by Bakewell Tart Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:48 amI’m not entirely sure that I’m doing the process here right but someone will tell me if I'm not so away we go!
Plot:
Far into the wastes stands a lone and towering building waging a personal war against the tests of time. Large heavy doors have remained silently shut for longer than anypony can remember in a stubborn resistance to the many scavengers and raiders who are lured to the thoughts of treasure. Many have tried, but nopony has ever successfully entered the slumbering behemoth.
Until now.
You and your caravan had just stumbled across a gold mine of tech. Prism rifles, power armor, even a possibly working water talisman littered the walls of an uninhabited underground bunker. Luck is a cruel goddess, however; even as you were praising her she was plotting your demise in the form of Steel Rangers. They saw the tech, saw you, and attacked without question. You never stood a chance.
You have awoken in a big fluffy bed without a cap to your name. Irritably cheerful music filters down from the heavens as depictions of happy pegusi fly around and beam down at you from the somehow animated cloud motif ceiling. Every bone in your body aches as you glance at your surroundings. You are lost, you are alone, you are alive.
What is this?:
This is an interest check thread for an (Probably way too idealistic) idea that I have been playing around with; A thread with a vague end goal (Escape), but nothing forcing you along. My goal is to let the players (Who will be in teams of preferably two, but if enough people want in we’ll probably have to split it into three. Each team will probably have a separate thread so that I can keep up with who is where doing what.) have as many choices as possible while also making each and every choice matter (Even if I am the only one who will ever realize it) at least slightly in the scheme of the thread. The thread probably will not happen for a while; I would estimate a few weeks at the least. A month at the max.
So then why am I running an interest check so early? Because OOCly this thread will be very hard to do. I can have a basic layout and a “This is what I ultimately want to achieve”, but that’s it. As a GW I will have to try and roll with your punches in the exact same way that you have normally have to roll with mine. I am not going to lie. There are many ways this idea could fail, and the way it is structured and the fact that I will rarely to never attempt to usher people into progressing almost guarantees that the thread will be long. I want to make sure people are interested in helping me try out a possibly slow moving and low to no reward thread that could easily crumble at a moments notice.
Combat/Puzzles/Standing around jabbing and playing tic-tac-toe:
There will probably be some combat, and some puzzles. I cannot say how much of each. I hope to keep combat on the low side and puzzles on the medium to high but there are many things you guys could do to increase or decrease the levels in thread even at the very starting gate. All combat will hopefully be fairly balanced even if I have to cheat to do so. (For example: If Kes joins and gets paired with a bunch of level ones I will take behind the scenes measures to try and ensure that everyone matters and that Kes isn’t soloing everything. If at any point in thread your rolls don’t seem accurate to your stats this is probably why.)
Items:
You will enter the thread with nothing at all, but your starting inventory will be returned to you by the end of the thread. I am reserving the right to spawn items from low to godly. This does not mean they WILL spawn but even if they do let me make it perfectly clear that one of the few unchangeable rules is that you will not be keeping these items after the thread ends. Any items that you can keep will (Hopefully) be specifically handed out to you at the thread end. That said do not expect to gain much loot-wise from this thread. You’ll probably just make a varying amount of caps unless (Or possibly even if) someone wants to make unique weapons for the thread in my stead.
Risk of Death:
Will be low. One of the hopefully few choice restrictions that I’m putting in place is that you will not be allowed to do anything so stupid that it will kill everyone and/or implode reality in a tasteful display of rainbows before asking you to buy the new “Solid WibbleSnake” character skin DLC for Cuppa Beans.
Thread Mood: Depends on you guys a bit as well, but I’m not going to go into massive grimdark or anything and if my predictions are right I think the thread will be rather lighthearted to medium.
Update Speed: Depends initially upon how many people join. After that expect one to two updates per day max. Possibly slower depending on how much I have to keep up with / what life is doing. Rolling with you will take time. I cannot emphasize the word time enough.
