are now married.
- B;greetings-006 AND Ktisibios;001
- Ktisibios brings a Hot air balloon into Valley of the Kings disturbing the Bard wedding seeing them flee; and Ktisibios landing on a mountain within the Valley.
As we can see this is a long list and might not convey what is going to happen. Sometimes a description doesn't need to be added but having a system in place that Players can link Events together; or not, is in my view a great importance. That way we may find that Ktisibios crashing the Wedding may not actually be the end of the Bards, but a continuation of their overall plot.
Currently there is no way knowing, and while it may take a bit more thinking, it can help Players understand that Events are linked, and how to link them, as using these codes players could if they need to go to the wiki and go to: www.wiki.atitd.net/tale55/Events/PharohDisappears-005. And find out what has been recorded there, and in fact, what things may link to this Event directly, and perhaps even indirectly if the same characters have been used before.