meruberri: (Red Star // Makita ; my duty)
So. While I do have most of the work done or planed out I have decided to suspend further work.

Reasons:
• The timing is bad
1. queenofhearts is hugely hyped right now. It may go the way of Jurassic Park or not, who knows?
2. I have a lot of other things going on right now.
• I really don't think I'm the right person to run it
1. I don't have much experience.
2. I'm attempting to graduate as soon as possible which means I may have to overload myself.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP. YOU'RE WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AND I COULDN'T HAVE MADE IT THIS FAR WITHOUT YOU. ♥♥♥
When/if I get back to this you will be the first to know. But for now so long.
And if anyone wants to take over, by all mean. be my guest. I'll tell you anything you want to know, just ask.
meruberri: (Half-Minute Hero // zombie ; spooooon!)
YOU ARE RIGHT.
WE MUST PRESS FORWARD.
WE'RE DIFFERENT RIGHT? I mean... there isn't even a garden. A flowerbox maybe.

So while I was worrying about college. Trying to decide what lab science would be best to finish up my AA. If I'll ever be able to move on to a University. Etc. Blah blah blah. I had an epiphany! It was weird. It didn't even have anything to do with the matter at hand.

So the monsters and shit? It's so simple! Why didn't I think of this before? They're just animals. But they no longer resemble anything we'd see now a days. They're all mutated and changed, some are weird cross breeds too. It's like Pokemon but on steroids and full of rage. I'll work on writing actual descriptions of them later. When I have some free time. But these I cannot and will not be able to draw for you.

Also! Just as you were brought here sometimes a monster or two from your world will show up and grow, adapt, change with the environment.

Like always toss out your every thought or suggestion. I love hearing them.

And with that. The setting is complete.
I just need to answer the simple question of why you're here. And then I think we're done here.
meruberri: (Pokemon // Ralts ; ...some quiet thinkin)
I have a number of reasons for not updating for so long, not least among them is my classes. The other is just that I have a friend who is good at all the things I'm not when it comes to world creation so I wanted to run it past her but she's too busy or has a life... /sob

Blah blah exams blah blah zombies blah.

EXCUSES EXCUSES WE'RE HERE TO SEE RESULTS.

Okay give me a second.
onward ho?

first a few questions to ponder )

Alright then. Time to make sense of my notebook scribbles...

Silent Hill and Doctor Who - a match made in heck )
meruberri: (Fragile // Seto ; ah there's one now!)
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Ahhh, just a quick note to let everyone know I have not given up. I've just got school and tests. Running on very little sleep here.

A quick few notes:

1. I have decided to base this heavily on mythology, probably Celtic - there are already Greek games around - because I'm uncreative and anything I could come up with wouldn't be anywhere near as interesting. And people should at least be familiar with the creatures so that should negate some of the pseudo-horror elements that were creeping in.

1.5. We can still have a labyrinth.

2. Working on the history. Every time I get something worked out something else comes along to make me want to rewrite it. Slow going.
Once I have this the premise should write itself and I'll be good to actually set up the comm.

3. Setting is evolving slowly along with the history. oh yeah, you'll be subjected to my art skillz again. orz
meruberri: (Future Diary // Yuno ; chop you all up)
In the interest of trying to get as much work on this done as possible before classes start again I started work on this but didn't get too far before thinking why do this alone? I'm pretty easily scared, not that "scary" is what we're going for, exactly. It's just better to get more minds on this sort of thing.


Giant Spiders - pretty cool art though, I like the texture. kinda makes it look like part of a tree
The Philippines has some scary monsters - the Tikbalang is particularly unsettling to me
Photobucket (Russian source found!)
I like these things!


There can be good things out there too like Unicorns.
And normal things like birds.

What should be out there?
meruberri: (Captain Planet // Linka ; explains shit)
dudes
gender bent au. however since the guy to girl ratio leans heavily in favor of the guys in most games (and probably rp in general) if that were to happen here it would defeat the purpose of the game so we may have to remove this option until balance can be restored.

Non-human characters?
while i don't want to exclude anyone i'm also worried about the comfort of everyone else so i think it would be best to handle this the same way as the guys. human au plz

OC/canon OC
there's an app for that. which won't be posted here because it would just take up space... it's just a standard app. Mary Sue will not be accepted.

