State of the Game - Master Post

[pimpmytroll]

State of the Game! Where is your character at this point in time, and what is their next course of action?

This post shall contain the weekly SotG comments/threads as the game goes on. This is to encourage discussion and plotting about where your characters can go from here. As this is the primary SotG post, this has now been stickied to always be at the top of the OOC community.

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SotG 02/23/13

[pimpmytroll]

Feb 23rd, 2013 Reply here to this comment! This week, we also encourage all players to discuss short or long term goals for their characters! Have ideas you want to flesh out? Mention them! Have no clue where you're going and need some brainstorming? Step right up! More than a "State of the Game", this week is also a "Plan for the Game!" Post up a big idea, or toss up smaller ideas, or anything you'd like. This week is all about discussion. Since 02/12/13's SotG, the following in-game posts have been made: • Komesh - [Open Memo] - 2/21/13 • [S] Perrix: GRIND x2 COMBO - 2/22/13 • [S] Avispa: Alchemize - 2/23/13

Plots: Lily royally screwing things up

[methodologicalanalyst]

I've been waiting for this post for this very reason.

One of my big hopes for Lily is that eventually, she's forced to make a decision between something, and chooses the wrong thing because of science, royally screws everyone or everything over, and then disappears for a few IC days to a week depending on what it is.

What I need are ideas, ways to make this happen in the future, since after all, the game IS not to be won, so something is going to get screwed up eventually.

The 'screwing up' can be medium or large in scale, and will likely be dependent on if the mods allow it to happen, but I want to see what can be done with this.

[apiarycryptonaut]

Hmmm! Definitely gonna give this one some thought, but perhaps that's a thing that can have an effect specifically on the kids session? Perhaps something involving Lily's server player (Wess!) knocking something into something or accidentally setting off a rube goldberg machine reaction that makes something happen? The possibilities are limitless!

[celestialcavalier]

Hrm.

In terms of realizable shorter-term goals for Donny, I think that I might want him to finally pay attention to his consorts enough to be clued in on all this Heir of Blood nonsense. Or maybe have one of his coplayers end up on the same planet as him (whether that means he's hitting up a gate or someone else is).

basically i wanna make another post with him but there are a bunch of options and i'm like "welp what do"

[apiarycryptonaut]

Well considering that suddenly he's seeing all kinds of aliens all over, he might be willing to give the consorts a listen? But likely I don't see him dedicating a lot of time to them especially since he seems to find them really annoying? Hmm. Getting off of his planet to be AWESOME on other planets could be a thing he does! It gets him away from the consorts, he'd probably appreciate the lack of their constant blabbering?

Of course, I could be completely wrong and off the mark??

quickly before real-life kidnaps me again! ;A;

[secretequinox]

Okay. Chi-Rho has been on static silence for so long because he's still exploring his medium, and the imps just wont leave him be! He met his consorts, tiny bears! So tiny! And they are so shy and timid and sweet, he couldn't possibly leave their small town without listening to some stories!

He alchemized some outfits and upgraded his daggers a little bit, and in the middle of everything he suddenly realizes that he hasn't contacted ANYONE for too long!!!!!!!!!

So that's the next post (AKA ==>Chi-rho: contact EVERYONE??)!

I really want him to get his convo on with more players, mostly Cheriour and Chrysi? (as they will soon be his "Anchors"...)

My plan for Chi-Rho is no surprise: The voices haunting him every waking minute get too strong, he stumbles into a dark area (cave?) where they finally quiet down and falls asleep. His Derse dreamself is dead for a while now so he doesn't get there, instead he manages to dwell into the outer ring and into the claws of the Horrorterrors. They make a deal with him, promising him great power that will be able to save everyone in the game (or at least the human players) and in turn he will be their harbinger of death.

He emerges much different, and contacts all the players in the game. His message will be rather disturbing, but clear. And thus he will begin his hunt.

Even in his Grimdarkness, he would still be himself enough to communicate. I am not sure yet if he'll snap out of it, not sure if he survives it. Or if anyone does.

[apiarycryptonaut]

Hurray for Chi-Rho emerging from the darkness!

Out of curiosity, any thoughts on the secret agenda that the Horrorterrors may have for enlisting Chi-Rho? Any limitations on his behavior as the proclaimed "harbinger of death"? What further abilities would you like him to have? And most importantly how is he going to grow during/after the experience? He can really only snap out of it, die, or go god tier to end it, probably.

