The brains, they are storming (7/30/08)

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Hello and welcome to the latest brainstorming post. No idea too big or too small.

Here's the last brainstorming post if you want to take a look at ideas and do more work with them.

One of the ideas that came up last time was the concept of having things that could be useful to someone else's plot without knowing if someone had a need to make use of them. So we'll have an OCD "plot spare parts" thread for anyone who'd like to use it. (An example of a "plot spare part" is here in the previous brainstorming post).

OCD is up! Storm away!

Comments

Re: More specific!

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that would be a logistical nightmare to pull off as a gamewide thing, but maybe on a smaller scale -- say 10-20, maybe 25, volunteers who get stuck in the loop, leaving others to figure out how to get them out of it, it could be workable?

Re: More specific!

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Or what if the island got stuck in a loop and it was up to the alumni to figure it out and fix it?

Re: More specific!

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Assuming we could come up with a way to get the entire island stuck in said time loop that would be playable, that's a possibility, but it presupposes working it out so the entire island is stuck. And the only ways I can think of to work that out involve massive OCD and limiting interaction to pre-set posts, which would kill a lot of spontaneity on a gamewide scale.

But if anybody else can think of something . . .

Re: More specific!

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Well, I think we'd have to tweak the basic plot premise that everything is *exactly* the same somehow... otherwise, there would be no RP interaction.

But if we did it on a week where there were no classes... it could start on Monday and people could continue to think that it was Monday all week, meaning that the same people post their jobs, etc. So some things could be very similar, but no one would realize that Monday was happening over and over again.

So Lacey could keep opening the diner and thinking it's Monday, but it really should be Wednesday and different people could come in for different reasons.

I dunno... I'm kind of thinking out loud... but I think that tweaking the premise rather than duplicating it wholesale could definitely work as an RP plot.

Re: More specific!

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

And more blathering as I keep thinking about this:

Little things could be the same (like Dean Winchester's alarm clock playing "Heat of the Moment"), but they wouldn't necessarily clue the characters in.

And maybe somehow breaking the loop involves making the entire island time travel so that the missing days don't need to be made up.