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Sohum

02:14

@PaulRapoport Hahahahah no :p You are currently allied with a 2-harm 1-armor small gang whose leader is looking at you with intense distrust :p And the Water Cult is pouring down upon you from the horizon!

(Completely unrelatedly, there has to be a roleplaying system that seeks to create the musical form...)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

Sohum

(You know, like how Fiasco recreates the caper movie, and how DnD recreates the heroic fantasy. There has to be a system where you recreate a musical!)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

a) Die.

b) I want to play.

Sohum

c) so do I!

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

mmm

oh, can you fiddle with the harm results? We're guessing one attack of 2 harm with no armor on chairman

but... that's... something you deal with

Sohum

02:22

I'm honestly not too fussed. This is where the simulationist veneer drops away entirely, I think... The way you've handled it is fine

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

Sohum

I get the feeling a hack of Microscope might work, for a musical?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

...

what.

oh, speaking of whcih

did you see Ben's description of a microscope larp?

Sohum

(sorry, having lag today)

I ... did not, no

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

Is on his blog. Is... special.

Sohum

02:28

@BrianBallsunStanton Well, because the musical is explicitly a genre in which Moments are Important and Have Consequences, both forward and backward in story-space. mmm.. maybe if you require all scenes to be a song, that naturally cuts down on the scenes to events ratio...

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

...

errug

Sohum

or, no! a Music/Dialogue token set, in addition to (or even replacing) the light/dark token sets...

But no, a real System For Musicals would include rules on how to ensure the right kind of song (I Want, Dark Reprise, Let's Duet, Sanity Slippage...) happens at the right time

and when that happens, it happens and the world moves on

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

...

well

so uh

looks like Sky and chairman are Di Di Mao

Sohum

You get a little ride-into-the-sunset, you mother-without-child and pain-seeking-abomination, you!

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

yep

wasn't that odd

Fickle Ferret

02:39

Hahahaha

Sohum

And, of course, in the chaos and shit you've left behind are abominations and brainfuckers and wiseass-allknowing- pricks, all fighting, one (at least one) winning...

mmmmm.

Man vs. self, and fuck you to the world.

Fickle Ferret

Ayup!

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

yep

er, and I wouldn't assume at least one winning

I'm going to put money on "everyone dies"

cause at least one team has a doooooomday device

perhaps even leading to a doomsday gap!

Fickle Ferret

Heh. I just realised Sky still has the head attached to her bike.

Oh well! I imagine she'll remember it when it starts dripping on her foot.

At which point, she'll toss it by the side of the road, and then we continue on :P

Sohum

Disembodied heads of water cult leaders don't start dripping

are you insane?

how obvious would that be? :p

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

02:46

...

yaaaaay

Fickle Ferret

It'd start smelling at least ;P

But that's another story XD

Sohum

oh yes

that, I think

is the plot token that the camera zooms in on, right at the end

/o' Dun dun dunnnn! 'o/

to be continued...?

Fickle Ferret

hehe

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

and now all we have to see is @PaulRapoport's death or life... or both

What's the official faction-o-meter read? in terms of everyone's strengths?

Fickle Ferret

Hmmm. Well Mammoth is pretty much a gonner.

Rolfball'll join back up with Uncle.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

02:50

I dunno

Fickle Ferret

Uncle has 70 horned leopards...

And uhh, a seven year old kid who can do 3 harm by punching.

But I'm not sure about their weaponry :)

Water cult has what... 100+ people? Trained soldiers with rifles...

if they can keep their distance, they're probably all right :P In close quarters though, I'd say they're doomed against the leopards :P

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

Depends on mindfuckery

Fickle Ferret

Cannibals... are a mob

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

and the other random cits who'll be having fun

Fickle Ferret

oh yeah

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

02:52

yep

Sohum

@FickleFerret oh, they so are at this point

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

cause you know, N sides have M agents within J other sides

who may or may not esplode

Fickle Ferret

Heehee. Well, should be fun to watch anyway ;)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

it owuld be fascinating to see the loyalty graph

Fickle Ferret

popcorn

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

02:53

just to see who is actually loyal to whom

::grabs a bag of malted cholocate balls::

Fickle Ferret

@sohum also.... if i may ask... what was the deal with undead Blues? XD

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

::offers one to Sky::

Fickle Ferret

Ooh maltesers!

Sohum

@FickleFerret as it turns out, red herring

or, well

Fickle Ferret

haha ok. so... he's not actually undead? XD

Sohum

02:55

herring-of-as-yet-undetermined-colour

Fickle Ferret

rightio!

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

skeletal herring

moaning for bwains

Fickle Ferret

zombie herring.

moaning for beens :P

Sohum

the really annoying thing about RPG, The Musical! is that I can feel the lines of causality and necessity in my head

exactly the rules that need to be written down

I know they exist

but I can't speak them

Fickle Ferret

Don't you know, you have to sing them ;P

Sohum

03:03

mmrph bwahahahaha

so, you get your bittersweet ending

Martin gets... a playground

Fickle Ferret

May he live to enjoy it.... I'm pretty sure that playground doesn't conform to OH&S regulations.

Sohum

what's life without a little danger? :p

Oh yeah, @Brian

I can't figure out a good way to work out Shock and Awe

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

03:25

@Sohum will ponder later.

playing AH now

Sohum

3 hours later…

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

05:58

whee

so one big source is fiddly moves

you've got a huuuge move in uh

research

commented.

Paul Rapoport

Err.

@PaulRapoport Hahahahah no :p You are currently allied with a 2-harm 1-armor small gang whose leader is looking at you with intense distrust :p

This does not make sense within the context of the world as I understand it.

But I need to sleep.

1 hour later…

Sohum

07:32

@PaulRapoport That is a bad thing :( We'll talk later when you're awake.

@BrianBallsunStanton Counter-commented!

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

you say you want simplicity

Sohum

08:05

No, I didn't

I said I wanted simpler

13 hours later…

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

21:34

okay

1) pulling from chairman's thing...

the printed long moves were incredibly fiddly to use

looking at Sky... I think moves follow the three sentence rule.

three sentence rule: if a survey question is more than three sentences long, people won't read it.

therefore...

Mmm, the other thing I've noticed is that complexity is either in environment, gear OR moves

So. 1) Doodad needs to be part of look, or if it's gear, it needs to be mapped onto something simple.

I'd just make doodad part of the look

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

21:48

responded

mmm

@Sohum @PaulRapoport Suggestoin: can you play out your mindfuckery playground on wave? I want to see what happens and this allows a more detailed and interesting situation that allows for multi-threading all the factions

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