<@Nishi > HOKAY, SABRAPING, lets get that boring bit where Nishi talks a lot out of the way first
@Nishi > First off! I've taken over Messenger! For your delightful squiddy needs, feel free to ping me as needed
@Nishi > /o/
@Nishi > PLOT! There's a LOT of it going on now, and we'll do breathers now and then, but it's probably going to get bigger and better from here.
@Nishi > Right now, there's probably about 6-7 options out on the table.
@Nishi > Not all of them NEED to be taken, but they SURE CAN.
@Nishi > There IS no wrong answer though
[18:01] <@Nishi > I really want to say that.
[18:01] <@Nishi > There's NOTHING one single character can do to screw up everything, so never feel afriad to get involved
[18:01] <Yayoi > ^FACT. Nishi was totally prepped to change course on the Surgeon event thing when characters were having IC reactions
[18:01] <Yayoi > (And the course change was going to also be awesome and fun)
[18:02] <@Nishi > YUSH
[18:02] <@Nishi > All of my events, I will do a 180 for character actions
[18:02] <@Nishi > Now also, don't feel pressured to do ONE THING OR ANOTHER
[18:03] <@Shinjiro > Same goes here, though I don't run quite as much plot as Nishi does.
[18:03] <@Nishi > Hard positions are... what they are, hard positions. And often are just as admired OOCly if not more
[18:03] <@Nishi > Consequences happen, love em too :D
[18:03] <Yayoi > Yes *_*
[18:03] <@Nishi > THIS BRINGS ME TO INVOLVEMENT. SO YOU WANNA GET INTO IT.
[18:03] <Syaoran > ....so what you're saying is I can continue to try to ruin everything >:|a
[18:03] <@Nishi > YEP
[18:03] <@Nishi > You sure can :D
[18:04] <@Nishi > THere's nothing wrong with being IC
[18:04] <@Nishi > Ever.
[18:04] <@Nishi > NOW, PLOT COMES TO THOSE WHO MAKE GRABBY HANDS. IE, your role is proportional to your involvement
[18:05] <@Nishi > Never ever EVER feel afraid to just make a leap and try something
[18:05] <@Nishi > Never feel shy about PMing me or emailing the mods with a "Hey, what can I do to make my character or my team bigger in ____"
[18:05] <@Nishi > I'm not just super cool with it, SOME OF THE BEST STUFF has come from it
[18:06] <@Nishi > Obviously, the more you have for me, the more I can run with.
[18:06] <@Nishi > But opening dialog never is gonna hurt you.
[18:06] <@Nishi > Speaking of, we have some awesome player plots going on right now. :D Look forward to more, they have our love and they should have yours
[18:06] <@Nishi > This is also as easy as a PM
[18:07] <@Nishi > EXPOSITION TIME IS OVER, you guys know basically everyting you need to know. Now there'll be hints and twists and awesome things ahoy, but the scenes we've done where you sit back and we show you is over
[18:07] <@Nishi > YOU have the hands on the reigns and whether and WHERE a plot goes will be up to you guys
[18:08] <@Nishi > I'm just sitting up on top of my web all :3 what are they going to DO AHHHH~~~
[18:08] <@Shinjiro > Also, as a quick addition to the above, any of the mods are good for PMing about stuff :|d We talk pretty frequently so don't worry about catching Nishi in partiuclar.
[18:08] <@Nishi > YUSH!
[18:08] <@Nishi > ANy of us will do!
[18:08] <@Nishi > We talk a LOT
[18:09] <@Nishi > And here's a personal request and a thing that keeps me going longer, is engage me back. I live on reactions and actions. Passive is hard to keep pushing against. So basically, spice it up for mama~ She'll get hot for you >D
[18:09] * Tavi peppers Nishi's ragu
[18:09] <~Kururu > Oh baby oh baby
[18:09] * @Nishi struts to the beat
[18:10] <~Kururu > Thirding the tag any of us. I'm behind on things (obvs.), but at the very least i can pass things on
[18:10] <@Nishi > Before I move onto games, ANY QUESTIONS, IDEAS OR COMMENTS (you can naturally come back to this too, don't worry)
[18:11] <Tazendra > Well, I know it's a personal thing, but Akin is interested in fact-finding on the nature of Beast. Mostly on his quest to preserve Sabra's animal life if they really kill the planet.
[18:11] <@Nishi > :3 Claude will probably be all STARRY eyed at that.
[18:11] <@Nishi > I'll get you two together :D
[18:12] <Yayoi > She super will be :|a
[18:12] <Tazendra > Just throwing that out there: he doesn't know quite how to accomplish that besides 'ask Jace, then ask around'.
