convore.json/groups/dramatica/ic-concern-benchmark/messages.json

[{"user_id": 7664, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303854387.0486009, "message": "My IC has a Concern of \"The Subconscious\", which in my story is \"His drive to be the alpha male\" -- more simple stated: he wants to be the fun, popular guy.\n\nI'm foiling this by 1) having his actual status go up: he is the 2nd Mate of a ship who then becomes the ersatz captain -- which should be a good thing: he's certainly now very alpha -- but 2) his rabble-rousing buddy (Jan), who used to be an issue for the previous captain, is now a pain in HIS ass. \n\nI thought, at first, that Jan's behavior would be a good benchmark for how well the new Captain was maintaining his popularity and influence. However, IC Benchmark is a measure of the IC's Impact... not his Concern.\n\nIs there a metric to gauge the IC's Concern? Or, suggestions to that end?", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819277}, {"user_id": 7664, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303855367.1796279, "message": "I think I have his Domain and his Concern basically one and the same -- a drawback from this being a \"training script\" with Dram. --> He wants to be Captain. He wants to be the Alpha Male.", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819429}, {"user_id": 7645, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303855869.3455131, "message": "And always think of it in terms of problems. He's fixated on being top dog...how is that a problem for the MC?", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819481}, {"user_id": 7664, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303856690.578975, "message": "The MC is not open to input, but the IC insists that everybody's voice is heard.", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819611}, {"user_id": 7645, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303854549.3807659, "message": "What is your IC's Fixed Attitude?", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819317}, {"user_id": 7664, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303855986.229208, "message": "That part I have worked out -- he undermines the MC whenever he can. Even when the MC manages to \"tame\" him for a bit with a promise, he manages to recast the promise as a lie to get him to behave.", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819496}, {"user_id": 7645, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303857009.3429101, "message": "so the MC has a job he is unworthy of (nepotism), the IC influences him because he knows how to win friends and influence people with his attitude...correct?", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819656}, {"user_id": 7664, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303855599.284791, "message": "Now that I think this through, I think his concern was more like, \"Are other's laughing?\" since he was a bit of a joker. But that didn't really make it into the script, so now it's not really filled in.\n\nIn going after my third draft, I'm seeing this as a weakness. That's what I'm focussing on fixing now. (Not this appreciation, per se, but the IC's three-dimensionality.)", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819453}, {"user_id": 7645, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303855803.724474, "message": "I've always found if you skip the top level parts it makes it harder to make the lower parts work correctly. In other words, your Issue won't be as strong until the Domain and Concern are worked out.", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819473}, {"user_id": 7664, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303856797.724129, "message": "I should add that his Issue is Preconception; specifically that everyone has the preconception that he is unworthy of his job. Having the IC be someone popular who others like to follow doesn't help, especially since the IC's decision making abilities have never been tested.", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819626}, {"user_id": 7664, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303856514.9905961, "message": "This is why I hope we can get a group together, to beat this stuff out in real time.", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819586}, {"user_id": 10814, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303855969.821142, "message": "Or another way of think of Jim's question is, \"How does this influence the MC?\"", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819493}, {"user_id": 7645, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303856364.155241, "message": "I'm still not clear on how his attitude is problematic. What are the MC's issues?", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819573}, {"user_id": 7664, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303857518.7823651, "message": "Yes.", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819706}, {"user_id": 7645, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303857692.3217919, "message": "and so his Concern is...having people fear him, people who aren't angry enough, not enough of the crew desires him sexually, wishing people weren't so drawn to him...?", "group_id": 2515, "id": 819716}, {"user_id": 7664, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303861364.0419581, "message": "The IC's concern?", "group_id": 2515, "id": 820005}, {"user_id": 7645, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303863424.6869941, "message": "Yes, if his concern is Innermost Desires then what are they specifically? It would be neat too if those concerns had an impact on the MC's Concern of the Future, whether or not he'll still have the job, etc.", "group_id": 2515, "id": 820131}, {"user_id": 7664, "stars": [], "topic_id": 21493, "date_created": 1303871087.035954, "message": "I'm so tempted to give them the same insecurity, but I'm going to think a bit harder before I commit to something so narrow...", "group_id": 2515, "id": 820931}]