Brainstorming Post!

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Apologies, apologies, apologies! We've totally flaked on this for the past couple of months. I won't speak for willbedone as far as inviting punishment, but you can make indignant noises in my direction for it if you like. *shameface*

Anyway, this is the monthly brainstorming post, and I hope this means you guys have a ton of stuff to throw into the mix today, so have at it, in the appropriate OCD thread! And they are up, so go go go!

Comments

Re: General Brainstorming

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

I don't personally see how the aftermath of any island wide plot is different from the aftermath of any other. I mean, the aliens blew up the damn school and the entire summer was spent rebuilding it. People had to deal with that whether they liked it or not with no warning.

The way I see it, people get warning for BDEs and have the chance to take their character off island if they don't want to participate. And when their character comes back, they have to deal with the repercussions of whatever happened. I'm not sure how it would be different if what happens is an attack of killer termites or an earthquake.

Re: General Brainstorming

[carsexual]

Well, for one thing there's a pretty big difference between, "Oh, hey, there were killer termites, but they're gone now," and, say, "Half the island and all of your stuff are gone."

Re: General Brainstorming

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

I never said that I was advocating "half the island and all of your stuff is gone".

Re: General Brainstorming

[iamnotallgirl]

No, but natural disasters that require more than five minutes to recover and rebuild from generally are not kind to people's stuff. Earthquakes, volcanoes, and giant-ass hurricanes are equally not kind to the accepted geography of an island. Other disaster types may be moreso, to be fair.

A major natural disaster is not something someone can reasonably opt out of. "I'm taking a pass, so my dorm room is still standing even though everything around it fell down, and my windows are unbroken so none of my stuff got destroyed," doesn't really work. Yeah, some people do get lucky, but having clothes or running water or, hell, even just your family photos when your neighbor doesn't is a really weird place to be in.

Natural disasters are not fun and games. To me this is the glitter and crack and, yes, punching things game, not the epic drama game. YMMV.

Re: General Brainstorming

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

This right here is how I felt about the plague. I'm not against dark and serious, but "here, you can sign up to change people's dressings while they vomit and get sicker and die" -- you know what? I did that. It was soul-crushing. I don't like it as cheap fodder for wangst. Pass.

Re: General Brainstorming

[wantstodirect]

Maybe we could have an unnatural disaster (see my comment here) and/or we could do an evacuation plot. By which I mean something where a disaster threatens and everyone has to rush to get themselves and their pets out of Fandom, but ultimately there's no major damage.

For example, we could have an asteroid headed for the island and then have some people go after the asteroid to destroy it before it arrives and everyone else works on evacuating the people, pets and precious items just in case the others don't succeed.

We probably wouldn't want to do that one in summer, since we're already going back and forth from the cabins, but maybe for a fall/winter plot?

ETA: And the asteroid-destroyers would succeed, of course, so ultimately there wouldn't be more than cosmetic damage.

Re: General Brainstorming

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

I like this idea, but only so long as everyone promises that Aerosmith won't be involved in the soundtrack. I have enough earworms as it is.

Re: General Brainstorming

[wantstodirect]

But I Don't Want To Miss A Thing!

Re: General Brainstorming

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

*shakes fist at you*

Re: General Brainstorming

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

But would Ben Affleck come and save the day? :D