[18:12] <@Nishi > (Claude and Ash are our Beast Runners and are awesome)
[18:12] <@Nishi > In that case, my recommendation is outdoors time, probably the ruins :3
[18:13] <Tazendra > Okay. ^_^
[18:13] <@Nishi > But get with them, a time and a place can be arranged
[18:13] <@Nishi > (I'll nudge that way as well)
[18:13] <@Nishi > GAMES!
[18:14] <@Nishi > We're gonna keep running them a while, and when we stop is gonna be basically ENDGAME.
[18:14] <@Nishi > But we've come into a couple of probs, naturally, the first is low volume with new characters
[18:15] <@Nishi > This is rough on the newer kids. And the mods who used to fill in the holes a lot (and still are! Watanuki is goddamn love) are getting wrapped more and more up with games
[18:15] <@Nishi > Er, not games, plot
[18:15] <@Nishi > erase erase
[18:15] <@Nishi > Now we've had a couple of ideas.
[18:15] <@Nishi > And we want your input
[18:16] <@Nishi > One. Encouraging prioritizing and LARGER memory chucks than we've allowed before.
[18:16] <@Nishi > TWO. The possibility of more than one memory as a reward for those who need/want it
[18:16] <Tavi > Hmm. Question: what if we're running out of memories?
[18:16] <@Nishi > THREE. the possibility has been brought up of Ophiuchus running games where they can give out trivial or neutral memories
[18:17] <Ash > ooh :o
[18:17] <@Nishi > As with any, you can opt out of ANY of these, naturally
[18:17] <Tavi > I know that on Jace, for example, I have the opposite problem: you'll pry him from my cold dead hands, but I'm running out of neatly segmentable chunks for him.
[18:17] <Yayoi > Maybe as a result of the Judges beginning to lose interest, some people just don't get memories :|a For those running low on them
[18:17] <@Nishi > That's a possibility as well
[18:17] <@Nishi > Things get spotty? :|a
[18:17] <Tazendra > Regarding three, are there that many active Ophi players who don't play Judges?
[18:17] <@Nishi > Opting OUT of getting memories now and then
[18:18] <Yayoi > Sometimes you get duds \:D/
[18:18] <Sion > Yeah I was about to suggest duds.
[18:18] <@Shinjiro > Yeah, I'm basically done with Watanuki, myself, so all of his recent memories have been blank.
[18:18] <@Nishi > That's what I'm getting a feel on, and yes, potentially.
[18:18] <@Shinjiro > Which suits me fine but might not work for others.
[18:18] <Rabi > I think those running out are so few yall can work that out one on one
[18:19] <Yayoi > But like. I also want more games personally because they're FUN :< (though I am also running low on Dera's memories and would probly go with duds for him too)
[18:19] * @Nishi nods
[18:19] <Tavi > yeah, I like games, I just wanted to raise the question to avoid awkward questions later. XD
[18:19] <Yayoi > And yes, what Rabi said too :|a
[18:19] <Yayoi > It's a good question! |D
[18:19] <Vorona > I CAN’T REMEMBER but is judge creation closed?
[18:19] <@Nishi > Pft, no, it's a good question
[18:19] <@Shinjiro > Judge creation is closed!
[18:19] <Sion > I think it is.
[18:19] <@Nishi > IT IS RIGHT NOW, however Judge ADOPTION is open
[18:19] <Rabi > I want more games yeah. And I'm hoping to do like monthly haunted games at least to do my part :|a
[18:20] <@Shinjiro > We just don't have any IC reason to have new Judges pop up at this stage of the game.
[18:20] <@Nishi > Alas, right now it doesn't make IC sense to make MORE judges
[18:20] <Parrot > I like the ophi giving memories idea, at least.
[18:20] <Vorona > ohh
[18:20] <Sion > Which judges are up for adoption, out of curiosity?
[18:20] <@Nishi > Lemmie take a look /o/
[18:20] <Yayoi > Yeah, I'm trying to come up with a couple of easy games to run for GM too :|a
[18:21] <Ash > I love running games with Ash and ST together since it gives me a bit more leeway 8|aa quick hopefully fun dumb games for trivial stuff.
[18:21] <Ash > memory wise
[18:21] <Parrot > ftr anyone who wants to borrow The Kid can... since I'm terrible at coming up with games.
[18:21] <Rabi > have him show his secret otaku side and run a madoka game
[18:21] <Ash > so i love the ophi option :o
[18:22] <Chrono > as one of said new kids! ....I like ALL the ideas
[18:22] <@Nishi > Horn, Huntress, right now are the big ones, and there might be more opening up, also a lot of the mod run ones are up for negociation and sharing
[18:22] <@Nishi > And Kid!
[18:22] <@Shinjiro > Yeah, Mirror's evenup for borrowing if you have a game you want to run
[18:22] <@Shinjiro > Hell you can tap me to do all the IC gloating while you do mechanical stuff if you want
[18:22] <Rabi > i really liked the game Syaoran ran with her
[18:22] <@Nishi > (I don't mind loaning Foreman too, same)
[18:23] <Rabi > I'd love a repeat of that
[18:23] <Syaoran > wazzat?
