User blog comment:ShonenChicoBoy/Thanksgiving and the Other Turkey in the Room/@comment-2089817-20161125033743

I'll kill you for that last comment later when I'm not so stuffed and sleepy from being stuffed. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, and everybody else

Actually, because of that, I am not coherent enough to make a full statement in response to your blog, at least not right now, but I'll try to make some brief points before knocking off for the night.

The first thing is that I wholeheartedly agree with your outlook on it. Granted, I don't really think we have a power level problem at the moment, since we seem to be at the Lieutenant level at the last RP and the Coven itself is diverse in its power hierarchy. But leaving that aside, everything else you said is spot on. In particular, when it comes to character interaction, I feel like we should do something similar to what TWD (the show) is doing right now. They took the time to devote the second episode of the current season toward introducing the Kingdom and the major characters there, the basic interactions within their group and so on. Similarly, the third episode was the same, but for the Sanctuary, showing the system that the Saviors follow. The problem with this, however, is that it might start making us go off in different directions, so if we do do something like this, these sort of chapters need to be short and to the point.

Character interaction is definitely key, and with the Coven as our Big Bad, the main focus right should be the Gotei 13 (as the central "good" guys) gathering information on them as quickly as possible. This can be carried out by having the Gotei 13 split off and pursuing different leads, which inevitably result in interactions with the Coven one way or another. You have one group of people venturing into Hueco Mundo. Another group investigates spiritually active zones in the living world. Et cetera, something along those lines basically. As the Gotei continues gathering information, and of course being proactive in finding and protecting the fragments, they are more than likely to run into the Coven more and more frequently, which will only cause the Masked Man to start sending in the heavy hitters (Sorcerers, eventually Archmages, and himself eventually as well) which causes the conflicts to escalate gradually. But that's what we need to do, keep to the singular focal plot point of "gathering information".