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[pugbutter]

[unless that's what this mysterious PM is about...XD]

@Redthorn Anvil

It is!

[Rhythmloid]

@Redthorn Anvil I see. Well I don't mind working with @shylarah. Once the main plot is down I can start working on music. I could do a bit of voice acting and my boyfriend can too. I can ask him to do a couple of voices.

[Redthorn Anvil]

@pugbutter I r smart XD

@Rhythmloid That's great!

As a side note, thanks to everyone so far XD

[Rhythmloid]

@Redthorn Anvil No problem! I'll try my best to make a schedule for myself

[Redthorn Anvil]

@Rhythmloid We probably won't even get started right away, simply because of all the planning involved [also I have finals in a few days], so don't feel rushed!

[Rhythmloid]

@Redthorn Anvil Ok just tell me when to start working

[Redthorn Anvil]

@Rhythmloid Also feel free to shoot out any ideas you might have! They're always appreciated XD

[pugbutter]

@Redthorn Anvil Definitely encourage these fuckbois to come up with other plot ideas please. I wanna see whose ideas can kick my idea's ass.

[Redthorn Anvil]

@pugbutter --If any XD

[Redthorn Anvil]

Well in any case, if no one feels like sharing their thoughts--I myself was kind of hoping for a more...um...RP feel to this game. While @pugbutter's idea is definitely creative and frankly, amusing, I'm not really sure how exactly to pull that off as an RPG--at least, not very well. If I knew how exactly to make it work, I'd be totally down with it if that's what everyone else wanted, but again, I kind of want more than one idea going so we can start discussing this whole thing.

[Redthorn Anvil]

So I guess my biggest question right now, before we even get to plotting, is like, what kind of genres would everybody be interested in? If there's a common agreement on one or two, then I feel like we can start working on plots.

[pugbutter]

Just remember, if you decide to revert back to a traditional Harem plotline, I've already established that I'm the best girl.

[Redthorn Anvil]

@pugbutter I don't think a 'traditional' visual novel is plot-heavy enough for me XD

[shylarah]

@Redthorn Anvil I'd be happy to do whatever. Scene ideas, background lore, char design (though maybe not actual art because AHHAA you're so much better ^.^;; ), random plot ideas, VA, music writing, singing. I might even be able to acquire a few other peoples to do voices too~

@Rhythmloid I'd be more than happy to work with you. As a warning, if you're writing music you want me to cover, I am an alto, and a low one. I'm happiest mid-treble clef and down to like an octave lower than the treble staff. Please do plan accordingly. <3

[Rhythmloid]

@shylarah Ok! I'm going to try and keep away from singing for now, unless the plot calls for it, but if you would like to sing, then go for it! I'll try my best to keep it within your voice range.

[shylarah]

@Redthorn Anvil Okay, firstly, I love the idea of Meta. I mean, reader as a character? Breaking the fourth wall? ...Setting it all in the land of the written word and having there be a Narrator character and a Muse character and maybe even an Author character -- or multiple Authors who squabble about which way to go with things? <3 I may be very fond of this. There's a 2ep arc of Humanity has Declined that does this, and my first win for NaNo was this, plus Deadpool does it, and there's a couple characters people I know play that do this in the best way. Also I have one that is genre savvy and bends physics so hard they have kinks. Also the Maxwell's demon character in Her Majesty's Wizard by Christopher Stasheff, and then the place he's from in Witch Doctor. Just...yes please? I have all sorts of ideas to use for this, though not that many for a plot to go with it.

