Floating Castle - Collaborative RP Discussion

[Scarab]

I'll go with Endless this time around. I've heard his recording efforts before, I think he'll do a great job.

Jack would also have done a great job of course. Can I keep you on file for future roles, Jack?

[AMimsyBorogove]

You could have Jack do the miscellaneous voices, like the people shouting in response to Seire's hamminess, or the thief boss.

[Endless Sea]

I'll go with Endless this time around. I've heard his recording efforts before, I think he'll do a great job.

Jack would also have done a great job of course. Can I keep you on file for future roles, Jack? ;)

^^ thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou

[JackAlsworth]

I'll go with Endless this time around. I've heard his recording efforts before, I think he'll do a great job.

Jack would also have done a great job of course. Can I keep you on file for future roles, Jack?

Of course.

[Adell]

Underground Quest: The True Self

Victims: Fade and Anji

Time limit: 2 days from now. (so around 9:00 on friday)

Not the best way to start your day for either of you. Somehow, you're not exactly certain how, you have awoken within some unfamiliar section of the Underground. Vague memories of some sort of struggle is the last thing you remember before waking here. This is bad on multiple fronts; the church, city watch, and the guilds have been trying to form some sort of agreement about entering and leaving the underground for the safety of the city, and you two most definitely did not go down here without anyone’s permission, which is bound to effect relations. What’s really bad, though, is that you woke up in the Underground. Find your way back out, but be wary, the shadows are watching you…

GM Notes: Your shadows are not your own, but some sort of demonic creature. These creatures hide in the shadows of their prey, which allows them to learn all there is about them. Once they probe the mind of their prey enough, they become a twisted physical form of the real individual (Skill/abilities and all), and use what they know about who their mimicking against them, with the ultimate intention of killing them and assuming their role. Expect lots of manipulation of emotions, and revealing aspects of their personalities that the real you isn't proud of. Usually, a monster like this would be way out of the league of adventures this early into the castle, but it seems like these weaker versions were planted on you intentionally while you were asleep… and don't forget the usually terrifying riffraff down here. (Wow the gm note is longer than the mission prompt, whoops)

[AMimsyBorogove]

Hey, Pixel/Eli, by the way, could I ask for a small extension on the time limit for me and Vic on Think of the Bookworms? It seems he's been really busy this week, and hasn't really been able to work on our collab. As it is, there's not much I can do but wait until he has time to write up his parts, making finishing the quest by noon tomorrow somewhat... difficult.

[Scarab]

Okay, so I'm definitely making a habit of this, guys, but look who popped out of my practise today. well, I say “popped out” he actually showed up kicking and screaming (or given that it’s Seire, the legendary phantom thief, maybe back flipping and laughing would be a better way to announce his arrival), as you can no doubt tell from my really scruffy pencil work, especially on that hand. Oh well.

[Adell]

Quest: The True self

Successful!

Rewards:

Fade: (Replica) "Prince Slayer" : A momento of your greatest failure, this is the sword your shadow created to fight against you with, the same sword you used the night the prince died. There is a stain of blood on it that never seems to wash away. Otherwise, it functions identically to your normal sword. (hope you can get this back from the city guard!)

Anji: The satisfaction of hugging your enemy into defeat... and by that I mean your encounter with your shadow has also brought back some older memories, and has rekindled some of your forgotten thieving techniques. You recall the ways you use to sneak by your targets undetected, letting you swipe all their stuff like 1, 2, 3. In general, Anji's reward is her skill at sneaking has gone up.

Also, one more thing. Underneath all the stuff in your bag was one OTHER addition, a small wood talisman with the symbol of a fireball on it. While holding this object, you suddenly seem to have both the knowledge and the capability of using a simple-level fireball spell, but that knowledge quickly dissipates when you let go of the talisman. Once used, the talisman will break, becoming useless. (in otherwords, you get one free cast of the basic 'fire' element ability, then its gone forever)

For some reason, you both expected tarot cards or something to show up after your victory, but no such reward seems to have manifested. Better luck next time!

[Pixelmage]

So... FC is getting big. And about to get even bigger. There are three new things we're intending to add to the game:

1. A bestiary - Say... Hector just fought a Chlorofiend in the underground. Nice enemy and cool enough to appear again, but it's been a while, you don't remember exactly what the enemy is... So you just check the thread there to get the Cliff's Notes version of the monster. So that everyone is consistent with each other as we go.
2. NPC reference - Some NPCs pay major roles, like Legias for one example. Similar to the bestiary, this is to give a quick overview of who these NPCs are, what their role is, their appearance and who is in charge of writing them, in case you need to have approval to write them yourself. In the same vein, this is to enable everyone to get the important details without having to trawl through the 3 game threads for their appearances.
3. Timeline - Akin to the ARG one, a very laconic list of the events of the game, for anyone who joins later or spends time away to be able to jump in and play without being required to catch up on the whole span of posts before actually being able to write one.

Even without that... We're pretty big even now. On Floor 2 out of 100.

So, what I'd like to ask you guys is, if you agree with and want FC to have it's own Sub-Forum. We've spoken with the mod on this one, and he will move our threads to a subforum if there is a majority approval. All we need to know is your thoughts/questions. Thanks!

[Blurred_9L]

Quoting myself from the chatroom: "I'm in favor of moving it into another subforum"

And yes, all of those would be greatly helpful Pix.

