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 Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:36 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:37 pm
Official Plot Dorian and Tinkerbell have found cohorts in crime within each other. And upon pandering to other character’s vices, they have managed to recruit Aramis, Dracula, and The Beast. This motley crew has stumbled upon an old speakeasy behind a hidden door. D’artangan has faithfully followed his fellow musketeer in hopes of getting Aramis away from the gambling tables and turning back down the rocky road of sin. Jean Valjean also has turned up looking for his adopted daughter Cosette, but seems to be staying. Being completely enthralled with new thing to indulge in this world, Dorian has decieded to stay and has convinced Tinkerbell to stay as well. Now that they have a lovely new place to inhabit the two have decided to convince (by any means necessary) all the other characters to stay as well. Nothing but fun and luxury is to be had in the company of Dorian Grey. Between him and Tinkerbell, they have convinced a mass of characters to stay in their new world, and not rejoin the structured rigidness of their books. Tink has been using her pixie dust excessively, and many have noticed she seems to be showing minor signs of madness. With their new band of characters at their beckon call, Dorian and Tink have sent them out to other room to recruit more people to their cause. As is his nature, boredom has descended upon Dorian. It was inevitable, but it does quite an issue. No longer fully invested in their plot to overtake this new world, Dorian has begun to ignore Tinkerbell and simply brush her out of his way. Anyone who knows her knows that Tinkerbell does not do “ignored” well. Thinking she merely needs to try hard to return his attention to her, TInkerbell begins causing mayhem with her magic wherever she is thus forcing her descent into madness to accelerate. As her grip on reality weakens and Dorian grows more bored, all their cons, ploys, and spells have begun to unravel. Many characters have begun to miss their old, predictable worlds where they belong.
Let me know if you think something needs to be added or if characters have changed/added.
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:38 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:04 pm
Olay so here is the deal guys: I won't always be able to quote all of you to get your attention and I don't think I should have to. If you are as serious about e ball as I hope you are then I also hope you are checking these threads for new posts at least once a day when you can get online. If you're gone for a few days of course I understand, but if you are logged into Gaia for whatever reason the I would appreciate you checking for any new posts because it could be questions addressed to you, individually or as a group, or it could be a planning thread that is waiting for input to progress.
I will pm and quote when I have to, but to show your commitment to this room the I think it would be great if no one had to rely on quotes.
Now that that's out of the way, let's begin with our plot! Something we did last year that worked well was beginning with everyone posting three ideas they have for the room plot, their character, other characters, or anything to do with plot. Remember our plot is meant to be creative, but we only have 3 days so try to keep it relatively simple.
So please post your three ideas starting... Now!
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:12 pm
Okay, starting with me:
1) since I will be playing Dorian after he has lived a long time as a pleasure seeker he will also be beginning to feel his conscience again. It will not be at the point of Basil's murder so he won't be affected by his friend's death, but he will appear to be bored with what he considers to be conventional pleasures, ie: sex, drugs, alcohol, and will not be entertained by offers for any of the above.
The "new world" and the arrival of characters from other stories will at first entertain Dorian thoroughly and for the first day he will feel as if life is full of new pleasures to be found and experienced to be had, but it will wear off again as he slowly begins to realize that this world in not unlike his own, full of people content to live their lives with the same levels of satisfaction that he has seen before.
He will still be obsessed with his own vanity and surrounding himself with beauty so the room will still be tailored towards a den full of pleasure seekers, with Dorian wandering among them bored. In this way he will be a greeter, one of the hosts that greets the guests and invites them to participate in the room, but won't be obligated to stay on with them after the initial introduction.
2) I think it would be interesting to have the musketeers in our room working towards setting the stories right again with D'artagan as the one pushing towards finding a way back to their stories. Aramid can be comically drawn between staying and enjoying himself and helping his friend. The rest of the cast will, having read their own stories, be unwilling to return and will not help them. Beast may go as far as being aggressive towards the musketeers' attempts due to his nature. Because he is one of the few who have a happy ending I think it will be a part of our plot that his story has been hidden from him and this may work as a lingering plot device for us to use as we see fit, either. A pulsating the Beast into working against the musketeers by lying about the story or by encouraging the beast to use his better half to think clearly and wonder why his story is being hidden.
