Zin runs New World of Darkness

Discussion in 'The Queen of Cups' started by Zin, Jun 24, 2016.

  1. albedo

    albedo metasperg

    World of Darkness is a tabletop RPG game, like Dungeons and Dragons. It's dark urban fantasy, shading into horror, and usually revolves around things like vampires, werewolves, and faeries.

    If you wanna read along, we're all doing "solo preludes" right now, which just means a mini-scenario to figure out your character, before the group joins up. The Popcorn Thread is specifically for commentary, so feel free to post in there; you're of course also welcome in the planning threads, but they may contain spoilers, which you may or may not wanna read before they come up in-game.

    The starting threads are...
    https://kintsugi.seebs.net/threads/the-twilight-world.3801/
    https://kintsugi.seebs.net/threads/fools-dawn.3800/
    https://kintsugi.seebs.net/threads/fools-journey.3813/
    https://kintsugi.seebs.net/threads/hello-sunshine.3792/
    https://kintsugi.seebs.net/threads/my-candle-burns-at-both-ends.3827/
    https://kintsugi.seebs.net/threads/moonlight-nocturne.3797/

    And separate from the main group,
    https://kintsugi.seebs.net/threads/the-tower-in-the-storm.3818/

    So you can pick up with any or all of those. Trigger warnings are in the thread tags.
     
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  2. OnnaStik

    OnnaStik Relatively nice for a bloodthirsty mercenary

    Roleplaying game with all kinds of supernatural bullshit. Right now we're doing a sort of preamble thing, our characters' disparate backgrounds, so you can basically read the current solo threads in whatever order, except for Night of Swords...

    Basically, so far, we have:
    • Hello Sunshine: Corrie Macpherson- my character! Misadventures in the Mojave, with spoopy ghosts.
    • Moonlight Nocturne: Babby Elena Yakir looks for her missing brother, finds vampires and werewolves and rat zombies, oh my.
    • Fool's Dawn: Changeling Mutt finds a new home. Lots of violence ensues.
    • The Twilight World: Changeling Mica takes in runaways.
    • The Night of Swords: Sequel to both Fool's Dawn and The Twilight World; both should be read first.
    • My Candle Burns At Both Ends: Changeling Evelyn Browne is having problems.
    • Fool's Journey: Woo-shop workers Mischa and Kainze Carmin discover there's more than woo to be had.
    • Tower in the Storm: standalone that's not going to be tied into the actual campaign, a bunch of Weird Scary Shit happening to someone
    Ed: Ninja'd
     
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  3. albedo

    albedo metasperg

    @OnnaStik Ninja'd! :D Yes, this.

    Elena would like it to be noted that she also found a girlfriend, so, y'know. Net win.
     
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  4. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    cool!
    I'm going to try and read some of this stuff later. it looks cool.
     
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  5. albedo

    albedo metasperg

    We're having lots of fun, anyway! :D Let us know what you think if you want to; commentary is super fun.
     
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  6. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    @OnnaStik omg that's a great description of Fool's Journey.
     
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  7. strictly quadrilateral

    strictly quadrilateral alive, alive, alive!

    @chaoticArbiter you should read Fool's Dawn before you read The Twilight World; most of the latter happens after most of the former.
     
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  8. Zin

    Zin Professional Lurker

    *dances excitedly *
     
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  9. Zin

    Zin Professional Lurker

    very good to know. Pulling post into here so I don't derail that thread - want me to try and avoid this verbage for your game?
     
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  10. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    Nah, that shit freaks me out in an enjoyable horror movie way, not in an actually freaked way. .. Although LIVING things embedded in or attached to people freak me out in an un-fun way, like, warts, or similar stuff growing on/in people

    now I'm remembering that "trypokittens" post Luka made years ago, that was the worst :P
     
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  11. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    this shit (cw: gross body horror)

    but I realize that isn't a very precise description of the borders of the problem :P it's fine, it makes me uncomfortable but as far as I know I don't have any Serious Panic Causing Content Triggers.
     
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  12. albedo

    albedo metasperg

    Eh, this is for funtimes, it's legit to avoid being creeped out in the not-fun way.

    Should we warn for the freaky rat zombies in Elena's thread, and stuff like that?
     
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  13. blue

    blue hightown funk you up

    ... Huh, no, that actually doesn't bug me. The truth is I don't know how to describe what bugs me and what doesn't - includes warts and trypokittens but not rat zombies or mouth gems. So, it's difficult to know what to ask people to tag.. and I'd probably end up reading it anyway, haha.
     
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  14. albedo

    albedo metasperg

    Interesting. Okay. o/ Well, let us know if anything comes up and at least we can spoilercut it if it comes up further.
     
  15. strictly quadrilateral

    strictly quadrilateral alive, alive, alive!

    Same, but at least when it's under a cut its my own fault for looking and I end up less upset than I would if I looked by accident.
     
  16. Lady Kianna

    Lady Kianna Seer of Void.

    I agree 150%!
     
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  17. Zin

    Zin Professional Lurker

    [3:02:29 PM] Zin Karyuu: ...at what point do threads get long enough that we should split them into bits, guys
    [3:02:34 PM] Zin Karyuu: scritches head
    [3:02:50 PM] Zin Karyuu: This is probably a good question to ask?

    Also: How much timeline fuckery are we okay with - ie. if we want some things to occur, we may want to pull Null/Mutt/Arie up faster, since they're further back in the timeline? I can make things work and have the changeling group crash into the others later, if that's fine with everyone... just want to query.
     
  18. strictly quadrilateral

    strictly quadrilateral alive, alive, alive!

    that seems fine with me, we can timeskip after we finish up what's happening rn?
     
  19. Zin

    Zin Professional Lurker

    *nods* Possibly... though we may want to cover some of what's up with Nul, Mutt, and Arie and the courts? Depends on how things go.

    eta: correction - I would love to run through them meeting some of the courtiers. Especially as that is going to help link into the other changelings.
     
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  20. strictly quadrilateral

    strictly quadrilateral alive, alive, alive!

    nodnod! that sounds really fun!

    but we could skip a little to that, and then skip again. it doesn't have to be all at once.
     
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