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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 8, 2010 16:15:32 GMT -5
So...
Do we have to be paradox clones?
Is that a fundamental part of the setup of the game?
I guess it doesn't matter for this RP if we decide not to push it farther than roughly where John got in the first few acts. But if we decide to continue the story later, then... whoa.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Jun 8, 2010 16:35:07 GMT -5
i look nothing like you guys!
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Post by SV on Jun 9, 2010 4:13:01 GMT -5
Your CHUMHANDLE is saturnineVirago. You suspect this is a pretty okay name.
You are probably interested in a bunch of THINGS, but now is not the time to think of them; as per usual, you have STAYED UP WAY TOO DAMN LATE. You will mention that you have a small affinity for BOWS and have therefore designated BOWKIND as your STRIFE SPECIBUS. You also have an affinity for WATER. Your browser of choice is ATLANTIS.
In regards to your SYLLADEX, you prefer the ALPHABET MODUS, which allows you to captchalogue and retrieve all your random stuff ALPHABETICALLY. You appreciate this modus's ELEGANT SIMPLICITY. Besides, you're a little OCD.
You suppose you might find yourself in the LAND OF RAIN AND DAWN eventually, but you're NOT REALLY SURE where that might be, so it's probably a silly idea.
OH DEAR, you don't have a NAME or an AVATAR. Someone should attend to this later.Figured I'd go ahead and get it started or I'd never get it done. Long day tomorrow, but I'll see what I can do to polish this up. I think I've got all the important stuff, though.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Jun 9, 2010 10:41:41 GMT -5
Your CHUMHANDLE is saturnineVirago. You suspect this is a pretty okay name.
You are probably interested in a bunch of THINGS, but now is not the time to think of them; as per usual, you have STAYED UP WAY TOO DAMN LATE. You will mention that you have a small affinity for BOWS and have therefore designated BOWKIND as your STRIFE SPECIBUS. You also have an affinity for WATER. Your browser of choice is ATLANTIS.
In regards to your SYLLADEX, you prefer the ALPHABET MODUS, which allows you to captchalogue and retrieve all your random stuff ALPHABETICALLY. You appreciate this modus's ELEGANT SIMPLICITY. Besides, you're a little OCD.
You suppose you might find yourself in the LAND OF RAIN AND DAWN eventually, but you're NOT REALLY SURE where that might be, so it's probably a silly idea.
OH DEAR, you don't have a NAME or an AVATAR. Someone should attend to this later.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 11, 2010 17:38:03 GMT -5
ok fine i will officially join this stupid thing
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 13, 2010 8:47:28 GMT -5
Oh, I think the triangle is a fantastic choice.
Maybe with a little rainbow going through it.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 13, 2010 10:25:54 GMT -5
Anyway I have about a million questions but here are three. I'll use ten as the number of players throughout this since that's how many we have right now, but I think we should really try for two more to make an even twelve (Bulbs? Someone else?). 1: How do we want to set this up? Specifically I mean like how do we want to make topics for this. The simplest option would just be to make one topic in General RP for the whole story, but trust me, ten players all doing their own thing in one topic would be as unreadable a mess as this topic, and I'm resolved that we can totally make something more readable and enjoyable than that! Another possibility which I like a little more would be for each RPer to make their own topic in General RP, but dropping ten new topics on General RP all at once might be a bit of a blow to Asinine Killer and whatever else is going on on that board. So we come to the third possibility which would be to make a new sub-board in RP for Homestuck and put the ten topics in there. And then move that sub-board to the Archive once the RP's over. Probably the best option if people didn't mind picking up a new sub-board. 2. Do people want to take suggestions? This is a big'un! Are you guys thinking that you want to go about this like a normal RP, or work from reader suggestions the way Renard does in Boullogne? This isn't something everyone needs to agree on since I feel the RP would be fine if some people did it old-school and other people did it MSPA-style. That said, if you're on the fence about this, I got to say that taking suggestions for Renard has been a really exciting, rewarding, and (yes, Choobs) surprising process and I heartily recommend it. For my part, I think I'm going to kind of SPLIT it LENGTH-WAYS, with forteHolder's actions as the client (John's role in the original John-Rose pair) being drawn from reader suggestions, and his actions as the server (Rose's role) probably just coming from my own ideas plus in-story requests from whoever's RPing his client. That seems like a nice balance. 