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[nekokoban]

HELLO FRIENDS!

This is an idea I have been kicking around for the better part of a year now, and who knows if it will actually go anywhere because lol life, the universe, and everything, but! I figured I would throw it out and see if there was any interest.

So I am one of the mods over at campfuckudie, and I know there a lot of you on my flist whom I met over there, so this is not exactly new news. *g* FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T, it is a fairly large (and old-for-the-internet) panfandom RP in a pretty free-form jamjar setting. However, we have two spinoff comms, one for general AUs, and one for Mafia/Cry Wolf styled games; the only issue is that you have to have a current character in CFUD in order to actually participate! HOWEVER.

I have been tossing around the idea for a while now about making a game (holder arena for mini-games?) that would allow folks from all RPs to join. Just for a game, and not for longer than, say, a week (unless it's a Wolf game where the voting is very intense or whatever)--someone puts out a call for players for a Cry Wolf game, for example, and you could sign up with any RP character that you've got in your repoitoire, no matter what game they came from. (I'd probably put the cap on dressing rooms, though, since that would be more than I'd want to deal with right away.) It would mean that yeah, you'd potentially have, like, two or more of the same canon character in a game, but I think that would be kind of the horrible fun of it. :B

The game would be strictly AU to all RPs that the characters came from--it'd be a very much, "I am trusting you to talk to the mods of your games about what you can and cannot bring back," since there would sometimes be IC prizes and IC damage, and of course, free resets to anyone who sustained damage before they go back to their own games. Playing in a mini-game would not preclude playing the character at their normal game, of course, if such a character is your primary or involved in something else at the time.

The setting I have in mine is a carnival (the same one that I ran an event with for CFUD a while ago), which means that other people could get involved in creating a carnival/circus character to run a particular style of game (it wouldn't be like, so I have a Clown and he runs x kind of game and y kind of game and z kind of game--the Clown would run maybe the Cry Wolf games, or the Fortune-Teller would run a kill-or-be-killed game, that sort of thing). There would be no play in the setting when there isn't a game going on, since the Carnival appears and disappears at random and isn't really meant to be a Huge And Deep Mystery to why it exists--it just does, and the Ringmaster is always looking for new recruits to keep for himself.

SO IDK IDK I have no idea if there would even be interest in this, or if it's doable, or even what the basic rules would be, I am just throwing it out there.

And now I am running off to leave work so YAY any questions/concerns/gtfo terra you're crazy may go here.

ETA Further thought before I forget it--

There would be a "day" carnival and a "night" carnival, so part of the game invitations would involve specifying what half you were setting it in; "day" games would be the sort of fun happy fluffy silly whatever games where you make friends and influence people!! or whatever, and the "night" carnival would be death/killing/mental trauma games. :|a The casts would be different for the day and the night games, and two or more circus members could in fact team up to complicate things.

HOORAY.

Comments

[lluvia]

YES!!!!!!!



I wish I could be more articulate but that is, in fact, all I have to say. :'D

[nekokoban]

WELL A YES VOTE IS A GOOD THING, since people being interested means I'd be more motivated to do it. :Db

[pussyfortono]

I like it!

[nekokoban]

AWESOME \o/

[unicorn]

FURTHER YES

[nekokoban]

HOORAY

[inquisitorial.livejournal.com]

MORE YES

[nekokoban]

THANK YOU GOOD SIR FOR YOUR INPUT

[laserdragon.livejournal.com]

What like a Cry Wolf dressingroom? I CAN NOT THINK OF ANYTHING I COULD POSSIBLY WANT MORE. Would it be OK to play retired journals there? Since I really have no active characters in LJ at the moment.

[nekokoban]

PRETTY MUCH YEAH--it'd be like, you'd have Cry Wolf, a modified version of the AUdie games that AJ and I ran, and probably every now and then an actual text adventure that would probably only happen when I had a holiday. :'D

Also I actually meant to say it in the post, but dropped characters are definitely cool! IN FACT I WOULD ENCOURAGE IT especially if someone that you had previous CR with was signing up for something. /o/

[therikkster.livejournal.com]

So much yessss.

Would it allow original characters, or AU-verse canon characters (that is 'highschool au', not 'natural development from a character that started off from canon') as long as they were in a game?

