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[Fire Ze Missiles!]

I'm sure you've noticed my plotline-introducing intentions. Well, I hope you have. But anyway, Pasty raised a good point:

As GM then, it was significant only in that it let you survive, none else. In fact, a tiny bit more significant, but i never intended to let you find out too much, as everyone enjoys zombs for different reasons, and finding out why they exist seems to ruin it.

Personally, my curiosity overcomes my trepidation (even though it'll probably be me who writes it ) but i understand that the rest of you may feel differently. So, vote away.
Comments welcome.

[Paladin58]

I love seeing background information about science fiction (that would be why I've used 1 out of the 7 1/2 hours of playing Mass Effect so far to read all the Codex junk!), so I'm all for it.

[some_weirdGuy]

what i would like is if we could all negotiate a basic story line(and i mean basic), and then use it as a frame for where the story is heading

so i dont mean have it all pre-decided, and ruin it, but instead say

"ok, so we find out sooner or later that its this, though a series of clues, we basically head towards this, etc"

not,

"ok, the zombies infected are caused by -blank- and we have the only way to stop them, we have to go to this, then do this, then kill this and that, then go back here, and stop the zombies"


cause that way it severely gets rid of the combined creativity, and instead locks us into one story, turning more from an interesting RP, into a boring pre-made script that we have to follow


so if we work out just a bit of basic frame work, but not giving any detail, at least we will know the story is heading somewhere
and not loose interest by just floundering about(randomly killing zombies infected people only stays interesting for so long )

[southsidediablo]

Yay! Has my vote.

[Pastinator]

I would like little snippets, hearsay perhaps, a fragment of a government report, an email from a conspiracy theorist who might just be onto something. That way, if we try, we can find out more, but it doesn't just come rushing to us.

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

Yeah yeah, it'll be like that. I won't just have some dude walk in and say "So, we caused the zombie infestation because we tried to attack China biologically and totally fucked up! Oh shit, sorry, I forgot i wasn't supposed to say that out loud! "

[Pastinator]

Yeah, but me, want it very difficult for even 1 piece of scrap of info, which we would analyse for every scrap of detail and possible meaning. This makes it theoretically possible to understand completely but, but in practise near impossible due to time constraints. This by no means makes peoples knowledge stay low, just each piece must be savoured.
^My ideal view^

[some_weirdGuy]

yeah that might be cool


just a small snippet every now and then
(ie, lets say its military weapon gone wrong.. or right...)

and then you do something like a small log from one of the scientist, whose not exactly involved, but has heard rumors

like:
"this is the log of john smith, and i must say, the rumors of whats going on in k devision have me worried, thats the fifth guys whose 'disappeared' in the past 3 weeks alone.

some people are saying that they are making monsters down there... i know it can't be, some of the 'equipment' we take down there, i certainly haven't ever heard of before. and those big containment vats, they must have something pretty serious in them to have them all sealed off like that.

anyway, ill be leaving tomorrow, end of log"


and so you can load of something like that every so often, once we get to a certain point in our RPing

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

Mmm. Well, to be perfectly honest, I was thinking it would be more for the player's enlightenment rather than the character's. As in, stuff probably wouldn't happen to the characters (at least, not for a while yet). I'd introduce a load of new people, creations of my own nefarious mind . But they wouldn't be some sort of Deus Ex Machina or anything.

[some_weirdGuy]

No, no, thats what i meant. Not that the characters find it, but as in you make a topic(like that one with the helicopter), and it says something like i said. That way we have to use our heads to figure out things/ make connects, not just get all the answerers spoon feed to us.

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

Oh cool, right. I feel that

[some_weirdGuy]

yeah i thought it sounded like a good idea