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March Event Poll!

March is nearly upon us, and with that comes new arrivals as well as a new event! I do have some ideas of my own, but I wanted to see what our wonderful player base has to say about it.

If you have any suggestions, please, please, PLEASE drop them in the comment below! I would also love to see what people have in mind themselves aside from the usual fare.

Any of these can be used at a later date, too, including the ones suggested.

There will also be a sign up for a thing regarding the intro log when apps open in two days, so be on the look out for that!

Poll #17323 March Event Poll!

This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26

What should March's event be?

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Musical event
9 (34.6%)

Age swap/change
4 (15.4%)

A flower event (because spring!)
3 (11.5%)

Random disease/illness
1 (3.8%)

Power swap
7 (26.9%)

Loss of senses
2 (7.7%)

Player suggestion! (Please put below)
0 (0.0%)

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I only wish I could vote on multiple ideas because they're all great, tbh.

Just because we choose one over the others doesn't mean I'm not going to hold to these for later xD

- players pair up with a character they don't get along with (or want to get to know better), their characters are magically tethered in such a way as getting much further than arm's reach from each other is practically impossible (IT'S THE GET-ALONG SWEATER/MAGICAL HANDCUFFS)

- species swap? non-humans become human, humans become any manner of thing they want? Maybe restricted to what species have been brought into the game? idk MAY INVOLVE POWERS TOO

- Speak Your Mind - internal monologues become externalized somehow? Posted anonymously to the network? People matching the right thought to the right person breaks the effect?

- Magic Sucks - y'all are too reliant on healing magic, or magic in general. for this event, all magic powers cause detrimental effects. magical characters? get ready for a bad time. technologically savvy or those with more mundane skills get to shine.

- Synesthesia - maybe the energy generator produces magical feedback that briefly scrambles the senses. Taste the rainbow, kids!

The colors, Duke! The colors!

I'm color-blind, kid.

There might be some vanity rambles here. I apologize. 8D

SPECIES SWAP: what it would be like for someone else to become Shooter? 8D (It's only species, not mind, so it'd be like. BRS's Checkerboard Fightin' World, being a component of it: understanding their limited values and world structure.)

but holy heck there's an idea too, MIND-SWAP. Or maybe more like ISSUES-SWAP? The whole "look at each other's innermost secrets" thing taken to the next level - Character A's issues are suddenly embedded in Character B, complete with full knowledge and every last feeling. Exactly as if Character B had carried the stuff all along.

(That'd be fun for whoever got my pups right off the bat. Ikuri and how broken her world left her; the fears that still simmer below the surface, that haven't been a part of the equation since Bastion. (Ripe material for the Queen to get ahold of.) Rin Kagamine and the tortures she endured in her native world, thanks to the empowered evil side of a certain someone. Saul Livingston and...well. Issues from his backstory, Issues from the last game he was in...both tied to being that Someone in question. The fear and broken trust and anger he'd aroused in certain individuals by having that demon. Knowing, just like Ikuri, that even though the Inner Monster has been quiet here, it's far from dead and far from gone; it can come out anytime.

Kinda like Frisk and their inner Chara, ya know?

BUT BACK TO THE SUGGESTIONS. Species Swap. For me and mine it'd be reminiscent of

vocaloidressing's human-robot switch, except broader. (And technically the same thing since I *have* a fightin' 'loid in this game.) Thing is, I don't really play my robot as very robotty, so it might not be *that* different unless you're a particularly robo-savvy player who wants to play that angle. Then I'd say go nuts. 8D (There's also Mettaton, of course. What if you could combine species? Holy poo.)

Saul is essentially human, despite the 'added' the nature, so personality-wise that wouldn't be too much different - but if someone had the fortune of swapping species with him, what if we combined that with Magic Sucks and suddenly have a non-warper type be granted constantly-misfiring powers?

"Doesn't feel good, does it? Other people's shit malfunctioning around you." (I Robot)

Mind Swap is basically a Body Swap event, which can be a heck of a lot of fun, whoops, everyone's Souls ended up in the wrong body!

Issues Swap is an interesting idea but I personally wouldn't enjoy depositing a truckload of very complicated (and potentially triggering) baggage on another player and leaving the playing of it open to their interpretation, or wading through a pretty significant amount of research into other canons, characters, backgrounds etc. in order to play it accurately. I feel like that would probably steal a lot of the 'fun' out of it. I mean, it's really intriguing but 'here play my character's existential angst' doesn't sound nearly as straight-forward and fun as 'you woke up in so-and-so's body'.