[nekokoban]

Yes, absolutely! I just want to set this up for people who normally play their characters in other games and want to try running them through something like Wolf or AUdie or anything like that. Depending on interest and involvement, I'd probably open it up to dressing room characters after seeing how a couple of rounds went. :|a

[violetsquirrel.livejournal.com]

YES THIS SOUNDS AWESOME

[nekokoban]

I AM GLAD PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED ;A;b

[jpegasus.livejournal.com]

Sounds rad!

[nekokoban]

\o/ \o/ \o/

[megido]

I LIKE THIS VERY MUCH

[nekokoban]

HOORAYYYY

[alexander.livejournal.com]

SOMETHING SOUNDS FAMILIARRRRRRRRRR



do i mean yes x forever?

[nekokoban]

I DON'T KNOW DO YOU

I miss the Carnival of the Wolf okay :(

[tatsuta-hime.livejournal.com]

AWESOOOOME.

[nekokoban]

HOORAYYY

[vaudevillainy.livejournal.com]

CARVINALS

I MEAN CARNIVALS

I am too tired to fully process all of this but I AM ALL FOR CONFIBLS oh my god I am keeping that one for posterity.

[vaudevillainy.livejournal.com]

derpdidoo forgot to say this is harley

[plusqueparfait.livejournal.com]

I LOVE PLAYING IN GAMES LIKE THESE so of course I say A++. (Also if you did open it to any character that doesn't necessarily have to be in a game, I would love that a lot TOO. Oh man.)

kyaa kyaa kyaa

[nekokoban]

I MAY OPEN IT UP TO DR OR HOMELESS CHARACTERS AT SOME POINT but first I need to see what the reaction is to ... people who aren't CFUD or CFUD-alumni and actually have a concept of what I'm talking about. 8|a

[nayami.livejournal.com]

I am lazy but intrigued.

I HAS A QUESTION THOUGH. What about duplicate characters played in the same Carnival game? :o

[nekokoban]

I WOULD LIKE TO DO IT, in theory played out for lols in a lighter game and possibly used to drive up paranoia in a darker game. It's not something I have thought through very thoroughly yet, and everything I am toying with right now will probably change five or six times before I finally write the rules. If it gets that far.

[sleepfighter.livejournal.com]

I've seen it tried before: hopefully this will have a little more success then the last run?

I would sugest that you have a one or a few "mingle" days with not-directly-related-to-the-core-game stuff, because one of the big problems in a game like this is that characters who have no contextual background/past with each other will find it harder to interact in the primary mode of wolflike games, ie, what is logical behavior for said character and what isn't, and have a harder time generally interacting which also leads to mass die out from the playerbase like people not voting.

[sleepfighter.livejournal.com]

o also A CHAT CHANNEL (lunarnet, other irc server, aim, whatever) while not key necessarily in CFUW may be key here: encourage communication between players! IT IS PART OF WHAT MAKES CFUD/SABRA/ALL RP GOOD, this comunicaty talky thing.

[inarticulate.livejournal.com]

I ran a kind of… mafia/werewolf dressing room sort of thing a while back, though it kind of petered out. (It's still technically open, but I haven't had the energy to run games since quitting more structured RP and the other narrators seem to have kind of faded out, too.) I'd offer it up, but it looks like you're thinking something more structured? Whereas mine was basically, "use it as you will," sort of thing and ended up being really experimental in places.

IDK, I don't really have any wisdom to offer except that characters from different games tended to have to be nudged more together, and it didn't always work. Which is always a problem, I think, just… it tends to be more pronounced when players don't necessarily know each other very well or at all and there's not a common game to fall back on.

[nekokoban]

Nah, that's fair enough--the idea I have is not necessarily a free-for-all, though idk how structured it will actually end up being. :|a At this point it is a "hello everyone here is my pitch" and seeing how it goes from there.

But that is a good point about the split among game lines, IF THIS GOES ANY FURTHER, I will definitely keep that in mind, thank you! ♥

[wafflehearts]

... I want this.

[lukita.livejournal.com]

I kinda stopped hanging around CFUD like a couple of years ago because it was eating into my sleepy time, but I would so lurk like a crazy thing for these games. BTW are hecklers still allowed in game? Cause I didn't see any last time I peeked into the comm.

[nekokoban]

I am contemplating it pretty hard-core, but whether it actually goes anywhere still remains to be seen. *g* At least on my end, hrrrrrr.

And they are! We don't get them as often as we used to (though I think that's because a lot of the hecklers eventually ended up apping in? :|a), but it still happens!