[OOC] Wolf Manor

[AuntFlavia]

(you have no idea how much fun Sol was to write for)

@Jig

I'd also like to thank you for writing Sol the way you do because it led to the most homoerotic (although one sided, poor Jonas) scenes I've ever written ever and it's therefore my magnum opus.

Since it's always slow here on Fridays I've been rereading through the IC posts and man we wrote a lot of words. A lot of good words. And it's almost been a year since we've rebooted it.

[AuntFlavia]

Also after rereading, I noticed a few things I didn't before...little hints to characters' backstories and maybe a few plot things? I'm not tellin' though. ;)

[Jig]

it led to the most homoerotic

@AuntFlavia

I still can't believe that I didn't even notice until basically afterwards.

The others might not know that I insisted it be amended.

[AuntFlavia]

<Snipped quote by AuntFlavia>

I still can't believe that I didn't even notice until basically afterwards.

The others might not know that I insisted it be amended.

@Jig

Lol sure, sure, keep tellin yourself that.

[Jig]

Pretty sure German sub-aristocrat x rural Minnesotan is a genre.

Rule 34 is a dangerous thing.

It's worth reminding everybody that SolxFelix was almost a thing. I didn't even notice the innuendo until Flavs pointed it out... and then I promptly removed it.

#disappointabounds

I'd be happy to co-GM for/with you, Jiggles, if you'd prefer not to do this alone.

#YouForgotToRightJustifyTheHashtag #FilthyAmateur #JigLoses

[Jig]

I'll be clear: if I'm GMing - either this or Tolf Manor -, I'm probably doing that on my own. This old dog can't learn the trick of anything less than extreme secrecy, and I don't think I could leak secrets for Wolf to just one person, or share GMing with another non-player. When I say it'd be fun to see a new perspective, I do actually mean that, while I think I bring a particular technique and style to GMing that has benefits, I don't think it's perfect and would genuinely like to see how somebody with knowledge of my successes and failures approaches it. If that person... also happens to be me, then that's not ideal, but still workable. Apart from anything else, I am very very floaty-off-in-my-own-head-y, which doesn't mean I wouldn't make time if I committed officially, but does me that that time would be on my own terms, and even if I was a team player (surprise! I'm really not!), it simply wouldn't be practical for me to try to work with another person at that pro-actively creative level.

But!

Our options expand:

• Limp on _{srsly tho no not the best choice}
• Jig tries again
• Aunt Flav + Ging co-GM
• Ging + TM99 co-GM
• TM99 + Flav co-GM

Note that any co-GM in the last three options wouldn't need to announce their co-GM-ship, which would allow for secret IC steering of the plot, which I didn't have access to _{and would have swapped a kidney for}. Just a thought.

[corneredbliss]

I am half asleep and catching up on these OOC posts and honestly you all are just a wonderful group of people and I'm lucky to have found you puppies. Any option is one I will definitely be part of. Have a wonderful day.

- A sleep-deprived Bliss

[AuntFlavia]

Bleh, I hate making decisions. This is why true adulthood eludes me.

I do have a question though. If we did move on from Wolf Manor, you wouldn't leave us hanging story wise, right Jig? You'd tell us all the secrets you had planned, or where you expected things to go and how we all screwed it up?

[Jig]

Absolutely. That's one of the principle benefits of killing Wolf and starting another one: it's the most likely way anybody gets to find out what's going on. Limping on could get us to the end of the story, theoretically, but an official death certificate countersigned by everybody guarantees that everything I did and had planned gets published.

Therefore, none of us is burdened by how much we still fuckin' love this but by how hard it would be to kick-start. It seems insane that starting a new one would actually be an easier task for me than continuing, but when I was in the groove, in addition to having all the stuff on paper, I had it floating around my head and was actively making it make sense (at least; to me). It's kinda like trying to do a jigsaw puzzle, except I lost the box with the bigger picture on it. I can still piece bits together, but only the obvious ones, and only one at a time.

If I get some super-duper commitment from literally everybody here (and a post from Cops :P), I'll commit to at least trying.