Ages
again for comfort and legality reasons, because certain adult themes may be present players must be 18. characters should be too, maybe we can be a little flexible on that but things might get... sticky? that is bad word choice

Communicator thingy!
i... forgot to mention this last time. everyone will be given a crystal ball, i guess that's the best way to describe it. a semitransparent sphere that works like a touch screen and projects video and images. kind of like this thing.
Much better suited for storing recordings than typing out messages.

Plot
working on it~ writing flow charts and branching off them. I'll mostly keep this to myself (and anyone who wants to help run this) if people want to bounce around ideas I'm all for that!

map
it would probably be good to have one but i can't draw it. if i could get someone to work with me on this...

Town )

names
must name:
-game
-location
-deities
I'm not very good at naming. anyone got any suggestions?

...did I forget anything? it feels like I'm forgetting something.


WOULD IT BE TOO OPTIMISTIC TO THINK THIS CAN ALL BE PUT TOGETHER IN TIME FOR THE OCTOBER ATP?
meruberri: (Fragile // Seto ; ah there's one now!)
-An environment or a setting.

-The sphere in which each individual lives and which he or she is affected by. This sphere includes the tangible objects and people, the social and cultural phenomena, and the images which influence human behavior.

Synonyms
The totality of surrounding conditions and circumstances affecting growth or development: ambiance, atmosphere, climate, environment, medium, mise en scène, surroundings, world.


I love that definition...

Alright before I begin, know I haven't been just puntsing around this past week or so. I was doing research to build the environment better and trying to come up with a plot and possible twists for said plot/mystery thing. this list was quite helpful. And then I got sick.

/EXCUSES

Okay so everyone wants monsters and shit. Alright I can give you monsters and shit.

generic jam-jar setting #132 )
meruberri: (Pokemon // Prof. Oak ; must i do everyth)
Sooo apparently people say they want "Dirty Vegas for girls" but what they really want is a "real" game that just happens to be girls only and is smut friendly. Okay, cool I was afraid I was getting a little ahead of myself a few days ago. GLAD TO SEE THIS WASN'T THE CASE.

I just had to take a break and look at everything around me. Let all the thoughts and everyone's input settle into a comfortable little place in the creative portion of my think-thing. Yes, this meant I was a little on the late side in getting back to everyone but if I hadn't stepped back for a bit this little project may have gotten too overwhelming.

I also need to check out some Yuri a friend rec-ed me. I'll admit most of the yuri I do read has all been slice of life, school dramas. So maybe I was a little biased in thinking something simple would work out. Maybe I was just trying to be a little more original than the jam jars people claim to be sick of. There was just as much praise as contempt for that aspect of my original thought. can't really call it an idea. more like half an idea with potential.

The one time I don't over think things everyone else does it for me. Which I guess brings me to the point of this posting.

Things I need to work out:
1. Getting there. magical transdimensional poof-thing. Time to put all that sci-fi/fantasy shit to work.
2. Staying there. It's a one way ticket man
3. Monsters and shit. I think I've got an idea for this. I'll just have to check to make sure I'm not borrowing too heavily. Dun'wanna be called a rip-off
4. Location. I'll have to rework it a bit to incorporate what everyone wants and needs. Like monsters and shit.
5. META PLOT? well, I have a few ideas I'd like to bounce around.
6. The question of the boys. the best way I see to handle this is either change them on arrival or genderbent AU. this will in turn create a possible problem of new girls out numbering the real girls (for want of better terms) This will have to be dealt with by disallowing them until the numbers stabilize.
7. Learn what "needs work" actually means.
8. Death and alive again I think it'll be possible to massacre the whole town if you want. It'll just be bad for everyone...


