The first TDM will be going up on Friday next, and the game itself will open at the end of April. Plenty of time to make your mind up!

oh good, this would let me get a good rp break in even if i wanted to make the game start date...

my big self-indulgence is that i'm still going to play faramir here and nobody can stop me

Oof. I dunno if any of my current characters would work. I've got an Outer God, a cyborg, and whatever the hell Azwel is. A member of a species consisting entirely of Azwel, clearly.

We-ell

Oh hey

I should probably highlight that, by its nature, this is going to have to be a small game. Currently, it's capped at 25 characters, but that might be reconsidered, depending.

thanks for the heads up. this sounds really cool!

you tried to launch this before, right?

schematise Yes, a couple of years ago.

i am ready. boromir is ready.

I remember!

I'm hoping now that the timing's changed, and now I've had a chance to redraft the pages and finish things up a bit more, it will go better.

I was going to ask if you'd changed anything in the downtime, I couldn't fully remember exactly how it was before

The core game is the same, but I've redrafted pretty much all the pages and adjusted some of the mechanics a little. It's also downsized in terms of both expected game size and mod team size, which I'm hoping will help to streamline things a little (we were struggling last time to communicate, and it slowed a lot of things down)

not sure, depends on horror levels, will at least TDM

somebody say melodramatic gothic horror

(gothic horror is definitely superior to other types of horror though)

ashfae If it helps, the plot and setting are definitely built more around gothic horror types of horror (i.e. ghosts and ghoulies and unsettling secrets that won't stay buried) than body horror or gruesome violence, which are an opt-in kind of deal.

ngl most excited to see you're a GMT mod, A GAME THAT MIGHT.... run on a timezone friendly to me.......... i never thought i'd see the day again

praise be to GMT

tsuikai this looks promising

...they said, immediately before the BST shift

(I know the point still stands but)

its still currently GMT so I'm praising GMT okay

That is Immensely helpful, thank you.

also seconding the oh thank god GMT-centric things it's a miracle

for once, the american contingent can be the ones to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous mod-times >: D

things are so often.... at like 3am my time...... cries

(in case anyone was making the mistake of thinking I would be a "professional" mod in attitude, y'all should probably all know my prior modding experience was roleplayedingly and I have not got the hang of, like... sounding serious about this stuff)

oh yeahhhh you were in that other plurk where we remembered roleplayedingly

(I promise to do my modly duties to the best of my ability. i do not promise to be remotely sensible about it.)

now i'm getting 'random plurk convo' flashbacks

will there be a discord server for this game?

Jormy doesn't currently have discord, so that seems unlikely

someone summon v from devil may cry, we have found his home town - i mean...

I remember this too

I fed wanted to app before

Def*

I can make a Discord if there's a desire for one. But as Darael says, I don't generally use Discord, so it kind of didn't occur to me?

that's fine! it felt worth asking though :0

(and by "don't generally use Discord" I mean "have never used Discord and don't have an account, I am bad at staying up to date with the trends")

oh?
i might consider throwing a character in

The downside of GMT times, of course, is that now it's 10:45pm and I have work tomorrow, so I'm going to leave this plurk for the night. If you have questions, feel free to ask them, but if I answer them tonight it'll be on my phone as Jormandugr , not on the game account.

(not that I've exactly been keeping the two accounts' responses separate up until now)

I've been on an extreme RP break for a long time now but this would be amazing for Barold

gmt is the only catch
since i’m on pst

are pets allower

allowed

look could Hawke being this guy that's the question ---->

BRING fuckit I'll get sleep now

fuck this sounds amazing

if I weren't already overburdened I'd think about it, but nonetheless congrats on a cool concept

eolasemah yep I’m mostly just spreading the word because it sounds so cool, but I don’t know if I can actually jump in yet

yes please!!!

oh, I'm definitely going to consider this. I've been looking for games that I can toss acd!Sherlock into for ages

I thought this sounded familiar, I was disappointed the game never got off the ground before. I usually hate memloss but this premise was intriguing...

Oooh... I want to throw someone into this

i may test out a V because of reasons

this is intriguing (and also yes please to GMT)

So tempted to test out a couple of mine: one's from a bendy sort of Gothic/steampunk/vaguely Victorian thru post-WWII setting, the other is a crazy occult detective...

hello I love this the most. is there a date yet for when reserves open or are we playing that by ear a bit?

oh... hello spambot

passiones Reserves are theoretically open, but by a strict reading of what's posted they'd expire before apps opened on the 12th. Current plan is for the AU workshop to go up on Friday week (5th), the TDM the day after, and (as mentioned) apps to open on the 12th.

AH fantastic. thank you!!

ashfae pets are allowed, as long as they fit the setting! (which a mabari totally would, they're just dogs, right?)

passiones That's a really good point and when I get home from work I'll adjust the reserves page so it's a bit clearer.

Probably say that reserves officially open at the same time as the AU workshop

I've been fiddling around with schedules a lot and I guess I forgot to include reserves in that.

