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ways_back_room2005-06-29 05:31 pm
halfwest.livejournal.com) wrote in ways_back_room2005-06-29 05:31 pm
Why this game is awesome.
I think one of the most fabulous things about this game is being able to play scenes with characters who would ordinarily never ever EVER be together even in the most utterly cracked crossover fanfic.
Here is the example that blew me away. Good players are not only talanted storytellers in their own right, they often have an effect on the characters they interact with. I have found this to be so time and time again, in online RPGs and LARPs (interestingly, also Vampire: the Masquerade -- mortisbelle's canon). And sometimes two characters will end up with an unexpected chemistry that amazes everyone involved. I haven't spoken to this mun, but I for one am impressed by how that scene evolved. A really good scene is the result of combined effort -- the most credit I can take on fox's behalf is for having written the words down. It was the interaction that provided the opportunity for those particular words to come together. Which is to say -- my definition of a truly great RP scene is one in which the characters or the muns learn something they wouldn't have come up with WITHOUT that interaction. Therefor I bow humbly to whatever Muse my partner had, for that is the force truly responsible for fox's 'wisdom.' I could not have written that without her giving the cues.
I've had the fox in a few threads tonight, all of which are SO much fun, but this one really stands out to me. I've played some intense characters (Gorlim is a study in several kinds of psychosis in his own right), but I've never had a character break me within the first three hours of his existence. That is exactly what this scene did. In a good way, mind. Like the sex scenes in "Shakespeare in Love" :D Only without the sex.
I'm curious what other scenes people have done where something really amazing happened as the result of being able to play outside your fandom? I'm sure it happens fairly often around here. Come pimp your cyber Muse sex. This phenomenon intrigues me.
Here is the example that blew me away. Good players are not only talanted storytellers in their own right, they often have an effect on the characters they interact with. I have found this to be so time and time again, in online RPGs and LARPs (interestingly, also Vampire: the Masquerade -- mortisbelle's canon). And sometimes two characters will end up with an unexpected chemistry that amazes everyone involved. I haven't spoken to this mun, but I for one am impressed by how that scene evolved. A really good scene is the result of combined effort -- the most credit I can take on fox's behalf is for having written the words down. It was the interaction that provided the opportunity for those particular words to come together. Which is to say -- my definition of a truly great RP scene is one in which the characters or the muns learn something they wouldn't have come up with WITHOUT that interaction. Therefor I bow humbly to whatever Muse my partner had, for that is the force truly responsible for fox's 'wisdom.' I could not have written that without her giving the cues.
I've had the fox in a few threads tonight, all of which are SO much fun, but this one really stands out to me. I've played some intense characters (Gorlim is a study in several kinds of psychosis in his own right), but I've never had a character break me within the first three hours of his existence. That is exactly what this scene did. In a good way, mind. Like the sex scenes in "Shakespeare in Love" :D Only without the sex.
I'm curious what other scenes people have done where something really amazing happened as the result of being able to play outside your fandom? I'm sure it happens fairly often around here. Come pimp your cyber Muse sex. This phenomenon intrigues me.
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Well... that's sort of the point, isn't it? That's how the game works, why it was started. My character wouldn't be engaged to a mad bomber, wouldn't be the mum of an orphaned heiress, wouldn't be best friends with an angel and a demon.
So, yeah. Happens every day. :D
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If Tom hadn't seen Lucifer and Crowley try to save an angel one night, he wouldn't be who he is now, either. And if he hadn't met Anakin Skywalker, Moiraine Aes Sedai, et al. - well, again, there's the magic of Milliways.
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Andrew Wells, Meg Giry, and Merriman Lyon travel to Miskatonic University in 1883 to research possible ways to bind Nyarlathotep.
H.P. Lovecraft, Joss Whedon, Gaston LeRoux, Susan Cooper. Never thought I'd see those four names linked up under any circumstances. But the thread was just incredibly awesome, as was the whole plot it came out of.