There're likely to be plot options for him fighting and/or killing other players (troll or human) at some point, perhaps, if he gets that bad?

status update

[starstorm]

NIKKAL has just met up with komesh in-game! i am not quite sure what her next objective is; eventually i assume they'll be heading through her second gate to bharal's planet, but there's no rush. so HEY BEAR was there anything you wanted them to do before then? o:

otherwise, i don't have any real concrete plans for her right now (having just come off hiatus and all), so if anyone wants to do something with her then i'm totes game.

[apiarycryptonaut]

Role/Aspect discovery and discussion! Since they did promise it.

That aside, probably first and foremost the two of them working out the fact that Avispa has Komesh's skulls and heads and man that has to be unsettling.

Dungeons

[callouslystalwart]

Basically just reposting what I put on the last SotG since it's still relevant...

Dungeons. Shit's happening.

Perrix is about to pop through his first gate and he is going to raid the shit out of some of LOAAR's many eponymous ruins. He'd also be plenty interested in exploring anyone else's dungeons (innuendo intended)!

The only problem is having players meeting up in specific locations at this point - so we could handle it via funky gates sending people to the wrong places, just forward-date the post for a temporary timeskip (Scrib posts already make chronology their prison bitch), Perrix just being a cheating min-maxing bastard to quickly get somewhere that promises shinies?

I'm open to working with anybody that's interested in getting knee deep in dunge with me!

[apiarycryptonaut]

After pondering on it, Perrix would probably have a fun time joining Avispa in the exploration of the tunnels beneath LOSAR's surface. Especially since there are vaults and safehouses that can be raided because they're FULL OF LOOT. And also Gold/Diamond/Amethyst/etc Grist-Imps. Though he'd have to go through 8 normal gates (or 4 of the higher gates) to get to her world, so. Just a thought!

...No innuendo-exploring her dungeons, though, there are a million reasons why that'd be a really bad idea.

TrollWiki

[callouslystalwart]

Well, TrollWiki just started out as a joke on the fact that you can pretty much take an earth thing, tack the words "troll" or "grub" on it somewhere, and you get an alternian thing, but...

Well, it's actually an interesting concept. I don't feel like making it for reals (and we already have a game wiki, though that's meta and not IC), but this can be a thing we just sort of have in the background so that characters can refer to/use it as players wish? With mod discretion, of course.

[apiarycryptonaut]

And now that Perrix has mentioned it to Avispa that she'd be good at it, I feel the need to mention that I'd be up for making it a thing because IC-maintained wiki sounds really amusing especially if hate-edits happen from other characters.

That and Avispa really would make it and there'd be a lot of green, holy shit.

Puzzles, Skulls, and Avispa.

[apiarycryptonaut]

Okay so! Gonna ramble all this out as best I have planned it. Do forgive any incoherency, or hit me with a frying pan, either or.

Short term! Firstly, Avispa really, really, really likes to alchemize things as has become very apparent with her latest Alchemize post that she has told EVERYONE about. She likes to alchemize things, she likes to make things, she likes to talk about making things... She's figuring the game out really quickly, which is great for her, but that's why a few of her long term goals are going to be things that are deliberately withheld from her.

MORE Short term: She pesters everyone. She likes pestering people and learning things and honestly she's leeching information from everyone so she can learn. She's being a sponge. If a character's there, she's going to talk to them about SOMETHING. Things she needs to remember to do:
• Ask EVERYONE about classes/aspects.
• Properly do things for "The Victory Squadron".
• Be really, really excited about skulls and puzzles.
• Try to insult someone (...Donovan, why)
• Explore her planet more, specifically gate-venturing.
• Also eventually find where her Denizen is supposed to be.

Soon (in under a month, probably) she'll be making another post involving her glitch ability to see Skaian cloud visions because she'll see a vision of herself plus three or more other characters. I'm going to use a randomizer to pick the other visions, unless anyone SUPER ABSOLUTELY WANTS a vision to be used. Let me know!

