The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread

Rock of the Fraternity · Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:14 am

Nice! Thanks. ^^ In all honesty, I must admit I don't know anything about Ramsey, although I suspect he might be a Psion of some sort.

Nathan of the FoS · Post by **Nathan of the FoS** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:19 am

Rock wrote:Nice! Thanks. ^^ In all honesty, I must admit I don't know anything about Ramsey, although I suspect he might be a Psion of some sort.

Of a sort. Look half-way down the page for the appropriate link.

Rock of the Fraternity · Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:33 am

Nathan of the FoS wrote:
Rock wrote:Nice! Thanks. ^^ In all honesty, I must admit I don't know anything about Ramsey, although I suspect he might be a Psion of some sort.
Of a sort. Look half-way down the page for the appropriate link.

Gah!

Doppelganger!

steveflam · Post by **steveflam** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:45 am

Allikhain will scan the hall for anything out of the ordinary due to her "chilling" experience. As well, can Allikhain and Ulsaon speak in a language none other will understand?

NeoTiamat · Post by **NeoTiamat** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:58 am

Awwww.... Nathan, you've gone and ruined my fun. I'm very disappointed in you.

But yes, Lord Adrian Ramsey is my VRS brain child, and I admit to a certain paternal interest in him. Among other things, Ramsey is just wicked fun to write for. So I have this Expedition starting in the University of Dementlieu, Ramsey teaches there, so I thought hey, give the ol' geezer a cameo.

If nothing else, he's very good at unnerving PCs.

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Yes Tarlyn, you can go and scan, and I think you have your domain language as a 'personal' tongue. Give me a spot check and a listen check.

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Also, I'm going to ask people to rein in the quotation. A small quotation from the previous conversational thread, to ground the dialogue and provide continuity is fine, but don't use more than you absolutely have to and keep them short and sweet. Shouldn't be more than 3-4 sentences.

I'm guilty of this myself, so I'll try and keep it under control, but basically tone it down. (You know who you are).

steveflam · Post by **steveflam** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:05 am

Allikhain Spot = 19
Listen = 5

The Whistler · Post by **The Whistler** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:21 pm

Here's an idea for a bonus XP project...

Some background: I've done a bunch of copy-editing work in the past; I'm really enjoying all the in-game conversations, but keep wanting to see all of everyone's "parts" combined into a single format; and I recently described the game to a friend as a "team-written story..."

...And that got me thinking. Could I possibly try to kludge the game thread into novella or short story format? Like, at the end of every book, I could integrate everyone's posts into a single narrative, and then send it out as a Word doc or something to all you guys. I'd include as much of the game text as possible, but I *would* have to mess with it a bit: I'd try to limit it to these types of changes, though:

-Standardizing the format: Making sure the whole story uses the past tense, a consistent way of indicating thoughts as opposed to speaking, and stuff like that.
-Streamlining conversations: I'd include every spoken part, but if two or more PCs are participating in a given convo I'll probably transcribe it from one person's "perspective," and only include their thoughts--that way the exchanges won't get bogged down with multiple inner monologues. However, I'd make sure that everyone gets a roughly equal amount of convos told from their POV, so that everybody gets a chance to have their writing style be the focus of the story.
-Proofreading: Fixing typos and the like. If anyone *wants* (and I'm not suggesting that anyone needs this, because you don't) I can also do some closer editing for your posts; I'm seriously impressed with all y'all's writing chops, but if any of you would like a second set of eyes going over your work for whatever reason before it goes into book format, PM me or something and I'd be happy to do that too.

So what do you think? I'd definitely like to get peoples' input before I go off and muck with everyone's writing...

Rock of the Fraternity · Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:23 pm

What are the chances of making money out of something like that and what would our shares be? ~_^

The Whistler · Post by **The Whistler** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:26 pm

<Steeples fingers, leans over desk>

Oh, I'm sure we could think of some....equitable arrangement.

Now, just sign here, here, and here...

Rock of the Fraternity · Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:27 pm

Sure, but let me get my legal staff', first. *cocks flamethrower and AK-47* Where'd you want me to sign again?

NeoTiamat · Post by **NeoTiamat** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:34 pm

*ahem* My lawyers would like to point out that as DM, I should recieve a lion's share of the profits, 60% at the least.

Anyway.....

So what you're basically proposing is a campaign journal/log? You have my whole-hearted approval. I'd actually been thinking about starting a campaign journal, but its a lot of work so I put it on the back burner.

Hmmm... You can send out the Books proper to all the players, and I can add 'DM-notes' to my version. After the game's over, I can send out the final, editted versions, as mementos or what not (and also to reveal the last few secrets). I believe there's a place in the site for Campaign Journals.

You probably will want start off by including the two cut-scenes and the Dramatis Personae into a 'Prologue', then get to work on the actual books.

As for how much XP you'd earn.... I think 1000 Bonus XP per Book sounds good? I'll toss in 250 for the Prologue and 125 for any future cutscenes (I aim to have one after every 3rd Book).

steveflam · Post by **steveflam** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:08 pm

Here's a question...... is the whole party for the expedition pretty much standing together or off in their own little corners?

NeoTiamat · Post by **NeoTiamat** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:47 pm

They're standing in their own groups within the larger crowd of people (there are several hundred guests at the reception).

So Devereux, Allikhain, and Ulsaon are one little group, about twenty feet away Charles and Lia are chatting with Ramsey, another thirty feet off to the side are Kuzan, Andre, Khalil and Otto, while Tomas is heading away from the group to the side.

So it looks kind of like a vague triangle not far from the buffet table but out of the way of the traffic. It's all very fluid though, with people leaving and entering and going every which way.

The Whistler · Post by **The Whistler** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:09 pm

<Looks at campaign journal page>

Yep, that's pretty much what I'm going for. I'll pull together the prologue in a short while (Cut/pasting and font changes for XP? Huzzah!) and start work on each book right after it ends, since I want to be able to equitably plot out which character gets to "narrate" which conversation and when.

...And judging by how Book 1 is going, I'm going to have to draw up some sort of flowchart to do that. It's like PC pinball at that party...

Needless to say, I'm still open to suggestions on this if anyone's got 'em--this is your work I'm messing with, after all.

Kaitou Kage · Post by **Kaitou Kage** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:55 pm

That will be fun to see!

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The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread