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Post by Bowen Aero on Sept 3, 2015 0:34:59 GMT -5
Here's the short version: An airship-based treasure hunt for a legendary Reaverbot. Any questions?
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Post by Mikéy on Sept 3, 2015 11:48:18 GMT -5
The first and only question that strikes me is probably "canon characters only?"
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Post by Bowen Aero on Sept 3, 2015 15:01:07 GMT -5
Canon characters and MMLS Members. I figure people are sick of OCs around here. Should probably wipe that database now, at this point. At any rate, you go in as yourself, albeit altered to fit the standards of the common Carbon folk. I'm giving this option seeing as there really aren't enough Canons that are eligible to go on this adventure to warrant making a full story about.
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Post by satoh on Sept 3, 2015 21:17:50 GMT -5
I can give you a pretty firm maybe. You might want to more explicitly define "normal" though. One assumes not "pirate lord with many minions and a huge involved backstory" as that is kind of obviously out of the norm, but its a lot less certain if one would say "lots of augmented/prosthetic parts" is or is not normal for a Carbon... considering most carbons don't seem to be diggers, and even those that are, aren't universally shown to be all that... mechanical about it.
So, are 'digger' and 'has prostheses' valid? (And lets be honest here, even if we're just playing ourselves, that still is sort of OC, since almost no one here really lives in a world like DASH's. Not naming names.) And for that matter I imagine being myself in a different place at a different time would still be pretty bland, with my only-occasionally-biting-wit being the exception. (Unless you consider acid reflux and back issues interesting I suppose)
But anyway, depending on further developments, and whether I'm free at the time, I may well join... or not. I think I'd like to. I wanted to start an RP before, but I never had a solid direction to take it in so I never started a thread.
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Post by Bowen Aero on Sept 4, 2015 10:52:19 GMT -5
Yes, those options are valid, but so is Pirate, given your power isn't like what the Bonnes' is implied to be. Whether or not it's common, you're still a Carbon. If the "no OCs" rule becomes a hindrance to who can join, I can still change it at this stage.
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Post by satoh on Sept 4, 2015 12:59:22 GMT -5
Yes, those options are valid, but so is Pirate, given your power isn't like what the Bonnes' is implied to be. Whether or not it's common, you're still a Carbon. If the "no OCs" rule becomes a hindrance to who can join, I can still change it at this stage. I'm still unclear by what you mean by 'no OCs' honestly. Any character that is not canon to the series is an OC. (Unless technically you try to play a character that's from another series, which is not OC but is crossover, and should still be avoided)
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Post by Bowen Aero on Sept 4, 2015 23:00:57 GMT -5
By OC, I meant characters that didn't fall under MMLS members.
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Post by Dashe on Sept 5, 2015 11:24:29 GMT -5
I'd be more cool with it if I couldn't already tell from the word go that you're just going to play as yourself, Bowen. Just based on your track record, it'd unquestionably be a lot less iffy with everyone if you strictly stuck to canon only and ditched MMLSers as potential characters. There's got to be at least a hundred NPCs scattered throughout the three games, and the writers did a really awesome job of giving them just enough personality where you have a springboard for building a strong character but also have some guidelines so people don't go crazy. You will not run out of canon characters. Not during the post Red Ash slump, at least. Even at our most busy, I doubt it's even possible to run out of canon characters if you tried, and that's not even counting the ones from the Legends 3 prototype.
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Post by Bowen Aero on Sept 5, 2015 13:18:22 GMT -5
I suppose so. I'm just not sure how well it would go with what characters that have been introduced. It doesn't seem like a great deal of them would be capable of taking on this adventure, seeing as a number of them are nameless civilians. Maybe some sort of middle ground could be made, though, whatever that may be.
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Post by satoh on Sept 5, 2015 21:37:24 GMT -5
Then you haven't planned your scenario fully. Every RP has to take into account the possibility and inevitability that some people will not move the plot forward in any way...
Others will in fact try to steer the plot away from what you intend if they see it going somewhere that bothers them...
And others still will simply want to idly develop their own self-contained story. That last one is really the one you have to think hardest about, because that encompasses the vast majority of RPers.
The most important thing to remember for any true RP, is that if you have a story you really want to tell, you will be disappointed in your players. You can guide the plot, but you can't really control it.
EDIT: and also, if you discount 'OC's you aren't really going to get many interesting characters. I can't think of anyone here that, playing themselves, would be well suited to an adventure story. A comedy, a drama maybe, a laid back slice-of-life, or in my case specifically, an incredibly boring series of monologues directed at no one in particular, followed by complaints about back pain and acid reflux, and tiny bits of macabre trivia.
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Post by Bowen Aero on Sept 5, 2015 22:20:33 GMT -5
Alright, you make a point there. I may reinstate the idea of OCs, if that can help actually advance the story, even if by a little, while at the same time not outright pissing everyone off due to the fact that there are OCs present. At any rate, I have a beginning and an end planned out, with a few mid-story events that will happen based on location. The rest is up to the players, since they're the most independent factor.
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Post by satoh on Sept 5, 2015 22:33:26 GMT -5
That sounds like a reasonable scenario. I don't think OCs in a potentially large RP or one lacking active-role canon characters to fill the roster, (I mean, aside from the Bonnes and Rock, there's not really many canons that could actually get into much of the action) is essentially bad... its really mostly about maintaining order in what an OC can be.
In the end, even if we all took up canon NPCs as roles, they'd basically be OCs anyway since they're only defined as much as NPC dialog allows... which is usually not much.
While I'm not certain I will finalize my decision on the role, I am hereby announcing candidacy for Yuna. Failing that I will likely adapt one of my regulars into a DASHverse equivalent.
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Post by Bowen Aero on Sept 20, 2015 23:38:08 GMT -5
Pardon the slightly necromantic bump, but during a script-writing session, my co-GM made me realise that I haven't set a timeframe for this. I'd like everyone [who is still interested] to know that this occurs after a successful Volnutt rescue, allowing for any known character up-to-date available. I apologise again for the bump, but I feel that information was critical enough to mention.
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