In the last thread we were discussing the potential for a Halloween Event centered around small and connected campaigns run by a collaborative of several GMs and many parties. Suggested themes so far include, I believe, a haunted house, a cheesy garage haunted house, and a shopping mall trick-or-treat event, all taking place in the Overcity.
It's been suggested that whatever happens a fluffy (Treat) and/or bloody (Trick) route are available to accommodate all types of players.
>Would this be for the Discord or the irc? With multiple GMs there's no reason it couldn't be for both. Such an event would be modular and there's no reason it couldn't include our whole RPing community.
Christopher Williams
Coordinating between two different platforms may be difficult if it's a multiple DM affair. I think it's best to brainstorm in the thread and let the GMs for each community pick what they'd like to do.
I would bring up again the suggestion last thread that the event be essentially non-lethal. It might halve the dramatic tension but I agree with the logic behind it. More people would participate if they weren't worried about losing their PC.
Carson Barnes
We could make it somewhat like a fair. Each GM is running a "booth" which contains some unknown horror and/or a tea party with pumpkins.
This would help both with getting multiple GMs out there, as well as let people pick the stuff they want to do without forcing a GM to sacrifice from their session's vision.
Ian Hernandez
There's plenty of options for "Trick" routes, but what sort of stuff should people expect for "Treat" routes?
Camden Morales
Slice of life fun. Applebobbing, costume contests, trucing with monsters over candy or pumpkin spiced cider. Y'know, fun stuff.
Adam Bailey
corrupt reinforcement with a Machiavellian plot is best reinforcement
Carter Perry
Could corrupt reinforcement de-age someome? Or age them more?
Luis Anderson
I'm not sure how Aging factors into the equation, user.
Elijah Anderson
Aging could be counted as super healing or reinforcing the body. I only want to know if it's possible.
Joseph Morgan
I could see "Unhealing" involving regular aging someone, in terms age being a thing resulting from/in "sucking the vitality out of someone". This is most useful when your chara/story already hints at themes or symbols from cultures that used "vitality" and "youth" interchangeable like, I have a hunch, the culture most of our classical source-material on the modern vampire comes from. Not to be ageist or anything but *implies youth is the default form of a proper and healthy human being and that older people are just defective models of the otherwise perfect human form*
Actually I can see a handful of classic gothic horror stories having been about supernatural people/demons/monsters who can suck the youth out of others.
I can see how de-aging could be seen as healing in the same way I guess, but IMO it's more of a stretch.
In anime *looks at Sailor Moon* de-aging or age-swapping is seen as a power-down kinda thing? Like leveling the human back down to the abilities they had as a child? Dragon Ball, i think one episode of Sailor Moon i haven't even seen wherein Usagi and Chibi swap ages... Yep! *slams book* I'm pretty sure that's a thing!
