PARADISA OOC

Get in the tomb, Expeditioners. Get in the tombbbbbb. It's also been added to the reading list.

Jenn (that is to say, me) will be unavailable for a few hours tonight (we'll say between, oh, 11 pm and 1 am) because she needs to pick up a friend flying in from Constantinople, but otherwise she'll be around to watch you run around.

More wildlife fun tonight, but I ain't NPCing them because, well... that'd be crazy. And it's really up to you to decide how many times your characters get bitten. Yeah, it's one of those. That post will go up later.

Tombs are fun!

I'm currently brainstorming up ideas for the World Beyond. Help me come up with some eldritch abominations and evolutionary rejects to further subject you to horror, amusement, revulsion, idk. Paradisa is too Silent Spring for me and requires some new life forms.

So if you care, you can answer these questions. In character, if you want –– it's more fun that way.

1. What's your least favourite animal ever? (Bugs don't count.)
2. What revolts you about this animal?
3. What improvements could be made to this animal to make it more awesome?

Thank you for your time.

She with terrible Hitchcock-ian ideas but endlessly requiring more,
Jenn

Okay, I was just at work for about nine thousand hours and came home and flopped into bed, buttttt I shall be posting this to the OOC so it does not escape notice. :)

Upon sending the residents back to the castle this morning, Lente is leaving the residents with a gift: she's redrawn their map to include regions, which you can see under this cut.

But before you click that: soon, I hope to have a wiki page that will break down each region, its terrain, geography, flora, fauna, and so on. When Pirates plot is over and we can properly focus on getting World Plot things sorted out, I'll be looking for those volunteers I mentioned eons ago.

Until then, enjoy!

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As for other things:

Re: Complaints about World Plot "overtaking" the Community

In the past we've had complaints about expeditions bringing regular castle life to a grinding halt: it overtakes the comms, everyone's paying more attention to that, it spams the communities, etc. There have also been requests for "something for castle-bound residents to do" while the others are on expeditions, which would mean running two plots simultaneously.

Obviously, I don't have the time or energy to run two plots at once, but I think it's a good idea, especially so if the castle-plot is also optional. It gives people who don't go exploring something to do.

But Jenn, you say, it'd be super messy to run TWO plots in the comm at the same time.

Yeah, it would be. That's why we have this solution: paradisabeyond (which is currently in the process of being set up.)

In Slenderman plot, we played with paradisalost , a temporary world-below-Paradisa where the kids hung out while kidnapped. Despite Slenderman plot's many flaws, I felt this aspect was a success: it kept two storylines (or sides of things) distinct and kept things "neater" –– I don't think there would be any problems translating a similar community for World Beyond usage.

Another bonus to having another community is that it makes keeping up with events taking place in the Beyond easier -- you have one community for it. Obviously, journal-based stuff would still go down on the main community, as people in the WB can still make journal only posts, but action is kept in one streamlined comm. Hopefully it'll make it easier to follow, whether the posts there are residents going on expeditions, locked behind-the-scenes chapters, or just characters bumming around in the Beyond.

As for the castle-side plots, we've decided that they will be strictly neutral and feel-good plots. For the foreseeable future, we won't be putting on any paralleling plots that are grim, dark, or grimdark. This means no monster rampages, no blood sacrifices, no trauma, etc. It might not always be hunky-dory and rainbows (like, say, mirror plot or memory plot) but I'd like to guarantee we won't be running any horrific things while an expedition is going. One of the main reasons for this is dark overload, the other reason is we don't want characters on the expedition racing back to the castle, or vice versa to get away from it.

But Jenn, you say, it seems awfully convenient that the castle would do these whenever an expedition happens.

Our reasons for these conveniently happening whenever expeditions go down is simply this: the castle is annoyed that people are leaving, and so it puts on all these fun events to tempt characters back. Does it work? Who knows: but the characters can weigh the odds but will never be pressured because of violent robot invasions or something.

So that's it for now: I fully welcome discussion in the comments, questions, plotting, blah blah :)

Thanks, guys!