[18:23] <Rabi > your pacman game
[18:23] <Syaoran > oh hahaha
[18:23] <Syaoran > I need to run Mrs. Pacman someday :|a
[18:23] <Sion > XD
[18:23] <@Nishi > How about this, are there any objections/concerns with one, two or three? BEING that duds will be availible (and actually probably pretty icly fun to mess with)
[18:24] <Rabi > Duds are fine o7
[18:24] <@Nishi > (and yess, if you have interest in judges, COME TO US, we will do what we can)
[18:24] <Excel > Soldier and Persona are also available
[18:24] <Yayoi > PERSONA *_*
[18:25] <Ash > 8U soldierrr
[18:25] <@Nishi > Soldier, the ultimate shounentard
[18:25] <Rabi > I'd like someone to do that game where he...is so drunk he lets a team run the game for him
[18:25] <Rabi > so one team makes the game for everyone else
[18:26] <Ash > hahah omg
[18:26] <Yayoi > That was a fun game
[18:26] <@Nishi > he...is so drunk he <--- the basis for most Soldier games right there
[18:26] * @Nishi nods solemnly
[18:26] <Tazendra > I'd prefer #3, mostly because I have two characters with fragmentary memories so that every memory still has a strong effect. Akin has a lot fewer wham memories than Tazendra or Snow. That and I already have been condensing my memories a lot more for all of them, jsut to avoid duds.
[18:26] <Parrot > hahah
[18:26] <Tazendra > Another tattoo game would be fun. Just so I can give characters more things to have to explain when they go home.
[18:27] <Sion > .....make it a Soldier and Graces game, tattoos AND piercings
[18:27] <@Nishi > What kind of games DO you guys wanna see? :3
[18:27] <Yayoi > And gosh persona *_* I am super interested with where she fits into the plot. And games would be easy to think of :|a
[18:27] <Yayoi > omg Sion >D
[18:27] <Chrono > ......Sabra go-kart competition
[18:27] <Rabi > I want a few more doom games but I am a doomy girl
[18:27] <Ash > ldka
[18:27] <@Nishi > ... thats a foreman game right there
[18:27] <Rabi > also I run haunted so lol
[18:27] <Rabi > Also I want more heart games
[18:28] <Rabi > Cuz I love heart games
[18:28] <Weed > I miss the Trickster games, but. :(
[18:28] <Yayoi > I could run something terrible with GM :|aa
[18:28] <@Nishi > Trickster~
[18:28] <Trixie > I like a nice balance between DERPY RIDICULOUS and terrible. :|aa
[18:28] <Vorona > i’d be kind of interested in Huntress if i could get over never-run-a-game-before nervousness 8U...
[18:29] <Tazendra > Same here, Trixie.
[18:29] <Rabi > You could run some smaller loser games first to warm up maybe
[18:29] <Syaoran > Vorona -- pair up with an experienced gamerunner for your first one or two
[18:29] <Rabi > smaller group to play with
[18:29] * @Nishi nods
[18:29] <Vorona > ohh :|a
[18:29] <Vorona > Hm
[18:29] <Trixie > And things like Messengers' SHARE YOUR FEELINGS game are awesome
[18:29] * Tazendra misses loser games. Because she has loser teams
[18:29] <@Nishi > Yush, people can HELP RUN GAMES
[18:29] <Parrot > and moontime hours usually have smaller groups.
[18:29] <Yayoi > If you're REALLY nervous you can always ask someone to co-run a first game too, yeah
[18:29] <Syaoran > it'd be hands on experience :|b
[18:29] <Syaoran > and nice to have support instead of just being thrown in there all WAT DO the first time |D
[18:29] <Tazendra > I've co-run for Gambler before. ::nods::
[18:30] <@Nishi > (chaos knows I wouldn't be able to do half the crap I do in plots if it wasn't for Watanuki, Kururu and Lady)
[18:30] <Yayoi > Yes, don't be like me +_+
[18:30] <@Nishi > Co-runners are LOVE
[18:30] <Tazendra > Also, if someone wants to run a complicated game, having a mechanics helper is lovely
[18:30] <Vorona > hff +_+ i will think on this
[18:30] <Sion > Yeah, I'd be interested in possibly running something, because I'm good with figuring out ALL THE LITTLE DETAILS and keeping things running, but I'd rather have someone else to help keep things on course. XD
[18:30] <@Shinjiro > Yes, absolutely
[18:30] <@Shinjiro > Lots of people get bogged down with the mechanics side of things even if they're speed demons
[18:30] <@Shinjiro > So sometimes it's for the best to get help there
[18:31] <Yayoi > And Sabra's so huge, sometimes having someone help even if you have the mechanics down is a good idea.
