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trogdor

12:06 AM

I might be able to put together something today

I feel better even than I did just yesterday

Trouble still being choosing stuff to add into the map

doppelgreener

12:29 AM

@trogdor that's great to hear :D

trogdor

It's great to feel normal again

As it turns out I passed that stone out of the painful spot but it had lodged without me realizing it just past my bladder or something

So I was feeling a little weird but not in pain

Now I know what that feels like,... Very strange thing it was

Also explains why I didn't see it when I passed it at GMH

doppelgreener

Is it properly gone?

trogdor

Yes

I have it in a bag now even

Definitely out of me

It looks downnright nasty

Even in comparison to the first one

I feel great though

It feels a little weird to share this, but I prayed yesterday, not a common or rare occurrence for me, and I was just sorta asking to feel better

The very next trip to the bathroom gave me a surprising answer

So make of it what you will but it makes me feel a certain amount of faith right now

doppelgreener

12:51 AM

🙌

I'm happy for you that it's past :D

trogdor

I honestly think I am happier than I was before this all started

Hmm duplicate message when I tried to edit

Still getting used to the new phone

BESW

1:49 AM

Okay, Greener and I hashed out our confusion on Discord.

I was originally imagining that each of us would bring an unsorted, unranked collection of possible inspirations, however many we wanted, and we'd talk about them and build a map together from those pieces.

So when I saw that Greener had already narrowed his framework down to exactly the number that fit in a map, and ranked them accordingly, it seemed like unnecessary work which might create sunk cost problems when our group inevitably needed to say "no" to things on his map.

But he was thinking of the personal map as an exercise for each person to reflect on their own influences more carefully and come to the conversation with better self-knowledge and a prop to help communicate it with the rest of us, and maybe even use the contrast between the personal map and the group map as a reminder of how the game is different on the table from in our heads.

So, @trogdor, whichever way you want to do it--a loose collection of inspirations or a ranked and sorted collection (text and/or pictures, however works for you), I think we can work with what works for you.

Or if you've got a third take on the process, we could learn something new!

trogdor

Ok well my take on the process was that we would first each make our own influence map, check them all out and point out what doesn't work for us and then somehow collaborate to make a group map or something

I think I sort of just want to post some images that hopefully capture well what I am specifically drawing on

I don't see a reason to make them into a real map till you guys have had a look

BESW

2:06 AM

Sounds good.

doppelgreener

10:47 AM

@trogdor Sounds fine with me. :)

trogdor

Cool

doppelgreener

And yeah, from what I understand, I was presenting what influenced me, BESW was thinking I'd made a "this is what I want the final game map to be like" map which would be a problem.

trogdor

11:46 AM

yeah I assumed you were just making a first draft

I didn't see why you would be doing it any other way

ok, about to dump a bunch of images in here

I really wanted one from the santa episode, but I kinda needed two to illustrate what I want to take from it

one thing being,... yes some mythological figures actually exist, and yes, the team will possibly be really surprised to learn which ones are real

second, the top one illustrates,.. sometimes said myths literally are the ones who need help

Stargate and Hellboy, this is sorta, what the team thinks they look like, and what the team might actually look like if we have weirdo's in it, which we definitely do with Dr Light and Stellata and a couple others

obligatory Robo, because just,... obvious stuff

SU is,.. there is too much from SU that I like and that probably easily fits in our game

I don't even know where to start there

ah there that one worked better

GSS, I realized, has a lot in it that,... I was already trying to formulate into my 3 or 4 session GM plan

that being said, it is also the one I feel is most likely not to entirely fit into the group plan as a whole

if that is the case I won't be upset, but I just wanted to field it

(its largely in here because the japanese mythology stuff, especially talking/magical/possibly-shapshifting animals)

(not necessarily completely the tone of it so much)

so that is about all I could think of at the moment

doppelgreener

12:06 PM

@trogdor i absolutely LOVE how much of a total victory Cassandra felt, and how into the whole mission she was, after that bit.

trogdor

yes, I picked that scene for a reason

I expect our team to, you know, be into their jobs

otherwise why do it?

doppelgreener

@trogdor haaaa, reminds me of one of the earlier episode quotes: "vampires are real!? like... dracula? is he real!?" "yes, vampires are real. [dramatic pause] except dracula. [more pause] because i already killed him."

trogdor

lol

BESW

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doppelgreener

@BESW oooh. nice. :D

BESW

12:10 PM

Yeah, most of the stuff Flynn brags about doing before the other Librarians show up? Is actually in his three solo films.

doppelgreener

@trogdor is GSS because we're running around trying to be helpful to people who need it?

trogdor

@doppelgreener well, a little, but it's mainly in there for my ideas for when I GM some games

like I said before, it's not necessarily the tone of game I expect us to have most of the time

doppelgreener

ok :)

trogdor

if we wanted a GSS toned game on any given day,... we could play GSS

I assume

doppelgreener

we can run around helping people! SG-1 runs around helping people! they just bring lots of guns and explosives with them and usually make everything a whole lot worse first!

trogdor

12:13 PM

we can yes

this is true

it's also one of the only touchstones we have in common with some Japanese mythological stuff

which is a major feature of my ideas for the sessions I plan to eventually run when we reboot the Amaterasu campaign

doppelgreener

12:25 PM

hmmm. japanese mythology stuff for me comes via:
- Kazuo Koike's "Lone Wolf and Cub", "Path of the Assassin", and "Samurai Executioner" which discuss shinto & buddhism & Edo era Japanese philosophy.
- studio ghibli movies
- golden sky stories
- usagi yojimbo
- wikipedia

and a handful of anime through which i've picked some stuff up via osmosis

trogdor

mm

but see, not all of that is shared

doppelgreener

yeah, for sure

trogdor

at the very least, GSS is one I know you both know because I ran a game with you

and it happens to contain an important element of the sessions I want to run

25 mins ago, by trogdor

(its largely in here because the japanese mythology stuff, especially talking/magical/possibly-shapshifting animals)

other things from Japanese folk lore and what have you are prominent, but I expect the party to run into a few animal spirits

Feeds

9:18 PM

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BESW

11:13 PM

As I'm sorting through various influences of my own and trying to express what it is they say to me, I'm finding a lot of anthropological optimism and emotion-based superpowers.

Warehouse 13, Lords of Light, Steven Universe, Metropolis Suite--all feature some kind of inhuman power that's directly created or controlled by human emotion whether it be historical significance, personal feelings, music....

doppelgreener

11:28 PM

Sounds compelling!

trogdor

It does indeed

BESW

Right now I'm just listing everything that comes to mind.

trogdor

Fair enough

BESW

11:46 PM

At the moment it's almost 50.

> The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
The Adventures of Tintin
Atomic Robo
Attack the Block
The City of Lost Children
Blade (TV series)
Black Panther (Priest run) (+film?)
The Dark Crystal
Digger
Dinotopia (book)
Doctor Who
Dragons of the Cuyahoga
The Dresden Files
Ghostbusters
Gravity Falls
Grimm (TV series)
Hellboy (animated films)
InCryptid
Indexed
Indiana Jones
The Librarians
Lord of Light
The Metropolis Suite
The Middleman
Mission: Impossible (TV series)
Mystery, Inc

For a lot of them there's good overlap--like, pretty much everything I'd take from Indiana Jones exists in several other inspirations too.

I don't expect anybody to have read The Sword of Dracula, or seen Six-String Samurai.

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