Things I know for sure:
1. It'll be on LJ
2. There will be a journal/phone system thing
3. not going to force the sexy times
4. There sure is a lot of interest...
5. This whole thing it destined to fail
6. NEGATIVE THINKING NEVER HELPED ANYONE
7. meru should not have bursts of creativity at 2 am


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NEXT TIME ON MEL'S FAIL BLOG OF IDEAS : WORLD BUILDING!
So tune in idk in a couple of days to watch as she tl;drs her scatter-brained image of a world that incorporates everyone's ideas for improving and finally gives us monsters and shit. HOPEFULLY EVERYONE WILL BE HAPPY. BUT WILL THIS BE WHAT THEY REALLY WANTED?? FIND OUT NEXT TIME.
meruberri: (Baccano! // Nice ; siiiigh)
First off thank you all so much for your support! Sorry for switching journal sites on ya it was just easier for me this way. I'll just quickly introduce myself before getting to the point. You can call me Mel or Meru. I'm just an unemployed college student. I'm going to come out and say I don't have much experience in game running so please bare with me as things get settled. If for whatever reason you want to contact me I can be found on AIM under the name meruberri.
/uses same name everywhere.

I'm trying to not simply clone Dirty Vegas. Let me know if I failed in this regard. orz
Now on to what you came here for...


GENERAL INFO!

- Comm-based. Personal preference.
- I like monthly HMDs.
- and weekly state of the game reports
- weekly item drops

GENERAL QUESTIONS!

how should the technical side of things work?
- do we want to let the dudes in if they come from a world where they're chicks?
- how much plot do we want?
- do we want to make sex mandatory or should relationships just develop naturally?
- if mandatory how should that be handled?
- just encourage it with rewards? What kind of reward? Maybe the drops?
- should OCs be welcomed? I personally love well written OCs. Canon OCs I'm iffy on but if enough people want them, why not?
- yay or nay on a magical communicator device?
- Livejournal, Dreamwidth or mysterious third option?

- Death; how should this be handled? penalty?
- how to respawn?
- Location, location, location... I'm getting that people would prefer a temperate zone? Where oh where should it be?
If we keep with the Northern Exposure angle Roseline mentioned Florida as perhaps a better place to start over but after Cicily died she went to Europe and probably died fighting the fascists in Spain. ...actually now that I think about it Spain might be a cool setting.

PREMISE!

I don't know how many people remember this show but I personally love it. Back in the 90s there was a little show set in Alaska (it wasn't actually filmed there) called Northern Exposure. It was about a little town called Cicily. This town just happened to have been founded by a lesbian couple searching for a place of acceptance and to create their own Utopian society. Rosaline and Cicily sought to create a place where art in all its forms and beauty would be valued above all else. They also celebrated pagan holidays.

1. we could have our girls deposited/end up in an abandoned town in Alaska (or we could change the location) think turn of the last century. Some buildings may be in need of repair but everything is there and functioning it just needs someone to run it.

2. this place exists outside of time. After Roseline disappeared this place, her perfect artists' paradise, was borne. While she never tried to create a man-free zone in the show, perhaps that is what went wrong? Or she has become completely disillusioned with them.

Now I'm pretty big on loose settings. It's far more fun to let the players shape things so even if we end up with a plot it won't be on any kind of strict schedule so relax.

GETTING FROM POINT A TO C
As for how a character gets here I have a couple ideas:


1. we could leave it up to the player.
- plane crash
- lost in the woods
- sounded like a neat place
- hot lesbian action!? sign me up!
Stuff like that. Just whatever excuse you can come up with.

2. They could receive a letter inviting them to take part in a social experiment.
- Included will be a map and a compass. good luck!
If we do go this way I'll need help hammering out the mechanics of how it would work. Who did this? Why? Are they keeping tabs? How?

3. Something called them here.

STAYING AT CAMP/GOING HOME?
Once there how should we keep them?

There is simply no plane home is all I got right now. But this poses a problem with eventual drops.

OUTSIDE CONFLICT?

That's the thing, other than the wildlife (wolves, bears, moose) and the harshness of an Alaskan winter I don't know of what else that can make life difficult or create an overarching goal.

Anon was saying it wants GUNS, ACTION, BOOBS.
well, there should be plenty of boobs and you can go hunting beyond that I'm not sure.

I WANT TO GET INVOLVED!
thank you thank you thank you

At this point in time I am most desperately in need of a co-mod or two if you're interested please leave contact info and tell me a little about why you'd make a good mod.


FEEDBACK GREATLY WELCOMED AT ANYTIME!

feel free to stalk this journal. I'll be updating it with ideas for this as they come.
this entry itself may be subject to change.