I don't know enough about Japanese pronunciation ...

Potential LJ RPG idea, and fics which need to die. by Laburnum on 2009-12-20 20:59:00 UTC Reply

Second things first: the fics.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2985755/1/ExilesofMossflowerTheOpen_Door
This is supposedly a Redwall fic, except we have no canon characters except a rampantly OOC Ghost!Matthias, or possibly "Matthais", and suddenly Mossflower is full of hermaphrodites with Japanese names. And it's not marked AU. I don't know if this one's PPC-able as such, but it might make an MST. If anyone wants to try co-MSTing it, I'm up for the challenge.

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1563512/RattytheScourge
All this girls' work needs looking at. I considered PPCing it, but A) she's a friend of a friend and B) I have no idea where to begin, because it's all Babelfished from Russian and I can't make out what's actually supposed to be going on. It contains fangirling of Cluny the Scourge who inexplicably does not kill the imaginatively-named Sue "Ratty", and such hilarious lines as "Bryony couldn t realize this moment, when she stoped feel anything. Only pang of scalding cold sharp her body and her heart contracted of painful spasm like thousand needles went into it. And then became frivolousness."

As for the RP thing, I recently posted in my LJ that I'd been inspired by Chuck Palahniuk's book "Haunted". As I said on LJ: "It's a collection of short stories, with a framing device involving nineteen people on a writer's retreat who end up getting trapped in the abandoned theatre they were staying in. Unfortunately, they all sabotage each others' attempts to escape, hoping they can sell the story of their time in the theatre when they get out. They also destroy all the food, plumbing, and electricity in attempts to make it more dramatic, making their situation worse. The short stories in the book are the stories of the characters' lives, which they tell each other to pass the time.

"It occurs to me that a scenario like this would make for an awesome LJ roleplay game. Characters trapped in a situation, preferably via their own fault, with only a suitcase's worth of their most prized possessions each, slowly running out of food and other necessities ... Sadly it would be hard to RP, because it could only go on for so long before they either escaped or all died, and people would probably object to having their characters killed off one by one."

I did, however, get a comment from someone saying they think it would be possible to work it. According to them, "maybe it could have ways so that people can still play once their characters have died. I was thinking ghosts, but that could get a little cliched. Or the players of deceased characters could control environmental factors. NPCs that anyone can play might make things interesting, but there would have to be a reason to not use them as meatshields to protect a beloved character..." I think it could be done, but I don't know enough about LJ roleplaying to know how. Does anyone else have any ideas?

Re: Potential LJ RPG idea, and fics which need to die. by Ansela on 2009-12-20 21:36:00 UTC Reply

Okay, I could possibly buy a Japan analogue/Expy in Redwall. Aren't the northern areas basically Scotland, after all? (It's been a long time since I read any of the boods :D )

However... inconsistent Romanisation (if you're going to do an 'ou' or 'uu' for some long vowel sounds, do it for all of them, damn you!)... random modern tech... raccoons? That story makes absolutely no sense as a Redwall fic... would work much better as original fic, IMO.

I don't know enough about Japanese pronunciation ... by Laburnum on 2009-12-20 21:43:00 UTC Reply

... for that to bother me, and you're right, it's not impossible for there to be a Japan analogue (could have some fun exploring that in fic, except I know nothing about medieval Japan and all I know about modern Japan was picked up from anime and the webcomic Gai-Gin). But the hermaphrodites were kinda the fanfic equivalent of a punch in the face. Rather like the bit in Chaser Wolf's fic where Martin is completely unsurprised at the mention of a unicorn.

Re: Potential LJ RPG idea, and fics which need to die. by Cassie Cameron-Young on 2009-12-20 21:34:00 UTC Reply

I dunno if I'd be up for the RPG, but I think I would love to do that co-MST with you. =D

(I can't access the Pit to read the fic, but I'll take your word if you say it's awful. Plus I'm a sucker for MSTs at the moment.)

Want me to post it on Googledocs? by Laburnum on 2009-12-20 21:41:00 UTC Reply

The first couple chapters are kinda boring, but in chapter 4 we get the random WTFHERMAPHRODITE.

Urg, by Piph on 2009-12-20 21:23:00 UTC Reply

To the first fic- What the freaking Hellsgates did they do to Mossflower?

To the Ratty stuff- I want to claim. That stuff is drivel.

As for the RP- I don't have an LJ, so I don't know exactly how Role-play works there, but with a concept like that, I bet it'll work out.

Filled it with Japanese hermaphrodites. by Laburnum on 2009-12-20 21:39:00 UTC Reply

The sad thing is it would have made a pretty good original fic, as weird furry fetish fics go, if they hadn't used Mossflower place names, or a reasonable Redwall fic if they'd left out the random hermaphroditism. As it is, it just looks like someone tried to convert Mossflower to some kind of bad hentai, and the OFUR already does that with the Grimblett. (Sadly nobody will actually get tentacoo-waped by it, because that's going a tad too far even for us. Having everyone be disappointed when people they hate don't get tentacled is okay, though. Or maybe have it in a mission opening, we can get away with more there ...)