like there are lots of reasons to not do it but also MAN. Just thinking about madness mechanics and "do you bravely cut away tentacle horrors or do you let them smut at you instead"

go on

innsmouth game??

maybe with the serials filed off bc I enjoy the tropes but have never read Lovecraft and would get the Lore wrong?

I have only played a bunch of lovecraft games on and off

and honestly, I don't think anyone cares if the lore is wrong

it's about the vibes

I do have a cool book of eldritch monster designs if you ever want them

but a sleepy little town full of normal peasants who're just a little off somehow, but hospitable nonetheless

patiently welcoming folks who were brought in by Divine Will

opening their homes for their guests and asking them to avoid certain spaces that will never be avoided

Yes

the community resources are open and characters probably have to engage with it to find a path home, but every skin-bound book leads to forbidden knowledge that is as corruptive as it is necessary

SaroSaron: basically thinking of That Thing We Play Sometimes

the one that goes off the rails in six tags and never lasts more than a week

I can't envision it as a longterm RP because once you're fucking something with 32 eyes and three dozen tentacles, you can't have a sol birthday party after

oh my god, I am not cut out for a short-term game because my activity is up and down but this is such a COOL IDEA, big fan of eldritch horror

could be fun

I mean

SaroSaron: do I start working on it before or after your camelot game 👀

on you forever about that

Don't stop. I should do it sometime. BUT. I would say before

I love your game ideas and am here 4 them

(I'm terrible at short term, but it could always be a "and then play the character in memes" or something)

Man I absolutely LOVE short-term games, I would be here for this

days later and this meme pops up

and I'm reminded both of how derivative and basic my rp needs are BUT ALSO of the jamjar psl I had years ago that was like. "you've jamjarred into a cult but there's also a memloss mechanic as the setting steals your canon memories and replaces them with power+dogma"

because I do love a solid memloss mechanic and those haven't been "fashionable" for ages now

but there's a certain kind of joy in a longform RP where someone new apps in and goes "wtf HAPPENED to you holy shit" when they look at a canonmate who's gone off in another direction

definitely not for current-state rp omg the people in this community do not tolerate one another well enough to be chill about that kind of interaction anymore

A meme loss mechanic in a cult setting is such a good fit though, and a fun part of the horro

I like it

but oh man so many people do not like it

"Last updated 2013" oh that explains why I'm suddenly so nostalgic

literally "this is what the community was like a decade ago"

never did finish the writeup but it was very "this is what I like about Amat and like 4 other games thrown in a blender and tossed in some robes"

Look. It might not be POPULAR, but surely we could find a few people nostalgic for it? Besides, it's actually productive.

reading this stuff and it's just like "AND THERE'S A CHIP IMPLANTED IN EVERYONE" that's it that's what LJRP was

throw people in a tiny space and handwave ~science~

A revision would need way more Black Mirror

let's go back to the low key lazy chill stuff nobody has time for these super high standards anymore

I mean there's still a balance between :lazy chill stuff" and "play does not happen at all," and I think sometimes the two conversations get their wires crossed

like when I was like "I miss when a setting could warp people and then someone apps in late and goes 'WTF happened to you??'" that's similar-but-different to the argument that's like "I refuse to accept my character's canon and want to play a self-insert OC with an easy shortcut to CR"

(as my internal monologue immediately goes "this is why people don't want to play with you, Jessica. Because you're like this")

but I DO want to play with you!

lol general present-company-excluded "people"

It really is such a weird thing to balance, right? Like, how do we make this thing active and engaging with a meaningful story/setting/tone, while also being relaxed and chill

and if you just set up a sandbox withOUT a meaningful story and just put the work into setting and tone so nobody gets left behind, how do you hold interest?\

in our heyday, we got involved because we had people to play off of. we largely told our own stories in someone else's basement

and sometimes our stories would interact with someone else's stories and it would be like "oh you're fun too let's tell stories together!"

Yeah. A lot of plot/event stuff was just to facilitate people kicking off their own stuff

yeah and over time we've grown more passive about it, but also in a way that's like... "I want this experience, but I don't want to be asked to read or write"

well then what's the experience?

it makes sense that quick texting and midfuck memes do well - minimal setup, cuts directly to interaction

but is that really satisfying to what's left of the community?

i suspect most of the community is suffering from tiredass brain syndrome and some adhd variance, "i want to do thing but im tired and cant focus on stuff in depth so lets do something really easy for the quick sugar boost" which is totally fine but things are shit enough that its a hard thing to fix lmao

fontech: Yeah, that's basically what I was just going to say. I think a lot of us have less time and energy, sometimes with varying degrees of self-awareness about that.