3) because of the nature of the room and the nature of most of our characters I think it is important to be semi-united on that we are villains or antagonists.. Fitting non villains into this theme is relatively simple: tinkerbell could be played from a part of her stories where she is very shallow and vain, only wanting to make herself happy, and willing to attatch to whomever she needs to in order to get what she wants. In this case she would attatch to Dorian and be both attempting to provide him with a reason to be entertained by life again and be trying to keep their new world the way it is. Dracula would of course not want to return to his world where he is killed and instead see this place, a den of sinners, as a perfect place to become strong enough to outwit and destroy Van Helsing, who is in the nursing home and who we may have cross over smile
The beast, as I mentioned, will tap into his bestial side due to being surrounded by the primal passions and instinct will keep him as more of a villain and Aramis himself my struggle with his own noble nature at times due to the influence of the room. Perhaps eventually this in itself will invigorate Dorian with the pleasure of manipulating others to give into their carnal natures.
Note: we will of course need to be careful to keep everything in our room as ph13!!!!! I trust all the co-hosts in this room to behave, but we will need to enforce the following on our guests: no nudity, sexual acts, or excessive profanity. Also the use of illegal drugs is to be emphasized, as in they can say they are smoking a pipe, but details on drug use is unnecessary and faux pas for the annual ball. We may have the serving of alcohol in our room but, remembering that the target audience of Gaia is 13+ we cannot be seen as encouraging them to do drugs or drink alcohol.
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:55 pm
I do not drink... wine. heart
As Dracula, my POV is that Van Helsing [not me] is the villain. I have no intentions of returning to my book [or at least not willingly] and since the other members of this room are probably either too wrapped up in their own affairs or have their own books they don't want to return to, I would think that we could come to some mutually beneficial agreement. I don't eat/recruit you guys, and you don't try to kill me. However if anyone starts talking nonsense about wanting us to all return to our respective books, Dracula will do everything he can to try to undermine that.
However I do think that Dracula will want to recruit guests and turn them into vampires in preparation for the unavoidable confrontation with Van Helsing. Perhaps we can agree that while I won't go forcing everyone [as with Lucy Westenra from Dracula], but I do get to turn everyone who is willing.
If another room would like a visit from Dracula then perhaps Dorian can hit on Dracula [because after all, how often does Dorian get a chance at the undead?] thus causing Dracula [who has more prudish values] to leave on the pretense of "looking for Mina" then go to that thread. It doesn't matter if someone is playing her or not.
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:50 am
sweatdrop I haven't checked in every day when im online, im sorry crying don't punish me!
I am sick right now so my brain is jelly, ill post some ideas when i am better.
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:06 am
I'm in favor of the Musketeer plot, manly because I am one of them though lol. Fighting the likes of the Beast and Dracula would just be an awesome point of interaction once the time came for confrontation between characters. D'artagan is prideful, adventurous, and young so his ability to be lured into a trap are relatively easy, but he would bring himself to awareness likely seconds before the ball would drop so to speak. Someone like Dorian would likely be able to try and temp and lure D'artagan by coming off as a more experienced adventurer, causing the young musketeer to have to take another look at his ideas and values. I like the idea of Beast being used through the hook of hiding his story from him, makes a point of quest-like task for the part-goers to try and help with. I would see Tink being the one who hid the book as she seems like the best when it comes to keeping things secreted away.
For another idea on the matter, we could go super simple and split the room with the antagonist and protagonist groups forming followers. Those who just want to party forever and indulge in all manner of vice against those who are trying to get things back into some kind of order. Order being a relative term as none of the musketeers are really known for being the purist of heroes. Then that is what makes them compelling characters is they are just normal people trying to right around a sea of wrong. Not really terribly different from lady Robayn's second idea but just more basic in the idea of our side against your side, and making a cleaner line between the two sides.
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:52 pm
All fantastic ideas!
I just want to note before we go too much farther a few things that I'd like to avoid this year:
- I'd like to avoid having a "vs" theme of teams in the room as this would be the third year that I, and a few others, have been in a room where the room was divided pretty evenly between two sides. I do like conflict for plot and that is why I suggested making our room very villain-central. I recognize that not all of our characters are villains and a few of them are even heroes which is why I think it would be great to have the more susceptible heroes "fall" in a sense, giving into their more hedonistic ways for the sake of the room's theme. The only two I have a hard time picturing doing this is D'artagan and Val'Jean.