3. How do we incorporate suggestions into the setup? Let's say hypothetically that everyone decides they want to take suggestions -- even though, as I said, it's not remotely a big deal if not everyone does. How do suggestions factor into the setup? Should there be one giant suggestion box for all ten players? That doesn't sound too appealing if it means everyone has to comb through the whole topic to make sure they don't miss any suggestions for their own character. Maybe if we decide that every RPer should make a topic for their own character, suggestions could just go right into that topic alongside the story content? That's the way they do it in fanmade adventures on the MSPA forum. I'm not sure about that idea though -- I was deliberating about that with Renard and eventually decided to create the Registre as a separate topic. I think that was the right choice since it means Boullogne is a slim two-page read right now instead of an uncrossable ten-page behemoth. (That topic I just linked to, Fencing Club Adventures, is a great piece of work, but hoo man good luck trying to read it through in under a week.) So maybe the last option would be to make one RP topic and one separate suggestion box per player. That would be the ideal setup in terms of neatness and navigability, but twenty (or twenty-four) topics would be an even bigger bomb to drop on General RP than ten or twelve! So if we went with that option I'd say the best thing to do would definitely be to make a unique Homestuck RP sub-board for the duration of this RP and then pack it off to the Archive after it's done. Hey, there'd be more people participating there than in APCARP, at least.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Jun 13, 2010 10:54:26 GMT -5
1: How do we want to set this up? Specifically I mean like how do we want to make topics for this. The simplest option would just be to make one topic in General RP for the whole story, but trust me, ten players all doing their own thing in one topic would be as unreadable a mess as this topic, and I'm resolved that we can totally make something more readable and enjoyable than that! Another possibility which I like a little more would be for each RPer to make their own topic in General RP, but dropping ten new topics on General RP all at once might be a bit of a blow to Asinine Killer and whatever else is going on on that board. So we come to the third possibility which would be to make a new sub-board in RP for Homestuck and put the ten topics in there. And then move that sub-board to the Archive once the RP's over. Probably the best option if people didn't mind picking up a new sub-board. I fully support the idea of both 10 seperate topics, and of a seperate sub-board. Each seperate topic houses not only one, but two RPers (server and client), so it wouldn't just be "oh hay lets post as much as possible" and could help with the pacing of the RP. It even lets people work at different rates and such, due to how quickly their server/client responds and such. 2. Do people want to take suggestions? This is a big'un! Are you guys thinking that you want to go about this like a normal RP, or work from reader suggestions the way Renard does in Boullogne? This isn't something everyone needs to agree on since I feel the RP would be fine if some people did it old-school and other people did it MSPA-style. That said, if you're on the fence about this, I got to say that taking suggestions for Renard has been a really exciting, rewarding, and (yes, Choobs) surprising process and I heartily recommend it. For my part, I think I'm going to kind of SPLIT it LENGTH-WAYS, with forteHolder's actions as the client (John's role in the original John-Rose pair) being drawn from reader suggestions, and his actions as the server (Rose's role) probably just coming from my own ideas plus in-story requests from whoever's RPing his client. That seems like a nice balance. I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think that Hussie originally used suggestions then started to put in what would move the story along. Therefore, I think we could incorporate both suggestions and not suggestions - RPers could use suggestions they thought worked/were funny/whatever, but also do what they think needs to be done. Lulz and srs bzns rolled into one. 3. How do we incorporate suggestions into the setup? Let's say hypothetically that everyone decides they want to take suggestions -- even though, as I said, it's not remotely a big deal if not everyone does. How do suggestions factor into the setup? Should there be one giant suggestion box for all ten players? That doesn't sound too appealing if it means everyone has to comb through the whole topic to make sure they don't miss any suggestions for their own character. Maybe if we decide that every RPer should make a topic for their own character, suggestions could just go right into that topic alongside the story content? That's the way they do it in fanmade adventures on the MSPA forum. I'm not sure about that idea though -- I was deliberating about that with Renard and eventually decided to create the Registre as a separate topic. I think that was the right choice since it means Boullogne is a slim two-page read right now instead of an uncrossable ten-page behemoth. (That topic I just linked to, Fencing Club Adventures, is a great piece of work, but hoo man good luck trying to read it through in under a week.) So maybe the last option would be to make one RP topic and one separate suggestion box per player. That would be the ideal setup in terms of neatness and navigability, but twenty (or twenty-four) topics would be an even bigger bomb to drop on General RP than ten or twelve! So if we went with that option I'd say the best thing to do would definitely be to make a unique Homestuck RP sub-board for the duration of this RP and then pack it off to the Archive after it's done. Hey, there'd be more people participating there than in APCARP, at least. Two topics, each one housing 5 characters to make suggestions for. Seems like the best option. If we get 2 more people in on it, 3 topics for 4 characters each.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 13, 2010 12:17:11 GMT -5
But I don't even listen to Pink Floyd as muhc as I used to.
