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<Ana> ASSEMBLE
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<Ana> INTO
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<Iriel> fuck the what
<Ana> TITAN MAXIMUM
<@Heiden> You said you wanted to be part of the ideas-bouncing.
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<@Heiden> If you're not interested in discussing the plot I want to run, then there's nothing for you here.
<@Heiden> If you're interested in going on the run itself, likewise.
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<@Heiden> Anyone in here will be barred from joining the run itself.
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<Iriel> oh fuck that D:
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<Ori> Hah.
* Doctopus just likes to be a muse!
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<Doctopus> GLORY ETERNAL
<@Heiden> Sum it up, if you want to go on the event, you can't be in here
<@Heiden> I think that accounts for everyone, now.
<@Heiden> Okay. Starting now. If you're in here after my first sentence describing it, I won't allow you on the event.
<@Heiden> Burns, amusingly enough, this run will begin with a Muse.
<@Heiden> Who runs into the library, rather distressed.
<@Heiden> Long story short, one of the people she is patron to has been struck with a malady that ONLY TEAM LIBRARY can cure
<@Heiden> the malady is manifesting itself as schizophasia, and as he's a poet, this is /very bad/
<@Heiden> I mean, not earth-shattering or anything, but really bad for him personally.
<@Heiden> TEAM LIBRARY gets there, diagnoses the cause as supernatural in origin (surprise surprise), and determines there's only one way to fix it
<@Heiden> a psychonauts-style adventure through the miiiiind
<Doctor_Light> oooh
<Doctopus> FANCY
<Ori> I like it.
<@Heiden> Yeah. Any ideas for how they actually /swing/ the psychonauts-adventure-through-the-mind?
<@Heiden> Right now all I've got is Midnight.
<Ori> If you want, you could npc dusty/some other guy brewing p some sort of vision quest potion.
<Ori> A magical vision quest potion.
<@Heiden> They aren't going to have enough time to really do that. They walk in on the middle of an attempted suicide.
<Doctopus> She turns into a portal
<Ori> Ah.
<Doctopus> She's a muse right?
<Doctopus> She's connected to the one she's giving inspiration to
<Doctopus> :U
<@Heiden> She's not, not anymore. That's why she's flipping out.
<@Heiden> The schizophasia's only symptomatic.
<Doctor_Light> Uh... librarian is a powerful mage?
<Doctopus> oooh
<Doctopus> she tries to link back up
<Doctopus> and sucks everyone in because of the trauma
<Doctopus> so they're all trapped in his mind unless they feeeeex
<@Heiden> No can do, I'd like this to have multiple completion conditions.
<Doctopus> hmm
<@Heiden> They can fix it, fail to fix it and fail to make it worse, or they can destroy him, basically.
<Doctopus> ooh
<Doctopus> dragon age style
<Doctopus> i'd just say midnight can link them in
<Doctor_Light> Some sort of secretive librarian artifact... Like, I dunno, an actual ship or something
<Doctopus> ...
<Doctopus> a mind zepplin would be awesome
<Doctopus> just sayin'
<Doctor_Light> ... Yes
<@Heiden> An artifact of some kind might be best, yes.
<@Heiden> That way Midnight isn't /mandatory/.
<Doctor_Light> Right
<@Heiden> The tone's intended to be wistful, a bit sad. The poet writes love poetry, the Muse is Erato, and he's betrayed the spirit of his craft by leaving his lover to focus on his poetry.
<@Heiden> A lot of romantic/bleak landscapes. The opening scene in the mind is a picnic set for one in a park.
<Doctopus> oooh what if the lover is there, and SHE'S the mage who links them in
<Doctopus> that way midnight isn't mandatory
<Doctopus> and if they fuck up there's immediate consequences
<Doctopus> in the form of grief and rage from the lover
<@Heiden> I think it'd disrupt the melancholy tone of the run that I'm trying to set.
<@Heiden> I also don't want to have to significantly characterize an NPC for it.
<Doctopus> mmm
<Doctopus> i'd just say a random library artifact
<Doctopus> or something the muse has
<@Heiden> I think you're right. If Midnight isn't around, the Muse will produce an artifact of some kind.
<DrMann> They read the last poem he wrote.
<DrMann> It's not finished yet.
<DrMann> But before it happened, he had enough power in his words to bend the world around him.  It draws them in.
<@Heiden> Fantastic.
<Doctopus> I'd actually write up the poem in that case
<Doctopus> and use the imagery as the monster encounters
<@Heiden> There won't be monster encounters.
<Doctopus> :O
<@Heiden> There will be literally /no/ combat in the entire run.
<@Heiden> Unless they are just completely fucking retarded.
<@Heiden> There'll be stat checks, but it'll be mostly puzzle-solving if I can figure out the puzzles.
<@Heiden> They'll need to figure out what happened, and why things went wrong. They'll find him in his mind, of course, and they'll probably be able to cure the schizophasia before they're done with the whole affair.
* Doctor_Light likes this plot
<@Heiden> Actually, I think that'll be the central bit of it. If they can piece together what happened and what went wrong, that'll be 99% of fixing it.
<@Heiden> Success will net them an Aspect dealing with the Muse in some way. Her blessing.
<Doctopus> :O
<@Heiden> Any suggestions for cleverer players? I want to keep this small.
<DrMann> Dex wouldn't be a bad choice.
<DrMann> Nor Crackles.
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* Doctopus dunno
<@Heiden> Okay. Any ideas for setpieces?
<@Heiden> I've got the picnic for one in the park, and a hilly landscape with a well in the middle of it, completely dry.
<DrMann> A tunnel of love.  The heads of the swanboats have broken off.
<Doctor_Light> Oceans tend to be pretty romantic- either a beach, or a dock, maybe a lighthouse
<Doctor_Light> Where else... Uh... Okay, so Dante's hell for adulterers was a giant windstorm where the lovers couldn't hear each other talk
<Doctor_Light> I think
<Doctor_Light> You could do something with that
<@Heiden> He hasn't betrayed love in quite the same way.
<Doctor_Light> True
<DrMann> A crowd of people with heart-shaped holes in their chests.  No blood or guts.  Just, you can see through them there.
<@Heiden> Excellent.
<DrMann> Like they're paper dolls and someone has cut out a heart-shaped piece of them.
<Doctor_Light> Ruined... cathedrals, maybe? Greek or maybe Renaissance style
<Doctopus> Half a set of statues
<Doctopus> they can tell it's a matched pair by wall frescoes
<Doctopus> but when they get to the statues themselves, one is missing
<Doctopus> :o
<@Heiden> hmm.
<@Heiden> I'll probably pick and choose out of those and assemble 4-5 sets total.
<@Heiden> Now for the puzzling bit.
<Doctopus> nighht
* Doctopus sleep
<@Heiden> g'night.