Um. Genre. I like genre mixing. Fantasy of all sorts, a bit of horror, some mystery, a bit of scifi or even just slightly after modern-era stuff. Functional magic is great. Steampunk, dieselpunk, cyberpunk...isn't there something like atompunk? whatever, that's all neat. What else. Anything literary. OH. Right, for more 4th wall shenanigans, read Sire the webcomic, also by Alexis Royce (did I say she's amazing? Because she is, very). I also like deconstructing tropes, subverting tropes, and reinterpreting old ideas. For example, have the love interest...never be interested. It's unrequited love at its finest. And no finding someone else to switch affections to! Or perhaps it's a pretty Really 700 person and they've been kept alive through unnatural means and they are really ready to move on, so you end with them being freed and getting to die, and it's a gesture of selfless love. ...I may have a story idea with that. Or where someone kills a dragon, but it's by accident and that's a problem. Also have half a story like that. A designated hero who's a total coward, or who decides working with the bad guys pays better. I actually have a collection of tumblr posts with ideas for stories and such. Like instead of the Chosen One being some teen, make it an elderly grandma and she goes off with her three cats and a frazzled aid that makes sure she takes her pills on time. ...I'm rambling. Sorry, it's been a long day and I'm on an adrenaline high plus also pretty tired. x.x Anyhow, you get the idea. <3

@pugbutter you may be best girl but I am cutest crazy. <3 And I sound like a kid half the time, at least in terms of enthusiasm. ^.^

[Redthorn Anvil]

@shylarah Ew no tumblr get out XDDD

[Redthorn Anvil]

And again, while the whole idea of being totally meta sounds hilarious, I feel like, it would be kind of hard to incorporate "real" people/characters into a story based on a website. Like...Theoretically the whole game could be you[the main character] shitting around on the Guild the entire time, but there's really not much substance if we do it that way. And the whole breaking of fourth walls can be funny if it's done right, but the idea of the whole game being like that...Yeesh man, I dunno. I can only take so much of that sort of thing. That kind of humor, I feel, is best taken in small doses, like a short comic strip. Not for game like I'm thinking. It would just be too much to handle.

Now the other ideas @shylarah just mentioned are all something I can work with. That stuff is well-trod ground for me. Does anybody else like any of the ideas she--I'm assuming, yes, because these days I just don't know so I might as well take an educated guess--came up with?

[random tangent; grammatically it's correct to say 'he' if you don't know a person's gender, so I refuse to say 'they/them'. Call me a traditionalist. If I get it wrong you can correct me. Okay random tangent over.]

ANYWAY. *cough*
So yeah.

[shylarah]

@Redthorn Anvil I'm not actually a tumblrite, though I do have a blog. Somewhere. Mostly I lurk and follow people I really like or who inspire my art/writing/whatever. But I see a lot of tumblr threads captured as images and posted on this geek group I'm in on FB, among other places...so yeah. It's a good way to separate the wheat from the chaff without having to go anywhere near the chaff in the first place. ^.^;;

I think I agree, supermeta is probably a bit much. But nothing wrong with leaning on the fourth wall. Also I nominate Jenny Everywhere to be a character for no other reason than that I like her. Look her up. <3

In a more thematic sense, you could totally have Plot be a force in the setting, as in Sire or Mercedes Lackey's 100 Kingdoms series. Seriously, go read a bit of Sire, starting when they reach the Legacy Haven or wherever it is.

Ooh, another idea is magic in a modern setting -- paired closely with computer programming. Not quite cyberpunk, but not really magitech either. Sorry, random thought.

I'm tempted to offer up my cat char, Shroedinger, but...well I'm torn on that. He's very much mine. ...Then again, I suppose being in a state of wanting yet not wanting is entirely apropos when it comes to him. <3

I am indeed a lady. Well. Lady might be a bit much? I'm a she. And I know "they" is technically grammatically incorrect by established standards, but standards to have to change with the times, and I feel weird saying "he" when I don't know. Using "one" gets stuffy really fast, so I generally default to "they". Unless, y'know. I make a mostly-arbitrary assumption and go with it until corrected. ^.^;;

[Redthorn Anvil]

@shylarah There's so many things you're insisting I look up and read, I don't got time for all that, I'm too busy doing everything else I do! XD

Anyway, I kind of don't want to be the one person making all the decisions, I kinda need us all to agree on something so that we're all enthusiastic about this game!