Points. It would take a fair amount of deftness and knowledge to pull off; putting that on an unprepared player wouldn't be cool, so I'm thinkin' it works best as an optional component, one that's for individual players who have everything worked out with each other.

(I may be the one who suggested it, but envisioning myself with the challenge of putting it IC - yeah, it'd have to be with characters I'm confident I understood well, and possibly also with those muns I've shared enough time and company to feel sufficiently sure I could make stuff go down in a manner they'd be okay with. It's tricky business.)

I guess with the explanation you included above I'd check for enough players interested in doing that sort of thing. To me, it looks like it wouldn't have the 'mass appeal' of these other ideas, and you might end up with a majority of the game sitting out of an event.

Personally it seems like a great musebox idea as opposed to a game event idea?

Points well-taken again. ~~(XD I seem to have a knack for that, incidentally; comin' up with stuff that's better for boxes than games. Pretty natural thing, all considered - probably will be until I gain my sea-legs.)~~

Funny you should say that, though; not long after I was starting to think the same thing. It does seem like the sorta plot that's best with particularly close partners.

Haven't thought out this next angle thoroughly, but it was somethin' that occurred to me whilst gettin' ready to run out for work. I was starting to wonder about the core concepts, and if they'd be more tenable if toned down. What came to mind...was how the Force worked in the Bantam run of Star Wars books, combined possibly with the spirit-bond (or whatever actual term was used; it's in one of my books, I'd have to dig it out) option for characters in earlier D&D. Like...instead of outright inheriting Issues as such - maybe a sort of temporary bond between two characters on a metaphysical level. (Also makes me think of another take on the get-along sweater.)

Like this: two characters are suddenly bonded. They're aware of each other's emotional state and general condition: whether they're hurt, sad, angry, in danger, in pain, etc. Perhaps even a whiff of general location within the castle, especially if danger's a thing. Thoughts and deeper emotional nuances can technically be discerned, but only through consent: never through coercion. Mayhap include a caveat that hostile act towards one end of the bond terminates it, or else imposes a consequence on the person taking the action.

It would still require player coordination and consent, but perhaps it would also be less unwieldy, as it would encourage in-character communication without imposing the challenge of getting someone else's muse right.

Ooh, like a telepathic link? That one is much easier to jump into! I think we would need something else happening in tandem with that so there's something for bonded characters to do with their link. It would be inclusive, something new players could just jump into without CR, would foster new CR or encourage mingling. Basically it'd pass my personal test of what makes a strong event.

Maybe make it even more inclusive: based on proximity to others the bond shifts to other characters or includes a group (hive mind, anyone?) including an option for psychological side effects like identity bleed. That way no one is left out in the cold.

Sans would be so uncooperative in such a plot so maybe circumstances that make the bond irresistible save for cases of OOC consent would allow for difficult characters to participate?

Something else happening in tandem...what did you have in mind? (I'd offer suggestions, but my brain's briefly slipped back into not-braining mode, apologies. 8D;; )

And how would the hive mind / identity bleed subroutes work? (They're self-suggestive, in a way, but I'd be interested in hearing what you think.

With that said, I really like all of it. That entire comment and everything in it, I like those ideas. 8D

Yep. Like shadows attack or some kind of thing to accomplish together. Something that gets in your face so even characters that don't bother or whatever can still get involved if their player wants. Accessibility and inclusivity are key!

If you have characters in a group, they gain a group telepathic link. Maybe the longer it goes on, the lines between where you stop and other consciousnesses begin get blurry. Things like that.

Also, because it came up on Plurk... Chibi Event? 8D Everyone's suddenly tiny, a la the Avatar shorts?

I find that I actually really rather like species swap as a possible event. Brain's already chasing bunnies.

As for this one, this is just me being incredibly self-indulgent: AU event? Characters who opt in can be replaced with an Alternate Universe version.

If they have powers that would prove game breaking, they're automatically sealed?

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March Event Poll!

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Right off the top: I like all these suggestions.

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ALSO ALSO MINOR ADDENDUM?

ANOTHER EVENT IDEA