Anyway, if you need help with anything, you just have to ask

[Lordxana0]

Should be its own subforum. In saying this I think that this should be the only subforum RPG thing. Not saying that any of the other future or current RP's don't deserve it, but if we make all big RP's there own sub then things would become annoying

[Endless Sea]

Hm. Not sure if an entire subforum is actually warranted- why not just use the first post of the discussion as a hub and link to everything from there? Then again, if the mod is gonna allow it and you think it's necessary, then I certainly won't object if you move them anyways.

[Pixelmage]

My reasoning is the sheer amount of threads this encompasses.
And, there have been complaints about the Side-Stories being hard to follow, due to the anachronistic nature of the posts, having a subforum would allow us to make Multi-post global stories, such as the current aftermath and future ones, have their own self-contained threads so they don't mix with posts that are not related to themselves. Such as Salvantas' quest followup and Adell's Luca's posts.

To address Endless post: Yes, that's exactly what we'll do if we decide against or cannot have a subforum. I just refer to the above as to why I believe it's worth some consideration. And one single massive hub would be unwieldy. Consider the amount of links we'll have once we get 3 more floors under our belt? We'd break the character limits just on http indexation.

[eli_gone_crazy]

Also to address Endless' point. (we did the math guys!)

so, you want us to make OP edits per post? we can fit 200 turns into a single post. No biggie, right?

We will average at least 10 quests per floor, so we will have completely maxed out the MAIN THREAD hub in twenty floors. This isn't counting dungeon, boss, or side stories. this is just the main thread quests

So, by the twentieth floor, we've maxed out the hub... and the castle is at least 5 times that size.

This is the main reason behind the move... this thing has gotten... well, it's Aincrad.

[Endless Sea]

My reasoning is the sheer amount of threads this encompasses.
And, there have been complaints about the Side-Stories being hard to follow, due to the anachronistic nature of the posts, having a subforum would allow us to make Multi-post global stories, such as the current aftermath and future ones, have their own self-contained threads so they don't mix with posts that are not related to themselves. Such as Salvantas' quest followup and Adell's Luca's posts.

To address Endless post: Yes, that's exactly what we'll do if we decide against or cannot have a subforum. I just refer to the above as to why I believe it's worth some consideration. And one single massive hub would be unwieldy. Consider the amount of links we'll have once we get 3 more floors under our belt? We'd break the character limits just on http indexation.

I assume you're referring to links to all of the individual missions and stuff? Why not just link those in the beginning of each floor/subtopic or something? Or maybe the timeline, since you're making an entire topic out of that, apparently?

[narrativedilettante]

I think a subforum would be a good solution.

[Sicon112]

I've already said I have no problems with a move.

[Pixelmage]

I assume you're referring to links to all of the individual missions and stuff? Why not just link those in the beginning of each floor/subtopic or something? Or maybe the timeline, since you're making an entire topic out of that, apparently?

Valid point. But even condensing to that, and meshing the Index and the Timeline into one thing. There's the 3 new threads to go up, and the Side-Stories that can be organized with a subforum, but can't really be split into multiple threads here, otherwise we'd have pages of FC threads in the area that's to be shared by all RPs.

Main Thread, Character Sheet, Discussion, Underground, Bestiary, NPC Sheet, Timeline/Index and Side-Stories. As they are total 8 threads. 9 If we don't want to make the Index more complicated to follow than it has to be. And that's not accounting for Aftermath-Like side-events.

[Tohrinha]

I've no objections.

[Scarab]

I also have no objections. seriously, I'm going to end up with a side story going too at the rate this is going, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

[Victin]

I have no objections and I'm willing to help if needed (seriously, count on me ). A subforum and timeline, bestiary and important NPC list would be very useful. Though each would have its own thread.

[Endless Sea]

I assume you're referring to links to all of the individual missions and stuff? Why not just link those in the beginning of each floor/subtopic or something? Or maybe the timeline, since you're making an entire topic out of that, apparently?

Valid point. But even condensing to that, and meshing the Index and the Timeline into one thing. There's the 3 new threads to go up, and the Side-Stories that can be organized with a subforum, but can't really be split into multiple threads here, otherwise we'd have pages of FC threads in the area that's to be shared by all RPs.

Main Thread, Character Sheet, Discussion, Underground, Bestiary, NPC Sheet, Timeline/Index and Side-Stories. As they are total 8 threads. 9 If we don't want to make the Index more complicated to follow than it has to be. And that's not accounting for Aftermath-Like side-events.

Ah, I see what you mean. I think.

[Blurred_9L]

o.o Even scissors are dangerous when given to Mimsy...
I didn't actually expect him to use them >.>

[Victin]

o.o Even scissors are dangerous when given to Mimsy...
I didn't actually expect him to use them >.>

Me neither, but then I realized it was Mimsy I was talking about That's what I was talking about on the chatroom. But you couldn't tell because I was being cryptic.

[Qara-Xuan Zenith]

Weighing in belatedly, I'm... still not quite sure if that's necessary. *cough* There is an index. *cough*
If general opinion is it would be helpful, and wouldn't create silly precedent, I don't have any objections (other than that it will make index maintenance that much more difficult ). I just think that you don't need to rush into it-- indexation of five or six more threads in the main RP subforum isn't that difficult to keep track of.