1. I'm down for a new board.
2. I'll probably do the Hussie route and take suggestions in the beginning to get my character rolling, and then once the plot starts I'll still take suggestions but just start ignoring them unless people want me to do something amazing.
3. Since this will probably be a new board, why not just drop all the suggestions in there? Shouldn't be too clutterful.
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Post by October on Jun 13, 2010 13:45:57 GMT -5
Individual topics, no question. I suppose the big issue arises when characters UNITE ON THE MATERIAL PLANE; and then we either have to crosspost updates between threads or choose one person's thread to both spam on, or lock both character's threads and create a combined topic, eventually migrating to one huge behemoth of a thread for the last part of the game. Pesterlogs can realistically be posted in both threads (a-la viewing the same conversation twice in MSPA, once for each chum), and any actions the server player takes on the client's surroundings should go on the client's thread (so you don't /have/ to trawl other people's topics).
I'm fine with this. But I'd rather not work exclusively through suggestions, because then it seems like everyone but me is controlling my character. I think that we should be free to do as we wish, but suggestions should be encouraged so that if a player sees a suggestion that is insightful or hilarious, it can be used, but you're not dependant on people telling you how to act. S'just me though.
I'd be fine with them just being dumped right in my thread behind spoiler tags. The reason for the tags would just be so that anyone reading can skim and only read the posts with actual text in them for a clear, unbroken story. I find it fairly easy to read most Fanventures because I just skip all updates that don't have images in them, and usually the relevant commands are quoted in those posts. This is certainly the easiest way to read Voices and the Hephaestus line, although I'd sometimes miss out stuff in Photoshop Attorney because they only used small images if the only action in the post wasa character speaking. Still, by eliminating all text other than story being immediately viewable, a similar technique is born.
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Post by Hamuu on Jun 13, 2010 16:40:11 GMT -5
Alright I am in, a fe things I am calling right now before I actually make a correct looking profile.
chum handle - randomButter
fetch modus - Dewey Shelf Modus
Strife - shieldKind
Title - Collaborator of Chaos
Alright, I'll do more in detail later, if I have called anything already taken or close to just tell me.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 13, 2010 16:48:41 GMT -5
shieldKind, huh? Cool.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 13, 2010 17:32:20 GMT -5
Your chumhandle is waterloggedComputron. You have an interest in things as long as they are not MAINSTREAM, at which point you officially declare said thing boring. You have been a SWIMMER most of your uneventful life, and as such, you are pretty much retarded when doing any activity on dry land.
You are also a COMPUTER kid, specifically enjoying INTERACTIVE MEDIA. You don't mention this out loud so that the cool kids don't shun you, but it doesn't really work that way.
Your mortal enemies are PLANNING and the FRIEND ZONE.
Your strife specibus is AWESOMEKIND. If it's awesome, you can wield it. If it's not, tough luck. Good luck in the beginning levels. Fists are totally awesome and totally USELESS. You might as well just be using fisticuffKind, but that's gay. A quick guide to being awesome: if it's totally impractical, it's probably awesome. If it has a name, it's also probably awesome, unless the name is something stupid like "Spiritweep."
