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Post by Lady Kara on Jun 26, 2013 21:16:45 GMT -5
Since Testbug has been doing an utterly fantastic job so far of deeply analyzing all the heroes of Househeld, it's gotten me quite excited for the story to possibly continue onwards to a conclusion.
And that brings up a major thing for me: a troll session!
Now granted, that's gonna be a whole other crazy bunch of plot thingies to go over and work out (especially how the trolls come to interact with the others and how the freakin hell they can help each others' sessions out, etc. & of course the fun in analyzing the classes/aspects of the trolls).
I've got two characters that I hope I can use for this (Domina Santza & Curran Gideon), and my best friend (Karuroddimus) has 4 of his own to use towards this if able to join in (Auster Deluge, Lusark Shakka, Tirora Samisu, and the enigmatic Kitzku).
So... the purpose of this topic is to actively discuss how to go about this task, as well as post here important background info and character info that we'll need to keep track of, etc.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 26, 2013 21:38:09 GMT -5
Hey, well I think there are a couple of posts you need to read. This oneand then this oneand this one.Now, I can practically guarantee you that some of the claimed trolls as of Testbug's post there are no longer claimed. Like, Iron Mouse's (#1 - those that belong to the Emperor) and Bulbs' (#12 - others) are almost certainly up for grabs, and I can't believe it's very likely that Loogs and Biscuit still want to run trolls, so #6 - fabulous ones and #7 - stray dogs are likely to be back on the table. Hell, I bet you could talk Choobs out of #9 - those that tremble as if they are mad, because Choobs hates writing and fun. But I want you to know that we're still aiming for that Borges theme for the trolls (because it's so damn flavorful and quirky!) and that means you need to stake a claim on how your two trolls are going to fit within that categorization system. And, I'm sorry, but four trolls for Roddimus?? I hate to be the mean one, but he's almost certainly not getting four trolls. Setting aside the conceptual challenges of fitting pre-existing trolls into the Borges classification system (which I am loathe to do, because they are awesome challenges and the best challenges), I'm not really comfortable leasing such a large chunk of the team to a guy who doesn't even have a single post under his account here. I mean, can we see some samples of his writing, at least? But I really am sympathetic to how much you're looking forward to this and I'm seriously pondering starting the troll session earlier than when it would become relevant to the kids' session. What I'm thinking is that maybe not everybody has to jump in with their trolls all at once, but we can sort of trickle in as we like in the time leading up to that point in the kids' adventure. Just lay some of the groundwork and flesh out the characters. Because realistically it could be years yet before we start the troll session otherwise. Is anyone else feelin' me on this?
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Post by Testbug on Jun 26, 2013 22:13:52 GMT -5
As one of the resident "Still in this" Househelds, I'm feelin' you! I think giving the groundwork for all these characters accomplishing their goals will then hit us all the harder when suddenly our characters are supposed to be shutting them down.
I'll gladly kill the fuck out of Grthzc Krflxm when I haven't seen him do jackshit. I'd care much more deeply about Grthy if I watched him grow into a character whose goals Yulia is suddenly in direct opposition to.
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Post by Lady Kara on Jun 27, 2013 3:06:56 GMT -5
Sorry about my bud... he hasn't been posting on here ever since he got bummed that only one person here on the board other than me is a fan of Puella Magi Madoka Magica (at the time, he was more into that than anything else and badly wanted to RP from it; now Homestuck has strongly taken over that...LOL). He's actually quite a decent RPer, but most of his experience so far has been on MSPARP (either as his fan troll Auster, as Dirk Strider, and as a mindfucked AU version of John known as "Dark Tier" John).
Didn't realize so many trolls had been thought up already. XD
And the "shutting down" stuff ya mentioned kind of scares me a bit. Maybe I should come up with an entirely new character? Hmmm...
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 27, 2013 6:58:02 GMT -5
It looks like you don't know much about our troll session at all. Which is okay because that discussion topic is huge! But the gist is that our kid session has a special objective assigned by the game: on the way to creating their own universe, the kids are also tasked with wiping out some of the null/void/dead sessions that have come to naught elsewhere in spacetime. The kids erase two alien sessions (one where none of the players survived the meteors and made it into the Incipisphere, one where several players died in the course of the adventure, rendering the game unwinnable without access to the Tumor) before coming to the troll session. All the trolls are alive and well and their adventure is well underway, but the kids understand (while the trolls don't) that this session is doomed to failure at the final stage: the trolls aren't going to beat the Black King and will die in the undertaking. Conflict erupts among the kids as to whether to just round up the fourteen troll players, spirit them out of their Incipisphere, and erase their session while there's still time (ensuring the trolls' safety, but also condemning them to a purposeless fate) or to try to help the trolls win their game and seed their own universe at the risk that any of the trolls might die along the way.
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Post by Lady Kara on Jun 27, 2013 19:16:43 GMT -5
Dang... I feel like an ass for not paying attention to the fact that the troll session had been discussed already. Sorry guys. X(
But WOW that is some heavy stuff to deal with (natually, I'm partial to the best path to take being to save the trolls somehow & wipe the session). Also, what I'm curious to know is if all 14 trolls were thought up already for this? If I could use at least one of mine, might be awesome to use Curran Gideon since he is in desperate need of better fleshing out (and in previous stories that he's been used in I had him get killed, or already be killed & just known via flashbacks). Also, if there are some trolls no longer having owners, I can handle some - just might not be exactly like how they were originally envisioned to be.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 27, 2013 20:03:41 GMT -5
Yeah, as my first reply to this topic showed, all fourteen trolls were claimed back in the day, but also, as I said, there are at least five of the fourteen that are probably up for grabs. I don't want to just parcel them off, though; you would want to talk to their nominal owners -- Loogs, Biscuit, Bulbs, Iron Mouse, and Choobs.
Of course, now that I've made that prediction, watch someone else volunteer to give up their troll instead.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Jun 27, 2013 22:50:22 GMT -5
*Lee offers his troll.* *Unfortunately, his troll doesn't occupy one of the 14 slots*
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