Lastly, and this is the most long term, is her consorts. She is not going to find them until much, much later because they're going to tell her things that will make her put the big picture of the Scribs puzzle together REALLY FAST. It's too soon for her to start solving the game, and she's smart enough to do so. Shortly after she finds her consorts and learns her role/aspect as well as some key things about the game, the events of a specific vision that she will have seen earlier will take place. That post'll probably be in April, if not all the way in May or June; maybe even later if plot things push it back. But the vision will coincide with her FINALLY FINDING her consorts.

Anyway, Avispa is open to CR with EVERY OTHER CHARACTER. 100% serious about that. So, let's make things be a thing! I probably missed things and there're a TON of things Avispa would be fascinated by or want to help with, so!

[soundtricks]

...I need to submit some cloud visions still, dammit.

Also I think Avispa should help Rara with alchemizing because some of her alchemizations are going to be useless and horrible and I don't think I need to point you in the direction of some of those things in the alchememe.

[soundtricks]

So Rara's going to go gate-jumping soon, after alchemizing a few things with the RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS OF GRIST she's accumulated, and that's going to land her right on Komesh's planet.

Where Komesh no longer is.

Which does not bode well for any structures or consorts in her way when she gets there, because her favorite new toy is LITHIUM FLOWER which is a literal electric guitar. And WHO has a super-conductive water-covered planet? Komesh, that's who!

She's not even a little sorry. Okay, maybe a little but only because consorts.

After that, she's going to power her way through the next couple of gates because Komesh's planet and her hydrophobia are not a good combination, no they are not. Which will put her on Nikkal's planet sometime in the next week/two weeks, OOCly. ICly she'll probably be coming online after she wrecks Komesh's planet a little, so that should be sometime in the coming week, /okok. Expect a massive, wordy post, for which I will apologize in advance, ♥. Sorry guys.

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh man, Rara wrecking all the things sounds fantastic. S'all I have to say.

ETA:

[soundtricks]

P.S. If there's anything anyone feels the need to discuss with me re: plotting or really anything at all game-wise, since I hadn't edited it before, my contacts are now up-to-date on the spreadsheet, but just in case:

AIM: astronavigatrix
Skype: premiumbitches

We now return to your regularly-scheduled SotG.

Time shenanigans, player meet-ups, eventual got tiger

[artful_transgressor]

So! My short-term plans involve having Lyn start to actually utilize his powers as a Time player - but as he's a passive class, his powers will manifest primarily in his using his aspect for the benefit of others, which means I need to collaborate with other players on this. |D Specifically, is your character going to do something that could potentially have terrible consequences for the session? Like, potential doomed timeline offshoot terrible? This is a prime time for Lyn to stick his nose all up into their business! If you need a character headed off from doing something bad - or goaded into doing something good - Lyn could potentially have a timeline-preserving reason for doing so! Even better, this gives him a good reason to hassle people he's never spoken a word to before, across all sessions.

Secondly, I'd love for Lyn to start meeting up with other trolls in person - quite possibly as a direct result of the above! As much as he enjoys grinding for grist and alchemizing gear, even the most game-breaking loot whore eventually longs to make some progression. Besides, his planet sucks.

Finally, as to my more long-term goals with Lyn...I do want him to eventually go godtier, as much because I intend that to be what allows him to complete his planet's quest as anything else. Further, I'd like him to die kind of early on as a sort of ironic mockery of his ancestor's role of a long-lived survicerator, and Lyn's own cautious survivor mentality. I haven't yet worked out how that could happen, or even when (or if) the mods would allow it...but I'd like to brainstorm ideas. :|a

And, of course, any general socializing or ideas other people toss at me are very welcome~

[apiarycryptonaut]

For that entire first part you could totally get into cahoots with Arc regarding Lily's really-bad-consequences plotting ideas (scroll up!) maybe? Could make for fun plotting for you two.

And man if Lyn's going to jump through gates and meet other trolls, he'd probably be super welcome on Avispa's world and she'd be fascinated by his existence and oh my god the LOOT. Also if he wanted to lecture about terrible consequences so she avoids making them, that could totally be a thing. She'd be a captivated, captive audience.

... 8D And just gonna say that Lyn's psionics, no matter what they are, will fascinate Avispa because oh my god he can do magical things.

