paradisaooc | HOW'S THE GAME?

It's time for another round of Game Discussion, also known as

HOW'S THE GAME?

Here we come together to discuss the game, its plots, the settings, and just about anything we can think of that we'd like to talk about, expand upon, improve, change, etc.

This is not an HMD for players and their characters; this should be about the game's function as a whole and not the people in it. If there is something you feel is absolutely necessary to address that involves a specific person, please IM a mod first to discuss it. We can be reached at valawie (Valerie), fan of todd (TF), or never die ftw (Ashley).

Anonymous will be left off for this round. Sock journals are allowed, but you will have to request comm access to post with them.

Here are the sections that we've come up with. Add your own, and we'll edit it into the list. :)

➜ HOW ARE THE MODS DOING?
➜ HOW IS THE ONE-MONTH APP RULE WORKING?
➜ APPLICATION PROCESS CHANGES
➜ ACTIVITY CHECK
➜ HMD
➜ PARADISA BEYOND
➜ PRISON & PRISONERS

PLOTS
➜ ARE WE READY FOR DARKER PLOTS AGAIN?
➜ WORLD PLOT
➜ MINI EVENTS/PLOTS
➜ WHAT PLOTS DO YOU WANT TO SEE?
➜ WORLD PLOT HIATUS PLOT PROPOSAL

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The projected world plot hiatus was around 5-6 months, so I built the plot around that timeline, actually alskjd which is why it includes so much! If it was shorter, I would definitely edit/change a lot of what is included as of the proposed skeleton, but I needed to fit in enough to explore and happen to provide for such a long period of time.

I think the staples like 'waking up in the castle' upon introduction could easily be changed to fit a time frame this long! Instead, people can wake up around the town, or once the castle opens up again -- they could open up there, too. We could think of new and original ways to do things to accommodate for the temporary shift in setting.

The castle is, in my opinion, always changing what it wants. I think of it as a moody thing -- so it could decide it is sick of us behaving in x manner and toss y at us to change that. It wants to be appreciated because its boyfriend just left it, okay, its in a vulnerable state and is SICK AND TIRED of people just wishing up a storm without care, occupying its generously provided spaces and talking about it like they don't even care its RIGHT THERE LISTENING etc etc. But, this is all speculating that this is the real reason behind the castle's motives at the time! It could simply be projecting that appearance.

And yes, I totally 100% agree with you that opening up communication would be great. I really wanted this to happen again, especially since Slenderman! I'm glad you agree ;; I think it would be very cool and go a long way into opening up dialogue about the castle and its mysteries. Those things have kind of fallen to the wayside as of late!

<33 KEEP THINKING dear, I value your thoughts!!

I think my biggest worry for something so long would be the kind of repercussions that it would have IC for the residents to be forsaken by the castle for so long. Like... we have a bunch of vampires who use wishing to obtain their blood. Are they supposed to now chow on other residents? NPCs? How are the residents supposed to set up a functioning society unless everything is provided for them? Let's not forget that Paradisa isn't a world where things are there and people just aren't using them -- there's nothing there unless the castle makes it. So if people have to farm for food, where are they getting the supplies? What do they eat while the food grows? Will livestock be hanging around? What about the emotional repercussions? It's asking a lot of people to go from having everything to having nothing, and also the reverse, for people who show up while the castle's shut off.

None of that puts a halt to it! It's just stuff to think about. I kind of like the idea of there being no NPCs, but I'm just not sure how it would work unless the castle gave them every tool necessary before kicking them out.

I think that, with some reworking, this could be a really excellent plot!

PS:

Scumbag Castle Boyfriend.
Dumps castle, makes her dump 300+ people.

LMFAO SDLKJFSDLGSDF oh my god I think I just... breathed milk thank you

for that

... /quietly saves

BUT YES i completely agree with you! Those are definitely concerns I share with you. I was brainstorming a few ways around them such as townspeople being in the town with them so they had an economy/people who were already farming/using the land to help them out, or for them to arrive with little jobs and lives already set out for them as if they had been doing them all along before their arrival and just woke up in the midst of their lives with this revelation that THEY'RE SOMEONE ELSE.

It brokers more thought for sure, and is a concern! I promise it's one I've thought about and would love to hear more on from you guys, too. Do you think it's insurmountable, or we can work around it?

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