Hysteric Kingdom OOC

Well, it's pretty clear it's time to discuss where we want to go from here.

I (Jen) will get further into things in a moment from my own perspective, but first things first. Clearly things haven't gone as planned and the mod team isn't too sure where to proceed from here. We have a few options...

1. Get out the jumper cables and try to jump start things, if the interest and will is there. We did create a good deal of ground work for plot and other happenings, so there is material there to be used.

2. Musebox it? Maybe a Disgaea/NIS based roleplay setting would just go better as a open musebox type setting.

3. Give up entirely. The saddest option, but it's there none-the-less.

4. ??? Is there an option that we should perhaps consider? We're all ears.

We're completely open to any thoughts on the matter. Either way, thank you all for joining us.

We all know that local Netherworld residents and most newcomers alike are annoyed by the Dimensional Gate's malfunction. We should be doing something about it, right? Well, here's your opportunity!

Or at least, your opportunity to try.

The Gatekeeper is at a loss for solving this on her own and would like to enlist the help of anyone who's willing to see if they can come up with a way to fix the Gate. They won't be successful, but their attempts will cause some rather... interesting side effects.

What kind of interesting? That's actually up to you! The effects will be based on the abilities of those helping out. They can affect the characters themselves, like everyone temporarily gaining the ability to scarfbend, or just cause weird things to happen, like the creation of an actual Flonnezilla monster.

This will also be happening again in the future! We'll be using RNG to select the powers in effect from those who sign up, but if you don't get picked this time around, you'll still be in the running for the next round of Gate mishaps.

We'll announce the effects in play on Wednesday, and the event will start on Friday, June 13th!

That being said, the sign-up post is here. Have at it. =)

ALSO! If you haven't already, please make sure to comment to the Activity Check! This month is check-in only. Thanks!

When we first started to make this game, we decided against trying to shoehorn in a premade “game network”. We know how useful and widespread it is, but given the setting, we arrived at the conclusion that forcing a network to immediately exist wouldn’t exactly work. So we decided against it. However, the technology for this does exist, it just doesn’t seem widespread within the Castle. The option to later have some form of long distance communication, such as e-mails or cell phones, is planned, especially as people start moving away from the Castle.

However, there have been some concerns about how having no network makes it harder to start off posts or tag people in general. We didn’t want an official network, but at the same time, we don’t want players to be forced into awkward posting methods.

So before coming to any decisive actions, we wanted to ask the players their opinions on this subject. How would you feel about a network? Is the lack of network affecting how you play the game? Would you like things to remain as they are right now, or would you really prefer to have some sort of portable communication device immediately?

Oh and rest assured that if we do bring in a network, you'd still be allowed and encouraged to make action posts, so don't worry about this.

First off, we'd like to thank everyone for making our opening so much fun! Everyone participated, and we reached quite the comment count!

Because so much of our threading was on the opening, though, we're going to consider all that in slow-time. That means that as of today, your characters have only passed 4 days in the Netherworld. Going forward we will progress on 1-to-1 real-time days. (At least, that is our plan. If players would be interested in a slower game time to real time, let us know! Nothing is set in stone.)

We also thought this was a good time to clarify your current options as your characters begin to settle in!

If you've seen Laharl's announcement, then you know he's offered everyone two means of staying in the Overlord's Castle: paying rent or becoming his vassal. We've created a page for Player Jobs and Businesses to keep track of both vassals and player-created businesses! We know some of you are planning on opening them and we're looking forward to that. A few characters are already listed based on IC interactions, but if you want to sign up your character for one of the available positions, you aren't required to thread it out. Please check out the page for more details, and comment so we can add you!

We've also decided that all characters will receive HL on completion of AC. This might be your salary as a vassal or employee, or it might be HL you "found" somewhere. At minimum, you can assume your character has enough to pay rent, for those who need to. Rent is 60,000 HL (which would be roughly around $600.)

Alternatively, your characters have a third option: leaving the castle! Emizel seems to be the first to vacate if you'd like to join him. There is always camping out on the Plains of Grief, after all! And, who knows, perhaps some other options might come to light. It’s up to you, but we do suggest you team up, because it can be dangerous out there!