rp community is the embodiment of the french i am le tired meme

"well have a nap AND THEN DO A TOPLEVEL"
we fail at step 2

Yeeeaaahhh I feel like memloss really isn't a thing in long-term games anymore, which is interesting because I've been two short-term games in the past year that DID have it as a mechanic, so clearly there are still people who want to play it

it used to be so much of a thing that I would do PSLs out of game universes like "let's try to think about what their lives would be like in ten years when they're EXTRA jaded and still trapped in this jamjar getting more fucked up every month"

memory made of swiss cheese, still like "that looks like home right? we should be heading there??"

yeah, I have made a sandbox where I just built out the setting, and no one plays because nobody else plays etc - I'm just gonna play some shit when I have enough braincells again.

update last night I started thinking about madness mechanics

I was mostly memeing but I think I might keep noodling on a tentacle cult

Darkest Dungeon but with way less math and way more folks whispering "Praise be to Yiz'igexr" or some shit

just popping in to ask how you're feeling, pal

something completely unpronounceable so it can be a thing where player characters struggle to pick up the local dialect and are just like "how do you make that sound with your mouth tho"

koutavi: oh just thinking about tentacles. also in the middle of cleaning my bathroom. letting the foam have a minute to let the bubbles do their scrubbing.

Not entirely the question you asked but that's the answer you're getting at this moment in this plurk about dumb game ideas \

that is acceptable for the venue!!

but look if i swapped apps i would probably forget who i was about to message and then it wouldn't happen i am a sleep deprived goldfish rn shhhhh

it's okay I hit you up on discord

but now that the tubby has been scrubbied, BACK TO NONSENSE

so I guess NOW my thinking is somewhere between "is this a GAME game or is this a smut game"

I feel like a smut game might be more self-sustaining? doing an all-purpose experience would probably draw a wider net but could also be a lot of work on the front of "design a mystery and slowly uncover Plot"

and making it smutty might just be a more clearcut "NPCs want you to fuck for the gods. lmk if you want to break something, otherwise I'll see you when it's time to drop an event"

but ON THE OTHER HAND designing it in an all-purpose way could still let people uncover like Eyes Wide Shut-y rituals

idk -- other games have managed to juggle a hands-off open experience more easily than I've been able to master

but i want to play and i don't really do smut, where does the person who prefers ftb go in this venture

I mean!! I'm still in the "what would be manageable for me but also fun to play" phase and I have put 0 thought into the "but what about me specifically" minutiae

I'm kind of put off by the gen/smut "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE" kind of highlander conversations and would like to avoid them for as long as humanly possible

so in either case, I would never say you can't fuck in a gen game or that you HAVE TO WRITE EVERY BLOWJOB IN LOVING DETAIL in a smut game

like. whatever, there's weird tentacle shit in either experience

i am totally fine being the ftb girl in the smut game if it's allowed!!! some require smut for ac

I will never care about policing AC like that

we've discussed my stance on AC in depth

"are you going to show up and do something? ok tell me what you did"

it's the "are you going to show up and do something" where the last experience fell apart

god I wanted to it was so good. the timing was so not good.

yes well that experience has lowered the bar on my expectations for this one getting out of the hypothetical stage

there are many more reasons to not do the thing than there are to do the thing

and I'm not trying to make anyone feel singled out or unimportant, especially not the ones who were supportive at the time, but there's also a part that's got to go in knowing that if I make a thing exist I'm probably going to end up just using it for a PSL with like two people. And this is a level of pessimism/lack of trust that probably doesn't belong in a

public space? I might delete it later.

I have a lot of ideas about weird cults worshiping their slimy interdimensional overlords, but also a mountain of cynicism about this incredibly fickle community

uh update this might actually be a thing

provided that coding can become more agreeable

I realized it's nearly october and this is a very October idea so there's pressure to like Do the Thing

I started chatting with shikki about a way to streamline apping people who aren't new

and that seems very fun

like "I've been here for four years and suddenly all my high school friends are showing up wtf?"

facilitating more moments like that without a realtime 4-year commitment

why didn't they run into each other sooner? idk I've lived down the hall from a bunch of neighbors I've never met

be's like that sometimes

That is a perfectly realistic scenario, yeah I don't know most of my neighbors unless there's been a reason to interact extensively. Curious about how to do an app for that!

I plan on having a page with special instructions for it! a list of like "these general world events happened at this time, feel free to keep that in your character's back pocket" and just like asking for extra info up front about your headcanons/plans to facilitate rp to weed out people who just want to be like "my guy was here for 5 years and has all

his powers back" like lol not if you clearly didn't read the setting you're apping into buddy

Ooohhh that makes sense.

if you need coding help I'm available for that always

also as someone who has definitely lived next door to total strangers forever, I love that