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Post by Beowuuf on Mar 31, 2008 12:40:32 GMT -5
The problem is new people right now could jump into a big plot - and then what? The next new people have to deal with a substancially changed magnamund and aso the history that the previous posters will already generate.
As I said, I think the tentarius widening and lack of crossing would be an interesting one. In real terms, it doens't affect anyone's current stories, is a one word caveat to new players, but has all sorts of fun and subtle ins and is quite a powerful alteration - trade and travel and the shifting of the politics. Plus splits the south form the north worse, so allows for some huge evil to move less molested by the forces of good.
And the disater would be on the fringes of the lands along the tentarius - quite a large problem all the northern and southern countries could happily ignore while there is suffering and so on going on in the middle!
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Post by Maerin on Mar 31, 2008 12:43:03 GMT -5
In my opinion, a world-changing event with limited/non-existent consequences that can be ignored at one's option is a compromise worse than any event with profound consequences for everyone (and required to be acknowledged by everyone).
As much as I don't like the idea (as mentioned already), I like it even worse if we pull its teeth.
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Post by Doomy on Mar 31, 2008 13:23:26 GMT -5
The other hurdles I need to overcome to be able to get into the WW are more psychological. It's been about 20 years since I did any form of creative writing, so my confidence about it isn't great, and the idea of collaborative writing - where there is no single author with godlike control over everything - seems alien as I've never roleplayed in a group. Hopefully the Casiorn Challenge will help me ease into the proper mindset.
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Post by huntingmoon on Mar 31, 2008 14:38:24 GMT -5
I would agree with the earthquake idea, or maybe even a plauge that strikes down a lot of folks allowing political changes to suit writers needs. That way the missing members of the tower can be presumed missing or dead in the plauges only to return later.
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Post by Beowuuf on Mar 31, 2008 15:59:09 GMT -5
Well the blood plague is sitting there ready to go. although funnily I was goign to tie that int othe Eshnar resolution too if I had to finish it myself, so there you go - it's all continuity!
Ok, I spent some time goign through aon and pulling out posts, then the forum temporarily wouldn't connect - I'll add the previous discussion up above on my earlier post, and hope it doens't overwhelm the thread. There were some good points, but also some long points!
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Post by Beowuuf on Mar 31, 2008 16:05:29 GMT -5
Previous discussion for reference:
Zipp wrote: Maerin wrote: eviltb wrote: Black Cat wrote: Beowuuf wrote: Zipp wrote: Beowuuf wrote: eviltb wrote: Aquila Saber write: Bewildered Badger wrote: Beowuuf wrote: Maerin wrote: Zipp wrote: Simey wrote: Maerin wrote: Simey wrote: Beowuuf wrote: Simey wrote: Maerin wrote: Beowuuf wrote: Bewildered Badger wrote: Wild horse wrote:
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Post by Beowuuf on Mar 31, 2008 16:10:26 GMT -5
Part two:
Beowuuf wrote: Maerin wrote: Aquila Saber wrote: Simey wrote: Beowuuf wrote: Aguila Saber wrote: Hunting Moon wrote: Beowuuf wrote: Aguila Saber wrote: Maerin wrote: Simey wrote:
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Post by zipp on Mar 31, 2008 16:58:34 GMT -5
Well the blood plague is sitting there ready to go. although funnily I was goign to tie that int othe Eshnar resolution too if I had to finish it myself, so there you go - it's all continuity! Ok, I spent some time goign through aon and pulling out posts, then the forum temporarily wouldn't connect - I'll add the previous discussion up above on my earlier post, and hope it doens't overwhelm the thread. There were some good points, but also some long points! Oh wow, the blood plague! That was started back in Cloe's day! I would love to see that make a come back.
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Post by Beowuuf on Mar 31, 2008 17:02:13 GMT -5
If you re-read that Eshnar end post I gave you on Aon, you can see where I decided to potentiall take it - I thought it would be quite an interesting confrontation with echoes to the old stories of purple turtle!
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Post by Simey on Mar 31, 2008 17:30:50 GMT -5
Oh wow, the blood plague! That was started back in Cloe's day! I would love to see that make a come back. Well, it's big. And it's not to my recollection been definitively cured. Best of all, it's already in play, so less inventing some great catastrophe from scratch just to move things on a bit, more bringing back to prominence something ominous that has been simmering away in the background for ages. Perhaps the Elder Magi thought they had it contained, but something happened....or someone deliberately did something really bad....
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Post by zipp on Mar 31, 2008 19:20:32 GMT -5
If you guys are willing to wait a little bit, maybe finish up your current chapter, I'll join you in that one!
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Post by Sarra on Mar 31, 2008 19:50:22 GMT -5
Just so you guys know I am suing for copyright infringement. 'The Dark before the Dawn'?
lol
JK
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Post by Beowuuf on Apr 1, 2008 0:56:17 GMT -5
Hey, it was late and I needed a title as good as the ones BC usually came up with!
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Post by Black Cat on Apr 1, 2008 12:15:07 GMT -5
I agree with Simey: instead of creating a big new catastrophe, why don't you people go ahead with the Plague? Try to find a way to control it, to eradicate it. Like that, it won't affect all the other players already involved in their own story.
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Post by Swiftstrike on Apr 1, 2008 13:10:34 GMT -5
I think it is differcult to join the WW for two reasons mentioned above. I myself never joined in because of both the shear weight of back material and story, but also because I know I am nowhere near the writer that most of the people who participated in the WW are.
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