September Theme

School is starting up soon for me, but I'm always glad to assist where able. :)

I know there has been interest in the vampire and Oracle traits, whether they stand strong enough to warrant a theme built around them I'm not sure. There's our good friend Dhuroscht. There's the happenings in Rica.

TLDR: While we've done it before, I think a Rica theme could be done. I'm also fairly confidant a Dhuroscht theme could be done. So those are my two suggestions.

I think a fun dungeon crawl through some, classicly designed dungeons with fun and interesting monsters and puzzles would be fun, and I would be glad to try to help anyone.

Personally, I'd like to make an attempt to wrap up or be very close to wrapping up the Dhuroscht story line. I've one more thing to put out after this event as far as content that I've taken on for it and would like to pass the torch. On the other hand, two dragons duking it out in Rica is something that should probably be addressed :P.

I am down for what is listed above, bit would also like to suggest maybe geography themed event. Similar to the ones we did in the past when jastery was jumping from shard to shard. Maybe have an all Glesmrian or Sirison themed event.

well we could always have september's theme be durocht  then move on to a different them for october(seems like a good time for the vampire and/or oracle themes)

Not sure where to put the rica one unless we want to mix that and durocht
 

I am good with anything. If Dhuroscht, Lainey, I'd like some direction from you so I don't step on your storyline. I'd be happy to write for Oracle, but I know that Brian has a mod that in theory should run beforehand. 2 Dragons fighting in Rica sounds like a field battle.

I have a dungeon crawl field battle that is in the hands of editors now. Quite likely could be ready for September event or October..
( just an  FYI )

If Dhuroscht, I had a sort of game plan that I proposed to Lainey, FuChu, and Reid around the time of my field battle; so there's some structured idea there in theory. :)

If Rica, I would defer to Lainey and Jonathan primary; as the dragons were not mine.

If we go with dungeon delving, I'd say we defer to Marloff since he already has a field battle of that type in the editors hands.

Remember, guys: If you suggest it, you're volunteering to coordinate it. Here's a rough list based on what you've already suggested.

• Vampire/Oracle (Brian)
• Dhuroscht (Brian or Lainey)
• Dragons in Rica (Brian or Lainey)
• Dungeon crawl (Jacob or Dana)
• Glesmyr (Amy)
• Sirison (Amy)

I'm on board for coordinating the ones I suggested. Aside from Rica I already have notes on the other two.

Ugh... I don't feel confident enough to coordinate an entire LARP weekend. I was agreeing with John. 

Since I've been MIA this season I dont have much to add in terms of actual ideas, since I wouldnt be able to coodinate them. But I cant stress how much i support the hell out of this idea. My biggest beef( I suppose small in the scheme of things) is that none of the mods, while well written or silly or what have you, they never change the world, you save the damsel you slay the dragon and thats it, the world remains the same theres never been a sense of world building. From what I've heard this hasnt always been the case but damn it would be nice to play in a world that is evolving and changing, as a real world would. 

Yeeeeees

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We're discussing an event-wide theme. Nowhere in that statement did I say it will somehow change the world. It might be open to discussion depending on the theme and stories, but it's a leap to say that's part of the deal here.

Would it be foolish for me start to coordinate writers and stories for a dungeon crawl weekend for October?
I say October because it seems we have a lot of interest in the theme scheme and If Jacob and/or I took October we would be less rushed and not step on the toes of those who are already better organized. 

In my opinion sir, it's never too early to start organizing and collaborating :)

Writers are always welcome to coordinate with each other. The coordinator role as I've defined it has no real authority. It's just a way to decide on a shared vision and someone to own it. Beyond that, the system remains as it always has: Writers create stories, editors vet them, players vote them onto the schedule, and narrators run them. Whether you even work with an event's coordinator or within the theme is up to you.

I'll go ahead and throw out I'm still up for more people helping out on ling's war with ressik. I'm already kindof coordinating it so if we just want to make if official.

Probably won't start doing any real plotting until downtime so it won't be interfering with other themes

I don't have a theme idea for September. But I do have one for October. The Nether reaching out and grabbing Jastrey in it's clutches a la Hellraiser style. I'm currently working on a field battle for this style idea.

I take that back. Sirison. A land of deserts, mummies and ancient curses, yes? How about a tomb of horrors field battle with content surrounding an ancient pharaoh rising up with his minions to overtake the world?

Finishing up the Duroscht line is good too though. Tying up loose ends. I really want to scare the bejeezbus out of folk in October...then give them candy....

Ah alright, that answered the one question that had arisen about whether a theme event would preclude voting.

@Thad. I'm just throwing two cents in, on what keeps me interested and I think might be something that would keep other people interested. Just seeing things actually effect the landscape like the Duroscht line. 

Whomever is the first coordinator, I will gladly share my technique for hearding writers. As Head of plot for several seasons I have some tricks to motivate and more importantly follow up with the writers of the team.

On the plot team we typically had two or three conference calls, a story storm document to throw ideas at, and several 1 on 1 calls during the weeks before an event.

Sence we are a month out from the September event these things need to be happening sooner rather than later. Plot's deadline was a title for the adventure by two weeks prior to an event so Thad could post it on the schedule. With the current system the entire adventure needs to be written and edited before he can add it. This translates to less time to complete content.

All that being said I think it's time for an Orn musical theme. However, I will be voting for Elaine's event idea.

So this might be better for October but since there has been an increased instrest in the beyond maybe doing an beyond themed event with madness and insanity hitting jastrey? 
And of course zangdrax is still floating around