Overhyping the idea: Probably. Can’t blame me for trying though.
Plot:
Far into the wastes stands a lone and towering building waging a personal war against the tests of time. Large heavy doors have remained silently shut for longer than anypony can remember in a stubborn resistance to the many scavengers and raiders who are lured to the thoughts of treasure. Many have tried, but nopony has ever successfully entered the slumbering behemoth.
Until now.
You and your caravan had just stumbled across a gold mine of tech. Prism rifles, power armor, even a possibly working water talisman littered the walls of an uninhabited underground bunker. Luck is a cruel goddess, however; even as you were praising her she was plotting your demise in the form of Steel Rangers. They saw the tech, saw you, and attacked without question. You never stood a chance.
You have awoken in a big fluffy bed without a cap to your name. Irritably cheerful music filters down from the heavens as depictions of happy pegusi fly around and beam down at you from the somehow animated cloud motif ceiling. Every bone in your body aches as you glance at your surroundings. You are lost, you are alone, you are alive.
What is this?:
This is an interest check thread for an (Probably way too idealistic) idea that I have been playing around with; A thread with a vague end goal (Escape), but nothing forcing you along. My goal is to let the players (Who will be in teams of preferably two, but if enough people want in we’ll probably have to split it into three. Each team will probably have a separate thread so that I can keep up with who is where doing what.) have as many choices as possible while also making each and every choice matter (Even if I am the only one who will ever realize it) at least slightly in the scheme of the thread. The thread probably will not happen for a while; I would estimate a few weeks at the least. A month at the max.
So then why am I running an interest check so early? Because OOCly this thread will be very hard to do. I can have a basic layout and a “This is what I ultimately want to achieve”, but that’s it. As a GW I will have to try and roll with your punches in the exact same way that you have normally have to roll with mine. I am not going to lie. There are many ways this idea could fail, and the way it is structured and the fact that I will rarely to never attempt to usher people into progressing almost guarantees that the thread will be long. I want to make sure people are interested in helping me try out a possibly slow moving and low to no reward thread that could easily crumble at a moments notice.
Combat/Puzzles/Standing around jabbing and playing tic-tac-toe:
There will probably be some combat, and some puzzles. I cannot say how much of each. I hope to keep combat on the low side and puzzles on the medium to high but there are many things you guys could do to increase or decrease the levels in thread even at the very starting gate. All combat will hopefully be fairly balanced even if I have to cheat to do so. (For example: If Kes joins and gets paired with a bunch of level ones I will take behind the scenes measures to try and ensure that everyone matters and that Kes isn’t soloing everything. If at any point in thread your rolls don’t seem accurate to your stats this is probably why.)
Items:
You will enter the thread with nothing at all, but your starting inventory will be returned to you by the end of the thread. I am reserving the right to spawn items from low to godly. This does not mean they WILL spawn but even if they do let me make it perfectly clear that one of the few unchangeable rules is that you will not be keeping these items after the thread ends. Any items that you can keep will (Hopefully) be specifically handed out to you at the thread end. That said do not expect to gain much loot-wise from this thread. You’ll probably just make a varying amount of caps unless (Or possibly even if) someone wants to make unique weapons for the thread in my stead.
Risk of Death:
Will be low. One of the hopefully few choice restrictions that I’m putting in place is that you will not be allowed to do anything so stupid that it will kill everyone and/or implode reality in a tasteful display of rainbows before asking you to buy the new “Solid WibbleSnake” character skin DLC for Cuppa Beans.
Thread Mood: Depends on you guys a bit as well, but I’m not going to go into massive grimdark or anything and if my predictions are right I think the thread will be rather lighthearted to medium.
Update Speed: Depends initially upon how many people join. After that expect one to two updates per day max. Possibly slower depending on how much I have to keep up with / what life is doing. Rolling with you will take time. I cannot emphasize the word time enough.
Overhyping the idea: Probably. Can’t blame me for trying though.
