The purpose of this Thread is simple Organization of Act II

Main Thread: 4 Members. 10 Posts before, the fruit is ready, and Reyes vanishes.
Arrancar: Reyes
Arrancar: Manda
Soul Reaper/Human:
Soul Reaper/Human:

Sub Thread I: 2-4 Members. No max Length. But try to be at least 2-3 pages.
Arrancar: (1 required)
Arrancar:
Soul Reaper/Human:
Soul Reaper/Human:

Sub Thread II: 2-4 Members. No max Length. But try to be at least 2-3 pages.
Arrancar: (1 required)
Arrancar:
Soul Reaper/Human:
Soul Reaper/Human:

Sub Thread III: 2-4 Members. No max Length. But try to be at least 2-3 pages.
Arrancar: (1 required)
Arrancar:
Soul Reaper/Human:
Soul Reaper/Human:

Sub Thread IV: 1-3 Members. No Max Length. At least 2 pages.
Soul Reaper/Human:
Soul Reaper/Human:
NPC: (can be played by anyone including the person making this thread.)

Now please make a mention of which thread you wish to be involved in and please remember to regard the first Prologue post for sign ups regarding if you are in Act II or not. ALSO be sure to remember first come first serve.

Resolve Drive: Allowed
Thread Rules: Death allowed. (This is mainly meant for unnamed NPC like humans or weaker Arrancar, or even hollows. This can also be used by players should they want or feel like they should die, but is in no way necessary. This is simply added in case two players agreed on the death of another so it could be carried out.)
Comments: Teamwork is key here.

http://www.bleachstory.net/t5065-act-ii-members-attention#68296

That thread is fine as sign ups go. I already told you before that the way the threads get split up will be dependent on how things go IC. There is no point in splitting them up when you don't know how evenly or unevenly the groups will disperse among the threads. Good job, but you're jumping the gun. Two of the arrancar Reyes brought along might end up fighting together against several shinigami. Perhaps a shinigami decides to leave one battle and go to another once it's clear they would be more useful there. There will be 1 main thread that everyone participating will post in at least once as they enter the event. But from there on staff will break the groups into sub-threads based on which individuals clash and how they split up on their own.

The idea is so we don't have to be dependent on other people to be active and post. There are tons of people in Act II-III. This is simply meant to get the ball rolling faster. We don't need another Act I that took a full month to get 1 topic over. This is suppose to streamline it so everyone goes straight to their thread. The arrival and splitting up included in their first post in their individual threads. And as to only 1 person for two arrancar or vice versa. That is why I only put 1 required for the threads. They can be organized any which way, I was just keeping it fair. Because the current way it was set up was so unorganized it would have been a mess and would depend too much on Admins or mods seperating people, this way people simply put themselves in a thread and just get to work.

That was the whole point of this. I honestly don't see anything wrong with it.

there's nothing wrong with it. what he's saying is that we don't know where people will go IC, so we can't really organize them yet. for instance, my character is going to be providing mostly healing support unless he gets dragged into one of the many battles. so for me to put myself into a specific thread would be detrimental to the entire group, as someone would have to leave a thread to get help.

If you think act II will be over in under a month then you're a bit too optimistic about post times. This is no more organized than what I explained. It's only "pre-organized" and boxes the event up before its even begun. I feel the plot will benefit more from having a more organic approach.

I understand you're trying to help and I said you did a good job with it so there is no need to defend your methods or anything. There is nothing wrong with them. But I still feel a more organic approach to how and when we break up the threads will benefit the plot more.

Sure, maybe it will be more work for staff(but really it's the same work, just done at different times as opposed to all at once) but as Mission Mod, I'm the one who needs to worry about that. Granted things came up and I got busy right when the act was supposed to launch. Just have faith in me that while this might seem less organized on the front end, the organization is just delayed. I know what I'm doing.

EDIT: Daemon posting before me has given a good example of why I'm saying we should split the threads up when we NEED to rather than before hand. And he too can see that I never said anything about your work was wrong. You did great work! But sadly it was jumping the gun a bit.

Well obviously I defer to you. So if that's what you feel is right, then obviously we'll do it. But i would recommend using this type of oragnization for when you are ready to split the threads.

In relation to Daemon's post, that is one of the problems I was racking my brain over last night. This in addition to the NPCS actually taking on several opponents separately in other threads seems farfetched to me. Since they would be at 3-2, each arrancar wouldn't have the power to conceivably hold off the multiple foes without resorting to an ass pull of sorts. I'm not too convinced multiple threads would work. The NPCS and Reyes in general all need to support one another as a team just like most PC's. But yeah, no worries. We are a team, Brad. Let's just pull back and regroup. We can take it one step at a time and figure out the best way to approach this.

Well, we will still be breaking things into multiple threads. It's the only way to handle so many people at once without getting bogged down by waiting for posts. But as for the how and whom, that is yet to be seen till things go down IC.
Perhaps one of the NPCs has a power that lets them engage numerous people at once and thus can handle several on their own. Where as the other two might need to team up to hold the shinigami back. It's really up to what everyone does IC when they arrive.

I don't think that Brad intended to split things right before they got started , or at least that's what I interpreted. I concur with the idea that there should be a main plot including entrances and once things get rolling, one can find out who is fighting who and who is doing what. It's not like divided sub plots can't do that, but sub plots based on the outcome of a main plot is more of a original idea since there are more possibilities that way and it leaves more room for the creative rp'er. So, I say we start with one big main plot, that's going to be a huge gathering, but once that's done. Since of coarse we can't just keep everyone bundled up there, just as things become clearer we gradually divide them into smaller posts. Just like Duquin's original plot pointed out. Brad has worked his behind off for this, and I compliment him for that. And in no way I say he's jumping the gun, I'd have to disagree with everyone on that.

It might take more time than a month for act II considering the posting times of everyone. But still, one month can lose a lot of activity if it doesn't have someone eager like me and Brad to keep telling everyone to pull through.