trollxzibit | State of the Game

12/12/13

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Edited 2013-02-13 03:00 (UTC)

Okay, the basic part from the plurk: "Avispa's got a million things she wants to do (get to her gates, move various in-game machines, run from bees, find skulls) but right now she's seeing if Imps actually have skulls... and consort-searching. Plus talking with literally everyone."

And for this post, though, gonna do a brief little catchup on where she stands with everyone she's interacted with a lot and where I last left her goals at. If the character's not on this list, either I've forgotten ~~please shoot me~~, things have been resolved, or there are shenanigans to be had if you'd like! :D!

KIDS:
Cheriour - Alchemize puzzle-goddess-blessing-stuff.
Donovan - Try to remember everything he's "taught".
Ria - Stare at pester window.
Lily - Ask more about imps.
Shea - Never speak to again, ever.

ALPHA:
Kaprao - Keep in mind that gloves may be a really good idea.
Pherae - Stare at pester window.
Hirune - Be a good server player.
Durian - Be a good client player. Get closer so she can obtain machines. Also consider the benefits of having "plans".
Perrix - Still plan to locate all squeaky players.
Kalfour - Contemplate the game's puzzles as well as Kalfour's puzzles. Boy, she gon' solve you someday.

BETA:
Zurahe - Contemplate how voices can be re-found after being lost. Also be proud of being weird.
Nikkal - Discover and report back with the game's roles/aspects. Save up grist for cake. Find out if imps have skulls.
Komesh - Alchemize his head, harvest the skull, report back to him after successfully doing so.

Whether you're on the list or not, if you want to plot things LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN. :D!!!

Rara's currently prepping to go through her second gate and, essentially, wreck Komesh's whole planet. Having recently discovered what the Alchemiter does from Avispa, she's attempting to make something that will let her fight on/under water somehow. If nothing else, she's going to be relying on 'High Hopes' which are a combination of the Long Fall Boots and some rocketboots to fly.

That aside, she's been helping her consorts with quests and is, frankly, destroying her echeladder levels on a semi-regular basis. She still can't do her main planet quest though, because she still has no idea where her Denizen is. She's also taken into consideration that since her dreamself can talk, maybe there's a way to get her voice back, so it's likely she'll learn about Godtier soon enough from her consorts.

BETA: Brace yourselves boys and girls, because it's very likely she'll be posting soon to try and get a read on everyone and what you're all up to.

Even the ones she doesn't give much of a fuck about.

Yes, even you.

KIDS: So far, she's set to pester Donny again because he's not a COMPLETE FUCKING IDIOT in her opinion, and Cheerios to see how he's doing. I'm totally up for more interactions if anyone wants them though.

ALPHA: She's going to figure out why there even have to be two sessions of trolls anyway. Someone has to know how to merge them, and if not, then SOMETHING'S gotta be done. Also- make sure Phylus is ok.

That said if there's anything I missed that's been worked out or if there's anything anyone wants to do, I'm always ready and willing for plotting things and suchlike.

Avispa will probably share alchemizations if Rara asks, or it comes up, or anything. Because you know she's going to ask and check on Rara's progress with the machines now that she knows about them.

...and she'll probably never stop bothing Rara because that's what she do and now Rara has a puzzle she's trying to solve.

In the present tense: Durian is in the game! Almost all of his time since entry has been hovering around the alchemiter, using his grist in alchemizing things. He keeps running out, and then wandering around the hive to fight imps and get a little more. (The guy is obsessed.) Occasionally he takes a break from both fighting and alchemizing to troll anyone he sees online.

In the near future: Foxdad will coerce Durian into leaving the hive by going through the gate! (Durian has almost no ability to ignore Foxdad's sad sounds and expressions. It's kind of cute? He'll grumble about to anyone online when it happens.) Once he starts exploring his own world, it probably won't be too long before he hops into trying another! ~~Because Ky still hasn't decided a quest and needs that before too much can be done with the world.~~

Projected CR based off the last things they were doing/talking about...

Alpha
Kaprao: Harass into revealing the sense of humor that Kaprao must have, help with the mutually-beneficial poison antidotes, check if there are any other important secrets about this game that Kaprao hasn't mentioned yet
Phylus: Be the client player, argue about game shenanigans
Pherae: Know more about alchemy and critique frog breeding techniques
Avispa: Convince her that her way of doing things is not as good as yours, citing the dropped computers as the final proof in any argument. Encourage her to solve the mysteries that aren't fun to investigate.
Hirune: Harass Hirune into revealing anything she knows about the creators of this game.
Perrix: Continue to verbally fistbump fellow blueblood, possibly seek fighting advice, and eventually explore the game as a Team.
Zirreh: is dead!!! What the heck? Dead according to a misunderstanding with Kalfour. As you don't expect Kalfour to lie to you, be surprised by the ghost if/when you talk with Zirreh.
Kalfour: Continue to fail at empathy. Maybe tell more ghost stories?
Kalfour's "roommates": Explain that your need to contact a game player trumps their need to use the computer by virtue of hemostatus. Accept no backtalk from the lowblooded imposter, and convince the asshole to at least get his own trollian handle.
Everybody else: No particular plans, but things can happen

Beta
Zurahe: Observe her remarkable progression in the game with increasing unease. Try and fail to hide the unease.
Nikkal: Touch base ~~in that contemplate post, I mean it's only been two weeks and I haven't tagged it yet~~
Everybody else: Again, no particular plans. Durian doesn't know half of this group...

Kids
Ria: Enthuse about the alchemy in the game! Keep an eye out for confirmation/refutation of her claim of being an alien, and compare cultures some more.
Donovan: Demonstrate the 'defensive' part of your username and display why Zirreh has found it fun to annoy you. Continue checking that alien claim.
Ira: Someday meet her and be very confused
Eric: Not-quite-apologize for accusing her of being a wiggler and acknowledge that maybe an alien's ignorance is forgivable.
Chrysi: Oh, maybe you aren't a mutant.
Any other kid: Who are you and what's it like being an alien?

RECIPE SWAP GROUP
Durian, Ria, Kaprao, Chrysi, Chi-Rho, and any others. May incite arguments about vegetarianism and accidentally poisoning people.

T-The worst client ever sobs HOW DO THINGS WORK HOW???

If Durian shouts at the heavens and spams Phylus with "no do this I saw Avispa do this and it worked right, what are you doing even" will it make things great or the greatest?! :D

Wow Durian, rude! Just to prove him wrong, she's going to alchemize a sort of headset-thing for her husktop. She can't drop that!

Oh, what now! Also she still thinks his plan idea is silly.

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

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.

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"

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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??

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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~

State of the Game - Master Post

SotG - 12/12/13

Avispa Kusbir tl;dr

Zurahe Cadens; shenanigans

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Durian Agripa: alchemy!

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SotG 02/23/13

Plots: Lily royally screwing things up

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

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Dungeons

TrollWiki

Puzzles, Skulls, and Avispa.

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Time shenanigans, player meet-ups, eventual got tiger

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