Hi there!
I see several points in this discussion, that we need to discuss. As you know, I am new to GMing a PbP game, never played one before, too. So I just write down my thoughts about this mater with my limited experience on that topic.
1.)
but for clarity and avoiding the repeats, you could PM it with each other then compose the actual discussion.
Now I only wonder what sentence is followed by what.
Thats indeed a bit confusing, even to me. I really liked the funny conversation (that is still going on), but it is getting harder to follow. The two proposed solutions for that problem are: making a post together, or using micro quotes as Durabys suggests.
2.)
However, there is another thing that is bugging me: almost everyone is using his own way of marking what his character is thinking, saying or sanzaing. We should select a system for everyone and stick with it.
For example:
{XYZ} = thoughts;
{XYZ} = sanzai;
[XYZ] = speech and colorize that with your characters color of choice. NPCs are always black.
3.)
None of us players wants to violate the Cannon as presented by Arioch in our portrayal of our characters... though some must happen as we have a limited source of cannon to take our cues from it invariably will happen to some extent.
Thats important for me as a GM as well. I´m trying to stay as close to the canon as possible, but as sunphoenix said, there are areas that are not covered by the sources, so I have to adapt various things or invent new ones for the story. I hope you (and especially Arioch) don´t mind me doing that.
I hope to be able to post it tomorrow.
However, thats why I wrote "for example"...