/gently peeks

muttonchops idk if you've seen this?

ooo

oooh

I'd be very interested in this

/looks at my stable of lisa frank party monsters

hm. yes.

Wuzzafuzzle

peeeers

THANK YOU I APPRECIATE THAT because I am very forgetful so it's good to have on hand

xdombillyx: I DID NOT SEE THIS thank u this looks like something i would need to check out

Basilmemories tell me ur plans i'll follow ur lead

.is there a mod contact page? the 'mods' link in navigation just goes to the mod journal

allikateor it's at the bottom of the FAQ, but I'll poke Jormandugr about visibility

I have been duly poked and will add it to my list of things to mess around with after work.

FAQ here. TL;DR PM on DW, lethevale here, [email protected]

Originally the navigation page read "FAQ/mod contact" rather than just FAQ, would that be enough to make it clear or should I be thinking about putting something on the navigation page more directly?

Also, to be clear, I'm happy to be contacted directly at my personal plurk if that's easier for anyone, I don't really do separation of church and state when it comes to modding.

well... they're really big and smart dogs ...but yes, just a dog. can't talk, no magic, drools a lot.

Query: the FAQ says nonhuman characters may regain their appearances over time with memories. Is this going to apply to powers too?

(I totally get it if you don’t want people solving horror plots with superpowers, but I have a guy in mind who canonly thought he was human and discovering otherwise was a kind of horror arc for him that I’d love to replicate in game. But he almost always looks human.)

shipoftheseus Yes, and I'll add a note to that effect to the FAQ. There will be some mod discretion involved over powers that are too likely to mess with the setting or make your character OP, but as all regains are intended to be decided in co-operation between mods and players, that shouldn't be a particular issue.

I think I need to review that whole section on changes, it's not very clear.

Awesome :3

shipoftheseus:

Amnesia game for my amnesia boy!!! What if!!!!

I'm really liking this idea now. it'd let me play Hawke very differently from how I usually get to

Jormandugr: yesssss it's happening!!

gonna bring Nick here

I'm thinking Alec Lightwood or Gansey from the Raven Cycle

gansey

passiones Do you play from TRC?

ronan sometimes! I probably wouldn't app him here but I love trc Very Much

I just started playing Gansey (and he's taken over). Which Ronan are you?

account name is cigfran!

I don't think I've tagged you? I'm affection_for_research

nope! I haven't been on bakerstreet in a hot minute tho

fortheloveofgodmontresso...: I'd say how dare you completely correctly assume I'm down for this, but. I replurked it. I wanna do the thing, but I'm considering which character.

I should look back over the character I was considering last time and see if I'm still feeling her

debating whether I want the Victorian doctor/naturalist, the Victorian Royal Navy hotshot officer, or the temporal adventuress for this. hm.

leaning toward officer if only because he's yet to be in a game.

this looks like an interesting game

once I finish watching the show and create a one-legged Royal Navy Ice Master, I may use him

or my science fiction Major who is angry 90% of the time

wow this sounds beautiful

Update: the reserves page has been updated in response to passiones 's comment last night. I gave it some consideration and have changed my line slightly from what I said in this plurk. Reserves will remain open (as there was already one sent in), with all March/April reserves guaranteed to last at least until April 25

that's a week after apps open, so you don't need to panic and throw your app in as soon as they open for fear of losing your slot

...two weeks

shh, I can count

THE IMPORTANT THING IS, you can put in a reserve whenever and rest assured it will be held for the duration. You don't need a reserve to app, but as this is a capped game and I'm still trying to gauge the scope of it, reserves will be a very helpful thing for me!

re: canon point—is "right after they died in canon" an acceptable one?

Yes! I'm editing the FAQs now, will put a line in there about that.

oh cool, thanks!

thank you so much! and thanks for the ping, I appreciate it

UPDATE: made some small adjustments to the FAQ to reflect discussions here, as well as fixing a couple of formatting errors throughout.

html can bite me.

I'd like to check it out!

Sooo late to this but I'm really excited to see the idea being revived.

ooooh, this looks interesting

sooo i'm new to games on dw and i have a dumbass question. for activity, must it be 1 thread with 10 comments? or can i have like, 3 threads going with 10 comments or more?

Atompunk: Different games have different rules. Some games require one thread, some you can add up. The rules here say 'at least one post or thread started within the AC period, with at least 10 comments total from them. ' which is a little ambiguous tbh, but SOUNDS like maybe this one thread needs to have the ten comments?

yeah, i think in that particular instance it's saying that you need to have at least one thread of 10 comments within the ac period (where the ideal is that you are not threading only once within an ac period, hence the 'at least')

Ah, gotcha! I would figure it’s what you said and it is the one thread with ten, then, but I’m sure the mods here can clear it up. Thanks for your responses!

Hi, mod here! (At work, so I can't access the game account easily)

Atompunk It's intended as one thread with ten or more comments, but I'll review the phrasing and try to make it clearer. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

Jormandugr Hey there! Thanks for the clarification! And if my dumb noob comment is helpful, then I guess that’s something!

no, spambot, this setting shouldn't have database training

so that's what was missing from the premise!