Re: Time shenanigans, player meet-ups, eventual got tiger

[threadspinner]

I fully volunteer Phylus for any awful mishaps that could lead to his death. '-'b

Barricades, Spacey Things, and more

[enlivenedaltruist]

Okay, so, because I am a failure at Life, the Universe, and Pretty Much Everything, I...sort of fell into accidental hiatus. But I should have time to handle things now! SO. Onto Chrysi Stuff!

Currently, Chrysi has been out of touch due to the sudden introduction of Slender Imps to the Land of Dusk and Frogs, AKA a Big Damn Dark Forest Planet. She and her Consorts, a race of snakes, have retreated to the safety of the hotel and have barricaded themselves in, along with some weaker, less prototyped, older imps who have agreed to do their part in helping, and understand that if they damage anyone or anybody, Chrysi will kill them and use their grist for repairs!

c:

She's also still pretty protective of the Hotel so when Cardsprite/the Twins/idk clued her in on needing to get to the First Gate she basically started designing blueprints for how to build onto/around the Hotel without ruining it. Currently, I'm wondering if a plant-based build up is possible? Like, a vertical spiraling rose maze or something. That would also help Chrysi discover Grandmamma's corpse/severed head, so she can have her breakdown and then prototype Grand-Dame-of-Heartsprite once the healing begins.

Aaand then there's the Spacey Thing! All you guys who are veering off course and glitched/missing pieces? Yeah, Chrysi, as Seer of Space, is going to start noticing that things feel weird and Not Right, and it will give her so many headaches before she even starts to understand what it all means. So thanks, guys. Thanks for all these shenanigans. You're lucky she loves you all.

I'm still waffling on whether or not she should get the tiger, and...well, I've had vague considerations of Trickster Chrysi too, but I'm not sure I want to be the one to open that particular Pandora's Box, though Trickster Chrysi meeting Grimdark ChiRho would be all kinds of terrifying and hilarious. It would be a very interesting clash, though I don't think we want to add in direct Cherub contact or anything. Though...a glitch dropping in a juju or Mad Alchemagiscience might work too...

Thoughts? Plotting? Come at me guys, I need to get back into the swing of things.

Pherae

[elaphaea]

This is maybe less a "state of Pherae" as a "holy shit Degen needs to do stuff," but!

Pherae has (presumably) been spending a lot of time exploring her planet, meeting her extremely eager satyr consorts, and finding a whole lot of thorn-entrapped (and thus currently useless) frogs.

She needs to:
1) alchemize stuff — I confess this is an aspect of Homestuck that I am not good at brainstorming myself, so thoughts are lovely, including links to epic weapons and outfits that he can make happen
2) have epic fight team-ups
3) go grimdark

Yes, that last one is still a thing I'd like to happen. Not as devastating as Chi-Rho up there, as I intend for it to be snap-out-able, but here's what I've established: Pherae, once she learns of her purpose as a Space player, becomes increasingly distressed at her misplaced dreamself and the implications this has for her ability to fulfill her Duty. Because she can be trusting to a fault, she thinks of the horrorterros (so conveniently available to her Derse-located dreamself) as "helpful sources of advice," and follows that advice right off the madness cliff.

Things I would love from other people:
- people to be in on grimdark plotting with me
- various quadrant shenanigans
- adventures!!

Durian's SotG 02/23/13, -edit-

[defensivealchemist]

Nothing changed during that week, as I didn't do any tags for this last week! Today, all that changes. dun dun DUN.

Sooooo revised COPY PASTA TIME.

Durian is in the game! Almost all of his time since entry has been hovering around the alchemiter... wandering around the hive to fight imps ...and Occasionally taking a break to troll anyone he sees online.

In the near future: Foxdad will coerce Durian into leaving the hive by going through the gate. Durian will be Less Than Thrilled with his world, especially after seeing the images/videos of other peoples'. He'll go exploring eventually.

[archimime]

I have no clue what I'm doing. Honestly I've been in 'statis for a long time with Sparks to the point I'm really unsure if I should drop the game or not. I love the whole concept, but damn am I out of plans for him. For a while it looks like he was going to be the far more fabulous Dave Type that does his own thing most of the time but pops in to check on others-- but he hasn't really popped in. Urgh. His best friend died (their player dropped) so it'd make since if he holed up (considering not much In Game time has actually passed). Merrrgh. I still have the muse/character drive, but not the plotting ability it seems.