oocinthenight | INTEREST CHECK

INTEREST CHECK

Hello, everyone! It is Kitty, your resident blind liar & baby goth vampire... I come with you with a proposal, and I hope you will hear me out!

I joined this game in July and I have loved every minute. There's so much of this environment that fascinates and intrigues me, and the mods did an impeccable job in crafting an experience and an idea that resonated so much with all of us. As this game closes, I know there's a lot of residual interest for me in the stories I was telling and the fight against World Eaters our characters did not get to finish. I don't feel like I'm the only one. So I am here to try and get a pulse on who would be inclined for a continuation of sorts, and to what extent we'd like to build our next step.

The first thing I'd like to know is: would you be interested in continuing to play with similar themes — specifically living in a dead world, rampant spirits, and exploration, and putting together some sort of fight against the World Eaters — while stepping back from the mod created elements of this game (leaving Beacon, and the NPCS)? While I do have ideas on how to accomplish this, I am happy to take suggestion and furthermore, at this point this is more of a preliminary gauge of interest for continuing this story on a new path, likely as a GPSL or perhaps in an entirely new form, depending on what our needs end up looking like.

I have asked Mipps and the other mods if they would be comfortable with this concept and I have been given approval to do so. So my next step is seeing who is interested, and exactly what we want to do with our next night together. If you could let me know if you'd be interested in this, if you'd be willing to help me organize it, there are toplevels below to help me organize thoughts. I'll also have a place for thoughts and suggestions and any questions you might have.

Even if you are not interested, thank you for being a part of this delightful game and I am so grateful to have met and written with all of you!

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Give a +1 here if you would be interested!

Would you be interested in helping organizing a potential next step? Be it in plot, putting together pages, journals, etc. Please let me know here, and what you would be comfortable helping with as well!

At this point a lot of things are up in the air but specific questions I can try to answer!

If this moved forward, what would you like to see? What elements mean the most for you? Are there unexplored ideas you want to share? How CAN characters organize a stop to the world eaters? ?? ? ?

I've already said it all over plurk and the comms COME AT ME

probably a duh but, if this happens you are not getting rid of said blind liar & baby goth

as a former mod I can help with plot/world stuff, if desired. mostly I just really want to see what people do with this jfldksf

LET'S GO

I have all of the OCD and I'm homebound disabled; put me on list mod / coding / organization and general upkeep and I'm 100% here for you /brandishes ladle

You bet! I had actually also written up a thing to be one of the helper mods when Mipps was asking about that so I will totally extend that offer here. I'm not great with coding but I do love worldbuilding and plot-making and improv, and would also be delighted to help put together images or art or whatever photoshop stuff could be needed.

Also totally down for mundane stuff like maintaining the torch list/item requests honestly, whatever you need I will do it.

The Two Darknesses will follow this game. This one and the other one. The wolf one.

i have positivity!! passion!! i've never modded anything before but if you need help with light html gruntwork or page upkeep i'd be happy to do as much as i can!! i do have an image editor too i guess if you need pretty graphics 👀

Edited 2020-04-14 23:09 (UTC)

since i'm brand new i don't know how much help i'll be with plot since i haven't been as immersed in the world just yet but i can help with setting things up, organizing/updating lists, putting things together, etc.

i am here to be plot bunny / plot mod / helper! i miss that job!!!

The format of the Explores is what sealed my interest! I usually avoid plot-heavy games because I'm a very slow tagger, can't always finish threads, etc. Having Explores done OOCly with players discussing and making one big post, then having results returned in one mod post (and onward but importantly not having to wait for Everyone to reply), is the best way I've seen this handled. Please please keep that, it's such a good idea for keeping things going apace.

Also just personally everyone being dead or functionally so is important to me - Pudding gets an entire new outlook if her "life" in game isn't predicated on going home, keeping up appearances, any of that.

Edited 2020-04-14 23:12 (UTC)

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Things I'm most interested in: continuing explorations of the town and general plot progression. Would also love to continue horror events/elements to keep things spicy.

As for world eater stopping, I'd bet a lot of us have ideas. The main angles I can see would be continuing to work out their language, since we know that's a thing that exists and that characters were interested, which could lead to negotiating with them (if they're intelligent) or also could lead to programming/commanding them as we know the spirits follow commands and perhaps the world eaters would as well. Commanding them to starve themselves? Tall ask.

I also really am invested in characters trying to manage their own organization which seems like it was pretty popular at the moment. The Night Market has its pros for sure, but also its cons - and the Wild Hunt like, hm. Death to everything didn't seem popular. But a third faction of Beaconites led by Beaconites is really inspiring to me. These characters have worked so hard to make this place their own and I would really love to see them come together and take control of their own fate with their own selected leadership or plans or whatever form that takes, rather than following an NPC leader.

The portal is a great tool, maybe that can be fixed or understood better so as to use it to send characters to other worlds (waayyy postgame so you all stay here and help first), or maybe seal the world eaters in some sort of non-dimensional void as another solution.

I also (I'll stop, I swear) would love to see the world of the game expanded beyond the town of Beacon. Beacon has a lot of cool little locations but I could see characters needing to go up into the mountains for resources found only there, or of course finally getting to go out on the lake if they figure out how to do that safely.

Ok. That's enough for now. Giving myself the hook.

just to give people a sense of where I'm at with things, here are some of my ideas. they're not set in stone, but maybe something to get the ball rolling!

LOCATION CHANGE. i think Beacon is a huge part of this game, and as much as both we and the characters we play have connected with it, I believe it might be a good idea to move locations from Beacon to make something of our own. my first thought is the portal under the lake pulls characters into another world that has been left in a similar state by world eaters, one with new locations that will have to be built up and inhabited all over again with potential new mysteries and intrigues to explore. with this new location we would have to deal with the fact none of the present characters have much of an understanding how the portal works, and limited resources as they try and figure out how to draw things in.

EXPLORATION. this is one of my favorite elements of this game and something i'd like to see continue in some shape or fashion, though figuring out how might take some wrangling. especially in a GPSL setting, we might be able to DM explorations for each other? Or perhaps create a group of us that helps to build the new world, and that team would be responsible for location write-ups/DMing explores. Rolls for success and danger would be an element I'd like to retain as well.

LANTERNS. since there is no access to Dr. Solis, characters connection to their lanterns would be an avenue for us to explore. they'd have to figure out some way of maintaining them, which could be a process we dig into a bit. I would like to retain the idea of limited light in the next world they end up in as well!

WORLD EATERS. Mippins divulged a lot of awesome info about spirits and World Eaters, and they are definitely the antagonist that I would like to ultimately have characters continue engaging with. Creating some kind of solution to them, and without the factions it would be something characters would have to research, discover, and decide on! having some catharsis in that particular fight is one of the strongest unanswered questions for me.

SPIRITS. Spirits are another important and impactful part of the lore of this world, and I definitely would want to continue having spirits for us to either NPC or interact with, in some fashion. None from Beacon would carry over, but perhaps we could create some of our own!

thanks so much for putting this together, kitty!! i'm def in support, and i'd love to continue to play with everyone as a player this time <3

To keep my "what elements?" brief: Exploration and atmosphere. I think the atmosphere of ITN is fantastic. The existential horror mixed with exploration and plenty of humorous whimsy really makes the setting feel fresh. It doesn't have the horror game issue of potentially wearing players down with unrelenting suffering.

I feel like a good jumping off point would be to use the flood we were already going to get to wash away mechanics and NPCs and give us a jumping off point. I mentioned this in the Questions section too, mostly to ask if it was a possibility.

Edited 2020-04-14 23:54 (UTC)

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