[18:31] <@Nishi > (also prewriting. You don't need to go to my level of obcession, but if you're slow, it's goddamn love)
[18:31] <Yayoi > In terms of how many teams there are to handle.
[18:31] <~Kururu > Yeeeees to prewriting
[18:31] <Parrot > yy prewriting
[18:31] <@Nishi > (that said, even if you prewrite, be ready and willing to change)
[18:32] <Syaoran > I think the only game I ever ran alone was Pacman :|a otherwise it's always with Mits
[18:32] <Tazendra > Also? I've found heart games as a good practice for running games -- tiny group, and on your hone territory, so to speak.
[18:32] <@Nishi > Nothing like an elaborate answer and a disgaea character punching through a wall
[18:32] * @Nishi nods
[18:32] <Rabi > >. >
[18:32] <Rabi > I only did that once
[18:32] <Rabi > i think
[18:32] <Rabi > ...maybe twice...
[18:32] <@Nishi > HAHAH
[18:32] <Tazendra > Well, then how many times did Mao do it?
[18:32] <Rabi > I admit my shadow game with Almaz
[18:32] <@Nishi > Shockingly little
[18:33] <Rabi > Became a total rewrite
[18:33] <Rabi > Cuz Mono decided it'd be a trial
[18:33] <Rabi > instead of a bossfight
[18:33] <Ash > >:U object to this tomfoolery
[18:33] <Rabi > so always be willing to do crazy shit IT IS FUN
[18:35] <@Nishi > Yush. In general for me, OMG = yes, yes you can
[18:35] <@Nishi > >. >
[18:35] <@Nishi > Because I'm weak to the rule of cool
[18:35] <@Nishi > And law of lolz
[18:37] <Rabi > I derailed us all
[18:37] <Rabi > RUN MORE GAMES AND HAVE FUN \o/
[18:37] <@Shinjiro > Yes, indeed
[18:37] <@Nishi > Now, is there anything anyone wants to bring up now that we're all here?
[18:38] <Tazendra > Oh, mods, I assume that apps close when games stop? ::isn't sure why she's asking it -- has no plans for apping anything, or retiring her characters::
[18:38] <@Nishi > Possibly :|a to be totally honest with you? That's something we really haven't talked about
[18:38] <@Nishi > I wouldn't expect that til late
[18:39] <@Nishi > (we'll warn in advance)
[18:39] <@Nishi > Well in advance, as we do
[18:39] <Tazendra > Okay
[18:40] * Tazendra was curious
[18:41] <Trixie > ... This is maybe a weird question. BUT, say... would there be any opportunities to drop characters in a plot-ish way? Like, permadeaths rather than pillar, etc.
[18:41] <@Nishi > YEP
[18:41] <@Nishi > You want it, we will make it fucking SHINE
[18:42] <Trixie > Oho.
[18:42] <Tazendra > Oh, since we're talking about death-death, can I ask if you guys will continue to warn about things that would actually permanently kill you (i.e. getting eaten by the dragon)?
[18:42] <@Nishi > (also, pillar reapps who don't mind waiting... >. > talk to us for shiny, as well)
[18:42] <@Nishi > Absolutely!
[18:42] <Rabi > anything is possible when you play in sabra
[18:42] <Tazendra > Cool beans.
[18:43] <@Nishi > In generally, I wont answer "If I do this what will happen." But I WILL warn about anything that could perma-end your character
[18:43] <@Nishi > (that's just not cool, otherwise)
[18:44] <@Nishi > Oh, I've mentioned before, and it's worth mentioning again, no matter what, real death doesn't happen unless you the player arrange it
[18:44] <@Nishi > That's the way it's been, that's the way it will continue no matter WHAT plot turns happen
[18:44] <@Nishi > We may ASK, we may WARN, but we'll never force or pressure, ever
[18:44] <Yayoi > Nishi, what if we want to involve a Judge a little more directly in plot :|a Is that also an option
[18:45] <@Nishi > Oh yes :D
[18:45] <Yayoi > : >
[18:45] <@Nishi > SUPER YES, pm one of us, we'll work with you
[18:45] <Rabi > They will let your judges do all kinds~ of fun stuff
[18:46] <Rabi > gosh one of you grab horn i miss horn games
[18:46] <@Nishi > HEY LISTEN
[18:46] <Rabi > :')
[18:48] <Ash > oooh :O
[18:51] <@Nishi > Awright, I think I'm a wrapping it up. We will bash our heads together and see what thoughts come out and toss them up on Sunday! For those reading this log later (WAVES) or heck any of you here that just thinks of things later
[18:51] <@Nishi > Don't hesitate to email or PM
[18:51] <@Nishi > Thank you guys, you ARE what makes all of this awesome <3