I did forget to mention Val'Jean in the previous post and I'm not wondering if he wouldn't be a more fitting ally to D'artagan, even more the more pure and noble of the two (because the younger muskateer is so young, as Ronyo says, and may be more easily manipulated into thinking he is doing the noble when really he's acting in the best interests of one of the more fiendish, like Dracula or Dorian who are both quite manipulative) and Val'Jean may even be the one to right D'artagan's path one or two times?
2) Also want to avoid any notions of epic battle scenes. As much fun as it was in the past two years I did notice that it is VERY time consuming and a lot of guests have difficulty participating in this kind of scene unless they are getting replies from the hosts in charge of coordinating the fight. If we were going to have any kind of large conflict then we'd all have to be on board and, more importantly, online at the same time in order to do it. A few of us are restricted due to RL work and such so it may be better for us to plan for smaller scale conflicts that don't require hands-on coordination rather than a large fight scene (like the High Adventure boss fight, sorry Ronyo!)
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:15 pm
Jean Val'Jean was also a thief. Sure he stole bread to feed his family, but he is a criminal with a number tattooed to his chest. He also stole from a priest who fed him and is being pursued relentlessly by Inspector Javert. D'artagan can always be manipulated into not trusting Val'Jean thus causing him to feel alienated. Dorian approaches D'artagan at this point, leads him away somewhere for some private stuff thus causing more feelings of guilt from D'artagan and leading to him becoming more and more corrupted. And Dracula would like to point out that he is not a villain. The issue is slanderous individuals that fear what they do not understand. Instead of shouting curses with threats of crosses and wooden stakes, they should be thanking Dracula helping their friends achieve enlightenment and asking to be blessed also.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:50 pm
I played the villain last year, and managed to play an awesome final boss villain at one point as well, so this time I am looking to play a role I am more used to playing. I usually play the uncorrectable hero character, now as that is not a full option with the setting we have I would like to be the character who stays in someways uncorrupted. Being led astray and tricked I think would be great plot points and elements but I'm not typically one who plays of the ideas of vice corporation in a character very well. I am always able to shift and move with the idea of the plot if need be but I would like to stay on the light side of things this year if possible.
I do see the hopefully wonderful chance of having a sword fight with Dorian at some point, as I think it would be a great comedy play in the plot. Because I can stab and slash him all I want and he really doesn't care. Also I think it might be a interesting metaphor for the ideas of someone trying to fight chaos, which Dorian represents well. It could be a turning point event where I realize I have to fight chaos with chaos, and either turn some of the "bad guy" against each other or find away to have their plans just unravel in some horrible way.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 5:09 pm
Is there any other ideas for plot? The idea e have so far is good, but it is always also good to have options to choose from. Is there any other ideas that any one else was thinking of before I stormed in and threw this one plot idea at you guys?
If not, consider it an assignment that you have two weeks to come up with more ideas. The more the merrier, even if it is a one line or one sentence idea it is welcome. We can build from anything and there is no minimum or maximum character limit to genius, so feel free to spend as little or as much time as you want coming up with ideas.
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:10 pm
Hey guys, it would be great to see more activity in this forum. We hav a lot to plan and you don't need to wait for me to start brainstorming something, or anything. If you have ideas for contests or outfits or even artists then post them (samples with art, please.)
Member this is the main room for the ball so it needs to be great, but it will only be great if we are all working together! I am also relying on you guys more heavily than I would be in other years because, as main host, I have many responsibilities outside of this room. That is why I would appreciate it if everyone could pitch in extra. Thanks!
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:58 pm
Lets get are cards out on the table then, lets see. We have Dorian and Tink for main characters. Myself as D'artagan, and Beast, and Dracula, and Jean Val'Jean...I'm missing character I know...
So we have Dorian wanting to stay in this new world and never go back to his book, Tink being her mischievous self but also helping Dorian at the same time. The Beast being manipulated to help Dorian as the muscle more or less, and Dracula helping out for his own idea and goals but sharing some with Dorian. D'artagan Being one to feel the chaos is to much and either they should return to their books or...I'm not sure of my characters full motivation just yet, or of Jeans either lol.
What should the ultimate goal for the party goers be in our room? What is it they need to achieve to make everything go as it should be? Maybe we can work backwards from the end and see what all avenues can be used to get there.
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 5:05 pm
We don't have a goal set in stone yet so it is open to any suggestions at all smile
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