Subject: I've heard good things about that, but I can't remember them
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Posted on: 2014-04-01 04:36:00 UTC
I do recall reading an interview that revealed Ophelia was a genius scientist and one of the playable characters in it because North, and I quote, "wanted her to be rad". That does sound pretty rad. A Shakespearean lady scientist, or possibly even a lady-scientist, fighting off political intrigue or royal sabotage or assassins lacing poison in everyone's food. I never read Hamlet, so I have conflicting ideas on what it is about. Pop cultural osmosis is occasionally less than helpful.
Well, the majority of choose-your-own-adventure books I read in my childhood had at least one ending that came completely out of nowhere, like a baseball diamond being overtaken by carnivorous moss or the playable character being abducted by aliens(I wish I could remember the title of the moss one, so that I could look it up online and show you that I am in no way joking about that), and a single page in the middle of the book that you could only get to by not following any of the paths and just opening the book to that page. Internet choose-your-own-adventure stories usually have the equivalent to the latter buried somewhere in the table of contents, either with a random number if the chapters are numbered or with an unassuming title if they have titles. Any way, I think both would be fun. Plus, the choose-your-own-adventure style means only one path would follow the formula, or possibly two or three since the PPC has a looser idea of what deviation from normal looks like. We could easily end this with Eledhwen fighting the clone of her evil clone on Elrond's rooftop, or the DIA misinterpreting a radio message someone randomly decided to send and going in to rescue them prematurely, or the Marquis de Sod temporarily re-entering active duty for some off-the-wall reason.
You know what would be fun? Completely running with that, and having the opportunity to do something crazy on every page. You could stick to the plan and take charges, you could sneak off to go pick up some new hats that the Sue spawned through poor use of a metaphor, ooor you could steal the Sue's car and drive it into a swimming pool just to see how the words would react when the Sue has to drive it next.
The Sue "Rossania the Yellow Istari" has advanced further into Rivendell. What do you do?
* Follow her
* See if you can nick some of those peanut butter sandwiches from Lindir before the canon removes them
* Tackle the Sue's ex-bodyguard
* Seduce Lindir
* Recruit the Sue's ex-bodyguard
* Tackle Lindir
That is probably too many options. The mission would take forever to write if there were more than four per page.
What were some of the other mission format ideas?