[OOC][PLOT] The Fourth Thread of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals

[robkelk]

So... the Halloween Party story. The dragging-its-heels, growing-like-Topsy Halloween Party story. I'm going to see at least that story finished, even if it kills me.

I've tossed a couple of "prep" scenes onto the wiki, giving Tomoyo and Urd a bit more to do and giving Mira some screen time. I have also at least started storyboarding the Sosuke/Mikoto sparring match - that's the last big scene that still needs to be written. However... some characters don't have any spotlight time yet. Many of these characters are from what have become NPC apartments, so I'm not too worried about them, but there are some from the "big three" (Ottawa, LA, and San Antonio) who still need spotlight time.

The Ottawa group is pretty well represented, but Luna and Artemis don't appear at all yet, and Last Order is only seen in passing in one scene.

The L.A. group is pretty well represented at the party, but Akira, Athena, Sonomi, Kero-chan, and Mr. Tadakichi don't yet appear at all. (I suppose Sonomi could stay home to hand out treats alongside Toya and Yukito... but then she'd miss out on networking with everyone else. Tadakichi probably should stay home.) Fujitaka is only in one short scene, although he gets roughly half the lines in that scene. Maya and President Aria only appear in Akari's sidestory.

The San Antonio group... oh, the San Antonio group. The hosts of this party aren't very visible at all, excepting Ben. And almost everybody there still haven't picked their costumes. Mihoshi is in one scene. That's one more than Tenchi, Ayeka, Kaname, Chihiro, and Sora get. Sasami is mentioned as being in the kitchen the next morning. Sousuke, Teletha, Kurz, and Mao aren't very visible yet, but I still have that sparring match between Sosuke and Mikoto to finish writing - Tessa and the AS pilots can discuss their opinions of the match with each other as it's taking place.

And then there's the other buildings' displacees and managers, all of whom are barely present:

• Dublin: Meg has one scene, and 33-Stars is mentioned once.
  
• Montreal: Rin is mentioned once.
  
• Penscacola: Ritsuko, Maya, River, Simon, and Jayne each have one line. Rei is mentioned once.