Subject: Hm...
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Posted on: 2014-09-05 01:03:00 UTC
-Rubs stubble-
I think the best idea is to set an amount of points and to give a prize for the first person to reach it, then to set another goal and give out another prize (what were the prizes were last time, anyway? I don't think I was here year, or if I were, I didn't have Permission yet), etc.
I propose that a challenge similar to July's Intertextuality challenge will take place.
I'll have to really hunker down on finishing my mission if I want to participate.
I do have a question, though (which anyone is welcome to answer.) What if we write a PPC story that is not recent in regards to the timeline. Most of the stories I'm working on at the moment occur over the past couple of years. If I were to make reference to events and characters that were relevant at the time, would that count?
We should probably hammer out some concrete rules for this rebooted challenge if it is to become official.
Maybe I can do this with SkarmorySilver?
The purpose is to make people interact with as many people as possible - I've already co-written stuff with Firemagic and Maslab, for example, but I'd be glad to co-write stuff with more people...
Of course, Permission is required.
In my honest opinion, I think we may also need to actually set up RCs for the agents we want to work with, and probably have at least one mission under our belt on our own time as well so that we can be familiar with how our own agents work before reaching out to others.
Remember, I only just received Permission a couple of days ago, and I haven't even published my first mission yet (it's in progress, but slow going due to academic research). I feel that it's best for Boarders starting out with their own RCs an Agents to get the hang of what their own stories are like, so they can set a precedent for themselves and for possible collaborators.
There's no rush. Although, as it was mentioned elsewhere, some people had co-writes with more experienced people as their first missions - that's OK, too. But, in the end, do what makes you feel comfortable. This challenge is here for fun, mostly, not to force people to do things.
There had been a tradition that as long as you wrote with someone who had permission, cowrites were acceptable.
That didn't change. I meant that more in the 'that doesn't mean you can ignore Permission' sense, though I think Anonymouse knows that already.
So when is it going to take place? Now? Later? (Cause if it's now, I must respectfully decline on account of not having Permission yet.)
Though, due to my Permission-less state, I will obviously not be participating.
-Aila
If I could make a suggestion, though:
Three months isn't really long enough, especially when it's holiday season. Some people are already in the middle of things and/or write really slowly, lots of us do NaNoWriMo in November, and lots of us will be visiting family and celebrating various holidays in October, November, and December. What about six months, or even a year?
(And yeah, what counts as a recent event will need updating.)
~Neshomeh
-Rubs stubble-
I think the best idea is to set an amount of points and to give a prize for the first person to reach it, then to set another goal and give out another prize (what were the prizes were last time, anyway? I don't think I was here year, or if I were, I didn't have Permission yet), etc.
Especially since now part of my job description involves being voluntold for some very random things.
I think that sounds like a really neat idea. I'd like to see these newer Agents bouncing off each other and the older characters who are still around; build up some characterization as well as the world. I imagine the cutoff dates mentioned would have to change?
On that note, are any of the currently occupied RC's next to each other? Because I don't believe I've seen many agents interacting with "neigbors." Then again the geometry of HQ is pretty bizarre...
HQ isn't just a bunch of disconnected RCs all in their own pocket dimension, after all.
Personally, I subscribe to the idea that HQ seems to move continuously. Just because you walked out your door, turned left, then right, then passed three intersections, turned left again and the Cafeteria is the first door on the right one day that that will ever be the directions to get to the Cafeteria from your RC ever again. (Unless of course, you were trying to explain that to a newbie and it suddenly was the same route several times in a row, just so the Ironic Overpower could screw with you).
In which case, your neighbors would constantly be changing. I don't remember which story I got the idea from originally, but it was one where an agent taped a piece of string to the door across the hall, went to sleep, and the next morning the string seemed to be miles long and led through Escher rooms or something like that.
It might all be an illusion, because our four dimensional minds can't properly perceive the reality of HQ, which is why when agents addle themselves and don't pay attention to where they are going, some part of their subconscious makes the right direction choices where if they were thinking about it they'd go the wrong way constantly because of the false perceptions.
Anyway, that might not make any sense, but there's the basics of how I how I see movement in HQ