The Green Room

Hello everyone. Some bad news - I’m gonna have to go on a hiatus from GamersPlane for awhile. One of my senior pups has gotten very sick and on top of working two jobs I just don’t have enough mental capacity to write up some quality posts for awhile. I’m sorry for this being so sudden but I hope everyone can understand. Keep on keepin’ on and it was a pleasure!

It was great playing with you too! And I hope things get calmer in your life soon, my best wishes to you and your pups. :>

Wishing you and the pups all the best!

Hope the dog is ok.

I hope things turn out for the best. GP will be here for you when you have time to return.

Well, that would have been a great way to write out that character 🤣 Oops, poisoned

Back at it, folks! 13 hour days and lingering illness.

I will get back to the doctor… someday! 😴

This gave me some interesting mental images. XD

That was a whole thing back in the 1920s-30s in America. There was a big spiritualism movement and con artists would hold seances where they'd "contact the dead' and regurgitate cotton and call it "ectoplasm".

It must have been quite unpleasant to do. I can't imagine cotton being very tasty; especially after regurgitation. :V

We are about to get undeniable, real proof that something real is happening here. No more hijinks, no more messing around. Something real is going to happen, and then we are going to cut to commercial and reassess how we feel about the game!

What do you mean no more hijinks?! But my special effects, I positively need to set something on fire! :P

Alright folks! Time for opinions on what works, and what really doesn’t. Do the mechanics make it feel aimless? Do you enjoy the freedom? Should we continue, or was this a fun little thing that’s fine to be over?

Don’t be shy! I’m not sentimental, and I have thoughts of my own!

I feel like the mechanics kind of... don't exist so far. I like the shared establishing of details in the room, but for the dice rolls, they seem entirely pointless to me so far. Doesn't bother me, though. I'm having tons of fun with the rp and definitely want to continue (even though the provoking part sounds more fun to me conceptually than the ghost part). So I say, let's keep going with this!

Yeah, the mechanics are very sparse. They’ll become more important later, when the game turns, I guess!

I do wonder if it leans a little close to ‘belonging outside belonging’ systems where it’s hard to keep the game going when there’s no mechanical weight to react to?

Like Bowl, I'm having a lot of fun hamming around with the other characters but have zero idea how, or even if, the game mechanics function...and I'm perfectly okay with that.

Basically, we gather enough Provoke (which I will reduce now that one player has dropped!) to provoke the ghost into reveling itself, whereby we try to escape with our lives using Survive!

The higher your provoke, the quicker the ghost arrives and the less rooms we need to race back through to escape. The higher your survival, the more chance you have of making it through those rooms where others may not!

Well, good thing I'm great at Survive 😎

I'd like to continue, I'm having fun. I just wish I got to interact with Joe more, since it feels like him and Narcissus have the least amount of rapport (positive or negative) in the group. It would be awkward if they end up alive together; not that my Survive of 2 gives a good chance for that, but still. :P

I also like the mechanics, I think they work well. The idea of using stats to determine the length and difficulty is quite interesting, and it's probably even better face-to-face, since it's scarce enough to not distract from all the drama. XD

True, we haven't seen much of those two together, but they feel like they could have a pretty decent dynamic. Maybe they'll get a chance on the way out. Or after they're the only ones still alive 😄