Your fetch modus is the HASHBAG modus. Items are captchalogged by hashing their name. At each bucket in the map, there is a bag, which is just a randomly sorted array of objects that share the same hash code. Retrieval is random, unless the entire bag is ejected, in which case retrieval is explosive.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Jun 13, 2010 17:41:31 GMT -5
If it has a name, it's also probably awesome, unless the name is something stupid like "Spiritweep."
[/b] [/quote] Or Soulmourne. o dis
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 13, 2010 17:48:22 GMT -5
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Jun 13, 2010 20:56:52 GMT -5
I think one giant suggestion box should be the way to go. Personally, I'd rather be able to see suggestions for everyone else's character in addition to mine so that I can already be planning my next move, or at least be able to anticipate what the readers are pushing for. If everyone is telling fH to 'push the button zomg for great justice' then I can be thinking about what cH will be doing should Pohatu actually push said button.
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Post by Iron Mouse on Jun 13, 2010 21:05:28 GMT -5
Bulbs just introduced me to homestuck. I'm in. I'll post a profile after I get caught up.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 13, 2010 21:11:15 GMT -5
Oh shit yeah! That's twelve players! We are golden. Thanks, Iron Mouse!
And Biscuit, that's a fair point, but there'd be nothing stopping you from keeping up with the suggestions boxes if they were split up. I just think some people might balk at having to read through twelve players' worth of suggestions when they were only looking for their own.
But Elliot raises an interesting idea, dividing the suggestion boxes into two or three groups (for the inhabitants of Prospit/Derse/the third planet if we go crazy and throw a third planet in there??), which would cut down on the sheer volume of topics but also streamline the process of checking for suggestions a little for the players. For my part though I think if we end up creating a new sub-board for this then I'd just as soon make a suggestion box for each player.
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 13, 2010 21:27:26 GMT -5
let's throw in that third planet.
and biscuit has a point. if the topics were split, i wouldn't read them.
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Jun 13, 2010 22:23:29 GMT -5
My proposal for the third planet -
Called Specto, it is an outer-territory planet that slowly and deliberately orbits Prospit/Derse. The planet and its keepers serve as a catalogued archive for every iteration of players that have entered the Medium, and continually observe the battleground, recording the details of this instance of paradox clones for future generations.
Here we could actually link to Hussie's storyline by essentially being able to WATCH the events as they unfold from the terminal stations on Specto. Our players, while not directly influencing that storyarc, could in turn BE influenced by it.
This is a very quick thought that I have not researched or elaborated on, so any thoughts are welcome.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 13, 2010 22:52:05 GMT -5
I like the idea but not the planet name. "Specto" sounds too much like a He-Man character or something.
"Occlum"? Combining "occult" and oculum, a form of the Latin for "eye"? I assume Latin is where you got "Specto"...
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 13, 2010 23:02:33 GMT -5
I mean, I like Oculum straight up. Don't gotta portmanteau anything else in there. Or if you gotta be all Homestuck and change the word, I guess Occlum is ok.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 13, 2010 23:03:26 GMT -5
I'm just thinking how neither Prospit nor Derse are real words.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Jun 14, 2010 1:48:38 GMT -5
Alternatively, we could request that suggestions be non-character-specific so that people could use whatever got picked out, unless they ask for some specific character instructions (for example, I might ask what to assign to my Strife Specibus since I still haven't decided that and it's unlikely I will until the RP starts ((similarly with sprites))
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Post by The Evil Biscuit on Jun 14, 2010 9:37:17 GMT -5
Well, I chose Specto really because of the 'game' quality of the Medium and the worlds.
It's like any multiplayer computer game. You have Team A, you have Team B, and you have the Spectators; except in this instance the Spectators are also recording the matches. So Spectators = Specto. While our characters are doing our own thing, we can go to this world and spectate John's session. (and troll the chatbox lol jk jk)
Also, I googled and saw that Specto is Latin for watch. And here I thought I'd just made it up. Motherfucker.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 14, 2010 10:03:08 GMT -5
I know the meaning but I just think "Specto" is a little goofy-sounding.
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