[AuntFlavia]

I guess I wouldn't mind restarting all that much then, as long as there's some kind of closure. Honestly I'll do anything with this group.

[Jig]

if need be I don't mind being GM.

@Kirah

I missed this

I can also co-gm if needed.

and only saw this.

please don't think I was subtly trying to make Kirah not-GM

#britishandneurotic #you'reallgoodchoices

[MyCatGinger]

Brilliance, brilliance!
Perhaps the secrets of Wolf Manor shall finally be revealed to us all, yes? I'm quite excited. I want to go down this road with all of you again.

I love you all. <3 Your faith in this RP has moved mountains!

[corneredbliss]

Honestly I'll do anything with this group.

@AuntFlavia

Seconding this beautiful statement. I'm giving my commitment to either trudge along or nab a fresh start.

Also, happy Monday everyone!

[Kirah]

It is okay Jig I forgive you.

I can handle killing wolf manor as long as we have closure.

Looks like the consensus seems to be that killing is acceptable, as long as we get those juicy spoilers.

^{#WereGatorsExist}

[AuntFlavia]

For the record, my actual theory isn't aquawerewolves, I think it's that the Wolfs are the inner circle of some kind of sun worshipping Lovecrafty cult that needs to provide sweet foreign blood to appease the mini cthulhu in the lake every solstice. Not a solid theory, I'll admit...

When we start anew, will it be a new mystery entirely or along the same sort of spooky paranoia manor lines?

[Jig]

For the record, my actual theory isn't aquawerewolves, I think it's that the Wolfs are the inner circle of some kind of sun worshipping Lovecrafty cult that needs to provide sweet foreign blood to appease the mini cthulhu in the lake every solstice. Not a solid theory, I'll admit...

@AuntFlavia

Just for my own amusement, I'd like to know what each of you thought was going on. I don't think any of you will actually get it (because you straight-up didn't have enough to go on at that stage), but I was firing Red Herrings at you like a tennis ball launcher, so I'd be intrigued to know what you picked up on. I'm actually really, really sorry (in all senses of the word) that we didn't get far enough into this for the actual mystery to become at least a little bit exposed.

When we start anew, will it be a new mystery entirely or along the same sort of spooky paranoia manor lines?

That would be up to the new GM, natch. Some things totally work about the manor setting - the GM has an environment that they can totally control which completely justifies the isolating a group of characters. On the other hand, there are lots of things that have to be worked around that arbitrary starting point which limits - or indeed, inspires - what you can and can't do. For what it's worth, the golden age of murder mystery writing took place long before mobile phones, and they're the first things you need to justify not working if isolating the cast from the real world is a necessary part of the plot.

In the unlikely but not implausible event that I'll be running another one (at least, any time soon), obviously all of the stuff I had in store for Wolf is now unusable (by me), because here's a GDoc ruining it all for everybody.

Click to spoil.

It's entirely possible that I've watched too much Jonathan Creek lately, because I actually wrote that GDoc like an actual fucking denouement. If none of you has seen Jonathan Creek, it's a quirky British mystery show where a self-effacing, socially-awkward deviser of magic tricks for a famous magician reluctantly works out mysteries using principles of how magic tricks work. It's less interested in whodunnit and more in howdunnit. Definitely recommend.

[AuntFlavia]

Click to spoil.

@Jig

Jig, you magnificent bastard. :D That's super cool and obviously I wasn't expecting it at all.

Yeah, everybody definitely post what you thought it was before reading that. :D

[MyCatGinger]

I had the inkling that Marci and Lynn would be killed by racist Gertrud in the dark of night with an AK-47 and that's why their rooms shared a balcony, so she could take out both in one night and formulate some lie about why they "haven't left their rooms" the next morning.

The remnants of Nazism only occurred to me much later (when reading. Cue me totally forgetting we were in Germany), which further justified her hatred.

I could never have guessed how that document would be, though. I am thoroughly amazed.

You're a mastermind, Jigsaw.
Take a bow.

PS: What did you have in mind for motive for the killing of each character, if you got that far? :')